72,000 B/P

Now gfoxcook will never be able to pass me for B/P

Mwahahahahahahahahaha!

28,000 saves today whoohooo, thanks in advance

~X~

32k medal points

I know i have'nt been around in the past few months, but who is Kevin Bacon?

And i think my retirement may be calling.....

I'll catch up on the past two pages once I've finished posting the 6 weeks of catchup that preceeds them....

Boy am I glad I didn't post (more than once) during AFD 2010... all that Kevin Bacon would have melted my brain. What little of it I saw on the frontpage newspost + the current (8th) page of Coop's WiHt > General REVOLUTION thread (which was hilarious in its Baconised form) was enough....

That said...

At 4/1/10 11:58 PM, idiot-buster wrote: I know i have'nt been around in the past few months, but who is Kevin Bacon?

(cough)

Kids these days...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon

also note:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees _of_Kevin_Bacon

HTH. HAND. KTHXBAI.

AND NOW.... CATCH-UPS... BEGIN. With some Coopage, fittingly enough (not the Kevin Bacon stuff... the Revolution thread stuff, of course!):

At 2/13/10 07:04 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/12/10 12:34 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/12/10 03:19 AM, Coop83 wrote: Post some in there!

I did, but it seems that most of the General Reg are just laying down expect for Gagsy. It's not really fun when they just up and give up.

It'll get going some more - epic postage from gfoxcook will certainly help ;)

And then help and help and help again. My posts are like interest in a bank account. #;-}>

NEVAR DIE, REVOLUTION THREAD. NEVAR DIE.

At 2/13/10 01:39 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Ah, so that's why it took you so long to get Powerslave. Very well, then.

But it's taken you so long to catch up, I've actually got a copy of Powerslave now :P

Awesome!

There is only one artist in the collection with more albums than Maiden now - Alice Cooper. Though at 24 albums, it is going to take a while to catch him.

24 albums of Alice Cooper? Wow. .... I have every single U2 album and every single Led Zeppelin album... and that's about it. I don't think I have a complete collection of any group besides those two. But of course LZ only made 8 albums, and I think U2's around 11 or 12 now, can't recall offhand. I do, however, have about 30 U2 CDs because I have a lot of EPs, singles, live compilations, &c &c &c....

Also, does anyone else see the irony in him calling me a Jew, now that I'm a BBS (Nazi) Mod?

Yes, it's delicious.

Bahamut hates me going on about reaching the top 50 - I'm only about to ascend into the top 150 tomorrow, after all.

Never too early to start planning ahead.

Anyway, if my example is any hint, it will probably not be someone you were expecting to knock out of the top 50. Though perhaps it will be. WE SHALL SEE. #;-}>

Wouldn't it be funny if it was someone like Pimp?

Well, if I'd really wanted to, I could have passed HT52 for the top 50, but... eh, I wasn't going to put off joining the top 50 just to pass an epic account, so I passed him for #45 or #44 or something instead. :::shrugs:::

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's an epic account you pass to get into the top 50. The top 50's always full of them, after all. #;-}>

:::snips a buncha Dirty Yankees talk:::

...

:::except:::

Same time next year? Perhaps we'll see an Astros-Yanks series ;D

Just what I need. For my hometown team to go 0-2 in the World Series, and have the 2nd time around be to a team I hate, instead of a team I've always thought was pretty nifty, like the White Sox (they ain't the Cubs, that's for sure).

5 more seasons and another Back to the Future prediction gets bounced ;)

Here's hoping...

I think I might have been a fan of the A's, since they were winning at the time.

Fascinating. I've always thought the A's were a good team, they had a nice stretch for 5 years or so in this past decade, but... had the same sort of disorder as my Astros had from 1997ish to 2004... first-round-itis. That's a disease you Yankees fans would know nothing about, of course. So don't worry yer lil' head about it. O_o

At 2/13/10 07:05 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:14 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 11/20/09 01:30 PM, Coop83 wrote: Now I've got about another 2,000 to go to get up to 24 and then it's some serious chasing to catch gfoxcook ASAP.

That didn't take too long at all, did it. #;-}>

Not when you keep stepping into your stasis booth, waking up once a day to deposit experience and then back in for your 23h 55m of daily nothingness.

Hooray for time travel! November to February in the blink of an eye, eh?

Well, I think that it was more out of hope than anything else... I'm a sucker for that glimmer of hope. You should know that. After all, I deposit every day in the faint hope that I close the gaps on the other active depositors above me.

Sure, but gfox is more likely to deposit every day than to catch-up when he first means to catch-up. This is not even worth hoping for change on... it must simply be accepted.

By finally getting around to typing up REPLIES to the quotes I selected from LUL back on Sunday.... now, on Friday (hey, at least it's the same WEEK, eh?), I have proven the point yet again. Not that it needed to be proven for a 20th time. #;-}>

Sentimental value - it's worth more than real money ever could be!

Neutral auras being green is worth far more than real money as well. Harumph!

At 2/13/10 02:46 AM, gfoxcook wrote: No, I certainly haven't. I'm what they call "dead in the water."

*Coop pokes gfoxcook with a stick on the way past*

Ouch... :::rubs arm:::

Oh wait....

Yeah, it would be when they take the mouse out of my cold dead fingers. Death is a retirement as such - Hell hath no Broadband :(

You can always pass the account on to another statwhore when you're on your deathbead. KEEP HOPE ALIVE.

Thursday the 11th: exp #44, b/p #22
Don't get many chances to be exactly 2x your rank in one in the other, so... fortunately I got to taste a brief taste of that on Thursday, at least. #;-}>

Now that is epic. I'll probably never get something like that, because I don't notice things like that...

You could always.... start noticing. #;-}>

Anyway, if you were in the top 50 exp, I guarantee you you'd start to notice such things. When both rankings are in the double-digits, they're much more... concrete and noticeable on a day to day basis. I certainly remember not worrying too much about rankings in the 100s and 1000s... but once they're in the 10s... they're pretty stable, so you take note more. At least... I always did. Till lately. #;-}>

At 2/13/10 10:42 AM, Haggard wrote:

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

Achievement unlocked: Do a catchup before Duke Nukem Forever is released.

I AM WINRAR!!!!!1

URLs look ugly in posts. So better hide them behind text!

Says you. URLs are a gift from teh early days of the hypertext transfer protocol. WORSHIP THEM AND STOP HIDING THEM BEHIND TEXT. ;_;

HTTP is ugly and outdated as well. We all should switch to gopher. XD

lolololol. Yes... we really should. I only used gopher a few times before the web hit it real big in 1994 or so, so... poor old GOPHAH didn't get enough use by myself. I'm sure there are some who used it for a good 5 or 10 years, but... not me. Now I feel guilty. ;_;

gfox also recommends teh Muse, and is hoping to see them live in March. :::nods:::
SO... Haggard, have you listened to any/much Muse since September? :::waits:::

No.

Fucker!

That's pretty disappointing, to be honest.

Don't act like you want my walls of text. THEY WILL SUFFOCATE YOU, STOP ASKING FOR THEM.

And then a day later you come up with an actual POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT technique, eh? ONE DAY TOO LATE, BUSTER. You're on my shitlist. #;-}>

It's called "the carrot and the stick", man. If the carrot doesn't work, we'll have to use the stick. :P

The stick doesn't work either... that's the problem.

The old level 23 is definetly among the flop 10 level icons, but so is the level 49 icon.

The old level 23 is above and beyond anything the current 49 (or any other current level icon) could aspire to be... for one thing, that level 23 icon lasted for 2-3 years by the time the redesign hit.

At least any "bad" level in the current system doesn't last THAT long. (... yet?)

... the above post is on page 2494 now. JEEZ THAT'S A LOT OF DELETED POSTS. At least 150 or so. Sad panda is sad. ;_;

It happens. Spam posts get deleted, accounts get deleted (sometimes). We just have to carry on.

Fuck carrying on. I'd rather bitch about how 5 pages of our beloved LUL were deleted thanks to idiots getting their accounts deleted and shit...

Spam posts get deleted before most of us even see 'em, so that wouldn't explain 5 pages going away all at once. It was full accounts going bye bye. Or at least... all the posts on an account going bye bye, if not the account itself.

Oh, I should have no problem beating DNF over and over and over again in terms of getting to LUL to catch up before it comes out. I've done it before, I'm doing it right now, and I'll likely do it again. And again. And again. COUNT ON THAT, at least. #;-}>

You did it. You unlocked the achievement (see above). ^^
I also wonder if Gran Turismo 5 will be released before DNF... it's a close race.

And I'm unlocking it again... RIGHT NOW.

Man, I love achievements you can unlock more than once. FTW! #;-}>

Not so much in my history classes. Only dates I really had to remember are 1933, 1945 and November 9th. ^^
Also, link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9_
in_German_history

Well, I had history classes in Texas, Japan, and Pennsylvania (at 4 schools--elementary (TX), middle (Japan), high (PA), and college (TX part 2)) where discussing the actual events and the ramifications of them was more important than memorising dates... for the most part... but even so, I'm pretty sure dates ranging from 500 BC to 1900 AD also figured in. With heavy emphasis on a bit o' Greece, Rome, some 1066 comes to mind, and then a shitton of 1400s, 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s....

