Psychopath's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[How to Fuck up a HedgeHod]

"We plan on sharing a video like this for a lot of art so we hope this meets the expectation and approval of the good folks at newgrounds"

It doesn't. We do our best to strangle speed drawing videos in their cribs here, "friend".

therapistgames responds:

coolio...i wont upload any more speed drawings

[Mushroom Soup]

Somebody wants to be Adam Philips really, really bad. Especially at 3:14 -3:15.

OdellAtkinson responds:

Is that a reason to vote 1.5? I'm glad you could be constructive in your review. e_e
Yeah you can tell it wants to be Adam Philips "reall really bad" cause 1 second of the entirety resembled his work.

[The Spirit of Halloween 3]

I've been a fan of you since the days of FlashGem, I figured you to be like most of the other authors of that era and that you had given up outright on completing your series. Glad you were able to prove me wrong. It'd be cool just for if you also uploaded the SWF version of this and maybe even include the FlashGem logo at the beginning for nostalgia's sake.

The only critique I have for this is the fact that your audio is lackluster, the room static is noticeable, I can hear mechanical impact from your speech on the microphone and you appear to be limited in the amount of sound effects you're using. The solution to the mechanical impact would be to get a pop filter or a Foam Ball-Type Mic Windscreen for that condenser mic you're using, this will also prevent you from melting the microphone with your saliva and extend the mic's lifespan. The only solution to the room static sadly is to isolate yourself and the microphone away from pretty much anything that could potentially make noise, I'm assuming the static is coming from your computer so you might want to get some extension cords for the mic to distance it and you away from it as much as possible. I know it's a pain in the ass, especially when you screw up a line and want to restart the recording session but it will greatly improve your audio; to make this more simple I would suggest using a laptop, namely a Sony Vaio, to record with so you can move the computer itself rather than the microphone. That's assuming that you're using a booth given that there's no reverberation so I'm also assuming you have a sound booth using Auralex foam. If you've already done the above and put distance between yourself and the source of the noise then there's probably a flaw in your sound booth, sound booths need to be air tight, even the smallest of cracks between pads can ruin an entire session. Think of sound booths as like a sea worthy boat, no one would never tolerate a small hole in the side of it and they would patch it up immediately.

With wuv.

~SINcerely yours, Psychopath.

squeakytoad responds:

Wow, that's some constructive critique. There's a whole tutorial in this review. This isn't the Newgrounds I was raised on.

Glad to see a few fans are still around. Thanks for the review!

[Chrono Trigger]

Nobody cares about hack artists that did literally nothing and the fact that openly mindless art "connoisseurs" ate it up with a shovel. You know who else was a well liked artist by critics? Pierre Brassau. I'm not going to tell you who he is because I know you won't research him before debating with me about him and when you do, I'll laugh at your monkey-ass.

Your submissions have no merit not because the content isn't violent, it's because the content isn't yours. These videos are from let's-play videos you ripped from Youtube and photos you saved from a Google search. The minute you actually MAKE something is the minute I stop shitting on you for being a complete hack because at least then, the content will actually belong to you.

WilsonMcLeish responds:

One day child, if you are lucky, you will learn that no one has the right to determine what expression is or isn't. The only thing that they are for sure is subjective. I looked at some of your work before writing this and I would say I'm not a huge fan but that doesn't mean I have to attack you or tell you that what you're doing is wrong or bad. The hatred within you that compels you to attack me is what is wrong with our society. Look at the way people treat women, gay people, and people of colour. Just because they're different, does not mean we should judge or govern them. Let us each walk our path. You obviously didn't take the time to explore any of my work or you would have found my original music. I am a professional jazz guitarist and composer, I'm doing this Chrono Trigger thing for fun, as a labour of love. So I guess you can stop shitting on me, I think I met your criteria.

