Retsupurae

Thats good to hear, at least.

...why?

I remember playing one of the games for this series back in the days of old for Newgrounds, when I was around 14 or so.

Even then I thought it was the absolute biggest hokiest shitpile I'd ever seen.

edited 8th Aug '14 5:58:43 PM by Raidouthe21st

I don't think I wanna watch that. it's already a bad enough time to be a Sonic fan as it is.

Does Newgrounds not have an anti-plagarism policy?

Having one of those would blast about 99% of the content on there

edited 8th Aug '14 6:13:50 PM by Raidouthe21st

They've always let sprite flashes slide. Even creator Tom Fulp made a couple. They never had legal problems with it IIRC so they don't really care.

Newgrounds in general is extremely hesitant to take down Flashes from their site. Most infamously, Kaboom: The Suicide Bombing Game was never took down despite protests by a frickin' congresswoman.

In the name of all that is Earnest Evans, why?!

I don't have any actual knowledge of the topic, but I think I can hazard a reason why.

Have you been to Newgrounds? It doesn't surprise me at all.

Can't give up that ad revenue

To look at it from a different perspective, at least they seem to care about the rights of their content creators ("seem" being the operative word here), for better or worse.

Considering what 99% of them produce...

I did say "for better or worse." But you can say the same thing about just about any site with user-created content. Look at Deviant Art, You Tube, etc. Less of a filter allows more crap, sure, but it could allow for unrestrained creativity and even innovation at times. And yeah, most people aren't doing that, but a select few are. Look at stuff like Castle Crashers, Super Meat Boy, the entire career of Egoraptor—these are all things that started out humbly on Newgrounds and eventually broke through to great success.

In conclusion, there may be a mound of trash the size of New Jersey, but the cream always rises to the top. ^note  this is why I shouldn't mix metaphors

Yeah but ever since the large majority of PC users discovered Steam, Mugen and Youtube, Newgrounds and flash things have lost their luster.

Mr. DJB and Slowbeef did a Wrongpurae of another horrible Sega CD game.

• Part 1

• Part 2

Well Newgrounds was built mostly on shock value. The pre-flash days were all Assassin pages about celebrities getting murdered, Pico's School was released shortly after the Columbine incident, hell "Terri Irwin's Revenge" was uploaded mere HOURS after Steve Irwin's death was announced.

It's only been in recent years that they've tried to shy away from the shock value and put it more towards general user content.

To add to this:

A Congresswoman actually wrote to Fulp, asking him to take down the game. She was actually really polite about it: she said she didn't want to invoke legality or grandstand about it. She just politely said she felt it was in poor taste and things would be helped if he took Kaboom down from his site.

Fulp very politely responded; he thanked her for taking that route, but insisted that Newgrounds had content neutrality - in so many words - and that he wouldn't remove content merely because it was controversial.

There actually wasn't any real controversy out of it - both sides handled it pretty well.

Huh. That is actually very interesting and it is quite good both sides agreed to disagree politely.

Had it been 4chan, the response would've been "FUCKING MORALFAG GTFO NIGGER".

I think the only time that NG higher-ups removed flashes were if they were either stolen from other sites, or if they got copyright C&Ds over it

Been skimming through the archives again. I forgot how amazing MODOK!Ironicus is.

edited 19th Aug '14 9:05:12 PM by Blueeyedrat