| Ralph Damiano |
| Role |
Developer of Stick Nodes |
| Location |
Connecticut, USA |
| Birthday |
February 3, 1991 |
| Twitter |
FTLRalph |
| Youtube |
FTLRalph |
| Other Websites |
My portfolio, My dev-blog |
| Favorite color |
#0096FF |
| Favorite number |
√2 |
| Favorite animated show |
Insert Jojo reference here. Also the Dragon Ball series for sure because that's what started it all. My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Dr. Stone too. Non-anime (kinda) however, the Avatar series (ATLA and Korra) too. |
| Favorite non-animated show |
Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones. House gets an honorable mention. |
| Favorite movie |
Not much of a movie person, idk. I did force myself to watch the Marvel movies and they weren't bad to be honest so, yeah, Endgame I guess. |
| Favorite video game |
I don't play much of anything so in terms of nostalgia there's Tomba 1 and 2, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter among others. The original Genesis Sonic games are up there too. |
| Favorite food |
Orange chicken but, like, not the authentic kind. More like the sugar-chicken version where it just rots your teeth away as you eat it. |
| Ralph started making Stick Nodes one day because he was bored. He grew up practically addicted to a stickfigure-animation program called Pivot which sparked his interest in both animation and game development.
Eventually he got into Flash animation and Flash game development. He released quite a few games into the Flash gaming community, check out his portfolio for links.
Once mobile devices started taking over, he moved over to attempt Android games. After a few failed attempts, he released Plunder Peril - a quick 2-3 week project that was meant as Android-development practice.
After Plunder Peril, Ralph began work on Stick Nodes and in August 2014, Stick Nodes was released on Android with the iOS version following in November. Stick Nodes is built in Java with the LibGDX framework and uses RoboVM to port to iOS.
Fast forward to March 2020 when he was revising this page and he honestly can't believe Stick Nodes is still going so strong. Onward to world domination...
Fast forward again to August 2023 and really, I haven't been cancelled yet? |
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| Sean Byrnes |
| Role |
Site administrator, comedic relief |
| Location |
NSW, Australia |
| Birthday |
January 26, 1992 |
| Twitter |
S_Byrnes |
| Youtube |
Sean Byrnes |
| Other Websites |
None lol |
| Favorite color |
Yellow. |
| Favorite number |
42 |
| Favorite animated show |
Family Guy, American Dad and, like Ralph, Dragon Ball. |
| Favorite non-animated show |
The Big Bang Theory, Limitless, Criminal Minds & The Flash. |
| Favorite movie |
The Bucket List, Zombie Land & The Matrix. |
| Favorite video game |
The latest Call of Duty, Project Cars, Battlefield & Assassins Creed. |
| Favorite food |
Pancakes, KFC & Marinated Slow Cooked Roast Beef. |
| Sean is the site administrator and creator of the stickfigure submission system as well as a majority of the DBZ stickfigures. He also has a funny accent.
At around age 12 he discovered Pivot, ended up on Droidz.org looking for stickfigures to use in his animations, got fairly good after about 2 years.
He decided to make a website to host his animations on after having been on the forums for a long time. That's what got him into webdesign since the first iteration of his website was a terrible looking flash-based thing that at the time he thought was the best thing out.
After a while he realized how stupid it looked and behaved. So he looked into HTML and CSS, got it looking slightly better but it wasn't until he found WordPress that it started looking decent.
After that he went off the grid for a bit, got his Cert IV in IT and Webdesign, cemented his understanding of the internet protocols.
Lately he's been helping out around the Stick Nodes community and has been managing Animation Alpha. He's also been looking into game development and has begun a project that he hopes to finish one day soon, he can't really reveal anything about it but it's for mobile devices and will be a 2D sidescroller. |
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Why? Cuz its not hollow?
Days random thing
Why recent comments page is not working for me.
Wait, it works now.
Wait, its broken again.
İts works again.
WTF
What the –
İts broken again
Berke you are drunk.
Probably
My, this website is broken
I’M GOING TO THROW A SHOE AT THE NEXT PERSON THAT SAYS SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
I’m kidding, but really, what do you mean? I’ve disabled the thumbnails due to performance issues, there’s nothing else wrong right? I mean it’s working 100% for me.
