NEVR locked a similar thread to this recently ( http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1069 347 ) but I think the format for asking for help finding a thread might work better than the original "write a sentence describing the thread you're looking for" method in here, so I figured I'd give that guy-with-a-good-idea-that-just-happened-
to-not-be-original a little shoutout/ego-stroke and paste his format idea here.

Normally I leave the "find this for me?" stuff to Shunshuu, but I might actually try to help out when it comes to finding THREADS, as I loves me some old threads, and on my various computers from the past 10 years (all 3 of 'em), I have literally 1000s of NG threads bookmarked.... sad, I know:

EggfordTheEgg Posted at: 6/9/09 11:59 PM:

Thread Name:
Date Posted:
Thread Starter:
Forum/Section:
Number Of Pages:
DESCRIPTION:

I'll start...

Thread Name: can't remember. Possibly "Noob Battle" or something similar, however?
Date Posted: 2003 or 2002, I'd imagine.
Thread Starter: no idea... unless it was one of the two users mentioned in the description:
Forum/Section: definitely General.
Number of Pages: 15ish at one point? Might have ended up with way more.
DESCRIPTION: The greatest thread in General history, IMO. It featured a battle between bartard and HeReTiK (who's also well known as a flash artist in the portal) and various other General regulars. Only the battle was acted out via horrible, horrible, AMAZING MS paint pictures. It was such a great thread, I couldn't help but get in on the action myself a bit. Mostly consisted of hilarious posttext and MSpaint pics showing various level icons/postcount screenshots with arms, legs, and weapons... doing horrible violence to each other.

(I could find this one on my own by hooking up my old late90s/early00s PC to a powersource... but A) that's a pain... and B) the above serves as a good example of using the form like EggfordTheEgg did in his ownill-fated thread... and C) I'm pimping the glorious General thread in question... and D) finally, I'm seeing if there's still anyone around here that has memories of the greatness of General back in 2003 besides me. A bit of a test. #;-}>)

At 6/8/09 05:24 PM, TKM wrote: I hope it's ok to bump this. I just wanted to bring it back to the top of the page to try again and see what anyone else can find.

Posted at: 5/5/09 02:44 PM

You waited over a full month to bump and had a good reason and didn't just post "BUMP! LOLZ!" or something, so yes, it was perfectly fine.

Your bump the next day on 6/9 wasn't really that necessary, though. Things don't move THAT quickly on this forum, so in just 1 day, your topic was probably still on the front page. Anyway, one of those bumps worked, clearly, and maybe you'll get a 3rd link out of my just-so-happens-to-be-a-bump-even-though -I-didn't-label-it-as-such right here. Good luck! Let us know if the 2nd link was pretty much spot on, and then people won't need to worry about getting more links for ya, if they're so inclined.

At 6/20/09 01:36 AM, TomFulp wrote: I paid $200 to use a REAL survey website, so please end our curiosity and FILL OUT THIS SURVEY.
Don't forget to FILL OUT THIS SURVEY.

Bad. Ass. I missed out on the crap survey that you posted a week or so ago... and even if it was a crap survey, I still felt I missed out. So... woohoo!

Okay, that's a bit OTT, but... seriously... thanks, Tom! I know I'm not alone in enjoying the HELL out of surveys and polls. I vaguely remember some polls way back in the day, and I hope you start posting more surveys/polls regularly now. PEOPLE ARE SUCKERS FOR THEM, MAN! We can't stop filling them out.

Hell, all those "free x-box360" or "free iphone for filling out surveys..." no prize is even necessary to pull us in. We take them because... they're there, I guess. #;-}> MOAR, PLZ.

At 6/18/09 07:14 PM, FBIpolux wrote: What next in the Progammer's mind?

Also, lol Retrogade

Yes, Bedn must be smiling down at us from heaven now. His dream... finally realized. (sniff)

At 6/18/09 06:45 PM, madvideogamer wrote:

At 6/18/09 06:41 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Bad ass. Finally there's a Nene voting panel to go with the Pico and Darnell ones in the flash and audio portals respectively. WOOT, ART PORTAL WIN.

She was actually used previously for this year's April fools as the flash blams and protect.

Yeah, yeah, but that was China Day and as a result... just one day. I'm talking a PERMANENT position on a voting panel, dagnabit! Not some temp assignment. #;-}>

At 6/18/09 07:01 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 6/18/09 06:31 PM, Rob wrote: The Art Portal should look like this:

Pssssh, you just clearly can't tell talent when you see it, that penis is amazing!

Beauty is clearly in the hand of the penis-holder...?

At 6/18/09 06:34 PM, JinNJuice wrote: Are sketches allowed? If so, what would they be considered as?

Read ZE OP, mate:

"Illustration - Here is a Wikipedia article explaining it."

The first thing the illustration article on wiki that he linked us to right there explains is that illustration is more about subject than form. A sketch is more about subject than form, therefore it is an illustration, not fine art or other. Bah-BAM.

At 6/18/09 06:35 PM, xscoot wrote: I like the ratings. I always felt that Nene was left out, but now she has a place.

Who will be in the Lit portal though?

LIT-BOT, I hope. The baddest bot this side of the Pecos.

At 6/18/09 06:35 PM, Gagsy wrote: Heres hoping it doesn't getr overrun with shit. Some people have already told me to draw something and submit but I refuse as I can't draw and it'd just be cuasing spam. I hope others follow suit.

If you can't draw, just leave it to the ones with talent. It's nice just to view anyway.

First day up, and it already has a much higher good:bad ratio than Retrogade's photoshop portal ever did, so... worry not.

Go ahead and draw, just take your time. Spend a month making a perfect pic and slap it in your profile. Why not? I might even give it a go, and I suck. But I got my babe a tablet for X-mas a couple years ago, and I doodle with it myself every now and again. TIME TO PRACTICE.

At 6/18/09 06:37 PM, Sairex wrote: Great, now we're deviantart? Or maybe sheezyart...nevertheless, Newgrounds is more that this, it's bigger than some furry drawings and middle fingers. How is this art compared to animation and music?

You just said NG is more than this and then you act like the Art Portal's existence means the rest of NG is gone. NG IS more than just that. It's flash movies, flash games, music, visual art, AND a BBS. And yet you complain. (sigh)

Anyway, it's more that NG has now absorbed the one thing RG always had that wasn't a NG rip-off... THE ASSIMILATION IS COMPLETE. And it only took 2 years after Retrogade died. ;_;

At 6/18/09 06:38 PM, TheRadicalOne wrote: Awesome, another thing I can fail at!

Thanks Staff!

MTE whenever a new portal concept is announced. But rest assured that art needs consumers just as much as it needs producers. What is a book without someone to read it? What is a picture without someone to see it? So... rather than fail at producing just... enjoy the consumption!

At 6/18/09 06:39 PM, TheSilverGuitar wrote:

At 6/18/09 06:31 PM, Rob wrote: The Art Portal is here!

Too bad all of General already knows.

Funk General.

Bad ass. Finally there's a Nene voting panel to go with the Pico and Darnell ones in the flash and audio portals respectively. WOOT, ART PORTAL WIN.

Oh, and great Bob Ross tankman banner, whoever drew that and/or came up with it is a GOD AMONG MEN. The red paint all over the impressionist NG sky makes me wanna eat ketchup, too. Mmmm-mmm. Tasty graphics.

At 6/8/09 08:21 AM, Eskimomo1994 wrote: lol ¬¬
it does.
I have no idea what to do.
its probably the double underscore but it works on hotmail so why cant it work here :(

You're probably right that it's the double underscore.

The real question isn't why __ works on hotmail but not on NG, the real question is: why on earth would you put __ in your e-mail address? God, just one _ is ugly enough on its own. TWO? ;_;

Make a new hotmail address with just one (ugh), and you'll be fine.

At 7/27/08 11:38 AM, sirtom93 wrote: Pm Wade for a name change, that way you wont have to change email.

Woot. A necro'ed thread featuring a pre-criminalmischiefmakin' sirtom post.

FTW, OP, FTW. #;-}>

At 6/4/09 10:06 PM, SCTE3 wrote: If it exceeds the post limit then chop off a paragraph or 2 and slap it in on the next post, I think this would be the only time a double post is accepted but if it's just you talking it seems pointless to do so.

At 6/5/09 06:38 AM, SuperMarioBrosS wrote: In some situations, it's better to put the stuff in one single post. This is best when you have people arguing against you and you want to pin the conversation down. I try to keep stuff concise, but if this hits me when I can no longer compress what I say, then I'm in trouble.

Also, mods also judge the 2nd post harshly so that it isn't a +1 post.

Arhghghghghghghg. Posting DIFFERENT CONTENT in a 2nd post immediately after a post IS NOT A DOUBLE POST.

A double post is posting the same exact post twice.

Kids these days... on the internets. ;_; REDEFINING ALL OUR CHERISHED 1990-ERA TERMS. For the worse. ;_;

At 4/3/09 06:40 AM, Gagsy wrote: The Blam points will come in time, just got to wait and wait. I really really need to do some reviewing now though. I'm working all day sunday I believe, so then would be a good time to start. NG is usually quiet board wise, and my usual Stickam haunt will be too, so I must must must get the reviewing fingers out!

So that's why I can't get any more reviews...

I never should have hacked my reviewing fingers off instead of just stowing them away in a dusty drawer or somesuch. Foolish me... ;_; and then to FORGET about it, too. (sigh)

Alsooooo eventually, could this list include Medal points? I mean I think there are nearly 2500 medal points to collect already. So it looks likely I suppose that soon enough there will be over 10,000 points for that to collect. Thoughts?

Ugh. So this is how the whole thing started. DAMN YOU, GAGSY!

At 4/3/09 04:45 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Maybe the stats should be edited such as 20,000 per stat, i wouldnt have a problem with it O_o

~X~

LOL. Of course you wouldn't. Much like me, you're already 3x20k, so what do you care, eh? #;-}>

Additionally, you're only ~2.5k and ~1k off of 20k posts and 20k reviews, so... even if it was a 5x20k minimum, you'd be there soon enough. Hell, you'd be the solo list member. #;-}>

At 4/13/09 12:59 PM, AllReligiousDrunk wrote: I think this is a very bad idea. They are way too easy to get and should not be regarded as Newgrounds "stats". Compare 50 blams, saves, reviews, posts or experience points to 50 medal points, the huge difference is that the latter may take as little as a couple of seconds for anyone to get.

Beautifully put. That's exactly why I have an instant and instinctive negative response to the concept of medal points being added to the 10k+ list as well. Thanks for saying it much quicker than I woulda, too. #;-}>

I should add, of course, that my feelings towards adding actual medal count to the list are a bit more mixed. I certainly won't protest that change like I woulda the points one... since anyone earning 10,000 ACTUAL achievements deserves some freakin' awe, whereas points are more arbitrary and too easy to get too quickly. But... eh... still not the same sort of stat as the 5 we have now.

Then again, I already grumbled plenty about audio reviews being added to the list (either on their own or lumped in together with flash reviews), so I'm just a crusty old codger who resists change despite voting for Obama. I IZ A MESS OF CONTRADICTIONS. #;-}>

I'd lose faith in this list if it included medal points, definitely.

I wouldn't go that far, but I'd certainly weep.

