Thanks for the past two updates, Baha-man.

At 7/13/09 05:14 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 7/12/09 11:00 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Congrats on breaking into the top 440 then! But you weren't really losing those ranks
*snip*
It's all in the timing.

Sure, but it's just as annoying to rank up 3 ranks one day and "lose" 2 ranks the next day. If only people close to me in Exp could miss some more deposits...
But I guess they will fall sooner or later. I remember trailing right behind Heinrich and Atalaya for quite a long time (both had a long streak of not missing any deposit), but now they are both way behind me. :)

Yes. They will fall. It is all just a matter... of ze times.

Also, wow, Pimp missed approx. 8 deposits. Awesome.

Indeed. Even if the worst case level 60 system scenario is true, Pimp's missed deposits buy us a LITTLE more time before the scaling returns.
Sadly, even if he were to fully retire, bomb is ready to take up the crown in just a month, clearly.

Then the user who was #1 in Exp when I first signed up (or when I first checked the rankings) will be back in the top spot again... at least if I recall correctly. Bomb WAS #1 in Exp once right?

Yes, Bomb was #1 once. Long before my time (well I was using NG occasionally, but not really paying attention to stats, I mean. That began in January 2003 for me, despite my 2000 signup date and use of NG even before I signed up).

At 7/18/09 09:06 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/12/09 10:58 PM, gfoxcook wrote: LIST UPDATE reply

On my birthday, yay!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR YOU WUZ GUD!

The only way you could made sure (or at least closer to being sure) woulda been to check all such cases at 11:59PM NG time the final day you did data pulls for that year-long list.

Yes, but that's really difficult to do, especially when I can't check 500+ accounts at once.

Yep.

At 7/12/09 11:00 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/29/09 12:47 PM, Coop83 wrote: Thanks to format, malbaugh, Steve84 and LockClock. You all have now been Cooped. Thanks also to Bahamut for the awesome double updatage.

I remember Cooping those fuckers. It's a long tradition, I suppose.

Looks like I'll be cooping some of them around the end of the year.

This looks to be an entertaining meme. Let's not forget to keep calling it that. #;-}>

Hey, kids... who have YOU Cooped lately, eh?

At 6/30/09 10:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: But now you have a double update to reply to, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

A special yearly 2-updates-on-one-day double update, though. It's not like I missed two regular-spaced updates. O_o

No but it was double the update...and double the fun.

So what's the problem, then? You acted like I'd be put off. #;-}>

No it wasn't. I was #51 for both the normal update AND the 1 year special. #;-}>
Okay, it was HALF-granted. #;-}>

Fine, HALF-granted just for the 1-year special update. I still declare it as fully granted, though despite your rank. You wanted the 1-year special update and you got it.

Yes, but I didn't get to be #50 ON it, which was half of the deal, so...

But anyway, all shall be well... soon enough. :::puts a hex on uniqueusername, though really, with a username like that, how can you NOT like the guy?:::

(set to the tune of Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys)

I prefer the Blind Guardian cover despite the song sounding nothing alike to their actual musical style.

Yes, well, they didn't write it, so they don't get the credit, sorry. #;-}>

At 7/19/09 02:03 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/12/09 11:00 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/30/09 05:53 AM, iscrulz wrote: Nooooo damn it all to hell wtf 6 missed deposits. Man this is unacceptable by my standards I guess I better B/P everyday, to secure my perfect depositing starting since the next day I have missed a deposit.

WHOOOPS.

I big huge whoops is right I haven't done that bad since 2002-2003.

Well, if you don't do that badly again 2014-2015 (the same time it took you from the 02-03 time to the 08-09 time, then you should be in good shape for the next few years, at least).

Heh. Blamin' it on Fallout, eh? #;-}>

Yeah yeah I was playing all day and competely forgot. Well I hope it doesn't happen to Bioshock I or II.

Heh. Speaking of Fallout, the only Fallout I've been playing lately is some good ol' Fallout 1 (snagged 1 and 2 and Tactics when Steam got them a few weeks ago).

No you will not pass me ... I creeping into the Top 80. I have years to go to get in the Top 50 or more.

Damn. He's got you there, Coop.

He may have a chance at passing in b/p but never in experience, and he knows it.

He may know it, but he will act/talk as though you are going down. Don't let him get in your head or it's OVER, man! (in the words of Hudson from Aliens... GAME OVER, MAN, GAME OVER!)

Just make sure you never get bored of NG, iscrulz, or Coop's gonna ream ya.

If I do I will just remember that Cooper is trying to pass me then come back.

That sounds like a pretty good motivational tool to use on yourself, dude. Good luck.

Yep. Like when I retired from b/p... I was #2... or had I already been passed and knocked to #3 by then? Can't remember.

MPA?

MPA passing me to make it ramagi/MPA/gfox top 3 sounds about right, but I really can't remember the timing of it all was my point.

I DO remember that Toocool passed me in saves before I retired my saves at 24,000, so that it was Toocool/gfox/ramagi for awhile, and in fact by the time I retired (if not shortly afterwards), it was then Toocool/ramagi/gfox in saves.

But as is no surprise to anyone, I was always paying more attention to what was going on with my saverank than my b/prank overall.

Funnily enough, since saves became so damned commonplace not too long after I semi-retired in 2005, I no longer care as much. Even with adding 12,000 saves over 3-4 years now to get to my final retirement, I'm never going to recover in saverank, and my b/p rank makes my save rank look like what my BLAM rank used to look like way back when blams were in vogue, so...

wild stuff.

At 7/19/09 10:00 AM, Fro wrote: On a side note it's hard to Ctrl + F yourself down the page when you run into all of AfroStud's alternate accounts on the way down.

That's what you get for changing your username, you silly bastard. #;-}>

At 8/16/09 11:31 AM, Haggard wrote: Even nicer: I finally passed Dream-of-Duke since Fro currently can't deposit for this account.

What do you mean by "can't deposit for" it?

At 8/16/09 02:53 PM, Coop83 wrote:

At 8/16/09 09:21 AM, Bahamut wrote: EXP update #16 is now available!

Thanks for the update, Bahamut. The last time that I'll be ranked behind gfox, as I should pass him by Thursday.

Yes. Let it be hereby noted that according to Bahamut's update #16.... gfox's pinnacle in exp ranking was... #169. I believe.

(don't see how he could have been any higher than he was on the VERY DAY he retired, after all, barring people depositing before/after the time NG updates profile/list rankings and tie-breakers and the like)

IT'S ALL BACK DOWNHILL FROM HERE, but I don't cares. ^_^

169 is a good number, too. Good peak, good peak. WELL DONE, alt alt.

Heavy: "YOU DID WELL."

Along with him, I'm expecting to make another 4-5 passes over the month, pulling me ever closer to the top 150. Of course, the next two months will both have big achievements, with the aformentioned gfox pass and possibly the progression to 20,000 Experience :)

Sounds like some fun shite goin' on. DO IT NOW.

At 7/19/09 08:04 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/10/09 01:09 AM, NEVR wrote: ...despite the fact that, IIRC, he doesn't really think this thread should be active unless there's an election going on...

Well, what I really said was that I don't think there's any need to bump this thread if it dies, but I don't think there's anything wrong with replying to replies in here. It's just, if people stop having anything to say here, then yes, let the thread die. I'm bumping the thread today both to give the impression of IRONIC BEHAVIOUR OMGFTW! and of course because you guys said interesting things I wanted to reply to, so yeah, fuck my own rules! #;-}>

Oh, and also, because it's not on page 37 anymore. That's the most important part.

OKAY THIS IS THE LAST POST UNTIL THE ELECTION (from me is all I can promise)

Nah, you'll be posting again because I posted. ADMIT IT.

As for your little TF2 cosplay pic-a-ture... OMG, that engie is heavier than that heavy!

scrawny weak-little-man heavy: "OHHHHH THIS IS BAAAAAD!"

At 7/19/09 08:08 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/17/09 02:35 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/8/09 02:13 PM, iscrulz wrote: Yeah you can always get to me me better. Its hard to be friends with everyone here. Most likely for me because they don't like the gfox multi-quoting posts I make.

Well, you'll always have a friend in the other wackos who post like that. Most especially myself and Bahamut, as you well know. EVERYONE ELSE 'ROUND HERE'S TOO SHORTWINDED.

If Sir-Nuts posted more and idiot-buster is in the making, everyone else just has the general symtom in them.

Yeah, I should include Sir Nuts with the three of us, but you know, I really didn't know he had it in him till recently when he started outposting ME over in LUL, man. It's epic.

We three.... just plain own. #;-}>

We own the the days and nights here. Have fun reading through our posts Lizzardis.

THE REST WILL HAVE TO BE CONTENT WITH RULING OVER THE TWILIGHT PERIODS, I SUPPOSE.

Yeah. Take that, Lizzardis. Unf, unf... you like that? Yeah? Yeah? O_O

So really, all you needed to be content was another list with you in the #1 spot, eh?

Yes if I was but back on the list I would have made it from least to most you see.

Heh.

Here's an idea for you: make a memberlist stat list like the RCVL, and then you can strive to get to #1 in total pentapoints amongst the Wi/Ht? membership. Of course, Coop will just say it's another list for him to top you in, so... be forewarned if you do elect to take up that listmakery.

I would and have thought of it but I am not for one reason Cooper would be able to brag about passing me. Its not stopping anyone else though huh.

Nope. But you don't mind anyone passing you and bragging about it, as long as the someone isn't him, right?

People may not remember, but early on in the Regular list, there was a brief Members vs. Regulars vs. Mods triple stat list competition of sorts.

I wish I could have been apart even though back then I would drag the Regulars points down.

Wah-wah-waaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

IIRC, Alkador probably would have gone straight to the membership had that regular election not taken place beforehand. There's no way there was a 3 day turnaround in terms of getting him on the nominations list for membership, meaning that membership election wasn't using the regulars' list as a candidate pool.

right it was just a coindience that it happen. The Acension from the Regular list happened when RedCircle went to the Member list and on the Regular list you have honorable discharges from the Regular list because they acsended to the Memberlist. So ever since the Regular list as be a breeding ground to shape Wi/Ht? Members still some sneak there way on to the Member list.

Just so long as no one thinks that's unfair or "cheating the system that doesn't really exist and is just a product of lazy vote-runners," then okay.

Here here I concur lets have a vote. All in favor of the next election in September 09 stfu. In January 2010 Say AYE.

Awesome. AYE!

Good point. I wonder if the main reason iscrulz made the list was so that he'd be #1 again on something since he's been "robbed" of his regular#1 spot... or because he found a way to keep Coop off a list. #;-}>

Muhahaha both reasons I could include him but then its a list for users that were on the RCVL so I guess I would error it by including Cooper and Casualty I then would have to include the rest of the Memberlist users too.

Do whatever you want, man. It's your world, we're just living in it.

Pretty much. You'll note that while I am replying in honour of page 38, I started with iscrulz's bump in July, I ain't going back to February-June's posts on page 37 and replying to all that crap. Remind me if anything important happened in the first 85% of page 37 sometime, though. #;-}>

Replies, replies Ultor/Basspro55 thinking he can be on the list again/The Induction Cermony for June/some cock sucking/then me crying I was on the list. Important um nope.

Sweet. Then that page is forever dead to me, just how I wanted it. :::nods:::

At 7/18/09 03:47 AM, Xiivi wrote: I love people treating the Regulars list as a requirement for making the Memberlist. People don't realize they are completely separate lists?

I thought it was since the Regular list started including the Ascending Regulars sub list.

That might have something to do with it, but didn't that kinda happen AFTER regulars started getting made members?

It's kinda a chicken and egg sorta deal, I suppose.

The Regulars is simply to show users who are currently active in the Wi/Ht? at the time. However the Memberlist just started off as a sort of 'club'. Then it kind of became a 'this member has done a ton for the Wi/Ht? and is well liked by us all' thing. But it's definitely very loose in its definition I'd say.

I guess RC wanted to one-up gfox by making the Versus lists because gfox had just these members or on a list that are active and helpful on the Wi/Ht then RC vamped up the RCVersusL and add all the bells the whistles while the Member list stay a list were you get to go if you suck enough cock and be helpful. The Regualr list is starting to become a sister Memberlist because the active Wi/Ht?ers are not being voted off I admit I stopped using the Exclusion votes but now that I look at it....etc.etc.etc.

My my, you sure are comfortable guessing at RC's motives. #;-}>

As I said to you, there was a members vs. regulars vs. mods stat comparison going on before RC made the list the way he made it, so I don't think it was any sort of one-uppingness of me or any other listmaker, it was just a continuation of good statlisty funs.

FYI, I was very close to not accepting becoming a Wi/Ht? Member. I had a real dilemma with it as my activity had been decreasing around the time, and I knew it was only going to be decreasing more. But BonusStage and RedCircle did some convincing and I accepted. Still feel guilty about it though.

Oh wait I could just not accept being on the Memberlist cool then its back to the RCVL for me then.

FUNK THAT. Look what you fucking did, Kiba. You asshole. DON'T GET ISCRULZ STARTED. ;_;

Aw hell, why do I feel like such an old timer. I miss being a newbie to Wi/Ht?, changing my name all the time, and everyone calling me Kiba. I also member a lot of the old peeps.

I feel like an old timer, too and stuff but, Dayum the name changes were awesome like my Social Security Numbers and the fads Bahamut, Afro_Stud and Cooper had.

VAULT! Everyone is fond of Vaaaaaauuuuult.... except for Simon Cowell. And mice and shrews.

RISE FROM THE GRAVE.

At 7/18/09 03:47 AM, Xiivi wrote: I love people treating the Regulars list as a requirement for making the Memberlist. People don't realize they are completely separate lists?

I kinda assumed most people DO realise they are separate lists, but you might have a point there. :::doesn't care too much either way, so probably just wasn't paying close enough attention:::

The Regulars is simply to show users who are currently active in the Wi/Ht? at the time. However the Memberlist just started off as a sort of 'club'. Then it kind of became a 'this member has done a ton for the Wi/Ht? and is well liked by us all' thing. But it's definitely very loose in its definition I'd say.

That would be the definition of a forum "regular," after all. Stands to reason. #;-}>

Well, I wasn't around for the start of Wi/Ht? membershipness, but by the time they asked me to join, we already prided ourselves on being both REGULAR and HELPFUL, and those two things being recognised was essentially the point of the "club" if you want to call it a club, which I don't.

FYI, I was very close to not accepting becoming a Wi/Ht? Member. I had a real dilemma with it as my activity had been decreasing around the time, and I knew it was only going to be decreasing more. But BonusStage and RedCircle did some convincing and I accepted. Still feel guilty about it though.

Nowadays, it's just a Hall of Fame, anyway. And people always come back and become more active again, so it's not like we're going to kick people out for being inactive and then only readmit them when they're active again.

If you're in, you're in because your peers thought you should be in. What's done is done, enough said, and all that. LOOKING AT YOU HERE, ISCRULZ. #;-}>

Aw hell, why do I feel like such an old timer. I miss being a newbie to Wi/Ht?, changing my name all the time, and everyone calling me Kiba. I also member a lot of the old peeps.

I miss the old times, too. Nostalgia is such an evil human disease. I think cancer is far less cruel.

I still think of you as Kiba, and usually still type Kiba when I refer to you, if it makes you feel any better/worse/whatever nostalgia does to you by default.

At 7/18/09 05:05 AM, NEVR wrote: Perhaps you're forgetting that a lot of people here (including myself) have simply seen things done one way since both these lists became active again, which was basically the RCVL providing a candidate pool for the regulars list.

I think his point is just that just because Recon and myself and now Bahamut have been lazily using the RCVL as a candidate pool for membership... it doesn't mean that there's a requirement you be in the one before you get into the other like some newbs might believe there is.

As I said, I don't really care if there's that impression or not. If a newb wants to find out the truth of what goes on, they'll find it out. If they're happy with their misconceptions that we haven't tried hard enough to clear up for them, then... ah well. Again... too lazy to give a damn. #;-}>

People realise that they're 2 separate lists, but not everybody has been here since the lists were created, man, so people see them in the way that they've been run since they got here. As far as precedent goes since I got here, nobody outside the RCVL has been voted onto the memberlist, AFAIK, so before it was pointed out to me that it can and has happened, I really didn't have any reason to see it that way.

It's a "de facto" situation, IOW. As long as we keep voting regulars into the membership, people will either assume that you have to be a regular first or that people tend to be a regular first (the latter is true... the former is up to debate/your perspective).

I apologise if my ignorance offended you, but unfortunately I haven't been here since the dawn of time, so you'll have to forgive me for not knowing certain little things.

