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At 4/19/05 10:59 AM, Auz wrote:

Say I also had to write my 100th review again, is this because a movie that I reviewed is deleted afterwarts for some reason(I'm sure every movie I reviewed passed judgement)?

Sometimes movies are removed after passing judgement. A few instances I lost reviews that way. Reasons vary. Authors may request deletion or something like that.

My response rate is really low. I wonder what I am doing wrong?

I also wonder how you guys rate interactivity on a movie vs. a game?
To me, a movie should have a preloader, one that has a visible status bar. The movie should have nice opening credits with a logo with your name or design studio, longer movies with different scenes should have a scene selector and a toggle switch for quality settings, and a replay button at the end with a credits button. I hate looping movies. I also hate sitting thru credits unless I want to watch them. Not have to watch them to get to the replay button. The scene selector comes in handy when writing a review.

At 4/18/05 03:12 PM, Auz wrote:

Weird, Bronze took me quite a while, but I leveled up to silver in no-time. Say how many people have a deity level whistle here anyway? ramagi is probably not the only one ,right? Anyone has a list?

Currently, only ramagi has deity yes. Her and Joe 324 have had it at the same time and were tied in whistle points. Joe is back at gold now.

I got in a couple reviews last nite. No responses tho. :((

At 4/18/05 02:17 PM, Denvish wrote:

At 4/18/05 11:13 AM, IvanTuroc wrote: I have never owned the Les Paul guitar by Gibson but, I have played serveral over the years. and everyone I picked up was just a beautiful instrument.

I sooooooooooo want a Les Paul. I think I might start saving up.

A friend used to own an early model Les Paul custom {1958 I think?} with 3 humbuckers. It had a 5 way switch so you could use any combonation if pick-ups. Never seen to many like it. It was pearl white and had a great sound. The wider than average fretboard made it a dream to play. He always played with super light strings. Usually an 8 on the bottom string and a 42 at the top E. Played thru my old 2520 Marshall it could really crank the sound too. It was the most exposure I had to a Les Paul. A former band mate had a Les Paul standard. He had added the Seymore Dyncan 'invader' pick-up in the bridge position and a Kahler locking tremelo. The Seymore Duncan pick-up really gave the guitar a screaming rock sound. I used to play with it some.
The newest Les Paul 'studio' or 'artist' models here in the states run about $2000. God I would hate to think what they cost in the UK. Good luck Denvish. I say go for it if you really want one. Having what you want only makes you want to play more and better.

At 4/18/05 06:15 PM, Korpse wrote: What i'll do is wait till i'm 14, get a job and get the money for an electric. I already read music so basicly I have to remember the fingerings and what they are and i'll be set.

At my local music store, Music Bum, they have a Gibson X-plorer I like for like $245 bucks.

Sounds like a plan. Go for it and stick to your dreams. The Explorer will stay with you for many enjoyable years as well I am sure.
The Epiphone guitars someone else mentioned are good quality as well. I referred to them as GHS products but they are still a subsidary of Gibson. The Epiphones made in the '90's all had Gibson hardware and pick-ups. They were outstanding guitars. They might still have this same hardware on today's models. I'm not sure. All these guitar makers have websites however. I am sure the technical specs are listed on all the sites. Epiphone has a nice impressive list of artists endorsing their products as well. I particuarly like the 'John Connolly Les Paul Custom' guitar by Epiphone.

At 4/18/05 06:28 PM, brokenxxbutterfly wrote: im quite happy with my washburn. =).
'tis very pretty and theres no complaining about sound quality.

My earliest guitar training was classical and I learned on a Washburn classical guitar. It was pretty tough guitar and took quite a few beatings without complaining. As I recall, the sound was really quite good. I have played different classical guitars made in Spain {Flamingo style} and a Chet Atkins model by GIbson, but the Washburn got the job done, it did it well, and it didn't set me back a fortune. {*Such sweet memories*} I also had a Yamaha classical and man what a piece of crap that thing was. I never really got into the electric Washburns other than looking at them in music stores so I couldn't comment on those much. :(

Keep it up folks! God I love this topic!

