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I liked making this one, I havent listened to K-OS in a long time, not since joining TBA not since 2009 not since film festival. Music wasnt always my thing ; a lot of people tried to gate keep etc.
K-OS was on muchmusic, I was lucky to catch "heaven only knows" when I was in the hospital for uhh "owning myself". This was 2002 so its nbd. More things would make me upset later onhahahaha.

Edit: minor update, 3rd and final coming soon.

Sorry my ADHD kicking in.

Girl Dinner

Hi -- Guess I'm back

Post the funny vid I guess

[1)Yea the lead costume and special effects guy in toronto, while very important and technically sharp-would not stop talking about Robocop the TV series-talked at length about dissecting and rearranging the original costume for the TV series show-cried a bunch of fan tears when they needed to retrofit it a 3rd time for FX the series]

Hi I was on the set of FX the series in Toronto – I was 12
It wwas based on 2 movies in the 80s made by the same company that did the Robocop movies hey.
They were also connected to the Robocop TV series Hey.




What was funny about the tour on the set was

1)Yea the lead costume and special effects guy in toronto, while very important and technically sharp
-would not stop talking about Robocop the TV series
-talked at length about dissecting and rearranging the original costume for the TV series show
-cried a bunch of fan tears when they needed to retrofit it a 3rd time for FX the series
2)Play pretend TV prison was really funny, I pretend I was in prison during this thing, I would've been 12.
3)The tour ended with Pizza, and an episode they just sent off to CableTV people, I cannot find hte episode to save my life, it had this sharp and edgy teen youth helping the main character

They also gave out a t-shirt but I think it went to value village/goodwill maybe a decade later idk.

Also that pic is me plz don't be weird or try to verify authenticity, the original photo was in my desk drawer for years – I either threw it out or lost it and only recently put spider-man over my face

i can't think straight
when i'm with you

to: Skater
from: Me

!!!!!!!!

No one sent me these:






It is not too late to send me one now
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that guy with the weeb winamp playlist would've been my friend. or literally just me

       
I didn't think anyone listened to Jpop, outside of that encounter -- I only heard the one song in a playstation game.

was this in high school or college?

Highschool. I don't think I've ever seen the inside of a college/university computer lab

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

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yea, so I think for my 2nd year I went to another school that wasn't completely far; they were making exceptions for kids out of district. The computer lab for this Tech school was a little more advanced;  none of the computers were running "windows 3.11 for work groups" or ran like pureshit; all of them were pretty much running Adobe Photoshop, Flash 5, Flash MX, 3DS Max, and probably decent enough to run Maya but probably chugged when rendering -- the entire lab was not a render farm, but the 3DSMAX demo's were all there. There were 3 but I could only find the one.

Like this one:

I was only in that class for maybe a month, until that time, the teacher was a real artsy fartsy beatnik guy; nothing against him at all -- he wasnt an asshole. He was probably the only cool teacher I met who was totally intune with the material, with his students, and class -- the tech and what they were doing loooool. He did give this pitch telling 8th graders who toured the school in the fall "We'll be teaching you webanimation, 3d animation, stuff you've seen on sites like shockwave and newgrounds dotcom" (loool) -- And honestly out of all the types, He was probably the slickest guy. But yea he had a lot of DVD's stolen idk why

One time we had a substitute though; she didnt know what she was doing. He left a bunch of DVDs behind but basically told her "pick one to watch, thats the class, dont steal anything". He came back the following day and went "Are you fucking kidding? They stole MY DVDs?!?!?" and the movie the broad put on was like TitanAE. Almost all the workstations had some computer generated artwork, some kid redoing an animation cell of ren and stimpy (??? I dont remember the context) or like that one asian kid trying to design a flyer for next weeks school assembly. There was this one brainstorming session where we'd try to come up with the steps toward something and he'd gracefully try to push the instruction in the right direction after a bunch of guessing, so it wasn't always him giving instructions all the time like:

"OK 1) OPEN FILE 2) SELECT IMPORT 3) SELECT DEMO.PSD" etc.

The students there were really smart, I think I convinced a few of them to play Quake3 Arena for a bit, but the 3rd button mouse zoom wasnt working, and I swore up and down it worked on my pc at home but whatever lol. They all had this internal 'technical' design, on how something would work -- I didn't really figure out the wherewithall for that sort of thing,  and I remember photoshop having a ton of effects like adding bevels and dropshadows etc, although in the wrong uncreative hands it just seems like a lot of 'automatic' template work, but most of them knew how to make great stuff in adobe. I didn't really see anyone use flash creatively there, cuz I think it was 2001 still and we were just on 5 back then.

This one tall kid came to class the next day saying he got robbed by somalians on the subway and couldn't get his homework done, the same teacher didn't really believe him but gave him a pass looooool.

I think by the time that month ended, there was another class with another substitute -- everyone was pretty bored, No one really wanted to watch ToyStory 2 and one of these ultra tall kids was fighting the teacher to "PUT ON DRAGON BALL HOMIE", and I just kinda rolled my eyes like "hahaha he wants to put on dragon ball". That bit with Stinky Pete and like 5 barbies got a lot of laughs, but I think the firealarm got pulled half way through and we were all outside for a bit, waiting for the alarm to stop.

