Asandir's interviews with Newgrounds forum users
This week's interview features the user fuzzum111.
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When did you find Newgrounds and why did you join? Why did you choose the username fuzzum111?
"I found Newgrounds, I want to say wayyyy way back in like 2004, 2003 maybe? I was still in middle school and still a little shit to say the least. I remember playing those hentai and dress up games all the time, like many others. It was just an NG thing I guess. It was a place for me to come, see some cool animations, fap off to assorted dress up games, maybe check out some audio. Really not a whole lot going on that many other users haven't really said, it was fun having my friend over and us both fapping to stuff we really enjoyed. I still remember that ridiculous britney spears porn game where you could make the boobs as big as you wanted and they'd just get crazy looking. Worth a laugh."
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Do you think that you changed over the time you were here, as user, or also in real life?
"Well that is a given. I'm more mature here, than I used to be. I've gone through many phases, and many periods of dormancy and inactivity. I lurk more than I post, but I do post. There was a good period where I was posting minecraft stuff non stop and impressing people left and right. I can't even sustain minecraft simply becuase I've -done- everything I've ever wanted to do. As a person I've grown, I held a solid part time job for 2 whole years, before my parents split and went to the opposite ends of the country. I nestled myself into the state of Arkansas about 600 miles from home. Now I just picked up a job, worked my first day as of today (5/24/2013) at Arbys. Let's see how long it will last. People grow, change, and adapt, those who don't are bound for failure, and lonesome lives."
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Are there any other users that you like, and how do they affect you?
"I would like to think users like Dosensuppen, tox, Xenomit, kisame, SexualEmo, are all friends to some level or another. Some bound by our fellow love of the furry things, others just by our common sense, logic, and general likelyness of subjects and how we feel on debates. Often If I see a good post by one of those users, for example it gives me a reason to quote them, and jump into a conversation backing them up. Sometimes we disagree but not very often. I'd like to think we could all hang out IRL as friends and enjoy it. Xenomit, SexualEmo and I have jokingly talked about getting together IRL, sadly we live quite the distance and I doubt it would happen, maybe if we went to the same con."
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Are there any users that you would consider enemies or that you just don't like?
"I fucking hate Supergandhi64. I know he loves to be hated, but I honestly wish we could ban that prick. He purposefully has the worst human views conceivable for the sole purpose of pissing off users, and derailing threads with his retardation. It's frustrating seeing the tardies and trolls as it is, but he, is the crown jewel of lack of moderation in these forums.
Otherwise, at least off the top of my head I cannot think of any other users that spark an instant disdane for. I joke with others, start silly threads, and try to enjoy myself. For the most part, with the sections I interact with (90% general forum) I don't have an problems."
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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?
"When it comes to what I think about this forum? General is fairly fun, I think the moderation is not nearly as good as it used to be. Often times I'm told my threads aren't worthy and there locked for no reason. While completely shit threads, are allowed to go and do as they please. I don't think the current generation of moderation likes me. Not that they pick on me and look for reasons to ban me but they certainly do not like my threads. Oh well. As for another forum I may prefer? I don't really have any other "main" forums. I don't use things like 4chan, NG is my hub more or less. There are other forums I use for particular games, or ther things, but there visited infrequently and for purposes of me getting help on a subject.
I am lazy kitsune, I don't really post that much unless a subject sparks my eye or a uneducated post is posting idiocy all over the subject and needs to be rectified and shown he's a worthless moron. Call it a superiority complex or whatever but I hate when people spread misinformation.
Finally, another user I want you to interview? Well I see you have done tox already, how about Xenomit, or SexualEmo? If both have been done get back to me."
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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?
"The current generation of mods are very finicky. They seem to have a very random and easily aroused anger. There are days they let picture threads slide, and other days, picture threads are locked left and right, even if it's interesting and not dumb pictures. The older generation felt more stable, yes people thought Poozy was an asshole, and he was. He wasn't a inherently bad person though. I mean, we all have nostalgia filters we simply cannot turn off. That is part of the problem with the question like this, almost no matter what, any older venerated user will say the older mods were better. Maybe they were right, maybe they were wrong, who fucking knows.
My personal opinion on the subject is I liked the older mods better. Yes I got a few mandatory 3 day bans, they didn't exactly feel it was right but they did it anyways because, it was da rules. It feels like most of the mods don't always respect the major rules anymore and just kinda wing it with if they ban you or not. Again, Supergandi64, should have been perma banned a long time ago. He is a troll, simple and clean. Why the mods don't ban him makes me think one of the mods -is- playing on that account so he can fuck around and not get in trouble, even though the mods can see IP's and shit, so who knows, what really goes on. I'd like to see changes, I think there are some users could make better mods than others."
