At 2/5/10 02:48 PM, Coop83 wrote: 110,000 Total Points

Congrats dude.

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At 2/5/10 03:55 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop notes that there were 16 Blams total yesterday and he only got three of them >:(

Heh, I got about nine of them. Still that's not going to help me reach 10k anytime soon.

At 2/5/10 07:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: How about the latest one? It's a tough one but people are still managing to vote for either of them.

Yeah I forgot to vote for that one too however I did vote today. I just keep forgetting to.

Pretty much, so we can suggest to have both removed.

'So let it be written, so it shall be done'

I got my 1,000 post a few seconds ago!

Now this is my 1,001 post.

I just want to get through with this already.

Congrats to:

aldlv: Level 29; 22,222 Saves
Viridis: Level 22
RohantheBarbarian: Level 25; Brigadier General
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 20,000 Medal Points; 28,000 B/P
Ship: Private
Auz: 80,000 Total Stats; Top 300 in Experience; 5,000 Posts; 57,000 B/P
Fagamut: 12,000 Experience; Level 34
Hybrid-Of-Souls: 9.00 Total Voting Power; Level 33
Kane-Animation: Level 11
dx5231: 9,000 Saves; 5,000 Experience; Lieutenant
NewsReporter: Level 29
EmoDragon: 12,000 Experience; Level 34
WeirdAlthe3rd: Master Sergeant
HeavyTank: 666 Days on NG; Master Sergeant
Lagamuffin: Level 21
letiger: Level 18; 1,337 Saves; Police Lieutenant
SCTE3: 333 Audio Review Responses; 666 Audio Reviews; 666 Flash Reviews; 19,000 B/P
Wegra: Corporal
Coop83: 69,000 B/P; 21,000 Experience; 2,500 Total Reviews; 110,000 Total Points
Mrputter: Level 39
ThemonkeyonNG: Level 35
PabMo: Level 12; 1,000 B/P points; Police Sergeant
ChampionAnwar: Level 12
Bahamut: 13.37 Total Voting Power
Tetimaru000: Level 10; 2,000 Saves
chris-marks: 24,000 Medal Points
knugen: 10.00 Total Voting Power
jmalouin7: 5,000 Experience
reverend: Top 300 in B/P
Fro: Level 31; 10,000 Experience
mwmike: 6.00 Base Voting Power
Haggard: Top 80 in B/P; 1,234 Audio Reviews
bifgis: 2,000 Posts
Tetimaru000: Level 10; Private
thecoreman: Level 19
byteslinger: Level 28; 35,000 Saves
Spoopy: Level 20
jake-thesnake: Police Sergeant
Kaytee: 18,000 Saves; 25,000 B/P
shabbo: Level 17
7iron: Praporshchik
Mendou: 3 Years on NG
Goldfire64: Level 18
FBIpolux: 17,000 Experience
simon: 12,000 Experience
Lizzardis: 13,000 B/P
sushi13: 7,000 B/P
Sispri: Level 29
LegolaSS: Level 38
l33tHaxxor: Level 15
steph2568: 1,000 Posts

34,000 B/P points... and i keep going... XD

top 100... i'm about to catch you

Back to the Wi/Ht!

Hey, how's everyone? Now that I'm settled at home and decided to close TF2 for a while, I'll do a ~20 pages catch-up. And even better, on a new laptop, which is really smooth. This shouldn't take too long, I think.

Oh, and I wrote a new blog. Please read, at least the Metallica part. :)

Listening to/watching:

Led Zeppelin DVD

It's a great DVD. It's been roaming around our house for a while, and I never watched it entirely. And lately, I've become more interested in Led Zeppelin and 70's rock bands. Thank Eric Clapton's biography for that. :P

Thanks to:
Coop83 (x4)
Auz (x5)
Odyssic (x3)
reverend (x3)
Hacsev (x3)
idiot-buster (x3)
Bahamut (x3)

At 12/27/09 06:47 AM, Auz wrote:

At 12/25/09 10:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: Happy holidays and the BBS awards are up. I warn you, it contains a large amount of fail for most parts.

Yeah... I was wondering if the awards would still be held this year. The organization was terrible. Also there are lots of categories were I didn't even know who to vote for, since apparently it's 99% general regs that got nominated...

I didn't keep up with it this year, although I know who won each category because of that flash Kevin put up. But that's the tendency, always more General regs.

Perhaps we should hold one ourselves next year.

Not a bad idea, but I don't really mind about such awards, even though I vote in the BBS awards sometimes, for those who actually deserve. If this actually goes forward, I'd suggest that we use one of Bahamut's alt accounts as the host. :)

At 12/27/09 12:21 PM, reverend wrote:

At 12/26/09 08:57 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Bye guys! Hopefully I'll see you soon!

Sounds great! You should pick me up and take me too. :)

Sure! Trade that deadly winter for those 35° beaches!

Where do you live, anyway?

At 12/28/09 12:35 PM, reverend wrote: 'User who Never Does Catch-ups When They Say They Will', etc.

AKA the gfoxcook award.

At 12/29/09 10:29 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/28/09 01:55 PM, Haggard wrote: Seriously though, Load/ReLoad are two good albums.

I'm sure they're not.

From what I've heard of Load and ReLoad, they aren't bad. The Memory Remains, Fuel, Hero of the Day... I'm not sure about the rest though. You should definitely get S&M, however.

Picture for Haggard and his firefighting dragon.

Oh, and envy me for having that hat. :P

At 12/30/09 07:02 AM, Coop83 wrote: Listening to:
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

Oh yeah, that song. One of the high points of their concert, when they played Enter Sandman right after.

