Heya people of the interwebz! Ricardo here with some news for ya.

I have a Discord Server naw!

So for the past days I've been brewing up something special. Since I've still to figure out how to code an entire website, I've decided to make my own Discord server with some similarities to the Newgrounds BBS pre-General closure! How cool is that? You can join by clicking the link in the link listed in my profile that will invite you to the server.

However I recommend to keep this server as low in people using it as possible for now since I don't have the time now to fully manage a server, especially since I'm going to enter a course of music and programming at a local association to further become integrated in society, which, by talking with the teachers and people around campus, will lead me to get a job in an animation studio which I always dreamed of having. So as you see, I'm gonna be very busy having music and programming lessons to becoming a polyvalent, further giving me a reason to make a website, make my music here on Newgrounds and make professional animation and art too to post here, hence why I'll need to lay a bit off sometimes.

But I digress, next point is...

Need moderators for teh server!1!

Since I kickstarted my server now, I can't take care of the trolls and illegal bad people all by myself, which means I'll need some people to work for me to keep the server clean and shiny in reputation, which is why I need YOU guys to volunteer as mods to keep an eye out for intruders. If you guys or gals are willing to work for me as friends to keep an eye out for trolls and other undesirable people in my server, contact me in there and I'll level you up, just be sure to confirm to be willing to be fair and nice, to always follow the rules and never to be weird around people in the server. If you meet the requirements, then you are good to go!

Uncle Rick needs you to join The Aster Dood's BBS and Chat Service!

Keep in mind that some parts of the server are 18+ only, so do not access those parts if you do not meet the age required to enter those forums or channels!

That's all for now, I'll see you guys soon. Ciao! ^^

Heya people of the interwebz, Ricardo here with a quickie talkie for ya!

New animation released, bitches!!!

Quick announcement for all Newgrounders to see, I have published a new animation, called "The Strange Dream"!

It's a Flash animation I made as a passion project since March 2023, originally made for Flash Forward but didn't make the cut for feeling it would be too rushed.

It truly encapsulates Newgrounds' Flash animations from back in the 2000s, so I think many old NGers and new NGers alike with like it.

Go check it out, y'all! I tried my best with this one, so be nice pls. c:

Hello, people of the interwebz, doods and dudettes of all shapes n' sizes! Ricardo here with an update on things

Where have U been gone to?

So, besides me making my 21st birthday and having an emorional submission here on Newgrounds, you might be wondering "Ricardo, where have you been? You haven't posted much drawings for a while! Is something wrong?"

I'm glad you ask, little Tankjimmy! I'm just fine! The reason I haven't been posting much is that I've been changing stuff around where I live. We bought a vacation house 2 hours away from Lisbon to rest every now and then. We've been cleaning things up and moving things there to tiddy up our main apartment here in the big city since it has become a bit overcrowded. The house is really big, like really, REALLY big, but my wifi is really shitty since it's a town far away from civilization, almost close to Spain, so I couldn't make any uploads unfortunately. Other than that, everything's gone smoothly. My mental health is slowly regaining itself, I finally have an accoustic guitar (that needs some fixing), and I have more wisdom and knowledge on Adobe Flash CS6. Oh! Which leads to the next point!

Progress on the animation

After many months floundering and just drawing instead of doing my main goal, I decided to break the mold and once again return to making my passion project, "The Strange Dream". It's a Flash animation a la 2000s based around the AsterReicH universe that I've been working since March 2023, but have been delaying time and time again. I am not good at making deadlines, but I'm good at making teasers! I advanced a lot in my skills with the use of symbols, so now I have some sneaky-peakys to show ya. ;)

The project is around 89/94% complete, there is still some parts to clean up, some sounds to add to spice up the animation, maybe some additions to certain scenes to not look rough since some parts still use my old artstyle and the credits and bloopers. Also I will be adding a replay screen so you can still watch it whenever you feel like it, just to give that old Flash era feel to it. ;)

Closing thots!

