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cartoons and games are a good way for people to see another point of view... cartoons and games ARE "infantile" if thats what some want to call it... but i would agree with you... i call them "approachable"... games and cartoons of this level are easy to figure out but can still carry a strong message... we have bene playing games and reading cartoons since we were very young so this really helps bridge a gap between styles of news... i see java games as more of a new generation of cartoons btu essentially the same thing...

and i think the poster forgot another game...

kaboom which i should hope everyone find offensive i find no reason to censor it... its the offensive quality that makes you think...

Personally, I prefer the withering critique of modern adolescence of High School of the Apes and Hentai- Sim Girl.

Hopefully, the appeal of such enlightening games as these will continue to grow.

It's -extremely- difficult to define certain genre's of electronica.. it's also hard to define them without some sort of working example to go off of. The roots of most electronic music start from the days of disco and 80s retro.. mix the two together, and you've got yourself some elecronica. Hell, even Disco House is nothing more than some good old fashioned disco with an over-exagerated use of high-hats..

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the last resource you'll ever need for a foundation of electronic genre definitions.

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

On a side note, straight from the author: iIf you don't like my definitions, don't bitch at me, go create your own f*cking version.'

Hate to break it to you my friend, but your average Flash navigation is small potatoes.

Grandparent was probably talking about the 500 KB site splash screens, not to mention Newgrounds.com (the home of Flash entertainment on the Web).

There is content out there that down right takes a lot of money to create. Movies.

Movies. For free. An animated movie takes about 10 hours per minute to make using Macromedia Flash software (based on the time cost of making Irrational Exuberance). Now we've reduced the cost of producing a film by an order of magnitude or more without reducing its ability to tell a story.

Music that uses an orchestra or session players.

I understand that for sound recordings. But it should be cheaper to compose (at least some genres of) music in a tracker. I'll forgive you this time because many people confuse the copyright on a musical work with the copyright of a particular recording of that work.

Video games.

It doesn't cost very much to develop a Game Boy Advance game. The costs of GBA games lie largely in replication, marketing, and promotion. (Join gbadev@yahoogroups.com and read the last week of discussion to see why.)

Content that would not exist in a world without copyrights.

Some areas of the world without strong copyright protection have a thriving motion picture industry. Know how? Product placement is one way.

After I downloaded Slack 8.0 Last Year some time. I was always kinda curious how long before the next release. and After A year goes by and the forum closes down I start thinking maybe they are having a problem . Maybe slack is going away. Maybe the maintainer is just to busy to keep up slack. Well after reading the changelog that guy has been busy allright maintaining and making slack better more power to ya I should have sent my 20 buck to slack instead of mandrake. Don't forget to follow the adventures of slack-girl

Phantasmagoria II: A Puzzle of Flesh (Sierra Games) hooked me for quite some time, years ago.. It wasn't so much the gameplay itself that hooked me - it was not knowing what to expect next (and of course the horror aspect). Considering that Reznor is working on the sound side of things, they have someone on-staff that is apparently good at cinematics/plotline, and Carmack and crew are the ones producing this game -- it is likely going to be one hell of a ride when it's released. Then again, id could release Duck Hunt III and still make a billion dollars at this point.. :)

KA-BOOM!

I personally want to use my Segway for beating up old people!

Don't believe me? What happens to the government if Microsoft goes out of power. Chaos. Creation. Open Source dominance.

And then how will the government force there to be software like Outlook that pokes deliberate security holes in programs so that the Feds can snoop on your computer?

Is the government going to bribe U of Washington to put security holes in Pine? Ha! Right about the time George Lucas packages Ewok Meat for Episode 2.

Lots of fun stuff for him there!

Yes, but Windows RG comes with an online supermarket!

Atlantis Vs. Nadia
Kimba Vs. Lion King

Oh, and a post from 1994 documenting the furor in Japan among the animators and other creative types when The Lion King was released.

Newsgroups: clari.world.asia.japan,clari.living.movies
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 94 11:40:29 PDT
From: C-ap@clarinet.com (AP)
Subject: `Lion King' Complaints Arise

TOKYO (AP) -- Dozens of Japanese cartoonists have signed
a letter to Disney, displeased by similarities between the smash
``The Lion King'' and a 1960s hit Japanese cartoon series and
seeking credit for the cartoon's creator.
...
The cartoonists think there is more than a passing
resemblance between Simba, star of Disney's animated hit, and
Kimba, the leonine hero of a popular 1960s Japanese cartoon
series that was dubbed into English and shown in the United
States beginning in 1966.
...
Both stories feature orphaned lion princes who lose
their crowns to an evil adult lion, then reclaim their thrones.
The good lions are aided by a wise old baboon and a talkative
bird, while the evil lions get help from hyenas. Kimba's foe
was a one-eyed lion named Claw, and Simba's a lion named Scar.
...

Never?

If you have Flash -- and who doesn't, I mean you'd have to be running Linux otherwise -- check out this Newgrounds animation for a visual demonstration. EvilDave calls it a "Dirty Sanchez," but it's the same sexual maneuver.

-- The_Messenger

It isn't a streaming format at all, flash files ".swf" are downloaded to your computer and then viewed (sometimes in parts, so you get a nice 'loading' screen).

Archon explained this quite well. I'd like to add that many Flash movies you find on memepool (all your base, hatten är din, hyakugojyuuichi, irrational exuberance, etc) preload their images and stream their audio or have slow intros (using little bitmap data) such that 32 kbps (the effective transfer rate of a 56K modem counting line noise and PPP and TCP overhead) can cover the first few scenes quite nicely. Look at "Pokerap 2" by Neil Cicierga: It uses a simple spinning AOL CD to cover the loading of the first scene.

How else would you explain Cat Dynamics?
Check out the R&D page, makes Bonsai Kittens look downright cuddly.