The content is not from Let's-play videos, youtube, or google, those mediums act as middle-men for Chrono Trigger, where the content is actually derived from. As I credit the mastery of Chrono Trigger and Yasunori Mitsuda, the man behind the music, I feel I have not done a disservice to their work but added to the reservoir of related material surrounding a strong cult following.

Pierre Brassau is an inspiration, how humbling to humanity that an ape can partake in art too. Interestingly enough, Ake Axelsson's prank was quite ironic. He intended to ridicule what he thought was silly, worthless art buy having humans judge a monkey's work professionally, but in the process he created a masterpiece. An elegant display of human nature and a highly unique idea that made history as a milestone in animal art making. One of the greatest things a person can achieve is to remind others that we should not limit ourselves by a prescribed formula, artistic or otherwise. These revelations I share with you come with maturity, I remember when I was 19.

[Gamer Boyfriends IVSR]

This isn't Youtube, this is Newgrounds. Know the difference.

ConsoleAlliance responds:

Can't we upload something other then flash? We don't know flash lol

[what adbock does]

I have to question the integrity of advocating ad block when the author advocating it makes ad revenue from the content in which he advocates ad block. Before the obvious accusation of making an ad hominem comes into play, directly addressing the contradiction of one's own advocation does not an ad hominem make; it's an inconsistency.

This seems more like an attempt to capitalize on what you ultimately view as anti-capitalism / anti-corporatism than a genuine expression of opinion, which would explain the presumptuous straw man arguments. I'm calling you a used car salesman in case you can't tell.

I also love the vague depictions of each side of the argument where the anti-adblock side includes some overly abstract "Adblock Spider", which literally conveys nothing about the straw manned point the straw man content provider is allegedly trying to make other than that he views adblock as... virus infested? That's generally the impression I get whenever some black, quadrupedal, carnivorous, red eyed, eldritch-esque figure scales across the stage with what appears to be a bag of stolen goods mounted on its back and the topic involving said depiction happens to be about the internet. Then again, misdirection, over simplification and straight up bullshit tends to be the objective of a straw man argument when one is made.

Then you depicted the pro-ad block side as being purely and strictly anti-capitalist, which is also wrong despite however much you've taken the pro-adblock side; lots of people use adblock out of the necessity of avoiding virus infestations or bypassing broken code that prevents videos from playing, exempli gratia Blip. Despite your feigned attempt at taking the pro-adblock side you've depicted everyone that uses adblock as being nonchalantly self centered, self entitled and petty, which is a notion I won't outright disagree with. However, it really does undermine your point to make the people allegedly on your side of the debate seem needlessly sociopathic which is another reason why I'm calling you a used car salesmen, figuratively that is.

Irrelevant yet funnily enough, whenever I see a video made in the attempt of flipping the finger to corporatism there tends to be a trend of ineptitude in execution; two out of five of your buttons don't work, you can't draw a fist or any kind of hand for that matter as apparently the human thumb is the longest appendage on a person's hand so much in fact it reaches the tips of every other finger, metacarpals are nonexistent as proximal phalanges feed directly into the carpals whilst palms are on-and-off things of fiction. Your replay button goes to the first frame where your ad is when it should go to the second frame e.g. real replay buttons for SWF files with preloaders. The cherry on top; you use the brush tool and motion tweening, the marks of an amateur Flash author. Another mark of an amateur is using the Newgrounds video player but that's a different submission.

I also love how the end credits are apparently "needless", as if the music you used is neither deserving of nor merits being acknowledged and said needless end credit sequence was included merely out of legal obligation. I'm sure this stems from the logic that authors ought to be grateful for being merely noticed because being paid is selfish. Don't try to deny this by explaining that the music had to be bought in order to be obtained, any music can be obtained for free if you know what you're doing and where to go; Kevin Macleod's music is on Youtube, a place that has entire content ripping sites built around it. That's the jinxing implication of defending adblock in the way you have, accusing you of piracy ceases to be outlandish because you've depicted content creators as being over reactive and alarmist. Then again, that concept is running on the premise that you don't make money from this and furthermore, don't want money for your content at all, which is precisely why you run ads in your content... wait...

