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25/8/08 - Temporary Database Failure
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If you couldn't get on in the last 2 days it was due to the harddrive the MySQL database was on failing and us having to replace it. Sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.
In other news the promised site updates are still a few more weeks away, hold tight =)
This site is now going through a complete overhaul, all the code will be re-written from scratch, and a fair ammount will be redesigned. ETA: ~~Next 3 weeks.
Thank you to everyone who visits, uses, submits and enjoys this website, its been a wonderful past 4 years- please stay with us, all will be well soon =)
That said, we need your help! If you have any ideas or suggestions to make this place the best it could be, please leave a comment on this post =D
Happy 4th Birthday PhrozenFlame.com! And an awesome 2008 to you all!
Will be site updates over the next 24 hours, and theres currently a bug in the submission system that will be fixed shortly. Edit: Bug fixed, content and site updates still coming!
First up we have something about halo, since it was released today (I think?)- Halo: Future of Gamng, and this one from alexlabbe, Halo: Lost in Time; Check out alex's first though.
Next we have two of the funniest youtube vids i've seen in a while: Bush vs Zombies, and Fight for Kisses. In more youtube videoland, we have some very talented people, an acappella doing nintendo tunes and this guy who can play music with his hands! If you think it starts out good, just wait for the tetris acting ;)
In site news, brennan has been busy converting the EgoCity videos into format playable on a flash, will post a link soon, if not keep your eyes peeled on the ipstudios site.
Now for our segment of whacky news stories: Google generally has pretty crazy ideas, but their new competition aims for the moon! Thats right, build a ship, land it on the moon and win 30 million.. yes thats going to happen someday >.> We also have the australian army giving away free tanks. Then theres this cop who was being a jackass to a kid, but got video taped doing it and is now suspended =)
Last but not least we have the greatest puppet show on earth, definately click it!
It's been a while since the last update so sorry about that, but i'll try to catch up on all the posts I missed. Since Transformers are upon us, i'm going to start with threetransformervids (each of those were a different link); I think the last one is probably the coolest out of the three.
Next we have POWERTHIRST, the most ultimate energy drink. (Also the most ultimate youtube vid of the week)
Also if you can read tiny tiny things, check out guimp, the world's smallest website. It comes complete with pacman and a playable piano!
Lastly dutch students have developed powdered alcohol, and heres a showcase of the world's largest digger (wow!).
So it's been a little while since I posted last and the pile of stuff to post about is getting a bit big. First of all I have an exciting announcement to make and thats that Kaos is back, and hes finished Megaman X OLB ep. 8, which I know people were asking for on the forums, and it will be up shortly. Also, You should all check out alexlabbe's new vid Prehistorik: Episode 2.
Now onto the funny viral vids going round- First we have Zeroes which is a parody of one of my fav shows, Heroes. Then theres a video of a belgian talk show host interviewing a person who had his testicles removed by accident, pretty funny. Then theres two youtube vids, ones a dave chappelle clip thats funny as and a vid of someone on a treadmill.
Now onto the world of bizarre, funny and interesting news articles- Theres one about sixth graders who had sex in class, a computer tech accidently deleting an account worth $48 billion when doing maintenence, and a grieving couple who commited suicide after their dog died. Finally theres one article about even more old people playing the Wii and what microsoft got upto on PS3's release night.
Somewhere hidden deep inside a physics lab on a secluded island, unknown to the rest of the world, a physicist yells a triumphant 'ah-ha!'. A spectacular beam of light bursts out of a photon thruster, and a space fighter breaks a hole through the lab walls, zooming into space at the speed of light. Space Invaders begins.
Well not really, but we're getting that much closer :O It even *looks* cool
This week's topic is mostly on game related stuff; A few interesting articles have been posted lately. Gamepro's done one on Gaming Myths, where they've tryed to disagree with 14 of them, it's good, though i dont agree with them on the PC-FPS thing- i'm definately pc-biased. Gamasutra have done an article on games that have changed the way we think about multiplayer. Theres also a cool study thats been done suggesting that surgeons who play videogames are more skilled. In other news, HL2 episode 2 has been delayed again, now to 3rd quarter this year.
