____So I've been less active on Newgrounds, and more active on social networks like Twitter and, most recently, Minds. Newgrounds for as long as I registered (and this was before deleting all the embarassing whiny teen blogs) has been my only platform for blogging (long before doing art submissions) and enjoying other people's animated content.

____Since the growth of YouTube, the content here was getting stale and a lot of the animators were leaving. This meant that I was less likely to search for entertainment in this site. Fortunately, the Art Portal gave me a reason to stay longer. Besides, it's a better alternative to the foot inflation that is Deviant Art (no offense to the well talented artists who use that site).

____Layout wise, Newgrounds does a great job at the Games, Movies, Audio and Art portals. However, it's not very good for blog feeds, nor does it encourage it as much. Compared to the year I registered (2008), the way blogs are made has improved with the editing and the new emoticons, sure, but that's about it.

____Just recently, I found a new social network called 'Minds' (though still in beta). The way it works is that it's suppose to be a free speech alternative to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube since PC and SJWs took over. Not only does it have a Twitter-ish timeline, it also lets you create blogs in almost the same way you write them here, but with the addition of a user defined image background, lisences, making them public or private, and even marking some of your blogs as Mature Content if applicable.

____This is not to say that I will move to another site. Instead, I'm going to use Minds.com to write full versions of my future blogs, and I'll use this site to write the short versions (or even previews) while linking the full versions here. The format would look something like this:

<<<link to the minds.com blog>>>

<<<short version or preview of the minds.com blog with 1024 characters max>>>

IF: The minds.com blog is less than 1024 characters long.

THEN: The blog is directly copied here.

ELSE: The Newgrounds blog gets the shorter version plus a link to the full version.

I'm not going to stop using this site. I'll still post some of my art and stuff here (and there as well), so I'm not going anywhere.

All I'm saying is, you can also follow me on the websites that are on the left of my NG page. Thanks for reading.

http://www.minds.com/Eltro93

About a year ago (August to December 2015), I took this easy computer science course where all you learn to use is MS Office and Google Drive. There were a couple asignments envolving PowerPoint presentations and how to use buttons and hyperlinks. Instead of using PowerPoint's buttons, I drew mine from scratch with GIMP.

It was also mandatory to include at least one YouTube video, so I made a YouTube button.

About a semester later (January to May 2016), I looked back at these buttons that I made and figured "the yellow color looks a little washed and there isn't that many reds". Another problem I found with these buttons is that they exceed 15 colors, making them not qualify as 4-bit sprites.

A 4-bit sprite is a raster image containing only 4 bits of color information per pixel. The number of bits is the number of binary combinations in powers of two. So a 4-bit image, is an image that contains a maximum of 2^4 unique colors, which is 16. The reason I said "15 colors" instead of 16 for an image is because the 16th color is transparent when it comes to images with a transparent color.

I picked "15 colors" for the next time because, in the 90s with SNES, MegaDrive, CPS2 and Neo Geo, most sprites were limited to only 4 bits of color information, meaning every character was limited to no more than 15 colors (not counting the transparent background). This caused a lot of blonde characters to have hair that almost matched their skin color, and some main colors sharing shades.

Anyway, on March 2016, I decided to redo my PowerPoint buttons with 5 reds, 5 yellows, and 5 blues with higher contrast.

Yeah, there's grayish blue for the background, but that's another thing about background color. It's the only thing that's converted to transparent. Other than that, I've added more buttons, one for sound, one for video, one for links, and another for just a selection (the red sphere button).

Well, I'm done cleaning up my shitty young teenager blog posts. (I guess)

Now I'm not sure if I should link these blogs to other sites when playing around with other things (digital art and programming).

I feel like maybe it's best to delete all of the old and embarassing posts from when I was a stupid 14 year old.

Those old blogs don't represent what my personality is anymore.

___Ever since this redesign, my blog posts have now become privatized. No one's able to read a random post from a random user anymore. Instead, we're limited to read only the artists and staff. Sure, you can type in a random user name, but it wont get you anywhere unless you're an alien.

___But when times like these, bring back the Riff Raff, if not, give us the Lit portal. You can always wait for the Lit portal, but when you ask for the return of the Riff Raff, it's seen as a first world problem.

