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NO. 016 - Everything, By Everyone

Posted by TheTankTribune - October 11th, 2020


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TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES AND YOUR SUPPORT!

@TheGamechanger




LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Morning Newgrounds! It has been a hell of a week I won't lie. Entries in the Among Us Jam have exploded on the Portal and have been picking up awards all week. There are some new musicians featured in the Sunday Phonograph this morning. The Ludum Dare 47 happened and there are a lot of games to play with one featured in this morning's Sunday Console. Halloween has hit Newgrounds with the Spooktacular, with a Voice Acting Contest, members talking about UFO sightings and encounters, and The Newgrounds Podcast getting ready for the event. This is the deadline for the Final Round of The Newgrounds Deathmatch. Everybody was doing Everything this past week. Grab a coffee and some snacks because this week was huge. Here's what happened on Newgrounds last week.


The-Great-One




QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“I'm sleepy”

@Mikoma




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THEME SONG BY @sorohanro


FEATURED COMPOSERS

@SuperSonicDash @merlin @CzySzy @sergy147 @JohnMontoya @EuphoraSound @vocaloutburst @NoStereo @Lo23co7mcpe @1f1n1ty @Vista-Sound13 @Elationmusic @Jernemies @OcularNebula @heyopc @BoMToons @alphashad0w @mdfrankaudio




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THE LATEST FROM THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF NEWGROUNDS @TomFulp


Best of September 2020!

The month of September came to an end and the Best of the Month has been released! Final Fantasy 7 Collab took home 2nd Place for the month. Newgrounds Arcade took home 4th Place. Below are the winners of Best Movie and Best Game of the month. Congratulations to all of the winners!


BEST MOVIE



BEST GAME



Ludum Dare 47

The 47th Ludum Dare has come and gone with the theme Stuck in a Loop. One of the games from this event is featured in this morning's Sunday Console.


Voice Acting Contest 13

@Peregrinus is hosting the 13th Voice Acting Contest. It is the Spooktober Edition, the theme is Horror. Submissions must require at least 2 voices and must be between 2-6 minutes long. There are other rules in the contest information. The judges are @Peregrinus@NekoMika, and @Saminat.




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Last Week's Daily Features from the Portal as posted through P-Bot's Postings are listed here. @eok97 picks up a Daily Feature for episode two of The Electric Wizard. The first episode of The Electric Wizard won a Daily 5th Place award back in June. @FlamingPiickle took home they're first Daily Feature and Weekly 5th Place with they're entry in the Among Us Jam, Among Us the Musical. @SolarFoxProductions picks up his sixth Daily Feature and third Weekly 3rd Place awards with Perfect Nazo Vs Chaos Nazo. @JaceyKing is new to Newgrounds and picked up a Daily Feature with their first movie on Newgrounds, another entry in the Among Us Jam with The Purple Impostor - Transformation Short. @Potatoman known for his works on mutliple collabs here on Newgrounds picks up his seventh Daily Feature with The Purple Impostor alongside @CuseNg, @JazzmastaJ, @LM-Santos, @njimenez11, @ZackMineo, and @HoundKidz, with music by @Ockeroid. @GeoExe snags an eleventh Daily Feature with episode seven of his series Gwain Saga. @ThePrimatePunk picks up his twelfth Daily Feature by closing out the week with Bugs Bunny is Disgusting.





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FINAL ROUND

Today is the deadline for submissions during the final round of The 2020 Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch. It has been quite the competition, with the four finalists battling it out for the crown. Here are your four finalists!


@Phonometrologist

He has been a musician here on Newgrounds since 2013. His music has been featured in the NG's 20th Anniversary Collab. He has competed in the 2014 Deathmatch, the 2015 Deathmatch, and the 2017 Deathmatch.


@AlbeGian

He has been a musician here on Newgrounds since 2016. His music has been featured in the Christmas ADVENTure 2019. He has competed in the 2018 Deathmatch.


@PredatorMusic

He has been a musician here since 2016. He has competed in the 2017 Deathmatch.


