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I predict DJ Doomsday will "bring the funk".

DJ Doomsday and MC Hawking:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/172475

> NATURE'S HARMONIC
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
TIME CUBE

Hey, if you set this to music it could be as good as the Terrible Secret Of Space!

Pak Chooie Unf!

We all know only the Mormons go to heaven.. Everybody else goes to hell.. unless god's armies need beefing up.

We all know only the Mormons go to heaven.. Everybody else goes to hell.. unless god's armies need beefing up.

Did they hire the guy who made Fishy, was it just a coincidence that both of their games involve having a fish that eats smaller things, or was someone at Popcap one of the 2 million views of the game?

Hopefully, they will call the next one The Floating Island of Mandango.

http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/72146 for the reference.

Sheesh...so many people are taking parent seriously. Take a break and read this.

Then, after you're done reading that, go watch the movie.

This has been a public service announcement.

The pusher robot and shover robot comments are, of course, referring to the Terrible Secret of Space:

http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/33440

Next up: Tetris the Movie (see special features)

Alternatively, I could have used this link. They're both good choices.

That still won't necessarily lead to (literally) gigabytes of memory being used, and I'm speaking from experience; I spend a lot of time on http://www.newgrounds.com/ , and thus see a lot of flashes each day, man of them in the four to five MB range.

Mozilla (Seamonkey, in my case) does have memory leaks that are large enough to drive a truck, through, that's for sure - after a day, its memory usage will typically be up to somewhere between 150 and 300 MB -, and it crashes a lot, too - once a day on average, and that's using 1.7.12, the last version in a branch that should be in deep maintenance mode.

But I can't say it's using *gigabytes* of memory, and it's never done that for me, either.

I'm hoping there's enough of my corpse left for the Valkiries to carry me back to Valhalla, to spend Eternity drinking and whoring with Thor and that bunch; I'm sure Heaven would be fucking boring.

Hey wait, are there stairs on spaceships?

This flash goes a long way in describing the philosophy of liberty. I'm sure there's loopholes in there if you look hard enough, but still love this flash.

Disclaimer: this thing is text and image based, with music in the background. That's good if you can't put on speakers, bad if you hate reading.

If they did it as a giant phallus, then people might mistake it for one of the ancient gods from a dimension beyond our comprehension, like those in this video: http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/226663 (Click the "Watch This Movie" link to see it.)

The pusher robot says shoving is the answer. But can we really trust him?

NO! He is malfunctioning.

Vote Shover Robot in 2006. Together, we can protect the future.

Embedded media (particularly, Flash) *is* a large part of the Internet as we know it. And unlike you, I'm not convinced that embedded media is automatically a bad thing, either; I certainly dislike ActiveX for its proprietary, windows-only nature and security nightmares, and PDF (PDF documents on the *web*, that is) for its duplicating of what should be done in HTML and CSS, but Flash at least seems to be doing something that you can't easily do with open standards, and the player is reasonably cross-platform, too.

Of course, like all technology, Flash *can* be abused, but hey, sites without Flash can also have a horrible design - Flash is neither necessary nor sufficient for that.

I don't know about you, but I at least, as a frequent visitor of sites like http://newgrounds.com/ for example, would be rather disappointed if Flash went away or if you had to pay for the player due to licensing fees extorted by Eolas.

I don't have a tv, nor do I want one, but every now and then I want to flake out to some non-interactive entertainment. Here are the sites I've found for free tv and video on the web (that I can remember at 1:48 a.m.)

http://edition.cnn.com/ -News fix

http://www.homestarrunner.com/toons.html -Not tv or video per se, but strongbad email flash animations are a hoot and close enough

http://tv.yahoo.com/feature/supernatural.html -The show Supernatural online, although I haven't watched it yet. Featured on /.

http://www.atomfilms.com/ -Everybody knows this one; marginally good

http://video.freevideoblog.com/ -Alot of crap, the odd good video

http://video.google.com/ -Random

http://www.ifilm.com/ -See also atomfilms

http://www.newgrounds.com/ -Way cool, homepage worthy!

http://tv.reuters.com/ - more news video than cnn

http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog - ???, Profit! Actually, I don't know what to say

http://portal.omroep.nl/uitzendinggemist/ -Dutch TV up the wazoo

http://mediahopper.com/portal.htm -1041 tv stations from all over the world listed and ready to watch (as far as I can tell)

http://video.search.yahoo.com/ -Stuff n' things

http://www.youtube.com/ -People upload and share their videos online... you've been warned!

