At 2/6/16 10:11 AM, robotman5 wrote: Remember when this http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1683 use to play on the site?
before you ask i have lurked NG since 2004, just never got around to making an account till 2009

Yes. 2004 was a great year for NewGrounds and we liked it.

At 2/6/16 10:11 AM, robotman5 wrote: Remember when this http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1683 use to play on the site?

before you ask i have lurked NG since 2004, just never got around to making an account till 2009

2004 was not too bad 2000 to 2009 were probably some of the best times.

~X~

At 2/8/16 06:08 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote:

At 2/6/16 10:11 AM, robotman5 wrote: Remember when this http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1683 use to play on the site?

before you ask i have lurked NG since 2004, just never got around to making an account till 2009

2004 was not too bad 2000 to 2009 were probably some of the best times.

~X~

Ye i agree.

Kids today take way too many drugs. When I was young, you never had meds for anything. You had to wait until you were old to take pills all day. Speaking of that, where are my pills?

At 2/8/16 06:08 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote:

At 2/6/16 10:11 AM, robotman5 wrote: Remember when this http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1683 use to play on the site?

before you ask i have lurked NG since 2004, just never got around to making an account till 2009

2004 was not too bad 2000 to 2009 were probably some of the best times.

~X~

That song is lost to many regulars now, I'd forgot about it until I found it linked in this thread, brought back some fond memories. I think 2003-2006 were the golden years, once World of Warcraft picked up steam lots of users stopped posting and only logged on to deposit for the day. I've seen many mod teams an regulars come and go, and it's always a treat when an old time user posts in a thread just to see what they're up to.

At 3/18/16 02:32 AM, Ganon-Dorf wrote: I think 2003-2006 were the golden years, once World of Warcraft picked up steam lots of users stopped posting and only logged on to deposit for the day. I've seen many mod teams an regulars come and go, and it's always a treat when an old time user posts in a thread just to see what they're up to.

It is nice to hear from older users once every blue moon. It is very difficult to maintain a daily presence on NewGrounds every day for over eleven years. That takes unknown levels of dedication, that very few have.

At 3/18/16 02:32 AM, Ganon-Dorf wrote: That song is lost to many regulars now, I'd forgot about it until I found it linked in this thread, brought back some fond memories. I think 2003-2006 were the golden years, once World of Warcraft picked up steam lots of users stopped posting and only logged on to deposit for the day. I've seen many mod teams an regulars come and go, and it's always a treat when an old time user posts in a thread just to see what they're up to.

Yeah honestly newgrounds is better in content but for some reason seemed much more fun back in the day with the kind of creativity that was coming through.

~X~

At 3/18/16 10:58 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: It is nice to hear from older users once every blue moon. It is very difficult to maintain a daily presence on NewGrounds every day for over eleven years. That takes unknown levels of dedication, that very few have.

I think I only took a year and a half off of depositing on this account, it gripes me in hindsight that I did that since I do like increasing my level, but I like to think I've been on here pretty much every day since I started this account. I wish I could have recovered my old account, but the email to it was lost in time, like lots of stuff on here.

At 3/18/16 03:50 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Yeah honestly newgrounds is better in content but for some reason seemed much more fun back in the day with the kind of creativity that was coming through.

~X~

I think it was more fun because we were kids that thought hack n slash with blood was awesome and orgasm girl was an edgy game, triple A and console have spoiled us too much.

At 3/18/16 10:30 PM, Ganon-Dorf wrote:

At 3/18/16 10:58 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: It is nice to hear from older users once every blue moon. It is very difficult to maintain a daily presence on NewGrounds every day for over eleven years. That takes unknown levels of dedication, that very few have.

I think I only took a year and a half off of depositing on this account, it gripes me in hindsight that I did that since I do like increasing my level, but I like to think I've been on here pretty much every day since I started this account. I wish I could have recovered my old account, but the email to it was lost in time, like lots of stuff on here.

It has a been a major pain in the ass, spending many hours in libraries, but I have consistently stayed on NewGrounds throughout my almost twelve year account. I have seen many users and mods come and go. I have seen so many fads and memes come and go as well. I hope to be this active on NewGrounds for a long time.

At 3/19/16 11:07 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:

It has a been a major pain in the ass, spending many hours in libraries, but I have consistently stayed on NewGrounds throughout my almost twelve year account. I have seen many users and mods come and go. I have seen so many fads and memes come and go as well. I hope to be this active on NewGrounds for a long time.

Most of the regulars are in their mid 20's now, some have breached 30 but they mostly have kids and families; I kind of wished I'd made it to some of the meet ups over the years, but I was in Nova Scotia for all of them and the stopping power of water was too much for me to justify traveling.

I'd like to be here until me or the website dies, it was a pretty big part of my teenage years and introduced me to some pretty big concepts that a closeted racist small town can't really show you.

At 3/20/16 12:47 AM, Ganon-Dorf wrote: Most of the regulars are in their mid 20's now, some have breached 30 but they mostly have kids and families; I kind of wished I'd made it to some of the meet ups over the years, but I was in Nova Scotia

I live in the South, and most of the Meet ups are up north.

I'd like to be here until me or the website dies, it was a pretty big part of my teenage years and introduced me to some pretty big concepts that a closeted racist small town can't really show you.

I think NewGrounds will never disappear. It might be slower as the years go on, but I do not think it will just stop someday.

Heh, I was going to be more active in this thread, only to get sidetracked for over half a dozen years. When it comes to the best year one would have, for me it was 2006.

It was a fun time back then.

2007 was pretty good too.