Ofcourse what gaming post would be complete without more news about the Wii, this time with old people in retirement homes playing it. Also, someones started working on a mod to use the Wii-mote with normal PCs, in a mod for HL2.
Last but not least is this weeks youtube links people sent me- Punchy and Robot Chicken: Grand Theft Mario. The second is a lot funnier than the first for me, but depends on your humor ;)
The company that hosts us was retiring the server we were on so they moved us to a new server and some settings are different, more than that there have been patchy periods today whilst we were being transfered. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused everyone though it was really out of our hands. Also we're trying to fix all the parts of the site that were broken under the new settings so if you see anything broken can you please let us know and we'll get right on it. We're trying to fix it all but we don't always spot everything thats broken. Leave comments to this post please, thanks.
Update: All systems SHOULD now be go, remember to let us know about any problems you find
Oh my gawd. This demo is mad, it came out lastnight so go download it now, but this game will be absolutely awesome. I was a bit apprehensive at first since i'm a longtime c&c series fan and i was worried they may mess it up, but they did well. It feels just like the old c&c and a bit of red alert =D Download. Play. Pre-Order.
Decided to make a short summary of the whole 'box' viral- back in December Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg (from SNL) made a video about a special xmas box, which was as funny as hell. And then a girl, made a spoof 'My Box in a Box' which was even funnier. Then they revelead the girl was actually 2 girls and then the Box sold itself on eBay for $1,525. If you never saw any of it, go watch now ^_^
In other youtube viral news, theres the Phone Experiment, something about Bush, and How Women Treat Men. If you're looking for something thats just plain wierd then theres this news story.
I also thought this guy is awesome, and I thought I already made a post about him but looks like I missed a week. Going into the retro side of things theres someone playing with old printers, people using shiny helmets, aaand the remanants of the old atari console. Last but not least, I leave you with strangeness of having a National Public Toilet Map- thats Australia for ya.
So my friend linked me a lil while ago and it cracked me up for ages. Its a short vid about animals that are better than you, watch it, now.. or it'll eat you. Then theres this video about sulphur hexafluoride, at first its not that cool, but watch the floating bit at the end and be amazed.
Also on the list of cool, is the Human Clock, basically they have pictures of people with the time written manually for every minute of the day, pretty funky. Last but not least I got told about the MonkeySphere, its interesting so take a look.
So I thought i'd make an update about all the links people have sent me the last week or two.. and I think i'll probably keep doing it every few weeks. First up is a Zazz.com.au its this site with a sorta unique way of selling things- they sell one cool thing a day, they ussually get it cheaper than most places you'll find because they get it in bulk, but they only sell one product a day. It could sell out before 1 am, it could stay til 9 at night, but they are ussually pretty cool. Todays was a usb mp3 pen, I missed out unfortunately.
Then theres this guy selling his life on ebay. And heres holden (car company) advertising on a air blimp, with a giant **76 foot** digital screen, tell me you have seen a tv that big before =O. Finally, more news from the wii folk- you've all heard everyone comment on maybe using it as excersize, and now heres proof.
Thats right, we've been up on the internet for 3 whole years =D And what a fun 3 years it has been. We've changed quite a lot from what we started with, and grown quite a bit. Some of you who have been with us since the beginning (and we love you so much!) may remember this- what we looked like in our first year.
Some awesome facts- over the last 3 years, we have had over 2.3 million visitors (you heard me, MILLION), over 1200 flash and games, nearly 13 thousand forum posts and over 3200 members! And we couldn't have done any of that without you, so thank you, and we hope you keep visiting us for years to come =)
So congratulations to deucenine, lenz, true_darkness, hadouken_dude, samuraijazz, and stooge. Winners will be contacted about their prizes via email.
