At 11/21/09 11:42 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/20/09 02:17 PM, Auz wrote: RCT3 had some other interesting features as well (loved to build firework shows), but all in all I think that version was a bit too complicated. Also it was very difficult to keep your head above the water. I actually never managed to get past year 2 without cheating =/

I mostly hear bad things about RCT3 and from the looks of it, it's a good thing I'm giving it a miss.

Good idea. You won't miss much.

That's odd. I always thought the intensity ratings had everything to do with vertical and horizontal G's and it seems your coaster must have high ratings on those.

Read it and weep.

Lol 5.72 maximum positive vertical G's. Just a few more and it would have been a good test for air force pilots :p

I still find it weird that it gives such a relatively low intensity rating. Perhaps Ronald is right about the harsh turns and such and maybe the lateral G's are the most important ones.

The Usual Suspects is gonna be on TV tonight. Another movie that I've wanted to watch for some time, but I'm not really in a film watching mood right now.

At 11/20/09 06:18 PM, Jack wrote: Anyway Gentlemen, there is something you should know. I watched Twilight...and I fucking enjoyed it.

I'm not sure who to believe anymore. First I heard loads of complaints from people how it sucked badly and how it ruined the vampire mythology. Now I suddenly hear loads of people saying that it was alright and see newspapers writing about what a big hit it is in America etc. Heck I even heard 'trend-watchers' saying that vampire looks are gonna be a new big hype everywhere =/

I guess it's about time that I watch it myself. I doubt that I'm gonna like it though. A teenage romance story with vampires doesn't sound very appealing to me.

Crap. Once again my computer has crashed and once again I lost pretty much everything that was on it. Not that it was anything of great importance, but it's still rather annoying to lose several gigs of music, pictures and other files. On top of that I gotta reinstall like a dozen of programs again.

Blargh!

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At 11/21/09 03:04 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/20/09 08:28 AM, Auz wrote: There were projects planned on monday, thursday and friday morning but when I tried to enroll, 15 minutes after the site opened, everything was full already. Now I gotta do those projects around May and only have two days a week of lectures until Christmas. I'm quite enjoying this schedule to be honest :p

That's like my best friend's sister - she had about 6 hours a week of lectures during the entire first year. When I was at Uni, I had 40-45 hour weeks, that started at 7am daily, otherwise I'd miss the bus >:(

Normally it's similar here. The last couple of periods I had 32-36 hour weeks while the max study time per week was supposed to be 40 hours. The number of hours you missed with the lectures you had to compensate with doing homework until it adds up to 40. The only problem with that idea/system is that the more hours of lectures you have, the more homework you usually have =/ Thus I would always go well over those 40 hours if I actually did my homework.

Anyway now I still got 16 hour weeks, but to be honest I skip quite a lot of lectures :p

Goddamnit! I lost my FF6 save file! I had about 30 hours of gameplay in that game and was getting very near the end. Actually I just needed to collect the last few espers before I went to Kefka's Tower.

Crap.

At 11/20/09 03:44 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 11/20/09 02:17 PM, Auz wrote: RCT3 had some other interesting features as well (loved to build firework shows), but all in all I think that version was a bit too complicated. Also it was very difficult to keep your head above the water. I actually never managed to get past year 2 without cheating =/

Seriously? I found RCT3 really really easy.

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I can't remember that well, but for some reason my money always started to deplete rapidly somewhere in the second year. I don't know what always caused that, maybe I just kept my ticket prices too low or my personnels salary too high. Anyway the strategy I always used in RTC1 never worked for me.

I just reached 54,000 BP!

At 11/18/09 05:00 PM, ghdude85 wrote: i noticed over here that someone couldn't save, i have never had any problem saving my park and then continue later. just go to options i think and save the game, then load it on the main screen when you start the game =D

I know how it should work, but the thing is: Whenever I tried to save and restart the game the save file was simply gone. I have no idea what the problem could be.

At 11/18/09 05:36 PM, Bahamut wrote: Yep, that's what Loopy Landscapes had along with the same type of scenario objectives as the previous sets. However, those type of scenarios had infinite money and only had funding fixed to normal rather than maximum, so there was no control over what type of rides/attractions you wanted, thus taking longer to get new stuff or even anything worth using. It took me 7 game-time years to beat Arid Heights because of this.