Ultimately this is just another case of an author trying to sap fame out of a hot button topic; not a social commentary, not an expression of opinion, just an attempt at achieving fame and money by means of pandering. Who said that substance and honesty were good things?

The greatest irony of this is that the pro-adblock caricature wears a fedora hat, which implies Luis Lovhaug's recent public relations debacle. The irony was not the misstep of somehow implying that Linkara is the poster child for adblock but rather that Megadrivesonic has also done his own reviews and made money off of them on this very site; they're rambling, meandering, vague, unedited and poorly made with shitty audio equipment and conditions. Scripts exist for a reason, they help add definition, direction and summarization to what you're trying to convey. Editing software also exists for a reason too, that is to remove mumbling, long pauses, mispronunciations, rambling, murmuring, stuttering, background noise, distortion, repetition, readjusting the microphone, et cetera. It's as easy as the audio timeline in Windows Movie Maker. If you don't use Windows then that means your ability to excuse yourself from not sucking is even less merited and available.

I'll say it again; used car salesman.

megadrivesonic responds:

i thing you may be reading to much in a cartoon

[Sonic - A New Enemy]

I suppose that everyone who has ever owned a computer regardless of when it was made, what operating system it runs and what kind of specs it has is a piece of shit since that's your one and only response to anyone that can't watch your craptacular, traced, meandering, stupid ass Flash movie.

No, I can tell you the real reason why your SWF file lags for everyone who watches it; it's caused by your blatant and obvious abuse of Movie Clip symbols, particularly when you copied and pasted them to fill in the background and when you layered on as many filter effects as possible when they're not needed. How stupid do you think your audience is when you blame ALL of their computers for the frame rate lagging behind?

The fact that you don't know what a preloader is and substitute it with just a "play" button is already enough to insult my intelligence but to blame the audience for the fact that you clearly reused the same graphic over and over without ever breaking the container is bullshit. Learn how to properly compress an SWF file you asswipe, motion tweening the same graphic to generate a fakey ass waterfall that looks like shit anyways does nothing but hinder the viewers ability to watch it. It doesn't help that the animation is sub-standard at best and fucking clown shoes at worst.

First and foremost, learn what a preloader is and learn how to use one. This very website hands them out for free under Community; Downloads; Flash Loaders and you now have access to a myriad of FLA files each containing a fully functioning, preprogrammed preloader. No augmentations needed, no additional Action Script necessary, just copy and paste that one frame to the first frame of your "Sonic - A New Enemy" FLA file, albeit you'll have to grab every frame on every layer and drag them all up by a frame, I digress.

You also need to learn how to optimize audio properly, first and foremost, stop using event mode. What you want for animations is stream mode fucktard, event mode is meant for sound effects in games, that's the reason why if you were to rewind and play it the previous play won't stop, it'll keep going as the new play through overlaps it. Since Event mode is Flash's default setting for audio, that leads me to conclude that you don't know how to optimize audio in the slightest, therefore I'll instruct you on how to fix the problem. Select a frame from the layer you have the music stored, go into your properties tab and you'll see a group of tabs next to the word "Sync". The drop down list to the immediate right of the "Sync" label determines how the audio is played, for an audio track for an animation you'll want to select the "Stream" option from this list as it's designed to play the audio and animation together thus not allowing them to breach their, as determined by you, synchronization.

Now I'm going to teach you how to optimize your audio since the stream option causes Flash to impose it's default audio compression features to any audio that's streamed. You'll want to go File; Publish Settings; select the Flash tab and now you have access to determine how Flash will compress your photos and audio upon creating the SWF file for your project. Click the set buttons for Audio Stream and Audio Event, select MP3 from the compression drop down list, select 160 kbps from the bit rate drop down list, select Best from the quality drop down list and deselect the check mark from the "Preprocessing / Convert Stereo to Mono" option. This will allow your audio to be heard at it's full capacity for quality.

