At 11/16/09 08:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Torrential rain and gale force winds => not good weather for biking. This has been noted for future use. Sadly, by the time the rain started, I was almost halfway through the 10 mile-ish course. *sigh*

Ah, yeah... true. We've been having some severe weather here today, and I already got pretty wet, so I'm not keen on going out again, at least not until I get some more protective gear - I still need a pair of overshoes (can't believe I haven't got one yet, but most are simply too small), waterproof gloves, a new helmet cover, and a face mask. With all that, I should be set to bike even in heavy rain - not that I'd want to, but if I had to, I'd be able to. :)

Occasionally, I've had issues with flash loading slowly - restarting the browser worked well enough for me. What operating system and browser are you using?

Oh, I've tried all that and more, but it didn't make a difference.

At 11/16/09 10:54 AM, Bahamut wrote: I've been having some server issues when posting. Although the post goes through, the first post tells me there's a server error when there's really not. gfox claimed the same thing happened to him last night as well.

Ah, hmm, yeah... could be related.

I just reached Level 24!

Awesome!!

Achievement of the Day
BlueHippo: Level 40. Nice, congrats!

Congrats to:
wreckages: 11,000 Experience
SCTE3: Level 27
Hybrid-Of-Souls: 20,000 Total Stats
milinko959: Level 37

At 11/17/09 08:22 PM, Hacsev wrote:

At 11/16/09 11:54 AM, Auz wrote: Blargh, last time I tried to recreate the abusive reviews topic in a blog post, the mods told me anyone who tried to recreate that topic in whatever form would get shot. Unfair >=(

What mods?

Well it was Malachy who started to PM me, asking me to delete the blogpost. Not that I care much anymore.

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/17/09 01:18 PM, Auz wrote: That sounds odd indeed. It didn't seem like he had much effort to put into it though, and to be honest it also seemed he put less and less effort in the flashes as the series proceeded. I was expecting at least some special episodes on the legendary Pokemons and at the start of a new generation, but he just moved on. That was slightly disappointing imo.

Hell, even I suggested he did something special with the legendary Pokemon episodes but he refused. :( You all had to rely on me to make something for the landmarks.

Yeah the special Bahamut episode was nice. I would've loved to see a little short as well, but I believe Afro isn't that good with animating. I can't remember any flash of him that had animation in it actually... =/

Thanks for voting, Kaytee! Your experience has been automatically deposited!

With that vote, you now have 7,510 experience points. You need 0 more to get toLevel 27. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 8 hours, 54 minutes, and 42 seconds.

20k medal points and 6.00 base voting power!

Rev is partying like a rockstar; congrats to:
SCTE3 - Level 27
Hybrid-Of-Souls - 20k Total Points
milinko959 - Level 37
BlueHippo - Level 40 and 17k Exp
Hacsev - Level 24
Kaytee - Level 27
FurryFox - 20k Medal Points and 6.00 Base VP

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At 11/18/09 04:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Most people would probably ignore it, but it got a few laughs down at the pub when I was talking to another baseball fan (Braves fan, bless him). I think it was something along the lines of "The Braves got fucked in the Pujols last night!"

Ha ha! Nice.

I'd say it's largely positive. Especially if he's going back to Milan with his eye on the World Cup in the summer. He's a hard working player, but a little materialistic off the pitch for my liking. Oh well, at least he didn't marry a stunning woman.

That's good to know. I would have assumed I would be negative since he is over here (at the moment) playing. I really don't keep up to date on English National soccer that much so I don't know who are your key guys are going to be for the World Cup.

At 11/18/09 04:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Pretty much that - Whistle Whores try to help Newgrounds, but for the wrong reasons.

Yeah true. I thing most of those whistle whores are too aggressive about what they are flagging. I'm not sure if it's them not knowing the difference between a useless or abusive reviews or they choose not to care.

