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Wooper
5/30/08 by WilliWowza
Making news posts is always something that riles me up over what I should actually put here. On the one hand there's a part of me that want to writes up a detailed entry about how I'm feeling or my views on certain events taking place on Newgrounds, however that side is usually immediately countered by the side which reminds me that no one reads or cares about my opinion and much more people would simply prefer a one liner and a picture.
Well what is there to say about the moment? The BBS awards are causing delicious drama and reminding myself just how many people don't like me. You can't really say that you don't care about them at all, because it's people's opinion's on you, something which almost all people care a lot about. If someone says something nice about, you're happy and feel like some sort of role model for that person. A warm feeling of pride emits from within over the thought that this person looks up to you in the same way that you may have done for other users.
On the other hand there's the kick in the stomach you get when you see someone make a negative comment about you or put you in a bad category. Someone you don't even know, someone you've never done anything to doesn't like you. It's hard to shrug it off, it makes you feel like you've wasted this year/half year of posting because in the end everyone thought what you had to say was shit. Some people might "but er der it gives people an incentive to improve dem derselves"". (notice how I make the hypothetical quote of the person with a view different from my own appear stupid, ingenius) Well theoretically yes it would, but in reality people are stubborn creatures and once they have an opinion of someone lodged in their brains it becomes very hard to shake it short of them turning water into wine in front of their faces and dying on a plank of wood.
Internet drama aside I've been wasting time on TF2 and WoW for the most part. Yes WoW, and not even on my own account, I've been leveling up a friend so he can get to 70, at which point I will go back on my own level 70 so we can all play together. I don't particularly love WoW as a game, it is fun and pretty but not enough to warrant playing it on my own. Rather the fun comes from playing with people you know, over skype/teamspeak/etc., and having a laugh whilst playing it together. Technically this makes any game better, but it's particularly good in an RPG type game such as WoW, where you can all level up, quest and raid together. I spend most of my day just sat on skype talking with my buddies, which is what I've missed about WoW, actually interacting with people and having fun...
: not IRL buddies lol (except one) don't go thinking I have a life
Speaking of IRL, let's not. I'm sure nobody could care less about my life nor do they want to read me droning on about it since I sure don't unless it's a person I care about, which I don't think many people do about me on here. I don't see why people need to make a topic or a news bulletin every time they fart or cough, but I suppose some people enjoy it, like the type of people who watch soaps.
Flash has been hanging over me like a dark foreboding shadow, beckoning me to curdle back into her ghastly talons of tweening and patience. I really like doing flash, it's been one of the only things in my life where I felt like I've achieved something, but have never been happy with my work. Probably sounds sad but I was so excited and happy when I got frontpage/daily 2nd, like ever since I was a kid I used to look up to the flash artists on this site as some sort of geniuses and wanted to be so much like them. For days I would sit her watching flash after flash, spending whole days at a time watching every episode of Bonus Stage or Space Tree and dreaming of being as good as them. I will get back to it, I know it, it's never too late. Just having trouble getting the house free for doing voices, hate other people hearing me do that in the house.
Seems a bit of a waste even loading up MSN nowadays, seeing as I only really talk to about 3 different people (don't hold me to that number). People just seem to be talking to me less, feels pointless having such a big contact list of these people I barely know or ever talk to. It's not that I don't want to talk to the, I'd gladly talk to anyone most of the time, I'm just not good at starting conversations usually.....or I'm a bore to talk to. Just be nice to have actual conversations with new people instead of only being talked to for either a 5 or to post in someone's topic.
Why am I writing all this? Good on you for anyone actually reading this far, I don't know what's got into me. I'm just sitting here with the sniffles typing away like a madman for some reason.
Was wondering if I should change my username to Wooper, I really like it and makes more sense than this name, which people spell wrong half the time or just laugh at.
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Thanks, hit me with some feedback so I can tell whether I should bother to do anything again.
- Wooper
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9/24/08
+1 comments
9/23/08
That guy above me said sorry on my blog too. I have no idea why. So anyway willi,
buttsecks now pls?
9/22/08
I'm sorry.
9/9/08
i cant even remember the last time i saw you naked
8/30/08
we should all just meet up anyways
8/28/08
Wooper>Mudkip
I dunno about you, but I am seeing to change my name myself.
