I though it was your level number, oh well, pretty funny that round numbers like that generate 69%.

At 7/21/05 11:57 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Soooo... ya gonna wear it? #;-}> I don't expect anyone to wear 'em for that long, they're not the most attractive pics ever, but if you three were to wear them for a short time (say through this weekend) at the SAME time, that'd be pretty damned cool. Might be too much to hope for three individual users to coordinate their sigpic habits, though. #;-}>

Oh course ! i was wearing it yesterday, but i had the change it for this one or the same reason as MPA. When that thread dies ill swap back to yours.

Meh, I figured that 36k-24k would be too obvious, so I guessed that your love of 36 would be too overpowering.

At 7/21/05 11:57 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/21/05 03:35 PM, Qwoxyl wrote: As for what happens to the non-winners, they can have this sig if you don't make one.

L O FREAKING L.

Glad to see you like it, now I will have to wear it, despite not making a guess.

Sorry the contest ended too soon for your liking, man, but only two people (both alts) guessed in the final 48 hours of it. I took that to mean you guys were pretty much done guessing. #;-}>

That's ok, I did take too long, and you were just wanting to tell everyone bwfore the suspense killed anyone. If anyone else makes one of these thingies, I'll make a guess on the first day and just change it if neccessary.

That sig is hilarious man. Yeah, no pressure at all. #;-}> I'll make one, but not till the weekend. :::nods:::

Ok. It's now the weekend, start making one. Or else... nothing will happen and it will be a boring weekend.

At 7/22/05 12:10 AM, JerkClock wrote:

At 7/21/05 11:56 PM, gfoxcook wrote: gfoxcook: exp / posts / reviews
gfoxclock: exp / b/p / posts
gfox: exp

I don't recommend that, I for one have accidentally done b/p with Anarchy_Balsac a few times instead of this account.

I use IE to post and Firefox to b/p.

When I retire gfoxcook from b/ping, he will be logged in only on IE and gfoxclock will be logged in only on Firefox.

It'll be pretty simple.

I deposit while voting on BEEBO movies and Marc M flashes, so there's no risk of getting b/p from that (I have a HTML file with links to all of those movies on it on my own harddrive).

Trust me, my two web-browser setup will ensure I never accidentally b/p.

At 7/22/05 12:24 AM, ramagi wrote:

At 7/21/05 12:11 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I will be retiring on 36,000 blams and 24,000 saves for a nice total of 60,000 b/p.

Well I figured that was right but I wanted to be diffrent in my ghuss so I'll
explain why I guessed

Nothing wrong with being different, no. But if your goal was to WIN and win big and you thought 36/24 was more likely to be right, then why didn't you guess it? ;_;

If you take 24,500/35,500=69%

Well, it's more like 69.01% or so, but that is kinda nifty. Interesting reasoning/logic.

Thing is, ever since I stopped my top 50 blam and top 50 save lists over a year ago now (July of 2004), I tend to only worry about my blam-to-save ratio getting too high. Right now it's around 1.4995 or something, and I will be retiring with 1.500000, so there's no problem.

I don't tend to check my save-to-blam ratio very often. I don't believe it's ever dipped below 66%, though, and 69% wouldn't be too bad of a save ratio to stop on, no. #;-}>

At 7/22/05 08:46 AM, Tom_s00 wrote: Oh course ! i was wearing it yesterday, but i had the change it for this one or the same reason as MPA. When that thread dies ill swap back to yours.

Ah, but see... I never saw you wearing it. I was at work and shit. ;_;

Anyway, that's cool. I'm a patient guy.

At 7/22/05 02:05 PM, jonthomson wrote: Meh, I figured that 36k-24k would be too obvious, so I guessed that your love of 36 would be too overpowering.

Well, maybe I AM too obvious. #;-}> My love of 36 doesn't mean I have to have 36036 or 36360 or 36363 as some of you guessed. My love of 36 + my love of nice big round hundreds and thousands means that 36,000 is one of the most beautiful numbers I could stop a stat on. I just kinda wish my saves would hit 36,000 one day (and who knows, maybe so... I could always get up to 36,000 saves + 36,000 blams = 72,000 total someday, though I don't particularly LOVE 72, but oh well).

