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I am Asandir and you might have seen some of my posts, if you came here because I made you mad or sad, then I want to apologise to you, with that being said, just enjoy your time on Newgrounds!

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Interview with e-lord

Posted by Asandir - December 17th, 2012


Asandir's interviews with Newgrounds forum users

This week's interview features the user e-lord.

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When did you find Newgrounds and why did you join? Why did you choose the username e-lord?

e-lord:

"It all began in early 2005, when some classmates introduced me to Potter Puppet Pals (the second one, I think. I remember they all shot Voldemort in it). They told me it was on a website called flashplayer.com (now freegames.1up.com), so I looked it up when I got home, and found a plethora of other classics, like the Decline of Video Gaming series (which needs a reboot), Final Fantasy Gil Quest, and, last but not least, claymations by knox. I grew so fond of knox that I began to check on his website, for updates as to when his next claymation was going to come out. As it turned out, he didn't just upload those movies onto flashplayer- they came to some site called Newgrounds first. I ventured into this strange new site, and found that it had a lot more content than flashplayer ever did, and had a forum, and an audio portal to boot. Four months after I discovered the site, I decided to sign up. Had a lasting, sometimes torrid affair with the site ever since. As for e-lord, well, I had never really thought of an alias before. I knew I wanted to have the letter "e" in it. "lord" sounded catchy, so I went with it. And yes, the "e" stands for something- but it's a secret of sorts. I want it to be ambiguous. For those of you who know what it stands for, stay hush-hush on the subject, yeah?"

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

e-lord:

"Well, it'd be pretty sad if I hadn't changed after all these years, now wouldn't it? It used to be style over substance with me- I couldn't take you seriously if your grammar was incorrect, or you didn't use proper punctuation. Not that I was anybody to be taken seriously myself- I was a shitty-ass poster. Arguably, I still am, but less so. So yeah, I've grown up, gotten to know myself better, the whole shebang."

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

e-lord:

"Despite my hostile-sounding list titled "bbs users i actually don't hate," I really like a lot of users. I played this private messaging game called BlessedSin, which Revo created, and it let me get to know a lot of other users. Namely, Lionelion, Beardkiller, Laughingbox, Satanbrain, and Spretznaz. I chat with them on a nightly basis. Great group of people. I chat with them every night, where we continue to play text-based RPGs that we all make, like the fucking nerds we are. Then, there's newgrounds chat. I have my own circle of friends, though they haven't been visiting chat as much, recently. There's BrazilianNinja, SaltShakerClock, Amaranthus, Boomstick, TheMajorMel and HomicidialFrog. Other people that aren't so bad include, Yenmuffin, Gagsy, 24901miles and KillerSkull. There are two special chat users, though... Mumbo and TailsPrower. They're two of my "lovers," you see. I used to cyber with Mumbo all the time, and I flirt with TailsPrower when we're both on there. People may judge, but I don't give a fuck, who wants their opinion anyway? But yeah, they're both really awesome guys. Oh yeah, and there's Rhinocerider, my apparent long-lost little brother. We talk about our quests and adventures via skype. I should write an anthology, containing all of our tales. We'll make millions."

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

e-lord:

"Yeah... pretty much everyone on newgrounds chat that I didn't mention above. That, and pretty much everyone on the Newgrounds BBS. They're either morons or just obnoxious. There are exceptions, but for the most part, yeah. There are so many +1ers out there who only care about getting into the fabled 10k forums, rather than actually making sure that these posts are worth reading. Few of them have patience to read more than a few sentence, and make a considerate reply. Worst of all are the people who complain about how the BBS wasn't as good as it once was. The BBS was always this way- your perspective just changed as you grew older. That's the sad truth of the matter, and few people realize that. The ones who do, often end up leaving."

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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?

e-lord:

"I used to frequent the shit out of General, occasionally posting in the Video Games forum. Now, though, since I have school and everything, I don't do much on the bbs. I'll check out userposts, though of my favorite users. As for the forums in general, look at my answer above. When it's filled with people like that, it's really not worth it. As for another forum user? I dunno, man. I would say SaltShakerClock or BrazilianNinja but they're chat users, really. A SatanBrain and Beardkiller interview would be cool, though. If those two don't sound good, go with the former two."