Lucky you with your THE ONLY HISTORY THAT MATTERS IS WWII-RELATED HISTORY in Germany, apparently. O_o

But lucky me as I love numbers, anyway.

That's what I meant by saying: "I wonder how this should work."
How can you convince someone to like something? o_O

Well, you try to persuade them with reason. And if that doesn't work, you force them to like something at gunpoint.

:::shrugs::: At least, that's how I hear it works. o_O

If you can't get Haggard to give them a chance on your own, I doubt I (he of having heard a grand total of what, 2 songs on YT?) will be able to manage it, either.

First of all, I think I knew Manowar before Bahamut knew them. Second, I never watched a Manowar song on Youtube (oh wait, there was one at a party, but it sucked. The song, that is, not the party).
Third, I had to listen to enough Manowar in my life to decide that I don't like them. Me calling them a shitty band is based on experience. And Bahamut knows I'm right, he's just afraid to admit it. :P

:::stays out of it, as he doesn't have a pony in this race NOR a dog in that fight:::

At 2/13/10 10:43 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/22/09 03:45 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/22/09 12:20 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/21/09 11:37 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/21/09 08:14 AM, Bahamut wrote: Well, he caught up on the last posts at least.

It's a start, but not enough.

Better. Than. Nothing.

Better than gfox anyway. ^^

I'm better than myself....? o_O WTF?

I don't think that conversation was about you... or was it? I am confused. :(

Sure it was. "he caught up on the last posts" = Bahamut talking about me doing catchups to you. #;-}>

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

At 12/24/09 10:10 AM, Haggard wrote: Steam is a plague!

LIES

INDEED.

NO WAY!

STEAM IS LIFE.

Steam isn't the only thing that keeps me from posting here, you know. There's IRL, sleep, and Wiki/GoogleNews Traps all over the place as well.

Yeah, this "RL" I hear so much about sucks as well.

Indeed.

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

You really should try to adopt some more positive german vocabular. How about shouting "ERLAUBT" (= allowed) every once in a while? :P

Everything I needed to learn about wonderful negative German vocab came from id software and U2. #;-}>

How do I add a "not" to that "allowed," BTW? Teach me that, and THEN I'll use erlaubt. #;-}>

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

LIEK OGM, AMIRIGHT?

Wow, that was over 6 months ago. However, since you've done one hell of an epic catch-up, HOORAY!

Yar.

*sigh* Still not on Steam. However, there are talks about remaking Monkey Island 2 as well so I'll be hyped for that. Well, special edition or not, I'll get it the moment it's on Steam as well as Grim Fandango. Also, I will definitely get the other two Oddworld games when they're released on Steam.

STILL still not on Steam.... Someday. ;_;

I've never heard of Bonus' thoughts on Final Fantasy but why should I care?

Because the more people that like FF (and GTA), the better? :::shrugs:::

On top of that, GTA4 episodes are coming to PS3 so that's one less reason to get a 360. I'll need to get GTA4 on PS3 soon enough but before that, I should play San Andreas. That will come whenever I get to G on my Steam games at least. Hey, on the bright side, I'm done with A and B I only need to play four games or maybe even three if I don't like the Bone titles.

I just wish GTA3/VC/SA would run on my PC since replacing the gfx card/gfx drivers. ;_;

I need to try 4 and see if it runs, but I wasn't as interested in finishing it as I was in finishing 3 and in replaying VC lately... oh wells.

Whether you're metal or not, listen to Slough Feg! OK, you already know them gfox but Auz doesn't. Also, that's a link gfox.

Why did you tell me it was a link to Slough Feg when you'd already gotten me to listen to them on YT via Steam IM, hence you saying that I already know them but Auz doesn't? #;-}>

At 8/17/09 09:21 AM, Bahamut wrote: I look forward to passing you in 145 days time.

I'm sure you did! How was it? #;-}>

It felt great! That's one less alt who's above me in EXP.

Wheeeeeee.... </Glados>

YOU WERE ON A BOAT, MOTHERFUCKER, DON'T WE EVER FORGET!

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

Yes, yes, I haven't forgotten...

HOW COULD I (FORGET)? :::shudders:::

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

Nah, PropHunt is the new 37.

Nah. Nothing is the new 37. I HAZ NO WEAK SPOT NO MORES.

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

SO... Haggard, have you listened to any/much Muse since September? :::waits:::

He wasn't that interested in Muse but did like Knights of Cydonia. Hey, it's an improvement from his Manowar hatred. :)

Well, at least there's that, yes.

Sadly, I did not get to go see Muse in March after all. ;_;

At 2/13/10 02:02 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:10 AM, gfoxcook wrote: CONGRATULATIONS 77,777 TIMES OVER, DUDE!

MANY TANKS! Thanks for looking back at this post and reminding me the great comments I got for when I reached my retired numbers. You know, it feels strange being retired from the portal and not even visiting the judgment zone these days with the exception of a few when depositing for Toohot.

Yar. UJ zone withdrawal is a common symptom for us retirees and semi-retirees.

Mwahahahaha! You know what would be better, if I got everyone in the LUL to play PropHunt mod in TF2.

Ugh. #;-}>

Well that just makes me wish he'd actually done that catch-up... I'd have to see that to believe it. #;-}>

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

I certainly hope they (and I) don't.

:::shudders more:::

At 2/13/10 02:15 AM, gfoxcook wrote: You guys are like astrologists when it comes to predicting whether I'll finally post here or not. "Hey, look, he played L4D instead of TF2 tonight, that means THIS!" #;-}>

Speaking of L4D, if you have L4D2, what's the point of the original game nowadays?

You want to hang out with Bill, Zoey, Louis, and Francis... instead of the new peops?

So I can convince Haggard to like Manowar? WTF?

You did like one of Manowar's songs so Haggard can't deny Manowar anymore. YOU LOSE, HAGGARD!

I liked it OKAY, not a ton, man. I wouldn't call myself a fan of theirs just because one of two songs you linked me to was decent.

Again, you should really just... try to convince Haggard to like Manowar on your own, because I'm not passionate about them like you are, so what good would I be as a Manowar Missionary? #;-}>

You and him arguing about whether Manowar are good or not was one of the most boring things during my 114 pages of catch-ups today, guys, I gotta be honest... yet you think it'd be interesting? #;-}>

Yes, it was one of our finest debates but Haggard was wrong wrong wrong.

Finest... debates? :::guffaws:::

At 2/13/10 02:03 PM, Bahamut wrote: IF A CHARACTER FROM TF2 WINS THE SECOND ALTERNATIVE CHARACTER BATTLE, I WILL BUY TF2 FOR EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE CONTEST! YOU WILL RECEIVE THE GAMES ON STEAM WHENEVER IT'S ON SALE AGAIN!

Not like you had anything to worry about... but that woulda been cool if you'd been serious. #;-}>

You should have just promised to buy TF2 for anyone who voted FOR TF2 characters, but not for the bastards who didn't.

:::nods:::

At 1/7/10 08:52 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/6/10 10:11 PM, gfoxcook wrote: I fail at catchups.... ;_;

gfox, you're failing! STOP FAILING!

Eh, what else is new, eh?

We'll see how you are in two months time. :P

Well hey... it's not even two months from then (2/13ish)... it's.... about 1.5 months. GFOX WIN! #;-}>

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

There'll be a time when I'll have 10,000 more posts than you.

And 100,000, most likely. (wink)

....

aaaaaaaaand that'll do for tonight. MOAR CATCHUP TOMORROW, this 3-parter will have to serve as a nice appetizer, no?

Coop prepares to take his Blood Bowl team out for an airing, while congratulating:
Fro: 1,000 Reviews (Flash)
RuinedMartyr: 15,000 Medal Points
WeirdAlthe3rd: Top 500 B/Per
XwaynecoltX:28,000 Saves
HeavyTank: 32,000 Medal Points

Thank you to:
Fro (x2)
reverend (x2)

At 4/1/10 06:53 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/1/10 02:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 3/31/10 04:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: It's not!

It is! Get a dictionary!

All right, I've got one here. Here. Scythe, scythe, scythe. There you are, "Scythe". "S-C-Y-T-H-E".

That's "Sither"

I love how this got changed into "Kevin Bacon has got one here." The word filters certainly made the Writing forum get interesting.

Oh, nothing new then.

Of course not - people have disliked I for my prowess before. Animal House, for example :P

I is rather popular around here.

And now the grammar nazi fest begins :P

At 4/1/10 04:00 PM, Haggard wrote: Also "solo" is a latin word, so the plural is "soli". :P

Does this have anything to do with soldiers? It might not have, but it's close.

At 4/1/10 11:58 PM, idiot-buster wrote: And i think my retirement may be calling.....

O.o

At 4/2/10 02:07 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I'll catch up on the past two pages once I've finished posting the 6 weeks of catchup that preceeds them....