I should add everything here is "family friendly", as far as I'm aware: no porn, uberviolence or gratuitous advertising (if I've somehow overlooked something, I apologise).

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Correction: That should be http://www.newgrounds.com/

Not to mention here.

pak chooie unf

I don't listen to a lot of nerdcore, and I have to say that I don't really listen to it to enjoy the music so much as to enjoy the lyrics and humor. I do have some MC Hawking that I listen to every now and then, he has a flash video of one of his songs that's pretty funny.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/233937

Here's the original:

http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/33440

Here's the site of the author:

http://www.jonathonrobinson.com/

There is a link to the flash game.

And from personal experience, the musician behind the flash music is, and always will be, an asshole.

I know much of Slashdot's audience can't stand Flash, but I've had quite a bit of experience with it over the past five years -- I was a Flash game developer -- and I've got to say, ActionScript has become o very powerful language. Don't be fooled by its name: It's not a scripting language. It's an entirely object-oriented similar to Java and C#. You should feel right at home with it.

The upside is a very rapid development phase: you could bang out a prototype in a couple of hours, depending on complexity. It's also an almost-ubiquitous platform: With the exception of *nix (of which I know very little, and as such refrain from commenting), the player is reportedly installed in 90% of all browsers.

The does-side is that you have little-to-no control over lower-level functions, such as memory-management; no direct disk access outside of 'Flash cookies'; and absolutely no access to a user's video card. It's also quite an expensive application -- it starts at $499.00 USD for the standard version.

Quite a number of amazing games have been developed using Flash, most notably (IMHO) Alien Hominid, which, ironically, has been turned into a full-fledged console game.

That's just my two cents, at any rate.

The only flash movies that... ahem, struck me as much as AYBABTU were these:

Sticky Night of Love

And of course, the Yatta flash.

Original Yatta video for context.
Yatta Flash

Plenty of Engrish and epilepsia-inducing pictures.

Thank you slashdot. Oh, boy do I look forward to having my friends send me a link to this funny AYBABTU thing that they just discovered. ;-)

Stupid memes are those stupid inside jokes you have with friends, except that the inside is enormous. Furthermore, the jokes get older much more quickly, so people end up trying to out-weird the most recent meme.

In case you missed it, this is the best of the more recent Zero Wing parodies.

Can't beat Mario Twins, and it's been around for years.

While they're not entirely inovative, I reccomend you take a look at both Viewtiful Joe and Alien Hominid (which started life as a flash game). They're excellent examples of great fun, great looking games that forego realism and even 3D graphics.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/236814

Even a 4x4 pixels wide viewfield can be enough to watch the adventures of Captain Lowres!

I think I've heard of this robot somewhere before.

Corn_Boy - wassup
Corn_Boy - what is the time there?
Lowtax - 11 pm
Corn_Boy - wow, why are you woking so late?
Corn_Boy - what kind of work do you do
Lowtax - VE and SA stuff
Corn_Boy - whats that
Lowtax - VE - Virginian Empire SA - Secretary's Alliance
Corn_Boy - is the secretarys alliance like a union
Lowtax - Kind of. Mostly we just go over to Marcie's house after work and gossip, go to the rodeos, wash cars, etc etc. We also lobby congress.
Lowtax - What do you think about robots?
Corn_Boy - the ones that make the cars?
Lowtax - No, space robots
Corn_Boy - I dont know, I havent met one yet, but I guess they would be cool
Lowtax - I am building a space robot, that's why I asked.
Corn_Boy - ok, will it be going into space?
Lowtax - I am trying. It will be a very useful robot. I am giving it AI. Do you know what that stands for?
Corn_Boy - who is al? do you not like him and is that why you are giving him to the robot
Lowtax - No, AL is my friend, AI means "Abnormal Interests". I learned that and I'm programming my robot to act like a human.
Corn_Boy - like in the disney movie
Lowtax - What is Disney? I don't watch movies, I had to use the parts from my VCR to build my space robot.
Corn_Boy - from a vcr, wow, how does that work
Lowtax - I will tell you, but it is a secret so you can't tell anybody
Corn_Boy - ok, I wont, I promise
Lowtax - I am using the CLOCK in it to have the robot tell time!!!
Corn_Boy - will it have a gun
Lowtax - NO! I am non-violent, and I do not enjoy guns and violence!!! It will have a broom and fishtank and vaccuum. The Ultimate Space Robot!
Corn_Boy - you must be real smarte to be albe to make a space robot, my parents have a dvd player thing, can you turn that into a robot, it has a lasre in it
Lowtax - I can turn everything into Space Robots!
Corn_Boy - have you made many other robots?
Lowtax - Yes, but they don't work the way they were supposed to. One was a BIG ACCIDENT my friend
Corn_Boy - what happened
Lowtax - Grandma fell down the stairs
Corn_Boy - did the robot push her was she alright
Lowtax - I misprogrammed it. I tried to do good, but the robot jumped up and pushed grandma's head and she started spitting and her teeth flew out and the robot shot sparks and grandma fell down the stairs onto my uncle.
It was the worst Christmas ever.
Corn_Boy - oh no! sparks, did anything catch on fire
Lowtax - Grandma did, but I got a Pusher robot to shove her outside into the snow.
Corn_Boy - that was lucky, we have christmass in the sumer here, so no snow, you are lucky that you live there, very lucky!
Lowtax - Where do you live?!?
Corn_Boy - I am in new zealand
Lowtax - Wow! I was going to build a robot for a company in New Zealand! They are named "Ochnop Technologies" - have you heard of them?
Corn_Boy - no sorry, I do not know much about the robot industre
Lowtax - You should, some day robots will be in your house! Wether you know it or not!

