Ugh. I'd said "#4 and #5" in the bit about the error that happened with #1,2,3, but it turned out I needed a #6 as well. On the plus side, a full HALF of my catch-up posts should now be error-free due to the creation of an extra post!

CATCH-UP 6

At 6/5/09 04:01 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/4/09 10:14 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/4/09 03:54 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/3/09 10:21 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Coop or schnee herself?

Who do you think? I've not seen her online for months now. Pity, really.

I was hoping it'd be schnee herself.

Well, I sent her a ping on MSN yesterday afternoon, so if she logs in again, she'll get it :)

Wasn't that a post of the real schnee herself that I just replied to a reply of earlier in my catchup?

Meaning it had to be from April or May.... that's a little less than "for months," IMO. But maybe it was just Coop doing his best impression? #;-}>

At 6/4/09 06:48 PM, Haggard wrote: Yeah, I hope she comes back at some time in the future.

Well, until then, you'll have the harrowing task of being the most popular German user on Newgrounds :P

I had no idea/didn't remember she was German... hm. So to me, Haggard already had that role/title/distinction/whatever. :::clicks deposit on the ego-depostering machine with Haggard's name on it:::

Germany: Haggard
Belgium: nimmer (iWalker since redesign)
Netherlands: _lightning_
France: alexsmolik

I ain't gonna pick someone for England/Britain, because then FEELINGS SHALL BE HURT. ;_;

Do we have any Iberians or Italians on Wi/Ht?, BTW? I just noticed most of Western Europe is filled in, but there's some spots I'm missing there.

I know I'm missing someone from Spain, so replace Iberians with Portuguese in your mind once someone mentions the name I know I'm forgetting. #;-}>

At 6/5/09 01:25 AM, NEVR wrote: It is a pity, I always respected her as a user... although a lot of the Wi/Ht?'s old guard seem to be peeling off: Recon, Greg, schneelocke, etc.

Yeah, but like we always say, times change. I'm here for the long haul, but when you think that users like ReconRebel and gfoxcook have been in for the long haul stats wise for so long, it's got to get to you at some point, hasn't it?

WTF? People writing me off for NG dead again. Mannnnn... you gotta drop by weekly or you get written off, eh?

Hmph. </offended>

I NO HAZ TO CONFORM TO YOUR STANDARDS OF "ACTIVE," MOFOS. #>:-{>

I'm active compared to how INactive I was in 2005-2007, trust me on this. I CAN GO BACK TO THAT if this level of participation is being ignored. #;-}>

As for getting to you at some point... you've got to stop thinking of NG participation as an on/off switch. It's not a binary pair. It's not either active or inactive. It's a giant gradient scale from the "perfect non-participation" and the impossibly-infinite participation... with shades of grey in between. Everyone fluctuates up and down in their activity amounts. If the level you're at gets to be "too much" or "gets to you" or whatever, then just dial it down. As I have in various ways (portal and BBS-wise and modding-wise as well, I suppose) over the years at multiple times. Yet still I'm here. You don't have to leave completely to reduce yer time spent here/stats collected. Just try slow reduction in both departments before you shut it all off at once. Wish more people would try that slow reduction first... ;_;

People who used to be active when I first came here too, like X-Naut (the imposter ;P), Casualty, Shanus, Sterockicy, and others (who I can't remember right now) have all disappeared too. At least some of you guys are still here, and by the looks of it we have a lot of fresh blood around too.

Some names on that list I'd completely forgotten about. I only ever remember X-Naut when I do a Saves or Blams update (By the way, rain is forecast for tomorrow, so I'll try to get the saves done then, I promise) and Shanus was tied in quite majorly to the Review Request Club. Other than that, it made me think what mark I've left on Newgrounds as a whole. Not much, so I'd better do more!

I miss BOTH X-Nauts. Sad, I know.

At 6/8/09 05:45 PM, milinko959 wrote: 36000 saves ;D

Congratulations on your ascension to a better, better place.

May I join you mercifully soon. ;_;

At 6/9/09 12:57 AM, ninjakoopa-33 wrote:

At 6/8/09 11:15 PM, gfoxcook wrote: THIS account, my main, is exactly 3600 saves from 36000 saves, my final retirement point!
..............
this topic is currently 2411.366666666666666666666666666etc.etc.

etc. pages long. Woot!

Wow. So much 36ness, it's unbelievable!

This universe is filled with a bounty of 36s for me, because that's a number I look for, and cherish whenever I find it.

I'm sure it's the same for you and... 33, I'd guess?

Coop gets up far too late, but with enough time to congratulate:
Gagsy: Level 32; 26,000 Saves
Haggard: 33,333 B/P
idiot-buster: 8,000 Experience
mranarchy: Level 30
milinko959: 36,000 Saves
melzzar: Level 11
gfoxcook: Blams : Saves ratio 1: 1.1*
Malachy: Level 36
Lizzardis: Level 17

Thank you to:
Auz
RohantheBarbarian
Haggard

Listening to:
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Velvet Revolver - Sucker Train Blues

At 6/8/09 07:11 AM, Auz wrote:

At 6/8/09 03:58 AM, Coop83 wrote:

So do you get to review your own whistled reviews? I mean give yourself points?

It's not something that you should be able to do - I check the most recent reviews list for shitty stuff after I've done the purging of the flags for my part. Like I said, it took me 8 weeks to get there after being modded, so I'm still being slow and cautious.

Cautious? But what for, I mean you can flag abusive reviews and delete them afterwards to get points right? Can´t you easily get a gold whistle on your first day?

Yeah, I suppose you could. I'm not one who would want to use the privelages in this way, because that could get them revoked.

At 6/8/09 09:23 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/7/09 06:03 PM, Coop83 wrote: Took me a while after being modded as well. Almost 2 freaking months!

All's left is a golden weapon, which you're 6 levels away from. Well, 5 soon enough.

Yeah, less than 24 hours to go ;) Now I've got to think of some stuff to write in Blammer that involves me wielding a sword...

At 6/8/09 07:12 PM, KingExodus wrote: Oh well it's still an achievement.
AMI RAIGHT GAIZ?

Not really. Drunken Deity - now that's an achievement :P

At 6/8/09 11:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote: But anyway, I'll try to get gfoxclock--AND MAYBE EVEN GFOX? (to Coop's enjoyments, judging from his post on June 7th... so on second though, NAHHHH, hyurrr, take that!)--more involved in their own achievements soon enough, I guess. The identity confusion is killin' my buzz here. #;-}>

I just wondered how many posts from gfox it would take to reach 0.01 per day. You're a bigger stat whore than me, so you work it out :P

P.S. No, Coop, it was the Thursday following the weekend I was out of town and ye were depositing for me. And, funnily (or not) enough, but after that weekend trip, I developed a really bad case of ultra-toothache and cheek swelling (infection due to the tooth issue)... which I then proceeded to hide Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (the day of the proposal), and part of Friday... before telling my baby and calling a dentist.... Yes, I went on bended knee and slipped the ring on her finger while suffering immensely. I'M A MAN, DAMNIT. I'M 40!!!! </American sports coach press conference reference you might not catch>

Well, that's your own fault. You've obviously been planning this for a while and as a result, you couldn't let excruciating pain stand in the way of your hard earned, easily spent moneys!

P.P.S. Yes, I got in trouble for being too manly and not calling the dentist immediately on Tuesday. ;_;

And so you should. You're (nearly) a married man now!

And finally, thanks for the lv42 alt alt grats, folks. The fact that all of you said "gfox" means I don't have to EVER EVER POST WITH GFOX. Mwahahahah. Coop's regretting not putting "gfoxcook" on that line of his grats list now, I guarantee you all. #;-}>

Wait, what?

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 03:27 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 4/19/09 11:39 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Happy belated birthday, Coop, and congrats to you (and Mr. 36y dude, I hear) on the reviewmoddom.

Wish you were one back when ramagi and me and a couple others were like the only active review mods. Thems were the days!

Ah, those days were those days that we yearn for. Unfortunately, we only move through time in one direction

One day, man... ONE DAY....

I'm free on Thursday, if you're up for it?

At 4/20/09 12:42 AM, gfoxcook wrote: BASTARDS THAT DIDN'T WAIT FOR ME TO ANNOUNCE MY LEVEL UP LIKE 20 DAYS LATE BEFORE CONGRATTING ME POST! ^_^

Oh well fine. I'll get my own party. With Black Jack and hookers! In fact, forget the party and the Black Jack!

crashes BenderCoop's private party because it sounds pretty good:::

Did you bring beer and smokes?

