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.

At 11/4/09 10:43 AM, EagleRock wrote:

At 11/3/09 03:48 PM, Coop83 wrote: Glad to see it - just don't get passing me for B/P any time soon ;)

*Takes evil Mr. Burns pose*

"Exactly... D'oh!"

Perhaps we'll have to get a Google Wave sorted for it :P

Oh that made me laugh! If you can get a damn invite to the thing. :-P

Well, I'm on Wave now, so invites may be forthcoming at some stage :P

The Yankees winning the World Series?

Oh, wait... we've still got about another 32 hours to go :P

Should be over now in about 13 hours...unless we go into extra innings again. :-)

Yeah! Now there's a victory parade in a few minutes time.

At 11/3/09 08:39 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote:

At 11/3/09 03:48 PM, Coop83 wrote:

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOOGLE WAVE SUPPOSED TO BE FOR!!??

Simple: it's an online collaboration tool that is supposed to remove the need for instant messages, forums, email, file servers, etc. It makes it possible to collaborate in a much easier way. It's really gauged for businesses that have multiple offices, but it's good for basically any group trying to collaborate on the Internet.

Yeah, it could be a place where Eagle hosts a wave for his stories, for example. A place where discussions about potential members happens in real time, that sort of thing.

What does everyone see as so useful here? I can't see anything I haven't already seen before elsewhere. What am I missing this time? :/

The idea is everything you need is here, all at once. Nothing else necessary. Again, not anything useful for someone playing around on Newgrounds, but for a business, it's a really big deal. No more need for email, fileservers, sharepoint servers, IM servers, etc.

It's great if you're collabing on a flash movie and need to get some work made by the voice actor, while two or three animators are trying to refine a drawing to make all three of theirs look something like on another.

At 11/5/09 01:34 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: GET A LOAD OF THIS!!!!

Meh, if it was a UotD for the NGBBS, then I'd be impressed.

At 11/6/09 01:26 AM, Exige2009 wrote: Alright, so who are the "reviewers" for this forum? I'm just curious.

Well, there's a small group of us that can be found on any of Sonofkirk's updates. Primarily, but not solely limited to Myself, Haggard, Fro and Supersteph.

At 11/6/09 08:14 AM, Fro wrote:

At 11/5/09 08:17 PM, sarias wrote:

Alright, I just want to point out all of the bad things about this review.

Dude, the fact of the the Audio Portal is to have actual instruments in it. This is NOT American Idol Auditions.

What the hell are you talking about here? The point of the audio portal is to have either instruments, other type of songs such as songs that use random noises like computer noises, or singing/voice acting. Even a combination of any of them.

A totally misguided point of view on the whole thing. Check your PM inbox, Josh, I'll speak to you about it.

At 11/5/09 06:10 PM, boloneyman wrote: Oh I just missed it. Earlier today I reached 10K blams. Oh well. I'll probably have 10K saves by the next update, so I can premier as a triple.

Not quite my own meteoric rise to fame - I wasn't listed when gfoxcook stopped updating the list and then when he did one final update to celebrate his own quadralisting, I'd made it all the way from 1x10k (Blams) to 4x10k (Experience; Posts & Saves)

Congratulations.

Coop prepares to watch the New York Victory Parade, while congratulating:
Fagamut: Level 33
DumbassDude: Colonel
reverend: 8,000 Saves
boloneyman: 10,000 Blams
Fro: 18,000 Medal Points
Powerage: 4th NG Berfday

Thank you to:
Hacsev

At 11/5/09 08:15 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/4/09 08:12 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop prepares for a roast (pork dinner) while congratulating:
Level-up Loungers: 2,500 Pages. Now the race is on to response #75,000 ;)

gamejunkie got that one. Oh well, hopefully I can get #77,777 when it comes.

Perserverance, my friend.

At 11/5/09 12:33 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/5/09 04:05 AM, Coop83 wrote: Metallica - Enter Sandman
Queen - We Are The Champions
Reel Big Fish - New York, New York

Pfft.

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

Happy Birthday, man. Celebrate in style, with a parade down the Canyon of Heroes tomorrow from 10am EST ;)

At 11/5/09 12:59 PM, Me-Patch wrote: Yeah, but the Phillies are the oldest one city one name team in American history and we've only ever won 2 World Series. The Yankees have bought practicaly every single baseball hero in history. Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, Marris, A Rod. The list goes on and on. Really it's just not fair.

