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Some of this is old but he's just as abusive in the new reviews.

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At 6/11/05 06:41 AM, FrostyBear wrote: Does someone know something about the asian mythlogies? Or more modern with the legendary samurais and such?

from Chinese mythology:

Ba Xian: Pronunciation: {bah shee-en}
These are the "eight immortals" from Taoist mythology, and among the best known deities in Chinese culture. They are the symbols for good fortune throughout China. They represent eight different conditions of life: youth, old age, poverty, wealth, the populace, nobility, the masculine, and the feminine. The earliest descriptions date from the Tang Dynasty (early 7th century), but their present grouping was not established until the Ming Dynasty (founded in 1368). {The Ming Dynasty is most notable for the artwork.}
The immortals are: Zhang Guo-lao, Lu Dong-bin, Cao Guo-jiu, Zhong Li-quan, Li Tie-guai, Han Xian-zi, He Xian-gu, and Lan Cai-he.
The Ba Xian are a favorite theme of artists and are portrayed on fans and porcelain. They also figure prominently in many literary works.

And for some Dragon Lore from China:

Long-Wang:
Chinese Dragon Kings, mythical figures from Taoism. They are ruled by Yuan-shi tian-zong to whom they submit their reports once a year. They have jurisdiction over funerals and rain. If mistakes or omissions occur during funeral ceremonies, which might result in misfortune for the descendants, the dragon kings are implored for help. Also during droughts they are invoked to produce rain. There are various categories of long-wang. There are the celestial dragon kings, the dragon kings of the four oceans (who live in magnificent palaces at the bottom of the sea), and the dragon kings of the five cardinal points.
Dragons are a traditional sign of good luck for Chinese. Seeing one is considered good luck. The Gods will soon smile on you in other words. I would assume, if you meet a komodo dragon in the wild and he doesn't eat you, it would be very lucky.

I really don't think Fu Xi is a god in Chinese myths, he is a man of mythical legneds perhaps. The stories about him seem to strike me as an Aurther type figure in China. The difference would have to be he taught mankind needed skills whereas Aurther was a brave leader who resuced the English from the Saxons. {Among other things}
Fu Xi was the first of three noble emperors, the "San-huang", in Chinese mythology. According to tradition he ruled from 2952 to 2836 BCE (116 years) or from 2852 to 2737 BCE (115 years). Fu Xi taught mankind many arts, such as the use of fishing nets, the breeding of silk worms, and the taming of wild animals. He also invented music, and, most importantly, the eight tigrams (Pakua), said to be the basis of Chinese writing. Also attributed to him is the invention of casting oracles by the use of yarrow stalks. Furthermore, Fu Xi is said to have invented the one hundred Chinese family names and decreed that marriages may only take place between persons bearing different family names. Fu Xi is represented as a human being with the body of a snake. His wife is Nü-gua. In Taoist temples he is usually portrayed holding a panel on which the eight tigrams are inscribed.
And one godess I will mention;
Xi Wang-mu
The Chinese goddess of immortality and the personification of the feminine element yin. The Taoist Xi Wang-mu is referred to as the 'Royal Mother of the West', and rules over the western paradise of the immortals. She is the daughter of the god Yu-huang and her husband is Mu Gong. Originally she was a terrifying tiger-woman who brought the plague, but under the influence of Taoism she became a benign goddess.
Her nine-stories palace of jade lies in the mythical Kun-lun mountains, near the Lake of Jewels. It is surrounded by a wall of over a thousand miles long and of pure gold. The male immortals reside in the right wing and the female immortals reside in the left wing of this palace. In her garden she cultivates the peach of immortality. This peach tree forms only one peach every three thousand years, which then takes another three thousand years to ripen. When it is ripe, Hsi Wang-mu invites the immortals to a feast to celebrate their birthday and to partake ot the miraculous peach which bestows another lease of immortality.

She is portrayed as a young beautiful woman wearing a royal gown, sometimes riding a peacock. Her favorite animal is Feng-huang, the symbol of immortality and, the Chinese phoenix. Feng-huang has the head and the comb of a pheasant and, the tail of a peacock. It represents the primordial elements of the heavens.