Pusher robots
Shover robots
Force robots
Bumping robots
you know!
Corn_Boy - I hope that they dont go crasy and shoot me
Lowtax - ROBOTS DO NOT SHOOTS Guns shoots and robots dont go crazy unless you tell them too.
The Pusher robot I am making will shove around the blind people and take them to the store. Then the Shover robot will push bread into their throats.
Corn_Boy - you mucst be a very nice person to be making helper robots
Lowtax - I like to do my part. One day my Space Robots will revolutionize the world! And space!
Lowtax - Space has a terrible power!
Corn_Boy - do you mean like the worm-holes from star trek
Lowtax - I do not watch star trek, it is LIES!@! Space has a terrible po

The best way for robots to help blind people is to shove them.

Link for those who haven't seen it.

Holy crap!

That song is like goatse.cx for my ears!

Honestly... this is the worst thing I've seen seen Asswarp

Hmmm.... subtle joke? I'll see what I can do.

Subtle Joke SUbTle JoKe SUBTLE JOKE suBTLe jOKe SUBtle jOKE sUbTlE jOke SuBtLe JoKe!! This is a subtle joke aprile fools subtle joke april fools!! Fake Ghostlike Protons! Fools shoP at think Geek!! I think we're gonig to be successful, I think we're going to be phenominally successful! Numa Numa! GanG FigHt! Why is #COFFEE about the exact opposite of the colour of Coffee? Did you hear that they're going to get rid of the Internet? OMG APRIL FOOLS I gotcha good! You won't like me when I'm pet urBed! SAVe sidTALKIn'! Yo! This has nothing to do with April Fools! Shine GET! I don't know what I'm YELLING ABOUT!

Well, as Homer once said, trying is the first step toward failure :(

I'll warn you ahead of time, I'm going to make another post like this in another 365 days.

Hmmm.... subtle joke? I'll see what I can do.

Subtle Joke SUbTle JoKe SUBTLE JOKE suBTLe jOKe SUBtle jOKE sUbTlE jOke SuBtLe JoKe!! This is a subtle joke aprile fools subtle joke april fools!! Fake Ghostlike Protons! Fools shoP at think Geek!! I think we're gonig to be successful, I think we're going to be phenominally successful! Numa Numa! GanG FigHt! Why is #COFFEE about the exact opposite of the colour of Coffee? Did you hear that they're going to get rid of the Internet? OMG APRIL FOOLS I gotcha good! You won't like me when I'm pet urBed! SAVe sidTALKIn'! Yo! This has nothing to do with April Fools! Shine GET! I don't know what I'm YELLING ABOUT!

Well, as Homer once said, trying is the first step toward failure :(

I'll warn you ahead of time, I'm going to make another post like this in another 365 days.

Isn't April Fools Day just the best? =] For a 'full' list of sites pulling pranks today check out this list here

