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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - 2 weeks ago


POP QUIZ

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE KEYBOARD SHORTCUT


I am a big fan of CTRL+SHIFT+T, which re-opens a tab you may have just closed.


Can be from any program or software or operating system. No ctrl+z cucks in the replies please.


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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - 1 month ago


In 2023 I had visitors, friends, and many people I love visit my home. Many of them drew on whiteboard I have. I will wipe it clean today, so here is a pic for myself and others of where it ended up by the end of 2023.


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Almost March, but cheers to 2024 and I look forward to having people visit me 🤗

Need fresh doodles now!


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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - February 7th, 2024


Canabalt, Classic


Through the second half of January, I’ve chipped away at doing a port of classic Flash game CANABALT into HTML5, via HaxeFlixel.


You can play the updated version here: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/510303


I’ve also been given permission to release the full source code alongside it, which you can find on my Github: https://github.com/ninjamuffin99/canabalt-hf


It has also been updated to work on mobile devices, so tell me if your Samsung Galaxy S3 can hit double digit FPS.


@adamatomic gave me the original Actionscript 3 source code, and I tried to be very faithful when porting, both for gameplay purposes, and also I think how code is written is also important. Canabalt was made with Flixel, the ancestor to HaxeFlixel, so the porting process was generally seamless, and the resulting code is actually very close to what Adam wrote nearly 15 years ago.


There are some cute things I got to indulge in as it being a side project to my day job (friday nite funking…), and along with that, I got to see something through until the end/release, which has been a muscle that hasn’t been exercised in a while. FNF is a project which at times can feel like seeing something through until the end is discouraged, where endless polish and making things perfect can feel like it supersedes the need to realistically set deadlines and release something. Of course FNF is a much more complicated project than this port was (I made most of it in a few days, over the weekend I was at MAGFEST!), but I think despite that it was still very refreshing to see something through from the first line of code, until it’s in the hands of the public, on my own terms! And no one even noticed when we missed our deadline (Pixel Day!) lol !


Enjoy getting highscores on the new Newgrounds API enabled leaderboards 🤤

It was very fun to work on this, and I'm very glad to have a hand in preserving not just flash game history... but VIDEO GAME HISTORY, and being able to put the code out there for the world to see!


Back to the funkin offices now!


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(also you can support DannyB and buy the music on bandcamp! reddit today I learned! https://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/album/canabalt-soundtrack-ringtones-pack-w-bonus-fathom-megamix)


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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - January 19th, 2024


if ur at magfest gimme a shout and lets chill and smoke omg i will be there in 2hrs as of writing until sunday!


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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - January 8th, 2024


Hello there, I am a Toronto citizen, and I am a working adult. So, I drink coffee. It wasn’t always like that however. First… I didn’t always live here! And second, and more importantly, I only started drinking coffee about this time a year ago! I got myself a small French press for myself for Christmas, and a cheapo coffee grinder. Then I started poking around to different coffee shops in the area to get myself out of the house, especially earlier in the day!


Carbonic Coffee

37 Baldwin St, Toronto, ON M5T 1L1 


I’ll start with this one because it was THE first coffee shop that I ever went to in Toronto. I was on my way home and I was hunting around for a place to get some good god honest BEANS. Sadly I haven’t been back there since then, I need to change that! They had a deal at the time where if you get a bag of beans, they’ll make any coffee for you, I got a latte or something, and they made nice cute latte art of a seahorse! But I do recommend, super nice and lovely, the beans were damn good, and you can’t beat a good deal after buying beans! 


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The beans I got were from The Angry Roaster Coffee Co. https://theangryroaster.com/ I got the Nicaragua ones, and they were pretty damn good.


The Grind Cafe

570 St Clair Ave W, Toronto, ON M6C 1A5


Go here and get a breakfast bacon sandwich damn it’s good. Very nice and lovely couple working there, I believe they told me they get their baked goods (breads/croissants/pasteries) from some local bakery… which I will have to hunt down…. But the breakfast sandwich is fuckin damn delicious and makes me happy to think about. The coffee is good too of course, I’ve been Starbucks cucked and be drinkin up on them caramel macchiato shiiiit… but the one here they do it right! 


Lait Night

81 Huron St Main Floor, Toronto, ON M5T 2A8


This one I don’t particularly recommend for the menu or coffee, but due to the fact that it’s downtown chinatown Spadina area, and it’s open until around 3-4AM-ish. It is very perfect for tossing a laptop in a backpack and getting out of the basement apartment at 1AM to sip on something warm, and sit with usually students working or studying. 


Recommended time to go is after midnight.


Rooms Coffee

135 Ossington Ave, Toronto, ON M6J 2Z6


chiaotzu coffee shop. 