Another similar objective for the scenarios in Loopy Landscapes was beating it with a certain amount of different roller coasters with a high excitement rating. Razor Rocks is one of my favourite levels out of the whole of RCT1 where you need to build 10 different roller coasters with an excitement rating of at least 6.00. The park gave you more than enough space to build these rides. Infact, I loved this level so much that one save I had ages ago went as far as 20 years!

That sounds kinda fun. I remember my furthest save was for the last desert level where I went to year 15 or so.

Anyway I remember RCT3 had something like you could earn a bronze silver and gold award. You could get these by meeting certain requirements and once you did you immediately got the award. Then you unlocked new scenario's or other stuff and you could play on to earn the next award.

RCT3 had some other interesting features as well (loved to build firework shows), but all in all I think that version was a bit too complicated. Also it was very difficult to keep your head above the water. I actually never managed to get past year 2 without cheating =/

Lol at that vertical coaster xD

Indeed, the Oblivion at Alton Towers is puny in comparison to it. Amazingly enough, any vertical roller coasters with a similar design to that will have an intensity rating of around 8.50 - 9.50 and not ultra extreme as I originally predicted.

That's odd. I always thought the intensity ratings had everything to do with vertical and horizontal G's and it seems your coaster must have high ratings on those.

At 11/18/09 08:34 PM, Ragnarokia wrote: I gave up on building those myself, if they get good speed they just shot of anything, ANYTHING. I had one go down about 5 pieces then go up 2 pieces, and they jumped off and exploded......

I gave up on building those as well. No matter how well you design that ride, they always crash over time. No way to prevent it.

At 11/20/09 01:09 PM, up-a-notch wrote:

At 11/20/09 12:57 PM, Auz wrote: Try pressing control + F5 when you're in firefox to clear your browser cache ;) That should work.

it worked but i still can't see medals so i am switching to safari

I'm not sure where you can not see medals. If you can't see medals on the submissions pages, that might be caused by the fact that you are viewing NG in the classic lay-out. You'll have to switch to the new lay-out if you wanna see them.

Try pressing control + F5 when you're in firefox to clear your browser cache ;) That should work.

At 11/18/09 11:42 PM, EpicFail wrote: The challenge in the game is always the best part, a game is no fun when you are whoopin' ass and getting through the game no problem.

I suppose that would be okay if it's a very long game with an interesting story, but I don't really expect such things from a SNES game.

At 11/19/09 05:23 PM, Ass-Crumb wrote: Moving on to 100% OoT, all I need to do is finish that goddamn fishing hole and get the Golden Scale so I can get the last heart piece. Anyone have any tips to beat the fishing hole as an adult? I haven't gotten the sinking lure yet either.

Yeah I got some tips:
A) I would not get the sinking lure because the fisherman is gonna bitch about it and I believe he's not gonna give you anything if you break the record with a fish you caught with the sinking lure.
B) The biggest fish in the pond swims at the center, but I believe there is only one specific moment where you get a chance to catch him (with a normal lure). I'm not sure when that is, so you're gonna have to search for a FAQ if you want to know. That fish weights 22 pounds I believe.
C) The second largest fish I could ever find is much easier to locate and catch. He swims on the left side of the pond where there is this large branch or something sticking out of the water. He weights about 20 pounds or so.
D) The third largest fish I could find is even easier to catch. He swims on the right side of the pond near the small river. There are two pillar-like things sticking out of the water with two fishes near them. One weights 16 pounds, the other 12 pounds. You gotta be a bit careful because the 12 pound-fish is more eager to bite and that will scare the other one.

The 16 pound-fish should already be enough to get you a golden scale.

I watched snatch. last night. I thought it was a very enjoyable movie with some very funny scenes. I especially loved the scene with the black guys trying to rob the betting office and the scene with the three cars :p

At 11/18/09 06:25 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:

At 11/13/09 06:28 AM, Auz wrote:

The Coen Brothers are among my favorites. I've seen all of their movies except Intolerable Cruelty. looking forward to that new movie.

I've seen quite a few, but not all of them. Still got Burn After Reading here on my shelf, I plan to watch it pretty soon. I would also love to see that new movie.

