At 3/4/07 01:53 AM, ReconRebel wrote: I just lost the second half of my post and I'm not typing it again. Forget to copy and save. Oh well...

God thats a pain in the ass isnt it. I have done that before, and there was no way I was going to write it all again.

Say hello to the new General! So ends my journey to achieve 50% extra voting power, and begins my climb to become the 72-ish EGSC...just 5K b/p away.

Wish me luck!

At 3/4/07 02:26 AM, Sterockicy wrote:

At 3/4/07 01:53 AM, ReconRebel wrote: I just lost the second half of my post and I'm not typing it again. Forget to copy and save. Oh well...

God thats a pain in the ass isnt it.

Like a badly bruised tailbone Sterockicy. When I realized what happened I slammed my hand on the desk so hard I tripped the glassbreak alarm in the main lobby. Made the other guards jump (lol).

I have done that before, and there was no way I was going to write it all again.

I hear that. Both were roughly the same size and that's a ton of typing. Besides, I've less than an hour left in my shift so my time is limited. Maybe I'll retype the second part when I get home. Still remember most of the people I quoted and what was said.

PenguinLink's Congratulations List #34
Congratulations to the following users:

Nicholas-Deary- 2,600 Experience Points, 20 Flashes Submitted to the Portal
LuigiBot- 1,000 Posts
AndersonCouncil- 8,000 Experience Points
Dream-of-Duke- Ranked #800 in Experience Points
pwroftheseagoat- Elite Guard Brigadier General
Malachy- Elite Guard Private
RupeeClock- Ranked #555 in Experience Points
CountDracula- 1,000 Posts
AfroUnderscoreStud- 10.00 Voting Power
ArtDanVal- Elite Guard General

Thanks To:
Bahamut
Coop83
Haggard
AtomicTerrorist
X-Naut
iscrulz

At 3/4/07 01:53 AM, ReconRebel wrote:

I just lost the second half of my post and I'm not typing it again. Forget to copy and save. Oh well...

Yes it happens. Quite frustrating, isn't it? >:( Once I was typing a huge post and out of nowhere suddenly my Computer reboots itself. I cursed so loud that some birds that were nesting in a tree fluttered and flew away. >:(

At 3/4/07 02:30 AM, ArtDanVal wrote: Say hello to the new General! So ends my journey to achieve 50% extra voting power, and begins my climb to become the 72-ish EGSC...just 5K b/p away.

Wish me luck!

Dude, way to go, that's what I'm aiming for right now. :)
I'm only 311 points away.
Btw, I'm sure that it's 55%, not 50% extra VP. ;)

After watching the total lunar eclipse last night, Coop congratulates:
Nicholas-Deary: 20 Flash Submitted to NG
LuigiBot: 1,000 Posts
AndersonCouncil: 8,000 Experience
Dream-of-Duke: Top 800 Experienced
PenguinLink: EG First Lieutenant
pwroftheseagoat: EG Brigadier General
Malachy: EG Private
RupeeClock: Ranked 555 for Experience
CountDracula: 1,000 Posts
AfroUnderscoreStud: 10.00 Voting Power
ArtDanVal: EG General

At 3/3/07 09:56 PM, X-Naut wrote:

At 3/3/07 09:28 AM, Coop83 wrote: *bets $5 stake* Hell, I've only lost £2.62. Not even half an hour's work.

$5? That's chump change. You know you want to press your luck even further. *devilish smile*

Yeah, but that's the way to win big - buy low, sell high.

At 3/4/07 01:38 AM, iscrulz wrote: Yes I am but its over 10k b/p to go to reach my goal.

2x EGSC?

Oh my what the it must be a sign, to do what.

*grabs marshmallows and toasting fork* this? *toasts marshmallows*

At 3/4/07 01:49 AM, ReconRebel wrote: I'm splitting my replies into 2 evenly sized posts. For some reason the characters remaining reads zero and I'm too tired to start messing around with the text lest I screw something up. *yawns*

Famous last words?

At 3/4/07 01:53 AM, ReconRebel wrote: I just lost the second half of my post and I'm not typing it again. Forget to copy and save. Oh well...

I knew it! Unlucky, Recon. Personally if I'm doing something of the multi-post genre, I'll put it on MS Word, just so I've got a copy elsewhere.