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Go here and get the TOKYO FOG latte. I played chess against @snackers here and i beat his ass so bad his voice got busted for 3 days straight.


Boxcar Social Laneway

End of alleyway, 298 Markham St, Toronto, ON M6J 


Saving best for last… this is one of my fav places, and I save it for special occasions. Hidden away in a small alleyway, in an unassuming… chunk looking building… the inside is a bit of a classic beautiful cozy wood styled coffee shop. Often they play delicious vinyl records, and usually I treat myself when I go there and get the nice fancy POUR OVER coffees which I recommend. They give you the cute little pouring thing and cup for you to serve yourself and it makes me smile and grin whenever I’m there. I also think the matcha latte is nice there. I could spend a long time there reading or just hanging out on my laptop. Preferably reading though! Perfect time’s (in my opinion) is when it’s completely empty, with nice vinyl playing. One of the first times I went they were playing Kid A.


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VERY IMPORTANT CLOSING STATEMENTS

If you are visiting Toronto from outside of Canada, you need to go to Tim Horton's first and foremost! You can't beat a fuckin 2$ coffee! Ask for the double double! Whenever I come back from visiting USA, I go to Tim Horotns before anything! I promise I'm not a coffee snob I am a Tim Hortons truther! breakfast lunch and dinner im drinking tim hortones!


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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - January 6th, 2024


if you tried and failed pomodoro method to do work (25 mins of work, 5 mins break, repeating), i recommend chewing nicotine gum


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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - December 27th, 2023


this year was a fun lovely year, my fondest memories have been, in no order


chilling at NG homies airbnbs for toomanygames, south philly cheesesteak place, shakeshack wit @heyopc and @droid and @jack,


meeting @mkmaffo,


meeting @maxxjamez,


going to beautiful san francisco/san jose and seeing @digimin and his parents, playing mario golf wit dave digi and @bacun,


watching scott pilgrim vs the world with @digimin in my apartment,


working until 5am in toronto basement with dave,


shooting guns idaho campfire house with my bffs @cadaver and @joe-mega and @wandaboy and @pewpew45,


everything that happened newgrounds toronto meetup,


everything that happened newgrounds new jersey meetup,


inishmore/galway with @snackers, and dublin mischief with @henryeyes @snackers and @notiarla,


daydrinking with my gf during toronto streetfestival in summer,


meeting @the-swain + karaoke,


shaving @emrox bald,


the funkin crew toronto office at staples,


breaking the bowling alley with @pkettles @hibachi,


brunch with @luis,


staying up all night and then going to anime con wit dave and @playblast and seeing @sabtastic once again (thx for the exhibitor pass !), i met @Popillia working cool book booth,


creative code meetups meeting @pahgawk (fellow BC mfer turned toronto local!)


There's many more moments, and I am happy when I think of anyone I met or hang out with this year! Or effing even messaged on discord!




The max upload limit for fotos is 10, so here are my 10 fav pics of the year


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Lets all have fun in 2024 !


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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - December 1st, 2023


FIRST 10 PEOPLE TO REPLY WITH WHAT THEY WANT SANTA TO BRING THEM, I WILL GIFT THEM A MONTH OF SUPPORTER STATUS WOOOOO


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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - September 13th, 2023


Hello everyone its my bday today!!! I have neglected putting pen to paper on some NG blogs and thoughts for a while, so here’s a blog with some thoughts! 



I feel like over past year or so I’ve generally and nicely settled into proper ADULTHOOD and whatnot well. Last year I had a big handful of newgrounds refugees semi-living with me, but in October of 2022 I finally ended up LIVING ALONE for the first time since…. EVER!!! I’ve grown up with siblings, family, then once I moved out I had roommates and whatnot for a few years. It does feel like I’ve seen the other side of LIFE and INDEPENDENCE. I do find myself to be independent person, and enjoy pushing myself in ways like that. 2020 I sorta moved across the country, and now I live in big city all by myself!!! That’s old news now tho! Last autumn I went to Newgrounds office to work with Dave on FUNKIN stuff, and when I got back in October of last year was when I was FULLY ALONE in my apartment / life for the first time ever. 


All my life I feel like I’ve had run ins with ANXIETY and ANXIOUSNESS, which may sound funny seeing as I do all these crazy and zany things like moving across the country bwah! But I think last October, after being ALONE I feel like I was whiplashed into this weirdo state of being stressed and anxious 24/7. In a way it all felt weird and surreal and normal or whatever, but it did get to the point where I called one of those emergency hotline things since I really didn’t know what to do or how to go about it. I don’t thiiiink it was panic attack or anything like that, but I do remember having nice chill conversation with the hotline person, and they mentioned going to the emergency room at the toronto CAMH (center for mental health), and the thought didn’t cross my mind, it didn’t FEEL like an emergency, but it was this weird moment of clarity of “huh, normal ass people really don’t deal with this”, SO I ended up going before my brain got too brokey. I think I watched Scott the Woz vids in the emergency room to calm me down heheh.


