Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 2 (Second Round): Revolver Ocelot vs Spyro

Listening to:

Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes

At 2/26/10 11:01 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/26/10 10:32 AM, Bahamut wrote: I never even had one. :D

Neither did I. ^^

Good, I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't bother with it and didn't make a new year's resolution just because everyone else follows the same bullshit year after year.

I believe I won that argument. HA!

No you didn't. HA!

No I did, I said my alts will get through the shurikens soon enough and your alts won't even go past level 34 so I won that argument. HA!

Nope, gameplay first, then scary scenes and THEN cheesy quotes.

Yeah, that's the way it SHOULD be. But it really is the way I mentioned.

Cheesy quotes will always be a very low priority for me.

At 2/26/10 02:18 PM, reverend wrote: it's pretty easy to cheat the system and steal medals

Hopefully the admins are trying to find a way to prevent this or at least catch the cheaters easily. That's why I won't even include medals to the list until they're out of beta.

At 2/27/10 10:23 AM, Fim wrote: level 37....

swear it seems like I level up much quicker thesedays :/

I always think that to others. Everyone seems to level up quickly besides me.

At 2/26/10 02:18 PM, reverend wrote: TGIF; congrats to:
Haggard - 15k Medal Points

Thanks!

At 2/25/10 02:02 PM, Haggard wrote: Yes, as it is now called Pentalist the next one up would be Hexalist. But what be so bad about that? It originally started as a Trilist (with total B/P, Posts and Experience). :P

Well first it doesn't really roll off the tongue as well, and second considering it's pretty easy to cheat the system and steal medals it would be hard to tell from people who legitimately earned medals from those who stole medals without using suspicion and hearsay.

Hm, I think "Hexa" rolls a lot better of the tounge than "Penta" does.

You can check out the top medal list to see what all sorts of problems they are having with it.

That discussion yesterday was amazing to watch. Too bad no mod was online when I checked. ^^
But there are people who also cheat with B/P and with reviews (in my opinion, spitting out one liner after one liner is cheating. ^^), so it wouldn't be anything new.

But all in all I'm not the one who makes that call (or the list), so if Bahamut supports it so shall I. :P

Yeah, Bahamut is the one who runs the list, so it's his decision. ^^

At 2/26/10 07:30 PM, Fro wrote: Fro just recently fell down the stairs while saying Congrats To:

I hope you are all right?

Haggard: 15,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 2/25/10 02:02 PM, Haggard wrote: That's why I think we should add medals - not medal POINTS

Yeah, that's what I said. :P

I just wanted to emphazise on that point. :P

At 2/27/10 05:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop cracks some skulls on the BBS, before congratulating:
Haggard: 15,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 2/27/10 07:48 AM, Odyssic wrote: Congrats to:
Haggard: 15,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 2/27/10 10:57 AM, Auz wrote: Congrats to:
Haggard: 15,000 Medal Points

Thanks!

At 2/27/10 12:36 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/26/10 11:01 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/26/10 10:32 AM, Bahamut wrote: I never even had one. :D

Neither did I. ^^

Good, I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't bother with it and didn't make a new year's resolution just because everyone else follows the same bullshit year after year.

I know nobody who makes new year's resolutions.

I believe I won that argument. HA!

No you didn't. HA!

No I did, I said my alts will get through the shurikens soon enough and your alts won't even go past level 34 so I won that argument. HA!

But then your alts have to go through the shurikens, while mine do not. Or maybe I'll just find someone who deposits for me until they are out of the shurikens, so they would go past the shurikens, but I wouldn't have to witness it. HA!

Also: Yeah, as if I would stop just to avoid the nasty shurikens...

Nope, gameplay first, then scary scenes and THEN cheesy quotes.

Yeah, that's the way it SHOULD be. But it really is the way I mentioned.

Cheesy quotes will always be a very low priority for me.

And you call yourself a RE fan? :P

Oh Mother Nature, why do you hate us so: congrats to:
ChampionAnwar - 1,000 Posts
Hacsev - 7777 Blams
sushi13 - Level 26
AndrewGlisson13 - Sergeant
Pokemonpoeguygcn - Level 24
Fim - Level 37
Bloodthorne - Level 47

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At 2/26/10 07:30 PM, Fro wrote: What the hell is the point of the medal system if your not going to play the game the way it's suppose to be played.

What's the hell is the point of the B/P system if you're not going to watch the movies the way it's suppose to be watched. :P

At 2/27/10 05:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop cracks some skulls on the BBS, before congratulating:

In other words, you pushed your mouse button two, three times. Ha!

At 2/27/10 12:36 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hopefully the admins are trying to find a way to prevent this or at least catch the cheaters easily. That's why I won't even include medals to the list until they're out of beta.

There is no way to really prevent this since practically all flash games can be decompiled in some fashion. You just have to hope that people are able to spot them by finding they earned medals out of order i.e. they earned a medal for beating the game while they don't have one for an easy level, etc.

At 2/27/10 01:18 PM, Haggard wrote: But there are people who also cheat with B/P and with reviews (in my opinion, spitting out one liner after one liner is cheating. ^^), so it wouldn't be anything new.

Well those people are easy to spot and a quick PM to a Review Mod they are gone. It's a little more difficult with medals and there is no real person to inform, if and when you spot them; Goldfish if he isn't busy, I guess...

13000 exp

Level 34/

I'm past one shuriken and now to get through this one ASAP.

Level 49 now :)

thanks yall

At 2/27/10 02:24 PM, Toocool100 wrote: Level 49 now :)

Congrats on reaching quite possibly the worst level icon in the history of Newgrounds.
Still, extremely high up there so quite an achievement experience wise. I'd be around that level if certain factors hadn't prevented my deposits.
Don't look forward to reaching it once the voting curve comes back into play. D:

At 2/27/10 06:22 PM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote:

At 2/27/10 02:24 PM, Toocool100 wrote: Level 49 now :)

Congrats on reaching quite possibly the worst level icon in the history of Newgrounds.

If you ask me, there's probably uglier ones.

At 2/27/10 06:22 PM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote: Don't look forward to reaching it once the voting curve comes back into play. D:

Don't be so sure it will, there has allegedly been talks about just adding more levels..

At 2/27/10 06:26 PM, Narusegawa wrote:

At 2/27/10 06:22 PM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote:

At 2/27/10 02:24 PM, Toocool100 wrote: Level 49 now :)

Congrats on reaching quite possibly the worst level icon in the history of Newgrounds.

If you ask me, there's probably uglier ones.

Levels 58, 59, and 60 are laaaame in my opinion.

