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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

I am currently temporarily unavailable at the moment, so no new Dick Nick from me. Please come back for the next issue.

Detective Nicholas Dick

Newgrounds 2024 Meetup: THE MOON!

We've been to California, we've been to New York, Toronto, London, we've hung out with pretty much the entire world! So, starting in 2024, Newgrounds is glad to announce that their newest official meetup will take place...

IN SPACE!!!

CURRENT ATTENDEES (this list is expected to rise):

@Luis

@Anonymous-Frog

@TomFulp

@The-Great-One

@Aalasteir

WHEN IS IT TAKING PLACE:

January 1st-31st: 2024. The entire month is yours.

REQUIREMENTS:

Under US jurisdiction, you cannot drink while under 21. Any participants under 18 must require parental permission

You must bring along your phone, as well as email us a complete backup of your hard-drive (optional).

WHAT'S THE PLAN?:

Directions to the meetup are a little rough, but you should be able to make it on time.

1- On New Year's Eve, 11:30 PM, you will walk to your nearest public restroom. Go into the bathroom of the opposite gender of your own (this is a reference to Pico's School BTW, in case you didn't get it)

2- Stick your head straight into the toilet bowl and echo your NG username along with the phrase "Everything by Everyone".

The Endless Handbag loop will start playing.

3- After 5 seconds, while keeping your head in place, flush.

4- You will be sucked through the sewers and make your way into a giant underground hangout. I have prepared a space shuttle designed to take you all to the Moon. Go into said rocket.

5- Await further instructions

6- You have made it to the Moon, where we'll spend the rest of the month in the patent pending MOON BASE, complete with a 5 star hotel accommodating up to 40 rooms, free food. great view, etc.

If you want to continue to create content, we have spare computers where we've backed up those hard drives from earlier.

7- On the 31st, the return trip back to Earth will drop you off in Philadelphia.

Musicians Needed: Newgrounds to Stop Copyright Infringement ONCE AND FOR ALL!

Since 2015, various old submissions were taken off of Newgrounds mainly for one key reason: they all used copyrighted material from big-name bands and performers, such as Fatboy Slim, Danny Elfman, the Avalanches, Fear Factory, Rammstein, Aphex Twin, and many more.

A handful of other movies are still up, but may be at risk of deletion at any point.

This is where you, the average NG musician, can help. If you can create a cover/remix, or a roughly similar song to replace what got cut, let us know, so we can get Tom to upload it to NG and get it restored

You may also need some basic Flash de-compiling skills in order to swap the music in, as well as change any audio credits if they have any.

With your help, we can preserve NG history one song at a time.

We also plan to replace the Titanic footage in Tankmen 1 with an animated parody. If you have what it takes, let us know.

CHIEF WIGGUM Hired as new Director of Friday Night Funkin'

Image credit: The Simpsons.

The Funkin' Crew announced on Saturday that Friday Night Funkin' director Cameron "@ninjamuffin99" Taylor would be stepping down as head developer of the Full-Ass-Game. Taylor, 24, would be replaced by Springfield regular Clancy Wiggum, who served as Chief of Police in Springfield for over 3 decades.

When asked about why the team hired Wiggum, they said he "could actually motivate the team to actually get the game out quicker and knows how to stamp out any drama".

Taylor will continue to program FNF: The Full-Ass Game, however, he will step back from public activities.

Tankman Triweekly Employee Forgets to Log Out of Account

A @TankmanTriweekly editor fails to log out of the main account and has managed to earn 42 points on @crow-seeds' game Switch.tv, as well as earn 4 out of 5 medals.

The medals, earned on July 20th 2023, accounted to up to 2 hours of playtime according to CCTV footage in the office.

A TT spokesperson has confirmed that our new company policy now requires any off-work activity to be done 100 meters away from the main office.

BEST OF JUNE 2023:

It's the end of August and we're STILL busy trying to review the rest of the movies. Be patient:

Tankman Triweekly is running at a $2 loss, but if you give us $400 a month, we'll give back $500 a month back to the community.

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NO 34: Triweekly Funnies (July 2023 Issue)

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:

Hello TT readers. I, the original creator of Tankman Triweekly have officially come back to revive the paper after god knows how long. I'd go back to the classics, three articles, a few side issues, but these days, I'd rather just delay you every month because I desperately want a break.

@Anonymous-Frog

TOP STORY: TOM FULP SCHEDULED TO FIGHT MARK ZUCKERBERG TOMORROW

Image credit: Google Images

It's the day you've all been waiting for. Mr. Newgrounds himself, Thomas "@TomFulp" Fulp has officially started his boxing career.

Fulp, 45, is scheduled to fight against the current reigning champion, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who took the title by defeating Twitter CEO Elon Musk in the ring last week.

When asked about his strategy going into the fight, Tom had this to say:

"Following through on our "Everything by Everyone" motto, I believe I should allow anyone with any style to represent me, whether it's punches, kicks, kung fu, jujitsu, jumping on the ropes, you name it. I'm allowing everyone to come out and fight the Zuck as a community. Our focus is on hand-to-hand combat. If you want to try melee weapons, it must be a short stick and preferably include a few striking moves in between swings.

I also encourage a lot of collaboration between fighters of various styles."

Zuckerberg, 39, was also asked about his strategy. He poked both my eyes with his forked tongue, so I assume that's how he'll fight Fulp.

Good luck out there Thomas!

DICK NICK PRESENTS: THE FUNNIES SAGA

THEME SONG BY A+B

Hello, I'm Nicholas Dick, world renowned internet detective. When I'm not doing my job, I'd typically lay back and use the old forums. One day while researching the 15-year disappearance of 500 drawing tablets, I discovered that on the post about Anigen / JakeGanz winning a tablet, the link to Metal Gear Funnies, which was supposed to be removed, actually linked to a perfectly viewable and healthy SWF submission (at least on my end).

For reference, here's what it looked like before (circa earlier in 2023 via Wayback Machine).

That's odd. Originally it said the author was <deleted>, but now it's @CoolDrMoney. It also seems to exist in some form of "phantom" state. I can view the flash, it seems like people can make new reviews, yet I can't favorite it or react to other reviews, nor does it show up on other peoples' userpages. A link to a video version seems to exist, but it says the submission doesn't have a video.

It also links to the Five Nights at Freddy's collection for some reason, despite it not being in the collection itself (and also predating FNaF by 6 years).

Since this isn't my usual investigation, I'd like to instead dedicate this episode of Internet Detective to giving you a complete rundown of the cult classic Flash movie Metal Gear Funnies, as if I was some punk Gen-Z YouTuber.

Let's get started.

FUNNIES: A Complete History.

Metal Gear Funnies was a collaboration organized by Bug (formerly BigArmyBug), and other members of a site called TheBackAlleys. throughout 2008, meant to parody and coincide with an official NG Metal Gear collab hosted by @Stamper. Both collabs were released on Jul 5, 2008.

ChatGPT describes it like this (Supporter Party, you owe us $3)

"This collaborative effort brought together multiple Flash animators to create a collection of humorous and irreverent sketches based on the popular Metal Gear Solid franchise. The diverse styles and comedic brilliance of the artists made "Metal Gear Funnies" an instant classic."

Though it also thought it was made in 2004 and @Oney created Homestar Runner, so you know it's legit!

MGF was released around a time when "video game parodies" were commonplace on Newgrounds. It originated with creators like @LegendaryFrog and later on, @Egoraptor, @Kirbopher, @Alvin-Earthworm, and others. Others would create their own parodies, and, let's just say many of them were shit, or at least inferior to original movies (with original characters).

Funnies features the talents of

Bug, aka Brandon Clark, aka BigArmyBug, aka Bugzooka, aka "Gone to get the milk"

@rtil, creator of Metropolis Circuit among other flash movies. His part was released separately.

@W-P-S, creator of Anusboy

@CoolDrMoney, who'd later host the sequel, Brawl Funnies.

@Blordow, who also released his part separately and would later return in Brawl Funnies.

@ZekeySpaceyLizard, creator of Squaresville

@Gerkinman, aka Visitors from Dreams, a great animator in his own right.

@jakeganz, formerly Anigen, who would later create Studio Yotta, a team of freelance animators that also includes rtil, Bug, and Zekey.

And a few others that are either uncredited or hadn't achieved the levels of success these creators had. But I'm sure you'll probably see the gold at the bottom end of the rainbow.

Funnies was particularly controversial upon release. Many criticized the animation, saying that with few exceptions, most of the animation was terrible. Some also saw the jokes as also hit or miss, or as an attack on other creators such as Egoraptor or Kirbopher, while others saw it as a brilliant piece of meta-satire poking fun at the entire concept of "video game parodies" and the people who watch such content. In other words, it's the father, or at least the cool uncle of the humor of today's web cartoons. Ultimately it leaned towards "brilliant piece of meta-satire", and thus it was frontpaged on the site for god-knows-how-long, allowing it to rack in 270k views over the course of five years.

Ultimately, due to all the negative reviews, it managed to dip below 2 stars, later 2.5 stars. and presumably due to the A-rating, it never won any Portal awards. It did however, get voted the 2nd best movie of July 2008, only falling behind MGS: Flash Collab DISC 01, the collab it was parodying. Because MGS was run by Newgrounds itself, Funnies got the #1 spot and a nomination for the Tank Awards. It also funnily enough, beat out Egoraptor's Awesome Crossing Reduz, which got the 4th place slot that month.

Final Fight:the Nerd Saga, a standalone upload by rtil, placed 6th overall, also received a runner-up prize.

A sequel, Brawl Funnies, was released the following year in two parts, to capitalize on Kirbopher and RIna-chan's Brawl Taunts, who's 3rd and final installment was a collab.