STOP FAKE-APOLOGISING FOR NOT BEING A Wi/Ht? DINOSAUR, YOU CHEEKY BASTARD. #;-}>

At 7/19/09 03:53 AM, NeMeSiSM66 wrote: I didn't forget anything and understood the situation. I was kind of just having a little laugh to myself at how the pool of Wi/Ht? users is so different now and enjoying the little misconception people got.

It's good that you're enjoying it. If you didn't enjoy it, what good would it be? Misconceptions must be milked for all the positive gain possible, or else what's the point of human foible? #;-}>

Sorry for the confusion. I guess I'll go back to not posting again.

NEIN! IS VERBOTEN! YOU POST NAO!

As of today, I have reached 25,000 exp!

And two days ago I hit 33,333 saves!

Good times, good times. Thanks for the help there, Clock Day 09!

(P.S. catchups in here will have to wait awhile longer.... the last time I caught up on LUL I didn't post in any other threads, and thus I'm way more behind on all other threads than I am on LUL, so... back to LUL-comes-last, my usual policy for a reason...)

At 7/21/09 07:47 PM, Bahamut wrote: Note to self: Never skip a catch-up for this thread on the 11th, most especially when gfox recently posted here. ò_ó

Mwahahaha.

At 7/2/09 05:53 AM, NEVR wrote: Looks like this thread has exploded since I've been away. O_O

All thanks to me for encouraging his ass to get back to the forums. ;)

You know, if you never encouraged me to post, I'd still post.

Just... not as often is all. #;-}>

At 6/21/09 08:09 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Thank god I was modded back before other mods had any input and it was just Wade and/or liljim modding someone... they didn't have a speedo test (at least, not for me). Whew.

Times change, man. Times change.

...you could always request to be remodded if you're curious about that speedo test. ;P

Nah, he loves his neutralness far too much to do that.

Indeed. I probably said something to that effect already, but thanks for backing me up on that. It's amazing how many people don't realise the full extent of my attachment to my aura. #;-}>

At 7/1/09 09:35 AM, Bahamut wrote: Past Updates (sorted by date):

This is a complete list of the past updates to the Regulars list, including mini-updates.

LIES

WHOOPS! I fail at checking minor things.

Speaking of which, I don't think I'm going to get to pentalist or exp list replying tonight, but I did check out the latest update of the pentalist and I saw that on the website it still says July update, instead of August. I thought the update day hadn't arrived yet or you'd delayed at first, but then I checked out my stats on the update, and I was all "huh? There's no way I had this many saves before Clock Day, especially... and lemme check my exp... yeah, WTF?" and of course I quickly realised you just didn't update the date at the top of the pentalist page. #;-}>

Another minor thing, but quite confusing for a moment.

At 7/3/09 04:04 PM, iscrulz wrote: *Sniff* How could this happen to me. I made my mistakes... I was 2 months from retirement. My 4 years on the Regulars List and I would have stepped down, then I would never be able to become a Wi/Ht? member.

Times change iscrulz and we have to move on with it.

It's like he's in the running to win a BAWWWW award somewhere. #;-}>

At 7/1/09 09:38 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/25/09 10:06 AM, iscrulz wrote:

Yep, I was in for a treat all right. However, I DO have one complaint about Vice City. The controls for helicopters, planes and such are awful. I mean, individual buttons to turn AND individual buttons to strafe left/right? For the PC port, why couldn't they make the controls a little simpler? Besides that, fantastic game. It's a lot better than GTA3, even though I can't seem to find many stunt places in Vice City, which kinda disappointed me, but not too much. And besides, if I'm that desperate to do crazy stunts, I'll go back to GTA3.

Thats no compliant the controls didn't bother me wait to you play GTA IV with the sixaxis motion and fly the whirlybirds and what not. I am looking for some unique insane stunt videos form you on Vice City. I wish I could have recorded when I drove a cop cruiser and got it stuck up a tree.

I'd make Vice City stunt videos, but I haven't found a lot. That's the one thing that disappointed me about Vice City - the less amount of good stunt places to perform. There were many places for crazy stunts in GTA3. I guess if I'm that desperate to go on a stuntfest, I'll pick up GTA3 again.

Man, there's plenty of places to do awesome jumps with cars or bikes in Vice City! As iscrulz mentioned briefly, those little trapezoid-shaped concrete ramps near water in the early area of the game, especially. great, great flippy jumps off of those things with sportcars....

There's also plenty of rooftop jumps and ramps.

I think what you're noticing, though, is that there are less OBVIOUS ramps sitting around on the ground level as compared with GTA 3, and I think they did that to make the city seem a bit more realistic, since there's no ramps all over a damned city. So they made the ramps look like actual... utility buildings/boxes, etc.

But iscrulz is right, mountains and skyscrapers in GTA:SA have both 3 and VC beat for stunt jumping.

At 7/21/09 07:49 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/17/09 02:05 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I ALREADY HAVE GTA IV. I ain't buying it a 2nd time for a game system I DON'T OWN. Whereas both you and Bahamut have PCs already. So YOU buy GTA IV and come play with ME. At least you would only have to buy the game a 2nd time, but no further purchases on consoles. How about that? #;-}>

As a GTA fanatic, how can iscrulz not get GTAIV for the second time?

Indeed. But anyway, sounds like he's open to getting it on Steam for a sale (as I know you are), and it's just a matter of whether his computer can handle it or not.

Speaking of which, the only three games my new computer (well, new a year ago) has had even the slighest issues running due to being super-demanding on system resources...... are:

Far Cry 2
Fallout 3 (barely)
GTA IV

So, you might have some GTA IV issues, too, especially in light of all your Source issues. But maybe not, who knows. You should give Fallout 3 a spin just to make sure it runs fine, though.

Is it a crime to want to have a goddamn PS3 sometime?

No, but it SHOULD be a crime to please iscrulz, and if you get a PS3 you'll be pleasing him even more than when you got some GTA games. (gasp)

Pleasing iscrulz isn't even the main intention to get a PS3.

I didn't say it was. I said it would be an unintended side effect of you getting a PS3, though.

Just FYI. You can go ahead and get one, sure, but... you'll be pleasing that bastard to no end. ;_;

Instead, we should be getting him to get Steam and TF2 and ganging up on his ass is some hawt soldier+pyro on.... uh.... I dunno, spy-or-sniper-or-engie-or-medic-or-scout ...--i.e.-something-fairly-easy-to-kill-
with-a-nice-solly/pyro-team action. #;-}>

None, but there's always hope he'll give post-FFIII games a real chance.

I just wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

Fair enough, even though that means The Simpons would still suffer with two of the worst episodes ever.

Two of the worst eps ever were in seasons 7-10ish? I'm surprised. I woulda thought the quantity of those types of eps went up way more past season 10, from what you normally say.

But yes, I seem to recall you saying somewhere around 7 or 8th season is when it started to go downhill.

*sigh* Yes, it'll give me a legitimate reason to have a 360 controller.

That would rock.

FF1 and FF3 are quite excellent, actually. My two fave FF games, in fact. Glad you agree!

Wait, is this American FFIII or Japanese FFIII? If the former, then SAY FFVI GODMOTHERFUCKINGDAMMIT!!!!

FF1 and FF3, like I said. Stop flipping out like a crazyman and THINK for one second: what do you THINK I mean? Japanese, of course.... jeeeeeez. o_O

I NEVER say the American #s, I've been playing FFs since 1987, and I've known about the REAL numbering since I lived in Japan from 1988 to 1991, why on earth would I say 3 if I meant 6? Sheesh. O_o

:::remembers the anti-lulz of owning "FF2" and "FF3" cartridges for the SNES when he came back from Japan to the States in 1991-1992-whenever they came out in the US, and going "Where the fuck is my REAL FF3, GODDAMNIT??!?!":::

Good thing 4 and 6 are so good, or else I might have started hating Nintendo and/or Square as much as you hate Activision and EA and so forth these days back then in the early 90s, and that would have been lifechanging for the worse.

Goddamnit, I am fail. iscrulz, you write too much fun stuff to reply to. #;-}> Bahamut's reply will have to be on its own, too, after all. ;_;

At 7/19/09 05:22 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/17/09 02:05 AM, gfoxcook wrote: RR would never kick you out. But it would be nice if he came back, yes.

More dilemma trying to figure out what happened to RR. I don't know I could make him mad and he might kick me out why do you think BonusStage isn't a member.

Sounds like that mystery has been solved, from what Bahamut's told me a week or two ago.

I am an original Wi/Ht? member, punkass. And so are you. WE ARE ONE. ONE UF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

Yes you are but the cutoff is at you, the rest came from the rcvl for the most part. So we are not one we are many.

Depends on how you define "original," I suppose. I don't see anything "lesser" or "less original" about members who used to be on the RVCL versus those who were members before the RCVL even existed except, of course, that seniority/longevity wise, the latter category is an older bunch.

You can't go 32 hours without fapping? Jeez, man.

I can I just would need a break and a porno break sounds good but overall I can't stay up past 22 hours on average.

Well, that's good to hear, I suppose.

Go for it. You can videotape the disc smash and show me and Bahamut.

If I find it in the 15 bin at walmart I will buy iy and smash it.

Sweet deal.

I ALREADY HAVE GTA IV. I ain't buying it a 2nd time for a game system I DON'T OWN. Whereas both you and Bahamut have PCs already. So YOU buy GTA IV and come play with ME. At least you would only have to buy the game a 2nd time, but no further purchases on consoles. How about that? #;-}>

Once I get Steam and its on sale I may buy it I am just worried that my 4 year old computer won't be able to handle it which is why I don't PC game.

Steam's free. So get Steam right now.

The latest there will be a sale for GTA IV on PC on Steam will be around Christmas, so you'd better get an account before then, at least.

But yeah, your PC might not be hip enough to keep up with it. Oh well. Your next PC, whenever you get it, will be. And thanks to Steam, you can install the games you own on as many PCs as you want to login and DL them on. Once the money is spent, all ya need is time and hard drive space.

I've never watched a blu-ray. How do I know it's overrated then, you ask? BECAUSE I HAVE A HDTV + regular ol' DVD player, and my movies and TV shows look PERFECTLY FINE already.

So you don't know what a blu-ray disc looks like on a Sony Bravia 1080p best refresh ratio and Hz and etc looks like. Just because you think your ol' DVD player looks good doesn't mean it is good. Blu-ray is a lot better even the unconverted DVD's are better

No, and I don't need to know what they look like, because regular DVDs look FINE.

A $10,000 music system sounds better than my $300 music system. Do I need one? Hell no. I'm not that picky, man. HDTV with regular DVD is more than good enough for me. I'm easily pleased when it comes to TV/audio/etc.

Now, on a computer, I want my FPSes and the like to play well and have a nice high FPS, so I'm a bit more picky re: computers, but then again... I did live with the same old desktop for 11 years and ended up just stopping buying new games.

But in short....

I'm a statwhore, Jim, not a trendwhore.

If I'm satisfied with the sound and video of my regular ol' DVDs (which I waited until many years after they were introduced to buy, BTW, so that I didn't have to spend a small fortune)... then I know by definition that the "next gen" movie storage system is OVERRATED.

Oh because the next-gen was expensive you thought instantly it is overrated talk about being blind and ignorant, Blu-ray players are around 150 now for the old models so you should get one and see for your self. You won't admit you see the difference because of your stubbornness to get a blu-ray player. It many be overrated because it has so many praises from the crowds but now after time has passed it settled down. <3

If it's so good, it'll still be around and still be the main way people buy movies in 3-4 years, right?

So I'll get it then, and I'll pay a shitton less than the early adopters did, thank you very much.

I stopped needing to get things right away when I turned 15, man.

Yeah the PS1 and PS2(which owned every other console) is great but the PS3 kicks as much ass as its predessors. The price tag is the only thing that scares people away, if PS3 sold as much as a Wii it would be #1. The PSX (the newerish PS1 is definatly over) But the Playstation era is not over.

It kicks ass technically.

But not culturally, which was my point about the Playstation era being over.

Unless Sony gets back to #1 with PS4, it is indeed over, man. Don't kid yourself.

At 7/19/09 05:37 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/17/09 02:05 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Too bad he's got Fallout 3 on Steam/PC then, eh?

Yeah dang it well he can make videos now. So I will see how he plays it.

Exactly. PC über alles, biiiiatch.

Done and done, thanks to a Valve sale. VALVE IS GOD.

Hooray for Valve expect if they sell FF games than BOO.

They don't sell anything to do with FF.

So will you get a Steam account now and DL Steam (all for free), please? Thanksssss...

(there are free videos, demos, and a few free full games you can DL, btw, without spending a penny... get your ass onboard!)

Uh not in my lifetime I am going to keep my PS2, PS3 and the other PS consoles. I will not join you I am still a console fanboy, and if I play on the PC it will be just to see what TF2 is like and play GTA IV with you.

Well, you said your computer might not be able to handle GTA IV, but it probably can handle TF2 (might have to turn down some of the graphical settings), so that'll kick ass.

LOZ is an Adventure (no levels/stats, just equipment /= JRPG).

Well okay just some people in the past I know loosely used the term RPG.

Probably because they figured that since the player PLAYS the ROLE of Link, then it must be a ROLE-PLAYING game, but by that logic, nearly every game is a role-playing game, no matter whether it's a fighting game, racing game, shooter, space combat sim, puzzle games even, hell.... RPG doesn't just mean what it says in its name, though, so... yeah. Those people are silly and oversimplistic in their reading comprehension. Context, bitches. Context.

Yeah I remember your prejudice favoring Vice City over the other two GTA games I played them equally base on how long it took to get near 100% and the time the next game came out. I haven't been playing CW though. Its about time I play it and beat it.

Vice City is still the only one I've finished.

I'm most likely to finish either VCS or 4 next. I'll get to 3 and/or SA finishing after the two of them.

I suppose, but I've been trying to vote him in since before I ever found out he hated FF or before you and he ever met....

I wish more people could have said that then I would have gotten on the list before Cooper.

Hey... I tried my best, man. For fuckin' YEARS. Don't look at me.

Separate post for replying to iscrulz's catchups and Bahamut's catchups after this one (even though those 4 posts, 2 from each of 'em, were before the posts I'm replying to below). Normally I'd probably put each in its own post (and end up posting 3 posts total), but I want to trim the fat today, so I'm gonna cram that all in to its own (big) reply after the update-related and miscellaneous replies post I'm gonna make first. Ahem:

At 7/26/09 02:20 PM, Ismael92 wrote:

At 7/25/09 05:12 PM, iscrulz wrote: If you have the patience you can mega-quote whenever you want all you have to do is start. I will quote you good. The others probably not expect for you know who and etc.

Patience is the key. But then again I'm not really patient. Making "mega-quotes" is not really necessary, but I feel embarrassed when I see my small posts next to all the multi-post catch-ups.

Why would you feel embarassed? Nice, tidy, up-to-date, no-need-for-catchups-because-you're-acti ve small posts are superior to the giant megaquote posts we make, dude. We should feel embarassed, if anyone.

BUT I AM SHAMELESS. Mwahaha.

...

On Wi/Ht?, at least. Elsewhere on the internets, I'm actually quite embarassed by my longwindedness and do everything I can to restrain it. :::nods:::

At 8/1/09 05:33 AM, Bahamut7 wrote: 16 -- STEM
20 -- SpiffyMasta
31 -- Lizzardis

Congratulations to Lizzardis on becoming the newest Wi/Ht? Regular! :) In addition, Lizzardis' 31 invotes broke MystWilliams' 30 votes from June 2005. Sure, we may have more Wi/Ht? Regulars right now than then, but hey, it's still a new record.

Congrats, dude.

At 8/1/09 05:36 AM, Bahamut7 wrote:

At 7/25/09 05:12 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/21/09 07:47 PM, Bahamut wrote: I'm so glad I did. Why would I hate GTA right after having so much fun in Vice City?

Too get me mad. I say I hate things I love to get people mad. Good fun times.

So you once said you hated GTA? :P

(psst)... I think he means that he loves FF, but says he hates it to make you mad. That's how I interpreted his statement on July 25th, at least. #;-}>

At 8/1/09 09:28 PM, NEVR wrote:

At 8/1/09 05:36 AM, Bahamut7 wrote:

At 7/26/09 11:50 AM, NEVR wrote:

At 7/21/09 07:47 PM, Bahamut wrote: The voting election for August 2009 has begun!!

Mandatory shameless plug for users to vote NEVR as Wi/Ht? regular for August 2009. ;P

Why must fellow Wi/Ht? Members do this to me? ;_;

lol

I should quit the memberlist and try to get elected as a regular again, and restart the whole process. Although I don't think I'm anywhere near active enough to be voted onto the regulars list / memberlist all over again.