Coop sets the bar at three achievements today, while congratulating:
Hacsev: Level 24
Kaytee: Level 27
FurryFox: 20,000 Medal Points; 6.00 Base Voting Power
SCTE3: 5,000 Medal Points
LynchedJohNNY: 5,000 Saves; 2,000 Blams; 7,000 B/P

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/18/09 01:10 AM, BlueHippo wrote: Long time no see :0

First we see NEVR posting and now you? This is awesome! How have you been?

They've either both been held hostage, or they've been sleeping together!

At 11/18/09 09:34 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/18/09 04:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, but aside from pornography, there are resources on the internet for things like this - if you're going to buy them at some point, I don't think you're wrong by watching 'dodgy copies'

There's more than just Futurama and Porn. :P

Really? Since when?

Besides, why buying porn when you have access to the internet? After all, the internet IS for porn.
So yeah, there are other things I have to buy before Futurama, and it's not porn. :P

I pray for your sake that it is not The Simpsons :P

At 11/17/09 03:27 AM, Coop83 wrote:

That's strange. Someone else has your 'recreational material'

If you get aroused by the Commercial code, you must be a very strange person. :P

Not me personally, but you know these internet types. Shady characters that get aroused by the mundane, ridiculous and unthinkable, who take pains to tell anyone willing to listen, even giving video evidence sometimes.

Ah, the 'mixed bag' choice. Much easier if you try the internet :P

Watching movies/series in front of the PC is lame. :P

I spent most of April - October watching Baseball on the internet. I have a 17" widescreen laptop that does the job. If I wanted to connect it to a TV, like Bahamut does, I could do that as well, thus reducing lameness by 56.2%

At 11/18/09 11:50 AM, schneelocke wrote:

At 11/16/09 08:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Torrential rain and gale force winds => not good weather for biking. This has been noted for future use. Sadly, by the time the rain started, I was almost halfway through the 10 mile-ish course. *sigh*

Ah, yeah... true. We've been having some severe weather here today, and I already got pretty wet, so I'm not keen on going out again,

Well, in about 2 days, the river level has jumped about 2-2.5m, so I'm expecting to have to take the long drive to work soon.

at least not until I get some more protective gear - I still need a pair of overshoes (can't believe I haven't got one yet, but most are simply too small), waterproof gloves, a new helmet cover, and a face mask. With all that, I should be set to bike even in heavy rain - not that I'd want to, but if I had to, I'd be able to. :)

I just got a new craze - went for a run this morning. A great way to wake up, but bloody knackering.

At 11/18/09 04:21 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/18/09 04:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: I'd say it's largely positive. Especially if he's going back to Milan with his eye on the World Cup in the summer. He's a hard working player, but a little materialistic off the pitch for my liking. Oh well, at least he didn't marry a stunning woman.

That's good to know. I would have assumed I would be negative since he is over here (at the moment) playing. I really don't keep up to date on English National soccer that much so I don't know who are your key guys are going to be for the World Cup.

I think that the 'key guys' are players like Wayne Rooney up front, John Terry at the back and possibly Becks in the midfield - he's not going to get much support from Lampard and Gerrard. Unfortunately, England coaches regard them as the two best midfielders in England, but since they play the same attacking game, it leave space in the centre, so we get beaten too easily.

Hopefully Mr. Capello can sort it out though.

Finally it's weekend! For me at least :p

Achievement of the Day
Kaytee: Level 27. Congrats!

Congrats to:
FurryFox: 20,000 Medal Points, 6.00 Voting Power
LynchedJohNNY: 5,000 Saves, 2,000 Blams

Listening To:
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

Well, yesterday was my 5th Newgrounds Birthday! :)

I'll blame my lack of activity on why I totally forgot about it yesterday. :\

At 11/19/09 04:14 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, in about 2 days, the river level has jumped about 2-2.5m, so I'm expecting to have to take the long drive to work soon.

As long as it's not going to jump much more... if it does, you might end up having to take the long dive to work instead. :)

I just got a new craze - went for a run this morning. A great way to wake up, but bloody knackering.

