Hello Newgrounds, Taka here

Today I am writing about a good friend @Ugasisvelta (Ugasi). I'm going to be showing you why she is awesome, amazing, and A GREAT PERSON. I started talking to Ugasi a few months back and boy was it an amazing choice of mine. There have been a few times where I was down and feeling really shitty but she was the friend I needed in those hard times and I'm very thankful for that. Being able to help me and many others is such a rare and admirable quality and she rocks it! Ugasi is also very very funny and fun to be around, like I was in a vc today and when she joined in, it was a fuckin party! Ugasi also is what @BlueJayNG would say “girlboss”, meaning she can take some heavy hits (mentally) and she always gets back up again and really THAT quality about her is impressive but hey that's Ugasi for you, never giving up, skys the limit!

In conclusion, Ugasi is a great person and an even greater friend. Ugasi, thank you for everything you’ve done for me. It really means a lot when someone can help me through tough shit for me and I owe you a lot for everything. You have a heart of gold and you use it for the bestest things. You are an inspiration to me, I really mean that. I’m HONORED to have you in my life and wonder what amazing thing I've done to deserve a friend like you. Again, thank you for everything, you are truly an amazing person. Just… THANK YOU!! 

Now, Enjoy this art collab we all came together to make for YOU <3

Art by: @pommisc @tberger @caboleo64 @unevenprankster @bluejayng @strangermen @gray (I put them all together and made the background :3)

Oh, here's some words from some people you may know :]

Thank you @pommisc @tberger @caboleo64 @unevenprankster @bluejayng @strangermen @gray @carveyshow @xcorpzthealien and @ant for helping out with this and thank you @ugasisvelta for everything you've done for us <3

testing what "approved comments only" means

If I ever open a bar in Philly, I'ma make sure @Luis can get what he wants for free.

2022 RECAP BABY!!!

Awwww yeahhh

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS YEAR TAKA?

Well a lot happened this year in every part of my life and overall 2022 was great to me, it was an amazing year.

Ill start out with a project I collaborated in this year, that being PIXELGROUNDS

Pixelgrounds was actually really fun to make and I made a good amount of art for that game and im really proud to see this project thrive because it was just really fun and I would be more than happy to do something similar again

STICKMAN DATING SIM SAKURA EDITION

I wanted to take a crack at making a dating game this valentines day and I made this based on @hdydisbdu other games and it was pretty fun to make despite it not being good lmao. I was also shown later in stickman dating sim collection DX later on as well

GUN SHIT DRIVE

Probably my biggest project this year, i'm really happy of how it came out and its very accurate to atari like stuff and im just overall happy this exists. A lot of the team has been on the controversial side sadly so if I do make another remake I would need a new team.

NG TAROT CARD COLLAB

I was sooo excited to work on this collab because it just was such an honor to be apart of it and it was really fun! Thanks again @itsreddqueen

BECK GETS BITCHES

This game did a lot better than it ever should of. @ninjamuffin99 made the 3 star jam and I wanted to make a stupid game to enter the jam so I made… this… Somehow it ended up being the 4 best game of the month according to you guys and I won $100 from it. Now that's crazy and I really appreciate it all

CUTE CAT COLLAB 2022

Me and @godeta made the slideshow and I was so so surprised on how many people submitted and it was just nuts and amazing on what we made together. 

FUTURE PLANS

Alright so my future plans of newgrounds are a lot so ill just make a list

• Make more music
• Make the pixel day game with @tritnew
• Finish my madness doom game
• Make more games in general
• Meet more people
• Get into animation
• And much more!
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SHORT SHORT FEST 2022

@barnhouse had their short short fest in Pittsburgh this year and it was just SO FUN AND AMAZING!!! Me and @godeta won raffles, Lee gave us a FREE DRAWING TABLET :D!!!! I'm infinitely thankful for that. And all around was just a great time and I hope to go to more newgrounds events in the future and I'M HOPING FOR THERE TO BE A PICO DAY PARTY AND ME GET INVITED AHHH IT WOULD BE SO FUN!!!!! <3

PEOPLE WHO I'VE MET

I wanna list all the good friends i've made here on the site and thank yall for being so awesome to me

@pommisc @toppleng @rim-of-the-stars @thetageist @tritnew @tberger @demisurgearchives @ugasisvelta

Really i've said it a lot but thank you

I also wanna give a shout out to @tomfulp who has ran the site and delt with my bs all throughout the year. So thank you Tom, you’re a great person

And I think that's about it, if you have any questions feel free to ask below!

"Now we can finally have peace"

-Simon Belmont (bomberman)

I was messing around with drinks and I made something that actually tastes pretty good!

**TAKA JUICE**

Series: Taka

Difficulty: easy af

Cook time: 2 minutes

3-7 razberries

Fruit punch

Apple juice

Cranberry juice

Get any cup

Depending on your cup size get between 3-7 razberrys and put them in a small bowl

Mush the berries until full mush

Put into cup

Fill the cup half way with fruit punch

1/4 of the cup with apple juice

And almost the rest with cranberry juice

Mix a little

Enjoy!!!

I recommend drinking this with a wide straw but enjoy!!!

Hope y'all can find out how I taste 🙂

For the ogs, I did not forget about my promise for when I hit 1k followers.

I RELEASED TWO MORE SHIRTS!!! Yes there are from past artworks but thought they should be on a shirt! So yeah!!!

Idk, there's no hurt in putting these out there.

Buy them here! https://www.redbubble.com/people/Takakakashop/shop

I have made a server that gives EVERYONE admin. This is appropriately named "Chaos Server". Now you might be able to do anything but here are a few rules that if you join you agree to follow.

1. No NSFW

2. Don't harass ANYONE

3. DON'T SAY WEIRD SHIT

4. Nothing illegal, OBVIOUSLY DONT DO THAT.

But now that that's out of the way here's the invite and happy chaos.

If this gets out of hand then I'll be deleting the server.

https://discord.gg/qUXMy4YkbF

I just hit my 1,000th forums post

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1511892

And my 1,000th review

But yeah, ain't that nuts.

Now when I get gonna get 1,000 followers???