I can't express myself in this site without my blogs being as easy to find as artist blogs, nor without literature.

Side note: I'm planning on calling out AnonymousOfCalis next blog when I have the chance. I'll be needing some research from that prick and some research on the web.

Plan on something before the site goes down. It can be a chat, some surfing, or even E-CAMPING (you can ask me about that).

What do you expect from the redesign?

Do you accept change?

Will it impact New Grounds?

What would you like to do during the down time?

Do you have the patience? Please measure it in hours.

In the meantime, here's a list of a few time measurements and some made up ones:

yocto second = 10^-21sec
zepto second = 10^-18sec
famto second = 10^-15sec
pico second = 10^-12sec
nano second = 10^-9sec
micro second = .000001sec
mili second = .001sec
centi second = .01sec
deci second = .1sec
quarter second = .25 sec
half second = .5 sec
second
vigesimal minute = 3 seconds
decimal minute = 6 seconds
quarter minute = 15 seconds
half minute = 30 seconds
minute = 60 seconds
vigesimal hour = 3 minutes or 180 seconds
decimal hour = 6 minutes or 360 seconds
quarter hour = 15 minutes or 900 seconds
half hour = 30 minutes or 1.8 kilo seconds
hour = 60 minutes or 3.6 kilo seconds
double hour = 2 hours or 120 minutes, or 7.2 kilo seconds
quarter day = 6 hours or 360 minutes, 21.6 kilo seconds
half day = 12 hours or 720 minutes, or 43.2 kilo seconds
earth day = a few minutes less than 24 hours
metric day = 24 hours or 1.44 kilo minutes, or 86.4 kilo seconds
quarter week = 1.75 days or 42 hours, or 2.52 kilo minutes
half week = 3.5 days or 84 hours, or 5.04 kilo minutes
week = 7 days, or 168 hours, or 10.1 kilo minutes
fortnight = 2 weeks or 14 days, or 336 hours
February = 4 weeks or 28 days, or 672 hours
Leap February = 4.14 weeks or 29 days, or 696 hours
short month = 4.29 weeks or 30 days, or 720 hours
long month = 1.03 short months or 4.43 weeks, or 31 days
cuaresma (religion) = 1.33 short months or 5.71 weeks, or 40 days
quarter year = 3 short months or 12.9 weeks, or 90 days
half year = 6 short months or 25.7 weeks, or 180 days
Roman year = 12 short months or 51.4 weeks, or 360 days
Julian year = 12.2 short months or 52.1 weeks, or 365 days
Gregorian year = 12.2 short months or 52.2 weeks, or 365.25 days
Decade = 10 Gregorian years or 120 months, or 522 weeks
Century = 10 decades or 100 Gregorian years, or 1.2 kilo months
Millenium = 10 centuries or 100 decades, or 1000 years
generation = varies
age = varies

UPDATE:
Next topic: Megan Lee Heart, the viral video leech
Coming after redesign

You know what's strange? You don't see much M-Rated content being uploaded in this site as before.

Now 80% of the time, you see childish flash submissions being uploaded to New Grounds. What the hell happened?

This site has changed (late 2011), it's not what it use to be (well, not talking about the first 2000s, but 2006 and higher).

What's with all this kiddy stuff they're shoving down our throats? Something's wrong here. A large fraction of the classic New Grounds community is being absent to this site when it comes to giving content.

And I'm only saying this because of today's latest uploads (October 11th), you can barely find M-rated content in that purple stuff. And recently, I just saw a non flash submission (which could have been uploaded to You Tube instead) pass judgement regardless of not having a play button and no animation in flash. From that submission, its author who registered in May this year, doesn't seem to understand that this site is about flash (mostly flash), music, and drawings. Not some bland camera vid that's better uploaded on You Tube.

Who the hell are these new fags who just discovered New Grounds and cared little about its core interest?

I turned 18 in August 4. PROFOUND SADNESS

PS: Sorry for the late birthday post.

I've been studying some java for the past few weaks and now, I'm able to make calculators of one purpose.

This calculator however, will calculate all voting powers of all levels in a 95% accuracy. Since New Grounds never explained how the voting power works (by detail), and some of you may not know the highest voting power (until pimp reached god). Then this calculator is right for you.