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Would you like to become a moderator on Newgrounds? If so, what kind of moderator?
"I would and wouldn't. Yes, I could enjoy being a forum moderator. Yes it would be nice to put users in there place when they really need it. However, it would mean I'd have to spend quite a bit more time trolling the forums, scouring threads and shutting shit down when need be. That could be a problem and possibly suck the fun out of just having NG open all the time. Right now I can be as active, or inactive as I like and nothing changes. If I were a forum mod, I'd have to check threads and posts and make sure a popular thread isn't just a flame war. I'm lazy, as I've stated above.
Now, not to bash on other mods, but it would feel any other mod position would just be...err..kinda pointless and unnecessary for myself. It'd just be a title, with little/nothing to really do with the forums. I know the audio, icon, lit, and other mods do a job and have their place. Also, with the redesign,the whole "gold aura" means so much less now with like 8 other colors available now."
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The redesign happened last year. Tell me what you think about it. What do you like and what is not so good?
"Personally? I dislike many aspects of it. I don't like the new portal feeling. I don't like the organization. I personally think the new icons are horribad, there are a few that are kinda cool but that's it. Most of them suck, and the later levels don't feel bad-ass enough, not to mention you are stuck with them for months if not years at a time. I think the art quality is kinda shoddy considering the fact they reverted to "retro" pixel art. They could have done so much more with it, and gone -up- from the previous designs quality. Instead of copped out, fucked users that were a higher level that already had cool icons with other cooler stuff to look forward too, and created this new, tiered "themed" system that is just, well bad. It really upset me, and I know liljim and whoever else all worked on them, worked hard. I'm sorry if I am insulting you, and it's not meant to be a personal attack, I just honestly think it was a very poor choice for Newgrounds considering what we had and where we could have gone.
I could list tons of changes, I would like to make, but it sorta feels pointless. Yes, this interview may be read by some of these guys, but they are going to take my ideas and opinion with a grain of salt, I am just 1 user and I respect that. I know that my opinion is shared, and I am not alone, but simply put. We just redesigned the site, we couldn't bitch hard enough as a collective to have them change the forum icons, even if it was 100's even 1000's of us complaining about it. They'd tell us to suck it or leave the site.
Other than that, not many of the other changes due to the redesign really matter, or effect me personally so I don't have too much input."
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2009 you submitted audio to Newgrounds. How did you start making music? Do you think that you will ever go back to submitting stuff in the audio portal?
"Honestly? Probably not. I am simply not musically inclined enough to write original stuff, nor really "remix" things. All my audio stuff is sort of a sham, I used Fruity loops studios, midi files, and a combo of tweaking some notes, and just changing the instruments to whatever I wanted them to sound like to make the "new" song, even though very little if anything was acutally changed from the original midi. I used to play the keyboard/piano but I just sorta lost interest. I am inept at reading sheet music, so I have to play everything by ear, and I'm no savant ergo that just makes it worse. I can get it, but it takes forever."
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I think that you are a furry. Did you ever get negative reactions for being one?
"You don't need to think I am a furry, I am one. A proud, but not retardedly proud one. Yes, we always do. We get picked on, or singled out. People try to make me think it's beastality, or that I am going against god, or I will burn in hell. It comes with any fetish. For me it's a little bit more than that, I wouldn't say "lifestyle" because everything I do, is not furry bound. Yes I am willing to save up money and blow it on conventions. Yes I have a $2000+ fursuit. (That total is rough, I've had to go through several revisions on the fucking thing and the costs add up) Yes I do fap to assorted furry/scalie/whatever you want to call it porn. We all have things we like. I am just willing to spend money to further my enjoyment of what I do, be it sexually inclined or not.
When I go to a convention it's not about the sex. Although I will admit I do tend to get laid there, but eh, I'm not a fat slob, and shower regularly, doesn't make it very hard. Anyways, the con is mostly about picking up fun trinkets, cheap art, and fur suiting till I drop. Getting all the love and attention I crave, but am unable to amass throughout the rest of the year due to my shitty social skills and absolute lack of regular, non fuckbuddy friends. Being in suit, there is no "social standards" it's run around, get pics and hugs from all sorts of cute girls and guys."
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I know that you have pets. Tell our readers what pets you have and how important they are for you.
