At 11/4/09 02:19 PM, Haggard wrote: Actually, she got it from an old song. At least that's what Wikipedia says.

Ah, OK. Interesting, I didn't know that!

Ah, dat Beugelbuddelbeer... wat mutt dat mutt, och in uns niemoodsche Tied! :) Am besten man gleich as Lütt un Lütt! ;)

Hm, I really want to learn Platt at some time in the future.* Right now my limited knowledge really shows. Never heard "niemoodsche" before, and I'm not sure what "as Lütt und Lütt" means, except for that Lütt means "klein". But that doesn't help me that much. ^^

"Lütt un Lütt" is a (small) beer and a small Schnaps. :)

*But I don't know, which kind of platt I should learn... as someone from Hamburg maybe it would be best to learn "Missingsch", as that was the most common dialect around here, I think. ^^

Ah, yeah, that'd be interesting, too. ^^ Might be worth checking if there's any courses for that; I know one university (can't recall which, though) had courses in Mooring at some point, so Missingsch might also be available if you're lucky. Or check your local VHS - they should have some sort of Plattdüütsch at least, one hopes.

Or pester your grandparents, if they're still alive and from the region. ;)

At 11/5/09 08:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: But with Rhapsody of Epicness (What? Epicness isn't a word?), it would be perfect.

If it wasn't a word before, it is now. :) And hey, it beats "epicicity", which is what I would've come up with myself. ;)

At 11/3/09 12:33 PM, reverend wrote: schneelocke - 6,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 11/3/09 07:39 PM, JKMonkey wrote: schneelocke - 6000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 11/4/09 08:01 AM, Auz wrote: Achievement of the Day
schneelocke: 13.00 VP. I'm about to get that one as well pretty soon =) Congrats!

Yay, thanks a lot! ^_^

Wow, the topic's grown to 2500 pages...

At 11/3/09 10:22 AM, Haggard wrote: We have a proverb in Germany... "Dem Ingeniör ist nichts zu schwör" which basically means, someone who is an Ingenieur is an expert in (almost) all fields. So, I'd prefer "Ingenieur". :P

That's an Erika Fuchs quote, actually - a line she came up with for Daniel Düsentrieb, probably better known to the Anglophones around here as Gyro Gearlose.

*FUMP* <- that's a "Flensbuddle" being opened. ^^

Ah, dat Beugelbuddelbeer... wat mutt dat mutt, och in uns niemoodsche Tied! :) Am besten man gleich as Lütt un Lütt! ;)

Luke, Ik mutt di watt vertellen! XD

*snerk* ^^

At 11/3/09 11:09 AM, Odyssic wrote: schneelocke: 6,000 Medal points

Thanks!

6000 medal points, and I also think I didn't mention that I've got 13+ VP nowadays yet...

At 11/2/09 05:57 AM, Haggard wrote: Wat schallst moken, schietst ops Bett, schietst ops Loken, schietst vorbie, is och ne grode Swinerie.

Nich lang snacken, Kopp in Nacken! ;) Na denn - Prösterchen. ;)

Jo, das wär ja mol bannig fein. But I can just give you the link, much easier that way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAOLcQsZ2 Ck

D

Dien Modder snackt veel, wenn de Tach lang is. XD Ahaha...

At 11/2/09 12:25 PM, Coop83 wrote: I'd hardly call a map a cheat. It's something that still required skill, in order to get things like the last mushroom, you still need orienteering skills.

Well, OK, a map would be acceptable, yes. But how would it help you get the game done very fast?

At 11/1/09 07:13 AM, Coop83 wrote: Great game - good fun and if you've got the right tools, you can get through the game in under the time limit quite easily.

It is a great game, yes. I just need to find that one last mushroom now...

Hmm, and "the right tools"? I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, but it sounds like it'd take the fun out of the game.

At 11/1/09 07:21 AM, Haggard wrote: Wat de Buer nich kennt, dat freet he nich!

Freeten un suupen, datt is all watt ji künnt... :)

Say, have you seen "Star Wars opp platt" on youtube? If not, you should check it out. ;)

Heb ick nich, aber ick kann ja mol kieken. ;)

At 10/31/09 06:45 AM, Coop83 wrote: Fair enough. I think that it's one of my favourites, but that's the thing - one man's junk is another's treasure and vice versa.