Well, I won't be trying today, that's for sure - my right index finger is still numb after playing Lazer Quest as part of the stag do on Saturday.

How's it going lately with the medal situation? Did ya take my advice and go for the ThingThing3 ones?

Some, but it's difficult to play Thing Thing Arena in the office of a lunch time - people tend to crowd around and get interested in what I'm playing. Even if I put the headphones on >:(

At 6/9/09 01:27 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/30/09 04:22 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 4/29/09 08:31 AM, Bahamut wrote: You're right, but all I wanted was to see an epic moment with you getting 100k.

Well, there is a chance - it just needs some luck on the part of whoever wants it, namely you and gfoxcook.

What's wrong? Iz yer "lead-up-to-100k-pentapoints" process not epic enough for Bahamut for some reason? O_o

Yeah - he wants me to land on exactly 99,999 and then 100,000 Pentapoints (TM)

(I'm also closing in on the top 50 experienced :P)

SHADDAP! YOU'RE FUCKING MILES AWAY FROM THERE!

I'm 10 points closer than I was an hour ago :P

Makes me wonder how far he considers me from there. Are we down to inches yet, or still feet/yards, eh?

METRES, DAMMIT!

Ah, but to quote a few users on site with regards to experience - who says that I'm going to die first? Also, if you're missing 6 deposits a year, that's a whole 60 experience per year that I'm catching you by and that's faster than I'm catching certain nefarious individuals at the moment *cough*gfox*cough*

Get more sleep before you quote stuff, Greg - it's cost me precious minutes trying to work out who said what and to whom!

At 6/9/09 01:49 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I just wish the Rockets had beaten the Lakers.

Yeah, then the Nuggets would have won in the West and would have beaten the Magic for their first franchise title.

At 6/9/09 02:00 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Wasn't that a post of the real schnee herself that I just replied to a reply of earlier in my catchup?

You're going to make me look back through this, aren't you?! *sigh*

No, it was me running about in the werewolf costume, waving the chainsaw. I'm trying to see if she'll come back, just to say hello.

level 28

I am now level 10 and all so yeah. Good day newgrounds good day to you.

NEW LEVEL!!!

U GUSY LEIK IT?

No but seriously I'm pumped.

Now THAT'S what I call a catch-up!

Also, I've just finished my week-long playthrough of the entire Phoenix Wright series (including Apollo Justice). Pretty happy with myself, I've regained my appreciation of its awesomeness, particularly the soundtrack, and I finally found out the names of my favourite dramatic tracks that played at pivotal moments in the trials: Behold the awesomeness.

Congratulations to: -

mranarchy - Level 30
milinko959 - 36,000 Saves
melzzar - Level 11
Malachy - Level 36
Lizzardis - Level 17
Emlfuryoflion - Level 28
KingExodus - Level 10
AnalPenguinFarming - Level 32

At 6/8/09 09:23 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/8/09 08:47 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

At 6/7/09 08:45 AM, Bahamut wrote: Not at all. The only notable games they've made are Call of Duty and Guitar Hero, but I've gone off the whole Guitar Hero/Rock Band craze. As for Call of Duty, I might look into it sometime, but I'm really reluctant to do so now, no matter how awesome COD4 and Modern Warfare 2 is/will be.

I feel the same way, in fact, I haven't bought an Activision game in years, simply because the games that they produce just don't appeal to me, for example, I'm not a big FPS fan, so CoD wouldn't interest me in the slightest.

Last game of theirs I bought was Guitar Hero III. I actually wish I got into Guitar Hero sooner as the first two games didn't seem too bad. Plus, there was an effective way to get custom tracks on GHII. Too late for that, though.

Oh well, it happens, not much you can do about it I suppose (except support Capcom and buy some PW games :P)

Here's hoping someone produces a CoD killer and hit 'em where it hurts; their big, fat, over-inflated wallets.

Fact: The current CEO of Activision used to run 4kids.

IT ALL MAKES SENSE TO ME NOW!!!

Indeed, a game based on that one level would be amazing. What'd also be amazing is a Vernon Tripe game. After all, my friends love his characteristics and they haven't even played Psychonauts yet.

I suppose, although I reckon that if (and it's a big if) there was another Psychonauts game, it'd either feature completely different characters or be based around one of the more central characters, and I'm not sure that Vernon would be considered "central" enough. Still, it would be excellent.

Yeah, if they did make a sequel, the ones who I'm 99% sure will be in it are Raz (obviously), Lili and the four agents at Whispering Rock. Still, an appearance from the other characters would be nice.

I find your lack of Dogen disturbing.

/Star Wars

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 12:21 PM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

At 4/20/09 01:48 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Wait... what in the what what? There's a Wi/Ht? Worms team or something? O_o

Kinda, yeah. Bahamut posted up a YewTewb vid of the original Worms game, and all the worms on his team were named after Wi/Ht? regs. I got on because I suggested one of the deaths (prodding > all).

Yeah, I ended up watching it. Interesting. #;-}>

I knew that kind of game, BTW, long before Worms came out. But I can't think of what it's really called. Power+angle-control artillery games is too wordy a genre description (even for me).

Yeah, it's an odd sort of subgenre to try and describe, it has a mix of action, strategy and humour all rolled up into one.

Nah, I think my response wasn't worthy of the epicness of your catch-up ;P

Oh hush now. WHY SO SILLYIOUS.

BECAUSE I'M JELLYOUS!

Yay, Uncle gfox is back! What did you bring us back from your travels this time?

A whole buncha STDs, carefully selected, from the best whorehouses this planet has to offer!

Rejoice!

Woo-hoo, I call first dibs on the gonorrhea Mark 2!

Alternative Character Battle - Battle 1 (Third Round): Raz vs Chris Redfield

Holy shit, that's one massive catch-up from gfox!

Listening to:

Gamma Ray - Blast from the Past

At 6/8/09 05:09 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/8/09 09:23 AM, Bahamut wrote: No, he needs 100,000 B/P to win. ;P

Yes, but SC is still a win.

Not much of a win compared to 100,000 B/P. ;)

He might have. ;)

Man, AVGN should put out a new episode like once a week...

Nah, that's too much. After all, he has interviews, his wife and other things to care of as well as his show. Every week would be overkill for him.

At 6/8/09 06:43 PM, KingExodus wrote: I FINALLY GOT OLYMPIAN! WOOHOO!

Come back when you get Drunken Deity. :P

At 6/8/09 11:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote: And finally, thanks for the lv42 alt alt grats, folks. The fact that all of you said "gfox" means I don't have to EVER EVER POST WITH GFOX.

Speaking of gfox alt alt, weren't you planning to retire it soon? ;)

(Now watch as we discuss this on Steam way before you reply to this)

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 01:30 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: And while I'm typing this, gfox is catching up here. Finally Bahamut will take down his 37-ness!

Believe it or not, because your post that day was in the middle of my posts... I was gonna do another post to reply JUST to you, but then I was all "eh, I'll be responding to the replies to my catch-up posts within a week or so, why rush it! I'll wait..."

Hahahahahahaha. This is why you shouldn't slack off all the time. :P

Yay, no more 37s from Bahamut... I hope.

Don't we all (hope that)? I mean, jeeeez. Damned 37-head. Him and iscrulz. THEY'RE AGAINST WHAT'S GOOD AND RIGHT IN THE WORLD, I tells ya. Which makes their historic epic conflicts over GTA / Final Fantasy all the more ironic and stupid.

Hey I stopped hating on GTA. Now we need iscrulz to stop hating on FF.

At 4/20/09 12:21 PM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: Kinda, yeah. Bahamut posted up a YewTewb vid of the original Worms game, and all the worms on his team were named after Wi/Ht? regs. I got on because I suggested one of

the deaths (prodding > all).

Since then, I realised I could have had SIXTEEN worms in one game. I thought it'd be like in Hogs of War where the more teams there are, the less amount of players in each team. Ah well.

At 6/9/09 01:27 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 01:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: gfox finally posted again. I'm happy. *takes down the 37 pictures*

You know, I did like about 20 of those pictures, but yeah... leave the other 17 pictures down. #;-}>

Which 20 are they? :P

I saw it yesterday and I was like "Yay!" I remember when your MAIN reached level 44.

Yep. Not that long ago. DAMN YOU, REDESIGN! Cheapening our level waits... un-consigning us to hellish eternities of waiting! HOW DARE YOU. #;-}>

Hey, the old level system was ridiculous. I like it how it is now.

