Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 1 (Third Round): Terra Branford vs Revolver Ocelot

Listening to:

Anthrax - State of Euphoria

Thanks to:

RuinedMartyr
~X~
Coop83
ChampionAnwar
Odyssic

At 3/13/10 02:47 PM, Haggard wrote: I just noticed it a few hours ago, but this account is now 3,000 days old. Yes, that means if I'd deposited every day I would be at 30,000 Exp now.

You'd have been ahead of so many people by now, including gfox.

At 3/13/10 01:25 PM, Bahamut wrote: Just realised, after reaching 20,000 EXP, I am the first 4x20k'er. If the Pentalist started counting 20k instead of 10k (won't be happening at all while I'm running the list), I'd have been the first to be quadlisted.

Maybe you could add a special mention for those who gain 20k, 30k, etc. in a certain stat.

I suppose I could. However, that's if I do notice them. I'm sure I'll forget to check these milestones far too often.

At 3/12/10 05:18 PM, Haggard wrote: In his black chamber

I'm gone

That was fun! :D

It was, we could continue straight on with "Theatre of Pain" now. ^^

Wait, what about Time What is Time and Journey Through the Dark? You just sung Black Chamber out of the blue and now you want to sing Theatre of Pain? Do you have something against the first two songs of Somewhere Far Beyond?

We can do the riff and then I'll assist you with the lyrics.

Wouldn't be as interesting. ^^

I'm sure it will. Let me begin.

*plays intro guitar with the storm*

That's a great idea, actually!

So, how about "Deliverance"?

I was thinking of Bleak.

About time I got my own icon here!

I see what I can do tomorrow. :P

Well?

At 3/13/10 11:09 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Nice first grab of that i know if i havent been so lazy over the past few years i would have been first but woe is me i guess, anyways a BIG congrats to you on that

Just aim for 20k flash+audio reviews and you'll be there soon enough.

At 3/13/10 11:28 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 3/7/10 10:23 AM, Bahamut wrote: The effort will definitely be worth it. You'll prove to be as epic as gfox.

Maybe not epic, but possibly as patient as him. I mean, going through so many pages takes some effort and concentration from anyone. I find myself being delayed by TF2 constantly, like now, for example. :P

Man, I've hardly played TF2 over the last 3 weeks. I do have other games to play, you know? As a matter of fact, Counter-Strike is next up the list for my Steam games. The original Counter-Strike is pointless as there's hardly anyone playing it anymore. I'm guessing the only Counter-Strike game worth playing is Source version due to it being more popular. I'd hate to see what CS:S will be like once we get CS2.

Medic - Syringe Gun to find the props. Sadly, you can't heal hunters.

Hmm, not a good idea. How will you know what is a prop and what isn't? Only with the Blutsauger, if a "+3" shows up in your health.

You'll know when you hear a Scout getting hurt.

Not sure if that glitch has been fixed but they can shoot when they're the last prop remaining.

Hmm, maybe it was that all along. I've seen some props shooting sometimes, although I'm not sure if they were the last one or not.

That probably was it then. There is the occasional glitch where props can shoot. It's happened to me before and I tried killing the hunters right away. XD

At 3/13/10 06:09 AM, Bahamut wrote: 20,000 EXP!

Awesome, 4x20k!

Awesome, awesome to the max!

At 3/14/10 01:24 AM, Molotov wrote: Level 49

Dark aura with the horrible golden cupid? Not a great mix.

At 3/14/10 06:00 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop hopes to be on the upswing of better days, while congratulating:
Bahamut: 20,000 Experience; 1st 4x20ker. Perhaps I can be the second...

You and ~X~ will have to fight for the second 4x20k spot.

At 3/13/10 01:25 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/13/10 06:02 AM, Coop83 wrote:

You get points faster than I thought.

Yeah, I get between 55 and 75 per day, usually. Of course, this is guaranteed to be 10 for experience, 35 for B/P (I expect no less!), plus I aim for 8 posts and 1 or 2 reviews. When my B/P numbers go up, so do my overall numbers :)

That sounds fair. I'd comment on yourself needing to write more reviews than that each day but I have no right to make such statements. After all, a review or two is better than nothing.

At 3/14/10 07:25 AM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote: Going to take forever to get back to being ranked 150 again.

I hate to say this but it could be years for you. Yesterday I checked to see roughly when I'll be in the top 150 and from the looks of things, I might not be there until I'm level 48! But hey, on the other hand, if I reached it on my 21st birthday, that'll be a nice present. :)

At 3/14/10 08:15 AM, Odyssic wrote: Spoonyone reviewing FF X? Awesome!!

To be honest, I stopped caring about him a while ago.

Milestones:

32,000 B/P, 26,000 Medal Points

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I submitted a flash yesterday. The score was much better than expected and at midnight if it was a slower day it might have even won a daily 5th. DOESN'T deserve a daily 5th, but I can't help how others vote. :P

Any reviews will be responded to like always. It's also my 50th flash including ones that I'm coauthored on.

• 

  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

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Fro was a lucky one chosen to edit the game section of the wiki while saying Congrats To:

XwaynecoltX: 27,000 Saves
Racoonmario: 4,000 Posts
Sir-Nuts: Level 32 (didn't type Nutes this time and less spam please)
Spoop: Level 21
Molotov: Level 49
CampionAnwar: 1,111 Posts, 100 Audio Review Responses
A: Level 38
KingExodus: Level 16
BaronVonBadGuy: 18,000 Experience Points
1337: Level 36
Haggard: 14,000 Blams
HeavyTank: 31,000 Medal Points

Thanks To:

reverend
RuinedMartyr, but you got it wrong. I almost have 1,000 audio reviews...
Coop83
ChampionAnwar
Odyssic

I'm getting close to:

55,555 Total Stats
444 Review Responses
1,000 Flash Reviews
1,000 Audio Reviews

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At 3/13/10 08:27 PM, RuinedMartyr wrote:

Fro: 700 Audio reviews! Wow!

