godelovesugly

hi buds,


I'm just posting a mini-update so you don't all feel so lonesome. I'm in Ireland and attempting to teach myself Flash. I've getting the new loader/player done one element at a time. I am having some trouble putting the whole thing together, so if any of you super-star flash programmers have some free time and want to help out, hit me up!

More after the break.

I have also spent a good deal of time working on the specifications I mentioned in the last news post. You can view the entire thing here. Please take some time and discuss the possible features and layout on the talk page.

Feel free to make some comps of how you think the loader and controls should/could look. If we end up using your designs maybe you will win something of little value.


I'll try to keep you guys updated as I make progress.

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July 17th, 2008
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Also, I have been going to physical therapy for my crippling syndrome, but it seems like a long road to recovery. :(
July 17th, 2008
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Hope you're feeling better soon.
July 17th, 2008
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Awww, I love maxicus.
July 17th, 2008
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also, the 60 second wait too comment again.
July 17th, 2008
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Good luck in Ireland, matey!
July 17th, 2008
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Get well soon. Also, I'll try to work on a button control thingy; that should be fun.
July 17th, 2008
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max... is.. crippled spidey?
July 17th, 2008
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minus this comment
July 17th, 2008
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Tell them to sew your finger back on too.
July 17th, 2008
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My finger has miraculously recovered minus some light tingling.
July 17th, 2008
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So, you have the phantom pain?
July 17th, 2008
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what are you doing in ireland, it's full of commies
July 17th, 2008
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Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
July 17th, 2008
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Yeah, you don't need physical therapy, you need a new way of thinking. Just think about your injury that causes constant pain and annoyance as a blessing rather than an injury. It's all in how you think about it.
July 17th, 2008
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Maybe we can do some sort of ytmnd fundraiser to help you recover? I'll do a car wash guys, you all think of ways to help out in your community
July 17th, 2008
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Keep us posted, bud
July 17th, 2008
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atmosphere blows
July 17th, 2008
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You're crippled?
July 17th, 2008
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MY PENIS IS 100 INCHES LONG
July 17th, 2008
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cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/22/sunday/main3960219.shtml I guess you tried this spankin' new technology, max. Way to go!
July 18th, 2008
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Hello, you killed my father, prepare to die, Ranswo, today i will infiltrate your room, helding a gun, scream, and i'm going to show you, do not, earn anything but love, i'm going to kill you anyway
July 18th, 2008
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lol, all i can say.
July 19th, 2008
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poor maxxy
July 19th, 2008
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pawl is wawlrus
July 19th, 2008
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srsly you need to fix that walrus sh*t
July 19th, 2008
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This is max taking control of his life, What the f*ck have you done lately?
July 24th, 2008
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"On the road again" how's the song go?
August 3rd, 2008
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UMMMMM WE'RE BACK! LOLOLOL
July 17th, 2008
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oh cool
July 17th, 2008
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Google = Super flash all star programmer™
July 17th, 2008
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I kind of agree. Image-sound-text IS ytmnd. We better still be able to download raw assets.
July 17th, 2008
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That half the fun!!!! I spend hours trying to make stuff sync!!! its part of the challenge. Enjoy it.
July 19th, 2008
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like the f*ggot you seem to be, Umfuld. But, yo cool.
July 17th, 2008
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Good luck. You being in Ireland reminds me of a joke though. A man in Ireland gets into an elevator that another man is in, and when the door closes the other man pulls out a gun. He says "What is your religion?" So the first man thinks, sh*t, if I say Protestant and he is Catholic I am dead. If I say Catholic and he is Protestant I am dead. But then he has an idea, and says "I'm Jewish!" The second man exclaims "Oh, I must be the luckiest Palestinian in all of Ireland!" (No disrespect intended)lol
July 17th, 2008
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Ole is in a restroom with a black guy and they are both using the urinals. Ole looks over at the black guy's penis and asks "How did you get that?" The black guy says "I was born with it." Ole asks "How can I get one like that?" The black guy says "You could tie a brick to yours and let it hang." Two weeks later, the two see each other again and the black guy asks Ole "So, you having any luck?" Ole says "Yeah, it's all black." LOLOLOLOLOL
July 17th, 2008
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lol,black people.
