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At 1/7/05 08:24 AM, BonusStage wrote:

At 1/3/05 11:09 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Yep, so I noticed. +0.03 but +2 IIRC. Close enough to double 3s. #;-}>

Explain this IIRC to me OR ELSE ):<

If
I
Recall
Correctly

My curious mind wanders again... what does EGSC mean exactly?

At 1/7/05 08:48 PM, Myst_Williams wrote: My curious mind wanders again... what does EGSC mean exactly?

Elite General Supreme Commander, the highest BP rank

At 1/7/05 08:39 PM, D0GMA wrote: If
I
Recall
Correctly

damned acronyms, they get me everytime *hits wall*

At 1/7/05 09:57 PM, BonusStage wrote:

damned acronyms, they get me everytime *hits wall*

Don't feel bad, I don't understan dhalf of them myself!!!

Here's my "I know you don't want your update to be too far down the page but I don't want to have to reply/thank you for two updates so I'm posting this even though it makes your update one more spot down the page, but I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place here" post. (heh)

At 1/1/05 09:20 AM, gfoxcook wrote: 056.) 10.05 +0.03 MPA +1

Very nice, second week in a row for the +1 action.

One week, Tom Hanks wasn't early
He was rather very late
Tom Hanks needs to say
Thanks for the update

Didn't have much time to think of a good long one this week so you got one that sort of rhymes instead. I'll do better next update. (hah)

At 1/6/05 01:09 PM, EKRegulus wrote: It was sarcasm... :D

well... GOOD, then... yeah. #;-}>

I will enjoy all the vp boosts I will gain until I reach egsc. That's fo shizzle. Btw, one boost will probably happen today =)

Excellent! See that you do.... And... happy rankup, then!

Right now, MPA is considered to have the lowest vp for an egsc. Although, many people will soon beat him and Ya_Ya will probably win the challenge. I could try to pass Ya_Ya and bonus and beat that record before them but it seems impossible unless they stop to blam/protect.

So it's pretty much down to Ya_Ya and Bonus? I don't remember the exp of either of 'em, so I'll take your word for it. Anyway, don't worry too much about it. It's not like it's the ultimate NG prize to accomplish that. I hit 10.00 by ranking up to General, and by the time I hit SC, I was around 10.50 or so, but you don't hear me complaining that I wasn't still under 10.00 and super-unique. If anything, you'll hear me complaining that hitting General and SC should have boosted my VP well past NemesisM66's, if only I'd done my depositing duties better from 2000 to 2003. ;_;

At 1/6/05 02:06 PM, jonthomson wrote:

At 1/1/05 09:20 AM, gfoxcook wrote: 100.) 09.25 +0.02 good_guy_o -1

Well, I'm up to 9.24 now, so I'll be close, although most people at 100 and
just above will have gained a couple of hundredths. Guess I'll just have to keep going and close that next 1500 level out then :-)

So I noticed, man. Congrats on the rank up, and SUPER congrats on finally being on the doorstep to the top 100 VP list. With any luck, both you AND James will be safely in the top 100 in a few months, eh wot?

Hopefully one more 1500 gap rank will be easier for you to get now with your new computer and with the knowledge that you'll earn a spot on this list by doing so, eh? Good luck, man.

At 1/6/05 09:18 PM, IV_KOME_4_U wrote:

At 1/1/05 09:20 AM, gfoxcook wrote: 089.) 09.48 +0.02 IV_KOME_4_U -1

rankup tomorrow then get here :)

Then get here? You mean between these two, right:

059.) 10.01 +0.02 format
060.) 09.91 UNCH. rvyn

+.47 and +39 and bye bye

Oh, your VP gain and rankgain, eh? Yeah, looks like you'll be right around 9.96 or so. Have fun with that! From the top 90... to the top 60. Quite the jump. #;-}>

087.) 09.50 +0.15 Denvish +7

til he get general anyway :P

And then yer doomed, eh? #;-}> He's already taken down many a user (like say James, booted out of the top 100... though he DID make it back in a second time, only to get knocked out again by someone else).

Anywho... good to see most everyone doing so well.

