At 4/9/18 06:48 PM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 4/9/18 01:26 PM, Exedor wrote: No need to 'reach out ' to this user. They submit shovelware, but keep returning. :\ Feel free to flag 'em.

Can I quote ya on that? Not being punny. Just making sure we can indeed flag this guy's new submissions if they're constantly the same asset swatched lame games.

Yes, you can. Feel free to flag them. We usually catch them restarting their account reasonably quickly. They seem to get around IP bans somehow; probably with a dikphor. :\

At 4/6/18 06:19 AM, ADR3-N wrote: Have you tried automating the process in any way, such as a template file?

Sorta, I use the previous month's .psd file as the starting point each time so I just need to update the numbers, but the bars are redone each time from a different base file. It's a little tedious but not too bad.

Portal Guard should still be up on the old NGlogs site.

I'd completely forgotten about this but I did come across this before, and I was just recently talking to @Dean about the idea of a program that alerts you when a new flash comes in.

My ideal setup would just have a whole monitor dedicated to the portal page that auto-refreshes every 15 minutes or so.

I also found this nice little tool recently, it's a bookmarklet that advances to the next item in the portal, it literally just takes the url and gives the ID number a +1. Not world changing but it beats flicking between tabs a lot, & gives you a kind of linear focus instead. (others might find this useful too, @guthrie @peregrinus) It's also interesting to click one of your random old favourites from eons ago and then have a look at what was uploaded around it.

if you find yourself strolling the servers day in and day out, soon enough, it starts looking like some shitty day job, and you don't want that. Trust me, personal experience.

True enough. I want to get in the habit of just unplugging from the internet entirely for like one day a week.

At 4/6/18 02:57 PM, byteslinger wrote: and I will be introducing a completely new replacement for NGLOGS in the next few months.

Oh, neat. Will the current site still be up though? last.fm has me wary of redesigns...

Portal Guard 4.0 is under design. It's going to be web based, not PC, and hosted on my development site.

Now this has me interested. Any idea what... year it'll be done?

At 4/6/18 08:25 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: Lately I've been able to get by on checking the Portal at four times: right before I leave for work in the morning, during lunch, when I get home, and before bed.

Part of my slacking is probably down to time zones, I'm liable to be in bed at peak US upload times.

Also @byteslinger I (re)discovered this 'easter egg,' thanks for the heart attack!

At 4/9/18 07:51 PM, Jackho wrote: I also found this nice little tool recently, it's a bookmarklet that advances to the next item in the portal, it literally just takes the url and gives the ID number a +1.

That is super handy, thanks!

At 4/9/18 01:26 PM, Exedor wrote: Feel free to flag 'em.

Would "spam" be the best category? I've been using "stolen".

probably with a dikphor. :\

*cough*

At 4/9/18 09:05 PM, Peregrinus wrote:

At 4/9/18 01:26 PM, Exedor wrote: Feel free to flag 'em.

Would "spam" be the best category? I've been using "stolen".

Yes, since they aren't stolen.

probably with a dikphor. :\
*cough*

Thought so. Dikphors cause coughs, y'know. ;)

Kiss me goodnight, Sergeant Major....

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/709490

This is just a recording of a porn game on newgrounds.

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So this is an upload of the classic Weasel game Endless Zombie Rampage 2, and the account reads like a weird bot trying to spread a very dodgy link while passing it off as relating to the 2018 film Rampage. It's a mess.

At 4/12/18 09:26 AM, Jackho wrote: the account reads like a weird bot trying to spread a very dodgy link while passing it off as relating to the 2018 film Rampage. It's a mess.

I'm wondering if that's a thing, I've noticed a few less recently opened accounts passing off weird shot/shovelware. Like below:

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More Games4Escape junk.

Also

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Are recordings of a browser game playthrough and youtube video respectively. Dunno the actual source, I'm not great in searching outside of English content.

Geometry Dash gameplay:

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He has another flash that's probably stolen, though I don't know from where. And big surprise he had stolen audio on his account too.

Also, is this shovelware?

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@Peregrinus dang, you beat my post by a matter of seconds! I'd have been first if I didn't take a minute to clear out his stolen audio and report his art. Truly a master thief.

At 4/12/18 12:10 PM, Jackho wrote: @Peregrinus dang, you beat my post by a matter of seconds! I'd have been first if I didn't take a minute to clear out his stolen audio and report his art. Truly a master thief.

I figured the whole account was stolen stuff ("leopard can't change his spots") but I'm garbage at audio since I have a limited experience range there. And I'm on lunch, so a quick Googling is all I can manage.

The shovelware uploader had another one maybe two days ago so was on my radar.

(Not a flag)

I've seen a lot of weird shit in the portal since I joined. But I don't think I've seen anything which has unsettled me as much as this submission. I feel dirty.

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At 4/12/18 05:59 PM, lalilulelo008 wrote: oh god the guy has his phone number on his page

Someone should call it (if you love moccasins as much as he does that is)

At 4/12/18 06:09 PM, lalilulelo008 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/709573
stolen from
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/654944

Removed.

This is just a straight up rip of a TV show.

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At 4/12/18 09:43 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: This is just a straight up rip of a TV show.

Beat me to it. Pretty sure it’s Avatar TLA.

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/709586#

It's just The last airbender, no parody it's the actual show.

I just found something interesting.
This 2 games (neither of which worked for me btw) share a very uncommon tag : "oparin"

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  Fruti Spumm

  by MarisolCastillo

  Ayuda que Spunki que no muera de hambre!!