Now, if Bahamut adds a medals column and if someone gets enough audio reviews to split that off from the flash reviews column... and we have a septalist... then I'll be looking forward to ONE MORE STAT we can add. Because pentalist is damned cool, but hexalist (bleh, let's just call it the sexalist, shall we?) and septalist are teh lames....

BUT OCTOLIST BRINGS THE COOL BACK. #;-}>

At 4/13/09 01:08 PM, Haggard wrote: But it is a stat on our profile page, so what other reason other than "they are too easy to get! *cries*" is there?

It's a stat on our profile pages ON THE RIGHT column. i.e. it's a stat just like how many newsposts we make is a stat... ON THE RIGHT... and how many comments we get to our newsposts is a stat.... ON THE RIGHT.... and how many favourites we've assigned is a stat... ON THE RIGHT... and how many flash or audio submissions we've submitted is a stat... ON THE RIGHT...

I trust my point is made: numbers/stats having to do with things in the RIGHT column on our profile mean nothing to me. Only stats in the LEFT column are proper stats. #;-}>

Besides, it STILL takes some time to get to 10k medal points, even though there will be lots of easy medals out there in the near future. But a user still needs to play those games to get the medals.

And, to be honest... how hard is it to make a post on the BBS? Should we now exclude posts from the list as well, because getting posts is too easy?

Now imagine a NG BBS world where you get 25 or 50 "post points" per post you make, though.

Now think of how fast someone can get to 10,000 "post points" versus how long it takes to get to 10,000 POSTS.

Now realise why I vastly prefer 10,000 medals to 10,000 medal POINTS. #;-}>

At 4/13/09 02:15 PM, NEVR wrote: The thing about every other stat is that you can only get ONE at a time (except exp, but you can only get 10 EXP per day anyway, which is slower than a lot of people's B/P or posting rate). With medal points, you can get 10, 25, or 50 at a time. Hypothetically, with enough games that featured medal points available, it would probably be possible for a user to make it to 10,000 in about a day, which really, REALLY cheapens the validity of it as a countable 10k stat IMO; I thought the point of having this list was to honour the users who had toiled long and hard to gain their 10k stats.

Well, I started the list simply because there were only THREE people who had 2 10k stats back in 2003. One who had 10k b/p and 10k exp (NemesisM66, IIRC?), one who had 10k b/p and 10k posts (biteme2516, IIRC?), and one who had 10k exp and 10k posts (Shrapnel, IIRC?)... and due to the rarity of this 2x10k status and due to the coolness that we had a perfect triad of the 3 2x10k combos (when I was only thinking of 3 10k categories, of course) at the time, I made the list for the hell of it.

So I don't know if I ever really intended it should honour those who took a long time to get their stats, since after all the three categories back in the day took varying amounts of time and effort to get... exp the least effort but (potentially) the most time, posts only as much time as a user allowed, and b/p kinda in between them.... but I did include everyone who was 1x10k at the time (myself included), and later expanded the list + separated b from p... and in the process of it going from 3x10k to 5x10k in its columns, the list certainly did become a celebration of the long, hard toil that is getting onto it... especially once I trimmed it from a 1x10k minimum to a 2x10k minimum. THAT right there may have been the change that truly made the list into something approaching what you're talking about. But I didn't do it FOR that, I did it so I'd have less work making the updates. #;-}>

At 4/13/09 03:56 PM, Haggard wrote: But yeah, I see the point that it takes a relatively short time to achieve this. Maybe the points needed to get onto the list should be higher then. (like 50k or 100k? But then it wouldn't be a "Top 10k Exp/Saves..."-list anymore)
Or we discard the medal POINTS and count MEDALS instead. 10k MEDALS should be really hard to get, no matter how many games with medals there are.

THANK YOU. #;-}>

At 3/4/09 09:58 AM, Bahamut wrote: If he really wants to play GTAIV: The Lost and the Damned, he really needs to get a 360. Since he's a GTA fanboy, just getting TLATD should be enough for him. I mean, if MGS4 was the only PS3 games I was interested in, I'd still get a PS3 just for that one game. However, there are other PS3 games that have interested me and I've already played through MGS4 thanks to my sister's boyfriend. Despite that, whenever my parents get a HDTV and I get a PS3, I'll be getting MGS4 and LittleBigPlanet with it. MGS4 is amazing!

Wha? I thought the Lost and the Damned DLC was for PC as well. If it's not already, it will be at some point. All the Fallout3 DLC is available for PC, anyway. I haven't beaten either FO3 or GTA4, so I don't care about DLC (yet).

I've heard mixed things about MGS4, actually. Some people compare it to watching a semi-interactive movie... say that it's too linear and not really that fun, though it is pretty and all.

LittleBigPlanet is a way bigger selling point for a PS3 than MGS4 is all I'm sayin' here. I wish they'd put LBP on Steam. You KNOW it would do well. Damned ungreedy-enough bastards. #;-}>

At 3/4/09 12:54 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: <3 GTA 4, 3, 2, 1, SA, VC, London, L Stories, VC Stories, Advance . . . all fully playable on PC. Chinatown Wars is the only one still unsupported it seems . . .

OMG, CYBERDEVIL = ISCRULZ? #;-}>

At 2/20/09 01:36 AM, gfoxcook wrote: So you're missing around 500 exp? Fret not. I'm missing 10,000. ;_;

I spy a big difference there, just think about the places you could be with all days unneglected. O_o

No kidding. I'd be in the top 5, for starters. There isn't a NG day that goes by since 2003 that I don't think of it, man. I don't have to "just think about" it, I know it in my NG bones. #;-}>

At 2/19/09 02:30 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 2/18/09 01:43 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: Hmm, nice update, things are moving upwards!
And it seems like I'm just a mere 7-800 reviews away from being the second user ever to be pentalisted. :)

SO DO IT ALREADY, man! #;-}>

Hmm, forsake my already outreaching studies and go on a quick scribbling spree to get this done, or, not. Decision would have been so easy five years ago . . .

YES. REVIEW. YOU MUST.

At 3/16/09 12:38 PM, Auz wrote: I surpassed two moderators on this update, poxpower and CaptainBob, and made my way up to the 65st spot with a decent pace. Major-punk, shunshuu, Minion777 and Crolpa seem to be easy targets for now so I might be very close to entering top 60 next time.

LEAVE SHUNSHUU ALONE, YOU BASTARD!

</minion777 parody>

But no, seriously, leave Shunshuu alone. Leave him off your targets list OR ELSE. #;-}>

At 3/19/09 11:34 AM, NEVR wrote:

At 3/16/09 12:11 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hello all and welcome to Bahamut's 2x10k Pentalist update #10!

Thanks for the 10th update, which is the first update that I'm actually on.

Woot woot.

Saves are like the easiest 10k stat to get these days apparently.

Apparently. I entered 1x10k land with saves, too, but I did it back in 2003 or 2004 when it was actually SAYING something to say you got to 10k saves before blams or exp or posts. #;-}>

NEXT UPDATE: 11th April 2009

I won't have 10k posts by then... unless I really whore myself on the BBS, which may or may not happen.

Well, you've certainly gotten to 10k posts by... now. #;-}> So congrats. Did you have 10k saves back before I retired from listmakerering, BTW, or did you not even enter the 10k land in just one stat until Bahamut had taken the reins?

At 3/20/09 05:24 PM, Bryan wrote: Please, don't let this die.

I did my best to kill it, but Bahamut rescued it from death, so NO WORRIES, MATE. </snoipah>

At 3/27/09 12:05 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote:

Please, don't let this die.

o_O
What makes you think this is going to die?

Well, I'm the first person to post on this thread in like a week.

Yeah, but the dude who said please don't let this die was posting less than ONE DAY after the previous posts (of which there were many on 3/19, and then he posted on 3/20). That's insane if he thought a topic going without a post for less than a day meant it was going to die. After 100+ pages of sporadic but constant traffic, too...

At 3/27/09 03:03 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/27/09 12:05 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote: Well, I'm the first person to post on this thread in like a week.

So? This isn't the General forum where a topic falls off the first page when nobody posts in there for 2 hours. ;)
Wi/Ht? is much slower and much more relaxing. ;)

Indeed. :::hires Haggard as the Wi/Ht? press relations officer:::

Thanks for the three updates, man... I can't believe I didn't post in here in April or May, I coulda sworn I did, but I think what happened was... I was saving the best for last (as I am wont to do), and thus I never really got around to finishing a couple of those catchups, and this topic suffered more than any other. ;_;

ANYWHO... thanks! From 261 to 266 to 275... freakin' A, the list is growing too fast. TRIM. #;-}>

At 3/16/09 12:11 PM, Bahamut wrote: Welcome to 1337, Cynic8387, David, Legionnaire-X, Metal-Therapy, NEVR and Odyssic. 1337, Cynic8387, David, NEVR and Odyssic all entered with a combination of 10k EXP and 10k saves; Metal-Therapy entered with 10k blams and 10k saves (not often we see a combination like this these days) and Legionnaire-X entered with 10k EXP and 10k posts.
Status changers for this update: Haggard, Little-Rena and STEM from 2x10k to 3x10k.

Grats, guys! Woot, Haggard!

14 3-star 20,290 59,535 22,784 _3,085 __,_82 105,776 +281 MPA
15 4-star 23,330 36,000 32,036 11,715 __,760 103,841 +417 gfoxcook
16 5-star 19,750 21,407 24,667 17,480 18,789 102,093 +211 XwaynecoltX

Mmmm. 32,036. Nice timing, Bahamut. #;-}> Anywho, I like this update. This update has style. This update has me outgaining by ~2:1 the person in front of me AND the person behind me, most importantly!

Speaking of which, I'd like to take a moment just to point out how nice it is to be sitting in the list in a slot in between two fine gentlemen like MPA and X. :::tips cap to them:::

At 4/17/09 07:52 AM, Bahamut wrote: Welcome to ElDavid, Lord-Darkaos, skatin-andy and WilliWowza. ElDavid and Lord-Darkaos entered with a combination of 10k EXP and 10k saves; skatin-andy entered with 10k blams and 10k saves and WilliWowza entered with 10k EXP and 10k posts.
Status changers for this update: AshtonNextGen, Gagsy, HandsomePete and zimzap from 2x10k to 3x10k.

Grattttts.

14 3-star 20,600 59,535 22,784 _3,083 __,_82 106,084 +308 MPA
15 4-star 23,650 36,000 32,060 11,715 __,760 104,185 +344 gfoxcook
16 5-star 20,010 21,407 24,966 17,613 19,102 103,098 +1005 XwaynecoltX

WHAT-WHAT-WHAAAAAAAAAT? Who woke XwaynecoltX up, goddamnit?!?!?! 1000 points? Jeeeeez. You must really be hungry for 20k total reviews, man. #;-}>

At 6/1/09 12:39 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hello all and welcome to Bahamut's 2x10k Pentalist update #12! First of all, I want to say that it's now been a year since I took over the Pentalist and posted my very first update. Thanks for all the support everyone, thank you gfox for letting me take over the Pentalist and thank you Casualty for allowing me to make it easy to gather all the necessary data to make the lists. Here's to another year. :)

You're welcome.... twice. #;-}>

Welcome to AstralProjection, Blitz-Mage, CapnCrunchDaPimp, DirtySyko, ever-vigilant, Goatchrist, Gousst, SCTE3, Shanus and simon. Blitz-Mage entered with a combination of 10k EXP and 10k blams; AstralProjection, ever-vigilant, Gousst and Shanus entered with 10k EXP and 10k saves; DirtySyko, CapnCrunchDaPimp and Goatchrist entered with 10k EXP and 10k posts while SCTE3 and simon entered with a combination of 10k saves and 10k posts.
Status changers for this update: georgeproject and NEVR from 2x10k to 3x10k.

