At 1/26/10 04:32 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 1/25/10 12:56 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/24/10 10:19 PM, sushi13 wrote: I can give you a brief overview of Australia.

Little better? Sound like the same story. :P

Except that the British Empire effectively made Australia into a penal colony. I don't recall that happening with America.

Actually North America was used as a penal colony for the British Empire up until the American Revolution. Then they started sending prisoners to Australia instead.

WHO BUMPED THE WI/HT DOWN, DAMMIT.

Grr, we're only above the network news forum (you, know, the useless one). Now nobody new will ever visit us.

Gotta send a rage-filled PM.

</rage>

It appears the higher powers that be are listening. The Wi/Ht is back were it was originally.

Level 33, fools.
Aside from being glad that this thread moved back up top, I can't really figure out how to extend this here post, so yeah, just level 33.

24,000 medal points EVEN.

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.

WIN! Also, C&C now is directly below Wi/Ht. So that means I don't even have to scroll now to access both the forums I usually frequent. And now with Video Games being higher up, I may even have a look there as well.

Does anybody has a screenshot from before the "mini redesign" and right after the "mini redesign"? Would be nice to have those.

Also: Screenshot FTW.

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.

Yeah great! After several complaints they moved it up again. It wouldn't have been such a big deal I think if it stayed there, over time we'd probably all get used to it. But I prefer it this way and like Haggard said: The forums I visit most are now all at the top, and almost in the correct order too :p

Coop welcomes the new forums to the fold (and the LUL back to the second spot on the BBS menu, while congratulating:
ChampionAnwar: Level 12
Bahamut: 13.37 Total Voting Power
Tetimaru: Level 10; 2,000 Saves
Hybrid-of-Souls: Level 33
chris-marks: 24,000 Medal Points

Thank you to:
Auz
Odyssic
DumbassDude

At 1/26/10 10:26 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/26/10 04:32 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 1/25/10 09:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: I checked back and you did bring it up to me. We were talking about who else could get there soon and the only potential is X but he's been inactive for ages so I'm good to be the first one.

Oh well, that's fair enough. I guess I'll just have to focus on remembering conversations more when I've just woken up :P

I can give you the chat log where we talked about this. :)

I could probably find it in my own logs. I just can't be that desperate to look at the moment ;)

It's possible. However, go for 20k before you even think of passing me in posts.

Of course. My posting has recently jumped, with frequenting General more ;)

Is good! To General forum regulars, FEAR HIM COWARDS!

You know, that's not a bad idea...

Viva la Revolution!

At 1/26/10 01:12 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/26/10 04:32 AM, Coop83 wrote: Except that the British Empire effectively made Australia into a penal colony. I don't recall that happening with America.

Oh I'm just referring to indigenous relations and not the subjects of England. It really sounds similar to the treatment over here. I guess some of the same philosophies were passed along and such.

It's very similar - we dumped the convicts on Australia and then expected them to run themselves, where they did horrible things to the aborigines.

Scots. Hadrian was the Roman governor of Britain and he stopped the barbarians from the north from disrupting the conquest of Britain by building a garden wall

Yeah I'm not sure how that wall is suppose to stop anyone. Was it bigger in ancient times?

I would assume so, but you never can tell with some of the teachings in modern schools.

Yeah, but I want him playing a full season. If you're going to be like that, let's have him pitch :P

Only if he has a nasty slider which I doubt he has.

Yeah, he's too talented to play both Hockey and Basketball :(

At 1/26/10 02:21 PM, DumbassDude wrote: Achievement of the day:
Coop83: 69,000 B/P - Going for 100k or do reckon you'll stop from boredom?

We'll see.

At 1/26/10 08:25 PM, sushi13 wrote:

At 1/26/10 04:32 AM, Coop83 wrote: Except that the British Empire effectively made Australia into a penal colony. I don't recall that happening with America.

Actually North America was used as a penal colony for the British Empire up until the American Revolution. Then they started sending prisoners to Australia instead.

I never knew that. Curse you, English academic system! *shakes fist in futility*

At 1/27/10 03:13 AM, Auz wrote: Yeah great! After several complaints they moved it up again. It wouldn't have been such a big deal I think if it stayed there, over time we'd probably all get used to it. But I prefer it this way and like Haggard said: The forums I visit most are now all at the top, and almost in the correct order too :p

Now all I need to do is get the Writing Forum moved up and I'm on easy street!

Cheers staff! Now all my four frequently viewed forums are together! :)

Also, the roster for the Alternative Character Battle is now up. Get ready for February!

Listening to:

Opeth - Orchid

Thanks to:

DumbassDude
Coop83
Odyssic

At 1/26/10 11:12 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/26/10 10:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: That would be awesome, though. Gold makes everything better!

