U2 / Snow Patrol concert was pretty awesome yesterday. Will write a blog post on it later.

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At 7/21/09 04:34 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/20/09 05:27 AM, Auz wrote: I´m pretty excited for tonight. Gonna go to the U2 concert in the Amsterdam ArenA. And I am just so lucky to have Snow Patrol in the pre-program again (Snow Patrol also being one of my favourite bands). So it´s gonna be an awesome and exciting day for me :)

Just hope this doesn't happen ;)

Lol, wtf? :p

I know The Edge doesn´t have a very complicated guitar style, but I don´t really get where that joke is coming from. Don´t recognize it all... =/

Listening to:
Garbage - Butterfly Collector - Lol, I wished Shirley would sing like she speaks, with a scottish accent. Would sound funny. ^^

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2,000 posts.

4000 posts. Yippee! I haven't posted in Wi/Ht in a looong while. Congrats to everyone else

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Coop stops by to congratulate the following peeps, before heading out to get his car seviced:
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Soaked: Level 20
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Joeyag: 5,000 Experience
Aci6: 8,000 Experience

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Odyssic
Auz
Hacsev

At 7/21/09 07:07 AM, Odyssic wrote: Question for Coop83, being a review mod. You now have to check Art reviews?

May seem like a stupid question.

Not a stupid question at all. Flag away.

At 7/21/09 08:13 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/21/09 04:34 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/20/09 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Hey, I've been visiting Stickam quite a bit recently, so maybe you could give it another chance soon. Plus, if NG has any downtimes, just go there for the time being. :P

Alright, when the laptop is back, I might well then.

Sweet, I look forward to it. :)

Day 3 of the "Coop has no laptop" experiment. Deep joy.

"lol, I just review banned you :P"

Wait what?

Not you, personally, I can see me having banned people who frequent the chat room.

At 7/21/09 11:10 AM, Auz wrote:

At 7/21/09 04:34 AM, Coop83 wrote: Just hope this doesn't happen ;)

Lol, wtf? :p

I know The Edge doesn't have a very complicated guitar style, but I don´t really get where that joke is coming from. Don´t recognize it all... =/

Well, he's playing Jingle Bells. The first bit, when The Edge is working is "Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh, o'er the field we go, laughing all the way, bells & bobtail rings, making spirits bright, what fun it is to laugh and sing the sleighing song tonight."

Then The Edge fails and reduces him to plucking "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to ride on a one horse open sleigh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, what fun it is to ride and sing in a one horse open sleigh."

Apologies for the quality being so poor on that - damned mobile phones recording live gigs!

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At 7/22/09 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/21/09 11:10 AM, Auz wrote: Lol, wtf? :p

I know The Edge doesn't have a very complicated guitar style, but I don´t really get where that joke is coming from. Don´t recognize it all... =/

Well, he's playing Jingle Bells. The first bit, when The Edge is working is "Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh, o'er the field we go, laughing all the way, bells & bobtail rings, making spirits bright, what fun it is to laugh and sing the sleighing song tonight."

Then The Edge fails and reduces him to plucking "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to ride on a one horse open sleigh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, what fun it is to ride and sing in a one horse open sleigh."

Apologies for the quality being so poor on that - damned mobile phones recording live gigs!

Yeah okay I get that he was playing jingle bells. First with heavy effects and then a "technical error" deplugged it and it becomes very simplistic. Ha ha.

I know the Edge´s style is relatively simple compared to some other guitarists, but don´t all musicians use effects to make their music sound better? And aren´t the effects also part of music making? =/

Wooooo level 20

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Listening to:

Gamma Ray - No World Order

Thanks to:

Ismael92

At 7/22/09 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/21/09 08:13 AM, Bahamut wrote: Sweet, I look forward to it. :)

Day 3 of the "Coop has no laptop" experiment. Deep joy.

Aaaack.

"lol, I just review banned you :P"

Wait what?

Not you, personally, I can see me having banned people who frequent the chat room.

Haha, true that. I just wonder what it'll be like when you truly say that to someone.

At 7/22/09 06:59 AM, Odyssic wrote: We should do something! Odyssic is happy with the 4 part Countdown reviews.
My favourite part was... "I'LL KILL YOU... I'LL KILL YOU TO DEATH!"

I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO DEATH! XD

Wait whats that? Longest AVGN review since Bible games. Awesome! Wait, its just one game!? Holy shit! Too bad I'm at college so I can't watch it yet.

Yeah, it's a really long episode and it's really good as well, even though this is the kind of game I expect Spoony to review and not AVGN. Ah well, at least he finally introduced the 3DO.