That movie is amazing and so are most of Miyazaki's movies, but it looks like he's the only Japanese animator the Academy Awards have given any attention. There have been a few Japanese animated films over the years that were never even nominated that definitely at least deserved consideration for best animated film or best foreign film. All they care about is Ghibli stuff. It's pathetic. I was mad when Tekkon Kinkreet got ignored. fucking bullshit. And I don't think they've recognized Satoshi Kon or Kazuhiro Otomo for anything they've ever done. If only people could forget what they think they know about animation, especially Japanese.

Yeah it doesn't seem like anime does that well in Hollywood. Like I said I'm not such a big fan of it myself, but I've heard of a few anime movies and series of which the story seemed very interesting to me.

Anyway, I guess I'll check Spirited Away out then someday.

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Oh crap. It looks like I forgot to check the last page. Sorry for the double post...

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At 11/20/09 04:21 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/19/09 04:45 AM, Auz wrote: Finally it's weekend! For me at least :p

On a Wednesday? Wow, that's either a very short week for you, or you work really awkward hours.

The former. There were projects planned on monday, thursday and friday morning but when I tried to enroll, 15 minutes after the site opened, everything was full already. Now I gotta do those projects around May and only have two days a week of lectures until Christmas. I'm quite enjoying this schedule to be honest :p

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At 11/19/09 11:05 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/18/09 02:58 PM, Auz wrote: Yeah the special Bahamut episode was nice. I would've loved to see a little short as well, but I believe Afro isn't that good with animating. I can't remember any flash of him that had animation in it actually... =/

Yeah, I was also happy with the Bahamut special episode, even though it was just another single frame flash. And yes, Afro_Stud didn't put the effort into animating at all. It's a shame since he did draw some good character models one time but never put them to good use.

The only one I know is that Afrostar that sometimes appeared in your flashes. Or is that not his creation? :p

Some nice submissions there, but nothing too amazing. Armored Prophet was alright in my opinion, but could be beaten quickly and easily if you wanted to.

Fly Squirrel Fly seemed alright at first, but upgrades started to become way too expensive and I had a feeling I was stuck at the same distances for a long time.

In the end I think I liked the Kirby submission most actually. It was short and sweet.

At 11/19/09 12:58 AM, Goldfire64 wrote: really? armored prophet has that low a score?

It got a lot of complaints about how the controls worked pretty bad and that kinda stuff. It seemed alright when I played it a few hours ago though. And it's current score seems fair to me.

At 11/18/09 12:11 PM, chris-marks wrote:

At 11/18/09 11:00 AM, tally1989 wrote: New game

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/51 8310

The medals for that game are rather easy to obtain if you play it on Little Girl difficulty. I got pretty much all of them, but can't really be arsed to beat all the stages again for the third and fourth time to get the Freeman and Testosterowned medal.

At 11/18/09 04:30 PM, SpiffyMasta wrote: In all honesty I don't think it's too bad to have to change.

The only problems I have with it are:
A) The screen is way too big. Gotta scroll down and up all the time if I want to see medals/vote/review/see author info etc. It's ugly and annoying.

B) While PsychoGoldfish claimed that only 0.1% of the NG users still use the older lay-out, I think he forgets the fact that people were automatically switched at first. And the amount of people who are active daily is probably pretty close to that 0.1% of the ±1.8 million accounts. In other words I think a lot of the regular users actually prefer the older lay-out =/

It would perhaps be a good idea if they did some sort of poll on it.

Finally it's weekend! For me at least :p

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At 11/18/09 04:05 PM, powerfuldude wrote: You now have me wanting to install mine again, but did anyone ever actually unlock that mega level.

Yes I did. And it's probably the best map to play when you simply want to get as far as possible and earn as much money as you can. It basically has something of every single map and is like 4 times larger than average.

At 11/18/09 04:10 PM, Bahamut wrote: If only there was a fast forward option to speed up the process and not having to wait around until the end, especially when you've met the criteria within a year or two before the scenario ends.

Yeah either that or you simply beat the level once you've met those requirements. I believe that's what they did in the third version of the game.

At 11/18/09 03:51 PM, Hybrid-Of-Souls wrote:

At 11/18/09 09:31 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Haha. While trees are like my nemesis in Roller Coaster Tycoon, I at least enjoyed a real challenge by not being able to cut a single one down. Here's what part of my park looked like when I beat it.

