At 5/7/05 06:48 AM, Bahamut7 wrote: Hmm, 1111 pages?

That's bad, very bad and I'm so so happy that's past. 11 is my unlucky number and it was unlucky to me before September 11...the number always pops up too much for me so I consider it very unlucky and it always makese me nervous.

1,112 is good though. Fantastic actually.

Jonthomson, if you ever read this, I replied to your blog.

At 5/7/05 06:46 AM, Alkador wrote: Oh well, that's good. It's strange how when we wake up, we start off flat and need some form of winding to get ourselves up and about. That's how it works for me. Now, to lose your boredom...sometimes every few mornings, if I look at certain directions (varies), I can get a slight double vision where I get a cloud, or a 'ghost image' of an object just a little bit over the top of the real one, like a shadow in a way. I'm worried and if I tell my parents, they'll get angry at me, so what do you think about this?

Mmmm. I'm not sure what to make of it, but I doubt it's something I'd worry about really. Sounds like your eyes are just playing tricks on you when you're still tired in the morning. :)

At 5/7/05 07:06 AM, Alkador wrote: Jonthomson, if you ever read this, I replied to your blog.

Yeah, I noticed. Law, in case you were wondering.

Ooh, 33,333 replies now. That's got to count as a stat worth posting, surely? :-)

2,000 exp :-)
Just a little more till 11.

At 5/7/05 08:58 AM, BonusStage wrote: ONE LAST THING I WILL GET FOR A WHILE I SWEAR

25th in rank, it has taken me FOREVER to get this, and HIP HIP HORRAY, i did it ;D

Oh cool, you skipped TWO, I knew you were going to do the one, but I never even noticed the second guy. Congrats on that and happy birthday.

At 5/7/05 04:23 AM, Alkador wrote:

At 5/6/05 11:41 PM, DRD1982 wrote: Hey Alcador, I love that "War for the Portal" story. I was wondering if I could be in it as well??

I feel so pressured now. Here's the deal: I can't stick anymore people into Part 4, but I'll ensure your name will come up in the future. You'll find out soon enough.

I can live with that. Thanks!!!!
I didn't mean to pressure you though. It's just I'm writing a fancic of my own and as people have been reading it they've been asking me if they can be in it as well. I try to squeeze in those who ask but I tell them "no guarantees"

At 5/7/05 08:51 AM, jonthomson wrote: Ooh, 33,333 replies now. That's got to count as a stat worth posting, surely? :-)

I was wanting to try and make the 33333th reply, but I was out of the house. :(

At 5/7/05 08:51 AM, Vince50 wrote: 2,000 exp :-)
Just a little more till 11.

Congrats! You'll be spending around a month getting to level 11, though.

At 5/7/05 08:58 AM, BonusStage wrote: Definitely the greatest of all mobilolololololes

Yeah, but I always like the Lols Royce and the Lollerskates, though. Also the Lollercoasters!

hahaha well ok you may be an MSN dude then :P
but yeah moms + computers = no :P

Yeah, I use MSN rather than AIM. Besides, real life friends use MSN, so I will be keeping MSN.

I'd bang it ... only the voice, the rest in probably SOOOOO unsexy ;o

OMG! :O

Meh, takes 10 minutes max while i look for movies i WANT down or up for them to vote on :o

I'm reporting your mass voting to the Star Syndicate.

...Nah, I wouldn't be that mean.

25th in rank, it has taken me FOREVER to get this, and HIP HIP HORRAY, i did it ;D

Congrats! 20th possible enough for you?

Anyway, I'm now a Regular incase some people don't know yet. And I got 5555 blams...but I missed the damn number by 1! I even made an "Oh fuck!" picture for the missed number! Oh wait, it was kinda done by crappy MSPaint skills, so...nevermind, but 5555 blams is a nice acheivement. Next, 6000, then 6666. :S

Thanks to All.

Don't get me started on j00bie and chrome, lets just say they knew what they doing, they have to pay the price now.

Congratz to
Tom_s00 - 6K Blams
food1 1K posts
Vince50 2k EXP
BonusStage Happy B-Day and #25 ranked in B/P

400 posts-4,000 blams.

I like the number 4, don't mind me :)

At 5/7/05 10:14 AM, ramagi wrote: Thanks to All.

np!

Don't get me started on j00bie and chrome, lets just say they knew what they doing, they have to pay the price now.

what exactly did they do?

BonusStage Happy B-Day and #25 ranked in B/P

ya well done dude.
i made a little achievement of my own recently :)

Congrats M-A-R-C-U-S! Lieutenant Colonel, that looks very impressive.