Congrats to these happy people:
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Fro - Level 28
naronic - Level 12
Virdis - 3,000 Posts
life - 13.37 Total VP
Pokemonpoeguygcn - 16k B/P and Top 300 in B/P
Soaked - Level 20
dx5231 - 2,000 Posts
squadus2 - 4,000 Posts
Joeyag - 5,000 Exp
Aci6 - 8,000 Exp
KevnSevn - Staff Sargent
Soapbubble - Level 20

Listening to:
Puscifer - Rev 22:20

As for me:
5,000 Medal Points

Not much nowadays but hey!

LVL 26
is the first level i really like the image, even the idea of staying there appeared in my mind XD

I've broken into the top 100 B/Pers. Lovely :D

Level 18.
It's kinda cool.

The 52nd user to reach 50,000 BP!!!

Although I still need two more bp´s right now to get there. But I gotta catch a bus and I´ll probably have 50k before the end of this hour.

13000 Saves

lvl 33

Listening to:
Bob Marley - Get Up Stand Up
Excrementory Grindfuckers - Grindfuckers
Judas Priest - A Touch Of Evil

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reverend: 5,000 Medal Points
aldlv: Level 26
Mrputter: Top 100 in B/P
dx5231: Level 18
Auz: 50,000 B/P
1337: 13,000 Saves, Level 33

8,000 Experience

I also made a post to the BBS today, but it really isn't a big fucking deal >:(

I'm very proud of this milestone.

You passed 800 Audio Reviews. Not bad at all!

Congrats to:

Joeyag: 5,000 Experience
Aci6: 8,000 Experience
KevnSevn: Staff Sergeant
Soapbubble: Level 20
reverend: 5,000 Medal Points
aldlv: Level 26
Mrputter: Top 100 in B/P
dx5231: Level 18
Auz: 50,000 B/P
1337: 13,000 Saves; Level 33
C0GMA: 8,000 Experience
Fro: 800 Audio Reviews

Thanks to:

Coop83
Auz
Odyssic
RohantheBarbarian
reverend
Haggard

I just got to Level 11.

Coop gets his car and laptop back today, so is really happy, while congratulating:
KevnSevn: Staff Sergeant
soapbubble: Level 20
reverend: 5,000 Medal Points
aldlv: Level 26
Mrputter: Top 100 B/Per
dx5231: Level 18
Auz: 50,000 B/P
1337: 13,000 Saves; Level 33
Fro: 800 Reviews (Flash)
Dobio: Level 37
CalvinGodly: Level 11

At 7/22/09 06:55 AM, Auz wrote: I know the Edge´s style is relatively simple compared to some other guitarists, but don´t all musicians use effects to make their music sound better? And aren´t the effects also part of music making? =/

Well, I think that what he's trying to say is that U2 rely too heavily on this one effect - other acts don't use one effect as the sole basis for their songs, so he's a little peeved.

At 7/22/09 08:12 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/22/09 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/21/09 08:13 AM, Bahamut wrote: Sweet, I look forward to it. :)

Day 3 of the "Coop has no laptop" experiment. Deep joy.

Aaaack.

It's back now - I was just far too busy to go on StickAm yesterday. Perhaps tonight, if I can resist Overlord 2 ;)

"lol, I just review banned you :P"

Wait what?

Not you, personally, I can see me having banned people who frequent the chat room.

Haha, true that. I just wonder what it'll be like when you truly say that to someone.

They'll probably call me a "C U Next Tuesday" and if I've got mod privelages on the chat room, I'll kick them.

800 Flash Review Responses

Perhaps I should update that list at some point...

Congratulations to: -

aldlv - Level 26
Mrputter - Top 100 in B/P
dx5231 - Level 18
Auz - 50,000 B/P
1337 - 13,000 Saves and Level 33
C0GMA - 8,000 Experience
Fro - 800 Audio Reviews
Dobio - Level 37
CalvinGodly - Level 11
Coop83 - 800 Flash Review Responses

Achievement of the Day
Coop83: 800 Flash Review Responses. This time, it was a tough pick between you and Fro's 800 audio reviews. But 800 responses is a bit more work than 800 reviews so I decided to pick yours. Congrats on this nice achievement :)

Congrats to:
KevnSevn: Staff Sergeant
Soapbubble: Level 20
aldlv: Level 26
MrPutter: Top 100 BP
dx5231: Level 18
1337: 13,000 Saves, Level 33
C0GMA: 8,000 Experience
Fro: 800 Audio Reviews
Dobio: Level 37
CalvinGodly: Level 11

Thanks to:
Haggard
Coop83
Hacsev

Listening to:
David Bowie - Space Oddity

At 7/23/09 04:19 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/22/09 06:55 AM, Auz wrote: I know the Edge´s style is relatively simple compared to some other guitarists, but don´t all musicians use effects to make their music sound better? And aren´t the effects also part of music making? =/

Well, I think that what he's trying to say is that U2 rely too heavily on this one effect - other acts don't use one effect as the sole basis for their songs, so he's a little peeved.