And then like, 8 ripe jerks I thought I'd never see again, were all outside calling my name -- That terrified me -- I decided I wanted to be homeschooled and when school ended that day I went home. I dont think my 'Zoloft' was working and I thought 'well I cant really handle this crap right now so im gonna go home and have an anxiety attack there'. Mind you , all those mood-stablizers and anti-depressants like with the moving 'zoloft' blob and maybe paxil; these were more mainstream in the early 2000s, but predated by stuff like Prozac in the 1980s. They  were definitely more socially accepted in the 2000s though and I'd remember reading awful stories when teenagers went off them -- yikes.

Anyway that was story #2. There might've been like 2 other schools and I'll probably share those later idk.

Edit: Oh and there was this senior student who was in the lab all the time, working on this 3d model, with like a giant winamp playlist of Jpop from Ayumi hamasaki, all 3 albums worth looooooool.

I hate how my story was just first month of Highschool and some cow was teaching us how to copy and paste using the spread sheet or giving us tips on how to use Excel. Or this nauseating flex on using homerow to type when that is the natural way to type anyway -- you learn from two finger typing to maybe 6 on each finger tops grrrrr

Anyway, strawberry clock is the king of the portal.

Oh I have another story, about the 2nd highschool cuz I switched schools a lot and saw maybe 4 computer labs. I wasn't dysfunctional -- I wasnt smoking cigarettes near the fire exit, But I kept missing a lot of school -- within the first year I was at another until a bunch of jerks from prior grades all showed up at the very next one cuz they had disciplinary issues and im like "wow I better walk home I never liked these hockey loving MTG card stealing types".

more later.

[no one had a fucking idea and thought it'd be really cool to cram some loser infront of the class and tell everyone things they knew nothing about]

I think with tech stuff its becoming very alienating for the uh "professor" not to have a deep investment in the material. Like im sure English Science and Math or anything in the Stem fields are all fundamentals and they branch out into greater things, but when it comes to early 2000s web tech no one had a fucking idea and thought it'd be really cool to cram some loser infront of the class and tell everyone things they knew nothing about

I feel like zekey covered most of this.
AOL Chatrooms were pretty heinous and predatory but by the time the internet was genuinely commerical there were enough stories where this sort of thing was normalized and a common thing -- There was also very little stopping people from signing on for stupider things.

E.g. Marilyn Manson MTV Web chat

I have never played roblox I thought it would be cool to put music on there but then was immediately told it would not get used.



I'm getting so old man.

One day very soon they'll stop making megaman games or something

Where am I going to spend my Robux now

Some time later I saw her at the mall and she'd dyed her hair blonde, which probably didn't mean anything but we joked that it made her prior disappearance rather more suspicious.

ahahahahahahahah.

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.

This was too good.

[Hello its me. Im back exclusively for my most favourite thing in the entire world:Stories about Terrible highschool teachers or college professors Regurgitating Flash poo poo and looking like total idiots]

Hello its me. Im back exclusively for my most favourite thing in the entire world:
Stories about Terrible highschool teachers or college professors Regurgitating Flash poo poo and looking like total idiots[/u]

Or just anything from 2000-2009 where anyone suffered through the same teachers getting it all wrong.
This isnt limited to flash; If you sat in computer science or the basics and the Teacher was a real cow
And All you learned from her premade lesson plan was how to copy and paste and summon the clipboard and waste everyones fucking time, because this literally took maybe 10 seconds to google at any period during 4 years of highschool.

I was like fuming at the end of that class, and it didnt even mean I'd get to learn how to code in anything cool; They promised Java and Networking as a Senior student but Im guessing because "Memo" wasn't a tech school all they really did was pat the girls on the back for "behaving--being obedient" , told the guys to play more basketball and behave during World war 2 ceremonies.

Honest, if I can be so candid; I bounced around a lot ( 8 schools ) before realizing the requirements wasn't whether I had the aptitude or not, but if I had the number of hours and credits required. It wasn't totally bogus, but it just kinda left me thinking "I dont wanna be a 22 year old highschool student, I'm gonna fuck off and try my luck in Northern ON instead".

And needless to say; I had nothing in common with Teenage single moms or fellas who smoked Players or Belmonts between class, or flexed about getting DVD movies off Kazaa; I was painfully nerdy back then -- I still am but its easier to hide now.

So yea; if you have any stories about FLASH or STUPID SCHOOL TEACHERS, go on --

Talkin bout, old internet. I think in 2007 I tried getting into deeper IRC crap and my friends recommend I check out "erowid" https://www.erowid.org/

It was like a collection of everyone's drug experiences at higher doses.

It wasn't an incentive to try anything but I found it pretty neat for something I would never do.

And then the psychiatrist I was seeing in thunderbay gave me a prescription for fast acting benzos; which weren't that great; they just happened to make me sleepy, and came with withdrawls and a quick tolerence.


Earlier than that, VGMIX/VGMIX2: https://vgmixarchive.com/ used to be a thing. Theyd have Chiptune versions of songs from Sonic Adventure 2, like

LousySpy - Escape From the City - NES mix.