July 17th, 2008
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Haha, I'm a Jew of predominantly Irish heritage.
July 17th, 2008
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Locke's joke made me chuckle out loud.
July 17th, 2008
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OMG First 10
July 17th, 2008
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5 stars
July 17th, 2008
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Hey max, could you fix my featured user status? My pink username is gone and I'm not on the front page anymore. Thanks.
July 17th, 2008
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I really like the #11
July 17th, 2008
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Ive also stopped taking any of your news posts serious. Considering nothing 'productive' ever gets done around here. I mean everyone is leaving, the new people that come in dont know about the old fads, so they are upvoting old Ducktales theme sites and anything Fluk3 makes (No offense, but you make a sh*tload of already been done fads)
July 17th, 2008
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I don't blame you. Up until recently all my work has been done on the refactor, which isn't very visible. This back/leg problem has really put me out of commission and getting sh*t done at this point is maddeningly slow. I think the move to Flash will really liven things up, and tide some of you over for a bit while I work on the refactor. One of the biggest issues is that these days I receive virtually zero coding or design help. Hopefully when I release a beta of the loader, interest will stir up.
July 17th, 2008
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im still waiting on the tshirts
July 17th, 2008
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Aren't shirts sodae's business? Or they were, back in 05.
July 17th, 2008
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Give me another year and I will MASTER at the C++ language and start on the Java Language. So far I'm pretty good at C++ but will learn alot in college. If it becomes any help at the point of the time that is.
July 21st, 2008
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It seems that it would be really hard to ask of this community for extensive coding as I imagine that the average person here has more experience in photoshop, video/audio editing. I feel like this site allows much more people to provide content (much of it good) with relative ease and with relative inexperience with software/programming. It seemed like Newgrounds could pull full-time staff from its portal user base.
July 22nd, 2008
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You would think that, but surprisingly I am ignored when I ask for any type of help with design as well. Everyone is quick to give me sh*t for moving slowly yet the majority is incredibly unhelpful when I ask for solid feedback, design ideas or coding help. I guess the advertisers were right in 2005, this community is entirely worthless.
July 23rd, 2008
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I would love to help, but I haven't got a clue how to code. :( I'm not even good at designing layouts. It was an effort just to learn how to make wiki pages. (The only reason I made a user page was to learn how to create articles).
August 7th, 2008
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I made one and you mocked me. It DID suck, but still... http://design.ytmnd.com/
July 17th, 2008
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flash? ahahaha
July 17th, 2008
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savior of the universe
July 17th, 2008
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He's saved everyone of us! =D
July 19th, 2008
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He's nothing but a man...
July 20th, 2008
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A miserable little pile of secrets.
July 17th, 2008
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also, there should be like multiple skins for the controlz like CRAPTMND skin, old skool skin, Apple iTunes rip-off skin, GAYTMND skin (with pink fur, etc.)...
July 17th, 2008
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Also, in before Afrotech's rant about the moderation system
July 17th, 2008
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I spy a revenge downvoter: http://ytmnd.com/users/xparasite9/votes
July 17th, 2008
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drink a guiness for me
July 17th, 2008
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Please bring me back a....a tiny green man....that has a pipe....and laughs
July 17th, 2008
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I watched "Leprechaun in da Hood" the other day. A black guy got stabbed with a bong by the leprechaun. It was epic.
July 17th, 2008
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TO ME, IT LOOK LIKE A LEPRECHAUN TO ME. ALL YA GOTTA DO IS LOOK UP IN DA TREE- WHO ELSE SEE A LEPRECHAUN? SAY YEEEEAAAAA!
July 17th, 2008
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I WANT THE GOLD. To bad ireland is poor and has silver MUHAWHAHWHAW. GIVE ME GOLD
July 17th, 2008
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July 17th, 2008
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hey Max keep up the good work
July 17th, 2008
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Max, have my virginity.