You should probably save these settings as a profile so you don't have to repeat the process for each and every new project you start. At the top of the Publish Settings window you'll notice that between the tabs and the window bar that there is a drop down list labeled "Current profile". Next to that you'll see a group of buttons, after you've set your compression settings you'll want to select the plus sign for "Create new profile" and Flash will prompt you to label your new profile. After you've labeled your compression profile you'll want to select the "Import/export profile" button to the immediate left of the the "Create new profile" button. Clicking the "Import/export profile" button will produce a drop down list with two options, among these you'll want to select "Export", then Flash will prompt you to name the new file you're creating. After you're finished creating your new compression profile you can import it by selecting the "Import" option from the "Import/export profile" drop down list and automatically readjust the new project to your preferred settings.
You may also want to optimize the audio settings for the track itself rather than just every track in general, to do this you'll want to select the audio track in question from your Library tab, right click on the track and select properties. From here you apply the same settings as before, deselect "Convert stereo to mono", select MP3 for the compression setting, select 160 kbps for the bit rate settings and select Best for the quality setting.

If "no one wants to hear your complains or your opinions" then why did you ever upload it to a website that caters to exactly that? Because you're a fucking idiot, that's why. Judging from the 2.10 score, the almost perfect 0 review score and your view count only beneath half a thousand, there is absolutely no merit to saying "Just sit back and enjoy it like everyone else" because no one does enjoy this, did enjoy it nor will anyone ever enjoy it in the future you sack of shit.

Oh by the way fucktard, allow me to list of a group of villains from the Sonic franchise that aren't Hedgehogs; Chaos, the Biolizard, Ixis Naugus, Mammoth Mogul, Enerjak, Black Doom, Metal Sonic, Dr. Finitevus the Echidna, Dimitri the Echidna, Snively Kintobor, Kodos Lion, Uma Arachnis, Fiona Fox, Lightning Lynx, Sergeant Simian, Flying Frog, Predator Hawk, Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg, Drago Wolf, Nack the Weasel, Nic the Weasel, Bark the Polar Bear, Bean the Dynamite, Monkey Khan, Bomb, Heavy, Sleet the Wolf, Dingo, Coconuts the Monkey, Scratch, Grounder, Bokkun, Emerl, Dark Oak, Pale Bay Leaf, Black Narcissus, Yellow Zelkova, Red Pine and last but not least, every villain from the Dark Legion. Also, no, Silver was not a villain in Sonic '06, he was an anti-hero. Nazo is an unofficial villain who was eventually scrapped and never put into use to begin with so he's less canon than the comics and over abundance of animated shows. Only about two Hedgehog characters were ever actual villains, Scourge and Shadow. Against the thirty some odd villains I just listed that isn't very many Hedgehogs on the roster that actually matter worth a dick.

The story is bland and offers nothing new or valuable to the table other than a DeviantArt-esque original character who gets killed off within the first five minutes of his appearance because he's that fucking inconsequential to pretty much anything other than a wooden fence and he only serves as an excuse for the author to cum in his pants over Dark Sonic. There was no point, there was no purpose, there was no story, there was no plot, there wasn't a single God damn reason for this to even exist because it is so vapid and empty that it's already almost nonexistent anyway. I don't even get to know the villain's name before he gets killed off, that's how little he actually meant to anything. Oh wait, apparently his name is "Flame", I learned that from the fucking Author Comments... that's just fucking incompetent.

The voice acting in this is so God awful I refuse to believe that there's more than one voice actor to this. Actually, I retract my statement because the voice acting roster is comprised of the author's family members so it's no wonder the voice acting is a rolling ball of shit. Here's a freebie, don't combine your homebrewed voice acting talent with Microsoft Sam and actual audio clips from a television show because that actually made it worse because it lacked consistency. Even at my worst which would be Evil Dead Ejaculation, I never resorted to lifting audio clips from Army of Darkness to supplement the voice acting because I'm not a pair of fucking clown shoes.