Lol at that vertical coaster xD

Great game indeed. A few months ago I found it at my gf's place and played it again for a while. I finally noticed then how awfully slow the years passed in that game. On some scenarios we had to do 4 years, but already reached the victory requirements in year 2 =/ What was even worse was the fact that we weren't able to save our game, so we had to play 4 hours straight if we wanted to finish those scenario's.

But like I said great game =)

At 11/17/09 11:19 PM, Canas wrote: I spend two hours making an insane rollercoaster and everytime I finish it's far too insane for anybody to want to ride. :(

That always happened to me as well, so I usually stuck to the pre-made rollercoasters. Those were usually some of the best possible designs anyway.

At 11/18/09 12:02 PM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: Been rewatching a lot of stuff recently as like TheMaster, I'm trying hard not to blow all my money on DVD's. Also to the guy asking about numbers, my current count is 566 with four in the post.

God, I need to buy more movies. I don't really know what to buy at the moment though. I was thinking Goodfellas, American Beauty and The Usual Suspects, but they are all quite expensive at the moment.

Another movie I would perhaps like to see is Spirited Away. Not that I'm a fan of anime or anything, but if it won a fucking Oscar it's gotta be good. Just not sure about it because the trailer didn't impress me that much. Can any of you guys tell me if it would be a good purchase?

Latest purchase was O' Brother Were Art Thou which came today.

Brilliant movie :p

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At 11/17/09 08:22 PM, Hacsev wrote:

At 11/16/09 11:54 AM, Auz wrote: Blargh, last time I tried to recreate the abusive reviews topic in a blog post, the mods told me anyone who tried to recreate that topic in whatever form would get shot. Unfair >=(

What mods?

Well it was Malachy who started to PM me, asking me to delete the blogpost. Not that I care much anymore.

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/17/09 01:18 PM, Auz wrote: That sounds odd indeed. It didn't seem like he had much effort to put into it though, and to be honest it also seemed he put less and less effort in the flashes as the series proceeded. I was expecting at least some special episodes on the legendary Pokemons and at the start of a new generation, but he just moved on. That was slightly disappointing imo.

Hell, even I suggested he did something special with the legendary Pokemon episodes but he refused. :( You all had to rely on me to make something for the landmarks.

Yeah the special Bahamut episode was nice. I would've loved to see a little short as well, but I believe Afro isn't that good with animating. I can't remember any flash of him that had animation in it actually... =/

At 11/14/09 08:59 AM, puddinN64 wrote:

At 11/14/09 04:18 AM, Ass-Crumb wrote:

I strongly reccommend that you try and find it some way or another, be it Virtual Console, pawn shops, whatever.

Word to the wise: THIS GAME IS HARD AS BALLS.

Well I like a little challenge. As long as I don't get stuck for too long because then I usually start to lose interest.

Nice little list you compiled there, thanks for doing all the hard work on that. Not sure how you are planning to update it though. Posting all the links again whenever a new flash qualifies seems a bit much to me. Maybe once a month updates?

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At 11/17/09 10:22 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/16/09 11:54 AM, Auz wrote: Indeed the first 151 would have been alright. I actually thought he would quit somewhere at that point, but then he moved on and I was thinking: He can't be serious about making 493 episodes of this.

Afro_Stud can be determined at times and he would have went all the way to 493 if the admins didn't stop him. It's a good thing they did since Afro didn't enjoy making them. I know it makes no sense for him to keep making them yet hate doing so.

That sounds odd indeed. It didn't seem like he had much effort to put into it though, and to be honest it also seemed he put less and less effort in the flashes as the series proceeded. I was expecting at least some special episodes on the legendary Pokemons and at the start of a new generation, but he just moved on. That was slightly disappointing imo.

I haven't seen all your work (yet), but I remember Pokemon Bahamut Version was indeed one of your best projects thus far.

Yes, I put more effort into that flash than the others and I'm happy with it. Infact, I fixed a few things on it a while ago as well as finally giving it API.

Oh that reminds me I still gotta add the API to some of my flashes. Only problem is, I lost the original flash files long ago =/

Lol, you mean like this? :p

That's the spirit! Infact, there was even a few photoshops of them but only by Afro_Stud.

The only one I remember was the one where he was all pissed at you and wrote Bahamut and koreaman on it :p Kicking you in the nuts must've been painful for him though, considering dragons have swords for dicks.

