At 5/5/05 10:58 AM, DRD1982 wrote:

At 5/5/05 10:32 AM, Tom_s00 wrote:

Congrats, your only one away from everyones favourite now!!! still the chain is bad ass!!!

The Chain does look really cool I admit, but somehow I liked my old Lv 14 Lead Pipe a bit better. Maybe it's just me but I think one can do more damage with a pipe than a chain.

Lv 16 is a no-brainer though. How can anyone NOT love those Nunchucks???

I don't. But then, I really prefer the more "medieval" weapons, anyway (anything from level 17 on up). My personal favourite is the hammer really; or maybe the golden hammer, but since I have no chance at all to ever reach that one in my lifetime, I don't think about it much. ^_~

At 5/5/05 11:36 AM, -Myst- wrote: Hey guys, I've seen something weird a minute ago when I was voting on the portal :

You gave this entry a 2, lowering its score from 5.0038 to 3.0138!
If this movie is protected you will get a PROTECTION point!

What does it mean eh? :-\

Oddities in the voting system. I asked about that in the General forum a while ago, but outside of a couple of accusations of having made up the whole thing (which really just shows that some people don't really know much about NG apparently ^^), nothing really came out of the discussion.

It's probably either rounding errors (C has problems in this regard sometimes, and I think PHP is sufficiently low-level to maybe get bitten by this as well), or maybe the portal adjusts votes by a small random amount (for whatever reason).

In any case, it's a known glitch, nothing to worry about.

At 5/5/05 01:13 PM, schneelocke wrote: In any case, it's a known glitch, nothing to worry about.

We talked about it here and I think ShittyKitty and I pretty much nailed the issue head-on.

Congrats to:

-PimpMasterKDOG: EG Major, +11.00 VP. Now for the golden leaf.
-DRD1982: Lv 15. I'll be reaching that one myself soon, too. Only 10 days or so left.

Wow, a whole day has passed since my last post and only two accomplishments?

At 5/4/05 04:41 PM, -Lauren- wrote: Yeah it is Lauren's account, BUT YOU MISSED SKETCH TOO *NOOEEEZZZ*

Haha, that was just because 500s suck ;)

Also you ARE in like ASM right :P, i mean for god sakes your sigs these days are only getting better and better :D.

Nah. I like making sigs every once in a while, but ASM would mean I'd have to make a lot of them.
Too lazy to do that :)

At 5/4/05 06:35 PM, -Myst- wrote: You're right, I just often forget which name goes with each game. I played Tales of Phantasia before playing ToS anyway. The battle system was already pretty original at that time, you can't block (but your character does it sometimes), but there wasn't any combos so you could easily defeat an average enemy just by hitting him non stop. The only part that pisses me is when you're on pegasius. The idea was good, but GOD IT'S SO HARD TO FIGHT ON IT dammit :P

Yeah, that part sucked. There were some enemies I just couldn't hit no matter how hard I tried, because you can't aim the stupid spear. That's why I hate airborne enemies, Cless just seems to jump when he feels like it :(
Instant kill/stone enemies are more annoying, though.

At 5/4/05 06:42 PM, jonthomson wrote: Wait, people play SNES games in other fashions?

Of course not, we all import them the hard way ;)

At 5/5/05 03:38 AM, -DaughterOfHades- wrote: HOLY GOD

God of War is the best game in the universe. Has anyone played it?

No, but I've heard good things about it.

What kind of game is it, anyways? RPG? Action/Adventure?

Naked women: 2 (That's not a score) ;-)

Roffels, there's a magazine over here that would give that game 95% for that alone.

At 5/5/05 02:00 PM, -DaughterOfHades- wrote: We talked about it here and I think ShittyKitty and I pretty much nailed the issue head-on.

Thanks for the explanation.

At 5/5/05 04:45 AM, bila wrote:

At 5/4/05 08:43 PM, ReconRebel wrote: Forget what I posted bila. My birthday isn't in April, it's in May. I'm not sure where my mind was when I wrote that.

ROFL
You crazy old coot! You posted that IN MAY!

Yeah, yeah... I know. That's what scares me bila. It's like I went through a time warp or something. Either that or I've been smoking too much weed.

See what old age does to ya? You're already showing signs of being senile!!!

You know you're old if they've discontinued your blood type.

Check your old posts! You're almost as senile me? :P~~

* Growing Old *

First you forget names, then you forget faces.
Next you forget to pull up your zipper and finally... you forget to pull it down.