I've always thought that would be a fun thing to do, though ;P

Yeah........ "fun." o_O

Too bad/good thing it's NOT ALLOWED. EXPRESSLY VERBOTEN. #;-}>

I knew your above post would get iscrulz all riled up, and I was right... Look what you diiiiiiiid!

:::refuses to quote the iscrulz post in question, however:::

You and Krev already talked about this a bit, but you seemed more distracted by the disruption to the usual top-of-page table of contents tradition.

Speaking of which, a couple pages back, there's already another TOC that got bumped up from top of page to bottom-of-previous-page. The insanity continues. ;_;

At 8/26/09 03:17 AM, NGReviewEater wrote: The first time I have seen the General forum inactive. I'm not sure if this has been posted, but I do believe someone (I think gfox) said they won't accept the screenshot as true unless the date was given.

Don't think it was me, but since you mention me + time/dates for accuracy...

EVERYTHING was inactive except the Clubs and Crew forum (FUCK YOU C&C GUYS FOR SCARRING MY "inactive BBS" SCREENSHOT!).

Dude... for General, it says the last post was at 2:32 AM, and for C&C it says the last post was at 2:33 AM. General received a post within 1 minute of C&C's "active" post that ruined your screenshot. You told Krev that General gets a post every 30 seconds... well, 30-60ish or so was still true in your screenshot. You didn't capture a unique moment where somehow General wasn't being posted in at all for a long period of time, you just captured a normal moment when General had been posted in within the past minute.

And I'm gonna take a wild guess and assume that the reason all the forums were listed as grey/no-unread-posts is that you were refreshing the BBS again and again till almost everything was inactive for a screenshot. Of course that's gonna happen. There's not dozens of posts per minute here, after all, spread all around the various forums of the BBS. This isn't youtube's comments system, it's NG BBS. Very light traffic (relatively-speaking).

I just don't get what the point of showing that you can refresh the BBS listing and make it look like all the forums are dormant when really if you had waited an hour before hitting refresh, almost all of them would have shown new posts.... In fact, looking at your screenshot again, every single one of the 9 normal forums (the all-access ones) had postes within 30-60 minutes prior to the posts I mentioned above on General and on C&C that were the most recent ones at the time of the screenshot.

So.... huh? Unless a nice, grey, "no-unread-posts-since-your-last-visit" screenshot is aesthetically pleasing to you, I fail to see the point of those two screenshots. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, this topis has way way way way more useless screenshots than that. #;-}> But if that's what you like, just hang out on Wi/Ht? in the middle of the night, hit refresh a couple times, and you'll have a nice long list of 30 topics, all grey and "inactive." Nothing special.

[necro activate!]

At 7/12/09 12:15 PM, kcinnay wrote:

At 6/26/09 03:17 PM, Bryan wrote: Xbox 360 is dominating! >=3

No Wii and DS dominate...
Pretty weerd if jou remember that 95.9% of the newground users are male...

Yeah, because every store around the world totally makes sure the customer doesn't have a penis before they'll sell them a Nintendo console.... o_o

Kids these days. Apparently all the cursing on XBL serves to make 'em think Microsoft is for boys and thus Nintendo must be for girls. Funny, I don't remember kids in my day thinking that just because the Sega ads screamed SEGA real loud at us from our TVs, but... ah well. Rationality be damned.

At 7/17/09 10:45 PM, byteslinger wrote:

At 7/17/09 07:58 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Aside from copying all the images to your own server space, BTW, I would assume you could probably just put some height + width tags on all those image files and even if the image file changed (like happened that day), it would stay within the small rectangle space it's supposed to occupy.

In fact, I did both - I copied all of the images to my server, and forced the image sizes on the web page. We'll have no more of that silly image nonsense now.

Ah, cool.

At 7/15/09 02:45 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: They give me that warm fuzzy feeling inside, like the good Chance cards from Monopoly. <3

The first coupla ones I noticed a week ago or so reminded me of Chance or Community Chest cards from Monopoly as well. Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought so. #;-}>

Of course, then I started getting some VERY un-Monopoly ones insulting me afterwards, and the feeling of Monopoly cards... faded quite quickly. #;-}>

Well, right now, there's only a dozen random stats. Some are cute - and some aren't. Don't take them personally - they're all in good fun. If you can think of any other random stat sentences, please pass them on. It's just something for LOLs!

I wasn't (taking them personally), just making a joke about how Monopoly only has cards similar to SOME (but not all) of the NG Log random messages. #;-}>

At 8/13/09 12:31 PM, byteslinger wrote: Remember: Saturday is Clock Day - so, starting Friday afternoon, watch the portal - I suspect that there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of saved flashes this weekend. I know I'm getting ready for it: two cases of diet Coke, fridge full of cold-cuts (eat with one hand, click with the other) and a wireless laptop set up in the bathroom. If I can bend my work schedule, I may just get "a few extra" B/P points this weekend after all...we'll see...

Sadly, it was a down year. Only hundreds.... first time in over 3 years without 1000+ potential saves on Clock Day itself. ;_;

Still, I managed to rake in almost 500 of the 800 possible saves (yep, exactly 800 this year, out of 860 submissions... lots of flaggings and a couple deletions), this year, and since it's my last Clock Day that I'll be statwhoring during, that'll have to do.

Not so long ago, this convo was 3 posts from SirNuts to me and 3 posts from me back to SirNuts... he got it down to only 2 posts back to me, and I have gotten it down to just 1 post back to him! A MIRACLE!

At 7/23/09 12:54 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: What is this, catch-up after my catch-up? o_O

Yep. It was a coincidence, though. I wasn't waiting for you to catchup to do mine or anything, it just happened to be there right on the page above my own. #;-}>

This left me a bit of curiosity regarding each character's nationality. So I searched for it and found this, which seemed pretty trustworthy.
Now: do you play more with the engineer just because he's from Texas? =P

No, it's just a bonus that he's a Texan. Besides, if that was the reason I played engineer most, wouldn't I always have played engie most?

When I first got TF2 13 months ago, I played Heavy and Scout most (Russian and American--Boston, specifically).... then I started to play Pyro most (who knows where he's from... some say Italian... I think he needs to either be hispanic or asian, personally, as TF2 is missing some real diversity #;-}>). And then I started to play Demo most (Scottish).

Engie was my 5th class to hit #1 playtime on my account, so... I didn't rush straight to him when I started playing. It took half a year or so for engie hours to pass all my other hours.

Honestly, when I saw the final roundin Baha's character battle, I had to search to know what the hell was a Pyramid Head. It seems he's a pretty popular obscure character that I'd never heard of.

Yep. You've gotta be a big SilentHill/ResidentEvil-type gamer to have met him. I haven't, but I found out about him on the web a few years ago.

Ah well. They can't live forever. At some point their music is either gonna disappoint you or they're gonna stop releasing it. One way or the other, it has to end.

Tell that to the Rolling Stones. =P

Even they will not go on forever. Unless they're all vampires. WE SHALL SEE.

Indeed, but that's because you wrote a SHIT TON of things quoting my posts. Heh.

Yep. So we gotta fix that. Anything not that important to say needs to not get said. I've already clipped out 3 or 4 things of yours I coulda replied to but felt I shouldn't. You probably shouldn't reply to this in return. That will further decrease the INSANE SIZE of this conversation that started out as a simple single post from each of us and was up to 3 posts or so at its height. #;-}>

At least this topic itself will (hopefully) never get to page 37000. Though it probably will get to 3700, and then I'll have to suffer through 100 pages. Or else just disappear for 100 straight pages (sounds better).

But then you'll have to catch-up those 100 pages... right?

Like I told Rohan, I think it was, maybe I'll just ignore all 100 pages. #;-}>

I'm getting the hang of it, but I still find myself erasing the damned line. One thing that I did in this previous catch-up that i found quite useful was copying the whole post to notepad and checking if the lines were there or not. A little ''archaic'', yeah, but useful nonetheless. :)

Nothing archaic about that. I'm typing this line in notepad right now, dude. It's the only way to multiquote. You can't fit more than 8000 characters in a NG BBS response window, after all. Almost every time I multi-quote, even if it only ends up being 2 posts, instead of 4 or (hah!) 8.... I start out with so much quoted material it can't all fit in a single post. I edit it down as I go, while adding my own replies, of course, and... then cut it into <8k chunks in notepad, and paste back into posting windows.

Congrats, especially on BrigGen (my fave rank icon on OLD pre-redesign NG!) and 10+ VP!

Thanks! We know that Brigadier General is your favourite pre-redesign badge, I mean, it's your profile pic. =P

Well, before the redesign, my profile pic was of all 4 general rank badges AND the supreme commander badge. It was an animated profile pic, but then the redesign came along and made animated sigs and profile pics a thing of the past, so I had to pick a single frame of my pic to use, and of course I picked my fave. #;-}>

But before then, people would actually have had to ask me or see me saying it to know.

Well, I have a 1MB internet connection, which is pretty good, I suppose. The major internet backbone area should be São Paulo (everything is there, but WE are the capital, wth...), which is about 1100km (~700 miles) from here. I believe that most servers were held there as well.

Well, you're further inland, right? In the US, most of our backbones are along the coasts, so it doesn't surprise me much that it's the same in Brazil. Population on coastlines means it's the first place to build a pipeline/backbone, then you branch it off to the inland areas.

I went to a store the other day and saw that a PS3 game was about 50/60 dollars. That's why there's so much piracy in here. Another reason why I ask my uncle to buy games sometimes, since he lives in Washington. :)

Games here are 50/60 dollars, too, but I take it you're not talking about the same dollar as I am. #;-}>

Would your uncle buy you a nice boxed copy of the Orange Box? If so, you could probably get it even sooner than from Bahamut or me.

Are you serious? But that's just... insane! I... don't know what to say! Are you seriously going to do that or you're just mocking me?

Of course we're serious. Didn't we say that like 2 months ago? You thought we were joking or something? Why bother signing up to Steam and putting "please to buy me TF2?" in your profile there, then? Heh. #;-}>

Yeah, you can easily make 36 posts with gfox, just to show everyone the sword. =P

That's a grand idea.

If things starts getting too serious, LOOK AT THE HEAVY'S FACE.

That should be TF2's motto!

I think everyone would trade a 36 for a 99, in this case.

I'll take 136 instead of either of 'em. #;-}>

I'd rather 360. =P

Meh, this one could go on FOREVER.

Indeed. I'll take 36,000,000, and you can have 36,000,000 too and we'll call it a day. How about that? #;-}>

Nice guess, then. I actually got that album this year as a birthday gift from my brother. It was the only album from Foo Fighters that we didn't have, so now we have the whole discography (excluding special versions & etc...) :)

Really? How many albums do they have, anyway? That one was their first one, I assume. It's the only one I have.

Hahahaha, yeah. You ramble on for about 8 posts every time you catch-up. Even if it's a one-week catch-up. 8)

No... 8 posts is not quite the normal #. Usually it's 4-6 posts. #;-}>

This will be the 6th (and last) post of this week's catchup. I MADE IT! Whew. Just barely, though.

At 7/23/09 12:57 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooe. Don't give up. ;_;

Well, you kinda encouraged me now. =)

Well, that's good.

Actually... I think he wouldn't care that much now. After the computer crashed with him a couple of times and he took a new part in his job (with special parking spot! =P), he decided to buy a laptop for his activities. So he ditched the old computer (which we use) and uses the laptop, most of the times (whic we use as lol. Actually, I'm typing from it now =P). He controls it more, of course.

Ah, cool.

He still asked me the other day what was I playing on the other computer and if it was online or not. But I'll try to talk things over with him. I know that steam is safe. =)

That sillyhead....

OCTO-POST.... INITIATE!

Shall we call Guiness and record this as ''Longest catch-up on NG''?

I think we should!

THE END.

Well, I kinda didn't meant to stop catching up when I did last night, but I fell asleep earlier than planned. SLEEP DEPRIVATION WIN!

So... one last post for the rest of the catch-up, except for the SirNuts catchup, which is really its own beast. We should just take it to Steam IM. #;-}>

And then there's a few replies to my catchup already... oy vey...

At 7/20/09 04:16 AM, Coop83 wrote: Still, you might pass gfox to enter the top 200. How swell will that be?!

That would be pretty cool. If gfox is ranked #199 when he's at #200, it's a done deal since gfox'll be dead in the water by then. Bahamut sure seems to think that he won't be getting to #200 until 4 months later than that, based on his "9 months" prediction for moving up from #250 to #200.... but... that means gfox is gonna tumble fast and hard from his perch when he stops depositing. I don't expect him to stay at... :::checks::: #172... but I don't expect him to be out of the top 200 by a couple months from now, either, which apparently he expects to happen. O_O

At 7/21/09 04:34 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/20/09 05:27 AM, Auz wrote: I´m pretty excited for tonight. Gonna go to the U2 concert in the Amsterdam ArenA. And I am just so lucky to have Snow Patrol in the pre-program again (Snow Patrol also being one of my favourite bands). So it´s gonna be an awesome and exciting day for me :)

Just hope this doesn't happen ;)

I'm pretty sure Auz's newspost review of the concert didn't mention Edge's effects pedals all failing to work and him playing Jingle Bells in response, so... WHEW.

At 7/24/09 10:39 PM, idiot-buster wrote: Achievement's of the month!
Since i have been gone for so long and have 17 pages to catch up on i will be doing a top 5 achievement's of the month list!\
1) RageVI: 14 Total VP
2) Overtired: Level 49
3) gfoxcook: Level 48
4) life: 13.37 VP
5) Coop83: 60,000 B/P

Interesting list there. :::polishes his bronze medal, while looking longingly at the silver one Overtired stolinated:::

Congrats to:
gfoxcook: Level 48

Thanks. That was one insane congrats list, BTW...

Disclaimer: If your name is on the list more than once ::::that means if your achievement the same one is on here twice then it's not my fault:::: you should be happy for that. If I missed you then you did not seem important enough for the list ::::or I just made a mistake:::: no hard feelings.

My alt seemed important enough for the list. Wheee.

At 7/26/09 07:35 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/26/09 12:49 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Oh, and that ''other person'' you meant... Wylo?

We did up until Wylo got it hmself. Me and gfox were talking about this last night and thought maybe Auz was interested as well. I'm not too sure myself, but whether he is or not, I still have another person in mind to gfit TF2 to.

In doing my catchup in here, I noticed that the conversation with Auz was him being curious about Steam in general, and me explaining Steam, as you can see from our posts back and forth.

I musta somehow confused that convo with the ones with SirNuts about TF2 specifically, thereby ascribing some desire for TF2 itself to Auz, when he doesn't even have Steam (yet?), so... heh. Nevermind. o_o

Eh, give it some time. My friends list started small but grew to a decent 16 people. May not be a lot but it's nice and managable. However, I don't mind having more friends on Steam as long as they're not just random adds.

Every single Steam friend I have who I didn't know from ADGBC or NG is a person I either found very skillful as an enemy, very helpful as a teammate, or very funny in text/voice comms.

I wouldn't call those random adds, but in so adding them, I not have a rich panoply of games to join pretty much anytime I start up TF2 if I wish to play with people I've played with before.

The problem is namechangerers make me forget who they are if they change names a lot. At least Steam has a "previous nicknames" feature. Old NG prior to the username lockdown would have benefited GREATLY from such a feature. #;-}>

At 7/27/09 11:45 PM, gfoxclock wrote: My only regret is that I didn't get to be #100 right on the dot. Like that bastard gfoxcook. :::seethes with jellyousness:::

Eat it, punk.

At 7/25/09 05:40 AM, Coop83 wrote: I think that Seventh Son is an awesome album. Though I haven't gotten to Killers yet, I don't think I'm going to appreciate it as much as some of the others I have, due to the lack of Dickinson vocals. I think the next two on my want list is Powerslave and Piece of Mind. They should sate my appetite for now ;)

.... DON'T... ALREADY... HAVE.... POWERSLAVE? EGAD, MAN! POWERSLAVE, FFS!!!!!

Piece of Mind's great, too. But there's only 3 tracks on it that are in my fave Iron Maiden tunes, whereas literally 7 out of 8 tracks on Powerslaves are most of my Iron Maiden favetuneslist! EGAD, MAN, EGAD!!!!

POWERSLAVE NAO.

I'll agree with you on that subject, though. A BIT TOO OTT, however. Sheesh. Punks these days.

At 7/28/09 03:39 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop would rather stay at home today and watch the Watchmen, while congratulating:

...

Listening to:
Bob Dylan - The Times Are A-Changin'

A bit of songchoice inspiration from the Watchmen as well, apparently. #;-}>

At 7/27/09 11:45 PM, gfoxclock wrote: POWERSLAVE NAO.

Looks like I touched a nerve here. Look, I'll get to purchasing it at some point. Right now, I've got 7 Maiden Albums and have 'borrowed' an 8th off my brother.

