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Achievement of the Day
Toocool100: Level 49

Congrats!

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Bloodthorne: Level 47
Powerage: 13,000 Experience
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Sir-Nuts: 23,000 BP
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juansolous: Level 29
aldlv: Top 100 BP

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/12/10 02:13 PM, Auz wrote: *Tired*

I'm glad it's finally weekend again.

Envy me, I had the whole week off because of carnival! ;)

I do, carnaval in Brazil must be awesome 0.0

Just had a whole week off myself though, but it's only been boring and rainy out here. Having done much but hanging around doing nothing.

At 2/11/10 03:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

Heh, yes my dad is also mostly responsible for my knowledge of 80's music. I got to know U2 thanks to him.

Sweet. Although my dad is probably older than yours (he's 50 now), his musical ''era'' was a bit earlier. He's more fond of 60's/70's music. However, I think he has a tape (yeah, a tape!) with ''Joshua Tree'' in it. I don't know if it works or not, though.

Not much difference then. My dad is.. 48 now I think. But he used to be a DJ in the 80's at some small hang-out place for young people. I guess that's why he must prefer that era.

And a tape? :p I haven't seen one of those anymore since I was seven or so.

And downloading music is still easy, isn't it?

Eh, not really. I'm concerned about it nowadays, with all the recording companies bitching about it. =/

Oh yeah, true. Seems to be more and more bitching going on nowadays. I remember recently there was some discussion going on again in our government that people might get fined if they put music videos from youtube on their profile pages (like on facebook, myspace etc.). Luckily not many people supported that plan though, but I can see it happening in the future.

Yeah I heard it was pretty much his best album. I don't know much about his other albums though, and I don't think my dad has any David Bowie CD's or LP's unfortunately.

Get them yourself, why not... =)

Perhaps not a bad idea.

Yeah I know he did the soundtrack of The Exorcist. Although I'm not sure what that song was called.

I think Tubular Bells has only two 20-minute tracks, called Tubular Bells I and II.

Really? But they must be split up then in different parts, because I remember I had some part called 'Finale' on my MP3 coming from the Tubular Bells album.

In that case I don't know, isn't Sledgehammer one of their songs? I do like that one.

Nope, still Peter Gabriel. :P

Aw =(

Genesis is a pretty confusing band I guess. I think I must know some of their songs, but they could be from Peter Gabriel's or Phil Collins' solo-careers as well.

Is he perhaps a pretty famous guitarist like Snowy White?

I haven't heard of him before, so...

Snowy White is one of the other guitarists, the oldest one I think. And someone once wrote that he could be considered the sixth Pink Floyd member. He used to tour with Pink Floyd occasionally and now he tours with Roger Waters. I thought he was with them on the Animals tour and it could be that he even did some of the guitars on that album.

Also I thought he had some solo career once, but I guess he never really got world famous with that.

Hehe yeah that part is a bit awkward. But very powerful emotionally though, especially at the solo where you see his flashbacks as a kid.

Indeed. That part and ''The Trial'' as well are very ''touching''.

Agreed. The whole movie was actually very touching I think. At least it left a great impression on me after I first watched it.

At 2/27/10 11:04 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

gfox also recommends teh Muse, and is hoping to see them live in March. :::nods:::

I also recommend Muse. I have already seen them live, and I'm proud of that. =)

Well... I know a lot of people who are big fans of Muse, but for some reason I have never liked them all that much. I think it's mostly because of their singer (Matt Bellamy?). I just think he sounds very whiney.

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Fro just got the news seconds ago that his niece was successfully brought into this world only a day after her brothers second birthday while saying Congrats To:

Hacsev: 7,777 Blams
sushi13: Level 26
AndrewGlisson13: Sergeant
Pokemonpoeguygcn: Level 24
Fim: Level 37
Bloodthorne: Level 47
Powerage: 13,000 Experience Points
Helloween: Level 34
Toocool100: Level 49
Sir-Nuts: 23,000 B/P, Spamming the LUL
Simple: Level 36
WeirdAlthe3rd: 7,000 Saves
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 22,000 Saves
juansolous: Level 29
aldlv: Ranked 100th in B/P

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At 2/27/10 01:18 PM, Haggard wrote:

I hope you are all right?

Luckily it will take more than a set of stairs to stop me. I'm not exaggerating though; if it wasn't for all the time in the weight room I wouldn't have walked away from that one laughing.

At 2/27/10 01:42 PM, reverend wrote:

What's the hell is the point of the B/P system if you're not going to watch the movies the way it's suppose to be watched. :P

Another thing that I strongly agree with.

At 2/27/10 11:04 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

Ah, but it's been a while since you changed your username, not everyone remembers Corky52. I think more people remember Fro, though. :)

Tom made a thread about how hardcore Corky52 was though. :P

At 2/28/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Lucky you. I know a few who actually bothered with one. -_-

Unlike most people with a weak will power I have followed my main one and have seen great results from it.

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After two months away from home, my brother returns today!