Because .wma works better in Windows Media Player than .mp3 does.

Do you have a contract with MS to only use Windows Media Player? o_o

No, I'm most comfortable with Windows Media Player. With the ease of the MSN and Last.fm plugins, I like Windows Media Player a lot. Not that fond with the other major media softwares such as Winamp or iTunes. I've had some trouble with them in the past. Windows Media Player on the other hand, no problems at all. :)

People actually got more UOTDs than that. I think Recon got 13 UOTDs.

Where were you talking about? NG logs or RG?

Retrogade.

Yes, but you've been slacking off big time recently. D:

What else is new?

STOP SLACKING!

At 4/20/09 01:23 PM, Bahamut wrote: I got one Medic weapon without an achievement farmer. Do you feel better now?

Yes.

Heh, I got a second Medic milestone since then, yay.

Quantity has its uses, but thanks for the compliment.

Give me one example.

Getting the gun-tower-only achievement in Defense Grid? #;-}>

Hahahaha, you're so right.

At 4/21/09 08:28 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yet he doesn't seem to be all excited about the golden gauntlet. That one is much better than the other two. Shame on him, I hope he donates it to me when he levels up.

Not to me. Remember, I like silver more than gold, for one thing. And both the old level system golden gauntlet and the new level system golden gauntlet just aren't as simple and nice looking as the silver versions, which are more streamlined, sleek, and just plain better, even the gold vs. silver debate aside.

Arg, can't I have the gauntlet now if you don't like it as much as the others do? Then again, by doing that, my main will miss out the opportunity to have the 41 - 46 icons, and they all rule.

At 6/9/09 01:36 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/30/09 10:50 AM, Bahamut wrote: Meh, a dragon running around with a chainsaw is more epic than some person in a werewolf costume doing the same thing. :P

Depends on how big the chainsaw is, really.

Everything's big with dragons. :)

Also, 25 is a quarter of 100. What could be bad about that? 75 rocks due to being 3/4 of 100, even though it's odd AND not a square, actually.

I'm glad we think alike. 25 is a great number for being a quarter of 100.

At 6/9/09 01:49 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Quick note: damnit, I had saved posts 1, 2, and 3 in a text file earlier... and then reopened them to finish the catch-up... I believe notepad put in linebreaks where my window size is.... which causes the damned LINE WRAP ON NG to fuck up. I've done this before, but I'm not sure I ever realised what the CAUSE was. Today, finally, I realise what happened. Yay.

My advice: Use Wordpad instead.

At 5/3/09 09:01 AM, Bahamut wrote: I would, but I'd rather save the effort to getting all YouTube Poops off the site.

God, I love YouTube Poops. #;-}>

WARNING: Saying that can make you an enemy of Bahamut. It even comes to the point where Bahamut could punch one of his friends in the face for quoting some of their douchebagery.

man, it's like a bad TV show, it's existence doesn't have to pain you!

Well it does. If this shit keeps up, how will humanity cope? This is one of the things that's going to put humanity to the wrong direction. I guess I should be more worried about Facebook as that's truly the cancer that's killing humanity and the internet. Infact, YouTube and Facebook are as bad as each other.

At 6/9/09 01:54 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 5/14/09 11:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: I've come to the conclusion that I've been a slacker recently with medal games. I blame myself having too much fun on Garry's Mod as well as playing quite a lot of TF2 with gfox for the last two nights. Ah well, I'll try and pick up again soon enough and get 5k medal points.

Pfft. TF2 > any medal game on NG.

Well yes, but I want to try and keep it up with the NG medal games. After all, I wish to have 10k medals someday and I'm not even close yet. At least it'll be much easier than getting 10k reviews.

And lastly: what's your Steam username? Even if you'll only be playing TF2 on free weekends for the foreseeable future, that's still better than nothing. Let me and Bahamut know it either here or privately via PM, and we'll friend ya!

This. Me and gfox would like to add you on Steam.

At 6/9/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/8/09 09:23 AM, Bahamut wrote: All's left is a golden weapon, which you're 6 levels away from. Well, 5 soon enough.

Yeah, less than 24 hours to go ;) Now I've got to think of some stuff to write in Blammer that involves me wielding a sword...

If only I was able to wield that sword sooner.

Level 32!

B!

Congrats to:

gfox: Level 42
Littleluckylink: Level 25
SevasTra: Level 24
Frank-The-Hedgehog: Level 31; 10,000 Experience
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 13,000 B/P
WilhelmTheVampire: Level 20
harriet: Level 16
KingExodus: Private; Level 10
Coop83: Gold Whistle
aquaticmole: 3,000 Saves
Goonie: Level 39
kokonut10: Level 24
Gagsy: Level 32; 26,000 Saves
Haggard: 33,333 B/P
idiot-buster: 8,000 Experience
mranarchy: Level 30
milinko959: 36,000 Saves
Melzaar: Level 11
Malachy: Level 36
Lizzardis: Level 17
Emlfuryoflion: Level 28
AnalPenguinFarming: Level 32
DELUCA2400: Level 22
BahamutClock: Level 32

At 6/8/09 11:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

P.S. You didn't forget me, Hacsev... so as a result, you gave me double-grats. Nothing wrong with that, it's like a nice double-shot of espresso in my iced cappucino. Lovin' it. #;-}>

Sorry, it was because I made that list pretty fast, I thought I forgot you.

At 6/9/09 01:27 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 05:48 PM, Hacsev wrote:

At 4/19/09 11:39 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Thanks to: Coop83, Bahamut, RohantheBarbarian, Odyssic, Haggard, Auz, No36, reverend, Hacsev

Why am I the last one? >:(

lol kidding.

Because I thanked in the exact chronological order the grats came in? Not due to any sort of need to do so, but just because that's the order the quotes I'd pasted over from browser tabs

were in. O_o

Alright then :)

I just wrote my 900th review.

Just a century to 1000...

Exam-studying isn´t going very smoothly yet...

Achievement of the Day
sumidiotdude: 900 Reviews. Congrats on that dude, and good luck on making your way towards 1,000 :)

Congrats to:
idiot-buster: 8,000 Experience
mranarchy: Level 30
milinko959: 36,000 Saves
Melzaar: Level 11
Malachy: Level 36
Lizzardis: Level 17
Emlfuryoflion: Level 28
KingExodus: Level 10
AnalPenguinFarming: Level 32
DELUCA2400: Level 22
BahamutClock: Level 32

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 10:03 AM, Auz wrote:

At 4/20/09 01:45 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Joshua Tree (just a bit) > Achtung Baby

Joshua Tree is my second favorite. The only thing with that album is that I hear the singles so damn often on the radio. And they play them on almost every live show as well =/

Just as Achtung Baby is my second fave. #;-}>

You are lucky to have a radio station that plays Joshua Tree songs a lot. Here in my town, the most U2 I here on the stations I listen to... are War-era singles on the classic rock station. I mean, sure, every now and then there's Where the Streets Have No Name, too... but not very often compared to SBS and Like a Song from War.

*fixes the post first*

We also had a Classic Rock station that played a lot of U2, but unfortunately they went bankrupt recently. They used to play some Achtung Baby from time to time and even songs like Gone passed by every now and again.

Now we still have an 80's and 90's station, but that´s usually the Joshua Tree stuff I was talking about (Where the Streets, Still haven´t found, With or without You). I´d be glad if they played some War or Boy sometimes. Would make a nice change.

But when it comes to best from start to finish, and most good songs, it's Achtung Baby, yes. There's only one song on the entire album that I don't like very much and usually

skip. Otherwise it's straight through nearly anytime.

I´m guessing that song is So Cruel?

Nope! Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World. Something about the "... fish like a bicycle..." line and the song as a whole that just turn me off. Doesn't feel like it fits in the album as much as every single other song on the album fits. I wish it had been a b-side and Lady with the Spinning Head (an excellent b-side which I have in 2 different versions from two different AB-era singles) had been on the album instead.

I think the line is:
"And a woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle".

Weird line indeed.

The live performances of the song feel pretty good though and I don´t have much problems with the original either although I don´t listen to it often.

But I agree that Lady with the Spinning Head would´ve fitted quite well on the album. Do you have an original version of it by the way? Because all I could find was a 6 minute long extended remix version (which was awesome) and a very early version. Which was more a mix between Lady With The Spinning Head and Ultraviolet along with the line Wake Up Dead Man somewhere. Which also had it´s own name: Wanna Take You Down (you probably know it).

