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13 years is a long time to invest one's self into something. I don't know what keeps me here, or what good this is ultimately doing me. I miss making videos, but after coming here, it seemed old fashioned, and an expensive waste of time. Alt picture: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/aaa6c804661faadc710c0b6e384b1f72
Update 3/12/14
See, I hate when this happens. That's like, 1 for every hour I've not been here. I wonder what the oldest comment responce was... I've gotten some 2 years old, or older!
Holy fudge, it took me 2 hours and 11 minutes to get though all of them! If only I could small talk like that in real life!
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2014-03-24 03:52:41
...so on other tangent, I decided to not opt into the contract of going to grad school (paid for) and signing up to be a middle or high school teacher for three years. I have plenty of patience and toleration, but honestly I have zero experience dealing with adolescents, so at this time (if at all) I thought it would be unsuitable for me to dive right into a teaching gig. student teaching would have commenced in fall, after a summer semester of classes. I'm gonna apply for a couple of tutoring positions to get relative experience, and work from there.
otherwise, it's back to the drawing board for me. I wouldn't mind going back to school, but at this point it feels like I'm just trying to put off something scary (getting a real job). I just need a freakin change damnit! but at the same time I'm too scared to make that change.
I guess as long as there's no 'gap years/months' in your resume, and you hang onto your credits and a high SAT score (which will diminish over time, if re-tested)...
Does sound like a cautious track to me, but completely efficacious, and deduced with reason. Just remember that line from Men In Black.. "Individuals are okay, but people are fractious..." okay, that's not a direct quote, but you get my drift. Teaching is more like stand-up comedy and newsreading combined :p
2014-03-24 00:45:38
Whenever I see that style for NG and such, it reminds me back when I first started here....
I think they called it a "Newgrounds Gold" account, had a neat pop-up to put your name and password in. I really miss the elaborate pop-up from just after you voted... all those stats, and the blam and save anims.... NG has a 2 year old primer coat, it needs a high gloss finish to survive :|
2014-03-21 04:59:29
fucking shit! end quotation mark should be after "possible"
That helps my understanding a little, but the context eludes me :)
I haven't been checking my blog responses lately.... kinda holding my breath, waiting for news, then I can act. No sense in wasting effort, ya know.....
2014-03-21 04:58:26
oh shit...i say "if it's possible all the time"...it's genuine though. I wouldn't want anybody to feel obliged to carry out my requests.
Hm, what's possible 24/7? Nah, requests are good... beats demands.
2014-03-19 19:26:57
Hey Steve, ya notice anything different about meh?
Yeah, but I'm pouting
:|
Your username got a haircut lol
2014-03-19 15:05:55
I think it was Ragnarokia who originally took the 10,001 spot. I could be wrong though....
Actually...we haven't. It's been in either the mid-30s or low 40s like all week last week and this week so far. But it's been raining today so we're planning on doing that on Friday since the ground should be soft enough after all this rain.
Also two things.
1. Chelsea is going to be staying over on Saturday and is going to a Birthday party for me and my Grandma (who is turning 80 this year).
And
2. I finally got around to PMing Tom about that '00 account "Viper" and asked if it'd be possible to get my username changed to that. I didn't ask him TO change it. I just asked if it was possible to change it.
Guess he didn't want to have to say 'yeah i can", then have you ask him outright.... saved you a message. 'Would it be possible' is the stuck up person's way of saying 'please do', in some office speeches I've seen....
2014-03-14 23:38:26
Well, I'm not the first one who do this sort of PC spec 'shrinking'. And I'm certainly not the pro too. :)
Frankly, I think anyone who little hardware hacking skills can put together an efficiency system.
