At 7/19/09 05:00 AM, Coop83 wrote:
Coop prepares to take his last hacks at Overlord 2 for a few days, while congratulating:
Why the hiatus? Wait, 'cause of playing Monkey Island instead?
At 7/18/09 03:41 PM, Bahamut wrote:
Hey, it's still possible. It's just no-one has ever tried to get two EGSC accounts before. The closest for an alt EGSC is Afro_Stud's LevelOneAccount, unless I'm forgetting someone...
The only other one I can think of is Muffin, but that's got less. Unless you count Fro's "alt", Dream-of-Duke. Personally, I'd let the account rot, since he won't get any thanks from that ungrateful turd.
It only counts if the alt was made by the person who made the main, IMO. Inherited alts don't count, or Xiivi + Nemesis would be a potential double EGSC in the future, and I don't think that's right. hmph.
Anyway, I'm sure I'm not even the 2nd closest to it after Afro and his lvl1acct, seeing as how gfoxclock only has 2540 or so b/p.
At 7/19/09 10:15 AM, Bahamut wrote:
Top 250 in EXP
Congrats.
Top 300 - 21/1/09
Top 250 - 19/7/09
Pretty much 6 months between #251 - 300. I'm guessing it'll take 9 months to reach the top 200, so I predict I'll enter the Top 200 next April. Let's see if I'm right or wrong when the time comes.
If it takes you 9 months to reach the top 200, that means gfox will lose... say 50 rank spots between now and then. I find that hard to believe.
As I said in an above post, gfox's exp retirement number is a number you'll reach in January 2010. I won't guess as to whether you'll hit the top 200 before or after you pass him, but I will say it won't be 4 months after you pass him. That's insane. O_O
At 7/19/09 01:08 PM, Auz wrote:
At 7/17/09 10:08 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
B) have a network of informants that would notify them via PM or e-mail or IM if such a topic ever occurs.
That seems like the most likely option then.
Probably, yeah.
Well, Electrical Storm was a very different sort of single from U2. Instead of being associated with any one album like MOST singles are/were... wasn't it released on one of the decade-BestOfs double-discs?
Yeah it was released on the best of ´90-2000. Like The Sweetest Thing was on the ´80-´90.
Ah, but there's a difference between those two, at least for me. I'd never heard OR heard of Electrical Storm until 90-00 best of started being talked about.... but I already owned Sweetest Thing for years and years before the 80-90 best of came out, because it's a b-side on one of the Joshua Tree singles. Can't remember which one, as I have 2 or 3 from that album.
Hehe yeah the huge cover art is indeed awesome. Although the October cover art wasn´t much special I think, except that it was nice to see the band in their very young years on the picture.
Yeah.
Will do next time, like I said :) Although I might just look them up on Youtube. Youtube being my main "music player" at the moment whenever I´m on my PC.
I hear ya, man. I use itunes, too, but for music I don't own or for music I do own but haven't ripped from CD to my harddrive yet, youtube is the quickest way to hear it. I probably use youtube at least as much as a music player as I use it as a video viewer.
War is an excellent album, start to finish. A couple songs on there I sometimes skip, but it's definitely in the top 5 U2 albums to listen to from start to finish.
Top 5 you say? Well then I´m curious if it´s gonna beat Achtung Baby, The Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, Boy or Zooropa (my top 5) :p
Well, like I said... "albums to listen to from start to finish," I'm not sure if that's really exactly the same thing as "best albums." For instance, TUF has some great songs on it, and it's one of my fave U2 albums, but it's not in my top 5 to listen to from start to finish, because it has a real dragging portion between the first 4 songs and then Indian Summer Sky/Bad near the end.
Anyway.... I'd definitely rather listen to War all the way through than Rattle and Hum. That'd be the one of your five I'd swap with War.
October's good to listen to all the way through, though a lot of the songs are very similar-sounding, way moreso than on any other U2 album, IMO... it's not really their fault, seeing as how the lyrics briefcase was lost/stolen and they had to redo so much musical composing at the last minute... and I really like a lot of the tracks on it, like Fire and October (that one stands out from the rest, for one), and With a Shout, along with of course Gloria... but yeah, not good enough to make it into a top 5 listenable list.
I'd agree with you about Zooropa needing to be in the list, and I don't think any album since then comes close, though maybe ATYCLB is closest. For me, I guess I'd have to go:
start-to-finish listenability:
1 Achtung Baby
2 Joshua Tree
3 War
4 Boy
5 Zooropa
6 Unforgettable Fire
7 ATYCLB
and then POP, October, etc. Can't really rank 'em at that point.
but you'll note the above list differs from my "fave album" list, in order at least:
1 Joshua Tree
2 Achtung Baby
3 Unforgettable Fire
4 War
5 Zooropa
6 Boy
7 POP
etc.
Ah well. They can't live forever. At some point their music is either gonna disappoint you or they're gonna stop releasing it. One way or the other, it has to end.
That´s true I guess. Perhaps my expectations of them have just become a bit too high over the years.
That's a good thing, though, since it means they produced enough good schtuff to get our hopes up. #;-}>
Aha, I figured it was something like that. Sounds like a really handy program if you ask me. And how much do you pay for a game on average? Are they much cheaper than in the stores?
New games will often cost just as much as they do in stores, $50 is the average US new game price for PC games in store OR on Steam. But Steam has a lot of $20-$40 range games. Don't shop at stores often enough to know how well they discount on not-quite-super-new-or-super-big games, but my impression is that Steam goes a bit lower.
But the main way Steam wins is this: Steam does a weekend sale almost every week, and occasionally a week-long sale, and every year at the end of the year, a big holiday/winter sale on almost everything on the site.
The sales can be on individual games, a whole game series, a pack of multiple games/series, or even EVERY game from a specific company.
I'd say at least 60 of the 82 games I own on Steam were via sales, and I saved anywhere between 25% to 75% off those 60 games due to the sales.
The packs that go on sale, BTW, are already a good value to get on Steam, as they already have a sale-like discount built in. When an already good-value pack goes on sale, it's almost as good as getting a game for free. #;-}>
Alright. So it´s also like a big community a bit similar to Newgrounds?
Yes. There is a forum, too, but it's not directly in Steam, it's in its own website, and you have a different login on the forum than you do for gaming.
But yeah, there's messaging each other similar to NG PM only realtime IM.... there's profile comments, like NG.... there's profiles, of course... and there's a forum.... and there's games to play like NG's flash games, only... yeah. "Real" games. Heh. #;-}> And hell, even movies to watch (demos and promos for games, of course)!
So yeah, it really is a lot like NG if you think about it, only less advertising (you'll only get ads when you sign on in the first place, or if you visit the store), and tons more money-sucking than NG despite that. #;-}>