At 1/7/05 08:24 AM, BonusStage wrote:

At 1/3/05 11:09 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Yep, so I noticed. +0.03 but +2 IIRC. Close enough to double 3s. #;-}>

Explain this IIRC to me OR ELSE ):<

Dogma took care of that for ya (thanks, Dogma).

Nice new sig, Bonus. Neon lights!

At 1/7/05 05:55 PM, Inuzuka-Kiba wrote:

At 1/1/05 09:24 AM, gfoxcook wrote: 439.) 07.48 UNCH. L-Trippin -5
440.) 07.48 +0.01 Outlaw88 -2
441.) 07.48 UNCH. Cobby -6
442.) 07.48 +0.01 dustynickel -3
443.) 07.48 UNCH. -Desolation- -7
444.) 07.48 +0.01 LastScion -3
481.) 07.35 +0.02 Inuzuka-Kiba +3

Look at all my new friends now that I'm safe. ^_^

Are they only you new friends because you're going to be giving them all a -1 on today's update? How cruel, man... How cruel indeeeeeed. #;-}>

At 1/7/05 08:48 PM, Myst_Williams wrote: My curious mind wanders again... what does EGSC mean exactly?

Man, it sure was "ask random questions" day in here yesterday, wasn't it. Prof Rhythm took care of this one (thanks, Prof)...

EXCEPT... that he made a slight slip-up and said "General" instead of "Guard." Anytime you see EG on this forum, it almost always stands for the Elite Guard (which covers any b/p rank above Police Captain... the NG blammer/saviour army, basically), Myst. The SC, as Prof correctly said, stands for Supreme Commander. Any other questions?

Seriously... one and all: ask any and all of yer questions TODAY! Saturday, January 8th, 2005... ONE DAY SALE!

I'm not doing the update till later in the day, and there's plenty of this page to burn (I WOULD still like to get the update near the top of the NEXT page if possible... if not, oh wells).

At 1/8/05 01:30 AM, MPA wrote: Here's my "I know you don't want your update to be too far down the page but I don't want to have to reply/thank you for two updates so I'm posting this even though it makes your update one more spot down the page, but I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place here" post. (heh)

Well, like I said at the bottom of the previous page, I'd rather either no one posts till the update (obviously wasn't going to happen), or PLENTY of people post before the update so we can get this baby moving along and burn up this whole page. 11 of the 30 post slots for this page were already filled when I came in just now... and my three posts will bring that up to 14, nearly halfway through the page. Depending on how giving everyone on Wi/Ht? is feeling today, we could probably boost that up to 25+ by the time I'm ready to do the update this evening, and that should enable a fresh page for the update with a little last-minute help, if nothing else.

So anyway... please, reply reply reply. And I shall try to do the same throughout the day to help out. I ain't asking for spam... just for good conversation in here. VP list related or not-so-much.

At 1/1/05 09:20 AM, gfoxcook wrote: 056.) 10.05 +0.03 MPA +1

Very nice, second week in a row for the +1 action.

Climbin', climbin', climbin' away are ye.

One week, Tom Hanks wasn't early
He was rather very late
Tom Hanks needs to say
Thanks for the update

Didn't have much time to think of a good long one this week so you got one that sort of rhymes instead. I'll do better next update. (hah)

Will ye now? Were you saying, earlier in your post, that you didn't gimme a Tom Hanks for last week's update? Because your rhyme simply seemed to say that you were late into the week before thanking me... which is an entirely different situation, of course. But your "reply/thank you for two updates" part really seems to suggest you missed TWO weeks straight, which I can't imagine I wouldn't have noticed, so... now I'm confused. :::nods:::

Anywho. (cough)... ahem...

Each week, gfox churns out the listage
Each week, gfox has lots of stat fun
Here on Newgrounds where the stats are thick and plenty
Here on Newgrounds where the action's just begun

Even though it's all ones and zeroes
Even though it wastes much time
We bundle up all winter long at the monitor
Avoiding Snow Problems outside while the church-bells chime

"Ding-dong," the bells ring out now!
"Ding-dong," the church-bells sing!
"Be sure ye gather protections...
Lest the blams overwhelm ev'rything!"