However, all things must come to an end. Around 2013-2014, Bug removed all of this movies from Newgrounds, which included the popular Ignorance is Bliss and Supersonic - Bad Religion. This included Metal Gear Funnies.

After reposting a demoreel in 2016, Bug deleted his account in 2019.

Apparently, Bug suffered from a bunch of mental health struggles / lost his mind and became a lunatic over the years. For reasons that are either hard to find nowadays, or get way too personal amongst the rest of the contributors, I cannot find any more information about what happened afterwards.

That seemed to be the end of Metal Gear Funnies. For almost a decade, the only real way to watch this classic in its entirety. is to have downloaded the SWF before its removal, (or after, if you know how to use the Wayback Machine). Either that or Flashpoint. Due to some of the material being NSFW, it'd be impossible to reupload onto YouTube without at least half a Guideline strike.

Then some time in 2023, not too long ago, CoolDrMoney was assigned the new lead author, presumably by Tom Fulp, and MGF was seemingly restored to Newgrounds after almost a decade. For some reason, nobody else seems to have discovered this.

And that marks the end of my summer break. Follow the Triweekly to see me tackle some REAL mysteries.

BEST OF JUNE 2023:

Cheers everyone, and welcome back to another of the Best Movies movies movies movies on Newgrounds Newgrounds Newgrounds. This time, I'm going through every single frontpaged movie of June 2023.

You can view them all here:

Animators Reviewed: @Nihaho, @SockDotClip, @scottwjsm, @HoboGuyCool, @grubbb @Koibs @Izzi8bit @PringusMcDingus @NK64 @KokoroHatsaru @Ennuikal @crazytree @reyamily @not160cm @PaNDaPowerRULEZ @FlamingPiickle @Temorinki @brooskee @LazyMuffin @waldomileswide @Fezhoof @Ditchu @ittox @Crae @JamsAnimates @ittox @chewgumseries @aap @topcatyo @Andyl4nd @DongffTK @Kajenx @Magibauble

Animators Not Reviewed (but will be reviewed later): @KimiOmega @dootdoote @Jremby @Warlord-of-Noodles @Gameghoul @Piconjo @TheMagmaMuncher @Broly @Zeddyzi @Tenzalt @PFINNEY @brerbo @Sillyincorporated @Saywanay @Xandrecos @DirkErik-Schulz @AlternateBazaarArt

Bridge Kids: The Birthday Boy

This is the 6th episode of an ongoing series, and in hindsight, it may been a good idea to watch the previous 5 beforehand. For any reviewer, please do exactly that:

Onto the review. Mild spoilers ahead.

The plot is simple: Fugger and Lars go to Isaiah's birthday party. They're the only 2 that show up, it's a mess, they find something under his bed, then leave.

The whole episode revolves around Isaiah, who thoughout the movie, the Bridge Kids learn how much of a creep he is just by looking around in his bedroom. However, we don't actually get to see what was under his bed. Some speculate that it's a corpse, others it's futa hentai. Who knows?

The animation is good, though somewhat limited. The pilot was made in 48 hours and runs for 2 minutes, yet subsequent episodes go for up to 10-min, so it's understandable (this is 9-min). Sometimes a background is very detailed, but sometimes the camera zooms in so you can see its flaws more easily, such as with the bones in the jar.

There's just a little bit of sound work, In addition to character dialogue, we hear individual footsteps, paper crinkling, etc, but no music. Feels more real that way. If you were blind, you'd be stumped that this is actually an animated series and not a live-action sitcom. assuming the lack of a laughtrack didn't give it away.

The humor is mildly predictable, however unlike those crappy animated sitcoms that try to rip off Family Guy, this one has heart and soul into it, which completely negates all of its flaws.

Overall, we don't see that many independent shows on NG that attempt TV-level writing and characters and still have time to fit in proper animation. Its an excellent filler series whenever Sublo and Tangy Mustard is taking too long.

TAKE THAT STUPID HAT OFF

Advertised as a '"totally legit" scrapped cutscene from fnf whitty definitive edition', this 10-sec short has a character ask Boyfriend from FNF to take that stupid hat off, like in the title. Get it?

Overall, pretty low-effort compared to previous works. There's no background.

Suggestion: Show what's actually under that hat. Use this clip.

PokeGrounds

This is a Pokemon-themed collab featuring a wide range of skits from your favourite creators such as @Butzbo, @mattyburrito, @Xandrecos, and @CootieGirl. Also, Iono is voiced by a dude.

I liked the skit where Red cheats to evolve Pikachu into Raichu, then into a 4th(3rd) stage evolution, based on the scrapped Gorochu Pokemon (idk if it's real), as well as the skit with Smiling Friends in it.

Grimace Shake McDonald's ad 2023 real

If you've been paying attention to meme culture, you'll know that if you drink a Grimace Shake, you die. This is only the most logical conclusion, that Grimace would finally pay the price for his actions. How the shakes are actually made though, we'll have to wait until next month.

On another note, Chuck Norris drank a Grimace Shake, then after 2 days of excrutiating pain, Grimace died.

SUPA

Amazing art style + character design. Has that Jet Set Radio aesthetic mixed in with low-poly

WHY HAVEN'T YOU MADE A FULL ANIMATION PILOT YET?

Draggin' BallZ (Dragon Ball Z Parody)

You don't need to watch Dragon Ball Z to understand how ridiculous this movie is. If your definition of "humor" is random screams out of nowhere, you like Taco Bell, or you like how Krillin's eyes look like anuses, then this movie is for you.

Only criticism: the "Thanks for Watching!" end card goes for way longer than it needs to.

Mega vs Musk

This is an 8-bit Mega Man sprite movie parody, however unlike those talentless hacks who flooded the Portal in the mid 2000s, Izzi draws her own sprites.

This movie mainly parodies Elon Musk's companies, primarily Tesla, and their self-driving Autopilot cars that crashed. as seen on the news. Whether you like Musk or not, this is worth a watch.

wonder:

If you've seen the latest Nintendo Direct, you would've heard that Nintendo announced a new 2D Mario game titled Super Mario Bros: Wonder.

Let's get the elephant out of the room first. There's a power-up, that turns Mario, into an elephant. And the whole point of this movie is that Princess Peach almost touches said power-up, only for Princess Daisy to come out of nowhere to burn it up. For some reason, the author has a Daisy fetish, so shoehorn her into anything they make.

Castle Crashers OVA 3-A Freeze Resurection

I literally have no idea how Kokoro manages to release such long animations is such little time.

The first OVA (which I reviewed when it came out) was 12 minutes long and took 2 weeks to animate, and another 2-ish weeks to write. This one's 21 minutes. If I go too deep in anything at this length, it becomes spoiler territory, so I won't be covering the story.

The animation, though very simple, is very neat. The whole "retro anime" look is captured just as well as the first two.

Voices, better. You got legends like @VoicesByCorey. I do not speak Japanese, or any language other than English, so I can't comment if it's authentic or not.

JJ VERSUS:

After what feels like 5 minutes of intro (actually 24 seconds), I get treated to what seems like the best 1v3 brawl I've ever seen. JJ, the main character gets his boombox stolen, his ass kicked, and now he has to kick their asses to get it back.

Animation is very smooth and fluid, though the enemy Cyclops look like Sr. Pelo characters (the modern iteration that can actually draw, as seen on NG)

Overall, a solid 10/10 any day.

RUN!

10 second loop of a girl running. Then two more people show up and run alongside her. It's a great animation, but nothing else to it. It's only teasing us for something longer and more stunning.

Head Empty, Only Pikmin

Did you know that Pikmin 4 is finally coming out? This cute little music video will tide you over for at least 12 more hours before it finally comes out.

That and I didn't realize that the author came back to Newgrounds after 10 years.

childa kicky

Cute OC kicks a guy to death. Though it's short, and well-animated, it seems to ask more questions than it answers.

Who is that grey guy getting his ass kicked? Why is she attacking him? What did he do to get himself into this situation? We will never know.

FISHEYE LENS

It's about a boy who's scared to skate down a bowl. This is one of those films you can't just skip every 5 seconds until something happens. You need to watch it from start to finish, like an adult.

I'm sure the fish bowl on his head, which literally phases through his neck, represents something.

My only criticism: very mild audio mixing. Can't wait to see you post more stuff here!

JERRY OCTO P.I.

Another well-animated student thesis film. I think the octopus's voice is overpowered in the right ear, sometimes it isn't.

Feels like a trailer for a much bigger film.

Evolution

IDK what that fish evolved in, but those swooshing backgrounds always get me.

Noisette café expresso - Pizzaboy guy

I still do not understand everything going on with Pizza Tower at the moment, so I can't comment much about this.

The animation is simple, and it gave me mild chuckles, particularly because of the voices. In other words, it passes the age-old video game parody test put in place by the diehard NG edgelords of 2006.

The Spellening

Never bring a gun to a card fight. Each frame is clean and fluid, like a cartoon show on TV.

a healthy way to start your day (musical)

Oldskool Review Bot #200 sez: great song, great meta humor.

ChatGPT sez: *snap*

One Piece "WE ARE!" COLLAB

This is the fabled One Piece Collab we've all been hearing about.

As with any collab, many of the parts are well-made, but it's a little short for a collab.

The Monkey's Claw

Crab drinks beer. I don't see how monkeys have anything to do with this. Still a great short film.

Hey [Pixel Animation]

10 seconds. IDK why this is here.

This is NOT cheese

It's a Pacman.

MILES HAS A CANON EVENT

Here's a protip: LiveLeak shut down in 2021. This Spiderverse film (the 2nd one) came out in 2023. Your target audience should not have been able to get the joke. Maybe it still exists in another universe, but this is the universe where it exists only in our hearts.