I have 8,888 BLAMS: Cool Screenie time!!

Rank: Elite Guard Captain
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BLAMS: Involved in the termination of 8,888 crappy entries.
SAVES: Assisted in the protection of 3,740 quality entries.

At 5/6/05 04:14 AM, gfoxclock wrote: OY! I was heading to bed, but I decided to read at least the LAST page of this topic that I had posted on (1102, prior to posting in 1109 tonight)... and then I stumbled upon an old face (er... name) from the past!

<snip>
Holy crap. I just found out you're back from your tour of duty over a MONTH AFTER THE FACT. Sheesh. I guess the only topic you post in on Wi/Ht? nowadays is level up! I think you used to post in some of my list topics, though... ah, the good old days. It's been a long while since you bid us a temporary (though lengthy) farewell back in September of 2003.

:-) Thanks gfox. Indeed it has been a while. I "ranked up" real life to MSG back in Oct '03, then12 months in the "Zone" before getting back to the real world (and to NG.)

I don't post much (as my laughably low post count will attest) due the competing interests of everyday life. I am making the adjustment back to civilian life, am active in my local fraternal and civic organizations, am playing catch up with bills from my business, have a brand new Harley I ride whenever the weather is nice, and have a girlfriend who seems to think I ought to spend at leat some of my time servicing her rather considerable sexual needs. The rest of the time, I browse the forums and enjoy getting to "know" some of the regular personalities here. LUL remains my favorite thread.

This thread has endured and evolved just fine for quite some time. Don't you think the pendulum will swing the other way on its own and this spammy trend will self correct without (semi) divine intervention?

Endured and evolved, to some. To others? Suffered and devolved. The only reason any of this came up is because RC made a new lounge thread in response to how... um... filled with unimportant stat-only spam this topic had become. If you hadn't notice, the topic grew by 100s and 100s of pages while you were in Iraq. A lot of people, such as myself, and other old regulars in this thread, basically bailed out because it became too quick, too pointless, and not interesting enough to hold our attention. The recent debate has only been in the interest of resurrecting some of the old magic of this thread. To many of us, the thread has gone downhill, not uphill (as your "evolved" term suggests).

I am not disputing the existance of a problem with LUL, I only questioned the proprosed "solutions" which to me, at least, weren't likely to make matters better. My use of the term "evolve" wasn't meant to suggest an improvement, only a change.
I simply suggested that the problem might very well self-correct without the need for drastic or dranconian measures.

But that's just an opinion of some, and thus debate and discussion were welcome and that was the whole point of things. If nothing changed in the thread, then fine. But a lot of people feel alienated by how this thread has changed, and I'm one of them. It's all fine and well for the people who're great with the thread to suggest that nothing's wrong with it, but that's just in regards to THEM, not to everyone.

Debate and dsicourse are healthy, and often needed; but you are NEVER going to please everyone.

I'm nobody (certainly not an all-powerful, thread-locking, ban stick wielding mod) but this is my 2 cents worth.
Worth what you paid for it, I guess.

Have fun kids. that is what this is supposed to be, isn't it?

Of course, but it's human nature to make everything more difficult than it has to be. You're a soldier, you got to experience that quite a lot, I'm sure. Anyway, welcome back to the States.

Indeed. I have also seen how often "solutions" end up making matters worse.
Thanks again for the welcome. It's good to be back, back home, and back at NG.
:-)

And as to this "kids" stuff, I hope you know there are two fellow forty-somethings in this topic along with you (bila and Recon). #;-}>

Hey, I still consider myself a kid at heart (which is why I love NG.)
You aren't suggesting that bila and Recon and I are geezers, are you? ;-)

Thanks again, gfox, you're one of the few who even remembered I'd been gone. :-)
I always enjoy you're posts, btw. Very thorough and thoughtful.

At 5/7/05 11:27 AM, atricaudatus wrote:

At 5/6/05 04:14 AM, gfoxclock wrote: OY! I was heading to bed, but I decided to read at least the LAST page of this topic that I had posted on (1102, prior to posting in 1109 tonight)... and then I stumbled upon an old face (er... name) from the past!

<snip>

Well, being the computer illiterate nincompoop that I am, I botched that quoted portions of that post badly. I hope you can figure out which part was snipped form your original post, greg.

sorry.

At 5/7/05 08:58 AM, BonusStage wrote: Even better than the NG anniversary heh, so yeah thank for being the first to post about it haha :D, are you going to be posting a lot more often, it would seem so, and afer the whole Member thing i've found out your quite the cool person ^.^.