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Also both user names are common female Latin American names.
It may be nothing, but still, It's 3 coincidences.

At 4/13/18 04:29 AM, LexRodent wrote: I just found something interesting.
This 2 games (neither of which worked for me btw) share a very uncommon tag : "oparin"

Alexander Oparin was a Russian biochemist, notable for his contributions to the theory of the origin of life on Earth, and particularly for the “primordial soup” theory of the evolution of life from carbon-based molecules. Oparin also devoted considerable effort to enzymology and helped to develop the foundations of industrial ...

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/709578
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/709580
Also both user names are common female Latin American names.

Both users speak spanish...

It may be nothing, but still, It's 3 coincidences.

@NekoMika, Are they alts?

I switched both to http so that might change things. Didn't for me; they don't load, it seems. Anyone else getting them to work? For now, vote appropriately I guess. If they don't work, they'll be blammed. I don't want to remove them yet, since Construct2 games usually work, so I want to see if they pass or not. We can always revisit them later.

At 4/13/18 05:00 AM, Exedor wrote: Alexander Oparin was a Russian biochemist . . .

And knowing is half the battle :)

Both users speak spanish...

Oh yes, I forgot to mention that. Son cuatro coincidencias.

I switched both to http so that might change things. Didn't for me.

Same for me, still not working. Hopefully NekoMika will solve the mystery.

NSRescapegames is back with more shovelware:

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At 4/12/18 12:18 PM, Peregrinus wrote: I figured the whole account was stolen stuff ("leopard can't change his spots") but I'm garbage at audio since I have a limited experience range there. And I'm on lunch, so a quick Googling is all I can manage.

It's easy enough to spot stolen audio when you're looking. Anything with vocals is a red flag esp. if they're polished, and they almost always help out by using the original title and often with the original artist's name included.

At 4/12/18 05:51 PM, Peregrinus wrote: I've seen a lot of weird shit in the portal since I joined. But I don't think I've seen anything which has unsettled me as much as this submission. I feel dirty.

Yeah I caught this one too and could've done without it. Had my brows thoroughly furrowed.

At 4/13/18 12:42 PM, Jackho wrote: It's easy enough to spot stolen audio when you're looking. Anything with vocals is a red flag esp. if they're polished, and they almost always help out by using the original title and often with the original artist's name included.

I think most of the ones which I've come across/flagged were by users doubling down submitting stolen Flash Portal things. I really should spend more time in the Audio Portal again.

Had my brows thoroughly furrowed.

Can't be unseen. But someone in power decided the same and removed it.

At 4/13/18 12:53 PM, Peregrinus wrote:

At 4/13/18 12:42 PM, Jackho wrote: It's easy enough to spot stolen audio when you're looking. Anything with vocals is a red flag esp. if they're polished, and they almost always help out by using the original title and often with the original artist's name included.

I think most of the ones which I've come across/flagged were by users doubling down submitting stolen Flash Portal things. I really should spend more time in the Audio Portal again.

In case you haven't come across it yet there's an Audio Portal Cleanup thread where you can post stolen audio if you do get into it. It's less tedious than reporting individual tracks given the volume of thefts.

At 4/13/18 01:02 PM, Jackho wrote: In case you haven't come across it yet there's an Audio Portal Cleanup thread where you can post stolen audio if you do get into it. It's less tedious than reporting individual tracks given the volume of thefts.

Awesome, thanks for that. Maybe I'll take a look on the weekend, find some good NG original content.

At 4/13/18 04:29 AM, LexRodent wrote: This 2 games (neither of which worked for me btw) share a very uncommon tag : "oparin"

A total of 14 submissions so far since 09 April have used the "oparin" tag (11 cleared judgement, 3 under judgement).

Oparin is a school (elementary through University) in Mexico, so I'm thinking it's the result of a computer class since it's all in a short time frame and sharing a tag/real names as usernames. Newgrounds is admittedly a super easy way to create an account with minimal info, and upload up to 2 things a day (plus dumping grounds, project sharing, etc). They were all made in Construct 2, which is an inexpensive software for building games. Much like how they had my generation make Java games in CompSci class, Construct is likely one of the current options on the cheap.

There's also a wide range of quality that came out of them, and none seem to match up in any search as being stolen. I did find an animator with Oparin as the last name, but his stuff isn't games, and not anything on NG.

@Exedor for your consideration.

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Stolen from FreeWorldGroup.

At 4/13/18 08:01 PM, Peregrinus wrote:
A total of 14 submissions so far since 09 April have used the "oparin" tag (11 cleared judgement, 3 under judgement).
Oparin is a school (elementary through University) in Mexico, so I'm thinking it's the result of a computer class . . .

Some serious detective skills mate !
That explanation would make perfect sense and tie all the coincidences , except for the not working aspect.
I guess Sandra and Marisol won't get good grades on that class :D

At 4/14/18 03:09 AM, LexRodent wrote: That explanation would make perfect sense and tie all the coincidences , except for the not working aspect.

Every class, even those where all students volunteer to participate, will have one outlier on either end of the bell curve. Some people just don't get the explanations no matter how material is taught. Most do well enough for the grade, and one or two do much better.

I guess Sandra and Marisol won't get good grades on that class :D

I suppose that is the downside of NG as a cheap hosting platform: the community input into whether their projects survive.

If the theory is sound, I expect we'll get 5-10 more submissions with the tag (if the class is 20-25 students), then it'll stop. There might be a second wave come end of term.