At 8/20/03 09:14 PM, D0GMA wrote: Heh, now that I have my shiny new sig in place I figured out what my next one will be.

7,890 Blams
3,456 Protects

heh... 34567890 is indeed cool... but can it match the 6000 / 6000 I pulled off?! Eh!? CAN IT?!

The only thing that coulda made the 6000 / 6000 any cooler was if that was also a rankup spot, which sadly 12,000 isn't...

oh, and I guess 6666 / 6666 woulda been cooler. Ah well.

:::rummaging through file for other cool combos or combined totals:::

5363 / 5636 = 10999
5411 / 5700 = 11111
6200 / 6121 = 12321
6209 / 6136 = 12345
6636 / 6366 = 13002
6717 / 6414 = 13131
6965 / 6569 = 13534
7405 / 6916 = 14321

I may have to pull basically the same thing I just did and stall Protects to get the Blams enough ahead lol From now I need 81 Protects and 1,097 Blams. I figure I'll cap Protects by Monday, then a week of just Blams will get me there .... hmmm after that, maybe a screenie of me stalled at 12,345 on the top 50 list ... geez I wish I had thought of all this stuff earlier lol

Goddamnit, we're way too obsessive, aren't we. Ah well.

I'm gonna ignore that "week of just blams," BTW... I do NOT want to hear that...

And yes, 12345 kicks butt. Ahem. (from the midday update on 7/22):

At 8/21/03 05:20 AM, -_James_- wrote:

At 8/21/03 01:53 AM, D0GMA wrote: It's unlikely I'll get to use this one anytime soon in context so ... here's another ...

It doesn't look like there is much at all between his genital area and that guys ass...

And anyway, is that guy even really a soccer player (assuming that's the sport he's pictured in)? He seems to be more of a camera person - he sure has done enough poses...

That... "camera person" is the man who denied the US National Soccer Team entry into the semifinals of the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan....

that man.... has a name that strikes fear not only into the hearts of strikers! But also of Captain James T. Kirk himself...

that man is... KAHN!!!!! DAMN YOU KAHN!!!! DAMN YOUUUUUUUU!!!!

Goddamnit, Dogma. Aren't you an AMERICAN? How can you love that guy? #;-}>

Seriously, though, I admire him as well, he's quite the goalie. If it had been ANY OTHER FREAKING team but the US team (and okay, maybe Ireland), I woulda been rooting for 'em that night in June of 2002... bleh!

At 8/21/03 01:02 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
Hmmm.... visually, great. Loved the Rectanglesoft stuff....

But... why, man, WHY that song?! It's okay, I guess, but... I dunno, just totally didn't fit ANY of the visuals aside from when you had the main guy and girl on the screen posing, I suppose. 95% of the time... egad! #;-}>

I was probably asleep when it was submitted.

Anywho, I just threw a 5 at it and bumped it up from 3.09 to 3.11. Definitely deserves closer to a 3.5 than a 3, so let's get it up there, peops!

Thank you for the support! When I woke up and saw the increase, I thought "I'm sure a WI/HT guy voted, that was quite a bit of voting power."

'Rectanglesoft 2003:the rebirth' was an inside joke, a title of a group I was in a couple years ago for making games in the RPGMaker2000 program. Although Mega Force 2011 wasn't a game...

At 8/21/03 10:55 AM, _lightning_ wrote:

if you mean as your sig pic: right click on the picture you want - save the pic - go too your gold menu - click BBS signature pic - and select the pic you want for your sig pic =)

Thanks a lot!!!

ahh, just got my 18,000th blam point. Adding to yesterday when I got my 6,000th protect.

At 8/21/03 03:24 PM, TheJoe324 wrote: ahh, just got my 18,000th blam point. Adding to yesterday when I got my 6,000th protect.

Eh... not yesterday, meant to say the other day. (Damn no edit button)

At 8/21/03 03:27 PM, TheJoe324 wrote:

At 8/21/03 03:24 PM, TheJoe324 wrote: ahh, just got my 18,000th blam point. Adding to yesterday when I got my 6,000th protect.

