At 1/21/08 09:44 PM, Sterockicy wrote: Barracks roster - January 22, 2008

Thanks again for the update Sterockicky, and an extra one for keeping me on the list in my long absence.

Sterockicy's note:
Help me to get to 1,000 responses!

ye

Top 5 Gainers:

Sentio - 539
Lilhunter03 - 442
NEVR - 434
Idiot-Finder - 328
AnalPenguinFarming - 282

Ha! Not even close. Damn I've slacked off

Top gainers, repeat offenders: Idiot-Finder (2)!
Top 3 biggest average rises: Sentio + 61.0, pwroftheseagoat + 20.9, Sir-Nuts + 14.8!

Congrats to the achievers!

Random word: Traveller!

They always seem like deeply satisfied people.

01 // 60086 // 050 // 07.1 // 00.5+ // X-Naut

Be-lated congrats on 60k

02 // 58194 // 000 // 00.0 // 00.6- // Phantom

Hmm if he doesn't come back for awhile (realisticly like a year =/) I may be able to pass him. Long ways to go still.

03 // 51189 // 043 // 06.1 // 00.5+ // Major-punk

Gee.. I don't go back to school until thursday so I should be able to pull off more then 50 in the next two days, depends if I'm home really. Oh well I do plan on going faster then this it just takes time to shake the dust off...

04 // 50437 // 242 // 34.6 // 03.5- // Seamonky

More incentive to pick up the pace

Congrats on the award Tom. =)

My goal for 2008 is just to deposit everyday, and 60,000 b/p would be nice.

25,000 Blams.

At 12/7/07 03:35 PM, aldlv wrote:

Barracks roster - December 07, 2007

It's been awhile, lets see how thing shave changed.

Top 5 Gainers:
aldlv - 506
azteca89 - 429
Basspro55 - 426
Mendou - 311
BlueHippo - 283

Congrats to everyone here, I almost made it. almost

Special Congratulatory list:
Top 3 biggest average rises: Mendou 28.6+, aldlv 27.4+, Major-punk 24.5+!

Just started b/ping again last week, hopefully it will continue to rise.

01 // 61268 // 0429 // 61.3 // 03.8- // azteca89

A new top b/per since I've been here.

06 // 52397 // 0000 // 00.0 // 00.0+ // ADT
07 // 51345 // 0000 // 00.0 // 06.0- // pepeatumi

Alright looks like I'll be moving up in a couple months. ADT is assumed to be retired and pepeatumi is all over the place so who know's when hes coming back.

08 // 50518 // 0205 // 29.3 // 24.5+ // Major-punk

I'm gonna aim for 40/day for the next week.

Link to previous Update

That's pretty handy actually. Thanks again for the update.

At 11/17/07 05:19 PM, Coop83 wrote:

Coop's List update #3

027) 25,377 || + 219 || Major-punk 0

028) 25,373 || + 799 || RemRulzz 2

I took some time away from NG and haven't really kept up with the rankings, so I'm surprised that I've gained over 200 and only lost 1 rank (to RemRulzz) since this update. The last 4-5 days I've been doing alot better though as I settle into it's familiar rhythm.

Thanks for the update

At 12/1/07 11:01 AM, Earfetish wrote:

At 12/1/07 10:18 AM, Earfetish wrote: From what I know about SSRIs, I wouldn't mix them.

You have doctor-patient confidentiality over there - maybe you should ask a doctor. But maybe the doctor will lie because he doesn't want you doing acid.

I was thinking about that. But if he found out I was combining it with other drugs (especially ecstasy) I could imagine him switching me to another prescription, and I don't really want to risk that cause I'm quite happy with what I have now.

The internet says SSRIs decrease the effect of LSD

Yeah I read that "SSRIs (like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Desyrel) or MAOIs (like Nardil, Parnate, Marplan, Eldepryl, Aurorex, Manerix) are fairly consistently reported to noticeably reduce the effects of LSD. MAOIs seem to cause a greater reduction in the effects of LSD than SSRIs.". Found here

But luckily, here it says " *Sertraline* (Zoloft) -- the effect with this antidepressant seems to be dose-dependent. At 50 mg/day, there was no effect on the response to LSD nor to psilocybin. However, at 100 mg/day, there was a decrease in response to both LSD and MDMA. ". And I take 50mg/day so I think it won't effect it much, or at all.

and one website claims that SSRIs + LSD make flashbacks more likely.

That's new to me, but a risk I'm willing to take.