At 1/6/05 12:59 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Very nice progress, Marcus. Very nice indeed. You'll be in the top 200 before you know it.

why ty mister fox.

And yeah, I seem to remember you being right around #400 or 401. Didn't I say something to you about the merits of being #401 at the top of a page of the update versus the merits of being #400 and thus in the top 400? #;-}>

yes, quite possibly you did :)
(gotta love my smiley... way better than ures :P haha)

Sure thing, you're quite welcome, as is everyone.

:D

Until August of 2004, there WAS no program. It was me looking in everyone's profile from the links in my Excel spreadsheet, and copying down the VP numbers. Since August of 2004, I've been using ShittyKitty's program, yes.

once again... :D
haha, cool then.
i can understand why he is a mod or whatever he is on RG.... what with all of his programs and list ma-bobs....
----
+0.01 VP! W000000!

At 1/8/05 04:48 AM, M-A-R-C-U-S wrote: why ty mister fox.

Sure thing.

yes, quite possibly you did :)
(gotta love my smiley... way better than ures :P haha)

Whether :) is better, worse, the same, or... just apples and oranges and thus not comparable to... #;-}> is a subjective issue.

But one thing's for certain: :) isn't YOUR smiley, man. That's the basic ASCII smiley, it's been used for 25 years or so in e-mails and on usenet. So... you may USE it, but you can't really say it's "yours" in that you possess it. Nor do I possess #;-}>, but I can say, with confidence, that I am the first person to create that smiley, and even if someone made it once or twice before 1994 when I came up with it... there is no way in hell that they used it for 11+ years all over the net... in more than 20,000-30,000 posts on Prodigy, AOL, Usenet, NG BBS, and various other forums. And thousands of e-mails and AIMs as well. That is certain. #;-}>

D

I don't think I need to tell you that ain't your smiley either. #;-}>

Until August of 2004, there WAS no program. It was me looking in everyone's profile from the links in my Excel spreadsheet, and copying down the VP numbers. Since August of 2004, I've been using ShittyKitty's program, yes.

once again... :D
haha, cool then.
i can understand why he is a mod or whatever he is on RG.... what with all of his programs and list ma-bobs....
----
+0.01 VP! W000000!

He was never a mod. He went straight from normal user to admin. Because of his programming ability and his programs and so forth, yes. Not for his lists, though, I don't think. Although maybe Josh really liked his RGTL or something. But anyway, I think it was more than he could pay for 6 months of hosting + change up a bunch of coding around the site. #;-}>

That's it, people! Keep 'em coming, keep 'em coming. :::waits:::

At 1/8/05 05:25 AM, gfoxcook wrote: That's it, people! Keep 'em coming, keep 'em coming. :::waits:::

Beh! You've all disappeared from me VP thread! Then again, it IS 8 AM NG time on a Saturday morning, soooo... :::waits patiently... or tries to:::

I'll be doing the list update the old-fashioned (read: hard) way today, so... it definitely won't be coming along too soon. So please, peoples... get to your replying now, don't wait for AFTER the list, it's gonna be awhile.

At 1/8/05 08:02 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 1/8/05 05:25 AM, gfoxcook wrote: That's it, people! Keep 'em coming, keep 'em coming. :::waits:::

lol, there's gonna be a few people today suffering from withdrawal symptoms, methinks. Has anyone actually managed to get in touch with SK yet?

With my current VB knowledge, I could probably write a program like NGLister, but it would take at least a week to build, and it wouldn't be as quick as SK's, because I'm still on VB6, which uses different (read: slower) protocols to .NET. When I next format my PC, I'll be installing .NET.

At 1/8/05 08:24 AM, Denvish wrote:

At 1/8/05 08:02 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 1/8/05 05:25 AM, gfoxcook wrote: That's it, people! Keep 'em coming, keep 'em coming. :::waits:::

lol, there's gonna be a few people today suffering from withdrawal symptoms, methinks. Has anyone actually managed to get in touch with SK yet?