At 2/27/10 06:22 PM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote: Don't look forward to reaching it once the voting curve comes back into play. D:

Don't be so sure it will, there has allegedly been talks about just adding more levels..

I really hope that the voting curve doesn't return. Judging by how ridiculous it was to level up pre-redesign, I find it hard to imagine that the staff would think it was a good idea to bring it back. Surely that would just create the need for another redesign of the levels at some point in the future.

There was apparently the possibility of users who reached level 60 being able to continue to level up past 60, but retaining the same icon. Either that option or added levels would be better than reintroducing the DREADED CURVE, IMO.

Mini catch-ups ahead. I was going to post them earlier, but I had no internet for a whole day. That's right, I missed one deposit! D:

Also, wtf gfox...

At 2/11/10 04:25 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/11/10 03:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: But yeah, there are many ways to make things harder for spammers. And please, HIGHER BLAM THRESHOLD. >:(

We could have it to where only one IP address could only submit two items per day but god forbid anyone on AOL networks who want to submit anything since IP Address tend to be shared by regions.

People still use AOL? :P

Well, the Flash Portal already alerts about AOL and it's IP problems. Maybe the staff could just say "whatever" to AOL users and implement that 2 flashes per IP thing. I believe there aren't many AOLers left, anyway.

A higher blam threshold would be nice but if it was bumped up to closer to 2 or exactly at 2 then what would be the point of voting 2 on things? Sure you could vote 3, but some movies are worth that much but are still worth saving.

I don't get it... If it was, for example, 1.90, it would still get saved if you voted two...

Well thought, it would be a huge responsibility to just leave the submissions in someone else's hands. But the mods could deal only with the recently submitted ones, if they're really concerned about it. Like removing file-swappers instantly, flagged submissions...

As far as I can tell, the Audio Mods don't delete stuff but rather pass them on to Wade and he removes it. Maybe a system like that would be reasonable to be considered or else some way to flag a submission after judgement.

That's a good idea, but who knows when he'll check all those flashes. Maybe if a certain number of mods agree that a submission is stolen/malicious etc... the submission would get deleted automatically. I mean, so many of them couldn't be wrong at the same time, right? That would make things quicker for the staff.

Hahahhaha, I agree. He wasn't even added to the staff page yet :P

That's Stamper's lazy ass not doing anything. :P

Luis could add himself to the page. What is he doing there, getting drunk? :P

At 2/11/10 10:01 PM, NEVR wrote:

At 2/11/10 04:18 AM, Coop83 wrote: And to say that you only need another 71 more posts...

Oh, yeah. That is true... although I'm not a particularly big poster at the moment. There's just not much for me to post in really. General is pretty lame at the moment and most of the Wi/Ht? stuff rarely requires my input. Still, gotta push through the burn and get them 11,000 posts ;P

31 left, gogogo.

At 2/11/10 03:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/10/10 09:45 PM, NEVR wrote:

Hey NEVR! It's been a while, come back to the lounge. Say hello every day.

I probably won't have time to REPLY to everybody in here every day, but I could drop in and say hello more often, although it would get kinda pointless after a while, lol. I just do it every now and again to remind people that I'm still in existence.

Keep us updated with your life, anything... But give life signs more often!

At 2/12/10 03:19 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/11/10 03:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: I shall join the revolution... with multiple quoting!

Hurrah! We always need more troops :)

Posts INCOMING!

At 2/10/10 02:25 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/10/10 08:47 AM, Coop83 wrote: Invisible runner is a great challenge. I'm going to lose sleep over this game, I can see it!

I see what you did there... :P

Ah! So do I now :P

Really? I thought it was an intended bad pun, heh.

Seriously, I didn't see it coming.

See, you did it again. ;P

I'm still about 1,000 away from '21, but azteca89 is mostly inactive, so an easy pass, I feel :)

But afterwards, it's a 6000 B/P gap until bila. =/

At 2/12/10 02:13 PM, Auz wrote: *Tired*

I'm glad it's finally weekend again.

Envy me, I had the whole week off because of carnival! ;)

At 2/11/10 03:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: I got to know more about those bands when I was 10 or so. It was either because of my dad or because of my brother's music in the computer. And we had a new computer with internet, downloading music was still easy, so...

Heh, yes my dad is also mostly responsible for my knowledge of 80's music. I got to know U2 thanks to him.

Sweet. Although my dad is probably older than yours (he's 50 now), his musical ''era'' was a bit earlier. He's more fond of 60's/70's music. However, I think he has a tape (yeah, a tape!) with ''Joshua Tree'' in it. I don't know if it works or not, though.

And downloading music is still easy, isn't it?

Eh, not really. I'm concerned about it nowadays, with all the recording companies bitching about it. =/

Ziggy Stardust is a classic. My dad has a live LP which has some song from it, it's really good.

Yeah I heard it was pretty much his best album. I don't know much about his other albums though, and I don't think my dad has any David Bowie CD's or LP's unfortunately.

Get them yourself, why not... =)

Also, I share birthdays with Bowie. =)

Nice! I share birthdays with George W. Bush |= |

Oh, great... =/

I also share birthdays with Elvis Presley.

Ah, Tubular Bells is my Oldfield reference. I like his music, despite having some really long tracks. Also, I think he did the soundtrack to The Exorcist with that album.

Yeah I know he did the soundtrack of The Exorcist. Although I'm not sure what that song was called.

I think Tubular Bells has only two 20-minute tracks, called Tubular Bells I and II.

Never heard that one. =P But if you are interested, try Invisible Touch, or their Live Over Europe 2007, both are great albums.

Oh wait, my bad. The song is called Solsbury Hill actually. And it was made by Peter Gabriel AFTER he left Genesis.

Well, I listened to it, and it's a great song indeed. I'll see if my dad has anything by Peter Gabriel.

In that case I don't know, isn't Sledgehammer one of their songs? I do like that one.

Nope, still Peter Gabriel. :P

The guy with the red guitar? He's awesome. And his technique is admirable, since he does what Hendrix did: left handed with a right handed guitar. And he sings well too.

Yeah the one who sings the part at the beginning. Don't know much about guitar techniques, but indeed the singing is great.

He sings and plays solo guitar really well (even though there are three guitarists, and they alter who makes each solo). He also sings the chorus and plays the solos in "Comfortably Numb''.

Is he perhaps a pretty famous guitarist like Snowy White?

I haven't heard of him before, so...

I thought the backing vocals (the girls) would say something during that part, but we can only hear the synths solo. They have a drink, pretend to play poker for a while and finish the song, right?

Pretty much, but you do hear the dealer shout a few times. Can't hear what he's saying though.