Congratulations. You rock, NEVR!

14 3-star 21,050 59,535 22,785 _3,084 __,_82 106,536 +452 MPA
15 4-star 24,100 36,000 32,400 11,730 __,760 104,990 +805 gfoxcook
16 5-star 20,200 21,407 25,048 17,620 19,181 103,456 +358 XwaynecoltX

THAT's more like it. Back to my nice ~2:1 margins. #;-}> Annnnnd, Bahamut had perfect timing again, capturing me at 3,600 saves to go till 36,000. course, I sat there for 10 days, so chances of multiple list updates 'round these Wi/Ht?y parts capturing me at that number were pretty high. #;-}>

At 6/2/09 03:53 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/1/09 12:39 PM, Bahamut wrote: 22 | +0 | 4* | iscrulz___ 21,690 / 26,752 / 32,305 / 12,814 / 1,703 / 95,264 / +1609
23 | +1 | 4* | Coop83__ 18,570 / 21,110 / 36,664 / 14,694 / 1,839 / 92,877 / +2758
24 | --1 | 3* | RemRulzz 14,080 / 31,807 / 42,017 / 2,715 / 1,622 / 92,241 / +1721

Thanks for the update, Bahamut. If there's any one thing wrong with them, it's preping them for BBS posting afterwards - they're too all signing and dancing for this, so I might have to just screen shot them...

Just do what I do and move the names to the right of each line. As long as you're only quoting 2-3 lines, it hardly takes any time at all. I see you already change the ***s and ****s to 3* and 4*, similar to how I spell it out to keep the columns in line.

Moving the names to the right is way easier than adding the right number of underscores next to the shorter names, IMO at least. #;-}>

At 6/2/09 01:51 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 6/2/09 03:53 AM, Coop83 wrote: iscrulz, my old nemesis. So we meet on the field of strife once more. What sort of cutting anti-Semitic remark will you choose to make against me now? It's only a matter of time, after all. Like msot things, really.

Ah Cooper you big nose curly haired kike. You think you can swindled me in the gfox's pentalist points. Give me your jew gold before I force you to eat pork. Fuck you oven magnet. You won't pass me without a fight. Have atcha sir.

..... OVEN MAGNET? If you mean what I think you mean with that reference, you've gone too far, sir. Seriously. o_o Let's keep the jew jokes civil. O_o Plz. o_O

Current Score: 4.18 / 5.00 (+ 0.014)

There we go. So let us know how it's going. Is the drama over or does he still RAAAAAAGE?

Bit late to the party, but quite the interesting thread, dude. Not the usual Wi/Ht? fare, at least...

At 5/27/09 12:35 PM, Darren1337 wrote: I reviewed a certain user's flash submission, giving it a lower score than he apparently wanted. A 3 and a 6. Not extremely low or anything. He responded to my review unfavourably, saying how rubbish my own submissions are. Now, while I may have come off as an asshole in the review, I still rated the animation fairly. Feeling bad about it, I sent him a PM, explaining in detail the aspects of the animation I didn't like, offering constructive criticism. Unfortunately the user is Argentinian and has difficulty expressing himself in English. I got the gist of his reply though, from key phrases such as "SHUT UP!!!" and "YOU CAN NOT BEAT MEN!!!" I then gave the user my best wishes and blocked him.

A) LOL at his PM content.

B) uh oh, I think I see the problem that led to this thread's creation!

Now, I would have been happy if that was the end of it. The fact that I blocked the user and prevented him from getting the last word may have provoked him into his next action; giving my submissions zeroes, evident from a sudden drop in their scores.

Yep. I thought I saw it, and I diiiiid. "I then gave the user my best wishes" was the problem, if you haven't realised it by now. You should have just blocked him without replying to the PM. After all, then he would have "felt he got the last word," at least, and might have left things at that. Oh well. Remember this next time some flamer or troll tries to get you pissed off, though, okay? #;-}>

At 5/27/09 08:46 PM, Darren1337 wrote: Excuse the double post but I feel obliged to give special mention to iscrulz, whose page can be found here.

The offending user I mentioned in the first post has taken it upon himself to send his friends to blam my submissions. I've had no reply from Wade, but in the meantime, iscrulz is voting me back up to counter the zeroes. What a guy :D

Okay, do you mean the asshole actually has people monitoring the portal for NEW INCOMING submissions by you, and he's got his crew downvoting them AS THEY'RE UNDERJUDGEMENT? Because yes, that's against the rules, and that's essentially the "mass voting" you may have heard about.

But if you just mean he's got multiple people voting 0 on your EXISTING, already-saved/already-over-200-votes submissions, that's not really an issue to the admins, since those movies/games can't be blammed.

The reason I ask/aren't sure which you mean is that from your profile, it appears you only have 1 submission EVER that was saved, so that's technically not "submissions."

So, dunno whether you were being loose with the term "blam," since so many people call voting 0 on a SAVED movie "blamming it" when it's... not (thanks, vote panel picture descriptions...).... or whether the guy really is trying to get people to blam things you submit (which appears to have succeeded, what with the only 1 submission and all.

Eh, either way, I'll join my buddy iscrulz and help you out with a nice 5 on your current submission. My 14.11 VP should overcome at least 2 of the asshole's buds. #;-}>

At 6/9/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/8/09 11:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote: P.S. No, Coop, it was the Thursday following the weekend I was out of town and ye were depositing for me. And, funnily (or not) enough, but after that weekend trip, I developed a really bad case of ultra-toothache and cheek swelling (infection due to the tooth issue)... which I then proceeded to hide Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (the day of the proposal), and part of Friday... before telling my baby and calling a dentist.... Yes, I went on bended knee and slipped the ring on her finger while suffering immensely. I'M A MAN, DAMNIT. I'M 40!!!! </American sports coach press conference reference you might not catch>

Well, that's your own fault. You've obviously been planning this for a while and as a result, you couldn't let excruciating pain stand in the way of your hard earned, easily spent moneys!

ON THAT SUBJECT... TIME FOR MY ROOT CANAL... :::drives off to his doom:::

For more details on my dental adventures, see my ADGBC topic. TOO LAZY TO TYPE CRAP TWICE. If you iz too lazy to click link and read long-ass ramble there, here's the tl;dr:

This is dentist/endodontist visit number FOUR out of a total of SIX visits over a 2 month period thanks to my toof infection. Yeah. Sucks. ;_;

MORE CATCH-UP LATER TONIGHT, I'm down to just 6 pages of Wi/Ht? left (i.e. from around June 1st to now!).

At 5/25/09 12:08 PM, Coop83 wrote: List update #58
Well, after a 1 month's hiatus, I've returned to complete what I started. I'm determined to become the longest updater of this list, so help me!
*poses*

Thanks for the update. Wild that my last catch-up in here apparently KILLED THE TOPIC along with your hiatus presumably having a hand in that, too. #;-}>

How much longer till you're the longest updater of the list? I woulda figured you already were. Feels like it, at least. And like I just said in the top 2000 exp list topic, this list isn't really the same as the one I did. I ranked mine by %, you rank yours by review responses, so... really makes the lists different lists, IMO.

Anyway, I didn't update last month due to a couple of bits and pieces keeping me distracted, so here's the first update I've produced for the top 100 Review Responses since I became teh modzorz!

Is that the culprit? Yer moddination?

036) 0,343 || 01,372 || + 00 || 25.00% S-K
037) 0,341 || 00,618 || + 03 || 55.18% Haggard
038) 0,336 || 01,912 || + 15 || 17.57% wegra2007 2
039) 0,330 || 01,395 || + 06 || 23.66% MegaGold
040) 0,329 || 02,266 || -- 01 || 14.52% Violet-AIM -2
041) 0,321 || 01,139 || + 07 || 28.18% emanhattan
042) 0,314 || 01,291 || + 01 || 24.32% Chris-Aldin 2
043) 0,314 || 00,750 || + 00 || 41.87% gfoxcook -1
044) 0,314 || 00,796 || + 00 || 39.45% RSQViper -1

Well, seems I've been bumped down by a tiebreak. Wait, how do tie-breaks work again? I'm behind someone with more reviews than me/lower % and ahead of someone with more reviews than me/lower % as well. O_o

Oh wells.

In other news: GODDAMNIT, HAGGARD, EITHER GET A FEW MORE RESPONSES or... or.... I'm gonna have to get the admins to delete some flashes you've reviewed and gotten responses on so you'll sink down to #38. I'M WARNIN' YA! #;-}>

At 5/26/09 03:20 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 5/25/09 12:32 PM, Haggard wrote: Wow, one month and I only got 3 responses. Maybe that's because I only wrote about 3 or 4 reviews last month... -.-

*two months :P We've had about 8 weeks for this update ;)

At 5/25/09 08:52 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Once more I seem to have gone a miss from this list again somehow and I should still be on it, just saying it politely, still got 239 responses flash wise anyways.

Where on Earth did you get the figure of 239 responses from? Oh wait, that's your audio review responses. You have At 5/25/09 12:32 PM, Haggard wrote:

Wow, one month and I only got 3 responses. Maybe that's because I only wrote about 3 or 4 reviews last month... -.-

Well, that was freaky as hell. I take it you didn't notice a stray copypasta in your notepad window when assembling this multi-quote reply, eh? I feel ya, man. Mine usually happens at the bottom of my post, though, not at the top. Weirdness.

Where on Earth did you get the figure of 239 responses from? Oh wait, that's your audio review responses. You have 186 Flash review responses. This list was created before audio reviews existed.

So that's why he was confused, eh? I saw the thing about 1039 responses and looked at the list and thought "uhhh... I've got nowhere near 1039 responses, and I'm on the list. What's he on about?"

At 5/25/09 09:16 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Nevermind what I said earlier, just now noticed the minimum is now 1,039.

No, the minimum Flash Review Responses is 176 - 1,039 is the amount of flash reviews total that angstdrillhead has.

Actually, it was 1029. YER BOTH ON SHROOOOOOOOMS, clearly. #;-}>

Do you understand now?

Bueller? ... Bueller? ...

At 5/22/09 10:48 PM, tingtonger wrote: I'm pretty absentminded and I can never remember if I've sent out messages I wanted to send and sometimes I send them twice. Any chance someone is looking into adding a Sent Mail option to the inbox?

At 5/23/09 02:36 AM, tingtonger wrote: I figured so. Well, in my eyes a strong communication system is essential for collaboration between users. Things like a Sent Mail box might not seems like a lot, but I'm really finding it awkward to not be able to look through messages I've sent. I guess I'm just going to put another ballot into the box towards adding the feature, and hopefully someone notices. :)

I've mentioned my own personal method for this in the past and I remember at least one other user found it useful/said they were going to do it, too. So I'll share it with you on the off chance you find it useful as well:

Every time I send a PM (which isn't often, I don't tend to start PM convos, I'd rather just chat on people's userpages and my own userpage, really... but I do reply to most PMs I receive), I copy the subject and text and send another PM immediately afterwards to my alt account.

