Asandir's interviews with Newgrounds forum users

When did you find Newgrounds and why did you join?

FairSquare:

"I think I found Newgrounds somewhere in 2008. I was playing this game where you had to steer a rocket past all kinds of obstacles by using your mouse. If I remember correctly the goal was to blow up some guy at the end of each level. I love blowing people up. In games. Anyway, the music in that game is what led me here. I didn't play the game on Newgrounds itself, but I wanted to know who made the music that was used in the game and it turned out that it was made by an NG-user. The song was hosted on the Audio Portal. That's when I started to explore the Audio Portal and after that, the Flash Portal and all the other features on this diverse website. The reason I eventually joined was to host the (incredibly crappy) music I had made. You can see that my sign-up date and the date of my first audio submission are the same."

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Do you think that you changed over the time you were here, as user, or also in real life?

FairSquare:

"Definitely, but it's hard to say how big the part was that Newgrounds played in my personal evolving from an insecure and socially awkward kid without a clue what he's actually doing into a more or less secure person who isn't socially awkward, but who still has no clue what he's actually doing. In all seriousness, I was 16 when i joined. I'm 19 now. Of course I changed. I think the changes I went through in real life are the same as the changes I made as a user. Basically, I became more mature.

Who I am in real life doesn't really differ much from who I am on here. Except that I'm more open here."

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Are there any other users that you like, and how do they affect you?

FairSquare:

"There are many users that I like, but only few of them have really affected me. I think the user who affected me the most is alternativesolution. We have PMed a lot and we still do from time to time. It began when I PMed her to check out my music and from there we kinda just kept PMing. Both funny PMs and pretty serious PMs about all kinds of stuff. I consider her a friend :)"

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I guess that you have an opinion about the moderators of Newgrounds. Do you think that they do a great job or not?

FairSquare:

"When I started to post on the BBS I really only went to the Audio Forum. And the moderators who moderate the Audio Forum are pretty lenient and flexible, creating a nice relaxed atmosphere. So yeah, I liked that. But I heard from other users on the Audio Forum that the General Forum was a shithole full of moderators who were very eager with their ban-hammer. However, I started to visit the General Forum more and more and discovered that it's not that bad. The moderators aren't that strict and do a pretty good job."

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Would you like to become a moderator on Newgrounds? If so, what kind of moderator?

FairSquare:

"Absolutely not. The reason I come here is to have fun and blurt out a lot of non-sense. If I'd become a moderator I would have to be way to serious for my liking and coming here would start feeling like a duty. I don't want that."

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The redesign is rumoured to happen within the next months, are you looking forward to it? What kind of changes do you want to see?

FairSquare:

"I have mixed feelings about the redesign. I'm very curious how it will look and I heard that the redesign doesn't only change the look of this site, but also some things to the portals. And I'm especially interested in the changes it will bring to the Audio Portal. On the other hand.. I really like the design of Newgrounds as it is now. It's one of the prettiest and user-friendliest website designs I know and the redesign has to be really good to top the current design. So yeah, we'll just have to wait and see.."

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With 163 audio sumbissions, you are a huge contributor to the Audio Portal. Can you tell our readers what kind of music you make, and you how started to make music?

FairSquare:

"Tell the readers what kind of music I make? That's really hard to do. I make whatever I want to make and most of the time it doesn't really fit into a specific genre. I guess the readers have to go and listen to it to hear it for themselves ;p

I started making music after I discovered the Audio Portal. All these users made music by themselves and I decided to try it out myself. Before I actually hosted my first song here, I made about 7 or 8 'songs' because I didn't want to be my first song on here to be really crappy. Well, I failed in that, because it is really crappy. It's even called 'Crappy'."

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Would you like to work together with another audio artist on a song? If so, who is it, or is there maybe something already planned?

FairSquare:

"Well, I'm actually in a phase where I can't really be bothered to make music for some reason. So a collab can be a way to motivate myself to make something new. I already collaborated with agustana recently and I really liked to do that. Maybe we'll collab again.."

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Your music was featured in the flash submission "Sellout - LordOfTheRings", which got a Daily 4th award. Are you proud about getting this award?

FairSquare:

"A bit. But not really. I mean, only a very small part of my song actually gets used and I made it with a whole other purpose. I was told that it would be in a flash where someone would do an 'epic' speech. And when the flash came out, I discovered that my music was used in it by accident. I only got credit for it when I PMed the author of the Flash and then I saw that I got an award. It's bit weird. The only part where my music got used is in the few seconds that you see the actual lord of the rings. It lasts like.. 10 seconds or something."

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You were formerly known as MH16, then your username got changed to Mussirus and now you are named FairSquare. Please tell us the background story for each of those names. And most importantly: Are you happy with your current username?

FairSquare:

"MH16 stood for my name and age. M is the letter of my name. H is the letter of my surname. And 16 was my age at the time. I just grew tired of it, because it was a lame name with a number that didn't mean anything anymore. So I changed it to Mussirus.. which was a pretty cool name actually. I got it from a dinosaur called ''Mussaurus'' (dinosaurs always have cool names) and I altered that to ''Mussirus''. However, I got tired of that too because it started to sound too dark and heavy to me. I wanted something lighter and sillier. That's when 'FairSquare' was born. I'm still happy with my username now as it fits me. Not planning on changing it ever again. It's time I stick to my decisions :p"

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You said in one of your newspost that you are going to study. Can you tell me what you study and what kind of future career plans you have?

FairSquare:

"I study Social Work. I don't really have a career plan though, I just think that this is the right direction for me to go. I mean, I love to help people out and actually mean something for other people. And if I can do that to make a living, then I'm happy :)"

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What can we expect from you in the future, FairSquare?

FairSquare:

"Lots of sillyness. A bit of seriousness. And hopefully new music. Oh, and about that music.. I want to implement my voice in it. But i'm still struggling with that. You can hear me sing in the collab I did with agustana (It Never Ends) though, I sing the chorus in that song.

Yeah.. that's it. This is the end of the interview. Thanks for reading, it made my day even though I don't actually know who will read it and if you read it at all :D"

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FairSquare's Audio

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* Proofread and created with the help of Confucianism

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