550 HOURS!!?? Jesus Christ. I probably haven´t even played Majora´s
Mask for that long and I´ve beaten that game at least 10 times by now.

700ish hours now! Blame the spy/sniper update from 5/21...

TF2 is the most fun multiplayer FPS ever, and has no plot, no start and no finish, and... thus... comparing how many hours of a single player game with a storyline like a Zelda game... you have... to how much time in TF2... is not even comparing apples and oranges... it's like comparing eating chocolate ice cream to hiking up a mountain!

Okay maybe that isn´t such a good comparisation, but come on. 700 hours on one game is just insane. You would say that after an hour or 200, you would´ve seen and done everything and the boredom would start to set in. At least that´s usually how it goes with me.

At 6/9/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/8/09 07:11 AM, Auz wrote:

At 6/8/09 03:58 AM, Coop83 wrote: It's not something that you should be able to do - I check the most recent reviews list for shitty stuff after I've done the purging of the flags for my part. Like I said, it took me 8 weeks to get there after being modded, so I'm still being slow and cautious.

Cautious? But what for, I mean you can flag abusive reviews and delete them afterwards to get points right? Can´t you easily get a gold whistle on your first day?

Yeah, I suppose you could. I'm not one who would want to use the privelages in this way, because that could get them revoked.

Hmm that seems pretty harsh to me. This seems like one of those typical cases where everyone is doing it and thus it gets legalized. But I guess I wouldn´t want to run the risk.

At 6/9/09 12:12 PM, Auz wrote:
Achievement of the Day
sumidiotdude: 900 Reviews. Congrats on that dude, and good luck on making your way towards 1,000 :)

Thanks man, I really appreciate it.

Listening to:
Machine Head - Deafening Silence
Motörhead - Eat the rich

Thanks to:
Coop83
Hacsev

Congrats to:
milinko959: 36,000 Saves
Melzaar: Level 11
Malachy: Level 36
Lizzardis: Level 17
Emlfuryoflion: Level 28
KingExodus: Level 10
AnalPenguinFarming: Level 32
DELUCA2400: Level 22
BahamutClock: Level 32 - B
sumidiotdude: 900 Reviews

At 6/9/09 02:00 AM, gfoxcook wrote: CATCH-UP 6

Epic.

At 6/5/09 04:01 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 6/4/09 06:48 PM, Haggard wrote: Yeah, I hope she comes back at some time in the future.

Well, until then, you'll have the harrowing task of being the most popular German user on Newgrounds :P

I had no idea/didn't remember she was German... hm. So to me, Haggard already had that role/title/distinction/whatever. :::clicks deposit on the ego-depostering machine with Haggard's name on it:::

Woha!

Germany: Haggard
Belgium: nimmer (iWalker since redesign)
Netherlands: _lightning_
France: alexsmolik

Nice list, but the only name I recognise is my own... >_>

For me it would be:
Belgium: Casualty
Netherlands: Auz
France: sonofkirk

At 6/5/09 01:25 AM, NEVR wrote: It is a pity, I always respected her as a user... although a lot of the Wi/Ht?'s old guard seem to be peeling off: Recon, Greg, schneelocke, etc.

Yeah, but like we always say, times change. I'm here for the long haul, but when you think that users like ReconRebel and gfoxcook have been in for the long haul stats wise for so long, it's got to get to you at some point, hasn't it?

WTF? People writing me off for NG dead again. Mannnnn... you gotta drop by weekly or you get written off, eh?

We live in a fast moving world. Either be part of it or live with the consequences! :P
Be quick or be dead! ^^

Just try slow reduction in both departments before you shut it all off at once. Wish more people would try that slow reduction first... ;_;

I guess I can say I am not as active as I used to be a year ago (but still a lot more active than I was in 2002-2004 :D ). My B/P pace has dropped a lot and I rarely review these days. Even though I started again to write at least some audio reviews every now and then.
But it seems as if I can't get them above 847. I passed that amount at least three times now, and every time some other submission I reviewed got deleted... ^^

At 6/9/09 09:47 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/8/09 05:09 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/8/09 09:23 AM, Bahamut wrote: No, he needs 100,000 B/P to win. ;P

Yes, but SC is still a win.

Not much of a win compared to 100,000 B/P. ;)

Depends. SC is the final level for B/P, while 100,000 is just pushing it further and further and further...

He might have. ;)

Man, AVGN should put out a new episode like once a week...

Nah, that's too much. After all, he has interviews, his wife and other things to care of as well as his show. Every week would be overkill for him.

It was just wishful thinking. I really liked his reviews for the Terminator games and now I'm just in the right mood to watch new stuff from him.
But I decided to watch some HVGN videos instead. Not as good as AVGN, but still good enough to fill the gap until a new AVGN episode is released. :)

3,000 experience points!

At 6/9/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop gets up far too late, but with enough time to congratulate:
gfoxcook: Blams : Saves ratio 1: 1.1*

LOLLLLLlllll... I THOUGHT I SAID NO GRATS for that post.... oh wait, I probably said no grats on the 3600 from 36000 part.... STILL, I THOUGHT I SAID NO GRATS. #;-}>

Thanks anyway. It's a beaut. Oh, I still haven't saved any more. TIME TO RUIN MY BEAUTIFUL 1.11111111111111111111 soon. ;_;

Pearl Jam - Even Flow

Eeeee-vuuuuun-floooo-ohhhhh... thoughts arriiiiiiiive like buuuutterfliiiiiies....

At 6/8/09 11:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote: But anyway, I'll try to get gfoxclock--AND MAYBE EVEN GFOX? (to Coop's enjoyments, judging from his post on June 7th... so on second though, NAHHHH, hyurrr, take that!)--more involved in their own achievements soon enough, I guess. The identity confusion is killin' my buzz here. #;-}>

I just wondered how many posts from gfox it would take to reach 0.01 per day. You're a bigger stat whore than me, so you work it out :P

Oh, well, if that's all you want to know, then yeah, I'll just work it out sometime. This is assuming that NG's profiles don't have wonky rounding when it comes to the ppd stat, though (which sometimes I think they kinda do... I remember that back in the day I used to use my ppd to find my "days on NG," and of course the number wasn't very consistent due to the ppd not going to enough significant digits).

Anyway, just look at my ppd for gfoxclock, and you should get a good idea. Divide gfoxclock's postcount by his "ppd units," and you should have how many posts gfox needs for 0.01 ppd, if that makes any sense. Hell, I'll do it now:

he's got 236 posts and 0.11 ppd. So 21.45 posts per ppd unit. I'd guess it'd take at least 15-20 posts minimum for gfox to get a 0.01 ppd. It's hard without knowing exactly where within "0.11" gfoxclock is, of course.

If you really care, go find my "days of account life" stats on NG log and boom, you're golden. #;-}>

Well, that's your own fault. You've obviously been planning this for a while and as a result, you couldn't let excruciating pain stand in the way of your hard earned, easily spent moneys!

Well, it's more that I didn't want her to know I was in pain during my proposal to her until afterwards. Didn't want to ruin it for her. ;_;

Anyway, she's not big on ceremony. It was my idea to do the proposal 1 year to the day before our wedding date, she wouldn't care when it was, in fact she was all "baaaaahhhh, you don't need to get me an engagement ring, we're pretty much already engaged." She woulda been fine had I just gotten matching wedding bands (which I did as well). But I found a really nice silver ring with a celtic knot on top that would be more of a "central/top dealie like engagement rings tend to stereotypically have a jewel of some sort atop, most stereotypically a nice African blood diamond, of course"... versus the perfectly round/same-width-all-around wedding bands for both of us....

And so you should. You're (nearly) a married man now!

FUNK DAT! I'mma suffer through it. HIGH PAIN TOLERANCE WIN.

And finally, thanks for the lv42 alt alt grats, folks. The fact that all of you said "gfox" means I don't have to EVER EVER POST WITH GFOX. Mwahahahah. Coop's regretting not putting "gfoxcook" on that line of his grats list now, I guarantee you all. #;-}>

Wait, what?