Gehrig was a lifetime Yankee, as was Mickey Mantle. Ruth was bad business on the part of the Boston Red Sox, while Roger Maris was a part of the Kansas City Athletics "major league farm team" system for the Yankees.

I think A-Rod was a balanced trade, as Texas shed some payroll, which they needed to do, plus they received a damned good second baseman in Soriano. It's not that we buy up every talented player in sight - Cliff Lee and Chase Utley, for example, are great players that would take places on all star teams ahead of their Yankees counterparts.

Sure, they have more money than other teams and a salary cap would really fuck us over for a season or two. I think we're man enough for the challenge, so ask Selig nicely :P

At 11/5/09 01:16 PM, Tramps wrote: Bus fire at my college today, who else to blame but pesky Sirtom93.

Well, it couldn't have been Sirtom93 - he's a failure :P

Anything exciting happen to you at your place of education?

Not really, since I don't really get educated any more. We've had a few things happen over the years - flour bombs being the best, when one of the leaving students decided that a firecracker in a 500g bag of flour was a good idea. A sizeable crater in the cricket pitch later and a lengthy school investigation came to nought, but it was still quite a shock when it happened.

At 11/4/09 07:47 PM, Life-Stream wrote: So anyone got halloween pics? I'll throw one up here....

The effect was quite ruined by my parent's new wallpaper, but...

At 11/5/09 11:03 AM, EternitySpent wrote: 14. Toronto 13 7
15. Carolina 14 7

THATS RIGHT. We passed someone in the standings.

Tied for 29th, beats 30th.

That sums up my season for the Fantasy Hockey at present. I'm stuck to the bottom of the league and only Cam Ward is a regular starting Goalie for me. Perhaps I should release the whole team and start again, with a class of rookies.

At 11/5/09 12:46 AM, phileeguy wrote:

At 11/4/09 11:53 PM, Coop83 wrote: World Fuckin' Champions!

*cough*stolen*cough*
Oh excuse me there. So yeah, Yankees won, just like I thought they would. So, props to them.

Thanks - you've been one of the most gracious opponents I've ever met - hard to see how someone like Dream-of-Duke would take it :P

Joe Girardi is going to get fitted with a #28 jersey for 2010 now ;)

Uhh, not so fast there mi amigo. There's a lot of ball to be played until next year about this time and 29 other teams that would have it otherwise. I know Yankee fans are a cocky and title-expectant bunch, but there's no guarantee that you can buy a second title in a row.

I wasn't saying that - I was merely saying that Girardi should get a #28 jersey to reflect the mission statement of a 28th World Title. After all, this is his second season as Yanks skipper and he had 27 for both of those seasons. We've accomplished that mission and now we will focus on #28 once Mr. Cashman deals with silly season.

I can't believe that we've only had to beat 10 franchises for these 27 titles. Gotta love the Giants / Dodgers combination :P

Giants '23 '36 '37 '51 '62 (5)
Pirates '27 (1)
Cardinals '28 '43 (2)
Cubs '32 '38 (2)
Reds '39 '61 (2)
Dodgers '41 '47 '49 '52 '53 '56 '77 '78 (8)
Phillies '50 '09 (2)
Braves '58 '96 '99 (3)
Padres '98 (1)
Mets '00 (1)

Finally, not one to rest on the laurels, we've got to work out what happens in silly season. I'd like to see Brian Cashman do the following:

1) Lose Posada - He's been a great asset to us over the years, but his catching has fallen to pieces, as we saw in Game 6. Drop to your knees and block the ball, or hit better. I'm quite impressed with what I saw with Cervelli, so get him and Molina to platoon next season.

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.

3) Outfield? What's the stance with Brett Gardner? Let him have a crack at Centre all of next year, so where does Cabrera fit in? Does Damon stick around in Left? What about Nady returning from injury - suddenly, we've got 2 RFs, 2 CFs and potentially 2 LFs as well. Ideally, I've got Nady in Left, Swish in Right and Gardner in Centre. I'm unsure about Damon, now that he's got a Boston and New York Championship ring, it's a nice collection, I'll grant you. He's still got good hustle, so could be worth bringing back again.

4) Pitching. CC? Check. AJ? Check. Pettitte? I don't know. He's out of contract and we could bring him back, on the strength of his game 6 display, he's had a good year. Gaudin as #4 starter and Joba / Hughes / Aceves / Wang as #5? That's going to be a tough decision for Joe Girardi.