I beg to differ.

DON'T YOU BE DEFYING GOLD!

It would plainly suck if Leatherface can't run around because he can't pick up his chainsaw in the first place (because it's too heavy).

Leatherface would be more awesome if he was wielding a gold chainsaw.

Yes and only 3 of us won't get us anywhere. More assistance required!

Yes, but it doesn't seem as other users are too interested in this. :(

Well, we got Wi/Ht? back to its rightful place.

At 1/26/10 01:12 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/26/10 10:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: Pfft, I'm sure I won't win it next time. Infact, if one person does nominate me, I'll make a list of people who are more deserving of Most Underrated than I am.

You could always pull a Davidxyz (or whatever his name is) and implode your account beforehand. That would help keep you from being nominated. :P

Now why would I even think of doing that? I have absolutely no intentions to get my account deleted at all. Imagine what the stat threads would look like if all my posts vanished.

But yeah, whenever the discussion thread comes out be one of the first one to implant some ides for underrated because there has been a tendency for people to look off of others in the nominations thread when they come up blank.

I'll be sure to write up some suggestions in June ready for if and when the Midyear awards start.

At 1/27/10 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 1/26/10 10:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: I can give you the chat log where we talked about this. :)

I could probably find it in my own logs. I just can't be that desperate to look at the moment ;)

Oh well, just as long as you have that conversation saved somewhere too.

At 1/27/10 04:37 AM, Odyssic wrote: What's all this about Wi/Ht? at the bottom? Where was I last night?

Haha, you missed out on the staff telling everyone they were going to implement an edit button. I missed it too as I was too busy playing TF2.

At 1/27/10 09:49 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/26/10 11:12 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/26/10 10:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: That would be awesome, though. Gold makes everything better!

I beg to differ.

DON'T YOU BE DEFYING GOLD!

I don't. I'm just saying a chainsaw made out of pure gold wouldn't be that useful.

It would plainly suck if Leatherface can't run around because he can't pick up his chainsaw in the first place (because it's too heavy).

Leatherface would be more awesome if he was wielding a gold chainsaw.

But he couldn't do it because he couldn't pick it up.

Yes and only 3 of us won't get us anywhere. More assistance required!

Yes, but it doesn't seem as other users are too interested in this. :(

Well, we got Wi/Ht? back to its rightful place.

At least a small win.

At 1/22/10 11:27 AM, knugen wrote: Level 36 :)

I had hoped the level up would also mean 10.00 VP, but I'm still stuck at 9.99 :P

Yay.

Rev is please with the new additions; congrats to:
ChampionAnwar - Level 12
Bahamut - 13.37 Total VP!
Tetimaru000 - Level 10 and 2,000 Saves
Hybrid-Of-Souls - Level 33
chris-marks - 24k Medal Points
SCTE3 - 666 Flash Reviews
knugen - 10.00 Total VP

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At 1/26/10 08:25 PM, sushi13 wrote: Actually North America was used as a penal colony for the British Empire up until the American Revolution. Then they started sending prisoners to Australia instead.

Really? I'm not so sure about that. America was a place were religious dissidents and other political outcasts were forced to go because they would face trouble in their homelands but I'm not so sure prisoners would be the correct term.

At 1/27/10 01:49 AM, Haggard wrote: Does anybody has a screenshot from before the "mini redesign" and right after the "mini redesign"? Would be nice to have those.

Also: Screenshot FTW.

Man, I forgot to get a screenshot of the Wi/Ht? at the bottom. I figured it would stay there for awhile instead of hours.

At 1/27/10 03:13 AM, Auz wrote: Yeah great! After several complaints they moved it up again. It wouldn't have been such a big deal I think if it stayed there, over time we'd probably all get used to it.

You have no clue how many time I went to the CC instead of the Wi/Ht? when it was bumped down. :P

At 1/27/10 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote: Now all I need to do is get the Writing Forum moved up and I'm on easy street!

Sooo.. what the difference between the Animation Forum and the Flash Forum? Is the the Flash Forum Actionscript questions only now?

At 1/27/10 09:49 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now why would I even think of doing that? I have absolutely no intentions to get my account deleted at all. Imagine what the stat threads would look like if all my posts vanished.

That is true.

I'll be sure to write up some suggestions in June ready for if and when the Midyear awards start.

Oh, are they going to still have mid-year awards? I thought they were going to not do them this year.

I'm a little too busy to make a congrats list today, so I'll just skip it for now if you guys don't mind.

At 1/27/10 01:20 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/27/10 03:13 AM, Auz wrote: Yeah great! After several complaints they moved it up again. It wouldn't have been such a big deal I think if it stayed there, over time we'd probably all get used to it.