So, here comes the closing thots! So, closing thots... I feel great! A good month thus far! The animation is going pretty great, grandma's over and is content with my content and being with me, I still am talking a lot with my bff @KhaosKitsune417, (Though I think we need to work on when we should talk since I wanna sometimes walk outside or talke a shower and eat. Don't worry, bestie, I still like u lotz, it's just time zones and my family's convenience, I'm sry! >,n,<) and overall my sanity and overall health is mucho bueno! Once I am done with polishing the animation and checking everything, I'll rst for a while on drawings and stuff, then out of nowhere I'll return like Don Sebastian I of Portugal in a foggy morning, but fr and not fake.

I'll see you guys on the animation's premiere! Sya! :)

-Ricardo

You better watch out then, he can fack you up prety bad if you steel his stones or his gunz... or his cootiepie gf. But m0st of the times he just dooz it for da lulz, BUT STILL! He can make you goofy ass fall down da stahz when you try to be all suppahhero and BOOM!! It EPIC FAILs you to oblivion. Then bye bye, loser bitch LMAO get fucked!! XD

Oh my... n-naughry girl. >////<

They sometimes are like this, the two little lovebirds like teasing themselves a lot.

They have a malewife/girlboss dynamic, into gentle femdom too. Lewd, I know...

Hello, people of Newgrounds and the interwebz!! Welcome to another update from your dood Ricardo to explain some new shit!!

My time in Canada

So, my time in Canada, how was it? I'd say myself that I had a pretty fun time!

Instead of spending all day on the PC, I instead went through many places. I went to the Tower, made an hour and half trip to the Niagara Falls, took some photos in Dundas Square at night and overall spent time with my dear father, since he lives there right now, atleast ever since my mom's divorce, but I don't wanna dwelve too much into that.

I also ate... like, a lot, even if it was in majority healthy food. I gained a total of 3 kilos total (I don't rly know the Imperial system, sorry US bros), luckily I am now on a diet and have been exercising again ever since I put my foot on the New World. It was a worthy good time to be with my dad and gramps. Sad that I didn't see @ninjamuffin99 in time since he was in Philly working for the beep boop game. Also sad that I can't be in Toronto for the NG meetup. Oh well, some other time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Btw, here's some pics to confirm my stay over there. Caught in 4K! xp:

(It was windy in the Falls here, hence the fucked-up hair lol)

The CN Tower in all its glory, with its surrounding buildings)

(a drawing I made for my dad as a gift, with tons of Ricardo's in it :p)

Update on things and other fat depressing stuff

Now for other matters, sorry if I've not posted any drawings for a while, my sleep schedule has been recently fucked cuz of the time zones, and for that combined with some of the junk food and lack of exercise left me a bit depressed and gloomy again. I'll get to it in time, but for now I'll do some warmup and conceptual doodles on my newly purchased hardcover notebook. I'll also get to work on the animation again soon, but only after I get better from all my depresso shit from these situations.

Closing thoughts

Closing thots? I really liked my stay in Canada, but at the same time I feel like dung from all my diet changes while abroad and because of my still recuring depression. I'll try to get better, but please go easy on me and wait for a while 'till I post something new. Maybe it will be pretty swell and swagy c00l! :)

I'll see y'all soon, frens. 'Till then! ^-^

-Ricardo

Heya, ppl of the interwebz.

And just to get it out of the way: no, it ain't the AsterReich's first episode that my friend @connytoons is making that's gonna be delayed.

For the past days, I've been making myself a Flash animation with more length, effort, duration and with a more funny parody plot than any other of my works combined. I've tried doing it for the Flash Forward Jam before its deadline, but here's the thing, I don't think I'll be able to release in time for the jam.

I've been trying new things in real life for the betterment of my physical and mental health, a change of regime if you must, by starting to make exercise, sleeping only during night time and eating healthy things with a few cheat days. Overall progress is good.

Another reason why I needed the delay is not only logistics and health, but also because there is simply nothing new happening. I've been playing vidya gaems to release the pressure, since I was working on it for a whole week and a few more days, but no, no new mods, no new addons, no game types that fill my desires, nothing.

I was getting a burnout from not only the work, but not seeing anything new happening or releasing, hence why I stopped to rest my brain from an overcharge.