Also, Canada x USA in a few hours. I have no preference this time, since I was willing for Russia to get Gold originally.

Listening to:
Oasis - Be Here Now

I bought this album yesterday for only R$ 15,00 (U$ 8.00; EU 6.00). It's pretty good, worth for that price. :P

Congrats to:
Simple - Level 36;
WeirdAlthe3rd - 7,000 Saves;
Pokemonpoeguygcn - 23,000 Saves;
juansolous - Level 29;
aldlv - Top 100 in B/P;

Thanks to:
Coop83
Odyssic
reverend
Auz

At 2/28/10 05:01 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop rues the Irish cheating win over England

6 nations tournament?

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: 31 left, gogogo.

Make that 4 :P

Initiate countdown - 4, 3,...

But afterwards, it's a 6000 B/P gap until bila. =/

Yeah, but that's a 6k gap, which makes about 4 users all bunch up and they should be passed in reasonably quick succession.

Right, after bila there are about 5 users stacked around 76k. It's going to be a good one.

And what's worse - the TV channel that's broadcasting the Olympics here shows the accident quite often. They don't freeze the image before he crashed, it's horrible. I don't know what they're thinking, it's inhuman showing that repeatedly.

Well, it shouldn't be too hard to find it on YouTube, but I can see your point. Mind you, if you try to find footage of Ayrton Senna's death, you've got a really difficult time.

Not really... since he was Brazilian, there's footage being shown every anniversary of him. Either on TV or on local websites, I've seen it innumerous times. It isn't that shocking, though, because of the dust clouds and we not being able to see him.

Senna had so few people paying attention to that corner, it was just a plume of smoke and dust, as he went off in the background of one shot.

You know, he didn't want to race that day because he had a bad feeling about that track... He shouldn't have raced that day.

Now, isn't it a huge incompetence to leave a set of metal pillars right next to a curve exit, where the athletes are at nearly 100km/h, and still blame him for the mistake? I haven't heard of anyone dying like that, and it's still his fault? Really, that makes me mad.

The computer model never suggested that the guy would fly off the track at that angle. Ergo, it was his fault. That's what the organisers would say.

Yeah... you can't predict everything via a computer. We're humans, mistakes are made all the time. That track got the infamous nickname of "death track"in our local transmissions.

At 2/28/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Mini catch-ups ahead. I was going to post them earlier, but I had no internet for a whole day. That's right, I missed one deposit! D:

OH NOOOOOOO!

Indeed. I even tried accessing Newgrounds at school, but the site was blocked. I blame myself for accessing it back in 2007 a couple of times while in there. =P

People still use AOL? :P

Sadly so. I haven't had them in 3 years now, though but I know some who are still stuck with them. Poor souls.

Yeah, I feel sorry for them... :(

At 2/27/10 11:06 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:01 PM, Bahamut wrote: Ah nuts. I mean...Ah nuts!

What?

It's a clever reference. :)

Too clever for me. :P

PropHunt is full of awesomeness. Too bad I can never find good servers that don't kick me due to my ping (I hate NO HEROES because of that!).

PropHunt is indeed awesome. As for the servers, I would have asked how the Alpha & Omega one was for you but I'm guessing that's another server you can't get to due to high ping.

Is it that one we were playing together once? The ping wasn't the best, but it was playable. And no, I didn't get kicked in there.

Also, I hate NO HEROES for their reservation slots bullshit and the event spam they do to everyone who's in their Steam group.

I don't like them because I have a regular 180 ping and yet they kick me (MAX 150). I play on servers where my ping is up to 230 and no one has ever complained! >:(

I'm in - I suck at hiding, though. =(

You'll get better over the time you play it. I've definitely got the hang of it most of the time now.

Hahahaha, yes. You have to be at those random places, among your similar objects. And, please, AVOID RUNNING RANDOMLY.

But of course! Hopefully a TF2 character will take this one.

That'd be great but Heavy has to take down Kefka and he's one hell of a character. It won't be easy.

Isn't the Spy on as well?

At 2/23/10 11:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: I need to prove you all wrong someday.

Yeah, prove us wrong! Next week, maybe? :)

5 years?

nonononono, next week!

At 2/28/10 10:39 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/27/10 11:06 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Hey, my friend is taking German classes now. I ask him some words sometimes (like good night [gute nacht] and thanks [danke]), it makes me wonder if I should take German classes as well. :)

Yes you should. :P

I'm between German, Italian and Spanish. Spanish would be more useful, since our neighbour countries all speak Spanish. But part of my family is German/Italian... Choices, choices...

And what's worse - the TV channel that's broadcasting the Olympics here shows the accident quite often. They don't freeze the image before he crashed, it's horrible. I don't know what they're thinking, it's inhuman showing that repeatedly.

I only saw the video once and the TV station froze the image right after he flew out of the bobsled run and I think that already was too much...

Lucky you - they were looping it over and over again in here.

Maybe we could have them split into Flash reviews and misc reviews, with all the others...