At 12/31/09 05:26 PM, aldlv wrote:

At 12/31/09 06:04 AM, Auz wrote: Achievement of the Day
Sir-Nuts: 10,000 Experience, Triplelisted. Very nice! You rarely see people with 10k experience as their third stat anymore. Congrats!

is rare? really?... i will get it the same way (but i still need like 9 months for that hahaha)
anyway... congrats Sir-Nuts, that's an awesome achievement

Thanks man, and yeah, it's pretty rare to have it as the third 10k stat. Usually I see 10k saves and exp., then blams or posts.

At 1/1/10 02:02 PM, Haggard wrote: Well, back in the days when you still could download music very easily I downloaded a few songs from them, I liked it and the name and decided to take it as a nickname. ^^
But I still have to buy some albums from those artists I downloaded music from to support them. Even though some of those bands don't even exist anymore... having the original album in the shelf is still much more satisfying. ^^

AWESOME, I'm not the only one who thinks that way!

My brother keeps giving me critics for "not dowloading music" that way. I like buying album, as a form of supporting the artist and because it feels good to have the album in a material form, not just a bunch of computer data. =)

At 1/4/10 06:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: NO! Respawning is awesome! You get to kill them again and again and again.

Heh, I really like respawn now. It was weird at fisrt, since i was more used with CS, where you die... and that's pretty much it. But now, I can happily die and think, "meh, I'll have to wait 10 more seconds :)".

At 1/5/10 09:14 AM, SCTE3 wrote: Also school was starting today but closed again due to snow. What a pain in the ass.

See, that's one of the differences between a developed and an under-development country:

Your school closes down because of snow. Our schools sometimes close down due to gunfights and stuff. It happens more than once a year. Luckily nothing like that happens on my school.

And today, one local commercial centre in Rio de Janeiro was closed, in respect to a drug-dealer who died the other day.

REALLY. WHAT THE HELL.

At 1/6/10 11:42 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 1/6/10 09:08 AM, Bahamut wrote: I was actually listening to Snowballed yesterday when it came up on my iPod. Here's all the snow/ice/winter songs I have:

Well, I've got a few more for you:

1) Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
2) Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes

Heh, I was going to suggest Immigrant Song as well. And somehow I didn't remember Snow Patrol, although I quite like them.

At 1/6/10 10:11 PM, gfoxcook wrote: I fail at catchups.... ;_;

Set yourself a goal:

Full catch-ups before post # 12,000. What do you think?

At 1/7/10 01:55 PM, Haggard wrote: I know how you feel. I had to be at the university at 8AM and it was really hard for me to get up in time. ^^

I have to get up a 6AM to be at school by 7:10, what are you talking about... :P

At 1/8/10 01:14 PM, Haggard wrote: Hey, Ice Ice Baby is a great song!

Naaah, Under Pressure is a lot better! :)

At 1/13/10 06:32 PM, reverend wrote: Haiti, wow.

Indeed. I think over 150,000 died, including about 20 Brazilians. Most of them were from the military UN forces who were in Haiti for months and were due to return in a week. Really sad. =(

At 1/14/10 12:08 AM, Molotov wrote: 25,000 EXP. Points

Why going fab, WHY.

At 1/17/10 05:26 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yes, as you may or may not have heard, I am now a BBS Mod. This is no excuse to fear me - I have not changed since this time yesterday. You should have been afraid of me long before ;)

Congrats Coop! Hopefully you will keep our Wi/Ht clean from the usual spam.

Now, aiming for best or worst mod 2010? :P

At 1/17/10 09:28 AM, Auz wrote: Congrats to:
Don't you just hate it when programs randomly shut off when you're busy with them? >=(

Now my congrats list was erased cause of some random error in Opera.

No "recover last season" thingy? That saved me a couple of times in Firefox and even in IE. I thought that Opera had it as well...

At 1/21/10 11:46 AM, S-k-y wrote: 12,000 EXP + Level 34!

Tweet!

S-k-y, I've been wondering, do you have a twitter account?

At 1/21/10 05:17 AM, Auz wrote: January is always a long and boring month.

January is always a long and awesome month. :)

At 1/24/10 12:58 PM, reverend wrote: ...I never really found out how Canada or Australia handles their indigenous populations. I might have to investigate that.

If it interests you, Brazil has quite a large indigenous population (compared to other countries, that is).

They have the option to become a "reserve" or to live among everyone else. There are still some tribes who speak their original native language (tupi-guarani), but most "learned" Portuguese (most of the times by force).

There are some complaints, though. Life farmers taking over part of their land for multiple purposes, which generates many protests from them. Oh, and since I live in the capital, it isn't rare to see some of them protesting either in front of the Indian's National Foundation or the congress itself.

At 1/26/10 10:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: To General forum regulars, FEAR HIM COWARDS!

Heavy?

At 1/26/10 09:39 PM, reverend wrote: It appears the higher powers that be are listening. The Wi/Ht is back were it was originally.

Our rage was so intense that the Wi/Ht icon started to shine in red, with an angry faic in the background.

Then they realised what they had done. :)

At 2/2/10 03:58 AM, Coop83 wrote: I've got some new songs that I've been asked to put to the band and see if they like them, for covers:
Foo Fighters - Hey! Johnny Park*

Oh yeah, I want to hear that one! Hey Johnny Park is one of my favourite Foo Fighters' song, oddly. :)

If you're still taking suggestions, listen to "Walking A Line". It's a B-Side, but it's an excellent song as well. I dare you to scream like Dave Grohl. ;)
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Done again! We've been stuck in page 2544 for a long while now...