I got thru all that fuss, and the doctor man prescribed me with some yummy candy to make my brain feel better. Those took a few weeks to kick in and I’ve been feeling relatively better since then. Generally I think I’m on a pursuit to NOT BE BUSTED. There’s many things like that I still need to get sorted out in the future still. I feel like everyone online got somethin broke in their brain ADHD wise, I’ve had an itch that there can be somethin buggin wit my brain with that stuff decent chunk lately, but doh!! I gotta wait til November for little appointment stuff. Things like health can be TOO easily neglected, especially if you are USA based where you don’t get healthcare equipped when u spawn default (gaming reference). I like to HOPE that I’m becoming more mature with things like my own health and all that, not neglecting it, etc. Almost as important as paying your taxes, making sure your body and MIND are in proper working order via healthcare is something that I do hope to work towards more as my years of life go forward!!! I’ve neglected eye glasses appointment for a smidge… I forgot that I get a free eye checkup per year in Canada! I’ll treat myself to that as bday present.


I am 24 years old! To me this is abouuuut when people are finishing up college? And getting their jobs and careers together? Something like that. There’s definitely things I hope to grow into. This year at Funkin’ Crew Inc. we’ve started working with more people FULL TIME. People who work with us as a JOB, where me and Dave are the LEADERS. I don’t think me or Dave have particular insights that make us IDEAL for these roles, I think it’s something that people can grow into, we’ve definitely had our own fumbles along the way! And we will have more! I’m expected to be a co-leader with Dave but I should be interning for some dipshit tech company right now at this age bwah! Not even employee!!! Intern!!! I think da skills and exp gained from working with people off Newgrounds was VERY important in my brain development in these aspects. Every so often I do wonder what the next few years look like. Will we be battle hardened developers, able to take on any project? Will I be a GAME DEVELOPER once Funkin’ is done and out? Should I still go to college HMMMM?


Every once in a while I get the question “what will you do after FNF? FNF 2?” which I think is asked since Funkin’ is a big ambitious video game and it might seem like a big colossal task to finish. The answer I’ve had for a long time for that has been… what do musicians do once they finish an album? They make the next album! So for me that would mean MORE GAMES. Although through this year while getting our team working on the insides, and outsides of FNF, I’ve gotten a taste of more things. I’ve found hardware appealing, general SOFTWARE, web development, all of that stuff have poked at my interests and scratched itches that I feel I haven’t gotten with game development. Not to say I’d abandon video games!!! I think I’m always poking around at more THINGS TO do. Making music doesn’t take away my brain from making games, video editing, setting up Newgrounds theater don’t either! I find it all nice to expand brain. As of right now my answer (but not a promise) after Funkin’ is I think it’d be awesome to make animation software good enough to make Adobe weep. The more I use and enjoy GOOD SOFTWARE in my life… it makes me sad face when I think about Flash/Animate. In the same way that you’d create games that you wish were real, I would like to create software that I wish was real. Something as intuitive and nice to use as Flash, with no bullshit, and open source!!!! Maybe one day… my one bday wish….


I’ve lived in my apartment for about a year and a half now, which is the longest I’ve lived somewhere since about 2018-2019. The longest I’ve ever lived somewhere was probably 3 ish years max! I feel like over the past few years I’ve gotten more tastes of having a proper SETTLEMENT. The first few times I went to the Newgrounds office in Glenside, one thing I still keep with me is just simple things, like heading to the local spots that you’d probably only hit by living there for so long. Over the past year I’ve done little bit of that and gone through the various coffee shops in Toronto, since this year I’ve also got into drinking coffee, along with other local spots. Basically enjoying being a Toronto LOCAL. Back in March and July, I visited @Digimin and @snackers respectively, where they live with their family in their homes they’ve had all their lives, or at least since their childhoods! As mentioned I’ve never really had footing in any one house for too long through my life so far, so it was very refreshing visiting them, seeing the lives they’ve had with their families. Digi lives in San Jose, California and it was very beautiful for MARCH. I can see why people decide to move there. Although they fuckin mean it when they say that America was built for cars, not people. Because god damn there’s too many roads and the roads are too big!


