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.

- Possible achievement coming soon (but it shall be overwhelmed by Coop's next achievement);

- I hate when I see ads saying "MP10, MP11" and above. I can understand up to MP5s, but after that, isn't it easier just calling it a cellphone?

- Super Bowl tonight! I'm not too excited, though. I'd rather today's Capitals victory over the Penguins, marking their 14th straight victory! :)

Listening to:
Sonata Arctica - Fade to Black (Metallica cover, an excellent one, by the way)

Congrats to:
knugen - 5 years on NG;
tally1989 - 8,000 exp.
SCTE3 - 4,444 Blams;
milinko959 - Level 38 + Top 30 in B/P;

At 2/7/10 04:51 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop relishes the fact that England beat Wales yesterday

In what sport, exactly?

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

Hey, try convincing them, it'll sure be a great addition to your band's repertoire. I mean, everyone knows Nothing Else Matters, so you can always shout "sing along now!" :)

At 2/5/10 11:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Now, aiming for best or worst mod 2010? :P

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

Hahahaha, of course. Make sure your ban messages cause the less butthurt possible, so you won't even be nominated.

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

It must be hard then, since the back vocals are more melodic and the main ones are more "dry", mostly in the chorus.

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.

Give it a listen: I have this one in a "One by One" special edition, that has some B-sides and a couple of live songs. It's worth trying it, since it's a quite heavy song, but with a catchy chorus. =)

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.

Indeed. He already tried making things harder for collabs, in a "more authors, better flash" attitude. Really, the normal threshold could be raised a little. He should listen to the community's ideas more often.

At 2/7/10 11:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: Uber EXP update!

Uber thanks for all those additions!

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.

It's really good, it's much lighter than Vista is. And I believe that most hardware compatible with Vista works with W7 as well. At least on our laptop, only one thing was left out, a "card reader", I think.

How come the Soldier lost? =/

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

So? I want to see Psycho Mantis dodging a Direct Hit!

Ehh... not really. =P

Aww shucks.

Indeed. I won't ever risk installing Steam there.

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!

But since he's the only reporter around, what else can we do? Get S-k-y to "tweet" the winners? =P

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

Hahahaha, cheat for CS as well, then.

At 2/7/10 11:32 AM, Auz wrote: 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.

Yeah, you can't really tell if someone's concert is really good if they're only the opening act. The concert is shorter and the crowd is probably "saving" themselves for the main act.

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).

Nice, I'll check The Lighting Strike. I usually like songs that are divided in many parts, I think the bands tend to put more effort in them. Muse's Exogenesis Symphony and Dream Theater's "Trial of Tears" are good examples of this.

At 2/7/10 12:15 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/7/10 12:22 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: 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.

Yeah, I agree. I also don't know why they included so many songs from their recent albums (at the time). I mean, it's an special occasion, you don't play with an orchestra every day. But I agree, some songs don't really go well with the orchestra.

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).

...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!).

Really? Wow, that's a bit too much!

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 admit that I still download some songs from time to time, but I really try searching for the albums. I'm still looking for a 311 album in here, heh.

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

Well, where I was, we could say that it was eight in the afternoon, since the sun was still up by then. =P

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.

I really like Highway Star and Woman From Tokyo. Real classics!

Also, it's weird that only their drummer remains from their original line-up. =P

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Finally, 11,000 saves!

I kept refreshing my page constantly, but it never seemed to appear there! =P

Now watching:
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Coop wonders if his office will be back to full strngth today, while congratulating:
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At 2/7/10 11:16 AM, Bahamut wrote:

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

No, not yet.

Well, I should be in the top 150 within the week, so that allows me to concentrate on geting even closer to that major milestone :P

At 2/7/10 04:17 PM, reverend wrote:

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.

Exactly why the blam threshold should be raised to 2.00 on Clock Day - very few things get past the portal on that day with scores of below 3, so why not?

At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: - Possible achievement coming soon (but it shall be overwhelmed by Coop's next achievement);

Which achievement is this? 24k Blams?

At 2/7/10 04:51 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop relishes the fact that England beat Wales yesterday

In what sport, exactly?

Rugby - the only sport that matters to a Welshman. I shall be making a few phone calls to Wales today in order to rub salt into the wounds :P

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

Hey, try convincing them, it'll sure be a great addition to your band's repertoire. I mean, everyone knows Nothing Else Matters, so you can always shout "sing along now!" :)

That could only be fun if we get people turning up to the gigs we play :P

At 2/5/10 11:53 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Now, aiming for best or worst mod 2010? :P

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

Hahahaha, of course. Make sure your ban messages cause the less butthurt possible, so you won't even be nominated.