And thanks to aldlv for posting here, thus my two posts won't be split between pages! :)

Coop prepares to hit the road once more (for a run), while congratulating:
steph2568: 1,000 Posts
aldlv: 34,000 B/P

Thank you to:
reverend
Hacsev (x4)

Listen ing to:
AC/DC - She Likes Rock'n'Roll
Iron Maiden - New Frontier
The Offspirng - Come Out Swinging

At 2/5/10 07:34 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/5/10 03:55 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop notes that there were 16 Blams total yesterday and he only got three of them >:

Only 16 blammed? Damn, it's getting worse and worse. :(

Well, it's improved yesterday - back up to 30, but when you consider that not all of them will be actual Blam points and I got 12 of them as points, I'm back on track for decent numbers.

At 2/5/10 03:12 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/5/10 03:55 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop notes that there were 16 Blams total yesterday and he only got three of them >:(

Heh, I got about nine of them. Still that's not going to help me reach 10k anytime soon.

It's a case that the Blams are so rare these days that I'm considering asking Tom to trim down the ban conditions and raise the threshold for Blamming a flash - as I see it, we get a lot of games produced for websites flooding the portal at present and if people get 2 flash deleted within a week, they are perhaps not putting enough work in, but users that get 2 flash blammed in a fortnight might just be working hard, but not getting it quite right.

I'm not trying to encourage more blammable content onto the site... well, maybe just a little, but I'm trying to help users wanting to learn, plus encourage more budding artists to get onto the site and help the portal rediscover the glory days, when we had over 200 entries on a regular basis.

Achievement of the Day
Coop83: 110,000 Total Stats. Numbers like that are getting less pretty once you've passed 100,000, but a great achievement nonetheless.

Congrats to:
steph2568: 1,000 Posts
aldlv: 34,000 BP

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 1/6/10 11:42 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 1/6/10 09:08 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Well, I've got a few more for you:
2) Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes

And somehow I didn't remember Snow Patrol, although I quite like them.

Personally I think they're one of the best bands of the past decade. Not that that's saying much, but out of their last two albums (Eyes Open and A Hundred Million Suns) I could point out at least 14 songs which I really like.

At 2/5/10 11:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 1/17/10 09:28 AM, Auz wrote: Now my congrats list was erased cause of some random error in Opera.

No "recover last season" thingy? That saved me a couple of times in Firefox and even in IE. I thought that Opera had it as well...

Nope, not as far as I know.

At 1/21/10 05:17 AM, Auz wrote: January is always a long and boring month.

January is always a long and awesome month. :)

Nah it's long, gray and boring. I'm glad it's over.

> 25,000 medal points
This is post 400

24,000 Medal Points!

Another angry achievement

You passed 21000 Saves. Way to go!

Ka-pow! Ninja PPOOWWEER!

To be honest, level 25 is my least favorite level. Oh well, only 54 days of this torment.

7k blams.

Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 6: Soldier vs Psycho Mantis

Listening to:

Opeth - Morningrise

Thanks to:

Hacsev

At 2/5/10 12:15 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/5/10 07:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Indeed and if they do, then the whole world will collapse.

I don't know if it will be this dramatic, but there definetly would be something fundamentally wrong if they changed their aura.

They know to not change their auras so we have nothing to worry about.

I shouldn't care about you then since you're below me. :P

Exp-wise you shouldn't. :P

Well, I shouldn't care about your opinions on several things. XD

At 2/5/10 02:48 PM, Coop83 wrote: 110,000 Total Points

Well, the statistical numbers have swollen and won't be too long before I get a flush, so now it's time for me to carry on and get to that milestone.

Less than 10,000 points away from me. I'm getting close to 120,000 total points but I won't get it until mid-March. Yes, I may be about 500 short but I can only rely on EXP and posts for now.

At 2/5/10 03:12 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/5/10 07:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: How about the latest one? It's a tough one but people are still managing to vote for either of them.

Yeah I forgot to vote for that one too however I did vote today. I just keep forgetting to.

Well you shouldn't since I put the latest battles at the top of my LUL posts.

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Back to the Wi/Ht!

HEY THERE!

And even better, on a new laptop, which is really smooth. This shouldn't take too long, I think.

Awesome, does this mean better performance for TF2? :)

It's a great DVD. It's been roaming around our house for a while, and I never watched it entirely. And lately, I've become more interested in Led Zeppelin and 70's rock bands. Thank Eric Clapton's biography for that. :P

70s rock is good. I've recently tried listen to other bands from that era from my dad's music after having all his music on my iPod. The main two I've listened to so far are The Police and Status Quo. The Police are rather interesting but I find Status Quo to be too repetitive and lacks a good amount of killers.

At 12/27/09 06:47 AM, Auz wrote: Perhaps we should hold one ourselves next year.

Not a bad idea, but I don't really mind about such awards, even though I vote in the BBS awards sometimes, for those who actually deserve. If this actually goes forward, I'd suggest that we use one of Bahamut's alt accounts as the host. :)

How about News Reporter? *crowd boos at Bahamut*

At 12/29/09 10:29 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/28/09 01:55 PM, Haggard wrote: Picture for Haggard and his firefighting dragon.

Oh, and envy me for having that hat. :P

I'd scream but on the other hand, I don't mind which Pyro hat I get. It can be the beanie which looks funny or it could be the Engineer's missing glove. I didn't particularly care about the glove hat until I came across a similarity between that and Feathers McGraw from Wallace and Gromit.

At 1/4/10 06:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: NO! Respawning is awesome! You get to kill them again and again and again.