That could be. But I personally never noticed it up to this point, and it always sounds alright to me. Appearantly a lot of other people in the world aren't bothered with it either, considering their large fanbase. So I wouldn't blame the Edge or the band on it. Why would you change your style if people love you for your old one after all?

Listening to:

Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory

At 7/22/09 09:04 AM, aldlv wrote: LVL 26
is the first level i really like the image, even the idea of staying there appeared in my mind XD

WHAT?! You did not say that! XD

At 7/23/09 02:31 AM, Dobio wrote: lol, had to whore it out, but I love the new level icon. Level up and stuff. ;)

Much better than the fluffy axe, isn't it?

At 7/23/09 04:19 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/22/09 08:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: Aaaack.

It's back now - I was just far too busy to go on StickAm yesterday. Perhaps tonight, if I can resist Overlord 2 ;)

Awesomeness. If you can resist Overlord 2, here's hoping my sister doesn't drag me to play yet more Left 4 Dead, even if we're now playing custom content.

Haha, true that. I just wonder what it'll be like when you truly say that to someone.

They'll probably call me a "C U Next Tuesday" and if I've got mod privelages on the chat room, I'll kick them.

That'll be epic.

At 7/23/09 07:04 AM, Odyssic wrote: Also, an outtake! What the fuck, an outtake! Also, it didn't sound like an outtake until people started laughing.

Man, that's much worse than having random idiots dancing across an S&M club in Phantasmagoria 2. It's like they were deliberately making a terrible game.

Back to list-making, I suppose. But, before that...

NEAT-ACHIEVEMENTS:

10,000 Blams
+
10,000 Saves
____________

20,000 B/P

After having to balance my B/P count, I made it to the land of the double-listed users, with a 10k Blams & 10k Saves combination, simultaneously. Mandatory screenshot at the bottom. Oh, and when I logged my stats, I saw that I got 24 Blams and 36 saves. Neat. #;-}>

Listening to:
311 - Come Original; Beautiful Disaster
Rancid - Fall Back Down

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Insanimation - 100 Reviews (Total)
aldlv - 10,000 Blams + 19,000 saves + 29,000 B/P + Level 26
milinko959 - 6,000 Medal points
Hacsev - 13,000 saves
Coop83 - 60,000 B/P - Congrats on becoming 2x EGSC!
ngfan14 - EG Sergeant
KrevZabijak - 10,000 B/P
TehSlapHappy - Silver Whistle
Faggard - Level 23
Bahamut - Top 250 in EXP
DumbassDude - 6,000 EXP
ThePretenders - 3,333 Posts
AnzRage - Level 42 - The badass level.
Hacsev - 19,000 B/P
Malachy - 20,000 Posts
WilhelmTheVampire - Level 21
FroNickProductions - Level 15
Fro - Level 28 + 800 Audio Reviews
naronic - Level 12
Coop83 - 350 Review Responses (Audio) + 800 Review Responses (Flash)
veloniel - 1,000 Exp.
Viridis - 3,000 Posts
HecticCircleCrap - 2,222 Posts
life - 13.37 VP
Pokemonpoeguygcn - Top 300 in B/P + 16,000 B/P
Soaked - Level 20
dx5231 - 2,000 Posts
squadus2 - 4,000 Posts
Joeyag - 5,000 Exp.
Aci6 - 8,000 Exp.
KevnSevn - Staff Sergeant
Soapbubble - Level 20
Mrputter - Top 100 in B/P
dx5231 - Level 18
Auz - 50,000 B/P
1337 - Level 33 + 13,000 Saves
C0GMA - 8,000 Exp.

Whoa...

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gfoxcook (x3)
Odyssic (x3)
Coop83 (x3)
RohantheBarbarian (x3)
Auz (x3)
reverend (x3)
Bahamut (x3)
Hacsev (x3)
Haggard (x3)

At 7/17/09 09:58 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

What is this, catch-up after my catch-up? o_O

So anyway, I hope you watched the link that I made to the sniper for ya. Every single one of the 9 characters in the game will have an official video someday. So far only 7 have gotten it, we're still waiting on the German Medic and the ????an Pyro. #;-}>

This left me a bit of curiosity regarding each character's nationality. So I searched for it and found this, which seemed pretty trustworthy.

Now: do you play more with the engineer just because he's from Texas? =P

At 6/28/09 07:51 AM, Bahamut wrote: 1. He's a legitimate character, unlike a fucking Tetris block.
2. He's awesome and enough people agreed with that. :)
3. No extremely popular characters such as Cloud or Link were in the whole tournament due to bannage on them.