You have no clue how many time I went to the CC instead of the Wi/Ht? when it was bumped down. :P

Lol, yeah same here :p

Loving the new forums. Congrats to:
ChampionAnwar: Level 12
Tetimaru000: Level 10 and 2,000 Saves
Hybrid-Of-Souls: Level 33
chris-marks: 24,000 Medal Points
SCTE3: 666 Flash Reviews
knugen: 10.00 Total Voting Power

Achievement of the day:
Bahamut: 13.37 Total Voting Power - Strikingly similar to the term, l33t :p

Listening to:
Shiny Happy People - REM
So. Central Rain - REM

At 1/27/10 01:20 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/26/10 08:25 PM, sushi13 wrote: Actually North America was used as a penal colony for the British Empire up until the American Revolution. Then they started sending prisoners to Australia instead.

Really? I'm not so sure about that. America was a place were religious dissidents and other political outcasts were forced to go because they would face trouble in their homelands but I'm not so sure prisoners would be the correct term.

It's true according to Wikipedia. Whether or not you trust what you read on Wikipedia is another matter.

Thanks for voting, jmalouin7! Your experience has been automatically deposited!

With that vote, you now have 5,000 experience points. You need 380 more to get to Level 23. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 21 hours, 26 minutes, and 54 seconds.

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

5k Experience points :)

Coop prepares to check on the revolution, while congratulating:
SCTE3: 666 Reviews (Flash)
knugen: 10.00 Total Voting Power
jmalouin7: 5,000 Experience

At 1/27/10 04:37 AM, Odyssic wrote: What's all this about Wi/Ht? at the bottom? Where was I last night?

Well, when the new forums appeared, the admins did a shuffle and people were more than a bit dismayed about this. Some people made a few phone calls and liljim caved in, putting the Wi/Ht back where it belongs.

At 1/27/10 07:58 AM, citricsquid wrote: wi/ht got PROMOTED!

cooooonnngratulations!

*levels spam cannon* Don't make me test it, Mr. Squid.

At 1/27/10 12:21 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/27/10 09:49 AM, Bahamut wrote: DON'T YOU BE DEFYING GOLD!

I don't. I'm just saying a chainsaw made out of pure gold wouldn't be that useful.

Yeah, but it's clearly electro-plated with Gold.

At 1/27/10 01:20 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/27/10 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote: Now all I need to do is get the Writing Forum moved up and I'm on easy street!

Sooo.. what the difference between the Animation Forum and the Flash Forum? Is the the Flash Forum Actionscript questions only now?

I think so. Plus you've got the collaboration forum, which is going to be great news for bits and pieces of NG related flash to come out.

Top 300 in B/P!

+1 list, me thinks :)

Achievement of the Day
Bahamut: 13.37 Voting Power. Awesome! Gonna be your last VP achievement in a long while though. But congrats!

Congrats to:
ChampionAnwar: Level 12
Tetimaru000: Level 10, 2,000 Saves
Hybrid-Of-Souls: Level 33
SCTE3: 666 Flash Reviews
knugen: Level 36
jmalouin7: 5,000 Experience

At 1/27/10 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 1/27/10 03:13 AM, Auz wrote: Yeah great! After several complaints they moved it up again. It wouldn't have been such a big deal I think if it stayed there, over time we'd probably all get used to it. But I prefer it this way and like Haggard said: The forums I visit most are now all at the top, and almost in the correct order too :p

Now all I need to do is get the Writing Forum moved up and I'm on easy street!

I don't think I'll care all that much about the writing forum (or any of the new forums actually), but when things settle down a bit I might start to look around.

I just hope the new forums won't turn out like the Video Games forum.

At 1/28/10 06:58 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 1/28/10 04:02 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, when the new forums appeared, the admins did a shuffle and people were more than a bit dismayed about this. Some people made a few phone calls and liljim caved in, putting the Wi/Ht back where it belongs.

What forum was in place of Wi/Ht?

None. There were only four forums listed under the 'all access forums'. Now there are five. The Wi/Ht? just bumped down the C&C and the other two.

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

With that vote, you now have 9,990 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 31. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 13 hours, 53 minutes, and 4 seconds.

A nice level indeed. Tomorrow's milestone will be much better in my opinion though.

Listening to:

Opeth - Damnation

Thanks to:

reverend
DumbassDude
Auz. Definitely, the next one will be 14 VP as I won't count 13.50.

At 1/27/10 12:21 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/27/10 09:49 AM, Bahamut wrote: DON'T YOU BE DEFYING GOLD!

I don't. I'm just saying a chainsaw made out of pure gold wouldn't be that useful.