Jolly good, old bean. I've never gotten into running myself, but I've enjoyed walking to places on occasion again now that I got myself a pair of paw covers. ^^

800 Audio Reviews

Right. One down, two to go. The second one should be easy, but it's the last one that's going to be tricky tonight. We'll see ;)

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/17/09 10:46 PM, NEVR wrote: It never ceases to amaze me how much of this thread I've missed out on whenever I actually have the time to check it / post in it. HUNDREDS upon HUNDREDS of pages. My own fault for not being here as much, though.

Sounds like gfox. :P He's meant to be doing LUL catch-ups....Soon.

I suppose I was overdue for an LUL catch-up... but honestly I'd rather just jump back into it after the sheer amount of pages I've missed. The catch-up would have to be far too epic, and I just can't bring myself to do it with all the work that I've had recently ;P

On the bright side, I THINK I'm done with coursework for this term. I've just given in my third piece (in less than a month ;_; ), so AFAIK I'm just waiting for christmas now.

There's been quite a lot of uni work to be getting on with lately, and I'm at my girlfriend's place a lot of the time too and usually forget to check teh NG's when I'm there.

Newgrounds, this is what happens to NGers when they spend too much time in the outside world.

It's pretty disgusting, eh?

66,000 B/P

2 of 3 now. The third one is going to be the hardest to reach, but I'm going to devote some time to getting it sorted now >:)

Something good happens but then something bad happens. One of my rabbits died last night so soon and I wish we took her to the vets sooner. My mum suspected she wasn't feeling well but I'm not sure if my dad even checked soon enough.

The good news, however, I can finally play TF2 again without any FPS issues! :D All I had to do was clean the fan on the laptop base and voila, it played well once again! So yes, I need to play this game for a good amount of time to make up for all the times when I didn't feel like playing it due to not being able to play it well.

Listening to:

Slayer - Reign in Blood

At 11/18/09 09:34 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/18/09 04:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, but aside from pornography, there are resources on the internet for things like this - if you're going to buy them at some point, I don't think you're wrong by watching 'dodgy copies'

There's more than just Futurama and Porn. :P

NO! There's nothing more than that and dragons. :P

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/17/09 12:44 PM, Haggard wrote:

That's something to ask for Christmas. :)

Too late. :(

Goddamn, what did you ask for?

We couldn't be too playful with the alt-alt statements. However, we can be as silly as we want with Manowar arguments.

No.

YES! However, I will say one thing about them: Joey DeMaio is a prick these days! Why he had a legal fight with Rhapsody is beyond me! Good thing they escaped from his wrath and signed to Nuclear Blast. NEW RHAPSODY IN 2010! :D

Maybe you could catch an episode with Scruffy.

Maybe. But I'm not even sure when they show Futurama. And I'm too lazy to check right now. :P

Then check the goddamn channel!

At 11/18/09 02:58 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Hell, even I suggested he did something special with the legendary Pokemon episodes but he refused. :( You all had to rely on me to make something for the landmarks.

Yeah the special Bahamut episode was nice. I would've loved to see a little short as well, but I believe Afro isn't that good with animating. I can't remember any flash of him that had animation in it actually... =/

Yeah, I was also happy with the Bahamut special episode, even though it was just another single frame flash. And yes, Afro_Stud didn't put the effort into animating at all. It's a shame since he did draw some good character models one time but never put them to good use.

At 11/19/09 04:14 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: First we see NEVR posting and now you? This is awesome! How have you been?

They've either both been held hostage

No-one takes our precious members away!

or they've been sleeping together!

How do you know? :P

At 11/19/09 09:06 AM, NEVR wrote:

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Sounds like gfox. :P He's meant to be doing LUL catch-ups....Soon.

I suppose I was overdue for an LUL catch-up... but honestly I'd rather just jump back into it after the sheer amount of pages I've missed. The catch-up would have to be far too epic, and I just can't bring myself to do it with all the work that I've had recently ;P

The catch-up would have put gfox to shame.

On the bright side, I THINK I'm done with coursework for this term. I've just given in my third piece (in less than a month ;_; ), so AFAIK I'm just waiting for christmas now.

You deserve a medal!