But then only flash reviews would stay out as a singe stat.

Sure, but they are a lot more common than audio/art reviews... I would gather them in a single stat. :)

At 2/28/10 12:35 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: I don't get it... If it was, for example, 1.90, it would still get saved if you voted two...

Yeah but it's basically pointless because voting a two will only affect the score by a little if you are trying to save it.

Hmm, I get it... But if we voted two, then it deserved to be voted like that. But yeah... maybe 1.80, then.

That's a good idea, but who knows when he'll check all those flashes. Maybe if a certain number of mods agree that a submission is stolen/malicious etc... the submission would get deleted automatically. I mean, so many of them couldn't be wrong at the same time, right? That would make things quicker for the staff.

You never know with the power of one person's opinion; some people can be lazy and just pass it off without checking it out.

DEMOD! DEMOD! =P

Luis could add himself to the page. What is he doing there, getting drunk?

Most of the staff is drunk at any given time of the day. :P

Hahahahha, I saw that as well. I really wonder what is in their fridges...

Possibly a bunch of beer & other alcoholic things.

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Auz's VIP replies (since I was running out of characters in the other post :P).

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Envy me, I had the whole week off because of carnival! ;)

I do, carnaval in Brazil must be awesome 0.0

Depends... sure, there are parties pretty much everywhere you go to, but the amount of irresponsible people is just stunning. This year, I think we broke the record for deaths/injuries, mostly because of car accidents. Despite all the warnings, we managed to do it. >:(

Just had a whole week off myself though, but it's only been boring and rainy out here. Having done much but hanging around doing nothing.

I didn't do much during carnival either, aside from watching Avatar. :)

It's a great movie, but the ending is predictable since the beginning.

Sweet. Although my dad is probably older than yours (he's 50 now), his musical ''era'' was a bit earlier. He's more fond of 60's/70's music. However, I think he has a tape (yeah, a tape!) with ''Joshua Tree'' in it. I don't know if it works or not, though.

Not much difference then. My dad is.. 48 now I think. But he used to be a DJ in the 80's at some small hang-out place for young people. I guess that's why he must prefer that era.

Really? That's awesome! He must know a lot about the 80s, then.

Also, my dad is a little bit oldschool: he bought a leather jacket the other day - he looked like a bald Billy Idol. :P

And a tape? :p I haven't seen one of those anymore since I was seven or so.

Hahahaha, we used to have a car which still had a tape player, and we actually used it often!

But yeah, there's a tape player right next to me, i think it still works, despite being stopped for a while now. And there's a 12-pack of recording tapes in a drawer here, and it's still locked. My dad used them a lot back in the day. :)

And downloading music is still easy, isn't it?

Eh, not really. I'm concerned about it nowadays, with all the recording companies bitching about it. =/

Oh yeah, true. Seems to be more and more bitching going on nowadays. I remember recently there was some discussion going on again in our government that people might get fined if they put music videos from youtube on their profile pages (like on facebook, myspace etc.). Luckily not many people supported that plan though, but I can see it happening in the future.

Seriously? The recording companies have gone that low now?

Really, I think the artists like when their music is spread like that. It's more fame for them, more people will appreciate their music. That's why independent labels (like Domino [Franz Ferdinand, Dirty Projectors...]) are great - they don't really mind about that.

I think Tubular Bells has only two 20-minute tracks, called Tubular Bells I and II.

Really? But they must be split up then in different parts, because I remember I had some part called 'Finale' on my MP3 coming from the Tubular Bells album.

Well... on the back of the disc it's written just "Tubular Bells" part I and II, and it's only split due to the original vinyl recording, I think. But the song itself changes a lot during it's ~20 minutes, so it's possible that it's split.

Genesis is a pretty confusing band I guess. I think I must know some of their songs, but they could be from Peter Gabriel's or Phil Collins' solo-careers as well.

They have great songs, though. Really, give "Invisible Touch" a listen. :)

Snowy White is one of the other guitarists, the oldest one I think. And someone once wrote that he could be considered the sixth Pink Floyd member. He used to tour with Pink Floyd occasionally and now he tours with Roger Waters. I thought he was with them on the Animals tour and it could be that he even did some of the guitars on that album.

Ah, alright then. I read that he was playing with Pink Floyd during the Wall tour as well as recording some guitar parts in some albums. Weird, I've never heard of him before.

Also I thought he had some solo career once, but I guess he never really got world famous with that.

I'd guess he's more of a ''special participation'' guitarist, then.

Indeed. That part and ''The Trial'' as well are very ''touching''.

Agreed. The whole movie was actually very touching I think. At least it left a great impression on me after I first watched it.

Yeah, but it's a little weird as well. I mean, who becomes a Nazi leader overnight? :P

But I think that must mean something else, metaphorically...

I also recommend Muse. I have already seen them live, and I'm proud of that. =)

Well... I know a lot of people who are big fans of Muse, but for some reason I have never liked them all that much. I think it's mostly because of their singer (Matt Bellamy?). I just think he sounds very whiney.