Hindsight is always 20-20 though

At 3/4/07 02:30 AM, ArtDanVal wrote: Say hello to the new General! So ends my journey to achieve 50% extra voting power, and begins my climb to become the 72-ish EGSC...just 5K b/p away.

It's only 4.5k, so you've gained 500 B/P at the flick of a switch. Nice work.

I still own you for voting power though!

At 3/4/07 03:16 AM, RupeeClock wrote: Dude, way to go, that's what I'm aiming for right now. :)
I'm only 311 points away.
Btw, I'm sure that it's 55%, not 50% extra VP. ;)

Yeah, I've already picked up his other error. Statwhoring is bad for the memory, obviously :P

At 3/3/07 10:54 PM, LittleWashu wrote: It is all about how you think of it. While some of the older user have more voting power then the newer users, that isn't true. There are many important people on NG who have very little voting power. and don't forget you can pass the older people with persistant depositing thought it will take time. So many people gripe about that not only because of that, But they want to get to certain levels just as fast as the older users did. Sadly in life everyone can't always get what they want if that was the case pimp would have about 1,000,000+ other user sharing his spotlight.

Oh, I didn't say *everyone* who's important has a high VP.

Outside of that, I can only pass others if they stop depositing. But again, it's not really about *passing* people so much as it is about being able to achieve - without having to invest decades of my life - things that they were able to achieve without investing decades, too.

And although you might disagree, I think that *is* unfair. I'm not saying that everyone should be able to reach level 25 after getting 2000 XP, but I also don't think it's fair that I'll have to reach 55910 XP to get there. (Just think about that number for a while.) And that's just me; someone who just reached level 9 today will need 82980 XP, for example - they'd have to deposit until well into the year 2030 to get there.

Of course not every single user should be level 30, or 25, or 20, or even 15. But it should be *possible* to do so, just like it's possible to reach EGSC no matter when you started... and just like it was possible to reach level 25 for a bunch of old people, too.

And it's not like various solutions haven't been suggested, either: I can think of at least two proposals that would fix many flaws of the current system (namely, a fixed XP/level scale, or a system where level requirements go up exponentially rather than linearly, so that the gaps are (much) smaller at lower levels than they are at very high levels.)

the layout was suppose to be in november. Personally I am glad it wasn't then because if it was I wouldn't have gotten to one of my favorite levels. I don't mind waiting for the new layout to come because with each passing day I get closer to getting to level 15 were you are at now as you are on your way to level 16. Plus as I said before if the NG staff rushed through the layout, there could be bug in it and then there would be a whole lot of people making threads complaining about the problems.

Yeah... I agree that it's a good thing that they're taking their time to make sure it'll work out. And maybe I'll reach level 16 before the redesign, too... although I really wanted to go beyond that. :P Ah well, I hope the old level icons will still show up (as redrawn, better-looking versions). :)

At 3/4/07 01:49 AM, ReconRebel wrote: So you think wolfie. How can you be sure they didn't do evil things to your temple? o_0

Occam's razor, mostly.

I saw a special on strange foods from around the world and casu marzu cheese was one of the foods they spotlighted. I showed a large Italian family sitting around the table chowing down on the stuff. The older relatives seemed like they were actually enjoying it but some of the younger ones wouldn't touch it and looked disgusted with whole event. Now imagine you're a guest and you politely refuse the cheese appetizer. Being a foreigner they respect your wishes. Now you're into the main course which is a delicious rack of lamb (you're part wolf, you must like lamb) and as you're finishing the last bite you notice a maggot crawling on the edge of your plate. Think you could keep your meal down at that point? :D

That probably would depend on where it came from, and whether it was supposed to be there - if it was part of the dish (and if I knew it was), I'd feel less bad about it, and the same would be true if it came from somewhere else, not my plate.

That being said, if I think something would be too icky for my taste, I *would* refuse it whether it's polite or not. :)

But yes, I do like lamb. In fact, I've just got an invitation to eat some hangikjöt (smoked Icelandic lamb) a while ago - no date's been set yet, but it'll be before easter, and I'm really looking forward to it. It's supposed to be quite delicious. ^.^

Afraid of dying in a traffic accident? Never heard of that phobia. Got a name? Got a number?