Newgrounds, this is what happens to NGers when they spend too much time in the outside world.

It's pretty disgusting, eh?

Indeed. I almost became victim of this a while ago. :o

9,000 Medal Points GET!

I really don't think that I'll be able to get any more medals now today, so I'll be back in the morning for more congratulations and conversations :)

At 11/19/09 10:22 AM, Coop83 wrote: 66,000 B/P

2 of 3 now. The third one is going to be the hardest to reach, but I'm going to devote some time to getting it sorted now >:)

Congrats. 2 of 3 what? o.o

I hate studying. My head is spinning because of this shit and I don't think I will be able to get all the RRC requests done. >:(

At 11/19/09 04:14 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/18/09 01:10 AM, BlueHippo wrote: Long time no see :0

First we see NEVR posting and now you? This is awesome! How have you been?

They've either both been held hostage, or they've been sleeping together!

Maybe it's BOTH?

At 11/18/09 09:34 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/18/09 04:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, but aside from pornography, there are resources on the internet for things like this - if you're going to buy them at some point, I don't think you're wrong by watching 'dodgy copies'

There's more than just Futurama and Porn. :P

Really? Since when?

Since the invention of the wheel. :P

Besides, why buying porn when you have access to the internet? After all, the internet IS for porn.
So yeah, there are other things I have to buy before Futurama, and it's not porn. :P

I pray for your sake that it is not The Simpsons :P

And what if I would buy Simpsons before Futurama?
Currently I own exactly as much seasons of The Simpsons as I own of Futurama. Zero. -.-

At 11/17/09 03:27 AM, Coop83 wrote:

That's strange. Someone else has your 'recreational material'

If you get aroused by the Commercial code, you must be a very strange person. :P

Not me personally, but you know these internet types. Shady characters that get aroused by the mundane, ridiculous and unthinkable, who take pains to tell anyone willing to listen, even giving video evidence sometimes.

Whoever gets aroused by officialese should be shot. Really.

Ah, the 'mixed bag' choice. Much easier if you try the internet :P

Watching movies/series in front of the PC is lame. :P

I spent most of April - October watching Baseball on the internet. I have a 17" widescreen laptop that does the job. If I wanted to connect it to a TV, like Bahamut does, I could do that as well, thus reducing lameness by 56.2%

Yeah, but you watch baseball, which increases the lameness by a whooping 300,34%.

Wasn't it in Futurama, where they abolished Baseball because it's too boring? ^^

At 11/19/09 11:05 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/18/09 09:34 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/18/09 04:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, but aside from pornography, there are resources on the internet for things like this - if you're going to buy them at some point, I don't think you're wrong by watching 'dodgy copies'

There's more than just Futurama and Porn. :P

NO! There's nothing more than that and dragons. :P

Well, but then there's Futurama, Porn and dragons, so that's more than Futurama and porn, right? :P

At 11/18/09 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/17/09 12:44 PM, Haggard wrote:

That's something to ask for Christmas. :)

Too late. :(

Goddamn, what did you ask for?

Well... how about: Nothing? I only get money for christmas for quite a few years now. Then I buy the presents myself. It's much more relaxing for my parents and me. XD
Also, I already got the christmas money from my mother, because I needed a new winter jacket. :/

And me and my gf, we only get some small presents to surprise the other.

We couldn't be too playful with the alt-alt statements. However, we can be as silly as we want with Manowar arguments.

No.

YES! However, I will say one thing about them: Joey DeMaio is a prick these days!

Actually, he's a prick all the time.

Why he had a legal fight with Rhapsody is beyond me! Good thing they escaped from his wrath and signed to Nuclear Blast. NEW RHAPSODY IN 2010! :D

Nucular! It's N-U-C-U-L-A-R!
Other than that: YAY! NEW RHAPSODY IN 2010! :D

Maybe you could catch an episode with Scruffy.

Maybe. But I'm not even sure when they show Futurama. And I'm too lazy to check right now. :P

Then check the goddamn channel!