Heh, I really like respawn now. It was weird at fisrt, since i was more used with CS, where you die... and that's pretty much it. But now, I can happily die and think, "meh, I'll have to wait 10 more seconds :)".

From the sounds of it, I'll need to give Counter-Strike some time to get used to whenever I start playing it. I'm just so used to how TF2 works with respawning with the exception of Arena and PropHunt where no respawning is more appropriate. I mean, imagine if props kept respawning and you had to keep finding them. O_O

At 2/5/10 11:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 1/14/10 12:08 AM, Molotov wrote: 25,000 EXP. Points

Why going fab, WHY.

Yeah, it saddens me as well.

At 1/17/10 05:26 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yes, as you may or may not have heard, I am now a BBS Mod. This is no excuse to fear me - I have not changed since this time yesterday. You should have been afraid of me long before ;)

Congrats Coop! Hopefully you will keep our Wi/Ht clean from the usual spam.

Now, aiming for best or worst mod 2010? :P

Forget worst mod, UltraBear will only win it again. :P

At 1/21/10 11:46 AM, S-k-y wrote: 12,000 EXP + Level 34!

Tweet!

S-k-y, I've been wondering, do you have a twitter account?

He doesn't have one and most likely won't get one.

At 1/21/10 05:17 AM, Auz wrote: January is always a long and boring month.

January is always a long and awesome month. :)

January is always a short month.

At 1/26/10 10:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: To General forum regulars, FEAR HIM COWARDS!

Heavy?

YES!

Rev can't wait until tomorrow; congrats to:
steph2568 - 1,000 Posts
aldlv - 34k B/P
chris-marks - 25k Medal Points
Hacsev - 24k Medal Points
Pokemonpoeguygcn - 21k Saves
InnerChild548 - Level 25
kaytee - 7,000 Blams

Thanks to:
Hacsev

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At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Sure! Trade that deadly winter for those 35° beaches!

Where do you live, anyway?

I hope that's Centigrade because it's 35F here :/ . I live in the US, somewhere north of Texas, south of Kansas.

At 2/5/10 11:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: If it interests you, Brazil has quite a large indigenous population (compared to other countries, that is). . .

Interesting. Doesn't sound too bad for them all in all. What about their history? How did it come to be?

At 2/6/10 05:08 AM, Coop83 wrote: It's a case that the Blams are so rare these days that I'm considering asking Tom to trim down the ban conditions and raise the threshold for Blamming a flash - as I see it, we get a lot of games produced for websites flooding the portal at present and if people get 2 flash deleted within a week, they are perhaps not putting enough work in, but users that get 2 flash blammed in a fortnight might just be working hard, but not getting it quite right.

It'll be a long shot asking Tom to raise the blam limits. Tom has consistently said that he rather have several bad movies pass than to have it too restrictive to submit content. It would be nice, but I can see where he stands. Also, I think he is doing good about putting movies on the Frontpage that who artists who are up and coming and handing out prizes and awards. It's those things that will really help promote good movies.

Though, I'm not too overly concerned with game sites, like 123bee, submitting their games as much as other content that is coming in, i.e. 'here is a video, I posted it on Youtube but I figure to post here too...' where it consists of 10MB file of shit.

I'm not trying to encourage more blammable content onto the site... well, maybe just a little, but I'm trying to help users wanting to learn, plus encourage more budding artists to get onto the site and help the portal rediscover the glory days, when we had over 200 entries on a regular basis.

Kids are lazy these days.

At 2/6/10 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Well you shouldn't since I put the latest battles at the top of my LUL posts.

Well I'm easily distrac... Ooh look a kitty!

level 45, a bad ass level for sure.

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Back to the Wi/Ht!

YAY!

At 12/29/09 10:29 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/28/09 01:55 PM, Haggard wrote: Seriously though, Load/ReLoad are two good albums.

I'm sure they're not.

From what I've heard of Load and ReLoad, they aren't bad. The Memory Remains, Fuel, Hero of the Day... I'm not sure about the rest though. You should definitely get S&M, however.

Heh, S&M isn't that great imo.

At 1/1/10 02:02 PM, Haggard wrote: But I still have to buy some albums from those artists I downloaded music from to support them. Even though some of those bands don't even exist anymore... having the original album in the shelf is still much more satisfying. ^^

AWESOME, I'm not the only one who thinks that way!

My brother keeps giving me critics for "not dowloading music" that way. I like buying album, as a form of supporting the artist and because it feels good to have the album in a material form, not just a bunch of computer data. =)

Lol @your brother. :P
I collect video games and it's just so much better to have original versions of games. ^^

At 1/7/10 01:55 PM, Haggard wrote: I know how you feel. I had to be at the university at 8AM and it was really hard for me to get up in time. ^^

I have to get up a 6AM to be at school by 7:10, what are you talking about... :P

Lol @you! :P
I'm a lazy student. You can't expect me to wake up before 11AM! :P

At 2/6/10 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/5/10 12:15 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/5/10 07:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: I shouldn't care about you then since you're below me. :P

Exp-wise you shouldn't. :P

Well, I shouldn't care about your opinions on several things. XD

You should, since I'm older than you. Or do your opinions change over time because you get more and more Exp? :P

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: It's a great DVD. It's been roaming around our house for a while, and I never watched it entirely. And lately, I've become more interested in Led Zeppelin and 70's rock bands. Thank Eric Clapton's biography for that. :P

70s rock is good. I've recently tried listen to other bands from that era from my dad's music after having all his music on my iPod. The main two I've listened to so far are The Police and Status Quo. The Police are rather interesting but I find Status Quo to be too repetitive and lacks a good amount of killers.

