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TjA
Hi there! In case you didn't know, I created Tom Fulp. No, he wasn't made by some giant company - just two dumb people. He also co-founded the Behemoth; they made Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers. Yoink!

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The Perfect Audio

Posted by TjA - April 13th, 2008


To my fellow Newgrounders,

I felt i could not go on in this world anymore. I tried to do better and i kept failing to please people. After coming home from the pub (bar), i submitted some of my audio to the 'Newgrounds Audio Portal', i had been working on the audio for weeks, possibly months. I spent all my spare time writing, composing and testing different material, VSTi's and instruments. Though all this hard work, no, my life was put into this audio. After hitting the submit button and hearing the masterpiece play for the first time on Newgrounds i knew it, i knew it'd make history, if not changed the way Newgrounds would listen to music all together.

I was tired since i had spent 18 hours of the day putting the finishing touches to this audio, so i decided to get some sleep, with my new, now addictive audio playing while i slept. I dreamt of a visual image of my audio, and it was that which i saw, that which i perceived to be, a true deity. As i awoke, i was still captivated by my audios aura, if not a spiritual presence that it created around the room. I knew i had created a God, though not through thought or an artists interpretation, but through music.

As i sat there, staring into the screen while mesmerised by the audios tranquillity, in a true stat of euphoria, i felt as i was in nirvana, no, i was sure of it. I tries to get a grasp on the ever-fading reality around me, to see what kind of comments people had written, whether it was about how the audio had changed their life, perception of the world or even their soul. The mouse felt heavy, and my fingers were trembling, making me unable to use the keyboard to quickly refresh. I desperately in this state of pure-thought and relaxation, i knew i couldn't live on without this audio playing, so i scrolled over to the File in the internet window, and clicked with all of my strength on New Window, to create a copy, as soon as the new window appeared the audio began to play in duet.

I found the audios duplicate to sync perfectly, as if juxtaposed, despite this i wanted, i needed to click refresh, i needed to know what i accomplished, if i had truly helped other reach this level of pure happiness and fulfilment. I managed to reach the refresh button, my finger feel heavy, like it was being kept down by a unseen force, yet i managed with great determination to click it. The load seemed like years passing by, i feel my attention drifting, swaying, unable to control my thoughts and concentration. The audio in the other window was having an effect like the first, just as the window was about to fully load.

When i saw it, the audios page, i was horrified, i was faced with several reviews, all showing the same damning numeral that would haunt me, an assembly of zeros, starring at me with comments like "ii could make a better loop with my fist and a pencil..keep trying bro!", i was devastated, the now tranquil euphoria i had felt had now become a living nightmare. I wish i hadn't looked on to see a score of zero, the zeros now were laughing and taunting me, like open mouths, ready to devour my very soul. I was sweating, panicking, wondering what was happened, maybe it was a nightmare, maybe i truly hadnt woken up from my slumber. Though as hard as tried i couldn't wake myself up.
Maybe i wasn't asleep at all.

My soul, now belonged to the audio i had made, i fell to the ground from my chair. I saw a box cutter i'd been using on the the floor, without hesitation i grabbed it and proceeded to push the blade from the plastic sheath, i prepared my seppuku, as i had shamed myself. Suddenly, the door of my room opens haste-fully, my long-time friend standing there, in full grin. "You've come to mock me, also?" i said to him. He did not reply, only holding in what seemed to be a tsunami of laugher. In anger i demanded he did not spare me the sympathy. With a stutter of chuckles he bent down and took the un-sheathed box cutter from my resisting hand. "Wow, that really fucked you up." he said. I lay there, in silence, with confusion amongst my face. He friend continued, "You know when we were at the pub (bar), well me and some other thought it'd be funny to play a prank on you, and well you see, we put a tab of rohypnol and LSD in your pint while you were in the toilet". I was still lying on the the ground trying to absorb what he was saying. "You mean, you drugged me with LSD and date-rape pills?", i felt a surge of anger overcome me.
"Well... yes!" he replied, "It was just for a laugh. Hell, went i got back here you were passed out on your computer chair, listening to some crappy music, i thought it'd be best to leave ya" he said as he smiled.
I sighed a sigh of relief. "Then it was all the drugs doing... the creepy shit that happened?" i said.
"I guess."
"So then my audio didnt really have all zeros?"
"No, it does."
"Fucking zero voters, i'm so pissed off, i'm going to write a thread on Newgrounds."
"Yeah, you do that." he left my room, while i picked myself up from the floor.

Rule #10


Comments

XD, well written sir!

Thanks, i was pretty bored, and i kept seeing 0 voter topics so i guess that inspired me.

Genious. I fivened a few of your loops just because i lol'd when i read this story.

Thanks, though i didnt actually get zero voted

Win!

the date rape drugs weren't for a laugh.
I raped you.
sorry..

Hey TjA...

I read the whole thing and wow...
thats fucked up what your so called friend did to you.

ah well, basically what i'm going to say here is that even if you worked hard on your songs you should never give up. If you really have an ambition to learn audio...well hell then do it.

my audio sucks major ass and i still continue to produce. I do wish my audio sounded like others, but then i realize i'm not those other people and i try to make the best use of my brain.

You have a soul full of hate and i know how that it V.