Right... I think there are subtitles in the DVD, though.

Ah, great! It's one of my favourite movies as well, although I don't have the DVD. I really like the Comfortably Numb part, despite being a little "annoying" watching him shaving everything he has. =P

But it's an excellent movie indeed. I have to watch it again someday.

Hehe yeah that part is a bit awkward. But very powerful emotionally though, especially at the solo where you see his flashbacks as a kid.

Indeed. That part and ''The Trial'' as well are very ''touching''.

At 2/12/10 03:46 PM, Fro wrote:

At 2/11/10 03:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

I'm alright, really anxious for the full week holiday next week.

Sounds like fun. Spring break will come and go for me. I'll be applying for some summer jobs around this time and then after that break I only have the summer. I don't really consider the summer a break though as I'll be taking two online courses and working.

Ouch, that's quite a lot of work for summer. I think I should try to get an apprentice job, the more experience, the better.

But... why does your sig still says Corky52? =P

3) I want people to remember that I use to be Corky52
4) I forgot it said Corky52 and once I realized it I didn't care because of reason three :P

Ah, but it's been a while since you changed your username, not everyone remembers Corky52. I think more people remember Fro, though. :)

At 2/13/10 01:39 AM, gfoxcook wrote: INITIATE (NOT-SO?) EPIC 114 PAGE CATCHUP OF THE PAST HALF-YEAR OF LUL-ZINESS....

See, I was going to continue posting regularly, but then... yeah, you came.

...my THANKS list, since there's been about 5-6 times I've dropped in here and announced something but not caught up. TOO MUCH TO REPLY TO SEPARATELY, I'd be making 10 straight posts tonight to reply to all of that quote by quote...

And to think that you could have made a 20-post spam in the LUL.

When are you going to make a full-page catch-up? :P

At 2/13/10 01:41 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/31/09 05:44 PM, ninjakoopa-33 wrote: After my 3-4 week absence, I've finally returned. Not sure if anyone cares lol. Well anyways, it seems a lot has changed here. I understand that Corky52 is now Fro, KevnSevn is now Kevin, and TECh2o is now Achromatic, correct? What else did I miss?

Somebody should really make a list of such namechangery tomfoolery sometime. Nice summary of (then) recent changes.

It would be nice if we could see this in the profiles, like a "formerly known as'' tab/box.

At 8/2/09 12:08 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 7/29/09 12:37 AM, gfoxcook wrote: When'd you change your display name to just "Nuts," anyway, SirNuts?

Well, I don't like the "Sir" before Nuts. I only use it when the name "Nuts" is already taken or something. I even thought of asking for a name change to Wade, but he probably wouldn't read my PM. =/

I had no idea the Sir wasn't something you liked in your name. ;_;

And to be honest, I'm not that much of a big fan of ''Nuts'' anymore either. I mean... when I hear people calling me Nuts in TF2 in their mics, it feels so... childish. Even if the meaning is balls, mad or nuts itself, it sounds weird.

Either way, I'll keep it since I haven't any better ideas.

will have to remember to try and think of you as just Nuts from now on, instead of Sir Nuts:::

EXCELLENT!

just. paste. the. link. Don't turn it into a text-link, leave it as a URL. Simple enough, even grandpa can do it! Then everyone can see it's a link and follow it, whether they're reading in a browser or notepad!

This is why I usually read the whole post before quoting it. Then I click the links and remember what was in them. Easy like that. ;)

I don't have time to read entire posts before quoting. I scan, I open a buncha reply-w/-quote tabs while scrolling through pages of a topic, and then I amass them in notepad for later posting... I mostly read as I'm replying, in notepad... where the link is GONE if it wasn't a URL. Which is why I hate text links and love URL links and use them 95%+ of the time, I'd say. #;-}>

Makes sense. I use notepad for catching up as well, but I usually type everything in the NG posting box itself before organizing everything in notepad.

But yeah, I scroll through posts, read part of them and CLICK THEM LINKS! :)

At 2/13/10 01:44 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 8/17/09 08:53 AM, Auz wrote: Personally I don´t think I´ll ever get into metal. Although I can appreciate some Maiden and Metallica and also liked some Sonata Artica and Volbeat that I heard, there is also a lot of stuff that I dislike. I think I´ll always prefer classic rock. It never gets old for me.

I'm not as into metal as I am into classic rock, but there's nothing wrong with being into both, man.

That the way it should be. I don't have any problem with music genres, I don't really like labelling them. There are two labels for me: good music and bad music.

gfox also recommends teh Muse, and is hoping to see them live in March. :::nods:::

I also recommend Muse. I have already seen them live, and I'm proud of that. =)

Even though they might not come back here anytime soon... they said they didn't really like playing here, apparently they almost died in Rio de Janeiro, I think.

At 2/13/10 02:44 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

Yeah, it was among the top sellers again during the weekend. I had thought everyone got the game during the 2.50$ sale. =P

Bahamut shouldn't act like it's any mystery how there's still people without TF2... half the people who vote in his alternative character battle seem to have no TF2 knowledge, so... there ya go. There's still plenty of people for Valve to sell TF2 to. #;-}>

Well, maybe they should hold a $1 sale. =)

Go enjoy the end of the year and catch up only later! That's the spirit!

YEAH, FEBRUARY, YEAHHHHH!!!! That's the way! Am I right?

Indeed! Catching up in January is tough, there's so much snow/sun for everyone!

You want him to look like gfox's Pyro, right? =P

Win!

Needs more oxygen mask!

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

CLOSE TF2 FOR AWHILE?!??! VERBOTEN!!!!

I had to, my computer was melting. =(

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 :)".

I can't believe Bahamut had to counsel you on the wonders of the respawn timer. #;-}>

BTW, long before CS there was Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Quake 2, Unreal + the Unreal Tournament games... and in all of them there was respawn.

CS was somewhat of an aberration.

Sure, but it made you think more before rushing recklessly into the enemies' base. This is why I enjoy the Arena maps in TF2 :)

And the only CS I've ever played is insta-respawn Team DM, basically, which is even funnier, given all of that. #;-}>

Insta-respawn in CS? Never heard of those...

Set yourself a goal:

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

Well, I think that's probably going to happen naturally... but that's not that big of an accomplishment, since I might not hit 12,000 posts for months from now.

Pace up, come on!

At 2/13/10 02:46 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 2/11/10 03:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/10/10 11:20 PM, gfoxcook wrote: 107 pages since my last catch-up. Hmmm. Yes. This should be interesting. O_o

Can you pull this one? =O

Done and done!

gfox, I salute you.