Do you even realize how utterly bad this is? When a couple of spam crews can do better than you in every regard and they have, you should seriously consider upping your game because being outdone by the Star Syndicate and Faggot Federation is beyond sad.

Seriously though, could you be any more thin skinned? You know you're pathetic when you resort to ad hominems in saying "In fact, I'd like to see some of your submissions." whenever receiving critique. Name an entire district of office buildings where none of them have windows, I'll await your answer because considering how you treat backgrounds there's no excuse to not just copy and paste the same yellow brick of a Movie Clip Symbol in a vertical by horizontal row over an even bigger grey brick.

By the way, stop uploading clips from this one animation and take down the other two you've already uploaded, what you're doing is asinine. No one wants to see individual clips from an already unwatchable animation especially when nothing's been done to change their overall shit quality.

JamalF11X responds:

LOL nice essay.
Now listen here you little bitch. You're a fucking pussy and people like you are the scum of the Earth. Now most people rate it 3 stars. Only unsatisfied little shits like you give zeros to people just to piss them off. Nowadays not everyone has shitty computers like you. This flash file runs perfectly on my computer and on all the laptops I have.And my flash is made perfectly and runs smoothly on all my laptops. You're gunna just have to accept the fact that your computer sucks, and realize that people who complain that the animation lagged are the ones with shitty computers. Sounds don't overlap in event mode and you're a dumbass, not everyone uses stream mode for music, I have tried it before and its not that great. Event mode works just fine. The plot was designed well, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I know what a preloader is, I just didn't feel like putting one. The waterfall was very smooth and beautiful, you're just another faggot that is hard to please. You want to find buildings with no windows? Here's a suggestion, goto Google and search in images for buildings without windows. I doubt that there wouldn't be any. I think you have a problem.

There's something wrong with you. I uploaded it on Newgrounds simply just for people to watch and because its a flash website, I wouldn't give two shits what others think of my animations.
Why is the rating a 2, its because theres so many little bitches on the internet like you that are hard to impress due to the fact that they continuously compare solo animations to projects designed professionally by anime industries.
As a matter of fact, there are many people that actually enjoy and appreciate my animations, from online, university student groups, friends, animators, children, so you're completely wrong by saying that no one enjoys this. It doesn't lag, only the people that comment and complain that it lags are the ones that own shitty computers. If we banned people like you from rating flash animations to a 0, the rating for this flash would be at least a 3.
There are people that appreciate and love my work, and are impressed by it. And there's always bitchy faggots like you online that complain and try to piss people off, so go fuck yourself.

The reason I made Flame into a hedgehog is because hedgehogs and echidnas are far more interesting than robots and those other animal characters you've mentioned.
It was not to debate whether or not villians in the sonic series are hedgehogs or robots. Stop thinking crooked, bro you're side fucked as hell, and I feel sorry for useless people like you in this world.

But from what I know, you are a little
pussy hiding behind a computer screen trying to act tough and bash other people's animations because you have no life.
Clown shoes! You're a clown bro, and I think you belong to a side fucked clown family. The name Flame the Hedgehog is a professionally designed,
it sounds as if it has been created by Sega.
By the way, I have looked at your submissions, and they're a pile of shit. You can't draw well, which is why you used pixel sprites to cover up your shame. Even when you did draw characters, they are so poorly drawn and they looked like shit that I can wipe my ass with. As a matter of fact, its funny how you think that your pile of shit is better than my flash, while at the same time you are trying to teach me how to animate.

I do take critique from many people online, and that is how I improve my skills. I don't take bullshit advice from useless ignorant pussies like you that just try to show off that your better than others by insulting their animations just to get attention and respect and I don't give a fuck about your opinions. I'll continue to upload what I desire.

