Two things:

1) Nomations for Alternative Character Battle 2 has begun!

2) New gaming rant: Nintendo DSi.

Listening to:

Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero

At 12/13/09 10:28 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/13/09 09:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Obviously you weren't. :P

Obviously, I were.

It's still obvious you were angry when you made that achievement.

That doesn't work!

It does for me, so it should for everybode else.

How will others follow you exactly?

We'll just see about that.

No need to.

I'm sure we can get somewhere. After all, gfox enjoyed Manowar last night.

No, liking the shitblade is bad, and it's not called the awesomeblade and it never will.

I call it awesomeblade so it is called awesomeblade. :P

I've called it shitblade so many times that it IS the shitblade and nothing else.

At 12/14/09 02:42 AM, Coop83 wrote: Level 44, honourable members of the lounge. *bows*

Nice! I thought level 44 required 20,540 EXP and not 10 less so I assumed you were getting it on Tuesday. My bad but congrats nonetheless!

At 12/14/09 03:23 AM, Coop83 wrote: Long awaited? You mean it might actually take him until next Saturday to get the epic quoteness in?

Alright, he's got until Saturday, before I'm calling bullshit.

Well, he gave me Killing Floor guest pass for 3 days so that's something. Also, he has finally joined Last.fm.

At 12/14/09 09:12 AM, NEVR wrote: Level 34

Two awesome mods levelling up in one day. :D However, triple shurikens blow. :(

Achievement of the Day
Coop83: Level 44, 850 Audio Review Responses. Mainly for the Level 44 part, my favorite icon. And it looks really nice with the golden aura too. Anyway congrats!

Congrats to:
Ericho: Level 20
JKMonkey: 10,000 Posts
Sir-Nuts: 11,111 Blams
cheesebizkit: 14,000 Experience
reverend: Gold Whistle
gamejunkie: 7 Years on NG
HeavyTank: 100 Audio Reviews
SCTE3: Top 2,000 Experience
NEVR: Level 34

At 12/14/09 10:24 AM, Bahamut wrote: Two awesome mods levelling up in one day. :D However, triple shurikens blow. :(

I don't mind them too much... and yellow aura makes most level icons look better anyway ;)

At 12/14/09 06:22 AM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 12/14/09 04:04 AM, reverend wrote: Oh wow, apparently I have a Gold Whistle now. I thought I never live to see the day.

Bah, l'll probably never get one unless NG finally decides to let me see MY OWN whilstle points...l still don't understand why, l mean, you can see your posts, saves and blams, why can't you see your sucessful deleted reviews?

Because the whistle isn't a stat like posts, reveiws, etc. . You shouldn't flag flashes and reviews to get a higher whistle, you should do it to help out NG.

It would also help me understand which reviews should be flagged (and yes, l've read every single review flagging guide on NG)....

Just go for the most obvious ones that say nothing but "you suck" and so on.

At 12/14/09 10:24 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/13/09 10:28 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/13/09 09:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Obviously you weren't. :P

Obviously, I were.

It's still obvious you were angry when you made that achievement.

I was fucking happy.

That doesn't work!

It does for me, so it should for everybode else.

How will others follow you exactly?

I couldn't care less. :P

We'll just see about that.

No need to.

I'm sure we can get somewhere. After all, gfox enjoyed Manowar last night.

Yeah, but I don't enjoy them. :P

No, liking the shitblade is bad, and it's not called the awesomeblade and it never will.

I call it awesomeblade so it is called awesomeblade. :P

I've called it shitblade so many times that it IS the shitblade and nothing else.

So if I call it awesomeblade more often it will be the awesomeblade after all?

At 12/14/09 09:12 AM, Auz wrote: Finally! 13.00 Voting Power!

Congrats!

I just noticed that I reached 8.00 Base Voting Power today!

There Bahamut, I again used an happy face icon. Just for you. :P

At 12/14/09 12:18 PM, Haggard wrote:

Because the whistle isn't a stat like posts, reveiws, etc. . You shouldn't flag flashes and reviews to get a higher whistle, you should do it to help out NG.

