At 1/27/08 06:15 PM, Luis wrote: Back to business... etc

No, no business. You hurry the fuck up and go the Bahamas. We missed you, blah blah blah, hugs and kisses. Now go fucking have a vacation.

I am a whore

http://www.swfup.com/file/MTEyNDA5

FINALLY FUCKING FINISHED.

Give me crit, good and bad, but nonetheless, ALL OF YOUR CRIT YOU STINGY FLASH JEWS >:V

Comments are also nice :3

Wow, I totally fucking wasted my weekend... :c

Now the bad news

How long's it been since I posted?

Long enough for my computer to die.

Well, not so much "died" as is in a Terry Schaivo like state.

I can run Windows... in a temporary profile.

Which means anything not in my program files on C... is gone for the time being.

All weekend I spent on my menu. gone. AFD6. gone.

All I can hope that I can salvage those two files.

Fuck my music. Fuck my movies. Fuck my pictures. Fuck my porn.

All I want right now are those two files.

So, I'm going to take my laptop to school tomorrow and see if anything can be salvaged.

It appears all the info is still there, but there is a "corrupt local file"...

I'm fucking tired of this. My computer is a piece of shit, but it was an expensive piece of shit with a lot of important shit on it.

Wish me luck.

If not... I don't want to think about that right now...

At 1/27/08 11:14 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: Now the bad news

How long's it been since I posted?

Long enough for my computer to die.

Ouch, that sucks. But at least you reminded me to backup my hard drive.

...You did back it up, right?
...I guess not. Quickly search up a backup program in the future. Even Windows XP has its own backup program. Other than that, I wish you luck recovering it.

At 1/27/08 11:14 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: Now the bad news

How long's it been since I posted?

Long enough for my computer to die.

Wow that sucks. I had a similiar problem last year :C Good luck

At 1/27/08 11:14 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: If not... I don't want to think about that right now...

I experienced a problem similar to this in the past actually. But in my case, I got the Blue Screen of Death. Pretty much sucked, since I couldn't quite get to ANY files nor anything on my computer so I had to take out my harddrive and put it into another computer. I got Circuit City to do it, but they fucked up and only saved my pictures and not my past Flash Files and movies, so I lost mostly all my past work. Luckily, it gave me a new ground base to step up my game and do everything over. Still sucked that I lost alot of my work though.

Oh well.
Don't trust FireDog though from Circuit City. They suck ass. Believe me.

Computer Crash
That really sucks, sorry to hear that. All Flash developers want are a working computer and software, and so many times it seems that one or the either always seems to flip out on people.

so like toms going pretty hardcore on castle crashers.. so much so that he isnt going to shave until he finishes ... lmao.

At 1/28/08 01:41 AM, Luis wrote: so like toms going pretty hardcore on castle crashers.. so much so that he isnt going to shave until he finishes ... lmao.

LOL

Ancient History

Linky Link

I dunno if you guys have already seen this kinda thing, but it's pretty awesome to look back at the old NG layout. Sadly they don't cache flash files, but everything else seems pretty well preserved. As someone who first came across NG in 2001, I never got to see it the first time round. Now I can!

Tom-

Aww, that didn't work, try again:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/newgrounds.
com

Tom-

That thing is pretty cool, but it's weird checking out the old NG designs to me, just doesn't look right anymore.

Well that was a great 3,000th post.. T_T

Isn't it ironic how the original 'Mastermind' on the frontpage suddenly got 100k more views in 2 days (in contrast with the 60k it used to have) after the icon changed from a well drawn guy into a couple of tits. Something i noticed before with mediocre submissions like http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/25 6055 or http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/14 9079 or http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/34 2208

Seriously, it doesn't matter if the animation is porn or hentai, but as long as your icon is a pair of tits you'll get over a million views on here... Interesting...

At 1/28/08 08:27 AM, AloneInTheDark wrote: Seriously, it doesn't matter if the animation is porn or hentai, but as long as your icon is a pair of tits you'll get over a million views on here... Interesting...

It's funny you bring that up... that was actually our little social experiment over the weekend..
Tom originally suggested to swain to use the tits as the icon when he first made mastermind 1.... Swain chose not to because it might defeat the punchline of the gag... but for the sake of kicks Tom replaced the icon ... threw it on the front page and we were looking at if the views would climb dramatically.

At 1/28/08 08:46 AM, Luis wrote: that was actually our little social experiment over the weekend..

Probably wasn't too hard to predict what would happen, was it?

At 1/28/08 09:18 AM, Cheektoghetto wrote:

At 1/28/08 08:46 AM, Luis wrote: that was actually our little social experiment over the weekend..

Probably wasn't too hard to predict what would happen, was it?

In a half hour it jumped 4,000. Then later on in the night it was over 16,000+ views.

Just goes to show what NG members are looking for these days...

Boxes of Peni-corns in the office basement...each box contains 120 of them.

Swain and April in the front, there.