You don't need a Wifi card, with today tech, you can use a $10 to $15 wifi USB to receive good signal. Something like these
http://www.amazon.com/802-11g-WiFi-Wireless-Adapter-Antenna/dp/B002VX0GJY
http://www.amazon.com/Importer520-Wireless-Adapter-Antenna-54Mbps/dp/B0037G2BMY/ref=pd_sim_pc_3/181-6751363-0728434?ie=UTF8&refRID=12AMEAE69KSZ5NXR1YT5
I use this for my brother's laptop (he has a laptop nearly as old as your)
http://www.amazon.com/Importer520-Wireless-802-11N-150Mbps-Network/dp/B00333F2YU/ref=pd_sim_pc_7?ie=UTF8&refRID=12AMEAE69KSZ5NXR1YT5
Yeah, idk man. When these things came out turn of the century, you could go on a college website, and they'd spec each card/adapter out there, most importantly, the send and receive numbers. At sub-watt, things suck, especially when everyone's on channel 6 :\ I need a shotgun or directional antenna, to be sure! http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/150003c4d4256780ec9c35b8d4129fa6
(RE: the above pictured 2003 Dell) But I am seriously grateful for the built-in wifi and it's older driver, which took a fair bit of tweaking to cover this distance in wireless a/b/g. I've tried some Netgear and.. the other brand USB's, and none of them could cut it, even with tweaks (whenever possible).
2014-03-14 22:41:32
I can help you build a ~$250 PC or a ~$270 laptop for an AMD due core CPU, 3 GB of RAM and a 7008 graphic card. I help build economical (but functional!) PCs for 3rd world country's kids and I had build the system with the spec above about a year ago.
Here is the list of game that have been tested on this spec above on XP:
[high, med low indicate the graphic quality to the point where it runs smoothly]
============ FPS/TPS
- Counter Strike 1.6 (high)
- Counter Strike Source (med)
- Day of Defeat 1.3 (high)
- Day of Defeat Source (low-med)
- Crysis (med)
- Far Cry 2 (med-high)
- Call of Duty 1 and 2 (high)
//// Merciless mod (realistic gore & blood) - med-high
- Modern Warfare 1 and 2 (low-med)
- Brother in Arms: Road to Hill 30 and Hell's Highway (med)
- Battlefield 1942 (high)
- Battlefield Vietnam (high)
//// With bot numbers mod - high
- Battlefield 2 (med-high)
//// With bot numbers mod - med-high
//// Alpha project mod - med
//// Project Reality mod - low-med
//// Forgotten Hope 2 - med
//// Point of Existence - med-high
- Battlefield 2142 (med)
- Max Payne 1 and 2 (med-high)
//// Kung fu / Matrix mod (med)
- Sniper Elite (med)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (med-high)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (med-high)
- Assassin Creed 1 & 2 (med)
- SWAT 4 (med)
============ RTT/RTS
- Starcraft 2 (low-med)
- World in Conflict (med)
//// No Hope mod - low-med
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (high)
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (med)
- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (low-med)
- World of Warcralf (med-high)
- Order of War (low)
- Company of Heroes (med)
============ Browser game
- Project Nexus (low)
- Dead Frontier (med)
That certainly is interesting! The specs are a little low for my tastes, but quite capable and cost efficient, to be sure :) So you're competing with Google's 100$ computer for market share, or not really? I imagine you need a decent wifi card in your builds?
I'm almost done picking parts, definitely have to rethink the geforce 750Ti: good architecture, but they raised prices lately :p I hope whatever wireless network card I settle on, has enough control over the signal and hardware driver... only way to overcome the long distance to the AP, over 300 feet away.
I'm still happy with XP, and maybe I should stick with it, but the directx limit kinda pisses me off |:
2014-03-11 22:53:58
oh cool i found your 10,000 comment blog post (10,001 comments now)
it seems you were pretty upset in the next newspost? did Tom ever give you any ad money? not that much would be gained of that if any at all
glad things are *somewhat* better for you now, i hope
Long story boiled down: Tom has nothing to do with CPMstar... he knew the owner founder, then he sold out, and the new owner changed.. and Tom just went with it, because the checks came in regularly, and he had just enough software from them, to figure out who to write checks to.
The clicking ad economy, is a big horse to psychoanalyze, and I had to take a crash course. It is possible, that the ad-rev I got that first month, was retroactive! It's also possible my blog got scanned by bots enough to trigger enough clicks...