And l suppose that blam and protect points are the same..since you should be blamming crappy flashes for NG's sake, not for stats..amirite?But it still shows up on your page...

Just go for the most obvious ones that say nothing but "you suck" and so on.

You probably won't believe me, but that's EXACTLY what l do, l am really careful when flagging, and l even managed to get back to Normal once, but then l got Garbaged again D:

Oh, also, 5000 saves.Well, they'll be 5000 when the submission under judgment pass...

At 12/14/09 02:58 PM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 12/14/09 12:18 PM, Haggard wrote:

Because the whistle isn't a stat like posts, reveiws, etc. . You shouldn't flag flashes and reviews to get a higher whistle, you should do it to help out NG.

And l suppose that blam and protect points are the same..since you should be blamming crappy flashes for NG's sake, not for stats..amirite?But it still shows up on your page...

B/P is there to encourage people to view the most recent portal submissions, otherwise there'd be very little reason to view ANYTHING other than the top 50.

The whistle is there to help notify mods and admins of potentially rulebreaking content. The reason whistle points exist is so that users will be more or less efficient in flagging submissions / reviews depending upon how well their views on rulebreaking content correlate with those of the mods' and admins'.

Long story short, you're not going to be able to see your whistle points. Accept it and move on. :)

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

With that vote, you now have 3,600 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 19. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 8 hours, 33 minutes, and 19 seconds.

The more experience points you have, combined with BLAM and PROTECTION points, the more your vote is worth!

At 12/14/09 03:21 PM, NEVR wrote:
B/P is there to encourage people to view the most recent portal submissions, otherwise there'd be very little reason to view ANYTHING other than the top 50.

Mmh

The whistle is there to help notify mods and admins of potentially rulebreaking content. The reason whistle points exist is so that users will be more or less efficient in flagging submissions / reviews depending upon how well their views on rulebreaking content correlate with those of the mods' and admins'.

I always flag "U SUK LOL" type of reviews, always from 2008 or later, and never on spam flashes...so why do l have a garbage whistle?

Long story short, you're not going to be able to see your whistle points. Accept it and move on. :

Oh, l accepted it long ago, although l still think that seeing your WP would hurt nobody...

At 12/14/09 03:30 PM, HeavyTank wrote: I always flag "U SUK LOL" type of reviews, always from 2008 or later, and never on spam flashes...so why do l have a garbage whistle?

Could be because you'd previously managed to accumulate a vast number of negative whistle points and as a result now have to slowly climb your way back up to positive figures.

Oh, l accepted it long ago, although l still think that seeing your WP would hurt nobody...

Well unfortunately the staff don't seem to share your views on this one.

You're more than welcome to PM me about any review issues you have (when I'm online) so that we don't have to further clutter up this thread with off-topic discussion. :)

At 12/14/09 03:36 PM, NEVR wrote:

Could be because you'd previously managed to accumulate a vast number of negative whistle points and as a result now have to slowly climb your way back up to positive figures.

Maybe, but if this is the case, damn it's slow :(

You're more than welcome to PM me about any review issues you have (when I'm online) so that we don't have to further clutter up this thread with off-topic discussion. :)

Well it's not exactly off-topic since it's about stats, but OK...

Rev really need to ship off his Xmas cards; congrats to:
JKMonkey - 10,000 Posts
Sir-Nuts - 11,111 Blams
cheesebizkit - 14k Exp
HeavyTank - 23k Medal Points and 5,000 Saves
SCTE3 - Top 2,000 in Exp
Coop83 -850 Audio Reviews and Level 44!
NEVR - Level 34
Auz - 13.00 VP
Haggard - 8.00 Base VP
Spoopy - Level 19

Thanks to:
Odyssic
Auz

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At 12/14/09 02:42 AM, Coop83 wrote: Level 44, honourable members of the lounge. *bows*

One of my favorite aura/level combination.