At 1/28/08 11:15 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 1/28/08 01:41 AM, Luis wrote: so like toms going pretty hardcore on castle crashers.. so much so that he isnt going to shave until he finishes ... lmao.

I hope thats not you Luis, in a girls coat?!

lmao... nah its not a girls coat its a snorkel jacket... i love them. i have them in all sorts of colors... problem is that i can rarely find use for any of them.

It was cold in philly so it was perfect. Swain is from florida and his heavy coat wasnt heavy enough lmao..... i love fur lined hoods.....

At 1/28/08 05:12 AM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Aww, that didn't work, try again:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/newgrounds.
com

Tom-

Hehe, I like this one:

Concerned parents try to ban the site the first time round.

The text-based games are remarkably well-preserved.

At 1/28/08 01:41 AM, Luis wrote: so like toms going pretty hardcore on castle crashers.. so much so that he isnt going to shave until he finishes ... lmao.

lol Tom looks so rugged with his facial hair. Not to mention, he looks older as well.

I feel bad

So I was just looking through the armorblog and saw a post on AS3 being not quite as fast as Adobe promised. I've been using AS3 at work for a while now, and I know for a fact that in a lot of cases, AS3 is at least 10x faster than AS2.

Anyway, the guy's results were completely miss-interpreted, so I posted a few replies saying as much, in a pretty harsh way I guess.

Then I realised its Tony, aka The-EXP, who I'd met back in London last year. Now I feel bad about being harsh :(

Sorry Tony!

Tom-

At 1/28/08 12:11 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: So I was just looking through the armorblog and saw a post on AS3 being not quite as fast as Adobe promised.

What did Adobe promise? I am curious about that... I've always been on the wall about switching over or not.

At 1/28/08 11:35 AM, Luis wrote:
lmao... nah its not a girls coat its a snorkel jacket... i love them. i have them in all sorts of colors... problem is that i can rarely find use for any of them.

It was cold in philly so it was perfect. Swain is from florida and his heavy coat wasnt heavy enough lmao..... i love fur lined hoods.....

It's ok you wear girl's clothing man, nothing to be embarrassed about, we still love you the way you are

At 1/28/08 12:11 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Anyway, the guy's results were completely miss-interpreted, so I posted a few replies saying as much, in a pretty harsh way I guess.

I don't think you were harsh at all.

At 1/28/08 12:11 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: I feel bad

So I was just looking through the armorblog and saw a post on AS3 being not quite as fast as Adobe promised. I've been using AS3 at work for a while now, and I know for a fact that in a lot of cases, AS3 is at least 10x faster than AS2.

Anyway, the guy's results were completely miss-interpreted, so I posted a few replies saying as much, in a pretty harsh way I guess.

Then I realised its Tony, aka The-EXP, who I'd met back in London last year. Now I feel bad about being harsh :(

Sorry Tony!

You didn't come across as being that harsh :P Maybe we're all just too used to seeing critique from adolescent American kids, but for a harsh destruction of someone's theory you came across as being quite lovely :)

Besides, nobody should really object to being argued against in an honest and sensible way, especially when it's in all of our interests to learn how to work as efficiently as possible when it comes to coding stuff.

Is it me or does Mr.Fulp in that picture look like a pimp, i think its because of his jacket.

At 1/28/08 02:38 PM, BritishMoose wrote: *coders

Har Har

Pro. Animation

So I showed a professional animator Webcamoose! and he said he'd hire me for any 2D character animation if he ever needed it. Cool or what? I'm working on a 30 second demo reel to send him.

(I'm only telling you this so that I can post my hilarious joke; I quoted too much)

wow congrats
tom's beard and mastermind
Why didn't you tell him that he looks like a terrorist that way ?
Now i am going to watch mastermind...

At 1/28/08 11:35 AM, Luis wrote:

At 1/28/08 11:15 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 1/28/08 01:41 AM, Luis wrote: so like toms going pretty hardcore on castle crashers.. so much so that he isnt going to shave until he finishes ... lmao.

I hope thats not you Luis, in a girls coat?!

lmao... nah its not a girls coat its a snorkel jacket... i love them. i have them in all sorts of colors... problem is that i can rarely find use for any of them.

So then you have the red patent pumps to go with it, I assume.

Compooter

I got lucky. I managed to pull of the AFD6 main fla and the Menu fla. Those are both safely on my drive.

Anything else... we'll find out.

At 1/28/08 12:11 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Anyway, the guy's results were completely miss-interpreted, so I posted a few replies saying as much, in a pretty harsh way I guess.

You freaking jerk, Tony's a great guy and you really hurt his feelings there. He just MSN'd me saying how he doesn't want to work on flash anymore because of your comments, and said he'll be getting a job at the local starbucks.

You ruined his life. He's probably crying in a cold shower right now.

Needless to say I just went and criticized his blog post too.

Legos
Legos are 50 years old today :). I know everyone here absolutely loves Legos.

MOFG, I LURRRRRRVE LEGOS!

p.s. Level 17 get :3

I should really deposit my points more... or I'll never get to vote again :C