Review Responses!!!?!?!?

At 3/14/10 06:00 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Wow, that's really sad. Being around children as much as I am, that must be a really difficult pill to swallow.

Like you said though time was the only thing to really help. I wouldn't say that I'm over it by any means, but when I think about it I don't get sad anymore. It's more of a celebration of life thing instead of mourning the death now.

It does help that she has had two successful births in a row after this happened. As you can imagine I enjoy kids. I wouldn't be going to school to be a school teacher if I didn't.

At 3/14/10 10:26 AM, Fro wrote: RuinedMartyr, but you got it wrong. I almost have 1,000 audio reviews...

My apologies, I must have read something wrong.

Congrats to Ferrari for the Alonso/Massa double today!

And no credits AT ALL to whoever thought it would be a good idea to put Formula Indy in São Paulo.

Now watching:
Fail Indy São Paulo 2010.

Congrats to:
Molotov - Level 49;
ChampionAnwar - 1,111 posts;
A - Level 38;
KingExodus - Level 16;
BaronVonBadGuy - 18,000 exp.
1337 - Level 36;
Haggard - 14,000 Blams;
Fro - 32,000 B/P;

MANY TANKS:
Coop83
ChampionAnwar
Odyssic
Fro - I shall keep the spam, just to annoy you. >:)

At 3/14/10 06:00 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 3/13/10 07:25 AM, Auz wrote:

At 3/12/10 06:09 AM, Haggard wrote: I tried to find a translation for that word, but the only thing I found is "to have a nose for a goal". I think it's a bit different from the term "goalgetter".

Hmm maybe it is slightly different. In Holland we would say a "goaltjesdief" which is literally a "goals thief". I think that would be an accurate translation.

I'll just throw in the English term "Goal-hanger" - someone that loiters near the goal and seems to pop up on the line to score the simple goals. Fillippo Inzaghi, formerly of Juventus was one that I remember from my Sunday mornings watching Gazetta Football Italia

There is a very similar term in Portuguese to "have a nose for the goal", which would be someone who seeks the scoring opportunities, who is there whenever a chance comes. "Ter faro de gol".

At 3/13/10 12:40 PM, reverend wrote: Let me guess, Jimmy John.. I mean Schumacher is going to win.

Alonso and Vettel to fight for the win today, but watch for Barichello in 11th - he gets fresh tyres to start the race, unlike the top 10 ;)

I don't know what to expect from Barrichello this season. He had his best season last year under Brawn GP, but now I'm afraid he might come back to his old "F1 filler" days...

And, like usual, he came behind Schumacher. :P

At 3/13/10 11:28 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Ah right, makes more sense now. Oh, and who's England's goalkeeper? Since Seaman retired, I don't know who's been keeping for you.

Robert Green (West Ham) or David 'Calamity' James (Portsmouth) seem to be our keepers of choice.

I know Green better than James, and he's a pretty decent goalkeeper. But why David "Calamity" James? Is he that untrustworthy?

At 3/14/10 09:12 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/13/10 11:28 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: What about Bastian Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Ballack...? How are the other players doing right now?

Schweinsteiger plays a good season so far, he's now more in the defensive midfield and does a good job.

Defensive midfielder? I always thought he was one of the best offensive mfs around, why did he switch?

Lahm now plays good on the right side (at the beginning of the season he was kind of a bombscare), but I guess in the national team he will play on the left side again.

Hmm, right... What about the German defence? I don't know much about them, except for Mertesacker (which I actually managed to write correctly in my first try :P)

Ballack plays at Chelsea now, so we'd have to ask Coop how he plays. I don't follow the Premier League. ^^

All I know is that he's a great player and one of the few German players outside of Germany.

I don't know, maybe the home field advantage gave the German team a boost... Either way, in 06, Zidane messed with Brazil's plans once again... good thing that he retired. :P

The late goal against Poland was kind of a "booster detonation" before that the fans where of course rooting for the team, but after that goal suddendly the whole country changed. It was amazing. Suddendly you could see fans everywhere, singing the "WC song and being just happy in general.

Really? Well, the only two games I remember from Germany were the opening match and the third place match against Portugal. The latter one being a great match. :)

I love PK shoot-outs, especially when it isn't my team playing. :P

Maybe it also had an effect on the team, but there's a saying here, that germany is a "tournament team", meaning they suck before and after a tournament, but in the tournament, they (usually) come very far.

I know some players who are the opposite - they only play well in their clubs, when it comes to the national team they blow. :P

But yeah, Germany has done well in the tournaments, as far as I remember. In 2002 you lost to Brazil in the finals (hehehe ;P) and you got a third place in 2006. I expect Germany to go far in this cup, at least semi-finals.

I have high hopes on Honduras winning this year. :)

Haha, I have nothing against that as well. ^^

I wonder how much would they pay for someone who bets on Honduras if they win...

Maybe because we complain too much while playing. Like claiming for yellow cards, delaying the game... being bastards. :P

You know, that is what most people say about the italian team. ^^

Heh, I'll tell that to my Italian friend. He might get mad, though.

But really, some players just beg for fouls and love to come up to the referee. Go play and don't be whinny!

We lost in 98 to France, and I was watching it. :(

Oh, how could I forget about that.