8/27/08
Dude, do you live in the UK or US...
Because you might obviously live in the UK, but then again there is a London in the US.
Its getting on my fucking nerves!
8/21/08
You choose wooper because it's close to shoop da whoop?
8/19/08
Go out and get drunk legally you son of a bitch
8/19/08
This is my first sentence. This is my second sentence.
8/18/08
We rescued the crops!
8/14/08
Gligar > Wooper
8/13/08
Hey, I never knew your birthday was a day after mine. :o
I never knew your birthday was a day before mine.
Dude it's nearly our birthdays!
8/11/08
I dunno, after a while you realize that you can just distance yourselves from the people who hate on you for your posting. Nobody really knows much of anything about you unless you choose to reveal yourself on the BBS. Posts aren't nearly the whole story.
Like, I used to totally avoid reading your topics as if I could catch disease from 'em. But once I'd seen an interesting opinion of yours on a subject, no longer could I afford to avoid your topics. But then again, I suppose I strive to be a little more reasonable than others in terms of the mutability of my opinions on others.
Whatever. Obviously I read your whole blog. GIMME MAH POINTS.
7/30/08
OK, I promised myself that I would read all of this blog and give an appropriate response. So here it is. :)
"Making news posts is always something that riles me up over what I should actually put here."
I know how you feel. A while ago I made a very short blog showing pictures of me from two different years. One was better than the other. I got 34 comments, excluding spam comments which is fantastic for me. I thought it was great that I was receiving so much traffic, but then I felt, "This isn't anything. It's a neat thing I found, that's it." Whenever I make a huge blog (much like this one), then no one takes the time to read all of it, or they'll leave an unrelated comment. So whenever I create a new blog, I feel like writing tons of shit but know that it'll get ignored. It sucks.
"If someone says something nice about, you're happy and feel like some sort of role model for that person."
It felt good getting nominated by Mechabloby last year for 'Master Creator'. Apparently my topics were/are quite good. That was the only nomination received, but it wasn't a case of "DAAAAW NOMINATE ME PLZ". He genuinely felt that I was deserving of it, and I did feel good. It also feels good that some people look up to me or call me in times of trouble, whether it be NG related or not. I feel valued.
"On the other hand there's the kick in the stomach you get when you see someone make a negative comment about you or put you in a bad category. "
The only bad category I have been nominated for was 'Attention Whore' by The-D-Lucks Edition, also last year. It did cause some uncomfort, but I eventually let it wash over me. I think bad comments/nominations becomes a problem when it's in a certain abundance. If you receive 1 nasty comment from someone then you think "Meh, just some stupid kid." If you receive 5 nasty comments, then you think "Hey, am I really like that?" I can't say I know exactly how you feel here, but I understand how it could be a problem.
I don't get what people like so much about WoW, it never really caught on to me. I prefer Counter Strike. TF2 looks great as well, but my computer is horrible for that sort of thing. :(
"Speaking of IRL, let's not. I'm sure nobody could care less about my life nor do they want to read me droning on about it since I sure don't unless it's a person I care about, which I don't think many people do about me on here."
Sometimes you just have to do it for yourself. No one might turn up, but you have to vent RL frustrations in a tangible form in order to keep on top of them, and to not let them get you down. The people who give a damn will be there to offer advice.
"Flash has been hanging over me like a dark foreboding shadow, beckoning me to curdle back into her ghastly talons of tweening and patience."
Ah, Flash. I suck at it so much, and yet I keep on coming up with ideas that I know will never happen (due to a faulty laptop and poor skills). I can see it playing in my mind, but when I'm sitting down with my laptop, I'll lose patience and pick up my DS. And the thing is, I know how it works. I know how to animate, and I can animate, but I just lose momentum by the time Flash is done loading. It's a problem being primarily interested in making music videos on Flash when your laptop has no audio; a nightmare when trying to sync events with beats.
It must feel good being able to submit your own work and for it to be valued.
There's nothing sad about getting excited about reaching daily 2nd/FP. I'd be overjoyed just getting a score of +3 on a Flash of my own creation.
And yeah, I know how you feel about the voices. I cringe inside whenever I try to record something and it comes out wrong, or my mic becomes loose and I hear "KRRRRRRRRRRH" throughout the whole recording.
