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...?

Forgot to mention it:
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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.

Yeah, but I also would need a deposit rate of almost 100%. Not even Pimp deposits so regularly.

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)

At 3/14/10 10:26 AM, Fro wrote: Fro was a lucky one chosen to edit the game section of the wiki while saying Congrats To:
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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? :)

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

Fucking lame. >:(

He broke the LUL's main rule:

NO STUPID MEMES. >:(

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?

At 3/16/10 07:22 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote: 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?

Dude, it's on my post.Besides, you just have to check the bottom stuff on NGlogs..

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

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.

I'm looking for the older children such as 5 or 6th grade. That's when they get a bit more cocky, but it's also when they get a bit more easier to handle. I also get to teach the subject more instead of more of a babysitting job. My major allows me to teach from 3-8, but I rather stick to the Elementary levels.

On top of that I want to teach at a Catholic school if at all possible. The behavior there is much better and usually the kids are at a very advanced level of learning.

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A nice achievement. Congrats!

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At 3/15/10 12:37 PM, Haggard wrote:

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".

Oh of course :p I had some trying laying the connection, but it's pretty obvious actually.

'Goalsmeller', heh :p

At 3/16/10 07:43 AM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 3/16/10 07:22 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote: 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?

Dude, it's on my post.Besides, you just have to check the bottom stuff on NGlogs..

Well, to be fair, I didn't know that was the standard. For all I knew it varied.

May I ask then, why medal points are not included?

Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 3 (Third Round): Amaterasu vs Tommy Vercetti

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Fates Warning - Parallels

Thanks to:

Auz
reverend
milinko959
Sir-Nuts
RuinedMartyr
Coop83
Fro

At 3/15/10 11:26 AM, Auz wrote:

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

I heard the wrestling rants were like over 40 minutes. I'm already aware of how bad wrestling is these days so why bother listening to someone talk about it for so long?

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

Oh yes!

At 3/15/10 12:37 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: You'd have been ahead of so many people by now, including gfox.

Yeah, but I also would need a deposit rate of almost 100%. Not even Pimp deposits so regularly.

True enough but consider what you'd have if you had 99%+ deposit rate like myself and Coop.

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 should have sung the other two songs first. However, what about Mirror Mirror as Sir-Nuts keeps requesting?

I'm sure it will. Let me begin.

*plays intro guitar with the storm*

*plays drums*
BAM-BAM-BAM

*plays intro riff*

I was thinking of Bleak.

Would be nice as well.

Yes but we can't do three songs at once.

Well?

How's that? (See below)

Make awesome sexy and just use my icon as before. That one doesn't work well.

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

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

Fucking lame. >:(

He broke the LUL's main rule:

NO STUPID MEMES. >:(

I'd ask why it couldn't be a BBS rule but a LUL rule is better than nothing. :P

At 3/15/10 11:25 AM, Bahamut wrote: Great idea but we have too many songs to sing.

Could it be the next in the playlist? :P

We'll see what Haggard says.

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 do if I can find any busy servers. If not, I'll have to move onto the next game.

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.

I thought CS:S was just a source port of Counter-Strike just like Half-Life: Source being nothing more than a source port from the original game.

You will hear him getting hurt!

Meh, playing Pyro is a better idea. :)

Of course, I was just trying to make the medic useful.

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

Heh, you should have seen me in Cyberpunk. I was high up, close to another prop and a Pyro saw the other prop but not me and I lived through the end at that one spot. Again, Cyberpunk is too big.

At 3/16/10 08:54 AM, Fro wrote: Fro has a lot of work to do today, but feels motivated to do it while saying Congrats To:

Bahamut7: 7.77 VP (looks like a good place to stop)

That's what TheNumberOfTheDragon is for. And besides, I don't want my Character Battle alt to have the fluffy axe for eternity. It needs the sword!

At 3/16/10 10:21 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote: Well, to be fair, I didn't know that was the standard. For all I knew it varied.

May I ask then, why medal points are not included?