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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?

e-lord:

"I don't know if it's due to my seniority or not, but mods have been much less strict than they have been, which is probably a good thing- corrupt mods are off-putting to new users. Not like we have a lot of those here, though, due to all the circlejerking. I'm guilty of it too. I don't care much for Back-From-Purgatory. I think that he (or she) is very seasoned with general. I've scanned his/her posts. They're all in the audio forum. He/she has had no experience with general, and is not fit to moderate it, especially since she is responsible for almost all of the threads being locked on newgrounds. It's almost as off-putting as the circlejerking."

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

e-lord:

"I'd be a corrupt mod, one who would abuse my powers and ban everyone online, no new threads would be made, no one would be able to post, and it would all be silence, forcing every user to reflect on the shit they've mindlessly created, being forced to bathe in their own idiocy and depravity. "THE DAY THE BBS STOOD STILL." I'd probably get unmodded after a stunt like that. Or not. But yeah, I wouldn't be a "good mod" like Timmy or Dean. As for being a chat mod, I dunno. I'd probably do the same thing, ban everyone except my friends, so it's all just one big government-enforced circlejerk. It wouldn't be Newgrounds chat anymore- it'd be e-lord's chat. As for any other kind of moderator, I'm just disinterested in that. I'd be even less qualified than a chat mod or a forum mod."

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You were a member before the redesign 2007. Tell me how you experienced Newgrounds back then and what changes you liked about the redesign

e-lord:

"Shit. When the redesign came about, everyone was freaking out. Due to all the new content, Newgrounds was running slower on everyone's browsers, the servers filled to capacity with everyone who wanted to see what the brave new world was going to be like. The review system was dumbed down, I remember that. There used to be different categories you could rate, in addition to the overall score. You could rate the humor, interactivity, violence, sound, and a couple other things. I don't remember, honestly. You could really judge a user by the quality of his reviews, the attention he or she put on the individual qualities. But, alas, no more. Also, chat ceased to exist for the longest time. Newgrounds has a history of saying "we're working on it," without ever actually finishing it. I think after a couple years it started working, though. Still, though, everything looked newer, more modern, userpages began to exist. You could express yourself better. The PM system was also much more fleshed out than it was when it debuted the previous year. They also added more secrets, more forums, more everything. Oh, and they got rid of pop-up ads and the hentai ads. Yes, kids, Newgrounds used to have pop-up ads before the redesign 2007, true story. It was a good update."

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The redesign 2012 has arrived earlier this year. Tell me what you think about it. What do you like and what is not so good?

e-lord:

"Well, it seems to be choking newgrounds to death. Ever since that redesign happened, the servers now crash frequently. Chat is operational, everything looks pretty again but it felt unnecessary. I mean, there is something to say about making your website aesthetically pleasing, but I'm not sure it all needed to happen. People didn't seem as excited about this one as they were about the 2007 one. The record for most forum users online still stands as the one set by the one in 2007. Maybe people just aren't as excited about newgrounds anymore. More on that later."

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You and some users formed a group named Expendables. Tell our readers how you got the idea and what you were doing.

e-lord:

"Oh yeah, that was a blast. Protagonist was the founder of the whole "fad" idea. It started with the Reservoir Dogs theme a while back, in which everyone edited their userpage and icons in order to emulate a particular character. Boomstick was Blonde, Natick was Pink, etc. So, Protagonist decided to do another one. People voted for the next pick, and the Expendables was chosen. I called dibs on Statham, so I got to be him (still am him, lol). We didn't have a real reason for doing this, other than that it was fun to be a part of something with people who share a similar interest."

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The Halloween layout has arrived. Do you like it and are you looking forward to experiencing Halloween on Newgrounds?

e-lord:

"Gotta love Halloween! It's like a Newgrounds tradition to have revamp Halloween. It wasn't terribly spooky for my liking. After all, Halloween should be intimidating and scary to some extent. But then again, it might turn off some people, make them scared to come on the site and click the support newgrounds button (which I will do this holiday season). Also, those new level icons were cool. I'm not sure if they did it last year, since I wasn't actively browsing newgrounds, but they were damn sexy. I almost wish that they were the permanent icons, if the current ones weren't so cool too."