You do realise that millions more people know what a tetris block is, gamers or non-gamers... than know what/who Pyramid Head is, right?

I'd argue that makes a tetris block far more legitimate for a character battle, really.

Honestly, when I saw the final roundin Baha's character battle, I had to search to know what the hell was a Pyramid Head. It seems he's a pretty popular obscure character that I'd never heard of.

But I'd vote for a tetris block in spite of the Pyramid Head. I grew up playing that GameBoy tetris, so...

At 7/17/09 10:08 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Nothing wrong with having old LPs but no way to play them. I have lots of old 1970s LPs but no record player as of now. Vinyl is nice just to have, especially for the HUGE cover art. #;-}>

My father has quite a lot of LPs, some of them are excellent, like Queen's ''A Night at the Opera'', Pink Floyd (almost every one of them), Wings... He pretty much influenced my musical style. :)

Oh, and the huge cover art is, indeed, awesome.

Ah well. They can't live forever. At some point their music is either gonna disappoint you or they're gonna stop releasing it. One way or the other, it has to end.

Tell that to the Rolling Stones. =P

At 7/17/09 10:39 PM, gfoxcook wrote: (and then some... looks like a SEXA-POST is in the works! ... edit: make that SEPTA-POST, SirNuts wrote a SHIT TON to my last 2 months of posts O_O...)

Indeed, but that's because you wrote a SHIT TON of things quoting my posts. Heh.

At least this topic itself will (hopefully) never get to page 37000. Though it probably will get to 3700, and then I'll have to suffer through 100 pages. Or else just disappear for 100 straight pages (sounds better).

But then you'll have to catch-up those 100 pages... right?

At 7/17/09 11:03 PM, gfoxcook wrote: SPECIAL SIR-NUTS POSTS, since he wrote 4 posts himself, 3 of which seem to be directed at me almost solely. O_O

Hahaha, thanks, I guess. It's because, in this catch-up, I wrote most things based on previous quotes directed at me. I could have rambled on for a lot more on other posts with silly comments, but I wanted to finish this catch-up as soon as possible, so I stuck with 4 posts only.

At 7/17/09 04:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Oh, and I'm trying to change a little thing in my posts. Whenever I quote someone, I usually don't leave a blank line between whatever I want to quote and my post. This looks weird for someone who wants to quote my post, everything looks too "paired up". So... yeah, I'll try not to erase that extra line anymore. =P

I only erase those lines when I'm doing a bit of a pyramid quote reply, and the overall post I'm trying to make is near the NG limit, so I have to watch out for space-wasting things. But yeah, for the most part, that extra line is important so things look visually clean and less confusing. Good change, mate!

I'm getting the hang of it, but I still find myself erasing the damned line. One thing that I did in this previous catch-up that i found quite useful was copying the whole post to notepad and checking if the lines were there or not. A little ''archaic'', yeah, but useful nonetheless. :)

Level 28
Brigadier General
10 Total VP

Congrats, especially on BrigGen (my fave rank icon on OLD pre-redesign NG!) and 10+ VP!

Thanks! We know that Brigadier General is your favourite pre-redesign badge, I mean, it's your profile pic. =P

Yeah, I should have let you know. Although I think it wouldn't work well, because I was playing mostly on Brazilian servers, and still I had ~100 of ping. Whenever I tried playing on a foreign server, that number raised to ~250, almost unplayable. So I just stuck with the local players.

Aw. That sucks. ;_;

I know. =/

What kind of connection do you have, and how far are you from the major internet backbone area of Brazil?

Well, I have a 1MB internet connection, which is pretty good, I suppose. The major internet backbone area should be São Paulo (everything is there, but WE are the capital, wth...), which is about 1100km (~700 miles) from here. I believe that most servers were held there as well.

Yes. I can't buy it online, since you need a credit card for it. So the only legal option would be buying it on a store. I think the "Orange Box" is about R$100,00 (U$ 50,00).

Man, it's a lot cheaper in the past year most other places. It shouldn't still cost that much over there.

But here's Brazil, land of the political corruption and burocracy. =O

I went to a store the other day and saw that a PS3 game was about 50/60 dollars. That's why there's so much piracy in here. Another reason why I ask my uncle to buy games sometimes, since he lives in Washington. :)

Anyway, worry not, me and Bahamut are gonna get just TF2 for you and Wylo, we just need a sale to make it more affordable first. Half-price off happens all the time for it, so it'll be here before you know it. If you're never going to be able to play with us due to ping, that kinda blows, but... you can still have fun on local Brazilian servers, at least.

Are you serious? But that's just... insane! I... don't know what to say! Are you seriously going to do that or you're just mocking me?

