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"When Anthrax is the only good band.... [675]"
YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN TROUBLE.
Oh boy, more Edgar 'n' Locke, after teh Cigaro insanities. And we're back to the "FRONTPAGE" right-click menu, too... BAH. Anyhows... iPod fun, eh? Okay. As long as it's not minutes and minutes of crap. #;-}>
It's an iPod. That's got loads of space on the iPod. O_o Strange phrasing there, man. More Cigaro? At least, I think it was Cigaro... yay, Caught in a Mosh. Much better. Heh. Hey, it's Shadow! Rock on. Not sure what that is... but anyway. Hahahah, Gogo teh Mimic, with his red iPod to match his outfit. TERRA, YAY! What kind of music does Terra like, I wonder. Why does Terra talk like an ancient old woman? Fascinating.
"I have never completed Final Fantasy VI." What a sad, sad admission to make, man. Is that STILL true?
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Shadow was listening to Cannibal Corpse. Shadow is the Death Metal Douchebag of the series.
What would Terra listened to? I haven't thought about that, actually. Perhaps she could be some kvlt frostbitten grim true norwegian black metal elitist? lol, nah. I'll think of something along the way.
Oh, don't worry about that. I did complete FFVI back in September. Did you even hear me being so happy about it on the BBS and/or on my news post? I spent a shitload of time training, but it was well worth it! :)
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"Short & sweet, one of teh most enjoyable yet [674]"
What is it with Bahamut and teh BEACH? Never has a dragon in the history of dragonhood... enjoyed beaches as much as teh Bahamut has!
WHOA. What a mouth on ya (during the mostly-unintelligible rambling part)... I definitely heard a few choice phrases in there. You fuckin' hate him, eh? EH? LOL! head-explosions. MTE, Afro.... his head will probably be back, so let's not worry too much about it. Gotta love teh sprite-deformation/decapitation/defac ing/and all those other fun d-words.
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"What is it with Bahamut and teh BEACH? Never has a dragon in the history of dragonhood... enjoyed beaches as much as teh Bahamut has!"
Ironically, I hate beaches. I hate the sand and I hate the sea water. Getting sand on my feet is just a nuisance and sea water hurts my skin. X_X
And if Pokelord-EX, Afro_Stud and Andersson randomly came to where I am on a holiday, I'd be made up. :)
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"A flash for our time and for all time... [673]"
hahaha. I love AfroStar/AfroStud's internal monologue... Bahamut with teh little z zz z zz zzzzs.... = ALL RUINED. Teh fuckin' swearing is all FUCKED. How dare you. How DARE you, Afro_Stud. You bastard.
This is perhaps the greatest flash on NG about the dangers of censorship. The dangers not to our freedom... but to our EARDRUMS. Thank you for your public service, Bahamut. :::salutes:::
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If censorship WAS necessary, then why not simply silence the part. And you're welcome. This is to show how terrible censorshit truly is.
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"Muthafuckin' Bahamuts on a Spaceplane [672]"
Hey, why does the Bahamut in your "Bahamut Presents" intro logo shimmer as the "TIE Fighter going by" sound effect plays, BTW? It's a nice intro logo, BTW.
12/31/2006 at 11:59PM... just like your Christmas flash was set at 11:59PM on Christmas Eve... why is everything in your flashes always starting at 11:59PMs? #;-}>
LOL! hahahah..... you fling yourself backwards in a somersault for no apparent reason into the time-freezy chambery sorta thingie, eh? But to no avail. Countdown to 2007.... shall not be averted for ye. OH WELLS. Nice Futurama parody and all, but I was kinda hoping that meant you put some Futurama characters in there as well, not just yourself as a stand-in for Fry. #;-}>
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TIE Fighter? lolol. I don't know about that, but the sound effect does sound very much like something from RPG Maker.
