You wanna know why you're a success?
Because you didn't give up.
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Animation is great for so many reasons...whether you're looking to reconnect with your past, to express an opinion, dream, or thought, or to just make people laugh :)
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When I was younger, I believed strongly that success could be chalked up to a brief spell of brilliance, almost as if the stars had aligned for an individual in a specific moment. As I've grown older, I've noticed that the greatest indicator of success isn't talent, luck, or good timing, but consistency. It's rare that anyone can consistently produce very good or excellent work over the long term, but that same consistency is rarely appreciated. Thanks for the warm welcome back!
I absolutely loved (and still love) your Mario parodies, and it's pretty cool to see a new blog post from you! I can definitely relate to those late nights of animating and the memories, and the sensation of accomplishment/productivity behind them. It's something I've recently tapped back into, and it's been absolutely thrilling. NG and flash seems to be a beautiful nexus of memories for a lot of people, and it's truly special how much it matters to so many people to this day.
Thank you, and it's great to hear similar sentiments about how valuable NG was for them in their formative years. To get back into it is even better!
I love this post and am happy to hear you're doing well! It's nice to imagine everyone who's ever been a part of NG is now doing well and enjoying fond memories of the site.
Thanks Tom. I remember you posting about NG growing as a community into the real world back in the late 2000s/early 2010s. The older I get, the more I realize how unique and special the Newgrounds and Flash animation years were for me. Like you mentioned, I'm sure the feeling is mutual for many others who stumbled upon your website. Wishing you all the best.
I come back to these videos so often over the years. They are so nostalgic to me, and remind me of a time that I dreamed of working in games or animation.
I am currently a Social Work Major in my Junior year. It has nothing to do with my original dreams but I find myself driven by a bigger purpose to help others. To spark a little joy in their life. The little things I can do that can make an impact.
Your content has that same impact on me. And your posts solidify that even more to me. Dreams can change, for necessity or by choice. But we can still the joy in the past, and let it drive our present to make a happier future.
So thanks for the years of joy that constantly revisiting your videos does for me, and for so many others.
Thank you so much for the kind words. Good luck with your studies and with everything else going forward.
You're UOTD today so congrats for that.
Your content here speaks for itself. I haven't been here all that much longer than you and it's good to see more people from around our time come back with more regularity.
I am also a lifelong New Yorker whose path might have crossed yours. I am from NYC, Queens specifically, as has been the case for 98% of my life.
I went to New Paltz for school and spent plenty of time in Lake Minnewaska years before, during and after. What used to be LeFevre Hall on campus is now Shawangunk Hall, renamed due to political correctness. My dorm was in the basement.
Likewise, Hasbrouck is no longer Hasbrouck. Darold (the fat black dude who would accept or deny our entry in) passed away and a memorial to him is outside the dining hall. Fatbob's and Barnaby's closing are just examples of the changes that have happened in the main town.
I have also spent a lot of time at Stony Brook though not as a student. Two of my close friends live together in a cottage at Port Jeff and one still goes to school at Stony Brook after a transfer from Suffolk. He never lived on campus but I often see him regularly with a select group at H-Quad. The Village Center is usually quite relaxing and chill.
I've been to all 62 counties in the state but most of my travel is between Dutchess County and Suffolk County. I know New Paltz is in Ulster County and I continue to go there too when visiting my parents who live in Poughkeepsie. Few people know that I was the first regular passenger to ride the UPL when it was brand new.
Hopefully everything works out.
Thanks Gory, I remember your alias from yesteryear. Cool that you went to NP also...the way you described Darold as the gatekeeper of "HAZ" is spot on. I remember him passing away and I've heard about the PC names they've donned on the old halls. And yes it was weird to walk around Main St. recently and not see The Groovy Blueberry, Rock da Pasta, or Fat Bob's anymore. I appreciate the trip down memory lane. Good luck to you as well.
can you bring dumbass mario back, still pissed those whiny ding dongs at EGB took it down
it's crazy how time flies eh? I still come back to those old animations from time to time thinkin of the simpler and easier times mang. much love and glad to see ya still pushin through life in a lotta ways.