At 7/23/05 01:57 PM, Qwoxyl wrote: Glad to see you like it, now I will have to wear it, despite not making a guess.

LOL! Looks good on ya. #;-}>

That's ok, I did take too long, and you were just wanting to tell everyone bwfore the suspense killed anyone. If anyone else makes one of these thingies, I'll make a guess on the first day and just change it if neccessary.

Good idea!

Ok. It's now the weekend, start making one. Or else... nothing will happen and it will be a boring weekend.

Here ya go:

So anyway, there's the black and white "non-winners" sigpic for anyone who participated (or even didn't, like Qwoxy) and didn't win.

And here's a special "runners up" sigpic for TarThoron and wismty!

Lol, I'll make my own special sig pic for this contest and use it for a while, because I like it better than your's. ;) <3

At 7/23/05 11:59 PM, gfoxcook wrote: And here's a special "runners up" sigpic for TarThoron and wismty!

Cheers!

At 7/24/05 12:32 AM, Xiivi wrote: Lol, I'll make my own special sig pic for this contest and use it for a while, because I like it better than your's. ;) <3

It's got a much better (and more colourful) background, yes... but the font of the text is harder (almost impossible) to read over said background...

:::rubs eyes:::

ummm...

"I got BOLD and UNDERLINED text in gfox's
contest. you didn't. no one else did. :)"

I'm not sure that's entirely correct as I think my eyes are bleeding and it's kinda hard to see right now.

O_O

At 7/24/05 12:45 AM, TarThoron wrote:

At 7/23/05 11:59 PM, gfoxcook wrote: And here's a special "runners up" sigpic for TarThoron and wismty!

Cheers!

Ah, you're wearing it already. Nifty!

I thought it had a kinda "Superman" colourscheme to it, what with the red and blue combo and all. BLAMS vs SAVES... WHO WILL BE TEH WINNAR?

So yeah, if quantity is all you care about, blams pretty much triumph here on NG (unless you're Toocool or one of his handful of acolytes).

BUT I BELIEVE IN STRIVING FOR TEH QUALITY OVER QUANTITY. And therein lies the perfection of protection.

:::nods:::

At 7/21/05 12:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Hope you enjoy it!

Hah, thanks well here I am. I'll wear it with pride. =)

At 7/23/05 11:58 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
I don't tend to check my save-to-blam ratio very often. I don't believe it's ever dipped below 66%, though, and 69% wouldn't be too bad of a save ratio to stop on, no. #;-}>

I figured that might catch your interest. I like to be different, never one for the main path. I lke it that way.

Well your big challange is that you will have to wait for the next tiem all the flag movies get cleared just in case you get any points from them. I peosonally know when that happens I'll get some points.
I have done the ratio thing myself a little, I have more been taking what comes my way when I am voting latly.
Well It is obvious at the rate things are going you may drop, but that will not till after you stop. I hope you liek the number 5, because you may be stuck thier for seme time.

At 7/24/05 05:29 AM, Replay wrote:

At 7/21/05 12:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Hope you enjoy it!

Hah, thanks well here I am. I'll wear it with pride. =)

Hooray! I guess my e-mail tipped you off? I wasn't sure if you were ever gonna come back here if I didn't go ahead and just mail ya. #;-}>

I'm thinking wismty maybe needs a mail, too... or if any of you guys see him in a thread soon, please to tell him there's a special sig for him and Tar that he's welcome to wear if he wants to in here on page 4, okay? Okay.

At 7/24/05 10:36 AM, ramagi wrote: I figured that might catch your interest. I like to be different, never one for the main path. I lke it that way.

All righty then.

Well your big challange is that you will have to wait for the next tiem all the flag movies get cleared just in case you get any points from them. I peosonally know when that happens I'll get some points.

I won't be hitting 60k till September at the earliest, most likely.

So hopefully a flag clearance will happen by then. And if not? I'll just hit the marks and if I gain extra points, I shall request deletion of them from liljim or Wade, as you once asked for (a blam to save swap, actually, but same diff).