Well, you'd made your comment about how gfox had his level 42ness but the damned bastard never posts. And that bit earlier you replied to in this post where I kinda said "hmmm, maybe I should announce my gfoxclock achievements with gfoxclock and my gfox achievements with gfox, thereby finally posting with gfox... to avoid the confusion that people sometimes mix up my account names.".... but then no one confused gfox with gfoxcook like they confused gfoxclock with gfoxcook (probably just due to name character-length).... so gfox seems free and clear in the "not needing to post EVAR" department. #;-}>

Had you put gfoxcook "accidentally" instead of gfox when congratting my alt alt on level 42, then the perfect record my gratters had on that level 42 congrats woulda been shattered, and I couldn't point to that and say... woot! Free and clear.

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 03:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Ah, those days were those days that we yearn for. Unfortunately, we only move through time in one direction

One day, man... ONE DAY....

I'm free on Thursday, if you're up for it?

Up for time travel? I kinda meant one day as in one day they'll fix that and we'll be able to move through time in many directions... it was a nebulous far-off future sometime "one day," not... this week. O_O

But I wish!

Oh well fine. I'll get my own party. With Black Jack and hookers! In fact, forget the party and the Black Jack!

crashes BenderCoop's private party because it sounds pretty good:::

Did you bring beer and smokes?

I don't smoke no more, but hell yeah, I brought a six pack.

How's it going lately with the medal situation? Did ya take my advice and go for the ThingThing3 ones?

Some, but it's difficult to play Thing Thing Arena in the office of a lunch time - people tend to crowd around and get interested in what I'm playing. Even if I put the headphones on >:(

Heh! Yes, the blood doth indeed be fillin' up the screen immensely. VERY SIGHT-GRABBING at an office, I'm sure.

Yeah - he wants me to land on exactly 99,999 and then 100,000 Pentapoints (TM)

Yeah, I remember when I did that. Exactly. #;-}>

I think I have a screenie of both on NGlog, but here's the one that matters. The 100k one, of course. (See bottom of post! *****)

Ah, but to quote a few users on site with regards to experience - who says that I'm going to die first? Also, if you're missing 6 deposits a year, that's a whole 60 experience per year that I'm catching you by and that's faster than I'm catching certain nefarious individuals at the moment *cough*gfox*cough*

Get more sleep before you quote stuff, Greg - it's cost me precious minutes trying to work out who said what and to whom!

That had nothing to do with how much sleep I got, man. It was due to compiling all the quotes (and some of my replies to them) previously, saving them in notepad, and then pasting them into NG BBS. It screwed up the line breaks. That was said by you back a month ago or so, of course, but the damned glitch made it look like I said it. O_o

At 6/9/09 01:49 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I just wish the Rockets had beaten the Lakers.

Yeah, then the Nuggets would have won in the West and would have beaten the Magic for their first franchise title.

Hey now. I think we woulda taken them same as the Lakers did.

But hell, even if what you say is true, I woulda been fine with that, too. Nuggets OR Magic getting their first, really. Damned Lakers. DAMNED LAKERS.

At 6/9/09 02:00 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Wasn't that a post of the real schnee herself that I just replied to a reply of earlier in my catchup?

You're going to make me look back through this, aren't you?! *sigh*

No, it was me running about in the werewolf costume, waving the chainsaw. I'm trying to see if she'll come back, just to say hello.

Awwww. Well, I obviously did anticipate that was a possiblity. I didn't read that part of a reply that carefully, just noticed there was some schnee in your quote or someone else's quote at some point. But it wasn't the real thing. Awwww. ;_;

Anywho.

***** - screenshot time!

At 6/9/09 09:46 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: Now THAT'S what I call a catch-up!

mwahahaa. :::takes a bow:::

Also, I've just finished my week-long playthrough of the entire Phoenix Wright series (including Apollo Justice)....

My honey did something similar. I guess she was learning so many Phoenix Wright memes in her normal online hangouts, so she got all 4 of the DS titles, the 3 PW ones and the 1 AJ one or whatever, and she beat them all within like a week or so last year... and loved 'em.

I tried like 1 case of the very first one and couldn't get into it. There's something wrong with me, I guess. ;_;

I do enjoy a good flash about PW, though.

Yeah, it's an odd sort of subgenre to try and describe, it has a mix of action, strategy and humour all rolled up into one.

Well, the old genre that Worms picked up from didn't have any humour. #;-}> But yeah, it's odd indeeeeed.

Oh hush now. WHY SO SILLYIOUS.

BECAUSE I'M JELLYOUS!

DON'T BE SUCH A JELLY FISHIOUS.

A whole buncha STDs, carefully selected, from the best whorehouses this planet has to offer!
Rejoice!

Woo-hoo, I call first dibs on the gonorrhea Mark 2!

She's yours!

At 6/9/09 09:47 AM, Bahamut wrote: Holy shit, that's one massive catch-up from gfox!

Happy to oblige.

At 6/8/09 05:09 PM, Haggard wrote: Man, AVGN should put out a new episode like once a week...

Nah, that's too much. After all, he has interviews, his wife and other things to care of as well as his show. Every week would be overkill for him.

If AVGN were really such a AVGN, he woulda killed his wife by now after violently and angrily throwing an old NES controller at her face during one of his ragefests post-fail at a hard old NES game.

Speaking of gfox alt alt, weren't you planning to retire it soon? ;)

I said I'll stop depositing for it before I stop depositing for gfoxclock (if I ever stop for clock... I might not). And I certainly won't be stopping with this one, so...

Didn't say it was going to be soon, exactly. In fact, I believe I told you that retiring gfox at 36,000 exp was a possibility. #;-}> Now, SOME people might call that day soon, but I certainly wouldn't.

(Now watch as we discuss this on Steam way before you reply to this)

FAIL! I win. #;-}>

Don't we all (hope that)? I mean, jeeeez. Damned 37-head. Him and iscrulz. THEY'RE AGAINST WHAT'S GOOD AND RIGHT IN THE WORLD, I tells ya. Which makes their historic epic conflicts over GTA / Final Fantasy all the more ironic and stupid.

Hey I stopped hating on GTA. Now we need iscrulz to stop hating on FF.

And as my above quote mentioned, we need BOTH OF YOU to stop loving 37 so much just because I hates it. I hates it so, my precious....

At 6/9/09 01:27 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 01:22 PM, Bahamut wrote: gfox finally posted again. I'm happy. *takes down the 37 pictures*

You know, I did like about 20 of those pictures, but yeah... leave the other 17 pictures down. #;-}>

Which 20 are they? :P

The 20 with mainstream hardcore dragon porn. But the 17 ones with dragon SNUFF porn in them were taking it just a bit TOO FAR.

Yep. Not that long ago. DAMN YOU, REDESIGN! Cheapening our level waits... un-consigning us to hellish eternities of waiting! HOW DARE YOU. #;-}>

Hey, the old level system was ridiculous. I like it how it is now.

Hence my sarcasm. #;-}>

But I do still hate that I'll never get to be level 24 or 25. I think I'd still be level 23 on the old system, but I'd be very very close to the holy level 24 by now.

No, I'm most comfortable with Windows Media Player. With the ease of the MSN and Last.fm plugins, I like Windows Media Player a lot. Not that fond with the other major media softwares such as Winamp or iTunes. I've had some trouble with them in the past. Windows Media Player on the other hand, no problems at all. :)

I hated the concept of iTunes before I ever tried it, but my baby used iTunes, so I tried it out. Aside from some minor issues I have with how it stores its library in an .xml and how hard it is to transfer shit from one computer to another, I like it a lot.

Also, I can still avoid ever getting an iPod or an iPhone. I just use iTunes, which I didn't pay for. Woot woot.

And anyway, the main thing is that it works fine with all my ol' mp3s I ripped and used to play on winamp BACK IN THE DAY (i.e. the good ol' 90s).

Where were you talking about? NG logs or RG?

Retrogade.

Yep, yep. I think I had about 6 UOTDs there. Still 0 at NG logs, of course. ;_;

STOP SLACKING!

I DID. NOW WHATCHOU GONNA DO?

Heh, I got a second Medic milestone since then, yay.

The kritzkrieg one? You still don't have an ubersaw, though, do you? If you do, I can delete the extra one I'm lugging around for ya.

Quantity has its uses, but thanks for the compliment.

Give me one example.

Getting the gun-tower-only achievement in Defense Grid? #;-}>

Hahahaha, you're so right.

Wheee! #;-}>

Nailed it.

Arg, can't I have the gauntlet now if you don't like it as much as the others do? Then again, by doing that, my main will miss out the opportunity to have the 41 - 46 icons, and they all rule.

Wish I could let you have this dinky ol' level 47 gauntlet till I level up, sure... Especially if I could use level 42 in the meantime. Mmmmm... level 42.

