So apparently my "Best Flash of 2013" is literally my lowest rated anything ever. Lower than all of my other Flashes, even the 28 others from 2013. Lower than the games I made. Even lower than that PoS audo I plugged for the flood. I'll give their automatic picker one thing: it has taste.

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RIP PhantomCat 1991-2012-2013

Edit: leaving this here so I don't lose it

Jryc, V unq cynaf gb ohl n qvssrerag hfre n fhccbegre onqtr rirel zbagu (naq unq nyernql qbangrq $75 va guvf jnl), ohg V'z ortvaavat gb guvax guvf arrqf gb fgbc. Nsgre fbzr ohssbba yrsg qbmraf bs ungrshy/ehqr pbzzragf ba znal Synfurf (abg whfg Pybpx Perj barf), gur PP qrpvqrq gb cbxr fbzr sha onpx ng uvz. Jr pna gnxr fbzr onq erivrjf, ohg bguref zvtug abg or fb pbzsbegnoyr jvgu gurve jbex. Npghny perngbef. Vg ernyyl ybbxf yvxr ArjTebhaqf vf cnaqrevat gb crbcyr jub qba'g perngr nalguvat abj.

...Ohg bss gung gnatrag, n ybg bs gubfr ivqrbf znxvat sha bs uvz tbg erzbirq. Nsgre pbzcynvavat nobhg vg abg npghnyyl oernxvat nal ehyrf, Jnqr erfcbaqrq gb fbzrbar jvgu guvf:

<rz>Fcraq zber gvzr va gur AT Jvxv ernqvat hc ba bhe thvqryvarf.</rz>

Jnl gb tb, Jnqr. V qvq ernq hc ba gur thvqryvarf. V rira ernq gur GREZF BS HFR (lnja) naq gurer'f abguvat eryrinag va gurer, rkprcg guvf:

<rz>Crefbany nggnpxf gbjneqf bgure Synfu nhgubef jvyy erfhyg va qryrgvba.</rz>

gb cebgrpg gur AT pbzzhavgl. <rz>bgure Synfu nhgubef</rz>. Abg enaqbz ergneqf. Gung jnf, ng bar cbvag, gur onfvf bs ArjTebhaqf. Ohg gung'f bx, vg'f boivbhf gung gur crbcyr jub gnxr pner bs gur AT Jvxv unir abg ernq vg gurzfryirf, fb vg'f abg fhecevfvat Jnqr qbrfa'g. Vg'f shyy bs oebxra yvaxf naq negvpyrf nobhg srngherf gung jrer erzbirq va 2007.

Gb dhbgr ercbegre Wrffvpn Qhzcfguvon: <rz>jr'er pryroengvat gur irel fcvevg bs AT naq gurl cvff nyy bire vg.</rz>

Guvf cnegvphyne jnir zvtug'ir orra chfuvat vg, ohg V'ir frra n YBG bs guvatf gung jbhyq arire trg erzbirq ol gur AT grnz orvat hachoyvfurq yrsg naq evtug. Qvq lbh thlf whfg tvir gur xrlf gb gur Cbegny bire gb hfref? Gur Jvxv qbrfa'g fnl hfref pna or Cbegny zbqf, ohg gur Jvxv vf nyfb ubeeraqbhfyl bhgqngrq (V zrna, Jnqr gnyxvat nobhg ehyrf gung nera'g ivfvoyr gb gur choyvp whfg znxrf zr srry zber yvxr guvf vf gur ceboyrz.) Vg zvtug uryc n yvggyr vs gur crbcyr-jub-qba'g-znxr-nalguvat R-Crra-zrnfhevat-fgngvba ryvgr oneenpxf va gur sbehzf qvqa'g qbhoyr nf n znxr-hf-punatr-bhe-zvaqf-nobhg-synfurf-jr-jrera'
g-tbvat-gb-ona guernq.