I have done the ratio thing myself a little, I have more been taking what comes my way when I am voting latly.
Well It is obvious at the rate things are going you may drop, but that will not till after you stop. I hope you liek the number 5, because you may be stuck thier for seme time.

Why 5? Recon, bila, and Denvish are all gonna pass me.

That means 6.

And once yaya comes along, 7th.

I shouldn't drop any lower than 7th for a looooooooong time, though.

Anywho... have a good week, everyone. Time for me to go to sleeeeeeeeeeeeep.

At 7/24/05 11:59 PM, gfoxcook wrote:: At 7/24/05 10:36 AM, ramagi wrote: I won't be hitting 60k till September at the earliest, most likely.

oh?
Yea that is what I get too. :)

Well It is obvious at the rate things are going you may drop, but that will not till after you stop. I hope you liek the number 5, because you may be stuck thier for seme time.

Why 5? Recon, bila, and Denvish are all gonna pass me.

That means 6.

And once yaya comes along, 7th.

I shouldn't drop any lower than 7th for a looooooooong time, though.

Anywho... have a good week, everyone. Time for me to go to sleeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Oh I herby what to change my prediction at this point.

Oh and yaya will catch you before Recon and bila, with the current rates of BP they have. That is what I come up with anyways, I did do things wuickly, maybe I'll take soem mroe time once you retire give some exact stats.

I jumped on the bandwagon and made a sig excuse the crappy quality I only have ms paint.
if you say not to wear it I wont.

Hooray! I guess my e-mail tipped you off? I wasn't sure if you were ever gonna come back
here if I didn't go ahead and just mail ya. #;-}>

Yeah, I also was away for a few days.

At 7/23/05 11:59 PM, gfoxcook wrote: And here's a special "runners up" sigpic for TarThoron and wismty!

I appreciate it, Greg, thanks!

I think I'll wear it for a good long while :)

lol, give the Wi?/Ht? guys a contest and they make it a lifestyle hehe

Well, was most far off. Is there a prize for that?

My guess; an even 63,948 in total. :P

Reading through this thread amused me somewhat given the current context.

My guess would be....
35,353 Blams
25,252 Saves
For a total of 60,705

At 7/29/05 06:55 PM, DarkDeviL92 wrote: My guess would be....
35,353 Blams
25,252 Saves
For a total of 60,705

And this kind of post is why you should read the whole thread :-)

At 7/29/05 06:55 PM, jonthomson wrote:

At 7/29/05 06:55 PM, DarkDeviL92 wrote: My guess would be....
35,353 Blams
25,252 Saves
For a total of 60,705

And this kind of post is why you should read the whole thread :-)

Damnit! See this is why I can't drink and type at the same time. I dont read thread thouroughly! Thanks for the pointout jon! lol!

At 7/29/05 06:47 PM, jonthomson wrote: Reading through this thread amused me somewhat given the current context.

Woah!, I had more B/P than gfox back then?! unbelievable!.
And yes it's kinda funny how gfox was planning to stop at Praposhchik at that time.

At 7/29/05 06:55 PM, DarkDeviL92 wrote: My guess would be....
35,353 Blams
25,252 Saves
For a total of 60,705

My guess would be...
That you didn't read enough of this topic to know that gfox contest is already over...

At 7/24/05 11:59 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Why 5? Recon, bila, and Denvish are all gonna pass me.

That means 6.

And once yaya comes along, 7th.

I shouldn't drop any lower than 7th for a looooooooong time, though.

Actually, I forgot to mention that along with Recon, bila, Denvish, and yaya... X-Naut will probably be passing me fairly soon (relatively speaking) as well, once I've stopped at 60k.

So that puts me down to #8 as the lowest I'll be for a loooooooooooong time. Just wanted to correct myself on that (I realised I'd forgotten to include him back on 7/25, but of course I wasn't posting on that day or any of the ones following it... so... heh... kinda a late correction).

At 7/25/05 01:17 AM, ramagi wrote: oh?
Yea that is what I get too. :)

Maybe even early October, if not mid-late September.