Eh, that was a while ago, and I was clearly rude to Tom :\
2014-03-11 22:12:02
Ah damn it! I forgot to log my stats on the first of this month!
(at least I think I didn't....)
I hope your cat has been attended to. Been warm the past few days, and 71 degrees today. Ground's almost thawed out lol
2014-03-11 22:06:33
Oh to answer that question you asked me two weeks ago (which I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT)
It was mainly my idea. I wanted to see if we could hit 100 comments by the end of the night because you were going to make a new post. Then when we spammed your post to 100 we decided to go to 200. Then 300. Then after a bit we went for 1000. Then after a bit....10,000.
I honestly DO NOT think there are any other blog posts that have that many comments on it anywhere on here. The closest I've seen was on I wanna say M-Bot's post which had like 7,000 comments on it the last time I checked.
Yeah man, you were the architect of something, that no one on NG had ever done before!!!
I don't even think 1000 comments can fit on the notification pod (pictured above), let alone 10,000
10,001... SC3 :) The last person to have that spot, was some pony/troll you yourself found, and which I promptly deleted :\
2014-03-11 18:49:39
dude how in the blue fuck is your 11 year old laptop better than my 7 year old laptop
Lean, mean, fighting, maah-sheeen! WIN7pro, no a/v protection 512MB of crapRAM:\ Despite the shit drivers running in the BG, I can boot up using only 130MB of RAM, leaving just enough for a clean install of FF to do the net... this POS is the reason I'll never buy Intel, except for their videocards |: Fucker's built like a Sega 32x with no multithreading :p
2014-03-11 15:22:59
How does it feel to your for being one of the dinosaur/giant of NG users? :3
Old! And hardly a giant, more like a lizard that can run under small stones.
A lot of the respect comes from the BBS, and all the hot air there. But the real titans are like this guy http://toonhole.newgrounds.com/ submitting constantly, and sticking with the old site.
2014-03-10 23:54:42
Wow man congrats! That's truly incredible.
I remember when it looked like that but well before I made an account (besides a throw-away one).
Grats again.
Time flies when you're on NG!
I always liked the lean looking NG, especially the Portal, where all the magic was to be had.
Damn man, I lost a bunch of my favorites recently, looks like you were one of them!
2014-03-10 01:06:36
Colour/color, neighbour/neighbor, revolutionise/revolutionize. Damn, I'll never learn these complicated translations! Actually, I have and do, for the most part. It's good to write in other country's slang, culture and language from time-to-time, it creates interesting new situations.
However, I didn't get this translation. You made a torch out of birchwood and an oil-soaked rag. You are the modern day George Stobbart.
My account page is still knackered. Wonder what changes are being made? Or have they even noticed. Dun dun dun!
Looks like things are in motion to spin off all the adult stuff.. ng-local2 pops up in the cookies, whenever you see anything with an A rating, and a banner.
I'm hopeful Tom will just lock out all adult stuff to members 17 and younger :\ Still wondering what domain name he bought...Adultgrounds?
2014-03-08 19:14:59
Hey, have you ever read Sam and Max? I think you'd like it. I mean, it's not Asterix, but if you're into witty insight on American culture combined with ludicrous and memorable characters, I think it's up your alley.
Huh! Damn, who knew? Well, you did, but I don't think I've ever heard of them!
Wow, good thing there's a 20th anniversary book, otherwise, I'd wonder where to get reprints.
Thanks man, this looks right up my alley :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%26_Max
2014-03-08 04:13:28
congratz :D
Why thank you! Though I always wonder why getting older demands congratulations or an occasion, it just means you haven't died yet.
Glad you stopped by, I like your music. Kinda reminds me of what http://nietzlawe.newgrounds.com/ has been up to lately.
2014-03-08 00:47:07
Yeah a torch. They are always are to find when you need them. I've been meaning to get one, as I'm thinking of walking through the Trough of Bowland, and if it gets late and dark, then that's not the best place to get lost.