We also have some exciting news for everyone, we've opened the PhrozenFlame.com store. Go check out all the funky products available. Prices are what they are because thats what CafeShops.com charges to make them, commision is very low so we aren't trying to rip you off- we just want you to have cool stuff =D. As part of the birthday celebrations I sent off PF T-Shirts to all the studios we host (our staff in a way :P). Since these were the first ones made they didn't turn out as good as i'd hoped but we'll be putting some pictures of us wearing them soon, so watch out ;)
Also as part of the bday updates, we're opening the profile pages (in beta) so everyone can see- take a look at your profile page on the link on the left (when logged in). Or if you're lazy you can see someexamples of other peoples. A few of the features like the Gallery aren't available yet, but hopefully sometime next week we plan to update this. We will also be releasing another skin (much better looking), where you can customize your page soon hopefully too. Currently you can blog, view basic profile info and sign a guestbook.
To support the profile pages, we had to make a new submission console, aptly named Console2 =P It will be the new hub for updating everything to do with your account in the future, and can currently manage your flash and your profile info. A more exciting part of this is the Collab Tool (also in beta), where we provide some webspace for you and your friends to be able to work together on a project. It currently lets you upload files, make a todolist and post text updates. The collab tool will be improved and explained in more detail (probably with a short guide) in weeks to come.
Well its christmas time so we wish you all some very happy holidays. And if you get time between your relatives and your presents, we have stuff for you to take a look at =P Heres some flash to enjoy, some new, some old, but they're all good and go with the xmas theme =)
I also have a few links to share which people have sent to me over the past few weeks. The first is about what people seem to have done with the Wii; now that console is a LOT of fun to play with a few friends, as long as you dont break your tv. Also these guys have drilled through a laptop for the sake of it. And finally the most hillarious starwars-related video ive seen in a long time- George Lucas in Love; It might be a bit old but its still great to watch.
Oh and time is running out to get your entries in for the Flash Festival, so get a move on if you plan on entering =P
Okay summer hols are here now (for me at least), its' winter for most of you I think. Regardless, I thought it was a good time to get back to updating. I've got a bunch of links i've been told about to share on here. First off is Basshunter's videos/music, hes a swedish singer/dj and his music and videos are very net-influenced :P You'll know what I mean when you see it.
Then there is a fundraiser site where you design snowflakes (its a flash site) for charity, i think they are aiming to get something like 4 million snow flakes, at which point the company will donate $5000 to charity. It doesn't cost anything so just go help out, only takes a second. There has also been a lot of funny videos going around, such as FastFood Freestyle on youtube. Also check out this funny phone call with a telemarkter =) Finally, this video certainly brings back memories of the days when everyone went on chatrooms, and this guy shows off an awesome job of drawing a car in MS Paint- a must see.
Since its hols, expect some work on the site soon. And if you haven't read up on the competition we're running, check that too. We've had a few entries already, though I wont feature them til the comp closes. In more local content, take a look at this trailer-
For those of you who haven't heard that a sequel to this is coming out, you are slow. For everyone else, I found some more reason for you to be excited about it =D C&C3 is set to feature an all-star cast for all its live action cut-scenes, the original actor for Kane is back ofcourse, but to fill all the other roles in the game, there are actors who have stared in Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Starship Troopers, Wedding Crashers, Top Gun and theres even a former Miss Universe winner in it. You can read up on the details here.
I for one am a huge fan of the series and can't wait til they release it.
Huh? Flash Festival? Yes folks it's approaching the end of 2006 and we at PF wanted to put something special together to reward the community that keeps this site running. In previous years we have presented the PhrozenFlame Best Of awards, sadly this will not happen for 2006; instead we will be running the all new Flash Festival 2006!
This year your favourite flash authors can submit their work to the flash festival, after which a shortlist will be generated for your voting convenience! Prizes will be awarded based on such and such over several categories totalling at nearly $200! So if you're an author, get working!
Entries close on 28th of December 2006 12AM EST ready for the community to begin voting on 2nd of January 2007! Interested? Find out more
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