At 2/10/10 11:23 PM, gfoxclock wrote: mwahahaaha.... your old ass is gonna need 110 days of depositing faithfully to get to the next level, whereas I'll only need 103! MWAHAHAHA. Eat it!

What now, are you evil twins...?

Something like that...

And little gfox would be...?

You should give a listen to "Rock And Roll" and "Black Dog". They're a lot better than Stairway to Heaven.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?

Look, Black Dog is a great song, but I really wouldn't say it's better than Stairway. As for R&R, it definitely isn't. Part of this is just that I'm so damned tired of that song after the last 5 years of it being used in 80% of Cadillac advertisments on TV here in America, but... ugh... so tired of R&R.

Well, I don't get many advertisements with Led Zep songs at all, so... =)

But really, Rock and Roll is possibly my favourite songs from them. I really like that "heavy-blues" style in it. I've listened to Stairway a lot, but I only got into Rock and Roll more recently. So... yeah, maybe I'll change my mind about that when I've listened a lot to R&R

Until then...

Dave Grohl (drums) + Taylor Hawkins (vocals) + Jimmy Page (guitar) + John Paul Jones (bass) =

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRBsgRYPR -4

BEAUTIFUL.

[/end... whew]

*claps* That was outstanding.

At 2/13/10 10:43 AM, Haggard wrote: You really should try to adopt some more positive german vocabular. How about shouting "ERLAUBT" (= allowed) every once in a while? :P

Hey, my friend is taking German classes now. I ask him some words sometimes (like good night [gute nacht] and thanks [danke]), it makes me wonder if I should take German classes as well. :)

At 2/13/10 02:01 PM, Bahamut wrote: HOLY FUCKING SHIT GFOX!

My thoughts exactly.

Ah nuts. I mean...Ah nuts!

What?

I'M ON A BLIMP! <---Link gfox but you already know this.

lol

(yawn)... moar 37s? Eh. :::shrugs:::

Nah, PropHunt is the new 37.

PropHunt is full of awesomeness. Too bad I can never find good servers that don't kick me due to my ping (I hate NO HEROES because of that!).

At 2/13/10 02:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Mwahahahaha! You know what would be better, if I got everyone in the LUL to play PropHunt mod in TF2.

I'm in - I suck at hiding, though. =(

Haha, that will be something. You made a 10-post catch-up and I highly doubt anyone will EVER top that!

Watch me stay inactive for the whole year. :P

At 2/14/10 04:14 AM, Coop83 wrote: They raised the wall by half a metre, but hindsight always allows for things like this. I think that it was an utter tragedy for the kid to die like that and I've seen that video is circulating, but I didn't have the heart or stomach to watch.

And what's worse - the TV channel that's broadcasting the Olympics here shows the accident quite often. They don't freeze the image before he crashed, it's horrible. I don't know what they're thinking, it's inhuman showing that repeatedly.

Now, isn't it a huge incompetence to leave a set of metal pillars right next to a curve exit, where the athletes are at nearly 100km/h, and still blame him for the mistake? I haven't heard of anyone dying like that, and it's still his fault? Really, that makes me mad.

At 2/15/10 11:50 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/14/10 09:50 AM, aldlv wrote: i mean, even if you got the games for $2... i would cost like $20-50 to send it to me... you ain't going to pay that for the shipping XD

Actually, I wouldn't need to worry about shipping one bit as you would have got it digitally rather than getting the hard copy of The Orange Box.

Indeed. I'm living proof that there are no shipping taxes via digital methods - right Bahamut?

At 2/15/10 01:11 PM, Bahamut7 wrote:

Thanks for supporting the Alternative Character Battle!

But of course! Hopefully a TF2 character will take this one.

At 2/15/10 06:29 PM, idiot-buster wrote: I will be back.

Terminator style? ;P

At 2/19/10 04:11 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop wonders just when in his life he became disenchanted with snow

At least you have already seen snow, whilst I haven't. =(

At 2/23/10 11:41 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/23/10 10:35 AM, Fro wrote: We know this isn't real Bahamut. You'll be on your death bed and your 99th flash will still be the last one you've submitted.

I need to prove you all wrong someday.

Yeah, prove us wrong! Next week, maybe? :)

At 2/26/10 11:01 AM, Haggard wrote: Even though it's kinda sad to see all the reviews "buried" in just one total stat. But four different review categories would be way too much.

Maybe we could have them split into Flash reviews and misc reviews, with all the others...

At 2/27/10 02:24 PM, Toocool100 wrote: Level 49 now :)

Looks nice with the light background, congrats.

__________

HOPEFULLY my modem won't melt again and I won't need to catch-up again. :)

Also, I've reached 23,000 B/P. I wasn't expecting that so soon...

Onwards to 30,000!

Coop rues the Irish cheating win over England, while congratulating:
Pokemonpoeguygcn: Level 24
Fim: Level 37
Bloodthorne: Level 47
Powerage: 13,000 Experience
Helloween: Level 34
Toocool100: Level 49
Sir-Nuts: 23,000 B/P

At 2/27/10 01:42 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/27/10 05:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop cracks some skulls on the BBS, before congratulating:

In other words, you pushed your mouse button two, three times. Ha!

Of course - I don't want to go over-exerting myself, do I?

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/11/10 10:01 PM, NEVR wrote:

At 2/11/10 04:18 AM, Coop83 wrote: And to say that you only need another 71 more posts...

Oh, yeah. That is true... although I'm not a particularly big poster at the moment. There's just not much for me to post in really. General is pretty lame at the moment and most of the Wi/Ht? stuff rarely requires my input. Still, gotta push through the burn and get them 11,000 posts ;P

31 left, gogogo.

Make that 4 :P

At 2/12/10 03:19 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/11/10 03:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: I shall join the revolution... with multiple quoting!

Hurrah! We always need more troops :)

Posts INCOMING!

Excellent.

I'm still about 1,000 away from '21, but azteca89 is mostly inactive, so an easy pass, I feel :)

But afterwards, it's a 6000 B/P gap until bila. =/

Yeah, but that's a 6k gap, which makes about 4 users all bunch up and they should be passed in reasonably quick succession.

At 2/27/10 11:06 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/14/10 04:14 AM, Coop83 wrote: They raised the wall by half a metre, but hindsight always allows for things like this. I think that it was an utter tragedy for the kid to die like that and I've seen that video is circulating, but I didn't have the heart or stomach to watch.

And what's worse - the TV channel that's broadcasting the Olympics here shows the accident quite often. They don't freeze the image before he crashed, it's horrible. I don't know what they're thinking, it's inhuman showing that repeatedly.