@Mackievellian

He has been a musician here since 2009, but only has music from this year. This is his first Deathmatch.




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These are the people who make Newgrounds possible. Thank you!


SUPPORTER OF THE WEEK

@TheNewgroundsPodcast


The official podcast of Newgrounds is our Supporter of the Week. Although new on the Supporter scene as a group account, each host is a Supporter of Newgrounds. @GoodL@willKMR@PsychoGoldfish, and @Xinxinix not only are Supporters, their podcast features the happenings of Newgrounds and puts a spotlight on the artists, animators, developers, and regulars of Newgrounds. They truly support the site in so many ways and have fun while doing it!




SUPPORTER PARTY

A super fun secret forum, exclusively for NG Supporters


Welcome to the supporter forum!

A lot of users become supporters, but don't drop by the Party. Stop in and introduce yourself!


Why Did You Support Newgrounds

A thread made early in the Supporter launch. What made you want to purchase a Supporter upgrade and give your hard earned money to Newgrounds?




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The Half-Life Collab

3RD DEADLINE: September 29

FINAL DEADLINE: November 8


Voice Acting Contest 13

DEADLINE: October 25


Halloween Writing Contest 2020

DEADLINE: October 31


Spooktacular

DEADLINE: October 31


Bubsy Reanimated Bob-Collab (OPEN)

DEADLINE: November 24




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LATEST INTERVIEW: Jabun

One of the hardest working on musicians on Newgrounds. Guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer extraordinaire!




ARTIST NEWS


NG Tanktober : Info thread

@WonderSchwifty is hosting the Newgrounds Tanktober in the Art Forum with a prompt list. There are 31 prompts for submissions. I reached out to WonderSchwifty for more information.


So the idea behind Tanktober, was when I just started school and the Inktober controversy was very fresh.

At the time, I had not done the Inktober challenge for two years due to having endless ammounts of assignments to do and when I found about this contreversy and everyone making thier own version due to a lot of gatekeeping, I decided to make an NG/Inspired one.


I really wanted to contribute to the community since I haven't been able to animate or do a lot this summer and making an newgrounds inspired inktober was really fun while being tired at the same time (timezones and such, I wake up early than everyone else).


So I told Tom first about the idea, started it two/three weeks before and then talked with a few members of the NGP Crew who both were very supportive of this idea. Then I decided to do this playlist were a bunch of classics, both old, new and creepy in general, watch them, write down the prompts in one night, talk to the NGP Crew, send it back to Tom and posted the info thread, pinned in the art fourms, thanks to asking Staff and some help of it under the radar.


Some where asking due to being interested and I explain while mean while doing the prompts and projects in the background.


WonderSchwifty also wanted to give thanks to @Xinxinix@GoodL@willKMR, and @TomFulp for their support on this event.


At first, I wanted it to be focused mainly on NG charathers and such but after the reconsideration, I was done to go. This is my first contributed event I have ever done on NG since a lot of members have done jams and collabs, me being skeptical of "don't y'all have school or collage etc, why are you like busy on this," and being a bit toxic in general. Which I was wrong of and apologized. So in order to cheer up, I did this. Plus drawing for a month makes me improve alot and I think it also helps the communtiy in general even tho it was psoted under peoples radar. I just hope alot of people would see this and not let it slip.


Christmas Demolition REANIMATED, open!

@GrayAnimations has been working on a Reanimation of the song Christmas Demolition from the movie Zanta Claws III. He has opened this reanimation to other animators to join in. Send him a message for details on how to join in.



Clean Up Artist open for work!

@ellsketchlr is a clean up artist looking for work. She is experienced with Toon Boom Harmony. She can get things done within at least one day. Below is a demo reel of her clean up work.



Tunneling Underground

@BomToons updates us to what he's been up to. He's been working on music, which you can hear one of his songs in this morning's Sunday Phonograph. He's been working on artwork, axe throwing, and Castle Crashing the Beard HD.