Is your account page messed up? It looks like some slight layout changes are being made.
Torch/flashlight, hood/bonnet, boot/trunk.. I meant the kind used to heat pipe fittings, which contain zinc oxide paste. Upon heating, this material chemically.... I think you're pulling my lariat :| Hmm I made a torch out of birchwood and an oil soaked rag, worked good for quite a while!
No.... AHHHH! It changed right before my eyes! Looks icky! Check yours, I think the ugly fairy has visited us all!
2014-03-07 21:01:18
Look like it takes a lot of hard work to deposit points regularly... what the hell!
Now you're one of the bosses of NG.
Eh, there was a foul up with my password and my email account had been closed... wasn't till kinda recently I found an old password list, and got back on here! I registered with a hellalong password, but I found I only needed to type 8 of the characters to get on for a few years, then after a redesign, they brought back the longer passwords... d'oh! Otherwise, I'd have been level 60, like a boss :\
That's very kind of you to say! Good to have you on board, the BBS is better for it :)
2014-03-07 18:30:40
You fled to my Moniker faster than Bill Clinton.
Fathers eh? What are they like! All we can really do is remember them the best we can, then honour them with our successes.
Yeah well, at least I would've offered dry cleaning lol :)
Certainly trying to. Had to go to a plumbing store I haven't went to since he was alive, had to get a replacement stem for the next door bathroom. She (the tenant) had a replacement faucet, very new, but I don't have a torch to solder it together... glad she got it for nothing.
2014-03-07 17:29:13
New song V. This one is for yourself and Doomroar to enjoy :
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/569369?updated=1
Lol, I checked it out before seeing this... saw your moniker in the bottom feed and I fled to it!
2014-03-04 18:54:04
I wrote a little piece about when my old man, so you may take a little heart or inspiration from this piece. Hope you get something from it :
http://nietzlawe.newgrounds.com/news/post/554342
I can only wonder if my father had any final words for me, since my sister told the hospital, to dope him up 6 ways from Sunday, just before she flew in. Had I known before hand, I would've taken more time with him.
Through my life, he barely cranked out half your story. He was an extrovert, probably sociopathic, very surface driven, egotistical - but I do have the times he spoke from the heart in my mind. Just haven't gotten around to compiling them.
2014-03-04 14:11:45
I have to be completely honest in that I don't think there's anything wrong with this! I don't think any of us are losers who spend too much time online. I have a ton of IRL friends I met on this site. This website made me laugh in dark times and kept me off the street as a teenager. Also I just baked another batch of cookies.
Maybe it's how the world has changed since I've joined up, that bothers me so. And you're right, the people I've met here mean the world to me, and that enrichment in my life pushes me to serve the membership here, but there's only so much I can do. I shouldn't forget the support I've gotten when I was going through the death of my father, gave me the strength to cry for joy. They're not making kids much better, as time goes by, but I'm thankful for the ones who are.
2014-03-01 16:21:00
I loled at the pic man
Thanks, dunno what got into me to do that... this site can be a bad influence; mental influenza
2014-02-27 17:31:22
there actually is one lol: http://johnfreedom.newgrounds.com/
I think it's superghandi
Possible! Just checked the posts, looks like British English, though he's trying hard to sound American.... expat, dual citizenship?
Nah, not obvious enough. Real Americans don't talk about geeky games, or movies... they talk about buying shit, getting high, and taking 'the man's' penis with style. I guess. Maybe. Every time I wake up in the morning, I realize different things... how much has changed since I was young. We've all been collectively indoctrinated into thinking, no matter what, the authorities are right. Total 1984 man.
2014-02-27 11:49:06
Well thanks Vic, you made me smug.