I just can't believe it wasn't one of your first ones, that's all.

Iron Maiden
Killers
Number of the Beast
Somewhere in Time
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
No Prayer for the Dying
Fear of the Dark
Edward the Great 'borrowed'

I only have Number of the Beast from that list. I'll get Iron Maiden sometime.

TNOTB + Powerslave + Piece of Mind = a perfectly acceptable minicollection for me. I just can't believe your patience for Powerslave. POWERSLAVE DEMANDS QUICK ACTION!

From the collection I've got, I'm reasonably happy. The more well known tracks that aren't on the actual albums I own are in EtG - Flight of Icarus, The Trooper, 2 Minutes to Midnight, for example.

And prolly Aces High as well, but what about the Rime of the Ancient Mariner? And the Duellists? And Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)!

Great stuff.

At 7/28/09 04:56 AM, Odyssic wrote: 1000 gnomes = dead.

What the...

At 7/19/09 03:13 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/9/09 03:56 AM, Coop83 wrote: Haha! Nah, that's just too easy :P

You son of a bitch I am coming to the London meet to kick your motherfucking ass if you pass me.

Wheeeee! Pics plz!

At 7/12/09 07:16 PM, gfoxcook wrote: REBARU APPU.

What speaky de english

Level up!

48 tiems.

Eh the trident or whatever you call it looks like shit the bow and arrow is where its at.

Well, it won't be too long into 2010 before I have it, so just relax and wait, baby.

At 7/12/09 11:02 PM, gfoxcook wrote: TILL THEN...

Enjoy my new sig text AND new sig pic, courtesy of the mod-account-haxxors!

Wait the mod-account h4><><0rs got you a sig. I still think you should add the current badges like me. I need to re-do my sig fuck. Well I will see what I got.

The mod-account haxxors took away my sig, and my old sig wouldn't upload properly, so I had to make a new one. Which I think I already explained to Coop after his silly reply that was quite similar to yours. WHY MUST I DEJA VU!?!?

Seriously, you and Coop need to stop acting like each other, it's getting creepy. #;-}>

At 7/13/09 09:45 AM, Bahamut wrote: My other friend who doesn't like GTA4 claims the game is boring and doesn't have the same feel as GTA3, VC and SA.

FUCK HIM.

A bit OTT, but your heart's in the right place for once. #;-}>

At 7/17/09 10:15 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/28/09 07:54 PM, iscrulz wrote: In a very tragic turn of events TV pop culure icon Billy Mays was found dead. Shocking news to use all Vince won't be able to fill in his shoes or anyone else for that matter. God must be pissed.

THE HEAVY IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE SCOUT.

The SCOUT SHALL LIVE ON and other TF2 references

Vince Offer, ultimate scout, livin' on, despite his prostitute-bit lip... he'll have to pick up the slack now that Heavy Billy Mays is down. ;_;

Life's respawn timer really sucks.

Unless Billy Mays was instantly reincarnated as a turtle, or something. In which case.... wheee... auto-class-selection on an insta-respawn server. O_O

That was some good clean fun. I guess she left or it was Coop that whole time.

You'd like that, wouldn't you (if that had been Coop on schnee's account, I mean, instead of schnee herself).

Zombies was one thing. EMO zombies, OTOH... man....

They IMO like shitty melodramtic music and try cutting themselves instead of groaning and eating flesh.

I wanna play a Left4Dead level where the zombies are emo zombies. Sounds like easy headshots.

Well wait they are then it must been interleague now or division like that. The Tigers if they keep there streak up will make the playoffs after that they won't. Astros last time I checked 2 weeks are 4 games behind. The chances of them both in the world series any year is always low

Chances of the Astros being in the World Series in 2005 weren't very high, either. Anything can happen in October!

At 7/19/09 03:26 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/17/09 10:15 PM, gfoxcook wrote: No, because I never vote less than 2 in Opera, and thus even if something I vote 2 on gets blammed, I don't get a blam. I never slip and vote 1 or 0 by mistake, dude.

It has happened to me and the flash ending up being blammed it I didn't want any saves, I think it was the latter. I screw up my blam and save mini-retirements because of slip ups. I don't have Opera so I can't do that method.

um, okay. But a blam vote either results in no point or a blam point, and a save vote either results in no point or a save. That error on NG years ago where you'd get a save for being the 100th vote on a movie, even if you hit blam... that error is GONE, thankfully. And vice versa.

The days are passing and Bahamut hasn't gotten FO3 lets dis dragons and spell Dream Theather with -re and switch to FAB.

Only he HAS gotten it. For STEAM. Mwahahahaha.

Well uh he is still getting a PS3 and I will make him get agian for all the trophies.

You do realise that the "trophies" are in the Steam versions of Fallout 3 and GTA4, don't you?

You have to make a Games4WindowsLive account or whatever, but once you do that, you get achievements in both games.

The only game I have that should have achievements but doesn't is Bioshock (not sure why it doesn't use the same G4WL system, but ah well). Bioshock's such a good game, it's not that big a deal. I kinda want to find out what you have to do for the achievements in it, though, and then think of whether I've done them all once I've finished the game (which will be soon, I'm finally on the last level, nearly 14 months of owning it and playing it WAY TOO SLOW #;-}>).

iscrulz likes being his own sloppy seconds!

I love getting screwed up the ass even if it by a werewolf wannabe with a wolf penis strap-on. I will sloppy seconds and so on.

And don't you know it!

What, there's only 3 Americans in LUL nowadays? Preposterous.

Yeah its all these britfags and I think other Europeans. The rest are in southern Amerikkkan any Aussies I don't know probably.

Dude, of course I know there's a lot of Europeans and Brits on Wi/Ht?, but surely there are more Americans than you, me, and whoever else you mentioned. What about 36holla? Corky? idiotbuster? etc. There's plenty others. I just don't happen to know the country of origin of EVERY regular around here, so... I couldn't recall offhand, but I knew you were undercounting. And now I've proved it. #;-}>

Ahhh, so my pentalist stats are the original stats to you, eh? What a compliment.

Yeah I guess I am not going to get anal about it and only count the stuff from 99.

Yes, that would be a bit overly anal. #;-}>

Well I don't remember why you didn't include flash reviews or just plain reviews in your 1 by 10K list but when I joined there was review stats so its orginal and Yep the penta list topic has B/P or B-P so I guess I should have noticed it.

It was because the list was created because I noticed we had one user with 10,000 exp and 10,000 posts (Shrapnel), one user with 10,000 exp and 10,000 b/p (NemesisM66), and one user with 10,000 b/p and 10,000 posts (biteme), and NO others. Those were the three, IIRC. No one had 10,000 reviews back then, so there was no chance for that to be the impetus for the list.

Anyway, XwaynecoltX is the reason reviews were added to the list at some point.

But yes, if we're talking about NG itself, of course.... blams came after exp, saves came after blams, etc.

or did blams come after saves. The old B/P system maybe just blams were given out I can't recall, I want to know if I got 1 blam back in my first 4 months or the UJ system of everyone that voted got te point when I joined. Whats the old url to profiles so I can check its all java blah open(profile x) when I try finding old links.

No, blams were around for awhile before saves came about. I don't know how old blams are, but I do know that saves started in October 2002. I started posting on the bbs in January 2003, and there was much talk about saves, as they were the relatively-new stat at the time.

Blams originally were only for the blamming vote itself, not all the 0s and 1s up to that point.

At 7/19/09 10:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: Obviously. If only iscrulz made his catch-up then as well.

Okay I will make some. I almost missed gfox's replies but decided to check all the pages.

Almost missed them? Heh. How could you? LOOK AT THEM. #;-}>

At 7/19/09 05:00 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop prepares to take his last hacks at Overlord 2 for a few days, while congratulating:

Why the hiatus? Wait, 'cause of playing Monkey Island instead?

At 7/18/09 03:41 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hey, it's still possible. It's just no-one has ever tried to get two EGSC accounts before. The closest for an alt EGSC is Afro_Stud's LevelOneAccount, unless I'm forgetting someone...

The only other one I can think of is Muffin, but that's got less. Unless you count Fro's "alt", Dream-of-Duke. Personally, I'd let the account rot, since he won't get any thanks from that ungrateful turd.

It only counts if the alt was made by the person who made the main, IMO. Inherited alts don't count, or Xiivi + Nemesis would be a potential double EGSC in the future, and I don't think that's right. hmph.

Anyway, I'm sure I'm not even the 2nd closest to it after Afro and his lvl1acct, seeing as how gfoxclock only has 2540 or so b/p.

At 7/19/09 10:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: Top 250 in EXP

Congrats.

Top 300 - 21/1/09
Top 250 - 19/7/09

Pretty much 6 months between #251 - 300. I'm guessing it'll take 9 months to reach the top 200, so I predict I'll enter the Top 200 next April. Let's see if I'm right or wrong when the time comes.

If it takes you 9 months to reach the top 200, that means gfox will lose... say 50 rank spots between now and then. I find that hard to believe.

As I said in an above post, gfox's exp retirement number is a number you'll reach in January 2010. I won't guess as to whether you'll hit the top 200 before or after you pass him, but I will say it won't be 4 months after you pass him. That's insane. O_O

At 7/19/09 01:08 PM, Auz wrote:

At 7/17/09 10:08 PM, gfoxcook wrote: B) have a network of informants that would notify them via PM or e-mail or IM if such a topic ever occurs.

That seems like the most likely option then.

Probably, yeah.

Well, Electrical Storm was a very different sort of single from U2. Instead of being associated with any one album like MOST singles are/were... wasn't it released on one of the decade-BestOfs double-discs?

Yeah it was released on the best of ´90-2000. Like The Sweetest Thing was on the ´80-´90.

Ah, but there's a difference between those two, at least for me. I'd never heard OR heard of Electrical Storm until 90-00 best of started being talked about.... but I already owned Sweetest Thing for years and years before the 80-90 best of came out, because it's a b-side on one of the Joshua Tree singles. Can't remember which one, as I have 2 or 3 from that album.

Hehe yeah the huge cover art is indeed awesome. Although the October cover art wasn´t much special I think, except that it was nice to see the band in their very young years on the picture.

Yeah.

Will do next time, like I said :) Although I might just look them up on Youtube. Youtube being my main "music player" at the moment whenever I´m on my PC.

I hear ya, man. I use itunes, too, but for music I don't own or for music I do own but haven't ripped from CD to my harddrive yet, youtube is the quickest way to hear it. I probably use youtube at least as much as a music player as I use it as a video viewer.

War is an excellent album, start to finish. A couple songs on there I sometimes skip, but it's definitely in the top 5 U2 albums to listen to from start to finish.

Top 5 you say? Well then I´m curious if it´s gonna beat Achtung Baby, The Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, Boy or Zooropa (my top 5) :p

Well, like I said... "albums to listen to from start to finish," I'm not sure if that's really exactly the same thing as "best albums." For instance, TUF has some great songs on it, and it's one of my fave U2 albums, but it's not in my top 5 to listen to from start to finish, because it has a real dragging portion between the first 4 songs and then Indian Summer Sky/Bad near the end.

Anyway.... I'd definitely rather listen to War all the way through than Rattle and Hum. That'd be the one of your five I'd swap with War.

October's good to listen to all the way through, though a lot of the songs are very similar-sounding, way moreso than on any other U2 album, IMO... it's not really their fault, seeing as how the lyrics briefcase was lost/stolen and they had to redo so much musical composing at the last minute... and I really like a lot of the tracks on it, like Fire and October (that one stands out from the rest, for one), and With a Shout, along with of course Gloria... but yeah, not good enough to make it into a top 5 listenable list.

I'd agree with you about Zooropa needing to be in the list, and I don't think any album since then comes close, though maybe ATYCLB is closest. For me, I guess I'd have to go:

start-to-finish listenability:

1 Achtung Baby
2 Joshua Tree
3 War
4 Boy
5 Zooropa
6 Unforgettable Fire
7 ATYCLB
and then POP, October, etc. Can't really rank 'em at that point.

but you'll note the above list differs from my "fave album" list, in order at least:

1 Joshua Tree
2 Achtung Baby
3 Unforgettable Fire
4 War
5 Zooropa
6 Boy
7 POP
etc.

Ah well. They can't live forever. At some point their music is either gonna disappoint you or they're gonna stop releasing it. One way or the other, it has to end.

That´s true I guess. Perhaps my expectations of them have just become a bit too high over the years.

That's a good thing, though, since it means they produced enough good schtuff to get our hopes up. #;-}>

Aha, I figured it was something like that. Sounds like a really handy program if you ask me. And how much do you pay for a game on average? Are they much cheaper than in the stores?

New games will often cost just as much as they do in stores, $50 is the average US new game price for PC games in store OR on Steam. But Steam has a lot of $20-$40 range games. Don't shop at stores often enough to know how well they discount on not-quite-super-new-or-super-big games, but my impression is that Steam goes a bit lower.

But the main way Steam wins is this: Steam does a weekend sale almost every week, and occasionally a week-long sale, and every year at the end of the year, a big holiday/winter sale on almost everything on the site.

The sales can be on individual games, a whole game series, a pack of multiple games/series, or even EVERY game from a specific company.

I'd say at least 60 of the 82 games I own on Steam were via sales, and I saved anywhere between 25% to 75% off those 60 games due to the sales.

The packs that go on sale, BTW, are already a good value to get on Steam, as they already have a sale-like discount built in. When an already good-value pack goes on sale, it's almost as good as getting a game for free. #;-}>

Alright. So it´s also like a big community a bit similar to Newgrounds?

Yes. There is a forum, too, but it's not directly in Steam, it's in its own website, and you have a different login on the forum than you do for gaming.

But yeah, there's messaging each other similar to NG PM only realtime IM.... there's profile comments, like NG.... there's profiles, of course... and there's a forum.... and there's games to play like NG's flash games, only... yeah. "Real" games. Heh. #;-}> And hell, even movies to watch (demos and promos for games, of course)!

So yeah, it really is a lot like NG if you think about it, only less advertising (you'll only get ads when you sign on in the first place, or if you visit the store), and tons more money-sucking than NG despite that. #;-}>

At 7/18/09 03:39 PM, Bahamut wrote: gfox catchups + Sir-Nuts catchups = PARTY TIME! Triple-Bahapost FTW!

Hahah.

How's that even possible? Being jealous of... yourself? O_O

Because of the mighty sword.

The mighty sword demands attention, respect, love, and fear all at once. I MUST HAVE IT. If I have it, I MUST KEEP IT.

At 7/18/09 03:41 PM, Bahamut wrote:

And lastly: what's your Steam username? Even if you'll only be playing TF2 on free weekends for the foreseeable future, that's still better than nothing. Let me and Bahamut know it either here or privately via PM, and we'll friend ya!

Sir_Nuts, that would be. But I have already added you guys, anyway. =)

When'd you change your display name to just "Nuts," anyway, SirNuts?

Yes but it's good to remember incase anyone else you know wishes to add you on Steam. I did try looking up your ID on Steam but I put a hyphen in the URL and didn't even think of underscores for your name. :S

Heh. Good ol' underscore-less NG. #;-}>

Wii? Claiming his life? Good thing the Wii will never do that to me. As a matter of fact, no game will ever 'claim' my life as I always play them for a reasonable amount of time. Sure, I might play a bit more than usual or a bit less, but it's nothing where I'm on it all the fucking time like my sister who has actually spent over thousands of hours on World of Warcraft in total.

Oh come now. By "life," I clearly meant "free time." Most people tend to use those terms synonymously, yanno. #;-}>

At 6/21/09 11:26 PM, gfoxcook wrote: One thing's for sure: no level rocks out with ALL the fucking auras as much as level 42 does.

Conclusion: level 42 = BADASS.

Can't wait until I wield the sword on 30th October. MARK YOUR CALENDERS THEN as the sword is the best icon for my name.

Nice Halloween present to yourself, dude!

Speaking of level 42... Hmmmm... it seems that when I hang it up around Clock Day for gfox to stay put at lv42 FOREVAH, he'll have gained about 2 months and 10 days of depositing. So, I'd wager you'll be passing ol' gfox sometime during early January 2010. I seem to recall reading text while getting quotes together for this catchup in which you told Coop you wouldn't be entering the top 200 exp very soon. But I really doubt gfox's gonna fall out of the top 200 exp THAT fast when he's climbed up all the way to around #175 right now. So we'll see what happens with him and you next year, I s'pose.

Hey, it's still possible. It's just no-one has ever tried to get two EGSC accounts before. The closest for an alt EGSC is Afro_Stud's LevelOneAccount, unless I'm forgetting someone...

Did he create that account himself, BTW?