Boy am I glad I didn't post (more than once) during AFD 2010... all that Kevin Bacon would have melted my brain. What little of it I saw on the frontpage newspost + the current (8th) page of Coop's WiHt > General REVOLUTION thread (which was hilarious in its Baconised form) was enough....

Most things baconised were hilarious. The Monthly Writing Contest, for example :P

AND NOW.... CATCH-UPS... BEGIN. With some Coopage, fittingly enough (not the Kevin Bacon stuff... the Revolution thread stuff, of course!):

At 2/13/10 07:04 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/12/10 12:34 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/12/10 03:19 AM, Coop83 wrote: Post some in there!

I did, but it seems that most of the General Reg are just laying down expect for Gagsy. It's not really fun when they just up and give up.

It'll get going some more - epic postage from gfoxcook will certainly help ;)

And then help and help and help again. My posts are like interest in a bank account. #;-}>

NEVAR DIE, REVOLUTION THREAD. NEVAR DIE.

Viva la Revolution!

At 2/13/10 01:39 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Ah, so that's why it took you so long to get Powerslave. Very well, then.

But it's taken you so long to catch up, I've actually got a copy of Powerslave now :P

Awesome!

There is only one artist in the collection with more albums than Maiden now - Alice Cooper. Though at 24 albums, it is going to take a while to catch him.

24 albums of Alice Cooper? Wow. .... I have every single U2 album and every single Led Zeppelin album... and that's about it. I don't think I have a complete collection of any group besides those two. But of course LZ only made 8 albums, and I think U2's around 11 or 12 now, can't recall offhand. I do, however, have about 30 U2 CDs because I have a lot of EPs, singles, live compilations, &c &c &c....

That's not all of his music though - He's got lots of albums

25 Studio Albums (16 of which I own / have copies of)
6 Live Albums (2)
21 Compilation Albums (4)
12 Video Albums (2)

Also, does anyone else see the irony in him calling me a Jew, now that I'm a BBS (Nazi) Mod?

Yes, it's delicious.

Indeed *munches sausage roll*

Bahamut hates me going on about reaching the top 50 - I'm only about to ascend into the top 150 tomorrow, after all.

Never too early to start planning ahead.

Ah, some support for this :P

Anyway, if my example is any hint, it will probably not be someone you were expecting to knock out of the top 50. Though perhaps it will be. WE SHALL SEE. #;-}>

Wouldn't it be funny if it was someone like Pimp?

Well, if I'd really wanted to, I could have passed HT52 for the top 50, but... eh, I wasn't going to put off joining the top 50 just to pass an epic account, so I passed him for #45 or #44 or something instead. :::shrugs:::

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's an epic account you pass to get into the top 50. The top 50's always full of them, after all. #;-}>

Indeed, but I'd prefer it was someone steeped in all-round prowess, as opposed to just an experience ninja.

snips a buncha Dirty Yankees talk:::

except:::

Same time next year? Perhaps we'll see an Astros-Yanks series ;D

Just what I need. For my hometown team to go 0-2 in the World Series, and have the 2nd time around be to a team I hate, instead of a team I've always thought was pretty nifty, like the White Sox (they ain't the Cubs, that's for sure).

Well, we'll see. 2 days and the season is officially underway >:)

5 more seasons and another Back to the Future prediction gets bounced ;)

Here's hoping...

I wonder how Michael J. Fox will be then...

I think I might have been a fan of the A's, since they were winning at the time.

Fascinating. I've always thought the A's were a good team, they had a nice stretch for 5 years or so in this past decade, but... had the same sort of disorder as my Astros had from 1997ish to 2004... first-round-itis. That's a disease you Yankees fans would know nothing about, of course. So don't worry yer lil' head about it. O_o

What? I beg to differ

At 2/13/10 07:05 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:14 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 11/20/09 01:30 PM, Coop83 wrote:

Sure, but gfox is more likely to deposit every day than to catch-up when he first means to catch-up. This is not even worth hoping for change on... it must simply be accepted.

By finally getting around to typing up REPLIES to the quotes I selected from LUL back on Sunday.... now, on Friday (hey, at least it's the same WEEK, eh?), I have proven the point yet again. Not that it needed to be proven for a 20th time. #;-}>

Indeed. You keep on proving it and then keep drawing attention to it :P

Sentimental value - it's worth more than real money ever could be!

Neutral auras being green is worth far more than real money as well. Harumph!

A wise man once said "Can't make the scene, if you don't have the green. I'd better make a little stop."

At 2/13/10 02:46 AM, gfoxcook wrote: No, I certainly haven't. I'm what they call "dead in the water."

*Coop pokes gfoxcook with a stick on the way past*

Ouch... :::rubs arm:::

Oh wait....

Bad corpse! Stop! Scaring! Smithers! *beats with shovel*

Yeah, it would be when they take the mouse out of my cold dead fingers. Death is a retirement as such - Hell hath no Broadband :(

You can always pass the account on to another statwhore when you're on your deathbead. KEEP HOPE ALIVE.

I intend to pass this account to my first born, but that's a while away yet, I'm having too much fun.

Thursday the 11th: exp #44, b/p #22
Don't get many chances to be exactly 2x your rank in one in the other, so... fortunately I got to taste a brief taste of that on Thursday, at least. #;-}>

Now that is epic. I'll probably never get something like that, because I don't notice things like that...

You could always.... start noticing. #;-}>

I could, but I'll have to get a lot higher in experience, as I'm not going to stop B/Ping :P

Anyway, if you were in the top 50 exp, I guarantee you you'd start to notice such things. When both rankings are in the double-digits, they're much more... concrete and noticeable on a day to day basis. I certainly remember not worrying too much about rankings in the 100s and 1000s... but once they're in the 10s... they're pretty stable, so you take note more. At least... I always did. Till lately. #;-}>

It's quite noticeab

So how did you all like the Aprils fools prank this year?

I thought it wasn't bad. But with all the I's and We's replaced by Kevin Bacon, it became quite annoying to read through topics after a while.

Also I wanted that tofu block icon =(

Achievement of the Day
Coop83: 1,000 Flash Review Responses

Great achievement man, and being in the top 10 to reach it makes it even nicer. Congrats!

Congrats to:
Fro: 1,000 Flash Reviews
RuinedMartyr: Corporal
WeirdAlthe3rd: Top 500 BP
Coop83: 72,000 BP
XwaynecoltX: 28,000 Saves

Some puerile humour for the win here

I have just wee'd my way to 15,000 Medal Points

Top 200 in B/P.

Just hit 9,000 B/P!

At 4/2/10 03:47 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 2/13/10 10:42 AM, Haggard wrote:

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

Achievement unlocked: Do a catchup before Duke Nukem Forever is released.

I AM WINRAR!!!!!1

7zip is so much better.

URLs look ugly in posts. So better hide them behind text!

Says you. URLs are a gift from teh early days of the hypertext transfer protocol. WORSHIP THEM AND STOP HIDING THEM BEHIND TEXT. ;_;

HTTP is ugly and outdated as well. We all should switch to gopher. XD

lolololol. Yes... we really should. I only used gopher a few times before the web hit it real big in 1994 or so, so... poor old GOPHAH didn't get enough use by myself. I'm sure there are some who used it for a good 5 or 10 years, but... not me. Now I feel guilty. ;_;

I never really used gopher, just had a look at a few pages. And I was like: "Wow, the internet should look like this. No blinking ads, no annoying banners... no flash... no Newgrounds??! Oh shit, maybe the internet SHOULDN'T look like this after all."

gfox also recommends teh Muse, and is hoping to see them live in March. :::nods:::
SO... Haggard, have you listened to any/much Muse since September? :::waits:::

No.

Fucker!

:(

That's pretty disappointing, to be honest.

Don't act like you want my walls of text. THEY WILL SUFFOCATE YOU, STOP ASKING FOR THEM.

I will continue to ask for them.

And then a day later you come up with an actual POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT technique, eh? ONE DAY TOO LATE, BUSTER. You're on my shitlist. #;-}>

It's called "the carrot and the stick", man. If the carrot doesn't work, we'll have to use the stick. :P

The stick doesn't work either... that's the problem.

That.... sucks.

The old level 23 is definetly among the flop 10 level icons, but so is the level 49 icon.

The old level 23 is above and beyond anything the current 49 (or any other current level icon) could aspire to be... for one thing, that level 23 icon lasted for 2-3 years by the time the redesign hit.

If I had been that high in levels back then I might have stopped depositing just to avoid that level icon.

At least any "bad" level in the current system doesn't last THAT long. (... yet?)

I don't think the scaling system will return. It would be pointless.

... the above post is on page 2494 now. JEEZ THAT'S A LOT OF DELETED POSTS. At least 150 or so. Sad panda is sad. ;_;

It happens. Spam posts get deleted, accounts get deleted (sometimes). We just have to carry on.

Fuck carrying on. I'd rather bitch about how 5 pages of our beloved LUL were deleted thanks to idiots getting their accounts deleted and shit...

But it doesn't help to moan about the loss. Instead we should write MOAR posts to compensate the loss.

