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Comic-Con Aftermath, Blocked by China

Posted by TomFulp - August 1st, 2007


Big thanks to everyone who visited us at Comic-Con! It was a lot of fun and turnout keeps growing every year.


Our return flight ran late and the baggage claim took forever, so I didn't get home until 2am last night. Comic-Con might seem like a vacation, but it's a pretty grueling week - setting up a booth, standing in front of it for nine hours, then drinking for the rest of the night. Yeah it's a lot of fun, but it wears you out. At the end of each day, I would walk back to the hotel, give April a late-night call, sleep for 5-6 hours and start all over.


I had just started adjusting to Pacific time by the end, so now it's 2am EST / 11pm PST and I'm having a hard time falling asleep. It was never hard to fall asleep during Comic-Con; I shut down the moment I closed my eyes. Now I'm thinking about all the things I need to catch up on, the nearly 2,000 emails and PMs that I didn't already get through today. I think about how I need to get back to work on Castle Crashers, but I don't know what to do about all the emails and PMs, all of which I do read through. Not to mention I'm wasting my time writing this.


So I'm watching Current TV and I just noticed they changed "Google Current" to "InfoMania", thus removing the Google association. I wonder if Google wasn't comfortable associating themselves with political topics. On an unrelated note, Newgrounds has been blocked by the entire country of China. They apparently do that to a lot of sites, but it sucks nonetheless. Artists from China can't submit their stuff here without going through a proxie now. They also can't respond back and defend their government when I say it's COMPLETELY STUPID! They should focus their efforts on making sure competitors in the 2008 Olympics don't have to wear face masks from all the smog, rather than worry about what people say on the Internet.


I should go to bed.


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omgz omgz newgrounds doesnt censor shit! are citizens should not be exposed!

Why Does China Do This? Its Not Like We Are A Threat Or Something.. I Mean Holy Hell, Theres So Many Stuff In The Streets Of China That Should Be Fixed Yet They Rather Focus On Unimportant Stuff Like Banning Websites! And What So Wrong With Newgrounds? Sure, Theres A Mature Content Section, But Its Not The Main Part Of The Site! Maybe China Is Pissed That We Keep Making Fun Of Them In The BBS (Art Forum) In Other News.. I Guess I Missed Alot At Comic-Con. I Guess I'll Have To Go Next Year .. Oh Well.. I'm Tired Too.. Bed Time!

This is why I am proud to be an American. Government doesn't control what I do (although there are some nut jobs that would disagree). I submit movies of whatever I want, watch things I can't believe submitted by other people. I think that China should worry about other stuff then blocking websites. For one thing there is 1,321,851,888 people in china (according to Google). I say fuck their government. Oh well. Good luck getting some sleep Tom. I'm having some trouble myself =P.

Hope next comic con... im be there!!! hahaha

china-men got their hands on flash!!21.223edncc

Sleep, baby sleep. And think about who would Jesus bomb.

Pfft, they block everything on the internet because of all the copyright problems over there I bet.

I mean come on, they have a chinese knock off of Disney Land, for real, stolen characters from all over and even copying Mickey Mouse, claiming it's an original character who is a cat with big ears.

I wonder if China blocked youtube.

Eitherway comic-con sounds exciting, but exciting like a dream job so it's still work. :p
It'd be nice to see what it's like sometime.

So does this mean we can be incredibly hateful to the Chinese now? No one on NG is going to take offense now, except those white, bleeding-heart assholes who are offended by everything that is targeted toward anyone but themselves.

That's a real shame. There is so much artistic talent (and flash talent especially) in China. I was expecting Chinese talent to start submitting lots of quality stuff to Newgrounds as the site got out there more. I guess that isn't going to happen now :(

This means no more Xiao Xiao, haha, like hes actually put anything on here in years. I'm glad you guys didn't die or anything, I'm coming there next year, or the one after to meet you guys. I feel like I'm missing out on so much. It sucks that you have to waste your time going through PMs and emails though. I always feel bad when PMing you.

But hey, I got my first weekly award!

Fuck China. Bah.

Glad Comic-Con was awesome. It was pretty awesome watching the webcam, heh.

NOW GET BACK TO WORK MISTER :-D

Good night, tom, good night.

Can they really block off all of China from Newgrounds? I mean come on!

NG is blocked in China... because of no censors and adult content? Well here's something for China: ...I can't curse in Chinese, fuck. Anyway they've blocked every porn site known to man, every flash site, every site with video hosting, and all forums. As long as it's hosted from an American IP. There's a site out there with a list of all the sites China blocked.

the chinese government is so corupt. Who wouldent be with so many tiny yellow people working for you though? There like oompaloompas in a computer factory

at least all the flashes won't end up on chinsworld.com

The china thing is a thing they are putting in effect to limit internet usage there because of the so many kids that are constantly on.

I think they did something to limite internet use to 4 hours a day.

That would suck.
Welcome back Tom

PLEASE RESPOND TO MY MAIL! I'm desperate already! lol
I need my game on newgrounds!

Don't forget to eat pie before you go to bed, or maybe a muffin.....
MUFFINZ ROCK!!!!!!!

I had no idea that China had that kind of repression regarding censorship. Ironically I'm going to move to Beijing (I live in Mexico City) in a couple of months and I was planning to start doing flash games and movies and post them here on NG... seems like I gotta learn about proxys and shit like that. :(

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