"Well, prior to my move I had 2 black cats. 1 long hair, 1 short hair. The short haired name was Sadie, and she thought she was a big black panther. tolerated the family and hated everyone else. Blacky was the long hair and he loved evvvveryone. You walk in the door he's all up in your legs loving on you and welcoming you to the house. He now lives with my older brother, while Sadie was given to our neighbors.
As of right now I acquired a new feline friend, whom I adopted from an elderly couple. I've named her Angel. She is a long haired, calico colored, Norwegian forest kitty. With extremely long, soft, thick fur. It's the utmost of luxury and so very tender and sensitive. She has claws, so I do tend to end up scratched and bleeding when we play but she is a great cat. Loves to be played with, chase stuff and be active with you. And when she is affectionate, damn is she affectionate. I lay down in bed and she is in my chest kneading me, laying down and nuzzling er head into the crook of my neck, showing me all the love in the world. It's simply so adorable and sweet. Even had her fall asleep on my chest once, I dozed off for a little while too. It was cute wen she woke up and was startled to find herself there.
That's my cat for ya."
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You stated in the past that you want to be a professional baker. Is that still your goal or did you accomplish it?
"I never became a professional baker. I was a baker at a grocery store for a solid 2 years. I went into work at 3 am, and came out around 9 am every day I worked, which ended up being 3-4 days a week, maybe more if I got lucky. It was fun dealing wth the night people, we all got along great and loved to tell stories, or talk about recent events, be it store related or not. We had a good time, and my bakery crew I worked with was fun as well. We joked, laughed, teased, hooted and hollered all morning and we were almost always in good spirits. It did not start out that way, but I grew on my team, and they grew on me. We ended up living to work with one another, and it was really sad when I had to leave. I was a good enough baker that any time I cal my manager to talk or say hi, she asks if I am in town so she can re-hire me. She apparently cannot find anyone good enough to replace me that doesn't make an absolute mess of the whole situation."
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Lately there has been a lot of talking about Newgrounds decline in popularity. Where do you see Newgrounds going within the next years and what would you do to "bring Newgrounds back on track"?
"Like I said in a recent thread. Newgrounds is slowly falling into obscurity. We don't attract most of the major flash crowd that we once did, and we don't because we don't have a good system in place. Yes we offer ad revenue for any user that gets hits. Hell I got like 5 cents or something from my audio when it was briefly viewed. However, that is simply not enough, there is not enough traffic to Newgrounds for major flash submitters to really want to continue to use us, in any kind of exclusivity to really get there stuff out there. I don't blame them. Our system is flawed, we don't punish people for not blamming absolute crap, we don't have high standards for what passes in the portal Shit, epileptic flashes, or lines floating in a circle, gets though with like 3.00's or higher, because no one wants to vote 0.
Our blams per day are at >10 a day. Of the 100's of shitty things submitted. If we want to try and improve the site, we need a better, more strict system, we need to reward and encourage those who submit quality work. We need to make sure that those who work hard, are seen, and encouraged to make more. Sadly many of the popular or god tier artists that made the most amazing stuff don't even care about flash 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?
"I don't know honestly? Like I've told you guys lots and lots of things. I am an abhorrently open person. I don't really have any real secretes or things like that. I'm into all sorts of weird fetishes, and have no problem sharing , I'll refrain because I don't want to gross out my readers, all 3 of them ;P (FYI it's not scat or like messing diapers I am into). However, yea I mean like, let me think. You all know I am a furry, you know I am into shemales, and asses. I have seriously contenplated suicide` multiple times due to lack of work, and hating the human race as a whole. How we run things, the way we treat each other, even knowing thee are people doing "good" things for us. Oh well I am a very selfish being."
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What can we expect from you in the future, fuzzum111?
"I don't know what to tell ya, if this job holds and I am able to save money, I will happily be buying a new computer, going to more conventions, fixing up my R/C hobby so I can do more with it,. Making videos of said R/C hobby, possibly more? I am a lazy person, who loves his internet, and is slowly becoming a fatass, there really isn't much to expect out of me. I am content working normal, average paying jobs and have no problems living like a meager person, so long as I am comfortable and not struggling to pay my bills.
The future is a crazy thing, who knows, aliens could show up, furries could be born into our world, I could just up and poof one day ripped into the rift of a world in the rim. We just don't know what the future holds, who holds it and how much longer we all really have."
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Now you are filled with more knowledge about fuzzum111, 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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TheMajormel
whoa, I did not know that this guy was a furry.
ahhh whatever he is a cool guy
Asandir
Yes he is :)