At 7/17/09 09:58 PM, gfoxcook wrote: You do realise that millions more people know what a tetris block is, gamers or non-gamers... than know what/who Pyramid Head is, right?

Here's the thing, Pyramid Head is an actual character, while a fucking Tetris block ISN'T! It's reasons like this why GameFAQs is one of the lowest forms of shitty communities on the internet along with YouTube and Facebook. As long as the characters are legitimate, I have no arguments over who's in the final. Seriously, it could be the blandest character you could possibly find and it'd be still more legitimate than a shaped block.

Well, a shaped block is a pretty bland character. #;-}>

Seriously, dude... the definition of "character" is very very subjective. Most characters in video games would be scoffed at as characters in a novel, say. Non-human beings are characters, so why can't a block be one, too?

Seriously gfox, nothing and I do mean NOTHING can make L-Block a legitimate character. Calling L-Block a legitimate character is like calling Slipknot the founders of prog rock.

Seriously, Bahamut. If Slipknot were some oranges, and prog rock were bananners, then maybe the L-Block would be an apple.

Hey, he's been a douchebag for years now and still is.

I dunno who we were even talking about anymore, so... ehhhhhh. :::shrugs:::

BonusStage?

iscrulz?

Yay, I'm right! What do I win?

The pleasure of joining Coop in passing gfox in exp some day in the not-so-far-off future?

Good enough. :D

It'll have to be.

At 7/18/09 03:43 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/17/09 10:15 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Well, I prefer the regular one to the golden, actually. The golden is so boring looking, so monochromatic.

No, the golden one is made of goddamn butter!

Yeah, and butter is goddamned boring to look at, isn't it? One colour, nothing special about the shape. Boring in appearance!

It's not 41, 41's okay but not a great level. It's 42-43-44-45 you're thinking of. Like I just expressed to that xiiviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish bastich.

Wait what? I thought you loved the skullcrusher. Sure, the bandage on it looks a bit weird but besides that, it's badass.

I like 41 and 46 okay, they're just not the ultimate 1337ness that is 42 through 45, that's all.

Now that should be said to my friend (and possibly thousands of other people with similar thoughts), not me as I have no opinion on the game yet. However, I won't knock it until you try it.

I have tried it. O_o Gonna assume that was meant to say "I try it" there. #;-}> Anyway, I didn't type it for your benefit, I just typed it in response to you relaying your friend's GTA4 opinion. You should relay that to him, then, if it makes no impact, plus or minus, on you.

That's what I've done and it hasn't done what I want exactly for saving my alt's passwords. Meh, I'll just use Firefox to deposit my alts, I'll be fine with that.

That's what I do. It's a lot easier to switch between multiple accounts in firefox than opera, yes, which is why gfoxcook = opera, and firefox = the others.

Well, the food system doesn't sound like the brightest idea they came up with at the time.

And thus it was gone in the next game! Easy as that. #;-}>

Don't get me wrong, you can go to restaurants in GTA4, but it's more a part of the date/hangout minigame system, not necessary for normal gameplay.

THANK GOD! I always hate falling in the water in those games. Infact, many people seem to be rather traumatized with water in video games. I don't bicker too much on water-based levels/games as much as a lot of gamers do. Maybe since I love the Ecco and Tomb Raider games, I don't wish to complain about water in video games too much.

Yep. Water's teh goodness.

It takes real skill to do the graphics right underwater, as well. No matter how good a game looks in the air, underwater POVs are a challenge. Gotta have that underwater murkiness without making it TOO hard to see, yanno? Good game design challenge, and every game tends to do it a bit differently.

I declare it as pulling a gfox because you were the first to go on about URLs in posts.

Pffft.

I never "went on" about them. I don't notice URLs that don't LOOK like URLs in posts, because I tend to cut and paste posts into notepad rather than reading them in the actual BBS window. And since notepad doesn't preserve the link, it's just the text of the link, not the URL, and... yeah, you know what I'm talking about (so I guess this was more for anyone else's benefit, if someone besides you is reading this part). More on this in a moment.

At 7/18/09 04:59 PM, Haggard wrote: Also, epic catch ups are epic... O_O

Glad to be of service!

At 7/17/09 08:47 AM, Bahamut wrote: Shit, I pulled a gfox by overlooking the link in quotes. Ah well, I've got it now. :)

Lol, I guess I should write "YES THIS IS A LINK" everytime I link to a page then. ^^

Simple solution for everyone:

just. paste. the. link. Don't turn it into a text-link, leave it as a URL. Simple enough, even grandpa can do it! Then everyone can see it's a link and follow it, whether they're reading in a browser or notepad!

SURPRISE LUL CATCHUP PREEMPTIVE STRIKE HO!

At 7/17/09 11:54 PM, Overtired wrote: Yeah, mine's WAY bigger. Biz-nitch-er.
Concider yourself one upped.
Bam.

;-)

I'd make a joke about how kind it is of you to give me an extra video game life and all (hurrrrr), but.... instead I'll just say that if you're satisfied with your signup date being a higher number than mine, more power to ya. #;-}>

</classy>

At 7/18/09 05:32 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop tries to remain calm in the face of other people shirking, while congratulating:

SHIRKING? What sort of shirking do we be talkin' about here, eh?

At 7/17/09 09:58 PM, gfoxcook wrote: I think you're only 5 days behind him as of late, from what I noticed recently while doing catchups in the various list threads (the exp thread being the likely reason for me to notice such a thing, of course).

I can't tell when you've missed a deposit, to be honest. If you miss a lot, then I suddenly do, because of the margin for error.

I missed a deposit on gfoxclock and gfox on last Saturday. And for the third Saturday in a row, I didn't log on NGlog. I haven't had daily bppd tracking in almost a month now. It's insane. Why of all days of the week I'm MOST likely to not log on NGlog on Saturdays... is beyond me except that in so doing, I fulfill Murphy's Law. #;-}>

Anyway, didn't miss my gfoxcook deposit, so all's well.

Net result: my final deposit on gfox is gonna be on 8/16 on NG time. But still 8/15 for me, if I do it right away after NG midnight.

And don't deny it'll have more significance to you than just any ol' ranks, man! I know you wanna pass all 3 of my accounts someday, so passing the 1st of the three will be quite the treat for you. #;-}>

As if you think it would have little significance for me? This is probably more significant than me passing iscrulz for B/P

I thought you made some remark acting like it didn't have any extra significance beyond any other ol' rankswap, yeah. #;-}>

Hahahah, I'd say I'm touched, but I know how little passing iscrulz means to you, so that's not really saying much, alas!

Speaking of which, I'm now over 10,000 B/P ahead of Dream-of-Duke. Who'd have thought it?

Sweet.

Who? You and me, of course.

At 7/18/09 04:56 AM, Odyssic wrote: That sucks, I think I'll start playing Overlord 2 again when I complete Monkey Island. God knows when that is, I suck at some of the puzzles.

Well, plenty of time for that today. I've just got to make sure that I don't forget the Responses update and those outstanding reviews that I've got to do for the RRC :P

I still need to finish Overlord 1 before I go getting Overlord 2. Also, due to the silliness of Overlord's production company, I can't play the DLC/expansion pack/whatever for the first game on Steam, so... my impetus to get 2 even once I've finished 1... is lessened.

Monkey Island I am ALL over, once they do a big Lucas Arts pack sale. There's a ton of stuff I want beyond just Monkey Island, hence my patience at this point.

Having Plants vs. Zombies to tide me over helps a lot, too.

Here's hoping they bring over Monkey Island 2 and Grim Fandango as well, cannot wait to get them + 1 for Steam. GET ON IT, LUCASARTS/whatever the name of that other adventure game company is that's working on some of these modern adventure games/remakes/episodic things as well.

At 7/18/09 07:54 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: *opens LUL tab*
*sees simultaneous gfoxcook/Sir-Nuts catchups*
*head explodes*

BOOM. Headshot.

At 7/17/09 10:08 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Of course, 2037 will only have 365 days... so that's a full 6 hours less than you just made it out to be either out of silliness or not thinking it through completely. #;-}>

Chalk it up to not thinking it through :P

Ah, okay. That 'splains it. #;-}>

Pity about the rest of the year though, I can envisage it being a year full of #;-{>

Yep. I'll throw a little party for the lack of a Leap Day, and I'll still celebrate my birthday on June 30th, and then of course I'll throw a huge party for the coming of 38 on New Year's Eve (also my half-birthday)... and then 2038 will be here and it'll all be like a bad, bad dream that I never have to live through again! #;-}>

At least this topic itself will (hopefully) never get to page 37000. Though it probably will get to 3700, and then I'll have to suffer through 100 pages. Or else just disappear for 100 straight pages (sounds better).

100 pages of no catchups? Well if you did disappear I could only imagine the size of the catchup you'd have to do to compensate for your absence :O

Or I could just never read any of the 100 pages.

If anyone wants to say shit about me without me reading it, those 100 pages just might be the ones in which to do it. #;-}>

At 7/18/09 10:42 AM, Auz wrote: I'm a little busy right now, so gfox replies will have to wait until later :)

OH TEH NOES!

You iz wise.

At 7/18/09 11:08 AM, reverend wrote: Rev is ready for another day seeing old friends and the 49 later on; congrats to:
gfox - 8 x post manifesto

lolz.

At 7/17/09 10:39 PM, gfoxcook wrote: So you're saying that Josh Bedn had between 30-60 posts in LUL?

Not sure if I think that number is too high or too low, but how can you be sure that all the deletions in here were JUST from his account, eh?

I think it sounds about right. Haggard mentioned that a mod deleted at least one post from a spammer so at accounts for one post, but when you think about it, he had plenty of achievements he could have posted in during his parole time.

I see.

Well, I was thinking more of Bedn's posts from before he ever got into legal trouble in the first place, actually.

If Bedn ever posted in here, it seemed likely to me that it was way back then. But I don't remember too well, in any event.... he certainly didn't post here often.

SPECIAL SIR NUTS POSTS PT 2:

At 7/17/09 04:54 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: GFOX'S REPLIES PT.2
Because I made two catch-ups that he caught-up on (?).

MOAR. MOAR. MOAR!

I meant by the end of the year, 2009. Right now, you have ~780 hours and going up, considering that you are playing it while I type this. =P

I'm around 800 right now, actually. Pretty close, dude.

So yeah, I'll be over 1000, just like I told you a month or two ago, by the end of 2009, sure. #;-}>

All of that for a game that basically cost 10 bucks. It's the best value in the history of video games. Epic.

"WOE BE TO THE PRESENT, FOR IT CANNOT COMPETE WITH THE PAST IN THE HUMAN HEART." -- Me, AFAIK.

Wow, why isn't that on your sig? =P

Bleh.

Yeah, by "active" I meant more than just depositing. For me, depositing is like a daily obligation. But posting/reviewing etc... isn't. So, for me, being "active" means doing more that the obligation. =P

Well... that blows, because my activity switches on and off all the time. #;-}>

Depositing, to me, is still activity. But to all a different definition.

Early days depositing-crimes?

But of course. I'll never live those early day depositing crimes down, as long as I deposit. But that's okay. They're the reason I'm so zealous now. #;-}>

Foo Fighters?

Correct! "This is a Call", to be exact. Now, I think that I shouldn't have mentioned the "begins with an F" thing. It made it too easy. =P

Awesome. Can't believe I got it. I have that album, but haven't listened to it in years, and I didn't remember those were lyrics from it. Was just a wild guess. #;-}>

OK then, just promise you won't change your quoting habits to something like "I ramble on for a whole page in just one post!!!" kind of thing. =P

Aren't they pretty much already there? #;-}>

Well... it was laggy, but it still was enjoyable. However, whenever there were six or more guys on the screen, it became really laggy, probably at 1 frame per second. So, for my own good, I had to run from those places, before it was too late.

I enjoyed it, sure. But I'm also sure it could have been a lot better if my computer wasn't so old. According to Can you run it, I need, for the recommended settings, more RAM and a new video card. To sum up, a new computer would do fine. =P

Try more RAM first. RAM is really cheap, relatively. And it might fix it for you, though the "six guys on screen at one time" making your framerate plummet sounds really distressing... hmph.

There's plenty of games on Steam far less demanding on computers than TF2, also. So... anyway, you're already on Steam if you played TF2 for free, so you HAVE indeed joined the collective. WELCOME ABOARD, UNIT 11482!

It's nice being part of the collective. It's so... ONLINE!!! =P

Mwahahaha. YES!

It was for ThePigeonMaster, I think. Basically, it's just a bunch of extra mute letters in Portugal + the different accents. We ruined Portuguese.

I'm sure to many people from England, Americans ruined English. #;-}>

Heh, this reminds me that I have this old & dusty Rockets cap in my cupboard. It's circa 1998, because I remember wearing it when I was about 4 years old. 8)

You do? Awesome.

Actually, there is a megastore here that seems to have the Orange Box every now & then. But... read below.

Well, I hope you can find it on sale, but if you can't... refer up to my comment about Bahamut and me helping you and Wylo out.

At 7/17/09 04:56 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: SIRNUTS' DAD IS INSANE
Fun, isn't it?

..... o_o

Wow.

Sir_Nuts, that would be. But I have already added you guys, anyway. =)

And we saw that the other day and added you back and I even left you a comment. #;-}>

Still, I'm pretty much ditching the TF2 idea. It's laggy, it's online (OMG VIRUSES!!!!1!)... Maybe I'll be old enough to have a credit card when TF3 comes out, right? =P

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooe. Don't give up. ;_;

You need to talk things over with your dad and convince him that you won't get the computer all covered in virii just because you're playing a mainstream game online. O_o

TF3 will be even more graphics intensive, and isn't likely to come out till 2020 or so. #;-}>

At 6/9/09 09:46 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: Now THAT'S what I call a catch-up!

Seven posts, not counting the three posts below. BEAUTIFUL!

EIGHT posts today, or seven if you don't count my short thanks post to my congratters before I did the catchup.... I was aiming for 5, or 6 at most... but then I saw your 4 posts and knew I was done for. #;-}>

FINALLY OUT OF PAGE 2411! (a.k.a gfox page).

2411... :::looks at it::: Holy shit, I DID post a lot on that page. Well, it's even MORE fitting that page 2436 be another GFOX PAGE, because those numbers are MINE, baby. #;-}>

At 6/21/09 11:26 PM, gfoxcook wrote: One thing's for sure: no level rocks out with ALL the fucking auras as much as level 42 does.

Conclusion: level 42 = BADASS.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn straight.

Phew, it's over. This one was painfull.

Tell me about it!

ALL DONE.

OCTO-POST.... INITIATE!

SPECIAL SIR-NUTS POSTS, since he wrote 4 posts himself, 3 of which seem to be directed at me almost solely. O_O

Set to the tune of Compliments by Bloc Party. AHEM:

At 7/17/09 04:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Oh, and I'm trying to change a little thing in my posts. Whenever I quote someone, I usually don't leave a blank line between whatever I want to quote and my post. This looks weird for someone who wants to quote my post, everything looks too "paired up". So... yeah, I'll try not to erase that extra line anymore. =P

I only erase those lines when I'm doing a bit of a pyramid quote reply, and the overall post I'm trying to make is near the NG limit, so I have to watch out for space-wasting things. But yeah, for the most part, that extra line is important so things look visually clean and less confusing. Good change, mate!

Level 28
Brigadier General
10 Total VP

Congrats, especially on BrigGen (my fave rank icon on OLD pre-redesign NG!) and 10+ VP!

Yeah, I should have let you know. Although I think it wouldn't work well, because I was playing mostly on Brazilian servers, and still I had ~100 of ping. Whenever I tried playing on a foreign server, that number raised to ~250, almost unplayable. So I just stuck with the local players.

Aw. That sucks. ;_;

What kind of connection do you have, and how far are you from the major internet backbone area of Brazil?

Yes. I can't buy it online, since you need a credit card for it. So the only legal option would be buying it on a store. I think the "Orange Box" is about R$100,00 (U$ 50,00).

Man, it's a lot cheaper in the past year most other places. It shouldn't still cost that much over there.

Anyway, worry not, me and Bahamut are gonna get just TF2 for you and Wylo, we just need a sale to make it more affordable first. Half-price off happens all the time for it, so it'll be here before you know it. If you're never going to be able to play with us due to ping, that kinda blows, but... you can still have fun on local Brazilian servers, at least.

I remember reading about this. Molotov used to be the original X-Naut, right? And what was X-Naut's nickname before the change?