At 4/18/05 12:29 PM, Bahamut7 wrote:

At 4/17/05 10:42 PM, IvanTuroc wrote: I have been reading thru this thread since Bahamut7's sig led me here. Sounds interesting. I would like to join.

Sure, welcome! Glad to hear that my sig has been promoting this club. :)

I need help with reviewing. I usually review stuff I like and stay away from better than great flash. I would like to become more helpful to artists without hurting their feelings.

Well, I always try to be nice to the author. I don't try to be mean and I will give them a few suggestions if I need to give them any.

Thanks Bahamut7. I will be stopping by and reading up nightly after the shop closes. I will probably be trying to build my reviews up since the hours I am working are prime portal hours and I won't be voting on UJ entries in the portal as much.

I can't believe I posted early Sunday morning the 17th and the LuL has already grown by 4 pages. *sigh*

Oh well,
thanks to Bahamut7; & Tom_s00; & schneelocke;
for the congrats to me. I always seem to post near the bottom of every page and everyone overlooks me. Except you guys. You guys rock.

At 4/17/05 07:14 AM, Tom_s00 wrote:

At 4/17/05 02:00 AM, IvanTuroc wrote: I fianally made lvl 11 {w00t!}
I also reached a VP of 7.00. Boy did that seem to take an eternity

Congrats it feels good to get away from level 10 huh? being so many about the BBS these days.

Yes indeedy. Patience is something I have never had and it amazes me I was so headstrong to not miss a day depositing since 9/11/04. Of course, its really fun here and lots of neat things to do and many, many, fun posts to read. The brass knucks really suit me huh?

congrats to:
thefinalcooljudge; LvL11. {W00t!!! it feels great huh?}

Bahamut7: 5000 blams and counting {yep, you are always close on my heels. Keep at it. {B/P wize} I hope the portal has been better for you lately than it has me. Sorry you missed quality time on the portal Sunday. I missed a bit too. Too much to do here yanno?}

BonusStage: for all those 7's {you went back 100 pages for a freaking link and couldn't answer a simple question I asked 4 pages ago? Jeez!}

Tom_s00: level 12. {enter into teh kinkay barbed wire st00f! super congrats man!!! I am kinda partial to the brass knucks but I look forward to reaching the next level.}

There are plenty of other achievements here but I have to go to work now. Congrats and forgive me for not making it a more personal congrats. I will do better next post. :))

At 4/17/05 09:18 PM, Korpse wrote: Soon I'm going to buy an electric after I get used to my acoustic, what brand do you recommend. I heard Fender sucks, any other? Ibanez?

I wish you luck, and remember, if you talk to 1000 guitar players, you'll get 1000 opinions on what's best. :)

I could proablbly wirte a book on guitars here and I am sure you don't want to read that much but several options are available.

The American made Fender guitars are still of great quality and I play and highly recommend them. The American made Fenders all come from the Fender Custom shop and are almost entirely hand made. I have a telecaster and a stratocaster. The telecaster is a standard issue with maple neck and fretboard while the Stratocaster has a rosewood fretboard and birdseye inlays along the fretboard. They both have the medium knickel frets. The Strat is a '94 model while the Tele is an '88. {Yup, I have been at it a long time.}
I have yet to see a Fender made overseas or from Mexico I can recommend however. The wood quality is just not there. Neither is the quality of the hardware. The pick-ups and tuning pegs and so forth. There is no comparison between the American and foreign models except they have the Fender name.

As for Ibanez, I used to own an old Ibanez Iceman, and it played great. I replaced the pick-ups with Seymore Duncan pick-ups for a warmer sound. Ibanez guitars are a good quality Japanese guitar. Ibanez took advice from guitar players world wide on what was the best and played the best, to develop their guitars in the late '70's/early '80's and the rewards of them listening to guitar players really payed off for us the player. The Ibanez is probably a good choice for someone starting out.
Aria Pro guitars are quite good as well. I have had a couple of them, acoustic and electric. I had one old Aria Pro II 12 string. It played really good for a jumbo body with 12 strings. I haven't really kept up with the Aria guitars in recnet years but, they are in music shops everywhere and the price is reasonable. If the new stuff is comparable to older stuff they would be worth checking out. Aria also has a USA custom shop and they turn out some outstanding looking guitars. You can get one anyway you want it.