We'll see. Sometimes, my wit gets the better of even me, so it can be difficult ;)

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

It must be hard then, since the back vocals are more melodic and the main ones are more "dry", mostly in the chorus.

I'm an artist when it comes to voices - everyone knows that... At least I thought they did

It's a celebration Bitches I'm lv 26 :DD!!

New gaming rant: Oddworld

Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 8: Tommy Vercetti vs Max

Listening to:

Fear Factory - Mechanize. Second 2010 album obtained. :)

At 2/7/10 12:15 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/7/10 11:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: But I have more EXP! :)

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

Oh yes it does. More EXP means more important opinion. :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

You were talking about EXP and opinions. Also, no, my opinions don't change. MANOWAR RULES!

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.

Yeah, I can name Rocking All Over the World, Whatever You Want...Uhh, that's it.

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 was originally holding off until issues with games and Windows 7 were solved but now shouldn't be too bad. If anyone else I know is talking about switching to Windows 7, we'll see what happens.

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

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

We'll see how he does in the next round. Will he win the whole thing? Can Psycho Mantis see who will win the second Alternative Character Battle?!

At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/7/10 11:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: Because Psycho Mantis has special powers the Soldier doesn't have.

So? I want to see Psycho Mantis dodging a Direct Hit!

Soldier didn't know anything about port 2.

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

But since he's the only reporter around, what else can we do? Get S-k-y to "tweet" the winners? =P

How about Bahamut7? He handles the Character Battle polls very well. :P

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

Hahahaha, cheat for CS as well, then.

Naw, Oddworld is full of nostalgia to me. Well, speak of the devil.

At 2/8/10 03:19 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/7/10 11:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: No, not yet.

Well, I should be in the top 150 within the week, so that allows me to concentrate on geting even closer to that major milestone :P

Before top 50, focus on:

Top 150 (obviously)
Top 125
Top 100
Top 90
Top 80
Top 70
Top 60

And then top 50.

Woo-Hoo - 45,000+ B/P today - and still going!

(Just a little good news for a Monday morning)

Achievement of the Day
milinko959: Level 38, Top 30 BP

Top 30 BP is quite impressive. That also reminds me, I'll be entering the top 40 myself soon. Anyway, congrats on these nice achievements!

Congrats to:
SCTE3: 4,444 Blams
mwmike: 6.66 PPD
Odyssic: 16,000 Saves
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Sir-Nuts: 11,000 Saves
Jamie: Level 22
fuzzum111: Level 26

At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/7/10 11:32 AM, Auz wrote: 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.

Yeah, you can't really tell if someone's concert is really good if they're only the opening act. The concert is shorter and the crowd is probably "saving" themselves for the main act.

Indeed. It's not really what the crowd is paying for, and they usually can't make any use of the stage either. Plus I'm guessing that they wouldn't really want to go all out as a supporting act anyway. They probably want to save that for their own concerts/fans.

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).

Nice, I'll check The Lighting Strike. I usually like songs that are divided in many parts, I think the bands tend to put more effort in them. Muse's Exogenesis Symphony and Dream Theater's "Trial of Tears" are good examples of this.

You should check out Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond then. It's a ~24 minute song divided in nine parts of which the first five are played at the beginning of their album* and the last four at the end. It's quite a relaxing and interesting song to listen to.

And actually, Pink Floyd have made quite a lot of 10+ minute songs split in several parts. If you have never listened to them, you might want to give them a try someday. If you like Dream Theater and Muse, I guess you will probably like Pink Floyd as well.

*Wish You Were Here album

Looks like I passed 38,000 Saves!

Congrats to the New Orleans Saints for the amazing game yesterday!

And apparently, there's a new girl in my school that came from England. I'll see if that's true or not tomorrow.

Listening to:
Metallica - One (S&M);

Congrats to:
Odyssic - 16,000 Saves;
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Jamie - Level 22;
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Thanks to:
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At 2/7/10 12:26 PM, milinko959 wrote:

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.

Ah, Bonham is one of the best drummers ever. He's influenced many modern drummers. But Neal Pert is excellent as well. I think he has a lifetime award for best drummer, because he kept winning it every year. :P

At 2/7/10 04:17 PM, reverend wrote: 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.

The thing is, they were under slavery for about 4 centuries. And about 70% of the tribes which were here when the Portuguese arrived doesn't exist anymore.