My alt account's inbox is basically my main account's sent mail box. If I want to see what I sent to someone months ago, I just check my alt's inbox. If I want to make sure I replied to a PM in my main account's inbox, I just... you guess it, check my alt's inbox.

Voila. #;-}>

The best thing would be if you could earn some stickers from the store for enough medals or something. There's an idea. #;-}>

At 5/24/09 09:47 PM, idiot-buster wrote:

At 5/24/09 03:53 PM, Frank-The-Hedgehog wrote: 0.1 points for every... 10,000 points is more like it, seeing that there will be a lot more medal games in the future.

Now something like this is more acceptable. It looks cool on your account and it will help your total voting power to some degree. Maby a admin will look at this and implant this idea into the site. Or it will be ignored like mosr of the ideas either or i don't care @;-}>

Ugh, except that instead of a nice perfect 1.60 max VP, it'll be 1.61 soon when there's 10,000 total medal points available, then 1.62 when there's 20,000 available, etc. etc.

Ugly un-rounded numbers. ;_;

At 5/4/09 07:34 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 5/4/09 02:14 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Coop'll back me up on this, but it starts to resemble watching the magic numbers on various baseball teams in the standings in late September every year. #;-}>

Yeah, although in this case, some obscure team can pop up and suddenly mess the numbers about a bit :P

For people way down in the exp rankings, perhaps, but no strange and previously-unknown team is going to pop up and ruin my top 50 exp list entry, I don't believe. #;-}>

Thank god for the 10 exp a day limiter!

My magic number is SOOOO LOOOOOOOW, it's incredible. :::holds breath::: (I think I'm close enough now that I can safely hold my breath and wait, yeah)

At 5/4/09 02:31 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/27/09 07:12 PM, Coop83 wrote: We are all pawns of the mighty gfoxcook - he is the father of all statwhores and his analytical work will never be forgotten.

Now now, enjoying stats and making lists doesn't make you pawns of me.

Oh no?

Oh no indeed, yes. #;-}>

Though I suppose the fact that I managed to invent a few lists myself that became popular enough for people to be upset by my stopping of it... and further popularise another list of someone else's as well that also got people upset by me stopping... ensured that 3 people have now gone on to continue without me having to work on lists myself anymore KINDA makes you (blam, save), Bahamut (10k), and Wylo (VP) my pawns (or minions... I like minions as a term better...). But no one else, I would argue. #;-}>

<high voice>For the Overlord!</high voice>

Mwahahaha. I have that game on Steam. Fun stuff. I only got a few worlds into it, and was thinking about playing it lately, but been FPSing too much. I shall get back to it soon, though.

Ah, but you are currently at the pinnacle of statwhoreishness for the list making and while Bahamut and myself are catching you, we still remain largely in your shadow - I feel that I'm still more in the shadow though :(

More in my shadow than Bahamut is? Whysofor?

You've made a list or two that no one else had made before, and he hasn't (not that there's anything wrong with that, but just sayin', my style was mostly to make new lists, such as saves/blams and penta... VP list was my only non-original list). I'd say that makes you more of a standing-on-yer-own listmaker, really. I mean, it's not a contest, and it's not about how many lists you make, but... if there IS any difference, there's a difference between updating a list someone else passed down to you, and a list you made on your own. I've done both as I just said, and it's apples and oranges, I loved the VP list just as much as my own baby, the pentalist, but... clearly there is something a bit more OF you in a list you birthed instead of just caretaking, I mean.

::::hopes no adopted children read the above paragraph:::

Or did you just mean because you're making the save/blam lists I did plus one dealing with review response ratio (albeit not really the same list I made in that area, more of your own version of that list)? Yeah, well... aside from the pentalist, Bahamut's more drawing from multiple other listmakers' original works, so... if that's all you meant, then yeah.

If I am, perhaps, more notable... then it is only because of my longevity. I'm still here, a cranky old statfan needing my stat fix after 6+ years... never having fallen off the face of the earth like my two peers mentioned above. And for that, I will gladly accept the "Statfan and Listmakerer lifetime achievement award for attendance" were it to be so proffered.

As a minion, it is my duty to pillage one such award for you...

If this were Overlord, I'd make sure you'd get one of those pumpkin helmets before the other minions beat you to it. LOVE THE PUMPKIN HELMET.

At 5/23/09 05:38 PM, Coop83 wrote: Right, so in that case, thanks go out to Kusanagi-Kyo ; Mr-Snrub; EVIL-C; cap123; shak3s; ardeahem; PrivatPartz and Lt-Brookman. These guys slacked off just enough to let me squeak through.

YE BE LEAVING A WAKE OF DESTRUCTION BEHIND YE. I take it those are the dudes gfox has passed lately, too.

shak3s. nooooo. ;_;

And Mr-Snrub... goddamnit, that used to be a Wi/Ht? regularly, and I still remember him mentally by his ORIGINAL name, so I can't remember who that IS, if that makes any sense. ;_;

And EVIL-C and cap123... classic users.

This month I'm not so confident of rank gain en-masse. However, I'm getting what could be four ranks from completely inactive users, so that charity is greatfully accepted in this respect always.

And you're only 40 exp behind gfox now, so he's bound to stumble and fall eventually. NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THAT. #;-}>

At 5/24/09 01:40 AM, Overtired wrote:

41 DrMSM 25,083 48 280
42 Overtired 25,078 48 280

Wow, that's close. Lucky me, the profiles say I'm ranked higher.

Well, you musta deposited before DrMSM that day. Been at 25078 while he was still at 25073 when NG pulled the exp rankings... and then he deposited later on in the day to get captured that way for Bahamut's listing.

At least with the 5 exp discrep, you'll never have to worry about being constantly tied with him. #;-}>

At 5/25/09 01:47 PM, NeonFlame126 wrote: bah, it's going to take a long time to get into the top 1000.

Just be glad you're not trying to get into the top 100, that takes insanely long. It's taking longer for my alt to get into the top 100 than it's taking for my main (this one) to get into the top 50. It's insane. NO ONE AROUND 90-110 WANTS TO SLIP A SPOT, they're all depositing constantly!

At 6/15/09 10:52 PM, idiot-buster wrote: So by the next update i should be on the list :::well somewhere on it at least::: I seem to be reaching alot of big milestones as i return, not a bad thing but i could of had all of it alot sooner :::almost a monts time::: I will be able to post here to without feeling left out in the rain, not like i've ever payed any attention to this thread anyways @;-}>

Congrats in advance to ya, then.

NEVER PAID ATTENTION TO THIS THREAD TILL NOW?! Bahhhh. You fool. #;-}> You don't need to wait till you're on a list to pay attention to it, yanno.

At 5/23/09 02:24 PM, Bahamut wrote: EXP update #13 is now available!

Wooooot! Thanks for the update, Bahamut. Hey, just one update for me to reply to. I'm doing well (for me) as of late AFTER all, eh? #;-}>

47 24,570 lv48 +270 Parasoul
48 24,510 lv47 +250 FireNWater
49 24,130 lv47 +240 100816 +1
50 24,068 lv47 +270 Uniqueusername +1
51 24,040 lv47 +250 iWalker +1
52 24,020 lv47 +280 gfoxcook +1

All those +1s for us passing the totally-still Recon, I guess. At first I was all "huh? How did we ALL go up... ahhhhhh..."

Anywho, so much movement lately, it's insane. Just in the 3 weeks or so since the update, I'm now 100 exp ahead of iWalker aka nimmer... who is moving, at least, but not very fast (kinda an-every-other-day deposit pattern as of late).

I AM 28 EXP BEHIND UNIQUE USERNAME. And I was 48 behind on the last update. It's gonna happen soon.

Hey, unique. Stop depositing on June 28th (the date of the next update, as a matter of fact). Then I can pass you on my birthday, June 30th! What a great 32nd birthday present it would be for me to finally make the top 50 list on my birthday, I mean, COME ON. It's perfect. So make it happen, plz. Thx. #;-}>

Going down nicely with the amount of missing users on the spreadsheet. Right now, there's around 14 more to find, which is still quite a lot missing but hey, at least I've found many users over the last two months. :)

Most of those 14, I assume, are way down in the 8k-10k range, at least?

If any users in front or behind you have gained 260 EXP or less, they've definitely missed a deposit since the last update.

Mwahahahaah. If uniqueusername will not fall, then perhaps 100816 will! </the emperor>

Enjoy the update everyone!

And how!

Next Update: 28th June 2009

as I said above, 2 days before my birthday. All I want for the next update is for someone to stop depositing JUST IN TIME for my birthday top 50 entrance. I've already got the +1 exp ranking for next update locked up, just as I had for this past update. +1 EVERY UPDATE, now there's a plan. #;-}>

At 5/16/09 01:07 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/27/09 03:15 PM, tigerkitty wrote: The work some people have put into keeping track of the different stats on this site is remarkable!

I may have gone extreme with finding users to add in the EXP and B/P spreadsheets, but it does disappoint me when I see at least one user missing in the list since my list wouldn't be as accurate as I want it to be, and I want it to be 100%.

BEEEEEEEE THE BEST! Keep fighting, fight test fight... to best the rest... fight best fight the test fight right best! BE THE BEST.

At 4/27/09 07:12 PM, Coop83 wrote: We are all pawns of the mighty gfoxcook - he is the father of all statwhores and his analytical work will never be forgotten.

One of the greatest things I've ever read on the BBS. :D

:::rolling of teh eyes:::

At 5/4/09 02:14 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/25/09 02:51 PM, Bahamut wrote: If you did gain more EXP ranks than it actually says on the site, this is because I found many users (around 75 of them from level 27 - 33). Most of the missing users from the last update are level 28 right now, so anyone who's that level will likely to have not gained as many ranks as you may have expected.

We may have had this conversation before, but... why don't you just pull exp rank from profiles and then have gaps in your list like Dogma had on the EGRL?

The stat pulling program I have right now doesn't read EXP ranks, so it can't detect which ranks people are at, only EXP number. If I were to see which rank the missing users are, that'd take more time than necessary to make the list. Therefore, the vagrants don't count until they are found just to make things easier for me. :)

Ah, I see.

Clearly over the past year, nimmer is missing the most overall, but uniqueusername missed around 20 deposits, as did Dethyl, and joliet-jane missed around 40 deposits. Dethyl and joliet-jane are my insurance policy in case Parasoul doesn't come through for me. #;-}>

If you or anyone is interested, I'll make a 1 year special update to celebrate the day I made my first EXP update. However, this will only focus on those who appeared on my first ever EXP update.

Well, I went to your first update (which had no date, as we both might remember #;-}>), and I went ahead and added 3650 exp to my exp amount back on that update, and I discovered... that the amount of exp that resulted is 150 more than I currently have. So I presume this 1 year anniversary thing would be 15 days from now... which would happen to be on 6/30 as it is now 6/15... your first update was on my birthday last year? Weird that I don't remember. O_o

Man, if you do a normal update on 6/28 and I'm still #51, and then I'm #50 for your "1 year anniversary" special update on 6/30..... as I just fantasized about above... that would be so fucking spectacular. #;-}>

Anyway, of course I'm interested! ramagi used to do those types of thing with her exp lists all the time, I love the "retrospective" updates with the super-long-periods-of-time. Makes everyone feel all fuzzy to see how many people they passed in a whole year instead of just in the past month. Not to mention how many points they gained. #;-}>

That's funny, as soon as I wished that, one of the active depositers slipped and allowed me to pass him. :D Now if only a few others could do that. ;)

Awesome.