At 12/14/09 06:05 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Time on NG: 7 year(s), 0 month(s) and 0 day(s) (=2555 days) Unofficially

I personally wont feel like its officially 7 years until 16/12/09 since my sign up date was 16/12/02.

Did NG log forget to add in leap years or something?

At 12/14/09 06:22 AM, HeavyTank wrote: Bah, l'll probably never get one unless NG finally decides to let me see MY OWN whilstle points...l still don't understand why, l mean, you can see your posts, saves and blams, why can't you see your sucessful deleted reviews?

Well you can figure if it screams abusive you can figure that it will be deleted 100 percent of the time.

At 12/14/09 11:52 AM, NEVR wrote: I don't mind them too much... and yellow aura makes most level icons look better anyway ;)

I think red would go great with Level 34 and that's probably the way I'll go when I get there. Too bad you can't change yours.

At 12/14/09 02:58 PM, HeavyTank wrote: And l suppose that blam and protect points are the same..since you should be blamming crappy flashes for NG's sake, not for stats..amirite?But it still shows up on your page...

There is a huge difference between showing how successful a user is on voting on under judgment flashes and how they are on flagging. Flagging deals with the illegal activities on site where you must have some sort of integrity behind it. Just think if I was 10 Whistle points from reaching Deity what do you think I'm going to do? Probably try and find some 'on the fence' reviews flag them in order to hurry up and achieve the higher rank. Hiding the stat helps conceal the whole level up 'collusion' aspect of it.

Not to mention that the whistle shouldn't be considered a rank but more or less a reputation level; you have to earning it rather than achieve it.

You probably won't believe me, but that's EXACTLY what l do, l am really careful when flagging, and l even managed to get back to Normal once, but then l got Garbaged again D:

I really takes time and experience to see what should be flagged and what shouldn't but like I mentioned earlier the obvious stuff like chain reviews or the lame 'you suck' without telling why are all screaming abusive.

However Haggard is right; it's more about being useful to the site and trying to help clean up others' messes than to achieve a silly jpeg of a whistle. Catching three stolen flashes that passed judgment and one stolen audio track didn't affect my whistle stat but it was helpful the authors who it originally belong to.

At 12/14/09 03:36 PM, NEVR wrote: You're more than welcome to PM me about any review issues you have (when I'm online) so that we don't have to further clutter up this thread with off-topic discussion. :)

Meh, it's about the NG and NG related stuff so it fits nicely here in the Wi/Ht?. Plus it's much more interesting than the discussion of the shitblade that's going on right now. Ha!

Finaly in the TOP 500!!!

Exp. Rank #: 499

Coop prepares for the last attempt at Xmas shopping, while congratulating:
reverend: Gold Whistle
NEVR: Level 34
Auz: 13.00 Total Voting Power
Haggard: 8.00 Base Voting Power
Spoopy: Level 19
LegolaSS: Top 500 Experienced

Thank you to:
Odyssic
Bahamut
Auz (x2)
reverend (x2)

At 12/14/09 06:22 AM, HeavyTank wrote: Bah, l'll probably never get one unless NG finally decides to let me see MY OWN whilstle points...l still don't understand why, l mean, you can see your posts, saves and blams, why can't you see your sucessful deleted reviews?

I would wade into this, but I think that NEVR's got it covered.

At 12/14/09 10:24 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/14/09 02:42 AM, Coop83 wrote: Level 44, honourable members of the lounge. *bows*

Nice! I thought level 44 required 20,540 EXP and not 10 less so I assumed you were getting it on Tuesday. My bad but congrats nonetheless!

Well, I was the first of the people to level up to 44 for your next update.

At 12/14/09 03:23 AM, Coop83 wrote: Long awaited? You mean it might actually take him until next Saturday to get the epic quoteness in?

Alright, he's got until Saturday, before I'm calling bullshit.

Well, he gave me Killing Floor guest pass for 3 days so that's something. Also, he has finally joined Last.fm.