But I'd wager it'll be one of those two months. No way is it gonna be August at my current rates... and I really doubt it'll take until November.

Oh and yaya will catch you before Recon and bila, with the current rates of BP they have. That is what I come up with anyways, I did do things wuickly, maybe I'll take soem mroe time once you retire give some exact stats.

Oh, I know that. Yaya (and perhaps Denvish) will be ahead of me long before the others can catch me, most likely. #;-}>

3 -> 4 -> 5... that's what I can look forward to in the nearterm... after that comes the -> 6 -> 7 -> 8... and after that? Well, let's just say I'm not looking forward to the stuff after that. Maybe by then I'll have decided to come out of retirement and go for at least 66,666.

Or maybe by then the admins will have added three new b/p ranks at 50k, 75k, and 100k or something. #;-}>

At 7/25/05 01:29 AM, iscruLz wrote: I jumped on the bandwagon and made a sig excuse the crappy quality I only have ms paint.
if you say not to wear it I wont.

LOL! Not quite as good as Qwoxyl's, but nearly as awfully funny. #;-}>

Why would I tell you or anyone else NOT to wear something? You're free to do whatever you want.

Hell, I can't stop people from wearing award sigpics they DIDN'T earn, but the names of the three winners (and the two runners-up) are on them, though... so they'll either look silly or have to alter the sigpic and thus look silly as well. #;-}>

At 7/25/05 01:27 PM, wismty wrote: I appreciate it, Greg, thanks!

Sure thing, glad you like it. It was Tar's idea in the first place, but of course I had to include you as you were the other runner-up!

I think I'll wear it for a good long while :)

Not TOO long, though? I really liked your old one, so make sure to bring it back at some point, eh? #;-}>

At 7/25/05 05:58 PM, -Myst- wrote: lol, give the Wi?/Ht? guys a contest and they make it a lifestyle hehe

Heh... well, I dunno about a LIFESTYLE, but I did hear people talking about the "next guessing contest" at some point in this thread, so perhaps I'll have started a trend by accident?

Every time someone's gonna retire around here in any stat, they should hold another of these contests. Too bad Dogma didn't (though the whole 36509 thing was known long in advance... still, we could have had a guessing contest about fixit's 49500 (er... well... 49503, I suppose #;-}>) as well.

At 7/27/05 10:41 AM, Frostbreath wrote: Well, was most far off. Is there a prize for that?

Sorry, no specific prize. Though you could always just put "I was the furthest guess from the winning numbers in gfox's retirement contest!" or something in your sig.

Otherwise, just use the "I didn't win" sigpic I made. It applies the most in your case, eh?

But anyway, I don't think you were the furthest off, anyway. I believe you were the SECOND furthest off. Check the webpage more carefully. I think I noticed that last week and mentioned it in a post already directed to you (but apparently you never saw it).

At 7/29/05 06:47 PM, jonthomson wrote: Reading through this thread amused me somewhat given the current context.

Ah yes, one of the currently 35 topics I've created (I knows that fersure because I've made a shortcut for page 1 of them all). I remember that one, vaguely.... way to dig up an oldie there. #;-}>

Check this out, too:

At 2/17/03 06:05 PM, thisisasignin wrote: I will keep going until I get the last one

Well, he stopped at 24,000 for like a year, but he started moving again and he's so damned close now. He coulda been like the 7th EGSC (right after me at #6), because back then there was NO one between me when I hit 30k and him down at 24k... but alas, he was not. Now he'll have to settle for like #35 or something. Ah wells. GO, THISISASIGNIN, GO!

At 7/29/05 06:59 PM, wismty wrote:

At 7/29/05 06:47 PM, jonthomson wrote: Reading through this thread amused me somewhat given the current context.

Woah!, I had more B/P than gfox back then?! unbelievable!.

You had more exp, b/p, posts, everything than me back then, probably.

At the beginning of January 2003, all I had was around 910 exp and 0 posts, 0 b/p, 3 reviews... that was it.

