here's to 10 more <3
Hi. I'm Andrew. Audio portal junkie since 2010, supporter since 2017. I always want to improve what I do! I make music, run the NGUAC, post poetry on BBS, and am the all-time #2 audio reviewer. I love this site, and I want to make it the best I can! ^_^
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Damn, that’s more than half my entire life.
And 40% of mine! Lol.
wow, the fact about june 2021 was interesting! i’m glad i contributed to that.
What a crazy ride it has been! Here's for 100 more ;)
Congrats ^^
Thanks, MetalRenard!
Congrats on 10 years! I'm very happy to have made this list. As an on-again off-again user, I find I don't interact with the community as much as one might expect from all the competitions I've had the pleasure of judging alongside you. I just wanted to say it's been a pleasure, and I think you're awesome <3
Thanks so much, Adrean! It's been a pleasure judging with you as well. I've learned a lot about mixing just from reading your reviews on other people's tracks. :D
Finally got the time to read this post in its entirety. You really do put a lot of fun into what you do! I can tell it’s been a fun 10 years!
Indeed it has! Thanks for stopping by, Thetageist. ^_^
You've written some memorable bits over the years. :D Seems like the kind of taglines you'd see in a professional review, the parts they'd end up quoting on covers here and there...
Good haikus too.
Regarding the chart, did you do this manually? Some kind of automated crawling/gathering of teh stats? Realized the stream of new content really started spiking somewhere around the one million audio mark, wonder if that played a part in the peak around the time or if it's totally unrelated... interesting to see the numbers from this angle. I've really just checked in on the current ID now and then and gauged the rate according to that (and planned to submit a special something when the AP reached a million tracks but I totally missed the mark at that point)...
I don't think TaintedLogic sounds too edgy at all. :) More so a name that makes you think. That challenges you. A good; memorable name. Cyberdevil though, I've had some ponderings on the potentially overly edge implications there...
You've managed a lot this past decade here! Happy 10th! Onto the next!
Indeed an amusing chronicle through these times too.
Thanks so much for stopping by, Cyberdevil! Honestly, the most effort I put into this post was in re-reading old reviews looking for funny analogies, haha. I got a little help from Google Sheets for the chart, but the individual data points are entered manually into a table first, yes. When I first joined the site, I really wanted my very first audio submission to have an ID of 500,000, but I missed it by a dozen or two. :'D
Thanks for the validation on my username too. I think that, over time, people associate your username with the person more, as opposed to the connotation of the username itself. I don't think I've ever thought "oh, look, it's that guy with the edgy username." Instead, I just think "oh, look, it's Cyberdevil!"
In the meantime, you aren't too far off from 20 years on the site, are you? Hope I'll continue to be active enough on NG to celebrate 20 years, both yours and mine. ^_^
Haha I'm glad I don't spend too much time flipping through my old reviews. XD Used to feel like I should, potential embarrassing typos of the past and all, but what an endeavor that'd be... best spend that time on new ones. So in regards the chart I suppose that's one data point per month? Counted by dates on specific audio IDs? Or with advanced search maybe for each individual interval...? If it's the latter - and done recently - it might not be entirely accurate since a lot of audio does get deleted overtime. But still really cool. Just curious how you did this/how accurate it really is.
Ah bummer on the 500k one. XD Wonder how many were aiming for the 1mil... as a connoisseur of numbers it's always sad when you stumble upon the lost potential of for example: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1111111
Yeah I think so too - and glad to hear it. It's more so that there might be a certain barrier of entry for people who don't yet associate a certain name with the person behind it. Like how many fans could I have had at this point if I went with something like ninjamuffin99. :P Although he's awesome and deserves every fan that cometh his way now it's a good example of one of those names that gives a good first impression too, regardless of persona. Showcases a fun kind of creative optimism right from the start. Not that I'm ever changin' names at this point!
Just a couple more now yes. :) Hope so! May we stick around the grounds through the ages; see how it changes! Hoping it stays one of the more deserving; amazing of places.
I think I started keeping track of monthly audio submissions before the advanced search option was a thing. I basically just replaced the audio ID number in the URL until I found the first one of the month that I could verify was actually published. And yes, with older submissions it may be several off on a given month because of moderator activity and deleted accounts, but unfortunately there's no way for me to really discern that now.
I'm not as interested in getting particular ID numbers for my own songs like I once was. Frankly, I'm just excited to share something that I actually manage to finish these days. XD
Take care, Cyberdevil!
Mmm if you started early at least overtime deletions don't factor in as much, just the initial ones, good to know.
Still would be cool with a cool ID though wouldn't it. :) Just find it seems less worth the time involved trying to catch a specific count personally. But if you spontaneously get a good number then all the more impressive! More prolific more potential. #thatstheway
Likewise good dude!
this is was so cool to meet you in singalongs! happy anniversary! (a lil' bit late lol)
Great to meet you too, SuperCat! Hope there will be more singalongs soon, @Ceevro...
MchectorII
Happy Anniversary!