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Kyle Springenatic @Popeofdope

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5 Years Gone

Posted by Popeofdope - July 24th, 2007


I've been coming to newgrounds for about 5 years (I was coming here before I signed up).
At first newgrounds was something to do in a boring summer of just a 13 year old without a cause. As time went on my skills changed and so did my cause. Newgrounds became so much more. To me it was suddenly the ultimate gateway of expression. I could take the things I could see in my mind while listening to music, and turn it into something like "the gnome". Newgrounds struggled to provide enough bandwidth, just barely making it from an underground website to what it is now. It seems like every year it hits me when all of a sudden, it's clock day AGAIN, another year has passed as my teenage years fade away into manhood. Towards the end of 2006 I had one more spirt of bordom and lonelyness to express my views with "In the summer sky" and "phoenix Wright: the trial". As I realised the ability of my skill in some of my unsubmitted unfinished works I only further realised that it wasn't skills that I needed so much anymore, it's time, patients, and the ability to sit on my ass for hours on end. I then got a job, and another car, and another girl. My third car in a year, oh the mistakes I made back then. I'd love to make more flash, music, photoshop, finish "seven nation army collab". But when it comes down to it, I'm turning 19 august 30th, I work full time, 12 hour days, I have tons of friends, the girls come and go. I don't have time to persue the one work that really makes me feel good, and that's all there is to it. It sucks, but that's the fact, and I've come to realise it. Newgrounds is an amazing machine, the bigger it gets the more amazing it becomes. But I'm not a bored, fat, 13 year old with hours and hours to kill, I'm a man now, all of a sudden. But I hope to bring some works in pretty soon, see what i've got these days, I only ever get better. Until then, enjoy this fantastic site, while you still really can.


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Hm.. get your act together m8, don't wreack anymore cars, go to th girl you like and tell her how you feel or otherwise MAKE some time to do so.. As for your flashwork, don't just submit to the pressure of time. There is ALWAYS some time. Try and plan a week before you are working on your flash to do so. This way you'll have time to work on your flash without making plans that will interefere.

I hope NG will stay a place for you to express yourself in with flash.

I have got my shit together, and that's why I don't have time for NG, I'd rather be with my friends when I'm not working

wow. that's depressing...

It's just the way I see it

i can relate to a lot of what you've written. It's damn hard to find the time and motivation to make flash pieces when you've got a fulltime job sucking the life outta you.

i am not captainbob. i'm just bob. this is the only pie i've ever known.

And are you happy the way it is? ARE YOU HAPPY DRIVING AROUND IN YOUR TIN BOX AND WORKING HALF OF THE TIME?

Oh, you are? Well FINE!

I am happy, I'm really happy, and I have been for a while now.

So true dude. I will take that advice and hold on to it. I am 12 years old and i have to say this site kicks all others asses. A reminder any website that tries to bring ng down will be shot down on Mother Fuckin Site!!!

You must really know your stuff after 5 years of newgrounds experience. Pm my account. Latur

lol why the fuck would I pm you?