Thanks for the compliment, Bonus. As for my activity, it all depends. I can't see myself posting in this thread too often, but I do try to help out where I can.

So ... why'd you even quiet down iin the first place, and will you be able to deposit everyday, i could help you with that in case you can't :)

Well, I became uninterested in stats and points, and the forum over time became more focused on them. Before I knew it, every post in this thread was either about a stat landmark, or to congratulate someone on their own. Then there were like 5 (or something crazy like that) different threads made all focused on a different kind of stat. So, there just wasn't really anything left for me here. But as I said, anytime I see a topic that hasn't been answered yet, I'll offer a helping hand.

I know i don't come in here much, i would rather help people and this thread kills a lot of time i would rather use for writing my novel. However, word is that Bonus turned 16!

So, as the firend i am ; ) ... I had to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Try not to let the number 16 change you O_o... I sometimes still have a hard time believing ur age. I don't know why, but anyways, happy birthday. I hope it is a killer night. And i'll catch u on MSN for that story i wanna hear still.

At 5/7/05 10:53 AM, M-A-R-C-U-S wrote: what exactly did they do?

Oh, they just had a little bit of fun in the C&C Forum.

I'm not going to make a congratulations list right now becuase Newgrounds is kind of fucked up for me right now. Everytime that I click on a link inside the site, I get an error that says "Page Cannot Be Displayed" and I have to refresh three or four times to view it. Anyone else having problems?

Anyway, I made it into the top 700 B/P ranks last night, and I am currently six points away from Elite Guard Sergeant. Yay.

\/ j00bie and Chrome- \/

At 5/7/05 04:02 PM, _IAMCanadian_ wrote:

At 5/7/05 10:53 AM, M-A-R-C-U-S wrote: what exactly did they do?

Oh, they just had a little bit of fun in the C&C Forum.

And used 2 alts to post, and probably got banned until the end of eternity. Poor guys.

I'm not going to make a congratulations list right now becuase Newgrounds is kind of fucked up for me right now. Everytime that I click on a link inside the site, I get an error that says "Page Cannot Be Displayed" and I have to refresh three or four times to view it. Anyone else having problems?

Yeah, that happens to me, but it says "cannot find server" but even though it bugs me, it isnt that big of a deal, since I just go back, and it returns to normal.

Anyway, I made it into the top 700 B/P ranks last night, and I am currently six points away from Elite Guard Sergeant. Yay.

I think somebody deserves hugs for that little milestone *gives sweaty hug*

And I finally got to Police Captain rank last night. Wheeee!!! Reason why it makes me so happy is because I did it, while being forced to use AOL as my IP *shivers* It is a demoralizing experience when you have 8 flashes in the Portal, all under 6 kb in size (usually a pretty instant flag for blammage) and It says that your IP address has already voted on it. Reeeooooaaarrr!!! Oh well.

At 5/7/05 08:51 AM, Vince50 wrote: 2,000 exp :-)
Just a little more till 11.

Yes not too long at all, maby a month, congrats!

At 5/7/05 08:58 AM, BonusStage wrote: ONE LAST THING I WILL GET FOR A WHILE I SWEAR
25th in rank, it has taken me FOREVER to get this, and HIP HIP HORRAY, i did it ;D

Congrats Bonus i see this means alot to you, : ) and happy birthday too.

At 5/7/05 10:25 AM, -AbysmalDarkness- wrote: 400 posts-4,000 blams.
I like the number 4, don't mind me :)

congrats on both especially the 4k blams ! did you plan to get both on the same day?

At 5/7/05 04:33 PM, DaSadGirl wrote: I just recently passed the 4,000 posts mark so...YAY FOR ME! ^___^

Congrats yay for you ^_^

At 5/7/05 04:20 PM, Chachibenji wrote: And used 2 alts to post, and probably got banned until the end of eternity. Poor guys.

Actually, I was talking to j00bie on AIM while he was doing it and he had no clue who those people were. I guess some random people just wanted to join in.

Yeah, that happens to me, but it says "cannot find server" but even though it bugs me, it isnt that big of a deal, since I just go back, and it returns to normal.

Okay. Glad to know it isn't just me.

I think somebody deserves hugs for that little milestone *gives sweaty hug*

Uh, thanks. I'm going to go and have a shower now. :P

And I finally got to Police Captain rank last night. Wheeee!!!

Congratulations.