Yeah, that is true. These flashes like to take place on 11:59PM. Maybe I get out of that habit? Nah. :p
I was actually thinking about making an actual Futurama parody for 2008, but decided to not do it for a few reasons:
1. Too much drawing and animating to do.
2. I felt like what I would have done on the parody would have been butchering Futurama and I hate to ruin such a great show.
3. The plot was bollocks.
But maybe in a few years time, I might make a Futurama parody. :)
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""OW!" ... well said, Mister Lame-o! [671]"
Yay, I can change quality to low again... the last two or three I reviewed, you'd locked out the right-click menu and replaced it with "FRONT PAGE PLZ," basically.
Huzzah, more CHRISTMAS FUNS. There ain't nothing better than a screaming/plasma-blasting/whatever he's got his mouth open for Bahamut wearing an over-sized Santa hat.
So, we've got Andersson with teh Iron Maiden shirt on, I assume, along with AfroStar and Bahamut... holy crap, it's Graham of teh Goatse-fame. Who's this, then? Ah, Crackman. And Trish, oh boy. But no LLL and no BlueHippo. ;_;
HAhahaha... Slayer for teh Dream Theater. SATAN IS SO PISSED. And rightfully so. "Goatsemas" has to be the weirdest sounding word in the English language, especially as pronounced by Graham. But then, everything Graham says is weird-sounding thanks to his pronunciation. BETTER VOICE ACTOR FOR THE WIN. Crackman was a little weird, too. Everyone else was great. HUZZAH.
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Oh, the quality change issue. Erm, that intro was made by BlueHippo and wanted to disable the quality, lol. I just left the actionscript as it is, but perhaps I should take it off on any other flashes I plan to make that uses the Roffie N' Afro preloader.
Bahamut's Santa hat isn't oversized. :(
Yep, those were my original character models and they looked crap, although Crackman's hair here still looks cool. Perhaps his hair should look like that when I plan to make a style change on my 100th flash. :) Yep, here's the legendary Graham as Father Goatsemas! :D
Yeah, it sucks LLL and BlueHippo didn't appear here. LLL was with his Lemonparty pals and BlueHippo was still homeless. :(
Thanks for that swell review, gfoxcook! :)
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This doesn't bode well... funnily enough, when I first started to hear about Zinedine Zidane, all I could think of when I saw his name was Zidane of FF9 fame. And when I first got FF9, all I could think of was that Zidane was one weird-ass name. Ahhh, memories.
Anyway.... mistaken identity potential. DELIGHTFUL. Flashback to teh 2006 World Cupness. Which I did indeed watch much of, including all of the final match.... headbutt and all.
LOL! Zidane getting the red card.... was so shittily edited, that was the entirity of the humour. I certainly hope you intended it that way. #;-}> Greatness.
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Haha, yes, the picture edits were so crap on this flash, but I rushed this flash just to be with the fad at the time. However, I still like this flash because of all the memories it brings back from 2006. Ah, what a fun year that was.
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Those Hitler flashes were already going on in mid-2006? Huh... I had no idea. Srsly. My gods.
Anyway.... yep, there's that familiar opening music. Which I certainly know from doing a fair amount of portal voting in December 2007, January 2008, February 2008, and March 2008.... but man, I thought those things were a relatively recently, within-the-past year sort of thing.
... anyway.... uh... whoa. Iron Maiden all over the place.... faux-newscast feel to it, what with teh Andersson sitting there, and various pictures appearing in the little square in the upper left and all. ALL YOU NEEDED WAS A NICE WEATHER MAP.
Beach scene... hahah... Afro Star and BlueHippo at teh beach makes for an EXCELLENT BEACH PARTY. And throw in teh Bahamut himself? Where do I sign up? GET MY TRAVEL AGENT ON THE PHONE. ... oh no, eGroundsWorld.com! Wait... why would 50 Cent being the lead vocalist of Iron Maiden make Andersson love teh Iron Maidens again?
.... Wild, man. Wild.
