At 11/9/09 09:03 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: I'm fully aware of that, I'm just wondering if this kid plans to abuse the voting system.

You're just paranoid. Take a chill pill.

In answer to the OP, I'm pretty high on most of the stat lists, but my standing will improve over time.

Coop prepares to take his girlfriend to a gig tonight, while congratulating:
Zendra: Level 41
l33tHaxxor: 2,000 Experience

Thank you to:
reverend
JKMonkey
ThePigeonmaster

At 11/9/09 10:52 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/8/09 02:40 PM, Coop83 wrote: *notes tactic for future use*

You best not take the 77,777th reply away from me when it comes!

Oh, don't worry - the chances I could pull something like that off are a million to one.

At 11/9/09 01:06 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/8/09 02:40 PM, Coop83 wrote: Not quite a Rockies or Marlins end of season sale, but we will be losing some talent to move players around.

I'm sure the Red Sox will be buying anything the Yanks willing to sell. :)

So... Johnny Damon then?

At 11/5/09 03:25 PM, Buddhist wrote: - Closer

Yeah, I don't see Lidge as being the go-to guy that you crave. It could be time to bring a talented youngster through, as it could make the difference for you guys, possibly having Lidge to fall back on.

- Power bat

What, another one? :P

- Starter?

Well, with Pedro gone, I think you could only move to promote JA Happ - he's due for a breakout season, so put some faith in him.

- 3rd baseman?

That's a definite now - Feliz is out, but not completely turned aside from the Phils. If they can't get someone like Reynolds from Arizona (Yay, more Ks :P) then Feliz' gold glove calibre defence could be fallen upon.

At 11/5/09 05:56 PM, phileeguy wrote:

At 11/5/09 04:33 AM, Coop83 wrote: 1) Lose Posada -

Interesting thoughts. I don't watch the Yankees on a day to day basis, but if you think that is the option, well I guess age is finally catching up to him at his postition. Still, any Molina behind the plate is a good replacement.

Molina will be a good backup, plus he's a great defensive mentor for someone like Cervelli, who can call a good game.

Behind the plate this year, we all know about the issues with Posada / AJ, but the numbers of passed balls that Posada coughed up were up on his usual. With age, the defence will only go downhill, as will the power numbers.

2) Re-sign Matsui - there's your DH right there, so there would be no room at the inn for Posada. Sorry, but that's business.

Ya, that guy was a thorn in the Phillies side this post-season. Him and Damon at the plate... might as well just walk them to limit them to something less than a HR or 2B.

A rather interesting tactic :P It might just work though, if you don't mind pitching to Tex / A-Rod and then Posada / Cano... ah.

At 11/9/09 12:04 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: And even if it is his, there's still the issue of the real porn in it (read: unsuitable).

Tits aren't real porn. You see more grotesque imagery in some of Stamper's flash.

I think that you need to take an objective view here, making absolutely sure that the piece would be deleted if you're going to commit.

At 11/9/09 11:07 AM, TomFulp wrote: Top Five Games

Nice selections there. Thanks for the presentation, Tom :)

Almost got a clean sweep of medal games for the monthly top 5. Can't be long until we get them all there.

At 11/9/09 05:49 AM, deckheadtottie wrote:

At 11/9/09 01:23 AM, Gagsy wrote: I'm not working that full weekend so we'll see, or not, or not.

If you go, I'll buy you a drink.

You won't even need to wear a tie.

Or, she could wear a tie and get two free drinks.

Three, if Dave is going ;)

Where is the SkeletonGimp, anyway?

At 11/8/09 06:01 PM, Fro wrote:

At 11/6/09 09:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: A totally misguided point of view on the whole thing. Check your PM inbox, Josh, I'll speak to you about it.

What exactly was misguiding about what I said? Looks like what I said was actually factual and not really a point of view or an opinion in anyway. Especially the part that you quoted where I said voice acting and singing was perfectly fine on the audio portal as he said it was only for instruments.

Not yours, his. Basically, I was putting a stop to the kangaroo court that had appeared here. Since I can, I deleted the review and gave Josh a fair crack at writing a decent review for the piece, though the sarcastic U-Turn has been noted.

