Milestone:

22,000 Saves

Fro prepares for a hard day of work while saying Congrats To:

EmoDragon: Level 35
LegolaSS: 10,000 B/P
fuzzum111: Level 27
letiger: Level 19
bifgis: Level 36
vader316: 14,000 Saves

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Pyroscape Info:

Views: 80,589
Profit: $12.62

(It's on well over 100 websites now. I started bookmarking them, but I couldn't keep up. So these views are taking in consideration of every website it's on.)

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At 4/9/10 01:33 PM, reverend wrote:

At 4/9/10 12:12 PM, Fro wrote: I wouldn't mind a review as well. ;)

Sure, I'll get around to it sometime this weekend or next week.

Thanks a lot for the review!

At 4/9/10 02:34 PM, chris-marks wrote:

After securing 250 B/P this week I'm so close to 3000 saves and Corporal that I can practically taste it. 1000 blams feels like it's going to take forever though. Which I suppose is a good thing; means more people are submitting quality flashes than garbage lately. There was a point in I think February when at least half the flash submitted each day was utter trash.

The amount of blue in the portal is starting to make me pick and choose which days to submit simply because I can't keep up with the scores of the great submissions. The slow days are becoming harder to find.

At 4/10/10 06:26 AM, Coop83 wrote:

When your on your way to read Coop's entry you should read mine as well. It's the one that's 1/3 the size posted directly before his.

Oh yeah, I'll have to do that at some point as well.

We both wrote about the mental hospital.

Actually, it's sort of like your story builds off of mine.

Has anybody noticed that you can view Art Reviews in your profile now?

Wi/Hter - Art Reviews (Responses)
XwaynecoltX - 389 (133)
Coop83 - 158 ( 99)
Haggard - 150 (104)
Fro - 110 (75)
reverend - 2 (1)
Auz - 2 (0)
Bahamut - 0 (0)
Odyssic - 0 (0)

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Congrats to:
EmoDragon - Level 35
LegolaSS - 10,000 B/P
fuzzum111 - Level 27
letiger - Level 19
bifgis - Level 36
vader316 - 14k Saves
Fro - 22k Saves

Thanks to:
XwaynecoltX
Coop83
Odyssic
Auz

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At 4/10/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote: You know they won't be humans.

Eh, let's shelf that idea for now.

Haha, of course but Soup83 is the new thing.

Nah, that username would just make me hungry.

At 4/10/10 09:51 AM, Auz wrote: Achievement of the Day
reverend: Brigadier General

Wow, I don't think I have ever won AotD before. Thanks

Lol, I don't know if you still had lectures the day after, but I've always found those people a bit strange. The people that just get drunk on normal weekdays while they still had lectures or projects the next day. Of course I can see the fun and you don't necessarily always have to show up sober, but I wouldn't want to turn it into a habit or anything.

Proper class scheduling. I usually have a few or no classes on Fridays. :)

Hmm laws are slightly different here I believe. You won't have to pay anything back in the first five years, but afterwards your debt will increase with like... 2% per year or so (just like an ordinary loan, except cheaper) and then you have to pay it back within some amount of time.

Fortunately you will receive the first five years of student support as a 'gift' so if you finish your study in the minimum amount of time you won't have to pay anything :)

Yeah the system is different here. The government gives out grants of 4,300 Dollars (3,186 EUR) max to lower income families but typically that doesn't cover everything so the government also offer low interest loans of 1.25-8.25% rate which you start paying back six months after you graduate or drop out. Not to mention, any other scholarships you might earn from other sources like the school itself.

Aw, but I think night classes would suck. Or at least, there is indeed not much time and if you're already working 40 hours a week I wouldn't want to spent the evenings following courses. But I guess you don't have much choice these days...

Well when your are in Grad school the course are tougher but the hours are less. I averaged about 15 hours per week in college but grad student will average only about 9. So that's about 2 hours per night each week or 3 hours if you go every other night.

Awesome! I just reached 40,000 Saves!

And only the 17th user to get there :)

At 4/10/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/9/10 05:48 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/9/10 12:33 PM, Bahamut wrote: There's an offline mode for you. :)

Oh yeah, forgot about that. Still, owning a physical copy of a game >>>>> "owning" a game on Steam.

