Best of November 2015

[TomFulp]

Your votes are in and the Best of November have been determined!

Top Five Movies

• 

  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

• 

  Pleasure Island 5

  by Sexual-Lobster

  The saga continues! What happened to all the Walruses?!

  Movie

  56,269 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  "You posed dramatically"

  by JoelG

  Undertale Parody (Mettaton vs Frisk)

  Movie

  67,776 Views

  (Everyone)

• 

  #YoutubeRed

  by RageNineteen

  YoutubeRED is here. Grease up your back passage.

  Movie

  22,490 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  Lullaby for a Princess

  by warpout

  Animation based on the mlp universe

  Movie

  30,219 Views

  (Ages 13+)

The top-ranked movie based on original material and winner of $250 is 4 Ways YOU'VE been Clickbaited?!

Top Five Games

• 

  Fleeing the Complex

  by PuffballsUnited

  Nobody leaves The Wall

  Game

  2,941,520 Views

  (Everyone)

• 

  Bullet Heaven 2

  by matt-likes-swords

  Dodge hundreds of thousands of beautiful bullets!

  Game

  280,440 Views

  (Everyone)

• 

  Gods Of Arena

  by IriySoft

  Become a master of gladiators house.

  Game

  145,510 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  NG's 20th Anniversary Collab

  by Whirlguy

  All portals collab for the first time ever to celebrate 20 years of Newgrounds history!

  Game

  229,236 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  Dead Detention 2 #1

  by JackAstral

  ANIME-Y HIGHSCHOOL STUPID OTAKU ADVENTURE ACTION EXPLOSIONS YAY

  Game

  40,984 Views

  (Ages 13+)

Runner-up Movies

6. Baman: The Animated series
7. Pokémon:The final episode
8. Medical Maladies
9. Grandma Comes to Visit
10. Court Ordered - The Beginning
11. Wet Reality
12. PokeWatch
13. Geo's Adventure - Slender Vs Geo
14. AT-AT, Love Hurts
15. Beat the Devil Out of It
16. Rooftop Allure
17. Fighting Flowey (Undertale Parody)
18. Red XIII Getting Dirty! - FFVII Parody
19. Fallout 4 - Nothing At All
20. Kool Kat vs IHE

Runner-up Games

6. You Are The Victim
7. Idle Sword
8. Galaxy Siege 3
9. Supermuzhik
10. Nekra psaria 4
11. 3 Pandas in Fantasy
12. David and Keithan -The Haunted Lighthouse
13. Defuse it!
14. Kill Billfoot
15. A Matter of Caos: Episode 4
16. Future Girlfriend: When two strangers meet
17. Cat Clicker MLG
18. Spider: Downloaded.
19. Netflix And Chill
20. Clone Combat

The voter of the month and winner of $100 is @Darkshrooms!

Thank you everyone who participated in November! Whether you're uploading content or voting and reviewing, every contribution helps make NG a happier home on the web.

If you missed the news, supporters can now change their usernames. Thank you everyone who has become a supporter!

Also, we added FOLLOW buttons at the end of videos, to encourage you to follow more artists in your feed. Please give it a try!

Up next: A holiday site skin by @HappyHarry!

[Troisnyx]

Yaaaaay top 5~ <3 Never thought the day would come that an idea I never thought much of, would ever get that far. Thanks to all 119 or so people who made this <3

[DoctorStrongbad]

Congrats to the winners! Glad to see my picks made the top five.

[bocodamondo]

HAHA, i cant believe ApexxWolf defeated a freaking sexual lobster video.
congrats ^^

[Intrapath]

Congrats to all the winners!

[Graeme]

Here were my top picks for the month. And yes, I did play favourites and gave myself some votes!

This is probably the first time that I have had 2 submissions in same monthly voting pool. It feels good to be contributing to the site again :)

Congrats to the winners.

[Bit]

A thing that I contributed to is in the top five.

Neat.

[koopahermit]

Wow, of course the click bait one won. You guys are all sheep.

[goDJgo]

This is interesting. I haven't seen #1. I'll watch it.

[Cyberdevil]

Congrats to the winners!

[TheSquirrellyWraith]

Really Guys why the one about Clickbait #1?

[TheSquirrellyWraith]

Fleeing the Complex, is a game I would consider GOTY in somewhat in its Genre.

[Jasonario]

Wahoo! Congratulations to all the winners! Glad to be in the runner up section too!

[Irus-Strict]

Congratulations to the winners.

[RadioTubeClock]

Congrats to all the winners!

[TharosTheDragon]

At 12/8/15 12:27 PM, Gorksonic234 wrote: Really Guys why the one about Clickbait #1?

Beacuase I think most voters don't really watch a lot of the nominees. I think in a lot of cases people have only viewed 10 submissions and so those are the ones they necessarily vote for. So naturally the ones that get the most people to click on them will win.

I think the system is broken. I've been running experiments to see if I get selected for monthly voting, and I do every time, even if I've only viewed 5 of the nominees.

[TomFulp]

At 12/8/15 03:17 PM, TharosTheDragon wrote: I think the system is broken. I've been running experiments to see if I get selected for monthly voting, and I do every time, even if I've only viewed 5 of the nominees.

It's based on the top cluster of active voters from the previous month so there is no guarantee anyone has watched all or most of the entries - hard to expect people to do that. We'd need to drastically reduce the nominee pool if we wanted to require viewing all of them and then would probably need to require a review as well just to stop people from faking it...