Mr Beast Finally Meets Saitama

I personally don't like that weird "anime" style you used. It's definitely Beast's eyes that are a little off-putting. You are otherwise very skilled at drawing human characters.

This is NOT water

It's cheese.

CHEW GUM | "TORTOISE AND THE HARE"

TBA

Flower Found

The second proper film from aap. I liked PIG better

SBW 1-2: Bi Bi Bowser

A skit about Bowser coming out as the B in LGBTQ+ Same deal as the Mega Man /Elon Musk animation, only with twice the bits.

The SHOCKING TRUTH About Korok Seeds

Don't ever confuse topcatyo with Foxcato. They've both originally associated with the Clock Crew, they're both great animators in their own right. This one's working on a small YouTube channel called Drawbomb (alongside another old Clock) that does skits, podcasts, that sort, produced using PNGTuber software.

Drawbomb as a whole is pretty underrated and worth checking out.

"And yet.."

The character's head + body stick to the same part of the screen throughout each shot. I think there's a trope associated with this, but I can't name it. Works on bigger music videos too.

birthday 32

Oldskool Review Bot #200 sez: great song, great meta humor.

ChatGPT sez: happy birthday.

My dog.

Usually, GTA and especially GTA San Andreas, is never not funny. Then you add a dog....

William and Sly Teaser Trailer

This is the third entry of a series of games dating back to 2009 with a sequel in 2011. Now it's in 3D, like every other video game franchise, and it looks great and seems to play great. You won't know until you play it.

Since this is a trailer, I wouldn't rank this alongside the other entries or put it in a top 10 list, Just go wishlist the game on Steam.

Lamesaw Man

It's a parody of Chainsaw Man. Haven't seen it, cannot comment. I will still say kudos to the team for keeping the 2012 Egoraptor / Spazkid branch open to new directions.

Kirby Guardian Ep8: Reincarnation (Part3)

Barely halfway through and I already feel tired. For the Best of June 2022, just check @FuturecopLGF's post.

Part 2 coming soon.

CALENDAR

News of the past, present, and future.

PAID PROMOTION: You thought the regular calendar was flooded with collabs? The Audio Portal's gonna get 30 of them this year. Join this server to take part in any one of them: https://discord.gg/24MV4GNm

July 19th: We discovered 69 degr33s of Piconjo almost a y33r b4. And we explan3d how s0em of these degr33s w0rk.

July 26th: I finish the rest of those movie reviews.

August 2nd: The only day where you're legally allowed to vote 2.5 out of 5 without getting judged.

August 4th: "Take a Break from Newgrounds" Day.

Tankman Triweekly is not a person. What would be our official title "of the Portal"?

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Evening Newgrounds! I've been writing a new weekly issue for @TheTankTribune every day for the past 2 years and I figured I might also write an issue for @TankmanTriweekly as well.

The-Great-Two, @The-Great-One's clone brother from another dimension.

INTRO AND OUTRO BY @sorohanro

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@Biggiecheezelol @okayxairen @TeffyD @Aalasteir @ShoesBeDrawin @CzySzy @CicloOfficial @VCX64 @ADR3-N @Tritnew @NK64

Best of May 2023!

The people have spoken!

The best of May 2023 have been announced for quite a while. Let's cover them today so we don't have to deal with them next month.

BEST MOVIE

Best Movie goes to @JamesLee for completely giving up Flash animation and start chilling with his A.I. homie.

BEST GAME

Best Game goes to @Spagato, @KeithGarces, and @Dieswyx for their work on Rushdown Rivals Reloaded. Also a winner of Pico Day 2023

BEST AUDIO

Best Audio (that isn't Waterflame) goes to @siximpala for six impala - HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATE

BEST ART

Best Art goes to nobody because it's way too subjective for me. Again.

TOO MANY GAMES MEETUP

The NG Meetup at Too Many Games, organized by @CorTat-G, took place on Friday, June 23rd in the god-damn afternoon.

You're better off counting the people who didn't show up.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!

Some of our most iconic Newgrounds creators have returned from their hiatus to bring us an important message.

@El-Cid sez: "Eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!"

@Hulalaoo sez: "SHIT! FUCK!"

@Horsenwelles originally sed: "0123456789XL1011", but deleted the post.

Nothing escapes the Tankman Triweekly.

NG Slumberland Music Collab

@Tritnew is hosting a collaborative album collab themed around dreams. Get your slot now and sleep on it.

I'll get me coat.

This week's featured artist is @Ansel. He's originally known for his work on games such as Buccaneer Battle and Binary, as well as a handful of animations like Larvae, a few of them have been featured in Flash Portal History.

Nowadays, after an entire decade of absence, and armed with nothing but an Apple Pencil and an iPad running Procreate, he is making his return to art, and in turn, Newgrounds.

Scope Shop

Ansel

The latest from the @OffTheWallShow with your host @Aalasteir! We've got a lot to cover where we last left off.

Booliards developers @nomlan & @Spebby talk to Aalasteir about game design

Aalasteir also sat down with @Dinodork, @GrantTheHierophant, and @GallowJolt to talk about their animation pilot Hellion

@The-Great-One's brother @Wargrave makes his podcasting debut

@TheDyingSun talks about art + philosophy

The developers of WHAT THE HELL? discuss game jams, game development, how they met, and the software they use.

@Cysteke, who's been making music for a decade, speaks to Off The Wall about his experiences

@The-Great-One rambles on about his experiences using Newgrounds. Stay tuned for Season 5 for Part 2 of this episode.

And just recently, @Jabun came on to the show to talk about composing music for various projects, many of which you need to check out NOW!

The @RadicalWrongDoers, or RWD for short, were a Flash group active from 2007 to 2010.

Unlike groups like the Clock Crew or Star Syndicate, the group claims to create "quality spam" created by talented creators such as @Luis, @AlmightyHans, @funymony, @jakeganz (then known as Anigen), @Nogfish, and featured here, @LazyMuffin. This meant they were actually good.

Their 21st flash (allegedly), created by LazyMuffin, parodies the Meet n Fuck series by 'exploring' what the Meet n' Fuck series hadn't done before, a coal miner.

"The RWD started when I saw Nogfish's animation 'A KITTY CREW BEATDOWN' and commented about how I don't like them since most of their stuff are effortless loops like many of the crews you have mentioned.

I decided we should open a crew that only publishes quality spam, thus differentiates us from most crews. We also made up a silly background for the group that may take part in future RWD related animations. Were villains who create quality spam, That's about it."

-LazyMuffin

July 3rd, 2008

USERS OF THE WEEK

Here are the Users of the Week for the week of June 24th, 2023 - June 30th, 2023.

@Certly

@Fish125

@BoomKitty

@hhhhhokiohjeezhhhhh

@Benji-G

@GoodSirFry

@PilloTheStar

USER OF THE DAY ON THIS DATE

2021: @HernyEd

2020: @NO-TRIP

2018: @EdibleGymSock

2004: @MontanaJ0E

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Quick heads up. I hope you've followed us and check your feed often. It really helps support the paper when you find it.

You might've missed the previous article, intended for Pico Day. Check that out.

We're also turning 2 years old in a tiny bit of time. Stay tuned for our anniversary!

Fortune Teller Fiona

BREAKING NEWS! You heard this first from Tankman Triweekly! Controversy has struck Newgrounds again.

For the first time since 2004, a P-Bot's Daily Picks post just reached 67 posts.

What caused this thread to reach record breaking numbers? Turns out the community has had enough with erotic content making the list.

Here are the facts:

1- Two movies, both fully intended to be lewd, erotic, or fetishised, won Daily 1st and Daily 2nd.

2- Similar erotic movies have been making the list several times over the course of two years. Though still controversial, people just hoped it wouldn't happen again. It happened again.

3- @P-Bot does not have horns, despite what the community says. Easy mistake to make, can't believe we have to clear this up. He has antlers.

4- @TomFulp himself had to get involved. He suggests that they should opt out of awards to avoid backlash, however, research has suggested that this is, in fact, just a suggestion. Artists uploading horny stuff will continue to upload horny stuff and ignore his advice. No "official" change has been made during that time.

5- @Prevence, the 1st place winner has responded to the situation. He might potentially leave NG due to the backlash. Not that it affects us the slightest.

6- The "If your animation is fetish content, please just mark at as adult" rule in the Movie Guidelines is often misinterpreted by horny artists as turning on "Adult Themes", which only goes up to M.

Here's how to clear everything up:

E = Everyone, T = Teen, M = Mature, A = Adult. Mark as Adult = Use the A rating.

7- @F-Bot needs to get a job. NOW!

8- No such problem seems to exist in the Art or Audio Portal, who either don't give awards or only announce them to an RSS feed.

9- Everything would just be better with Jerma985 around

Possible fixes range from simply adding an extra checkmark to indicate if a submission is 18+ to get this, removing the score system and/or Daily Picks system entirely.

We personally think that porn addictions are a serious problem and as a result, NG needs to recommend ways to treat it, such as therapy. It'll help both the authors and the horny part of the userbase.

Jun 1 UPDATE: 69 replies! You can't make this up!

It is April 22nd 2023, 5:32 PM.

I am Detective Nicholas Dick, internet detective.

In 1999, a local high school was victim to one of the most bloodiest school shootings in American history. Some say this was caused by giant inter-dimensional aliens, but I digress. Out of all that bloody carnage, one student stood out amongst the rest. Pico, who in some unexplained stroke of luck managed to stop the perpetrators from causing any more damage, and allegedly using his own gun.