Still too lazy. Also, I won't check the channel as long as you don't finish your 100th flash. :P

In case you were wondering how long it takes to get 3,000 posts if you only post once per day, the answer is over five years :) .

Finally!

At 11/19/09 02:10 PM, schneelocke wrote:

At 11/19/09 10:22 AM, Coop83 wrote: 2 of 3 now.

Congrats. 2 of 3 what? o.o

2 of 3 achievements. For summary, that was 800 Audio Reviews; 66,000 B/P and 9,000 Medal Points.

I didn't think I'd get this one today, but what the hell 500 Audio Review Responses

And five non-spam posts in the LUL in one day, which is a new record for me, I think :P

At 11/19/09 03:27 PM, Coop83 wrote: 2 of 3 achievements. For summary, that was 800 Audio Reviews; 66,000 B/P and 9,000 Medal Points.

Ah, OK. I was wondering if you might mean "two thirds of the way to 100k B/P points"...

And five non-spam posts in the LUL in one day, which is a new record for me, I think :P

In that case... congrats. ;)

Congrats to:

Hybrid-Of-Souls: 20,000 Total Stats
milinko959: Level 37
BlueHippo: Level 40; 17,000 Experience
Kaytee: Level 27
FurryFox: 20,000 Medal Points; 6.00 Base Voting Power
SCTE3: 5,000 Medal Points
LynchedJohNNY: 5,000 Saves; 2,000 Blams
Metal-Therapy: 5 Years on NG
Coop83: 800 Audio Reviews; 66,000 B/P; 9,000 Medal Points; 500 Audio Review Responses
zimzap: 3,000 Posts
Mendou: Sup. Commander - Nice one! I still need 2 more ranks

At 11/17/09 10:46 PM, NEVR wrote:

At 11/17/09 08:22 PM, Hacsev wrote:

At 11/16/09 11:54 AM, Auz wrote:

At 11/15/09 11:27 AM, Hacsev wrote: You would have earned that whistle quicker if you went here

Blargh, last time I tried to recreate the abusive reviews topic in a blog post, the mods told me anyone who tried to recreate that topic in whatever form would get shot. Unfair >=(

What mods?

IIRC, review and BBS mods talked about it and decided it would make things easier if the original abusive review thread was locked, and not recreated on NG in the form of news posts etc., because it just caused too much non-abusive stuff to get flagged and ultimately increased work for the review mods.

I think Wade interjected that if it's on news posts, users can do pretty much what they want... but if you're trying to help out review mods it's probably not the best way to go about it. But then I'm guessing it's more for helping people upgrade their whistle level than helping mods clean the site.

Not to get into a debate about a frankly tired issue or anything, just explaining the situation as I remember it.

Alright, then. Thanks for clearing all that up, NEVR! Since I'm not helping the mods do their job by giving them abusive reviews, but instead helping users get a better whistle, then it's ok. Thanks again!

At 11/18/09 02:58 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/17/09 08:22 PM, Hacsev wrote:

At 11/16/09 11:54 AM, Auz wrote: Blargh, last time I tried to recreate the abusive reviews topic in a blog post, the mods told me anyone who tried to recreate that topic in whatever form would get shot. Unfair >=(

What mods?

Well it was Malachy who started to PM me, asking me to delete the blogpost. Not that I care much anymore.

Um, well. Since Malachy has punished me enough I don't think he'll ever send me a PM asking me to delete it.

Hummm....

6k Saves.

7500 blams! 3/4 of the way to the tri 10k list

It's the silver gauntlet for me! Not too shabby an icon if I do say so myself. Not as cool as level 27, but still pretty sweet. :)

Level 29 get!

Coop prepares for an acievement bigger than all four of yesterday's put together, while congratulating:
Metal-Therapy: 5th NG Berfday; Level 29
zimzap: 3,000 Posts
Mendou: Supreme Commander
joeyag: Corporal
Kevin: 6,000 Saves
bifgis: 7,500 Blams

Thank you to:
Hacsev (x4)
JKMonkey (x4)

At 11/19/09 04:45 AM, Auz wrote: Finally it's weekend! For me at least :p

On a Wednesday? Wow, that's either a very short week for you, or you work really awkward hours.