Yes, Molotov was once X-Naut. Before he was X-Naut, he was about 10 other names, BTW. I once made a list of them all because he changed usernames like once every 2 weeks or at most once every month. Back in 2003-2004. But anyway, he actually stayed on X-Naut for YEARS. And that's why I and many others think of him/know him only as X-Naut. The bastard changed his name one last time to crappy ol' Molotov, and then a fake X-Naut moved in on the name that he had been known by for fucking YEARS. That led to the whole fake/real X-Naut dramas, which were really comedies, not dramas. #;-}>

But in short: what would you think if after 10 years of being gfoxcook on NG, I changed my name to chilimonkey or something and let some newbie take gfoxcook, and not only that... but this new gfoxcook posted in the SAME AREAS of the site that I still post, eh?

That'd be lame, confusing, weird, and.... many other things. So many that it's hard to find a single word that encapsulates the experience.

At 6/6/09 10:23 PM, gfoxcook wrote: gfox, me alt alt, has reached the holy 42ness and now has my favourite level icon. I'm so jealous of my own alt's alt. ;_;

How's that even possible? Being jealous of... yourself? O_O

It's easy. I wish I could have the level 42 sword icon on THIS account, but I can't.

Years and years ago, many of us wanted a level system where you could DISPLAY any weapon you'd already earned in the past next to your posts and/or in your profile, if you liked it better than your current level's weapon. I so wish that system had come true with the redesign. But sadly, it did not. ;_;

At 7/17/09 04:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: SPECIAL POST DEDICATED TO GFOX.
Because, when he catches-up, he puts us to shame. ALL OF US.

lulz. I dunno, man. You sure gave me a run for my money on this very page of LUL. Good ol' 2436 (a celebration of my old retirement numbers from 2005, I just noticed).

So the pre-catchup (catchup?) is like a warm up/interlude to the big part that follows?

Something like that.

Another proof of teh perfectians of teh 36. #;-}>

Yes.

Oh wow... you never fail to detect anything that involves a 36. Do you have some sort of beep that warns you whenever a 36 is around? =P

Nope. It's a silent awareness that just comes over me.

Indeed. I recently passed 10 Total VP as well (with my only account =P ) and I thought I'd never get here when I signed up back in '06. It's surely a nice landmark.

Indeed it is. Gotta love the 10.00ness.

Well... I think you should be a little more ambitious with gfoxclock and gfox, post-wise. Go for something like... 336 posts on each. Then you could leave all the achievement posts for them. =)

gfox has never posted, and I see no reason to start now.

HOWEVER... since I'm going to retire his exp and his b/p.... it's possible that I'll want to show off his nice level 42 sword every now and then, so maybe I WILL start to post with him (some) on the BBS. We'll see. #;-}>

Hahahaha, their 37-ness affects their daily lives. =P

Those bastards. :::thhhhhhbpts iscrulz and Bahamut:::

TF2 is the most fun multiplayer FPS ever, and has no plot, no start and no finish, and... thus... comparing how many hours of a single player game with a storyline like a Zelda game... you have... to how much time in TF2... is not even comparing apples and oranges... it's like comparing eating chocolate ice cream to hiking up a mountain!

I can say that TF2 was one of the most fun games that I've played in a while. It doesn't have a serious ambient, unlike HL and CS, and the class variety is always a good thing. I really need to find it in a store.

Yes. It's very un-serious. Some people PLAY it seriously, take their skill at it seriously, or take losing/getting killed seriously... but all you have to do if you start taking it too seriously is LOOK AT THE SCREEN. It's so fun. It's meant to be a game, not a grind or a job like some games become to professional (or wannabe professional) gamers.

Gotta love the TF2s.

Look on the bright side - at least there aren't "OMFG leval 9 taiks 4EVAR!!!1!" users anymore! =)

True, true.

I think everyone would trade a 36 for a 99, in this case.

I'll take 136 instead of either of 'em. #;-}>

At 7/13/09 09:45 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/12/09 11:02 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Enjoy my new sig text AND new sig pic, courtesy of the mod-account-haxxors!

New and improved and I love it. :)

You never said on Steam whether you noticed my little linky to your list specifically, though. #;-}>

He'll be doing catch-ups quite soon, I'm pretty sure of that.

Woo!

See, what did I tell you?

BOOM!

I believe one of them was the food system or some shit. I'll ask him again to double check his reasons. My other friend who doesn't like GTA4 claims the game is boring and doesn't have the same feel as GTA3, VC and SA.

That's not true. That it's boring, I mean. Certainly it doesn't have the same feel as those three, though. It's a newer game than them, it's much better looking, the physics are TOTALLY different... don't go expecting the same ol' car and motorcycle crashes and stunts. You can still do amazing things, but if you don't do them just right, you're going to fling your body off the cycle or out of the windshield. #;-}>

At 7/13/09 11:59 AM, Haggard wrote: Wow, seems as if some posts where deleted while I was making this list. I entered the topic on page 2,434, went back to the last page with a list from me (2,433), entered all the achievments, clicked on the link to 2,434 and since it didn't exist anymore I was redirected back to 2,433... which caused some confusion. ^^

Wild stuff.

At 7/13/09 12:40 PM, Auz wrote: Achievement of the Day
Overtired: Level 49. Lol, you just stole it from gfox by being one level higher :p Congrats!

Pffft. Technically, my level 48 was on 7/12 and his level 49 was on 7/13, BTW, so I shoulda had that spot the previous day. OH WELLS. Your posting timing conducted some... SABOTAGE. [cue Beastie Boys here]

At 7/13/09 02:51 PM, Overtired wrote: Geez, I'm always one upping gfox. First, I shoot way, way, WAY pass him in vote power, and now this.

Always? ALWAYS??!?!? .... you punk-ass. I've got TWO... count 'em--TWO!... dates for you:

12/30/01
2/18/00

DO THE MATH, BITCH. #;-}>

At 7/14/09 07:55 AM, Bahamut wrote: Stop making gfox feel so bad. ;_;

He's not making me feel bad. He's making me wish he played TF2 on Steam so I could WHIP his punk-ass down. #;-}>

At 7/15/09 03:47 AM, reverend wrote:

At 7/13/09 11:59 AM, Haggard wrote: Wow, seems as if some posts where deleted while I was making this list. . . . since it didn't exist anymore I was redirected back to 2,433... which caused some confusion. ^^

What had happen is that Josh had his account deleted so it erased the posts he posted. I guess he is moving on from NG.

So you're saying that Josh Bedn had between 30-60 posts in LUL?

Not sure if I think that number is too high or too low, but how can you be sure that all the deletions in here were JUST from his account, eh?

At 7/14/09 09:08 AM, Lizzardis wrote: Just a quick question guys, when did the Wi/Ht? level up lounge first begin to have lists like they do now?

Around page 1100s or 1200s? I just glanced and that's when it seem to take off. Of course there have always been "congrats" and "thank yous" going on in this thread; just not in neat list form. :)

Might be even earlier than that.

I know one thing for sure: my own congrats listing began not in LUL, but rather in the top 50 saves topic. My old updates back in 2003 and 2004 in there (go check the early pages yourself for some nice historical funs) always featured a section before the top 50 list update itself wherein I congratulated every one who was in the list for any b/p rank-ups they got. So I ended up with a little uniquely-formatted congrats list for nothing but various EG ranks being attained by elite saviours.

Fun times. Fun times.

Not only that, but I think I remember that for every user and every rank-up, I also put WHICH # they were. i.e. the 4th to that rank or the 20th to that rank or whatever.

At 7/15/09 07:38 AM, Bahamut wrote: After too many crashes on Firefox, I'm now using Opera.............passwords aren't exactly saved the way I want them to be in this browser. Another complaint I have is how the blocking system is done in this browser. Firefox's AdBlock was much easier to use. Besides those issues, Opera is really good to me SO FAR. :)

You don't need adblocking on Opera as much, as it's more stable and secure than Firefox, and doesn't let pop-ups through as much as vanilla Firefox does.

Also, passwords ARE saved differently in Opera, but what you do is get the Password Wand to remember a password for a username on any site... and then when you're on that site (might have to be exact... i.e. what works on www.newgrounds.com won't work on bahamut.newgrounds.com), you simply click the magic wand near the URL bar and it auto-fills the password for you PLUS hits enter/logs you in.

So if you want to stay logged in always, make sure to check that "stay logged in" checkbox BEFORE you hit the magic wand button.

</opera tips from a 4-year Opera user>

At 7/14/09 08:01 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: Ah yes, the god damned food system, whereby you have to make CJ eat something every few in-game days or he'll start losing weight and eventually health.

Doesn't sound very convenient for you to having to eat in the game to survive.

You don't have to eat that often, but yes... it is a bit of a pain in the ass. You also have to work out or he ends up flabby (i.e. less stamina for running).

At 7/16/09 12:38 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/15/09 07:48 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

At 7/15/09 07:38 AM, Bahamut wrote: Doesn't sound very convenient for you to having to eat in the game to survive.

Especially in the game's more rural areas where there's a bit more driving to do to get places.

Yeah. :( Was this eating thing really necessary? This is the kind of realism that video games should tend to avoid.

It was Rockstar's attempt at semi-realism. Every new GTA, they always try a few new things.

On the plus side, realism-wise... you can swim in GTAs now, instead of drowning immediately if you fall in a puddle of water like in GTA3 or GTA:VC.

Also on the plus side, for GTA:SA: at least they didn't make CJ have to use the bathroom realistically. #;-}>

At 7/17/09 08:24 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/17/09 04:36 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I thought pulling a gfox meant posting 4 straight nearly 8k-long posts in a Wi/Ht? list topic or LUL after disappearing for 2-4 weeks? #;-}>

You know, I'd actually forgotten about that. Why don't you show us what you mean ;)

ALREADY ON IT, GUV'NA!

(and then some... looks like a SEXA-POST is in the works! ... edit: make that SEPTA-POST, SirNuts wrote a SHIT TON to my last 2 months of posts O_O...)

At 7/17/09 08:12 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: The next Wi/Ht? topic to be made will be the most hated of all time, as currently we are at 36,999, so next is 37,000.

Hated by certain parties - I'm sure that 37,001 will come along quite soon afterwards.

I'll hate all 1000 37xxx'ers.... worry not, folks!

At least this topic itself will (hopefully) never get to page 37000. Though it probably will get to 3700, and then I'll have to suffer through 100 pages. Or else just disappear for 100 straight pages (sounds better).

At 7/17/09 08:47 AM, Bahamut wrote: Shit, I pulled a gfox by overlooking the link in quotes. Ah well, I've got it now. :)

Hahahah. See how easy it is? #;-}>

.... That ain't pulling a gfox, though, damnit!

At 7/1/09 11:47 PM, NeMeSiSM66 wrote: As far as I'm concerned, the only levels that exist are:
2, 4, 7, 9, 27, 33, 34, 39, 40, 46, 47, 50, 54, 55, and 56. (With 56 easily being the best, followed by 27.)

WTF? Are you high? Where's 42, 43, 44, 45, and 51 on your list? You maniac!

39 and 40. Pfffft.

Hell if I know what 2 through 34 look like. No comment.

At 7/2/09 03:55 AM, Coop83 wrote: 4,000 Medal Points

Not really much of an achievement, considering iscrulz just reached 5k, but never mind, I can live with not being ahead of him in this stat :P

OH REALLLYYYYYYYY... we'll see about that. :::watches Coop zoom forward past iscrulz in medal points in another month or two, cackling insanely the whole way:::

At 7/2/09 10:32 AM, Bahamut wrote: gfox is going to be displeased when he sees this as he loves the 41-42-43-44 streak of levels. I think 45 as well, but I'm not too sure about that.

No shit.

It's not 41, 41's okay but not a great level. It's 42-43-44-45 you're thinking of. Like I just expressed to that xiiviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish bastich.

At 7/2/09 09:24 PM, Fro wrote:

At 7/1/09 04:28 AM, iscrulz wrote: Good news. Now your name won't be soiled by the spammers. I still associate you with Corky. Fro will take time to become accustomed to.

That's fine you can call me Corky. Some people do call me Corky in real life, but Fro is what almost everyone, including professors, calls me. I still look for Corky52 when finding quotes.

I shall call you CorkyFro.

At 6/30/09 11:47 PM, gfoxcook wrote: IRL LEVEL 32!

This may be late, but happy birthday!

Ah, thanks. Somehow I missed that one in my culling of the 50 posts I was gonna reply to when looking for the congrats/happy b-day ones. O_O

You get your own thanks as a result, though. Wheeee.

At 7/4/09 04:57 PM, iscrulz wrote: Happy the 4th of July to errr gfox, idiot-buster and uh sorry I forgot. And belated for the Canadians.

ayyyyyyye... happy 4th.

What, there's only 3 Americans in LUL nowadays? Preposterous.

At 7/1/09 05:36 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/1/09 04:28 AM, iscrulz wrote: I am coming for you.

Catch me if you can, see what I care.

Nah fuck that, So you care about passing me but you don't care about me passing you, WTF?

Haha! That'd be kinda like someone in TF2 claiming they don't give a damn if you own them by killing them, all they wanna do is kill you.

So after you kill them about 20 times with them killing you only twice, you can sit there and go "so, were those 2 kills worth it, mate?" and laugh.

But I really doubt that's how Coop meant it. #;-}>

At 7/6/09 02:15 PM, Coop83 wrote: Right guys, this is it. I've come as far as I ever wanted with posting on the BBS. So the big one is the retirement marker.
Bye.
15,000 Posts

LIES.

Congrats, though.

At 7/6/09 05:47 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/5/09 05:00 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Yes congrats but it looks like you have gained a lot more than I have from that day. Since medal points are not an original stat I don't care about them.

You know, considering that Saves aren't really an original stat, why are you so interested in them? :P

Okay you smartass The gfoxcook presents 2 by 10,000 pentalist stats. I am talking the Saves and blams, with the Experience and posts and the reviews (flash only). I suppose it was grounds gold points is the original.

Ahhh, so my pentalist stats are the original stats to you, eh? What a compliment.

There's just one problem: on my original list, there weren't even all those stats. There were just exp, b/p, and posts. Even if you want to split b/p up and say blams and saves were both original on my list (they were, but not in separate columns), there were no REVIEWS on my original 10k+ list. So... even flash reviews only isn't original.

But yes, if we're talking about NG itself, of course.... blams came after exp, saves came after blams, etc.

Good riddance to you Cooper now if you can retire on 60,000 B/P it would be great. Which alt will you be using.

"Good riddance to you Cooper"... heh. Funny stuff.

But in all seriousness... USE SOME DAMNED PERIODS AND COMMAS, MAN. Jeez. O_o

At 7/7/09 01:06 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 7/6/09 02:15 PM, Coop83 wrote: Bye.

I don't believe you. :P

(

You are just too big of a stat whore. :P
Also, who would've updated the savers- and blammers-list?

Well, I could have always done them again. But if I'd had to take the reins due to Coop jetting off for greener pastures... then I must forewarn you... I'd be updating only once a year, and only a top 50 of each list. #;-}>

[cue dozens of people begging Coop never to leave]

At 7/9/09 03:56 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/8/09 08:32 AM, Bahamut wrote: Certainly not me. I have enough on my plate already and it's really hectic trying to find all B/P'ers and EXP users with at least 8k/level 26 respectively. Fortunately, I have nothing to worry about taking care of Coop's list as there's no way in hell he can leave like that. :D

It'll be interesting to hear Greg's take on all of this :P

Well, you've got it. See above. #;-}>

At 7/10/09 03:56 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/9/09 10:05 AM, Bahamut wrote: I take it you want me to bug him about this thread again.

Nah, I've hit him with a PM - the devil could never resist clicking the inbox key when he deposits his experience :P

HEY now. Stop talking about me like I'll never read your posts in here. #;-}>

And that's a lie, anyway. Devil or no, I can resist reading PMs to me all day long, and often do take many days to see, let alone reply to... a PM. But I do sometimes check WHO's spamming up my PM inbox, and if it's one of YOU GUYZ, ZOMG, I will check it sooner than if it's some random person, of course.

At 7/12/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, I've now escalated myself past the 37,xyz Saves plateau, much to the obvious delight of Greg.

38,000 Saves

AWESOME! About bloody time. #;-}>

Congrats and... MANY THANKS! </TF2 Heavy>

At 7/13/09 03:56 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/12/09 12:44 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/12/09 04:20 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/11/09 09:23 AM, Bahamut wrote: Of course he will, he did claim to try and post more often and not leave it too long.

It's a question of perspective for how long is too long. Clearly our opinions differ to his :P

He'll be doing catch-ups quite soon, I'm pretty sure of that.

Woo!

I did a full catch-up, THIS TOPIC INCLUDED, on 6/27, 3 days before my b-day, which was just a couple weeks ago. Jeeeez. So fucking impatient, you guys are. </Yoda>

At 7/12/09 11:02 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Enjoy my new sig text AND new sig pic, courtesy of the mod-account-haxxors!