Posting A New Submission (Nearly) Everyday - What I've Learned

@AnimatriumStudio is sharing his story of what he learned posting a submission to Newgrounds just about every day. He shared his results of testing the Portal. From how many views he gets at a certain time, with the most coming in at midnight. Sometimes his submission will pass through judgement instantly, other times it will sit Under Judgement for quite a long time. He also implores that you watch his series Ascentrium. The Tank Tribune has provided a playlist with the first 10 episodes of this series that you can watch here!


Gonna level with ya'.

@9Hammer has been hard at work on his animation series, Beyond the Fog and Chaotic Heart. Details on Episode 3 of Chaotic Heart are out, with the title Loose Ends.


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Adorned in Chains

9Hammer




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Living In The Future was one of the many songs by @akdonovan, a.k.a. Akira The Don that was animated. It shows not only the past of the Internet, it shows where the future is going and to be fair they got it right.




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THE MEMBERS OF NEWGROUNDS


NEWS USERS


@GreenLinzerd has recently joined us. He has made an art thread to say hello. Go and greet him and check out his artwork!


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@mas-ter has joined us. They like watching movies. They are also an animator and looking to get into animation here on the site. Say hello to them in the Intro Thread!


@mdfrankaudio has joined us. He's a video game composer who lurked on the site for years and recently signed up to compete in the SNES Music Contest. His music is featured in this morning's Sunday Phonograph! Say hello to him in the Intro Thread and check out his music!


@alphashad0w joined us. She's an artist and musician here on Newgrounds. Say hello to her in the Intro Thread and check out her works!



STORIES


Interview with Lizzardis

@Lizzardis was invited to sit down during an episode of Somber Pensive to talk about his life, time in The Newgrounds Police Department, The Elite Guard Barracks, and his experiences on Newgrounds.


BBS Awards 2020 : Community Categories

@Little-Rena is hosting the BBS Awards again this year. This year she is taking votes on new categories. To avoid duplication the results of the BBS Awards 2019 have been posted. Here are the categories as they stand now.


  • USER OF THE YEAR
  • FUNNIEST USER
  • BIGGEST ATTENTION WHORE
  • I MISS YEW
  • THE NEWCOMER AWARD
  • NEVER LOGS OFF
  • MOST HELPFUL
  • PHOTOSHOP MASTER
  • BEST MODERATOR
  • WORST MODERATOR
  • THE STOP POSTING AWARD
  • BEST POSTER
  • WORST POSTER
  • GREATEST EVENT
  • BEST THREAD
  • REACTIONARY GIFer
  • ODDBALL


Twenty Year Anniversary on NG

@tormented-soul celebrates his 20th year here on Newgrounds! Congratulations to him and welcome back to the site! Here's to 20 more years!


The Lion Clown

@MichaelJason1 wanted to see a story about a lion clown? @thomasBaldwin was up to the challenge. You can read the story in the writing forum today.


15 years on Newgrounds... what happened?

@squeakytoad is celebrating 15 years on Newgrounds. He recounts his tales of animation and growth in the Newgrounds community. Send him your congratulations.


The Phenomenon and UFO Technology

@TomFulp is talking about a new documentary out called The Phenomenon. It is a documentary talking about UFOs. There is discussion about encounters and documentation of UFOs.


The NG Clash of Avatars

@TheGamechanger has started a game on the General Forum called Clash of the Avatars. It is similar to his NG User Icon Battle. Here are the rules for the Battle Zone. Once a winner triumphs, the next clash will begin immediately and the winner of the clash will be the Final Boss of the next clash. Get out there and do battle!




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A LOOK BACK AT THREADS OF THE PAST


Funny thread title pairs.

This was a fun thread when it was around. The basic gist of it was this. Sometimes two threads on different subjects would seem to match up side by side on the forums.


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TODAY'S HAIKU

Rain falls with purpose

Upon the dry, thirsty earth;

A calming rhythm

@ChronoNomad




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RECIPES FROM THE NEWGROUNDS COMMUNITY


Welcome back to the Newgrounds Kitchen! Today we have something a bit spicier. Some badass fajitas from @AcidX. There was no proper recipe so it has been put into a recipe format to the best of the Tribune's ability.