What withdrawal? This list is being updated, one way or another, today. Like the part of my post that you clipped out said. O_o

The only question is... will I have the energy and desire to do the pentalist as well, which is kinda a tougher task manually, now that's it grown to 150+ people, than this one is...

With my current VB knowledge, I could probably write a program like NGLister, but it would take at least a week to build, and it wouldn't be as quick as SK's, because I'm still on VB6, which uses different (read: slower) protocols to .NET. When I next format my PC, I'll be installing .NET.

Ah well.

At 1/8/05 04:26 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Excellent! See that you do.... And... happy rankup, then!

It already happened and yes, I'm happy about it. :D Thanks anyway.

So it's pretty much down to Ya_Ya and Bonus? I don't remember the exp of either of 'em, so I'll take your word for it.

BonusStage: Exp. Points: 2,630 / 2,971, level 11, 19112 b/p pts
Ya_Ya: Exp. Points: 1,690 / 2,114, level 10, 15540 b/p pts
Then compare it with my stats. :O
EKRegulus: Exp. Points: 3,225 / 3,828, level 12, 14164 b/p pts.
I didn't even mention the guy named the_puppet yet which is level 10 and a first lieutenant. His b/p pace is very high.

Anyway, don't worry too much about it. It's not like it's the ultimate NG prize to accomplish that. I hit 10.00 by ranking up to General, and by the time I hit SC, I was around 10.50 or so, but you don't hear me complaining that I wasn't still under 10.00 and super-unique. If anything, you'll hear me complaining that hitting General and SC should have boosted my VP well past NemesisM66's, if only I'd done my depositing duties better from 2000 to 2003. ;_;

Yeah, that award isn't that important to me but it would still be fun to get it :)

At 1/8/05 08:02 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I'll be doing the list update the old-fashioned (read: hard) way today, so... it definitely won't be coming along too soon. So please, peoples... get to your replying now, don't wait for AFTER the list, it's gonna be awhile.

I can help you to get the posting on the next page but I will only do it if you count these posts in the other thread (you know which) :D
I won't spam though, that's not what I have in mind.

At 1/8/05 08:24 AM, Denvish wrote:
lol, there's gonna be a few people today suffering from withdrawal symptoms, methinks. Has anyone actually managed to get in touch with SK yet?

I*act like drugie*
I thought about this when I saw there was a change to the profiles. I was hoping it would not effect the other stat pulls.
That means once Josh fixes it I'll need the updated program.

At 1/8/05 08:50 AM, EKRegulus wrote: BonusStage: Exp. Points: 2,630 / 2,971, level 11, 19112 b/p pts
Ya_Ya: Exp. Points: 1,690 / 2,114, level 10, 15540 b/p pts
Then compare it with my stats. :O
EKRegulus: Exp. Points: 3,225 / 3,828, level 12, 14164 b/p pts.
I didn't even mention the guy named the_puppet yet which is level 10 and a first lieutenant. His b/p pace is very high.

;-_- i'm almost equal to the_puppet, at least last time SK did an update i was, but Ya_Ya does maybe 20 more than me on per day average since account creation, which really sucks :(

At 1/8/05 04:27 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Dogma took care of that for ya (thanks, Dogma).

Lazy little ... bum head :o

Nice new sig, Bonus. Neon lights!

Heh someone was making single color sigs that look liike mine about a month ago, and i for some reason got 3 colors *shrugs* SSOOO after everyone else had changed out their's, i thought THIS WOULD BE a good time to use it ^.^, and i like it :D

At 1/7/05 11:46 PM, DRD1982 wrote: Don't feel bad, I don't understan dhalf of them myself!!!

HAZZAH i'm not the only one *dances*

Well since Yoink still has a while before he makes the last rank I'm still number two.
I must get Wade to take points away from Yoink. >:)

At 1/8/05 08:37 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

lol, there's gonna be a few people today suffering from withdrawal symptoms, methinks. Has anyone actually managed to get in touch with SK yet?

Like me grrrrrrr

The only question is... will I have the energy and desire to do the pentalist as well, which is kinda a tougher task manually, now that's it grown to 150+ people, than this one is...