5) Utility player. Ramiro Pena is good, but is he really cut out to take playing time from the likes of A-Rod, Jeter and Cano? Harriston Jr. is a good fit, plus he's a utility outfielder, so we're covered there, should we need Swish to cover the occasional game at 1st. When A-Rod was out to start the season, Pena sucked, along with the rest of the Yanks. Could be the time to address this now.

There we go. I might pop back later with a summary of the season, but now, I'm off back to bed. For a good long while.

Coop gets about 2 1/2 hours sleep, before doing the school run. Congratulations to:
New York Yankees: 27th World Championship
ChocEliteBar: Level 18
rahfa: Level 24
Helloween: 11,000 Experience
TheNumberOfTheDragon: Level 33
Emlfuryoflion: 30,000 B/P; Supreme Commander
Bloodthorne: Level 46
gfoxclock: Level 46
byteslinger: 40,000 B/P
gamejunkie: 25,000 B/P

Listening to:
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Queen - We Are The Champions
Reel Big Fish - New York, New York

At 11/4/09 09:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 11/4/09 07:49 PM, gfoxclock wrote: Similar to the above shot, here's NG Log showing that same 1000 exp to go for both accounts + February 10th, 2010 as the expected DOUBLE LEVEL UP DAY. What a day that'll be for me here on ye olde Newgrounds. Wheeeee. #;-}>

Stalker! You WOULD think that's neat, wouldn't you. :::grumbles:::

Have you stopped taking your medication for that multiple personality disorder of yours?

You're going to need to do a catchup here as well :P

At 11/5/09 12:23 AM, Punisher33 wrote: Yankees are a bunch of cheating lieing bastards who don't diverse to win the world series,

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!

It's spelled "deserve"

Mainly cause of needles in there butts. Two, they buy out all the best players in baseball and inject there butts with steroids. three bribing the umpires before and after the games, Why cause my friend saw them do it. so Yankee's fans, live this up while you can because if a full investigation comes threw kiss that tittle good bye, and no i'm not reveling my friends identity all i'm saying is he went to my ged class

I'm guessing that you're either a Red Sox, or Mets fan. At least the Phillies had the decency to go down with a good fight and good graces, so major judos to them.

See you guys next year for Championship #28 :P

Well, we've gone through the best teams in baseball to be here, so I can certainly say that this team is good enough, with some future hall of famers (Jeter & Mo definitely, others potentially.

With all due respect to people like Phillies fans worldwide and Mr. Chase Utley, it gives me great pleasure to say:

World Champions.

World Fuckin' Champions!

Joe Girardi is going to get fitted with a #28 jersey for 2010 now ;)

At 11/4/09 07:09 PM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:

Dyslexia

THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:

I don't care if fat girls do try harder, she's a freaking heffer!

At 11/3/09 01:50 AM, Rallard wrote: But still, he's eligible for parole in a relatively short time. Hopefully he'll stay psycho for the rest of his life and they'll continually deny parole.

Relatively short time? He'll be 67 by that time and hopefully by then at the very least, this sick fuck will feel some remorse, for what he's done.

You have my sympathies, jarrydn - at least you have someone to become the embodiment of your pain and grief. I only have the cancer to blame for the loss of my girlfriend's mother, almost 2 years ago now :(

The best piece of advice I can give you - write your mother a song, to celebrate her life, rather than dwelling on the tragic and bitter end. Make her proud of you.

At 11/4/09 01:51 AM, SapphireLight wrote: Hell yeah!

You're cool in my book.

Now to completely undo that - I'm staying up to 5am tomorrow morning, hoping to watch the Yankees take the World Series in game 6 tonight. I'm going to have to go to New York at some point.

At 11/3/09 02:52 PM, Supersteph54 wrote: Whoa, I never knew there was a top 100 audio reviewers thread O_o.

There's pretty much a top 100, 150 or 300 thread for every stat on Newgrounds.

I live in a cave ^^.

How is Mr. Bin Laden? :P

Coop prepares for a roast (pork dinner) while congratulating:
Level-up Loungers: 2,500 Pages. Now the race is on to response #75,000 ;)
sushi13: 2,000 Blams
S-k-y: Level 33
Bahamut7: 13,000 Experience
milinko959: 16,000 Blams; 42,000 Saves; 58,000 B/P
Kaytee: 6,666 Blams
Odyssic: 19,000 B/P
reverend: 6th NG Berfday
Jawdyn: 10,000 Saves
KrevZabijak: 4,000 Blams
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 23,000 B/P

At 11/3/09 08:52 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Say, has Poozy seen that video yet?