Yes, but that's nothing to do with a catchup!

So far so good with the nominations for the Alternative Character Battle. 90+ different entrants already!

Also, today marks the 10th anniversary of many accounts such as Tom, Wade and Pimp when these accounts were released. Feels kinda strange knowing they were made exactly a decade ago today.

Listening to:

Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity

At 12/14/09 11:52 AM, NEVR wrote:

At 12/14/09 10:24 AM, Bahamut wrote: Two awesome mods levelling up in one day. :D However, triple shurikens blow. :(

I don't mind them too much... and yellow aura makes most level icons look better anyway ;)

But gold with triple shurikens don't mix well. :( Gold shurikens, however, yes but not them.

At 12/14/09 12:18 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/14/09 10:24 AM, Bahamut wrote: It's still obvious you were angry when you made that achievement.

I was fucking happy.

Your latest achievement clearly proved that so all is well now, lol.

How will others follow you exactly?

I couldn't care less. :P

Well, they won't be using angry face emoticons for them. The only ones who do them are you and Molotov.

I'm sure we can get somewhere. After all, gfox enjoyed Manowar last night.

Yeah, but I don't enjoy them. :P

Maybe, just maybe.

I've called it shitblade so many times that it IS the shitblade and nothing else.

So if I call it awesomeblade more often it will be the awesomeblade after all?

What if I made a news post saying shitblade over and over again? :D

At 12/14/09 01:00 PM, Haggard wrote:

There Bahamut, I again used an happy face icon. Just for you. :P

Now that is what I wanna see!

At 12/14/09 04:14 PM, reverend wrote:

At 12/14/09 03:36 PM, NEVR wrote: You're more than welcome to PM me about any review issues you have (when I'm online) so that we don't have to further clutter up this thread with off-topic discussion. :)

Meh, it's about the NG and NG related stuff so it fits nicely here in the Wi/Ht?. Plus it's much more interesting than the discussion of the shitblade that's going on right now. Ha!

Oi, I still need to stand and fight and state how shit the shitblade is. :P

At 12/15/09 03:21 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 12/14/09 10:24 AM, Bahamut wrote: Nice! I thought level 44 required 20,540 EXP and not 10 less so I assumed you were getting it on Tuesday. My bad but congrats nonetheless!

Well, I was the first of the people to level up to 44 for your next update.

Indeed but I won't give you or anyone else a special mention for being the first to reach a certain level since the last update, unless it was Pimp reaching level 60 since let's face it, that at least deserves a mention considering it's the final level.

Well, he gave me Killing Floor guest pass for 3 days so that's something. Also, he has finally joined Last.fm.

Yes, but that's nothing to do with a catchup!

Well, what about his posts in the Member List thread?

Listening to:
Albert Hammond - 99 Miles From L.A.
Tiamat - Whatever That Hurts

At 12/14/09 04:14 PM, reverend wrote: Rev really need to ship off his Xmas cards; congrats to:
Haggard - 8.00 Base VP

Thanks!

At 12/15/09 03:21 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop prepares for the last attempt at Xmas shopping, while congratulating:
Haggard: 8.00 Base Voting Power

Thanks!

At 12/15/09 04:40 AM, Odyssic wrote: Congrats to:
Haggard: 8.00 Base VP

Thanks!

At 12/15/09 10:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: So far so good with the nominations for the Alternative Character Battle. 90+ different entrants already!

Oh, I knew I forgot something... but I guess all the characters I would have nominated are nominated anyway. ^^

At 12/14/09 12:18 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/14/09 10:24 AM, Bahamut wrote: How will others follow you exactly?

I couldn't care less. :P

Well, they won't be using angry face emoticons for them. The only ones who do them are you and Molotov.

A few others have used it as well, but I don't remember the names right now. ^^

I'm sure we can get somewhere. After all, gfox enjoyed Manowar last night.

Yeah, but I don't enjoy them. :P

Maybe, just maybe.

There's no "maybe" in the word "no". :P

I've called it shitblade so many times that it IS the shitblade and nothing else.

