Recent posts by notshi on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / Holy Crap, New Navigation

gametards are never happy.

the navigation bar makes the site more accessible, including places that probably weren’t known to the users in the past.

you’ve tweaked the css of the forum. it now looks spiffy and not as chaotic.

also, i’m wondering if the users notice that the ‘tags’ feature has finally been taken out for quite some time now. hell, they were mostly used for spam anyway.

Topic: Off-topic / GAHHH! INTERNATIONAL PIRATE DAY!

Ahoy, me Hearties! Tis I, the scourge of the seven seas!

Avast ye and batten down the hatches, ye scurvy dogs!

Savvy?

Topic: The Arts / Gimp

the price of something does not equate it’s might in quality.

the beauty of gimp is, you are able to modify and add to the app, making it more efficient and advanced, according to the user’s needs and skillz.

gimp is harder to navigate for those who are used to the photoshop interface.

i’ve used photoshop eversince 1997 but have switched to gimp entirely last year and found the transition easy and rewarding.

also, it’s FREE for feck’s sake. and using it means you are supporting and appreciating the work of independant developers. sheesh.

Topic: Kongregate / Time's 50 best websites 2008

penny arcade SOLD 30 000 of their xbox live 360 game in mere minutes.

their fan base is HUUUUGE!!!!!!!! so yea, no rigging. just massive numbers of fans. like me. :}

Topic: Serious Discussion / Banksy: Artist or Vandal?

Breaking the Banksy:
The first interview with the world’s most elusive artist

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/moslive/article-1024130/Breaking-Banksy-The-interview-worlds-elusive-artist.html

Possibly the first and only interview with Banksy? I’m unsure.

Topic: Kongregate / Random game function.

pick any games from http://games.wetgenes.com

and then click the ‘NEXT’ or the forward arrow button to get random games from the internet. there’s about 10,000++ games to play through that method.

Topic: Kongregate / How many users does kongregate have?

nope, you’re way under the 200,000 mark.

82639 to be precise.

Topic: Collaborations / LeftRight & alexmiller Collaboration! (Come watch)

to ‘loom’ means:
appear very large or occupy a commanding position or
brood: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing

unless you’re fat, i mean, horizontally challenged, and sensitive about it; i think looms is an awesome word. with that being said, here is i, looming too.

by the by, nice mellowed jingle jangle wah wah there, leftright.

Topic: Off-topic / When Do You Turn The Volume Off? (For Games)

actually, my games also have an in-built streaming mp3 player that has many hours of music.

so i don’t know what these gamers are talking about. maybe they are playing inferior games. :)

by the way, aren’t the responses depressing thus far? when you toil to create music, they get muted. and when you don’t add any music, they demand it so! it’s as if you’re damned either way.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Zeitgeist

thanks for that. good stuff.

and if you like that, but on an entirely different note, you might like ‘what the bleep do we know’.

cheers.

Topic: Off-topic / When Do You Turn The Volume Off? (For Games)

you do realise i made the Mute game for a reason. :}

Topic: Kongregate / How would you "clean up" the site?

i’m basically hoping for the search and spam functions to work.

aside from that, it would be nice to let developers be in charge of their game page just as the average user is in charge of their own page; ie. manage comments/shouts.

Topic: Kongregate / Disagree with Voting System!!!

i thought this was brought up in greg’s previous post about the sudden realization that the gamers here are voting unfairly?

see here.

in any case, i’ll put forth my suggestion again.

hey greg, here’s a simple fix.

this simple greasemonkey script calculates a better rating.

observe how the rating for Breach can now only go up.
the only way it can go down is if people change their ratings to a lower one.
there is no room for negativity. every rating is a positive act.

this means, spammers could not lower the score.

WetKongFix

here’s a screenshot of what it does.

each star represents twice as much as the previous star, so whilst it’s not out of 5, the number of stars is still manageable and comparable.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Making drugs illegal is silly -- but the war on drugs is simply reckless.

wasn’t prohibition a bad thing?

tho that did produce some rather interesting situations. (see portrayal in media as examples)

Topic: Serious Discussion / People forget manners on the internet

saying gamers don’t often like being known contradicts the gaming scene (in korea where gamers are rockstars), gamebloggers (reviewers anyone?), game communities (kong photo thread), gamer magazines and even leaderboards.

i would also like to take this opportunity to say that i’m usually more polite and well-mannered on the internets. only because, the act of typing a sentence in response to a post requires commitment, the rereading of said comment, possible spelling checks and a considerable amount of time pondering its relevance before the ‘submit’ button is pushed. although, relative to the comments seen here, i could be amongst the mini percentage. :}

apparently, some of us realise the tendency of comments to last until the end of time.

Topic: Kongregate / A Motto For Kongregate?

Kongregate! The home of youtube comments, For games!

Topic: Off-topic / Most obscene music

nah, tool isn’t obscene. they are genius.

Topic: Kongregate / Design Kongregate's New Avatars!

thanks, retron. yup, i made them using this.

Topic: Kongregate / Design Kongregate's New Avatars!

here’s some i made just now.

bunny and pirates.

Topic: Kongregate / Please stop rating games based on challenges/achievements

i do rate on all the games.

everyone is allowed to rate all the games, they are entitled to.

everyone is entitled their own opinion, except me. sob sob

Topic: Kongregate / Please stop rating games based on challenges/achievements

i think we should have a 100 stars instead of 5 and every star should be a new challenge and we get extra points and an end of level boss with helicopters and giant mechanical spiders.

Topic: Serious Discussion / People forget manners on the internet

the internet encourages a certain manifestation of a tic called coprographia.

Topic: Off-topic / A Mushroom Cloud Rises Up In The Distance

prepare to be eaten by the great cthulhu.

ftagn! ia! ia!

Topic: Collaborations / pretty good artist. Looking for a coder

what are you on about?? wha??

dude, post your work already. you ask for requests. they gave you requests.

Topic: Kongregate / Please stop rating games based on challenges/achievements

hey greg, here’s a simple fix.

this simple greasemonkey script calculates a better rating.

observe how the rating for Breach can now only go up.
the only way it can go down is if people change their ratings to a lower one.
there is no room for negativity. every rating is a positive act.

this means, spammers could not lower the score.

WetKongFix

here’s a screenshot of what it does.

each star represents twice as much as the previous star, so whilst it’s not out of 5, the number of stars is still manageable and comparable.