Since then, no-one knows what actually happened down there. No one, except Pico. and that's where I step in.

My plan is simple: Track Pico down and interview him. Only problem is, I dunno his whereabouts. My best option would be to hide in this bush until I spot him.

May 6th 2023: 11:54 PM:

Rats! He's not here. Pico Day's already ending.

May 31st 2023: 10:55 PM:

I'll try again later. He's not here.

TO BE CONTINUED

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

"HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, NEWGROUNDS!!!"

@Nabella, couldn't pick a better time.

"I can still make this work."

@TankmanTriweekly, who actually brought back an old @TheTankTribune feature.

""1 TB Ram" Bro I don't even have 12 GB 💀"

@BroSkullEmoji. Would you like some garlic sauce with that potato?

"Your music sucks. And blows. It pulls. And pushes. Like a sea washing over the shore before retreating back to the ocean. penis."

@Aistis, Self-proclaimed Selfish self-centered prick

"Here are some of my favourite things on Newgrounds!"

The old default Playlist description.

Other News:

News from the past, present, and future.

June 3rd 1992: @Wegra was born six days premature. God dammit Wegra!

May 26th: Lock Day started and ended today. Also the winners of the 2023 Treasure Hunt are announced.

June 1st: SPONSORED CONTENT: Local butcher sale. 90 lbs of fresh goat meat available for purchase

Only $24 lb. Don't worry about it being blue. That just means the meat's better than ever!

June 9th: To celebrate our 2nd anniversary, we're launching a podcast.

Working title: The Theseus Show,

June 21: MrBeast purchases Chutney Island for a contest.

June 28th: @ChutneyGlaze and co buy the island back from the Winner to cover taxes.

June 8th: Local butcher sued over food poisoning. At least six victims were confirmed to be affected.

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NO: 31: Exclusive Pico Day Special

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Hello @everyone and everyone at. Pico Day's coming soon, this is a very special day. This means I need all of you to be on your best behavior today. @TomFulp's gonna be watching every single movie, playing every single game, listening to every single song, looking at every single artwork, and of course, reading every single newspost, especially this one, and we do not need any more crazy shenanigans. Got that?

OK, until that day comes, do not publish this piece until May 6th. I repeat, hold it off until May 6th!

Darnell, who according to LinkedIn, left Tankman Triweekly 2 weeks ago

TOP STORY:

"Is there anything Pico hasn't done?" Asks Mario, the Plumber, Sportsman, and Former Carpenter.

Image credit: Punch Out! (Nintendo) + Pico's Unloaded (@MindChamber)

Local plumber Mario Mario has been a huge fan of Newgrounds culture for a long time and regularly consumes Flash content like Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom and Super Mario 63. Last Saturday, he's got a lot of questions about their most iconic character, Pico.

"This Pico guy.", the 42 year old plumber said as he scrolls through past Pico Day submissions. "Everyone knows him as the high school student who stopped a school shooting, fight fire with fire, all that. But what else has he also done?"

"From what I've found, he has his own fighting crossover, he's an avid gambler, a cereal mascot, he plays DDR, he plays basketball, he's a snowboarder, he teaches you how to use a keyboard, Like literally, is there anything Pico hasn't done?"

"Did he join the Army? Sell guns on TV? The list goes on! Wait, I know what he isn't. A doctor! Good luck getting through medical school with all that long unsorted shit on your resume."

Mario finishes his conversation as he go-karts off a giant pinball table while eating golden mushrooms.

Hello, I'm Nicholas Dick, world renowned internet detective, and this is my show DICK NICK! It is my job to uncover all the weirdest, craziest, unsolvable mysteries from ye olden days of the Internet and hopefully uncover their truths once and for all!

Today, we're gonna find out what caused the closure of the General forum right here on Newgrounds.

CASE 1: Who Killed General BBS

WHAT HAPPENED: On March 22nd, Tom Fulp announced that both the General and Politics would be closed down.

They're still viewable, but all threads have been locked and no new threads can be created.

Tom says "these forums aren’t in line with the goals for the site and we don’t have the resources to handle the problems these forums create.", but there may be an ulterior motive.

However, I'm too busy trying to figure out if @thanknog and @Nogfish are the same person, so while I'm on that adventure, I'm assigning this task to my two associates, Larry Ball and Roger Ball.

EXHIBIT 1: Our Findings:

LARRY: I found this post four days prior to the closure, Chris, aka @DrunkGecko made a post calling out moderator @Malachy, who banned a user called "Seth" for "Using multiple alts to be a pest on the forums"

ROGER: And how exactly does this relate to the forums closing?

LARRY: He argues that those accounts belong to another user "Zeiwolf" who shares the same IP, but I found no such accounts that exist on here. This probably caused them to delete their account and stir up enough drama to force Tom to take action.

ROGER: Who are we talking about here? Which "Seth" are we talking about here? Seth Green? Seth Rogen? Seth MacFarlane? I suspect none of these accounts are real. That GEICO guy's more reliable than this idiot. This is a dude who posts Sonic fanfics and disgusting sex jokes "on purpose". He's not exactly a credible source. I say we should follow the REAL evidence. If this "Mal" guy is such a shitty moderator, why hasn't Tom removed him?

LARRY: I found this thread. Near the end of page 1 @TurkeyOnAStick suggests that this was just some crazy extreme conspiracy blown way out of proportion. It's messes like this that strain the poor moderators every single day and I'm glad both of them are gone because now they only have to lock 5 threads a day instead of 7.

ROGER: He had evidence that Malachy was being corrupt. Just last month he banned me for 3 days over a thread about peanuts. They could've done the right thing and kicked him off the mod team. Maybe we can just talk this rationally with Tom and he can FINALLY bring some justice.

LARRY: So NOW you're agreeing with the Gecko man? I think we should call Nick right now because it's clear I can't take it anymore!

NICK: LARRY! ROGER!! What the fuck is all this mess? Do you know how hard it is to reorganize this cork-board?!

LARRY: I dunno. I just want to go home.

ROGER: We finally figured it out. It's all one big conspiracy theory. Tom, and a handful of mods such as Malachy and Turkey, are all in to spread the narrative that Newgrounds, a site that got its start with edgy flash cartoons about school shootings and killing celebrities, is "the best site ever made where nothing can go wrong", a utopian paradise fully funded by users like you and me, a site, truly "everything by everyone".

Unfortunately, though they have come close, it's not good enough. Incidents such as those caused by Sirtom93, 321, Mist, and so on, are an inevitable part of the internet and a dime a dozen on other platforms, and especially today with all this "cancel culture" becoming so ingrained in society. As a result, they decided to go more and more woke over the years, and this has impacted their decision-making. When Malachy falsely banned a guy for alt-related crimes, in addition to his innocent roommate, and DrunkGecko blew the whistle, they decided to not just lock threads discussing it, but outright delete them, before going "fuck it" and closed off the entire forum so that they don't have to deal with it, rather than uphold free speech and take accountability for one mod's actions.

You could argue that they wanted it closed years before, but couldn't until now, but just because General's gone, that doesn't mean they can't still be corrupt. It just makes it much easier for them to cover up their own wrongdoings and get more people to agree with their leftist beliefs and policies.

NICK: Noted.

CONCLUSION:

Case discarded: Never hire a pair of nuts to do a dick's job.

JOHN CAPTAIN: You can say that again.

FEATURED ARTIST:

Today's featured artist is @RoAnimations, who makes both great art and animations, and recently has been getting into pixel art. That's an easy win. Follow him here (and only here) if you like Team Fortress 2, Pizza Tower, or Mario spinoffs.

OTHER WORKS:

Other News:

News of the past, present, and future.

Jan 26th: This one Newgrounds users' father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate released a game inspired by an underrated Nintendo platformer. Maybe you've heard of it. Maybe you've seen some fan-art on the front page or have seen the intro re-animated over a dozen times. Who knows? Maybe there'll be a sequel.

April 18th: Studies have shown that earwax is more revolting than furry porn.

April 23rd: @W-P-S, aka Waldemar Schuur, notable animator and filmmaker who created Anusboy and Savage Death Valley, has just finished his most stressful task to date... renovating his kitchen.

April 27th: A prototype of Portal Defenders: Fast Break just leaked where all the voice lines are replaced by explicit versions. Yes that is @VoicesbyCorey you're hearing.

April 28th: Episode 2 of Monkey Wrench just came ou..

NEVER MIND THAT: A 2004 thread about klay just got bumped.

May 2nd: Valve to take legal action against @Emrox's Artifacts, citing a trademark dispute

May 5th: A recent survey shows that out of 600 artists, animators, and forum regulars, 414 of them said they had one of their kidneys removed. One was reportedly told to "spread teh <3"

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NO: 30: Update-Sized Holiday Special

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Today's issue has been long overdue. A lot has happened since the last one. The forums are under renovation, Pico Day's creeping closer, a bunch of users have come and gone, the Audio Portal's 20th anniversary has been celebrated, and we've been late to the party for a long time, until someone remotely talented managed to walk into our office and got hired on the spot.

@Little-Rena

TOP STORY: TIME TRAVELLER GOES BACK IN TIME TO SUBMIT TO 5 SHADES OF BLUE COLLAB

Once this baby reaches 500° Fahrenheit, you're gonna see some serious tomfoolery.

PHILADELPHIA -- This just in, prolific Flash animator Dr. Nelson Teal has just submitted a collab part for the 5 Shades of Blue Collab

Teal, who joined Newgrounds in 1999 as OT, traveled back in time to March 16th 2005, 11:40 PM EST, using a remote-controlled gas-top stove and oven-themed time machine, in order to submit an animation he's been working on for 5 months. He has brought with him a copy of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and 16 GB of RAM.