Eh... not yesterday, meant to say the other day. (Damn no edit button)

We all wish we could do it (about both things, editing and racking 6000 points =P)

At 8/21/03 03:27 PM, TheJoe324 wrote:
(Damn no edit button)

I think we need an edit button! Cause dammit, I hate to post stuff with HUGE mistakes in them... The same goes for the reviews too. =D

At 8/21/03 03:27 PM, TheJoe324 wrote: Eh... not yesterday, meant to say the other day. (Damn no edit button)

yep i miss a edit button too too bad they never ad stuff too the bbs =(

At 8/21/03 06:38 PM, _lightning_ wrote: yep i miss a edit button too too bad they never ad stuff too the bbs =(

Speaking about missing something, I still haven't received an e-mail from spancker regarding his current password. If he's already gone on vacation (he said Thursday) then I can't deposit his experience for him. Not my fault.

At 8/21/03 09:22 AM, leeboy105 wrote: I managed to find this pic of the 5-1 win, but it's not the best.

Actually I like that one ... it doesn't say who they beat =P

I found this quote while I was wandering around lol

"This is an unexceptional Brazil team, an ordinary German one, and it has been the worst World Cup anybody can remember. Yet the fact remains Germany reached the Final, for the seventh time, which is half-a-dozen times more than England."

At 8/21/03 09:40 AM, demon0 wrote: YAY! Elite Guard Private. I didnt even know I got it until now. Awesome!

Grats and welcome to the would of blue badges =)

At 8/21/03 10:36 AM, Impetus wrote:


Hey! I like my armored rugby er... American football. I agree that my favorite sport ended up with the wrong name, but it's no less of a real sport.

I also will watch soccer :P but I only really get into the World Cup competition since I like the "battles between nations."

Those are cool pictures.

hat entire concept stems from me teasing my brother. He played Center for his high school football team. Yes American football. Sundays in the fall, when I'd come up to visit, I'd scroll over to Fox Sport World and tell he he couldn't change it since I was watching real football. Prime-time for European matches (the stuff they played live) was 8pm their time ... which meant he had an hour to really get into some AFL game before I changed the channel to watch Ajax.

At 8/21/03 12:46 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

Your BACKUP is a 1 gigahertz (think you mean Ghz there, not GB) processor?!?!? Jesus christ. I'm still using this shitty P2 266 mhz, and my "backup" is a P1 120 mhz out at my parents house.... blrhtgwposegjpowejgsg seog DAMN YOU ALL!!!

Yes, I meant GHz. And for a mere $600 or less you can build your own 1.7GHz PC. My brother's new PC cost a grand total of $605 with tax.

Strip/barebones tower with Athlon chip: $204
512 PC100 RAM chip: $64
80 GB Hard drive : $82
ATI Sapphire video card: $78
DVD player grandfathered from old PC: $0
CD-RW player: $49
Extra long ribbon cable with jump: $3
Legit copy of WinXP on student discount: $121

It also took my father and brother a week and a half to put it together since they refused to wait until I came up to get started, so that entire 10 days I was on the phone every day trying to undo whatever it was they did wrong. The hardware we got working in short order. The main problem was that my brother used a pirate XP on his old PC and exported all his old files to the the new hard drive. My father had recently bought my mom a laptop and tried to use her legit XP to install as an OS on my brother's hard drive ... *shudder*

It's WinME. It has to be. Change OSes. Fucking WinME.

likely right

heh... 34567890 is indeed cool... but can it match the 6000 / 6000 I pulled off?! Eh!? CAN IT?!

To me, yes. I refuse to stall that friggin long to get protects back up to 50% =P

And yes, 12345 kicks butt. Ahem. (from the midday update on 7/22):

Yep, I was right, it does look cool =)

Goddamnit, Dogma. Aren't you an AMERICAN? How can you love that guy? #;-}>

I was born in Frankfurt off-base, so my folks registered me at the wrong place. This was back in the days where you couldn't even have dual US citizenship with Canada so, when I hit 18 and did nothing, the US acted like I chose US. Germany hasn't forgotten. As far as I'm concerned, the US passport needs to be changed from blue with a gold eagle to red and white concentric circles.

Seriously, though, I admire him as well, he's quite the goalie. If it had been ANY OTHER FREAKING team but the US team (and okay, maybe Ireland), I woulda been rooting for 'em that night in June of 2002... bleh!

Ronaldo beat out Klose for the "Golden Boot" (most goals in Cup) and deservedly so. Klose got 4 of his 5 goals on Saudi. The real playmaker for Germany was Ballack, who got yellows against US (questionable card) and Korea (extremely questionable card) so had to sit out the final. So who got the Golden Ball (best player of the Cup)? Kahn, by quite a large margin of Ronaldo as I recall.