From Japan:
The samurai (or bushi) were the members of the military class, the Japanese warriors.
Samurai employed a range of weapons such as bows and arrows, spears and guns; but their most famous weapon and their symbol was the sword. Samurai were supposed to lead their lives according to the ethic code of bushido ("the way of the warrior"). Strongly Confucian in nature, Bushido stressed concepts such as loyalty to one's master, self discipline and respectful, ethical behavior. After a defeat, some samurai chose to commit ritual suicide (seppuku) by cutting their abdomen rather than being captured or dying a dishonorable death. In 1868, Japan's feudal era came to an end, and the samurai class was abolished.

At 6/10/05 11:06 AM, Bahamut7 wrote:

At 6/10/05 02:19 AM, XwaynecoltX wrote: View Your Reviews (10,710)
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Damn, you are fast! You were at 10500 reviews the other day and now

I would just like to get ten reviews a day. I did manage to get five more reviews in. XWayne has 10,750 right now.

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We have a couple folks at work, their main job is programs and system's analysts but they do all the work at maintaining our web presense. They do flash commercials and such for the site. They are very talented coders but, we buy most of the images they use. I have to review their stuff ten to twenty times to get a feel for it. Same way with reviewing flash here. I keep watching a flash over and over to get a feel for reviewing.
To see XWayne review at a great pace and still be so in depth is just awesome.

I feel feeble with a mere 153 reviews. *meh*
I was stuck forever at 149 reviews and decided to review all of carmelhadinosaur's flashes which also helped my response rate. Carmel responded to all my reviews.
Most of my responses have been "wow you're really through and in depth" or at least that is thrown in there. lol
My favorite response got deleted. The author complimented me on being the only one to find the easter eggs and notice the details of the flash. I guess I am lucky not to have lost any reviews in the last two mass deletions.
My now favorite response is Bahamut's response. I read it every day. :)
I noticed a couple of XWayne's responses are "OMG you have over 10,000 reviews?" :):):)

At 6/5/05 03:49 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote:
That marcus has vanished haha, he may lost som eposition in replys heh...

Yeah, he was saying something about exams but that should be over by now. Hummm...vacation perhaps?

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a few here
some more here
last one for today

Whew! I found all those this morning.

At 6/4/05 02:18 PM, Tom_s00 wrote: At 6/4/05 01:33 PM, IvanTuroc wrote

As for me I finally broke 9000 B/P's me dayum-self. It was a long time coming. Maybe the new gold badge will be along shortly :)

So did i, i just noticed you are 1 place ahead of me in b/p ranks, congrats on reaching 9000 b/p.

This morning I was 3 points ahead of you Tom. Many a flash came in while I was portal browzing so I am still barely ahead of you :) . You, Bahamut7, and I, are all close together in B/P ranks. I started from Dogma's last update and created my own spread sheet and have been updating it daily from about 50 positions ahead to rank 190. I do mine manually so I limit it quite a bit.
Many thanks for the congrats. ANd many congrats to you as well for 9000B/P's.

At 6/4/05 03:32 AM, The_Monarch wrote: Hi everyone!
I only wish I would have joined the last year I've been thinking about joining *sigh*
When this topic turns to the 1337 page I will be here to sign it.
Hope to see ya there :D

Welcome The_Monarch!

At 6/4/05 02:11 PM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: Congrats agatio!

Uhh.. I have a new flash... here... Damn people don't like me much :'(
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I don't know about that carmelhadinosaur; I voted on that flash when it came in and I fived it. I reviewed after voting . I liked the flash. I think its grand. Thanks for the response. :)

At 6/4/05 02:20 PM, Bahamut7 wrote:

At 6/4/05 01:33 PM, IvanTuroc wrote: congrats to Bahamut7 for 9K B/P's {and for passing me in total B/P's}

Thanks and sorry about that. I did overtake someone else and I bet someone will probably be after me now. XD

No apologies needed. Tiz a friendly race. Thanks for the congrats.

Thanks to iscruLz for the congrats. And yup. Just over 400 to go to the next rank.