At 12/1/07 10:26 PM, the-salmon-of-doubt wrote:

if anything the thought of lsd won't bother you if it did before

I'm not quite sure what you mean here, but I haven't ever done lsd before so that's why I'm doing a bit of research first and trying to take some precautions.

Anyway thanks for the responses, I'm sure it will be fine. I'll let you guys know how it went in a week. =)

Hey I was just wondering if anyone had any information or experiences personally or from a friend with combining an anti-depressant (specifically SSRI's) with lsd? Like I'm prescribed zoloft and was planning on taking 2 hits next weekend.

I know they both act on serotonin, but would they interfere with each other? At the moment I think it would either intensify it or cause it to be more euphoric... thoughts?

I'll keep looking around the internet for more info, but some first-hand experience would be most appreciated.

Wow, haven't checked out this list in almost two months. Lots to catch up on.

At 10/7/07 07:38 AM, AfroUnderscoreStud wrote:

UPDATE 7th Oct 2007
037) 49872 0089 006.4 Major-punk

UPDATE 14th Oct 2007
037) 49932 0060 008.6 Major-punk

UPDATE 28th Oct 2007
037) 50119 0144 020.6 Major-punk

UPDATE 11th Nov 2007
037) 50226 0107 007.4 Major-punk

UPDATE 18th Nov 2007
038) 50273 0047 006.7 Major-punk -1

UPDATE 25th Nov 2007
038) 50310 0037 005.3 Major-punk

Okay so I averaged 9.1 b/p/day over the last 6 updates... not too great but I'm lucky to have only dropped 1 spot. I'm hoping to make a small rebound from tonight onwards, since I actually have a stable place with internet. Hopefully I can get back in the race.

The 50k milestone ain't bad either. =P

Thanks for all the updates Afro.

At 10/22/07 10:05 PM, Major-punk wrote:

Screenie:

Ugh.. that's embarrassing. =P

The right onl:

*cough* cough*

Finally, 50,000 b/p. =)

I can't see myself continuing much further so this is probibly my last big achievement type thing.

Screenie:

At 10/9/07 03:00 AM, Sterockicy wrote: Barracks roster - October 9, 2007

Rank // Total B/P points // Gain // Gain/day // Gain rise/drop // Name
07 // 49894 // 0107 // 07.6 // 20.3- // Major-punk

The last couple weeks have been.. dramatic so I haven't had much of a chance to b/p really. Alot of bad luck and unnecessary persisting personal shit to put it into a sentence.
On the bright side 50k is surprisingly close. =)

Thanks for the update Sterockicy
*Salutes*

At 9/15/07 12:39 PM, Coop83 wrote:

Coop's Savours List Update #1

Nice, lets hope that "#1" means there will be more to follow. =P

Top 5 Gainers:

Congrats.

Rank|| Saves || Gain || Username (Ranks gained)
025) 24,766 || + 0,604 || gfoxcook -4

This has been a goal of mine for a very long time, I thought it wasn't gonna happen after he came out of retirement....

026) 24,764 || + 2,190 || Major-punk -1

Ouch, that's actually really bad for two months by my standards, especially since 1/4 came from clock day alone. No wonder I'm -1. =/

019) 25,581 || + 0,420 || BonusStage -5
020) 25,525 || + 0,501 || Newgrundling -5
024) 24,932 || + 0,670 || DonDoli -4

I'll likely pass these 3 by next update.

027) 24,759 || + 2,752 || Ehwaz003
031) 23,075 || + 2,664 || X-Naut 6

And I'll likely be passed by these 3 by next update. =P

Great update Coop, I really appreciate you doing this. Best of luck.

11.00 voting power

At 9/9/07 02:51 PM, Dream-of-Duke wrote: Mmmm...just over 30.0 per day. When I checked my profile last night around 1:00 A.M. My total b/p points have exceeded 33700 points. I hope that Afro-Underscore did not make a mistake when he was updating the stats this morning.

So you've gained 115 points since saturday (38/day)... theres nothing unusual about that. >_>

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Thanks for the update Afro. I had an awful week for b/ping so I'll skip the commenting this time.

At 9/3/07 07:54 PM, Dream-of-Duke wrote:

Does anyone bother to make a list every week?

I won't be making anymore now. I have a job that consumes about 30 hour per week, then school, and a social life I must attend to.