It was a sad day - We were all reunited in my grandmother's house, cheering for Brazil... then came Zidane and blew our party. :(

At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: Wait, what about Time What is Time and Journey Through the Dark? You just sung Black Chamber out of the blue and now you want to sing Theatre of Pain? Do you have something against the first two songs of Somewhere Far Beyond?

Why don't you sing Mirror Mirror? :)

At 3/13/10 11:28 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Maybe not epic, but possibly as patient as him. I mean, going through so many pages takes some effort and concentration from anyone. I find myself being delayed by TF2 constantly, like now, for example. :P

The original Counter-Strike is pointless as there's hardly anyone playing it anymore.

I know some people who still play CS 1.6 often, maybe there are some servers up for it.

I'm guessing the only Counter-Strike game worth playing is Source version due to it being more popular. I'd hate to see what CS:S will be like once we get CS2.

Will there be a CS2.0?

Hmm, not a good idea. How will you know what is a prop and what isn't? Only with the Blutsauger, if a "+3" shows up in your health.

You'll know when you hear a Scout getting hurt.

Sure, but he won't scream all the time, right? =P

Hmm, maybe it was that all along. I've seen some props shooting sometimes, although I'm not sure if they were the last one or not.

That probably was it then. There is the occasional glitch where props can shoot. It's happened to me before and I tried killing the hunters right away. XD

Heh, I saw some Pyros getting killed by Prop scouts sometimes. It was odd seeing a jar shooting. :P

Nothing like cooking out on a beautiful day; congrats to:
Bahamut - 4x20k!
Racoonmario - 4,000 Posts
Sir-Nuts - Level 32
Spoopy - Level 21
Molotov - Level 49
ChampionAnwar - 100 Audio Review Responses
A - Level 38
BaronVonBadGuy - 18k Exp
1337 - Level 36
Haggard - 14k Blams and 3,000 Days on NG
Fro - 32k B/P

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At 3/13/10 11:28 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: 1/2 Explosm's unfunny/overrated Cyanide & Happiness + 1/2 Johnny Utah, basically.

Yep, I should have guessed another month of Explosm. Can't he go back to Joe Zombie or something. :/

They say people have to "exercise their citizenship". We still have the option to vote blank, though.

Voting blank, that works. Sometimes when I'm voting I don't have a clue whom to go for on the minor elections like Judges or Corporation Commissioner; there is no 'no vote' on our ballots.

Also, our voting system is 100% electronic, while yours is still on paper. Seriously, modern that! :)

Two reasons. All of the voting machines are bought on the local level so small towns can't afford fancy electronic machines. Second, many people have this fear of if it's not written down physically on a paper it won't be counted; tradition or just plain fear of technology mainly.

And why not LeBron James as a midfielder, with Patrick Kane as a striker? :)

Now there would be a sight. King James running down the field; I'd pay to see that.

At 3/14/10 06:00 AM, Coop83 wrote: Schumacher is on the 5th row of the grid, so not particularly stellar. I think that he will be out of contention for the race win, unless someone causes a pile up to take out the top 4, leaving it a more interesting dog fight between Merc and McLaren :P

My knowledge of F1 racing just increased tenfold. o.O

At 3/14/10 02:03 PM, AndrewGlisson13 wrote: IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!

Fucking lame. >:(

Pvt. First Class
B/P ing is so tedious.

Thanks everyone. Can't believe the achievements everyone is making, back in the day small fractions of what most of us are currently leveled would be amazing.

At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: I hate to say this but it could be years for you. Yesterday I checked to see roughly when I'll be in the top 150 and from the looks of things, I might not be there until I'm level 48! But hey, on the other hand, if I reached it on my 21st birthday, that'll be a nice present. :)

Reaching triple 20,000+ is nuts, a major accomplishment here on Newgrounds.
At my highest point I believe I was ranked 146, after my account was compromised I just said "fuck it" for the most part. Had that never happened I'd be over 22,000 experience right now. But hey, had a lot of life experiences within that period of inactivity.
The level you're at currently would be one of my favorites. Not too crazy about the icon I have for mine, but (personally) I don't believe there has ever been a worse level than the level 49 bow and arrow. Even the old level 23 staff before the update seems far better in comparison.

How delightful. 10k of anything is quite an accomplishment, even if it's saves.

At 3/14/10 09:00 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote: How delightful. 10k of anything is quite an accomplishment, even if it's saves.

Damn, wrong pic. Oh well. 10k saves

You entered the top 5000 in Experience Points. Outstanding!

Not sure what that means but I guess that good...

Coop watches proof that Craig Anderson is the best goalie in Colorado since Patrick Roy, while congratulating:
ChampionAnwar: 1,111 Posts; 100 Audio Review Responses
A: Level 38
KingExodus: Level 16
BaronVonBadGuy: 18,000 Experience
1337: Level 36
Haggard: 14,000 Blams
HeavyTank: 31,000 Medal Points
Fro: 36,000 B/P; 26,000 Medal Points
Ship: Private 1st Class
WilhelmTheVampire: 10,000 Saves
WeirdAlthe3rd: Level 16

At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/14/10 06:00 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop hopes to be on the upswing of better days, while congratulating:
Bahamut: 20,000 Experience; 1st 4x20ker. Perhaps I can be the second...

You and ~X~ will have to fight for the second 4x20k spot.

Hence why I said 'perhaps' :P

At 3/13/10 01:25 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/13/10 06:02 AM, Coop83 wrote:

You get points faster than I thought.

