Score: 9

"Stunning"

submission: Scenes From A Memory

date: September 6, 2006

This is a beautiful piece. It's starts realistic and becomes very abstract. Good choice of music too.

Great job.

Score: 7

"Funny sh-, er, stuff"

submission: Sesame Street Fun Time

date: August 9, 2006

That is some subversively funny stuff

Score: 8

"Fisty McBeefPunch!!!"

submission: Storm the House 2

date: July 22, 2006

Holy crap this game is fun even if it does get repetitive.

By level 30 i had so many Silo Workers shooting missiles that i didn't even need to play cuz my house was storm-proof.

But after level 40, i started playing again cuz Fisty McBeefPunch, though a totally unstopable / unfair weapon, it's way fun to smash the little guys.

Score: 7

"Cool video to a catchy tune"

submission: Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too

date: July 20, 2006

Very well-conceived visually

Score: 10

"Beautiful and profound"

submission: Engineered

date: June 7, 2006

Beautifully animated with stark visuals and a fascinating abstraction of a relevant social issue (eugenics)

Score: 10

"Perfect"

submission: CertainPeople I CouldName

date: May 17, 2006

You brilliantly captured the essence of the song and created a video just as awesome as any official TMBG music video.

It's funny cuz CPICN is one of the less-memorable TMBG songs, but your video, with is great characters and quirky animation, has forever improved this song for me.

This TMBG fan is now a fan of your work too.

Score: 6

"Impressive animation / disappointing message"

submission: "Dare"

date: May 17, 2006

oh man, where do I start?

I'm extremely impressed with the scope and quality of the visuals of your film, especially considering your tight production schedule. Your shot choice, camera work, and animation are spectacular.

And I am awed by your courage in attempting to convey a powerful message, but I am deeply DISAPPOINTED by the ultimate implications of your film.

You had me until the end.

Despite your response to a previous reviewer who noted (quite correctly) that "you don't have to be religious to be a good person" you ARE undeniably implying that religion, specifically the Christian religion, is a necessary "step" in becoming a moral contributor to human society.

You, through your character, are SO CLOSE to successfully delivering a powerful humanist message, that WE HUMANS should LOVE our fellow man, regardless of race, gender or creed.

Your character took that extra step to break free of an insulated life and began a journey of change.

But then he took a giant leap BACKWARD when he reached for that Bible.

I was a Christian for over 20 years and I read the Bible many times through Christian eyes, finding hope and divinity within its pages.

But then something happened.

Education opened my eyes and I discovered science and rational thought. After learning to think for myself and losing all faith in fraudulent superstitious nonsense, I read the Bible again with a clear mind and uncorrupted heart, and this time I realized that the Bible is one of the most despicable, hateful, disgusting books ever written. Now I get physically ill just knowing that millions upon millions of people that world over look to this evil document as a source of spiritually and morality.

In case you've forgotten just how evil the Bible can be, I suggest you reread the following passages which are especially frightening to all non-Christians:

Deuteronomy 13:8-10 (God commanded all believers to kill all non-believers, even your family and friends)

Matthew 10:33 (Jesus "disowns" all non-believers)

Luke 12:10 (again, Jesus "disowns" all non-believers and declares "blasphemy" as an UNFORGIVABLE sin)

Jesus himself says mere words are sinful enough to never be forgiven and yet God CONDONES or even COMMANDS all the evil deeds committed by humans in these passages:

Genesis 22:1-19 (human sacrifice ordered by God)

Leviticus 20:10-27 (gay-bashing and murder)

Numbers 31:31-40 (war, rape, murder and slavery commanded by God)

Deuteronomy 21:10-14 (more war, rape, murder and slavery commanded by God)

Judges 19:22-29 (misogyny, rape, murder)

Romans 1:26-27 (gay-bashing)

These are just a few examples off the top of my head of the horrible evils committed in the name of God in the Bible. If you read the Bible from cover to cover, Old Testement and New, you will discover countless more.

That said, I "dare" you and everyone who agreed with the Christian message in your film to take the next TRUE step to becoming a better person and THINK FOR YOURSELF!!!

If you feel the need to believe in something, believe in SCIENCE. The scientific method allows anyone and everyone to TEST the world around them, EVALUATE what it real and KNOW what is TRUE.

The Bible is a MYTH, but the social problems that you depict in your film are REAL, and it frightens me to think of all the time WASTED on worshiping an imaginary friend instead of truly helping our fellow man.

I think you truly have talent and vision. My hope (not prayer) is that you awaken from your delusion and discover that true morality comes from within.

peace

Score: 7

"Great timing"

submission: Peer Pressurized

date: April 19, 2006

I pretty much expected the punchline based on the title (which is perfectly punny) but your timing is really what caught me off guard.

Great little short.

Score: 5

"Not bad, but the original Music Vid is better"

submission: (DHC) Move Your Feet

date: April 11, 2006

This is a fun little music vid, but the original 8-bit music video by Shynola is much much better.

Score: 7

"Fun but a little glitchy"

submission: Stinky Bean

date: April 8, 2006

Fun, stylish, but there are definitely glitches.

I played it twice and it glitched out both times when I fell while fighting the "Death Tree"

I respawned off screen, so I couldn't move back on screen and my life meter actually dropped to -1 (negative one).

Fix the glitches and I'd play it again.