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VicariousE
Wanted to be a simple man of the Earth, enjoying art and literature, the bounty of the Earth. Instead, I have to fend against governments and principalities, global conspiracies and bad social engineering, ree, my autism

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AMA (ask me anything), while I palaver with chaos.

Posted by VicariousE - June 7th, 2014

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The Pico Day party at the Newgrounds offices left me feeling several things, loss being primary among them.  I have come to realize that I am profoundly sad, at the hastening pace of entropy, on my world, in my country, and in my home and heart.  While loss and change is at the very heart of life, I fear the balance everywhere is... off.  So I'm currently trying to balance years of baggage, on my Libra scales, bear with me, it gets harder as time goes by.
 
Anyway, all of that is hardly relevant to my presence here.  Why?  It's all about you guys producing content, from the trenches of your lives, uplifting these works to this place, where I have (damn near) always been.  This place might be an electronic fantasy, a fraction of real life, but it is life, and (at least) I am happy to be among you.
 
Your tired cheerleader,
 
VicariousE

 

July 29th - Guess it's time to change the blog diaper soon, but there always seems to be other problems.

August 12th - Derp, can't see well, had to take out my contacts for a while!

August 26th - Well, here I am.

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SileNt-Sam

i think i know how you feels ..
just take a short break and enjoy your time :)
you're the father of newgrounds c:

VicariousE

Thanks man.
I'm going to try and do just that, and hope nothing big happens while I'm away.
Nah, Tom is, or rather Tom Fulp's dad is. Dentist, still practicing :)

Doomroar

You're the electric cord of the screen, the water on the juice, the wheels on the car. And thus you pretty much make this thing work out, or at least help us to remember that it used to work.

VicariousE

I met the tenant's first husband last night, after a very hard day of work planting and such. We talked about what was, and how horrible it is for young ppl now, not ever knowing how cool things were back in the day. Sure there was a lack of social services and oversight, but all that costs money, and makes the State a babysitter. Boo to babysitters!

Doomroar

That's what i am saying you are like window to the past, but when was the US a charitable nation? i mean yeah you pretty much shared war with everyone but still...

BTW about that Book, you make quite good movie reviews like that one about Freejack, so there is a good clue that the thing may work.

VicariousE

Yeah, you're right about war. When there wasn't welfare or schools that played parents, the local community would keep an eye out, feed the hungry (door to door begging for food) was common up to WWII and a tad afterwards. I guess prosperity in the 20th century took away our humble helpful natures, made us hermits, unwilling to look outside our doors.... idk.

I've found plenty of good reviewers here, well, not plenty, and not all that active, check out her old posts and game reviews - http://voodoodollmaster.newgrounds.com/

S3C

Why/how did the Pico Day party make you feel loss??

I disagree with that sentiment...seeing as the amount and overall quality of content here has diminished noticeably...this place is about the social presence of users here (content developer or not) more than it ever has been...

VicariousE (Updated )

Right before I got to the PA border, I realized I haven't left the State since my Ma and Pa died. My Pop and I went to CA and back around 1999, and made many trips together before and since. I had a good cry when I realized that, at 70 MPH. So, I resolved myself to enjoy the trip in his name (and in his truck).

While there, it was like a few months before my Ma died: everyone else could see it was a lost cause but me. Hoping against the wind.... Seemed in bad taste that the attendees would think this would be the last Pico Day, just because the office was getting 'flipped'. Tom has a big heart, he wouldn't stop Pico Day if he simply changed digs..... he'll rent a hall near the PA Turnpike, where the hotels are.

Doomroar

But sharing with those in need while sounding very christian it also seems to go against the conservative options of a person standing by its own means...

Yeah, but yours are good too, or at least they are enjoyable to read which is quite important on an author.

VicariousE

It does, doesn't it? I'm all for bootstrap pulling, but you need the straps and the energy to keep pulling too. It takes balance and understanding, not a State employee with a bunch of boxes on a form to fill out.

It used to be, everyone had a few speeches - these little nuggets of wisdom, used to be imparted from one person to another. Not easy concepts or ones they taught in school or on the job either. Sharing knowledge, along with whatever we had spares of, used to be an art. Tom Fulp practices that art, so do I.

Heh, I haven't had too many complaints about my writing style, but there are times I choose alternate or seldom used conjugations of words.....

Doomroar

I had a typo there instead of option i wanted to say opinion... anyway.

So people like to be more preachy back in the day? XD, haha joking man, i know what you want to say, they used to be more considerate... mmmh maybe even empathic? na that is too good for humans, sympathetic sounds more accurate, and that is giving too much credit to big societies.

But that is just a minuscule detail, it may even be a perk favoring your writing style adding some personality to it.

VicariousE

Empathy mixed with the pride of being an upstanding citizen, serving the 'common cause' (the improvement over all our lives by helping our less fortunate countrymen, to achieve; 'pay it forward' is the newer phrase).

I always thought it was like throwing a speedbump in the road :p Still, I try and form the words in a discernible order - my Pop's fault, he grew up speaking Polish fluently, and formed words and ideas that way...

Doomroar

The pride of being an upstanding citizen? that's a first really, how deep can that pride go, and how real it really is?

So did he taught you any polish, or maybe the language died with his generation?

VicariousE

It used to be important. It was about, 'your standing in the community', how well you served your fellow man. Nowadays it seems the only people giving, are themselves hiding things...

He knew old Polish, but could only understand some of the new language, which changed a lot after WWII (my father's folks came over to the US right before the war, when they claimed 'the streets of America are paved in gold'. I couldn't learn it, neither could Ma.