"I was very impressed with what Teal managed to bring to the table!" said @mynamewontfitin, organizer of the 5 Shades collab.

"A bald old bearded farmer cooks up some sort of magic powder to make his turnips grow, then one of them grows to the size of his three-story comically large mansion. He can't pull out himself, so he calls up his wife, his two children, his children's spouses, his 3 grandsons and 2 granddaughters, and the family cat, who all fail to pull the turnip out. Only after a funny looking mouse starts pulling on one of the granddaughter's shoes does the turnip break free.

THEN the turnip rolls down the hill, onto the street, over some cars, then in the ocean.

Plot twist: One of the boys managed to tunnel his way into the turnip and is now stranded on the ocean alongside a gang of human-sized insects, worms and other bugs.

Not only did the story get my attention, but his line-art is incredibly clean compared to the other parts by myself, Zekey, Xionic Demon, etc, he picked some good songs, AND he managed to cram it all in 95 seconds! Chef's kiss! Best thing I ever watched. Instant 5 stars!"

mynamewontfitin

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Teal's previous works include the Flash game Cuphead (2005), a Metal-Slug-esque platformer that later inspired the Fancy Pants series. He was also a clean-up artist for the Eddsworld short Suction Cup Man (2008), and created the short film Spooky Month (2004) for Clock Day.

Tankman Triweekly presents: a new series...

THEME SONG:

Hello, I'm Nicholas Dick, world renowned internet detective, and this is my show DICK NICK! It is my job to uncover all the weirdest, craziest, unsolvable mysteries from ye olden days of the Internet and hopefully uncover their truths once and for all!

Today's case is all about teh g0d of teh pr0tal Piconjo, who after 18 years is definitely full of secrets worth uncovering. Let's get into it!

CASE 1: @LegendaryFrog and @Piconjo.

CLAIM: Piconjo allegedly helped LegendaryFrog and worked on a couple of Flash movies together, circa 2002-2003. However, Piconjo wasn't credited properly (presumably due to the multi-author system not existing or requiring a "buddy system") and the flashes became smash hits, and as a result, Piconjo created an entire movement dedicated to "pwning" LF as revenge.

This was what was listed in the Newgrounds Wiki so it must be true. If so, then between the three of us we're all dicks in one way or another. But then again, we need people like me to analyze the FACTS.

EXHIBIT 1: Legendof Zelda LF Tribute

This is probably the biggest piece of evidence that supports this claim. This is a flash movie created in March 2004 by user @SmashMaster, who may or may not be Piconjo himself.

In 2021, Piconjo reviewed the submission saying there's an easter egg at the end that proves Piconjo's involvement, ie. a text in the Matrix scene that says: "OMG MAYTRIKS RIPOFF!". Quite a subtle Easter egg, but it's not the only one.

If you download and decompile the Flash file, LoZSEv2.swf, you will find this lovely image in frame 4.

WARNING: NSFW

This proves Piconjo made this movie, but how does it prove his involvement with LegendaryFrog?

Obvious answer is that the style is exactly similar. If he can animate Link and the boys and replicate LegendaryFrog's style so well, then surely he'd be the one to start the ball rolling in the first place.

Enter The Return of Ganondorf, posted Jun 20, 2003, which shares very similar character rigs.

There are some slight changes, some of the colors are a tad different, very noticeable on Zelda, but otherwise they appear to be replicated very well. Maybe traced, but that's just some WILD speculation. I would never suggest that!

Do keep in mind that the multi-author system was discussed in December 2002 and implemented in April 2003, long before The Return of Ganondorf, so it isn't likely that Piconjo was involved in this specific movie.

EXHIBIT 2: The Invisible Ink in the Thumbnails

I discovered a dirty little secret. You see, Piconjo secretly imprinted his name into the thumbnails! Here's how to find them.

1) Right click the thumbnail and select "Copy Image"

2) Load it up into Photoshop or some other software

3) Crank up the contrast or click the fill tool on whatever blank space free real estate. He's written his name where no one will find them.

Here's the one in All Your Pie:

However, what we also discovered is that there exists a Thumbnail Crew that was established in 2020, so maybe these thumbnails were added later by Piconjo himself (or one of his disciples)

EXHIBIT 3: LF himself denies this.

Aug 23, 2004: LegendaryFrog himself posted this beautiful gem,

"Everyone should know by now that whatever comes out of that guys mouth is a total lie. Its sad that everyone so far on this topic believes it."

Joseph "LegendaryFrog" Blanchette

Keep in mind that LegandaryFrog himself allegedly covered up Piconjo's involvement, so should you really trust him with this crazy over-the-top conspiracy theory that Piconjo's fabricated this whole story for personal gain?

EXHIBIT 4: The 10 Second Showcase

Piconjo collaborator @T0MMY hosted this collaborative megaproject in August 2004, where a large amount of participants (which include both Piconjo and LegendaryFrog) create a 10 second animation.

The author comments state:

"This is the first (and to date) only time that Piconjo and LegendaryFrog ever worked on a single project together officially!"

This should debunk everything, but KEEP IN MIND... the word "officially". Also keep in mind that they both worked separately on individual parts. Also also keep in mind that this is one of those large-scale collabs where anyone with decent animation skills can submit a part. If this counts as "official", then who decides that their previous alleged involvement (before this allegedly), then what else does?

CONCLUSION:

Anyhow, from what I've found, there seems to be no decent evidence to support Piconjo's direct involvement in any of LF's movies. There were also plenty of claims that LegendaryFrog got other people to animate his movies for him, including Chris Boe, who would later join LF as part of Toonwerks, and The-Super-Flash-Bros, but at least he was more open about it.

Boe helped with the Alien vs Predator review

Super Flash Brother Dim helped with this Final Fantasy cartoon

The only other explanation would be that Piconjo was originally known as something else before becoming Piconjo, possibly an early Piconjer who wasn't even a Newgrounds user at the time. I'll follow this up once I gather more information or either of the two parties speaks up.

CASE 2: Piconjo Worked at Pixar

CLAIM: Piconjo had an internship at Pixar circa 2003-2005,

This may have stemmed from one of his Confessions, but as for actual proof, I could not find any evidence or information about this online. I've heard somewhere he was able to hide some obscure easter egg in The Incredibles

If he did work on any Pixar movies, he wouldn't be credited as Piconjo, he'd use his "real" name, which we do not know.

I could comb through every single animator and artist who worked on that movie and try to narrow it down in order to find the man behind teh p3n0r, but honestly that's a lot of work for a single detective.

Do keep in mind these two factors:

1. An internship is a low-level form of job typically used to gain experience in an industry (like animation, but it can also include any job). For all we know, his involvement could be limited to just serving his boss some coffee.
2. Pixar primarily does 3D animation, whereas Piconjo's output is almost entirely 2D. He could've easily backed up this claim by posting some 3D work onto any website, including Newgrounds, such as a portfolio or showreel, which would add a little bit of validity to his claim. However, this would normally be impossible on NG in 2004, since vector-based SWF files, but Battle for the Portal (2003) got around this by rendering a video and embedding a low-quality version of it inside the SWF, and Swift 3D's definitely a thing nobody's even tried to use over here, right?

CONCLUSION: Very unlikely, but this could've been before his rise to g0dhood he had 2day, so who knows? We all start somewhere.

And that concludes this episode of Dick Nick. Until next time, where I'll be figuring out what ACTUALLY happened to NG's beloved icon, Anusboy, and what caused his disappearance.

Other News:

News of the past, present, and future.

2009

Feb 26th: ZekeySpaceyLizard told @TheInterviewer that he'd like the BBS to be deleted because it's a toxic hellhole

"delete it.

there is seriously no fixing it at this point. half the laughable moderation staff only sign on like once a month. the other half are people who brown-nosed the staff and now just do the whole "HEY I'LL BAN A BUNCH OF PEOPLE AND WRITE A REALLY RUDE POST HAHAHAHA I AM SO EDGY EPIC" thing, while a slew of 10 year olds make 40 new naruto topics. the amount of stupid kids and even stupider kids trying to troll the stupid kids is massive. and then we finally get a new forum, the art forum, and its slowly ruined by people posting stolen art, people who fly off the handle when someone accuses someone else of stealing art, and people who cant do art at all posting their own crap in all the other threads.

the bbs is a tumor.

but of course, dont point the flaws out or you get banned!"

Source: The Interviewer No. 3

2014

Nov 26th: In another interview 5 years later, Zekey was asked again about his thoughts on deleting the BBS.

Pay attention: This will be important later on.

"I wouldn't know. I visit Newgrounds only maybe once a year, usually only if a friend links me to something there. For all I know maybe the BBS has grown into a nice mature forum where people discuss philosophy and animation techniques. But I really fucking doubt that. If I'm wrong, and by some miracle it's actually good now, then I must give major kudos to the moderation staff for remolding that cesspool. But again, I wouldn't really know. Were the spirit to seize me and make me visit Newgrounds willingly, the last place I'd be interested in clicking is the BBS, since that is not where the content of games and cartoons are kept and thus there's little reason to really go there!"

Source: The Interviewer No. 132

2023

Jan 12th: @Royal-Harmonica successfully stole the secret Krabby Patty formula from the classic version of @Anonymous-Frog and applies it to a Street Fighter parody.

Feb 13th: The Audio Portal turns 20 today, with its first song "Chilled 1".

Feb 20th: "Classic" @Anonymous-Frog comes out of retirement to participate in an Eddsworld fan collab.

Feb 28th: The Flash Flood is now over. You can still submit Flash for the still ongoing Flash Forward Jam.