Yeah, I get between 55 and 75 per day, usually. Of course, this is guaranteed to be 10 for experience, 35 for B/P (I expect no less!), plus I aim for 8 posts and 1 or 2 reviews. When my B/P numbers go up, so do my overall numbers :)

That sounds fair. I'd comment on yourself needing to write more reviews than that each day but I have no right to make such statements. After all, a review or two is better than nothing.

I did 10 reviews yesterday - the problem being that 5 of them were Art Reviews :P

At 3/14/10 10:26 AM, Fro wrote:

At 3/14/10 06:00 AM, Coop83 wrote: Wow, that's really sad. Being around children as much as I am, that must be a really difficult pill to swallow.

Like you said though time was the only thing to really help. I wouldn't say that I'm over it by any means, but when I think about it I don't get sad anymore. It's more of a celebration of life thing instead of mourning the death now.

These things are sent to try us, but we shall overcome.

It does help that she has had two successful births in a row after this happened. As you can imagine I enjoy kids. I wouldn't be going to school to be a school teacher if I didn't.

Ah, that sort of career path. I couldn't do that, I spend too much time around children as it is, with mum looking after loads every day.

At 3/14/10 02:43 PM, reverend wrote:

At 3/14/10 06:00 AM, Coop83 wrote: Schumacher is on the 5th row of the grid, so not particularly stellar. I think that he will be out of contention for the race win, unless someone causes a pile up to take out the top 4, leaving it a more interesting dog fight between Merc and McLaren :P

My knowledge of F1 racing just increased tenfold. o.O

Well, I could go into how a broken exhaust for Sebastian Vettel gave Lewis Hamilton a podium to start the season. Perhaps this will give us the start that we were after.

At 3/14/10 02:03 PM, AndrewGlisson13 wrote: IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!

Fucking lame. >:(

LOL :P

At 3/14/10 05:15 PM, Ship wrote: B/P ing is so tedious.

Only if you make it so. I still enjoy it and I'll carry on climbing :)

At 3/15/10 01:01 AM, vader316 wrote: You entered the top 5000 in Experience Points. Outstanding!

Not sure what that means but I guess that good...

It means that there are less than 5,000 accounts on this site with less experience than you. It's not major, but the more you get, the better it will become. Look under level / experience on your profile for the corresponding "rank"

I'm short on time so other quotes will have to wait till tomorrow. :)

Milestone:

444 Flash Review Responses

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I made a thread yesterday about pulling all-nighters. Like always if someone is interested in the topic feel free to post.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1152 505

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Fro has class from 9 to 8:30 today while saying Congrats To:

Bahamut: 1st 4X20ker
Ship: Pvt. First Class
WilhelmTheVampire: 10,000 Saves
WeirdAlthe3rd: Level 16

Thanks To:

Sir-Nuts
reverend
Coop83

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At 3/14/10 10:34 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote:

At 3/14/10 10:26 AM, Fro wrote: RuinedMartyr, but you got it wrong. I almost have 1,000 audio reviews...

My apologies, I must have read something wrong.

That's fine. :)

But if you do it again I'll have to kill you.

Exp. Rank #: 250. Just Sayin'

Makes me wonder where I could be if I hadn't stopped depositing for like 6 months, but that's life.

Grats to:
WeirdAlthe3rd - Level 16
WilhelmTheVampire - 10,000 Saves.
vader316 - Top 5000 xp

Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 2 (Third Round): Eddie Riggs vs Psycho Mantis

Listening to:

Christopher Lee - Charlemagne

Thanks to:

reverend
Fro

At 3/14/10 01:16 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: Wait, what about Time What is Time and Journey Through the Dark? You just sung Black Chamber out of the blue and now you want to sing Theatre of Pain? Do you have something against the first two songs of Somewhere Far Beyond?

Why don't you sing Mirror Mirror? :)

Great idea but we have too many songs to sing.

The original Counter-Strike is pointless as there's hardly anyone playing it anymore.

I know some people who still play CS 1.6 often, maybe there are some servers up for it.

I guess I need a further look but I need servers where the majority of them are actually playing and not spectators.

I'm guessing the only Counter-Strike game worth playing is Source version due to it being more popular. I'd hate to see what CS:S will be like once we get CS2.

Will there be a CS2.0?

They've expressed interest in a true sequel to Counter-Strike before.

You'll know when you hear a Scout getting hurt.

Sure, but he won't scream all the time, right? =P

You will hear him getting hurt!

That probably was it then. There is the occasional glitch where props can shoot. It's happened to me before and I tried killing the hunters right away. XD

Heh, I saw some Pyros getting killed by Prop scouts sometimes. It was odd seeing a jar shooting. :P

You should see people killing Pyros as a CP prop.

At 3/14/10 07:48 PM, BaronVonBadGuy wrote: At my highest point I believe I was ranked 146

Damn, that just shows how fast the ranks go up here. I remember when you only needed to be level 44 in order to be in the top 50 but now you need to be at least 50 to even be there.

The level you're at currently would be one of my favorites.

I really like the mace too but the next level I'm looking forward to the most after the sword is the scythe. I don't mind level 44 but 45 is even better for me. I actually like every level from 37 - 48. It's a shame level 49 breaks the chain of great weapons.

I don't believe there has ever been a worse level than the level 49 bow and arrow. Even the old level 23 staff before the update seems far better in comparison.

On the bright side, we won't spend as long at level 49 as much as we would have at level 23 when we would have reached it on the pre-redesign. Old level 23 was so bad I was willing to stop at level 22. No need to stop before level 49 as I'll eventually get through the 100 or something days with it.

