Score: 10

"Well now."

submission: Metal Gear Funnies

date: July 8, 2008

That was simply delightful.

Score: 10

"I'm not sure how,"

submission: Fat Badger's: Apocalypto

date: July 3, 2007

But this was even less coherent than any of the other flashes I've seen from you. It's also awesome. Just saying.

Score: 8

"Good in its simplicity"

submission: Attractors Orbit

date: April 10, 2007

Despite it being a bit limited. Add in a toolbar that allows you to add in more circles or mirrors, change the attractiveness or repulsion of the objects and you would have the sort of thing that I mess around with for hours.

Score: 10

"Kind of reminds me"

submission: Guide to being review mod

date: February 1, 2007

Of all the M-Bot messages I get, telling me my reviews have been deleted because I told a popular author that his flash was terrible, or just for no real reason at all.

And yet KW4571CK$13KAA8VS remains able to tell every flash authr that ever makes anything how their flash was "pretty good" and that he "thought it could use some improvement in a few areas," but that "overall he liked it."

Score: 10

"You know, I liked this"

submission: Blackhead

date: December 28, 2006

But I'm going to give you an overall score of 0-2 because YOU USED THE N WORD OH GOD.

But you know, besides that it was a fine peice of animation.

Score: 10

"Surpasses the original"

submission: =Phoenix Wright Tribute=

date: December 6, 2006

Due to the presence of actual animation and the fact that it's actually funny.

Score: 10

"Absolutely stunning."

submission: -LSD-DMT-

date: October 26, 2006

LSD is a strange thing in that I never figured it would be possible to even come close to explaining what it's like without having to actually be on it at the time, and even in that case it would make no sense to an outside observer. Somehow you've managed to overcome this and create a work of art that amazingly captures both the visual and audio effects of it at once. Without a firsthand experience I doubt it could be possible to understand just how much work must have gone into this, and how carefully you planned everything out to recreate the experience.

The animation itsself is astounding. The fast paced nature of it creates the frantic mood perfectly, and all the subtle color changes, camera angles, and visual effects are done with amazing skill and precision. I doubt I'll ever be able to witness a better representation of the visual effects of LSD, and you must have done a lot to have enough experience to take note of the things you were seeing and then recreate them the way you did. The common response to people asking what things look like is generally some form of the "It's like things are morphing around, but really they're not," and then giving up and telling them they'll never know until they experience it for themselves. This is close enough that you might as well consider it an educational video on the visual effects of it.

The same goes for the audio. Altered voices that have slight static sounds to them, as well as the quickly changing speed and pitch to make it reminiscent of Lorenzini from 12 Oz Mouse. The overall "far away" sound of the narrator, even though he's talking and it's from his perspective. The high pitched noise in the background. All the unidentifiable background noise. Everything is exactly the way it should be, and the amount of attention to detail is something that will probably go unappreciated, but is certainly something to marvel.

The main point of the Flash, though, is the style in which it's done. The narrator speaks in a delusional poetic way, not bound by logic. More of a primitive state of mind where whatever thoughts that rapidly spring to mind are acted out. Cutting off his own hand because some flawed perception of it causes him to classify it as something evil; something that needs to be disposed of. Brief flashes of unrecognizable things, the room shifting form around him, an almost positive view of his self destruction. Even remarking that the watermelons that are ripping off his eyelids is a great feeling, and ignoring his eyes being catupulted from his head because he still has the mental image of the room around him, as he escapes into his own separate reality. This is truly a work of art, regardless of a subject matter that most people would deem as being questionable. A man's descent into a masochistic insanity powered by raw, unfiltered imagination manifesting itsself into a tangible form.

It's sort of like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as well. Deciding if it's supposed to be viewed as horror or a positive thing is hard to decide, and the question is certainly there. An escape from a dull, rational world into a frantic, Kafkaesque one filled with uncertainty and disregard for morality or anything held sacred. I must say that this had a great effect on me, and certainly deserves a high spot in my favorites list.

Score: 10

"Amazing mantrain action"

submission: Gay Tankmen

date: August 21, 2006

Clearly the best of the Tankmen parodies so far, rivaling even Stamper's.

Score: 10

"An epic masterpiece"

submission: Alliance Seizure Collab

date: June 5, 2006

Those epileptics don't know what they're missing.

Score: 7

"Not bad."

submission: EXTREME Solo

date: May 31, 2006

I've actually watched this same solo countless times on YouTube in some futile attempt of figuring out what Herman Li is doing. Unfortunately this stops me from rating this too high, since what he's actually doing is quite different from what you animated here. Regardless of a lack of accuracy, it's still a great step up from the generic guitar playing animation of keeping the left hand in one chord position and strumming while all sorts of notes are playing.