And they will. Sooner or later.

Yep, that's right. It's helped me to get a great amount of users to the spreadsheet as well as having level 26 users to wait for to reach level 27.

Cool.

I vote for keeping it a top 2000.

I vote for having it at least 8k+ EXP for the time being.

Okay, but in the future once 8k+ is swelling out of control, I hope you'll consider trimming back down to 2000 and just keeping it locked there. It would make a good nostalgic reminder/tribute of/to BBB's top 2000.

I guess this wouldn't be a bad idea since they'll be on sale then and whichever games I want I'll probably get them then, unless they go on sale sooner (e.g. All id Software games). We might as well wait until the Christmas sale to get games we're after, unless they go on sale beforehand (obviously).

Exactly. So let's just see what's on sale before December, and then what games we both need by then. If you want, you can get me the Abe games for X-mas if they haven't gone on sale before then, and I'll get you something you still need by then. I'm sure there'll be something you still haven't gotten by then. #;-}>

The sooner I get there, the better. That's all.

Yes, but... patience is a trait well-rewarded.... so that's all I'm trying to get for ya. The more patient you are, the more pleasantly surprised you'll be by your NG stat gains. #;-}>

Bah Bah Blue Dragon have you any....What?

... have you any flaming balls of death and misery?

At 6/15/09 03:02 PM, Rucklo wrote: at least this thread shows as a kind of poll;

"are you willing to fill out a poll?"

- so far 7 pages of "yes, POLL ME, TOM!!!"

Yes, there are clearly many voices crying out in unison here:

POLL US NICE AND HARD AND DEEP, TOM!

At 5/4/09 03:12 AM, JarrodK wrote: Another oddity has appeared on Newgrounds; a question has actually not been answered on the Wi/Ht forums. This has never happened to me before. No reason given? My curiosity is what really needs to be set right, it's not that I am in dire need of this feature.

No one ever answered your question, and I noticed this thread (and another that mentioned the same issue) while catching up on the past 6 weeks or so I've been behind on the forums during...

ANYWHO, I have a pretty good idea why the genres were abandoned: collections.

Ever since they gave users the ability to suggest movies and games be added to collections, the genre tag's been somewhat redundant. The collections page showcases a wide variety of not only genres but SUB-genres. The collections system, in short, just... makes the genre pulldown obsolete.

That's my take on it, in case you're still dying of curiosity. </necro>

At 6/9/09 11:27 AM, Hacsev wrote: Congrats to:
gfox: Level 42

Thanks!

At 6/9/09 01:27 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Because I thanked in the exact chronological order the grats came in? Not due to any sort of need to do so, but just because that's the order the quotes I'd pasted over from browser tabs were in. O_o

Alright then :)

Yes. #;-}>

At 6/9/09 12:12 PM, Auz wrote:

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote: You are lucky to have a radio station that plays Joshua Tree songs a lot. Here in my town, the most U2 I here on the stations I listen to... are War-era singles on the classic rock station. I mean, sure, every now and then there's Where the Streets Have No Name, too... but not very often compared to SBS and Like a Song from War.

We also had a Classic Rock station that played a lot of U2, but unfortunately they went bankrupt recently. They used to play some Achtung Baby from time to time and even songs like Gone passed by every now and again.

Now we still have an 80's and 90's station, but that´s usually the Joshua Tree stuff I was talking about (Where the Streets, Still haven´t found, With or without You). I´d be glad if they played some War or Boy sometimes. Would make a nice change.

Ah, I see. So it's the 80s station playing too much JT singles for your tastes, not the classic rock station, at least. Hm.

Yeah, some AB would get played, too. And we have an 80s station as well, but they play so much 80s one hit wonders and even early 90s stuff that U2 doesn't get played too often. At least, not when I'm listening.

But I tend to listen to sports talk radio, news radio, and the classic rock and classic rock/oldies music stations more than I listen to the 80s station (it'd be my 3rd choice on FM/music), so... maybe I just miss all the JT singles they play, too. #;-}>

Nope! Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World. Something about the "... fish like a bicycle..." line and the song as a whole that just turn me off. Doesn't feel like it fits in the album as much as every single other song on the album fits. I wish it had been a b-side and Lady with the Spinning Head (an excellent b-side which I have in 2 different versions from two different AB-era singles) had been on the album instead.

I think the line is:
"And a woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle".

Weird line indeed.

And I usually don't screw up my U2 lyrics quotings, so... that shows you I meant what I said about skipping that one a lot. #;-}>

But I agree that Lady with the Spinning Head would´ve fitted quite well on the album. Do you have an original version of it by the way? Because all I could find was a 6 minute long extended remix version (which was awesome) and a very early version. Which was more a mix between Lady With The Spinning Head and Ultraviolet along with the line Wake Up Dead Man somewhere. Which also had it´s own name: Wanna Take You Down (you probably know it).

Indeed. Well, I don't know if it's original, but I have the 6 minute long remix that you mention, yes, which is nice, and I have a 4 minute long more "standard" seeming one, that feels like less of a remix, but might still be a remix, I don't remember.

I don't think it's a very early version like the one you mention, at least.

And I'm not actually familiar with Wanna Take You Down. Stunner, I know. #;-}>

550 HOURS!!?? Jesus Christ. I probably haven´t even played Majora´s
Mask for that long and I´ve beaten that game at least 10 times by now.

700ish hours now! Blame the spy/sniper update from 5/21...

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!

Okay maybe that isn´t such a good comparisation, but come on. 700 hours on one game is just insane. You would say that after an hour or 200, you would´ve seen and done everything and the boredom would start to set in. At least that´s usually how it goes with me.

Well, you COULD say that, but you have to remember that Valve keeps adding stuff to TF2 and changing how the classes work, and there's constantly new custom maps being made by TF2 players. I have literally 200 maps in my maps directory just from all the DLing my TF2 automatically does when I play on my favourite custom servers.

And I'd actually estimate that yeah, about every 200 hours of playtime, the game gets changed to keep it fresh (new weapons, new maps, new gamemodes, slight gameplay tweaks, class tweaks, map edits, etc.). You're right, it would be insane to have played it 700 hours if it hadn't changed at all in that time (but I don't play the X-Box 360 version, so... that ain't me #;-}>).

Seriously, I got it after the medic pack and the pyro pack had already made changes, then 2 months after I got it, the heavy pack happened... 3 months later they changed a lot of stuff about engie/spy/medic, but not a full class pack... great stuff, though, like lv2/lv3 teles and lv2/lv3 dispensers to go with the already lv1/lv2/lv3 sentry guns... etc. etc... then 2 months later, the scout pack happened.... then 3 months later the spy/sniper pack happened. And that was 2 weeks ago.

Always stayin' fresh!

At 6/9/09 01:17 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/9/09 02:00 AM, gfoxcook wrote: CATCH-UP 6

Epic.

Heh.

I had no idea/didn't remember she was German... hm. So to me, Haggard already had that role/title/distinction/whatever. :::clicks deposit on the ego-depostering machine with Haggard's name on it:::

Woha!

Cha-CHING! Machine's still workin'!

Germany: Haggard
Belgium: nimmer (iWalker since redesign)
Netherlands: _lightning_
France: alexsmolik

Nice list, but the only name I recognise is my own... >_>

really? O_o alexsmolik was bigger on General than I ever was. I'm surprised you don't at least recognise his name.

For me it would be:
Belgium: Casualty
Netherlands: Auz
France: sonofkirk

I forget that sonofkirk's from France, he probably doesn't bring it up as much as alex used to.

But yeah, I should probably replace nimmer and lightning with Casualty and Auz in my mental list, since they're around more than the ones in my list. ;_;

WTF? People writing me off for NG dead again. Mannnnn... you gotta drop by weekly or you get written off, eh?

We live in a fast moving world. Either be part of it or live with the consequences! :P
Be quick or be dead! ^^

I'M HERE. I'M ALIVE. ;_;

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

mwahahaa. :::takes a bow:::

Also, I've just finished my week-long playthrough of the entire Phoenix Wright series (including Apollo Justice)....

My honey did something similar. I guess she was learning so many Phoenix Wright memes in her normal online hangouts, so she got all 4 of the DS titles, the 3 PW ones and the 1 AJ one or whatever, and she beat them all within like a week or so last year... and loved 'em.

I tried like 1 case of the very first one and couldn't get into it. There's something wrong with me, I guess. ;_;

I do enjoy a good flash about PW, though.

Yeah, it's an odd sort of subgenre to try and describe, it has a mix of action, strategy and humour all rolled up into one.

Well, the old genre that Worms picked up from didn't have any humour. #;-}> But yeah, it's odd indeeeeed.

Oh hush now. WHY SO SILLYIOUS.

BECAUSE I'M JELLYOUS!

DON'T BE SUCH A JELLY FISHIOUS.

A whole buncha STDs, carefully selected, from the best whorehouses this planet has to offer!
Rejoice!

Woo-hoo, I call first dibs on the gonorrhea Mark 2!

She's yours!

At 6/9/09 09:47 AM, Bahamut wrote: Holy shit, that's one massive catch-up from gfox!

Happy to oblige.

At 6/8/09 05:09 PM, Haggard wrote: Man, AVGN should put out a new episode like once a week...

Nah, that's too much. After all, he has interviews, his wife and other things to care of as well as his show. Every week would be overkill for him.

If AVGN were really such a AVGN, he woulda killed his wife by now after violently and angrily throwing an old NES controller at her face during one of his ragefests post-fail at a hard old NES game.

Speaking of gfox alt alt, weren't you planning to retire it soon? ;)

I said I'll stop depositing for it before I stop depositing for gfoxclock (if I ever stop for clock... I might not). And I certainly won't be stopping with this one, so...

Didn't say it was going to be soon, exactly. In fact, I believe I told you that retiring gfox at 36,000 exp was a possibility. #;-}> Now, SOME people might call that day soon, but I certainly wouldn't.

(Now watch as we discuss this on Steam way before you reply to this)

FAIL! I win. #;-}>

Don't we all (hope that)? I mean, jeeeez. Damned 37-head. Him and iscrulz. THEY'RE AGAINST WHAT'S GOOD AND RIGHT IN THE WORLD, I tells ya. Which makes their historic epic conflicts over GTA / Final Fantasy all the more ironic and stupid.

Hey I stopped hating on GTA. Now we need iscrulz to stop hating on FF.

And as my above quote mentioned, we need BOTH OF YOU to stop loving 37 so much just because I hates it. I hates it so, my precious....

At 6/9/09 01:27 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 01:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: gfox finally posted again. I'm happy. *takes down the 37 pictures*

You know, I did like about 20 of those pictures, but yeah... leave the other 17 pictures down. #;-}>

Which 20 are they? :P

The 20 with mainstream hardcore dragon porn. But the 17 ones with dragon SNUFF porn in them were taking it just a bit TOO FAR.

Yep. Not that long ago. DAMN YOU, REDESIGN! Cheapening our level waits... un-consigning us to hellish eternities of waiting! HOW DARE YOU. #;-}>

Hey, the old level system was ridiculous. I like it how it is now.

Hence my sarcasm. #;-}>

But I do still hate that I'll never get to be level 24 or 25. I think I'd still be level 23 on the old system, but I'd be very very close to the holy level 24 by now.