Not if it's so cheap on Steam.

Physical copies always beat the digital copy.

The Steam software has an IM system which is handy.

Meh. That's what I have Pidgin for.

Or MSN or AIM.

Yes, that's what I have Pidgin for. ;)
It's a client that can connect to ICQ, MSN, AIM, etc. ;)

But that would have been another easy one to find. Maybe I can do something some other time but it can't be you! It'll be too obvious.

I doubt too many people here know the band. :P

What I mean is if they see your posts, they'd be like "Oh maybe Haggard had his link changed." *checks* "Whatya know, it did!"

Oh, now I get it.

At 4/10/10 09:51 AM, Auz wrote:

At 4/9/10 05:48 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/9/10 09:24 AM, Auz wrote: Does that do anything then? Like... can you get a better holiday job with it or stuff like that? Otherwise I don't really see the point of it.

Yes, there are some student jobs that you can only get when you have a pre-degree. But it's a bit pointless anyway. ^^

Well if you can get a better summerholiday job with it it's not so pointless :) All I can get at the moment is stupid, repetitive jobs that require as little thinking as possible and earn as little as possible.

I only had one student job so far, heh. But they didn't need me anymore, so my contract wasn't renewed.
I really wanted to look out for other jobs, but it's kind of hard to do if you don't really have to. My parents give me enough money to live and to pay for the Uni; currently about 250 Euro per semester (semester fee), which covers the costs for my semester ticket (I can use the public transportation system of my town with it) and some other costs as well (like, I get cheaper food in the canteen).

I don't pay any tuition right now (which used to be 500 Euro but is now 350 Euro), there's the option to defer those. I have to pay back my debt once I earn more than 30k Euro a year. I don't know if there's a time limit, though...

Also there's another problem (I have to get into greater detail for this one ^^): In Germany there's something called "Regelstudienzeit". It means that some smart people once said: Well, for this field of study you shouldn't need any longer than X semesters.

So the "Regelstudienzeit" says, I should've completed my studies after 9 semesters. I am currently in my 10th semester, so I didn't make it in the amount of semesters those smart people once determined (but it isn't unusual. Only very few people get their studies done in the "Regelstudienzeit").

Now the problem I have is, that the deferral for the tuition fees is only active until 2 semesters over the amount those smart people said I should need for my studies. So once I reach the 12th semester, I have to pay tuition fees and the semester fee. Which propably means, if I have to study this long, I have to go to my parents again to beg for more money.

Right now, I have enough to live and to save something up for the next semester fee. But if I have to pay tuition fee on top of that I don't have enough money.

But the "funny" thing is, even when I had my student job, I still hadn't enough money to pay the tuition and the semester fee and I still had to go to my parents "begging" for more money. :/

Topic was made in 02 O_o.

Coop wonders if he should maintain a new alt for the latest suggestions, while congratulating:
leitger: Level 19
bifgis: Level 36
vader316: 14,000 Saves
Fro: 22,000 Saves
Auz: 40,000 Saves

Listening to:
Megadeth - Symphony of Desruction
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying
Metallica - The Unforgiven

At 4/10/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/10/10 06:26 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 4/9/10 12:33 PM, Bahamut wrote: Do you really want me to make a pussy or raw meat game? You're aware of the consequences, right?

Burnt cats?

Nah, that's far from it.

I'll stop thinking about this then :P

Okay. It's a deal.

And while I'm at it, I'll have that secret copy of "Girlie World" you keep hidden under your mattress. Or you'll burn in the fires of Hell!

Oh all right. Bye. Is that everything now?

That's it mate! Cheerio! Ah hahaha, three hundred quid and a copy of "Girlie World"! Hahahahaha! Woop! *Eddie falls down the stairs, ending up in a heap at the bottom.*

Oh, blimey, I think I've broken my stilts!

I have another mockery name for you:

Soup83

Mmm... soup

Sounds like a good alt name.

It could well be. We have more varieties than Heinz, you know :P

Of course, this could lead to the Clangers and the Soup Dragon >:)

Clangers and the what now?

You've never heard of the Soup Dragon?!