Oh, I should have no problem beating DNF over and over and over again in terms of getting to LUL to catch up before it comes out. I've done it before, I'm doing it right now, and I'll likely do it again. And again. And again. COUNT ON THAT, at least. #;-}>

You did it. You unlocked the achievement (see above). ^^
I also wonder if Gran Turismo 5 will be released before DNF... it's a close race.

And I'm unlocking it again... RIGHT NOW.

Man, I love achievements you can unlock more than once. FTW! #;-}>

But they only give you points once.

Not so much in my history classes. Only dates I really had to remember are 1933, 1945 and November 9th. ^^
Also, link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9_

in_German_history

Well, I had history classes in Texas, Japan, and Pennsylvania (at 4 schools--elementary (TX), middle (Japan), high (PA), and college (TX part 2)) where discussing the actual events and the ramifications of them was more important than memorising dates... for the most part... but even so, I'm pretty sure dates ranging from 500 BC to 1900 AD also figured in. With heavy emphasis on a bit o' Greece, Rome, some 1066 comes to mind, and then a shitton of 1400s, 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s....

Lucky you with your THE ONLY HISTORY THAT MATTERS IS WWII-RELATED HISTORY in Germany, apparently. O_o

"Lucky" when it comes to memorizing dates maybe. But in every other case it's annoying to be always linked to WWII.
Say that you are from Germany to the wrong person and all of a suddend you are called a "nazi cunt".
-___-

If you can't get Haggard to give them a chance on your own, I doubt I (he of having heard a grand total of what, 2 songs on YT?) will be able to manage it, either.

First of all, I think I knew Manowar before Bahamut knew them. Second, I never watched a Manowar song on Youtube (oh wait, there was one at a party, but it sucked. The song, that is, not the party).
Third, I had to listen to enough Manowar in my life to decide that I don't like them. Me calling them a shitty band is based on experience. And Bahamut knows I'm right, he's just afraid to admit it. :P

stays out of it, as he doesn't have a pony in this race NOR a dog in that fight:::

Having dogs in a rooster fight would be considered cheating anway. :P

At 2/13/10 10:43 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/22/09 03:45 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/22/09 12:20 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 12/21/09 11:37 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 12/21/09 08:14 AM, Bahamut wrote: Well, he caught up on the last posts at least.

It's a start, but not enough.

Better. Than. Nothing.

Better than gfox anyway. ^^

I'm better than myself....? o_O WTF?

I don't think that conversation was about you... or was it? I am confused. :(

Sure it was. "he caught up on the last posts" = Bahamut talking about me doing catchups to you. #;-}>

He = Sir-Nuts, I think. :P

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

You really should try to adopt some more positive german vocabular. How about shouting "ERLAUBT" (= allowed) every once in a while? :P

Everything I needed to learn about wonderful negative German vocab came from id software and U2. #;-}>

How do I add a "not" to that "allowed," BTW? Teach me that, and THEN I'll use erlaubt. #;-}>

Not = Nicht. Easy to write, hard to pronounce. At least for english speakers, as there's no sound like "ch" in the english language. ^^
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nicht#Pron unciation_2

So, "not allowed" would be "Nicht erlaubt".

Level 22!

Captain!

I got that two days ago, but I got banned from the bbs. Meh.

Listening to:

Opeth - Blackwater Park. Three days to go!

Thanks to:

Fro

At 4/1/10 03:24 PM, reverend wrote:

At 4/1/10 06:53 AM, Bahamut wrote: Welcome back iscrulz to the Regulars List!

Welcome and congrats! Ha!

I can't wait to hear his disappointment. :D

At 4/1/10 04:00 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/31/10 04:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: I hardly sell games so I'm not bothered. However, there may be a game that I'll be so ashamed of that I'll want it off my games list. I hear it's possible to get unwanted games off your list but it's not easy.

Yeah, but if you want to buy used games? You can't because it's Steam and it ties the game to one account.

How can you even buy a used digital copy anyway? There's no new or used which makes it better for me.

Also, there was a lot of Kevin Bacon in the first paragraph. ^^

Kevin Bacon is an egotistical prick.

I think it's too soon to watch them again.

It's never too soon!

Sorry, not yet.

You skipped the best part, dammit!

Blame the examNs.

No, I blame YOU!

At 4/2/10 02:07 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 2/13/10 07:04 AM, Coop83 wrote: Bahamut hates me going on about reaching the top 50 - I'm only about to ascend into the top 150 tomorrow, after all.

Never too early to start planning ahead.

Shall I start preparing for my retirement and death then? :P

At 4/2/10 03:48 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:01 PM, Bahamut wrote: Wow, that was over 6 months ago. However, since you've done one hell of an epic catch-up, HOORAY!

Yar.

Under two months, that's an improvement.

*sigh* Still not on Steam. However, there are talks about remaking Monkey Island 2 as well so I'll be hyped for that. Well, special edition or not, I'll get it the moment it's on Steam as well as Grim Fandango. Also, I will definitely get the other two Oddworld games when they're released on Steam.

STILL still not on Steam.... Someday. ;_;

I suppose I can't blame Steam on this one. I have no idea when LucasArts will even re-release more games. As for Oddworld, their second deadline has passed. I expected them to fail so no surprises here.

On top of that, GTA4 episodes are coming to PS3 so that's one less reason to get a 360. I'll need to get GTA4 on PS3 soon enough but before that, I should play San Andreas. That will come whenever I get to G on my Steam games at least. Hey, on the bright side, I'm done with A and B I only need to play four games or maybe even three if I don't like the Bone titles.

I just wish GTA3/VC/SA would run on my PC since replacing the gfx card/gfx drivers. ;_;

Do you want my laptop then? :P I'm sure it'll run those games with ease.

Whether you're metal or not, listen to Slough Feg! OK, you already know them gfox but Auz doesn't. Also, that's a link gfox.

Why did you tell me it was a link to Slough Feg when you'd already gotten me to listen to them on YT via Steam IM, hence you saying that I already know them but Auz doesn't? #;-}>

Because you should listen to it once more. :)

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

Yes, yes, I haven't forgotten...

Good.

Also, CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES! More links gfox.

Nah, PropHunt is the new 37.

Nah. Nothing is the new 37. I HAZ NO WEAK SPOT NO MORES.

Not even dragon dicks can beat 37.

At 2/13/10 02:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Haha, that will be something. You made a 10-post catch-up and I highly doubt anyone will EVER top that!

I certainly hope they (and I) don't.

Say, NEVR still needs to do that catch-up. :P

Speaking of L4D, if you have L4D2, what's the point of the original game nowadays?

You want to hang out with Bill, Zoey, Louis, and Francis... instead of the new peops?

Yet there's a mod that gets L4D1 characters in L4D2, which makes L4D1 *ding* ENTIRELY POINTLESS!

Again, you should really just... try to convince Haggard to like Manowar on your own, because I'm not passionate about them like you are, so what good would I be as a Manowar Missionary? #;-}>

We need to team up. Even if you don't like them as much as me, with your help we can do something.

At 2/13/10 02:03 PM, Bahamut wrote: IF A CHARACTER FROM TF2 WINS THE SECOND ALTERNATIVE CHARACTER BATTLE, I WILL BUY TF2 FOR EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE CONTEST! YOU WILL RECEIVE THE GAMES ON STEAM WHENEVER IT'S ON SALE AGAIN!

Not like you had anything to worry about... but that woulda been cool if you'd been serious. #;-}>

If I was serious, it would have encouraged people to vote for TF2 characters rather than a character from a stupid porn game.

We'll see how you are in two months time. :P

Well hey... it's not even two months from then (2/13ish)... it's.... about 1.5 months. GFOX WIN! #;-}>

It's an improvement, it's an improvement.

There'll be a time when I'll have 10,000 more posts than you.

And 100,000, most likely. (wink)

Me with over 120,000 posts? Forget it!

At 4/2/10 05:55 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 4/1/10 06:53 AM, Bahamut wrote: All right, I've got one here. Here. Scythe, scythe, scythe. There you are, "Scythe". "S-C-Y-T-H-E".

That's "Sither"

It's "Scythe", it says "Scythe" there! It's in the dictionary, Jesus wrote this!

I is rather popular around here.

And now the grammar nazi fest begins :P

I think "I am" would have been replaced with "Kevin Bacon is" but I wasn't sure.

At 4/2/10 02:32 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/1/10 04:00 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/31/10 04:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: I hardly sell games so I'm not bothered. However, there may be a game that I'll be so ashamed of that I'll want it off my games list. I hear it's possible to get unwanted games off your list but it's not easy.

Yeah, but if you want to buy used games? You can't because it's Steam and it ties the game to one account.

How can you even buy a used digital copy anyway? There's no new or used which makes it better for me.

See? It's even worse. You don't even have anything in your hands if you buy games on Steam. And there's no "second hand market" where one usually can make the best deals.

Also, there was a lot of Kevin Bacon in the first paragraph. ^^

Kevin Bacon is an egotistical prick.

I guess he is.

I think it's too soon to watch them again.

It's never too soon!

Sorry, not yet.

BOOO!

You skipped the best part, dammit!