Yup, that would be Matthew Bellamy.

And yeah, his singing sometimes is weird. In Supermassive Black Hole, he sings in falsetto, but it isn't very good. Although I really like Muse, their songs are so full of energy! :)

_________

Not so exclusive anymore, since Fro has just posted as well. :P

At 2/28/10 03:18 PM, Fro wrote: Fro just got the news seconds ago that his niece was successfully brought into this world...

Congrats, uncle Fro!

Sir-Nuts: 23,000 B/P, Spamming the LUL

Hey, I didn't spam anything... <.<

At 2/27/10 11:04 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

Ah, but it's been a while since you changed your username, not everyone remembers Corky52. I think more people remember Fro, though. :)

Tom made a thread about how hardcore Corky52 was though. :P

Hello, Mr. hardcore user with lots of friends! Hahahahaha, I remember that.

Anyone knows if the "friends system'' is still on the backburner?

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Just passed 40,000 total stats which crept up s...l...o...w...l....y on me.

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700 (actually, 701) days on NG, Sergeant First Class, which, of course, means 8k b/p.Yay!

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Level 36

I think this level is ugly, I can't wait to get rid of it.

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I am 1/3 of the way to 100k B/P i have hit the mark of 33,333 B/P

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At 2/28/10 08:46 PM, Little-Rena wrote: Level 36

I think this level is ugly, I can't wait to get rid of it.

You know, when the redesign dropped (in 2007, which in internet time is like a gazillion years ago now), I HATED level 36.

Maybe it's the fact that the yellow aura makes every level look so much better, or perhaps I've just mellowed out with age (lol), but it really doesn't seem so bad to me now. In fact, I'm looking forward to getting it more than I'm looking forward to getting level 35 in 3-4 days.

Maybe the fluffy part of the tomahawk coupled with the fab aura is just making the icon as a whole too girly? ;P

Oh yeah, and this is my 11,000th post. :)

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i am finally level 11

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17,000 experience points!

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Congrats to:
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 22,000 Saves
juansolous: Level 29
aldlv: Rank 100 in B/P
Aci6: 40,000 Total Points
HeavyTank: 8,000 B/P, Sergeant 1st Class
Little-Rena: Level 36
Emlfuryoflion: 33,333 B/P
NEVR: 11,000 Posts
cantstophammertime: Level 11
Haggard: 17,000 Experience

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I timed my level up to the first day of the month!

level 29!

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At 3/1/10 06:03 AM, JOHNNY29 wrote: I timed my level up to the first day of the month!

level 29!

Damn it, wrong level...

Level 28!

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Achievement of the Day
NEVR: 11,000 Posts

Nice going there! Congrats =)

Congrats to:
Aci6: 40,000 Total Stats
HeavyTank: Sergeant First Class, 8,000 BP
Little-Rena: Level 36
Emlfuryoflion: 33,333 BP
cantstophammertime: Level 11
Haggard: 17,000 Experience
JOHNNY29: Level 28

At 2/28/10 03:34 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Auz's VIP replies (since I was running out of characters in the other post :P).

Yay!

Not so exclusive anymore, since Fro has just posted as well. :P

D'aw =(

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

I do, carnaval in Brazil must be awesome 0.0

Depends... sure, there are parties pretty much everywhere you go to, but the amount of irresponsible people is just stunning. This year, I think we broke the record for deaths/injuries, mostly because of car accidents. Despite all the warnings, we managed to do it. >:(

Heh. Well I suppose many people are under the influence of drugs and alcohol in such times. And I always hear that the police in Brazil are not that.. strict either, especially not during carnaval.

Just had a whole week off myself though, but it's only been boring and rainy out here. Having done much but hanging around doing nothing.

I didn't do much during carnival either, aside from watching Avatar. :)

It's a great movie, but the ending is predictable since the beginning.

Haha yeah the movie is indeed kinda predictable. The plot is really nothing amazing, but I must say that I also enjoyed it when I watched it in the cinema about a month ago. It's definitely a good movie to go to the cinema's for. I think it's kind of.. underwhelming on a normal TV screen though.

Not much difference then. My dad is.. 48 now I think. But he used to be a DJ in the 80's at some small hang-out place for young people. I guess that's why he must prefer that era.

Really? That's awesome! He must know a lot about the 80s, then.

Also, my dad is a little bit oldschool: he bought a leather jacket the other day - he looked like a bald Billy Idol. :P

Lol. Is he in a midlife crisis or something then, or is he always like that? :p

And a tape? :p I haven't seen one of those anymore since I was seven or so.

Hahahaha, we used to have a car which still had a tape player, and we actually used it often!

But yeah, there's a tape player right next to me, i think it still works, despite being stopped for a while now. And there's a 12-pack of recording tapes in a drawer here, and it's still locked. My dad used them a lot back in the day. :)

Yes old cars usually still have tape players in them. I think I still got a tape player here too, but I think all the tapes must be broken by now.