At 4/10/10 12:08 PM, Fro wrote: Pyroscape Info:

Views: 80,589
Profit: $12.62

(It's on well over 100 websites now. I started bookmarking them, but I couldn't keep up. So these views are taking in consideration of every website it's on.)

Minted - not quite enough to start your own website, but it's certainly a great little place that you're getting some comeback from the fans. For some reason, someone gave me a shedload of clicks, so I've got over a dollar from my profile adverts :P

At 4/10/10 06:26 AM, Coop83 wrote:

When your on your way to read Coop's entry you should read mine as well. It's the one that's 1/3 the size posted directly before his.

Oh yeah, I'll have to do that at some point as well.

We both wrote about the mental hospital.

Actually, it's sort of like your story builds off of mine.

Hmm, that is strange. I'll certainly be giving it a read. I'll have to go there after the RRC stuff is done... provided that I can pry myself away from Borderlands.

At 4/10/10 12:32 PM, reverend wrote: Has anybody noticed that you can view Art Reviews in your profile now?

I can't see this :(

*writes art reviews feverishly*

Wi/Hter - Art Reviews (Responses)
XwaynecoltX - 389 (133)
Coop83 - 158 ( 99)
Haggard - 150 (104)
Fro - 110 (75)

A large group of dedicated Art Reviewers we have here :) Good stuff

And for Bahamut, the Soup Dragon:

Just noticed it on NG Logs, but I think I got the achievement yesterday already:
13.00 Total Voting Power!

Listening to:

Mercyful Fate - The Beginning

Thanks to:

Auz
Fro

At 4/10/10 09:51 AM, Auz wrote:

At 4/9/10 12:33 PM, Bahamut wrote: Pffft, they hardly help. To me, they're scamming people.

Aw that's too bad. Well hopefully it'll fade away over the years.

That or the doctors actually find a cure to it.

At 4/10/10 12:32 PM, reverend wrote: Has anybody noticed that you can view Art Reviews in your profile now?

This is cool...Except that I haven't written a single art review. Not even to say how beautiful some of the dragon artworks are. I'm a terrible person. :(

At 4/10/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote: You know they won't be humans.

Eh, let's shelf that idea for now.

Yeah, I know you're not particularly fond of those interests. :P

Haha, of course but Soup83 is the new thing.

Nah, that username would just make me hungry.

An even better reason to make that alt.

At 4/10/10 06:47 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/10/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote: Not if it's so cheap on Steam.

Physical copies always beat the digital copy.

Not always, though. Would you rather pay £5 for one game online or £50 for a physical copy?

Or MSN or AIM.

Yes, that's what I have Pidgin for. ;)
It's a client that can connect to ICQ, MSN, AIM, etc. ;)

Who even uses ICQ these days?

At 4/11/10 04:16 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 4/10/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote: Nah, that's far from it.

I'll stop thinking about this then :P

Of course, it's for the better of your sanity.

Oh all right. Bye. Is that everything now?

That's it mate! Cheerio! Ah hahaha, three hundred quid and a copy of "Girlie World"! Hahahahaha! Woop! *Eddie falls down the stairs, ending up in a heap at the bottom.*

Oh, blimey, I think I've broken my stilts!

Eddie Hitler, you total bastard! How did you know about my secret copy of "Girlie World"? Right, that's it, you're going to get a knuckle sandwich and I don't mean a sandwich with some knuckles in it! Well, I do actually, er -- well no, I don't really, well -- Well you're going to get a smash in the chops and no questions answered anyway!

Sounds like a good alt name.

It could well be. We have more varieties than Heinz, you know :P

Would you be alright if I made the Soup83 alt for laughs? If you object for any reason, however, no worries.

Clangers and the what now?

You've never heard of the Soup Dragon?!

Sadly not. :(

And for Bahamut, the Soup Dragon:

Hmm, the mouse looks vaguely familiar.

I missed a few days of depositing this week :(

Not really my fault, though; I blame the internet connection at my girlfriend's place, which wasn't solved by the replacement router, nor the endless connection tests her housemate was made to do by the broadband people.

Apparently a technician was supposed to turn up yesterday to sort it all out... so HOPEFULLY by the time we go back tomorrow their internet will be up and running. If not... I'll have to resort to using the internet on my Blackberry, which doesn't support Newgrounds well enough to deposit EXP or any of that good stuff.