Another good quality guitar I recommend is the Charvel/Jackson line. The Charvel's are a bit cheaper in price compared to Jackson but none the less, they are of good quality. I have used them as well over the years for live performance. You can get them in any choice of neck, hardwood, fret/hardware combo imagineable. About all the amatuer bands I saw live in the big '80's and '90's had at least one Charvel guitar in the bunch. Abuse was nothing for these guitars and everyone swore by them that played them.

Gibson still makes incredible guitars. They have them in every price range. I have seen good stuff in the GHS line as well. {A subsidary of GIbson} I have never owned the Les Paul guitar by Gibson but, I have played serveral over the years. and everyone I picked up was just a beautiful instrament. I have owned however. the Firebird and Explorer and they both have the jumbo nickel frets and a rosewood fretboard. The fretboard is also flat like the Les Paul. They also have the GIbson 'dirty fingers' pick-ups for the great rock sound. The necks are quite fast and smooth while the scale on them is excellent for someone with big fingers like me. The jumbo frets suit me well as they seem to fret a bit easier to find than the thin frets. These guitars have served me well over the years playing live and, traveling from place to place as well.

If you are starting out, cruise the pawn shops as well as the music stores that sell new stuff. Compare prices. Sometimes you can find a great deal on an older guitar in a pawn shop. I have picked up some really good deals over the years at pawn shops.

Consider what kind of music you like and want to play also. Different type guitars offer different sounds. The double coil humbucker pick-ups offer a bigger sound compared to the single coil pick-up. Every guitar that plays live takes an incredible amount of abuse. Constant tune-ups and adjustments are needed to keep them playable. Guitars like American Fender or Gibson will withstand the abuse. So will Charvel. Ibanez and Aira will hold up as well.

Again, good luck, try using google to look up any guitar brand you are interested in. Looking thru the custom shops these makers have online is interesting too. The better quality guitar you get starting out, the more interest you will keep in it most likely.

I have been reading thru this thread since Bahamut7's sig led me here. Sounds interesting. I would like to join.
I need help with reviewing. I usually review stuff I like and stay away from better than great flash. I would like to become more helpful to artists without hurting their feelings.

At 4/17/05 03:12 PM, Servi wrote:
also how many submissions do you think r deleted do to whistles? and how many have you, ramagi blown over the years like about how many

I myself would like to hear an answer to that question ramagi.

speaking of audio portal voting...
I have noticed once I vote on a audio portal entry I cannot go back and vote again the next day like flash entries where you get to vote once daily.
In other words, once I vote, thats it, no revoting. Is that normal?
I mean I have tried voting right at midnite when no others could have possibly voted on them and still get the error"looks like you have already voted on this entry today"
anyone?

At 4/17/05 12:52 AM, Master_Inuyasha wrote:

At 4/17/05 12:12 AM, TheJoe324 wrote: ...lalala.

</Insert some words here>

I do find that funny you being a EGBG at the #4 spot, quite funny.

also odd is the low number of overall B/P's for ramagi and Joe324 compared to now. Those profiles also had the popularity listing on them and note the low number of 'total users with profiles' the number of users with profiles now, is around 775,000.

I fianally made lvl 11 {w00t!}
I also reached a VP of 7.00. Boy did that seem to take an eternity

Congrats to the recent accomplishments;

LamboFactor; 200 reviews
ramagi; 8000 posts/ moving upa notch in exp list
The_Redangleprince; 10,000 B/P's
NorwayClock; 500 B/P's LvL 10
BonusStage; 7070 saves, {how long you been EG General? Wow I am missing alot lately.}
Bahamut7; EG Master Sargeant {closer to the top 250}
Dream_of_Duke; 3500 B/P's
High_Roller; EG Private First Class
thefinalcooljudge; 2800 B/P's

At 4/12/05 12:43 PM, Bahamut7 wrote:

At 4/12/05 12:37 PM, IvanTuroc wrote: IMe personally, I have been spending way to much time playing motherload on XGen's site to accomplish much here. I plan on getting busier here now tho. :))