July 17th, 2008
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so, when can i expect featured status? you didn't reply to my pm
July 17th, 2008
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LOL!
July 17th, 2008
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lol steakman and his imagination. your so silly.
July 18th, 2008
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you're welcome
July 17th, 2008
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i wear my scars like the rings on a pimp i live life like the captain of a sinking ship
July 17th, 2008
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Max here is my irrelevant complaint please pay personal attention to it
July 17th, 2008
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Listen to this man.
July 17th, 2008
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<3 max
July 17th, 2008
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LOL HI MAX
July 17th, 2008
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Now all 200 users online can make flash YTMNDs, neat!
July 23rd, 2008
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200? I rarely see it go past 120 anymore
July 24th, 2008
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..word.
July 17th, 2008
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THANKS FOR THE PRIVATE MESSAGING SYSTEM!
July 17th, 2008
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Max, catch a boat over to Cornwall, you can stay with me.
July 17th, 2008
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more like Cornhole
July 17th, 2008
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Yay for spring break. I love it when every single new site is some 12 year old attention whore trying to see how many times they can post koen moonman stapler before daddy gets drunk and rapey and takes the computer away
July 17th, 2008
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i'm posting this comment from work. i'm making money while typing this comment.
July 17th, 2008
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wow... your job must suck...
July 17th, 2008
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i heard there are pots of gold all over Ireland - maybe that will solve all of our problems
July 17th, 2008
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you had me at "hi buds"
July 17th, 2008
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What you should do is make some kind of cookie so that it will leave it on my custom template when I want exit the site. If I sound like a noob, pls donvote. Maybe there's some way to create my own cookie I don't know about?
July 17th, 2008
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Hah What part of Ireland? I live there :)
July 17th, 2008
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ATE
July 17th, 2008
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I actually didn't think you had the balls to post another message about how you're working hard to implement a brand new thing that's just on the horizon. I gotta give you credit there.
July 17th, 2008
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I feel like a douche because of it. I am actually getting things done, it's just at such an incredibly depressing and slow rate that I feel the need to update you all to remind you that I am actually working, in between being in incredible pain. It's almost a sign that every time I sit down to work I get an incredibly ailment, maybe I should just give up.
July 17th, 2008
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I'd rather have the updates like this than nothing at all, imo
July 19th, 2008
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I am convinced that your fat wallet syndrome is really just fat *ss syndrome. Seriously, all that coding must be giving you a skin layer of pure Grey Goose.
July 17th, 2008
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My team would be more than happy to help with anything you need. We love this site. We are the team that put together reelconnect.com. PM me if you really do need our help. We can do anything in flash.
July 17th, 2008
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But seriously, you should make it so people will stop posting that creepy looking kid with the deformed face. I tend to now stay away from the recently created because of that user with the fifty million alt sites. If you look at that section and click on all of the sites, at least half of them have that picture. I would give you a link to it, but I can't even look at it without losing sleep every night. Please someone know what I'm talking about. =(
July 17th, 2008
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what site? even tho you sound traumatized, I'm intrigued... kinda like that Chuck Palahniuk story that made ppl faint while reading/hearing it...
July 17th, 2008
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if you look up users like mcearIgrey, DrBillyVKoen, etc, then you'll know what I mean.
July 18th, 2008
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DEAR LORD! I just saw it....
July 23rd, 2008
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Yeah sh*t like this is killing ytmnd. It's hard for me to even get over 5 votes on my sites anymore before they get pushed off recently created by some crap made by some troll.
July 17th, 2008
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dongs
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I like being the 100th person to post a comment
July 17th, 2008
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I like being the 95 person to post a comment
July 17th, 2008
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I like being the 99 person to post a comment
July 17th, 2008
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I like being the 12 person to post a comment
July 17th, 2008
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aw, sh*t, it seems that 94 people commented while I wrote that...
July 17th, 2008
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101?
July 17th, 2008
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Hey Max, you didn't have to go to Ireland to learn Flash, silly.