At 8/21/03 05:29 PM, FreezeMan_Wolfwood wrote:

At 8/21/03 03:27 PM, TheJoe324 wrote:
(Damn no edit button)

I think we need an edit button! Cause dammit, I hate to post stuff with HUGE mistakes in them... The same goes for the reviews too. =D
At 8/21/03 06:38 PM, _lightning_ wrote:

yep i miss a edit button too too bad they never ad stuff too the bbs =(

Might want to check out liljim's latest post over in General. I asked about it, but he hasn't replied yet, and it seems unlikely in any case.

I was thinking of you, Joe, when I made this one lol

At 8/21/03 08:22 PM, D0GMA wrote: I was thinking of you, Joe, when I made this one lol

HAHA, I have more of those posts than ones actually giving a straight answer. (Even though the links I put in usually lead to a topic that has the answer, I don't tell them IN the post) I was getting bored with that other sig though, and its not like anyone actually followed it, so I decided to express my hate for outwar.

At 8/21/03 08:40 PM, TheJoe324 wrote:

HAHA, I have more of those posts than ones actually giving a straight answer. (Even though the links I put in usually lead to a topic that has the answer, I don't tell them IN the post) I was getting bored with that other sig though, and its not like anyone actually followed it, so I decided to express my hate for outwar.

Heh, nice sig I like it =) You should link it to the Abusive Review thread lol

Bah, soccer -> football conversions. He seems quite the character then, doesn't he? An interesting name too... Kahn...

Anyway, I missed my 1,337 Blams pic. I refreshed my profile and my blams had gone from 1,335 to 1,339. From 2 early to 2 late (lol get it).

Heh, with all that thinking about my movie and other stuff, I did not even notice that I was approaching Staff Sergeant.

Well, just ranked up.

At 8/21/03 11:19 PM, Impetus wrote: Heh, with all that thinking about my movie and other stuff, I did not even notice that I was approaching Staff Sergeant.

Well, just ranked up.

Congrats Impetus! Are you shooting for the top 50?

At 8/21/03 11:19 PM, Impetus wrote:

Well, just ranked up.

Grats =)

At 8/21/03 08:22 PM, D0GMA wrote: I found this quote while I was wandering around lol

"This is an unexceptional Brazil team, an ordinary German one, and it has been the worst World Cup anybody can remember. Yet the fact remains Germany reached the Final, for the seventh time, which is half-a-dozen times more than England."

Worst World Cup ever? Come on. Just cause France tanked, and Argentina didn't do too well... come on. US beating Portugal was freakin' awesome. Giantkillers. There were other good matches, too. Eh.

... which meant he had an hour to really get into some AFL game before I changed the channel to watch Ajax.

ahhh... was THAT the reason for the Ajax username you had in June? I'd always assumed it was a reference to the Greek hero. Heh. #;-}>

At 8/21/03 12:46 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

Your BACKUP is a 1 gigahertz (think you mean Ghz there, not GB) processor?!?!? Jesus christ. I'm still using this shitty P2 266 mhz, and my "backup" is a P1 120 mhz out at my parents house.... blrhtgwposegjpowejgsg seog DAMN YOU ALL!!!

Yes, I meant GHz. And for a mere $600 or less you can build your own 1.7GHz PC. My brother's new PC cost a grand total of $605 with tax.

Blehhehrherhehre.

If I had 600 dollars, don't you think I'd already have gotten rid of this 266 mhz POS?! #;-}>

Strip/barebones tower with Athlon chip: $204
512 PC100 RAM chip: $64
80 GB Hard drive : $82
ATI Sapphire video card: $78
DVD player grandfathered from old PC: $0
CD-RW player: $49
Extra long ribbon cable with jump: $3
Legit copy of WinXP on student discount: $121

What kind of video card is the ATI Sapphire? I used to have an ATI once upon a time and wasn't very happy with it. The ones I've got now are an AGP 2D/3D Riva 128... served me well for some time now, even though it's from late 1997... and in 98 I got a Creative Voodoo II which still works for a lot of games you might not think it would...

heh... 34567890 is indeed cool... but can it match the 6000 / 6000 I pulled off?! Eh!? CAN IT?!

To me, yes. I refuse to stall that friggin long to get protects back up to 50% =P

I just mean visually/numerically, not practically. Besides, if I meant practically, then you've already passed one of the 6000s, so that's not very possible.

Now 10000 / 10000 is the ultimate.

