At 9/9/03 05:23 PM, Afterburner wrote: Anybody seen the new movie "S.W.A.T."? LOL, I've been asking a few people.

Yeah, but to be honest, I didn't think much of it. You can read my review of it in Movie Review: S.W.A.T.. The next time you want to ask about something movie-related, the good people in the Movie Viewers Association topic would be pleased to help you out. Hope this helps.

At 9/9/03 10:54 AM, _lightning_ wrote: damn i now school started and spanckers doing what ever he's doing but this thread is getting like 6 or less posts a day don't remember it being that low =(

Yeah I know what you mean, I remember the days where this topic used to get about 2 pages a day!

At 9/10/03 03:33 AM, -_James_- wrote: Yeah I know what you mean, I remember the days where this topic used to get about 2 pages a day!

yes i know and that wasn't even in the vacation it was befor it so it isn't really school we had that last year to. right?

If we do get a new leader, gfoxcook should be the leader, hands down.

I definitly agree. End of comment...

At 9/10/03 11:25 AM, _lightning_ wrote: yes i know and that wasn't even in the vacation it was befor it so it isn't really school we had that last year to. right?

It's spancker, simply. He posts a helluva lot when he's around, and thus stimulates the thread. Ah, good old spancky.

At 9/10/03 04:03 PM, demon0 wrote:

If we do get a new leader, gfoxcook should be the leader, hands down.

I definitly agree. End of comment...

LOL! Not even in the club and you're telling us how to run it! But yeah, Gfox is the man for the job, but I'm not giving up on spancker yet.

Sorry guys, school is killing my time on NG and i'm unable to come on much. I'll try my best though.

LOL! Not even in the club and you're telling us how to run it! But yeah, Gfox is the man for the job, but I'm not giving up on spancker yet.

Eh hehehe............

Using my 1337 paint skills, I've come up with this amateur looking cut and paste job to celebrate a milestone:

At 9/11/03 02:23 PM, jonthomson wrote: Using my 1337 paint skills, I've come up with this amateur looking cut and paste job to celebrate a milestone:

Cool pic. Nice work. I dont mean to brag though but I have over 750 reviews. But Im glad your happy.

At 9/11/03 02:23 PM, jonthomson wrote: Using my 1337 paint skills, I've come up with this amateur looking cut and paste job to celebrate a milestone:

lol you have all those rebiews but i still have more responses i have View Your Reviews (307)
(With Responses Only (54)) how got a lot of reviews (for me) lately =)

Cool pic. Nice work. I dont mean to brag though but I have over 750 reviews. But Im glad your happy.

Wow, now I got 800. Thats cool. I wanna be a top reviewer so Im gonna write a lot of reviews again, as for responses for my reviews,(With Responses Only (143)). =D

At that rate, you'll be there in no time! Unless the rate of the top reviewer is greater. ;-)

Hello members!

Just wanted to announce that I have moved to level 13!
and hopefully by tomorrow afternoon i will be ranked as well......that is all for now.......

At 9/12/03 02:18 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: Hello members!
Just wanted to announce that I have moved to level 13!
and hopefully by tomorrow afternoon i will be ranked as well......that is all for now.......

Congrats and (hopefully for tomorrow) future congrats! Is it just me or have you been spending less time here in 'level up!'?

At 9/12/03 02:24 AM, -_James_- wrote: Congrats and (hopefully for tomorrow) future congrats! Is it just me or have you been spending less time here in 'level up!'?

Thanks for the congrades, it means alot. Yes i have not been here in a while, kinda a big case of incognito for me. Dont mean to really, just been busy with a lot of things right now......i was wondering was i being missed at all??.......

At 9/12/03 02:32 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: i was wondering was i being missed at all??.......

This might sound odd, but I didn't really miss you until just now, when I realised you hadn't been here for a while and thought "He could have contributed to this topic in it's slow time!" Lol yes, just call me an exploiter...

Not really a level up, but I've made it a solid year on 'this' account.

At 9/12/03 02:51 AM, JonasChrist wrote: Not really a level up, but I've made it a solid year on 'this' account.

And look at your level! Oh the potential...

At 9/12/03 02:51 AM, -_James_- wrote: This might sound odd, but I didn't really miss you until just now, when I realised you hadn't been here for a while and thought "He could have contributed to this topic in it's slow time!" Lol yes, just call me an exploiter...

Well excuse me valueable club member - i see how much i am missed and stuff, well then - well if this topic needs more posting i will try my best to come back and respond more - i want to be here to vote more and get my next level as soon as possible.........and yes you are a exploiter.......

