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[Metal Gear Awesome 2]

Too awesome for its own good

I loved it, but the one thing it was missing was the simplistic, ultra-fast-paced charm of the original. It's great to see that so much more effort went into this one, but it works against itself somewhat in places -- Raven's muscles are mildly entertaining to look at during his speech, but his speech itself just draws out far too long without any real laughs. Yet simply from the cut to Ocelot with his arm still gushing blood, I laughed.

I thought the best bits were the lasers, cigarettes and landmines, and then Snake, Jesus, and God all running off at the mouth without so much as a gap between them. They're all perfectly fast-paced, and in the case of the first part, very true (I'd never heard anybody else complain about that bit and thought I was alone).

It also seems maybe a bit too grounded in reality overall compared to the first. I mean, within about the first 40 seconds of MGA1 there's been a break in the fourth wall, a Dig Dug joke that goes by so fast it's barely visible, and several out-of-fucking-nowhere bits (I KILLED A DOG).

Also I thought that Snake swore just a liiiittle bit much beyond being funny this time.

I still loved it, glad you made it, hope you're still getting some enjoyment out of making these, and here's to a MGA3 somewhere down the line.

By the way, whatever happened to An Awesomer Halloween?

[Egocaptured]

Amusing.

Tom Fulp's whining at the start and Bill Cosby (spot-on, by the way) had me roaring.

[Still Alive - Portal]

The song carries it.

I have to be blunt here, Still Alive is a fantastic song and of course just about everybody's going to like it -- and I hold that to be why this has such a high rating. Take it out and 85% of this is a crapshoot. The pixel face was okay, but not good enough to stare at for the majority of the song. The few sections where you actually cut to the test subjects were reasonably well done (better drawn than animated, but no real complaints), and the one with the sentry guns bobbing up and down actually got a laugh out of me. If more (read: most) of the animation was based on those, you'd have a much better end result.

[VoyageWaffle]

MUFFINS HAHA oh wait that's LegendaryFrog's shtick

I'm distinctly reminded of Tim Farrell by this, but that's not necessarily a bad thing at all. Nice and artsy.

[Geeks In Love]

Kaboomity Walnutty

Puzzles me how some people *cough AITD cough* downvote this for lack of originality. Obviously they don't give a crap about the quality of animation, or all the stuff that was NOT based off the song. Or is he just another someone you know who acts like a retard for kicks?

Anyway, definitely one of your best works thus far. Even though I tend to get all emo-like around this time of February, the animation did a perfect job of complementing the song, and it's so catchy that I'm still watching it. Not to mention, good lord, how many in-jokes and obscure images/bits of text can you cram into a single movie?

Also, if you are going to be doing more Lemon Demon stuff in the future, is there any chance of Pumpkin Pie getting the TmsT treatment? That's one of my personal favourites.

TmsT responds:

The Pumpkin Pie song is one of my instant faves too, but I have other LD songs that are higher in the queue at the moment... ;) We'll see...

[FF7 Viva la revolution]

No.

If you're going to rip something off so goddamn blatantly, you need to at least have the skills to really add something new to it. Every bit of art I saw that wasn't based directly off of what's in the existing VG Cats comic was pretty crap. Even what drawings were basically ripped right from the comic could've been much better. Animation was pretty much nonexistant, excepting some tweens, moving mouths, and two frames for Sephiroth running. Timing was off. Music selection could've been a lot better.

In short, this adds nothing that the comic didn't already have, and is in fact quite a poor recreation of it. Do something original, even if it sucks. You'll have the pride of knowing it was your work and not someone else's. And I say that whoever got this on the front page made a piss-poor decision.

[8-Bit Theater Part 5]

I'm sorry, WHAT?

Okay, I've never exactly been a tremendous fan of these Flash incarnations of 8-Bit Theater, but this one has really taken the cake as the low point of the series. Even part 1 was better than this. I'm sorry, but you get my downvote. How is it that stuff like this gets a 4.15 while, I don't know, say, Evil On The Attack (yeah, you know where I'm going with this) is barely hanging on around 4.00?

Seriously, all this episode had going for it was brand recognition. It was below par in virtually every aspect. The animation, sound, style, humor, EVERYTHING, have taken a large step down from 8-Bit 4. Normally I say, fine, if this kind of thing is what you really enjoy doing in Flash, go ahead, I won't stop you, I just won't necessarily like it; but I honestly don't think this episode was even worth the effort put into it.

Whatever happened to those other Spin-Off things, like Black Mage VS Black Belt, and Garland VS The Imps? The ones with the actually GOOD voice actors? And decently original plot and humor? I like those.

And since I can't think of any concise way to end this rant, I'm just going to end it here. I honestly do not think this episode deserves anywhere near the rating it has. Maybe a 3.2 or so at best. I was hoping that, given time, this whole production would at least continue to improve, maybe to the point where it was really worthwhile, but after seeing this I am very dubious. Oh, I haven't ended the rant, have I? Okay, rant ending in 3... 2... 1...

[Scorched Earth: The Movie]

Tankbots and moonhouses? If only.

Personally, I've played every iteration of Scorched Earth in existence that I know of since the original, back on my old 286, and nothing, not even the online Java version, comes close to the original for me. A shame there's no way to play an IP game on the original. There's a surprisingly good 3D version at scorched3d.co.uk, but again, doesn't live up to the original for me. Now if someone could get the source from Wendell and only modify it so much as to add basic functionality for IP multiplay, THAT would be the bomb.

Oh, the animation. Great stuff. :p

[eBaums world dot com]

Huh.

I'd always thought eBaumsworld was a fairly nifty site. Never realized he was making a profit off of it, and I certainly didn't think he'd pull a stunt like that with the malicious code. Guess I won't be going there again.

Regarding the animation, it's great to hear an original song by the one and only Neil C. put into something like this. And is it just me or were at least some of the initial drawings (not the animation, obviously) done by Shmorky?

To everyone blindly defending the site: READ THE TEXT AT THE END OF THE FLASH. This isn't just regarding eBaum's theft of intellectual property.

Also, to everyone requesting an MP3, check out ebaumsworldsucks[dot]com or lemondemon[dot]com under the Downloads section. Since one or two attempts at making out the lyrics have been made already, I'll go ahead and post my version, since I'm pretty sure it's all accurate:

Once upon a time on the Internet there was a guy
A very deeply flawed man, they called him Eric Bauman
He was a total asshole, and nobody knows why
He traveled all around, on the pulse of each phenomenon
From Something Awful on to Fark, with his trusty watermark,
He stole and stuck it all upon eBaum's World Dot Com

It wasn't fair to those from whom he stole
But did he care, no, not one bit
And then the had the nads to sell some ads
What a piece of shit, oh Eric

Eric's quite a slut, other peoples' work has made him rich
He hired some male prostitutes, dressed them up in 3-piece suits
His faithful team of lawyers made the Internet his bitch
'Til Lowtax came along, punched him in the face and banged his mom
And mister Bauman, quite disgraced, had his dumb website erased
Well sadly that's a lie, there's still an eBaum's World Dot Com

But if we all join hands and sing this song
Then our call will reach the sky
And maybe Zeus and Thor will smite that whore
I think it's worth a try

Oh, eBaum's World is going down
We gotta rise up from the underground
And tell Eric Bauman a thing or two
About how stealing simply isn't cool
So right now we're making that our mission
And if the bastard doesn't listen
We'll get sick of being lawful
And brand his ass with Something Awful