At 3/15/10 04:50 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: That sounds fair. I'd comment on yourself needing to write more reviews than that each day but I have no right to make such statements. After all, a review or two is better than nothing.

I did 10 reviews yesterday - the problem being that 5 of them were Art Reviews :P

That just means more of a sudden boost once art reviews are listed on userpages. :)

At 3/15/10 06:00 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: To be honest, I stopped caring about him a while ago.

I think I know what you mean, his videos have gotten pretty bad and his videos are like 1 hour long. I don't know who has the time to watch him. The FF X review is 20 minutes and is pretty funny.

The length of videos has always been an issue, even in his earlier days. I mean, 30 minutes of him listening to klingon language was just a chore. For his genuine reviews, I did save them for later but never bothered to watch them since I didn't care that much. Infact, I never saw the whole of Ripper while I was willing to spend 5 hours watching through his LP of Phantasmagoria 2. Spoony had great videos in the past but I feel there's nothing to him now.

Sir-Nuts replies coming up later.

Achievement of the Day
Molotov: Level 49

Nice! Although the level icon could've been much better if you ask me. But congrats anyway!

Congrats to:
Fro: 700 Audio Review Responses
XwaynecoltX: 27,000 Saves
letiger: 5.00 PPD
Bahamut: First 4x20k'er
Haggard: 3,000 Days on NG
Racoonmario: 4,000 Posts
Sir-Nuts: Level 32
Spoopy: Level 21
ChampionAnwar: 1,111 Posts
A: Level 38
KingExodus: Level 16
BaronVonBadGuy: 18,000 Experience
1337: Level 36
Haggard: 14,000 Blams
Fro: 32,000 BP
Ship: Private First Class
WilhelmTheVampire: 10,000 Saves
WeirdAlthe3rd: Level 16
vader316: Top 5,000 Experience
Fro: 444 Flash Review Responses
EternitySpent: Ranked #250 Experience

At 3/14/10 08:15 AM, Odyssic wrote: Spoonyone reviewing FF X? Awesome!!

Exactly my thoughts. Hopefully it will be as awesome as his FFVIII reviews.

At 3/15/10 06:00 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: To be honest, I stopped caring about him a while ago.

I think I know what you mean, his videos have gotten pretty bad and his videos are like 1 hour long. I don't know who has the time to watch him. The FF X review is 20 minutes and is pretty funny.

Yeah I have noticed that his videos have gotten longer and longer lately. I remember they usually didn't exceed 15 minutes, but nowadays he can easily ramble on for over half an hour. I don't mind if it's interesting or entertaining though, but the wrestling rants... they're just way too long and too boring imo.

But other than that, I think he's experimenting a lot and I guess it's good that he tries new things occasionally.

At 3/13/10 08:08 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/13/10 07:25 AM, Auz wrote: Hmm maybe it is slightly different. In Holland we would say a "goaltjesdief" which is literally a "goals thief". I think that would be an accurate translation.

Sounds like what we call an "Abstauber", someone who's suddendly there and scores the goal. Of course you need to have that "Torriecher" to be an "Abstauber". ^^

Yeah it's like that. The kinda guy who always manages to score an easy goal somewhere. Coop gave a good example with Filipo Inzaghi.

Is the German word literally "goals hunter" by the way?

The "Torjäger", yes that translates to "goal hunter".

But what's "riecher" then?

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure they have added up the points of every country once. Like 3 points for every win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss, no matter if it was group stage or final. And Germany came out #1, even though everyone was expecting Brazil.

Interesting. But I think Brazil has another great "stat". IIRC they never lost a final. So, when they made it to the finals they also won the tournament. Impressive.

That's impressive indeed. But like Sir-Nuts said, didn't they lose the final to France in 1998? It became 3-0, with goals from Henry and Zidane if I remember correctly.

At 3/13/10 01:25 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/13/10 07:25 AM, Auz wrote: Aren't we forgetting something? ;)

I know now. I can't believe I forgot to mention it earlier today.

Gives your 20k Experience achievement a bit more shine, doesn't it? :p

Part 1

At 3/14/10 12:29 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 3/7/10 01:52 PM, Auz wrote: Nah. It's a bit of a problem here as well. I believe youth prison is recorded, but for less serious crimes it's all forgiven and forgotten after you've done your work. The work is never that ... intimidating towards youth criminals since it's usually 8 hours a day for only one week. They're really soft on them. Therefore they usually go back to committing crimes soon and in the worse case they end up in the crime circuit, never to get out again.

It's getting worse in here, because the middle-class teenagers are getting into that criminal circuit as well. There was a thug in my class who brought knives, sprays and such to school. He was kicked, eventually, but which school will take him after that?

Yeah. With that he's pretty much forced to become a criminal.

I always thought people would get mistreated in Brazilian prisons, but sounds like they're not so bad if you are a prisoner there.

They are probably among the worst prisons in the world, actually. They're crowded, rusty, sometimes lacking space/cops, no beds... It's like a slave-house.

That's what I was expecting at first. If they're really crowded, rusty and lacking of cops, aren't there any major break-outs and riots occasionally?

And I would guess Latin. I thought juridical terms are usually in Latin and you guys are Latin America aren't you?

Hahaha, sorry, it's indeed in Latin. I thought it was created in Greece at first, but I was mistaken. :P

And yeah, we are Latin Americans, but there are so many Greek and Latin therms in Portuguese that it gets hard to figure out what's the origin of a word. And that turns out really complicated when adding prefixes and suffixes and figuring out words you don't know.

Strange. If I remember my history books correctly, Portugal and Greece never had much to do with each other. So how come there are so many Greek therms in the Portuguese language then?

