User:RETROnoob
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| Join date 26th April 2008 | |
| Birthdate November 1991 | |
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Introduction
Hey, RETROnoob here. I joined in April 08 and after making a few sites I became obsessed with this wonderful world and haven't left my room since. I like retro games and I'm a ytmnd noob lolol but I'm learning something new about this place each day (eg today I descovered how to use the wiki).
Early days
Sign-up
I was introduced to ytmnd by GWSampy about a month before I became a user when he sent me random funny sites on msn. At first I thought it was just a few weird sites that some guy had made up until I found out there was a front page and this huge community of users that I had no idea about. So I started visiting the site out of my own interest and got familiar with the basic ins-and-outs. After a while I got that craving to get in on the whole thing and make my own site, so I made an account and made some shoddy "lol internet" parody using Back to the Future.
As a user around April/May I was a pretty huge noob. Most of my sites were based on old fads that no one seemed to like anymore and when people complained I got very hostile in my confusion. Though experienced in Photoshop I was still learning the basics of Animation Shop so my sites looked pretty scratchy. But I was still driven by the fun of making these sites. It was a great outlet for short random humour (even if noone was laughing lol).
The sync fiasco
After a while I made my first "big" site that stayed on the up and coming for 5 days (Kaz tries to sell PS3 to some pirates) but some people were complaining that it was off-sync. This confused me because I had yet to realise that IE and Firefox play gifs at different speeds. I was also clueless on the fact that IE has a gif frame limit of 10fps. Then I made another site was very badly off-sync. I tried fixing it loads of times but it never worked. I just didn't understand how things worked properly and as time went on I continued to make bad synced sites (most of which got deleted) and even had a "one weakness" site made about me lol: RETROnoob has one weakness. Eventually I figured out the whole firefox IE sync thing and now my syncs are finally okay.
Other users
After becoming a fairly regular ytmnd user, other users became familiar and I began to interact. This was probably the most interesting part of joining ytmnd. All the different "characters" around lol. Got some encouragement from ZipZinger. Fourest helped with syncs over IM. Umfuld gave me the lowdown on Fourest's endevours XD, plus gave me some good advice and showed me the Spy. Oh and descovered downvoters >_>. I was slowly learning about the strange community that surrounded the sites.
Brief obsession
Once my exams were over I found myself with alot of free time on my hands. My activity and subsiquent obsession with ytmnd grew as most of my life outside the site ground to a hault and I began chuckin out about 3-4 sites a day. Eventually I wore myself out and then took a break from the site for several weeks, returning refreshed and with less of a craving to make sites 24/7.
Me as a user
My usual stuff includes Back to the Future, Futurama, Nintendo and pixar stuff (mostly Toy Story). Also I enjoy getting in on a good fad as some of you may know but I do some "original" material too lol. I like to think that I have an ability to make good sites now. I've been on the up and coming quite a few times since I joined though my consistancy in good sites is lacking somewhat. Ideas come to my head and I ytmnd 'em. Sometimes they're good and sometimes they're.. not so good. But I'm gradually learning what makes a good site and where my strengths lie.
Generally I tend to vote kinda high on most sites, probably because I'm new and wotever. I usually judge sites on how funny they are and the quality of the editing (if any). I'm a sucker for moonman though and I'm not a fan of faggot PSA or wotever its called.
Most of my stuff is made on Pinnacle Studio 11, then converted into gif where I use Jasc Animation Shop 3 to get it synced and compressed to the 1.5mb mark. I also use Photoshop for some of my sites and edits.
Other interests
I do some video editing and over at youtube where I do more back to the future parodies and some Drwho whenever the new series is on. I'm hoping to get a job doing something in graphic design when I'm older. My site has all my graphic designy projects and wotnot. Also, I enjoy making video games every now and then using "The Games Factory 2", usually done in the style of old atari or NES games.
Fav users
Everyone else has one so what the hell. Favourited for their work or just themselves - In no particular order:
...it's short but I'm still new