Led Zeppelin is a great band. Too bad most people only know Stairway to Heaven, though. I mean, it's an awesome song, but Led Zep have so many other great songs...
Also, what Bahamut says about Status Quo is similar what I heard other people say about them. So it must be true. ^^
Best Rock Band from the 70's is Deep Purple, though.

666 blams and (pretty soon) 6666 saves

At 2/6/10 08:13 PM, HeavyTank wrote: 666 blams and (pretty soon) 6666 saves

Well grays on those. While they are nifty to get. Enjoy them

-x-

And back to list-making, I suppose.

Anyway, today was "Windows 7" day here. My brother and my father installed it into our previous laptop, which had Vista (a "crime", according to them). Indeed, it runs a lot faster. My brother (graduated in computer engineering) did most of the job: downloading stuff, installing stuff, wireless-ing everything... When he was about to finish everything (video codecs, I think), a huge lighting strikes, almost toasting this desktop I'm typing on.

Luckily, it "came back" to life, after good five tries of turning on, bleeping and shutting down. And yeah, it has a no-break on, but apparently the lighting was right into our neighbour, and the no-break didn't resist it. Kinda scary to see my dad panicking at it, until it came back. =P

I better back up everything in here before it stops working completely...

Listening to:
Metallica - All Nightmare Long; Cyanide; The Day That Never Comes

Congrats to:
chris-marks - 25,000 Medal points;
Hacsev - 24,000 Medal points;
Pokemonpoeguygcn - 21,000 Saves;
InnerChild548 - Level 25 - Really? Level 25 is one of my favourites;
Kaytee - 7,000 Blams;
life - Level 45
HeavyTank - 6,666 Saves - Wow, a 10:1 B/P ratio, that's odd.

At 2/6/10 10:49 AM, Auz wrote:

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: And somehow I didn't remember Snow Patrol, although I quite like them.

Personally I think they're one of the best bands of the past decade. Not that that's saying much, but out of their last two albums (Eyes Open and A Hundred Million Suns) I could point out at least 14 songs which I really like.

I did listen to a great part of Eyes Open, but I've yet to check A Hundred Million Suns. Either way, they're a great band.

They opened the U2 concert you attended, didn't they?

At 2/5/10 11:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: No "recover last season" thingy? That saved me a couple of times in Firefox and even in IE. I thought that Opera had it as well...

Nope, not as far as I know.

Hmm, odd. I think someone in here said it had it. Still, it's very useful when Firefox decides to randomly crash. =)

At 1/21/10 05:17 AM, Auz wrote: January is always a long and boring month.

January is always a long and awesome month. :)

Nah it's long, gray and boring. I'm glad it's over.

Nah, it's long, blue and exiting. I'm sad it's over.

At 2/6/10 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 6: Soldier vs Psycho Mantis

How come the Soldier lost? =/

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Back to the Wi/Ht!

HEY THERE!

Hello!

And even better, on a new laptop, which is really smooth. This shouldn't take too long, I think.

Awesome, does this mean better performance for TF2? :)

Ehh... not really. =P

As far as I understood my dad. he's planning to make that laptop for his and my mother's exclusive use (a.k.a putting it into their bedroom). I can't say anything, we have two reasonable PCs for our use now. Although none of them runs TF2 correctly, they're still working, aren't they?

HOWEVER, my dad mentioned getting another laptop, similar to the new one, to replace this desktop. He's worried about it stop working permanently. I think he should get a new desktop instead. But who knows, anything could be better than this one.

It's a great DVD. It's been roaming around our house for a while, and I never watched it entirely. And lately, I've become more interested in Led Zeppelin and 70's rock bands. Thank Eric Clapton's biography for that. :P

70s rock is good. I've recently tried listen to other bands from that era from my dad's music after having all his music on my iPod. The main two I've listened to so far are The Police and Status Quo. The Police are rather interesting but I find Status Quo to be too repetitive and lacks a good amount of killers.

I've never heard of Status Quo, but Police is a pretty interesting band. They even played here in Brazil recently, in their reunion tour.

But really, I think the 70s were the greatest decade for music. So many new genres and ideas... It's hard to define the most influential one (remember, The Beatles had already ended their career).

How about News Reporter? *crowd boos at Bahamut*

Hey, not a bad idea. Since he deals with the interesting stuff around here ;)

Oh, and envy me for having that hat. :P

I'd scream but on the other hand, I don't mind which Pyro hat I get. It can be the beanie which looks funny or it could be the Engineer's missing glove. I didn't particularly care about the glove hat until I came across a similarity between that and Feathers McGraw from Wallace and Gromit.

Hahahaha, yeah, it reminds Feathers. I remember watching three episodes from Wallace & Gromit in my English classes. :)

But I'd rather the Brigade helm. I like the beanie, but not so much for the glove. Either way, now I want the Fancy Fedora, for the Spy. 2 refined metals and growing!

Heh, I really like respawn now. It was weird at fisrt, since i was more used with CS, where you die... and that's pretty much it. But now, I can happily die and think, "meh, I'll have to wait 10 more seconds :)".

From the sounds of it, I'll need to give Counter-Strike some time to get used to whenever I start playing it. I'm just so used to how TF2 works with respawning with the exception of Arena and PropHunt where no respawning is more appropriate. I mean, imagine if props kept respawning and you had to keep finding them. O_O

Hahahaha, that wouldn't be the best idea. But yeah, spawn-camping would be useful then. =P

Oh, and are you going to give a go at CS?