At 2/8/10 03:19 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: - Possible achievement coming soon (but it shall be overwhelmed by Coop's next achievement);

Which achievement is this? 24k Blams?

Exactly. As of now, you're 1 Blam away from it. =)

In what sport, exactly?

Rugby - the only sport that matters to a Welshman.

Ah, right. At first, I thought about football, but there were league games that day, so... Plus, Wales only have Ryan Giggs as player, I think. :P

I shall be making a few phone calls to Wales today in order to rub salt into the wounds :P

Of course, that one of the best parts of a rivalry victory!

Hey, try convincing them, it'll sure be a great addition to your band's repertoire. I mean, everyone knows Nothing Else Matters, so you can always shout "sing along now!" :)

That could only be fun if we get people turning up to the gigs we play :P

Why, the bartender must know the song , right? ;P

No worries, from small pubs to Live Aid gigs in a few years time. At least is what Eric Clapton said.

Hahahaha, of course. Make sure your ban messages cause the less butthurt possible, so you won't even be nominated.

We'll see. Sometimes, my wit gets the better of even me, so it can be difficult ;)

No, save that wit for the lock messages, where the enjoyment is public. ;)

It must be hard then, since the back vocals are more melodic and the main ones are more "dry", mostly in the chorus.

I'm an artist when it comes to voices - everyone knows that... At least I thought they did

Sure, you are gifted with the voice talent... but can you pull two different voices at the same time?

WITH ONE MOUTH? =OO

At 2/8/10 10:01 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: So? I want to see Psycho Mantis dodging a Direct Hit!

Soldier didn't know anything about port 2.

What now, play with the arrows instead? =P

But since he's the only reporter around, what else can we do? Get S-k-y to "tweet" the winners? =P

How about Bahamut7? He handles the Character Battle polls very well. :P

Ah, of course! Well, we know who will handle the awards, if they ever happen.

And he gets my vote for "favourite Bahamut alt"!

At 2/8/10 11:39 AM, Auz wrote:

At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Yeah, you can't really tell if someone's concert is really good if they're only the opening act. The concert is shorter and the crowd is probably "saving" themselves for the main act.

Indeed. It's not really what the crowd is paying for, and they usually can't make any use of the stage either. Plus I'm guessing that they wouldn't really want to go all out as a supporting act anyway. They probably want to save that for their own concerts/fans.

Indeed. It's just a warm-up to the big thing. Sometimes the crowd doesn't even know the band, which was my case in the Metallica concert. I had no idea what Hybria was about. =P

Nice, I'll check The Lighting Strike. I usually like songs that are divided in many parts, I think the bands tend to put more effort in them. Muse's Exogenesis Symphony and Dream Theater's "Trial of Tears" are good examples of this.

You should check out Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond then. It's a ~24 minute song divided in nine parts of which the first five are played at the beginning of their album* and the last four at the end. It's quite a relaxing and interesting song to listen to.

Hahahaha, I know that song! My dad has Wish You Were Here, we listen to it in his car every now and then. I'm a Pink Floyd fan, I don't know why I didn't mention them in the long songs thing.

Dogs isn't split, but it's a 17-minute epic song. Another brick in the wall has three parts, although they're split in the album. Pink Floyd is one of my favourite bands! =)

At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/7/10 12:15 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/7/10 12:22 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: 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).

...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!).

Really? Wow, that's a bit too much!

It got a bit better in recent years, but it's still kind of rare that a game is released uncut in Germany. Ah well, since importing is much cheaper plus my english skills are quite good I don't mind too much.
Hell, I even played the japanese version of Resident Evil 3. Couldn't read the texts, but the voice acting is still in english. ^^

Also, it's weird that only their drummer remains from their original line-up. =P

Yeah, that's really weird. ^^
Even weirder than his glasses he always wears. XD

At 2/8/10 10:01 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/7/10 12:15 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/7/10 11:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: But I have more EXP! :)

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

Oh yes it does. More EXP means more important opinion. :P

LOL! Nothing more to say about that. :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

You were talking about EXP and opinions. Also, no, my opinions don't change. MANOWAR RULES!

You started talking about discovering new things. And I asked how this is related to the amount of Exp you have. :P

Also Manowar sucks monkey balls

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.

Yeah, I can name Rocking All Over the World, Whatever You Want...Uhh, that's it.

In the army now is great as well.

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

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

We'll see how he does in the next round. Will he win the whole thing? Can Psycho Mantis see who will win the second Alternative Character Battle?!

I bet he can. But I doubt he will win it.

At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/7/10 11:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: Because Psycho Mantis has special powers the Soldier doesn't have.