Well, it shouldn't be too hard to find it on YouTube, but I can see your point. Mind you, if you try to find footage of Ayrton Senna's death, you've got a really difficult time. Dale Earnhardt is no problem, as that's from 2001, when cameras were everywhere around the track, but Senna had so few people paying attention to that corner, it was just a plume of smoke and dust, as he went off in the background of one shot.

Now, isn't it a huge incompetence to leave a set of metal pillars right next to a curve exit, where the athletes are at nearly 100km/h, and still blame him for the mistake? I haven't heard of anyone dying like that, and it's still his fault? Really, that makes me mad.

The computer model never suggested that the guy would fly off the track at that angle. Ergo, it was his fault. That's what the organisers would say.

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King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind
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At 2/27/10 01:18 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/27/10 12:36 PM, Bahamut wrote: Good, I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't bother with it and didn't make a new year's resolution just because everyone else follows the same bullshit year after year.

I know nobody who makes new year's resolutions.

Lucky you. I know a few who actually bothered with one. -_-

No I did, I said my alts will get through the shurikens soon enough and your alts won't even go past level 34 so I won that argument. HA!

But then your alts have to go through the shurikens, while mine do not. Or maybe I'll just find someone who deposits for me until they are out of the shurikens, so they would go past the shurikens, but I wouldn't have to witness it. HA!

Helloween's at level 34 so it's one step closer to leaving the shurikens. HA!

Also: Yeah, as if I would stop just to avoid the nasty shurikens...

But I was willing to stop at the battle axe on the pre-redesign to avoid the nasty staff for a few years. Good thing the redesign came well before I even did that.

Cheesy quotes will always be a very low priority for me.

And you call yourself a RE fan? :P

Obviously not a fanatic like you are but you still need RE4.

At 2/27/10 01:42 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/27/10 12:36 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hopefully the admins are trying to find a way to prevent this or at least catch the cheaters easily. That's why I won't even include medals to the list until they're out of beta.

There is no way to really prevent this since practically all flash games can be decompiled in some fashion. You just have to hope that people are able to spot them by finding they earned medals out of order i.e. they earned a medal for beating the game while they don't have one for an easy level, etc.

You'll be surprised at how similar things can be caught so quick and easily. I wouldn't be surprised if the staff find a way to detect decompiled flashes.

At 2/27/10 06:26 PM, Narusegawa wrote:

At 2/27/10 06:22 PM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote:

At 2/27/10 02:24 PM, Toocool100 wrote: Level 49 now :)

Congrats on reaching quite possibly the worst level icon in the history of Newgrounds.

If you ask me, there's probably uglier ones.

Yep, the shitblade is one of them and I'm glad I never had that level on my main. As for the cupid, it's the least awesome icon in the 40 - 49 range but I'll manage. Hell, I even like the trident and the bone axe.

At 2/27/10 07:15 PM, NEVR wrote:

At 2/27/10 06:26 PM, Narusegawa wrote: If you ask me, there's probably uglier ones.

Levels 58, 59, and 60 are laaaame in my opinion.

58's OK for me, 59 definitely sucks and 60, it's a god icon. How can I say no to that when I reach that particular level?

There was apparently the possibility of users who reached level 60 being able to continue to level up past 60, but retaining the same icon.

I remember you mentioning that to me ages ago. Since Pimp is 2 levels short, we'll see what happens when he gets there.

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Mini catch-ups ahead. I was going to post them earlier, but I had no internet for a whole day. That's right, I missed one deposit! D:

OH NOOOOOOO!

At 2/11/10 04:25 PM, reverend wrote: We could have it to where only one IP address could only submit two items per day but god forbid anyone on AOL networks who want to submit anything since IP Address tend to be shared by regions.

People still use AOL? :P

Sadly so. I haven't had them in 3 years now, though but I know some who are still stuck with them. Poor souls.

At 2/27/10 11:06 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:01 PM, Bahamut wrote: Ah nuts. I mean...Ah nuts!

What?

It's a clever reference. :)

Nah, PropHunt is the new 37.

PropHunt is full of awesomeness. Too bad I can never find good servers that don't kick me due to my ping (I hate NO HEROES because of that!).

PropHunt is indeed awesome. As for the servers, I would have asked how the Alpha & Omega one was for you but I'm guessing that's another server you can't get to due to high ping. Also, I hate NO HEROES for their reservation slots bullshit and the event spam they do to everyone who's in their Steam group.

At 2/13/10 02:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Mwahahahaha! You know what would be better, if I got everyone in the LUL to play PropHunt mod in TF2.

I'm in - I suck at hiding, though. =(

You'll get better over the time you play it. I've definitely got the hang of it most of the time now.

At 2/15/10 11:50 AM, Bahamut wrote: Actually, I wouldn't need to worry about shipping one bit as you would have got it digitally rather than getting the hard copy of The Orange Box.

Indeed. I'm living proof that there are no shipping taxes via digital methods - right Bahamut?

Indeed so!

At 2/15/10 01:11 PM, Bahamut7 wrote:

Thanks for supporting the Alternative Character Battle!

But of course! Hopefully a TF2 character will take this one.

That'd be great but Heavy has to take down Kefka and he's one hell of a character. It won't be easy.

At 2/23/10 11:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: I need to prove you all wrong someday.

Yeah, prove us wrong! Next week, maybe? :)

5 years?

Level 29

At 2/27/10 01:42 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/27/10 01:18 PM, Haggard wrote: But there are people who also cheat with B/P and with reviews (in my opinion, spitting out one liner after one liner is cheating. ^^), so it wouldn't be anything new.

Well those people are easy to spot and a quick PM to a Review Mod they are gone. It's a little more difficult with medals and there is no real person to inform, if and when you spot them; Goldfish if he isn't busy, I guess...

In case of reviews, yes. In case of B/P it's much harder to find those, as it is pretty hard to tell if someone uses a bot to vote or not (well, the last bot was pretty easy, as he simply got EVERY save possible for a whole week...)

At 2/27/10 11:06 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/13/10 10:43 AM, Haggard wrote: You really should try to adopt some more positive german vocabular. How about shouting "ERLAUBT" (= allowed) every once in a while? :P

Hey, my friend is taking German classes now. I ask him some words sometimes (like good night [gute nacht] and thanks [danke]), it makes me wonder if I should take German classes as well. :)

Yes you should. :P

At 2/14/10 04:14 AM, Coop83 wrote: They raised the wall by half a metre, but hindsight always allows for things like this. I think that it was an utter tragedy for the kid to die like that and I've seen that video is circulating, but I didn't have the heart or stomach to watch.