It's a vast and complex language, which probably less than 300 million people speak in the world. I think we should have been colonized by either Spanish, Italian or German colonies. BUT WHY PORTUGUESE? >:(

I don't know. I only know they speak Portuguese in Brazil and Portugal, but there must be a few more African and South-American Portuguese countries right? So I think it might be a little more than 300 million (isn't Brazil already more than 300 million?).

But yeah I think I would've preferred Spanish or something as well if I lived in Brazil. I don't know much about the complexity, but it's like... the second language in the world after English.

But hey, you still beat the Dutch language, which is spoken by less than 50 million I think. Up here we're getting taught at least four different languages in middle-school, because otherwise we can't even order a sandwich when we're on a holiday =/

I'm not really pro-death penalty to be honest, but for such people a lifelong sentence would indeed be justified if you ask me.

Heh, now I remember my mom saying that she agrees on a torture sentence for some crimes. :P It's really revolting for her.

Heh torture. I think that's something more used in middle-eastern countries :p I remember watching a sickening video some time ago where some farmer there was shot in the limbs a couple times, forced to eat sand, whipped, driven over by a car and had his balls electrocuted.

I can't approve of such things either, no matter how bad your crime might have been.

Oh that sounds a lot like the Dutch system then, and probably many other European systems. We also have many parties, and after the elections the biggest party may join together with a few other parties to form the 'government'. This government usually has the majority so that they can make laws and decisions and the opposition (which are the remaining parties) can't thwart all their plans.

Hahaha, it's exactly the same thing. I think only the USA has a two-party system, then.

But does your governors get caught in a video tape receiving real money, then declaring it was meant to be for the poor people?

Hehe no :p If such a thing would happen, you would probably get a "motion of distrust" as we call it here. Means the minister has to explain himself and if he can't then he has to give up his job and leave politics forever. He'd probably get thrown in jail as well. I can assure you that if it gets caught on tape, he'd be arrested the same day the tape comes out.

One party left the government so now they got a minority. New elections will be held here soon, but it seems like right wing extremists are gaining in popularity =/ Even so much that they might win the elections (you might have heard of Geert Wilders?) which is very worrying. But that's another matter.

No, I haven't heard of him before, but as far as I've read, he's a pretty controversial figure.

Yeah you might know him from the movie Fitna? He's pretty much blaming all our countries problems on the muslims. He wants to stop the integration of muslims, stop the building of muslim churches and throw muslim criminals out of our country. For the rest he just says whatever's the popular opinion to win more votes for him.

It works pretty well on a country that is seemingly going downhill, as we have seen in Germany in 1939. The masses are buying it, but the more clever people know that those 'solutions' aren't going to help us =/

But hey, ten years ago our govern was basically a right wing party. It's stabilized the economy, creating our current currency (real [reh- all]), but many companies were sold, employment rates dropped... We're getting better only now, with Lula "the MAN", according to Obama. :P

Yeah I think Wilders is having similar ideas. He wants to drop taxes, stop a few major (controversial) projects and fire a LOT of people who are working for the government (like the higher up-people from the police). I believe it's all meant to fight the economic crisis, but I doubt it will work.

Anyway, is the system in your country anything like that?

Sure, although govern and opposition are more "balanced", so some things are approved while others are denied. It really matters whether there are more govern or opposition members at the voting moment. Yes, they come whenever they want to.

Whahahahaha, so sometimes they're not even there? :p Kinda makes me wonder why they became politicians in the first place. Sounds like they're only in it for the money and the power.

Optional? But is it mandatory to vote in your country then after a certain age? Because in our country about 20% of the people who can vote usually don't even show up and people can vote 'blanco' as well if they want to.

Yeah, after you're 18 and before 70 voting is obligatory. If you don't vote, you have to explain why you didn't vote or pay a tax for not voting (I'm not sure how much is it).

At least you won't get thrown in jail, like they do in some countries.

But yeah, sometimes I think it shouldn't be obligatory. I mean, sometimes people who aren't interested vote for anyone they think that "looks good". So why not leaving it for those who are interested? =/

Yes indeed. You'll get a lot of votes from people who don't know jackshit about who they're voting for and what's going on in the country. That can't be right.

And part 2.

At 3/14/10 12:58 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 3/7/10 01:53 PM, Auz wrote: Heh I couldn't care much for the father either. But yeah it was quite nice to see her meet the real Jake. You knew it would happen, but they did that scene quite well.

Yeah, but it's one of the problems in the movie. I mean, EVERYONE knew that was going to happen, really predictable. And everyone knew he would become one of them in the end.

Yeah it's one of the major flaws of the movie. I'm glad it didn't won so many oscars by the way, because it wouldn't have deserved them imo.

So he was like touching and adjusting his glasses all the way through the movie? That has got to be very annoying.

Yeah, I noticed him adjusting them quite often. Maybe it was only those glasses, there might be better shaped ones around.

I think they usually only have one size for everybody in the cinema's. Perhaps your dad just needs bigger ones.

Speaking of 3D glasses by the way. I went to Alice in Wonderland yesterday and the glasses I got there were much better than the ones I had at Avatar. They were sort of greenish when you looked straight through them and this time almost everything on the screen was sharp. So they didn't hurt my eyes so much like they did with Avatar.

Really? The glasses I had looked purple when I looked at them, but the lens were pretty small, IMO. I think that was one of the reasons of it causing headaches.

I don't know. I think the headache is mostly caused by the fact that your eyes are almost constantly trying to adjust themselves to the screen, and what your eyes see doesn't match with what your brain tells you.