Well, the 2013 Flash FloodTM is done, now. I made a Flash every day this month, got zero blams and only one removed by moderators. Embarrassing, I know. I'll try to be more obnoxious next year. Speaking of, WADE. Thanks for putting up with loads of BS over the last few months and somehow not ripping my head off (or at least not actually reading my PMs and just glancing at them.) HAVE A TREAT.

What else? A bunch of people made it every day this month. I know Rob, Boomstick and Pop-Tart just have today to go. Dumpster might. AbbaZabba's doing two flashes per day for two months, but he sounds like he's winding down (I BELIEVE IN YOU MANG).

So yeah, quantity>quality. God I love this site. I'm going to sleep until next month, now. Maybe my "creative" juices will regenerate.

I find it fascinating when someone's even less mature than the Clock Crew. I didn't think it was possible, but I'm seeing people who aren't joking about it. When you see someone who's an awful artist, don't tell them about it in public. Send them a private message and let them know that you want to see them making more and more (especially if you really don't.)

People don't get better from being discouraged into stopping, or even from creating only when they have their NEXT BIG IDEA. Get them to create all the time for any reason or no reason at all, they'll improve much faster. Even if they don't at least they're having fun without having to worry about what people think. Not everybody is as comfortable with churning out garbage as the CC, and it makes me feel really sick when I see people telling these guys that their art is worthless. People who have zero movie, game, art, an audio submissions, but 750 medal points and 4000 forum posts so you know they're an authority on anything.

tl;dr: if someone's dumb cartoon looks like a kid made it, a kid probably made it and they aren't looking for profane criticism. Probably not even polite-but-not-constructive criticism, either, but I guess that's more of the reviewer's personality and there's nothing wrong with that.

I generally send private messages to people who are really good but just aren't getting an audience, to egg them on, but shit. I'm going to stop only watching things while they're under judgement so I can make sure artists are getting at least some encouragement.

ALSO, LOOK! SOMEONE REMEMBERED MY BIRTHDAY.

It just occurred to me that the people who don't do -shit- but have 100-1000 fans always have a new journal every few days. I do nominal amounts of shit but I would also like to cash in on this tl;dr fanbase because I am not an artist, I am a horrible person.

I do not have anything to say at all, much less three times a week, but that doesn't seem to stop anybody else. Hmm. Oh, shit yo. It was like four clocks' birthdays this week. That was pretty neat. Neat. Fairly neatish. Flounder's went coolio, manya flounderflash.

Oh hey, there's a freeze warning tonight. I think that means I should leave the faucets on a little bit. I don't know, it only gets that cold a few days out of the year. I know people in Michigan/Illinois. I bet they walk around in weather like this butt-naked complaining about how hot it is. Man, I know a couple of Australians, too (lolinternet), it's summer over there.

So yeah it was raining and I didn't want to go outside ("because it was raining") so I discovered that this stationary bike we have can hold an iPod and play songs over a build-in speaker. More importantly, I learned that my Kindle fits in that iPod holder and I can exercise in silence while reading. EXERCISE AND READ AT THE SAME TIME. Haha, hoo, I can tell people that and they'll just think I'm that productive all the time. They have no idea.

What else, what else... I just ate a Hershey's bar. Hershey bar? Hershey Bar? I just ate a candybar... candy bar? Fuck, journals are hard, I quit.

The greatest Flash of all time has already been made.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/605303

Vote five on that daily literally every day of your life.

My part was supposed to look like this but didn't because I'm a huge idiot: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/885efaa363e8 fbb30f42458c2ef48b99

I am one of the beautiful people.

Kotaku (Mr. Hamilton, specifically) wrote an article about my dumb Bill game!

Check it!

The view count of the game had crawled to a halt at around 1500-1600, then I log on one night to see it's at 8,000 and shortly thereafter, 10,000. After MINUTES of intense Googling, I discovered this. <3 THANKS A TON BROCHAMBEAU. The game's slowed down again, and even the Kotaku article seems to have slipped into the mists of obscurity, but MAN, that was super nice and it shall be in my heart forever.

Oh, and here's the game.

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