Blame the examNs.

No, I blame YOU!

That's not fair. There are more important things in life right now than some Slayer-soli/solos.

TGIF!; Congrats to:
Coop83 - 72k B/P!
XwaynecoltX - 28k Saves
Coop83 - 15k Saves
Odyssic - 17k Saves
Kaytee - Top 200 in B/P
sushi13 - 9,000 B/P
Oliver - Level 22
dx5231 - Captain

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At 4/2/10 06:18 AM, Auz wrote: So how did you all like the Aprils fools prank this year?

I thought it wasn't bad. But with all the I's and We's replaced by Kevin Bacon, it became quite annoying to read through topics after a while.

It was pretty good. I never certainly would have thought they would think of something as so random as Kevin Bacon. You can kind of tell they spent less time on it this year compared to last year with Chinagrounds, but it was still pretty entertaining.

Also I wanted that tofu block icon =(

A mini April Fools joke, I guess. :(

Silver whistle! Its not much but I like to feel accomplished :P

Gosh i sure wish pico day would already come on and get here, :(

~X~

10000 total stats.

:::continuing catchups:::

At 2/13/10 02:17 PM, reverend wrote: Rev is watching Olympics and OU v OSU.

GO OSU!

... we ARE talking about Oklahoma State here, not Ohio State, right? Just checking. #;-}>

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

At 11/3/09 12:33 PM, reverend wrote: We'll I can't deny the masses of what they want, so here it is. :D

THEY'RE FACING THE WRONG WAY, YOU BASTICH! #;-}>

Ha! The masses preferred it that way.

Silly masses....

It'll get going some more - epic postage from gfoxcook will certainly help ;)

Yes, we need every man at their stations. The enemy maybe disillusioned but still a threat.

We're talking about the Revolution thread here, not LUL, right? O_o

:::looks around for the nameless, faceless enemy:::

whew.... sweet home Wi/Ht?bama.

At 2/14/10 01:13 AM, reverend wrote: Normally I don't care for gimmick achievements but

12345 Experience is pretty unique.

Gimmick? 12345 = awesome. Always. #;-}>

Grats. Mmmmm... 12345....

At 2/14/10 07:27 AM, Haggard wrote:

:::snips Haggard vs. Bahamut over Manowar of all things... WHODATHUNKIT?:::

At 2/13/10 01:44 AM, gfoxcook wrote: gfox also recommends teh Muse, and is hoping to see them live in March. :::nods:::
SO... Haggard, have you listened to any/much Muse since September? :::waits:::

He wasn't that interested in Muse but did like Knights of Cydonia. Hey, it's an improvement from his Manowar hatred. :)

Oh yeah, I remember now. I listened to one song, but didn't like it too much. Me not remembering listening to them yesterday only shows that they didn't had any impact on me, so I simply forgot I listened to one of their songs.

Bahamut says you liked KOC, and then you come and say you "didn't like it too much." (sigh)

"one of their songs." KOC... is EPIC SONG MATERIAL, and if you don't know that from the very first listen, then either you're.... bluffing just to play with Bahamut's mind... or... INSANE. #;-}>

So I can convince Haggard to like Manowar? WTF?

You did like one of Manowar's songs so Haggard can't deny Manowar anymore. YOU LOSE, HAGGARD!

Lol? I don't care what Mr. Cook thinks about them, therefore I WIN for sticking to my opinion. :P

Well, if by them you meant Muse, I'd be offended, as I consider myself a fairly big Muse fan, but since the them means Manowar, which I really don't care one way or the other about (I = neutral in you guys' crazy fights on this matter), I think you're wise to not care what I think about a band I don't know what to think about much myself. #;-}>

At 2/14/10 08:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: Haha, I probably should have mentioned that it was just a joke as that will only encourage people to vote them for the sake of a free game. I may as well just say I'll post nude pictures of Lara Croft if she won the contest but she was knocked out by a character hardly any of us knows about.

sad panda is sad. ;_;

Let's see Engineer or Heavy winning this. We can't hope for Soldier winning now as he had his ass kicked by Mantis.

sounds kinda hard... there are still some good characters to bet...

They're against many great characters. It's not easy when the majority of the characters in the contest are GOOD!

Yep. Next time... more shite characters for the TF2 characters to knock off SUPER EASY, kthxplz.

At 2/14/10 07:27 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:01 PM, Bahamut wrote: START MAKING SENSE, DAMMIT!

I am.

No, you're not making the slightest sense with the Manowar sucks monkey balls statement.

ohhhhh you guyyyyyyyz... :::shakes head semi-sadly, semi-amusedly:::

At 2/13/10 02:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: You did like one of Manowar's songs so Haggard can't deny Manowar anymore. YOU LOSE, HAGGARD!

Lol? I don't care what Mr. Cook thinks about them, therefore I WIN for sticking to my opinion. :P

gfox is your lord and master. Do not deny him!

O_o

When did I sign up to be his lord and master? I didn't ask for that job. It clearly pays nothing, too, since I haven't gotten any paychecks for it... I QUIT. #;-}>

Yes, it was one of our finest debates but Haggard was wrong wrong wrong.

I was right all the way, you are just afraid to admit it. :P

How can I be afraid to admit of anything when you're clearly wrong?

lololol. Oh, you two....

At 2/14/10 02:40 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Just read a ton of gfox stuff last few pages lol.

....

Anyways not much but I did recently get 25,000 protects. Anyways congrats to all.

A quarter of the way to TooCool, give or take a few thousand saves. Sweet. Congrats!

At 2/15/10 03:45 AM, Coop83 wrote: Coop congratulates NASCAR for messing up the track at Daytona (5 1/2 hours for a race?!), and then congratulates:

I didn't watch a minute of the race, but heard aaaaaaall about it for the next 24 to 48 hours on overnight sports radio (which I tend to listen to to go to sleep, even if I didn't listen to any sportsradio during the day). Talk about an epic fuckup.

PAVEMENT FAIL's bad enough, but pavement fail on the track where the biggest race of each and every year takes place every winter? Jeeeez.... ;_;

SPECIAL AUZ-ONLY REPLY

At 2/15/10 12:37 PM, Auz wrote:

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

shrugs::: All I know is that it was a b-side in the late 80s, man. If that's the story behind the song, it's a story from back in the 80s (unless somehow a fight with his wife was the reason for them putting Sweetest Thing on the 80-90 best of, that is... in which case it's the story behind the song selection for that #;-}>)...

Well let's look it up then...

Looks like you are right. The song was on the B-side of 'Where the Streets Have No Name' and was later re-released (1998) as a single on it's own. It was written as an apology to his wife when Bono was in the studios recording The Joshua Tree on her birthday.

Ah, cool. I have a book somewhere with all the (main) meaning(s) of all the U2 songs up to around 2000. I wish I could find it, then you wouldn't have to look up such things as I could confirm them before I hit "post." #;-}>

So start-to-finist list:
1 Achtung Baby / 2 Best of 80-90 / 3 Joshua Tree / 4 Best of 90-00 / 5 Boy / 6 Zooropa / 7 Rattle and Hum / 8 HTDAAB / 9 ATYCLB / 10 The rest.

Something like that. Can´t place War, October and The Unforgettable Fire anywhere yet.

How's that coming, BTW? #;-}>

Oh yeah. I've listened to War from start to finish like you suggested, but that was already some time ago. I think my opinion was that it was a good album, but I wouldn't put it among my favorites.

Ah, good that you've listened to it once, at least. Give it another shot sometime. The first 4 tracks are right up there with any 4-straight tracks on any U2 album, IMO. SBS, NYD, and Like a Song... are some of their strongest work, and Seconds is pretty good, too (one of the few ones with Edge on lead vox). And a few of the later tracks past the strong opening are good, too (such as Two Hearts Beat as One), though some are a bit sleepy, which is something TUF has in common with War in the later parts of the album.

Of course, TUF also has Bad on it, which is up there in the "best U2 songs evar" rankings, especially the live version (which isn't on the album, but I like the album version a lot more than some fans seem to...).

I still gotta give the other two a full listen. Perhaps I should put them on my iTunes.

No October or TUF yet, eh? October can wait... TUF cannot! ;_;

If you think 1-2 years after a game was brand new and full price is "old, not-so-popular," I suppose.

Well that's usually about the point where newer/better/updated games and sequels are brought out, right? And they'll start to disappear from the shelves in the store.

I tend to play most games 3-5 years after they come out. Cheaper and less taxing on the PC since you're playing older games on your newer (hopefully) PC.

Keeping up with the Joneses was fun for awhile in the 90s, but now I prefer to upgrade my PC as rarely as possible, and older (but gooder #;-}>) games = the easiest way to avoid having to do keeping-up-with-the-Joneses-style upgrading constantly.

Heh, yeah the question is if she even wants that account. If she cared about levels she'd probably prefer to start at level 1 and work her way up herself. And if she doesn't care she probably wouldn't mind to start at level 1 either.

No, she clearly doesn't. But you never know... she might one day see a flash movie or play a flash game she wants to comment on SO BADLY that she signs up for her own account. I won't hold my breath, though.