So if I call it awesomeblade more often it will be the awesomeblade after all?

What if I made a news post saying shitblade over and over again? :D

I would be tempted to make a news post saying awesomeblade over and over again. ^^

At 12/14/09 01:00 PM, Haggard wrote:

There Bahamut, I again used an happy face icon. Just for you. :P

Now that is what I wanna see!

Hooray!

At 12/14/09 04:14 PM, reverend wrote:

At 12/14/09 03:36 PM, NEVR wrote: You're more than welcome to PM me about any review issues you have (when I'm online) so that we don't have to further clutter up this thread with off-topic discussion. :)

Meh, it's about the NG and NG related stuff so it fits nicely here in the Wi/Ht?. Plus it's much more interesting than the discussion of the shitblade that's going on right now. Ha!

Oi, I still need to stand and fight and state how shit the shitblade is. :P

The awesomeblade is awesome!

Achievement of the Day
Haggard: 8.00 Base Voting Power. Very nice, congrats!

Congrats to:
Spoopy: Level 19
LegolaSS: Top 500 Experience
Aci6: 3,500 Flash Reviews

Playing
Metroid Prime

Had a week absence, doing school work. Congrats to:
NEVR: Level 34
Auz: 13.00 Voting Power
LegolaSS: Top 500 in Experience Points
Haggard: 8.00 Base Voting Power

Achievement of the Day:
Aci6: 3,500 Reviews - Congrats, that is a nice milestone.

Listening to:
Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name
Basement Jaxx - Scars

Congrats to:
LegolaSS - Top 500 in Exp!
Aci6 - 3,500 Flash Reviews
Odyssic - 15k Saves

Thanks to:
Coop83

At 12/15/09 10:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: Also, today marks the 10th anniversary of many accounts such as Tom, Wade and Pimp when these accounts were released. Feels kinda strange knowing they were made exactly a decade ago today.

Geez, I can't believe it's been 10 years since the whole Grounds Gold system was put together. I really makes me feel kind of young and old at the same time.

Oi, I still need to stand and fight and state how shit the shitblade is. :P

The endless battle for truth and justice continues. . .

You passed 25000 B/P! Congrats!

Not that big of a deal, but:

700 Total Reviews!

8 000 blams!

9,000 Saves!

10k isn't too far now. :)

I haven't been on NG regularly for more than two years, but for the last month or so I've deposited every day and shizzle.

So Level 25, my first level up in yeeeaarrrssss.

before today's lunchtime excursion for the Xmas party, Coop congratulates:
Aci6: 3,500 Reviews (Flash); Level 30
Odyssic: 15,000 Saves - You know I'm not even sure if you were on the list. Added now...
Hacsev: 25,000 B/P
Auz: 700 Total Reviews
bifgis: 8,000 Blams
reverend: 9,000 Saves
Hoogiman: Level 25

At 12/15/09 10:41 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/15/09 03:21 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 12/14/09 10:24 AM, Bahamut wrote: Nice! I thought level 44 required 20,540 EXP and not 10 less so I assumed you were getting it on Tuesday. My bad but congrats nonetheless!

Well, I was the first of the people to level up to 44 for your next update.

Indeed but I won't give you or anyone else a special mention for being the first to reach a certain level since the last update, unless it was Pimp reaching level 60 since let's face it, that at least deserves a mention considering it's the final level.

True enough. I don't mind you not mentioning it, so long as I remember to mention it myself :P

Well, he gave me Killing Floor guest pass for 3 days so that's something. Also, he has finally joined Last.fm.

Yes, but that's nothing to do with a catchup!

Well, what about his posts in the Member List thread?

Yeah, but they aren't LUL update posts. Man, he hasn't even stopped by the Blammers and Saviours updates...