I'm considering a similar sort of piece for when I get my new microphone at Xmas. It's going to take me a while to get it just right and it will be the biggest piece of voice acting that I've undertaken so far. Since I share that opinion with you, it wouldn't be too good if I didn't defend it :P

Again, the 8th person ever to achieve this, but here we go:

900 Flash Review Responses

At this pace, I'll have 1,000 pretty soon. I've got a response rate of 59.88%, so 60% would be a nice milestone as well, considering when I really started to focus on responses (and Bahamut's flash), I had a response rate of < 30%

I've just got to keep going though :)

At 10/17/09 06:31 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 10/17/09 06:43 AM, Coop83 wrote: Retirement? I think my retirement will be when I get put in a box. I shall be buried with my laptop, with a power connection and internet access, in case I'm not really dead, or I come back as a zombie, so that I may continue to whore my stats!

And this is why I feel you're a bigger statwhore than I am.

Stop! Stop flattering me!

We'll see. Maybe I'll even agree with you when I pass you for B/P in about a year's time :P

At 11/8/09 12:54 AM, reverend wrote:

At 10/17/09 06:43 AM, Coop83 wrote: Retirement? I think my retirement will be when I get put in a box. I shall be buried with my laptop, with a power connection and internet access, in case I'm not really dead, or I come back as a zombie, so that I may continue to whore my stats!

What, you aren't going to let Coop84 carry on the legacy?

I get the feeling that my offspring would be something along the lines of Coop11, Coop12 or Coop13 ;)

At 11/8/09 02:25 AM, SapphireLight wrote: That make-up...

...you like turtles, don't you? Admit it.

Me, or Life-Stream?

I'll assume Life-Stream, since mine is just a cotton mask, but it's reminiscent of the real Rorschach, since his was pretty much the same.

At 11/9/09 12:02 AM, Bumblecock wrote: but I'm more concerned about here whether I'll be allowed to post that link in general without it getting deleted.

Basically, if you set your signature to it, you should be fine - just click my account, then forum signature and put the HTML link in there.

At 11/8/09 03:48 PM, Bahamut wrote: 025) 66073 0000 000.0 Rabindarath
026) 65575 0304 043.4 Coop83

Thanks for the update, Bahamut. Good stuff.

Not too shabby a pace from myself either, considering the amount of B/P time that was lost to catching up with lost sleep. Now to capitalise and set myself up for entering the top 25.

Wow, have I really come this far? It's amazing to think so. No time to rest, just keep on plugging away.

Coop returns to the office, wondering what surprises he has been left with, while congratulating:
BOZARTH187: 4,000 Posts
Makeshift: Level 18
BrianEtrius: Level 20

Seriously, this is 14 hours worth of achievements? Wow.

At 11/8/09 02:05 PM, Sonofkirk wrote: I'm not sure if I'll update the list tonight, I haven't started pulling the stats and I still have maths to finish... Well we'll see. Thanks to Josh and Supersteph for the lists anyway :)

There's a little ray of sunshine from the ether, as I had a massive internet crash this morning, so lost my chance to maintain a 100% record. Let's knuckle down to get these finished then and move onto next week's list :)

At 11/7/09 07:29 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote: 029.) 1528 ||+000|| Chris-the-stick2
030.) 1502 ||+004|| Coop83
031.) 1487 ||+035|| Ericho (+3)

Thanks for the update, Metal-Therapy. Nice work, as always.

Now I've passed 1,500 for the career, it looks like I'm going to have to up my game, in order to stay ahead of Ericho. 15 behind me and on pace, he'll be past me within the week. Time to make my move and steps to catch Chris-the-stick2

We'll see.

At 9/29/09 08:13 PM, ToasTyy wrote: Where or how does he get those voices? I would really like to know. Thanks

Speakonia is what you're after.

Pissed off about his internet connection, Coop finally congratulates:
Auz: 35,000 Saves
Stretchysumo: Gold Whislte
IvanTuroc: Level 42
Raizen-Pyro: Level 18
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 17,000 Saves
Hacsev: General
Hybrid-of-Souls: 4,000 Posts
GoryBlizard: Level 39
Lizzardis: Top 500 B/Per
Aci6: 9,000 Experience
Rucklo: Level 30
Bahamut7: 666th Most Experienced

Thank you to:
JKMonkey
Auz
Odyssic

At 11/7/09 01:43 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/7/09 07:58 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, I wouldn't suggest that entirely. Enter Sandman and then New York, New York will probably be fixtures, since Mo will still be there for us :P

I'm eager to see how much of the team is going to be sold off. Matsui and Damon I hear are most likely to be leaving.

I don't want to see Matsui go - he's too good a DH for us and that's an integral part of an AL team, no matter how much I dislike the DH rule.

Buy two and get one free. Everything must go!