Depends on how big the chainsaw is, really.

Everything's big with dragons. :)

Then it's more epic, yes.

If it had been a human-sized chainsaw being held by a dragon who was running around with this tiny little thing, then it wouldn't have been very epic at all, really.

Also, 25 is a quarter of 100. What could be bad about that? 75 rocks due to being 3/4 of 100, even though it's odd AND not a square, actually.

I'm glad we think alike. 25 is a great number for being a quarter of 100.

There ya go.

My advice: Use Wordpad instead.

Nah. I'll just try to avoid SAVING my catchups from now on in notepad. I'll just do them on the fly, so that they stay proper.

God, I love YouTube Poops. #;-}>

WARNING: Saying that can make you an enemy of Bahamut. It even comes to the point where Bahamut could punch one of his friends in the face for quoting some of their douchebagery.

LOL!

I didn't say I was gonna start QUOTING from them... though there was this really epic Vince Offer vs Billy Mays youtube poop where.... :::gets knocked out by a dragon tail before he can finish the sentence:::

Well it does. If this shit keeps up, how will humanity cope? This is one of the things that's going to put humanity to the wrong direction. I guess I should be more worried about Facebook as that's truly the cancer that's killing humanity and the internet. Infact, YouTube and Facebook are as bad as each other.

Yes. As someone recently said about the EVIL SITES OF THE INTRAWEBS: You Twit Face!

(you forgot to slam twitter)

Well yes, but I want to try and keep it up with the NG medal games. After all, I wish to have 10k medals someday and I'm not even close yet. At least it'll be much easier than getting 10k reviews.

One day there'll be 20,000 medals available and getting 10k will be easy.

And lastly: what's your Steam username? Even if you'll only be playing TF2 on free weekends for the foreseeable future, that's still better than nothing. Let me and Bahamut know it either here or privately via PM, and we'll friend ya!

This. Me and gfox would like to add you on Steam.

Why didn't you think to ask him what his damned username was 2 weeks ago, man? #;-}> Why do I have to think of this shit... tsk tsk.

Oh, and what the hell, here's the 99,999 total points screenie for Coop, to go with the 100k one I posted above:

At 6/9/09 11:27 AM, Hacsev wrote: Congrats to:
gfox: Level 42

Thanks!

At 6/9/09 01:27 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Because I thanked in the exact chronological order the grats came in? Not due to any sort of need to do so, but just because that's the order the quotes I'd pasted over from browser tabs were in. O_o

Alright then :)

Yes. #;-}>

At 6/9/09 12:12 PM, Auz wrote:

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote: You are lucky to have a radio station that plays Joshua Tree songs a lot. Here in my town, the most U2 I here on the stations I listen to... are War-era singles on the classic rock station. I mean, sure, every now and then there's Where the Streets Have No Name, too... but not very often compared to SBS and Like a Song from War.

We also had a Classic Rock station that played a lot of U2, but unfortunately they went bankrupt recently. They used to play some Achtung Baby from time to time and even songs like Gone passed by every now and again.

Now we still have an 80's and 90's station, but that´s usually the Joshua Tree stuff I was talking about (Where the Streets, Still haven´t found, With or without You). I´d be glad if they played some War or Boy sometimes. Would make a nice change.

Ah, I see. So it's the 80s station playing too much JT singles for your tastes, not the classic rock station, at least. Hm.

Yeah, some AB would get played, too. And we have an 80s station as well, but they play so much 80s one hit wonders and even early 90s stuff that U2 doesn't get played too often. At least, not when I'm listening.

But I tend to listen to sports talk radio, news radio, and the classic rock and classic rock/oldies music stations more than I listen to the 80s station (it'd be my 3rd choice on FM/music), so... maybe I just miss all the JT singles they play, too. #;-}>

Nope! Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World. Something about the "... fish like a bicycle..." line and the song as a whole that just turn me off. Doesn't feel like it fits in the album as much as every single other song on the album fits. I wish it had been a b-side and Lady with the Spinning Head (an excellent b-side which I have in 2 different versions from two different AB-era singles) had been on the album instead.

I think the line is:
"And a woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle".

Weird line indeed.

And I usually don't screw up my U2 lyrics quotings, so... that shows you I meant what I said about skipping that one a lot. #;-}>

But I agree that Lady with the Spinning Head would´ve fitted quite well on the album. Do you have an original version of it by the way? Because all I could find was a 6 minute long extended remix version (which was awesome) and a very early version. Which was more a mix between Lady With The Spinning Head and Ultraviolet along with the line Wake Up Dead Man somewhere. Which also had it´s own name: Wanna Take You Down (you probably know it).

Indeed. Well, I don't know if it's original, but I have the 6 minute long remix that you mention, yes, which is nice, and I have a 4 minute long more "standard" seeming one, that feels like less of a remix, but might still be a remix, I don't remember.

I don't think it's a very early version like the one you mention, at least.

And I'm not actually familiar with Wanna Take You Down. Stunner, I know. #;-}>

550 HOURS!!?? Jesus Christ. I probably haven´t even played Majora´s
Mask for that long and I´ve beaten that game at least 10 times by now.

700ish hours now! Blame the spy/sniper update from 5/21...

TF2 is the most fun multiplayer FPS ever, and has no plot, no start and no finish, and... thus... comparing how many hours of a single player game with a storyline like a Zelda game... you have... to how much time in TF2... is not even comparing apples and oranges... it's like comparing eating chocolate ice cream to hiking up a mountain!

Okay maybe that isn´t such a good comparisation, but come on. 700 hours on one game is just insane. You would say that after an hour or 200, you would´ve seen and done everything and the boredom would start to set in. At least that´s usually how it goes with me.

Well, you COULD say that, but you have to remember that Valve keeps adding stuff to TF2 and changing how the classes work, and there's constantly new custom maps being made by TF2 players. I have literally 200 maps in my maps directory just from all the DLing my TF2 automatically does when I play on my favourite custom servers.

And I'd actually estimate that yeah, about every 200 hours of playtime, the game gets changed to keep it fresh (new weapons, new maps, new gamemodes, slight gameplay tweaks, class tweaks, map edits, etc.). You're right, it would be insane to have played it 700 hours if it hadn't changed at all in that time (but I don't play the X-Box 360 version, so... that ain't me #;-}>).

Seriously, I got it after the medic pack and the pyro pack had already made changes, then 2 months after I got it, the heavy pack happened... 3 months later they changed a lot of stuff about engie/spy/medic, but not a full class pack... great stuff, though, like lv2/lv3 teles and lv2/lv3 dispensers to go with the already lv1/lv2/lv3 sentry guns... etc. etc... then 2 months later, the scout pack happened.... then 3 months later the spy/sniper pack happened. And that was 2 weeks ago.

Always stayin' fresh!

At 6/9/09 01:17 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/9/09 02:00 AM, gfoxcook wrote: CATCH-UP 6

Epic.

Heh.

I had no idea/didn't remember she was German... hm. So to me, Haggard already had that role/title/distinction/whatever. :::clicks deposit on the ego-depostering machine with Haggard's name on it:::

Woha!

Cha-CHING! Machine's still workin'!

Germany: Haggard
Belgium: nimmer (iWalker since redesign)
Netherlands: _lightning_
France: alexsmolik

Nice list, but the only name I recognise is my own... >_>

really? O_o alexsmolik was bigger on General than I ever was. I'm surprised you don't at least recognise his name.

For me it would be:
Belgium: Casualty
Netherlands: Auz
France: sonofkirk

I forget that sonofkirk's from France, he probably doesn't bring it up as much as alex used to.

But yeah, I should probably replace nimmer and lightning with Casualty and Auz in my mental list, since they're around more than the ones in my list. ;_;

WTF? People writing me off for NG dead again. Mannnnn... you gotta drop by weekly or you get written off, eh?

We live in a fast moving world. Either be part of it or live with the consequences! :P
Be quick or be dead! ^^

I'M HERE. I'M ALIVE. ;_;

Congrats to:
Lizzardis - Level 17
Emlfuryoflion - Level 28
KingExodus - Level 10
AnalPenguinFarming - Level 32
DELUCA2400 - Level 22
BahamutClock - Level 32
sumidiotdude - 900 Reviews
X-TERRORIST-X - 3,000 Experience Points
SCTE3 - Captain, 14,000 B/P

CONGRATULATIONS!

