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welcome to the humble, quiet forums. thanks for sharing your work and apologies again for getting tossed out with the bot registrations initially. there's still so, so many of them - which i find odd, but it is what it is.

does anyone have the full image of hmmguy? he was covered in tangled computer cables and shit. i only have this poorly cropped gif of his head. it makes me sad. #BringHmmGuyHome

are you using the pixel tools plugin to make the pixel art?

feel free to join our discord server as well - outside of my patreon this is the only other place with links to it, so it's relatively free of random weirdos

i will track him down to the ends of the earth

once i win and i'm the last poster ofc

really like the look of your stuff. if you found me on ABS all those years ago no doubt my work is unrecognizable now. all my cartoons had links to this site which used to have more features but is now "just" a forum (outside of the filedump that was really the only reason people came here). it looks like all your old stuff is now broken images which is too bad, but we're typically not so proud of work that ancient so maybe it's for the best lol.

keep up the good work, and congratulations on still being able to log in to your old account.

i think it's a bit psyop-ish as it's pretty clear that the account is botted to hell and the people reporting on it are only doing so because they know it will drive clicks. there is so much of this garbage out there, there's nothing different or shocking that this AI fruit channel is doing that hasn't been done elsewhere. i'm sure there are some people genuinely watching it but it's maybe 10% of the accounts.

if anything i see it as a sign that the dead internet theory is real and accelerating at a rapid pace.

the draw distance is terrible but it is really impressive considering the saturn was largely ignored for a long time by the hacking community. i'd love to see some other games more appropriate for the time period put on it that never made it to the system. maybe a de-make of sonic adventure since that was originally the console it was intended for.

valentine's was 2 weeks ago bro wake up
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that guy with the weeb winamp playlist would've been my friend. or literally just me

was this in high school or college? in high school we had a computer lab but i only remember 2 classes in there, one for web design and another for programming. i actually learned a decent amount of Java and VB and made some seriously awful games, one of which i still have - a tic-tac-toe game with 3 difficulty levels. it's a very suspicious looking EXE file

now my computer lab in middle school was an absolute joke. all the machines were one of the first macs, and they were hooked up to the internet but it took the entire goddamn class to load a single page in netscape. i remember that and also playing mario teaches typing, smashing the keyboard keys with gibberish because i was bored, and then the teacher wouldn't let me re-do it so i failed that test.

in that instance it wasn't so much that the teacher was useless, but those computers most certainly were. really, computers were my vice before college. i would use them to waste as much time as humanly possible. hell, i almost failed 3rd grade because i never paid attention and played sim city 2000 on the computer in the portable instead. i really don't know why or how my teacher let me do it - she could clearly see me on the computer, not paying attention. maybe she just didn't give a shit. yeah that's probably it. well at least she was nice enough not to fail me. she probably should have

my wife didn't learn homerow and she doesn't type like that. she doesn't look at the keyboard but her fingers are all over the place. it scares me

there's gotta be something out there considering how popular DOOM still is.

last year i re-played DOOM 1 and 2 and everything else that is in the collection on Steam. i was really impressed by some of the modpack games, especially Legacy of Rust and No Rest for the Living.

spaghetti house

roblox is a publicly traded company so i would not be surprised to see more predatory features like that prediction market going live. their #1 goal will always be to make money and nothing else. they will always do the bare minimum to protect people as far as legal liability goes.

and i am gonna push back on this and mirror what @ZekeySpaceyLizard said.

i think people should be careful how hard they go after games like roblox for not doing enough to "protect kids" because ultimately the onus should fall on the parents. if your kids are on roblox unmonitored enough to the point where they are getting groomed/kidnapped, you're clearly not paying attention. spend more time with them, educate them on netiquette, limit their screentime.

it reminds me of how parent groups in the 90's got really loud and angry about cartoons on TV and petitioned legislators and networks to "do more" to "protect kids". and what we got in return was decades of long-term damage to creative freedoms, all because timmy's lazy mom let the TV raise her kid. now replace TV with the internet and literally what's the difference? do you really want to live in a world where everything needs to be handled with kids' gloves because of irresponsible parents? it's just pandering to the lowest common denominator.

punish the predator, not everyone else. look after the people you care about and spread awareness, rather than screaming at some faceless entity to do it for you.

it seems like the running theme of flash "teachers" is that most of them were basically frauds. i should have been one! 

my absolute worst teacher in university was 100% my 2nd year flash course 1st semester. idk where they found this guy, but he barely knew anything about flash and was not an artist by any means. he had programmed some extremely basic game, of which i'm certain he just ripped the code from stackexchange or something. he was unable to teach us basically anything, and one day he even had me do a "guest lecture" of sorts where i probably taught the class more about how flash works in an hour than he could have all semester.

needless to say he didn't last and was fired after 1 semester, and an animation teacher took over the course.

apparently one day he was sighted outside the 7/11 adjacent to the parking lot of our uni, quietly sobbing while eating a donut. he knew he failed, but it wasn't his fault, really. he was a nice guy, he just wasn't cut out to be teaching, well, anything.

"are you frustrated?"

i live near boise idaho lol. cali cold is not that cold to me, relatively speaking anyway.

it does snow a lot up in the mountains near here, but not down here in the valley. we just don't get a lot of precipitation in general

I wonder who she was talking about when she said they tried to hire someone who made a video about smileycentral. If it was me, I don't remember. Obviously back then I did not post that video on youtube, and if someone did, it wasn't me. even now, almost all my flash cartoons that are on youtube are not uploaded by me.

it's just been very very cold here. not a flake yet

i don't really do resolutions but i have long planned to release my first comic this coming year, as well as get back to animating regularly - which i'm on track to start by february, which is really exciting.