True... watt dem een sien Uhl, is dem annern sien Nachtigall. :)

You can get a medal for just throwing the weapons at them until they die as well. That was quite a funny medal.

Hmm, I may have to try that.

Maybe I should work on getting more medals from William and Sly, too. I don't think I'll manage the "get 35000 points" one (and I think having to stay under a certain amount of time, much less one you don't even know, is absolutely counter to the approach and atmosphere of this game), but the other two that remain should be doable...

At 10/30/09 07:52 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop readies himself for an assault on another milestone, while congratulating:
Cool - I see that you've gained a medal off that already.

Yeah, but just one, and it's only worth five points - and it'll likely be the last one, too, as I didn't really enjoy the game. It mostly seems to consist of killing enemies, running out of ammo, switching to your lead pipe, picking up ammo again.. and then running out again, and so on. Picking up other weapons the enemies packed didn't seem to work; I'm not sure it's supposed to, but... well, I just didn't enjoy it that much.

At 10/24/09 11:58 AM, Bahamut wrote: I was just making fun of a Garry's Mod meme where Wallace Breen from Half-Life 2 shouts out "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!" in this video at 2:59. That's what I imagine those who accuse people of cheating in medals. :P

Ah, OK. :)

At 10/24/09 05:58 PM, reverend wrote: schneelocke - 5,000 Medal Points

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At 10/24/09 06:30 PM, Hacsev wrote: schneelocke: 5,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 10/25/09 04:21 AM, Coop83 wrote: schneelocke: 5,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 5863

Ah, right, that was it. Hmm, I have some time to kill right now - I think I'll check it out once my pizza's done.

Your appetite for medals appears to be voracious and tenacious at the same time.

Bodacious!

At 10/25/09 07:13 AM, Odyssic wrote: schneelocke: 5,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 10/26/09 12:02 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Hello, level 49!

That's neat, congrats. :) But that aura leaves something to be desired...

At 10/24/09 07:12 AM, schneelocke wrote:

At 10/24/09 05:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: Fair enough - I've only got one medal to collect to complete Gretel & Hansel - that's a pretty good game, especially with the drawing techniques used.

Oh, I'll have to check that out, too. (Hmm, and there was another game I wanted to look into, too, wasn't there?)

5000 medal points. :) There's still some medals left in that game to get, though - in particular, I'm pretty sure I managed all ten deaths (in the same game, too!), but didn't get the "10 deaths" medal. Hmm...

At 10/24/09 05:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: Fair enough - I've only got one medal to collect to complete Gretel & Hansel - that's a pretty good game, especially with the drawing techniques used.

Oh, I'll have to check that out, too. (Hmm, and there was another game I wanted to look into, too, wasn't there?)

At 10/23/09 07:30 AM, Bahamut wrote: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!

Not really - just a failure of the NG medal system to fail gracefully under certain conditions (combined with certain traits of the game in question). I didn't do this on purpose, though, so it can't be considered hacking of any kind.

At 10/23/09 10:41 AM, Coop83 wrote: Looks like you'll be passing me for Medal Points soon - I've just gotten myself to 8,000 Medal Points, but I think with a certain new computer game at my behest, I think the weekend will take it's toll on this marker :P

Hmm, it's hard to say whether this'll happen or not. Much of the "games with medals" collection appears to be action games that I'm not good at and don't enjoy, so chances are I won't ever get medals from those (at least beyond the "low-hanging fruit" ones I already may have gotten, usually for things such as "kill your first enemy" or so). Also, congrats!

At 10/23/09 04:20 AM, Coop83 wrote: Find what you're good at and run with it, that's what I say :P Though I was always more of a Thing Thing Arena player, to be honest.

I'll give that a try.

Heh, and you know what's funny? I continued playing Dynamic Systems again, and got the "reach level 30" medal BEFORE I got the "reach level 25" medal. Heh. :)

At 10/22/09 05:55 AM, Odyssic wrote: schneelocke: 4,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 10/22/09 03:57 AM, Coop83 wrote: schneelocke: 4,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

It was mostly due to Bunny Invasion Easter that I was able to get that - it's an addictive game, even for someone who doesn't usually like (and sucks at) action games. :)

At 10/21/09 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote: It's all to do with how you see things. It's nothing major.

True.

Oh, BTW 3000^W4000 medal points! :)

At 10/20/09 03:54 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, picking off trained monkeys running at the trebuchet is hardly strategy. But I see where you're coming from.