At 5/5/05 09:26 AM, Qwoxyl wrote:

At 5/4/05 08:43 PM, ReconRebel wrote: Congrats on reaching EGSC Qwoxyl. The obvious question is are you going to continue voting on the portal?

Yes, but not as much. Maybe I'll speed up when yaya stops, but there's no more bonuses, ranks or a lot of people to pass and less time to spend watching movies and playing games since I have to leave the house more often.

I've got some major vacation time coming to me and I'm thinking the last two weeks in July and the first two weeks in August. Experience deposits aren't a problem for me but my blam/protect gains would definitely suffer. I'm not spending my vacation in front of a bloody monitor. Some people must have their computer hard-wired to their ass to get the points they get day after day.

Congrats to the_phantom_spancker for reaching level 18 and Afterburner for reaching level 19.

Congrats to:

Qwoxyl - EGSC
DRD1982 - Level 15
BonusStage - Being a spammer (<3), 21k Blams, 7.5k Protects

So, I think it's time to upgrade my computer's memory. Just listening to music and having MSN and Avant Browser open at the same time takes up 90% of my memory :\ Where would be the best place to buy some more?

Now that I have access to a computer that can do so, i finally updated my spinning badge symbol from 1st LT to Captain.

Hurrah, I ranked up to Elite Guard General. Supreme Commander is calling out to me now. :)

Congrats to KDOG for EG Major and 11+VP (damn you for having so much exp, it will take years for me to get that), and Bonus for 8,888 posts (spammmmmmer) and 21,000 blams. And congrats to the new EGG, Foxball/Infinity of circles.

At 5/5/05 10:24 AM, DRD1982 wrote: Yes, but not as much. Maybe I'll speed up when yaya stops,

Somehow I'm not sure if he's going to stop. I can't quite put my finger on it yet but I'm almost certain that YA-YA is an AI!!

Well he's very fast, has one review (which over 100 people do not like) and hasn't bragged about anything with a post (because he has no posts). How could AI not apply to him?

I just Leveled up!! Now Lv 15!!!

Congrats, getting rid of the pipe makes it all better.

And as a bonus, I sould finally be able to update my little spinny rank symbol since I got Captain like a week or so ago.

A late bonus, but those sigs are cool. I forgot where I could get them though, I want/need one.

At 5/5/05 11:49 AM, Nijsse wrote:

At 5/4/05 09:32 AM, Qwoxyl wrote: FINALLY!!!

Congratz man! Another SC. Are you going to quit now too?
I'm wondering why you are ranked #22 and I #23. It's not fair! :P

Probably when I get 10,000 saves I'll stop (that penta can't keep me off forever). And maybe the list puts the recently active person in front so inactive users are pushed down (because sign up date doesn't explain it).

At 5/5/05 04:51 PM, BonusStage wrote:

At 5/5/05 09:26 AM, Qwoxyl wrote: Yes, having that would be sweet (so is having the 4th 03 EGSC, but you speedy people have made it less sweet).

HHAHa you silly gooses are then olden folks :o, and SS stopped for World Of Warcraft, and now is like STUCK, but i want either/or/both 25th/4th 04 :(

Warcraft, completely understandable. SS is still moving (and might get there eventually), you just need to stay ahead of EK and your dream will come true. That or kill him, I mean it is THE 25th SC we're talking about.

At 5/5/05 08:51 PM, ReconRebel wrote:

At 5/5/05 09:26 AM, Qwoxyl wrote: Yes, but not as much. Maybe I'll speed up when yaya stops, but there's no more bonuses, ranks or a lot of people to pass and less time to spend watching movies and playing games since I have to leave the house more often.

I've got some major vacation time coming to me and I'm thinking the last two weeks in July and the first two weeks in August. Experience deposits aren't a problem for me but my blam/protect gains would definitely suffer. I'm not spending my vacation in front of a bloody monitor. Some people must have their computer hard-wired to their ass to get the points they get day after day.

A month vacation, very nice. I wouldn't spend a vacation in front of a computer either, almost unbelievable that some people would waste their vacation like that. Hard-wired, that made my day. =)

Congrats to the_phantom_spancker for reaching level 18 and Afterburner for reaching level 19.

I didn't realise that, congrats to them.

At 5/5/05 06:08 PM, BonusStage wrote: lots of stuff.

Calm down you goign to get a ban again >:)
I mean congratz.

At 5/5/05 08:50 PM, BonusStage wrote: Well yeah, i've always cam whored a lot recently ... hahah well recent = today, i just found out how easy it was to take pictures with it, so i made sure to add a picture if it was necessary ;). Hey it's a lounge now right, i can speak of stuff like that ^.^.