Oh yeah, true. Seems to be more and more bitching going on nowadays. I remember recently there was some discussion going on again in our government that people might get fined if they put music videos from youtube on their profile pages (like on facebook, myspace etc.). Luckily not many people supported that plan though, but I can see it happening in the future.

Seriously? The recording companies have gone that low now?

Really, I think the artists like when their music is spread like that. It's more fame for them, more people will appreciate their music. That's why independent labels (like Domino [Franz Ferdinand, Dirty Projectors...]) are great - they don't really mind about that.

Yeah, but I think it was more like an organization that stands up for the rights of the record companies.

I agree though that laws like that might not even be beneficial to most bands. Especially the newer ones who are already having trouble with advertising themselves. And the bigger artists make enough money already, so it's not like they need it all that much =/

I guess as a band you just gotta ask yourself what you find more important; money or the fact that your music might be listened to all over the world for the next few decades.

Genesis is a pretty confusing band I guess. I think I must know some of their songs, but they could be from Peter Gabriel's or Phil Collins' solo-careers as well.

They have great songs, though. Really, give "Invisible Touch" a listen. :)

Alright I will =)

Snowy White is one of the other guitarists, the oldest one I think. And someone once wrote that he could be considered the sixth Pink Floyd member. He used to tour with Pink Floyd occasionally and now he tours with Roger Waters. I thought he was with them on the Animals tour and it could be that he even did some of the guitars on that album.

Ah, alright then. I read that he was playing with Pink Floyd during the Wall tour as well as recording some guitar parts in some albums. Weird, I've never heard of him before.

Well he is just a back-up guitarist so he's always been in the shade.

Agreed. The whole movie was actually very touching I think. At least it left a great impression on me after I first watched it.

Yeah, but it's a little weird as well. I mean, who becomes a Nazi leader overnight? :P

But I think that must mean something else, metaphorically...

I think I've read the (possible) meaning of that somewhere once.

I believe it had something to do with the idolizing of certain people by their fans. And I believe the Nazi leader scene is supposed to be an actual performance (since Pink is a musician in the movie), but seen through the eyes of Pink. He just sees himself as some... monster who's not much better than a Nazi.

I guess it might be a warning for how dangerous idolizing could be. Also it might be a reference to Roger Waters personal view on himself and his fans at some point (since the movie has lots of auto-biographic elements actually). It's still kinda vague I know, but I remember I read something like that once.

Well... I know a lot of people who are big fans of Muse, but for some reason I have never liked them all that much. I think it's mostly because of their singer (Matt Bellamy?). I just think he sounds very whiney.

Yup, that would be Matthew Bellamy.

And yeah, his singing sometimes is weird. In Supermassive Black Hole, he sings in falsetto, but it isn't very good. Although I really like Muse, their songs are so full of energy! :)

Perhaps I should just give them another chance someday. I already listened to their latest album (Origin of Symmetry) not too long ago. Didn't like it much, but maybe I will like their earlier albums more.

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At 3/1/10 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop wonders when he will ever get some time to himself, while congratulating:
Haggard: 17,000 Experience

Thanks!

At 3/1/10 05:04 AM, Odyssic wrote: Congrats to:
Haggard: 17,000 Experience

Thanks!

At 3/1/10 08:29 AM, Auz wrote: Congrats to:
Haggard: 17,000 Experience

Thanks! Even though I hoped to get the AOTD again. ^^
But yeah, 11,000 Posts is harder to reach than 17,000 Exp.

At 3/1/10 10:59 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/28/10 10:39 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/28/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote: Helloween's at level 34 so it's one step closer to leaving the shurikens. HA!

And how many alts still have to go through it?

There's 5 stuck in those levels but they'll get through soon enough.

So I win for only having 3 alts. HA!

But I was willing to stop at the battle axe on the pre-redesign to avoid the nasty staff for a few years. Good thing the redesign came well before I even did that.

The staff is a whole different story, if it was still there I don't think I wouldn't let any alt get that high. ^^

I would have stopped depositing Toohot100 at the sledgehammer and then Bahamut7 at level 16.

I'm still not too sure where my alts will stop depositing. Level 39 is a good level to stop, but it's still far away. Maybe I should let one stop at the awesomeblade. :P

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I just got promoted to Sgt. First Class and have 8,000 B/P.
Sadly it's the last noteworthy stat I'll be getting for a while (unless my whistle finally goes up to deity which is an issue in itself) seeing as how I only leveled up a few days ago, I'm still about 500 points away from the next thousand for either blams or saves and it's now +1,500 B/P between ranks.

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Listening To:

The couple down the hall arguing about how the girl always stands in front of the TV.

The kid that stutters a lot trying to tell a story.

Fro lost his keys to get into his dorm room while saying Congrats To:

Aci6: 40,000 Total Stats
Little-Rena: Level 36
Emlfuryoflion: 33,333 B/P (I love the number 3!)
NEVR: 11,000 Posts
cantstophammertime: Level 11
Haggard: 17,000 Experience Points
JOHNNY29: Level 29 whoops, I mean... Level 28
sushi13: Sgt. First Class, 8,000 B/P

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At 2/28/10 03:34 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

Not so exclusive anymore, since Fro has just posted as well. :P
Congrats, uncle Fro!

