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[[P]etya]

I'm not sure whether you are going to like this, but here's an available for everyone album of BlackIce9: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default ... dID=888627. He makes rather good music even though that electronic music isn't among my preferred ones. I like thos elements which he uses in his music. My favourite is Duality, Relativity, Opening of the gates, Inside your soul, Beyond the Obsidian Sands. You just have to click on the soundtrack's name to listen it, and if you liked, you can also buy it.

[Pegasus]

"Sometimes shit happens, someone has to deal with it, and who you gonna call?"

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Ghostbusters is still one of the best damn sci-fi action comedies ever made, IMO second only to the Back to the Future movies.

RIP Harold Ramis.

[Cat1981England]

[Cat1981England]

[warlock*]

[Pegasus]

Hmm, this one might need a bit of background context framing to fully appreciate. Read, if so inclined, or just skip ahead to the pic link if not. Filed under music because as a video it doesn't exactly fit the "funny" description.

In case you weren't paying much attention at the time, the internet was a quite different place in the early-to-mid Naughts. Halfway along the transition from the classic "Web 1.0" model of straightforward content pushing and small, fractured communities to the socially networked, user generated content-oriented and services-based Web 2.0 that came a bit later, killing time online back then involved fewer and somewhat more lowbrow options. You could try to get some online ggs going, despite the high pings and crappy cons or just talk endlessly about 'em on all freaky kinds of msg. boards on the gaming side of things, and you could try some (multi-way) chatting on the various era-defining IM clients (RIP MSN; your gaudy, colourful fonts and hectic emot-filled sessions shall not soon be forgotten ) with RL & web friends or on the ever-living IRC's multitude of servers/channels.
On the more passive, audiovisual side of things, however, unless you were part of the nascent peer-to-peer filesharing wave sweeping the western world one university CS lab at a time and one popular drama/anime TV episode at a time via all kinds of bloated DL clients (WinMX, KaZaA, et al.), each with its own protocol (early BitTorrent included!) n' very likely virus-laden sources pools, there weren't many places to turn to. Before the age of YouTube, camera-embedded smartphones and GoPros, Facebook, Twitter and Vines, hell, before even Google's own dreadful video service and the untimely departed Stage6 (RIP), finding amusing videos to giggle at online likely meant coming across some random forum link to such a rare specimen and following it back to that notorious hive of scum and villainy misappropriation and rebranding that was is Ebaumsworld (holy balls, that wart on the Web's arse is still around? wow!), where you'd be met with enough uploaded content of such strikingly disparate genre, origin, quality and file types n' formats (aiffs, asfs, wmvs, mpegs, avis, movs - yay, pointless digital taxonomy!) you'd think a tsunami swept along the entire internet and washed it all out there. See, tropes n' memes today may spring forth from 4chan to Twitter and anywhere in between before they trend all across the 'Net and get played out within the month, but back then much of the wacky video shit that got turned into esoteric Web culture (or gaming) references were mostly from just a few places like Ebaum's. Still, while that was pretty much it in terms of live action video, there was also one other popular alternative to turn to, one based on Adobe's budding creator of online embeddable content: [Shockwave] Flash videos n' games!
Seems strange today to even contemplate it, considering you'd be hard-pressed to find any webadmin that wouldn't delight at the thought of driving the final nail in this bloated, ever-pervasive plugin's coffin, but there was a time when flash content wasn't regarded as an intrusive, CPU-hogging nuisance to be blocked on sight by the world's favourite browser extension on the average netizen's mind. Because of how easy it was to pick up n' prototype some idea/concept and how pervasive it must've been around school labs at the time too, making flash videos and games of all kinds (from stick figures combat to lewd humour animations to more abstract freakishness to blood drenched mashups to platform games, RPGs and shmups and beyond) quickly became a widespread hobby - also bolstered by its relatively lightweight download filesizes because of vector graphics support - and nowhere was that more celebrated than the mecca of making and hosting of such Flash content, Newgrounds! During its 15+ years' long existence, NG has hosted all kinds of great flash content, both within the aforementioned range of categories and many more, and has occasionally also played quite the culturally influential role through content that would later get copied wholesale prove to be the inspiration for such little known IPs as, say, Angry Birds or lesser known fare like There's no Time to Explain and all sorts of other indie games. Tbh, part of the reason I'm taking the time to state this is because these days NG rarely gets the respect it deserves for playing the part it did during the Web's formative years, so even now, I'd say it's definitely a site worth taking an afternoon to check out some of its all-time best entries .

But, to get to the point, I didn't type yet another wordwall just to wax Web nostalgic about flash vids in general here. Today is kinda special in that it marks the 10th anniversary of one of my favourite flash animations from those days, and it's one for which its author, Ray "Sakupen" Pencil, did both the kinda Pixar-esque in its simplistic, but endearing-as-all-hell animation, as well as write its catchy, albeit kinda MIDI-ish, musical score, all inspired by a dream, as the author himself exclaims at the end. Although I did come across a couple o' YT rips of it I could embed here, I found the reduced (15-20fps?) framerate and lower volume to be spoiling half the experience, so I'm going with a direct link to the flash itself instead. Without further ado, ladies and joints, I give you Walk-Smash-Walk:

(Clicky the piccy!)

Doubt anyone will bring you cake, knowing your predictable reaction, but happy 10th anyway, little robot !


Since WSW mr. Pencil has went on to crank out more, and just as memorable, stuff, like his Dad flash vids (and game!), as well as expanded to doing the score for some other games too. That aside, there's many other authors that have created some equally "historically" significant entries over the years too, so if anyone's looking to dig further, consider checking out Proxicide's visually stunning (and heavy!) MK vs SF series, Krinkels' aptly named Madness series (chronologically starting from the top of that list), noogai's excellent Animator vs. Animation skits, Egoraptor's extensive cadre of gaming parodies in the Awesome collection, and, well, anything else that strikes your fancy from the all-time top scoring chart, really. Have fun!

[Cat1981England]

[Cat1981England]

[N4rkoT1k]

this album is amazing
sometimes listen to this while im coding

[N4rkoT1k]