So you're saying someone hacked your account and gave you this new sig pic?

No, I'm saying that the haxxors deleted the sig text/sig pic off both my posting accounts (yep, they even hit gfoxclock, who hadn't posted since March), and I had to come up with a new pic because my old pic's transparency was fucked all of a sudden. It used to work, maybe it's because I hadn't changed in it in like 4 years.... so I had to do one with the NG BBS background colour instead of transparency, and then I noticed it was SHRINKING THE FUCK out of the oldstyle NG b/p rank badges, so my sigpic was so tiny the old way, I figured why not get rid of the old Colonel badge (with no laurels on it), and do a nice mirrored pic with the EGSC at the middle, and all those lovely General ranks with pretty green laurels on 'em flanking it on BOTH SIDES.

et voila! It is done.

Also, I edited the text/links a bit and added a link to Bahamut's pentalist next to my old defunct pentalist info about a very very very old update now. #;-}>

At 6/28/09 07:19 PM, schneelocke wrote:

At 6/27/09 08:17 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

Tubgirl? Goatse? Lemonparty?
Coop in a schneelocke style werewolf costume? *looks worried*

BOOM. Headshot. </TF2 sniper>

I'm not sure if I should feel flattered by this, or miffed that I'm (indirectly) lumped in with tubgirl and all that. c.c Ah well, I think I'll settle for flattered.

Well, Bahamut takes tubgirl and goatse and lemonparty quite seriously as interests, so you should be flattered, I guess. O_O

At 6/28/09 07:54 PM, iscrulz wrote: In a very tragic turn of events TV pop culure icon Billy Mays was found dead. Shocking news to use all Vince won't be able to fill in his shoes or anyone else for that matter. God must be pissed.

THE HEAVY IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE SCOUT.

At 6/27/09 05:03 AM, schneelocke wrote:

At 6/27/09 03:50 AM, iscrulz wrote: Oh my god oh my god it is my good friend schneee. I have been waiting for the this moment for so long. The reason I have is because I want to engage rough anal sex. Lets go! *Censored*

Heh... nice to see you again, too. :) Rough anal sex doesn't necessarily sound bad, either, but I usually prefer to get to know people a bit better before breaking out my strap-on. >:)

Yeah we should have gotten to known each other back in the day. So lets get to it then. Also whip-out your strap-on and plow me up the ass until it hurts like hell.

Ohhhhh deeeeeeear.....

You're right but RR didn't retire he went emo and left or the zombiez got him at work. He would have made so gifs annoucing his retirement. He was a huge daily depositor like you and me so I don't have a clue why he would leave, he should give his accounts to me

Emo zombies, eh? What an interesting new spin on your old theory... what a way to go. o_o

At 6/27/09 08:28 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/26/09 05:58 AM, iscrulz wrote: Most of the times I would have noticed, I was getting paranoid that you alt was going to pass me in experience. I am aiming for RR now I think he got attacked by the zombiez. The MAO face icons were great dang me for not grabbing a screensnag.

Yeah, he definitely got attacked by zombies. Back in March or April. Sad, sad story. ;_;

And now his account sits dormant. I would take it and start depositing for it after I passed it so Cooper couldn't get a +1 exp rank.

Zombies was one thing. EMO zombies, OTOH... man....

Well NHL and NBA are over its just baseball and waiting for college and football. Speaking of baseball how is game 3 of the Tigers and Astros going. ::Checks:: dang commercial... poker. 4 to 3 YAY it wasn't a sweep.

Congrats to yer Tigers.

Thanks, mate. That's very unlike you to wish my team well like that. #;-}>

Hey they are in the Western Conference, if they were in the Eastern or beat Pistons I would bash them like I do to FF. Well next year lets have faith both teams will rebound and make it furthre in the playoffs. As for the Astros as of this moment fuck them.

LOL. Why? Your Tigers are done playing them for the year, unless somehow both of our crappy teams (relatively) get to the world series by some miracle. Course, they've both made it there within the past 5 years, but... dunno if they can both do it again so soon. #;-}>

Well is there an accent in either direction, I can't think of anything else it would be,

There's no accents above letters in Japanese. English letters, I mean. Japanese characters themselves have two different marks that can be above and to the right of them... and those marks are somewhat like an accent mark in appearance, I suppose, but rather than affect the vowel sound like accents do in Europe, they change the consonant sound (for instance sa becomes za with such a mark, or ta becomes da).

the Wii has lots of charactres like that, so I will check, I won't check.

Wii has characters like that for people trying to type in Spanish or French or whatever, dude, it's nothing to do with Japanese.

At 6/28/09 08:01 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 6/27/09 08:28 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/26/09 05:58 AM, iscrulz wrote:

No, because I only ever save on Opera, and I only ever blam on Firefox (for now, once gfoxcook is retired, I'll do both ONLY on Firefox).

Well you might try to blam on Firefox and vote 2 and the flash gets saved. Then will you be screwed.

If I try to blam on Firefox but vote 2 by accident, that will be happening on gfoxclock, which will continue to get BOTH blams and saves for years from now, dude. So no, I wouldn't be screwed, I would be fine. O_o

And since I'm only ever logged in to gfoxcook on Opera and gfoxclock/gfox on Firefox.... that keeps my saves where they belong and my blams where they belong. Capisce?

I see but there is still a chance you get a blam or save that you don't want because the UJ flash was blammed not saved and vice a versa

No, because I never vote less than 2 in Opera, and thus even if something I vote 2 on gets blammed, I don't get a blam. I never slip and vote 1 or 0 by mistake, dude.

The days are passing and Bahamut hasn't gotten FO3 lets dis dragons and spell Dream Theather with -re and switch to FAB.

Only he HAS gotten it. For STEAM. Mwahahahaha.

Oh my god oh my god it is my good friend schneee. I have been waiting for the this moment for so long. The reason I have is because I want to engage rough anal sex. Lets go! *Censored*

O_O......... @_@

Nice use of emoticons very powerful way to express your interest in me and schnee hawt anal seckzings

Indeed.

At 6/28/09 07:12 AM, schneelocke wrote:

At 6/27/09 08:28 PM, gfoxcook wrote: O_O......... @_@

Oh, you want the strap-on treatment, too? Form a line, no shoving! :)

I am first in line, *gets fucked up the ass violently*. ::Puts on fake 'stache and goes to the back of the line.::

@_@

iscrulz likes being his own sloppy seconds!

At 6/29/09 01:27 AM, Xiivi wrote: Level Up.

You know. I just got rid of the gold one of this not too long ago. And here I am with it again. Ugh.

Congrats. I take it you refer to NemesisM66 having the golden mallet/hammer and you getting the regular ol' lv41 one, eh?

Well, I prefer the regular one to the golden, actually. The golden is so boring looking, so monochromatic.

And in any event, you'll be up to level 42 on your actual account soon enough, and level 42 is the greatest level icon in the history of NG, so... yeah. Be happy.

At 6/29/09 06:34 AM, schneelocke wrote:

At 6/28/09 07:54 PM, iscrulz wrote: Yeah we should have gotten to known each other back in the day. So lets get to it then. Also whip-out your strap-on and plow me up the ass until it hurts like hell.

Your wish is my command! *unf* *unf* *unf*

O_OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....

You know, that's the thing about Wi/Ht?... just when you think there's not enough unfunfunf-ing going on, suddenly you get your yearly recommended dosage. Thanks, guys! #;-}>

[image]

MMMmm. Yeah, that's about the right size for my taste!

mrooooowwwww.

At 6/28/09 08:41 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

At 6/27/09 07:57 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/24/09 07:17 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: How you park it is vital, if you park it too far onto the token, you'll pick it up while approaching the bike, the trick is to collect it whie being in the process of mounting the bike. The results are hilarious.

BTW, how do you park it in the first place without picking it up then? Do you have to go ahead and pick it up then, but then just wait till it respawns?

No you kinda park up to it in such a way that you won't pick it up when you get off but will when you get on. This video probably explains it better than I can,but after he gets back on and the screen turns black pause immediately unless you wanna spoil the surprise.

Ah, okay. No need for me to watch the video, I think I envision the entire process somewhat accurately now. I'll definitely try that next time I'm in VC, and if I can't get it to work, then I'll refer to a vid for help. Thanks for letting me and Bahamut know about that.

Did iscrulz ever say if he knew about it already?

Quick, what's going to happen in 2036?

I will spend 366 consecutive days with a smile on my face just because of what year it is. </truth>

(2036 leap year WIN! one extra day to enjoy the awesomeness)

Nice, Pity you'll spend 365.25 consecutive days with a frown because of 2037 :P

365.25? Heh... Good thing for me the average amount of days in a year never actually happens, eh?

Of course, 2037 will only have 365 days... so that's a full 6 hours less than you just made it out to be either out of silliness or not thinking it through completely. #;-}> I'll try to remember that I should be happy 2037 isn't 6 hours longer once 2037 actually rolls around. If I'm successful in remembering that, it will bring a SLIGHT smile to my face every now and then for that year. Especially on Feb 28th and March 1st. #;-}>

At 6/28/09 09:41 AM, Auz wrote:

At 6/27/09 08:08 PM, gfoxcook wrote: At this point, who knows, he could indeed be some other user's alt at this point if the original Pimp isn't depositing for himself anymore, I dunno.

And that would explain how he magically always pops up in topics about him.

Well, anyone can pop up in a topic about themselves if they:
A) obsessively search for topics about themselves either on NG's search or google or something... or:
B) have a network of informants that would notify them via PM or e-mail or IM if such a topic ever occurs.

Still it´s weird though. It´s a single released in between two albums, like Electrical Storm, but both those albums were released shortly after eachother... Why not wait to release it with the album and make it the "promotional single" or something?

Well, Electrical Storm was a very different sort of single from U2. Instead of being associated with any one album like MOST singles are/were... wasn't it released on one of the decade-BestOfs double-discs?

We do have Under A Blood Red Sky here. My dad's bought all the albums U2 ever released except for Wide Awake In America and 16 singles. And I like how he got an original LP of October, even though our LP player doesn´t work so well anymore..

Oh, you do have it? Awesome. Well, listen to more Party Girl and 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, then! They'll grow on ya.

Nothing wrong with having old LPs but no way to play them. I have lots of old 1970s LPs but no record player as of now. Vinyl is nice just to have, especially for the HUGE cover art. #;-}>

But the last time I listened to UABRS was several years ago I think. And I didn´t even listen to the album in full then. Just Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Years Day perhaps and it´s how I got familiar with The Electric Co. (which is I think my second favourite U2 song ever). I just always skipped 11 O Clock Tick Tock and songs like that because I didn´t know them and didnt wanted to know them I guess.

Stop skippin'! Listen to the whole danged thing next time you listen to it. #;-}>

And now that I think about, I´m actually not that familiar with the early U2 albums, except for Boy. I haven´t given October and War a good listen yet. Should do that some of these days.

Is the only reason you're familiar with Boy because Electric Co from UABRS got you to listen to Boy beyond I Will Follow more?

War is an excellent album, start to finish. A couple songs on there I sometimes skip, but it's definitely in the top 5 U2 albums to listen to from start to finish.

Okay I think I get your point now. And I think you´re right about this. What´s released on the albums might just be one side of a band and it sometimes is the only side we get to know. And it might be completely different from how they actually are.

Yeah, pretty much.

And yes indeed I thought No Line On The Horizon sounded a little weird at first. But I had the same feelings with HTDAAB. With U2 I just always gotta get used to it I guess. Giving an album a few more listens, it always starts to sound better and better to me. But in NLOTH case I´m afraid I´ll have to put it on the very bottom of my favourite U2 albums list. It just doesn´t appeal to me that much.

Ah well. They can't live forever. At some point their music is either gonna disappoint you or they're gonna stop releasing it. One way or the other, it has to end.

Okay that seems nice. I like how you can have a whole personal page with all kinds of achievements for each game. And keeping track of number of hours played and all.

It only keeps track of your hours played in the past 14 days. Cept for Left4Dead, which aims to keep track of your total playtime (but it does so via a counter that doesn't work quite right... not sure how it reconciles time spent in game vs. in-lobby, in menus, etc...). Oh wait, and TF2 keeps track of your total playtime for each class, which means you can add them all up and get your actual total playtime (only alive, not waiting to respawn). But yeah, in terms of actual time with the game RUNNING, Steam only keeps track of that in "past 14 days" increments.

What is this Steam I keep hearing you talk about by the way? I know it´s something for PC gaming, but I´m not quite sure what it does... =/

Steam is a program by Valve (the makers of all Half-Life, Team Fortress, Portal, and Left4Dead games) that lets you buy and install and play 100s of games by many different production companies without having to worry about copy protection or losing discs, boxes, or manuals. It lets you install and play the games on any computer in the world you want to (but you can only be logged in/playing on one computer at a time).

Those links to game stats in the post of mine you were replying to... they can be followed on the web, like you just did, or through Steam itself (Steam is built on IE, unfortunately, but it runs fine even so). It also lets you keep a friendslist, and IM with your friends, find games to play that your friends are already in, and do full chats in groups you can join.

At 6/28/09 02:05 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/27/09 08:08 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/24/09 02:11 PM, Haggard wrote: Um... maybe not "trailers" but more like... teasers? The things they show when saying: "Today/Later this week on $TV_Station!"

Ah, I see. Yeah, we call those "promos," as in promotions. Short little snippets.

Too many confusing names for just the same thing.

TRAILERS TEASERS ADVERTS PROMOS! TRAILERS TEASERS ADVERTS PROMOS!
TRAILERS TEASERS ADVERTS PROMOS! TRAILERS TEASERS ADVERTS PROMOS!
TRAILERS TEASERS ADVERTS PROMOS! TRAILERS TEASERS ADVERTS PROMOS!
TRAILERS TEASERS ADVERTS PROMOS! ...... or if you prefer.... COMMERCIALS!

There you go, I made a song about it to BLOW YOUR MIND. #;-}>

It's a bit repetitive....

At 6/28/09 05:35 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/27/09 07:57 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/24/09 04:18 AM, Coop83 wrote: So, I'll gain another experience rank on or around the 21st of August :P

You're closer to me alt-alt than 6 days of exp now, aintcha? Anyway, in any event you'll be celebrating in August, that's for sure. #;-}>

I haven't checked the list since the last update. It'll come eventually, but I did get two ranks yesterday, so it's all good :)

I think you're only 5 days behind him as of late, from what I noticed recently while doing catchups in the various list threads (the exp thread being the likely reason for me to notice such a thing, of course).

So yeah, I'd wager you'll be gaining that ranking spot you've been drooling over for YEARS NOW by the 20th. #;-}>

And don't deny it'll have more significance to you than just any ol' ranks, man! I know you wanna pass all 3 of my accounts someday, so passing the 1st of the three will be quite the treat for you. #;-}>

Well, I still wanna see about whether I can do the "edging forward with a save or blam here or there and then going weeks without voting again and thus avoid depositing" thing.

Don't forget, you can still get an additional 4 points to avoid that pesky deposit ;)

Bahamut ran an experiment for me with one of his alts. You can vote on 2 or 3 things one day, then wait a week and vote on 2 or 3 things again and NOT deposit. NG doesn't keep track of your 5-votes-to-deposit voting past a week at most. #;-}>

But I'll be to 36/36 by 8/15 anyway, I reckon.

I've got some perverted Mel Gibson wannabe to beat first. He still thinks he can beat me to 100k, so good for him :P

LOL.

Well, I should do - I've closed the gap by 1,000 Points over the last month down to 1,500 ish, so he shouldn't be able to put up too much of a fight.

Isn't it a bit closer than 1500ish now?

Yeah, but I'll still be around to chat with people. If I'm still on Newgrounds, I'm still doing stuff. If I can't carry on posting, B/Ping and reviewing, why bother depositing experience? Sure, taking a holiday and getting someone else to deposit for me is acceptable, but then I come back and carry on where I left off.

So you say... but time changes things. Anyway, I can easily see myself in an only-depositing NG role in the future. After all, for (somewhat) short periods of time in the past few years I've basically been there already.

I'd like to think that in addition to depositing for my main two accounts once I retire my 3rd in August, that I'll still be posting on my main and b/ping on my alt in addition to getting exp for them both, but the truth is that from time to time, all I'll be doing for semi-long stretches is just get exp on both of them. This is nothing new, nothing to be alarmed about, and doesn't mean a person is quitting NG, yanno?

I'd rather go into "life support" mode on NG than leave altogether is what it really boils down to. And I'm always thankful to see others who follow the same pattern, because it's better than no pulse at all.

At 6/28/09 07:12 AM, schneelocke wrote: My pleasure - it's good to be back.