July 17th, 2008
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They invented Viagra in Ireland and it's dirt cheap there.
July 18th, 2008
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Apparently you didn't read the terms and conditions
July 17th, 2008
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also, I think I'm the first on this one to use the word "c*cks" or even "cox" with or without the word "also" before them
July 17th, 2008
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Why Ireland?
July 17th, 2008
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Enjoy the beer, and make sure to kiss the blarney stone while you're there. Also, c*cks.
July 18th, 2008
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piss on the blarney stone!
July 17th, 2008
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my penis is 100 inches long
July 17th, 2008
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SantabotAI alts: http://www.ytmnd.com/users/Grimace94/votes http://www.ytmnd.com/users/MacTonight/votes http://www.ytmnd.com/users/Asiandude/votes http://www.ytmnd.com/users/Asiandude94/votes http://www.ytmnd.com/users/Nelson94/votes
July 17th, 2008
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don't forget http://ytmnd.com/users/Penectomy/votes
July 19th, 2008
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New alt: http://www.ytmnd.com/users/paulajones/votes
July 18th, 2008
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Now strap in tight, let's get set for action/To hoist the ship out of the sand/He tried to kill me with a forklift, huzzah!
July 18th, 2008
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What the hell happened to all the old, helpful users
July 18th, 2008
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Those are your shoes. These are my shoes. We've got issues.
July 18th, 2008
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ruafemaleyoungmessiah ?
July 18th, 2008
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put them on your head!
July 18th, 2008
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My eyesights not too good is that Bill Shakespeare over there?
July 18th, 2008
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Rest in peace Sir C. Crosby Farley, you fat piece of sh*t, we miss your hilarity.
July 18th, 2008
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Bonsai - Your feet will thank you.
July 18th, 2008
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also spock.
July 18th, 2008
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geraldo @ large 8pm and 12am on foxnews saturdays. i have a 10"++++ inch c*ck
July 18th, 2008
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I really like how the preloader shows the full file size of the YTMND and the exact progress of the load. The frame is a nice touch too, but I'm afraid it could grow old rather quickly (just like the Monty Python intermission theme) if that's going to be the only thing you see for every single YTMND. It might be better if there was some random variety of designs, or perhaps even better than that if users could pick which design they'd like when they're submitting a site. That way we can still have
July 18th, 2008
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those types of sites that start out with a preloader and somehow transitions into the real YTMND. And while you're at it, add some more variety to the "Monty Python Intermission" Super Computer songs, lolol
July 20th, 2008
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How about a contest to design different loading screens that pop up at random? That redirection design contest got results two years back...
July 21st, 2008
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Yeah, that should do well. Max, you should do that for next news post or whenever you have this stuff actually ready.
July 18th, 2008
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wooo! first sage francis, then atmosphere? I hope your next title references to Apathy or 7L and Esoteric!
July 18th, 2008
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Take your f*cking time. It is your website. F*ck what all of them say.
July 18th, 2008
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hah
July 18th, 2008
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Keep up the hard work max, also get well soon
July 18th, 2008
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BORING
July 18th, 2008
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hey max are they all after your lucky charms over there or what?
July 18th, 2008
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flash? whats flash? does it involve boobs?
July 18th, 2008
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http://callitquits.ytmnd.com/
July 18th, 2008
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http://todo.ytmnd.com/
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http://www.ytmnd.com
August 8th, 2008
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http://whitepowerdeadn*gg*rs.ytmnd.com
July 19th, 2008
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You should really switch from Java to Python...from old_ytmnd import users, sites, buzz. I'm pretty sure there is a Python module for that already. also tshirts
July 19th, 2008
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max, with the money you've spent going to Ireland, you could've hired a developer.
July 19th, 2008
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Catch a leprechaun and make it do the extra programming.
July 19th, 2008
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poor max :( what has happened to the ytmnd i once knew and loved....?
July 19th, 2008
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How many times have you been beaten up in Ireland?
July 19th, 2008
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wow.
July 19th, 2008
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ytmnd isn't funny anymore. you shouldn't have made a fake shutting down thing that lasted for like a week after april fools.