No, I'm most comfortable with Windows Media Player. With the ease of the MSN and Last.fm plugins, I like Windows Media Player a lot. Not that fond with the other major media softwares such as Winamp or iTunes. I've had some trouble with them in the past. Windows Media Player on the other hand, no problems at all. :)

I hated the concept of iTunes before I ever tried it, but my baby used iTunes, so I tried it out. Aside from some minor issues I have with how it stores its library in an .xml and how hard it is to transfer shit from one computer to another, I like it a lot.

Also, I can still avoid ever getting an iPod or an iPhone. I just use iTunes, which I didn't pay for. Woot woot.

And anyway, the main thing is that it works fine with all my ol' mp3s I ripped and used to play on winamp BACK IN THE DAY (i.e. the good ol' 90s).

Where were you talking about? NG logs or RG?

Retrogade.

Yep, yep. I think I had about 6 UOTDs there. Still 0 at NG logs, of course. ;_;

STOP SLACKING!

I DID. NOW WHATCHOU GONNA DO?

Heh, I got a second Medic milestone since then, yay.

The kritzkrieg one? You still don't have an ubersaw, though, do you? If you do, I can delete the extra one I'm lugging around for ya.

Quantity has its uses, but thanks for the compliment.

Give me one example.

Getting the gun-tower-only achievement in Defense Grid? #;-}>

Hahahaha, you're so right.

Wheee! #;-}>

Nailed it.

Arg, can't I have the gauntlet now if you don't like it as much as the others do? Then again, by doing that, my main will miss out the opportunity to have the 41 - 46 icons, and they all rule.

Wish I could let you have this dinky ol' level 47 gauntlet till I level up, sure... Especially if I could use level 42 in the meantime. Mmmmm... level 42.

Depends on how big the chainsaw is, really.

Everything's big with dragons. :)

Then it's more epic, yes.

If it had been a human-sized chainsaw being held by a dragon who was running around with this tiny little thing, then it wouldn't have been very epic at all, really.

Also, 25 is a quarter of 100. What could be bad about that? 75 rocks due to being 3/4 of 100, even though it's odd AND not a square, actually.

I'm glad we think alike. 25 is a great number for being a quarter of 100.

There ya go.

My advice: Use Wordpad instead.

Nah. I'll just try to avoid SAVING my catchups from now on in notepad. I'll just do them on the fly, so that they stay proper.

God, I love YouTube Poops. #;-}>

WARNING: Saying that can make you an enemy of Bahamut. It even comes to the point where Bahamut could punch one of his friends in the face for quoting some of their douchebagery.

LOL!

I didn't say I was gonna start QUOTING from them... though there was this really epic Vince Offer vs Billy Mays youtube poop where.... :::gets knocked out by a dragon tail before he can finish the sentence:::

Well it does. If this shit keeps up, how will humanity cope? This is one of the things that's going to put humanity to the wrong direction. I guess I should be more worried about Facebook as that's truly the cancer that's killing humanity and the internet. Infact, YouTube and Facebook are as bad as each other.

Yes. As someone recently said about the EVIL SITES OF THE INTRAWEBS: You Twit Face!

(you forgot to slam twitter)

Well yes, but I want to try and keep it up with the NG medal games. After all, I wish to have 10k medals someday and I'm not even close yet. At least it'll be much easier than getting 10k reviews.

One day there'll be 20,000 medals available and getting 10k will be easy.

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!

This. Me and gfox would like to add you on Steam.

Why didn't you think to ask him what his damned username was 2 weeks ago, man? #;-}> Why do I have to think of this shit... tsk tsk.

Oh, and what the hell, here's the 99,999 total points screenie for Coop, to go with the 100k one I posted above:

At 6/9/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop gets up far too late, but with enough time to congratulate:
gfoxcook: Blams : Saves ratio 1: 1.1*

LOLLLLLlllll... I THOUGHT I SAID NO GRATS for that post.... oh wait, I probably said no grats on the 3600 from 36000 part.... STILL, I THOUGHT I SAID NO GRATS. #;-}>

Thanks anyway. It's a beaut. Oh, I still haven't saved any more. TIME TO RUIN MY BEAUTIFUL 1.11111111111111111111 soon. ;_;

Pearl Jam - Even Flow

Eeeee-vuuuuun-floooo-ohhhhh... thoughts arriiiiiiiive like buuuutterfliiiiiies....

At 6/8/09 11:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote: But anyway, I'll try to get gfoxclock--AND MAYBE EVEN GFOX? (to Coop's enjoyments, judging from his post on June 7th... so on second though, NAHHHH, hyurrr, take that!)--more involved in their own achievements soon enough, I guess. The identity confusion is killin' my buzz here. #;-}>

I just wondered how many posts from gfox it would take to reach 0.01 per day. You're a bigger stat whore than me, so you work it out :P

Oh, well, if that's all you want to know, then yeah, I'll just work it out sometime. This is assuming that NG's profiles don't have wonky rounding when it comes to the ppd stat, though (which sometimes I think they kinda do... I remember that back in the day I used to use my ppd to find my "days on NG," and of course the number wasn't very consistent due to the ppd not going to enough significant digits).

Anyway, just look at my ppd for gfoxclock, and you should get a good idea. Divide gfoxclock's postcount by his "ppd units," and you should have how many posts gfox needs for 0.01 ppd, if that makes any sense. Hell, I'll do it now:

he's got 236 posts and 0.11 ppd. So 21.45 posts per ppd unit. I'd guess it'd take at least 15-20 posts minimum for gfox to get a 0.01 ppd. It's hard without knowing exactly where within "0.11" gfoxclock is, of course.

If you really care, go find my "days of account life" stats on NG log and boom, you're golden. #;-}>

Well, that's your own fault. You've obviously been planning this for a while and as a result, you couldn't let excruciating pain stand in the way of your hard earned, easily spent moneys!

Well, it's more that I didn't want her to know I was in pain during my proposal to her until afterwards. Didn't want to ruin it for her. ;_;

Anyway, she's not big on ceremony. It was my idea to do the proposal 1 year to the day before our wedding date, she wouldn't care when it was, in fact she was all "baaaaahhhh, you don't need to get me an engagement ring, we're pretty much already engaged." She woulda been fine had I just gotten matching wedding bands (which I did as well). But I found a really nice silver ring with a celtic knot on top that would be more of a "central/top dealie like engagement rings tend to stereotypically have a jewel of some sort atop, most stereotypically a nice African blood diamond, of course"... versus the perfectly round/same-width-all-around wedding bands for both of us....

And so you should. You're (nearly) a married man now!

FUNK DAT! I'mma suffer through it. HIGH PAIN TOLERANCE WIN.

And finally, thanks for the lv42 alt alt grats, folks. The fact that all of you said "gfox" means I don't have to EVER EVER POST WITH GFOX. Mwahahahah. Coop's regretting not putting "gfoxcook" on that line of his grats list now, I guarantee you all. #;-}>

Wait, what?

Well, you'd made your comment about how gfox had his level 42ness but the damned bastard never posts. And that bit earlier you replied to in this post where I kinda said "hmmm, maybe I should announce my gfoxclock achievements with gfoxclock and my gfox achievements with gfox, thereby finally posting with gfox... to avoid the confusion that people sometimes mix up my account names.".... but then no one confused gfox with gfoxcook like they confused gfoxclock with gfoxcook (probably just due to name character-length).... so gfox seems free and clear in the "not needing to post EVAR" department. #;-}>

Had you put gfoxcook "accidentally" instead of gfox when congratting my alt alt on level 42, then the perfect record my gratters had on that level 42 congrats woulda been shattered, and I couldn't point to that and say... woot! Free and clear.

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 03:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Ah, those days were those days that we yearn for. Unfortunately, we only move through time in one direction

One day, man... ONE DAY....

I'm free on Thursday, if you're up for it?

Up for time travel? I kinda meant one day as in one day they'll fix that and we'll be able to move through time in many directions... it was a nebulous far-off future sometime "one day," not... this week. O_O

But I wish!

Oh well fine. I'll get my own party. With Black Jack and hookers! In fact, forget the party and the Black Jack!

crashes BenderCoop's private party because it sounds pretty good:::

Did you bring beer and smokes?

I don't smoke no more, but hell yeah, I brought a six pack.

How's it going lately with the medal situation? Did ya take my advice and go for the ThingThing3 ones?

Some, but it's difficult to play Thing Thing Arena in the office of a lunch time - people tend to crowd around and get interested in what I'm playing. Even if I put the headphones on >:(

Heh! Yes, the blood doth indeed be fillin' up the screen immensely. VERY SIGHT-GRABBING at an office, I'm sure.

Yeah - he wants me to land on exactly 99,999 and then 100,000 Pentapoints (TM)

Yeah, I remember when I did that. Exactly. #;-}>

I think I have a screenie of both on NGlog, but here's the one that matters. The 100k one, of course. (See bottom of post! *****)

Ah, but to quote a few users on site with regards to experience - who says that I'm going to die first? Also, if you're missing 6 deposits a year, that's a whole 60 experience per year that I'm catching you by and that's faster than I'm catching certain nefarious individuals at the moment *cough*gfox*cough*

Get more sleep before you quote stuff, Greg - it's cost me precious minutes trying to work out who said what and to whom!

That had nothing to do with how much sleep I got, man. It was due to compiling all the quotes (and some of my replies to them) previously, saving them in notepad, and then pasting them into NG BBS. It screwed up the line breaks. That was said by you back a month ago or so, of course, but the damned glitch made it look like I said it. O_o

At 6/9/09 01:49 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I just wish the Rockets had beaten the Lakers.

Yeah, then the Nuggets would have won in the West and would have beaten the Magic for their first franchise title.

Hey now. I think we woulda taken them same as the Lakers did.

But hell, even if what you say is true, I woulda been fine with that, too. Nuggets OR Magic getting their first, really. Damned Lakers. DAMNED LAKERS.

At 6/9/09 02:00 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Wasn't that a post of the real schnee herself that I just replied to a reply of earlier in my catchup?

You're going to make me look back through this, aren't you?! *sigh*

No, it was me running about in the werewolf costume, waving the chainsaw. I'm trying to see if she'll come back, just to say hello.

Awwww. Well, I obviously did anticipate that was a possiblity. I didn't read that part of a reply that carefully, just noticed there was some schnee in your quote or someone else's quote at some point. But it wasn't the real thing. Awwww. ;_;

Anywho.

***** - screenshot time!

Ugh. I'd said "#4 and #5" in the bit about the error that happened with #1,2,3, but it turned out I needed a #6 as well. On the plus side, a full HALF of my catch-up posts should now be error-free due to the creation of an extra post!

CATCH-UP 6

At 6/5/09 04:01 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/4/09 10:14 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/4/09 03:54 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/3/09 10:21 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Coop or schnee herself?

Who do you think? I've not seen her online for months now. Pity, really.

I was hoping it'd be schnee herself.

Well, I sent her a ping on MSN yesterday afternoon, so if she logs in again, she'll get it :)

Wasn't that a post of the real schnee herself that I just replied to a reply of earlier in my catchup?

Meaning it had to be from April or May.... that's a little less than "for months," IMO. But maybe it was just Coop doing his best impression? #;-}>

At 6/4/09 06:48 PM, Haggard wrote: Yeah, I hope she comes back at some time in the future.