And yes, 12345 kicks butt. Ahem. (from the midday update on 7/22):

Yep, I was right, it does look cool =)

Yar.

Goddamnit, Dogma. Aren't you an AMERICAN? How can you love that guy? #;-}>

I was born in Frankfurt off-base, so my folks registered me at the wrong place. This was back in the days where you couldn't even have dual US citizenship with Canada so, when I hit 18 and did nothing, the US acted like I chose US. Germany hasn't forgotten. As far as I'm concerned, the US passport needs to be changed from blue with a gold eagle to red and white concentric circles.

Well, I was joking, but thanks for that personal history lesson. #;-}>

:::lived in Japan for three years, but that was ages 10-13, so never had any citizenship issues:::

Anyway, what do you mean by "Germany hasn't forgotten?"

And the only reason I have any anti-German feelings in soccer, BTW, is that I was at World Cup 1986, and watched Argentina (my fave team at the time) defeat West Germany in person in Mexico City. Ahh, what a wonderous event. #;-}>

Seriously, though, I admire him as well, he's quite the goalie. If it had been ANY OTHER FREAKING team but the US team (and okay, maybe Ireland), I woulda been rooting for 'em that night in June of 2002... bleh!

Ronaldo beat out Klose for the "Golden Boot" (most goals in Cup) and deservedly so. Klose got 4 of his 5 goals on Saudi. The real playmaker for Germany was Ballack, who got yellows against US (questionable card) and Korea (extremely questionable card) so had to sit out the final. So who got the Golden Ball (best player of the Cup)? Kahn, by quite a large margin of Ronaldo as I recall.

Eh, Golden Boot is overrated. It's the team that matters. Golden Ball is at least more of a MVP type award...

At 8/21/03 11:19 PM, Impetus wrote: Well, just ranked up.

Nice work buddy. I'm set to rank up in about 50 points as well!

At 8/21/03 11:32 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote:
Congrats Impetus! Are you shooting for the top 50?

I've been aiming for a gold badge, but if I break top-50 in the process that would be a nice bonus. Thanks.
^_^

At 8/21/03 11:43 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

Worst World Cup ever? Come on. Just cause France tanked, and Argentina didn't do too well... come on. US beating Portugal was freakin' awesome. Giantkillers. There were other good matches, too. Eh.

It was my favorite ever, but I've only watched matches in three of them.

In 2002 I really felt as if an Asian or North American team would finally break through and steal the championship from those Latin-Americans and Europeans who dominate the sport and even look down upon the newcomers. It would have been a nice little slap to the rest of the world to see the USA or Korea or Japan take it.

As soon as all three of those teams were eliminated I had no more interest. Brazil/Germany? bah.. same old song and dance.

A thanks to James and D0gma for the congrats.

At 8/21/03 11:48 PM, Impetus wrote:

At 8/21/03 11:32 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote:
Congrats Impetus! Are you shooting for the top 50?

I've been aiming for a gold badge, but if I break top-50 in the process that would be a nice bonus. Thanks.
^_^

You're welcome Impetus. I've been kinda busy myself lately. Just cracked 8,000 blams. Go me!

At 8/21/03 11:43 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

Worst World Cup ever? Come on. Just cause France tanked, and Argentina didn't do too well... come on. US beating Portugal was freakin' awesome. Giantkillers. There were other good matches, too. Eh.

There were some awesome matches in it, so I don't entirely agree with the quote myself. The point was he wanted me to find a picture from when England had beaten the crap out of Germany in qualifying, so that was a shot right back at him =P

ahhh... was THAT the reason for the Ajax username you had in June? I'd always assumed it was a reference to the Greek hero. Heh. #;-}>

Well, the team's named after him so, essentially you're right.

What kind of video card is the ATI Sapphire? I used to have an ATI once upon a time and wasn't very happy with it. The ones I've got now are an AGP 2D/3D Riva 128... served me well for some time now, even though it's from late 1997... and in 98 I got a Creative Voodoo II which still works for a lot of games you might not think it would...

AGP 128MB processor as I recall. One of the things I hammered into him was to make sure his board ended up AGP slotted. He still doesn't understand why lol

Anyway, what do you mean by "Germany hasn't forgotten?"

I can trade in my target passport when I feel like it. Well, it won't be that easy, but I can get German citizenship far more readily than most.