At 11/19/09 06:45 AM, schneelocke wrote:

At 11/19/09 04:14 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, in about 2 days, the river level has jumped about 2-2.5m, so I'm expecting to have to take the long drive to work soon.

As long as it's not going to jump much more... if it does, you might end up having to take the long dive to work instead. :)

Not likely - it's the River Severn (Britain's Longest River) and it's about 70m wide where I cross it. If I jumped in and swam for it there, I might just come out of the river in Worcester itself (about 15 miles downstream)

I just got a new craze - went for a run this morning. A great way to wake up, but bloody knackering.

Jolly good, old bean. I've never gotten into running myself, but I've enjoyed walking to places on occasion again now that I got myself a pair of paw covers. ^^

Now those look nice. I might just have to get me a pair myself... Even if it is just for lounging about the house in.

At 11/19/09 09:06 AM, NEVR wrote: AFAIK I'm just waiting for christmas now.

Just watch out for those ninja professors. They always keep something in reserve!

At 11/19/09 11:05 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/18/09 09:34 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/18/09 04:27 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, but aside from pornography, there are resources on the internet for things like this - if you're going to buy them at some point, I don't think you're wrong by watching 'dodgy copies'

There's more than just Futurama and Porn. :P

NO! There's nothing more than that and dragons. :P

Treasure indeed. Pornography! And biscuits!

At 11/19/09 02:25 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/19/09 04:14 AM, Coop83 wrote: They've either both been held hostage, or they've been sleeping together!

Maybe it's BOTH?

Munchausen's Syndrome?

I pray for your sake that it is not The Simpsons :P

And what if I would buy Simpsons before Futurama?

Two words for you - Mega Flare. Bahamut's going to go completely ape shit.

Currently I own exactly as much seasons of The Simpsons as I own of Futurama. Zero. -.-

You've saved yourself there then :P

At 11/17/09 03:27 AM, Coop83 wrote:

That's strange. Someone else has your 'recreational material'

If you get aroused by the Commercial code, you must be a very strange person. :P

Not me personally, but you know these internet types. Shady characters that get aroused by the mundane, ridiculous and unthinkable, who take pains to tell anyone willing to listen, even giving video evidence sometimes.

Whoever gets aroused by officialese should be shot. Really.

In the face. With a selection of rusty kitchen utensils, fired from a catapult at close range.

Wasn't it in Futurama, where they abolished Baseball because it's too boring? ^^

"Hey wait a minute baseball wasn't... Oh, so they finally jazzed it up a little."

Exp. Rank #: 350

43,000 Total Stats.

1,100 Audio Reviews!

Feels like yesterday that I reached 1,000 audio reviews.

Replies will follow later (most likely tomorrow).

Achievement of the Day
Mendou: Supreme Commander. Congrats on this awesome achievement!

Congrats to:
Metal-Therapy: 5th NG Birthday
Coop83: 800 Audio Reviews, 66,000 BP, 500 Audio Review Responses
zimzap: 3,000 Posts
Joeyag: Corporal
Kevin: 6,000 Saves
bifgis: 7,500 Blams
Metal-Therapy: Level 29

Listening to:
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
(aka I GET KNOCKED DOWN, BUT I GET UP AGAIN! NO YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!)

Friend of mine kept singing it today cause it was stuck in his head. Now it's stuck in my head, blargh! x|

*starts playing Bittersweet Symphony*

At 11/19/09 11:05 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/18/09 02:58 PM, Auz wrote: Yeah the special Bahamut episode was nice. I would've loved to see a little short as well, but I believe Afro isn't that good with animating. I can't remember any flash of him that had animation in it actually... =/

Yeah, I was also happy with the Bahamut special episode, even though it was just another single frame flash. And yes, Afro_Stud didn't put the effort into animating at all. It's a shame since he did draw some good character models one time but never put them to good use.

The only one I know is that Afrostar that sometimes appeared in your flashes. Or is that not his creation? :p