Happy Pico Day y'all! :)
It's that special NG occasion on which we celebrate all the greatness and creation that one site has given us over the years.
If you want to read up on the history behind this event you can do so here.
I collabed on a track for it this year with @Aalasteir. Aw yeah(r)!
Pico Day! Hmmmm!
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What do I say huh? What do I do?
I'm up online all night with the NewGrounds crew
Celebrating today all these youthful toons
Some a third of a century old soon! Still they move
We've got the secret sauce, we've got that brew!
We've got the Fulps and freedom since '95!
And for the eons I hope we'll keep this alive!
Fuel collaboration and rage on and feel the vibe!
NG survived the turnings of ebb and tide,
Was low for a while, but dope art still it thrives,
Creative limitations? I see none in my sights
Kongregate may be a grate man - NewGround's the sky
We didn't die! So let us rise from our grave lifes!
And take all these strays right! Kill all of our stage fright!
Get out on the grapevine! And cheer on this grape wine!
Or beer or Sunburst! This site's a wonder! It's life abundance!
It's truly awesome! You're truly awesome! You've got the sauce son!
Flash's still alive in our hearts and art blossoms
Ruffle some feathers NG's incredible we'll weather whatever comes in our way
If jumping off the grounds... jump with caution eh...
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Or don't take the jump it ain't worth it, become a Supporter
Show the Portal your service so we can take it the furthest
Club a Seal or get involved with adverse murders
Bite some fed's head off, think Hominid's dead? Not!
We've got top notch hitters on this bed like a bedrock
Blanket's more a banquette, we've Stamper and the dank
The Tankmen and their pranks, JohnnyUtah on that road
Got Little Jim on the code, Bren the Man since he's old
I kid! They're all immortal they'll be living forever,
NG's the Bank of experience and creative endeavor
So let's thank it together, YouTube came along and so
NumaNuma's gone but YOLO carry on we've gotta go
To the future and the empire we're building like the Kree
Shut up and take my money and make this a legacy!
Not the kind of legacy you look at with cool assertion
Like this is legacy code move to the newest version
Twitter caved in, they cast out cats that we've been saving
Tumblr gave us their artists cause they straight up betrayed 'em
DA's always been shit, MySpace grew ancient
FaceBook claim they're for the users but Zuckerberg's a turd
It's all NG! With Sublo and Tangy and all this energy!
Brackenwood! Dudes who left Disney to be friendly with US!
Miss Dynamite I remember those skits with pride!
The Clocks Locks and Glocks and Squads they all survived!
Yeah we're the future! Fueling revolution like an Uber!
FNF got it made! ninjamuffin done once again revolutionized online games!
Here comes another wave! Servers are crashing cause they're all
Surfing these everglades
Always all green, fresh and new like a lima bean
Leading the charge like Everdeen, NG has forever been
The world may be a shithole, but on here we let heaven in
I think it's evident, we're like a revenant
And constantly revamping all this recreation
Constant state of evolution, ever moving, renovating
With history so rich it'd make MBS seems a stray
We've got toons you can consume for decades, forget days!
And it's all GOOD! We're the MindChamber without a wrinkle
Ironed it out like Krinkel, we're the island in this sinkhole
And don't forget Pico, the one who treats all equal
Who shoots up school shooters cause screw them they've got no humor
NG's too dope! Let it move let it live
Here's to another twenty some years! In the coolest crib
Happy Pico Day!!!
Just got a pretty cool Twitter response a while back. :) In regard to this.
Screencapped for posterity.
Cause I didn't get around to this on Sunday!
I've been rummaging through old screenshots I'd at some point intended to mention on the blog recently, uploading a bundle, but I'd rather not leave the latest post here one with but an image and caption, it ought be something with substance, like this!
And Happy Belated Earth Day y'all!
That was yesterday.
Also have you ever heard of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? Shout-out recent @Little-Rena podcast.
I keep coming back to this, the solo it builds up to is just so... intense. In the best way. It might be a somewhat simple performance otherwise but I love this band! If you like other bands maybe you'd also enjoy a clip of Weezer performing "Africa" with Weird Al Yankovic. The latter does a pretty cool I was about to say acapella solo but ehh... accordion, that's it.
Ought mention the blog here's up at 100 tags - hey! Recently passed 400,000 words on pages, and is closing in on two million words in posts... quite the number. I'm contributing. I'm getting there. I'll add a few words to this sentence while I'm at it.
Been having some issues with Yahoo's email lately - I use mostly Gmail but have an account with Yahoo for work/particular correspondence.
Sometimes you just can't reach their server! Won't load. I really hope they fix this. It's a good reminder that everything that's free is free, and you can't take it for granted, cause somewhere someone does have to make some kind of profit to maintain it.
They may do so by selling data. They may do so by offering a premium version of the service. They may do so by more unconventional means.
I wonder how Yahoo does it, they're not quite the imperium they were in their heyday, they seem to be borrowing Bing for their searches, their service pages are riddled with affiliate links to other companies, they went woke apparently, no joke, but I hope they are selling something...
Also have some Jaw Harp Techno, here's Eminem rapping the GTA SA title track (AI), and two bad-ass concerts.
Have you stumbled upon any Harry Mac and Marc Rebillet collabs yet?
You should.
That's all for now y'all. My foot's almost normal by now, my cold's hopefully gone by Friday, and I am catching up! Don't miss that recent battle rap brawler either, it got a daily trophy too. :)
Ciao later. I'm moving through my Tues.
What blog category does this fit into hmm? Might need to make a new one for games and animation and what-not, for forms in which mediums and classifications combine...
The game's out anyhow!
The one I've worked with @Kwing on for a good 2-3 months this Spring, up till this Wednesday night. Stressful days and plights.
If you like mindless brawlers or battle raps, or the longevity and awesomeness and unlikely continued preservation of that one medium we know as Flash you can give it a play here. It's a contender in the Flash Forward Jam this year. Though I don't expect it to be in the finals there it's fun to see it included; it was a fun project to work on too.
Had planned a few more features personally, a few more medals, a bit more detail with the animations too, but they really take considerably more time than you might expect them to - especially if you go overboard with shadows and non-duplicating artifacts and effects, as I tend to do, and should probably start considering not doing when the focus may be more so motion and mechanics than visual style...
I ponder also if including a somewhat battle-irrelevant Slalomancers ad right after the victory screen really works in favor of moving this thing up the rankings, but we shall see huh. It's a cool game too, I tried it out during the dev phase. It didn't sell too well post the two year development span it took to make it unfortunately, as you may be aware have you heard the verses by this here observer wordsmith... hope it does in time.
I'm thinking if time allows I might attempt to tweak this game a bit further sometime too, and add in all the additional - but not really necessary - stuff it would've been cool to have had in here already. Toggleable difficulty levels come to mind also, which wouldn't be impossible to add in even without additional code... and jumps - we omitted those last minute.
I've learned quite a bit during the development process of this project.
For the first couple weeks we had time for mutual code development calls and breakdowns too, which was enlightening, Kwing's a good teacher. Towards the end of the WIP cycle there wasn't time to spare on even communication sometimes, been a hectic last few weeks...
But we managed; the game is out today! Link here. Playable for all who'd like to, and hearable too here for all who'd like to hear a mic feud. #psyched dude.
Props @Kwing on bringing me into this thing! And into the unconventional art of battle rap with it, which I've contemplated trying with others, but never expected to run into the realm of along with a pro like so...
It's quite the show.