Also hey.

Listening to:
Moonspell - Mephisto
Bush - Glycerine

At 4/10/10 12:32 PM, reverend wrote: Has anybody noticed that you can view Art Reviews in your profile now?

No. Because I don't see it anywhere. :(

Wi/Hter - Art Reviews (Responses)
Haggard - 150 (104)

Nice. And also almost a responserate of 70%, which is my best response rate so far. ^^

At 4/11/10 08:22 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/10/10 06:47 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/10/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote: Not if it's so cheap on Steam.

Physical copies always beat the digital copy.

Not always, though. Would you rather pay £5 for one game online or £50 for a physical copy?

Depends on which game it is. :P

Or MSN or AIM.

Yes, that's what I have Pidgin for. ;)
It's a client that can connect to ICQ, MSN, AIM, etc. ;)

Who even uses ICQ these days?

A lot of people.

I just noticed that I'm level 46 now.

Achievement of the Day
Haggard: 13.00 Voting Power

That's four times in a row, right? Congrats! ^^

Congrats to:
letiger: Level 19
bifgis: Level 36
vader316: 14,000 Saves
Fro: 22,000 Saves

At 4/10/10 12:32 PM, reverend wrote: Has anybody noticed that you can view Art Reviews in your profile now?

Oh that's nice. I don't think I'll be that active in the Art Portal, but perhaps I can write a couple of reviews here and there. I'm sure they'll be included in the Pentalist someday, so can't hurt to work on that stat for a bit. And who knows, maybe I'll be drawn to the Art Portal a bit more.

At 4/10/10 09:51 AM, Auz wrote: Lol, I don't know if you still had lectures the day after, but I've always found those people a bit strange. The people that just get drunk on normal weekdays while they still had lectures or projects the next day. Of course I can see the fun and you don't necessarily always have to show up sober, but I wouldn't want to turn it into a habit or anything.

Proper class scheduling. I usually have a few or no classes on Fridays. :)

Ah, having no classes on Fridays is always great. Long weekends ftw ^^

Hmm laws are slightly different here I believe. You won't have to pay anything back in the first five years, but afterwards your debt will increase with like... 2% per year or so (just like an ordinary loan, except cheaper) and then you have to pay it back within some amount of time.

Fortunately you will receive the first five years of student support as a 'gift' so if you finish your study in the minimum amount of time you won't have to pay anything :)

Yeah the system is different here. The government gives out grants of 4,300 Dollars (3,186 EUR) max to lower income families but typically that doesn't cover everything so the government also offer low interest loans of 1.25-8.25% rate which you start paying back six months after you graduate or drop out. Not to mention, any other scholarships you might earn from other sources like the school itself.

8.25% rate still seems like a lot to me :p I don't know what the rate for a normal loan is, but I guess you could lose a lot of money there if you don't pay it back fast. Also, sucks to be in a higher income family with parents that don't want to jump in.

Aw, but I think night classes would suck. Or at least, there is indeed not much time and if you're already working 40 hours a week I wouldn't want to spent the evenings following courses. But I guess you don't have much choice these days...

Well when your are in Grad school the course are tougher but the hours are less. I averaged about 15 hours per week in college but grad student will average only about 9. So that's about 2 hours per night each week or 3 hours if you go every other night.

Averaged only 15 hours a week in college? :p Last period I had 40 hours scheduled, which is pretty extreme even to our countries standards, but 20+ hours is normal here.

And yeah I supposed those hours would be less, but imagine if you just worked for 8 hours and then have to go to this grad school for two more after you've had dinner. You'll probably have to do some traveling as well, so you're basically busy from early in the morning to late in the evening ALL WEEK. I think I'd prefer to drop on the couch and watch TV after I'm done working.

At 4/10/10 06:47 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/10/10 09:51 AM, Auz wrote: Well if you can get a better summerholiday job with it it's not so pointless :) All I can get at the moment is stupid, repetitive jobs that require as little thinking as possible and earn as little as possible.