And what's worse - the TV channel that's broadcasting the Olympics here shows the accident quite often. They don't freeze the image before he crashed, it's horrible. I don't know what they're thinking, it's inhuman showing that repeatedly.

I only saw the video once and the TV station froze the image right after he flew out of the bobsled run and I think that already was too much...

At 2/26/10 11:01 AM, Haggard wrote: Even though it's kinda sad to see all the reviews "buried" in just one total stat. But four different review categories would be way too much.

Maybe we could have them split into Flash reviews and misc reviews, with all the others...

But then only flash reviews would stay out as a singe stat.

At 2/28/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/27/10 01:18 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/27/10 12:36 PM, Bahamut wrote: No I did, I said my alts will get through the shurikens soon enough and your alts won't even go past level 34 so I won that argument. HA!

But then your alts have to go through the shurikens, while mine do not. Or maybe I'll just find someone who deposits for me until they are out of the shurikens, so they would go past the shurikens, but I wouldn't have to witness it. HA!

Helloween's at level 34 so it's one step closer to leaving the shurikens. HA!

And how many alts still have to go through it?

Also: Yeah, as if I would stop just to avoid the nasty shurikens...

But I was willing to stop at the battle axe on the pre-redesign to avoid the nasty staff for a few years. Good thing the redesign came well before I even did that.

The staff is a whole different story, if it was still there I don't think I wouldn't let any alt get that high. ^^

Cheesy quotes will always be a very low priority for me.

And you call yourself a RE fan? :P

Obviously not a fanatic like you are but you still need RE4.

I wouldn't say I'm a fanatic. I was just there when the games where released the first time. So it's also a nostalgia thing.

Ranked Top 100 in B/P

was hard to achieve... =)

btw, i am curious, i remember there was a EGSC that was deleted, how many B/P point did he had when he was deleted? does anybody know?

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Helloween - Level 34
Toocool100 - Level 49!
Sir-Nuts - 23k B/P
Simple - Level 36
WeirdAlthe3rd - 7,000 Saves
Pokemonpoeguygcn - 22k Saves
juansolous - Level 29
aldlv - Top 100 in B/P!

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At 2/27/10 07:15 PM, NEVR wrote: I really hope that the voting curve doesn't return. Judging by how ridiculous it was to level up pre-redesign, I find it hard to imagine that the staff would think it was a good idea to bring it back. Surely that would just create the need for another redesign of the levels at some point in the future.

There was apparently the possibility of users who reached level 60 being able to continue to level up past 60, but retaining the same icon. Either that option or added levels would be better than reintroducing the DREADED CURVE, IMO.

If I was a betting man, I would put my money on the fact that the levels will be similar to the ranks where as people can continue on depositing but it doesn't affect anybody else or increases your level. It would make no sense to have a user spend 11 years just to get to level 60 just to pile on some more.

Not to mention they seems to ran out ides for level icons; shurikens for two levels, wtf?

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: I don't get it... If it was, for example, 1.90, it would still get saved if you voted two...

Yeah but it's basically pointless because voting a two will only affect the score by a little if you are trying to save it.

That's a good idea, but who knows when he'll check all those flashes. Maybe if a certain number of mods agree that a submission is stolen/malicious etc... the submission would get deleted automatically. I mean, so many of them couldn't be wrong at the same time, right? That would make things quicker for the staff.

You never know with the power of one person's opinion; some people can be lazy and just pass it off without checking it out.

Luis could add himself to the page. What is he doing there, getting drunk?

Most of the staff is drunk at any given time of the day. :P

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At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/12/10 02:13 PM, Auz wrote: *Tired*

I'm glad it's finally weekend again.

Envy me, I had the whole week off because of carnival! ;)

I do, carnaval in Brazil must be awesome 0.0

Just had a whole week off myself though, but it's only been boring and rainy out here. Having done much but hanging around doing nothing.

At 2/11/10 03:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

Heh, yes my dad is also mostly responsible for my knowledge of 80's music. I got to know U2 thanks to him.

Sweet. Although my dad is probably older than yours (he's 50 now), his musical ''era'' was a bit earlier. He's more fond of 60's/70's music. However, I think he has a tape (yeah, a tape!) with ''Joshua Tree'' in it. I don't know if it works or not, though.

Not much difference then. My dad is.. 48 now I think. But he used to be a DJ in the 80's at some small hang-out place for young people. I guess that's why he must prefer that era.

And a tape? :p I haven't seen one of those anymore since I was seven or so.

And downloading music is still easy, isn't it?

Eh, not really. I'm concerned about it nowadays, with all the recording companies bitching about it. =/

Oh yeah, true. Seems to be more and more bitching going on nowadays. I remember recently there was some discussion going on again in our government that people might get fined if they put music videos from youtube on their profile pages (like on facebook, myspace etc.). Luckily not many people supported that plan though, but I can see it happening in the future.

Yeah I heard it was pretty much his best album. I don't know much about his other albums though, and I don't think my dad has any David Bowie CD's or LP's unfortunately.

Get them yourself, why not... =)

Perhaps not a bad idea.

Yeah I know he did the soundtrack of The Exorcist. Although I'm not sure what that song was called.

I think Tubular Bells has only two 20-minute tracks, called Tubular Bells I and II.

Really? But they must be split up then in different parts, because I remember I had some part called 'Finale' on my MP3 coming from the Tubular Bells album.

In that case I don't know, isn't Sledgehammer one of their songs? I do like that one.

Nope, still Peter Gabriel. :P

Aw =(

Genesis is a pretty confusing band I guess. I think I must know some of their songs, but they could be from Peter Gabriel's or Phil Collins' solo-careers as well.

Is he perhaps a pretty famous guitarist like Snowy White?

I haven't heard of him before, so...

Snowy White is one of the other guitarists, the oldest one I think. And someone once wrote that he could be considered the sixth Pink Floyd member. He used to tour with Pink Floyd occasionally and now he tours with Roger Waters. I thought he was with them on the Animals tour and it could be that he even did some of the guitars on that album.

Also I thought he had some solo career once, but I guess he never really got world famous with that.

Hehe yeah that part is a bit awkward. But very powerful emotionally though, especially at the solo where you see his flashbacks as a kid.

Indeed. That part and ''The Trial'' as well are very ''touching''.

Agreed. The whole movie was actually very touching I think. At least it left a great impression on me after I first watched it.

At 2/27/10 11:04 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

gfox also recommends teh Muse, and is hoping to see them live in March. :::nods:::

I also recommend Muse. I have already seen them live, and I'm proud of that. =)

Well... I know a lot of people who are big fans of Muse, but for some reason I have never liked them all that much. I think it's mostly because of their singer (Matt Bellamy?). I just think he sounds very whiney.