Well, until then, you'll have the harrowing task of being the most popular German user on Newgrounds :P

I had no idea/didn't remember she was German... hm. So to me, Haggard already had that role/title/distinction/whatever. :::clicks deposit on the ego-depostering machine with Haggard's name on it:::

Germany: Haggard
Belgium: nimmer (iWalker since redesign)
Netherlands: _lightning_
France: alexsmolik

I ain't gonna pick someone for England/Britain, because then FEELINGS SHALL BE HURT. ;_;

Do we have any Iberians or Italians on Wi/Ht?, BTW? I just noticed most of Western Europe is filled in, but there's some spots I'm missing there.

I know I'm missing someone from Spain, so replace Iberians with Portuguese in your mind once someone mentions the name I know I'm forgetting. #;-}>

At 6/5/09 01:25 AM, NEVR wrote: It is a pity, I always respected her as a user... although a lot of the Wi/Ht?'s old guard seem to be peeling off: Recon, Greg, schneelocke, etc.

Yeah, but like we always say, times change. I'm here for the long haul, but when you think that users like ReconRebel and gfoxcook have been in for the long haul stats wise for so long, it's got to get to you at some point, hasn't it?

WTF? People writing me off for NG dead again. Mannnnn... you gotta drop by weekly or you get written off, eh?

Hmph. </offended>

I NO HAZ TO CONFORM TO YOUR STANDARDS OF "ACTIVE," MOFOS. #>:-{>

I'm active compared to how INactive I was in 2005-2007, trust me on this. I CAN GO BACK TO THAT if this level of participation is being ignored. #;-}>

As for getting to you at some point... you've got to stop thinking of NG participation as an on/off switch. It's not a binary pair. It's not either active or inactive. It's a giant gradient scale from the "perfect non-participation" and the impossibly-infinite participation... with shades of grey in between. Everyone fluctuates up and down in their activity amounts. If the level you're at gets to be "too much" or "gets to you" or whatever, then just dial it down. As I have in various ways (portal and BBS-wise and modding-wise as well, I suppose) over the years at multiple times. Yet still I'm here. You don't have to leave completely to reduce yer time spent here/stats collected. Just try slow reduction in both departments before you shut it all off at once. Wish more people would try that slow reduction first... ;_;

People who used to be active when I first came here too, like X-Naut (the imposter ;P), Casualty, Shanus, Sterockicy, and others (who I can't remember right now) have all disappeared too. At least some of you guys are still here, and by the looks of it we have a lot of fresh blood around too.

Some names on that list I'd completely forgotten about. I only ever remember X-Naut when I do a Saves or Blams update (By the way, rain is forecast for tomorrow, so I'll try to get the saves done then, I promise) and Shanus was tied in quite majorly to the Review Request Club. Other than that, it made me think what mark I've left on Newgrounds as a whole. Not much, so I'd better do more!

I miss BOTH X-Nauts. Sad, I know.

At 6/8/09 05:45 PM, milinko959 wrote: 36000 saves ;D

Congratulations on your ascension to a better, better place.

May I join you mercifully soon. ;_;

At 6/9/09 12:57 AM, ninjakoopa-33 wrote:

At 6/8/09 11:15 PM, gfoxcook wrote: THIS account, my main, is exactly 3600 saves from 36000 saves, my final retirement point!
..............
this topic is currently 2411.366666666666666666666666666etc.etc.

etc. pages long. Woot!

Wow. So much 36ness, it's unbelievable!

This universe is filled with a bounty of 36s for me, because that's a number I look for, and cherish whenever I find it.

I'm sure it's the same for you and... 33, I'd guess?

CATCH-UP 5

At 5/14/09 11:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: I've come to the conclusion that I've been a slacker recently with medal games. I blame myself having too much fun on Garry's Mod as well as playing quite a lot of TF2 with gfox for the last two nights. Ah well, I'll try and pick up again soon enough and get 5k medal points.

Pfft. TF2 > any medal game on NG. That's no knock on NG games, mind you... and besides, TF2 > all other regular computer games, too. It's not any other game's fault that it can't compare, TF2 is just the ultimate, that's all. Something HAS to be best, and something else has to settle for 2nd best aspirations at most. #;-}>

- Congrats aldlv for finding that missing user in the B/P list! Too bad I'm not going to be the first '08 user to achieve Supreme Commander :(

I know how you feel, but second is better than 11th or so. There were a bunch of 04'ers who reached Supreme Commander before me.

2nd 2008 user to EGSC? That's excellent!

I don't even remember what # I was of 2000 users.... there's one stat I never even noticed or thought of, let alone kept track of. #;-}>

iscrulz became friends with gfoxcook (11 hours ago)

All is well. :)

Heh. I really doubt iscrulz was waiting with baited breath for me to friend him back, but... anywhooooo.

At 5/20/09 07:05 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 5/20/09 04:46 PM, simon wrote:

At 5/20/09 04:23 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: The only years that would be tough to figure out are '02 and '03. There's still some grey areas with a few of those users. :\

My year should be easy.

1999 might be the only year easier. ;P

I take it the above bit between Bahamut and... I believe Hacsev, but I may have screwed up that quote attrib up there... started a larger conversation about the EGSC orders of various years besides just 2008 and 2004, eh?

Order of 2000 Supreme Commanders
01.gfoxcook
02.Nijsse
03.Wylo
04.Stormwarden
05.CaptianBob
06.simon

Interesting.

A) I didn't remember Nijsse was a 2000 user.
B) I kinda thought CaptainBob was a 1999 user, but... yeah, now that I think about it, I think his user ID# was around 10,000... well, it was more than 4 digits (which mine is), in any event. So no way. WHOOPS. MEMORY SPOTTY.
C) yo simon, what was your username back in the day? Yeah. Memory, I know. See above. #;-}>

That's all for now. I'll do an '06 to the present at some point. And '02-'03, too, if I ever get the last part of the list sorted out.
Sorry for not putting this all in one post. I wasn't expecting to do any years besides 2004.

Put it in its own thread, it's interesting enough to have a thread about it. Or if not, then a userpage newspost.

At 5/23/09 12:20 AM, Corky52 wrote: I also have passed 7,000 Medal Points. I guess that's not a lot anymore, but I'm doing what I can with the good old fashion 36 kb dial up.

Man, I woulda loved a 36kbps modem back in the day. Closest I had was 33.6 kbps. They jumped straight from that to 56k or 56.1k or whatever it was exactly.

Is your current connection speed really 36k? ay-yi-yi.... ;_;

Then again, at my parents' house out in the countryside, they can only get 23k or so on a 56k modem, due to the crappy phone lines and the distance to the dialed number being used to connect to the internet, so.... 36k > 23k, at least. #;-}>

At 5/28/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 5/27/09 10:48 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: I wish I could say the same. I need to find TF2 in a store... =(

In a store?

I was gonna reply to that part of his post and say "Steam is all the store you need!" but then I reread the start of his post, and when he talked about the free TF2 weekend, he mentioned that once it was over, he couldn't keep playing because he no haz teh credit cards.

So he's trying to find it in a brick & mortar store to buy it with cash, presumably, since he has no credit cards.

Sir Nuts, if there's no stores there in Brazil near you that seem to have TF2 or the Orange Box (you did know it comes in that, right? Maybe you've been seeing that at various computer game/software stores and just didn't know it had TF2 in it? ... I kinda hope this is the case, since it'll mean you can pick it up real soon! #;-}>).... I might also suggest trying to find it (in the Orange Box, or by itself, whichever... but Orange Box is a great investment--7 games for 1 price, never more than 2x the cost of TF2 on its own, from what I've seen) on a website (maybe amazon.com?) that offers payment methods other than just credit card. Maybe there's a (reputable) site out there that'll ship you the Orange Box if you write 'em a check? Or if you have no bank account, then turn your cash into a money order? They do that at Post Offices here in the US, dunno where you'd have to go in Brazil.

Also, I second Bahamut's "wish you'd let us know you were gonna play on the free weekend" thought, Sir Nuts.... woulda been neat to break yer TF2 cherry among friends!

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!

At 5/28/09 03:01 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 5/28/09 03:33 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 5/27/09 03:18 PM, iscrulz wrote:

Well, you can't be perfect forever :P

Lets see how long life, biteme2514 and gfoxcook last. other close ones are carmelhaddinosaur, Thobbe, Denny, Ramagi and shunshuu

What do you mean by last? How long we last at staying retired or how long we last at taking until we retire?

'twas unclear to me which of the above you meant because Coop seemed to indicate that either Nijsse or biteme wrecked their perfect retirement numbers.... once I hit MY 2nd set of perfect retirement numbers, I shant be wrecking it. Evar. I've made it.... nearly 4 years without gaining a single blam on this account, why would I ever screw up... ever? I did wonder about that before I retired at 24k/36k, but my track record has set even my paranoid OCD mind at ease about future things.

Using opera ONLY for gfoxcook and using firefox ONLY for gfoxclock/gfox helps a lot, and it's why I started that system when I retired in October '05. If I ever make a mistake, it'll be getting a save or blam for gfox by accident instead of gfoxclock, and that I can live with. The only reason I don't b/p for gfox is that I need to blam for gfoxclock and save for gfoxcook, but once I retire my main at twin 36ks, I won't mind the occasional accidental sharing between my two alts. #;-}>

And if you meant how long will it take me to get to retirement... well, not too long. I was predicting 2010 some time ago (mid-2008 or so), but based on how close I am now, and if Clock Day '09 is as good for me as the last two CDs were, then I can see myself getting there even before 2010 hits. Time will tell.

Quick note: damnit, I had saved posts 1, 2, and 3 in a text file earlier... and then reopened them to finish the catch-up... I believe notepad put in linebreaks where my window size is.... which causes the damned LINE WRAP ON NG to fuck up. I've done this before, but I'm not sure I ever realised what the CAUSE was. Today, finally, I realise what happened. Yay.

Not only did my own words get messed up, but so did quotes (which I can't remember if that happened the last few times this happened or not)... There's a chunk of Coop's post in catch-up 2 that isn't quoted... and there's a chunk of someone else's post that isn't quoted in catch-up 3. After a "+" in the text, IIRC. etc. etc. ANYWAY...

... fixing it now for #4 and #5, at least:

Anywho:

CATCH-UP 4

At 5/2/09 10:04 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 4/30/09 04:22 AM, Coop83 wrote: Ah, but to quote a few users on site with regards to experience - who says that I'm going to die first? Also, if you're missing 6 deposits a year, that's a whole 60 experience per year that I'm catching you by and that's faster than I'm catching certain nefarious individuals at the moment *cough*gfox*cough*

Me that's who expect we will probably donate our accounts when we are 43 years old to a young 10 year old statwhore. Well I have missed 3 ,I think, this year and its not even 1/2 over so you could be gaining on me big time, oh well I am gonna make the Top 50 if I can pass figemtum. I predict.

Me that's who expect? O_o... I'm gonna assume you meant "That's who I expect... we will etc. etc.".... but I'm not absolutely sure.

Do you think ol' Mistah James will be your final pass BEFORE you hit #50, though? Are you actually claiming you'll be #51 to his #50 and then FATALITY him all over the cobblestones of NG's exp road? #;-}>

Oh, I see now. Still, 25 isn't that effective considering it's not a prime number.