At 6/4/05 03:13 PM, -Mazza- wrote: Congrats to:

-IvanTuroc: 9,000 B/P. Nice, 10k's just around the corner.

Yup, and thanks for the congrats.

At 6/4/05 02:51 PM, TarThoron wrote: Just ticked over 3K exp.

Way to go. A real milestone in my book :)

congrats time:

congrats to Bahamut7 for 9K B/P's {and for passing me in total B/P's}
Toocool100:on level up to 18 {the new avatar fits you :)
BonusStage: for 23000 blams {you're always in the congrats list dude!}
-TITROTU-: for EG Praporshchik {welcome to the club my man! And a great club we have so far}
hydro355: for level 10. {Whew its a long haul huh? I think the longest hauls are starting tho :) From the sign-up date you have you are a vetern here tho }

As for me I finally broke 9000 B/P's me dayum-self. It was a long time coming. Maybe the new gold badge will be along shortly :)

At 6/4/05 11:27 AM, YoinK_VineS wrote: whoa, I woke up this morning with 8 less reviews than what I had last night....
Last night I had 3,878 reviews and woke up and had 3,870....
Now i'm at 3,872... but I need to make it to 3,900....

It seems there is a big deletion going on. Over 100 movies already in the obituaries for today. Most of them titled "delete". Pretty soon for another mass deletion but oh well. Sweep out the unwanted I guess.

I only reviewed 7 since the last time I posted. God I am getting lazy. :P

Is this the same collision detection code used in shooter games where the player 'shoots' a target via mouse click or button click?
If it is, can this collsion detection code cause gameplay to drag really badly when there are lots of targets on the screen simultaneously?

At 5/28/05 11:37 AM, Auz wrote:

At 5/28/05 08:47 AM, Bahamut7 wrote: Add me to the responses list!

I reviewed Bahamut7. Its cool, I'm glad you got a movie on the portal.

Whoops, sorry for not checking out your sig (and for the double post). But still it's kinda weird your profile says you haven't made any flashes yet. Does it needs to be updated first or something?

Yeah I was wondering the same thing. Most authors, it goes on before the flash is even saved. Maybe its because its your first or something.

Hi everyone. I have been having a lot of internet problems and my daughter downloaded two nasty virus' on her computer so I haven't been around much. I had to tell the cable company to come get everything I was going to DSL with the phone company in order to get a technician out to properly fix everything.
I haven't reviewed anything since May 2, but I noticed a lot of nice new flash coming in and it looks worth reviewing. Hopefully this weekend I will get in the reviewing swing.
Are we still working on improving responses?

welcome back Master Stalker. The stomach virus thing can be extremely vile. My sympathies to you. Nice list you made up.

I have been having modem troubles with my cable internet and I am waiting on the good folks at the cable company to bring me a new modem. Meanwhile, I have to reset this modem almost daily and then it doesn't do much so the bbs has been out alltogether for me and what little time I do get at newgrounds is spent trying to view a few movies on the portal and logging experience. So far I have gotten my experience in every day.

Hopefully, I will return to a reviewing mood when things get straight with the internet at home.

At 5/8/05 12:40 AM, The_Bone_Thug wrote: Holy Shit i Just Did a fucking Search of clubs crews and Lounges and look how much Shit i Found

Actually, I would have figured it would be more than 228 pages. C&C is probably the second busiest forum here. ;P

99% of the people who would view a movie don't know how to use flash. The people that hire digital artists don't always know how to use the tools either. But not knowing how to use the tools doesn't mean you don't know a good movie when you see it. Its a matter of appeal. Things like out of sync voice acting, bad music choices, poorly drawn animation, all are obvious even tho you can't use flash.

Personally, I think you are the best reviewer on NewGrounds Noir. I have to watch a movie 10 times to get half as many comments as you write for a single review.

it was a busy weekend but I managed to get in a few reviews with responses to every review I wrote already. :D

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not much on response rate really. :( Just over 22 %

At 5/1/05 12:02 PM, -Mazza- wrote:

At 4/30/05 05:16 PM, BonusStageCompIeted wrote: her e-vagina > (aka wider than) all

Naw, it's e-cup size.