Thank you.

Hello, Mr. hardcore user with lots of friends! Hahahahaha, I remember that.

Anyone knows if the "friends system'' is still on the backburner?

I don't know, but it would be a nice little addition. It's not really needed because you can always just search at the bottom of the BBS, but it would be convenient to have it show up right on your userpage as well so you didn't have to search through a sea of names.

At 3/1/10 10:59 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Not even Wade's comment on my snow blog matches that. :(

I'm hoping to get a few comments from popular artists or other people since I have the ability to post on the front page now.

Wow, someone who actually kept to their new year's resolution.

1/2 of them at least. :P

At 2/28/10 03:34 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/28/10 03:18 PM, Fro wrote: Sir-Nuts: 23,000 B/P, Spamming the LUL

Hey, I didn't spam anything... <.<

I agree, gfox is the true LUL spammer with his decuple post from a few weeks back. :P He's also an IM spammer on Steam.

The spammer and mini-spammer. They hurt my eyes searching for things that relate to something that I want to quote back to.

Anyone knows if the "friends system'' is still on the backburner?

Tom once stated it's likely to be released this year but there's no promises. It would be nice to have this, though. I'd like to see how many invites I get the day it's launched.

I wonder how many invites Tom and Wade will get.

At 3/1/10 01:18 PM, reverend wrote:

Congrats dude!

Thanks!

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Not sure if this qualifies for the level up lounge, but I recently hit 1k posts and received a gold whistle.

Woot

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2000 Experience points and a silver whistle. Good day to be me, I say. Gold and Deity, here I come!

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I downloaded a couple of things for Firefox: Google Black and FoxClocks. FoxClocks will be useful for the FIFA World Cup. :)

Now watching:
CSI: LA

Congrats to:
Aci6 - 40,000 total stats;
HeavyTank - Sergeant First Class;
Little-Rena - Level 36 - Everyone agrees; that level blows.
Emlfuryoflion - 33,333 B/P
NEVR - 11,000 Posts;
cantstophammertime - Level 11;
Haggard - 17,000 Exp. points;
JOHNNY29 - Level 28;
sushi13 - Sergeant First Class;
Seraphim17 - Gold whistle + 1,000 posts;
chris-marks - 2,000 exp. points;

At 2/28/10 11:44 PM, NEVR wrote: You know, when the redesign dropped (in 2007, which in internet time is like a gazillion years ago now), I HATED level 36.

Maybe it's the fact that the yellow aura makes every level look so much better, or perhaps I've just mellowed out with age (lol), but it really doesn't seem so bad to me now.

Your girlfriend is killing you.

In fact, I'm looking forward to getting it more than I'm looking forward to getting level 35 in 3-4 days.

Ah, come on now! I think level 35 is one of the most awesome levels in NG, especially with the gold aura. And green, of course.

Maybe the fluffy part of the tomahawk coupled with the fab aura is just making the icon as a whole too girly? ;P

Why is there a fluffy thing in there, anyway?

Oh yeah, and this is my 11,000th post. :)

Hey, you said you were far from any milestones, now you'll have two in a week, you silly. :P

At 3/1/10 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/28/10 03:25 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: 6 nations tournament?

Yeah - the Irish kept taking penalties in the scrum and we wanted to quickly use the ball, but not liking this idea, the Irish scrum half walks off with the ball and won't let go of it when the English Scrum half tries to take it. The ref took no action in the first case, but in the second, Danny Care dumps the Mick to the ground and the penalty is reversed. Ireland score a try from the resulting mess and I was furious.

Even though I don't understand much about Rugby, I see what happened. They were trying to get the English team mad, right? Happens a lot in football. A LOT.

At 3/1/10 08:29 AM, Auz wrote:

At 2/28/10 03:34 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Auz's VIP replies (since I was running out of characters in the other post :P).

Yay!

=)

Not so exclusive anymore, since Fro has just posted as well. :P

D'aw =(

I blame Fro. =P

Depends... sure, there are parties pretty much everywhere you go to, but the amount of irresponsible people is just stunning. This year, I think we broke the record for deaths/injuries, mostly because of car accidents. Despite all the warnings, we managed to do it. >:(

Heh. Well I suppose many people are under the influence of drugs and alcohol in such times. And I always hear that the police in Brazil are not that.. strict either, especially not during carnaval.

Definitely, it's a party for bars and drug dealers as well.

And yeah, our police isn't the best. It's kinda corrupt, they take bribes easily, it's either unprepared or shooting everyone... It's a mess.

Also, our politicians are even worse. Just to have an idea: out governor is currently arrested, with 4 impeachment processes on his back, along with half of his party. AWESOME.

I didn't do much during carnival either, aside from watching Avatar. :)

It's a great movie, but the ending is predictable since the beginning.