But then I think a bunch of drama started circulating and VGMIX would accept things OCREMIX would not and then the panel for VGMIX cannabilized and gave up or Idk, im really tired.

In between VGMIX and EROWID , OLREMIX: http://olremix.org/ was a site for all the shit video game remixes that got bagged on by the panel and were deliberately not very good on purpose.

I think the summer hit for most of 2005 or 2006 was JUESSE BELMONT - http://olremix.org/remixes/300. You could not log into IRC and not hear someone mentioning that song.
And like against my wishes, TLF wanted help to animate that into a video because 8bit theater was pretty much toast and TLF wanted to take off and start a chain of hair salons with his paypal money. or something like that.

But he really liked the song and wanted someone to animate it and he totally could too, but it didnt really happen.

I think the song is just Vampire Killer from teh first level, but the hiphop sound before the song picks up is a nice immersive touch on its goofiness.

And then not long after 2007 I thought "Toronto sucks I'm gonna get out of here and go to Northern Ontario" and realized pretty quickly, none of the people living there, like living there either. But more later.

[Maru production]

As long as we're talking about super old stuff in general, I'll post a few more links.
These are only -nearly- lost to time though?:

Maru production has been around for 20 years
They made tiny little flash animations but I didn't really bother to translate
I'm assuming they were an artist that dipped briefly into macromedia tools back then
And they still make stuff today but nothing like feature animations or anything.
They were interesting when the web was very tiny, emerging and people want to see what flash could do.
https://maruproduction.com/anim/1man.html

Nekogames made Cursor 10 in 2008
Their new layout while in english has kinda hobbled a bit; I cant find my favourites or both versions of the game, but there are other games worth playing still.
http://nekogames.jp/index.html

GameDesign.jp is one of the later sites I found after flash peaked and was mostly being used for porn ; none of these games are that. The Boxing game is quite good. The resolution on most of these are far too small, but if you bother to get around that or dont mind it, they range from Boxing, Baseball, Dice wars (!!!), and an 80s dungeon crawler RPG complete with 3d mazes.
https://www.gamedesign.jp/index_en.html

Pica-pic.com is a site I want to bring up but cannot; someone parked over the domain and is spreading malware through it now? But there is a youtube video of some the games working; most of these were TIGER or NINTENDO LCD games like game and watch donkey kong.

https://oladaniel.com/pica-pic (old site)

In light of picapic going under though, sometime in 2018--
MAME was able to emulate a lot of the LCD Tiger/Nintendo Electronic games that were handhelds in the 80s and 90s. You can probably find methods for emulating them with google

Ferryhalim.com made some nice games starting in 2000
Nearly everyone has played them and seeing the TV bumper for "flash games" on Tech Tv was a little surreal, but I dont know if the creator was ever sent a copy of it from TV.
His games werent working for a bit, but they are working now with Ruffle plugin support.
https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Nigoro.jp made some cool games like Rose and Camellia but they no longer seem to be working and are being sold on the switch now.
http://nigoro.jp/en/games/rose/

Pendulumeca was a line-swinging game simiular to an endless runner with spider-man swinging, but a little better than flash clones with that very thing; in this one you play as a hook-shooting robot ???
It was a .jp game that won in a flash competition
https://www.addictinggames.com/action/pendulumeca

SeventhSky is one of the better flash games from 2003-2004, I found it on penny-arcade.com, linksville, which then shutdown because the moderator looking after it got fussy that cool links werent all being posted in the site he was able to moderate links in.

https://nextframe.jp/flash/seventhsky_refine/seventhsky_refine.html

Johanthan Gay was interviewed by Leo laporte a long time ago when flash was getting its legs.
The video is fairly ancient but was uploaded 4 years ago; the date on teh recording is probably a lot earlier than that.

THE GO FUCK YOURSELF WEBPAGE offended a lot of really dumb people
But it's no longer around and has a few archive.ph pages dedicated to its memory.
There was also a story gallery on some really strange things going on in the webmaster's life or the IRC channel.
https://archive.ph/www.amishrakefight.org

And I have to go to bed cuz im getting really dizzy hahahaha brb
More later, theres a bit more

There's a game on steam called "Hypnospace outlaw"

You are basically an admin for something that looks a lot like AOL online; you flag user websites and look at old stuff that looks like it belongs on Compuserve idk. I was really entertained by this but I didn't play it myself. Eventually the 3rd or 4th act of the game opens, and they have their own version of webarchive in it.
It was pretty entertaining; this is pretty faithful to how everything ran back then.

You were a fan of DDR at one point?

How about Nexon's BEATDANCE????



https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EB%B9%84%ED%8A%B8%EB%8C%84%EC%8A%A4

Obviously this game did not make it out of the private BETA, but it had the fanciest promotional website trying to get users onto it. It failed to find an audience pretty fast and did not survive.

I think I only found out about this game cuz my PC was utter crap and I wanted to try something new. It wasn't listed in PC Gamer or whatever.

Also the game controlled differently; you moved your mouse over the arrows and hit space, instead of hitting Directional Keys to the music like in Flash Flash Revolution or the Original DDR