Yeah, it'd definitely be a different game.

Oh, and it might be better to say "may make me more biased against your idea"

*nods* Merriam-Webster actually has it as a verb, but I agree it sounds a little weird.

At 10/19/09 12:59 AM, Overtired wrote: schneelocke: 2000 metal points

Thanks!

At 10/19/09 04:02 AM, Coop83 wrote: schneelocke: 2,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

Excellent - I reviewed just after you did and put out a theory for Crush the Castle 2, so I hope they pay attention :)

I hope they do. *reads your review* Ah, hmm, I'm not sure I agree with all of your points, though. Having people actually turn into little more than bloodstains when smashed by heavy walls (or be gibbed when hit by bombs, perhaps? c.c) would be interesting, but chances are they're trying to maintain as much of a (P?)G rating as possible with the game. Still, I wouldn't mind this, myself. :)

I'm less sure about the whole "turn-based strategy" thing. Sure, you could do that, too, but let's face it, that wouldn't be a sequel, it'd be an entirely different game. (And personally, I don't like strategy games that much, either, although I'll also admit that that may bias me against your idea there. Hmm, can you use "bias" as a verb?)

That would be more than a little sick, but fun.

Aye - in a good way! :)

At 10/19/09 05:37 AM, Odyssic wrote: schneelocke: 2,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 10/19/09 06:46 AM, Bahamut wrote: 5,000 would be ideal.

Yup. I'm working on it!

At 10/18/09 10:33 AM, schneelocke wrote: Hey, I managed 1000 medal points - does that count as an accomplishment? (I imagine it would, but then, I'd also guess they're easier to guess once you still can reach for the low-hanging fruit...)

Mmm, make that 2000. :)

At 10/18/09 06:09 AM, Coop83 wrote: I guess I could have told you guys about this last week, but I'm officially a Top 30 Flash Reviewer

Congrats!

Hey, I managed 1000 medal points - does that count as an accomplishment? (I imagine it would, but then, I'd also guess they're easier to guess once you still can reach for the low-hanging fruit...)

At 10/18/09 04:56 AM, Coop83 wrote: Looks like I've found one that you can get hooked on :P

Oh, I did. It's just a pity there's nothing left to do for me in that game - I beat every castle, then I beat every castle with a gold medal, then I beat every castle with one shot (not that there were many left where I had used more than one!).

They really should've put all the 1400 levels they boast they received in the game. :)

Games With Medals - Plenty more where that came from.

\o/

Time delay - they're showing for me...

Ah, that's because I solved the problem in the meantime, as noted above.

At 10/16/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Hmm... must be broken temorarily. Perhaps try one of the Crush the Castle PP medals - I only got them recently, so I know they work.

At 10/17/09 08:01 AM, schneelocke wrote: I'll try, but I dare predict it won't work.

At 10/17/09 04:42 PM, schneelocke wrote: Yes, indeed, it didn't. [...] Any ideas?

OK, nevermind, I got it to work. Turns out it was a Firefox add-on problem.

At 10/16/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Hmm... must be broken temorarily. Perhaps try one of the Crush the Castle PP medals - I only got them recently, so I know they work.

At 10/17/09 08:01 AM, schneelocke wrote: I'll try, but I dare predict it won't work.

Yes, indeed, it didn't. I played all the levels and managed to get a gold medal on every last one of them (fun game, BTW ^^), so I *should* have gotten all the medals, but I didn't actually get any at all. And FWIW, I didn't even get any "medal unlocked" messages this time, either.

Any ideas?

At 10/16/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Hmm... must be broken temorarily. Perhaps try one of the Crush the Castle PP medals - I only got them recently, so I know they work.

I'll try, but I dare predict it won't work.

At 10/15/09 03:58 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, I'd have excpected at least one of these budding animators to have come across Flash over their studies - it just seems too good to be true that none of them have ever used this program.

Well, if they're just *starting*...

Anyhow. That said - maybe it's just me, but I still can't seem to get any medals. I tried the one for sitting through the entire street fighter collab, and I did get a "medal unlocked" message in the end, too, but it's still not showing up. IIRC, this is what things were like the last time, too. Any ideas?

At 10/14/09 05:02 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, but if they were embarking on an animation corse, you'd have expected some people on the course to have made something using Flash before

Not necessarily.