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Yeah, the Hitler flashes started back in early 2006, but ATWI80D didn't start until 1st June. That is the true beginning of the Hitler flashes, which lead to having a 493+ episode spinoff. :)
But for me, only a few episodes of my own spinoff is enough for me. I lack determination to make 80 actual flashes for one series. I mean, I only reached 80 flashes a while ago.
Yes, tons of weird shit happened thanks to me, lol. And unfortunately, you're far too late for the beach party.
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"It's yer birthday & you'll die if you want to[668]"
So here's the first (or one of the first) of your flashes with yer modern Bahamut-in-the-corner logo and all... Nifteh.
OMG, CAKE. OMG, PRESENTS. OMG MUFFIN. OMG, DESTRUCTION.
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super-static-filled "do-do-do-dooooooo... bwaaaaaah" rim-shot-type-musical bit (damned if I can't remember what that snippet's called, or what TV show(s) made it famous...) = not so much funs. ;_;
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Yep, this is the beginning of Bahamut & Co. :)
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Angary face + SOAD = angry indeed. Anyway, aside from me not liking the music choice very much, the "lip synch" on the FF6 sprites to the lyrics was quite funny, and answered the question I had when I first opened up the link from your PM.... that being "WTF is the title of Bahamut's first flash "Cigaro"?"
Backgrounds are nicely pixel-y, too. If there was one thing I would have changed (besides the music choice, again!) it would be the camera framing. For the most part, it's the same exact view of Edgar and Locke from the same distance... when the background changes and changes again, it makes me wish the characters were in different spots or something. But then I guess the lip synch wouldn't be as visible. In any event.... quite nice for a first flash, that's for sure. And teh FF visuals makes up for teh SOAD audio. #;-}>
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Surprisingly, this flash took me about 24 hours. That was mainly because of the random lip sync and not know a thing about copying frames, lol.
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"Someone was looking for this movie on the forums"
On Where is/How to? specifically, and I liked their description of this movie they couldn't find, so here I am to watch it because someone was helpful and posted a link to this.... it is a good flash. And I'm going to submit my 666th (well, more like 700+, but so many get deleted over the years due to authors removing their flashes...) review to a flash about the number 1001, so that's kinda cool.
The overall story and message, of course, are great... and the idea of the 1001 wishes is nice... mostly, for a flash consisting of almost nothing but a bunch of still images, there was enough camera motion to invest a sense of motion into the visuality, and the muted colours and backgrounds really added a lot of style, too. I felt in some ways it was a bit overlong and dragged in parts, but not rushing a story's better than the alternative.
But I must say that my main frustration is that the guy decides his 1001th wish is to tell her that he does like/love her, that he wants to right the wrong he accidentally did by saying untruthfully that he didn't like her to some guy who had outed them on a chalkboard... similar to how he ended up wanting to apologise to her for their accidental running together when they first met...
And both of them apologising to each other was probably their greatest moment, BTW, it showed humility and grace and forgiveness and all those great human qualities... can triumph over anger and resentment and so forth. Yet here's the guy with a very similar feeling, a wanting to set things right with her in his 1001th wish... yet he doesn't want to fulfill it right away? What's the point of waiting until she's successful in school and career to tell her that you love her? Tell her NOW, damnit, sieze the moment.
That part kinda troubled me, and also seemed to run a bit counter to the whole point. I mean, just because it's the final and "biggest" of the wishes doesn't mean it has to be the last one to come true, does it? If so, what's it worth? If you put 1000 wishes in front of it that are so easy to come true that you can finally then have wish 1001 come true only because it had to wait its turn... what was the point?
My 1001th wish, BTW, would not be something so simple as career or love or whatever. I've been with the love of my life for almost 8 years now, I don't care that much about career as long as I can live happily with those I love and who love me... no, I'd wish for something better for the world and the human race as a whole. Bleh. Anyway, don't let my rambling about my one hang-up with the ending of this flash turn anyone off, it's a good flash, and you should watch it if you're reading this part. But I suspect most won't have made it this far. So congratulations. #;-}>
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