I remember reading about this. Molotov used to be the original X-Naut, right? And what was X-Naut's nickname before the change?

Story time! =) (erased on purposed to save characters =P )

Hahaha, so X-Naut really copied an old nickname of (now known as) Molotov? Heh, I wish I was around to see the whole fake-X-Naut thing.

I might be asking a lot, but do you remember in which page it started? Sometimes I lurk through old pages in the Wi/Ht, just for fun, and I haven't seen where this started. Although I remember seeing, whenever X-Naut posted, someone changing the name on the quote to Fake_X-Naut or something. =)

Years and years ago, many of us wanted a level system where you could DISPLAY any weapon you'd already earned in the past next to your posts and/or in your profile, if you liked it better than your current level's weapon. I so wish that system had come true with the redesign. But sadly, it did not. ;_;

Heh, I can see why. I remember lurking in General and recognising some users because of their levels (e.g. BonusStage; Ozcar). If they leveled up... man.

''Who's this new user?'' =P

Well... I think you should be a little more ambitious with gfoxclock and gfox, post-wise. Go for something like... 336 posts on each. Then you could leave all the achievement posts for them. =)

gfox has never posted, and I see no reason to start now.

Really? Well... I must have messed-up gfox with gfoxclock when you posted here.

HOWEVER... since I'm going to retire his exp and his b/p.... it's possible that I'll want to show off his nice level 42 sword every now and then, so maybe I WILL start to post with him (some) on the BBS. We'll see. #;-}>

Yeah, you can easily make 36 posts with gfox, just to show everyone the sword. =P

I can say that TF2 was one of the most fun games that I've played in a while. It doesn't have a serious ambient, unlike HL and CS, and the class variety is always a good thing. I really need to find it in a store.

Yes. It's very un-serious. Some people PLAY it seriously, take their skill at it seriously, or take losing/getting killed seriously... but all you have to do if you start taking it too seriously is LOOK AT THE SCREEN. It's so fun. It's meant to be a game, not a grind or a job like some games become to professional (or wannabe professional) gamers.

Hahaha, that's true! I played on some international server which had a reasonable connection (150 ping, not bad), and heard some guys screaming loooooudly whenever they died. Kinda unpleasent.

If things starts getting too serious, LOOK AT THE HEAVY'S FACE.

Gotta love the TF2s.

Indeed.

I think everyone would trade a 36 for a 99, in this case.

I'll take 136 instead of either of 'em. #;-}>

I'd rather 360. =P

Meh, this one could go on FOREVER.

At 7/17/09 11:04 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/17/09 04:54 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: I meant by the end of the year, 2009. Right now, you have ~780 hours and going up, considering that you are playing it while I type this. =P

I'm around 800 right now, actually. Pretty close, dude.

I wouldn't doubt that, by the time I'm typing this, you're over 820 hours. =P

So yeah, I'll be over 1000, just like I told you a month or two ago, by the end of 2009, sure. #;-}>

All of that for a game that basically cost 10 bucks. It's the best value in the history of video games. Epic.

Indeed. Cost/benefit is really high in this case.

Wow, why isn't that on your sig? =P

Bleh.

Too cliché, right?

Yeah, by "active" I meant more than just depositing. For me, depositing is like a daily obligation. But posting/reviewing etc... isn't. So, for me, being "active" means doing more that the obligation. =P

Well... that blows, because my activity switches on and off all the time. #;-}>

True. So does mine, sometimes. =(

Depositing, to me, is still activity. But to all a different definition.

It's still activity, but not everyone notices it. Anyway, all to a different definition.

Correct! "This is a Call", to be exact. Now, I think that I shouldn't have mentioned the "begins with an F" thing. It made it too easy. =P

Awesome. Can't believe I got it. I have that album, but haven't listened to it in years, and I didn't remember those were lyrics from it. Was just a wild guess. #;-}>

Nice guess, then. I actually got that album this year as a birthday gift from my brother. It was the only album from Foo Fighters that we didn't have, so now we have the whole discography (excluding special versions & etc...) :)

OK then, just promise you won't change your quoting habits to something like "I ramble on for a whole page in just one post!!!" kind of thing. =P

Aren't they pretty much already there? #;-}>

Hahahaha, yeah. You ramble on for about 8 posts every time you catch-up. Even if it's a one-week catch-up. 8)

I enjoyed it, sure. But I'm also sure it could have been a lot better if my computer wasn't so old. According to Can you run it, I need, for the recommended settings, more RAM and a new video card. To sum up, a new computer would do fine. =P

Try more RAM first. RAM is really cheap, relatively. And it might fix it for you, though the "six guys on screen at one time" making your framerate plummet sounds really distressing... hmph.

