Sheller's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Internet Allstars 2011]

I get what you're getting at.

But you clearly weren't confrontational enough about it. Using memes to beat out memes to express your contempt for them is akin to using shit to get the shit off your shit. It just makes you look like shit.

RicePirate responds:

I guess I was hoping that I could get the message of "THESE MEMES are overused!" without cussing, rape, or brutal violence ... ah well. I was thinking more like fire vs fire ... not so much shit vs shit.

[Morphemon Duelists Ep.2]

Half an hour? Fucking seriously?

I'm surprised this glut of a flash took 40.1 MB to hold together.

It's all just this very badly-animated, cobbled together garbage with awful voices, awful pseudo-bad jokes, and overall just bad bad bad I cannot get over how bad this is

how in this green, brown and blue earth of ours does fucking ANYONE enjoy this?

I admit to skimming around it (speaking of which, I love the coding at the bottom for replay there, it was incredibly useful), but really anything I skipped to was the same really poorly done bullshit.

I love how every single review is just trying to compare this to Egoraptor's work.

I'm surprised this took 5 years. I imagine this would take 2 months of actual effort and a fuckload of repetition to somehow fill up 20 minutes.

What a colossal waste of time, effort, and ability.

I give 1 star because the playback system was, again, very useful. I'd give more but I'm honestly angry just from watching this. I can't stand it, at all.

There's "not my cup of tea" and then there's "what the fuck is wrong with you", and my reaction leans towards the latter.

PiGPEN responds:

>I admit to skimming around it
Can't take your complaints seriously then. Seekbar is for repeat viewings, buddy.

[SS - Keys of our Past]

sigh

so, you've started this whole "pseudo-science facts of all living creatures and science is wrong" series and have been at it for a while, huh?

New ones every monday too? I don't know when you started but I'll say that's some effort you're putting in to have had a full month of these.

In terms of actual content, I'm confused.

I don't mean I'm confused because I don't understand it; I mean I'm confused as to how you can honestly take all these sporadic, varied ramblings and think they're all amazing and that they must be shared with the world.

From what you're giving in this, you're a rather cynical person, aren't you? It's completely impossible to have thought that "hairy barbarians" built ancient monuments? Day farmers in Egypt built the pyramids over the course of 25 years. It can't have been that much tougher to work on the Sphinx.

The Bible's stories are nonsensical? Have you read it? It's mostly metaphor or stories told to withhold basic beliefs. To take it at face value or see it for being a mark of its time without thought to the moral behind it is missing the point.

Your sources are already a good standing point for discredit. Edgar Cayce? It's like you're fresh into a college philosophy class and already you think you have life all figured out.

I won't say you probably only do this because you do drugs or are stupid, because you put too much passion into all this shit. What you are, friend, is gullible. You take all this for fact because you so readily believe it yourself, and you're only taking jabs (or should I say, you're only repeating jabs others have taken) at things that can't be easily proven because that's what these sorts of "scientific" theories prey on: lack of evidence or knowledge.

The only reason anyone could believe these "breakthroughs" is because whoever thought of the theory was the first one to stand up and claim to be right. Who's to dispute it? The egyptians believed there was a patron god for every single facet of their lives, which is why out-of-the-ordinary things (which we call "coincidence") happened, according to them. They had no frame of reference where they could say "oh, well it might've just happened to happen;" instead they used the vague term that nobody understood to answer their question: religion.
A disease caused by rust is the Metalwork god's punishment for sloth, an elephant trampling a man is punishment for disrespect to the elephant god. It's not the answer we know today, because today we know better. Today we know that things once easily clumped with other things as "mystery" have rational explanations. The first answer is always the simplest, and the simplest answer is easiest to accept.

You've listed your references, but are they honestly the first things you read on the subject? I hope not. Those books will read that "sources claim" or that "studies show" when in reality they're just paraphrasing other articles with little to no additive value to the writing. They're what you are to the rest of us: a wellspring of bizarre dribble that is going to be taken for more than it is because it's talking about a little-known subject. Do real goddamn research; read on the lives of the authors, other books and works of theirs, interviews with explanation. Your explanations sound straight out of one book for every subject. Just because it's published doesn't mean it's indisputable fact of life or a grand, focused, and intense study into the subject.