Fro just got the news seconds ago that his niece was successfully brought into this world only a day after her brothers second birthday while saying Congrats To:

Hacsev: 7,777 Blams
sushi13: Level 26
AndrewGlisson13: Sergeant
Pokemonpoeguygcn: Level 24
Fim: Level 37
Bloodthorne: Level 47
Powerage: 13,000 Experience Points
Helloween: Level 34
Toocool100: Level 49
Sir-Nuts: 23,000 B/P, Spamming the LUL
Simple: Level 36
WeirdAlthe3rd: 7,000 Saves
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 22,000 Saves
juansolous: Level 29
aldlv: Ranked 100th in B/P

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At 2/27/10 01:18 PM, Haggard wrote:

I hope you are all right?

Luckily it will take more than a set of stairs to stop me. I'm not exaggerating though; if it wasn't for all the time in the weight room I wouldn't have walked away from that one laughing.

At 2/27/10 01:42 PM, reverend wrote:

What's the hell is the point of the B/P system if you're not going to watch the movies the way it's suppose to be watched. :P

Another thing that I strongly agree with.

At 2/27/10 11:04 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

Ah, but it's been a while since you changed your username, not everyone remembers Corky52. I think more people remember Fro, though. :)

Tom made a thread about how hardcore Corky52 was though. :P

At 2/28/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Lucky you. I know a few who actually bothered with one. -_-

Unlike most people with a weak will power I have followed my main one and have seen great results from it.

After two months away from home, my brother returns today!

Also, Canada x USA in a few hours. I have no preference this time, since I was willing for Russia to get Gold originally.

Listening to:
Oasis - Be Here Now

I bought this album yesterday for only R$ 15,00 (U$ 8.00; EU 6.00). It's pretty good, worth for that price. :P

Congrats to:
Simple - Level 36;
WeirdAlthe3rd - 7,000 Saves;
Pokemonpoeguygcn - 23,000 Saves;
juansolous - Level 29;
aldlv - Top 100 in B/P;

Thanks to:
Coop83
Odyssic
reverend
Auz

At 2/28/10 05:01 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop rues the Irish cheating win over England

6 nations tournament?

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: 31 left, gogogo.

Make that 4 :P

Initiate countdown - 4, 3,...

But afterwards, it's a 6000 B/P gap until bila. =/

Yeah, but that's a 6k gap, which makes about 4 users all bunch up and they should be passed in reasonably quick succession.

Right, after bila there are about 5 users stacked around 76k. It's going to be a good one.

And what's worse - the TV channel that's broadcasting the Olympics here shows the accident quite often. They don't freeze the image before he crashed, it's horrible. I don't know what they're thinking, it's inhuman showing that repeatedly.

Well, it shouldn't be too hard to find it on YouTube, but I can see your point. Mind you, if you try to find footage of Ayrton Senna's death, you've got a really difficult time.

Not really... since he was Brazilian, there's footage being shown every anniversary of him. Either on TV or on local websites, I've seen it innumerous times. It isn't that shocking, though, because of the dust clouds and we not being able to see him.

Senna had so few people paying attention to that corner, it was just a plume of smoke and dust, as he went off in the background of one shot.

You know, he didn't want to race that day because he had a bad feeling about that track... He shouldn't have raced that day.

Now, isn't it a huge incompetence to leave a set of metal pillars right next to a curve exit, where the athletes are at nearly 100km/h, and still blame him for the mistake? I haven't heard of anyone dying like that, and it's still his fault? Really, that makes me mad.

The computer model never suggested that the guy would fly off the track at that angle. Ergo, it was his fault. That's what the organisers would say.

Yeah... you can't predict everything via a computer. We're humans, mistakes are made all the time. That track got the infamous nickname of "death track"in our local transmissions.

At 2/28/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Mini catch-ups ahead. I was going to post them earlier, but I had no internet for a whole day. That's right, I missed one deposit! D:

OH NOOOOOOO!

Indeed. I even tried accessing Newgrounds at school, but the site was blocked. I blame myself for accessing it back in 2007 a couple of times while in there. =P

People still use AOL? :P

Sadly so. I haven't had them in 3 years now, though but I know some who are still stuck with them. Poor souls.

Yeah, I feel sorry for them... :(

At 2/27/10 11:06 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:01 PM, Bahamut wrote: Ah nuts. I mean...Ah nuts!

What?

It's a clever reference. :)

Too clever for me. :P

PropHunt is full of awesomeness. Too bad I can never find good servers that don't kick me due to my ping (I hate NO HEROES because of that!).

PropHunt is indeed awesome. As for the servers, I would have asked how the Alpha & Omega one was for you but I'm guessing that's another server you can't get to due to high ping.

Is it that one we were playing together once? The ping wasn't the best, but it was playable. And no, I didn't get kicked in there.

Also, I hate NO HEROES for their reservation slots bullshit and the event spam they do to everyone who's in their Steam group.

I don't like them because I have a regular 180 ping and yet they kick me (MAX 150). I play on servers where my ping is up to 230 and no one has ever complained! >:(

I'm in - I suck at hiding, though. =(

You'll get better over the time you play it. I've definitely got the hang of it most of the time now.

Hahahaha, yes. You have to be at those random places, among your similar objects. And, please, AVOID RUNNING RANDOMLY.

But of course! Hopefully a TF2 character will take this one.

That'd be great but Heavy has to take down Kefka and he's one hell of a character. It won't be easy.

Isn't the Spy on as well?

At 2/23/10 11:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: I need to prove you all wrong someday.

Yeah, prove us wrong! Next week, maybe? :)

5 years?

nonononono, next week!

At 2/28/10 10:39 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/27/10 11:06 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Hey, my friend is taking German classes now. I ask him some words sometimes (like good night [gute nacht] and thanks [danke]), it makes me wonder if I should take German classes as well. :)

Yes you should. :P

I'm between German, Italian and Spanish. Spanish would be more useful, since our neighbour countries all speak Spanish. But part of my family is German/Italian... Choices, choices...

And what's worse - the TV channel that's broadcasting the Olympics here shows the accident quite often. They don't freeze the image before he crashed, it's horrible. I don't know what they're thinking, it's inhuman showing that repeatedly.

I only saw the video once and the TV station froze the image right after he flew out of the bobsled run and I think that already was too much...

Lucky you - they were looping it over and over again in here.

Maybe we could have them split into Flash reviews and misc reviews, with all the others...

But then only flash reviews would stay out as a singe stat.

Sure, but they are a lot more common than audio/art reviews... I would gather them in a single stat. :)

At 2/28/10 12:35 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: I don't get it... If it was, for example, 1.90, it would still get saved if you voted two...