Visiting Snackers in July, he lives in Galway, Ireland. Which had…. MOODY weather for July, gray and raining most of the week I was there. I’m not complaining though! It fit the atmosphere! I feel like I can describe it accurately as… the exact opposite as San Jose. “Downtown” Galway feels like classic Europe town like ur in some JRPG where you can just WALK around and explore the many shops. San Jose you had to fuckin fast travel bruh! Galway was very pleasant for that aspect, walking around. And along with seeing Digi’s family, seeing Snackers’ family was very DELIGHTFUL. They all have funny irish accents and it was charming. Cheers. It did remind me a lot of HOME and where I grew up. Everyone knows everyone, everyone who lives there has lived there many years and all grew up with each other, forests and greenery, fields and farms. The lakes I grew up with were replaced by the SEA. It’s also been a while since I visited my hometown, so it was very welcoming to feel like home after so long. Even back in San Fransisco / San Jose when I was visiting Digi I felt that a bit too, spring was kicking in, and compared to Toronto, there were bits of that area that I could say felt LUSH like British Columbia. And also it’s on west coast… Miss pacific standard time… Maybe my it’s all a mirage from my brain since I’ve been away from BC for so long!!! 


I’m definitely still trying to find my footing in LIVING. But love to all my friends and the people around me, love to everyone on Newgrounds, love to everyone in Toronto, Glenside, San Jose, Galway, and special love to everyone in 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada. Love to everyone I met and spent time with during TooManyGames times, and everyone I’ve met and spent time with during Toronto Newgrounds meetup times. 


With all sincerity you are all the why’s and how’s of my life and living. EVERY BIT OF IT. I hope for another year of meeting Newgrounds users, and while doing so, feeling home in some form.


Finishing this post at tim hortons from 5am-6:30am, yall want anything?


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Posted by ninjamuffin99 - May 24th, 2023


WHAT

A NEWGROUNDS MEETUP IN TORONTO, ONTARIO (at Christie Pits Park)

AND

A THEATER SCREENING (15$ CAD A TICKET, at The Royal Theater on College Street)

OF A BUNCHO SELECTED NEWGROUNDS CARTOONS


WHO?

ALL AGES THIS TIME!!! ANYONE IS WELCOME!!!

TICKETS ARE ON SALE AT EVENTBRITE! GO NOW

Will be showing things that can vary between G rated and R rated, but nothing explicit (sorry @Derpixon fans…)

The theater DOES serve alcohol though, so if you plan on drinking, you WILL be wristbanded or someshit like that!

Afterwards many people will likely filter into one of many nearby bars, so the “afterparty” WILL be 19+ (Ontario drinking age)


WHEN

JULY 29TH 2023, SATURDAY

  • ABOUT 2PM FOR THE MEET
  • 4PM - THEATRE DOORS OPEN
  • 5PM - FEATURE PRESENTATION
  • 8-9PM - THEATRE DONEZO, HEAD TO BAR (to be decided…. there are many bars / places to go to in the area, so we can play by ear…)


WHAT PART 2?

Last year’s Toronto Newgrounds meetup was pretty damn awesome, and I met a lot of friends that I still see and talk to today! This year is a bit more ambitious.


Over the past year I’ve been going to the cinema a bunch more, and it reminded me of one of the classic Newgrounds meetups / events, organized by PhantomArcade… renting out a damn theater to show a buncho cool Newgrounds cartoons…. got me damn thirstin…. so here we are…


SO this time we are going to pull up to CHRISTIE PITS PARK, which is right by Christie Station on Line 2. Have a nice little meetup, picnic type bullshit and everyone hangin around outside. THEN walk down the street for about 10 minutes (big field trip) to College Street, and we will be by THE ROYAL theatre, which we will be renting out specifically for awesome Newgrounds cartoons.


Theatre will be a TICKETED EVENT, and the tickets cost 15$ CAD, and will be available on Eventbrite. If ur broke, you can still meetup at Christie Pits park though!


WHERE?

The MEETUP is at Christie Pits Park in TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA. There's a subway station right next to it, and the Toronto subway is not at all complicated. It'd be near Christie Station!


The THEATER is at THE ROYAL THEATRE on College Street, in TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA. It's a bit down the street from where the meetup is happening, but hopefully no one dies of heat stroke on the way there.


THE GUEST LIST

(otherwise known as the people who told me they will definitely show up)


@DIGIMIN

@siximpala

@droid

@luis

@demifrog

@frosty

@funpix

@Octopus58

@spicycoffee

@CADAVER

@EliteMasterEric

@PhantomArcade

@pollyanoid

@brandybuizel

@Cymbourine

@arkoirisangel

@TomFulp

@magibauble

@connorgrail

@POSTBOY

@procgenkawa

AND YOU! (and many more maybes....)


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Art by @Snackers


PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/newgrounds-toronto-meetup-theater-screening-2023-the-royal-tickets-629589799037


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