I'm not afraid of it; I said I was more concerned about that. Seriously, people worry about the wrong things all the time - for example, even the chance of being struck dead by a lightning is twice as high as the chance of dying in a terrorist attack (in the USA, no less), but people are still willing to be blindly spend billions out of fear whenever someone says "boo, terrorists!", even though they would laugh until they cry if somebody suggested that people being killed by lightnings is a national security problem.

If those pics are for real then something is terribly wrong with this world. I've seen things that most will never see but that's immoral beyond comprehension . Shit wolfie, that's so freakin' depraved I don't know what to say.

Well, I can calm your mind, then... they are only real insofar as that the guy is a performance artist who's eating a duck with a baby doll head stuck on it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Yu , for example. :)

When was the last time you missed a deposit and how many do you think you've missed? I must be somewhere in the 60's or 70's.

Last time: not sure. Total missed: hmm, about 15 to 20 or so?

I remember one flight where they made an awesome potato salad. It was boiled potato cut into small cubes, chilled in the fridge, then served on iceberg lettuce with Italian dressing. I was lucky enough to get seconds (waived my rights to a complementary bag of peanuts).

Sounds nice... except for the iceberg lettuce. ^.^

If I hear someone outside my door saying, "I'm gonna huff and puff and blow your house down" I'll know you're about to pass me on the top 50 b/p list. ^_~

*chuckles* Don't worry, I rarely ever huff and puff. I just bite. :)

Congrats to:
Nicholas-Deary: 20 flashes
LuigiBot: 1000 Posts
AndersonCouncil: 8000 Exp
Dream-of-Duke: Rankend #800 in Experience
PenguinLink: EG First Lieutenant
pwroftheseagoat:EG Brigadier General
Malachy: EG Private
RupeeClock: Ranked #555 in Experience
CountDracula: 1000 posts, Police Sergeant
AfroUnderscoreStud: 10 Voting Power
ArtDanVal: Elite Guard General
Volit0: 1000 Posts
Odyssic: First NG birthday

Level 11.

Meh

Thank you for your deposit, BBQBeefburgerdragon! You now have 3,000 experience points. You need 1,088 more to get to level 12.

Congrats to:

Nicholas-Deary - 20 flash submissions
LuigiBot - 1000 posts
AndersonCouncil - 8000 EXP
Dream-of-Duke - Top 800 EXP
PenguinLink - Elite Guard First Lieutenant
pwroftheseagoat - Elite Guard Brigadier General
Malachy - Elite Guard Private
RupeeClock - #555 EXP
CountDracula - 1000 posts
ArtDanVal - Elite Guard General
Volit0 - 1000 posts
Odyssic - 1 year old NG account

Thanks to:

Coop83

At 3/3/07 09:28 AM, Coop83 wrote: If you're submitting a flash today, read the review I'll leave you!

Sorry, but no weekly short flash this week. Maybe next week, I'm just busy recently.

At 3/4/07 01:38 AM, iscrulz wrote: I don't believe 7 and th100 will get an uotd. theres a chance but I am betting no.

And I'm betting yes!

So, I went to London with my school for 3 days, which was awesome. I got Lamb of God and Children of Bodom shirts and an Arch Enemy CD. Good shit. The UK is a really nice country, I'd say =P And London is impressive.

AtomicTerrorist will be happy to hear I hereby missed 3 deposits, even though I'll stay ahead of him for EVER =)

That also made me miss daily lists, so here's a pretty long one...