Well, this computer is relatively old (2003), and it's unlikely that we'll upgrade it at anytime soon, so I'm sticking with the "new computer" possibility.

Also, that "too many people = too many lag" thing happened mostly under the bridge in 2fort. Especially when some random Pyro rushed into our base and set everyone on fire. =P

Heh, this reminds me that I have this old & dusty Rockets cap in my cupboard. It's circa 1998, because I remember wearing it when I was about 4 years old. 8)

You do? Awesome.

Yeah. It's red with a black front, with two little rockets on the sides and a big ''ROCKETS'' written in the front. Pretty neat.

At 7/17/09 04:56 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: SIRNUTS' DAD IS INSANE
Fun, isn't it?

..... o_o

Wow.

Apart from that, he's a good father. :)

Sir_Nuts, that would be. But I have already added you guys, anyway. =)

And we saw that the other day and added you back and I even left you a comment. #;-}>

Yeah, I saw it. Actually, I'm logging there every now & then, just to see if I know anybody else that I should add. Having only you and Bahamut feels kinda... empty. =P

Still, I'm pretty much ditching the TF2 idea. It's laggy, it's online (OMG VIRUSES!!!!1!)... Maybe I'll be old enough to have a credit card when TF3 comes out, right? =P

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooe. Don't give up. ;_;

Well, you kinda encouraged me now. =)

You need to talk things over with your dad and convince him that you won't get the computer all covered in virii just because you're playing a mainstream game online. O_o

Actually... I think he wouldn't care that much now. After the computer crashed with him a couple of times and he took a new part in his job (with special parking spot! =P), he decided to buy a laptop for his activities. So he ditched the old computer (which we use) and uses the laptop, most of the times (whic we use as lol. Actually, I'm typing from it now =P). He controls it more, of course.

He still asked me the other day what was I playing on the other computer and if it was online or not. But I'll try to talk things over with him. I know that steam is safe. =)

TF3 will be even more graphics intensive, and isn't likely to come out till 2020 or so. #;-}>

But I'll buy it, anyway. =P

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

Seven posts, not counting the three posts below. BEAUTIFUL!

EIGHT posts today, or seven if you don't count my short thanks post to my congratters before I did the catchup.... I was aiming for 5, or 6 at most... but then I saw your 4 posts and knew I was done for. #;-}>

I still count the first congratulatory one. And yeah, sorry for catching up at the same time you did. IT WASN'T COMBINED, OK GUYS? =P

FINALLY OUT OF PAGE 2411! (a.k.a gfox page).

2411... :::looks at it::: Holy shit, I DID post a lot on that page. Well, it's even MORE fitting that page 2436 be another GFOX PAGE, because those numbers are MINE, baby. #;-}>

Actually, the posts were splited in two pages, but some posts were deleted, gathering everything in one page. Oh, and page 2436 is a nice page INDEED!

Phew, it's over. This one was painfull.

Tell me about it!

ALL DONE.

OCTO-POST.... INITIATE!

Shall we call Guiness and record this as ''Longest catch-up on NG''?

At 7/18/09 05:32 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/17/09 04:56 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Hahaha, you are mean.

If people are putting up B/P achievements today, they will feel the same wrath. Unless they are part of the exclusive 30 users above me for B/P ;)

I was going to post this catch-up on this day, but I had some problems and ended up rolling for a few days. At least you won't crush me with your 3x higher B/P points.

I think I've said this before in here, but I consider Reel Big Fish's version one of the best covers ever - if not the best one.

I personally agree that it's the best cover of this song. However, my favourite cover version of a song ever is Spunge's version of No Woman, No Cry.

A couple of das ago, I listened to Muse's version of ''Can't Take My Eyes Of You'', and it's really good. I'm between that and Reel Big Fish's ''Take On Me'' and ''Boys Don't Cry''.

You (YOU) or you (Coop)? =P

No, that was definitely my girlfriend. I think.

So you definitely think it was your girlfriend? =P

Oh well... I still hope that he'll come back from the grave to dance "Thriller". =,(

LOL, that would be awesome, if slightly creepy.

It'd be the best publicity stunt ever, though. Faking your own death and, on your funeral, come back from the grave (literally). I still had hopes for his funeral, when everyone was watching.

At 7/18/09 07:54 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: *opens LUL tab*
*sees simultaneous gfoxcook/Sir-Nuts catchups*
*head explodes*

Well, I can only hope that you're like Jeebs from M.I.B. =P

At 7/17/09 04:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Hmm, I think he'll just ditch that idea. He barely has 8,000 votes and the whole thing is old now. Well... I hope he got the exposure that he wanted to his website, at least. =P

I suppose he will abandon it soon, if he got the desired upsurge in sales.