Okay, since when joking on the internet gives you suspension? I thought internet is just a place for fun. That's not the first time I heard that case, some state schools are a fucking joke, too many leftist teachers and parents who want to push their agenda. Liberalism isn't about labors anymore, it's now about pc and "equality". Why give minorities and women more opportunities than whiteys? Because "EQUALITY". Damn, sometimes I feel ashamed of my own race.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-02-26.html
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/bret-easton-ellis-interview
I really don't know what to say anymore, but it seems clear, that Americans are not in control anymore. It seems like everyone in the government, hates America, and wants to be a part of a single world currency... has to be. Why else let the dollar turn into toilet paper, why have high ranking bankers been turning up dead this year, why let the biggest banks make up their own Ponzi scheme rules (also this year)? The bankers want to take over the whole planet, but the US has to be turned in on itself, broken.
2014-02-27 11:19:31
I hit my 11th year a month ago. And i think I use NG just as much as I did when I first joined - that's a good thing haha
It's good to be moderate, paced... The sucky part was, I couldn't log on for many of my years here; password screw up, and an email account I can't access anymore :\ While moving out a few years back, I found a password list, and here I am again. I still came on at least once a week and voted a single vote.
2014-02-27 02:02:28
@FordV8 your icon makes everything funny lol
It's cruel on a lot of levels, but yeah, it's like a funhouse mirror image, kinda amusing.
Times like this, I'd like to make a stereotypically white, ugly-American alt: fat, lazy, ignorant :) Sure would give superghandi64 a run for his money....
2014-02-26 20:28:49
are my jokes even funny?
Fuck yes! Good jokes don't have to be nice and proper and PC. Laughter and jokes should be the most protected form of freedom of speech. I wish Wade could see that. I'll see him soon enough, and give him a bustin' for you :)
Damn, my buddy's kid almost got suspended (but he didn't, clean bill of mental health) for saying something in a (mostly) private YouTube comment, "Let's kill all the goths, and emos.. ", you know, just talking shit, making a joke.... and one parent had to see it, knew who the kid was, and reported it, so my friend had to haul ass over to the school that morning :|
2014-02-25 20:50:51
I'm listening to the Omega Man tunes again right now actually. Calming. It would be awesome doing a smooth radio channel on the ham. Something a bit different from the norm though, something a bit old-fashioned and creepy, with a stuck-in-the-past kind of overtone to it.
I can't believe that the Heston flash video was uploaded 14 years ago. That is surreal.
A lot of people are uptight and PC. Me.. I actually don't want to be able to sleep at night...
.. That is when I am just getting up! That is when the Midnight Fire has to be lit.
Well, unless you want to broadcast from a boat offshore, you'll probably need a license of some sort.
I know... we're getting old. The internet hasn't aged well, that much is certain. I guess I knew the big money would fuck it up after a while.
Hmm, we both need help with our circadian rhythms. I'm back on sleeping 4 hours twice a day, wasting electricity at night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd56CIFSMI4 Funny... I was talking about Orsen Wells and the Alien Invasion radio broadcast he did in the late 30's recently... wasn't far from my home. In fact my town was in the invasion zone :p
2014-02-25 11:35:34
well Qbasic was included in Windows packages. (Atleast 1.0, I think you needed to purchase 4.5+, which was necessary if you wanted to compile an executable or use external libraries) I think I still have Visual Basic 1.0 lying around somewhere on a floppy...
Yeah, now I know what Qbasic is... there was a gap in my computer knowledge between high school and, well, after. I finally got an IBM compatible PC in early 1996. Before that was: TRS-80 III (trash 80's), TI/994a, Apple IIc... just enough to keep me writing and/or farting around with code.
2014-02-25 08:42:00
Why is submitting shitty stuff so much easier a few years ago?? My christmas and halloween submissions got blammed despite I put much more effort into them than my previous subs.
People can't handle your kind of comedy these days.... and that sucks. Everyone is so uptight and PC, they can't even laugh at themselves, or raunchy old stereotypes. Old America has given way to a "lets bend over and let the lies become the truth" kinda generation, just so they can sleep at night.
2014-02-25 02:52:53
Basic and Fortran get the job done, I'd say! and Matlab is p. cool too
The fuck? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlab I hadn't heard about that since the mid 80's! And it evolved and stayed alive, kinda like Lightwave did (Amiga/Toaster software).