Ah, you should be a little more active here. Looking at your posts, you look inactive on the BBS, but if you plan to be here more, then that will make me happy. :)

Almost all of my posts have been in NG News or Wi/Ht and the NG News is reply only and this forum moves rather slowly. Its good reading about everyone's accomplishments however. Thanks for the offer.

congrats to:

Denvish; 10,000 saves and making the pentalist {w00t!}
ramagi; happy birthday! congrats on the uber 1337ness of 13370 exp points
deslona; 5000 blams and EG sargent first class {thats great, keep it up! When I made 5000 blams it was a big day for me too.}
thisguy47; level 10 {yay! takes forever it seems huh? keep depositing!}
_IAMCanadian_; 1900 B/P and 1900 exp {I love the combs but rarely get the screenys of them}

IMe personally, I have been spending way to much time playing motherload on XGen's site to accomplish much here. I plan on getting busier here now tho. :))

here is a bad page of reviews \

mostly recent reviews to very old flash.

only one right now

WOW

big congrats to;

Bahamut7; top 300 B/Per's
Iscrulz; 6000 blams { I am going for that currently too :) }
-idle-; 1000 exp points {the first millenium mark!}
Guthrie; 5000 exp. points {yes indeedy a grand accomplishment}
BonusStage; EG General and 9.00 voting power {Oh wow man! you go!}
Pure LionHeart; 10,000 posts, {it were a good weekend fer posting 'eh?}
jump3rboi; 1000 blams and EG Private {hang in there it's just getting to the fun part :) }
ShittyKitty; 4000 exp. points {good going }
OsAmARaMa; 1000 protect points {yes saving movies is getting hard these days 'eh?}
FIGMENTUM; modship! {very good choice! very good indeed. Why am I always the last one to find these things out? A conspiracy I tell ya}

thanks to:
Pure LionHeart
Bahamut7
BonusStage
for the congragts; you guys rock!

Lets see;
I got 2020 exp. points and moved into the top 250 of B/Per's do those count?
and 5555 blams

At 3/28/05 01:20 PM, Denvish wrote: I notice (hope it's not only my PC) that there is now a pause between clicking the 'Watch This Movie' link and the voting panel appearing. I don't know whether topics have been made about it yet, having been afk for a week, but I like the fact that it forces people to at least download, if not watch, movies. Let's hope we don't get any bugs like last time, where the voting panel simply doesn't appear for some users.
Good work James, anyway (assuming it's a deliberate feature and not just my PC playing up)

No its deliberate Denvish. James put it into effect sometime this past week. There was an issue with Mac computers and the safari browser but James worked thru that. And welcome back. I hope the journey was a good one.

something more recent yet pretty bad

repetitive madness
The previous page on that last link is bad too

some old and some new

start with this page
and check the previous pages back. A few there are bad there too.

And I thought the bad reviews were deleted before the ban was lifted?

Big congrats to everybody!

food1; LvL 10

Scoll; rank up to EG Private

Master_Inuyasha; EG Praporshchik/ voting power 7.00

Tom_s00; 5000 blams/EG Master Sargent

Bahamut7; 4000 blams/post average 7.5 a day

jonthomson; 4,000 Saves/ precongrats on the coming rank up to EG Major

FIGMENTUM; LvL 17

ramagi: 7,000 Posts.

ShittyKitty: LvL 13.

king-o-games-: LvL 11.

EKRegulus; 17,000 Blams. .

carmelhadinosaur; 6,000 Saves.

BRGIAD; UOTD

boloneyman; EG Corporal

LazyDrunk; rank up to EG Private First Class and top 1000 B/P'ers

Way to go folks!

heres mine and they were a long time coming I tell ya!

5000 blams and then this morning I ranked up to EG Sargent Major

bad reviews

heres a few scattered thru 5 pages
the next one some reviews are old {2 years old} but still pretty bad
bad reviews

maybe some more laterz when this headache goes away

here is a new batch; the first link has lots thru all 27 pages
the word "jackpot" comes to mind here
a few here scatterd thru the last few pages
a few here even on the high marked reviews
the next one is full of one or two word reviews acorrding to rancorman's review guidelines, I think thats considered abusive. at least "non-helpful"

page 44 of 49 the next four pages are pretty bad too, hell all the pages are bad {IMO}
hay, at least he liked the game

At 3/22/05 09:13 PM, Rancorman wrote: Thank you for your concern. I went to the doctor again today, and my ear should stop leaking in about a week.