I only had one student job so far, heh. But they didn't need me anymore, so my contract wasn't renewed.
I really wanted to look out for other jobs, but it's kind of hard to do if you don't really have to. My parents give me enough money to live and to pay for the Uni; currently about 250 Euro per semester (semester fee), which covers the costs for my semester ticket (I can use the public transportation system of my town with it) and some other costs as well (like, I get cheaper food in the canteen).

Yeah I can see what you mean. I wasn't very motivated to look for a job last year either. My parents pay for almost everything I need and on top of that my summer holiday was only five weeks long anyway. That's way too short to go and waste it on doing stupid summer jobs imo.

I don't pay any tuition right now (which used to be 500 Euro but is now 350 Euro), there's the option to defer those. I have to pay back my debt once I earn more than 30k Euro a year. I don't know if there's a time limit, though...

Oh you'll probably have plenty of time then. I believe generally uni-people earn about 30k per year max when they just start working. So I suppose you'll still have a couple of years before you have to start paying back, and once you do you got a decent salary already.

Also there's another problem (I have to get into greater detail for this one ^^): In Germany there's something called "Regelstudienzeit". It means that some smart people once said: Well, for this field of study you shouldn't need any longer than X semesters.

Lol, "smart people" as in: A bunch of nitwits who actually know jackshit about stuff that has anything to do with education? :p

So the "Regelstudienzeit" says, I should've completed my studies after 9 semesters. I am currently in my 10th semester, so I didn't make it in the amount of semesters those smart people once determined (but it isn't unusual. Only very few people get their studies done in the "Regelstudienzeit").

Now the problem I have is, that the deferral for the tuition fees is only active until 2 semesters over the amount those smart people said I should need for my studies. So once I reach the 12th semester, I have to pay tuition fees and the semester fee. Which propably means, if I have to study this long, I have to go to my parents again to beg for more money.

Ah, so basically you already have a student loan, but once you cross those X amount of semesters you're gonna have to pay extra if you want to continue? That sucks =/

Right now, I have enough to live and to save something up for the next semester fee. But if I have to pay tuition fee on top of that I don't have enough money.

But the "funny" thing is, even when I had my student job, I still hadn't enough money to pay the tuition and the semester fee and I still had to go to my parents "begging" for more money. :/

But can't you just take a cheap student loan then? I suppose that if you go working in the summer, get some money from your parents and loan a bit you could gather enough money to make it for another year.

Well as I mentioned yesterday that they added on Art Reviews to everyone's profile. Of course I'm sure there is a wanting need eventually for a list of who has the Top Art Reviews in line with Flash and Audio Reviews (not to mention to itch my curiosity). So I created a fairly accurate list of the Top 50 Art Reviewers.

I'm not quite sure if it's worth creating a full thread about it; so I was wondering what you guys thought. Do you think it's worth being tracked like the Flash and Audio Reviews Threads or should it be shelved for the moment? By 'worth being tracked' I mean are you personally going to have some interest in it. :P

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Congrats to:
Auz - 40k Saves!
Haggard - 13.00 Total VP
ixfd64 - Level 46

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At 4/10/10 12:08 PM, Fro wrote: Thanks a lot for the review!

Fo' sho.

Oh as a point, I don't read other user's reviews when writing my own, so naturally it would repeat what others might have said. :)

At 4/11/10 04:16 AM, Coop83 wrote: I can't see this :(

Put on your spectacles old man. :)

No but really, it's not on the front of your profile. You have to view all of your reviews and it's displayed at the bottom, however it's incomplete. It will only list your last three Art Reviews and it doesn't even link them to the submissions yet. And if you try the "With Responses" Reviews it will give an error since that page hasn't been created yet.

At 4/11/10 08:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: This is cool...Except that I haven't written a single art review. Not even to say how beautiful some of the dragon artworks are. I'm a terrible person. :(

No time like the present. ;)

An even better reason to make that alt.

I still like my Poop83 even though it sounds like it's from some butt-hurt user. I think it'll go well with gfoxcock.

At 4/11/10 09:08 AM, Haggard wrote: No. Because I don't see it anywhere. :(

It can be seen on your reviews list at the moment. I'm sure when Rob and James works out the kinks it will be linked on the front of everyone's profiles.

You passed 4000 Saves. Way to go!