Haha yeah the movie is indeed kinda predictable. The plot is really nothing amazing, but I must say that I also enjoyed it when I watched it in the cinema about a month ago. It's definitely a good movie to go to the cinema's for.

Indeed, it's a great movie nonetheless. The visual effects, the Duke Nukem-like general, the action scenes... it's really worth watching, I recommend for everyone.

I think it's kind of.. underwhelming on a normal TV screen though.

Sure. One of the reasons it's being watched worldwide in the movie theatres is that it can't be watched at home. I mean, not everyone has 3-D glasses, and I think it can't be recorded with a regular camera, if you know what I mean. No piracy allowed. =)

Also, my dad is a little bit oldschool: he bought a leather jacket the other day - he looked like a bald Billy Idol. :P

Lol. Is he in a midlife crisis or something then, or is he always like that? :p

Not really - he and my mom travelled to a store which was holding a clothing fair. My mom had been wanting a leather jacket for a while, and she found one there. My dad like it as well and bought one for him too. I've never seen him wearing it afterwards, though. :P

Hahahaha, we used to have a car which still had a tape player, and we actually used it often!

Yes old cars usually still have tape players in them. I think I still got a tape player here too, but I think all the tapes must be broken by now.

That's a problem with tapes and VHS, they get old. My dad needs to convert some VHSes (?) into DVD before they're all lost.

I agree though that laws like that might not even be beneficial to most bands. Especially the newer ones who are already having trouble with advertising themselves. And the bigger artists make enough money already, so it's not like they need it all that much =/

I've heard that Lilly Allen was holding a "resistance" again pirated music. There was an organization that wanted to make free music more accessible, "legal"... the problem was that there were only older, richer artists in that organization, who didn't need money at all. She gave up eventually, but not because of lack of support.

I guess as a band you just gotta ask yourself what you find more important; money or the fact that your music might be listened to all over the world for the next few decades.

Having your music listened to draws more fans, which makes concerts bigger and generates more profit.

On the other hand, with less money being paid for the music, the concert tickets vecomes more expensive. Hmm...

But I think that must mean something else, metaphorically...

I guess it might be a warning for how dangerous idolizing could be.

That makes sense. You know, some people actually do whatever their idols do. It could be just having a haircut like them, but it can go up to political views and such.

Also it might be a reference to Roger Waters personal view on himself and his fans at some point (since the movie has lots of auto-biographic elements actually). It's still kinda vague I know, but I remember I read something like that once.

Well, in the Wall tour, they actually built a wall in the stage during the concert, splitting the band from the crowd. Roger Waters was being rejected by the other band member, due to him being... a "Nazi" in the studios. :P

Yup, that would be Matthew Bellamy.

And yeah, his singing sometimes is weird. In Supermassive Black Hole, he sings in falsetto, but it isn't very good. Although I really like Muse, their songs are so full of energy! :)

Perhaps I should just give them another chance someday. I already listened to their latest album (Origin of Symmetry) not too long ago. Didn't like it much, but maybe I will like their earlier albums more.

Actually, their latest album is "The Resistance", and indeed it isn't very good. Give a listen to "Absolution" and "Origin of Symmetry" (if you haven't), they are the best albums, IMO.

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Watch me spam the LUL again. :P

Sorry guys.

At 3/1/10 10:59 AM, Bahamut wrote: Congrats to our newest Wi/Ht? Regular portalwarpedJP!

Do I still need to catch up there? I mean, it's been so slow lately, maybe a year-old catch up will give it a boost or something...

At 2/28/10 03:25 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Indeed. I even tried accessing Newgrounds at school, but the site was blocked. I blame myself for accessing it back in 2007 a couple of times while in there. =P

I told you don't touch that thing, that's what you get.

But I just lurked for a few minutes - I didn't even log in! =(

But yeah, I never even tried to go on any websites with questionable content at school and I'll never go on Newgrounds when at work, unless the work place is very lenient.

Well, the library might be blocked, but the computer room might still be vulnerable. Hmm... >:)

Yeah, I feel sorry for them... :(

Indeed but on the other hand, why are they not changing ISP?

Maybe because they are horrid as well, just like your Virgin Media.

PropHunt is indeed awesome. As for the servers, I would have asked how the Alpha & Omega one was for you but I'm guessing that's another server you can't get to due to high ping.

Is it that one we were playing together once? The ping wasn't the best, but it was playable. And no, I didn't get kicked in there.

I can't remember which one it was now but the one you played had the Warehouse map without the snow. You can try the Alpha & Omega one (something like that anyway) and see how it goes for you.

I can only find a few PropHunt servers, though.

150 is too low. I get slightly less than that when playing with them. 200 is a more reasonable limit.

I managed to play at 400 today, but it didn't feel it was that high. I don't know, sometimes I get servers with 190, and in 10 minutes they are at 600! =O

Hahahaha, yes. You have to be at those random places, among your similar objects. And, please, AVOID RUNNING RANDOMLY.