I'm sure he has - it was to do with something that he takes great passion in - cranes and American Sports.

Indeed, him and his cranes.

He is our eyes in the sky - a much better bet than Arnie Pie.

At 11/4/09 08:01 AM, Auz wrote: Woohoo! 2,500 pages. C'mon guys, only 225,000 more posts and we'll be the first topic to reach 10,000 pages!

I'm on it.

At 11/3/09 06:18 PM, Flee wrote: I spent at least an hour doing the frame-by-frame.

Spend a few more hours then and at least make a half decent attempt at a flash movie.

At 11/2/09 02:45 AM, SapphireLight wrote: The incredible danger is half the fun, people!

Sheesh, bunch of pansies.

I once got run over by a 4x4 while riding my push bike. Battered and bruised, the worst injury was the work I had to do to pay my parents for the insurance payout that they got to replace the bike... oh, and a new helmet, etc.

Now that was hardcore!

At 11/2/09 02:37 PM, EagleRock wrote:

At 11/2/09 12:37 PM, Coop83 wrote: Looks like I'm still about here. Holy crap, EagleRock used his powers to overcome byteslinger?! That's incredible.

What can I say? Without Slash around here to steal the limelight, I'm one of the top runners again. :-)

Glad to see it - just don't get passing me for B/P any time soon ;)

I know that my position might be more stern and less forgiving than others here, but if things like this happen again, I am not expecting the moderators to be so lenient. We have been warned and should be seen to take action.

I agree. My position is always risk-averse when it comes to these things as well. I'm encouraging all Barracks members to check out the latest info I provided in the Barracks regarding this. I don't believe it requires anything disciplinary towards our members, but it does require getting some things out in the open.

Perhaps we'll have to get a Google Wave sorted for it :P

To change topics, let's talk about what I wanted to address yesterday

The Yankees winning the World Series?

Oh, wait... we've still got about another 32 hours to go :P

At 11/2/09 10:50 AM, Sonofkirk wrote: On the other side, I'm letting Fro on the list and he has no choice :D. The same goes for milinko and Soapbubble, I PMed them telling them about the inactivity and I'll do what they like the more. Enjoy the update :).

*leaving

Thanks for the update - still a shame to see Fro taking a breather, but if that's what he's got to do, then so be it.

1 ) 2489 | 386 / 386 | 100.00% || 124 | 19 / 19 | 100.00% Coop83
2 ) 2465 | 382 / 387 | 098.71% || 124 | 19 / 19 | 100.00% Haggard
3 ) 2278 | 352 / 371 | 094.88% || 003 | 00 / 19 | 000.00% Fro

Still relatively little breathing space, but by this time next week, I'll have over 2,500 points, which is nice.

*All Requests Completed:
Coop83, Haggard, Darklight17 and Kirbyfemur

Times change, but new members flock to the banner and give us their all. Thanks chaps.

Of course, that means I've now managed to be the last person on here from day 1 of the new RRC to stick at 100%. I'm struggling to believe that, personally.

At 11/3/09 11:16 AM, EternitySpent wrote: Also what bothered me most about the comment didn't actually have anything to do with that anyway. It was more that this announcer, supposedly an expert to inform us about the game, couldn't even name one of the Braves starters of the 90s; a pitching staff that may have been one of the best OF ALL TIME, certainly the most iconic of my generation.

Well, Rick Suttcliffe seems to have been a pretty good pitcher in his time and he was still playing when the 1992 World Series was taking place. In my experience, commentators may speculate a little, but then get the guys in the truck to get the information they want.

I think he was referring to Maddux / Smolz / Glavine, to be honest.

Additionally, I seem to recall someone predicting the Yankees to take it in 6, just saying. Though I hope I'm wrong, the Phillies are kind of growing on me - I don't know if it's the underdog effect, or if I just dislike the Yanks that much or what, but Pettite on short rest - who knows how it will go.

Well, laud thy prediction after it's come true, not before ;)

Also, Chase Utley. Reggie who?

He's had the Yanks' number this World Series. Hopefully, we can shut him down tomorrow and set a good foundation for #27