Congrats to:
AdamJack: 4,000 Experience
pwroftheseagoat: 19,000 B/P; EG Brigadier General
MadCow: 10,000 Blams; 11,000 Saves - Nice one dude!
Guardian: LVL 14
Metrackle: Ranked #4,444 Experience
Minion777: 10.00 VP
Pieriku: Gold Whistle
superstatguy: 3,333 B/P; Top 8,000 Experience
aldr: LVL 11
XkwiziTOnE: LVL 20 - Extremely cool man! Congrats!
Bahamut: 6.66 Base VP
Zerok: LVL 16
Click-Here: LVL 14; 100 B/P - Make a profile ;)
Marsupial: 3,000 Posts - You're UOTD on NG Log, go log your stats!
OsAmARaMa: 10,000 Experience - Woooh, congrats!
Rucklo: 5,000 Posts
MetalDart: 11,000 Blams
Zen-Zinxe: 1,000 Posts
phileeguy: LVL 17
BlueHippo: 4,000 Posts; Being awesome
RupeeClock: 25,000 B/P; 10,000 Saves; Ranked #555 Experience
PickledOnionMuffin: Ranked #444 Experience
Haggard: Deity Whistle; EG Private First Class
Auz: 10,000 Blams - And may there be many more 10Ks
DarkSoldier: Silver Whistle
Acid: LVL 14
Housemasta: 5,000 Blams
Ecke: 3,333 Posts
Static: 6,000 Experience
PenguinLink: Top 300 B/P; EG First Lieutenant
Nicholas-Deary: 20 Portal Submissions
LuigiBot: 1,000 Posts
AndersonCouncil: 8,000 Experience; Top 800 Experience
Dream-Of-Duke: Top 800 Experience

This must be the first time two users are congratulated for the same ranking achievement on the same moment

Malachy: EG Private
CountDracula: 1,000 Posts; Police Sergeant
Afro_Stud: 10.00 VP
ArtVanDal: EG General
Volit0: 1,000 Posts
Odyssic: One NG Year
BahamutClock: LVL 11
BBQBeefburgerDragon: 3,000 Experience - How can you keep up with all those alts? Haha!

Thanks to:
X-Naut
PenguinLink - Yay! You're going faster than me though, I think.
Haggard
Coop83
iscrulz
Shanus
Odyssic
Bahamut
IvanTuroc
BlueHippo - It sure did! Now let's watch it morph into an eagle!

At 3/2/07 05:29 PM, Shanus wrote: Just gotta ticket for the biggest Irish festival this year, Oxegen, It will be mental and will mean I will miss my depositing, but It ain't till July so I'll be like level 23 by then

& yes My Chemical Romance are going to be there too, Emo bashing anyone???

Sounds like an awesome festival! And yeah, make sure you bash those emos! MCR sucks!

10.00 VP, I think that deserves a small celebration.

At 3/4/07 10:55 AM, Phantom wrote: 10.00 VP, I think that deserves a small celebration.

10 VP is a fantastic achievement! Congrats dude. :)

I'll get something like 10.36 votes as soon as I grab my next b/p badge.

Thank you to all who have included me in their congrats lists!

At 3/4/07 10:55 AM, Phantom wrote: 10.00 VP, I think that deserves a small celebration.

indeed it does, good job sir :D

I still haven't got 25 B/P per day yet, but I'm so so close

Congrats:
AtomicTerrorist - 2600 posts & 7100exp - randomness = good
Acid - level 14. for real
Ecke - 3333posts
Static - 6000 exp
PenguinLink - top 300 b/p & Elite Guard First Lieutenant*SALUTES*
Nicholas-Deary - 2600 exp & 20 subs on NG

what's with the random exp thing today???

LuigiBot - 1000 posts
AndersonCouncil - 8000 exp
Dream-of-Duke - #800 exp
pwroftheseagoat - Elite Guard Brigadier General
Malachy - Elite Guard Private
RupeeClock - #555 exp
CountDracula - 1000 posts
AfroUnderscoreStud - 10.00 vp
ArtDanVal - Elite Guard General
Volit0 - 1000 posts
Odyssic - 1st NG B-Day
BahamutClock - level 11
BBQBeefburgerdragon - 3000 exp

At 3/3/07 06:32 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/2/07 05:29 PM, Shanus wrote: & yes My Chemical Romance are going to be there too, Emo bashing anyone???