Not quite a Rockies or Marlins end of season sale, but we will be losing some talent to move players around. I'd like to see Cervelli and Molina share catching duties and our new prospect in the outfield come through. If this means we will be losing outfielders like Damon and Cabrera, then that's what we've got to do. I'm unsure as to how we're going to play the situation with Nady - he can hit pretty well and I'd like to see how he can cope.

Then again, I'm not Biran Cashman or Joe Girardi.

At 11/8/09 09:02 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/7/09 07:58 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/7/09 05:36 AM, Bahamut wrote: Indeed and this time you better not take it away from me. I still remember what you did to get the true 70,000th reply. YOU MADE ME ANGRY!

Was that just me getting it by pure chance? :P

No, you got a spam post deleted so you could have the 70,000th reply! RAAAAAAAAR!

I'm not that conniving, am I?

*notes tactic for future use*

At 10/3/09 11:33 PM, Grubby wrote: What are some games you spent literally years playing, games that never got old and kept you hooked? Games that were actually worth the money?

Legacy of Kain - Blood Omen, Soul Reaver, any of the 5 games in that series. Sometimes I still fire up the PS2 and battle my way through those games as Raziel or Kain.

777 Audio Reviews

Not a bad day's work, overall.

At 11/7/09 02:10 PM, CaptainChip wrote: Also: How exactly does the gameplay work? Is it dice based or like a madden game?

You can do turn based, on the dice rolls, where you have to play percentages and get as many people around the intended victim in order to increase your chances of kicking his teeth out, or you can play real time, which is something I've not been brave / stupid enough to attempt yet.

Oh and look on eBay - you can get it for $30 from a seller, who exports through Thailand. Electronics are so cheap over there ;) The box may be in Thai, but the game can be installed in English.

At 11/7/09 02:18 PM, Parlux wrote: Wait a sec I got this game for the PSP

Who do you play as? I've never experienced it on that format, just on the PC.

At 11/7/09 12:01 AM, TheReno wrote: Your story dear coop is very well written. Sadly that is all it is. It invokes no fear, shows no scary imagry. Had this been a contest to just create a punk world, youd ace it. Sadly, for you, the punk needed a horror companion.

Since I've never really been into the horror genre, I'm not particularly surprised by your feelings, but I would say that I was more in the mind set that you can write a piece of suspenseful thriller style, without having to go into details on blood, guts and actually breaking the suspense, by delivering closure.

The words in the letter didnt justify the break in and what the doctor did to break in didnt foreshadow anything. In essance, useless.

I wouldn't have said that - I was writing that to prove that there were two sides to the coin of the 'monster' (Smith), by pointing out that he largely holds the laws in contempt, distancing himself a little from humanity.

To sum it up, your story was long, used good grammer, and the world was perfectly set up. And thats it Im sorry to say. 3.8 out of ten

Your review didn't specifically use good grammar ;) You can download a spell checker for your browser, quite easily :P

But aside from my counter attack, I feel that I can see where you're coming from. If you didn't like it, that's up to you. If anyone else decides that they fancy reviewing it, please feel free.

At 11/7/09 06:28 AM, Lost-Chances wrote: "Nerdy" attachments for a "jock" game? What the fuck went into the developers to make this abomination.

The fact that it was created as a model based game about 20 years ago and they tried to make a VG of it badly some years ago. Now that they've finally done it right, it's awesome and violent.

Coop tries to organise his life for the return to work on Monday, while congratulating:
EmoDragon: Level 33
Toohot100: 15,000 Experience
Haggard: 13,000 Blams
Stretchysumo: Level 21
Lizzardis: 20,000 Total Points
reverend: Level 33
Kevin: Level 23
InnerChild548: Private 1st Class
LegolaSS: Level 37
MegamanMegafan: Level 23
BluesirTheFox: Level 12
Auz: 17,000 Experience

Listening to:
Iron Maiden - Alexander the Great

At 11/6/09 01:25 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/6/09 09:32 AM, Coop83 wrote: What? Those three tunes are always symbolic of a New York Yankees win - at least, while we have Mo closing games for us, that is :P

I guess I'll be hearing them until spring training next season. Hmm.

Well, I wouldn't suggest that entirely. Enter Sandman and then New York, New York will probably be fixtures, since Mo will still be there for us :P

At 11/7/09 05:36 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/6/09 09:32 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/5/09 08:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: gamejunkie got that one. Oh well, hopefully I can get #77,777 when it comes.

Perserverance, my friend.

Indeed and this time you better not take it away from me. I still remember what you did to get the true 70,000th reply. YOU MADE ME ANGRY!

Was that just me getting it by pure chance? :P

Time to get rough, boys and girls.