Counting medal points as part of the total stats would be insane. Not only would you easily have a 10k stat and be one step closer to the 10k lists but at a later point, someone could get 100,000 points with ease and some of us have worked on getting to that milestone without medal points for years. It's not a balanced stat at all. Number of medals on the other hand, would be fine.

At 3/16/10 10:38 AM, Bahamut wrote: Counting medal points as part of the total stats would be insane. Not only would you easily have a 10k stat and be one step closer to the 10k lists but at a later point, someone could get 100,000 points with ease and some of us have worked on getting to that milestone without medal points for years. It's not a balanced stat at all. Number of medals on the other hand, would be fine.

I understand completely what you mean, but I assumed total stats would entail all of one's stats? And it is a stat.

I don't see how unbalanced it really is, considering it's just like any other stat and the playing field is even. Everyone has an equal opportunity to acquire medals, it also gives more purpose to acquiring them other than for sheer stat-whoring.

I was just curious, although I don't intend to post my accomplishments of total stats, because I don't much see the validity of that. Adding different stats together to create a nice even thousand just doesn't seem worth mentioning in my eyes.

Anyway, thanks for the explanation.

Rev is wondering when Lvl 34 is going to be over with; Congrats to:
egarewop - 7,000 Exp
Sir-Nuts - General
RuinedMartyr - 1,000 Exp
SpiffyMasta - Level 22
PabMo - Level 14
HeavyTank - 20k Total Stats

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At 3/15/10 09:35 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Wouldn't the government pay for everything?

The argument would be is why pay for high tech voting machines when you need the money to patch potholes in the road. Not to mention you would have to find someone knowledge able to run said machine. Most of the people who run polling places are pretty old in age.

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. :)

Paranoia and easy of use, I guess. The ones in my state are just scan-trons where you just complete the line to vote. I guess they feel no need to reinvent the wheel.

At 3/16/10 11:35 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote: I understand completely what you mean, but I assumed total stats would entail all of one's stats? And it is a stat.

A pretty cheap one at that. The other official stats are traditional and have been around for awhile while the medals only have been around for a short time, relatively speaking.

I don't see how unbalanced it really is, considering it's just like any other stat and the playing field is even. Everyone has an equal opportunity to acquire medals, it also gives more purpose to acquiring them other than for sheer stat-whoring.

From the medal thread it seems pretty easy to hack and steal medals or if you're a total loser can earn many cheap ones in a day or two (Newgrounds Pass 3, anyone?); you can't do that with Exp, Reviews, etc.

I was just curious, although I don't intend to post my accomplishments of total stats, because I don't much see the validity of that. Adding different stats together to create a nice even thousand just doesn't seem worth mentioning in my eyes.

It's a culmination of a person's total work on NG, per se. Reaching 10k Total Stats isn't really much but when you've earned over 60k, 70k 80k you know a user has been pretty active on NG.

Listening to:
Machine Head - Supercharger
Alice In Chains - Angry Chair
Tocotronic - Hi Freaks

At 3/15/10 01:33 PM, reverend wrote: Rev's key chain got 100 percent cooler; congrats to:
Haggard - 777 Audio Responses

Thanks!

At 3/15/10 09:35 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Congrats to:
Haggard - 777 Audio review responses;

Thanks!

At 3/16/10 12:48 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote: Ruin settles down for the night and Congratulates:
Haggard: 14,000 Blams! 777 Audio Review Responses!

Thanks!

At 3/16/10 03:20 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop is very tired, due to a wrong number call at 1 am and an early morning. Congratulations to:
Haggard: 700 Audio Review Responses

Thanks. But you embezzled 77 of my responses. :(

At 3/16/10 08:54 AM, Fro wrote: I also submitted a drawing of a shoe to the art portal. See here or at the bottom of my post.

Looks very nice.

Fro has a lot of work to do today, but feels motivated to do it while saying Congrats To:
Haggard: 777 Audio Review Responses

Thanks!