At 9/12/03 03:06 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: and yes you are a exploiter.......

And thus starts the new name... Enter JamesTheExploiter!

At 9/7/03 02:49 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote:

At 9/5/03 09:20 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Anyway, the main point is that once you're at my rank, you start to care more about your spot on the top 50 list than about how many points to the next rank. Ranks are 2000 apart, there's no sense in getting bent out of shape about individual points. It's more about who's ahead of you and behind you.

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say here gfox, but I haven't been voting regularly (you must be able to tell by your stats) for the last 7 days and I'm still in 10th place by a comfortable 608 points (at last check). With this new system I'll easily snag 50 - 60 points a day (as opposed to 40) and that's fine by me. Well the last 10 days of my vacation awaits so one last check of the portal and I deposit for spancker. If you see him tell him I'm not impressed with his invisible man act.

All I was saying is that lower down when you're clustered together with hundreds of people, passing just one doesn't involve that much satisfaction. Look at Dogma's lists. I'm sure there are SOME people in the 51+ who relish those weeks when they pass like 22 people, but most probably are more intent on how many points they get and what rank they're at. Plus, when you can't SEE that passing on an official top 50 list, say, it's not quite as enjoyable (at least, it wasn't to me... then again, I never saw myself pass people on the 51+...)

Now, for me, it's no longer really about points anymore. Sure, 20,000 and 30,000 are attractive goals, but it's much more about the 8 people in front of me. Passing Stormwarden involves more work, more time, more effort, than passing most people in the 51+ does, and even though he's just one person to pass, the "air" is so thin up here that it makes it soooo sweet. As you say, you're not moving very fast now, but you're still comfortably in 10th place. People have to work really hard to pass you now, and once I did, DrMSM and Bila are the only possible others at the moment. That's just not the way it is further down the ranks.

So anyway, my point was that once you get up into the top 20, and especially the top 10, striving for the top of the PEOPLE is more important than getting as many points as you can. Unless you're fixit, of course. But even his robot brain would, I'm sure, if you asked him, admit that if forced to choose between passing Ramagi at 33,000 points and taking the #1 title or staying #2 for a long time, but having 40,000, even 50,000 points (but Ramagi has more)....

he'd HAVE to choose the former: passing her, period.

At 9/10/03 01:37 AM, Dobio wrote:

At 9/9/03 06:26 PM, Impetus wrote: If Spancker doesn't come back, will your WI/HT club choose a new president?

If we do get a new leader, gfoxcook should be the leader, hands down.

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but first of all, spancker hasn't said he's left for good, so it's really quite immaterial at this point, and even if he does leave, this is the command structure he laid down (separate, apparently, from the membership #s that simply indicate time-of-joining seniority):

1st in command: spancker
2nd in command: recon
3rd in command: gfox

So of course, if he were to leave for good, or even stay on NG now and then but name a successor because he doesn't want to run things anymore, Recon's the man. Now, if Recon, for some reason wants to remain "Number One" (i.e. First Officer, a la Riker on ST:TNG), then I'd be happy to take over, but either way... the point is that when spancker's away, Recon or myself is around to run things in his absence, and that's the point of the above list he spelled out a month or so ago.

Now, if all three of us were missing in action... that's another matter. CHAOS WOULD REIGN!!! YESSS YESSSTsweghse... er... nevermind. O_O

At 9/11/03 02:52 AM, -_James_- wrote:

At 9/10/03 04:03 PM, demon0 wrote:

If we do get a new leader, gfoxcook should be the leader, hands down.

I definitly agree. End of comment...

LOL! Not even in the club and you're telling us how to run it! But yeah, Gfox is the man for the job, but I'm not giving up on spancker yet.

Hey, give demon a break. He was just agreeing with Dobio (who IS in the club, after all), he didn't come up with the idea in the first place and tell us we should use his advice. #;-}>

At 9/11/03 04:11 PM, _lightning_ wrote:

At 9/11/03 02:23 PM, jonthomson wrote: Using my 1337 paint skills, I've come up with this amateur looking cut and paste job to celebrate a milestone:

lol you have all those rebiews but i still have more responses i have View Your Reviews (307)
(With Responses Only (54)) how got a lot of reviews (for me) lately =)

At 9/11/03 07:14 PM, demon0 wrote:

Cool pic. Nice work. I dont mean to brag though but I have over 750 reviews. But Im glad your happy.