Like American Football? No? Good, because this is a lot better! Take control of a team from one of the 8 races available (Humans, Orcs, Goblins, Chaos, Lizardmen, Dwarves, Wood Elves and Skaven) and set your battle lines. Get the ball to the end zone and score touchdowns, while the hard hitting blitzers and blockers on your teams attempt to reduce the enemy to pate.

Have you got what it takes to rise to the top and claim the glory?

Basically, if you play and you fancy a game, stick some details here and I'll see if we can get some carnage sorted. I'm currently enjoying playing as my Lizardmen team (4 Skinks, 6 Saurus, 1 Kroxigor) and if we can hospitalise a few opponents during a game, we're doing well.

I've managed a few killing blows as well >:)

LET THE MAYHEM COMMENCE!

At 11/6/09 02:06 PM, dreygon9 wrote: Thank you for the help

Because Newgrounds is based in Philadelphia, PA, the time used for the website is Eastern Standard Time. All clocks associated with the website (grounds gold day, forum time, submission statistics) are run off this time scale.

At 11/6/09 06:48 PM, TheReno wrote: I will review peoples stories if you want but you have to specifically ask me. If you just post the vague "it would be cool if someone would review my story" Im not going to even look at it.

Fair enough, please review mine - I'm always happy to hear what people think of the intellectual material I produce.

At 11/5/09 08:47 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: WritersBlock had a great idea for a contest even though I haven't found the time to respond to him yet. But I'm worried about committing myself to another contest. What we could do, maybe is just have a year end contest and make it extend up till the first of next year since you've already lost a week in Nov.

To quote Rockhound from Armageddon, but forgive me for being the materialistic weasel of the group, but do you think that Ton would see it clear to consolidate the prize pools for November and December - I think that would make $180 Dollars of Store Credit for the pool.

Now you could make a sliding scale of $100 for the winner, $50 for second and $30 for third - I prefer a sliding scale. What do you say?

If people are ok with that, I think I should be able to judge in Jan, you'd have more time to solidify and edit and revise, wink wink. We could see if a longer contest is a good or bad idea.

Now we're looking at longer, better quality submissions, I would suggest that we have a criteria of not submitting the piece until at earliest December 1st, allowing us time to think about what we are writing, prepare drafts, and iron out any plot holes.

Perhaps the submission rule that means any submissions should be presented as news posts, then links submitted in the thread... though conversely, this could be prone to abuse, by authors that would seek to edit their submission past the deadline. Naturally, this call is down to the organisers, but there's my two pence on the issue ;)

At 11/6/09 04:14 PM, TheThing wrote:

At 11/6/09 03:55 PM, byteslinger wrote:

At 11/6/09 02:55 PM, TheThing wrote: Just got this surgery done yesterday...

Well, I am glad you're feeling a little better after surgery. Yes, Percosets are a wonderful drug. After a couple of those, they can saw off your legs with a rusty spoon and beat you like a pinata, and all the time you'll be singing "Take a Chance On Me" from ABBA's greatest hits. Or so I've been told...

Meh, I just more talkative/funny, and had some funny gesticulations. Of course, I don't know what the size of the pill was, so it could have been whatever the lowest dose is.

It sounds more like PCP or Angel Dust, as it's more commonly known to me.

Get some good old fashioned Ketamine inside of you :P

At 11/6/09 12:19 PM, frcontrib wrote: Remember, Debra Lafave, the smokin' "hot" blond teacher that ended up having a love affair with her student?..The media seemed to go head over heels for her

I think the case in point here is that anyone willing to cross the line and have sex with a minor. Come on, it's not as if these people have tried to have sex with a student who is of legal age. The problem being that most male school students of the ages 14-16 are not exactly going to hold back.

Its almost like women offenders is "sexy"...whereas male offenders are "creepy, predators"

Some of these people are desperately in need of going outside. Debra Lafave wouldn't have had any trouble in seducing 18-25 year olds with the way she looked. Now that I know she's a sex offender, that's the only thing stopping me from going near her... that and the distance I live from her :P

At 11/5/09 06:59 PM, Nev wrote:

At 11/5/09 06:48 PM, Coop83 wrote: The effect was quite ruined by my parent's new wallpaper, but...

*Pulls out Watchmen*

'The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumlated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"...

... and I'll look down and whisper "would you like a cup of tea".'

Genius. I might just have to record that for you. Perhaps later, if I can get a free moment.

That joke isn't actually as funny as it sounded in my head originally... but whatever :P.

It was pretty cool to me.

Also, sweet get up, even though you look a bit like a rapist :P.

Then the illusion needs more work. Damn.