March 2nd: The Washington Post is recalling every single newspaper with Dilbert in them and is now reprinting them with @hcnone's Endless Monday in its place.

March 4th: Royal-Harmonica achieves what Classic Anonymous Frog never did, win a Daily award.

March 10th: Mario Day. Weird that we didn't get many Mario movies today. Thought we'd be packed!

March 12-14th-ish: BBS spammer HTFLumpy has finally been shut down.

March 18th: The 1,000th song on Newgrounds celebrates its 20th anniversary. It's old enough to watch Bluey.

March 22nd: The BBS has grown into a nice mature forum where people discuss philosophy and animation techniques, and by some miracle it's actually good now. Kudos to the moderation staff for remolding that cesspool!

March 31st: As the timeline starts shifting, Bridge Kids fades out of existence.

April 20th: Flash Forward Jam pushed back by another 10 minutes to accommodate for just one more lazy-ass dev who can't be bothered to finish on time.

June 2nd: Street Fighter 6 set to release. A fan poll reveals that Ryu is more beloved than Solid Snake. Keep in mind that this poll was originally posted in a 5 star review on Metal Gear Awesome.

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NO: 29: Dream BBQ, Flash Flood, 2023 Treasure Hunt, Picayune Dreams, and More!

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

Good weather innit! Definitely forecasted another Tankman Triweekly issue today. Today we're covering Picayune Dreams, a couple of oldies, but goodies, and of course, to raise awareness to our annual Flash Flood event.

Download Flash and get flooding!

@Little-Rena.

Here at Tankman Triweekly, we're going to be comparing our Paily Dicks (Daily 2nd) with that day's Daily Pick (Daily Feature, or 1st)

DAY 1

To start the week off, we have two which uses characters from the Mario series. The first Paily Dick goes to @BERALAI's movie Geno: The Star Road Warrior. An incredibly well-made features famous voice actor @TomaMoto

For comparison, @PringusMcDingus's movie quaso got 1st, Also looks great, but it's on the short end of the stick.

Also won Review Crew Pick and Weekly 4th.

DAY 2

This PD goes to @SAMI-OURS for their movie Sami Moments. A 3D experimentational short for a series that already kinda looks 3D.

And at #1, @ChrisShwafer's put the hurt on him

DAY 3??

PD goes to @zipzip and his movie... Wait, we're not falling for this a 2nd time. We already covered that one in the previous issue.

What we DIDN'T cover is @AngryBinary's game at #1: Tor: Smashmaster Level 1. A difficult, yet short beat-em-up that's still fun to play, but THOSE DINOS.

SCHMUCK OF THE DAY: @Archetypes: "Bumper!"

DAY 3 (REAL)

@PixelHeadAche, @Lenmmo, @lydiummusic, and @VoidDdraig wins Daily 2nd for their OFF fanmade mockupinator PURIFICATION TIME.

@ratchili decided to switch from hot sauce to latte with their movie CAFFEINE RAT, which got #1 today.

DAY 4

Paily Dick goes to @Aygeex for their Undertale-themed movie Innocent one (CENSORED VERSION) | Aygeex (ie. Frisk has big tits and there's a ton of fighting), implying an uncensored version exists somewhere. Yesterday, porn got #5 on the charts, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Meanwhile at #1, @Wazzaldorp washed that taste out of my mouth with A Tale of Three Cops: An OneyPlays Animated.

Shoutout to @FunPix's Chicken Man - VOL.1 - Kickstarter, on Kickstarter. Although the voiceover kinda sucks, the comic itself is still promising. Back it if you are a fan of chickens, men, and comics.

DAY 5

@HelperWesley gets the PD for his game Spent Shells. Anyone can create a game based on The Binding of Isaac, but create a 9 volume devlog and post it on YouTube over the course of 7 months and it suddenly becomes a banger.

He learned a lot during its development and you can too!

And at number one, @GlitchArtTV did Karaoke night (madcom).

DAY 6

@JabaToons got Daily 2nd for his movie Rick and Morty without Justin Roiland. You really aren't missing much, as Roiland only wrote 5 episodes and mainly did voices, but I'm sure they can find a suitable non-AI replacement.

#1 goes to @MilesJohn and his movie Alien Mischief.

DAY 7

The final Paily Dick of the week goes to @brewstew for his barely moving movie 90s TV - Double Dare.

1st place goes to @Ditchu for their movie DELTARUNE x GTA 4 Loading Screen [Pixel Animation], essentially a hyperpolished and well-edited slideshow.

SPOILER: Toby does NOT have a NG account. Not that we publicly know of.

For some actual content, you're going to have to scroll down to #4 with @TheWeebl's movie Lightforce, based on the Commodore 64 game of the same name.

Because this is Flash Flood season, these challenged have been offered to members of the Clock Crew. Enjoy the ride!

Remember to tag #flashflood2023 when making your movies.

@Little-Rena / @DVa-Clock

Figure out what "Ease In" and "Ease Out" means.

REWARD: 6,000 TP

@FLOUNDERMANCLOCK

Do an ollie on top of a 7-Eleven, then a 1080 over the cashier. Kickflip, then grind over the 10 cop cars parked right in front of you, do a backflip, write a second season of Velma, then jack Komboocha and repeat the whole process in said vehicle. All while wearing two pairs of Octopus's stolen shoes. Side quests are optional.

REWARD: 10,000,000 TP

@BeepBoxClock

Compose a cover of Superman by Goldfinger with synths.

REWARD: 4,000 TP

LIVE: Newgrounds 2023 Treasure Hunt

It's only been half a week into the hunt and already and there's been tons of progress being made. Before I move on to my highlights, I want to touch up on two things.

First, there's NSFW content. That means Not Safe For Work. Initially there wasn't any rules prohibiting NSFW content from being entered, and we did see a small handful of entries here and there, but not much that really breaks the spirit of the hunt.

There are two big problems with NSFW content here,

1) Very few of them have been frontpaged or won an award, which can make any submission here eligible,

2) They already have a bucketload of views to begin with, so it can be extremely difficult to find an entry in this category that's not only good, but received very little attention.

These highlights selected by @Catoblepas come into question. Click with caution.

Credit to @OrganizedApeShape and @lostSWFfiles2003 for the entries.

@The-Great-One

(ORIGINALLY ASKED FEB 4th 2023)

Second: Flash submissions from 2013 onward are very likely to be running in ActionScript 3, which is mostly incompatible in Ruffle. Keep that in mind.

Highlight: Madness Cancelled by @Horsenwelles for the now-defunct Soup Squad.

The "Somewhere in Nevada", on account of the glow not working, required some tinkering in order to play. Otherwise the main part of the animation worked perfectly.

Third: It is implied that you should actually hunt for your submissions, not pick out the first thing you ever reviewed (or second if that got FP'd or an award, and so on). You are encouraged to sort through thousands of old movies, select the best ones within their criteria, then carefully curate the best two for a shot at some money for you and the author.

Some other tips that I recommend:

1. Ensure your entry has less than 1,000 views. Those are the ones that likely deserve more.
2. Don't just pick from 2022 or 2021. Select entries from 2014 and so on if you have to, those are the best years.
3. Actually watch/play/listen/look at each submission and make your own judgements, rather than solely relying on others' feedback.

Fourth: The prizes. Originally the prize was just $50 for both the participant and the creator, but after some more sponsors it jumped up to $187. With that kind of money, wouldn't you consider adding runner-up prizes?

Now for the highlights:

My picks | Original post

Credit to @FreeWillRevolution and @ScaredyDave for the movies, @MartinTale and @53xy83457 for the games, @dullsworth for the audio, and @Griffinflash and @Familypants for the art.

Other Highlights (i wish i had submitted these)

I also enjoyed this (suggested by @goldenPiGames and featured during the Hunt)

I wanted to keep my focus on older submissions, but this SKETCHED episode animated by @jthrash went past my head. I don't know if anyone else had submitted it, but it's eligible and I wish I had entered it, sorry @sirjeffofshort.

This song by @RedMongoose would also be a worthy contender, though as of today it's rated A, which might muddy things. Doesn't sound very NSFW and would otherwise pass as an M-rated song.

FEB 12 UPDATE: RedM changed it to M after the writing of this issue.

I also think this Transcendent Homer looks weirdly cool too!

"Legitimate" Submissions that Miss the Point

@SourJovis suggested Super Mario Father? by @Ant0on. Though it only received 500 views here, on YouTube it has 330K views. Not as much as his Defbed videos, but not really lesser known by our standards.

@James1888 suggested this heavily underrated gem, Moika Neon Dance, from this tiny little nobody called @moikaloop.

@Lt-Abdelhak suggested two @Waterflame songs.

Oh boogles, I stepped on a bear trap. That's all I have for today. Make sure you follow the 2023 Treasure Hunt thread for more information and submissions. Do also check out @SplatterDash's Swashbuckler's Log for more highlights.

FLASH PORTAL HISTORY

It's another video game parody. These always get tons of views, and what other way than to celebrate Skittles N Bitz?

Remember @MajinPiccolo? He was a big deal in the sprite movie scene, throughout 2005, where he created hit after hit after hit, sprite movies with hundreds of thousands of views each. He even got to collaborate with the late Edd Gould a couple of times.

In July 8th 2005, the first episode of Skittles N' Bitz was released. Nine episodes, a Halloween special, and a "Best Of" compilation later, he called it quits, closing down his website in 2007 and completely falling off the face of the planet in 2008, realizing he was just another LegendaryFrog-type situation.

"TO THE PEOPLE WHO IDOLIZE ME FOR MY FORMERLY EXPOSED FLASH CARTOON MAKING "TALENTS":

MY VIDEOS ARE NOT FUNNY. I REALIZE THAT NOW. DON'T BE LIKE I ONCE WAS.

