CANADA: the game
(AKA the 2010 winter lolympics)

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Contrary to popular belief, Canada is not all maple hockey pucks and snowflake-flavoured skittles - we have our problems. A slow, inefficient health care, a strong history of pissing off natives, and just a few months ago, a coalition government determined to tear off Stephen Harper's balls. At least we can salvage some of our national pride back when the American economy totally stagflates.

But there is something Canadians can take pride in now, and that is the 2010 Winter Olympics, conveniently planned during a global economic crisis, yippee. But hey, we're a hell lot less controversial than Beijing. Here's the official video for the 2010 Winter Olympics' mascots:

Does anyone else find Quatchi disturbing? I mean... he takes a picture of some kids and the next moment all's left is an abandoned net, a broken hockey stick, and a VERY. HAPPY. QUATCHI. I mean what the hell?! The mascot looks enough like Pedobear as it is, dammit!...

Yes, I AM in the process of making :the game 2: (working title), and I'd thought I'd do an update on it.
Currently, I'm in the midst of compiling level ideas and drawing characters for :the game 2: - maybe I'll set up a dev blog and upload pics from time to time. Here's one pic.

Below are the mascots drawn :the game: style, who will be featured in CANADA: the game. Oh yes, there will be blood. Download a textless version for a desktop background! NOW!!!!11!1!!!

(from left to right, Miga, Sumi, Mukmuk, and Quatchi.)

Hello, Pico!...

...And goodbye, Chrysler!
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/In ternational-Business/Fiat-Chrysler-dea l-will-be-known-soon-/articleshow/4460 439.cms

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Meanwhile, at Chrysler's headquarters, a little red-headed kid in a green shirt, with a gun in one hand and a machete in the other, bursts into the CEO's room and 'cuts back' on costs.

Being one of the nominees of the Tank Award, to me there was an extra layer of humour and irony in that video, "It's a Tank". Well now I know where it comes from, don't I? Knowledge is Power. (And Power Corrupts.)

It's a Tank!

After a while, I realized that P-Bot was COAUTHORED in the submission. Now, that vid is absolutely hilarious, and I freaking loved it. I'm sure that it's going to get a Daily and a Top Weekly! =) But that's what disturbs me a little. The Daily 1st, chosen by P-Bot, will be awarded to "It's a Tank", with P-Bot as coauthor.

An automated bot will actually win awards, the people who don't have any will get more depressed, corruption will fill the system, all submissions with prime numbers will be blammed, yet another version of Flash will come out, every news post will contain tpyos, the entire interwebz will explode, and that explosion will eventually implode on itself.

Oh c'mon, someone had to point it out.

Point It Out Man, Awaaaay!
~Nutcasenightmare

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Well what did I tell you? Daily 1st. Expect it to also get Weekly 1st.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/10 29670

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Okay it got Weekly 2nd. Maybe the interwebz won't collapse on itself after all. Still, a fictitious being winning two trophies, more than the majority of people here on Newgrounds. It's still creepy.

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Yay! I didn't win! Thanks, Brad Borne! (jk, I loved Fancy Pants Adventures...)

From my "A Big Three Xmas" submission, other than to get a microphone that wasn't bought third-hand, I learnt three very important lessons about doing political satire:

1) Upload it on the DAY the event in question happens.
2) Don't randomly place furries in it.
3) Don't mix it up with unnecessary internet memes.

That said, screw it. Vote for Anarchist, my upcoming webcomic starting March 31st, conveniently when GM and Chrysler have to prove they're 'viable' or something. [EDIT: Know what? Screw it. Ain't doin' it.]

And yes, the comic is quite tall. Scott McCloud would be proud.

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It was really fun watching Obama's inauguration streamed over the Internet LIVE. It's just that wonderful feeling of knowing you're a first-hand witness to a major positive change for racial equality. (And a few leaps backward for LGBT rights.) There was also the thrill of worrying shitless that some ass would assassinate him.

It was hilarious how Bush just sat there blinking. I also thought the inauguration was quite good right up until Rick Warren showed up. Rick was just a complete hypocrite, but at least it wasn't as bad as that benediction. Seriously... let the yellow... MELLOW.

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Oh and my NG Certificate for my Monthly Award for :the game: just came in. Thanks Tom!

WATCH IT NOW: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
476704

I've been working on this cartoon on a massively rushed deadline for the Winter Flash Off. I stayed up for over 35 hours on end. Aaaand I missed that deadline, oh well. Please recommend it for the Politics collection anyway, would you please?

Anyway, this is a comedic cartoon about the Big Three American auto companies, the economy, and SNL skit references. Please do enjoy.