So? I want to see Psycho Mantis dodging a Direct Hit!

Soldier didn't know anything about port 2.

Stupid soldier. The colonel didn't tell him?

im retiring from blam/protect activity having now reached master sergeant and its nice star icon

Rev is loving the Saints win yesterday; congrats to:
Odyssic - 16k Saves
gamejunkie - 400 Flash Reviews and 100 Flash Review Responses
Sir-Nuts - 11k Saves
Jamie - Level 22
fuzzum111 - Level 26
byteslinger - 45k B/P
Auz - 38k Saves
cheesebizkit - Master Sergeant

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At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Indeed. He already tried making things harder for collabs, in a "more authors, better flash" attitude. Really, the normal threshold could be raised a little. He should listen to the community's ideas more often.

Now that was a good idea, to raise the Blam limit on collabs. Of course it might be more effective if you couldn't add nine co-authors after passing judgment to dance around the rule.

At 2/8/10 03:19 AM, Coop83 wrote: Exactly why the blam threshold should be raised to 2.00 on Clock Day - very few things get past the portal on that day with scores of below 3, so why not?

I don't see that doing much when everything passes with a score of 3.5 including the illegal/stolen/hateful ones.

At 2/8/10 02:13 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Congrats to the New Orleans Saints for the amazing game yesterday!

Who dat?! :)

The thing is, they were under slavery for about 4 centuries. And about 70% of the tribes which were here when the Portuguese arrived doesn't exist anymore.

Even without slavery, bloodlines would then to get mixed and lost. There are plenty of tribes here that doesn't exist anymore.

Blammer Chapter 24

24,000 Blams

I spend so damned long stuck at 23,999 Blams last night *sigh* Now I'm back moving up the list. List later, I'm off for a shower.

Coop celebrates milestones in his sleep, while congratulating:
Jamie: Level 22
fuzzum111: Level 26
byteslinger: 45,000 B/P
Auz: 38,000 Saves
cheezebizkit: Master Sergeant
WeirdAlthe3rd: 6,000 Saves

At 2/8/10 10:01 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/8/10 03:19 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, I should be in the top 150 within the week, so that allows me to concentrate on getting even closer to that major milestone :P

Before top 50, focus on:

Top 150 (obviously)
Top 125
Top 100
Top 90
Top 80
Top 70
Top 60

And then top 50.

Well, I'm focusing on the top 50 as the major end-goal for now. Once I get there, who knows how far I'll climb :P

At 2/8/10 11:39 AM, Auz wrote: You should check out Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond then. It's a ~24 minute song divided in nine parts of which the first five are played at the beginning of their album* and the last four at the end. It's quite a relaxing and interesting song to listen to.

I love that track (those tracks), but they really do disagree with iTunes, since it's always on shuffle. I'd end up in the middle of the track, but listening to Absolute Classic rock in work does help this, as they put the radio edit of Shine on you Crazy Diamond at least once a week.

At 2/8/10 02:13 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/8/10 03:19 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/7/10 04:29 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: - Possible achievement coming soon (but it shall be overwhelmed by Coop's next achievement);

Which achievement is this? 24k Blams?

Exactly. As of now, you're 1 Blam away from it. =)

And so it stayed overnight, despite my best efforts >:(

In what sport, exactly?

Rugby - the only sport that matters to a Welshman.

Ah, right. At first, I thought about football, but there were league games that day, so... Plus, Wales only have Ryan Giggs as player, I think. :P

Yeah, but we've got to play the Welsh in the football to qualify for the European Championships, which should be fun.

Hey, try convincing them, it'll sure be a great addition to your band's repertoire. I mean, everyone knows Nothing Else Matters, so you can always shout "sing along now!" :)

That could only be fun if we get people turning up to the gigs we play :P

Why, the bartender must know the song , right? ;P

We'll see. I know that the landlady knows quite a few songs that our drummer's other band played a week last Saturday.

Hahahaha, of course. Make sure your ban messages cause the less butthurt possible, so you won't even be nominated.

We'll see. Sometimes, my wit gets the better of even me, so it can be difficult ;)

No, save that wit for the lock messages, where the enjoyment is public. ;)

And that's what causes the most butthurt, sometimes.

I'm an artist when it comes to voices - everyone knows that... At least I thought they did

Sure, you are gifted with the voice talent... but can you pull two different voices at the same time?

WITH ONE MOUTH? =OO

No, I'm not that good, but I did try singing Enter Sandman in the voice of Zapp Brannigan the other day, much to the amusement of all involved.