Thanks bud I hope you're doing well also.
Hey Jeremy!
My name is Tim. I never posted anything on Newgrounds, but I spent countless hours on here probably around the ages of 8 to 14 or so (~2005-2011) watching/playing flash movies/games just like yours with my friends. One friend in particular, also named Jeremy, is still my best friend after knowing each other since the age of 3 (though we live in different states as adults now), and we still reference your stuff to each other occasionally. Your videos specifically are very fond, vivid, childhood memories of ours. I was just thinking of you for some reason, and decided to look you up. It's honestly so cool to see a different side of you, being the real you, I suppose. Thanks for making this post.
I grew up on games like Mario and Sonic, and just about any funny content online about these types of properties were absolute gold to me. I believe this is what initially brought me to your videos, but I definitely stayed for the pure quality of animation and comedy you somehow came up with in such an early period of the internet. Your videos were unique, not only because I could follow you specifically by looking for a "made by Jeremy Simms!" credit at the beginning, but also because they were so consistently exceptional. Your use of references was unlike anything I had ever seen at the time, and you did it so well.
Since I was so young at the time, most if not all of the sound effects and songs you used in your videos (gags using Star Wars, Looney Toons, countless movie lines, etc.) were brand new to me, meaning I typically didn't understand the reference or see them coming, and this amplified the hilarity of the moment, every time. Truly, I think being unaware of what I would now consider well-known memes made everything you threw in feel so fresh. And it stuck with me in association to your content. Now, as an adult, every time I hear R2D2 scream, I think of Mario getting poked from behind by that flying enemy. Or every time I hear a Homer Simpson "D'oh!" I think of the D'oh fish (Homer's "wahoo!" as well). The list goes on. I swear to God, even Bohemian Rhapsody and Enter Sandman. I think of you and these videos. The sprites themselves! Super Mario Land and World sprites were created by you in my headcannon.
It blows my mind people could do so much with these programs in a time without nearly any help online, especially compared to now when it's nearly infinite. Truly a marvel.
Creators like you got me out of my shell as a kid and influenced me to get more into posting my own videos on YouTube, as well as getting into animation in general. If you'd like to see, my most recent works are on YouTube.com/TimTacTV (my own page) and YouTube.com/edgeplus (page with friends from engineering college, only the charger teardown and Canada videos are mine), though I don't do a lot with it anymore. Lately, when away from being a Mechanical Engineer in the big city (wanted to be able to be creative in my career while also making OK money, it's worked out so far!), I've been working on a 2D RPG in Godot. Though I'm not to a presentable point just yet in this game, I look forward to hopefully someday creating devlogs for people to watch. The earlier videos of mine on different, older channels (talking about that 2005 era) are definitely cringe and I should probably unlist them, but going back to them every now and again reminds me of a time that was simpler and often happier. And believe it or not, your content was a strong part of that time for me.
Thank you for everything. Thanks for still being around.
Tim, thank you for such kind words and the walk down memory lane. I can relate to pretty much everything you mentioned as a now 32-year-old professional (the "real me" as you put it). I know there are plenty of times when I'm just going through life in a grocery store or at CVS and out of the blue a song I've used in a Flash comes on. Instantly I am transported to my bedroom as a 16-year-old making Mario cartoons until 4am and I can't help but smile. The Newgrounds community was my home during that time, and I have always felt that it was such an amazing "timing window" to be a part of.
Good luck with engineering, the RPG, and anything else you have going on. Happy New Year!
Might be a late post but I wanna say your Mario stuff was some if not best of the golden years for me on the net and I can watch anyone and laugh hysterically it's almost nostalgic! Thank you for that!
wow you got the same name as me
BF-Brix
Wow, what a post. I remember finding your Mario animations at least 6 years ago or more, and really enjoying them, then wondering where you went for years. Great to finally hear from you. You certainly had a wild ride through life, and I'm glad everything worked out okay for you. :) Also, may I ask what happened to the Super Mario Land animations of yours?
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Thanks for the kind words! Several animations were unpublished due to the copyright concerns of the soundtracks I used. NG needed to protect itself and rightfully so.