Wow, now I got 800. Thats cool. I wanna be a top reviewer so Im gonna write a lot of reviews again, as for responses for my reviews,(With Responses Only (143)). =D

ahhh, reviews and responses comparing, eh? I can play that:

reviews -- responses -- % reviews responded to -- name
800 -- 143 -- 17.875% -- demon0
500 -- 034 -- 06.800% -- jonthomson
307 -- 054 -- 17.590% -- _lightning_
097 -- 027 -- 27.835% -- gfoxcook

Clearly I win the response % battle. :::nods::: #;-}>

Amazingly close %s there between demon0 and lightning, too. Good competition.

And BTW, jon's % is a bit diluted by the fact that he is MADLY responding to SHITLOADS of old flash. Most of which were made by authors who probably don't even come to NG anymore, and if any of them do, they don't bother to respond to new reviews of their oldest flashes, I'd guess. Ah well. A few reviews of stuff in the 50 most recent should fix that problem, if he wants it fixed. #;-}>

Oh, and congrats to X on joining me up here at level 13.

And check it out:

I just passed 16161 b/p, and ramagi just passed 32323 b/p, and 16161+16162=32323. hee hee! #;-}>

At 9/12/03 05:04 AM, gfoxcook wrote: ahhh, reviews and responses comparing, eh? I can play that:

reviews -- responses -- % reviews responded to -- name
800 -- 143 -- 17.875% -- demon0
500 -- 034 -- 06.800% -- jonthomson
307 -- 054 -- 17.590% -- _lightning_
097 -- 027 -- 27.835% -- gfoxcook

Clearly I win the response % battle. :::nods::: #;-}>

Amazingly close %s there between demon0 and lightning, too. Good competition.

And BTW, jon's % is a bit diluted by the fact that he is MADLY responding to SHITLOADS of old flash. Most of which were made by authors who probably don't even come to NG anymore, and if any of them do, they don't bother to respond to new reviews of their oldest flashes, I'd guess.

Responses don't particularly bother me, although it is nice to get a thanks now and again. And yes, I am madly reviewing lots of old flash, because I'm madly watching lots of old flash, getting stuff towards 200. I figure that if people doing the same can see a recent review of something, they can decide whether to watch it or just vote with the average. I don't review under judgement submissions at all any more for "idiot submitter" reasons, but I still review top 50 now and again. Right now my priority is to get everything to 200 votes.

At 9/12/03 05:04 AM, gfoxcook wrote: ahhh, reviews and responses comparing, eh? I can play that:

reviews -- responses -- % reviews responded to -- name
800 -- 143 -- 17.875% -- demon0
500 -- 034 -- 06.800% -- jonthomson
307 -- 054 -- 17.590% -- _lightning_
097 -- 027 -- 27.835% -- gfoxcook

Clearly I win the response % battle. :::nods::: #;-}>

You win, with JamesTheExploiter biting at your heels:

17 -- 004 -- 23.529% -- JamesTheExploiter

At 9/12/03 03:41 AM, JamesTheExploiter wrote: And thus starts the new name... Enter JamesTheExploiter!

Wow I contributed to someone changing there name.......I feel proud, my job is done for now.......

Oh thanks GFoX - i am happy to have moved up in the world of Newgroundsland........

I got too Level 7 today, I missed two ground gold days though. :[

At 9/12/03 02:18 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: Hello members!

Just wanted to announce that I have moved to level 13!
and hopefully by tomorrow afternoon i will be ranked as well......that is all for now.......

congrats XkwiziTOnE it's going to be stanges not seeing you with a level 12 icon any more i hope i'll rank up tomorrow too but for today i become #200 in exp points and yesterday i was #204 but i all way's check just afther my deposit i i could be higher now be couse it take's a while be for that get's updated

So what's going on here? Now we're back to 100 votes on a submission? Each time I visit this site it seems like something is always changing.

Anybody heard from spancker recently?

At 9/12/03 12:23 PM, Afterburner wrote:

Anybody heard from spancker recently?

He's disappeared from both MSN and NG. I honestly don't know what's going on with that lad.

At 9/12/03 12:27 PM, leeboy105 wrote:

At 9/12/03 12:23 PM, Afterburner wrote:

Anybody heard from spancker recently?

He's disappeared from both MSN and NG. I honestly don't know what's going on with that lad.

Great. So I guess I'll keep depositing for him until he decides to make an appearance. Correct me if I'm wrong but he did say he was going to be gone for about 2 weeks. How long has it been now? He sent me an e-mail just before I went on holidays saying he'd be back in a couple of days. Ahhh spancker, where the hell are you?