Good, thats good. Inner ear trouble is always a bitch. Good luck.

heres some bad reviews I found;

a few here
the last two here are bad
a few here
this guy has issues!

speaking of whistle related stuff ramagi;
thanks for answering the e-mail I sent you ramagi. The main thing is the proper author is credited for a flash movie or game.
However I did not realize you lost a point if you flagged something as stolen and not enough flags were made to remove the flash. Looks like if the flash was later discovered to be stolen and was removed after all, you would get the point then.

*shrugs*

At 3/20/05 09:59 PM, Rancorman wrote: Sorry I haven't been around, but since I've been sick all week, I've spent the last 2 days doing make up work and being in the hospital, because my sinuses were so backed up, my ear was infected and the eadrum burst. I woke up with blood coming out of my ear. So, I was busy. Links tomorrow, maybe?

Sounds dangerous Rancorman. I have sinus problems and nose bleeds from it but I never heard of ear drum bursting from it. Hope you get better soon. Your contributions to this thread are priceless.

I never posted much in here but I came to look at every update.
It has been nice knowing where I am in the total standing of things, and how others around me are.
Its been a great run and saved me from literally thousands of page clicks here at NG looking at profiles and such.
Thanks for all the hard work SK. Its been great.

At 3/20/05 08:14 PM, Denvish wrote: I'm out of any race for this week... last minute decision to flee to Cornwall for a week, before Katy gets too pregnant to cope with the 4-5 hour journey. Hopefully I'll be able to find a wireless access point to plug my laptop into, but I don't expect to get any BP or post much (if at all) this week.
I'm looking forward to the beaches, seeing some old friends, and hopefully airing the cards for a game or two of Magic.

Do have a good time Denvish..
And many thanks Dogma for the updates. I enjoy the minis everyday, even tho I haven't made the lists in quite some time.

I have only witnessed the blam movie 17 times. The saviour movie I have seen 4 times and on three of those times I voted one or zero. *shrugs*
My notes on this are not as complete as GFoxCook as I only have a notepad document remembering the Blam or Save movie and how I voted. I don't include the date.

Maybe I should go to documents and edit that.

in no particular order;

Congrats too:

Vince50; for elite guard private, {only a couple deposits from a 6 Vote Count also; you go mate!}
Ramagi; 6000 posts and late congrats on the 40,000 blams {nice screeny!}
EKRegulus; 15,000 blams also moving into the top 50 in B/P's {good work!}
Green_Chili; 700 posts
SeeD419; 2445 exp points ranked 2445 in exp points. {what a really cool combo!}
Tom_s00; elite guard master sargent and a 7 vp! {man I been trying so hard to get that 7 vp; big congrats on that! Nice screeny too}
-Mazza-; 19,000 B/P's {pre-congrats on the soon to come rank-up!}
jonthomson; 7000 posts {I hope you've shaken that cold mate!}
Bahamut7; moving into the top 400 in B/P's {the road to the top 300 is an exciting one mate, good journey to you!}
Baka-Kiba; for level 12 { and thanks for reminding me it can be done! reach level 12 that is}
-Kyle; 8000 blams { good luck on getting to 10,000, may it come quickly for you!}
BonusStage; Elite guard General! {wow man. are you ever in "point getting mode"! you GO!!!}
-Myst-; Elite Guard Captain {well into the gold badges now good luck and good B/Ping to you!}
Nice achievements everyone :)

here is a link to the reviews where the link spammer is at
here also in games
again in games
one more in games

its the second review down on those links I left and from that " knuft" guy

At 3/1/05 11:20 AM, ramagi wrote: FYI if any sees virus link in any of the front page or sims games please email me.
We had a small rash of those latly. I knopw I'll be checking my email through out the day. Thanks

walaa;

someone spammed with a link in the SIMs collection

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/readreview.php3?id=66766

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/readreview.php3?id=180106
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/readreview.php3?id=203189