OMG dont say such evil things thats the best list ever i will cry....

~X~

At 1/8/05 10:25 AM, XwaynecoltX wrote:

At 1/8/05 08:37 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

lol, there's gonna be a few people today suffering from withdrawal symptoms, methinks. Has anyone actually managed to get in touch with SK yet?

Like me grrrrrrr

Well unless you want to go To Texas and find SK. You are SOL

The only question is... will I have the energy and desire to do the pentalist as well, which is kinda a tougher task manually, now that's it grown to 150+ people, than this one is...

OMG dont say such evil things thats the best list ever i will cry....

~X~

I can live without updates to either list. I can wait unlike others.

At 1/8/05 10:28 AM, ramagi wrote:

Like me grrrrrrr

Well unless you want to go To Texas and find SK. You are SOL

that would take me less then 12 hours but i dont plan on it, besides SK will be back on monday, so maybe things will be back to normal by then...

~X~

At 1/8/05 10:34 AM, XwaynecoltX wrote: that would take me less then 12 hours but i dont plan on it, besides SK will be back on monday, so maybe things will be back to normal by then...

~X~

Well he still has to fix the problem. Hopfully he will have the time t do so. I am not sure when he get back to school. I thought it was not back at school till next wekk. I could be wrong.

At 1/8/05 10:14 AM, BonusStage wrote: ;-_- i'm almost equal to the_puppet, at least last time SK did an update i was, but Ya_Ya does maybe 20 more than me on per day average since account creation, which really sucks :(

Computer program > you! A computer program doesn't need to eat or to sleep unlike us because we are weak humans :)

At 1/8/05 10:28 AM, ramagi wrote: I can live without updates to either list. I can wait unlike others.

If your stats were reset, would you cry all day? :P

At 1/8/05 04:27 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Are they only you new friends because you're going to be giving them all a -1 on today's update? How cruel, man... How cruel indeeeeeed. #;-}>

Well...um...uh....STOP MAKING ME LOOK EVIL!! ;_; I made my rank up on Friday, and it boosted me from 7.37 to 7.48. Thus I was referring to them as my new friends since I'd have been with them. But then I made my Saturday deposit around midnight, and that boosted me up to 7.49. But I doubt I'll be giving them all a -1 considering they too could have increased their VPs by then. SO HAH! (=-]>)

At 1/8/05 10:45 AM, ramagi wrote: Well he still has to fix the problem. Hopfully he will have the time t do so. I am not sure when he get back to school. I thought it was not back at school till next wekk. I could be wrong.

Ya im sure things will get back on track, just gives us more time to think how great thease updates really are hehe...

~X~

would think that vp list easier than bp list. if even this not done i say the same as i did to chris. go take a nap greg, wecan wait.

greg, check your newgrounds email, there should be a message with subject: NG Profile Grabber

Keep getting errors on Chris' d0gma.com email, do you have an alternative address for her?

At 1/8/05 08:55 PM, Denvish wrote:
Cheers Syme. Something makes me think she's not gonna be interested tonight, but hopefully it'll help out with the minis

just hope she dont hurt me for posting those ;)

wow Syme, congrats on your recent rank up and it looks like you're really really close to a VP of 10.00. which is really nice.

Update date: Saturday, January 8th, 2005

Welcome to this weekend's update of the Top 500 Voting Power List! #500 is holding at 7.32 VP. The number of tracked people in the spreadsheet is frozen at 1283 until ShittyKitty gets back from his winter vacation in mid-January and resumes data pulls for his NGTL.