At 4/30/05 09:02 PM, IvanTuroc wrote: I think women can have the 'e-penis' as well on the internet can't they?

That would make them e-hermaphrodites :/

thanks for clearing that up Mazza. But the e-bra cup thingy makes sense.

and thanks for the congrats as well, its pronounced ['prap-or-shi-chik'] I think

I thought I would wear one on the sigs Denvish made to celebrate it. :) It will be awhile before I get another rank up I am sure. It took over 5 weeks to go from sargent major to Praporshchik

Thanks for the congrats Bonus, enjoy the pic mate.

At 5/1/05 02:03 PM, Tom_s00 wrote:

At 4/30/05 09:02 PM, IvanTuroc wrote: Thanks to Tom_s00 for the congrats on my last acheivement.

Your welcome : )

And now for my latest, I fianally made it to the EG officers ranks. Yay me!!!

Huge congrats i will soon know how it feels, im very close myself !

thank you again Tom. Yes you and I are very close in the B/P ranks. It makes me fell good to know I am in such good company. :)

I don't think anyone has posted these I found

I found a link spammer, currently the first in the reviews
link spammer in the dress-up section!
The link spammer is first and thrid currently in the next two links
2 link spammers in this one
more link spamming
abusive reviews
abusive reviews 2
a few bad ones here
more abuse
the last link for right now

At 4/30/05 05:16 PM, BonusStageCompIeted wrote:

At 4/30/05 04:59 PM, schneelocke wrote: I wonder what it means for ramagi, though. >_>

her e-vagina > (aka wider than) all

I think women can have the 'e-penis' as well on the internet can't they? And in ramagi's case would have to be measured in the mega-ton nuke scale...or something.

At 4/30/05 04:39 PM, Bahamut7 wrote:

The reason I have to use Dial-up for the old computer is because Broadband wouldn't work for 1st Edition Windows 98, but would work for 2nd Edition. >:( Ah fuck!

I am not sure about the update page for windows in the UK but in the US you can get 98 1st edition upgraded to 2nd edition. Or at least you could prior to XP's release. At any rate you should still be able to get the upgrade on CD. Pop in a network card and walaa. A small penance in order to have a backup box for net use. :)

At 4/30/05 03:39 AM, XwaynecoltX wrote: 11,000 blams O_0 for me thats alot of work since im very lazy and blamming and saving hehe...

Good job XWayne. Very good. More blams than reviews now eh?

At 4/30/05 12:23 AM, -Osaka- wrote: 1500 blams

Good work Osaka. EG Private made me feel good.

At 4/29/05 10:52 PM, ramagi wrote: Brain = overloaded after Gfox and RC posts.

yeah me too

How about Beer all around.

Yanno, I am gathering more respect for you daily ramagi, please pass one my way. Any brand at the moment will do.

Burry the hachets and that good stuff.

Amen, and Ahmen.

Congrats to BonusStageCompIeted for 40K total points in stats. yeah, yeah, rock on man. Congrats on making it to EG General to Bonus. I really missed that somehow. Buried under 50 plus pages around here somewhere I am sure. :)

Thanks to Bahamut, schneelocke, and Tom_s00 for the congrats on my last acheivement.

And now for my latest, I fianally made it to the EG officers ranks. Yay me!!!

At 4/29/05 08:08 AM, Bahamut7 wrote:

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you have almost as many responses as I have reviews total. ;P

I found I had a faulty graphics card and so I avoided the nasty reinstall Bahamut. Maybe this weekend I will get in some reviewing. I bookmarked quite a few I want to review. Hoo-ray for the weekend!

Good luck reformatting the PC Bahamut. I think I am going to reinstall mine as well. I have some really funky problems with windows of late. Can't put my finger on the problem.
I really hate reinstalls. They create as many problems as they fix. Makes the registry a mess as well.

As far as reviews, I got slack over the weekend and didn't review any. I have been browsing the listings looking for newer flash where artists could really improve with the right critisim. Thats what I will concentrate on for now. I quit reviewing older flash because I really think the artists have quit looking at the reviews.