She doesn't care about levels and exp or anything. The only statwhoring I've seen her doing is on last.fm, and it's because she likes to boost the playcount of her favourite musicians there... there'd be no such "wanting to help her fave music artists" motivation behind any of the stats on NG, so.... no dice.

Another AOTD, holy shit. Anyway, thanks, dude... yeah, lots of people were down on 49 when I got it, including Bahamut (who didn't hesitate to tell me so on Steam at the time, so worry not, I got the message)... it's a bit scrawny, but a bit o' beefin' up would improve it greatly.

Yeah. I think I would've liked it more if it seemed made out of wood rather than gold.

Exactly. Maybe mostly wood with a BIT of gold trim/accents. #;-}>

</bow construction & decoration 101>

Now I've got these twin golden shuriken that don't look very useful, but oh well. Level 51's Zelda sword lies beyond, and that's pretty nifty, at least. Some more good ones to come after that, as well.

The Zelda sword is probably my least favorite of the swords, but still a decent level icon.

The least good sword is still > most other weapons in level icons. #;-}>

But yeah, it's not as good as the level 42 or 55 (or is it 56? Can't remember) swords, but still decent.

Yep. I was at exactly 555 flash reviews and 190 responses at midnight. As you can see I haven't done much reviewing anymore ever since.

Cool. Yeah... I hear that. I think I've reviewed about 1 or 2 flashes per half-year on average for the past 2 years. I need to get back at reviewing Bahamut's flashes that he wanted me to review two years ago or so when I was last doing them (in fairness to myself, I did review two clusters of 15 of his flashes each, for a total of around 30 or more... but then I never ended up doing the last 15 he gave me to do)....

.... but I'm sure he'd rather I caught up on all of Wi/Ht? first before I try to do that. #;-}.

At 2/15/10 12:43 PM, Auz wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:46 AM, gfoxcook wrote: My dad was a big Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd fan, and as a kid and as a teen I resisted getting into music he was into... but by late high school/college by the time I was moving out and getting on with my life, I ended up finding out how awesome they in particular were, and I got over the fact that my dad liked them too. #;-}>

I should have done that a bit earlier, but oh well. mid-90s was better than never.

Hehe I think many kids don't like the music their parents listen to at first. But the 80's music my dad always turned on when we went on vacation started to grow on me over the years. And it also helps that I now actually know who those songs are from.

Yeah....

And yeah, when you don't know that this song is by this artist, and hey, that other song happens to be from that artist, too... it's a bit harder to get into music, no matter the genre.

Radio is fine for listening to music, whether it's music you already know or not... but to truly delve into individual artists deeply, nothing beats diving into an album on your own instead of listening piecemeal from someone else playing a track or two or the radio playing only scattered singles...

The 60's and 70's I just went on exploring by myself. I think they're ultimately my favorite music decades, and I still got a lot to discover.

Throw in the 80s and you have a deal. BEST. THIRTY. YEARS. OF. MUSIC. EVAR. #;-}>

Well sorry. I guess I just think that after level 46 you've pretty much had all the awesome icons. There's still a few between 50 and 60 I like, but overall I just prefer the early 40's.

Yep. 42, 43, 44, 45 = the best 4 NG level icons in a row, 30-level-system or 60-level-system, either way...

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

And actually... my fave song on that album is When the Levee Breaks (so I pick none of the three above, anyway).

Alright then. I'll just listen to all of them and see which one I like most :p

So, it's like 6 weeks later... listened to any LZ4 since then? #;-}>

And PS: I just noticed they made Whole Lotta Love. Should've known that, and great song.

Damn straight they did. Most popular/famous song offa LZ2. Great, great song, yep.

Nobody pulls off a violin-bow-on-a-guitar solo like Jimmy Page.

I totally forgot about this thread until just this moment.

I stopped depositing forever, but then I started up again out of the blue. And I leveled up today.

Post.

Level 37 is sooo cool looking!

that's to make up for the horrible # on it, man. Enjoy the axe, though. #;-}>

At 2/15/10 12:48 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/14/10 08:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: Alternative Character Battle 2 - Battle 14: Jill Valentine vs Gordon Freeman

More people need to play Resident Evil. >:(

Only played the first half of RE4 myself. ;_;

gfox is your lord and master. Do not deny him!

I don't have a lord. :P

Ha! I knew it.

:::demands some cash from Bahamut for this whole mixup:::

At 2/16/10 05:36 PM, Fro wrote: Fro is making his 2nd list while saying congrats to:

(snip)

Lol at the Gfox catch up making this take longer than it should have.

Pffft at Fro blaming my 10-post catchups in Februrary making his list take longer.

I wasn't even IN your congrats list, so how was it MY fault, damnit? #;-}>

At 2/16/10 09:25 PM, idiot-buster wrote:

At 2/16/10 05:36 PM, Fro wrote: Lol at the Gfox catch up making this take longer than it should have.

I saw that and god damn, you will never see another newgrounds user so dedicated to this site to make such a catch up.

......

I only have to do these catchups because I disappear for months at a time, dude.

The only thing I'd consider myself dedicated to on NG anymore is daily exp depositing, as that takes the least amount of total time.

But anyway... O_o

At 2/17/10 04:03 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/16/10 12:01 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/16/10 08:47 AM, Auz wrote: Just a question:
Has anyone been logging my stats on NG Log lately? This was the second day in a row where it said I had already logged my stats while I'm pretty sure that I haven't.

There really needs to be a more in-depth password system on there and that's the primary reason.

There used to be one but gfox made a horrible suggestion to get rid of them but didn't realise the potential abuse it had until later on. I'm not exactly sure what's the status on bringing back the password right now, though.

Yeah... that was kinda my worst idea ever, but I really didn't see the abuse coming. Bastard abusers... trolls, the lot of them!

Anyway, my stuff doesn't get logged (by anyone other than myself, I mean) that often anymore, so ehhhhh.... not as bad as it was a year or two ago when everyone and their mother started compulsively logging for anyone high up in the exp rankings for awhile there, it seemed.

At 2/17/10 04:07 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/16/10 10:21 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yes they should. REmake and RE4 are fantastic games.

I don't know about RE4 (haven't played it)

And you call yourself a RE fan?

I'm like the opposite of Haggard, I guess. A non-RE fan who's only played RE4, and he's a so-called RE fan who's played everything BUT RE4, eh? #;-}>

Oh. Thanks for telling me. I still stick to my opinion about Manowar. :P

Not if gfox likes them. There's no denying it!

A single song, dude! I liked a single song okay. O_o

Stop making my reaction to 2 Manowar YT links you once SteamIMed me seem like more than it was, dude. ;_;

At 2/17/10 05:44 PM, Fro wrote: I know, that would have taken hours for me to do. Thing is even though I wasn't a part of any of it I had to sit and read every little detail for some reason. What's this mysterious power that he has that makes me want to read what he says?

It took hours for me to do, too, dude. It was 6 months/114 pages worth of LUL. O_o

THE POWER OF WALLS OF TEXT, clearly. Just ask Haggard...

At 2/18/10 04:23 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/17/10 04:07 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/16/10 03:46 AM, Coop83 wrote: And then the teacher throws something at you and shout "WHAT YEAR?!"

That's where the wild guessing starts. "Um... 18..." *teacher starts too look angry* "I mean 19....89?"

Did you ever have teachers that had the withering stare? "Oh, so Hitler came to power in 1989, did he? So the Second World War finished in 1995, did it?!" This is probably accompanied by ill-tempered school-room missiles

Student should just say "I added 50 to all the years for the lulz." See what happens...

At 2/17/10 04:17 PM, Haggard wrote: So? I don't care what Mr. Fox(hound) does. :P

Fox Hound? Isn't that Greg's cousin from Memphis?

....

At 2/18/10 09:43 AM, Auz wrote: Well I had sort of an idea. How about every user will receive a PM with a personal code which he has to enter before he can log his stats? Just one personal code, not a new code every time he wants to log his stats (because that would be annoying).

Seems easier to implement than a whole password system if you ask me.

Maybe so, but it sounds like turning NG Logs into a banking website. #;-}>

At 2/18/10 11:59 AM, Haggard wrote: I was just trying to make a (lame) MGS reference there. It's one of the lines that got stuck in my head.
"Come on Mr. FoxHOUND, the commander's waiting!"
Mantis was a tough opponent back then, even if you used port 2. Took me and my friend more than one try to beat him.

The MGS1 Psycho Mantis battle is about the only thing that was that memorable from MGS 1 for me. :::ducks as Bahamut throws object at his head:::

It still requires thousands of PMs to be sent out, which just is too much work.

That, too.

At 2/18/10 12:36 PM, Bahamut wrote: I was thinking of the users requesting byteslinger a password for their logs via PM to keep them secure. Everyone else would be unsecured until they too requested a password for their logs.

So make it an opt-in thing that only 10-50 of the regular NG log users would probably request from byteslinger, rather than something all 4000+ NGlogged NG users would be involved in? Sounds like a plan.

Sadly, it doesn't at all.

