Psychopath's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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.

[Another Sequel]

What's the name of the end song?

[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.

[Damn it flash]

Looks like someone needs to stop using the Ink option whenever they use pencil tool.

[Skype call Adventures]

No, I have yet to see a submission with less effort than this so you were lying to Keisok when you said "Also I saw alot of animation around with way less effort put in so I thought screw it ill upload it." HereWiiGoAgain at the very least has a play button in most of his latest submissions. Even if that weren't the case that's still retarded fucking logic, not only are you just trying to use the Appeal to Common Practice fallacy to sweep away the lack of effort but you're also suggesting that 'first submission' grants you immediate immunity to critique. No it doesn't, especially when it's your only submission because you can't expect me to believe a claim that you've improved to any degree whatsoever when there are no other submissions with which we can use as a measuring stick to see how much you've improved if you even have at all.

Not only that but the submission's current status is not set in stone; there's this thing called file swapping you can use to exchange a flawed or outdated version of a SWF file out with an improved version so it's not like you can't fix any of the issues with the submission either.

With that, I'll leave you with one piece of advice; get a preloader; nobody likes a submission that autoplays and forces me to listen to it before I've decided that I wanted to hear it. It's obnoxious, stupid and fuck you for not having one.

[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

[Sniper....]

*Middle finger*

If you're going to use the Newgrounds player at least make it not suck; 24 seconds at 360p with no sound and just to complete the raw mediocre sundae, there's the watermark from the conversion software you used as the cherry on top.

The entire point and purpose of this player is defeated when the conversion from SWF to MP4 becomes a step down in quality, almost as if you just want to suck up to Tom Fulp's latest venture into the fucking forest because I refuse to believe it's just laziness considering the trail-and-error pain in the ass measures you probably had to go through just to make the distance in converting this from an SWF to a MP4 file.

Why did anyone think this was a good idea again?

[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

[Time to Madness Part02]

He should go in the elevator.