Check out my medals that I've won - they're certainly amongst the easier ones.

Heh, OK. :)

At 10/13/09 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote: You shouldn't feel sorry for therm - they really shouldn't have made movies that sucked, should they. On that scale, Bahamut's good enough to have a degree in animation, while people like Stamper and Adam Phillips should be Ph.D. in the subject.

Everyone started at some time, and everyone's first flash sucked (although not everyone necessarily published it)... many of these - the ones I saw, anyway - were still blam-worthy and duely voted on as such, of course, but you're really judging the submissions, not the authors. :)

Get used to it :P

Heh.

At 10/13/09 08:54 AM, Bahamut wrote: I finally got employed yesterday (news post about it) but I misheard one thing and work itself doesn't start just yet, so I didn't even have to come in today but I did because I assumed so. Ah well.

Congrats!

At 10/13/09 10:46 AM, Coop83 wrote: 7,500 Medal Points

Congrats. Also, I probably really should read up on what this actually means. :) (Yes, I know, I asked about medals before, quite a while ago, but the only thing I really remember is that I didn't manage to get any. c.c)

At 10/11/09 01:36 PM, Coop83 wrote: Hooray, you're perfectly nice and normal then :)

*snerk* I think that's the first time I've been called THAT. :)

At 10/9/09 08:34 PM, Hacsev wrote: schneelocke: 82,000 B/P

Thanks!

At 10/10/09 02:45 AM, Coop83 wrote: Ah, it's like that. I don't like it when people don't pay attention to the road while driving, yet it is a tad hypocritical of me, sometimes.

*nods* On one hand, that's true - mistakes will always happen, and nobody's perfect. On the other hand, this is an area where we still need to expect people to not make mistakes.

It may be unrealistic and thus unfair, but hey - life is unfair.

True, but at the end of the day, if you stayed away from everything that's potentially dangerous, you'll never go anywhere or do anything. Not much of a life, in my opinion.

Indeed, and that's just why I'm not concerned. :)

At 10/9/09 09:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: I wasn't wanting to keep spending my free time in the portal, so I decided to semi-retire at 70k at first, take a break and get to 100 or so points away from 77,777 to give time for any flagged entries/post-judgment blam points. A few months later, I went and finished it off.

Ah, sounds rather like me, then - except that I didn't recognize I was getting fed up with spending too much time on the portal until it was too late and I got *too* frustrated. :P

At 10/8/09 03:02 PM, reverend wrote: schneelocke - 82k B/P!

Thanks!

At 10/8/09 07:11 PM, JKMonkey wrote: schneelocke - 82000 B/P Points

Thanks!

At 10/9/09 03:58 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, but similar circumstances won't happen again, will they? ;)

Hard to say. I hope not, but you never know whether there won't be any more idiots on the road not watching what they're doing...

Well, actually, it's probably pretty safe to say that there ARE many more idiots on the road not watching what they're doing, so you can't really rule out that more accidents will happen. And being careful only can do so much; short of staying at home (or at least not riding a bike), there'll always be a chance something will happen.

But I'm not concerned about it.

I'm just a perfectionist and lumberjacks don't go into battle using fire axes :P

Maybe he's an incompetent lumberjack?

At 10/8/09 03:56 AM, Coop83 wrote: schneelocke: 82,000 B/P

Thanks!

Ouch - you're alright now, though? I got run over by a 4x4 as a child, while I was riding my bike. The best thing I could have done was steal my brother's bike and get riding again.

Yup, I'm mostly OK. I dislocated my shoulder, but it's healed up again for the most part; my orthopedist is very happy with my progress there, but I myself am not, since I certainly do notice it's not like before (and that's not even counting it'll be more likely to dislocate again in the future under similar circumstances).

Ah well, what can you do?

Yeah, but the Fire Axe won't keep such a sharp edge and it's a flagrant dismissal of the trades descriptions act :P

Yeah, but everyone loves lumberjacks. :)

At 10/8/09 05:11 AM, Auz wrote: schneelocke: 82,000 BP

Thanks!

At 10/8/09 05:56 AM, Odyssic wrote: schneelocke: 82,000 B/P

Thanks!

At 10/8/09 12:30 PM, Bahamut wrote: Pretty good. Not a milestone I'll ever reach since I'm very happy with retirement.

You're retired? Oh, how come?