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[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 001]

Hurrah, the first ep!

Great to see a promising new series like this on NG. I took a look at your profile and saw that you made a 80 day Adolf Hitler series, wow. I'm going to have to watch them all sometime. As for now, let this new AH/Pokemon series go on!

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

I wonder how many you'll watch before you get bored of them ;)

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 002]

Will Hitler capture them all?

Hitler's quest to be the best is going quite well! I'll vote five on this series as long as they continue to be released. If it gets to the 151st episode (I doubt it'll get to 493 unless he starts capturing more than one per show), you'll have earned mad respect for perseverance by me and the rest of NG.

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Professor Rubeus Hagrid is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling. The character is usually addressed only by his surname. Hagrid is the Keeper of Keys and Grounds, the gamekeeper and, starting in Harry's third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the Care of Magical Creatures teacher there.

In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Hagrid is mentioned as being twice as tall as the average man (roughly 3.5 metres, 11½ feet) and nearly three times as wide but in the movie his height is mentioned as 8 foot 6 (roughly 2.6 metres). He loves animals and magical creatures, particularly those that are unusual or dangerous. Rowling has said that Hagrid has little interest in tamer magical creatures because of the lack of a challenge, although he has a cowardly, abeit large dog (boarhound) named Fang.

He is one of the first characters to imply that the idea of thinking of wizards as "pure-bloods" and "half-bloods" is a dated concept. Hagrid is known for his thick West country accent.

In the film adaptations of the Harry Potter novels, Hagrid is played by Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane. Rowling has said that when writing the first Harry Potter novel, she imagined Coltrane in the role.

His name, Rubeus, has two meanings in Latin, one meaning "red" or "reddish" and the other meaning "of the bramble", both accurate descriptions of his appearance. "Hagrid", according to Rowling in an interview with The Boston Globe,[1] comes from an old English word "hagridden", meaning to have a nightmarish night, particularly when hung over; Hagrid is known to be a heavy drinker. In Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, the word is represented as typical Wessex slang and appears in the same passage as "Dumbledore", a local term for "bumblebee".

Hagrid was the first member of the Hogwarts staff to be introduced to Harry before he began attending the school.

[I Love You Daddy]

Lovely.

Everyone enjoys a heartwarming tale of a son who loves his father enough to create artwork for him. Even if the father is abusive and ends up kicking his son like a football... but it was predictable. If there was a little more to it than just him kicking his son, then it would have been more enjoyable. Perhaps the son should have come back with a chainsaw? ;)

Frax responds:

I'm working on a comeback. Longer one though :)

[Dad's at Work]

Very pleasing on the eyes

I realized something after watching Dad's at Work, which is you don't need to expend a large amount of effort on drawing, rather, the animation is where it's at. I noticed that the art is very simple and most people with an average I.Q. could have drawn the same things, but you put your work where it counted: tweening and motion. You over-trained one aspect of flash-making and it worked out very well.

I like the 'powered-up' version of Dad where his bald head bursts in flames, however it didn't showcase any of his extra abilities while doing so. I don't think he really needs it, considering how hyper he always is. Perhaps you meant it as more of an 'On-a-Roll' kind of thing?

I'd like to congratulate you for your effort, and I look forward to the next installment.

[Thwomps: The Movie]

Hard work truly does pay off!

It may have taken months of hard work, but the result was worth it. I was actually entertained by this flash, more so than I would have had I been watching your average comedy sitcom on television. The perfect mixture of humor, random events, skillful animation and originality make this one of the best sprite flash movies ever made. When I was a child, Super Mario World was one of the first video games that I played. I never would have guessed that one day someone would devote enough of their time and work from the very sprites of that video game to make such a random and entertaining piece. On behalf of all the people who enjoyed Super Mario World back when it first came out, thank you.