By the way, Who the fuck are you to call my family shit, you don't know me.
You are a pussy, and if you actually lived near me and said that to my face,
I would crack your fucking skull you little bitch.

[Looking for a Co-Animator]

I get the strong feeling that whatever sap decides to buddy up with you is gonna end up doing all the work and you're going to take credit for said sap's work. It wouldn't be the first time I'd seen that happen.

TwistedMation responds:

dude wtf man? I'm NOT such a person. Also Animating is the only work i really LOVE doing. Why... tell me WHY should i let others do the work and take all the credit??? I am just looking for someone who got the same interest like me. A person who also animates, A person i can help, a Person who can help me and so on... srsly you are really... how should i say... distrusting? Let me tell you something:
I love doing all the work of my animations, i love every animation (no matter if its funny, sad, with much action or just stupid) cuz it gives me the feeling i'd done something really epic (Even its not even a bit good). Also: If someone buddy up with me, i won't let him even make MUCH work. It should be at least 80% Created by MY Hands and not by other hands or people. I was looking for someone to run a Animating-duo channel on youtube and on Newgrounds. You can't know it but i ALWAYS did my stuff alone, i NEVER even let another Person doing stuff for me. But I (!) was the one who always helped other and made their stuff for them. And srsly... If you're really that distrusting... then please get some help... It was just a nice little idea of me... and now i'm so angry....... rlly... you don't even wanna know what i'm thinking about you right at the moment... Just... just go... srsly....

[Newgrounds Portal: Alive]

This is not a review, this is a vlog made in the vain attempt at making a review.

Making reviews of Flash movies in the same capacity as the Nostolgia Critic or AVGN and then uploading them to Newgrounds is not a bad concept and it's also not a bad use for the Newgrounds player as such a concept would actually give it some legitimate purpose for existing but your execution of said concept was terrible.

I don't want to sit through two minutes of nothing while you watch a Flash movie before you actually start critiquing it, I also don't want to hear you murmur, stutter, stammer and struggle to formulate that opinion into a sentence before I actually get to hear said sentence. Those are things that should have been cut out in post production but I can plainly see that post production was not even a concept to you while filming this video on what I can only guess is a web cam.

If you're going to do this the very least you could do is organize your opinions by writing a script, employ use of editing software to cut out every bit where you fumble one of your lines and show the viewer footage of the content subject to critique. Remember, Windows Movie Maker 2.0 is free and so is Hypercam and yes, it is sad and pathetic that those are the tools I'm suggesting to improve your show with.

[LLUA - Latest track]

I would tell you that this belongs in the audio portal but you clearly already know that seeing as how you have submissions in the audio portal. Since you didn't categorize it correctly it no longer merits honest or fair critique because this isn't where it fucking belongs.

What's worse is that you had to augment the liquid idiocy with that fucktarded MP4 player. You could at least do well enough not to insult my intelligence by learning how Flash works and insert your song into a SWF file before uploading but you had the gall to upload a still frame from MS Paint in Windows Movie Maker. It's not even like you took to animating something in MS paint as an animation challenge, it's one frame, an album cover no less. I could be a solid black screen for all I could care.

Back in the day a song without animation would've gotten deleted so fucking fast half the people bee lining to zero bomb it wouldn't have even gotten the chance to score their blam point. Of course it's gonna pass anyway, most shit does, which is why I'm writing the review to begin with because I know this shit is gonna pass and you're gonna get to read it and all the reviews bashing you are gonna make you wish you never came to this site to begin with because we're a group of mean poopy heads.

Let me ask you something, if you're not going to acknowledge how the system is meant to be used then why should I acknowledge your work and the quality of it? Get your shit in gear, take this down and do it right fucktard.

stevemankle responds:

Dude, Have a wonderful evening ..... Seriously you have made my night, Theres a music video I uploaded for you, Its called violent outbursts of rage, Oh wait, You already seen thats right, Fuck off