At 6/9/09 02:00 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/9/09 12:57 AM, ninjakoopa-33 wrote:

At 6/8/09 11:15 PM, gfoxcook wrote: THIS account, my main, is exactly 3600 saves from 36000 saves, my final retirement point!
..............
this topic is currently 2411.366666666666666666666666666etc.etc.

etc. pages long. Woot!

Wow. So much 36ness, it's unbelievable!

This universe is filled with a bounty of 36s for me, because that's a number I look for, and cherish whenever I find it.

I'm sure it's the same for you and... 33, I'd guess?

Yup. I find myself fascinated with the number 33. Still though, I'd like to lose the 33 in my username. Been trying to get my username changed to NinjaKoopa.

I also find myself strangely fascinated with 1111. I don't why though. :P

11k exp

Level 42

The Bastard Sword, what a nice weapon.

Coop receives random PMs congratulating his Level Up, while congratulating:
Emlfuryoflion: Level 28
KingExodus: Level 10
AnalPenguinFarming: Level 32
DELUCA2400: Level 22
BahamutClock: Level 32
sumidiotdude: 900 Reviews (Flash)
X-TERRORIST-X: 3,000 Experience
SCTE3: Captain; 14,000 B/P
bifgis: 11,000 Experience

Allow me to be slightly arrogant here. Thanks Emlfuryoflion, KingExodus, AnalPenguinFarming, DELUCA2400 and BahamutClock for allowing me to pwn each and every one of you with my latest Level up >:)

Thank you to:
Hacsev

Listening to:
Weird Al - Dare to be Stupid
Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage!
Weird Al - Melanie

At 6/9/09 09:47 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/9/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, less than 24 hours to go ;) Now I've got to think of some stuff to write in Blammer that involves me wielding a sword...

If only I was able to wield that sword sooner.

You need to work with the weight of the Hammer first, it's a little unwieldy, this thing...

At 6/9/09 12:12 PM, Auz wrote:

At 6/9/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, I suppose you could. I'm not one who would want to use the privelages in this way, because that could get them revoked.

Hmm that seems pretty harsh to me. This seems like one of those typical cases where everyone is doing it and thus it gets legalized. But I guess I wouldn´t want to run the risk.

I'm a case of being modded after the whistle system was tweaked. Most new review mods have Gold or Deity, as that's what qualifies them. Despite me only having Silver, I was offered the job. I think that it would only be fair to repay the kindness of my fellow mods and the admins by not abusing the powers.

jsdbcvjhagkjasebfk.

At 6/9/09 11:00 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/9/09 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Pearl Jam - Even Flow

Eeeee-vuuuuun-floooo-ohhhhh... thoughts arriiiiiiiive like buuuutterfliiiiiies....

Ooooooooooooh heee don't knoooooooooooo-ooooow! So he chases them awaaaaaaaaaaaayeeeeeeeeeyaaaaaaaaaaaaeee eeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 4/20/09 03:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Ah, those days were those days that we yearn for. Unfortunately, we only move through time in one direction

One day, man... ONE DAY....

I'm free on Thursday, if you're up for it?

Up for time travel? I kinda meant one day as in one day they'll fix that and we'll be able to move through time in many directions... it was a nebulous far-off future sometime "one day," not... this week. O_O

But I wish!

Well, if you're going to poop the party :(

Oh well fine. I'll get my own party. With Black Jack and hookers! In fact, forget the party and the Black Jack!

crashes BenderCoop's private party because it sounds pretty good:::

Did you bring beer and smokes?

I don't smoke no more, but hell yeah, I brought a six pack.

Six pack? I hope that's strawberry champagne, with a funnel!

Obscure Futurama references FTW!

How's it going lately with the medal situation? Did ya take my advice and go for the ThingThing3 ones?

Some, but it's difficult to play Thing Thing Arena in the office of a lunch time - people tend to crowd around and get interested in what I'm playing. Even if I put the headphones on >:(

Heh! Yes, the blood doth indeed be fillin' up the screen immensely. VERY SIGHT-GRABBING at an office, I'm sure.

Managed another medal yesterday though. I'll get there...

At 6/9/09 01:49 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I just wish the Rockets had beaten the Lakers.

Yeah, then the Nuggets would have won in the West and would have beaten the Magic for their first franchise title.

Hey now. I think we woulda taken them same as the Lakers did.

I think there were two teams in the playoffs this year that could have beaten us - LA and Cleveland

At 6/9/09 11:17 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Oh, and what the hell, here's the 99,999 total points screenie for Coop, to go with the 100k one I posted above:

Oh. Your. God.

teh mudkip brought me uh knief

Hrrr, I'm getting so close to my next B/P badge (moar voting power hells yeah), after I've gotten some Blam and Save points on this batch of Portal submissions.

I've passed 20K total stats on the NGlog. That seems like nothing compared to the 100K posted above.

now understanding the Saves / Blams... LegolaSS now gets into the top 800 in the S/B Ranks... soon he will have more... very soon >:3

*sorry for double post*

BUT I've passed 20K total stats on the NGlog aswell!!!

C-C-C-Combo breaker!

Hello guys, I'm just stopping by here to announce I've finally reached level 25 although I missed a couple of deposits these days... Special congrats to Coop, awesome level up. That sword looks awesome with the gold aura and reminds me of aviewaskewed :P.

Congratulations to: -

DELUCA2400 - Level 22
BahamutClock - Level 32
sumidiotdude - 900 Flash Reviews
X-TERRORIST-X - 3,000 Experience
SCTE3 - Captain and 14,000 B/P
bifgis - 11,000 Experience
Coop83 - Level 42
Rucklo - Level 28
SevasTra - 20,000 Total Stats
LegolaSS - Top 800 in B/P and 20,000 Total Stats
sonofkirk - Level 25

At 6/9/09 11:17 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/9/09 09:46 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: Now THAT'S what I call a catch-up!

mwahahaa. :::takes a bow:::

*respectfully acknowledges gfox's bow*

Also, I've just finished my week-long playthrough of the entire Phoenix Wright series (including Apollo Justice)....

My honey did something similar. I guess she was learning so many Phoenix Wright memes in her normal online hangouts, so she got all 4 of the DS titles, the 3 PW ones and the 1 AJ one or whatever, and she beat them all within like a week or so last year... and loved 'em.

I tried like 1 case of the very first one and couldn't get into it. There's something wrong with me, I guess. ;_;

BLASPHEMY!!!

Just kidding. Yeah, they're not for everyone, you'll either get bored/become apathetic or become absolutely hooked (I was very much the latter). Don't write yourself off yet though, I tried in vain to get a friend into them 6 months ago and failed, now he's changed his mind and is playing through them as we speak.

I do enjoy a good flash about PW, though.

Some of the Phoenix Wrong parodies are good, but like any parody series their copycats are a bit hit-and-miss.

Yeah, it's an odd sort of subgenre to try and describe, it has a mix of action, strategy and humour all rolled up into one.

Well, the old genre that Worms picked up from didn't have any humour. #;-}> But yeah, it's odd indeeeeed.

INDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED.

Oh hush now. WHY SO SILLYIOUS.

BECAUSE I'M JELLYOUS!

DON'T BE SUCH A JELLY FISHIOUS.

How did you discover my secret lack of vertabrae?

A whole buncha STDs, carefully selected, from the best whorehouses this planet has to offer!
Rejoice!

Woo-hoo, I call first dibs on the gonorrhea Mark 2!

She's yours!

Awesome, and she's in great shape too!

Alternative Character Battle - Battle 2 (Third Round): Bowser vs Alucard

Listening to:

Gamma Ray - Blast from the Past

Thanks to:

Hacsev
Auz
Haggard
ninjakoopa-33
Coop83
Odyssic
RohantheBarbarian

At 6/9/09 09:46 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

At 6/8/09 09:23 AM, Bahamut wrote: Last game of theirs I bought was Guitar Hero III. I actually wish I got into Guitar Hero sooner as the first two games didn't seem too bad. Plus, there was an effective way to get custom tracks on GHII. Too late for that, though.

Oh well, it happens, not much you can do about it I suppose (except support Capcom and buy some PW games :P)

Don't worry, I'll get them eventually.

Fact: The current CEO of Activision used to run 4kids.

IT ALL MAKES SENSE TO ME NOW!!!

Indeed. Also, just look at his face. Doesn't it make you want to punch him in the face? (look at the end of this post)

Yeah, if they did make a sequel, the ones who I'm 99% sure will be in it are Raz (obviously), Lili and the four agents at Whispering Rock. Still, an appearance from the other characters would be nice.