At 12/15/09 04:28 PM, Auz wrote: Not that big of a deal, but:

700 Total Reviews!

Not that it's usually an achievement, but there's some nice numbers here:

550 Flash reviews
150 Audio Reviews

Once Bahamut responds, there will be 185 responses to your flash reviews, giving you a 33.6363636364% Response rate, which I think is pretty cool. gfoxcook just has to come by now and see that!

7 years on Newgrounds, OFFICIALLY.

Listening to:

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

At 12/15/09 11:10 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/15/09 10:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: So far so good with the nominations for the Alternative Character Battle. 90+ different entrants already!

Oh, I knew I forgot something... but I guess all the characters I would have nominated are nominated anyway. ^^

Nominate them anyway so they'll have a better chance of getting into the battles themselves.

Well, they won't be using angry face emoticons for them. The only ones who do them are you and Molotov.

A few others have used it as well, but I don't remember the names right now. ^^

I can only recall you two.

Maybe, just maybe.

There's no "maybe" in the word "no". :P

No, there is a MAYBE to you liking Manowar.

What if I made a news post saying shitblade over and over again? :D

I would be tempted to make a news post saying awesomeblade over and over again. ^^

I'll have said shitblade more times, though considering shitblade uses less letters than awesomeblade. :D

At 12/15/09 03:56 PM, reverend wrote:

At 12/15/09 10:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: Also, today marks the 10th anniversary of many accounts such as Tom, Wade and Pimp when these accounts were released. Feels kinda strange knowing they were made exactly a decade ago today.

Geez, I can't believe it's been 10 years since the whole Grounds Gold system was put together. I really makes me feel kind of young and old at the same time.

Same here, the 99 - 03'ers will always make me feel young considering how much happened back then and how much I missed out on. It's really funny to say that because I've been here for more than half of the time grounds gold accounts have been up for.

At 12/16/09 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 12/15/09 10:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: Indeed but I won't give you or anyone else a special mention for being the first to reach a certain level since the last update, unless it was Pimp reaching level 60 since let's face it, that at least deserves a mention considering it's the final level.

True enough. I don't mind you not mentioning it, so long as I remember to mention it myself :P

Fair enough, you'll easily remember when you look at the list of level ups.

Well, what about his posts in the Member List thread?

Yeah, but they aren't LUL update posts. Man, he hasn't even stopped by the Blammers and Saviours updates...

Member List thread is better than nothing. Hopefully he's got time to reply to everything during the holidays.

Once Bahamut responds, there will be 185 responses to your flash reviews, giving you a 33.6363636364% Response rate, which I think is pretty cool. gfoxcook just has to come by now and see that!

Most awesome response rate ever!

Level 33!

Halloween > Christmas

At 12/14/09 06:05 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

Time on NG: 7 year(s), 0 month(s) and 0 day(s) (=2555 days) Unofficially

I personally wont feel like its officially 7 years until 16/12/09 since my sign up date was 16/12/02.
Did NG log forget to add in leap years or something

I believe this too be true. I have posted about it in the NG Logs forum. I'm sure Byteslinger will have it fixed in no time.

The Christmas holiday has officially started for me =)

Achievement of the Day
Hacsev: 25,000 BP. A nice number, congrats!

Congrats to:
Odyssic: 15,000 Saves
bifgis: 8,000 Blams
reverend: 9,000 Saves
Aci6: Level 30
Hoogiman: Level 25
gamejunkie: 7 Years on NG
Helloween: Level 33

At 12/16/09 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 12/15/09 04:28 PM, Auz wrote: Not that big of a deal, but:

700 Total Reviews!

Not that it's usually an achievement, but there's some nice numbers here:

550 Flash reviews
150 Audio Reviews

Once Bahamut responds, there will be 185 responses to your flash reviews, giving you a 33.6363636364% Response rate, which I think is pretty cool. gfoxcook just has to come by now and see that!

That's nice indeed, hadn't noticed it yet. Too bad it's not exactly all 36's, but it's about as close as you can get. Anyway, I think I'll park myself at these numbers for a while so gfox will have some time to check it out before I move on. Having 555 reviews at the end of the year would be sweet.