How long can we expect to enjoy yer company before you're POOF... off again? #;-}>

O_O......... @_@

Oh, you want the strap-on treatment, too? Form a line, no shoving! :)

Ehhhh.... I can't recall my exact mindset when I made those emoticons, but IIRC, that was more of a "I cannot believe what I am seeing" bulgy eyed reaction shot. Nothing to do with wanting to get involved.

In short... I LIKE TO WATCH? O_o

Ah, interesting. I knew about Paul Hogan and Steve Irwin, of course, but TF2 is news to me. But then, I'm not into shooter games big time (except for DOOM, which I still play regularly even today).

TF2 isn't just a FPS, it's also a series of great short films and many many many fan-made machinima and cartoons on YouTube and Newgrounds. TF2 is much more of a pop-cultural development than just any old game, which is why I mentioned its Australian character right alongside two great pop culture icons in America that are seen to represent Aussies (whether that representation was accurate or not is another thing entirely, of course).

So anyway, I hope you watched the link that I made to the sniper for ya. Every single one of the 9 characters in the game will have an official video someday. So far only 7 have gotten it, we're still waiting on the German Medic and the ????an Pyro. #;-}>

At 6/28/09 07:51 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/27/09 07:57 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/24/09 04:18 AM, Coop83 wrote: *puts Bahamut's juggling balls away*

That's gotta hurt. I thought those babies had to stay attached? Even with dragons, I mean...

lol, I can't believe I overlooked this. Seriously, I need those dragon balls.

Yeah, that was quite the multi-day delay on reacting to Coop detaching your dragon sack and playing the juggler with your naughty bits. You should really pay more attention to your dragony jewels in the future. ;_;

1. He's a legitimate character, unlike a fucking Tetris block.
2. He's awesome and enough people agreed with that. :)
3. No extremely popular characters such as Cloud or Link were in the whole tournament due to bannage on them.

You do realise that millions more people know what a tetris block is, gamers or non-gamers... than know what/who Pyramid Head is, right?

I'd argue that makes a tetris block far more legitimate for a character battle, really.

Serves him right.

Hey now. ;_;

Hey, he's been a douchebag for years now and still is.

I dunno who we were even talking about anymore, so... ehhhhhh. :::shrugs:::

CLOCK DAY CLOCK DAY CLOCK DAY

Ding ding ding ding!

Yay, I'm right! What do I win?

The pleasure of joining Coop in passing gfox in exp some day in the not-so-far-off future?

I think that's so, but I'm not too sure. I've noticed some of my alts I meant to stop depositing for I accidentally voted on them a few times (no deposits, though) and later, the voting was reset so I'd have to vote for 5 more flashes to deposit again.

Well, can you help me out by confirming that? i.e. if you have an alt you stopped depositing for, but it wouldn't kill you if it gained 10 exp by accident, vote on 2 movies for it today and see what it says... "4 more till deposit..." and "3 more till deposit..." hopefully... and then in a couple weeks, vote on 2 more movies for it again, and see if it says "4 more, 3 more" again or if it says "2 more, 1 more..."

Sure thing, I'll look into it.

And thank you very much for indeed looking into that for me. ROCK ON.

Fab auras fucking sucks with everything. END OF STORY!

LOL. You're as bad about fab as iscrulz is about FF.

At least I'm right about fab aura sucking.

Good point.

First, a quick thanks post. A) it keeps all the thanks together where the people who were nice enough to congrat me can see my thankfulness, which is the whole point of thankslists and all, list though this may not be... and B) seeing as how I HAVE A SHITTON OF POSTS TO REPLY TO, every little byte counts. Getting these out of the way leaves room for 8k posts later on, and I have a feeling I'll be needing all 4 8k posts within a 30 minute period today... (cough)... so here goes:

At 7/1/09 05:36 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop almost forgets to do a list today, before congratulating gfoxcook: 32nd Birthday :)

At 7/1/09 06:16 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: Congratulations to gfoxcook - Happy 32nd Birthday!

At 7/1/09 09:55 AM, Bahamut wrote: Happy Birthday (again)! A bit late for that, but who cares?

At 7/1/09 10:35 AM, Odyssic wrote: Congrats to gfoxcook: Happy 32nd Birthday!

At 7/1/09 11:14 AM, Auz wrote: Congrats to gfoxcook: Happy 32nd birthday!

At 7/1/09 08:43 PM, Hacsev wrote: Congrats to gfoxcook: 32 Years IRL

At 7/2/09 12:43 PM, Haggard wrote: Congrats to gfoxcook: 32 Years IRL - Happy belated birthday!

At 7/3/09 04:03 PM, idiot-buster wrote: Congrats to gfoxcook: 32nd Birthday

At 7/13/09 03:56 AM, Coop83 wrote: A man with a single minded B/P mission today, Coop congratulates gfoxcook: Level 48

At 7/13/09 08:52 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: Congratulations to gfoxcook - Level 48

At 7/13/09 09:19 AM, Hacsev wrote: Congrats to gfoxcook: Level 48

At 7/13/09 11:01 AM, Odyssic wrote: Congrats to gfoxcook: Level 48

At 7/13/09 11:59 AM, Haggard wrote: Congrats to gfoxcook: Level 48

At 7/13/09 12:40 PM, Auz wrote: Congrats to gfoxcook: Level 48

THANK YOU ALL on the lovely 32nd birthday congrats and level 48 congrats!

P.S. Bahamut, I believe that technically it was still 6/30 in a thin strip near the international date line when you made that post, so... JUST in time. #;-}> I'm just glad I was able to happy birthday you on Steam on the actual day of your birthday, since I missed you completely on Steam the day before it.

At 7/17/09 09:06 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/17/09 12:05 AM, EggSaladSandwich wrote: While I discourage doing it...i don't think you will get in trouble for it.
Toocool100
With 94156 saves and 93 blams, I'm pretty sure this guy probably just clicks 5 on everything he can.

No, he watches the flash and scores them 2-5 before moving on. If he thinks it will be blammed, he doesn't vote and moves on.

Thanks for posting that. I was going to stick up for TooCool last night in here, but I was at exactly +500 posts from my previous redesign newspost, and I didn't want to ruin that perfection until after I did me newspostings for the redesign.

Damned bastard trying to sully the name of TooCool based on his own petty conjecture. "Pretty sure" INDEED. Pffft. What a maroooooon.

At 7/14/09 06:01 AM, hammerhead84 wrote:

At 7/1/09 02:48 AM, ryan9946 wrote: Gimme Them!!

Best first post ever.

EVER

Oh, definitely. I'm sure many of us wish we could have had as awesome a first post as that. Hell, his first post inspired me to make my VERY FIRST motivational poster, so clearly it was quite the epic first post. #;-}>

And also for it to be a 6-year necro bump post with NO moderation in response to it (like might have happened on General).... truly a case of being in the right place at the right time.

At 7/12/09 12:34 AM, byteslinger wrote:

At 7/11/09 01:25 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote: I saw it last night on NGlogs on the bottom of the page under the Stolen Tactics ad. It screwed up the page layout and made me use the scroll bar both up and down and left and right. It disappeared this morning, though.

Some of the images to the links are read directly from the target host. If that link image was hacked on the other target website, it would show up larger on NG Logs - even though no code was altered on my site. Solution: I will copy all of the image links to a subfolder on NG Logs, and protect my copy - and this way, I won't have to depend on the other servers for images that could be hacked.

Yeah, I just wanted to drop by and let you know I saw that as well. It was one of the many affiliate logos, and when I saw that giant-ass pic, I figured that was exactly the case: that the pics themselves were all being supplied by the sites being linked to, and clearly one of them got haxxxxxxxxxxxxxed and any site linking to imageshack (or whatever) via such a server-side pic... was showing this giant-ass ballooned image down there where a tiny little rectangle is supposed to be.

Aside from copying all the images to your own server space, BTW, I would assume you could probably just put some height + width tags on all those image files and even if the image file changed (like happened that day), it would stay within the small rectangle space it's supposed to occupy.

At 7/15/09 02:45 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: They give me that warm fuzzy feeling inside, like the good Chance cards from Monopoly. <3

The first coupla ones I noticed a week ago or so reminded me of Chance or Community Chest cards from Monopoly as well. Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought so. #;-}>

Of course, then I started getting some VERY un-Monopoly ones insulting me afterwards, and the feeling of Monopoly cards... faded quite quickly. #;-}>

HAPPY NG REDESIGN ANNIVERSARY #2, FOLKS!

New yearly newsposts going up in all three of my accounts within the hour! Get 'em while they're hot and fresh!

At 7/16/09 04:12 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, we all know that 'Pulling a gfox' would be climbing to the very top for Blams, Saves and as a result B/P all at the same time.* Either that, or your name could sound quite rude when verbalised in this way :P

I thought pulling a gfox meant posting 4 straight nearly 8k-long posts in a Wi/Ht? list topic or LUL after disappearing for 2-4 weeks? #;-}>

At 7/13/09 05:27 AM, Haggard wrote: Meant to reply to this before gfox posts here again. I failed, I guess. :/

Hey, for once I posted twice in a topic while someone who tends to post more often than me posted 0 times.... WIN FOR TEH GFOX! #;-}>

Now ye know how I feel when I come into topics to catch up! (usually, that is)

At 6/27/09 03:10 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Yeah, that'll always do it. With the exception of those crazy postwhores and reviewwhores, b/p pace is the lifeline of the pentalist user. That's why I've barely moved since I retired in 2005.

Yeah, good that I don't plan to reitre in the near future. I was thinking of stopping at 33,333 B/P or something like that. But then I felt something was missing in my daily routine. So I just vote on UJ flashes whenever I find the time and I don't care about my pace that much anymore.

A lot of people have been mentioning either 33,000 or 33,333 lately. There's a whole lot of trinity-lovin' goin' on.

Yes, but they were never on the old profiles. So when they were added to the left column, it felt artificial.

When you speak of "old profiles", how old are these profiles exactly? When I started reviewing (well... commenting) audio in 2006 audio reviews where already added to that nifty pop-up profile.
But I remember something like "audio reviews by Haggard: ~none~" from way before 2006...

I'm talking about profiles from 2002 until the redesign in 2007. Profiles had only minor changes during that huge period.

You might be right about that, but even if so, it was a late addition. Earlier changes to the profiles during that period included:

1. removal of the popularity ranking stat
2. addition of the NG sticker stat
3. addition of the audio submissions pull-down menu
4. some other additions in that flash/audio section in between the top area with level icon/exp info and the bottom area with b/p and post info.

They're there because they fit with flash reviews right above them. Doesn't mean I have to see them equally (I never took the stickerstat that seriously, either... or popularity, for that matter... and both of those were on the old profiles... exceptions that prove the rule).

Yeah, stickers are something you have to pay for, you don't get them for doing anything on the site, so they are different from all the other stats.
And popularity was also different because it wasn't YOU who done anything (except for luring people on your profile maybe).

And because it was just a ranking. There wasn't even a count of anything.... it was as mysterious a stat as whistles/whistle power were early on.

Bah. Screw that future. I choose to write a different future: where the values we have now as NG statwhores are PRESERVED, goddamnit!

And where we have our profiles linked to our userIDs again?

I dream of such a day.

Technically, they still are, seeing as how our profile banners and profile pics still contain our user ID#s in their URLs. But yes, I miss being able to see id#s for ALL profiles, and I miss being able to pull up a profile by just its #.

I kinda wish that it was an either/or system. Either you could use username OR user ID#... to pull up profiles. Ah well.

At 7/13/09 07:35 AM, NEVR wrote: Painstakingly working my way towards being quadlisted... 155 blams to go.

Once upon a time that would have likely been the first stat you got to 10k. My, how times change. 4th stat.... amazing.

It'll be weird when I do get there, considering it's been a goal of mine pretty much ever since I discovered the joy of stats. It'll be all the more rewarding too, seeing as blams are somewhat more difficult to come by these days.

It's wild to think of a NG stat experience that began with a pentalist-related goal, seeing as how the pentalist wasn't around when I first started becoming a NG stathead. Always glad to be reminded how the list I created way back in 2003 had such an impact on a few of you guys. #;-}>

*shuffles back off to teh portal*

shufflin' and shamblin' and shuckin' and jivin'....

like a zombie ghost shrimp boat captain off the Louisiana coast. Ayup.

At 7/14/09 11:19 PM, Wylo wrote: The 07/14/09 Top 300 Voting Power Update

Thanks for the update, dude!

Users that have left the list: PureLionHeart

Noooooooooooooooo... not teh PLH. ;_;

Name Changes: BR to Wavy Gravy, MiharuForever to Sispri

Crazy bastards.

Population total voting power: 3618.89
Average: 12.06

:::loving the 36/12 action continuining for awhile longer:::

001) 14.82 +0.04 9.26 YoinK EGSC
002) 14.75 +0.05 9.22 ramagi EGSC
003) 14.72 +0.05 9.20 staphita EGSC
004) 14.54 +0.03 9.38 NeMeSiSM66 Commander
005) 14.50 +0.04 9.06 Stormwarden EGSC
006) 14.48 +0.05 9.05 Wylo EGSC
007) 14.46 +0.04 9.04 Joe EGSC +1
008) 14.42 -------- 9.01 CaptainBob EGSC -1
009) 14.30 +0.04 8.94 Overtired EGSC
010) 14.24 +0.05 8.90 someone-else EGSC
011) 14.22 +0.03 8.89 Parasoul EGSC
012) 14.14 +0.03 8.84 gfoxcook EGSC

Hawt stuff. 14.14 was groovy, I noticed that for a few days while depositing. On to 14.15 already... onwards and upwards, even at such heights.

I can't believe the top 3 rounded up to such high gains for the update period. Good ol' crazy roundings. Next time I'll be +0.05 and they'll be +0.02, though. And so the swinging back and forth goes and goes and goes...

It's wild being at the same xx.xx range as the top dogs, I just noticed.... course, won't be too long before YoinK hits 15+ VP and then it'll be a REALLY long wait for 15 VP myself, but... eh.... 10 to 14 took a long time, and getting into the top 50 exp list is taking a long time... I'm sure I can wait out 14 to 15. Should be a piece of cake in comparison to those two waits. #;-}>

At 7/14/09 11:31 PM, Wylo wrote: Oh ya, sorry about the really late update. And did Josh get his account deleted?

Bahamut told me about that a couple days ago.

As if getting arrested twice wasn't enough legacy for one man. ;_;

At 7/15/09 10:40 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/27/09 07:27 PM, gfoxcook wrote: You're missing the worst part here, man: they dislike Conan O'Brien! The bastards.

That's two bad things at once, especially if they like Epic fucking Movie.

True enough.

I love how Cloud doesn't recognise him from his wanted poster due to the donut-related weight gain. #;-}>

It's a clever disguise. :P

THAT SEPHIROTH IS A SPY! </TF2 soldier>

NOW do you see why I detest EA?

Yes, but at least they're not Activision, apparently. #;-}>

Pffft, Activision have actually discouraged people from selling guitars individually before.

Well, A) they can't stop PEOPLE from selling them to each other, even if they can stop stores from doing so.

And... B) then they're stupid, because they're costing themselves Steam sales. They should let Steam sell GH games and support individual guitar purchasing for PCs... OR... they could always just send a free guitar to every person who buys a GH game on Steam. That works, too. #;-}>

WoW has a bad addiction value while Facebook is just...UGH! I find both to be as bad as each other.

On WOW, you (presumably) do fun RPGy things.

On Facebook you shmooze with other self-important bastiches and play some sort of poke-the-sheep game or somesuchshit.

I think I'll take WOW if I have to choose one of the two.

And dishonourable mention goes to newer Simpsons. Also, fat Selphie, wtf?

That was Selphie? I had no idea who it was supposed to be.

059) 13.06 +0.02 8.16 ScottTowels EGSC
060) 13.04 -------- 8.15 Kronno EGSC -2
061) 13.04 +0.06 8.15 Bahamut EGSC +1

Just passed M-A-R-C-U-S and Kronno shall be the one who I'll pass to reach the top 60. :D Infact, I'm only a few days away now!

Oh nooooooeeeee. You're gonna boot a legendary ADGBCer out of the top 60. ;_;

Crono-...... where did you goooooo... on both sites. ;_;

At 7/14/09 11:31 PM, Wylo wrote: Oh ya, sorry about the really late update. And did Josh get his account deleted?

He did. It's surprising how someone like him is no more on this site. From what I heard, he requested to have his account deleted.

Damned suiciding bastard.

At 7/16/09 11:01 PM, Fro wrote: Ah, it's odd not seeing his profile. He hadn't been active in quite awhile though.

Speaking of which, what was his exp rank? Man, a lot of people got a nice free +1 boost. Gotta be the exp rank boost version of SevenStar's deletion (a b/p rank boost for many).