A couple weeks back I was waiting for the 50 protectors list on the users page to finally be finished so that I would only have to update 50/100 users stats. But Newgrounds is so far behind and it takes forever for things to be done that I figure it's a waste of time to wait for it.

Hopefully this list is continued by volunteers with a few updates a year. I'd hate to see it be totally dead and forgotten.

At 9/1/07 07:37 PM, AfroUnderscoreStud wrote:

You're forgetting Wylo.

I doubt he'll go much farther then 100k. Probibly only a few hundred...

Also since I'll be going back to college soon that's less time that I'll be at home to get B/P points.

Okay maybe not then. =P

UPDATE 1st Sep 2007

Thanks again.

75+ per day BPers
10+ rank climbers

Congrats.

036) 49503 0000 000.0 fixit -1

I might pass it this week.

037) 49297 0275 039.3 RemRulzz

Ugh... *shakes fist*

038) 49273 0179 025.6 Major-punk

My pace dropped as expected, will probibly continue to do so.

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Also big congrats to Coop on becoming the newest supreme commander. It felt like forever, but slow and steady has paid off. =)

*cheers*

I was actually thinking the other day why so many people can heckle smokers. It's at a point now where it's socially acceptable and it's done regularly.

For example someone at a bar could go and say "oh how can you do that to your health? don't you know how bad that is, and how many kinds of cancer it can give you?"

When it's not socially acceptable to go to an obese person and say "oh how can you eat that junk, all that fatty food is harming your health, don't you know how bad it is, and how many heart complications it can give you?"

I think smokers get alot more of their fair share of rude comments. Compared to many other negative life choices...

At 9/1/07 03:48 AM, SlashFirestorm wrote:

The Newgrounds public really IS that stupid; they're the ones mass-voting spam through the Portal, not the groups themselves.

They're not stupid, thats why they are voting for the point when they know it'll pass. I'd say stubborn =P

Many times I've thought does the Barracks even really make a difference to make more people vote fairly, and on each individual flash instead of the author.

Or does it motivate use more to get the point, for respect and rankings.

I'd say a little of both...

At least here is a place to easily report stolen/malicious/unsuitable flash.

Now, after a while, something changed. One of my flash passed.

Slash Returns was my first entirely self-made flash to have passed judgement...why, I'm not sure, it's not that much better than my blam-era work.

Because you made many e-friends on the bbs who wanted to help, haha.

Now, I don't abuse this power...regardless of what some abusive reviewers may think...but many do. They submit utter shit to the Portal, knowing that an idiot public will give them a high score when they see a lot of alts and a lot of previous flash, because they crave points.

Since I've hit EGSC points have become of lesser importance so I've been voting more responsibly, fairly etc. Hell I think I've given out as many 1's as 0's since then.

So, what can we do to stop this?

1) Vote fairly on every flash we see. I don't care if it's got ten authors who each got a hundred flash to their name, vote fairly. And try to get others to do the same. Yeah, you'll miss some points...lots of them...but (and this may sound funny coming from an EGSC) points really aren't that important.

We would need a MASSIVE shift in voting attitudes for this to happen. However I do think that if all 30 something active members of the EGB we would make a significant difference, maybe not enough to stop it completely, but a difference nonetheless.

2) Remember that not every flash group member is a shit. Just as you shouldn't mass-protect their stuff, don't mass-blam it, either. When I first started B/P'ing, I saw Zekey submit with the Star Syndicate (which I hated back then, as I was a little nooblet), and assumed his stuff was shit. Then I saw some of his other work and was utterly blown away. If I'd been an idiot and mass-zero'ed everything he made without watching it, I'd have missed out on an amazing artist.

Yeah. It's too bad that the majority isn't like that though. =/

3) Don't stoop to the level of the idiots. A lot of mass-voters say that they're voting five on shit because then they'll get a higher B/P rank, and be better able to influence spam, that the ends justify the means. This is akin to stealing from a bank so you can afford to build a security fence around it: just outright retarded. Especially retarded in that you're helping the 'spammer' in question build up their flash archive and thus be voted high on by other idiots.

Heh. I hear ya man.

That's about it. We have to spread a message of objectivity...that one should vote on individual flash quality, not the submitter or group behind it...not for points or power. Until then, shit will continue to happen, and the people of Newgrounds will have no one to blame but themselves.

It is absolutely our own fault. What I don't understand is when people give something a "5" when they know it's going to pass but really deserves a 0 or 1. Like seriously, if you HAVE to be a greedy little bitch at least give it a 2 to make less of a negative impact...

