Sound in Flash Player Broken?

Anyone know when or which update broke how event sounds play in Flash? I have some old stuff that used to work just fine, and now the sounds don't play correctly or not at all. I figure it had to be in one of the recent Adobe 10.x Flash player updates. This bug has to affect a lot of pages that have UIs or games made in older versions of the Flash authoring tool.

Surely I can't be the only person to notice this.

PMG Messiah:Studio - nice limited time offer

I figure there's a rare few that may read this blog, so I have some new news.

There's a pretty tight deal for a very limited time where you may be able to get a $1100 suite of graphics software for $40. Pretty much it's professional quality rigging and animation software that various studios use in their production pipeline.

Oh, and if $40 is still too much you can get the "light" $540 software for $10.

And here's the link:
http://projectmessiah.com/x6/shop.html

And for some reason if you don't see the green bar (which was hovering at 75% at the time of this post), you may be too late.

Job Hunting Sucks

Job Hunting Sucks... so I made a short funny animation about it. But what the hey. I guess I consider the worst offenders those who post as "entry level position" but require 5 years experience. Guess what? If the job actually requires 5 years experience, you're lying about it being "entry level"! And what I find amusing is that the HR ass-clowns (pardon my terminology, but their behavior obviously put them in the category) don't understand why they're not getting qualified people. Do they understand what entry level means? Entry level means: amateur, beginner, and absolute noob. Now I doubt you'll find people smurfing (as in gaming) in the creative industry just to get their jollies at lower pay. If you want the experience, say so up front and expect to pay for it! Otherwise, give people who need to get into an industry an honest shot at trying. And if newbies on the job aren't up to snuff, fine, get someone else three months later. But don't post nonsense on job listings and not expect to get nonsense applications in return. It doesn't work that way.

Oh yeah, my rant video... (Or at least what I made in under a day, or five hours even.)

Actually I could do better quality, but there are still other things I'd do with my time besides perfecting a rant video. (I just needed to get some stuff out of my head.) Now if someone wanted to spend money so I'd take a week or so making and polishing an animation for them, I'm all for it. Would around $20/hr be out of line?

I hate to rant on my art blog, but sometimes I have to share such things with a bigger audience than my normal "rant" blog gets. But next post will definitely be art related randomness again.

M-Balla-balla?

Spotted this hilarious vid posted in the IRC group #rendergods. I'm not sure what the hell the dude is saying, but the animation is nicely done and funny and the music is pretty cool. If anyone cares to translate what little dialog there is, feel free to post in the comments or on the video itself.