How else would you explain Cat Dynamics?
Check out the R&D page, makes Bonsai Kittens look downright cuddly.

Personally, I'm waiting for WindowsRG.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/uploads/27000/275 49_winrg2.swf

Why spend 30 minutes or much, much longer when I can make it to the video store, rent, and travel time both ways in about 20 minutes?

Some people (myself included; I'm almost 21 years old) do not know how or do not have enough money to operate a motor vehicle and do not live in an area with decent public bus service. It takes me an hour to get to the video store and back, time I could spend watching movies. Flash movies. Movies provide more laughs per hour than anything Hollywood puts out because Flash movies don't try to pad it out to 110 minutes.

Keeping a "Pentium or better" is not sufficient in the long run and the reason is just one word: "Games".

TOD is very playable on Pentium 100 computers. And if you don't like that kind of game, you can try hundreds of others with TuxNES including open-source games such as GNOME vs. KDE.

The games makers seem to push the limits of the operating system out there right now

"Games makers," or "first person shooter makers"? Not everybody is a Quakeoholic; some people enjoy thinking games such as Solitaire, SameGame, or Tetanus (a falling tetramino game). Some like the Flash games you can find at Newgrounds. They all run fine on the PII/233 MHz laptops I see everywhere at my school. Not everybody needs a 2 GHz Pentium 4 and GeForce 3 because not everybody thinks Black & White is that much more than a glorified SimCity (which, incidentally, ran on a 3.6 MHz 65816-based Super NES console).

And people will buy this new hardware (and subscription software OS'es) up because right now, they really need their fix of games.

Or they can just connect their GAMECUBE console (coming 5 November in many markets) to their current computer's TV tuner.

Saw this over at Memepool:

http://www.newgrounds.com/frames.php?location=/lit /atlantis.html

(warning: pop-ups aplenty)

Yeah, no teenager is going to make a new 3-D engine that makes John Carmackv say "Time to retire". The tools are too expensive, it takes too much time, and there are teams that can do it faster and quicker. We're in the age of Boeing and Lockhead-Martin, not the age of the Wright Brothers.

There is still plenty of room for the amateur developer, however. Look at the mapping scene - individuals have made some of the best Counter-Strike map, and a few even got paid for it. Check out Newgrounds for some cool Flash games, bringing the joy back to little games and demos. The failing of many strategy games is in the AI - when a Civ 3 or Masters of Orion 3 comes out with hooks to add your own AI, we should see some amatuer AI writers coming up with bots that beat the game all the time, and a good number of the expert players.

Sure, it's not the way things were done back in the 80's, but a clever kid can work with high-level tools and get himself or herself noticed by the big boys - it's still about the quality.

Its the bomb.

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I can't think of one instance of where Flash has made a site better.

Flash sucks when people use it for extravagent menus, and anoying openings. However, when it's used for games and animations it kicks ass.

This stuff is worse than what can be found in the Newgrounds portal! Argh! Why was this posted?

fraggle-fraggle-bilky-poo

Cat of the Week

A lil' friday evening humor before you all go drinking/hanging out/whatever you're up to tonight:

Star Wars Gangster Rap

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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal /view.php3?id=4060

Unfortunately that isn't the one I am looking for. That is the Counter-Strike version.

There was a TeamFortress version.

This Basicially sums up as the Only thing I could stand to watch with the Thundercats in it.

Keep in mind that these are the actual Voice Actors of the show and they also ironicially did the voices for the Silverhawks. There are also a couple of sound bytes for the Silverhawks lying around as well but I could never find them again after I downloaded them

...or does that CD-looking angel look like it could fit neatly into a (not yet written) Shockwave game at NewGrounds where you throw pirated CD's at Metallica? ;)

She's threatened other people with lawsuits, and hasn't been able to follow through because not only does she not have a leg to stand on, but the music she uses belongs to Disney, so she's violating a much more strongly-defended copyright.

I highly recommend the above link, BTW. Kill them hamsters.

--

It looks like the folks at Napster have the means to keep misguided attacks like the one coming from Metallica from ever bothering them again.
You can see the whole thing live here.

Read more about Why Napster is bad and about a proposed improvement to Napster.

Metallica explains it all to newgrounds.com. So get the scoop and shut up!

I couldn't get to that one but there's another one here. By the way, is there any way to save a flash animation?

--
J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!

Inner Child Productions (mehampster@aol.com) owns Hampsterdance. Funny, the music was copied from Disney's Robin Hood, and the graphics reportedly came from Harvard hamster web sites, but the <html> is mehampster's. A different implementation (like Assassin's Hamster Blast) is a new work, not covered by mehampster's copyright. And a parody game written in C (such as my GUWAME Hampsterdeath) is definitely not a copy, right?.

WHAASAAAAAAP

Man, he was on Reading rainbow before startrek!

(oh, and follow the link. This post is NOT redundant)

Try The Pico Scenario

Its not GPLed... but i think this is what you are reffering to.

Its flash btw.

Here!

I was watching Johnny Mnemonic the other night and it got me wondering if I might be able to use my cat's brain for data storage. How many gigs can a cat brain hold with a doubler? Check out Cat Dynamics.

This is probably the link you want (rather than a link to another web page):

http://www.newgrounds.com/vendetta/ vendetta.zip

(I'm getting a whopping 3.7k/s from my box with switched 100mbit to an OC-3.. actually, now it's 2.8k/s.. only 5 hrs to go!)

I know that Tom Fulp, the guy who runs Newgrounds was going to meet with the South Park guys due to some involvement with the Troma people. Newgrounds is basically a lot of Flash stuff... I wonder if he is involved at all.

I was hoping for something a lot more like this. Except with CowboyNeal instead of a cat.