Yeah but it's basically pointless because voting a two will only affect the score by a little if you are trying to save it.

Hmm, I get it... But if we voted two, then it deserved to be voted like that. But yeah... maybe 1.80, then.

That's a good idea, but who knows when he'll check all those flashes. Maybe if a certain number of mods agree that a submission is stolen/malicious etc... the submission would get deleted automatically. I mean, so many of them couldn't be wrong at the same time, right? That would make things quicker for the staff.

You never know with the power of one person's opinion; some people can be lazy and just pass it off without checking it out.

DEMOD! DEMOD! =P

Luis could add himself to the page. What is he doing there, getting drunk?

Most of the staff is drunk at any given time of the day. :P

Hahahahha, I saw that as well. I really wonder what is in their fridges...

Possibly a bunch of beer & other alcoholic things.

Auz's VIP replies (since I was running out of characters in the other post :P).

At 2/27/10 11:00 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Envy me, I had the whole week off because of carnival! ;)

I do, carnaval in Brazil must be awesome 0.0

Depends... sure, there are parties pretty much everywhere you go to, but the amount of irresponsible people is just stunning. This year, I think we broke the record for deaths/injuries, mostly because of car accidents. Despite all the warnings, we managed to do it. >:(

Just had a whole week off myself though, but it's only been boring and rainy out here. Having done much but hanging around doing nothing.

I didn't do much during carnival either, aside from watching Avatar. :)

It's a great movie, but the ending is predictable since the beginning.

Sweet. Although my dad is probably older than yours (he's 50 now), his musical ''era'' was a bit earlier. He's more fond of 60's/70's music. However, I think he has a tape (yeah, a tape!) with ''Joshua Tree'' in it. I don't know if it works or not, though.

Not much difference then. My dad is.. 48 now I think. But he used to be a DJ in the 80's at some small hang-out place for young people. I guess that's why he must prefer that era.

Really? That's awesome! He must know a lot about the 80s, then.

Also, my dad is a little bit oldschool: he bought a leather jacket the other day - he looked like a bald Billy Idol. :P

And a tape? :p I haven't seen one of those anymore since I was seven or so.

Hahahaha, we used to have a car which still had a tape player, and we actually used it often!

But yeah, there's a tape player right next to me, i think it still works, despite being stopped for a while now. And there's a 12-pack of recording tapes in a drawer here, and it's still locked. My dad used them a lot back in the day. :)

And downloading music is still easy, isn't it?

Eh, not really. I'm concerned about it nowadays, with all the recording companies bitching about it. =/

Oh yeah, true. Seems to be more and more bitching going on nowadays. I remember recently there was some discussion going on again in our government that people might get fined if they put music videos from youtube on their profile pages (like on facebook, myspace etc.). Luckily not many people supported that plan though, but I can see it happening in the future.

Seriously? The recording companies have gone that low now?

Really, I think the artists like when their music is spread like that. It's more fame for them, more people will appreciate their music. That's why independent labels (like Domino [Franz Ferdinand, Dirty Projectors...]) are great - they don't really mind about that.

I think Tubular Bells has only two 20-minute tracks, called Tubular Bells I and II.

Really? But they must be split up then in different parts, because I remember I had some part called 'Finale' on my MP3 coming from the Tubular Bells album.

Well... on the back of the disc it's written just "Tubular Bells" part I and II, and it's only split due to the original vinyl recording, I think. But the song itself changes a lot during it's ~20 minutes, so it's possible that it's split.

Genesis is a pretty confusing band I guess. I think I must know some of their songs, but they could be from Peter Gabriel's or Phil Collins' solo-careers as well.

They have great songs, though. Really, give "Invisible Touch" a listen. :)

Snowy White is one of the other guitarists, the oldest one I think. And someone once wrote that he could be considered the sixth Pink Floyd member. He used to tour with Pink Floyd occasionally and now he tours with Roger Waters. I thought he was with them on the Animals tour and it could be that he even did some of the guitars on that album.

Ah, alright then. I read that he was playing with Pink Floyd during the Wall tour as well as recording some guitar parts in some albums. Weird, I've never heard of him before.

Also I thought he had some solo career once, but I guess he never really got world famous with that.

I'd guess he's more of a ''special participation'' guitarist, then.

Indeed. That part and ''The Trial'' as well are very ''touching''.

Agreed. The whole movie was actually very touching I think. At least it left a great impression on me after I first watched it.

Yeah, but it's a little weird as well. I mean, who becomes a Nazi leader overnight? :P

But I think that must mean something else, metaphorically...

I also recommend Muse. I have already seen them live, and I'm proud of that. =)

Well... I know a lot of people who are big fans of Muse, but for some reason I have never liked them all that much. I think it's mostly because of their singer (Matt Bellamy?). I just think he sounds very whiney.

Yup, that would be Matthew Bellamy.

And yeah, his singing sometimes is weird. In Supermassive Black Hole, he sings in falsetto, but it isn't very good. Although I really like Muse, their songs are so full of energy! :)

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Not so exclusive anymore, since Fro has just posted as well. :P

At 2/28/10 03:18 PM, Fro wrote: Fro just got the news seconds ago that his niece was successfully brought into this world...

Congrats, uncle Fro!

Sir-Nuts: 23,000 B/P, Spamming the LUL

Hey, I didn't spam anything... <.<

At 2/27/10 11:04 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

Ah, but it's been a while since you changed your username, not everyone remembers Corky52. I think more people remember Fro, though. :)

Tom made a thread about how hardcore Corky52 was though. :P

Hello, Mr. hardcore user with lots of friends! Hahahahaha, I remember that.

Anyone knows if the "friends system'' is still on the backburner?

700 (actually, 701) days on NG, Sergeant First Class, which, of course, means 8k b/p.Yay!

Level 36

I think this level is ugly, I can't wait to get rid of it.

I am 1/3 of the way to 100k B/P i have hit the mark of 33,333 B/P

At 2/28/10 08:46 PM, Little-Rena wrote: Level 36

I think this level is ugly, I can't wait to get rid of it.

You know, when the redesign dropped (in 2007, which in internet time is like a gazillion years ago now), I HATED level 36.

Maybe it's the fact that the yellow aura makes every level look so much better, or perhaps I've just mellowed out with age (lol), but it really doesn't seem so bad to me now. In fact, I'm looking forward to getting it more than I'm looking forward to getting level 35 in 3-4 days.

Maybe the fluffy part of the tomahawk coupled with the fab aura is just making the icon as a whole too girly? ;P

Oh yeah, and this is my 11,000th post. :)