Here is a sample:

kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft
ocremix.org - Now partnered with EA (or something like that). Called EA ReMix.
spacedaily.com - Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
planet.gnome.org - Switched sites with planet.kde.org
planet.kde.org - Switched sites with planet.gnome.org
ietf.org - RFC: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
beejaysworld.de - Gentoo dropping livecds for x86
nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov - Water On Mars
smh.com.au - (Free Reg Req) SMEGmail offers 1 terabyte storage
smh.com.au - (Free Reg Req) Linux looks to Hilton for exposure
thetoque.com - Canada Builds Own Missile Defense Shield
onion.com - U.S. Dog Owners Fear Arrival of Africanized Fleas
chron.com - Bush Twins in Maxim
ask.com - Jeeves has been replaced by a robot
animenewsnetwork.com - Viz Unlicenses Naruto
uninventthewheel.co.uk - New BMW technology to get around the EU ban on right hand drive cars in Europe.
newgrounds.com - changing to numagrounds.com
neopets.com - neopets adds 50 new pets
www.firstloox.org - The Loox is being recalled
packages.gentoo.org - Adobe doesn't sell products for Linux
pc.ign.com - Microsoft World of Wordcraft (Extremely Obvious)
spamusement.com - Page full of spoof banner ads
gentooexperimental.org - Gentoo using the NT kernel
moddb.com

So if you're claiming that Flash games like this one can become console games, the problems remain that 1. a lot of un(der)employed indie developers have to work on near-zero startup capital, which means no spending $499.00 plus shipping plus tax for Macromedia Flash, and 2. I haven't seen one Flash game that tries to read from my USB gamepad.

That was a clear attack on Zero Wing Rhapsody! For shame >:(

And if it wasn't, then... *runs*

I been waiting so long for this game that I can start singing the song or watch the music video instead.

Personally, I think the open category is between Alien Hominid and Gish.

Alien Hommid is the only non-PC (PS2 and Gamecube) game in competition, and has a very solid following via Newgrounds since the game started as a flash-based game.

Gish wins out in both looks and physics. Epically the physics. It also shares a fan base from Newgrounds as they advertised heavily on NG and post NG content.

Personally, I hope Alien Hommid wins. I have no real reason that it beats out the other. Both are very good games.

Now next year, I'm hoping Antidote sweeps the awards!

* Poster is the creator of Antidote.

Personally, I think the open category is between Alien Hominid and Gish.

Alien Hommid is the only non-PC (PS2 and Gamecube) game in competition, and has a very solid following via Newgrounds since the game started as a flash-based game.

Gish wins out in both looks and physics. Epically the physics. It also shares a fan base from Newgrounds as they advertised heavily on NG and post NG content.

Personally, I hope Alien Hommid wins. I have no real reason that it beats out the other. Both are very good games.

Now next year, I'm hoping Antidote sweeps the awards!

* Poster is the creator of Antidote.

Personally, I think the open category is between Alien Hominid and Gish.

Alien Hommid is the only non-PC (PS2 and Gamecube) game in competition, and has a very solid following via Newgrounds since the game started as a flash-based game.

Gish wins out in both looks and physics. Epically the physics. It also shares a fan base from Newgrounds as they advertised heavily on NG and post NG content.

Personally, I hope Alien Hommid wins. I have no real reason that it beats out the other. Both are very good games.

Now next year, I'm hoping Antidote sweeps the awards!

* Poster is the creator of Antidote.

You, my friend, know where it's at.

Here's what I've got to say about this: copyright infingement is bad. In most ways, it is as bad as theft because in most situations, you are not paying for something you would have paid for (as the grandparent said). I really can't see why someone would complain about the MPAA cracking down on a crime.

That being said, movies (and music) are being sold at annoyingly high prices, and, illegal or not, it's going to be difficult for MPAA and RIAA to catch up with new file-sharing technologies.

The upside to this is that most good musicians play music because they like music. So, say the music industry cumbled down. No disaster. People who actually enjoy making music will continue to create and distribute it, and surely at least some people who enjoy the music would donate to these people to encourage them to keep making music.

MPAA is a bit different. It's hard to make a good movie without a decent budget. But, there is an upside: all those celebrities (which I personally hate) would stop making millions, which I'd enjoy watching very much. I can't be sure how good movies would be without *ahem* forced payment, but keep in mind that some people will pay just for the sake of going to a theatre. Sustainable? We'll see. If the movie industry crumbles down, something good should follow.

Feel free to pepper the following with "IMO" where appropriate... here we go.

I would describe evil as "causing harm for personal gain without consent". Yes, that's a slippery definition.

Basically, if some terrorist commits murder/suicide in hopes of a good afterlife, then I would classify the terrorist as evil. If the terrorist did it strictly because of beliefs, I wouldn't call it evil, but personally, I would call it ignorant, and definetly against the views of Libertarianism as they explained here (not that all Libertarians would necessarily agree with this piece).

By the way here's evil on Wikipedia.

Mario eats what the badgers tell him to eat.

TmsT made a really nice flash movie based on the non existance of the game!

TmsT's Duke Nukem Forever

What's keeping the Duke Nukem Forever company in business? Has it been forever since they released a title?

Duke Nukem: "Forever"