Of course any cool software back then, ran into some awfully steep prices! The manuals alone must've cost a bundle, since most were way bigger than any phonebooks I've ever seen.
2014-02-25 02:50:35
wow, you're only 13? I thought you were in your forties or something!
I'm a born-again Newgrounder or something.
2014-02-24 23:31:22
How do ya feel about Harold Ramis dying?
Oh I know, doesn't that suck? He made the underdog look good, kinda like Newgrounds did, back in the day. Man, site got screwy today. At least the Verizon/Cogent/Netflix war is over. Netflix is going to pay up for hogging bandwidth... radio said Netflix used something like 30% of the carriers output O_O
2014-02-24 19:37:11
This is Nietzlawe coming to you live on ham radio. Don't panic, don't climb out of your nice warm beds, just take a little sip of drink, settle back, and listen to the next song. Goodnight folks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZKF1EAMJWg
God I loved that movie! Thanks for the link, it'll motivate me to keep down to Earth, and not let the siren song of silicon chip swoon me into malaise. Who else could Neville be, but Charlton freakin' Heston, the former NRA (national rifle association) chairman? Just joined up with the NRA for two years....
I assume you've seen this in my favorites? http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/4635 I encountered this movie/game over at Romp.com before they went udders up. Ah, the old days of the interwebs.
2014-02-24 06:02:01
It does? I was?! Haha well if you say so... I probably did know what they were teaching already, but looking back it feels like it was too easy to 'cheat the system', working on a hobby project that I'd worked on regardless and getting a grade for it.
I felt the same way, but you actually completed your project, I didn't even get halfway. Oh well, I paid my dues not long after that... it's not like it's gonna help me get a job. I suppose I should at least see where I can get MS certification.... I know I can ace the A cert, but I think you have to attend classes :p
2014-02-23 18:11:34
That sounds a lot like my last webdesign class though, in high school. I already had my own site at the time, and the class revolved around learning the neccesary techniques for creating a fully functional websites, I asked if I could develop my own site for the duration of the course, and that was fine. I missed a class somehow and asked if it was ok if I worked with the site from home instead, and that was fine, the final result gave me a straight A though I rarely ever attended the class. Probably one of those 'Only in Sweden' things though. :P
Makes sense you were allowed to telecommute your schoolwork; quite progressive... but you're a good and solid sort, I'm sure you earned the latitude.
2014-02-23 17:27:40
Batul Brothas!
Spehss Mahrens, todeh the enemeh is at oua doar! We know oua duteh and we will do eet. We fight for our honor as Blod Rehvens,
as SPESS MAHRENS, and we fight in the nehme of the Empra!
And if we die this deh we die in gloareh, we die heroes' deffs, but we shall not die, no! It is the enemeh who will tehste deff and defeat!
As you know! Moast of oua battle brothars are shtehtioned in SPEHSS, Pruhpeared to deep strike! Oua perimeter has been pruhpeared in the even dat oua enehmies should be so bald and so foolish. We have plehced numerous beacons, allowing for muhltiple, simuln-tehneous and devashtehting defensive deep strikes
The Codecks astartees nehmes this maneuvah Steel Rehn. We will descend upon the foe, we will ovawhelm them - we will leave none alive! Meanwhile oua ground fawses will ensue the full defense of oua headkwaters
We are the spehss mahrens! WE ARE THE EMPRA'S FUREH!
Yup, go team go. Up the Union, and whatnot...
2014-02-23 05:23:18
Ah, languages before my time, read up a bit on the lot just now, looks like Basic inspired VB, I've snapped up a few useful tidbits of code for that over the years, like one that lets you enter any phrase and have it spoken to you, and since VBS files are edited just like txt it's easy to modify. :) I went a course on C++ one years, but that's probably as close as I'll ever get to 'real' programming. Design's more my thing. Hmm, you didn't take computers??