My personal opinion about the bailouts? IT'S A Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP!)

WOAH

:the game: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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Lazer Collab Reloaded: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
468205

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Wow, :the game: surpassed even the NightSantaWentCrazy in its number of favs, in under a WEEK! Not only that, I got my first Weekly Top Five AND first Review Crew pick! I feel loved! Thank you people so very much! <3 This is awesome. This is amazing. This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. This is Sparta. This is the most groundbreaking, earth-shaking, history-making moment EVER!

Oh and Obama won. Shoop da Woopy doo. *toots party whistle*

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Oh, wow! You guys boosted the score all the way up to 4.31!!!
It was too low for Daily 1st, but let's help :the game: get a Weekly 1st and Front Page!
Yeah, I should probably be satisfied with my score already, and doing these demands would just be appeasing my sky-high ego, but...

...GO MY PRETTIES. GET THIS ON FRONT PAGE. (Bug Tom Fulp, Vote 5, fave, review, I dunno.)

As this is a politcal game, I might as well remind you there're 2 days left before the US elections. Maybe it's only on Newgrounds, or maybe it's only on systems where things don't make it through only majority votes, or maybe it's only when registering is free and you have more than just a few bloody candidates... but this Tuesday, your vote counts. However I'm Canadian, so what the hell do I know.

(see DEMOCRACY: the game)

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It's out! Rather than a challenging game, it's a challenged game for a change.
:the game:
VOTE 5. On Newgrounds, your vote actually DOES count.

:the game: is also now downloadable at:
http://www.nutcasenightmare.com/downlo ad_the_game.zip

See? Now you don't have to go alllll the way onto the internet to play a flash game. How very convenient.

But seriously, don't take :the game: seriously.

And now for something completely differ-- I mean, and now for our feature presentation:

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The TV pilot Wentworth and Buxbury was animated entirely in Flash, and not only that, but animated by members of our very own Newgrounds community! Read that again, for it should strike some form of Newgroundian patriotism. These NG animators are:

- me, Nutcasenightmare (Head Animator)
- Blitzam (Assistant Animator)
- Wogoat (Assistant Animator)

Getting our works on TV isn't just some sort of fanciful wish; we already have had success with Wentworth and Buxbury, as we have even gotten ourselves as one of the Official Selections of the New York Television Festival!: (http://www.nytvf.com/2008_ipc_selecti ons.htm Ya gotta scroll all the way down, serves us right for picking a name starting with the 23rd letter of the alphabet)

The New York Television Festival is sponsored by names such as Fox, A&E, MSN, etc. Screenings of Wentworth and Buxbury are free. Check out the screenings times here: http://www.nytvf.com/tixSYS/2008/progg uide/title/detail/

Written, directed, and produced by: Timothy Nash, Hayden Grubb and Lucas Crandles (From Dark Heart Productions)

Original Music by - Peter Gresser

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SYNOPSIS:

Wentworth and Buxbury are two young, charismatic, but nonetheless unfathomably evil supervillains-in-training with a healthy mutual disdain for one another (and a healthy mutual love of crumpets). A bizarre blend of callous homicidal instinct and the utmost of civility. The pair are sworn arch-nemeses yet at the same time, though they are loth to admit it, they might just be friends too.

Wentworth & Buxbury is an animated television series that has been in development for over two-and-a-half years, in which time a six-episode first series has been fully scripted. It is a series with a variety of influences; think Spy vs Spy meets Family Guy meets Monty Python.

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EDIT: Daily 2nd 4/07/08!!!

----------------Welcome to the Dangerous April Fool's Collab!

Victims of innocent, innocuous pranks need inoculation!
Treacherous tricks that will leave them in traction!
Ghastly gags that put guys and girls on the gallows!
Annoying alliterations for an animation!
Yeah, I know it's a week late, but we embellished it LOTS during that time.

---------------Starring the talent of:
-Me. The host. Boasting rights. I gots it. (Best known for 'TheNightSantaWentCrazy')
-Michaelthejanitor (Best known for 'Yum')
-the-K-factor (author of 'Paper Mache 2')
-SpedsonaPlane (author of the Bloshlock series)
-chickendance333 (participated in the Easter Collab)
-denzel_crocker (creator of the Perverted Tales series)
-xxflareknightxx (participated in the Easter Collab)
-brainsurgonist (This collab is his first submission! Welcome him!)
-waiyan (This collab is ALSO his first submission! Welcome him! ALSO!)

-And of course, starring the comedy king of music, Weird Al Yankovic, for his song, I Remember Larry!

Enjoy!
~the all of us

Dangerous April Fool's Collab!

See the collab thread here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/86 6809/

IT'S OUT HERE: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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