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[PMP Blog 2]

A bit of potential drowned in pretentiousness

Just for the fun of it, I watched through this whole thing counting the number times you guys repeated yourselves needlessly. The grand total came to 31 times. 31 times!!!!! That would be president Bush making a speech and repeating every sentence and point twice ... oh wait, that actually happened. On a similar note you guys used other filler words such as 'like', 'uh', and 'yeah' a total of 44 times for a grand total of 75 useless filler phrases. In other words about half this blog was Bull Shit.

Right, so now now with cards on the table hard enough to bonce off and slit some one's throat let's get down to the juicy criticism shall we. Now I was about to criticize the animation or perhaps lack-there-of but on reflection an animated blog doesn't necessarily need much animation, and there are plenty of other more poorly animated blogs on Newgrounds and some of are actually genuinely funny. What a blog does need though is humor and this is where you two seem to have missed the mark.

Lets make one thing clear, inside jokes are only funny to the people you know personally, and as a rule of thumb you should never use them in a public blog or any form of media for that matter. I found this flash on the portal under the top 50 of all time and I'm still somewhat bewildered as to how it got there, but the fact that it's on the portal would suggest it's meant to be viewed by all, and yet most of the jokes were inside jokes that will only be funny to you two and your closest friends. It completely isolates everyone else and will not earn you any fans. Sure you could try explaining the joke like you did with that pun thing but it still won't be funny cause you didn't tell it right in the first place.

It may just because I work as an audio tech, but I found the recording quality to be abysmal. The audio just needs alot of touch up. I can tell you guys are using a cheap radio shack quality mic without a preamp, and while that's forgivable you could at least be consistent with the way you talk. Half the time your yelling into the mic and the other half you talking to a wall causing the volume to waiver so much I'd swear you goal is to blow out our ear drums. It's like you guys are mad at us or something. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything to offend you two, except maybe this review, but it was written after the fact so point null and void. A little touch up on the audio would have gone a long way.

It's not just the above issues either the bulk of the flash is just announcements and pleads for comments, which all and all amount to the creators (to use a clique term) 'whoring' out their comic. It does have a some things going for it though, there was some pretty cleaver sarcasm buried in there that would have made a good flash better, but as it stands just make a bad flash pretentious. The two creators seemed to be getting a kick out the whole thing, in fact a considerable amount of time was spent just listening to them laugh. In fact all and all this flash blog seems more like something made for the creators and not the viewer.

I suppose I feel more obliged to go all out on the criticism since this flash had a very high score at time of reviewing, but in truth it's not that bad in comparison to alot of the other turds that pop onto the portal 50 at a time, but when you compare it to the shinning gems that normal populate the top 50 the little pebble that is PMP just doesn't stack up. There certainly is plenty of room for improvement, as well as better audio tuning, it would help to actually plan out what your going to say so you don't interrupt each other or spend as much using filler phrases that make the whole thing very boring, and who knows maybe you could even crack a few jokes that the rest of us will find funny.

Klimdeeni responds:

wow.
we had only one inside joke in the whole thing and that was your focus?
if there were any other "inside jokes" they were refrences to the first blog.

as for the auido, yeah it's crap. that's what happens when you have a shitty quality microphone and no money to buy a better one. you work with what you got

and as for not being funny and people not getting it, you might want to tell all the other hundreds of people who found it funny and keep begging for more to come out.

I know you're just being a critic and only going off of this one (not looking at blog 1) and i know the quality isn't perfect, but lighten up. it's just a movie ;)

[Tetris Unleashed 3]

That was extreme

Never know tetris could be so hardcore. I liked it. I think I saw something like this this on the portal awhile ago, may have even been this series. Anyways, cool flash, good stuff.

Jimtopia responds:

Could have been, there are two other parts. Thx for reviewing.

[SRM's Red Ring of Death]

Well that was random

Random and hilarious, seriously keep it up, I'm loving these things.

Battosai810 responds:

glad you liked it!
i plan to keep makin em, and i've already got a ton already on NG :)
thanks!

[A Message]

I hear you but...

Text animation is boring, given this was pretty good text animation. That still does not change the fact that text animation just is and always will be boring. I get the message you trying to put across, I just think it would be better if it involved less reading.

DrClay responds:

it was suppost to be a quick project.
but you do make a good point.
sorry bout that.

[Prelude 12/21]

Smooth and Cool

Ok Here is what you did well: The animation was very smooth and the song was ausome. The two went together really well. The words though were completely irrelivant and kinda ruined it. Good work though.

RobertTerwilliger responds:

I just did the words the words because i needed to do something other than xplosions. thanx.

[Random Comic - episode 8]

Random is right

You keep pumping these out so fast, and there really good so thank you putting so much time and effort into appesing the NG viewers. As for the comic, it certainly was random, predictable, and very funny, I like the random tangents keep it going with those theyare really funny. Overal great job once agein and keep up the good work.

jonwash responds:

Thanks a lot.
I like to keep to a weekly schedule so you all know when to look for new ones ;)

[All NG Fads Die!!! 5!!!]

DAMN

You know, it's kinda satisfying watching all those classic NG characters we all love get their asses kicked. Nice work on the animation, this is possibly one of the best collabs I've seen on NG. Great Job

Radioactive24 responds:

That's saying something, because there are a lot of collabs on here.

- Radioactive24

["Emoticonisation" Collab]

Very cool

This is definately one of the better collabs on NG. The opening was particularly good. Still they were all cool. In fact I can't really think of any that wern't very good, so Kudos all around. ;)

stoners-lunchbox responds:

Ta. I'm sure all the authors who worked on this think the same!

[Chocobo Mis-Hap]

Idea!!!

Regradless of rather or not this passes judgemnet, you should remake it as Chocobo rave, with the same music and strobes, but with a bunch of chocobos and mages just jumping around and doing weird shit. Well you get the idea.

Zachary responds:

thanks, mabey i will:D

[SRM and da cousins]

WHERE'S MY NET FLICKS!!!

This was great. It reminds me of the flash email, because it's so random. Great work with the fash pace hummor, I cracked up. Only thing that got to me is the por quality of the drawings though, it's ok on the characters cause it makes it funny, but the background were pretty bad. Also the animation wasn't very smooth, but still sufficent. I really do like the style. Great work, absolutely hallarious, keep it up.

Battosai810 responds:

Art has been the one thing i've been trying to improve on since this flash. Watch some of my newer submissions (like SRM and the Janitors or the SRM Holiday Extravagornza) for nicer visuals and the same kind of humor.