I want also to use the cam, that I don't have. I want to take pictures of my dinosaurs :P
Oh and congrats on 1500 more!! :o

LASTLY (want to ensure a nice post since it's a double post :P) i found something today that was HILARIOUS, a response that was the whole tldr acronym, DAMN YOU BIG REVIEWS XD.

Haha, speaking of long reviews, I just made my longest review, that made my reviews count: 1000!!! (for the million time...)
Oh well, at least it's back to normal now, until some more reviews of mine will be deleted...

Anyways, check out how selfish I am!
Congrats to carmelhadinosaur for almost reaching 20450 b/p!
Congrats to me for almost reaching 5800 posts!
Congrats to carmel for almost reaching 8.5 posts per day!
Congrats to that israeli dude that always follows me around for almost reaching 14k blams!
Congrats to that LUL dinosaur for going from the 60th rank to the 59th in b/p, finally again!
Congrats to ruasonidahlemrac (im running out of ideas...) for having less than 500 more XP to level 16: July 16th, 2005.

Damn im selfish.. Am I even allowed to do that?
Bonus you said it's alright umm right? al

WOoot level up!
Got my boxing glove.

Next target: NGEG Private..

Congrats on UotD to....P-Bot?!?

At 5/6/05 02:41 AM, ShittyKitty wrote: Congrats on UotD to....P-Bot?!?

Ha ha ha. Awesomeness. That is totally sweet.

:::takes his own screenie to add to his uber-1337 UOTD screenshot collection:::

So anyway... damnit, even with this topic growing slower than it used to, it's still like 7 pages since I last caught up and posted. I'll get to it this weekend, most likely, when I have much more time. In the meantime...

congrats to everyone on the nifty achievements... but most of all:

WOOT WOOT! New EGSC! Good job, Qwoxers!

I just ranked up on my blam/protection i'm not very excited till the next rank which looks totally different.

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!

At 3/30/05 03:30 PM, atricaudatus wrote: Well, after being away for over a year I got back online a few weeks ago and have finally made EG PFC.

I'm still not in the same league as the heavy hitters that frequent this thread, of course.

Back from Iraq,
MSG Atri

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.

So anyway, I only found the above post of yours when I noticed your post on page 1102 before going to bed:

At 4/30/05 12:16 AM, atricaudatus wrote: What a drama.
Yanno, when I first discovered the NG BBS, this thread was the first one I became interested in, and although I rarely have anything worth posting, I lurk here often. I have always found the regulars here to be more mature and intelligent and helpful on the whole.
This furor over the future of the LUL has been surreal.

Perhaps so.

(snip)

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).

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.

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.

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). #;-}>

And one last thing to reiterate a point more succinctly... I'll finish catching up in here tomorrow or Sunday, but:

At 4/30/05 01:38 PM, schneelocke wrote: You missed my point. It's not about "you're wrong and I'm right" or "I want you to apologize now" or anything like that - it's about feeling the need to interfere with something that works fine, is fun for those who participate in it, and doesn't bother anyone. And, what's worse, the need to interfere with it just for the sake of interfering, as opposed to interfering because there actually is a good reason.

RC's point, I believe, and certainly my perspective... is that while you and many other people in this thread think that for 100s of pages, the thread was "working fine," and was "fun for those who participate in it," and "doesn't bother anyone"... that doesn't make it so for everyone.

The simple fact is that you never noticed it bothering anyone because anyone it bothered, such as myself, was hardly ever anywhere near it. I avoided this thread like the plague at times because it was such a mammoth pain to catch up on, and catching up on it wasn't fun anymore. And skipping the catch up and just diving in wasn't fun either. No one person or group of people was responsible for that, it's just the way the thread was changing.

For awhile, if you recall (but it may have happened so long ago that you don't, or weren't even reading the thread back then), I would complain about how fast the thread was growing, and try to get people to post less often or longer posts so as not to make it grow by 4 pages per day, but to no avail. I ended up giving up and coming around maybe once a month at most.

Plenty of people, I'm sure, were fine with that. Others may have wished I would stick around. One thing's for certain: I wasn't as happy with the new way this topic was going that made me feel like participating less because I enjoyed it less and less. I just wasn't constantly popping in to yell about it. So... yeah. There ya go. #;-}>

As to RC's proposed list of guidelines for the topic and all... I haven't read it fully, nor have I read most of page 103 nor any of 104-108, so I'll get to that this weekend, but... I haven't really formed an opinion on any of it and don't know what's been discussed in here since then (since page 109 isn't about that topic at all), so I'll get up to speed soon. I don't think that restrictive written rules is necessarily the way to go, more just "principles of reducing spam" or something. Short, sweet, easy to agree to and follow. That'd be the best sort of guidelines.