Nah, I took... hm. The ladies that ran the computer lab in junior high school, thought I'd do better learning TRS-80 DOS, on my own. It didn't take much persuasion to the History teacher, she scowled at me and asked a me few questions, all of which I knew. She smiled and said enjoy yourself.. I came back to class once or twice asking if she didn't need me, she'd ask another question, I'd get it right, and she'd tell me to go back to the computer lab, which only contained me O_o
That would never happen these days. I was a proper young adult through much of my life :|
2014-02-23 04:23:48
Haha yeah, they own the Internet. http://www.spriters-resource.com/ is what I use for most sprite-finding btw, seems like a resource growing in greatness... almost so great I feel a need to rip the entire network of sites for potential offline use. In case of - you never know.
Programming? What language did you use back then?
Pascal, 2 versions of BASIC, mostly Apple, I really dug FORTRAN... but, they offered them in high school, but it was C that was in demand, so I didn't take computers then :\
2014-02-22 12:42:09
Haha, don't misunderstand here: I still sign all my reviews, but now I type in the -cd- manually after each one. :) Copying/pasting smaller segments feels like more of a chore all of a sudden. Thanks btw, it's pretty awesome to have somehow evolved to one of the reputable users.
I asked Tom about resuscitating the fan net some time ago, he had no plans to bring it back or make anything similar. :/ Hope he/they reconsider though, I don't see how it could be anything but positive for this place.
Those Alexa stats are a real mystery... how can nulllgames, with just 23 fans, be getting four times as many hits as the Shadman?!
Ah, NG BBS Goldmine I know of, need to jot down those other links. That Kevin Bacon day was probably my favorite April Fools ever, a harmless prank that changed ... everything! Names, meanings, messages, good times...
Ah, it's easy for NG, but imagine having to type in something like: https://www.google.se/search?q=dog+sprite&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=vAR&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&channel=fflb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=gsQFU6XYI6O_ygONqoGgDA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=904#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=HJU0hOyAfsi7WM%253A%3B4j3eu4J9Cle1rM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fspritedatabase.net%252Ffiles%252Fgameboy%252F684%252FSprite%252FDog.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fspritedatabase.net%252Ffile%252F1935%3B1095%3B716
Not that that'd ever be in a magazine but... you know what I'm sayin'?
Dog sprites... used to be able to find sprite sheets anywhere. Then a few months pass, then nothing. Oh, at the end of the link... the actual source! Google likes to think they own everything they show us :p
The web is indeed approaching tower of Babel levels... Ahhh, you should've seen the code I'd type from magazines... all had to be perfect, or it wouldn't work, and no decompiler or indication which line fucked up |: Cheap way to game, those were desperate times.... all the sophistication of a brick through a plate glass window lol
2014-02-22 10:41:33
All the others? Didn't know about art101 before!
Haha oh yeah, I browse through old PC magazines occasionally, so many links you used to have to type in in their entirety, and for dynamic sites it can be a few hundred characters too... Google's a real time-saver.
http://art101.newgrounds.com/ http://ng-bbs-goldmine.newgrounds.com/
http://reverend.newgrounds.com/news/post/556318 http://kevinbacon.newgrounds.com/
The long addresses didn't bother me much... just navigate as close as you can, then add the extra info, onto the end... used to do the same with NG www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1
www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/2 easy, right?
2014-02-22 07:56:57
Oh man just noticed you've added a ton of links in that sidebar since I last looked! Gives me ideas of making an ALT and using that feature as a link directory for something like flash resource sites, it's pretty cool how favicons are fetched automatically too.
And by copy/pasting stuff I meant text, JSYK, links, code etc all have their own routine. Really makes things easier than we think, just imagine having to type in a link to share it, that'd take time...
Yeah, all the icons for the links came through okay :) It'd still be nice if we could embed stuff from other sites, like Liveleak... Sure, what about art101, or all the other alt accounts, which serve as a reference of material? Sounds like a worthy idear
Oh, thank goodness we've had bookmarks/favorites in browsers... still, last century, I typed out quite few web addresses. Just found a business card recently (like the one I asked Tom to look into), for a website I might be interested in! It's for a syndicated radio show, probably mostly on AM stations (old kHz range)
2014-02-22 07:51:57
I don't usually cut n' paste stuff. :) When I was reviewing as most I actually CTRL C/V'd my signiture into all reviews just to speed up the process, now that doesn't seem faster at all. Bit off topic...