All of my stats EXCEPT for those 910 exp/3 reviews have come since January 2003, none from Feb 2000 to Dec 2002. :::nods:::

And yes it's kinda funny how gfox was planning to stop at Praposhchik at that time.

You gotta keep this in mind:

Posted: 2/17/03 03:17 PM

I hit safety patrol on 1/10/03 and then the EG on 2/17/03. Back then I had no idea how high I could climb. Praporschick seemed INSANELY far away back then, so that was the goal I'd set up. I said in that topic that I could get there by July maybe. I ended up doing so by mid-May. Heh.

My guess would be...
That you didn't read enough of this topic to know that gfox contest is already over...

Neither did another guy at the end of the last page. But hey, that's just TWO guys who've submitted guesses wayyyyyy too late. That's not too bad, actually, compared to a lot of topics (like those "I'll make you a sig" topics on General that the creator calls off after a week, yet dozens of more people keep asking for the sig weeks later).

At 7/31/05 09:22 PM, gfoxcook wrote: 3 -> 4 -> 5... that's what I can look forward to in the nearterm... after that comes the -> 6 -> 7 -> 8... and after that? Well, let's just say I'm not looking forward to the stuff after that. Maybe by then I'll have decided to come out of retirement and go for at least 66,666.

As I said if I get bored, I might come up with a chart for that.

Or maybe by then the admins will have added three new b/p ranks at 50k, 75k, and 100k or something. #;-}>

Is that anthing, like a new exp system?
Which we will see when?
I had to go there.
You are all set if they ever double the requirements...riiiiiiiight.

At 7/31/05 11:07 PM, ramagi wrote: As I said if I get bored, I might come up with a chart for that.

And so you did. Thanks again for that e-mail.

Or maybe by then the admins will have added three new b/p ranks at 50k, 75k, and 100k or something. #;-}>

Is that anthing, like a new exp system?
Which we will see when?
I had to go there.
You are all set if they ever double the requirements...riiiiiiiight.

That's not what I meant. I meant that if they add new ranks at 50k, 75k, and 100k, I would have a reason to unretire from b/ping on gfoxcook.

Otherwise, I'll have no reason to unretire from my perfect 36k/24k 60k total retirement (unless I go crazy and decide to blam 0 movies and save 12,000 movies so I can hit 36k/36k for perfect 36-filled heaven on earth... OR... if I'm about to fall off the top 50 list (ha ha! ... right? o_o)....

yeah, aside from those situations... only new b/p ranks that I haven't reached yet will make me want to start up again.

Otherwise, I'll just work on getting gfoxclock to 1000/1000 or something at a veeeeeeeeeery slow pace, no longer stressing out at all about teh main account massive b/page.

Ahhh... what a nice relaxing retirement it shall be. Work becomes a much less taxing hobby, basically, on an alt account.

Just like a nice long sleeeeeeeep... which I need RIGHT NOW, as it's already past midnight here, and I normally get to bed around 11:30 or so. I'm gonna miss out on an hour of sleep tonight and tomorrow is MONDAY. Dreaded, hated, energy-sapping Monday. BLECK!

Goodnight, all. May ye all have better weeks than ye expect, and meself included. #;-}>

I just thought I'd bump this topic for a bit here.

Thanks to ramagi and Wade, as of ~24 hours ago (late Thursday night, 10/13/2005), my 2 excess and accidental saves were lopped off... So, it didn't quite happen how I planned it back before and shortly after I started this topic... and it didn't quite happen how I thought it was going to when I stopped saving and blamming flashes on Tuesday 10/04/2005 (except the last 4 blams that Friday, the 7th, of course)...

But the main thing is that it HAPPENED. A slight overshoot past 60k... and then a slight "settling" back into it. I'll always wonder where those 3 mysterious saves (remember, I tried to stop at 23999 for a few days) came from, but... all's well that ends well!

36,000!
+
24,000!
=
60,000!

RETIREMENT COMPLETED! Huzzah! #;-}>

Congrats again to the winners. The numbers you accurately guessed I'd stop at... have now been stopped at. And thus..... the circle is complete. Or somesuch.