Goodnight... for real... at last.

War of the Portal - Part 4
9 - “The Power of Unsealing”

The King of the Portal laughed for joy as he looked upon the world. Soon, he thought to himself. Omega would be cause of all oblivion and the submission’s rebirth as the supreme race of this world. He looked upwards to stare at the billions of crimson threads that protected the heart, the centre of the world. It was the source of all his power and his children’s life. He felt the power of various seals present upon the world; five recent powers that would be a hassle. Yet he probably could destroy all of them at once if he wished for it to be. D0GMA was dead and Dobio too. All he had to do was the find the final demigod and stop him before he gained full power. The memories thousands of years ago still radiated in his head as he felt nostalgic for a brief second.

The gods spoke in Ancient tongue staring upon the thousands of Guardians of the world.
“You have no need of us anymore. We shall depart and let you live with one another. Our meaning here is non existent if we are to stay; your meanings will be purposeful if we leave.”

Those lines had confused the King for a while, but in the end, it had made sense. The Gods did not want to intervene in the Ancient’s lives, so they departed the world. The true meaning of life it seemed was for humans to serve under the power of submissions and obey all that they wished. The Gods departed the world as they knew this fate was inevitable. But they created a human comfort by creating three demigods to take their place. The Gods were fools as well. At once, he spoke without thought.

“Vocare vis viris eminus mei pectus,” He paused as he raised his two hands as if asking for a blessing from the churning pink skies above him. "Vis viris vocare effringo omnis iam,” Yes, the King was going to break all seals that had been placed on the portal. The stronger seals prevented the more powerful submissions escaping and it was time to begin Omega. What else would be a better time? "Effringo meus intestinus universum!"

The world shooks as the billions of threads vibrated in their positions, having a life of their own. The lands roared as the threads soared upwards, breaking the hundreds of underground earth and structure that wingless submissions roamed upon. The threads poured upwards like a supreme power, moving towards the hundreds of seals that had been carefully placed throughout the world in the thousands of years. The threads touched the blue transparent seals that increased in power, resisting the energy of the threads. They groaned as the threads pushed harder in every spot. Each seal could not stand the strength of a million threads packed towards breaking one seal.

The sound of earth giving way caused gfoxcook to gasp as he ran towards the front door. The world shook violently as he gasped to see what lay on the doorstep before him.
“It’s…Dobio!”
“Is h-he really dead?” Blinked RedCircle as his awed face stared at the dead blooded body.
“Indeed his is,” gfoxcook said as he pulled the sword out of Dobio’s chest, which dissolved from his hands. “Only Dobio could use this…” gfoxcook grabbed the portal gem from his neck as he quickly slipped it in his pocket. He grunted as he stared at the crumbling world around him. Stamper summoned a protection spell to keep the area around them intact.

“Wh-What is this?” Tom_s00 looked around as the ground seemed to shake like a massive earthquake.
“Did Dobio really set a trap as powerful as this for death?” MPA growled as he stared at ramagi. “They will die for what they’ve done to him!”

The seals snapped like fragile stone as the threads pressed further onwards to the crust of the earth. Their last strength caused the earth to slightly rise as they all fell; disintegrating from all the energy they had used to break the seals in the first place. And it was done; the portal was unsealed.

At 5/6/05 04:25 AM, gfoxclock wrote: As to RC's proposed list of guidelines for the topic and all... I haven't read it fully, nor have I read most of page 103 nor any of 104-108, so I'll get to that this weekend, but... I haven't really formed an opinion on any of it and don't know what's been discussed in here since then (since page 109 isn't about that topic at all), so I'll get up to speed soon. I don't think that restrictive written rules is necessarily the way to go, more just "principles of reducing spam" or something. Short, sweet, easy to agree to and follow. That'd be the best sort of guidelines.

Agreed. ^^ Cutting down on the noise probably wouldn't hurt, either, but I'm reluctant to think that limiting what achievements you can and can't post about would really be a good idea. I mean... sure, there should be *some* limit. "I just got 18419 blams" simply isn't a noteworthy achievement (even though it's more than most people have), but it's difficult to say where the line should be drawn, and I personally lean towards erring on the safe side, so to speak. In other words, when there's doubt, then an achievement should be allowed - the rules should only forbid something when one can explain the reasoning behind it.