AcidX's Chicken Fajitas


Here is some chicken fajitas I done in a pan.


INGREDIENTS

  • Shredded chicken
  • Chili powder
  • Black pepper
  • Salt flakes
  • Smoked paprika
  • Ground cumin
  • Oregano
  • Smoke seasoning (liquid smoke optional)
  • Green and Red bell peppers
  • Onions
  • Oil
  • Soy sauce
  • Honey
  • Lime juice


STEP 1: Coat your peppers and chicken with oil and a dash of soy sauce.


STEP 2: Apply the chili powder, black pepper, salt flakes, smoked paprika, salt flakes, ground cumin, oregano, and smoke seasoning.


STEP 3: Cook them in an oven on medium-high heat. Douse with honey halfway through.


STEP 4: In a separate pan add your onions with salt and sweat them until they are sautéed.


STEP 5: Once your chicken and peppers are done add them to the pan and splash them with lime juice at the end.


STEP 6: Serve with salsa, in a wrap. Hot sauce optional.




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Everyday Newgrounds chooses a User of the Day at random! Here are the selected people of the two last weeks! Congratulations to all of you! On October 11, 2019 there was a glitch in the Matrix and no User of the Day was chosen.


@the-pink-cat

@chairbo

@mdfrankaudio

@NekoNeige

@JackPumpkinhead

@DevilRat

@Chibsu


USERS OF THE DAY ON THIS DATE

2007: @crazyguy473

2009: @Mr-No-Name

2010: @Stonehell

2019: No User




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The week can get people down sometimes. With all of the hustle and bustle and action packed drama that entails our lives, sometimes it's nice to just kickback and relax.





This has been quite a week and it has taken its toll on me physically and mentally. My day job last week did a number on my body. I have a new crew though so things should be getting easier as days go by. Since I found a way to streamline the Tribune, writing it has become easier throughout the week. What used to take me two to three hours to put together now only takes me one hour. If you liked the tagline at the top of the paper don't forget to share yours in the Tagline Thread. I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday morning! I'll be at work today, reading your comments.




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Comments

thanks for featuring my composition :)

@thomasBaldwin’s The Lion Clown story is riveting.

You should do a story on the big film festival! https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1458024

Gasp! What a pleasant surprise. Thanks for the feature!

Thank you so much for the feature! Such an amazing warm welcome. NG rocks!

I just wanna say @WonderSchwifty is the best!
I've watched her continuously grow from the very first second she showed up here. She's been nothing but awesome.

Wow, of all the taglines that could've been chosen mine was picked. I guess having a sense of humor and a love of puns can get you far!

Fantastic issue as always! Can't wait to see what comes of that Zanta Claws reanim!

Wow thanks so much for the feature :)

Thanks for the shout-out and awesome lil periodical!

Btw, does this also come as email blast, or just here?

@willKMR Just here. Hit the Follow button to stay up to date.

Thank you for giving NGP Supporter of the Week!! We really appreciate it ^^

The first thing I do before reading the Tank Tribune is turn on the Sunday Phonograph. There's nothing quite like having the radio on when you're reading the newspaper~

Shout out to Joel G for winning $250 for 3rd place in September's Best for his latest addition to the experimental ENA animation shorts. Joel also recently released a merchandise line, if anyone's interested. You can order his clothes straight off Amazon ^^

Might take the time to browse the forums and get into contact with NG'ers again. There's so much to deduce from the forums, that I want to try to get more involved~

I really appreciate you! Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication. :)

Great issue for this week, and thank you so much for the mention on the NGADM!!

Awesome

@Xinxinix You might enjoy the Wi/Ht? level up! Lounge. It started off as a thread just to boast about any achievement involving numbers, and although it still serves that purpose, it is a thread for the helpful members of Newgrounds to talk. I think you'll like it.

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/33159

@abbas99195 Last week was insane and I'm sure I missed some stuff. Shoot me a PM.

Thanks for the feature! Wasn't expecting it lol

Thanks for featuring my sleepiness as the Quote of the Week! :)

Thanks for the shout out!

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