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At 9/28/06 04:46 PM, JohnnyUtah wrote:
At 9/28/06 04:40 PM, Metal-Gear-Solid wrote: Tom please put this in 2005 please.
I could ALMOST SWEAR you posted that twice for no reason whatsoever.

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Maybe you could put my first claymation i submitted, in the 2005 collection. I started out as just an ametuer 12-year-old claymation artist, and NOW I have an A+ batting average and many fans of my work!

Let's all catch thumbtacks on our bare eyes!

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At 9/28/06 04:46 PM, JohnnyUtah wrote:
At 9/28/06 04:40 PM, Metal-Gear-Solid wrote: Tom please put this in 2005 please.
I could ALMOST SWEAR you posted that twice for no reason whatsoever.

Oh sorry Tom it just that flash is awesome and I would like to see it in the history.


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Tom, not to be nit-picky, but I don't think that the 2001 portal history page has a link to 2002 at the end like the other pages do to their successive year pages.


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i think i love u thomas


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What about the Keegan's Truck series for the 2000 page?


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Pretty fucking sweet. Your doing a great job Fulp keep up the work!

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you forgot the Xombie Series

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an SS collection would be swell get to work on that


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At 9/28/06 05:36 PM, Vkothos wrote: you forgot the Xombie Series

Indeed, Tom.

And perhaps it'd be good to mention when you created and organized all the different genre pages.

Like back when "serious" toons and "funny" toons had their own pages and there were only like 6 cartoons on each of them.

A quick look back at "From My Room" and "Karma Ghost" and the other first proffesional things to grace this site that became legendary in their own time.

Other than that, its very nice.


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Great job putting the page together Tom. This page reminds me...

OMG what happened to John's Arm? That was one of the greatest flash series.


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"Forehead shavecut"?

defined the random flash genre in 2K4.

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I personally think the flash "UGLY ' is great enough to be in the 2004 collection page.

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Awesome! I think it was a great idea!

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yeah i saw it the other day and was waiting for you to post the whole time so i could be first
but i guess i wasnt online long enough today


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"Sometimes it's hard to say what submissions are 'historic' and which ones were just popular; I hopefully didn't go too overboard with these."

You know you did with "The Maxwell Edison Story", don't you? The only historic thing in that movie is the imparted Beatles which achieves to popularize the entry.

Also I can't believe you left this out! Hostage Situation 2!


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Nice seeing it finally finished.

Nice Portal History logo.

Filler text.
Because this space needs to be bigger than it already should be.
Jigen made this sig. madknt downsized it to fit the filesize limit. Go team.

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Haha. 'Wonchomp'. X3


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That was pretty cool, this site has come a long way. I dont recall seeing any of edmunds stuff there though, i think it would be a worthy mention to call him out as one of the artists that tested the gaming scene beyond flash games.

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At 9/28/06 06:10 PM, Luis wrote: That was pretty cool, this site has come a long way. I dont recall seeing any of edmunds stuff there though, i think it would be a worthy mention to call him out as one of the artists that tested the gaming scene beyond flash games.

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wow, the good flashes finaly get the respect they diserve,


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Im not sure if anyone else mentioned World Of Words 2, but that would be cool to add into the 06' Collection.
I played that since it first hit the portal, and Its pretty much the best Multi-User flash IVE ever seen, not to mention Extremely innovative, seeing as I havent seen any other Multi-User flashes out there.


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PICONJO COLLECTION!

Do it TOM!

You know it needs it

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Lookin' good Tom.


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Looks good Tom. And to think I've been coming here since the begining of the Flash Portal. I remember playing Postal when it first came out, wow...I feel old.

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Wow, it's fun to go through that and remember stuff happening. With almost everything I'm like "WOW! That was that long ago? I thought that was like last year!"

By the way I can't believe Battle For The Portal wasn't included. Best Portal-tribute flash EVER.

No more animated sigs. :(

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Well, since Tom asked so nicely, here are a few movies that might be deemed important, with the reasons you may want to include them:

- Resident Evil 2.9; This little known movie deserves the honour because, despite having very crappy drawings, poor voice acting, ridiculous animation and was submited 3 years ago, it's still review rated as the third funniest movie in the portal. Which is a huge accomplishment, if you stop to think about it.

- Field Guide to Snapping; Because it featured very smooth animation and great drawings (as well as a cool sound track) for its time, as well as being one of first examples I can find of a commercial (that is to say, as far as I can tell, professional done) flash music video submitted to the portal, something that Akira the Don (to name one example) now also does.

- Black Mage vs Fighter; Simply because it heralded the (quite) popular 8bit theatre "vs" series. If not it, then at least Garland Vs. The Imps (which is just too funny).

- X-Men: Death Becomes Them; The beginning of Matt Gardner's very successful comic parodies.

- Trapped; Which I imagine needs no explanation as to why for Tom...

- *Out Of This World 1*; Well, it isn't all that important a movie (it didn't start any trends as far I can tell), nor did it have a huge number of views, nor did it <insert meaningful aspect>... But, for it's time it was quite an advanced movie.

- Mario VS. Sonic (VGDC); Tom, how could you miss this movie! It's massively influential, really well made, funny and has huge number of views... in short, it has all the reasons in the world to be included in the history.

- Angry White Boy Polka; Just because Weird Al himself liked the movie...

- 8 Bit D&D; Well, it's still in the top 20 after so many years, I guess it must have done something right!

- Rokémon!; For taking sprite animations to a new level.

I'm sure you won't include all these movies, but "Mario VS. Sonic (VGDC)" and "Resident Evil 2.9" probably do deserve the honour, so at least consider them, won't you?

Finally, Mystic Island 1, Deep Fried, Live! and Ytown Public Original may all deserve mentioning, specially "Deep Fried, Live!" (although I'm secretly hoping Mystic Island also gets a spot, I love that series!).

<Whew>

(Now I just hope you actually read this, else my work has been for naught!).

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Thats pretty sweet tom.

too bad i've only been here since January
it's nice how I can see what i missed out on

My site is down... and it'll stay down until I do something about it... :3

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Hey Tom don't forget to put me in the history of August 05.


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