Ah well, we'll all manage to find a working solution that satisfies everyone. ^_^

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Congrats to:

BonusStage - 21000 blams, 7500 saves, 8888 posts
Foxphere - Elite Guard General
carmelhadinosaur - 1000 reviews
Melsith - Level 10
P-Bot - BBS user of the day (oh my ^^)
MaxR - Elite Guard Colonel

Made it to the Elite guard ranks....

I finally made it to the next rank (Elite Guard Major). Yay. ^^

At 5/6/05 04:55 AM, Frostbreath wrote: Made it to the Elite guard ranks....

Congrats i see you have gotten the hang of screenshots now : p

At 5/6/05 08:03 AM, schneelocke wrote: I finally made it to the next rank (Elite Guard Major). Yay. ^^

Big congrats i had no idea you were so highly ranked.

At 5/6/05 04:38 AM, Alkador wrote: War of the Portal - Part 4
9 - “The Power of Unsealing”

Another great addition to your story Alk. We can almost feel the ground shaking in this one, all it'd need is an apocalypse background music :P

At 5/5/05 03:27 PM, -Mazza- wrote: Wow, a whole day has passed since my last post and only two accomplishments?

I know. :S I thought I missed lots of people. :S

At 5/5/05 08:51 PM, ReconRebel wrote: Congrats to the_phantom_spancker for reaching level 18 and Afterburner for reaching level 19.

Two nices levels. Congrats to both of them.

Congrats to:

BonusStage - 8888 posts, 21000 blams, 7500 saves. If I was the god of NG, I would have the edit button on the BBS, even if I know there will never be one.
Foxphere - Elite Guard General. Be patient for the last badge.
carmlehadinosaur - Mentioning about his stats too much. >:(
Melsith - Level 10. Yay, the glove.
P-Bot - UOTD. I thought he was already UOTD or couldn't be able to get UOTD.
AnzRage - Elite Guard Lieutenant Colonel.
Frostbreath - Elite Guard Private.
schneelocke - Elite Guard Major. Nice, but you sig looks messed up. :S

Meh, other than stats, I had two injections yesterday. And I think both of them were strange. One didn't hurt, but can now. The other that did hurt at first, but not anymore. :S I really should trust eNurses and eNeedles rather than real life ones.

At 5/6/05 10:39 AM, Bahamut7 wrote: P-Bot - UOTD. I thought he was already UOTD or couldn't be able to get UOTD.

A user can be selected for UOTD more than once, or any ammount of time for that matter. And as long as they have an account like P-Bot aparently does, they are eligable.

At 5/6/05 10:49 AM, Tom_s00 wrote: A user can be selected for UOTD more than once, or any ammount of time for that matter. And as long as they have an account like P-Bot aparently does, they are eligable.

Yeah, but I thought P-Bot was just a robot. I didn't know he was able to become UOTD, but at least it's another familiar person to get UOTD rather than a random person. >:(

At 5/6/05 10:34 AM, Tom_s00 wrote:

At 5/6/05 04:55 AM, Frostbreath wrote: Made it to the Elite guard ranks....

Congrats i see you have gotten the hang of screenshots now : p

Yes i have :)

I'm surprised how easy it was, though :p

6k blams.

At 5/6/05 10:34 AM, Tom_s00 wrote: Big congrats i had no idea you were so highly ranked.

Thanks. ^_^ But I don't think it's that high really yet, actually - I'm not in the top 50 or something like that.

At 5/6/05 10:39 AM, Bahamut7 wrote: schneelocke - Elite Guard Major. Nice, but you sig looks messed up. :S

Mmm, strange. o.O I just switched to one of Denvish's rotating 3D badges - maybe your browser still has the old picture cached? In that case, Shift-reloading should help. ^_^

I really do need a nicer signature picture, though. Now if only I had the skills to create one... ^_^

Meh, other than stats, I had two injections yesterday. And I think both of them were strange. One didn't hurt, but can now. The other that did hurt at first, but not anymore. :S I really should trust eNurses and eNeedles rather than real life ones.

If you get an injection, try to relax as much as possible - it usually does make it less painful. I'm not sure whether the advice really helps, since it's usually the prospect of pain that causes people to go tense, but... do give it a try. It really works.

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Congrats to:

Frostbreath - Elite Guard Private
Tom_s00 - 6000 blams

how do you level up