Now, aiming for best or worst mod 2010? :P

Forget worst mod, UltraBear will only win it again. :P

Heh, I guess that's all he does, aside form hibernating the whole year.

January is always a short month.

No way. 31 long, sunny days.

Heavy?

YES!

SANDVICH IS COMING FOR YOU!

At 2/6/10 04:18 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Sure! Trade that deadly winter for those 35° beaches!

Where do you live, anyway?

I hope that's Centigrade because it's 35F here :/ . I live in the US, somewhere north of Texas, south of Kansas.

Hahahaha, of course it's Centigrades. Well, come visit me anytime! It's good 10,000 miles away... but yeah.

At 2/5/10 11:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: If it interests you, Brazil has quite a large indigenous population (compared to other countries, that is). . .

Interesting. Doesn't sound too bad for them all in all. What about their history? How did it come to be?

Ah, they suffered a lot. But they played a prominent part in our culture.

When the Portuguese got here in 1500, they didn't do much for 30 years (aside from stealing Brazilwood). They used them as slaves, along with Africans that were also enslaved during their stops in Africa. Cutting sugar cane, mining... all the hard work.

They were released, eventually (I don't remember the year of the abolition, though). Since then, they have the option to live live they used to or to join the "common" society. Either way, some habits, culinary, tools... were adopted by pretty much everyone.

HAGGARD sortaEXCLUSIVE QUOTES DUE TO LACK OF CHARACTERS COMING BELOW.

A1t 2/6/10 07:13 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Back to the Wi/Ht!

YAY!

And hopefully I won't leave again this time! :P

From what I've heard of Load and ReLoad, they aren't bad. The Memory Remains, Fuel, Hero of the Day... I'm not sure about the rest though. You should definitely get S&M, however.

Heh, S&M isn't that great imo.

Really? I like S&M a lot. I have both the CD and the DVD, they're great. I think some song could've been included though, like The Unforgiven and Fade to Black. But it's still worth listening.

AWESOME, I'm not the only one who thinks that way!

My brother keeps giving me critics for "not dowloading music" that way. I like buying album, as a form of supporting the artist and because it feels good to have the album in a material form, not just a bunch of computer data. =)

Lol @your brother. :P
I collect video games and it's just so much better to have original versions of games. ^^

Same thing for albums. It just feels good when you have the real thing in your hands, not just a mere copy. Too bad most games in here are really expensive. This is why there's so much piracy in here (and the PS3 not being very popular =P).

I have to get up a 6AM to be at school by 7:10, what are you talking about... :P

Lol @you! :P
I'm a lazy student. You can't expect me to wake up before 11AM! :P

You bastard! :P

I wake up and the street lights are still turned on. It's really tough now that we're in DST. But yeah, at least the day are longer. =)

Led Zeppelin is a great band. Too bad most people only know Stairway to Heaven, though. I mean, it's an awesome song, but Led Zep have so many other great songs...

Indeed. There are some great songs by Led Zep that are underrated, like Rock and Roll, Back Dog, Moby Dick (best drum solo ever)... But NO, it just had to be Stairway, all the time! >:(

Also, what Bahamut says about Status Quo is similar what I heard other people say about them. So it must be true. ^^

Hahahaha, really? Well, I won't even search for them, then!

Best Rock Band from the 70's is Deep Purple, though.

Another band that is mostly recognized by one song (one riff, actually). Deep Purple also has great songs, but Smoke on the Water blanks them most of the times.

Still, I'd rather Led Zeppelin. :)

At 2/6/10 11:05 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Well grays on those. While they are nifty to get. Enjoy them

And yet another random apparition by X!

Look at that, my account turns five today :)

Coop relishes the fact that England beat Wales yesterday. Congratulations to:
chris-marks: 25,000 Medal Points
Hacsev: 24,000 Medal Points
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 21,000 Saves
InnerChild548: Level 25
Kaytee: 7,000 Blams
life: Level 45
HeavyTank: 666 Blams
knugen: 5th NG Berfday

Thank you to:
Odyssic
Auz

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 12/30/09 07:02 AM, Coop83 wrote: Listening to:
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

Oh yeah, that song. One of the high points of their concert, when they played Enter Sandman right after.

I'm trying to get the guys to play Nothing Else matters as a part of our repertoire, since we need something that effectively has vocal solos, since we cater to everything else :P

At 2/5/10 11:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 1/17/10 05:26 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yes, as you may or may not have heard, I am now a BBS Mod. This is no excuse to fear me - I have not changed since this time yesterday. You should have been afraid of me long before ;)

Congrats Coop! Hopefully you will keep our Wi/Ht clean from the usual spam.

Now, aiming for best or worst mod 2010? :P

Best, obviously ;) I'm not on General often enough to win worst :P

At 2/2/10 03:58 AM, Coop83 wrote: I've got some new songs that I've been asked to put to the band and see if they like them, for covers:
Foo Fighters - Hey! Johnny Park*

Oh yeah, I want to hear that one! Hey Johnny Park is one of my favourite Foo Fighters' song, oddly. :)

It's one of those that I get caught up in trying to sing the backing and lead vocals at the same time with. Still, a big of encouragement for the guys and we can make that work :D

If you're still taking suggestions, listen to "Walking A Line". It's a B-Side, but it's an excellent song as well. I dare you to scream like Dave Grohl. ;)

One of the very few Foos songs I haven't heard... I'll search for it.

At 2/6/10 10:49 AM, Auz wrote: Coop83: 110,000 Total Stats. Numbers like that are getting less pretty once you've passed 100,000, but a great achievement nonetheless.