I guess the quality of the 3D movie just depends a lot on to which cinema you go.

Hmm, I think there are only three 3D rooms in here. Once it gets more popular, they should open more.

Only three in all of Brazil? :o Or just in your region?

Oh, and how's the movie, anyway? Worth watching?

I think it was pretty enjoyable and worth a visit to the cinema's. Don't expect it to be anything like the books though, a lot of elements in the cinema version do not fit the book that well actually. Like wars and fighting scenes.

And I think the general opinion on the movie is that the story, dialogues and all that are nothing amazing, but the visuals are stunning. So yeah it's worth going to the cinema's for, just don't expect too much.

Well at you least you got a 50% discount ;) Normally you could about 50% off here if you go in the morning on normal weekdays. For some reason you can not benefit from any discounts here when you go to a 3D movie though =/

Really? No discounts for #d movies? That's unfair - it's still a movie, isn't it?

Yeah it doesn't make any sense to me.

Oh, and the weekday also matters in here. Weekends and holidays are more expensive, while weekdays are about 5,00 cheaper. It's great going to the cinema after school, specially when there's a mall right next to your school. :)

Heh yeah I wish there was a cinema nearby here as well. Otherwise I'd consider buying a subscription so that I can go to the cinema all year for a set price. I'd love to spent some of my evenings there every month.

Well the companies invest in them and own their rights probably, so they want the money ;) But yeah it would probably be good if artists were clear on their standpoints on this themselves.

Yeah, we don't know what artists think about that, not all of them, at least. I mean, everyone knows how much Metallica LOVES when you download one of their songs. ;P

Haha :p Aren't people blaming them nowadays for becoming sell-outs or something? Like when they made a Metallica Rock Band version, their fans really didn't like that or so I've heard.

Also they played at a dutch festival called Pinkpop two years ago. Pinkpop... as the name already implies, it's mostly for pop/poprock music and a lot of people are dressed in pink there. There's nothing heavy metal about it at all. Yet they played there anyway.

Yeah that's what I thought. It's too bad, but it might also explain the high ticket prices.

Sure, it's possibly BB King's last world tour, but 150,00 for the CHEAPEST one? If it was about 100,00, I could've bought a ticket, but those extra 50,00 make a big difference. Come on, I paid only 40,00 for Muse. :)

Lol. That's a big difference indeed. How much are these 'reals' worth in dollars?

Yes that would be a good occasion. I believe Syd Barrett also passed away in 2006 or so, so they could also dedicate it to him as well.

That's a good idea, although I think they didn't get along with Syd Barrett really well. Still it would be a nice homage to the former members.

I don't know about that. All I know is that Syd Barrett lived alone for the rest of his life and always got pissed when reporters called him Syd Barrett. So I guess he never had much contact with the band anymore after the emotional meeting when they were recording Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

Yeah you could see they were a bit uncomfortable. Not so strange though since they also had a camera running right under their noses. I can imagine they didn't want to be too emotional when the whole world was watching.

Right... but do you think David Gilmore holds any bad feeling over Waters? I mean, the band didn't end in the most pacific way possible...

I think a friend told me some time ago that David Gilmore is the only one stopping a Pink Floyd reunion at the moment. The other band members have set their differences aside at some point.

Nope I have not. H.A.A.R.P is short for one of their tours/albums I assume...?

It's their live album and the tour I went to. There are some great songs missing in the album, but it's great to listen to, anyway.

And HAARP is short for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. Don't ask me why they put that as the title. :P

Lol, that's a crazy title indeed. It's even weirder than How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (U2). Is there any deep thought behind it (sorry for asking anyway)? :p

Yeah instrumentally they are always pretty good, but it's always the singing that turns me off and I think that song really makes it clear what I mean.

So if they made an instrumental album...? :)

I think I might like it?

I might have heard Hysteria before, but I'm not sure. I have listened to Plug in Baby recently as well. I thought it was alright, but still nothing too amazing.

I really like it's riff. I actually learned how to play the whole song in one afternoon, it's easy and fun to play.

I'm no guitar player myself, but it indeed doesn't seem like a difficult song to me. As far as I can hear there are like only... two riffs in the entire song and that's it for the guitar play?

I'm pretty sure it would still take me weeks to learn though, since I really don't have any musical talent.

Haha really? :p Judging from their titles I always thought they would have very deep lyrics or something.

They really like to use metaphors, though. They aren't that hard to understand, but some are harder to make sense.

Despite that, I believe they don't use drugs. :P

Nah they don't seem like drug users to me. They seem more like the kinda guys that never smoke, drink or do drugs at all actually. I forgot how those people were called again... straight-edgers or something...?

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At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/13/10 02:47 PM, Haggard wrote: I just noticed it a few hours ago, but this account is now 3,000 days old. Yes, that means if I'd deposited every day I would be at 30,000 Exp now.

You'd have been ahead of so many people by now, including gfox.

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At 3/12/10 05:18 PM, Haggard wrote: In his black chamber

I'm gone

That was fun! :D

It was, we could continue straight on with "Theatre of Pain" now. ^^

You just sung Black Chamber out of the blue and now you want to sing Theatre of Pain? Do you have something against the first two songs of Somewhere Far Beyond?

It's just that "Theatre of Pain" follows directly after "Black Chamber". ;)

We can do the riff and then I'll assist you with the lyrics.

Wouldn't be as interesting. ^^

I'm sure it will. Let me begin.

*plays intro guitar with the storm*

*plays drums*
BAM-BAM-BAM

That's a great idea, actually!

So, how about "Deliverance"?