Oh and I contrar 35 is 5 (prime) times 7 (prime) it is a primetime number boy.

But two primes multiplied together are no longer offensive to me, except in that they thus always produce an odd number, which means the resulting number is... odd after all, and by gfox definition... not as good as even numbers. But nothing exceptionally horrible about them as a matter of course.

35's a solid number. One of the better odds. But still in my bottom half of numbers, yes. It'd have to be. It's odd. #;-}>

The real question is which EVEN numbers are in my bottom half of numbers (since there are some odd numbers, like 25, or say 1111, or 12345, or such... falling under my category #1 of the above post, pushing out a few of my least fave even numbers from the top 50% of all numbers).

Then you don't know gfox well enough. ;_;

I know him well enough he is a Houston Rockets fan wait I hope they beat the 76ers, my Pistons lost in the first round to Lebron James, first time Detroit didn't get into the Eastern Conference finals.

Why would the Rockets have been playing the 76ers, anyway? O_o

I just wish the Rockets had beaten the Lakers. So close to another title. Oh well. Doesn't hurt anywhere near as bad as the year the Cardinals won the World Series (the Astros nearly passed them for the division/a postseason ticket in September of 2006... and had they done so, I have complete confidence they would have beaten the same teams the Cardinals beat that year, and won the WS the year after they made it to the WS but lost to the ChiSox, which would have been epic).

I plan to count medals, not medal points.

okay, I don't think they should be counted, imho.

No, medals makes it more fairer while medal points would have been chaotic.

Uh okay I said that because I don't have any well I am around 50 so it will be like a small flash review boost just as audio reviews are so is Byteslinger going to logify them.

I don't care to count either medals OR medal points in with all the other stats, personally, but since I don't make lists anymore, my word is not even partial law.

That said, as a list appreciater, my vote's for counting just medals themselves, not points.

Probably because I'm a bigger fan of Steam achievements (where you just get achievements, and the total # of them is what you can see as a stat) more than I am of MS Windows Live/Xbox Live achievements, where not only is there the achievement count, but that silly ol' Gamerscore.

Medal points count is too much like Gamerscore, and as such I don't care for it too much, other than not wanting my total to sit at 3700 or something in the future.

At 5/3/09 09:01 AM, Bahamut wrote: I would, but I'd rather save the effort to getting all YouTube Poops off the site.

God, I love YouTube Poops. #;-}>

(clarification: I love the concept of them, and there's a few that make me laugh. The rest I just don't watch/close as soon as they irritate me... man, it's like a bad TV show, it's existence doesn't have to pain you!)

Oh and I contrar 35 is 5 (prime) times 7 (prime) it is a primetime number boy.

Multiplying numbers and such doesn't really work on gfox.

If by "doesn't really work" you mean "doesn't carry the negative shit about the numbers forward to affect the product of two numbers being multiplied, for example"... then yes, indeed.

After he is done I will give my Nihont%u014Ds to him when I get the scythe soon.

Your Nino-what?

I have no idea what iscrulz meant exactly due to the weird crap there (looks like trying to paste in characters that NG doesn't support in its text), but Nihon means Japan, and I'd assume the word he used has something to do with Japan or Japanese... something.

At 5/12/09 04:19 AM, Aci6 wrote:

At 5/11/09 08:21 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 5/10/09 07:04 PM, simon wrote: Oh, I passed 37,000 b/p sometime today. So who was it that loved this number?

gfoxcook. :P

You fucker.

27 All the way! (favourite number) :P

27 > 37 by far. Good for you.

Speaking of favourite numbers, I asked my sister what her number was; she said her 3 and 7 were her two favourites and after some thought she answered with 37.

UGH. OH GOD. ANTICHRIST. ;_;

No offense. O_o

At 5/13/09 08:49 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 5/11/09 08:21 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 5/11/09 05:04 AM, iscrulz wrote: Listening to
Surrounded by Dream Theatre

It's Theater, dammit!

Theater = Theatre my boy. I live near Canada were those Canucks spell the -er -re so its the same thing (Techincally this is Dream Theatre though lawlz) and Firefox thinks its spelled wrong.

Canadians only do -re instead of -er because of Great Britain, dude, so you don't need to explain the whole thing to that British dragon bastich. #;-}>

I love how you corrected me on it being Theater-not-Theatre at youtube even though you were making the same "mistake" yerself, even if only due to firefox (why do you use a spellchecker anyway? This isn't a school or work assignment O_O).

And for the record, the only reason I was saying Dream Theatre to you guys is I FORGOTS THEY WAS AN AMERICAN BAND. Sheesh.

Yes cool now lets see if gfox will be mah friend. I am making lots of friends err enemies trolling the comments.

wheeeee. YT funs.

I am hardcore straight edge I just sell the shit, I don't dip into my own supply. *Looks at acid*.

Do NOT drink that hcl, man. That's not the kind of acid you were told about. :::nods sagely:::

At 5/12/09 04:19 AM, Aci6 wrote: Speaking of favourite numbers, I asked my sister what her number was; she said her 3 and 7 were her two favourites and after some thought she answered with 37.

Better hide her away from gfox.

I said 36 sucks and 37 rules to him. I got genuine death threats I had to change my phone number. I started to praise 36 and the threats stopped.

Heh. You tell 'em.

Anyway, no need to hide his sister away from me, I don't want to come anywhere near her. I'd rather someone hid ME away from HER. o_o

CATCH-UP 3

At 4/21/09 01:28 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 4/20/09 01:45 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 3/9/09 06:45 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: gfox is a lazy bum who plays Team Fortress 2 all day. =P

Hey now. I resemble that comment. Especially since 2/24 (the Scout update date).

And, like you said in a latter comment, ~550 hours of playtime and counting. Will you reach 1000 hours of playtime until the end of the year?

Oh, long before then, I'm sure.

... Unless you meant my first year having the game by "the year," in which case no, I doubt I'll be to 1000 by June 30th (when I got the Orange Box, though I didn't start playing TF2 till a

few days later in early July, I was too busy with Portal the first couple o' nights). But if you meant by end of 2009, then definitely.

I vowed to never let that happen again, and the safest way to assure it was to stop posting on General ENTIRELY instead of just... mostly. #;-}>

It's a good strategy. =P Although General needs more people like you.

General had plenty of them (AND MANY OTHER GOOD VARIETALS), back in 2003-2004.

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

Yeah, but not many many regs from 2003 are still active nowadays at all. And that number is even lower when it comes to alts.

Well, the top 50 exp list says there's plenty of people from BEFORE 2003 that are still depositing. Unless by active you meant "doing more than just depositing."

Otherwise, I'd already be in the top 50, instead of sitting at #51, waiting for my shot at the big show. Or hell, maybe the top 10 by now. O_o

I don't use that smiley on NG at all, but I do use it on other sites. And yeah, it's one of the greatest smileys of all time, paired with #;-}>

I don't use =D on NG *OR* on other sites personally, but I enjoy seeing others use it. It doesn't get used enough. ;_;

Catching up is pretty. Catching up is good!

..........
It the first song of the first album of a certain band, beginning with "F". ;)

Foo Fighters?

What's that? Didn't see my multiquote replies? I guess they went by so damned fast... they appeared invisible. Oh well, them's the breaks!

You've ashamed me.

Aw. ;_;

Well, I'm not ashamed anymore. =P

Yay, it wore off quick!

So, from now on, you're going to quote every single post, even the ones where you wouldn't have anything to say/add? O_O

Well, I could do that to ramble even more, yes. Or I could just ramble twice as long to every post I already reply to, yanno. Either way, it's gonna be ugly. AND YOU SHALL BE THE ONE

TO REAP THE BLAME. Mwahahaha.

Oh my, what have I done? I BROKE GFOX! ;_;

Don't worry, it was just a hypothetical nightmare scenario, it didn't actually happen. BUT DON'T EVEN TEMPT FATE, MAN! We shall never speak of this again.

Yeah, that would be really hard. But do you have any plans on reaching 20K posts, making you a 4x20K stat-wise?

Sure, eventually. No rush, though. Statwise, I'd rather get to 1k reviews at some point, actually, so I could finally be 5x1k.

At 3/10/09 04:38 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Haha, yes, of course. This Steam thing looks great, but it might have some collateral effects.

JOIN THE COLLECTIVE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

I will, whenever I get a better computer for my use only. Which isn't likely to happen. =(

Well, you said TF2 ran for you, and you played all weekend, though it was "laggy." Was it laggy like playing online games back in the 90s on dial-up phone line connections was laggy?

Or laggy in a "the framerate isn't high enough to really enjoy this" laggy?

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!

Aye. That's Neutral Loyalty, brotha. DON'T YOU FORGET IT, zimzap.

Exactly. NEUTRAL FOREVER.

Heh.

Also, level 32 looks BITCHIN' with green, so you be smoking some serious crack. There are many many icons that don't look as good with green as all mostly-black weapons do. Black

+ green = golden.

LOL!

Actually, after I posted that, I think I looked at the icon and it's more grey than black. Still, either one looks nice with the green aura, IMO. I musta been thinking level 32's mace was closer

in colour to the pure black level 43 mace.

Indeed. That's the ONE time in the history of the universe where I'll admit that "37 isn't that bad," indeed. #;-}>

Historical landmark: gfox admits, for once, that 37 isn't that bad.

Indeed. MARK THIS DOWN, SCRIBES!

Oh, and considering gfoxclock will be level 44 very soon, gfox has to do his catch-ups very soon.

You rang?

Where's your next stop?

Here and now!

I can give you some good examples, but I'm running out of characters.

This is a common thing when gfox posts here. =P

OH NOE, I ruined your Brazil vs. Portugal educational lesson for whoever. Ooops. ;_;

At 4/30/09 10:50 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/29/09 05:35 PM, schneelocke wrote: *runs around in werewolf costume with chainsaw revving maniacally*

Meh, a dragon running around with a chainsaw is more epic than some person in a werewolf costume doing the same thing. :P

Depends on how big the chainsaw is, really.

At 4/30/09 02:59 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 4/28/09 08:39 AM, Bahamut wrote: Why 25? I could understand 7 and 73 as he doesn't like prime numbers, but none of them are as effective as 37.

I will add some 43's too. 37 is 36 +1, so 25 is 24 +1 you see it now.

Oh, I see now. Still, 25 isn't that effective considering it's not a prime number.

Not only that, but I LIKE 25.

It's 5 squared. Remember how much I like squares.

There's four types of numbers, really, in my "gut reaction the moment I see a number" internal judgement-o-meter brain section:

1. squares, repeated digits, ascending/descending number clusters, cool things like that
2. even numbers
3. odd numbers
4. prime numbers (which are also odd, of course, so this is a detestable EVEN-LOWER subset of #3)

25 isn't even, but it's a square! So it's actually cooler than most "normal" even numbers. Mwahaha!

It's not a prime number. Therefore, it's ineffective.

It is truly effective because it balances out the 37 to a 36, prime or not.

Then you don't know gfox well enough. ;_;

Indeed. BAHAMUT WIN.

Also, 25 is a quarter of 100. What could be bad about that? 75 rocks due to being 3/4 of 100, even though it's odd AND not a square, actually. So my above 1,2,3,4 list is clearly

incomplete, but anyway... it's kinda #1 meets #3, which puts it below most #1 category numbers, probably on par with most #2s (evens in general).