At 4/25/05 04:19 AM, UltraGhost wrote: Sorry for double posting, unless someone else posts while I'm writing this, but how is the statistics page updated? Your still number 5 there M-A-R-C-U-S.

Its updated now. I thought at first it might be a static page but it appears to update about 4AM with the rest of NG stats. At least, thats when my dtats update. :)

Thats great on moving to 4th MARCUS. Keep at it. :)

I had a bad weekend and didn't get any reviewing done. Not much portal voting either for that matter. To much work to do around here.

At 4/24/05 10:21 PM, FiddlerOnTheGreen wrote: Has anyone ever heard of this guitar company,they are french made guitars,and are very nice looking and im thinking of getting one.i just want to know if you guys have heard any good things about them

Here is their web page. Translated by Google into English. {for the most part}

They look to ge a quality instrument. Never played one actually.
Here's the closest USA dealer to me. A dealer in Virginia.

FThats a top quality price anyway. Hope this helps.

At 4/22/05 06:01 PM, UltraGhost wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/233110

The reviews are getting responses here.

I reviewed that one and got a response. I don't think he liked the review tho *snif*
I made it to 140 reviews. On to 150 now.

Welcome to the new reviewer.

I did manage to get in one review. I want to get to 150 reviews over the weekend.

At 4/19/05 11:05 PM, The_Redangleprince wrote: Damn, I'm gonna have to stop my b/ping for a while. I've been out the past couple of days becuase of a porn dialer that somehow attached itself to my modem. Apparently, everytime I go to b/p, the popups put it on automaticlly.

I'm tired of deleting it, so I'm gonna lay off the b/p for a while until I can figure something out.

Do you have
spybot or ad-aware on your machine?
AVG also offers a free spyware anti-virus tool. I recommend those and use all three. The dialers are nasty buggers and must be dealt with using maximum deadly force! Good luck man.

congrats to:
ramagi; moving up to 35 in exp rank. {w00t! pick 'em off one at a time 'western style'!}
Wylo: for 22,000 blams {wow makes me want to go in hiding with my measly 6000 blams; good job there}
Eldarion: for the super nice screeny for Wylo! {what filters did you use to clean up the image? Nice looking}
Mazza: 5000 saves. {excellent work I must say. simply marvelous!}
M-A-R-C-U-S: 4300 reviews. {Your reviews are most helpful of late too! Good job there. I have been taking pointers from your reviews myself to make better reviews.}
ShittyKitty: 2000 posts on the BBS
-TITROTU-: EG Sargent 1st Class
Master_Inuyasha: 7000 blams { an a nice little screeny to boot! }
VanillaTemper: EG corporal
_IAMCanadian_: making the top 1000 B/Per's

And my latest acheivements are small but here's a crappy screeny to record the moment;
6000 blams and 1700 saves

At 4/19/05 03:02 PM, Bahamut7 wrote:

At 4/19/05 02:59 PM, Auz wrote:

the one exception then was the Fallen Angel: Teaser review when I did get a response from the author and I can see that author rarely responds to reviews.

Infact, my response rate was below 10% at one point. Hmm, still havn't reviewed anything today. Oh well, I guess today is a lazy day for me. Hopefully, I'll review at least something on Thursday. If I'm lucky, tomorrow.

Fallen Angel was the 3rd movie I reviewed and the first response I got in return. I stopped voting on U/J entries just to write that review. Wish I coulda kept my 1 for 3 response rate. ;P
Rob prolly gets a ton of mail and without a doubt he has a ton of reviews for that movie. He'd never get anything done but reply to reviews if he answered every one ;P

I tried a few links and reviewed a few of those. No responses yet. I asked some pretty direct questions too. Maybe this weekend the authors will check back.

Maybe a few more in a bit.

At 4/18/05 10:25 PM, sjb604 wrote: Meh, it's better than jigging my arrow over the play button to listen to it.

James redid the portal recently with new buttons and I think some script changes. I have not had a problem with the 'listen' button since. I used to get a lot of problems. I almost always had to download and listen from the winamp player before.

I too hope some more AP changes are in store.