With that said, have any of us find a user younger than our accounts?

At 3/18/16 10:30 PM, Ganon-Dorf wrote: I think I only took a year and a half off of depositing on this account, it gripes me in hindsight that I did that since I do like increasing my level, but I like to think I've been on here pretty much every day since I started this account. I wish I could have recovered my old account, but the email to it was lost in time, like lots of stuff on here.

Had I made a new account in 2003, I'm sure my level would've been right up there with yours. But I lost both my email and password, and didn't find my old password until, well, almost 7 years later :O I found an old password list while I was moving out of my old place, damn glad it worked!

At 3/18/16 03:50 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Yeah honestly newgrounds is better in content but for some reason seemed much more fun back in the day with the kind of creativity that was coming through.

~X~

I think it was more fun because we were kids that thought hack n slash with blood was awesome and orgasm girl was an edgy game, triple A and console have spoiled us too much.

Considering the lack of bandwidth back then, we sure got a lot out of Flash. Still amazes me how much content you could compress into a megabyte or two, even if it was a standalone .exe running Flash 1 or 2.

At 3/29/16 11:55 PM, VicariousE wrote: Considering the lack of bandwidth back then, we sure got a lot out of Flash. Still amazes me how much content you could compress into a megabyte or two, even if it was a standalone .exe running Flash 1 or 2.

Some of the best on NewGrounds squeezed the most out of Flash. More than anybody thought they could.

in some ways, i like getting older, i'm finally aging into my personality. grumpy old man.

At 4/10/16 10:23 PM, billybobthwarten wrote: in some ways, i like getting older, i'm finally aging into my personality. grumpy old man.

You were lucky, you were born an old person. Most of us became old people after years of life crushing our hopes and dreams.

At 4/10/16 10:44 PM, Gooch wrote: Ahhh, the good old days. Drawing threads, Bedn, and all the other cool stuff when I was really involved with the site. Now I'm reduced to a medal-chasing blob. But hey, I'm still pretty frisky.

I feel the same way. Just trying to make the best out of NewGrounds that I can.

Haven't posted since October 2009, holy shit!

Used to stay awake all night making flash with a Firefox tab open on the BBS. The best bit was the semi-anonamous posting, unlike face book!

Here's one my favourite memory if Newgrounds: late one night, a very excited user was proud to present his brand-new website. Tons of original material, flashy designs, ergonomic page layout and had set up a deal to have adverts. He posted in '09/08 saying along the lines of "hey u guise, check out my new website Gamedia spent a lot of time on it!". The brutal first comment set the tone for the entire rest of the thread - "You realise you've just called it Gay-Media" (username forgotten, but not gone)

Thought that was with sharing

If you haven't been here in many years, try looking back far into your own posts, it's littered in low-res pictures done in flash about one thing or another m

At 4/12/16 02:41 AM, Gooch wrote: I'll always be a Newgrounds junkie come Hell or high water. It's always been a part of me since my later teenage years, and I grew with it. From my times making music, to being a forum and audio moderator and everything in between.

I will always be on NewGrounds even if everybody else leaves. lol

Now I just got to pledge my support money, but that's hard to find the extra money since I'm saving up for a wedding come November.

Hope your wedding goes well.

At 8/22/16 03:00 PM, PunkRockZombie wrote: Yo guys......is Pico's school 2 released yet?

I bet by the time it gets released.....It would be the year 2090 and I would be a decayed corpse with a blunt in my mouth....

That sounds like a pretty conservative dead line. I'm sure Tom's kin will carry the torch and we'll get it by at the latest 2030.

At 8/22/16 06:01 PM, PunkRockZombie wrote:

At 8/22/16 05:53 PM, Decky wrote: That sounds like a pretty conservative dead line. I'm sure Tom's kin will carry the torch and we'll get it by at the latest 2030.

Lol probably on April, 1, 2030.........

We are due a good April fools around this place.

Porn ads were awesome, especially the hot anime girls that always wanted to invite me to come play with them.

Pico's school 2 comes out when Link's Quest for Ass 3 comes out.

At 8/25/16 12:42 AM, PunkRockZombie wrote:

At 8/24/16 10:19 PM, Ganon-Dorf wrote: Porn ads were awesome, especially the hot anime girls that always wanted to invite me to come play with them.

These ones were awesome! I had b0ners for days.

Those were great ads from a time gone bye.

It just occured to me that I'm now old enough to qualify for this thread (my account became over 2 and a half years old since October 8).

I'd make a joke about me "peaking" too soon, but that might draw the ire of older members since they "peaked" a longer time ago than me (thus reminding them of how old they are) and I'm in no mood to start a flame war.

Then again, a flame war sounds exactly like something a bunch of crotchety old geezers would do anyways if they grew senile enough.

"Back in my day, the block button didn't exist! We didn't have the luxury of blocking each other for petty reasons, so we had to endure the punishment of each other's presence like a real man would!"

At 11/3/16 05:27 PM, TheGamechanger wrote: It just occured to me that I'm now old enough to qualify for this thread (my account became over 2 and a half years old since October 8).

2 and a half years does not make you old. At least, five years to pretend to be old.

Dag nammit!

At 11/5/16 12:11 PM, Mr-Destruction wrote: Dag nammit!

What happened this time? Are those kids back on your lawn?

I found my people

At 11/6/17 08:39 AM, WalksWithGrizzlies wrote: Oh my aching joints!

I have a lateral meniscus tear, does that count?

At 11/6/17 12:22 AM, tarahloveshentai wrote: I found my people

Welcome aboard. Tell us all about yourself, and your complaints.