At 3/16/10 09:32 AM, Auz wrote: Achievement of the Day
Haggard: 777 Audio Review Responses

A nice achievement. Congrats!

Wow, never thought to get AotD with that. Thanks! :)

At 3/16/10 10:38 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/15/10 12:37 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/14/10 09:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: You'd have been ahead of so many people by now, including gfox.

Yeah, but I also would need a deposit rate of almost 100%. Not even Pimp deposits so regularly.

True enough but consider what you'd have if you had 99%+ deposit rate like myself and Coop.

Well, if I keep depositing for an infinit amount of days, I'll reach a 99%+ deposit rate eventually. ^^

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 should have sung the other two songs first. However, what about Mirror Mirror as Sir-Nuts keeps requesting?

Mirror Mirror isn't one of my favorite songs. And the reason why I mentioned Theatre of Pain is that every time I hear that "I'm gone" I instantly have the intro for "Theatre" in my mind. XD

I'm sure it will. Let me begin.

*plays intro guitar with the storm*

*plays drums*
BAM-BAM-BAM

*plays intro riff*

*continues with drum riff*

I was thinking of Bleak.

Would be nice as well.

Yes but we can't do three songs at once.

No, that would sound awful.

Well?

How's that? (See below)

Make awesome sexy and just use my icon as before. That one doesn't work well.

Fact: I tried to write "unsexy", but it didn't let me.

At 3/16/10 11:35 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote:

At 3/16/10 10:38 AM, Bahamut wrote: Counting medal points as part of the total stats would be insane. Not only would you easily have a 10k stat and be one step closer to the 10k lists but at a later point, someone could get 100,000 points with ease and some of us have worked on getting to that milestone without medal points for years. It's not a balanced stat at all. Number of medals on the other hand, would be fine.

I understand completely what you mean, but I assumed total stats would entail all of one's stats? And it is a stat.

Well, it's no stat in the left column of our profile pages, like Level, B/P, Experience, etc. . ;)

I don't see how unbalanced it really is, considering it's just like any other stat and the playing field is even. Everyone has an equal opportunity to acquire medals, it also gives more purpose to acquiring them other than for sheer stat-whoring.

First off, the medal system is still in a beta phase, so sadly it's not that everyone has an equal opportunity to get the medals. Sometimes medals will work and then they will break, making it impossible to gain them (see Shift 4 for example), or you only have one shot at a medal, if you blow it, you'll never be able to gain the medal (see the "litarate/iliterate" medals on Seed of Destruction for example).

And also it's unbalanced because: You gain exactly one point for every flash you save, one point for every flash you blam, one point for every post, one point for every review.
But you get between 5 and 100 points for every medal you earn...

Adding different stats together to create a nice even thousand just doesn't seem worth mentioning in my eyes.

I know what you mean. When I was still creating lists I only congratulated very special "total stats" achievements.

Just noticed on nglogs that my newgrounds accountactually turned 3 years old during the weekend and i never noticed until today.

At 3/15/10 12:10 PM, Auz wrote:

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

Break-outs aren't more difficult to happen. Despite being crowded, they won't hesitate in shooting whoever tries to leave.

But yeah, once a year or so we see riots where the prisoners take over the place and start demanding things, such as the liberation of certain prisoners (like "bosses" of drug dealing). They either give up or the police represses them, and their penalty is extended.

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?

I don't really remember, I haven't studied the history of the Portuguese language. All I know is that it's a variant of a region in Spain. Maybe Spain was more connected with Portugal?

Still, the majority of terms are Latin, some are Greek.

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?).

Nah, not really. The two major countries would be Brazil and Portugal, with some countries in Africa, but none in South America. There are fewer than 300,000,000 lusophonics, I'm sure.

Brazil is nearing 200 million right now. And our neighbours speak mostly Spanish, with the exception of French (French Guiana), English (Guyana) and Dutch (Suriname). See, you can live in South America if you want to. :)

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.

Plus, most of our neighbour countries speak Spanish, so it would be better if we ALL spoke Spanish as a native language.