And it gets really pretty in less than 1,000 points time ;)

987 to be precise :P

At 2/6/10 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/5/10 02:48 PM, Coop83 wrote: 110,000 Total Points

Well, the statistical numbers have swollen and won't be too long before I get a flush, so now it's time for me to carry on and get to that milestone.

Less than 10,000 points away from me. I'm getting close to 120,000 total points but I won't get it until mid-March. Yes, I may be about 500 short but I can only rely on EXP and posts for now.

You'll get there soon enough. I've just got to keep chasing down my own milestones and not get dragged into the bigger ones.

Except maybe the top 50 Experienced!

At 2/6/10 04:18 PM, reverend wrote: It'll be a long shot asking Tom to raise the blam limits.

I know - I'm just frustrated, I guess. With how things look, particularly on Clock Day, we do need to get a bunch of submissions removed, but with Tom's "There's some good in everything" attitude, we can't really move, which can't be helped - it is his website, after all.

8000 exp :D

Uber EXP update!

Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 7: Ness vs Niko Bellic

Listening to:

Opeth - Blackwater Park

At 2/6/10 04:18 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/6/10 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Well you shouldn't since I put the latest battles at the top of my LUL posts.

Well I'm easily distrac... Ooh look a kitty!

Look at the bunny rabbit!

At 2/6/10 07:13 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/6/10 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Well, I shouldn't care about your opinions on several things. XD

You should, since I'm older than you.

But I have more EXP! :)

Or do your opinions change over time because you get more and more Exp? :P

If by changing opinions over time, you mean finding new things and liking them, then yes.

70s rock is good. I've recently tried listen to other bands from that era from my dad's music after having all his music on my iPod. The main two I've listened to so far are The Police and Status Quo. The Police are rather interesting but I find Status Quo to be too repetitive and lacks a good amount of killers.

Led Zeppelin is a great band. Too bad most people only know Stairway to Heaven, though. I mean, it's an awesome song, but Led Zep have so many other great songs...

I'm not the biggest Led Zeppelin fan out there. Infact, I've only been able to be fully acquainted with the first four albums. However, I at least acknowledge a lot of songs they made besides Stairway to Heaven.

Also, what Bahamut says about Status Quo is similar what I heard other people say about them. So it must be true. ^^

Wow, I thought mine would be a one man's opinion. I guess I could enjoy them more if I had a compilation album and showed their highlights.

At 2/7/10 12:20 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Vista (a "crime", according to them)

Sadly, I have Vista and I have noticed some slow issues with it. If Windows 7 is said to be faster, then I will consider getting it. However, I need to think about it before going ahead with installing a new OS onto this laptop.

At 2/6/10 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 6: Soldier vs Psycho Mantis

How come the Soldier lost? =/

Because Psycho Mantis has special powers the Soldier doesn't have.

Awesome, does this mean better performance for TF2? :)

Ehh... not really. =P

Aww shucks.

How about News Reporter? *crowd boos at Bahamut*

Hey, not a bad idea. Since he deals with the interesting stuff around here ;)

Have you even seen how terrible he is at news reporting? Everyone hates that guy!

Oh, and are you going to give a go at CS?

Of course but I may as well wait until I get onto C. I'm close to finishing off A but Oddworld got in my way. However, I could cheat and say it is part of my A-Z Steam games challenge and say Abe's Oddysee and Exoddus start with A. XD

At 2/7/10 04:51 AM, Coop83 wrote: Except maybe the top 50 Experienced!

No, not yet.

Achievement of the Day
life: Level 45. Congrats!

Congrats to:
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 21,000 Saves
InnerChild548: Level 25
Kaytee: 7,000 Blams
HeavyTank: 666 Blams
knugen: 5 Years on NG
tally1989: 8,000 Experience

At 2/7/10 12:20 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/6/10 10:49 AM, Auz wrote:

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

I did listen to a great part of Eyes Open, but I've yet to check A Hundred Million Suns. Either way, they're a great band.

They opened the U2 concert you attended, didn't they?

Yep, twice actually. They were also one of the two opening acts of U2's tour in 2005. And I've seen them live on a festival last summer, which was probably the best performance I've seen of them yet. But that's most likely because they were actually the main act and not just a supporting act, so they could make more use of the stage and all.

Anyway, if you like them you should probably check out A Hundred Million Suns. Although it's not as good as Eyes Open in my opinion, it's got a couple of nice songs and is a pretty good album altogether. I especially liked the last 16-minute track of the album consisting of three parts called "The Lightning Strike". They also had some nice animations for that song during the live performance (could be one of the reasons why I like it so much).

At 2/5/10 11:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

Nope, not as far as I know.

Hmm, odd. I think someone in here said it had it. Still, it's very useful when Firefox decides to randomly crash. =)

My girlfriend told me there was a plug-in for Firefox which could prevent such things. But obviously it wouldn't work for Opera.

At 2/7/10 12:22 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: HAGGARD sortaEXCLUSIVE QUOTES DUE TO LACK OF CHARACTERS COMING BELOW.

LOL ME FEELS SO sortaSPECIAL!

A1t 2/6/10 07:13 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/5/10 11:51 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Back to the Wi/Ht!

YAY!

And hopefully I won't leave again this time! :P

DOUBLE-YAY!

From what I've heard of Load and ReLoad, they aren't bad. The Memory Remains, Fuel, Hero of the Day... I'm not sure about the rest though. You should definitely get S&M, however.

Heh, S&M isn't that great imo.

Really? I like S&M a lot. I have both the CD and the DVD, they're great. I think some song could've been included though, like The Unforgiven and Fade to Black. But it's still worth listening.