I was thinking of Bleak.

Would be nice as well.

About time I got my own icon here!

I see what I can do tomorrow. :P

Well?

How's that? (See below)

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At 3/13/10 08:08 AM, Haggard wrote: At 3/13/10 07:25 AM, Auz wrote::

Is the German word literally "goals hunter" by the way?

The "Torjäger", yes that translates to "goal hunter".

But what's "riecher" then?

"Riechen" is what you do with your nose besides breathing. ^^
And "einen Riecher für etwas haben" translates as "to have a nose for something".

That's impressive indeed. But like Sir-Nuts said, didn't they lose the final to France in 1998? It became 3-0, with goals from Henry and Zidane if I remember correctly.

Yeah, I forgot about that.

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At 3/15/10 04:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop watches proof that Craig Anderson is the best goalie in Colorado since Patrick Roy, while congratulating:

Heresy! It's more of Dallas just being unlucky and not being able to hit a broad side of a barn.

Well, I could go into how a broken exhaust for Sebastian Vettel gave Lewis Hamilton a podium to start the season. Perhaps this will give us the start that we were after.

Right.

Run off to Wikipedia to see who Vettel and Hamilton is.

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At 3/14/10 02:43 PM, reverend wrote:

At 3/13/10 11:28 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: They say people have to "exercise their citizenship". We still have the option to vote blank, though.

Voting blank, that works. Sometimes when I'm voting I don't have a clue whom to go for on the minor elections like Judges or Corporation Commissioner; there is no 'no vote' on our ballots.

I'll try to avoid voting blank. I didn't get the voting card in vain, I'll vote for someone! :)

Also, our voting system is 100% electronic, while yours is still on paper. Seriously, modern that! :)

Two reasons. All of the voting machines are bought on the local level so small towns can't afford fancy electronic machines.

Wouldn't the government pay for everything?

Second, many people have this fear of if it's not written down physically on a paper it won't be counted; tradition or just plain fear of technology mainly.

Ah, this is just pride. I mean, we never had huge problems with the machines, if they broke, they're replaced either by another one or by paper, but about 1% of them have problems. And no, they don't run on Windows. :)

Import them from Brazil! :P

And why not LeBron James as a midfielder, with Patrick Kane as a striker? :)

Now there would be a sight. King James running down the field; I'd pay to see that.

Hmm, and who could be the coach...? Maybe Brett Frave? :)

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At 3/15/10 04:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop watches proof that Craig Anderson is the best goalie in Colorado since Patrick Roy...

48 saves, 3 goals allowed, that's impressive. And wow, the Avs will make the playoffs after a disastrous run in 2009. Too bad I can't say the same for the Islanders. :(

Although Roloson's 58 saves for the Islanders was astonishing.

At 3/15/10 11:25 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/14/10 01:16 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Why don't you sing Mirror Mirror? :)

Great idea but we have too many songs to sing.

Could it be the next in the playlist? :P

I know some people who still play CS 1.6 often, maybe there are some servers up for it.

I guess I need a further look but I need servers where the majority of them are actually playing and not spectators.

Give it a look, CS1.6 was a great game, I had quite some fun with it.

Will there be a CS2.0?

They've expressed interest in a true sequel to Counter-Strike before.

Hmm, I thought CS:S would be their definite version of the game, and they would only update it, like TF2.

But yeah, it's a very popular game, a sequel would be a good idea, since CS:S is from 2005 (I think).

Sure, but he won't scream all the time, right? =P

You will hear him getting hurt!

Meh, playing Pyro is a better idea. :)

Heh, I saw some Pyros getting killed by Prop scouts sometimes. It was odd seeing a jar shooting. :P

You should see people killing Pyros as a CP prop.

I was a control point once, and I managed to hide behind a stair set. And three Pyros bypassed me, Imagine my despair! :O

I think I'll play PropHunt for a few minutes before going to sleep. :)

At 3/15/10 11:26 AM, Auz wrote: Sir-Nuts replies coming up later.

And so are yours. :P Sorry.

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At 3/15/10 01:33 PM, reverend wrote:

At 3/15/10 04:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop watches proof that Craig Anderson is the best goalie in Colorado since Patrick Roy, while congratulating:

Heresy! It's more of Dallas just being unlucky and not being able to hit a broad side of a barn.

Oh, they could hit the broadside of a barn, it just meant that Anderson had to make 48 saves from 51 shots on goal. A nice final save off his mask as well :)

Well, I could go into how a broken exhaust for Sebastian Vettel gave Lewis Hamilton a podium to start the season. Perhaps this will give us the start that we were after.

Right.

Run off to Wikipedia to see who Vettel and Hamilton is.

Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Racing driver, challenger for the World title last year.

Lewis Hamilton - McLaren Driver, 2008 World Champion, youngest World Champion and teammate of the current World Champion, Jenson Button

At 3/15/10 09:35 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 3/15/10 04:50 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop watches proof that Craig Anderson is the best goalie in Colorado since Patrick Roy...

48 saves, 3 goals allowed, that's impressive. And wow, the Avs will make the playoffs after a disastrous run in 2009. Too bad I can't say the same for the Islanders. :(

Well, we know he's a keeper of quality, as he's tied for second in the league in shutouts and leads the leagues in saves made.

Although Roloson's 58 saves for the Islanders was astonishing.

Yeah, that's pretty good, but having a leaky defence can do that to a team. So many Avs bodies on the ice blocking shots for Andy on Sunday night :P

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Just for future clarification purposes, what makes up *total points*?

I know B/P, Reviews and Exp, but what else? Do medal points/posts count toward the total?