The last time i checked the website it was loading real fast, but now its really slow. some pages (such as the recent comment page) are “late” i mean their cache are outdated so i can see older comments that normally disapeared from the page while i cant see the most recent comments such as the one i posted some hours ago. and finally, the 500 error. i know this error is due to the overload of people browsing on your website (+ the cpu usage of the website’s overall). is there any way to fix this problem? Or is your host asking you too much money per month to fix this or what?
Same
Well for example, I just went to the Recent Comments page and the newest one was 3 minutes old. How outdated are you seeing it?
As for the 500 error, I’m not calling you a liar, but I haven’t seen one in the past few days and I am trying sometimes (opening 20 tabs of the site) and it never hits me. Are you really seeing it that frequently? (Seriously asking because to my knowledge there’s no issue outside of a bit of a delay with the cache.)
The overloaded CPU usage was coming from the plugin I use to manage the stickfigures, specifically with the way it fetches thumbnails. As I don’t know anything about PHP/web dev stuff, I don’t know how to look into it and the developer of that plugin is taking his sweet time getting back to me.
Days random thing. I made the recent comments page not-cached, so it will always stay live.
I can’t do that for the sidebar widget, it will always be behind a few minutes depending on how fresh the cache is.
Still waiting on some support for the thumbnail issue.
Since then, Ett never replied.
I have a problem with exporting, when i export using the new method it took too long to finnish than the old method pleas fix it.
Days random thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls6IxnBhecA
That’s funny, I listened to that exact sound file when I downloaded all of the CSGO voices the other day.
So that means, that Separist is not right
Chickens are mighty
I eat the chickens every day.
Ralph, im so happy cuz you add some CSGO Sounds, but… I NEED MORE!!!
Reload sounds, shot sounds, moar voice sounds… etc…
Lol, I don’t want to add too many sounds, there’s already like 1000 in the app (not really but still).
You can add your own, if you didn’t know.
Yes i know, but… LAZYNESS, also thanks for the sounds Ralph <3
Ey.
I’ll be afk for a few weeks (i’ll be still here, lurking in the dark), cos I’m preparing my finals exam things.
haha nerd
kidding
well, maybe
Are u even Ralph
yeah just spamming to get to the top of the leaderboard
Im seeing two Ralphs on the leaderboard, one on second place and another one on 16th place…
But. There is no 16th place.
… I think im drunk…
This is the most likely scenario.
Hello all, im bio’s cousin, he let me go into his account to inform you about some things. Please wish bio the best of luck, he’ll need it after what he’s been through.
Watch video for further information
https://youtu.be/dz7Gh4y9OIg
Oh man why does everyone has medical problems these days.
I hope your mother/aunt will get better, I don’t want her to die either, but god, please do not try to commit suicide, there’s people who loves you, do you really think suicide is the solution? My father had lung cancer too and you know what, I went home and played ps2 all day so I don’t think about it (yes I’m an a$$hole)
All I can do for now is pray for you.
Please, if there’s anything that you can’t keep to yourself just talk about it to someone, you’ll feel better.
I’m so sorry to hear that. My thoughts and prayers to both of you, Bio and his aunt. I can’t imagine what he must be going through, but I don’t doubt it’s tough.
Bio brings a lot of laughs to us here throughout the past few months, I hate to hear that he’s in such a bad place. I pray he recovers and as time passes this becomes nothing more than a distant memory. Let him know everyone at the Stick Nodes site wishes him well.
I…Don’t know what to say…
Im here eating popcorn and drinking Coco cola.
…I agree with ralph and dmlan
What one high jump said.
But really though, I hope the situation gets better
I swear I put a comment here
Oh, and if coarse now that I post that comment it’s back
Am I going insane?
I can attest to this, yes you are.
Ey guys i was making a website with my uncle and the product was this:
https://onehighjump.github.io/myFirstWebSite/index.html
I approve immensely of this.
You have a random </h4> tag though and it bothers me.
Forever be bothered
I like this response.
Best website that i ever seen in my life -Spidöh-Man 2017