I think it will be very useful.

Leatherface would be more awesome if he was wielding a gold chainsaw.

But he couldn't do it because he couldn't pick it up.

You mean he's not awesome enough to pick up a gold chainsaw?

At 1/27/10 01:20 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/27/10 09:49 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'll be sure to write up some suggestions in June ready for if and when the Midyear awards start.

Oh, are they going to still have mid-year awards? I thought they were going to not do them this year.

It's not been confirmed. There might be a Midyear awards or there might not. If it turns out we will have a Midyear awards, that will be the best opportunity to give out Most Underrated suggestions. If not, then surely you all can't still be thinking I'm most underrated by the end of 2010.

At 1/28/10 07:50 AM, reverend wrote: Top 300 in B/P!

+1 list, me thinks :)

Indeedy. Looking forward to the next update. :)

At 1/28/10 02:34 AM, jmalouin7 wrote: 5k Experience points :)

5k experience points.

Just reached 6.00 base VP. Nothing amazing, but I felt that it's worth a mention.

I'm planning to hit my B/P retirement numbers by the end of this week (1499 saves, 999 blams). It's pretty pathetic, but if I go any higher I'll be forced to leave the NGPD, which I'm not ready for right now.

Nothing really special, but since achievements seem to be a very rare thing for me these days I'll mention it anyway:

Top 80 in B/P!

Listening to:
Deep Purple - Burn (Live at California Jam)

At 1/28/10 04:02 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 1/27/10 12:21 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/27/10 09:49 AM, Bahamut wrote: DON'T YOU BE DEFYING GOLD!

I don't. I'm just saying a chainsaw made out of pure gold wouldn't be that useful.

Yeah, but it's clearly electro-plated with Gold.

How lame's that?

At 1/28/10 10:09 AM, Fro wrote: A nice level indeed. Tomorrow's milestone will be much better in my opinion though.

Yeah. And it's not too long until you get quad-listed either. :)

At 1/28/10 12:07 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/27/10 12:21 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/27/10 09:49 AM, Bahamut wrote: DON'T YOU BE DEFYING GOLD!

I don't. I'm just saying a chainsaw made out of pure gold wouldn't be that useful.

I think it will be very useful.

I doubt it could even work if it was made of massive gold.

Leatherface would be more awesome if he was wielding a gold chainsaw.

But he couldn't do it because he couldn't pick it up.

You mean he's not awesome enough to pick up a gold chainsaw?

I mean he's not strong enough. Do you have any idea how heavy a chainsaw made out of pure gold would be?

Rev might be out of power later, freezing rain today; congrats to:
jmalouin7 - 5,000 Exp
Fro - Level 31
dx5231 - 5,000 Exp
mwmike - 6.00 Base VP
Haggard - Top 80 in B/P

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At 1/27/10 09:22 PM, sushi13 wrote: It's true according to Wikipedia. Whether or not you trust what you read on Wikipedia is another matter.

Indentured servants hmm. I was always told that they were people who wanted to come over to the New World but didn't have the money to pay for it so a person would sponsor them. In exchange for paying for their voyage they would work for the benefactor for seven years until their debt was paid off. That how it was told to me in High School, which was before the Wikipedia days. o.O

At 1/28/10 04:02 AM, Coop83 wrote: I think so. Plus you've got the collaboration forum, which is going to be great news for bits and pieces of NG related flash to come out.

Cool. I just wanted to get a second opinion of where to send people who inevitably will ask how to create movies/games.

At 1/28/10 12:07 PM, Bahamut wrote: It's not been confirmed. There might be a Midyear awards or there might not. If it turns out we will have a Midyear awards, that will be the best opportunity to give out Most Underrated suggestions. If not, then surely you all can't still be thinking I'm most underrated by the end of 2010.

I really think it needs a revamp with so more interesting categories. The last one seem pretty dull.

Thanks for voting, Hacsev! Your experience points have already been deposited for today - thanks for doing the overtime!

Your experience gave you a voting power of 6.66 votes. Your blam and protection points gave you an additional 55% of your experience power, meaning that your total vote power was worth 10.32 votes!

Picture Repost!

Mass Effect 2 tomorrow, WOOT. Congrats to:
jmalouin7: 5,000 Experience
dx5231: 5,000 Experience
mwmike: 6.00 Base Voting Power
Hacsev: 6.6 Base Voting Power
Haggard: Top 80 in B/P

Achievement of the day:
Fro: Level 31 - Not one of my favourite levels, but congrats nonetheless.

Listening to:
Injection - Rise Against
Never Say Never - The Fray

2,000 posts :)

and less than 250 b/p away from EGSC

When I saw this, I shat bricks.

What achievements are worth mentioning?