::Oh wait...40k saves score?! (I think I failed on this quotation thing)

At 4/11/10 12:46 PM, reverend wrote: Well as I mentioned yesterday that they added on Art Reviews to everyone's profile. Of course I'm sure there is a wanting need eventually for a list of who has the Top Art Reviews in line with Flash and Audio Reviews (not to mention to itch my curiosity). So I created a fairly accurate list of the Top 50 Art Reviewers.

Ah nice work there.

I'm not quite sure if it's worth creating a full thread about it; so I was wondering what you guys thought. Do you think it's worth being tracked like the Flash and Audio Reviews Threads or should it be shelved for the moment? By 'worth being tracked' I mean are you personally going to have some interest in it. :P

I think people will be interested in such a list, but maybe wait with making the thread for a bit longer? It seems to me like the feature hasn't even been developed fully yet. I suppose admins will eventually put them under the Flash and Audio reviews under Newgrounds Stats and will show which review belongs to which submission.

Once they implemented that, it may become easier to update the stat. On top of that you're probably gonna find some new users soon, so if you would post the list right now you might have to make a lot of changes later.

So in short: I'm okay with making the topic, but let's not rush things.

Fro has some work to do before classes tomorrow while saying Congrats To:

Auz: 40,000 Saves
Haggard: 13.00 Total VP
ixfd64: Level 46
Tetimaru000: 4,000 Saves
WeirdAlthe3rd: Deity Whistle
FroNickProductions: Deity Whistle

Thanks To:

reverend
Coop83
Odyssic

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Pyroscape Info:

Views: 137,086
Total Profit: $17.07

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At 4/10/10 12:32 PM, reverend wrote: Has anybody noticed that you can view Art Reviews in your profile now?

Sweet, looks like they still have to work a bit of kinks out, but it's nice to know how many that I have.

Wi/Hter - Art Reviews (Responses)
XwaynecoltX - 389 (133)
Coop83 - 158 ( 99)
Haggard - 150 (104)
Fro - 110 (75)

I figured that the above reviewers would have at least 100 reviews so far.

At 4/10/10 09:33 PM, DjangoEX wrote: Topic was made in 02 O_o.

I never knew that! We should stop bumping this old topic guys!

At 4/11/10 12:46 PM, reverend wrote: Well as I mentioned yesterday that they added on Art Reviews to everyone's profile. Of course I'm sure there is a wanting need eventually for a list of who has the Top Art Reviews in line with Flash and Audio Reviews (not to mention to itch my curiosity). So I created a fairly accurate list of the Top 50 Art Reviewers.

I'm not quite sure if it's worth creating a full thread about it; so I was wondering what you guys thought. Do you think it's worth being tracked like the Flash and Audio Reviews Threads or should it be shelved for the moment? By 'worth being tracked' I mean are you personally going to have some interest in it. :P

Yeah, thanks for the current list and I'd be very intrested in seeing one. Perhaps we'll just need to check around to make it somewhat more accurate. Maybe making a thread in the art forum to see how many reviews people have just for the sake of accuracy.

At 4/10/10 12:08 PM, Fro wrote: Thanks a lot for the review!

Fo' sho.

Oh as a point, I don't read other user's reviews when writing my own, so naturally it would repeat what others might have said. :)

Yeah, that's fine. When I see someone point out the same thing that other reviews point out it just means it's an obvious thing to fix or work on in the future.

At 4/11/10 04:16 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Minted - not quite enough to start your own website, but it's certainly a great little place that you're getting some comeback from the fans. For some reason, someone gave me a shedload of clicks, so I've got over a dollar from my profile adverts :P

It's been nice. I hope the next one is so much better that perhaps it gets front paged and gets even more views. Oddly enough more than 75% of the views are coming from China.

At 4/11/10 06:04 PM, WeirdAlthe3rd wrote: Forget what I said before. My whistle went back to gold.

My question is: why do you even keep flagging after Deity since you can risk you whistle?

Also, I finally achieved Sergeant Major, and of course this means 9500+b/p, and my voting power is quickly rising towards 9 (8.92 ATM, will be 9+ as soon as I level or rank up)

At 4/11/10 12:43 PM, Auz wrote: Achievement of the Day
Haggard: 13.00 Voting Power

That's four times in a row, right? Congrats! ^^

Yes it is. Awesome! :D
Thanks!