I find your lack of Dogen disturbing.

/Star Wars

And Dogen, but the ones I said have higher priority, even though I would have loved to have said Bobby Zilch and Vernon Tripe.

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Oh hush now. WHY SO SILLYIOUS.

BECAUSE I'M JELLYOUS!

Nice Dickneck reference.

At 6/9/09 01:17 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/9/09 09:47 AM, Bahamut wrote: Nah, that's too much. After all, he has interviews, his wife and other things to care of as well as his show. Every week would be overkill for him.

It was just wishful thinking. I really liked his reviews for the Terminator games and now I'm just in the right mood to watch new stuff from him.
But I decided to watch some HVGN videos instead. Not as good as AVGN, but still good enough to fill the gap until a new AVGN episode is released. :)

It's not easy making a review of good games, but HVGN does his best and is the best AVGN tribute out there. Infact, there's a lot of other great video game reviewers out there and we owe it all to AVGN. :)

At 6/9/09 11:17 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/9/09 09:47 AM, Bahamut wrote: Holy shit, that's one massive catch-up from gfox!

Happy to oblige.

OMG AGAIN!

Nah, that's too much. After all, he has interviews, his wife and other things to care of as well as his show. Every week would be overkill for him.

If AVGN were really such a AVGN, he woulda killed his wife by now after violently and angrily throwing an old NES controller at her face during one of his ragefests post-fail at a hard old NES game.

He's only a character, hence why he'll never kill his wife out of frustration from video games.

Didn't say it was going to be soon, exactly. In fact, I believe I told you that retiring gfox at 36,000 exp was a possibility. #;-}> Now, SOME people might call that day soon, but I certainly wouldn't.

You once said to me on Steam it'll stop at level 42.

Hey I stopped hating on GTA. Now we need iscrulz to stop hating on FF.

And as my above quote mentioned, we need BOTH OF YOU to stop loving 37 so much just because I hates it. I hates it so, my precious....

We'll stop doing it once you're not being such a slacker. :P

Which 20 are they? :P

The 20 with mainstream hardcore dragon porn. But the 17 ones with dragon SNUFF porn in them were taking it just a bit TOO FAR.

OOOOOOOOH YEEEEEEAH! Hardcore dragon porn FTW!

Retrogade.

Yep, yep. I think I had about 6 UOTDs there. Still 0 at NG logs, of course. ;_;

5 UOTDs on NG Log including alts.

STOP SLACKING!

I DID. NOW WHATCHOU GONNA DO?

.....37?

Heh, I got a second Medic milestone since then, yay.

The kritzkrieg one? You still don't have an ubersaw, though, do you? If you do, I can delete the extra one I'm lugging around for ya.

I'll probably get the Ubersaw via achievements soon enough. I appreciate your offer, though.

Arg, can't I have the gauntlet now if you don't like it as much as the others do? Then again, by doing that, my main will miss out the opportunity to have the 41 - 46 icons, and they all rule.

Wish I could let you have this dinky ol' level 47 gauntlet till I level up, sure... Especially if I could use level 42 in the meantime. Mmmmm... level 42.

Your alt alt already has it and I won't have it until the end of Rocktober.

Everything's big with dragons. :)

Then it's more epic, yes.

If it had been a human-sized chainsaw being held by a dragon who was running around with this tiny little thing, then it wouldn't have been very epic at all, really.

Of course not. That's why they need bigger chainsaws, although that sounds like we're lumberjacks.

My advice: Use Wordpad instead.

Nah. I'll just try to avoid SAVING my catchups from now on in notepad. I'll just do them on the fly, so that they stay proper.

Word-fucking-pad!

I didn't say I was gonna start QUOTING from them... though there was this really epic Vince Offer vs Billy Mays youtube poop where.... :::gets knocked out by a dragon tail before he can finish the sentence:::

That's still unacceptable! >:(

Yes. As someone recently said about the EVIL SITES OF THE INTRAWEBS: You Twit Face!

(you forgot to slam twitter)

Twitter isn't as bad as Facebook. Plus, Wade gave me a warm welcome when I signed up.

Why didn't you think to ask him what his damned username was 2 weeks ago, man? #;-}> Why do I have to think of this shit... tsk tsk.

I forgot, OK?!

At 6/10/09 04:00 AM, Coop83 wrote: Allow me to be slightly arrogant here. Thanks Emlfuryoflion, KingExodus, AnalPenguinFarming, DELUCA2400 and BahamutClock for allowing me to pwn each and every one of you with my latest Level up >:)

Doesn't really bother me since not only it was just an alt levelling up, but the sword rocks!

At 6/9/09 09:47 AM, Bahamut wrote: If only I was able to wield that sword sooner.

You need to work with the weight of the Hammer first, it's a little unwieldy, this thing...

Ah yes, I'll need to get working on that at the start of August. Not too far off, but still got to wait a bit. Before that happens, there's my hospital appointment to attend to at the end of June, my birthday on the 12th July...and possibly changing my name by deed poll to spite my parents.

Achievement of the Day
Coop83: Level 42. Very nice level icon and I think that golden aura of yours deffinatly gives it something extra. So congrats on this awesome level! :)

Congrats to:
X-TERRORIST-X: 3,000 Experience
SCTE3: 14,000 BP
bifgis: 11,000 Experience
Rucklo: Level 28
SevasTra: 20,000 Total Stats
LegolaSS: 20,000 Total Stats, Top 800 BP
sonofkirk: Level 25

At 6/9/09 11:26 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 6/9/09 12:12 PM, Auz wrote:

At 6/9/09 01:16 AM, gfoxcook wrote: You are lucky to have a radio station that plays Joshua Tree songs a lot. Here in my town, the most U2 I here on the stations I listen to... are War-era singles on the classic rock station. I mean, sure, every now and then there's Where the Streets Have No Name, too... but not very often compared to SBS and Like a Song from War.

We also had a Classic Rock station that played a lot of U2, but unfortunately they went bankrupt recently. They used to play some Achtung Baby from time to time and even songs like Gone passed by every now and again.

Now we still have an 80's and 90's station, but that´s usually the Joshua Tree stuff I was talking about (Where the Streets, Still haven´t found, With or without You). I´d be glad if they played some War or Boy sometimes. Would make a nice change.

Ah, I see. So it's the 80s station playing too much JT singles for your tastes, not the classic rock station, at least. Hm.

Yeah, some AB would get played, too. And we have an 80s station as well, but they play so much 80s one hit wonders and even early 90s stuff that U2 doesn't get played too often. At least, not when I'm listening.

Same here for the 80's-90's station. Many one-hit wonders of those decades pass by. And often they also play shit like Snap and other 90's hiphop/dance =/

But I agree that Lady with the Spinning Head would´ve fitted quite well on the album. Do you have an original version of it by the way? Because all I could find was a 6 minute long extended remix version (which was awesome) and a very early version. Which was more a mix between Lady With The Spinning Head and Ultraviolet along with the line Wake Up Dead Man somewhere. Which also had it´s own name: Wanna Take You Down (you probably know it).

Indeed. Well, I don't know if it's original, but I have the 6 minute long remix that you mention, yes, which is nice, and I have a 4 minute long more "standard" seeming one, that feels like less of a remix, but might still be a remix, I don't remember.

4-minute version might be the original then. Don´t think I´ve ever heard it.

I don't think it's a very early version like the one you mention, at least.

And I'm not actually familiar with Wanna Take You Down. Stunner, I know. #;-}>

Take You Down. I see some comments claiming that it was a very early Achtung Baby try-out. Has bits and pieces from the solo´s of Lady with the Spinning Head, The Fly and Ultraviolet somewhere.

700ish hours now! Blame the spy/sniper update from 5/21...

TF2 is the most fun multiplayer FPS ever, and has no plot, no start and no finish, and... thus... comparing how many hours of a single player game with a storyline like a Zelda game... you have... to how much time in TF2... is not even comparing apples and oranges... it's like comparing eating chocolate ice cream to hiking up a mountain!

Okay maybe that isn´t such a good comparisation, but come on. 700 hours on one game is just insane. You would say that after an hour or 200, you would´ve seen and done everything and the boredom would start to set in. At least that´s usually how it goes with me.

Well, you COULD say that, but you have to remember that Valve keeps adding stuff to TF2 and changing how the classes work, and there's constantly new custom maps being made by TF2 players.
...
Always stayin' fresh!

Ah I see. Good way to get people hooked I guess. Do you have to pay extra for all those packs?