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 =/

Well, if you know English, you can survive pretty much anywhere. :P

I'm still thinking whether or not I should learn a third language...

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.

Our governor was only arrested a month later, for trying to "buy" a testimony. He was "interfering the investigations" as they said... And now, he'll leave jail for a heart surgery, who knows who many people want the surgery to go wrong. :P

Oh, and my dad wrote a mini-article for the newspaper that got published regarding the governor's situation. In his words, "Federal intervention NOW!". I think it's his third article in the newspaper. :)

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.

Wow, he is that racist? And he's running for the elections? o_O

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.

Well, I'm afraid of our next govern... The right wing candidate is ahead in the pre-voting polls, but the left wing is closing the gap... maybe it's because our current president (left party) brings his candidate EVERYWHERE to help her campaign. That's cheating. :P

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.

Sure, isn't that obvious? :P

Some of them only show up when they want to, make those "pre-made speeches" and travel somewhere else. SUUUUURE...

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.

Really? Arrested for not voting?

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.

Also, some politicians try to buy votes from the more poor classes, and for really low prices. We usually see some getting caught, but who knows how many have "escaped" with that?

At 3/15/10 12:12 PM, Auz wrote:

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

Heh, and James Cameron lost the Best Director award to his ex-wife. :P

Imagine what their son would be like?

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.

Maybe, but I think they only had one default size. Everything was in one big box, at least.

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?

Hahaha, just in my region, there are more around Brazil. :)

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.

Hmm, so Tim Burton twisted the story, eh? I'm willing to see it now, I'll check whenever it's in the movies...

Really? No discounts for 3d movies? That's unfair - it's still a movie, isn't it?

Yeah it doesn't make any sense to me.

Well, maybe they'll lower the prices when 3D cinema becomes more popular... right?

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.

Whenever my friends want to go to watch a movie, we just stay at the mall, have lunch and wait until it starts. :)

But I think there aren't subscriptions in here. Individual tickets only.

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.

I liked GH Metallica, I don't care whenever someone says that a band sold out. As long as their music is enjoyable...

Also, their concerts are amazing. :)

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.

Really? Wow, now that's pretty weird, since they have a bad-ass reputation... playing in a pop festival? O_o

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?

1 dollar = 1.76 reais. So 150,00 reais = 85 dollars.

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.

I know there's a reference to him in a Pink Floyd song in The Wall. It's a hidden backwards message in "Empty Spaces", I think.

And "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is an excellent song.

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.

Well, they should get over their differences and make a small reunion... Not only they would revive their old days, but the crowd would be sold-out, wherever they played at.

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

I'm not sure... Since Matthew Bellamy LOVES conspiracy theories, it might have to do something with it. HAARP is a target for many conspiracy theories, including nuclear weapons related. :P

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

I think I might like it?

Who knows... they had a small orchestra in their previous album, anything is possible!

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?

It's not too hard, it's a simple riff and the chorus is easy as well, only a few chords.

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

Learning how to play a guitar isn't a very easy thing... you will be horrible for 6 months, until you start playing something. It takes a lot of practice and patience. But it's worth it. :)

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...?

I think that's correct, although I've seen Bellamy smoking with Slash in a video. Anyway, I think they don't do any hard drugs. Maybe just the regular alcohol / cigarette.

Too bad he smokes, though. :(

I might keep on writing lists like these, once every few days.