Your pseudo-science will have a frame of explanation years from now when we have capability to comprehend.

Until then, stop encouraging children on newgrounds to start smoking weed and attempting astral projection.

I'm giving a 4 for the fact that you're putting one out every week, because I know how painful that can be, minus 1 because the animation is shoddy and clearly only made to qualify it for being a Newgrounds flash instead of just an audio file.

RiverJordan responds:

Well, there's tons that i could comment on, but i'll comment on this instead.

The egyptians didn't have gods for every aspect of their lives. What you're talking about are called Neters. There were gods with a lowercase g, not actually gods. Like Anubis for example, there are 42 plus 2 neters. This represents the number of chromosomes in the human body. The purpose of the Neters was actually to teach the transition between the 1st, and 2nd level of consciousness, out of the 3 levels of consciousness that the Egyptians were focused on achieving. Both north egypt, and south egypt had their own sets of 42 and 2 Neters, which created a problem. Over time, these images slowly changed, and when King Menes put the two countries together as a single country called egypt, they also joined all of the images. This created 84 and 4 gods, and the people slowly lost the meaning and understanding, because the kings too, like the people, were dropping in consciousness over hundreds of years.

Ohhh, maybe i do know what i'm talking about after all. Things aren't what they seem at first glance. Maybe i'm not the one who needs to research more ;)

[Madness Confliction]

beyond boss

I will seriously rage if this doesn't get first. The animation is fucking butter and the PoVs used are insane.

Hulalaoo, you're an incredible animator and are only getting better. Keep up the fine-ass work.

Hulalaoo responds:

Fuk u axel

[This girl I like..]

decent

reminds me too damn much of Scott Pilgrim though. Is O'Malley an inspiration or something to you?

But that's a nagging back-of-the-head rant. It was decent, could do with a little more liveliness and the mouths were a little off at some points, but it's fine as is.

JoelOnToast responds:

Although I see why you see similarities, ive had this style for a very long time.

I noticed that for some folks the animation lags and becomes out of sync, but im not sure if I can do anything about that.

[Kos Tape Arms]

bluh, put more effort into this

Well the animation was solid some of the time, but for the most part it was shoddy and seemed bizarre at some parts. For example, why did the blue thing never look fully at the camera? He'd flip from one side to the other without any regard to transition. The jokes and deliveries make me feel as if I've regressed into 2003; it's really all a bunch of dated slapstick humor that has no real effect in today's internet culture. The voices were nasally and annoying, with no real depth behind them, and the whole effort seems juvenile, even by Newgrounds standards.

Now, I'm not saying it should be A MATURE FLASH FOR MATURE VIEWERS SUCH AS MYSELF, but maybe you could do with a different approach. Everything here seems like it was done by some unfunny little kid on newgrounds back in 2004.

OnionsXD responds:

Hey, I never really did notice that when he flipped around it shoulda showed a front shot..I remember when I was doing that scene I was thinking how my friend would go about that and I guess I got a little too caught up in his way of thinking and didn't think logically....and yeah I kinda get your thing on the humor...like I said in the credits I wrote it back in 2008! And yeah my humor has really progressed since then.

[Spazkid rant]

Can't tell if troll

But I can read pretty fast. So you asked him to send you $400 for Adobe Flash, AND HE RESPONDS SARCASTICALLY?

WOW, THAT'S SO UNEXPECTED FOR SOMEONE NOTORIOUS FOR TROLLING TO RESPOND SARCASTICALLY

saltysalts responds:

says one of spazkid's troll buddies

[The Kirby Collab]

A collab full of half-assery

Seriously, it's KIRBY. It's not hard to draw or anything, it's just a circle, yet somehow nobody in this collab could give a simple sphere shape enough of an impact to be even somewhat enjoyable.

Thing that pisses me off is, none of these as singular submissions would ever get anywhere, but since they're meshed in with one or two half-decent flashes, everyone 10-bombs it for having at lease one thing that isn't utter trash.

Go ahead and remove this comment, but I'm telling you now that it doesn't take much skill to make shoddy jokes with spherical tweened characters splattered everywhere.

FlashfireEX responds:

Dude, have you SEEN all the negative comments we're getting?