Please kill the emos! :D

Consider it done

At 3/3/07 06:22 AM, Shanus wrote: Yes, Shanus <3's the emo *Sacrasm*, and I have many a plan for what I'm goin to do while MCR are on stage

What about bottling? :D

Oh brilliant, bottle to gerrard way's face
Best concert ever

At 3/3/07 09:28 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 3/2/07 05:29 PM, Shanus wrote: 55 for me, but I pulled an all nighter, just for the concert tickets, I'll get bout the same today I'd say

Neat, I had a short day yesterday, but I still managed to make over 30. Maybe the drought is over for now *statwhores*

*Part-time Statwhore waits hopingly*

At 3/4/07 01:38 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 3/2/07 05:52 PM, Sterockicy wrote:

At 3/2/07 05:29 PM, Shanus wrote: Just gotta ticket for the biggest Irish festival this year, Oxegen, It will be mental and will mean I will miss my depositing, but It ain't till July so I'll be like level 23 by then

Sick man, Never heard of it before but it sounds cool. Well your going to miss depositing so I will be like a level 24 by then!

Sorry you maybe level 11 by then but not level 23/4, new levels are never coming.

We're yound, let us keep our dreams

At 3/4/07 10:50 AM, Casualty wrote:

At 3/2/07 05:29 PM, Shanus wrote: Just gotta ticket for the biggest Irish festival this year, Oxegen, It will be mental and will mean I will miss my depositing, but It ain't till July so I'll be like level 23 by then

& yes My Chemical Romance are going to be there too, Emo bashing anyone???

Sounds like an awesome festival! And yeah, make sure you bash those emos! MCR sucks!

And Im stayin in a tent with a really goodlooking friend of mine, the fun will be had

Lamb of God rule!!!!

Shoot me now

Extra special Congrats:
Phantom - 10.00 vp

At 3/4/07 02:33 PM, Nicholas-Deary wrote: Thank you to all who have included me in their congrats lists!

Congrating congrats, lol

At 3/4/07 02:35 PM, Nicholas-Deary wrote:

At 3/4/07 10:55 AM, Phantom wrote: 10.00 VP, I think that deserves a small celebration.

indeed it does, good job sir :D

God damn double posters :D

I Joke

10,000 posts.

11111 total stats.

At 3/4/07 10:55 AM, Phantom wrote: 10.00 VP, I think that deserves a small celebration.

A small celebration sounds quite fitting. My VP is extremely crap, just tryin to b/p as much as i can to get it up.

At 3/4/07 04:44 PM, Solidone wrote: A small celebration sounds quite fitting. My VP is extremely crap, just tryin to b/p as much as i can to get it up.

You know, it probably would also help if you deposited your XP occasionally. :)

Congrats to:
AfroUnderscoreStud - 10 VP.
ArtVanDal - EG General.
BahamutClock - Level 11.
BBQBeefburgerdragon - 3,000 exp.
CountDracula - 1,000 posts, and Police Sergeant.
Odyssic - First NG berfday.
Phantom - 10 VP.
Sterockicy - 11,111 stat points.
TheMaster - 10,000 posts.
Volit0 - 1,000 posts.

At 3/4/07 01:38 AM, iscrulz wrote: You shouldn't tell people how to do that.

Too late for that.

At 3/4/07 01:53 AM, ReconRebel wrote: I just lost the second half of my post and I'm not typing it again. Forget to copy and save. Oh well...

It happens. And it's always a pain to deal with.

At 3/4/07 04:45 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, but that's the way to win big - buy low, sell high.

True.

*grabs marshmallows and toasting fork* this? *toasts marshmallows*

You are going to share those marshmallows with me, right?

You'd better. >:(

I'm really tired, I just submitted 3 submissions in 2 days! Its crazy!

At 3/4/07 02:45 PM, Shanus wrote: God damn double posters :D

I Joke

Yeah! I'm so posty, woah! Sorry for the double post again, its a vicious circle, LOLF!

BLAMS: Involved in the termination of 11,111 crappy entries.

and just because i'm an attention whore,

Experience: Ranked # 999 out of 1,112,997 users!

i just noticed i'm now in the top 1000 experience (i know it changes daily, and i'll probably be past 1000 tomorrow, it's still nice to know i'm better then 1111,998 people)

At 3/4/07 07:47 PM, MetalDart wrote: BLAMS: Involved in the termination of 11,111 crappy entries.

You can no longer use the term "pulled a MadCow"
Because I finally got a Screenshot on time!

Elite Guard Major General
21,500 b/p
8.60 VP

Hurray!

At 3/4/07 04:17 PM, Sterockicy wrote: 11111 total stats.

lol. I got on NG's Log today 10 000+ total stats.