For nearly three years, I was curious of how a users voting power works level by level. It took me months to figure out the complex formula from levels 1 to 60. Until I found out how strong it is in each level, I made a long list of all the levels with all their voting powers and B/P ranks in two notebooks and discovered the formula. But it didn't apply to levels 1 to 7 as it starts with 1.50 votes (10exp) and it increases abnormally fast to level 8 with 5.00 votes (550exp), while it takes so many levels to reach 10 votes. This means that levels 1 to 7 have their own formula. About less than three years later, I discovered the formula for levels 1 to 7, now the voting power table is complete.

So, now that have learned some descent programming, I may reveal the calculator to you.

Not only I discovered the formula for voting powers, I also invented what I call the VQ (voting quotient).

What the VQ does is pretty much like the IQ, only with vote mass that expands from 1 to 10 votes, and in case of B/P, it expands from 1 to 16.
The formula for the standard VQ is: (VP - 1) / 4.5 x 100
The formula for the B/P VQ is: (VP - 1) / 7.5 x 100

Here's the standard VQ chart:
0VQ = guest, 1 vote
11VQ = first deposit, 1.5 votes
22VQ = first level advanced, 2 votes
25VQ = very weak, 2.13 votes
50VQ = weak, 3.25 votes
75VQ = bellow normal, 4.38 votes
100VQ = normal, 5.50 votes
125VQ = above normal, 6.63 votes
150VQ = strong, 7.75 votes
175VQ = very strong, 8.88 votes

Here's the B/P VQ chart:
0VQ = guest, 1 vote
7VQ = first deposit, 1.5 votes
13VQ = first level advanced, 2 votes
25VQ = very weak, 2.88 votes
50VQ = weak, 4.75 votes
75VQ = bellow normal, 6.63 votes
100VQ = normal, 8.50 votes
125VQ = above normal, 10.38 votes
150VQ = strong, 12.25 votes
175VQ = very strong, 14.13 votes

You can choose either with or without B/P points, but as of now, I still need to know how to do that part in my coding. It's still difficult to explain the complete formula for voting powers since it's divided in two formulas at once.

So the formula for voting power will be this:
Level 1 = 1 + exp / 20
Level 2 = 2 + (exp - 20) / 30 x 6/7
Level 3 = 2_6/7 + (exp - 50) / 50 x 5/7
Level 4 = 3_4/7 + (exp - 100) / 80 x 4/7
Level 5 = 4_1/7 + (exp - 180) / 100 x 3/7
Level 6 = 4_4/7 + (exp - 280) / 120 x 2/7
Level 7 = 4_6/7 + (exp - 400) / 150 x 1/7
Levels 8 to 60 = 5 + 5 (level - 8) / 52

......yeah... it's that difficult.

So here's a summary of the first voting powers:

1exp = 1.05 votes
2exp = 1.10 votes
3exp = 1.15 votes
4exp = 1.20 votes
5exp = 1.25 votes
6exp = 1.30 votes
7exp = 1.35 votes
8exp = 1.40 votes
9exp = 1.45 votes
10exp = 1.50 votes
12exp = 1.60 votes
14exp = 1.70 votes
16exp = 1.80 votes
18exp = 1.90 votes
20exp = 2.00 votes
23exp = 2.08 votes
26exp = 2.17 votes
30exp = 2.28 votes

Hopefully I might upload the calculator soon, and maybe ad some music and some pics to give the submission a meaning. I may also start making a board game for you, it's written as a concept now, but soon it'll turn into a board game.

UPDATE: April 1, 2011: I've started another project, this one is going to be a Mugen character named "Project #001". It's my first character to make. I've created its DEF, CNS, and CMD files to develop, all that there's missing are some AIR, SFF, and SND files to complete the character.

It becomes a bitch to draw the sprites with Microsoft Paint or Adobe Photo Shop, yet I can't even save them for whatever reason.

But, other than that, I may come back developing the voting power calculator when I have the time and motivation.

Seriously, I'm going insane about these governments with their stupid new laws for 2011!

I'd rather wait for the 2012 apocalypse to happen than to stand for this shit!

And yes, I'm starting to believe in 2012 now that I experienced a few Earth quakes about a few months ago, and Earth's resources are close to zero in North Korea's case of rubber materials becoming rare.