And the only reason I have any anti-German feelings in soccer, BTW, is that I was at World Cup 1986, and watched Argentina (my fave team at the time) defeat West Germany in person in Mexico City. Ahh, what a wonderous event. #;-}>

=) Never managed to make a live Cup event myself ~sigh~ yet ... keyword is yet ... I have to remember that.

Eh, Golden Boot is overrated. It's the team that matters. Golden Ball is at least more of a MVP type award...

::nod::

Grats also to Recon.

/me gears back up and starts chasing him.

LOL I've definitely started to hit a wall. One of my spread columns covers the XP ranking I've got daily. For the past, oh month+, I've gone up maybe 15 or 20 ranks every day. Yesterday's recalc had me advance 3. Oh well, guess this is where it really gets hard =)

At 8/22/03 01:57 AM, D0GMA wrote: LOL I've definitely started to hit a wall. One of my spread columns covers the XP ranking I've got daily. For the past, oh month+, I've gone up maybe 15 or 20 ranks every day. Yesterday's recalc had me advance 3. Oh well, guess this is where it really gets hard =)

Welcome to my world buddy!

Just nailed my 50 points for the day. Color me gone.

At 8/22/03 02:46 AM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Just nailed my 50 points for the day. Color me gone.

Later Recon. Take it easy eh?

At 8/21/03 11:58 PM, Impetus wrote:

At 8/21/03 11:43 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Worst World Cup ever? Come on. Just cause France tanked, and Argentina didn't do too well... come on. US beating Portugal was freakin' awesome. Giantkillers. There were other good matches, too. Eh.

It was my favorite ever, but I've only watched matches in three of them.

Well, while they were ongoing, I suppose I've only watched matches in 4 or so, but I've seen clips of matches from other ones. Only seen one match in one World Cup live, but it was a doozy (wish I had also seen the HAND OF GOD game between Argentina and England that came just BEFORE the W. Germany vs. Argentina final that I did see in person, though).

In 2002 I really felt as if an Asian or North American team would finally break through and steal the championship from those Latin-Americans and Europeans who dominate the sport and even look down upon the newcomers. It would have been a nice little slap to the rest of the world to see the USA or Korea or Japan take it.

Yeah, no kidding. Anyway, they got further than most people expect. S. Korea and USA especially. People thought Poland and Portugal would be the teams to come out of that group, for one thing, and it was the exact opposite! #;-}>

Same goes, more or less, for the way the France group turned out. Some groups went more or less predictably, though (England/Argentina/Sweden group).

As soon as all three of those teams were eliminated I had no more interest. Brazil/Germany? bah.. same old song and dance.

Pretty much, yeah.

At 8/22/03 01:49 AM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/21/03 11:43 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Worst World Cup ever? Come on. Just cause France tanked, and Argentina didn't do too well... come on. US beating Portugal was freakin' awesome. Giantkillers. There were other good matches, too. Eh.

There were some awesome matches in it, so I don't entirely agree with the quote myself. The point was he wanted me to find a picture from when England had beaten the crap out of Germany in qualifying, so that was a shot right back at him =P

Ah, good. Heh.

ahhh... was THAT the reason for the Ajax username you had in June? I'd always assumed it was a reference to the Greek hero. Heh. #;-}>

Well, the team's named after him so, essentially you're right.

Did they now? Eh. I always assumed it was some weird Dutch thing... heh!

And the only reason I have any anti-German feelings in soccer, BTW, is that I was at World Cup 1986, and watched Argentina (my fave team at the time) defeat West Germany in person in Mexico City. Ahh, what a wonderous event. #;-}>

=) Never managed to make a live Cup event myself ~sigh~ yet ... keyword is yet ... I have to remember that.

That's a shame. Some day... some day...

And hey, it's in Germany in 2006. How about going to that one?

Eh, Golden Boot is overrated. It's the team that matters. Golden Ball is at least more of a MVP type award...

nod::

Grats also to Recon.

Indeed! 8000 blams... I shant be catching him on the top 50 blammers anytime soon. Congrats, man.

Especially since I'm going away for the weekend.

speaking of which...

RECON: respond to my e-mail if you can... I'd love it if you could deposit for me as I asked in it, but I dunno if you'll see it before I leave (in about 12 hours).....

:::waving arms::: Recon?!? RECON!!!

At 8/21/03 11:48 PM, Impetus wrote: I've been aiming for a gold badge, but if I break top-50 in the process that would be a nice bonus. Thanks.
^_^

damn why does every one want that badge??