July 19th, 2008
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Then why are you here?
July 19th, 2008
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The Dickipedia ads are great. I checked it out... boy, what an unfunny piece of sh*t. How's YFly doing? BTW, thanks for NSFWing my site. Also, I hope you are getting paid well by these new advertisers. Ads that auto-forward YTMND to some other piece of sh*t site, ads that try to install sh*tty software, popover flash ads... good times
July 20th, 2008
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Bitchy McCrybaby
July 20th, 2008
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Firefox + Adblock plz
July 20th, 2008
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I bought a mandoline today, Max. Wish me luck.
July 22nd, 2008
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With great power comes great responsibility.
July 20th, 2008
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Where in Ireland are you? Dublin?
July 21st, 2008
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Wait till you find out how ineffective the gaurda is there. They really don't care about their jobs. As an American that has visited Ireland several times, it confuses me why their cops still don't have some f*cking guns. Take a look at Limerick people. Someone needs to get shot.
July 22nd, 2008
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Site is perfect just how it has always been, do not clutter it up with useless flash BS like every other site in creation.
July 22nd, 2008
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max,how do you plan to draw in more users? do you feel all of your current work is a waste of time?
July 22nd, 2008
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Atmosphere sucks, make a better name f*ggot
July 22nd, 2008
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ytmnd is fake
July 23rd, 2008
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It seems to me that a simple solution would be to turn YMTD into a flash portal. Newgrounds has been doing this for over a decade. I completely understand that part of what makes YTMND stand out is that its based on making sites-not movies. But The content is more a part of it than anything, which seems to be long-running insider jokes and recycled content. So how the content is delivered is less important. The content is the drawing factor.
July 24th, 2008
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Who is gode and why does he love ugly?
July 25th, 2008
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Max come to my house you can sleep over it'll be fun
July 25th, 2008
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You can do it champ!!!
July 26th, 2008
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Be sure to stop on by Ruby's house.
July 29th, 2008
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Hey Max, If you have any Actionscript/Flash questions (AS2 or 3), or need a component or two put together, give me a shout and I'd be glad to help.
August 3rd, 2008
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NO UPDATE LOL
August 10th, 2008
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...........................................................
August 5th, 2008
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Glad I'm not the only person in the world with stupid back/leg pains, physio just seems to atagonise it further and sitting down is a bitch (and spending 8 hours a day at work sitting does it wonders) yay for us.
August 7th, 2008
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who's balls do i gotta scratch for a pink name?
August 8th, 2008
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aids in my p;usssy
August 9th, 2008
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Here's some of my suggestions for how to fix this place up: thiscoulddoit.ytmnd.com. You should take a look when you get some free time
August 10th, 2008
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Wow, 50 sites on the U&C are rated 4.0 or higher. Yet people still complain about downvoters.
August 10th, 2008
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Though now that I look the top 15 over, I've given most of them a four or five so maybe it's been a good weekend for sites.
August 10th, 2008
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Compulsive downvoters are just as bad as compulsive upvoters, I guess I should have put that in my proposal.
August 11th, 2008
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Better YTMNDs. Lazier Downvoters.
August 11th, 2008
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It's not that the sites are better, it's that they stay on the U&C longer because of the dearth of voters around here. Used to be a site would get to 500 votes in under a day and it'd be outta there to make room for another site. Now they don't get to 500 in a full week, and so next thing you know sites are piling on top of each other in there.
August 11th, 2008
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Yeah, even when Max dropped it to 350 votes, they still stick around on the U&C for the full four or five days. I think it's time to drop the U&C time to 72 hours upon creation.
August 12th, 2008
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72 hours is good. If your work is good enough to stay on Up and Coming for that long, chances are you're on the Top Rated line-up anyway. I still think the sites have been a bit better recently. That being said, the quality of YTMNDs fluctuate a lot these days.
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if you need help on SQL injection attack defense I can help you with that... hey where did the site go?
August 12th, 2008
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Ugly is the new pretty. Otto Sump was right. uglydolls.com
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