I don't know... sure some songs sound nice with the orchestra, but most of the time it just doesn't fit so well.

AWESOME, I'm not the only one who thinks that way!

My brother keeps giving me critics for "not dowloading music" that way. I like buying album, as a form of supporting the artist and because it feels good to have the album in a material form, not just a bunch of computer data. =)

Lol @your brother. :P
I collect video games and it's just so much better to have original versions of games. ^^

Same thing for albums. It just feels good when you have the real thing in your hands, not just a mere copy. Too bad most games in here are really expensive. This is why there's so much piracy in here (and the PS3 not being very popular =P).

Games aren't really cheap here as well. Most stores charge games 70 Euro or above, even when they are over a year old. So I buy most of the games off the internet, where they are usually a lot cheaper, especially in the UK. Also the british pound is relatively weak compared to the Euro (well, the pound is still worth more, but it used to be a lot more than it is now) so even new games sometimes are 40 Euro cheaper in the UK then they are here!
Plus, the UK doesn't get stupid cut games like we get in Germany most of the time (yeah, green blood in horror games... or no blood at all like in Resident Evil 3!).

Oh.. back to topic. I used to have pirated copies of many games, but I threw them all out one day and bought the original games. I still download music from time to time, though, but I also buy a lot more albums than "back in the days" now.

I have to get up a 6AM to be at school by 7:10, what are you talking about... :P

Lol @you! :P
I'm a lazy student. You can't expect me to wake up before 11AM! :P

You bastard! :P

I wake up and the street lights are still turned on. It's really tough now that we're in DST. But yeah, at least the day are longer. =)

DST? I wish... :P
It's not that hard to wake up when the street lights are still turned on here. ^^
But at least the days are getting longer now. :P

Best Rock Band from the 70's is Deep Purple, though.

Another band that is mostly recognized by one song (one riff, actually). Deep Purple also has great songs, but Smoke on the Water blanks them most of the times.

Yeah, it's a shame. Painter is really good as well as is Speed King or Child in Time.

At 2/7/10 11:16 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/6/10 07:13 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/6/10 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Well, I shouldn't care about your opinions on several things. XD

You should, since I'm older than you.

But I have more EXP! :)

But that doesn't make your opinions more important than mine. :P

Or do your opinions change over time because you get more and more Exp? :P

If by changing opinions over time, you mean finding new things and liking them, then yes.

Well, if you find new things then you don't change your opinion. You form a view on something new, not change your opinion alltogether. And how's that related to the amount of Exp you have? :P

Also, what Bahamut says about Status Quo is similar what I heard other people say about them. So it must be true. ^^

Wow, I thought mine would be a one man's opinion. I guess I could enjoy them more if I had a compilation album and showed their highlights.

I've heard at least 4 or 5 similar complaints from various people that Status Quo do have some nice songs, but overall they just sound too similar on all their albums.

At 2/7/10 12:20 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Vista (a "crime", according to them)

Sadly, I have Vista and I have noticed some slow issues with it. If Windows 7 is said to be faster, then I will consider getting it. However, I need to think about it before going ahead with installing a new OS onto this laptop.

You should get Windows 7, it's really worth it.
I'm still using XP, though. No need for me to change the OS right now. And I tried out Win 7, but the differences between 7 and XP are just too big. What where they thinking when they took out the classical look of the start menue?
I have to admit though, the search function in the start menu of Win 7 is great.

At 2/6/10 04:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 6: Soldier vs Psycho Mantis

How come the Soldier lost? =/

Because Psycho Mantis has special powers the Soldier doesn't have.

Because Psycho Mantis read the mind of all who where going to vote!

At 2/7/10 12:22 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Indeed. There are some great songs by Led Zep that are underrated, like Rock and Roll, Back Dog, Moby Dick (best drum solo ever)... But NO, it just had to be Stairway, all the time! >:(

I'm not much a fan of Led Zep in general, but yes, John Bonham is one of the best drummers. Moby Dick and Bonzo's Montreux are great. I'm more of a Neal Peart man myself though.

My achievement for the day:

Level 38
Top 30 B/P

It's not, strictly speaking, an achievement but it seems that today my posts per day went back up to 6.66 for the first time since about this time last year, when it was about 10.5 per day.

Superbowl time!; congrats to:
life - Level 45
knugen - 5 years on NG
tally1989 - 8,000 Exp
milinko959 - Level 38 and Top 30 in B/P

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At 2/7/10 12:20 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Ah, they suffered a lot. But they played a prominent part in our culture.

When the Portuguese got here in 1500, they didn't do much for 30 years (aside from stealing Brazilwood). They used them as slaves, along with Africans that were also enslaved during their stops in Africa. Cutting sugar cane, mining... all the hard work.

They were released, eventually (I don't remember the year of the abolition, though). Since then, they have the option to live live they used to or to join the "common" society. Either way, some habits, culinary, tools... were adopted by pretty much everyone.

That doesn't sound too bad all in all compared to other indigenous nations. If it was just slavery it might have been abolished around the late 18th early 19th centuries.

At 2/7/10 04:51 AM, Coop83 wrote: I know - I'm just frustrated, I guess. With how things look, particularly on Clock Day, we do need to get a bunch of submissions removed, but with Tom's "There's some good in everything" attitude, we can't really move, which can't be helped - it is his website, after all.

Well Clock day is just one big spam fest anyways. There isn't much that can be done for it but I think there need to be some sort of revival in blamming; people should be excited in 'destroying other people's work' especially if it really on the borderline.