Yomuchan

Still here, buddy. I'm designing an automatic cloning system and memory imprinting system to deploy backup copies of me in case I kick the bucket.

So, did you work out your funk yet or do we need to hit the shooting range?

VicariousE

Now that sounds like a good way to future-proof yourself lol!

Nah, I gotta find a sporting goods store first, and hope my name clears the Fed database, not raise nay red flags :| Bad enough living in a Blue state

Happy-Little-Trees

hey hows it goin? :P

VicariousE

Just going outside to check on my cousin. No idea why he took the doodlebug out, waaay to muddy |: Wish he made more rows before the rain tho, still waiting on pumpkin seeds, and still have at least a row of seeds I have now I could put in

Yomuchan

I am magic with computers! You just leave that to ol' Uncle Yom!
*You hear the clack of keys on an old computer in the background for a minute or so*

There you go, your name's been cleared from the Megacorp Wanted Database.
...Pay me? Pal, there's no need for money here. Now get out there and have some fun, ey?

(You win 100 points if you figure out where I lifted that exchange from)

VicariousE

Likely from a cautionary 80's flick (which no one took seriously, unfortunately... too many 80's flicks look like the US today). On a lark, I thought I'd find a few references, check out this wiki page, especially the bottom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacorp How close did I get?

Hopefully it wasn't from Hackers, that cheesy flick with a very young Angelina Jolie....

Yomuchan

Actually, it was from Shadowrun. Close, you get 75 points for getting a reference file with William Gibson.

VicariousE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun Huh, it was on the Genesis and I never played it... never got into board games much, having lived just outside the suburbs. But wow, what a perfect plot and setting!!

Yomuchan

Lemme know if you have anything delivered. Retro PC videogames are my specialty.

Oh and that reminds me, I've been meaning to ask you about this.
http://painbringer.newgrounds.com/news/post/771661

What's it about?

VicariousE

Well I might order something if I knew you were certain to get a cut of the profit....

I was born on the 8th of October... not the only one... Lord knows why Painbringer took it upon himself to set up this blogobase, but it's good. Be nice if Tom randomly picked a few for the NG calendar...

Yomuchan

Truth be told, I'm not really interested in profit and more focused about getting the forkheads name back on the levels of infamy we enjoyed back in 2004-7. People call me a weirdo but I think that's whats important - and fuelled the golden age of newgrounds. It wasn't about the profit potential - it was about pushing your skills to the limit, and going even further. We didn't care about earning money - we just wanted to do something crazier and more awesome than the next guy and have fun doing it. That's what made NG great.

So... what's a blogbase?

VicariousE (Updated )

That's a tall order. Things have changed, but maybe you can recruit some new blood..

IDK, it's whatever passes as a blog with a database, of sorts. Blog o' base

NeverHundred

Wait, are you a Libra?

Yomuchan

I'd like to have that blogobase updated with my birthday at June 22. That'd be really nice.

When I started making a sex kitten game, detractors said that it was a tall order. But, with unstoppable determination, comes victory. If I keep doing what I do at my best, sooner or later, I'll be able to build a new community.

VicariousE

Just tell him dude!

If it were me, I'd take a break from the work, then start watching the very first forkheads animations. I'd watch a shitload of them, and take notes, hell, even copy and paste, the best of the past; solutions from the past, today! ;)

Doomroar

But aren't the best gifts those that you give to yourself? XD.

That american dream thingy, how many have failed and keep failing for that? by now you would guess that the thing is either true or just a blatant lie, and the first needs better evidence...

I see that's a pity a lot of immigrants have that, except that most at least speak the language when they are at home, so their kids pick part of it, from that point on the whole thing starts disappearing by getting less and less use with each generation.

VicariousE

Yeah, but I'd like a V8, not a supercar or a street racer, something with agility.... To make a PC, is a personal thing....

The problem is, as wealth funneled to the top, so did who they gave to. By aiding the areas where the wealth was created, keeps things honest, and just as lossy....

Time and tide dictate our speechifying.

Doomroar

What about taking flight lessons and giving yourself a helicopter instead of a supper car? or maybe a jet.

Mmmh inequality is indeed a problem, but i think that the dream was more of a fantasy even back in the day when inequality wasn't as notorious.

In the future everything will be slang!

VicariousE

...it was an analogy to building a computer. After all, what do guys like? Toys. Fancy car, super computers, broads, bucks and William Buckley (conservative magazine founder)...

No it was a legit goal, and made us a wealthy nation by virtue of our own hard work and natural resources.... and a 200% tariff on almost everything imported.

Got dat rite m8

S3C

damn that is an astoundingly astute and provocative sentiment there nietzlawe...

I think the death by firing squad still exists on request...believe a death row inmate requested such back in 2010. Sounds much better than dying slowly, strapped to a gurney. An eye for an eye??

VicariousE (Updated )

Yeah, I'd probably would go for a bullet too - the way they practice lethal injection here, is pretty slipshot :p My eyes are rather puss-y and blurry now...... wanna swap?

tailsbuddy

Here's something totally irrelevant.

If unicorns existed, would the world be filled with rainbows?And if so, would it affect the fact of why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?

VicariousE

If I was a unicorn, I could say for certain, HOWEVER, it so happens I tapped a high profile artist, to draw a pretty bird made out of rainbows, in a rather complex picture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj6DAm9GS5A I've commissioned for all the diehard Mass Effect fans, out in the world...

I never fancied cinnamon toast crunch. Fruit Loops were my bag, as well as whatever else was in the cereal variety pack. Corn Pops were pretty good too

RiverofBloodyTears2

FREE ZURBOIG

VicariousE

No thanks, the zurboig I have is already starting to spoil...

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