[TharosTheDragon]

At 12/8/15 03:44 PM, TomFulp wrote: It's based on the top cluster of active voters from the previous month so there is no guarantee anyone has watched all or most of the entries - hard to expect people to do that. We'd need to drastically reduce the nominee pool if we wanted to require viewing all of them and then would probably need to require a review as well just to stop people from faking it...

Top cluster of active voters from the previous month, meaning the people who voted on the most submissions? That still seems weird. I didn't vote on a lot of stuff.

Of course I never thought it would be a good idea to make people view every nominee. Here's my idea. Once you've generated the list of nominees, use an algorithm to rank users based on how many of those nominees they've viewed, then allow the users at the top of that list to vote. If you can determine how many nominees a user has viewed, you can even make their votes weigh more based on that number. So a user's vote can count more if they've viewed all the nominees versus twenty or so.

[liljim]

At 12/8/15 04:05 PM, TharosTheDragon wrote: Of course I never thought it would be a good idea to make people view every nominee. Here's my idea. Once you've generated the list of nominees, use an algorithm to rank users based on how many of those nominees they've viewed, then allow the users at the top of that list to vote. If you can determine how many nominees a user has viewed, you can even make their votes weigh more based on that number. So a user's vote can count more if they've viewed all the nominees versus twenty or so.

What happens when they still come to a conclusion you disagree with?

[TharosTheDragon]

At 12/8/15 04:45 PM, liljim wrote: What happens when they still come to a conclusion you disagree with?

I'm just trying to help. Didn't mean any offense.

[liljim]

At 12/8/15 11:09 PM, TharosTheDragon wrote:

At 12/8/15 04:45 PM, liljim wrote: What happens when they still come to a conclusion you disagree with?

I'm just trying to help. Didn't mean any offense.

Oh, none taken! What I'm trying to get at is that these votes are purely subjective. There is no right or wrong on how the audience votes, because they're being asked who they'd like to win, not how long an entry is, how many colours it contains (things that have some method of actual measurement) etc - so someone will always disagree with or be disappointed by the outcome.

I think it's a mistake to blame how people are chosen to vote, who they voted for, to try and further limit the number of people who can vote, or indeed to think that the people voting aren't somehow qualified to vote, because they voted differently to you.

People will be using different criteria for what they want to see win. Some will vote based on technical merit, others won't know or care how long it took an artist to put together whatever they're voting on, or what's involved in the process - they will be voting purely on what THEY (the viewer) got out of it.

The Clickbait entry was well scripted and well put together and even if people were forced to watch every single entry before casting their first vote, many would STILL rank it at the top of their choices. It was towards the top of my list.

Personally I can't understand why anyone finds David Walliams remotely funny, but there you have it. Different strokes for different folks.

[Hacsev]

At 12/8/15 11:09 PM, TharosTheDragon wrote:

At 12/8/15 04:45 PM, liljim wrote: What happens when they still come to a conclusion you disagree with?

I'm just trying to help. Didn't mean any offense.

I'm actually more concerned with the Voter of the Month. Every month that passes, I see that the Voter of the Month is a user from around 2003 or prior, which is leading me to believe that it is intentional. Also, can a user win Voter of the Month twice or once they win they are out of the pool?

[TomFulp]

At 12/9/15 10:37 AM, Hacsev wrote: I'm actually more concerned with the Voter of the Month. Every month that passes, I see that the Voter of the Month is a user from around 2003 or prior, which is leading me to believe that it is intentional. Also, can a user win Voter of the Month twice or once they win they are out of the pool?

It isn't intentional, although probably a bad sign that new users aren't engaging as much with voting. We need to make it more exciting for the next generation.

Winning doesn't remove you from the pool.

[Hacsev]

At 12/9/15 10:42 AM, TomFulp wrote: It isn't intentional, although probably a bad sign that new users aren't engaging as much with voting. We need to make it more exciting for the next generation.

Winning doesn't remove you from the pool.

Thanks for clarifying that TomFulp, I was beginning to lose hope. By the way, do you know the average amount of users that get accepted in the Monthly Voting?

[ZJ]

Fleeing the Complex was mega good. I love how PuffBalls is able to squeeze so much entertainment out of such a simple idea. Good on him. He deserved the first prize for games in November.

[TharosTheDragon]

At 12/9/15 04:46 AM, liljim wrote: I think it's a mistake to blame how people are chosen to vote, who they voted for, to try and further limit the number of people who can vote, or indeed to think that the people voting aren't somehow qualified to vote, because they voted differently to you.

To clarify, my idea isn't to limit the number of people who can vote. I was thinking the same number of people would be selected, just different people.

Please believe me when I say this isn't about me being disappointed with the winners this time. How could I be? I have no idea which submissions were the best, since I viewed less than 10 of the nominees. And that's the whole point. This is not about me thinking that people who disagree with me are wrong and unqualified. I just think that when the system is potentially picking people to vote who haven't viewed a single nominee, the criteria for picking the voters can be improved upon.

[Psychopath]

It feels like I'm in a website from the 90s.

[Krash17]

The collab was amazing!! Congrats to all

[ThePhenomenon]

For the first time in years Newgrounds celebrates Santmas instead of winter. And true, seeming like the 90s or something. :)

[Psychopath]

At 12/9/15 04:46 AM, liljim wrote: The Clickbait entry was well scripted and well put together and even if people were forced to watch every single entry before casting their first vote, many would STILL rank it at the top of their choices. It was towards the top of my list.

If that were to happen, I might be inclined to just get up and leave as the submissions play without me & then come back when they're all done and cast the vote I was gonna cast before being forced to sit through a mountain of movies & games I don't care about.