There were six rankups in the top 100 VP this week. Congrats to X-Naut, Syme (IV_KOME_4_U), wismty, Nijsse, good_guy_o, and James (FIGMENTUM). SUPER congrats to X-Naut, Syme, and Nijsse for those excellent EG General rankup boosts (+0.49, +0.47, and +0.45 respectively... heh! Nice 0.02 differentials between 'em there). Also, a huge welcome back to our very own James, who is now making his THIRD entrance to the top 100. His rankup puts him right at #100, and once again he's in a tenuous position. Still, better to be fighting for a spot... than nowhere within range. And speaking of within range, it looks like our very own jonthomson may be joining him in top 100-edgeness upon his next rankup. That is, of course, assuming that no other huge Nijsse-esque EGG rankups boost people right past the both of them from the 100-120 range to the 80-100 range, as happened today. No new 10+, 11+, 12+, etc. peoples this week, but a dl_Monk's on the verge of 12 with 11.99 and nimmer's on the verge of 11 with 10.99 and Syme's on the verge of 10 with 9.95, so the coming weeks should bring those people over those marks. One note/plea/whatnot: The area around 8.00 has turned into a graveyard. Tons of inactive depositers or people not depositing more than a couple times per week... dropping like flies into the 7.90s... it's kinda depressing (8.00+ is -1 this week, the only change of any grouping). So anyway, if any of you inactive/less-active 7.90-8.10 people are reading this... REPRESENT, eh? You gotta pull for your section(s) of the list. Don't let the guys down--get some exp, eh?! ;_; Anywho.... Good luck to everyone with their individual struggles.

And speaking of individual struggles... If you haven't been following the exchanges in here, the pentalist topic, and Dogma's list topics today, the review-link change in our profiles has rendered SK's NG Lister useless for the time being, and Dogma and I were faced with the unpleasant prospect of manual list updating today. As a result of this, the pentalist update scheduled for today has been DELAYED... indefinitely. I've got some work to do on a possible change to a web version of that list, anyway, so I'll probably spend some free time this coming week experimenting with that instead, and we'll see when the update gets done. Maybe next Saturday, maybe sooner. Maybe later. It could be a full two weeks from now, at worst case (as though I skipped a cycle, basically). Anywho, short story long: I was going to update this morning, but I was tired, so I took a snooze, went out and did some errands, had lunch, watched TV, etc. etc. And didn't end up starting the VP data pull until evening. I was around #350 on the list (ahhh, just like the old days) after 2 hours or so of work when I checked my e-mail and discovered Denvish had coded us listmakers a stand-in version of SK's NG Lister: NG Grabber. Denvish, I thank you very much for this, I'll be e-mailing you about some issues and stuff... It's probably my ancient computer's fault (or the program being 4 megs instead of a few hundred Ks, like NG Lister is, in combination with that), but it took quite some time to grab data, and I kept getting timeouts and the like. But in the end, I pulled from around 400 to around 620 on the list (well past the #500 spot so I didn't miss anyone, and am ready for next week's update, too) with NG Grabber, and even if it didn't speed things up, it prevented me from having to visually note EACH and every VP amount, as I had been doing up till then (and of course, as I did for almost a full year of VP list updating). So anyway, it was an interesting mix of nostalgic old-fashioned hard-work list updating and experimentation/experiencing Denvish's take on SK's program to finish it off. Not an entirely un-fun evening, but not the greatest day in my list updating life, either. So, there's a huge ramble for those of you who like such things! And that pretty much explains, I hope, the entire situation with both my lists for now. Depending on how the profile changes remain or continue or stay the same... and on when SK can get his code retooled... and on when I decide to update the pentalist... I may end up using Denvish's program to do the pentalist data-pulling, or I may wait until I can use SK's program. But either way, if it's a choice between manual and NG Grabber next saturday for THIS list, I'll be trying to go with NG Grabber all the way. In 15 user chunks, as seems to work best on my computer. #;-}>

number of people over xx.xx VP:
14.00+ -- 001 (UNCH.)
13.00+ -- 004 (UNCH.)
12.00+ -- 008 (UNCH.)
11.00+ -- 028 (UNCH.)
10.00+ -- 059 (UNCH.)
09.00+ -- 114 (UNCH.)
08.00+ -- 273 (-1)

combined VPs of the five centuries:
001-100 -- 1050.04 (+2.18)
101-200 -- 867.84 (+1.60)
201-300 -- 809.39 (+1.18)
301-400 -- 773.23 (+1.22)
401-500 -- 746.19 (+1.68)

total combined VP of the Top 500 VP list: 4246.69 (+7.86)
the average VP of the Top 500 VP list: 8.49 (+0.01)