The Internet is serious business
I would have never expected someone actually would do this, bravo. In all honesty, my author's response wasn't intended to be serious; I simply enjoy screwing around with people. This flash is so drenched in irony because you seem to be on a crusade that I used to be on back in the day, right down to the narrative rant. If you watch the HNTs in my profile (the one's that happened to win awards) they were essentially a rant on the misdoings of NG, much like this flash was. Nowadays I make movies to "make myself and some other people laugh" I know damn well the general NG audience may not appreciate. Additionally, "the crappiness of [those] movie[s] is purposely done, because I only wanted to prove a point."
I don't judge myself to be an Internet badass for winning those awards that I threw at you, I could care less. I am 21 and all I care about is making it into graduate school so I may accomplish my life ambitions and end my life on a good note. Quite frankly, since it is my alias that won those awards, most people in my life will never know, and frankly I could care less. It simply showed the same bunch of idiots who pass my "Pootytang" flash happened to like my flash enough at the time to vote highly on it. As I previously stated, I commented on your review to fool around with you, and quite frankly your review wasn't as much of constructive criticism as you claimed it to be. If I condense your review it stated; "You spent no time on this, and it had nothing of substance that anyone else could not imitate." So where in that review is comments about how to do the flash better? "Add a hook," by golly how descriptive! NG reviewers in general seem to be on this high horse that their opinions matter. The purpose of the review system is to tell an author how to improve. The whistle points I receive for the dozens of "abusive" reviews and non-helpful reviews is astounding, and people will still not realize it because they think it was deleted for the "author's comments," which is simply ignorant because there is no such thing as "abusive" author comments and Tom made a good thread as to why.
Then, people will speculate that I have this vast conspiracy network that helps these flash pass. If this were true, don't you think Wade would have shut us down already with the technology NG possesses? Wade knows who votes on what and when and with what IP, and he will delete people who form mass conspiracies to vote up shitty flash or rig flash awards, etc. and he has. These flash pass because the general NG voter thinks it will pass, and they want a save point, which is why it mysteriously will have around a score of 2 every time. The general NG voter will create a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't even tell my friends I submitted a "pootytang" until after its passed; you can even ask floppy because he'll usually see it hours afterwards because of time zone. Heck, if you wanted proof, I could give you the pootytang preloader and you could submit a numbered pootytang flash with anything you wanted in it, and it would pass without a problem. I even made a flash about this dynamic back in the day in "HNT Finale" but it fell on many deaf ears.
While I appreciate this flash, I can tell you that we aren't as different as you would like to think, and while I do appreciate your crusade and your first stab at flash, we are more on the same page than you would like to think.
So for sake of review, the humor was well placed and contributed to a contemporary and apparent issue of NG politics, the graphics as you said were not so great but you were intentionally doing that so its not a problem, the animation was well done and the average user wouldn't pick up the repetition of frames you had done unless looked at closely, I would have preferred a catchy song in the background like some Joplin to emphasis some of the comedy but the flash wasn't particularly hurt without the music, the buttons were well-placed and utilized effectively, and I enjoyed the overall style. My thoughts on the content can be inferred. ;)