It does. And I have nothing more to say about it. Plus, I don't want to annoy the other users any longer. ^^

I'm still right, though but yeah, gfox won't be pleased.

:::is neither pleased nor unpleased, as he doesn't remember what that quote chain was about, and isn't about to go digging for it:::

At 2/22/10 10:37 AM, Bahamut wrote: But there's only one flash that comes close to dragon porn:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/23 5748
That's not what I had in mind. However, it's still a funny flash. See gfox? I do appreciate Marc M.

Mmmm... My Year with the Dragon. Excellent choice, sir. Would you like some wine with that?

Also, wouldn't it be great if Dr. Pepper swapped flavours with 7-up? Then you could drink 7-up and have the great Dr. Pepper taste.

Ah, AH, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! NO, DR. PEPPER AND NOTHING ELSE!

lololol.

Dr. Pepper and gfox: Texas's two main gifts to Bahamut. #;-}>

At 2/22/10 03:16 PM, reverend wrote: Lol at Canada. Go USA! Congrats to:

So YOU'RE the one who jinxed our hockey teams at the winter olympics. YOU BASTARD. #;-}>

That's not what I had in mind. However, it's still a funny flash. See gfox? I do appreciate Marc M

Yep. :)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/20 4271

Even better! Red Diamond Dragon Club... Marc M's finest work. God, I wish he'd make a sequel to it... some of his recent works (in the past 2-3 years, I mean) have come close to FEELING like sequels, but none have been direct sequels...

At 2/23/10 09:43 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/22/10 05:37 PM, bhsqad15 wrote:

At 10/6/02 02:56 PM, the-phantom-spancker wrote: IM A LEVEL 35 NOW
SO IM MAKING THIS TOPIC FOR EVERYONE THAT GOES LEVEL UP 2 LET US KNOW
AND JUST 2 TELL ALL U LEVEL 34'S AND UNDERS THAT IM HIGHER THEN U!!
LOL

There you go you are now level 35

Got to love people posting about the OP after 8 long years :P

Indeed. Never change, newbs... never change.

At 2/25/10 04:20 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/24/10 07:00 AM, Bahamut wrote: Ninja Corrie fan? That sounds so ridiculous it's good.

Yeah, a ninja with a Mancunian accent is obviously not going to work... until the Olympics go to Manchester.

Mancunian always makes me think of either the Manchurian Candidate.... or Maine Coon cats.

Why on earth did that become the adjective form of Manchester, anyway? O_o

:::would have made it 'Manchesty', personally::: (wink)

.... or just Manchesterian, if you don't want it to be just as bad (i.e. suggestive of unrelated things) as Mancunian. #;-}>

At 2/24/10 10:39 PM, NEVR wrote: At least my deposit rate is around 75%, which is pretty decent. Could be much worse I suppose ;P

Well, your deposit rate is about the same (or better) than gfoxcook's :P Just because I'm setting a break neck pace doesn't mean that you have to keep pace, after all.

I thought my deposit rate crossed 75% a ways back... :::checks:::

hmph... wishful thinking, apparently... (Deposit rate: 73.48%)

Soon enough, though.

I love that delete button, it helps to keep the place tidy.

I genuinely can't imagine the BBS without mod tools now; it's nice to be able to keep things clean.

It certainly is.

As long as General's around, the BBS will NEVER be clean, you fools!

UNCLEAN... UNCLEAN... :::washes hands compulsively:::

</vivid and disturbingly accurate depiction of gfox's modding years, mentally-metaphorical-wise>

At 2/27/10 07:15 PM, NEVR wrote: Levels 58, 59, and 60 are laaaame in my opinion.

55 and 42 should be 59 and 60, respectively. ;_;

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

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

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

I'd rather they add more levels than bring back the curve... but we'll see.

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

That works, too. But then Pimp will still have motivation to keep going, either way.

What we need is for level 60 to just be *it*, like EGSC is it... and then Pimp will get tired of depositing for no return, eventually tire and quit... and then the rest of us can pass him in a few years instead of a few decades. #;-}>

Downside.... level 60 will be as unspecial as EGSC nowadays. But oh well. The price is worth paying.

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

Also, wtf gfox...

WIN!

(the wtf gfox part, not the missing 1 deposit part... I feel for you there. ;_;...)

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

Your dad kicks ass.

Also, I share birthdays with Bowie. =)

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

Oh, great... =/

I also share birthdays with Elvis Presley.

I share the same birthday as Yngwie Malmsteen.

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

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

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

hahaha. Damnit, man. Don't use me as an excuse to do a great impression of me. That's not fair. #;-}>

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

Yes... I could have. And then probably would have never posted in LUL again as a result.

TOO. MUCH.

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

Nevar.

At 8/2/09 12:08 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Well, I don't like the "Sir" before Nuts. I only use it when the name "Nuts" is already taken or something. I even thought of asking for a name change to Wade, but he probably wouldn't read my PM. =/

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

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

Well, then... come up with a new nickname on Steam, then. O_o

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

kk. Just make sure to tell Bahamut and myself if you do change it, so we'll know who to look for in a TF2 game. #;-}>

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

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

Nah, I type straight into notepad. If my browser crashes (due to all the fucking tabs open in it), my shit's gone if I typed it there. Safer to type in notepad directly.

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

I don't want to click the links till I'm done posting, and when I'm done posting, I don't want to go back several pages to find the links I passed over. So the only way I end up looking at links is if they're recent links. #;-}>

At 4/2/10 10:27 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Gosh i sure wish pico day would already come on and get here, :(

~X~

Gosh, I sure wish I didn't have exams starting right on that day, :(

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

At 2/13/10 01:44 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I'm not as into metal as I am into classic rock, but there's nothing wrong with being into both, man.

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

Every single person on the planet has different taste, however, and thus what's good to one person is bad to the next, and vice versa, more often than not.

And that is why genres, categories, etc. are a necessary evil.

On a personal level, I quite agree, but when dealing with the masses at large, such as record companies (and radio stations, and so on and so forth down to last.fm), some sort of classification system is necessary.

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

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

You bastard. :::jealous:::

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

Ooops. O_o

Well, I'm sure they'll be back here in Houston in a few years, but the problem is that I mostly want to hear stuff from Absolution and Black Holes live, and the more time goes by the more albums there are between the present and those two albums... so there'll be less and less songs from those two albums played at future Muse concerts. ;_;

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

$2.50 was close enough. I just wish they'd do it again... I want an extra copy for fooling around with/getting achievements again with...

only problem with an extra copy would be if it magically got one of the 2-4 hats I really really want on my main account.... like 1 day after starting it... and then I'd be sad, since there's no trading (yet?).

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

Not here. No sun nor snow. Had some snow in December, though.

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

I had to, my computer was melting. =(

;_;

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

It's fun now and then, but I tend to play CTF most, then a bit of Att/Def and Payload. A bit of regular CP, too, but ehhhh...

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

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

Well, they're some of the main populated servers in CS:S nowadays. I dunno about CS 1.6, still haven't tried it. It might be more oldschool with actual hostage/demolitions/etc. etc. non-respawny modes.

Set yourself a goal:
Full catch-ups before post # 12,000. What do you think?

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

Pace up, come on!

Did you mean full catch-ups in LUL before 12k, or full catch-ups Wi/Ht?-wide? Because the former is going to happen tonight, but the latter... not so much. o_O

Done and done!

gfox, I salute you.

:::salutes back:::

At 2/27/10 11:06 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: PropHunt is full of awesomeness. Too bad I can never find good servers that don't kick me due to my ping (I hate NO HEROES because of that!).

All of the No Heroes servers are in NYC (about 13 servers) or London (4 servers)... the ping thing is there because too many high ping players in a 32-man server can negatively affect the play experience for the other people... I'm sure if they could make a Nuts-only exception, they would. #;-}>

Anyway, try my low-grav 2fort server, my 2nd server after No Heroes CTF, my 1st server. I don't think it has a ping limit, plus people from Europe and Russia and Australia play there a lot, I wonder how your ping would be from Brasil.... it's in Texas, near me, instead of NYC, it might be a bit better as it's closer to you... just a bit.

At 2/28/10 01:21 PM, Auz wrote:

Nope, still Peter Gabriel. :P

Aw =(

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

Land of Confusion is my fave Genesis song. All the other faves of mine I think of when I think of Genesis turn out to be either Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins solo stuff. #;-}>

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

Bah. Wotev. ;_;

At 3/1/10 10:59 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/28/10 03:34 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Hey, I didn't spam anything... <.<

I agree, gfox is the true LUL spammer with his decuple post from a few weeks back. :P He's also an IM spammer on Steam.

Pffft. You want spam? I'll give you spam.

At 3/1/10 02:45 PM, Fro wrote: The spammer and mini-spammer. They hurt my eyes searching for things that relate to something that I want to quote back to.

Ooops.

