Asandir's interviews with Newgrounds forum users

This week's interview features the user Jester.

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When did you find Newgrounds and why did you join? Why did you choose the username DirtyMeatball and changed it to Jester?

Jester:

"I "found" Newgrounds when I was 6 because my brother showed me Mr Happy Face, which to this day traumatizes me. I later went to Newgrounds on my own wondering exactly what the fuck I had just witnessed and was like "This is pretty cool." Around 08 I made an account, but I won't say the name of it because I don't want anyone to see how stupid I was. Eventually I myself realized it was filled with the stupid, uneducated opinions of an 11 year old, so I abandoned it and made this one. I came up with the name Dirtymeatball of the top of my head and just kinda rolled with it for however old this account is because all the names I wanted were taken, but I recently learned if you can prove an old account is inactive to an admin, they might delete it and give you its name."

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

Jester:

"I used to be an angsty little bastard because I thought I was thoughtful and emotional, but now a couple years later I've realized i'm neither of those and i'm happy-go-lucky all the time, except for random mood swings I have caused by random things. For example, a week ago it occurred to me that my friend from kindergarten, Scott, had cancer and very well may be dead now, so I got all sad and skulked around for awhile before I got a burrito from Chipotle and my mood went back to normal. That's probably kind of fucked up, but my mind works how my mind works, I don't really decide what emotions I want to feel."

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

Jester:

"Anyone who's an active member knows that Skaren is my internet main man, but as for other users I like, off the top of my head in no particular order there's YenMuffin, KillerSkull (who set me up with this interview), Tonypar16, Ilssm, Timmy (He, Skaren, and I play Minecraft every now and again), Mumbo, Wavepad, and arguably Protagonist and Otto because I like them but i'm not sure if the feeling is mutual. Sorry if i'm forgetting anyone who considers themselves my friend, there's a lot of users to keep track of. There's also Ngman7, who I don't actually like, but he is my favorite user."

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Are there any users that you would consider enemies or that you just don't like?

Jester:

"There's nobody that I actually don't like, but i'm pretty sure Tramps and Bees don't like me. I disagree with most everything FBIpolux says and I think he's kind of a dick sometimes but I've never actually talked to him so I can't really judge him justly. People who try to advertise their websites or other crap they've made annoy me, but they're very rarely actual active users so I don't really care about them in the grand scheme of things."

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What is your opinion about the forums? Is there one forum that you prefer? And is there another forum user that you want to see getting interviewed by me?

Jester:

"The Newgrounds forums are the only ones I've ever really used, and General has lost a lot of users over the years, but I still enjoy it. It became more mature, I guess, because there used to be cock jokes left and right and now they're almost exclusively in photoshop threads. I guess that could be good or bad depending on how you feel about cocks. I'd suggest you interview Protagonist because he's a literary genius, but since you're already doing that, you should see if Ilssm is interested."

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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?

Jester:

"Timmy is the coolest mod but isn't all that active, and Eyelovepoozy seems like he doesn't come here anymore, so I think the best mod award goes to Turkeyonastick, because he runs the art forum pretty much single-handedly, and he runs it well. There have been multiple occasions where somebody has denied tracing something, and Turkey has found the original image almost immediately and proved that the user's was traced. The other mods all do their jobs well, but I think Turkey has the art forum straightened out more so than any other mods have accomplished with the other forums."

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

Jester:

"I'd be a terrible mod. The first thing I would do is see if I can ban other mods because that's something I've always wanted to do, then i'd ban people for having pony icons cause that shit is annoying. Except Mumbo, he's allowed to keep his. Afterwards, knowing that I'd be demodded soon, I'd lock as many threads as I could because if they're gonna take away my modliness I'm gonna at least leave behind a mess for somebody to clean up. So hopefully I'll never become a mod."

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The redesign is finally here. Tell me what you think about it. What do you like and what is not so good?

Jester:

"I really like it, I don't understand why so many people don't. It really makes the site more appealing in my opinion, and I rarely have any site problems anymore. I do, however, wish there was a preview post option so that I can make sure my links and quotes and such are working right. But still, congratulations to the Newgrounds team for pulling it off so well."

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It seems like you are learning german. Do you like the german language and is it easy or difficult to learn?

Jester:

"I definitely like it and it's not too difficult, but to say it's easy is an exaggeration. It's really almost just a matter of learning sentence structure, and from there on it's pretty much just a matter of expanding your vocabulary. I'm about to start my third year of it, and what I think is most difficult is the speaking exams where you talk into a microphone while recording your voice so the teacher can listen to them individually and grade you. For whatever reason it's a thousand times harder for me to talk into a microphone than to just talk to a person."

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Every person has secrets. Can you tell one of yours or something else that we didn't know about you yet?

Jester:

"Well there's not a lot I keep a secret on the internet since odds are i'll never meet any of you people, but i'm sure I can think of something. It's not a very good secret, but I've tried and given up on the acoustic guitar, the electric keyboard, the violin, and the ukulele before finally accepting that I don't have musical talent or the patience you need to get good at playing instruments. Also, i'm 6 feet tall but only weight 145 pounds and my weight hasn't changed over the entire summer. That's not really a secret but it's not something Newgrounds knows."

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

Jester:

"One day I would love to make a steampunk-themed webcomic but assuming I do so it'll be years before I start it. I've got a ton to learn in the field of art before I start anything big. I'm taking a graphic design class during my 11th and 12th years of high school so that ought to help me out."

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Now you are filled with more knowledge about Jester, dear reader.Feel free to leave a comment here, saying what you think about the interview, requesting users to get interviews is also appreciated. Tune in next week :3

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