I actually checked out his site, but there wasn't anything too interesting to buy in there. If he was smart, he'd tattoo his website on his back, instead of a random word. It'd get MUCH more exposure if he only walked shirtless. =P

At 7/18/09 03:39 PM, Bahamut wrote: gfox catchups + Sir-Nuts catchups = PARTY TIME! Triple-Bahapost FTW!

Oh yeah!

Also, new EXP update.

Thanks for the update! I finally realised that I'm in there after two updates being there but not knowing it.

At 7/17/09 11:35 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote: It's a pity when some games are more simulations than proper games; funny you mentioned Gran Turismo because I bought #4 on PS2 and didn't get very far, I know that the handling physics are realistic but having played the likes of the Burnout games it was impossible for me to adjust to the more realistic driving style, sans 150MPH powerslides :(

I spent a shitload of time on the first two Gran Turismo games. I did borrow the third one time but it wasn't as great as its predecessors. :(

I played GTs 2, 3 and 4. I spent a lot of time in all of them, even though I never got to fully complete the game (in GT4, I think it had 98% of the game). I used to play NFS as well, but I got used to the GT realistic system pretty easily. I'm looking forward to GT5, whenever I get a PS3, that is.

At 7/17/09 12:49 PM, aldlv wrote: 10K blams
is a big one, isn't it?

All I can say is, awesomeness!

Indeed, =P

At 7/17/09 04:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Also, here's what I got over the past 1 + 1/2 month:

Level 28
Brigadier General
10 Total VP

Nice set of achievements and welcome back. :)

Thanks!

Yeah, I should have let you know. Although I think it wouldn't work well, because I was playing mostly on Brazilian servers, and still I had ~100 of ping. Whenever I tried playing on a foreign server, that number raised to ~250, almost unplayable. So I just stuck with the local players.

Ouch, that's a nasty ping and it's worse when most servers have a ping limit. L4D seems more lenient as my sister and her boyfriend have gone over 300 (even 1500 one time) and didn't get and kicks or such. The game must have played like shit, though. :(

Well, the servers I played didn't have a ping limit (I think). Usually I was the guy with the highest ping, around 200. And yeah, the game wasn't the best, but I did get some decent international servers. Not too many people were playing on those servers, though.

Do you know how many times you were UOTD there, taking in consideration all your accounts?

Let's see...Five, being AfroBahamut, Helloween, LittleBahamut and my main account twice.

And 0 Nuts in there. =(

Iron Maiden concert = 100 points.

=P

Even better achievements. I believe I have 105 points already.

Depends if the headbang is cumulative or not. =P

Yes. I can't buy it online, since you need a credit card for it. So the only legal option would be buying it on a store. I think the "Orange Box" is about R$100,00 (U$ 50,00).

I'm not sure if The Orange Box is meant to cost that much now. It's only £20 here now.

As I said to gfox, here's Brazil. Games are really expensive in here.

At 5/21/09 10:36 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yes, it's certainly getting quieter around here. O.O

I hope I'll change the tide. =P

You rock if you do so.

And I left, meaning I'm a loser. =(

This catch-up is a huge make-up for it.

Nice. =)

Now I need to catch-up in the Regulars list, Members list, B/P 51+... =/

At 6/1/09 09:46 AM, Bahamut wrote: Congrats to Corky52, Hybrid-Of-Souls, Sir-Nuts and iscrulz on becoming the newest Wi/Ht? Members.

Thanks for reminding me that I have to catch-up there. =P

Oh yeah, I didn't hear a word from you regarding your membership until now.

I will say something in there soon...

I think you actually need to beat Afro_Stud to win. So... winning is impossible. =\

Actually, if you check his activity over the last few months, you'll know he doesn't exceed 50/day as much as he used to. The one who is likely to win here is DrJam who appears to be more active then the top 3 B/P'ers.

Yeah, I've noticed that Afro's pace has dropped slightly. But he still has a great advantage over the others in the top 5.

At 7/17/09 04:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: (except in the redesign birthday [which is actually pretty close] )

REDUNDANCY! :P

Hahaha, yeah. I forgot that it takes time to catch-up, then some things get a little obsolete. =P

Look on the bright side - at least there aren't "OMFG leval 9 taiks 4EVAR!!!1!" users anymore! =)

EXACTLY! That's another good thing as to why the new level system is awesome and the old one is bullshit. The worst thing about the old system was how long it took one user to reach level 29. Like hell I'll still be here in 80 or so years time trying to get that level.

Exactly. There's a higher variety of levels and it doesn't take that long to reach them. And the amount of experience necessary to reach them is fixed, so we can calculate exactly when we'll reach them. It's much better.