At 3/1/10 08:32 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Watch me spam the LUL again. :P

Stop calling it spamming! It's just catching up, damnit. #;-}>

</massively invested in not thinking of his catch-ups as spamming, or else he'll STOP BOTHERING, ahemahemahem>

At 3/4/10 11:46 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, I'm now the 21st highest grossing B/Per of all time, having just passed azteca89. Next stop, bila and the top 20 that it brings with passing him :D

Over 5,000 points to go, but 21 is a nice number. gfoxcook will give us a breakdown of why it's so good or not on his next catchup :P

21 is a great number. It's blackjack, first of all. It means time to get your LEGAL DRINK on here in the States, secondly... And 21 + 15 is 36. So are a lot of numbers + a lot of numbers, but 21s and 15s seem to occur a lot together when I'm looking. :::shrugs:::

At 3/4/10 12:04 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/4/10 11:46 AM, Coop83 wrote: Over 5,000 points to go, but 21 is a nice number. gfoxcook will give us a breakdown of why it's so good or not on his next catchup :P

3 x 7...Oh shit!

Oh hush. Similar to me being a big fan of QOTSA's 3's & 7's, just because I hate 37 doesn't mean I hate everything that contains a 3 and a 7. See 1337 for another example. #;-}>

21 is definitely good, trust me. :::nods:::

At 3/4/10 09:45 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: According to the book of gfoxcookology... OH SHITE!

You guys are clearly looking at a false book of gfoxcookology...

At 3/7/10 01:09 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote: You have showed us the truth! No wonders why Gagsy is neutral as well... gfox is just pretending he stopped B/Ping! </major cospiracy>

:::shifty eyes:::

At 3/10/10 10:10 AM, Bahamut wrote: gfox wants a party on his news post for no particular reason. He told me so last night on Steam.

You dirty, dirty liar, you!

At 3/11/10 04:10 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 3/10/10 10:10 AM, Bahamut wrote: gfox wants a party on his news post for no particular reason. He told me so last night on Steam.

Well, he said there's no party. I guess it's time to thrash it up a little.

.... what a reaction to discovering Bahamut's lies. #;-}>

At 3/11/10 10:53 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Just because it looks good.

Saves: 12,345
And casually approaching 30,000 B/P. I can smell it now cant wait to see what it tastes like.

At 3/13/10 06:02 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, do you get a drop-down menu for your navigation, showing which pages you recently visited? On firefox, there was a drop down menu, next to the forward and back buttons, but I can't find this one, if there is.

If you and Haggard were talking about Opera there (which it looked like you were from the quotes), and if you still haven't fixed that (which I'd have no idea about, it being nearly a month later #;-}>), HTH:

You can customise your navigation toolbar to show back and forward arrows that have drop down mini-arrows next to them, instead of the default back and foward arrows. Then you can go to recent pages in that tab, either forward or back, just like on Firefox. </Opera user for about 3 years now>

At 3/24/10 10:53 AM, Auz wrote:

At 3/24/10 08:30 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote: Today it seems to be working fine, but I'm sure it will start acting up again on me. having to refresh 3 or 4 times is not pleasant and is quite irritating.

Yeah refreshing the page is something I had to do a lot as well. Anyway I just downgraded my Opera version back to Opera 10.01 and it works really smoothly again. Not sure for how long though, but I think this might have solved the problem. So maybe you should try to do the same if the problem arises again.

:::still using Opera 9.62 with no problems on NG's portal or BBS:::

I guess maybe Newgrounds just isn't ready for the new browsers yet? I thought liljim once said that that could be a problem.

Just Opera version 10+ issues, I'd guess. Go back to a stable 9.xx if 10.01 ends up having any problems getting along with NG in the end.

At 3/26/10 04:51 AM, Coop83 wrote: Hence why I told my English teachers that we needed to study something other than Shakespeare - they always accused me of being narrow minded, by reading only Discworld. When I branched out to deeper works like Shogun, they were impressed enough, but clearly not so that they would change the syllabus >:(

I dunno about over there, but here there are lots of school districts where the teachers have little control over the syllabus.... just because a teacher won't (can't) change it doesn't mean he or she wouldn't like to... sometimes.

At 3/25/10 09:21 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

rubs eyes and blinks and stares around himself::: uhhhh.... :::stumbles out into Wi/Ht?'s main street bleary-eyed:::

Ah, must be time for an update...

uh... :::falls through an open manhole cover and ends up in the General Revolution thread::: ... fascinating.

No, my mistake.

HERE IT IS.

At 3/26/10 11:56 AM, Fro wrote: Support will be there shortly General Gfox!

Excellent. The Generalheads are quaking in their boots, men!

BTW, please to stop calling me General gfox, rev and Fro... General (the rank) makes me think of General (the forum), since I've mostly been posting in that shithole of a forum thanks to the beachhead Coop established with his Revolution topic back in January...

:::shudders:::

At 3/26/10 04:41 PM, reverend wrote: He is not at boring as Chuck Dickens. He has only has two good works. :P

Which two do you mean, BTW? I didn't read the entire convo about Dickens, so I'm not sure if you specified in another post... I think I liked Tale of Two Cities most, but the only other Dickens I remember reading 100% was Great Expectations. I never read (all of) Oliver Twist, but know it well enough from excerpts + the movie.

At 3/27/10 04:08 AM, Aci6 wrote: Made it to the shitty meat cleaver, ah well at least it looks alright in green. Also, how are you guys if any of you remember me ;_;

I remember ya. Congrats on the level up nonetheless. They always look better in green (to me, at least). #;-}>

At 3/27/10 06:00 AM, Coop83 wrote: Oh for the opportunity to study Dickens. At least we could have related more to that, since he was only about 160-150 years removed from us. Shakespeare is some 400 years before we learned it, so we suffered from the fact that the language has changed an incredible amount.

Damned English language... changing too fast lately for my tastes. BRING BACK CHAUCER!

I can and I will blame the teachers. They have their favourites from within the syllabus and they persistently picked them, as opposed to ones that they viewed as more of a challenge.
Fucking close minded hypocrites!

Oh wait, are you saying they had a wide range of books they could have covered in a year, but they tend to choose the same ones, basically? If they have leeway like that and don't use it to teach a variety of lit, then that kinda sucks, yes.

At 3/27/10 01:52 PM, Bahamut wrote: I do intend to get Okami...Sometime.

OKAMI!

At 3/28/10 04:09 AM, Coop83 wrote: The solution was to suggest other authors that you haven't read. Horror is a difficult genre that people don't usually want to study, as is fantasy. If Tolkien weren't fantasy, I could practically guarantee that English schools would study him as a part of their English Literature courses, but the education system seems to be against children using their imagination.

I took an entire class in Tolkein at college (from the same teacher who taught an entire class of Arthurian legend lit)... granted, it was college, but still...

In any event, MOAR TOLKIEN IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH CLASSES would be nice indeed. Make it happen, world!

Hence why studying not only Shakespeare, but Romeo and Juliet 3 times through my education has left me somewhat jaded.

I don't think I'd have been so annoyed if I'd studied different works of Shakespeare.

I have never read Romeo and Juliet and I have a B.A. in English Lit. #;-}>

At 3/28/10 02:53 PM, Fro wrote: Fro is in a lot of pain. He ate something called a Bitch Steak two days ago. It contains steak, chicken tenders, onion rings, mozzarella sticks, two different types of cheese, marinara sauce, and all on 14 inches of bread... The sandwich hasn't left his body yet even though it's been two days.. while saying Congrats To:

Sounds fucking delicious, man! Pain? More like ecstacy!

At 3/28/10 03:47 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 3/25/10 09:21 PM, gfoxcook wrote: so.... wait... where am I, again?

Playing TF2 with me on that 2Fort server.

Also, you need a better microphone. Your voice sounds muffed when you spoke in there. :)

Sometimes it slips downwards along the headphone cord it clips on and gets muffled by my shirt. Next time, let me know at the time instead of weeks later, please, then I can fix it! Jeez. #;-}>

Half the time someone tells me they can't hear me, BTW, another person says they can hear me just fine. Everyone's got their "voice output/input" levels set differently, it seems...

At 3/28/10 05:07 PM, reverend wrote: What? You mean he made more R&J, Hamlet, Julius Ceaser, and Macbeth? :P

I've read part of Hamlet, but only know small bits of R&J, JC, and MB.

I mostly read King Lear, Othello, Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and another half dozen I don't feel like thinking hard enough about to rattle off right now... but anyway, King Lear and Othello I read at least 2-3 times over the course of high school and college together.

I suppose I had fairly non-traditional Shakespeare courses in both high school (half of one year we did a lot of Shakespeare) and college (only took one dedicated Shakespeare course, but there was at least 1 or 2 others that featured SOME Shakespeare as well), since I got to avoid (for the most part) the "big ones" and read the lesser-reads instead.

Now, don't tell me that the American Education system is better than the British one because it isn't. :P

Maybe not, but I was lucky to have good English teachers throughout my education in Texas, Japan, Pennsylvania, and then Texas again.... The stories you guys are telling in here make me sadpanda, though, even if I can't personally relate. ;_;

If I ever become an English teacher (which is quite possible), I'll try to be more like mine and less like the ones you and Coop and others have been referencing.

</catchup>

(9 posts instead of 10 o_O)