We’ve got a Newgrounds day for you today!

For those of you who have never been, Newgrounds is a website that used to be devoted entirely to flash artists – games, animations, that sort of thing. More recently, they’ve also added the ability for artists to upload instrumental music.

Many of the more popular games and animations and whatnot tend to find their way to Newgrounds, if not originate from there. I may actually be referencing this site relatively often for ICYMI, but here’s some for you guys to check out today:

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Welcome to ICYMI 2. Let’s jump right in, shall we?

Parkour (and also Banlieue 13): Parkour is something you may have seen before, but didn’t know it was something of an organized activity with a large following. It was developed by a guy named David Belle, who served in the French firefighting response unit, but also had a lot of experience in athletics, gymnastics, and all sorts of things that basically help develop you into a goddamn ninja.
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An idea I’ve had for a long time while contributing to Saate.net is making a regular feature called “In Case You Missed It,” where any time I think of things I’ve seen, or run into new things, that I think are interesting or at least very much worth your time, I could just make a little collection and comment on them. Well, I unfortunately haven’t been writing them all down, but here’s some to get you started:
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While recently researching how to properly gem my mutilate rogue, since I hadn’t played it since about December or January (and even then, it was primarily for PvP), I couldn’t find a response that didn’t involve the phrase “get a spreadsheet.”

It took me about 2 hours to download, comprehend, and then get all my gear put in (since almost half of what I was wearing was not included with the gear list). I did notice, however, that there was an option to toy with raid buffs and whatnot and see how it would affect your expected DPS.

So I decided to toy around and see what would give the biggest DPS increase – better gear or raid buffs?
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Also Known As: Why Spelling and Grammar Matter On The Internet.

OK, so we don’t really know that many people who type things like that (as much as it may seem like it), but there is a much more common phrase I see on almost any forum or place of public discussion. Generally it’s when someone fails to write in the English language to the point that you actually have to slow down your reading because your brain is busy making heads or tails of the message instead of just browsing through it.

“lol dis not english test speling dosnt matter”

This is primarily an attitude that has cropped up with “the texting generation,” for which I feel embarrassed to be on the border of. Might I offer the following thoughts about texting (fair warning, it’s from the Boondocks, so if you are easily offended by language… Well, what are you doing reading one of my posts, anyway?):
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So you’re an ICC raider, eh? You say you hate how long it takes to get the Gunship started after everyone’s on board?

Then, I CHALLENGE YOU, SIR! How many times can you bounce in the air without landing using the gunship’s rocket pack? Keep in mind, most guilds probably aren’t going to wait around for you to get your best, so do it right the first time!

Here’s my best, so far:

Let me begin with the assumption that if I say RealID, everybody knows what I’m talking about. Now just in case you no speaka da English you don’t keep up on news, let me link you to a few articles so you can get yourself caught up on what the hell is going on.

What the @$#% is RealID

RealID for the forums

Whoops, no RealID for the forums

You back? Great.

So to summarize, Blizzard is very aware of this concept, courtesy of Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins over at Penny Arcade:

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