As a matter of fact, I actually once considered stopping at one level because I refused to stay with that stupid staff for years. I was thinking of stopping at level 22 on the old system assuming it was still there. However, that plan has lost all meaning thanks to the redesign. :)

Really? I never thought of stopping at any level, mainly because I was only at level 9 (the damned level) when the redesign came. I had a favourite on, though. The chain (14, I think) was one of my original goals. I still think it's pretty neat.

At 7/18/09 03:41 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/17/09 04:56 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Virus issues with his dad

Ouch, I understand his concern for viruses, but seriously? He's worried about you possibly getting any viruses from Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2 and such? That's going too far considering these are online games by Valve, one of the most trustworthy companies out there. Their Steam client clearly suggests that as they require credit card details in order to purchase anything from their store and have they done anything besides acquiring legitimate money from customers? Not at all. :)

I know. It's a pity that he's too concerned about it. He even changed our anti-virus program (Norton to McAfee) because "Norton wasn't protecting shit". Valve's protection is great, I already told him, but he still refuses to believe. He has yet to understand that not everything on the internet is THAT dangerous as he thinks.

Sir_Nuts, that would be. But I have already added you guys, anyway. =)

Yes but it's good to remember incase anyone else you know wishes to add you on Steam. I did try looking up your ID on Steam but I put a hyphen in the URL and didn't even think of underscores for your name. :S

I don't know why, but I think Steam didn't take hyphens on the username, so I improvised with an underscore. My original plan was putting only "Nuts", but, as always, it was already taken.

Still, I'm pretty much ditching the TF2 idea. It's laggy, it's online (OMG VIRUSES!!!!1!)... Maybe I'll be old enough to have a credit card when TF3 comes out, right? =P

How bad are the lags exactly? I often get the game going to 15 - 25 FPS, even though my laptop is clearly capable of running it at 60 FPS. I believe either there's a Steam client issue or my internet simply needs upgrading. After all, I should be having 10MB and not a 2MB cable which is outdated.

The lag is what least bothers me. The fact that my dad bothers me and I have to play it hiding bothers me more. I think the game runs at 15 FPS as well, maybe slower.

Play it loud, don't play it low...

BLOW YOUR SPEAKERS!

FOR ROCK N' ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLL!

Glad to know I'm not the only one who enjoys their music. I still wonder why so many people hate them just as much as they hate My Chemical Romance and such. They're not THAT BAD, dammit!

I don't know much about Manowar, but I quite enjoyed what I've already heard from them. Especially this one, which is a real anthem. ;)

And really, hating them just because they look 'gay' is such a pathetic excuse. You might as well hate Judas Priest and Queen for their vocalists being homosexuals as well.

Good point. Not liking a band's awesome music because someone in the band is gay is just pathetic.

The worst part about people calling Manowar gay is the fact that Manowar have written a song or two about raping women. HOW can that be gay?

That isn't gay, but it sure isn't nice either.

Indeed. VRock is the best radio station on the GTA franchise.

Oh yes, I've had a lot of fun listening to VRock. As a matter of fact, VRock has made me want to get some of Twisted Sister's stuff, despite the 'glam metal' tag they often get. Quite frankly, I could care less about what kind of psuedo-metal genre they are when they make kickass tracks such as I Wanna Rock and We're Not Gonna Take It.

Indeed. Another thing that bothers me is how people love to label bands. Really, does it matter what genre the bads are? For me, there are two genres: good music and bad music. =P

Infact, I was hunting down in the music shops for Stay Hungry today but sadly, I didn't see it anywhere. :( However, getting the two Mars Volta albums for £10 combined compensates that.

Another band that I have to discover more. I've only listened to a couple of Mars Volta's songs, and I quite liked them. Any recomendations you could give me?

At 6/21/09 02:18 PM, SpiffyMasta wrote: The infamous bat is mine today. Hoozah.

Why infamous? I find it one of the nicest levels.

Well, it was well known for being the first non-fist in the old 30 levels.

Ah, OK then. I still like it, though. Baseball bats are nice. ;P

Conclusion: level 42 = BADASS.

Can't wait until I wield the sword on 30th October. MARK YOUR CALENDERS THEN as the sword is the best icon for my name.

I think a fireball would fit better. :P

Two EGSC accounts? That's... something never seen before. =P

Hey, it's still possible. It's just no-one has ever tried to get two EGSC accounts before. The closest for an alt EGSC is Afro_Stud's LevelOneAccount, unless I'm forgetting someone...

And I imagine: how did Afro_Stud do that? Was he B/Ping with his main as well?

Hahaha, for once I win on the fab aura argument. Now if only I could win more arguments on the stupid pink icons.

Hey, this left me a doubt... what did you do when the whole site went pink?