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Fuck anyway I had such a fucked up night. And I can't sleep at all so I might aswell post about it.

I went to see superbad with my friend sam and a few of her friends at 9:20pm, did some e (i did 2) before it started and it was working fabulously in 40 minutes.
After the movie we (sam & i) got dropped off to a different town for a party... but when we got to the house the girl came out and said her mom was absolutely flipping out and everyone had already left.

So now me and sam are stranded, in midhurst (town population of like 5,000, 1 hour drive from we're we live) and out of range to call a cab from either of our cell phones back home for the some unknown, unlucky reason. =/

Completely dissapointed and pissed we had to walk down an abandon road from midnight to 3am for
3 hours until my cell finally worked. Then ofcourse she was broke so we shared a cab to go to another friends who said we could chill for a bit. We get 3/4 the way there and he calls back saying he forgot he had work in the morning and we shouldn't come, so after wasting $30 we turn the cab around to drop my friend off... $15 later shes home and I spent ANOTHER $20 to get me home.
// Sure she said she'd pay me back, but she doesn't have a job so it's pretty unlikely unless I start demanding it which really isn't what I want to be doing.
// Oh and I have to work a 10 hour shift at 2pm (7 hours from now) without sleep. Awesome.. >_>

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Heh, so how is everyone else doing?

At 8/25/07 08:19 PM, AfroUnderscoreStud wrote: You'll probably reach the 100,000 mark by the end of the year.

For that I'd have to gain a little over 96B/P a day. I can't see that happening what with the way the portal's been over these last few months or so.

Stop being humble, you know you will be the b/p king before 2008.

UPDATE 25th Aug 2007

Thanks for the update Craig!

75+ per day BPers
10+ rank climbers

Congrats.

033) 50194 0218 031.1 RenegadeGirl
034) 49572 0217 031.0 ouandyoi 1

037) 49094 0297 042.4 Major-punk -1

A decent week. If only I could keep this up I could pass RenegadeGIrl or ouandyoi in a few weeks, but I have this strange feeling that this septemer with school 5 days a week plus a part-time job I won't have much of a chance.

We'll just have to see.

038) 49022 0261 037.3 RemRulzz -1

If he passes me again, babies will be killed.

At 8/18/07 05:13 PM, Coop83 wrote:

Good for you, what are you doing, may I ask?

I actually run a little convienance store by a gas station.. lol. Not really too desireable or exciting but it's very slow-paced so I'd much rather be there then some hectic fast food place while I'm in school.

At 8/21/07 02:35 AM, Sterockicy wrote:

Barracks roster - August 21, 2007

Fucking right! Thanks man.

Hey, it's totally my birthday tomorrow!

This is totally me wishing you a happy birthday!

Also, What a week for points.

heh, yeah.

Top 5 Gainers:

I was pretty close but no cigar. Congrats to those who did make it.

04 // 52389 // 0000 // 000.0 // 000.0+ // ADT

As I long term goal I'll try to pass you before new years. Shouldn't be too difficult.

05 // 50999 // 0804 // 114.9 // 058.0+ // pepeatumi

Yeah I'm catching up!

06 // 48911 // 1087 // 155.3 // 116.0+ // Major-punk

Clock Day was okay for me.

07 // 43539 // 2148 // 306.9 // 255.6+ // Seamonky

erm.. am I in trouble?

Again, thanks for the update Sterockicy. =)

This list gets pushed off the first page way too fast, I didn't even notice an update last week. =/

At 8/12/07 03:32 AM, Wylo wrote:

131) 10.92 +0.01 9.10 bomb Pvt. First Class -3
132) 10.91 -------- 7.37 Seraphius General -3
134) 10.90 +0.03 6.81 Major-punk Sup. Commander +3

I'm making some decent progress, I'll probibly pass Seraphius and bomb by next update since I'm already at 10.92. Also it seems at this rate I'll hit the 11.00vp milestone in 4 more weeks. =)

Thanks again for the update Wylo

At 8/18/07 10:18 PM, AfroUnderscoreStud wrote:

I've also set the new record for highest recorded weekly pace, breaking the record I set this time last year by about 500 points.

lmao.

75+ per day BPers

Congrats to the many who made this list.

Major-punk 147

36th highest pace, cool.

10+ rank climbers

Congrats here aswell.

New Supreme Commanders:

Big congratulations to the new supreme commanders.

034) 49503 0000 000.0 fixit -1

I can't wait to pass the bot. Still a few weeks away though.