At 11/16/09 01:38 AM, Wylo wrote: 076) 12.96 +0.03 8.10 shunshuu EGSC +1
077) 12.96 -------- 8.36 HaroFreak Commander -1
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Jeez... I really have nothing to say on this. Woopdiedoo I gained 0.01 voting power and woopdiedoo I haven't moved downwards. I guess.

Thanks for the update Wylo!

I just watched the animation movie Up. Supposed to be one of the best animation movies ever made and it's rated way higher than classics such as The Lion King and Toy Story on imdb. However, several friends of mine told me it really wasn't that much special and after watching it I kinda have to agree with them. I loved the first 40 minutes or so, but after that it kinda died on me. From that point the story started to take a few annoying sideplots which I just didn't like all that much.

Overall still enjoyable, but just not that special. When it comes to animation movies I still prefer Coraline.

At 11/15/09 03:25 PM, Nev wrote:

At 11/15/09 07:20 AM, Auz wrote: HP 1,2 and 3 were indeed pretty good. I really hated the 6th though, and from what I've heard it was a terrible book adaption. I heard they left some really crucial parts out and the movie itself seemed to focus mostly around Ron's lovestory which was very annoying. So I didn't like it at all personally.

I've never heard anyone say the 6th was a bad adaption. All the reviews I've heard have claimed it to be either THE best or second best (behind Azkaban). And I agree. Of course things were left out, they have to be, but it think it worked.

I haven't heard it from an official, professional review site, but my girlfriend who read the book was watching it with me. She didn't like it much either and told me all the stuff that was left out. I can hardly believe they cut out the big fighting scene at the end of the book, I think that really would have saved the movie (for me at least).

Never heard of it. Or do you mean The Wrestler (that movie from last year)?

Yes, I mean The Wrestler. Wrassling = Wrestling.

Oh alright. Sorry my English is not always that good :p I heard that film was a great also, definitely gonna watch it someday.

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At 11/15/09 10:44 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/15/09 07:31 AM, Auz wrote: Hmm I thought the whole saving hype began around clockday '07. I thought the lucky 7 crew came long after that, but I could be wrong.

I remember them showing up a month or two after Clock Day 2007. Some claim Clock Day 2007 is one of the reasons why there's so many savewhores these days. After all, it was the most active Clock Day and we know what those days are like.

Yes, I think that is one of the prime reasons. Another reason might be the redesign, you know everything looking fancy and new and all. Might have caused people to start voting higher.

Afro's Hitler series were pretty funny up to a certain point though. I just think he overdid it a bit with the Pokemon stuff.

Yeah, the Pokemon series went too far. If it was just the original 151 Pokemon, it wouldn't have been as bad. He only made the Pokemon series because people were demanding for more Hitler flashes. I know that sounds crazy but it's true.

Indeed the first 151 would have been alright. I actually thought he would quit somewhere at that point, but then he moved on and I was thinking: He can't be serious about making 493 episodes of this.

As much as I supported the series, I could have lived without it happening in the first place. Then again, if it weren't for those flashes, Pokemon Bahamut Version would have never been made and that's my best flash.

I haven't seen all your work (yet), but I remember Pokemon Bahamut Version was indeed one of your best projects thus far.

I'll do that. So far no replies yet.

We need to give him some time. After all, he must be kicking people in da nuts 5000000000000000 kajillion times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol, you mean like this? :p

All you need to do is activate it. Eventually the cash will start flowing in. But don´t expect too much of it though, usually you´ll only earn a few cents unless you´re really popular. It´s also still in a beta phase so it doesn´t update each month.

At 11/15/09 03:49 PM, Bahamut wrote: I have a few things to announce:
1) I'll be going away to London a week on Friday and will be back home on the Monday. Therefore, the update on the 29th is postponed to the 30th.

Alright :)

3) After having some thoughts from EagleRock's posts found in the Top Blammers thread, I am thinking of making a few more changes to the list.

They sound good to me. I'll let you know whenever I think of something.

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047) 53796 0022 003.1 Voidist -1

Alright, I passed Voidist and climbed another spot. Too bad you updated just a bit too early, otherwise I would have passed pwroftheseagoat as well. +2 would have been really nice for once, but alas. Anyway, my pace turned out to be pretty decent. I remember I was at about 18 a day on wednesday.

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