Congrats to:
Bahamut - 20,000 EXP - Lovely milestone
Toohot100 - 8.00 BVP
Simple - 4 Years on NG
Auz - 39,000 Saves
Fro - 700 Audio Responses, 32,000 B/P, 26,000 Medal Points, 444 Flash Responses
XwaynecoltX - 27,000 Saves
Haggard - 3000 Days on NG, 14,000 Blams, 777 Audio Responses
Racoonmario - 4000 Posts - Haven't seen you in a while
DRD1982 - 4,500 Saves
Sir-Nuts - Level 32, General
Spoopy - Level 21
Molotov - Level 49 - Top-class achievement here, massive congrats
ChampionAnwar - 1,111 Posts
A - Level 38
KingExodus - Level 16
BaronVonBadGuy - 18,000 EXP
1337 - Level 36 - Fluffeh
HeavyTank - 31,000 Medal Points, 20,000 Total Points - Fucking hell, I never knew your stats were that high
Ship - Pvt. First Class
WilhelmTheVampire - 10,000 Saves - Congrats on the first 10K
WeirdAlthe3rd - Level 16
EternitySpent - Ranked #250 in EXP
Bahamut7 - 7.77 TVP
Egarewop - 7,000 EXP
fx-dx - Level 14 - I like this level, it's a cute hammer. :3
RuinedMartyr - 1,000 EXP
Spiff - Level 22
PabMo - Level 14
Emlfuryoflion - 3 Years on NG

That's it for tonight, I've probably made a load of mistakes but seeing as this list is so long you can't blame me. I'll make a few quotes tomorrow.

Was watching:
Internazionale + referee 1 X 0 Chelsea.

Congrats to:
fx-dx - Level 14 - NO LAME MEMES!
SpiffyMasta - Level 22;
PabMo - Level 14;
HeavyTank - 20,000 total stats;
Emlfuryoflion - 3 years on NG;
Rabid-Animals - Level 25

MANY TANKS!
RuinedMartyr (x2)
Coop83
Fro - Hey, that wasn't intended... :(
Auz
reverend
mwmike (x2)
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At 3/16/10 03:20 AM, Coop83 wrote:

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

Plus, he's the fifth best save percentage. Great teams start with great goalies. :)

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

Hahahaha, I can imagine that.

The Islanders defence is something not to wish for. There's Mark Streit... and that's all. =/

At 3/16/10 10:38 AM, Bahamut wrote: We should have sung the other two songs first. However, what about Mirror Mirror as Sir-Nuts keeps requesting?

I'd love it, one of the first metal songs that I liked. :)

At 3/15/10 09:35 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Give it a look, CS1.6 was a great game, I had quite some fun with it.

Will do if I can find any busy servers. If not, I'll have to move onto the next game.

Alright then. I'm sure there'll be at least some active servers.

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

I thought CS:S was just a source port of Counter-Strike just like Half-Life: Source being nothing more than a source port from the original game.

It's very different from the original CS, not only graphically. I mean, From CS 1.5 to 1.6, we only had a few map additions and re-skinning some popular maps.

Meh, playing Pyro is a better idea. :)

Of course, I was just trying to make the medic useful.

Then make him heal people, which is his job! :P

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

Heh, you should have seen me in Cyberpunk. I was high up, close to another prop and a Pyro saw the other prop but not me and I lived through the end at that one spot. Again, Cyberpunk is too big.

I managed to hide as a pile of wood... behind a pile of wood! :P

At 3/16/10 02:22 PM, reverend wrote:

At 3/15/10 09:35 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Wouldn't the government pay for everything?

The argument would be is why pay for high tech voting machines when you need the money to patch potholes in the road. Not to mention you would have to find someone knowledge able to run said machine. Most of the people who run polling places are pretty old in age.

Hmm, fine then, makes sense. It doesn't seem too hard to operate one, and you can always have a small course to operate them.

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. :)

Paranoia and easy of use, I guess. The ones in my state are just scan-trons where you just complete the line to vote. I guess they feel no need to reinvent the wheel.

Still, the results come a lot quicker than with the paper voting. :)

Thanks everyone. :)

At 3/16/10 06:37 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: fx-dx - Level 14 - NO LAME MEMES!

Oh please, it's not a meme. It's no where near becoming a Rick Roll, Do a Barrel Roll, or any other sort of roll. :P

At 3/16/10 06:11 PM, mwmike wrote: fx-dx - Level 14 - I like this level, it's a cute hammer. :3

I much prefer this Hammer; much better than another lame sword or shurikens

Total: 25032 (= exp + b/p + posts + (A)reviews) 25k total points =)

rock on