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DATE: JULY 23, 2007
[ THEME SONG BY: sorohanro ]
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Good Morning Newgrounds! Welcome to the debut issue of The Tank Tribune! A daily newsletter to keep you up to date on the hip happenings of Newgrounds.com! There's a lot that's been happening on the site since the BRAND NEW REDESIGN! Every user has their own userpage now so we can do projects like this! There has been a lot of traffic on the site and the forums lately! Collections and Series are now a thing so you can see all of Newgrounds history from On The Moon to Video Game Parodies! All hail Newgrounds! All hail our lord and savior Tom Fulp!
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THE LATEST FROM THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF NEWGROUNDS TOM FULP!
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The long awaited redesign officially launched last week! Brand new user pages were introduced which help make The Tank Tribune possible for all of you to read! The Bytesize has made its return to the front page! A-Bot is now alive kicking it with Darnell on the Audio Portal playing the Weekly Top 5! There are now Collections and Series Pages! There have been so many bells and whistles to play with on the site now!
Tom also has a Post-Redesign Notes section so you can share your favorite parts of the redesign! It is a labor of love and dedication to all the creators on here so feedback on it would be grateful. Which if you've found any bugs on the site or something doesn't seem to be working right or you don't understand a certain part of the redesign or can't find something where you thought it was then go to this thread.
Armor Games has named the winners of the Armor Games / Newgrounds Rock Out Contest! You can check out all of the submissions on the BRAND NEW Rock Out Collection Page! Congratulations to the winners and runner-ups!
Stamper is highlighting an art contest going on in the Art Forum. The High-def Sprite Contest!. If you haven't entered yet now would be the time, the deadline is the 25th of this week, that's just TWO DAYS AWAY! If you have entered, now would be the time to make your finishing touches and post it!
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Last Week's Daily Features from the Portal as posted through P-Bot's Postings are listed here. We start the week on the last day of Newgrounds before the redesign with Transmigration by monkokio and TheJermz nabbing a Daily Feature. On the day of the launch of the redesign sees BoMToons picking up his second Daily Feature for BoM Beat Battle! You may remember him working with Mockery and poxpower on Ivan Drago!. We have a collab headed by jmtb02 winning the Daily Feature entitled The NG Redesign Collab. Another collaboration picks up the Daily Feature, this time being led by Tom Fulp himself! Blamformers! brings over thirty artists together who made a bunch of movies about robots in disguise. Thyvold picks up his first Daily Feature for the beginning of a new series entitled TRACER episode 1. Foolscap picked up Daily 3rd Places for The Orphan Part 1 and Part 2. The Orphan: Part 3 nabs him his first Daily Feature! To close off the week we have The PS3 Song! winning diamond-armada his first Daily Feature! Congratulations to all of the winners!
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[official] High-def Sprite Contest!
DEADLINE: July 25
DEADLINE: August 15
DEADLINE: September 22
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Krinkels website was down for a while. Don't worry though he got it back up again. Hopefully he will have something to share with us on the first Madness Day celebration!
The-Super-Flash-Bros are off to Comic-Con! They are the creators of Detective Grimoire and the Another Day series! If you're going to be a Comic-Con then say hi!
JAZZA has announced the winners of his PALADIN DVD Contest! Also Paladin 5 Part 1 and Part 2 are now up! Go watch them!
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Krinkels first entry in the Madness Combat series is turning five years old this week! A man dancing to the Chicken Dance and beating up everyone around him! Truly a classic that would flesh out into a full on narrative. To think that the first day to celebrate Madness is just around the corner!
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STORIES
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RacistBassist is asking the important questions today. Such as is it gay if you have sex with your own clone. The arguments have been made in the past, but he wants to know more from the Newgrounds community!
puddinN64 is looking to improve his whistle rank. Offer him some helpful tips to do so. Rage's gift to you: Abusive reviews has already been posted as one of the ways.
Heres something that makes no sense
wegra2007 tried out the news post system with a post that makes no sense. He talks about the redesign with it!
silverhammer522 says if you tell him your dreams he can tell you what will happen to you next!
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QUOTES OF THE WEEK
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This is right up there with that flash portal Tom rolled out last week.
Its also way too loose and slutty. Gonna have to send it to boarding school!
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A LOOK BACK AT THREADS OF THE PAST
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Created by Shrapnel in 2001, this was a thread that although only lasted around a year, it certainly gathered quite the collection of information, spam, trolling, and all around insanity. The Wi/Ht? level up! Lounge created in 2002 would surpass this thread, standing at the time of this article at page 1,759.
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Here are this week's Users of the Week! There was an error in the system so days 17, 18, and 19 were skipped and two people were chosen for the 20th. Congratulations to our Users of the Week!
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USERS OF THE DAY ON THIS DATE
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2006: Gun-Mage
2005: Black-Power
2004: SVicious
2003: 37OHSSV-0773H
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TRIBUNE CONSOLE
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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. Here are a few games to play to unwind on this Monday Morning.
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I hope you have all enjoyed this debut issue of The Tank Tribune! With the redesign here on Newgrounds the creative possibilities seem endless! Who knows where the site will go in the future and the creative talents that will come forth? All I know is that I am ready to share the news of their endeavors with all of you!
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ChronoNomad
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