Don't worry, I'll still work on the animation, but I'll have to rest fully well to continue without being so toxic to my brain and my overall health. I'm so terribly sorry for these bad news, I hope you can forgive me for this inconvenience...

I'm still going to visit Canada somewhere in late April when I get my CA passport, so if any leaf Newgrounders want to see me you'll find me somewhere on the streets of Toronto, so yeah, I'll still kick your ass with my sheriff boots, @ninjamuffin99! (jk lov u and teh rethym gaem u med)

Hope I made it clear, everybody. And again, terribly sorry for the animation's delay, it'll come whenever possible.

'till then! <3

-Ricardo

Heya ppl of Newgroundz and the interwebz aliek!

So, this past few months I made several attempts by trying to become a jack-of-all-trades, that is, I started trying to learn programming in an attempt to make my very first Flash game in Actionscript 2.0, making makeshift music with my own voice to feature in some of my animations, and with it the possibility of making actual music for a change of game, and finally, currently making my most ambitious animation to this date for 2023's Flash Forward Jam.

So far progress looks good, though it kinda feels like the beggining phase of Eddsworld's animation series with some cheapness in its look, only with modern artstyle and with old skool humor.

Take a look and tell me what you like:

I'm also still looking to hire people for my main series AsterReicH. I'll need animators, VA's for characters, musicians, artists. It's would be a dream come true to have not only people collab to make my animation story and characters come alive, but to have friends with the same tastes as I have. Been pretty lonely recently and I really wanna have some action and friendship with my dear moots. I love this place and the people are so helping and nice in their sort of edgy way!

Enough feels aside, If you feel like could help a homie out and be a programmer for my simple AS2.0 shooting range game, which could add shootable enemies, score counting, ammo counter, a possible boss fight, some other misc. things to spice up the game like a win/lose screen and all that, feel free to contact me. If anyone also feel like making simple music for it you'll be welcome too!

Remember, I can only do this for free cuz of my adult parental guidance, only thing I can spend is time and effort, so only join if ya feel like killing some time on something or just because you want partnershiping on small projects.

Anyways that's all for now! I'll be here waiting for you, guys and gals, any help will help. See ya 'round, doods!

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===My cringey (also semi-dead) u2be===

===My "#1 Gamer" page===

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So, another year over, huh? It was a crazy ride. Pelé's and Queen's death, war in Ukraine, cancel culture on the rise cuz of humor-lacking manchildren and yada yada yada, same old story every time.

But despite this, I think this year was mid but not bad. It sure is boring, annoying and cringy in many aspects, but my life has been good and survivable nonetheless. Been in a lot to trips to my hometown, gained a lot of new gadgets for my PC and good drawings made by yours truly.

For next year I really hope I can finally get an animation job, that the world doesn't blow up in nuclear fire and to finally join my national Asperger's assossiation to learn how to survive in the adult world of everyday life.

Also, I might probably travel to Toronto, Canada sometime in March/April 2023 as a family rite of passage, so get ready @ninjamuffin99, a new sheriff's gonna be in town soon... to make friendship with you in case I find ya, of course! :p

Anways, Happy New Year, y'all. Hope we survive another trip around the Sun, and may you have newfound hope and happiness for next year! :)

Breaking News!!!:

I have a surprise for you, guys... AsterReich is officially in the works!!!!

That's right, you'll see how the first chapter will unfold the story of Ricardo Aster and, soon to follow, his platoon of friends!

I finished the cover already, will post it tomorrow. After that, I'll make the first page that will be much more organized and different than what was first planned. Then, I'll continue the series with new pages that will develop the universe of the story. Oh!, just to be clear, sometimes I'll post my regular drawings that I usually do, might have not much to do with the comic. I also will need time to make the pages, cuz I'm a regular human being that needs to eat, drink, sleep, have fun, pee and shart, yada yada yada. So be patient, my silly 'wittle biscute, cuz they will come eventually, and I bet you'll like it!

Ok that's all for today, hope you're well informed and I'll see you Tankheads soon. See ya!

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Yours truly, Ricardo aka AsterAnon aka icegodlike77