035) 49355 0977 139.6 ouandyoi 1

Hard to judge when I will pass you since clock day completely skewed your pace.

036) 48797 1029 147.0 Major-punk 1

Fuck yeah I just made star pace in the last few hours. Unfortunately I was only able to be active for half of clock day, and I was giving alot of the absolute crap submissions 0's so I missed alot of saves too. =/

037) 48761 0280 040.0 RemRulzz -2

It's about god damn time. =P

038) 48591 1950 278.6 Basspro55 1

You won't pass me this week, but I'm definately in trouble.

Thanks again for the update Afro.

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At 8/19/07 07:22 AM, milinko959 wrote: So a star pacer is 1000 weekly B/P?

Yes.

At 8/17/07 12:35 PM, Coop83 wrote:

I think that for Clock Day, Tom needs to change the parameters , so that any movies with scores of say 2.50 or below are deleted. This will still mean that an alarmingly low amount of submissions are deleted, but the crap that people willing to vote sensibly on that is at that sort of score is most certainly worthy of deletion.

That's actually a really good idea. I was thinking of just having every submission on that date be given a -2 after it passes, so if it passes with a 3.8 it would be lowered to 1.8. The flaw with that though is the really good submissions would be cheated out of 2 points. =/

But yeah, raising the passing threshold for clock day is definately something to be considered to stop the obvious spammy - less then 10kb type submissions.

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Unrelated: Got a new job today. ^_^

A couple here.

Far too much spam for my taste. Did manage to get almost 700 saves though.

Hopefully next year theres more quality instead of quantity.

I hate how Clock Day is turning more into a spam day, I remember the last couple years have better quality and acutally having SOME effort. This year was like 50% spam.

This is pathetic.

At 8/15/07 05:40 PM, ever-vigilant wrote:

Shit. It's clock day today and I just missed the whole thing. I am a total tard for missing the biggest event in the portal of the year.

That sucks man, I almost missed all today too with the internet randomly cutting out on the WORST DAY POSSIBLE.
I woke up early at 7:20am, didn't connect until 12:30pm. Ran fine from 12:30 to 3:15pm but then ofcourse it went out again until like 5 minutes ago.

I figure I missed somewhere around 500-700 points because of this. >:(

/rant

At 8/15/07 12:07 AM, EagleRock wrote:

Here we go, guys! DEFCON 1!

Yeah good call. Holy fuck every year it surprises me, every single year.

At 8/15/07 12:49 AM, Phantom wrote:

Besides the clock day frenzy, has anyone had a problem like I'm having with submissions, you click on one and it gives you an error message saying the flash never existed and it was just submitted...This has already happened to me 3 times in the past hour.

Yeah it has happened to me twice. ERROR - No submission ever existed with ID 393445. /gay.

At 8/15/07 01:06 AM, pepeatumi wrote:

I put as one of my favorites and I'll review it soon.... As soon as the portal slows down a bit >_>

What he said. ^

So in the first hour I've already gained 101 points, and a few blams. Hopefully I can top 200 before I go to bed whenever the portal slows down tTen I'm getting up at 7:20am sharp to continue for virtually the whole day. So much potential today. ^_^

At 8/14/07 08:51 AM, Shanus wrote:

Barracks roster - August 14, 2007

Thanks again for the update Shanus.

Top 5 Gainers:

PenguinLink - 432
pepeatumi - 398
Seamonky - 359
Shanus - 313
EagleRock - 308

Congrats to the top 5.

New to the list: Mendou!

Welcome.

Rank // Total B/P points // Gain // Gain/day // Gain rise/drop // Name

05 // 50195 // 398 // 56.9 // 30.2+ // pepeatumi

Alright it looks like peppy is getting back to his old self so I might aswell scratch the idea of passing him for now.

06 // 47824 // 275 // 39.3 // 11.3+ // Major-punk

This is a very good sign, for the last 3-4 weeks I have been consistantly improving my pace. Yeah the hunger for every point is making a return, and it could not of happened at a better time.

*SALUTES*

*salutes*
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Note to self: b/p total before clock day - 47,860

At 8/12/07 05:12 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop watches A-Rod blast Home Runs #502 and 503 of his career while congratulating:

All I've been hearing is hes gonna be the new home run king 10 years from now, personally I'd rather a guy with a blown up steroid controversy have the record then a dick like him. :)

Level 27 now. Some pretty neat chains here.

will i be pimped?