GO OUTSIDE! WIN AT LIFE!"

Matt (Not Matt from Eddsworld) "MajinPiccolo" Andrade

Then there's Skittles N Shitz, also in 2005. This is a collaboration between four other equally popular sprite animators and cartoon animators that poked fun at the former series, which was heavily criticized for its weak humor and below average animation, even for sprite movie standards.

@D-Sun, creator of Power Star, Mario-Combat, and Armed with Wings.

@Wonchop, a "proper" animator would later work with Weebl, TomSka, and mashed. Oh and this Among Us music video.

@Blordow, who switched to original content not long after, making hits such as Throwverwatch and Salty Swamp - Sac Village.

and @Yoshi-1up, who continued to create sprite movies until 2016.

Another Skittles N Bitz parody, Skittles N' Dickz, by @Emanhattan, @ThePigeonMaster, and @UltraMoron released in 2008.

Nostalgia isn't always what it looks like on the surface.

Other News

The latest news, past, present and future.

Feb 7: @Tritnew has a Discord server.

Feb 8: Turns out that #8 that Picayune Dreams got was sideways.

See also: "POPE SAYS THIS GAME IS 'BETTER THAN UNDERTALE'"

Feb 9: Massive YouTuber Dream is hosting a barbeque from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST. Don't miss out!

"Beebobapooveevbeebepszzeevw"

Boyfriend

"I really hope Big Hoss shows up"

@heyopc

"No right handed forks?"

@Seth

"This Needs More Scanty Daemon AUTTP And Less Infighting!"

@HTFLumpy

Margo from HANDS UP! refused to comment.

Feb 12: UP FOR REVIEW: Brand new Game Show from Tankman Triweekly!

We're offering one free Art commission to the first person who can answer in the comments, the vote score that this movie received, based solely off of this review.

HINT: It's one that we've covered on Tankman Triweekly.

Reviewer: @Ericho

Score: 6/10

"Okay, that was pretty good for a punchline. I still wasn't that entertained by this. The animation was just sub-par. I thought the aliens would be defeated easily. They actually were pretty powerful. At least it wasn't too long.

I thought the skeleton would move on its own. I guess it can't without muscles. I could at least follow it. It was just too simplistic. Well, the majority of opinions matter more!"

Feb 28: Flash Flood 2023 Deadline

Mar 1: National Fatsack Awareness Month.

Mar 24: Cake Collab Deadline:

It's an art collab, on a real 2 meter diameter cake.

Guidelines:

• Must show up in person in Philadelphia to participate.
• Five sessions that last from 7:30 PM to 11:30 PM EDT
• Don't hog up the whole cake.
• Icing must be @FDA approved.

Mar 25: Surprise Birthday Party

Mar 27: "Fill my Deadline Extension Quota" Deadline.

Tankman Triweekly needs V-bucks to survive.

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NO: 28: Thursday Spam

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

Missed the TT? Because I definitely did. I spent the last 26 days of this 2023 giving the Triweekly a facelift. Redesigned it yet again. Fresh and new baby, for the 5th and not final time!

The sole Team Fortress 2 developer.

Here at Tankman Triweekly, we celebrate all the wonderful entries that got Daily 2nd because it'll increase our chances of finding something actually good. (them 5 second GIF loops get way too much attention)

We start the week off with @picrossin and @Gidzillo, who won Daily 2nd for their game Barvest: The Iconic Bug Harvest of 2005, the PS1-esque spider simulator must-play of 2023. #BARVESTSWEEP!!!

@Demonbloodpal shows off his OC Mey transforming and brings home a Daily 2nd with Mey transformation ✨

, a significant improvement from his last submission, a 1 second loop without sound. No wait, NG newcomer @HeyPelusa animated it. Go give them a warm welcome.

@WizardoFrank wins a Daily 2nd for their film Night of the Raveyard, a short spooky stop motion student film that's well worth checking out.

@adriendittrick wins a Daily 2nd for his game The Wizard Ran: Chapter 6. Check out the first 5 chapters beforehand.

@beeftacho, @Qubitive and @LATLSHAT win Daily 2nd for their movie KARATE.

@PFINNEY wins Daily 2nd for his movie grass, the latest and greatest in photorealism.

And to close the week off, @SQUiNKTV won Daily 2nd for their movie Doctor Spiderpus. An excellent 3D Spooderman (Spiderman's already taken.)

That's just for last week. This week starts off with @drluigi3760 winning Daily 2nd for his SNK parody Fatal Injury.

Funny enough, the Newgrounds name originated in 1991 when Tom Fulp created a Neo Geo fanzine called "New Ground", a fact that shall forever be repeated whenever any SNK content shows up here.

@Delfrig wins Daily 2nd for his movie 1, a continuation of his Alphabet series, this time introducing numbers.

Guess what else will be number 2.

@zipzip wins Daily 2nd for their movie Justin's Compilation. Seriously @P-Bot? Someone had to have necrobumped this.

And finally, @Peti wins Daily 2nd for their game Maple's Maid Service. Featuring art from @Bleak-Creep and @P-PAMda and music from @Dieswyx, @Quarl, @Levc. @Dry, and @ConnorGrail

UPDATE: @FLOUNDERMANCLOCK is our newest Paily Dick, winning 2nd place for his movie Rocks. Another Clock Crew W.

We have offered 4 worthy adversaries their most daring challenges to date. Should thou accept, thou shalt be forever honored.

@LeviRamirez:

Port Mewgenics to the NES.

REWARD: 10,000 TP

@HTFLumpy

Write a single sentence where only the first word is capitalized (excluding names and titles)

REWARD: 500 TP

@NoobClock666

Merge the physical and digital realms together in a single animation.

REWARD: 5,000 TP

@ZabuJard

Give pixel art a try

REWARD: 1 frontpage from Fulp

Top 12 Name Changes of 2022

For this one-off special, we decide honor the NG creators and users who have changed their usernames from 2022 to today.

Sick of your old name? You too can change it once every 30 days like these folks have, by becoming a Supporter today.

@Graeme changed from Noodle in late 2022

Phobotech is now @Galneda

ayekerik is now @pollyanoid

The creator of Boxcar City Rush, @GENCE went through 2 name changes. First GENCER, then radioGENC, then GENCE

@Frosty also had two changes, from FrosstyArt to FrostyArt, then to Frosty.

@Crae was originally CraeYT, with YT meaning YouTube.

@Gray was originally GrayNG, with NG meaning Newgrounds.

SevenSeize is still @DrSevenSeizeMD

NoobJew666 became @NoobClock666 in May 2022

@DrunkGecko temporarily changed his username to FarmerGecko.

@CrockettDK had at least 6 documented name changes, from these names, then back to CrockettDK. Those being

RefurbishedCrockett (circa Jan 2022)

NewgroundsRanger (circa June 2022)

Scott-The-Woz (circa October 2022)

Special mention for Olskoo aka @orbitz, the king of name changes. I can only remember what names he hadn't gone by.

What was your reason for changing your username?

FLASH PORTAL HISTORY

Today's Flash Portal History is yet another Mario cartoon. Legend of Miyamoto was the most popular submission submitted by Luis Logam, aka @Awkward-Squid, with over 1 million views, hitting the Triple Crown, and having its thumbnail used as the "Mario" Collection's icon. Unfortunately it was removed for using the Fatboy Slim song "Gangsta Trippin" in 2015.

But the story doesn't end there. In 2022, Legend of Miyamoto mysteriously reappeared on the Portal with a different song. Two newer NG users took it upon themselves to decompile the Flash file and add the new song in and even replace the hand-drawn text in the credits.

Legend of Miyamoto also received a "sequel" in 2009.

Other News

The latest news, past, present and future.

Jan 12: FNF co-creator @ninjamuffin99 is charged with graffitiing the office walls with M&Ms and is thus kicked out of the FNF development team, with this statement on Kickstarter:

"We have cut all ties with Cameron Taylor, aka ninjamuffin99

Development of Friday Night Funkin' will still continue

We will get to it as soon as we get those chocolate stains off our walls"

The Funkin' Crew.

Jan 16: A new Ruffle update just dropped, courtesy of the man who flipped your Minecraft cows upside down, aka Minecraft developer Dinnerbone. It supports WebGPU (whatever that is) and blend modes, which should increase the amount of pre-2013 Flash content supported from 90% to 92%.

Jan 19: "Weird Al" released a new music video for his 1999 classic Your Horoscope For Today. Animated by Augenblick Studios, fans are already making comparisons between this and the fan video Zekey made in 2006.

"The "official" video was just released and it urged me to come looking for this one. I haven't laid my eyes upon this iteration in over a decade at least. Truthfully, I still prefer it. It's snappy, fun, and matches the song well.

The official video is... well, very Gen Z friendly. Harmless, marshmallowy, cute, Youtube advertiser appropriate, and entirely forgettable. This one here, however, has stuck with me ever since I first saw it in 2006."

@CookieSkoon

Jan 25: @sirjeffofshort releases a new episode of SKETCHED, animated by @jthrash

Jeff accidentally posts an earlier episode in his announcement post. Don't believe us? We have the receipts.

Jan 26: @ThatJohnnyGuy and @VoicesByCorey launch the Audio Portal 20th Anniversary Collab.

Sorry @Wandaboy, no Wandaboys allowed, however they did let Wandaboy Joe Cleetus McBill Jr. in, so they can have one.

Notorious Batman villain Mr. Freeze is nominated NG Supporter of the Year for his heroic deed.

Jan 27: @OrganisedApeShape's Robot Pi Kickstarter ends with just over a day left to go and only $400 backed. This is your last chance.