Yeah, it's mostly propchecking but some maps I've become so familiarised with that I can spot a prop a mile off. Heh, perhaps I should start playing as Sniper for some of the maps.

It sucks to hide in Harvest - it's a small map, with few points of hiding. Being a hunter there is great. =)

Isn't the Spy on as well?

Nope, none of the support classes were nominated.

Really? So it's the engie, heavy and soldier*, then?

nonononono, next week!

Bad idea!

For how long you haven't opened flash, anyway. :P

At 2/28/10 03:34 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/28/10 03:18 PM, Fro wrote: Sir-Nuts: 23,000 B/P, Spamming the LUL

Hey, I didn't spam anything... <.<

I agree, gfox is the true LUL spammer with his decuple post from a few weeks back. :P He's also an IM spammer on Steam.

Speaking of which, sometimes the chat messages don't show up while I'm playing. Kinda sucks, sometimes an invitation to play TF2 is missed. =(

Anyone knows if the "friends system'' is still on the backburner?

Tom once stated it's likely to be released this year but there's no promises. It would be nice to have this, though. I'd like to see how many invites I get the day it's launched.

Ha, you friend whore! ;P

But really, you would get loads of invitations, mine included of course. :)

At 3/1/10 01:18 PM, reverend wrote: March already? congrats to:

Indeed. February is a short month. :P

At 2/28/10 03:25 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Hmm, I get it... But if we voted two, then it deserved to be voted like that. But yeah... maybe 1.80, then.

Still too close to two for my liking. I just think we need to encourage blammers; dig up ADGBC someone.

We need more shitty submissions, let's spam the Portal ourselves!

JOKING, before any accusations...

Hahahahha, I saw that as well. I really wonder what is in their fridges...

Most likely. Have you seen some of the recent stuff the staff submitted? Ha!

What, Epic Beard Man? The tax game? I'd call that alcohol + free time. Not a really good mixture.

At 3/1/10 01:40 PM, sushi13 wrote: I'm still about 500 points away from the next thousand for either blams or saves and it's now +1,500 B/P between ranks.

Hey, it's because you haven't experienced THEM 2,000 GAPS!

And afterwards, there's the huge 4,500 from Commander to EGSC. It should be painful, right NEVR? ;P

At 3/1/10 02:45 PM, Fro wrote: Fro lost his keys to get into his dorm room...

And you got in...?

At 2/28/10 03:34 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Anyone knows if the "friends system'' is still on the backburner?

I don't know, but it would be a nice little addition. It's not really needed because you can always just search at the bottom of the BBS, but it would be convenient to have it show up right on your userpage as well so you didn't have to search through a sea of names.

Well, I'd like it to have micro-blog features, like "that user just submitted a flash today" and such. It should be interesting, but no hurrying.

The spammer and mini-spammer. They hurt my eyes searching for things that relate to something that I want to quote back to.

Neutral spam! Hurting your eyes since 20**.

At 3/1/10 07:28 PM, X-Gary-Gigax-X wrote: With that vote, you now have 6,520 experience points. You need 420 more to get to Level 26. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 4 hours, 33 minutes, and 38 seconds.

And that's a milestone because of...? =/

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At 3/1/10 08:32 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 3/1/10 01:40 PM, sushi13 wrote: I'm still about 500 points away from the next thousand for either blams or saves and it's now +1,500 B/P between ranks.

Hey, it's because you haven't experienced THEM 2,000 GAPS!

And afterwards, there's the huge 4,500 from Commander to EGSC. It should be painful, right NEVR? ;P

Oh god please don't remind me. I seem to get roughly 1000 B/P per month (I should get a lot more blams but so much rubbish makes it through) so I've probably got another couple of years before I need to worry about that +4,500 gap. I don't even know for sure where it goes up to +2,000 and honestly I'm happier not knowing. Ignorance is bliss.
On the plus side I realised that I'll still have another stat to boast about in a few days when I hit 7,000 EXP.

At 3/1/10 07:28 PM, X-Gary-Gigax-X wrote: With that vote, you now have 6,520 experience points. You need 420 more to get to Level 26. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 4 hours, 33 minutes, and 38 seconds.

And that's a milestone because of...? =/

I looked at this ad wondered what he was getting at. I think he must be a stoner but I don't see being 420 away from the next level as a milestone or an achievement.

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Congrats to:
JOHNNY29: Level 28
sushi13: Sergeant 1st CLass, 8,000 B/P
Seraphim17: 1,000 Posts, Gold Whistle
chris-marks: 2,000 Experience, Silver Whistle

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Thank you to:
Sir-Nuts
Coop83
Odyssic

Congrats to:
Aci6: 40,000 total stats
Heavytank: Sergeant First Class
Little-Rena: Level 36
Emlfuryoflion: 33,333 B/P
NEVR: 11,000 posts
Haggard: 17,000 exp
JOHNNY29: Level 28
sushi13: 8,000 B/P

Listening to: Only By The Night- Kings of Leon