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Newgrounds has been a part of your life since 2005 and its competitors like Youtube have become very succesful. Do you have ideas how Newgrounds could reach the next level and (re)gain more popularity?

e-lord:

"When I first found Newgrounds in Fall 2005, YouTube was barely a thing. I mean, it existed, but it's not the juggernaut of a video-sharing service that it is now. So, there's more of an interest in Flash animations and games. I mean, Newgrounds started some controversy with Telebubby Fun Land, and Pico's School, and is the original website of Numa Numa. The beginning of the end was Charlie the Unicorn. It was uploaded on Newgrounds first, then was shamelessly stolen on YouTube, where it became a household name among Internet users. I got mad at people whenever they referenced that flash, when they weren't familiar with the Tankmen. It was all downhill from there. I mean, ask some one my age what it was like before YouTube and movie sharing. They'll come up short. They don't remember anything before the insidious YouTube coup d'etat. You can do so many things on YouTube that you can't do on Newgrounds, like, upload anything other than a Flash movie. Newgrounds took a step in the right direction with the YouTube-esque menu screen, like the one you see in Hellbenders, but that isn't quite enough. The only way I can see Newgrounds regaining the relevance it once had is if it became YouTube, getting rid of the blam/protect system, and allow anyone to upload videos of any kind, while allowing Flash games to be submitted, in order to have the upper hand against Youtube. Of course this would mean getting bigger servers and spending money that Newgrounds just doesn't have, not to mention destroy what Newgrounds was supposed to be- a Flash Portal. It'll be the death and rebirth of Newgrounds, and there's no guarantee it'll last. I know it's bleak, but Newgrounds might not live on off of ads and supporters alone anymore."

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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?

e-lord:

"I look at Rotten Tomatoes religiously. Like, if a movie doesn't get a good score from good RT, then I won't watch it. If a movie previously looked uninteresting to me but got good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, then I'll watch it. it's almost always accurate in determining which movies are worth seeing and which aren't. Seriously, I'm a fucking zealot. I probably need counseling."

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What can we expect from you in the future, e-lord?

e-lord:

"Not much. Newgrounds sort of gets in the way of my real life, so I'm not going to post much lol. Maybe when summer break starts, you'll see more of me but don't hold your breath."

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Now you are filled with more knowledge about e-lord, 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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Interview with e-lord


Comments

That comment about Rotten Tomatoes is blasphemous because it rated Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights very poorly. That movie is fucking hilarious. Anyone who disagrees just doesn't see the artistic genius of that film. 10/10

Anyway, I'm surprised you haven't interviewed E-Lord already, Asandir. I agree with E-Lord, you should definitely interview BrazilianNinja at some point. I'm also surprised you haven't already. In fact, interview him right now. Do it. I command you.

I agree that I should have interviewed e-lord earlier.... I interviewed some users who are friends with him so they recommended him and I remembered that I should interview him :o

As for BrazilianNinja I will send a request soon :)

I thank you deeply. :)

No problem ^^

I stop visiting NG frequently and it's taken over by faggots. BAH.

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"pretty much everyone on newgrounds chat that I didn't mention above. That, and pretty much everyone on the Newgrounds BBS."
I wasn't mentioned above....

RUDE! }:[

Mean e-lord :(

shit,i didn't mention you, klobb? sorry bro. you're cool.

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Everything E-Lord makes it gold.
Thats what he told me.

And I agree :)

Well, since you cleared that up e-lord, it's all good.

Yay :D

HAHA E-LORD SUCKS!
no really tho, e-lord is a pretty cool guy doesnt afraid of ass

and of asandir :o

You are most certainly an e-lord, e-lord.

Yes, yes he is!

Oh and Asandir, you linked the wrong Revo! It's <a href="http://revo357912.newgrounds.com/">http://revo357912.newgrounds.com/</a>

Thank you, I changed it :)

I stand by my previous comment, e-lord sucks

How mean :o