Check out his other works here.

"I'll fund the damn thing myself out of pocket if this fails"

Cleetus McBill Sr.

Jan 28: @BoyPorcelain is set to delete his movie KEY-MAN! Teaser 1 in 2 days (also an honorable Paily Dick), the moment he releases the full movie. Archive it with the Wayback Machine and download while you still can!

EDIT: As of February 3rd 2023, the teaser is still up.

EDIT 2: AND IT'S GONE!

Mar 26: Flash Forward is (yet again) unable to decide on a stable deadline and thus has been pushed back to 2024.

Tankman Triweekly is 512 pixels short of a full PNG.

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"Username LITERALLY checked out."

@Anonymous-Frog

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Hello again Newgrounds, here's another update. Tankman Triweekly will return in January 2022, and this time it will be a guarantee.

In the mean time, we're just filling in @The-Great-One's shift as editor for @TheTankTribune as he deals with at least three separate personal issues, those being COVID, memory issues, and his dad's recovery from surgery.

TT Staff, sans Anonymous-Frog

THEME SONG BY @sorohanro

FEATURED COMPOSERS

@LexRodent, @Yayday-4evr, @Kawanimat, @vermeen, @JustikShow, @Theepicosity, @DragonicBladex, [deleted], @DarkHorseOrchestra, @Jokyles, @orbitron408, @Tritnew, @rajbeatsofficial, @SNACCJACC, @KTilted, @50Steaks, @Bosa, @Seth, @Seth, @Seth, @Dav64 @sorohanro

Get a haircut, trash cans!

No Luddites allowed! @MindChamber announced the winners of Robot Day 2022, which took place on November 26th. To view the rest of the awesome entries, search each Portal with the tag robotday2022

$400,000 To Deliver a Drawing Tablet in 12 Seconds

The NG community donated $1,250 USD to pay for this year's annual drawing tablet giveaway, despite ongoing protests by dedicated mouse users. @Sabtastic is also helping out to send tablets to Canadian recipients.

Current winners include @Ahkihoun, @alyxandr, and @dandyjack.

NG Exploit: Infinite Art Zoom

The Art Portal received the first brand new update since 2017. You can now set submissions as comics and you can now zoom in to art pieces bigger than your own screen. However, if your submission is smaller than your screen, you can incorrectly mark it as Pixel Art to allow extra zooming.

Ninjamuffin99 Misses the Point of His Own Game Jam

Taking a break from FNF @ninjamuffin99 hosted a 3 Star Game Jam from November 26th to 28th. However, his game『さかさま MOOD』 completely missed the whole point, which was to get as close to 3 stars as possible. As of December 4th it sits at 4.02/5 and won Daily 4th.

UPDATE: (Dec-17-2022) Score increased to 4.06.

ART COMMISSIONS OPEN RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

@mock2 is open for commissions on Fiverr, going from $5 to $15 and he doesn't have to go through 5 different revisions.

* Not representative of the actual number of A's in "RAAAA".

We start the week off with @TheChalkeaters winning their first Daily Feature for Furrýmon: Gotta Smash ’Em All! (Animated MV) — The Chalkeaters feat. Black Gryph0n and PiNKII The self-proclaimed "video game-themed overproduced sh*tpost music team" started out on YouTube in 2019 and have joined Newgrounds very recently.

Hits such as COUNT TO THREE, which featured the voice of GLaDOS herself, have over 10 million views.

@Potatoman and @Cryptospore won a Daily Feature for their short Gym Confrontation. A skilled 2.5D artist best known for drawing the Dankmen, Potatoman is usually never seen in over a minute these days.

@NIKOYOART wins her first Daily Feature for the movie The Big Kahuna- Short Film. This is also voice actors @Mikeysota and @Shiftybred's 3rd Daily Feature as well.

@Maplestar-NSFW wins their first Daily feature for their movie Makima gives Denji a reward!

How in the almighty King of the Portal StrawberryClock did that get in here?

WARNING: NSFW: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/865451

UPDATE: Here's the 2nd place winner instead, from @Hosogm.

@jonathan and his team won a Daily Feature for their movie RATBASTERDS: UNDERGROUND, a 1 and 1/2 year long passion project that's worth a watch and full of dumb humor (the kind where the characters are dumb, not the creators).

The team also consists of animators @AmazinLarry, @DeadlyComics, @Emrox, @Ghost-Bat, @JacquesTheron, @moonslothart, @Nihaho, @Peekaywalsh, @Shufflehound, @Speedo, @sveekins, @thecooldrawingguy, @ThePrimatePunk, and @Urbs, artists @Brewster, @MikeCarf, and @paperisfood, voice actors @Gianni, @InexpensiveJew, and @nevarky, and writer @Pjorg. I'm not going into detail how many other Daily Features they all won, that's 100% unnecessary.

@BrandyBuizel wins a Daily Feature for Tankmas ADVENTure 2022. It's an official NG advent calendar that started in 2018, and thus needs no introduction.

And to close off the week, @SPANGLESNG wins his 2nd Daily Feature for his movie Mordecai sets up an account ( animated )

2009 was a very big year for Newgrounds, and @Kirbopher and @Rina-chan's Brawl Taunts series played a big part, with the third and final installment, One More Brawl Taunts, being a full-scale collab. Although well-received, they weren't without criticism, notably for their lack of humor.

Then came Brawl Funnies, a parody of all the lame video game parodies flooding Newgrounds at the time with either Kirbopher and Rina-chan front and center as the butt of the joke. Submitted by @CoolDrMoney and featuring parts by other popular artists such as @rtil, @Blordow, @Ukinojoe, @f0d, and @Emanhattan, Brawl Funnies was so big it had to be split into two "dicks". Most of the creators were also responsible for Tank Award nominee Metal Gear Funnies, which was removed around 2013, but we know our ways around it.

"For the most part, I'm not incredibly bothered by them. I know several of the people involved, and I know a lot of it is done in jest. Otherwise, when it gets down to it they're allowed to do whatever they feel like, so who am I to judge."

-Kirbopher

June 23, 2010

Here are the Top 5 songs from the Audio Portal, except this time based on what showed up on the RSS feed on November 30th 2022, ie, who actually won the Audio trophies this week.

Kicking off at Number 5 is stargazing by @nuphory.

Number 4 is REPENT MOTHERFXXXER (CLUB MIX) by @onumi

Number 3 is @TheThirdRates' cover of Escape From the City from Sonic Adventure 2. It's a little slower than the original, but otherwise incredibly well-made.

Number 2 is Jay Eskar - Face 2 Face (ft. Justin J Moore) by @jayeskar

And finally at Number 1, we have F-777 - Airborne Robots (Zoftle Remix). @Zoftle's version of Geometry Dash superstar @F-777's song.

ENG:

This week's featured artist is @Lisnovski. Although he joined Newgrounds in 2019, he only recently started posting pixel art here and let's just say he's already giving @ScepterDPinoy a run for his money.

Do check out his six-part Super Smash Bros character collection which he spent around 2 years on.

SPA:

El artista destacado de esta semana es @Lisnovski. Aunque se unió a Newgrounds en 2019, solo recientemente comenzó a publicar pixel art aquí y digamos que ya @ScepterDPinoy está dando una carrera por su dinero.

Echa un vistazo a su colección de personajes de Super Smash Bros de seis partes en la que pasó alrededor de 2 años.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Lisnovski

SUPPORTER OF THE WEEK

@illwillpress

Jonathan Ian Mathers, aka illwillpress has been on Newgrounds for 20 years at this point. Since early 2003, he's been supporting Newgrounds by posting a brand new Foamy the Squirrel cartoon every 2 weeks, giving us hundreds of episodes to watch through and enjoy, on top of also submitting comics and other miscellaneous doodles.

Thank you J.i.M

PARTY CHITCHAT

Welcome to the supporter forum!

A lot of users become supporters, but don't drop by the Party. Stop in and introduce yourself!

Why Did You Support Newgrounds

A thread made early in the Supporter launch. What made you want to purchase a Supporter upgrade and give your hard earned money to Newgrounds?

• Newgrounds, how often do you shower? - You can pay $3 a month to support Newgrounds and yet you can't spare $2 on a bar of soap?
• Supporters should get gif PFPs - Those can get annoying.
• Shit poast status - A spoiler-free zone.
• Forum Game - Dirty License Plates NSFW - 10 pages and counting.
• Poast the last image you saved - "I confess, I saved a new image just to cover my tracks"

"Thanks P-Bot"

@ethanblair

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

"new grounds is not new now its OLDGROUNDS because it was founded in 1995 and in 1995 everything is old so newgrounds is now old grounds"

@TouristTourment, joined 2021.

"Dating is for simps"

@DingleberryClock, simp

"If you dont like being bald have you tried NOT being bald?"

@Wegra, again. God dammit Wegra!

"deserves to be on the homepage of XXX_videos.com"

@TotallyNotSandNG, doubleposter.

"I agrree Newgrounds is awesome and that art is me thinking about how Newgrounds is more awesome than other places."

@TomFulp, Proofreader for Hire.

Here are the Users of the Day from November 28, 2022 - December 4, 2022. Congratulations to you all!

@8TrackTiddbits

@TechFuzz

@TheADHX

@Zombi3Guts

@Nwilly

@tooni-pi

@Chupabara

USERS OF THE DAY ON THIS DATE

2021: @FleckoGold

2020: @DogeisCut

2019: @MateoNR

2016: @Brineshrimp

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NO: 26 | LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Dear TT readers. Sorry for not updating. I promised to update in September, then October. All this has been killing me. I promise to update again on December 5th next Monday.

Elon Musk