Yeah the banners still exist, but not the fan net, there used to be a list of all sites linking back, showing how many hits they had, twas a fun way to both check out user sites, advertise NG and get some traffic back. Wayback: http://web.archive.org/web/20120118075828/http://www.newgrounds.com/network
And whatever happened to http://www.newgrounds.com/link
Was more like a toplist IMO, nowadays it seems people use activity streams to showcase specific content rather than linking to regular sites. :/ Was so much easier back then! I mean, it was harder, the web wasn't so bloated with generic content, each page was something different.
Yeah, but when you copy n paste your name, it means something (unlike a certain BBS poster of dubious repute).
Now that you mention it, there really aren't anymore... probably why the they died out - no central hubs/BBS. Oh shit, I forgot about that (first) page! Nothing like that now, I imagine?
You should get extra xp for having a Newgrounds account link listed, on every other website account that's yours... more links/referrals the better... in an ideal world, of course. Now damn near everything comes in from Google, or Shadman, Egoraptor... check out the Alexia link, and check the other pages on NG...
2014-02-22 03:26:00
So people could post newsposts to one or the other site depending on newspost content? Sounds a bit... complicated. :D
I wonder what an impact the old fan net had on this place, I'm sure plenty of popular sites would link back just to get som advertising... but I guess that's why it closed down, because people were using it for the wrong purposes. Seems like the right purpose now.
Ah, I thought you had cut n pasted, but you gave me the more verbose answer
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1361363/5#bbspost24988296_post_text
Oh, the early referral banners? They still use them, but man, back then, every person with a website had them, or favorite links at least. And sure, it was like an early Facebook 'like' thing, only the whole web was it's stomping ground, going from one person's stuff to another's, via banners and links. That's why I list a bunch of weird links on my userpage...same thing, different century... different users.
2014-02-21 20:11:24
I would like to say that is a cultural shock, but you have 13 years on this so that shouldn't count.
More like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_shock Huh, they made a movie about the book the year I was born. The internet and it's users have changed very dramatically in the past 15 years, lemme tell ya!
2014-02-21 14:48:02
I know someone cares, somewhere, somehow...
"Kindness doesn't feed the bulldog." -- Churchill
Thanks, I guess the nebulous, non-corporeal nature of the internet, wears on my real-world upbringing...
2014-02-21 08:48:47
Probably plenty even younger too. Maybe age ratings on newsposts is the next step? :P
Yeah I noticed, was expecting it to close a long time ago though. I made what I thought would be my final order soon after that was announced last year, but then I stumbled upon a free mystery box and ordered that too... if I knew there'd be such a surplus of mystery boxes I would've waited and ordered one of those along with some of this much price-reduced loot. Almost feels like I was cheated a bit on that previous order, could've saved around $15 on the stuff I bought, and bought some more this time around, but right now my funds are dry. $25 store credit did mysteriously pop up on my account, but that barely covers half the shipping cost... ah well, life's not all about items. :P
Nah, remember, Tom wants to spin-off all the M and A content to another site. So all of NG itself will have to be relatively squeaky clean :\
...could've just cut n' pasted the post link too :) and I hear ya, that was my first thought when I saw the price change! I just wish Tom would advertise the site... a few measly gifs on the right pages, would certainly help remind the wider, lazier web, that we're here!
2014-02-21 08:10:05
Happy NG Anniversary! 13 years is a lifetime for some people on here.
Thanks! And yeah... I'm sure there's some 13 year olds on this site. Scary. I try and stay PG-13 for the most part, but when you've lived as long as I have, you can't help but to disseminate crucial info, regardless of the subject matter.
You notice the NG Store is closing? Tom even put a thing in General about it.