"Seems a bit of a waste even loading up MSN nowadays, seeing as I only really talk to about 3 different people (don't hold me to that number). "
Yeah, you know that you've got +100 contacts, about 70 who you never talk to, but you don't feel the urge to delete them. And so the list is messy.
It feels awkward having small talk with someone and then there is silence. It kind of discourages me from talking to the people that I don't really know. But it feels great when you have a good conversation and you feel closer to that person, and that you know them better. I hate convos that begin with small talk, followed by "Five this for me", or are even initiated with "Five this". You feel like a pawn in someone's army, knowing that when you've done your task, then you are ignored. sonicmega was bad at this, but it's not been so bad now. I don't mind fivening something during a good convo, e.g. "Can you check this out?", but nowadays if people try to use me like that, I tell them to fuck off.
"Why am I writing all this? Good on you for anyone actually reading this far, I don't know what's got into me."
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"Was wondering if I should change my username to Wooper"
Nah, I prefer WilliWowza. People will eventually forget what a Wooper is. I find that Pokemon is a fad that went beyond the 90's, no offence. WilliWowza is original, and that makes it memorable.
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Off The Short Bus - (Leave a comment two sentences long) 20g
Yaldy, 20g. You should do this more often. :P
- Ops
7/30/08
surely the infamous Will has more to talk about now?
Yeah I do
7/24/08
I wanna see you buried alive.
And all the hotshot carrying on that you do
It's your only move
7/24/08
Bring a case of beers to my house, yes?
7/24/08
I hate you. Your awesome. >:(
Nah I'm not
7/13/08
Don't change it to wooper, personally I like your name, its cute. :3
And you should make more flashes, specially if it makes you happy.
One of the many things that makes me happy, the best thing is just knowing that other people are enjoying it too, nothing makes you feel better than thinking that you've brightened up someone's day that you don't even know.
7/12/08
I am a girl! i swear to you!
7/12/08
I read the entire blog in the voice of pikachu.
7/6/08
Hey WilliWowza, seeing how you are a fan of Dead Rising come to my blog to see Frank Ballpark movies. Frank west.
7/4/08
korn sucks shit
7/3/08
you should write a book about this willi, more people need to know about the WOOPER
7/3/08
Dat a radiation victim.
7/1/08
Just throw grenades at me.
7/1/08
That guy above me likes poop.
6/29/08
hello thar.
Hello here
6/28/08
CHIKORITA USED RAZOR LEAF!
6/22/08
Sorry about that post there.
6/19/08
SHOOP DA WOOPER
6/19/08
Your such a picwhore
You're such a whore.
6/17/08
I guess not. );
6/16/08
I really wish we could do something between us three (HAYF being the third).
There was a whole emptiness of potential after your party thread, which is probably the only thing that's made me hang on to the general forum in the hopes that something like it will come along again.
Ah well, we'll always have purple juice.
Woop!
We should, expect a good old MSPaint thread soon.....
6/16/08
Wooper is so hot.
6/15/08
Ha, you said IRL!
IRLand :D
6/14/08
SARAH
SARAH!
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
6/14/08
Woopers are nice and all but... I LIEK MUDKIPZ!
6/14/08
If it helps, I always liked you. :)
You make good points, 'mano.
6/13/08
Awards? Link?
6/12/08
Mudkips final evo and Gastrodon are better than wooper.
Regarding your blog, I like you.
6/10/08
You take negative comments from users you don't know seriously? You're too soft William.
6/9/08
That's a pokemon.
6/8/08
:3
:3
6/8/08
Nah, your name is great. It wouldn't be the same if you changed it.
You just keep doing what you're doing. From what I've seen you're work's great, just keep working.
6/7/08
CRAWLING IN MY SKIN!
6/6/08
Don't bother asking people whether you should change your username.
I've been there, what happens you think that you need to start again. You may ask people or just mention it. They'll say "NAW DUDE I'VE GOT USED TO LOOKING AT YOUR ALIAS BWA BWA BWA"
Then you'll forget about it and do something else like build a skyscraper made out of CD jewel cases.
6/6/08
Hai thar WilliWowza, you know who I'am?
6/6/08
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