Reason why it makes me so happy is because I did it, while being forced to use AOL as my IP *shivers* It is a demoralizing experience when you have 8 flashes in the Portal, all under 6 kb in size (usually a pretty instant flag for blammage) and It says that your IP address has already voted on it. Reeeooooaaarrr!!! Oh well.

That sucks. For some reason, I get that message as well sometimes even though I have a DSL connection.

Anyway:

The Official Xbox Magazine have given Alien Hominid 6.0/10. Not bad. Means it should be coming out in Blighty pretty soon! =D

Congrats to:

-schneelocke: EG Major. Sorry I forgot you earlier.
-_redruM_: Cheating death thrice, if the story's true. Sorry, but that last bit was a bit over the top.
-ramagi: 9,000 Posts. Now go for the ten, you spammer you.
-food1: 1,000 Posts. Nice.
-BonusStage: Level up....I mean, happy birthday. Elaborate on this present? Was it pie? It was pie, right? Also congrats on 7,500 Saves and #25 in B/P Rank :P
-LUL: 1,111 pages, 33,333 Replies. Here I am, congratting a topic :(
-Vince50: 2,000 Exp. Nice.
-Bahamut7: 5,555 Blams. Great.
-AbsymalDarkness-: 400 Posts, 4,000 Blams. Yay for four.
-MARCUS: EG Lieutenant Colonel. I still don't understand why they didn't even it out to 15,000 B/P.
-DRD1982: 8,888 Blams. What awesome graphics program did you use to make that screenie :O
-Chachibenji: Police Captain. 1,000 B/P>it
-DaSadGirl: 4,000 Posts. Nice.
-_IAMCanadian_: EG Sergeant. Nice.

At 5/6/05 06:23 PM, BonusStage wrote: YuYu was REALLY good IMO for an americanized anime, the characters seemed to fit their voice actors, and the actors seemed to actually put effort into it as well :)

Really? That's rare, most of the time the voices are all....Weird....And Captain-Falcon-ish.....

HAAHAH explain the enitre situation if you may *loves his safari browser*

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=265227

At 5/7/05 05:31 PM, -Mazza- wrote: Congrats to:
-_redruM_: Cheating death thrice, if the story's true. Sorry, but that last bit was a bit over the top.

Thanks muchly. As for your doubts, are you aware that Winnipeg is the murder capital of Canada? At least one person gets killed pretty much every week.

I'd just like to point out...w00tz0rs

:P

Like, congrats to you all, or whatever.

yay. i entered the top 3000 b/s earlier today and just now i got a shiny gold police captain badge

At 5/7/05 11:27 AM, atricaudatus wrote: You aren't suggesting that bila and Recon and I are geezers, are you? ;-)

Are old geezers still allowed to play video games?

At 5/7/05 04:02 PM, _IAMCanadian_ wrote:

At 5/7/05 10:53 AM, M-A-R-C-U-S wrote: what exactly did they do?

Oh, they just had a little bit of fun in the C&C Forum.

I hope the Family Feud Club is still open!

At 5/7/05 07:09 PM, _redruM_ wrote: Thanks muchly. As for your doubts, are you aware that Winnipeg is the murder capital of Canada? At least one person gets killed pretty much every week.

"There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."

-Ambrose Bierce-

At 5/7/05 10:03 PM, ReconRebel wrote:

At 5/7/05 11:27 AM, atricaudatus wrote: You aren't suggesting that bila and Recon and I are geezers, are you? ;-)

Are old geezers still allowed to play video games?

I sure hope so! Otherwise, I'm turning in my union card in the Intl Geezer Guild.
Glad I'm not the ONLY forty something "kid" here. (gfox "outed" you!)

"There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."

-Ambrose Bierce-

Rofl!
Where I come from, "He needed killin" is a legitimate legal defense.

Congrats to all. I won't dare try to repeat them all.
And Happy 16th, Bonus.

-Atri

Ok I am going to start posting my achievements cuz I am tired of being jealous cuz everyone is way better than me! XD! Anyhow, I have just passed 3000 blams and I am proud of that so I am still a staff sergeant...BUT NOT FOR LONG!!! Arg what else? Oh yeaha nd I just entered the top 400 for b/p and I am continuing to move along swiftly, so anyone ahead of me, WATCH OUT!!!

At 5/7/05 11:59 PM, ThugNasty wrote: Ok I am going to start posting my achievements cuz I am tired of being jealous cuz everyone is way better than me!

Heh, nice achievements dude. =)

so anyone ahead of me, WATCH OUT!!!

You mean me?