Yeah I can see what you mean. I wasn't very motivated to look for a job last year either. My parents pay for almost everything I need and on top of that my summer holiday was only five weeks long anyway. That's way too short to go and waste it on doing stupid summer jobs imo.

Yeah, you need some time to relax every now and then. When I have holidays I have to study for examns (because I never manage to do so during the semester -.-), so I don't want to waste any time in a job that doesn't even pay too good.

I don't pay any tuition right now (which used to be 500 Euro but is now 350 Euro), there's the option to defer those. I have to pay back my debt once I earn more than 30k Euro a year. I don't know if there's a time limit, though...

Oh you'll probably have plenty of time then. I believe generally uni-people earn about 30k per year max when they just start working. So I suppose you'll still have a couple of years before you have to start paying back, and once you do you got a decent salary already.

Statistics say that people who study the same thing as I do earn an average of exactly 30k in their first year. XD

Also there's another problem (I have to get into greater detail for this one ^^): In Germany there's something called "Regelstudienzeit". It means that some smart people once said: Well, for this field of study you shouldn't need any longer than X semesters.

Lol, "smart people" as in: A bunch of nitwits who actually know jackshit about stuff that has anything to do with education? :p

That's exactly what I meant. ^^

Now the problem I have is, that the deferral for the tuition fees is only active until 2 semesters over the amount those smart people said I should need for my studies. So once I reach the 12th semester, I have to pay tuition fees and the semester fee. Which propably means, if I have to study this long, I have to go to my parents again to beg for more money.

Ah, so basically you already have a student loan, but once you cross those X amount of semesters you're gonna have to pay extra if you want to continue? That sucks =/

Yes it does. And I only found out a few weeks ago. It's somewhere in the fine print and someone pointed it out to me.

But the "funny" thing is, even when I had my student job, I still hadn't enough money to pay the tuition and the semester fee and I still had to go to my parents "begging" for more money. :/

But can't you just take a cheap student loan then? I suppose that if you go working in the summer, get some money from your parents and loan a bit you could gather enough money to make it for another year.

I really don't want to take another loan. I'm not too happy with the loan I already have (but I didn't wanted to sponge off my parents more than I already do) so yet another loan is out of the question for me.
Luckily I shouldn't take too long to finish my studies anyway. Only problem is, I really don't know where I should apply for a job if I graduate. ^^

At 4/11/10 12:46 PM, reverend wrote: I'm not quite sure if it's worth creating a full thread about it; so I was wondering what you guys thought. Do you think it's worth being tracked like the Flash and Audio Reviews Threads or should it be shelved for the moment?

I would be interested in a thread as I've already mentioned, but on second thoughts I guess it's better to wait until art reviews and responses are fully viewable and are added to the box where the flash and audio reviews are displayed.

Congrats to:
Haggard - 13.00 Total VP

Thanks!

At 4/11/10 08:03 PM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 4/11/10 06:04 PM, WeirdAlthe3rd wrote: Forget what I said before. My whistle went back to gold.

My question is: why do you even keep flagging after Deity since you can risk you whistle?

Because you shouldn't flag to get up your whistle but to get rid of abusive reviews and flashes. ;)

Coop shakes down ready for another evening of GMing tonight, while congratulating:
Haggard: 13.00 Total Voting Power
ixfd64: Level 46
Tetimaru000: 4,000 Saves
WeirdAlthe3rd: Deity Whistle
FroNickProductions: Deity Whistle

At 4/11/10 08:22 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/11/10 04:16 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 4/10/10 08:07 AM, Bahamut wrote: Oh all right. Bye. Is that everything now?

That's it mate! Cheerio! Ah hahaha, three hundred quid and a copy of "Girlie World"! Hahahahaha! Woop! *Eddie falls down the stairs, ending up in a heap at the bottom.*

Oh, blimey, I think I've broken my stilts!

Eddie Hitler, you total bastard! How did you know about my secret copy of "Girlie World"? Right, that's it, you're going to get a knuckle sandwich and I don't mean a sandwich with some knuckles in it! Well, I do actually, er -- well no, I don't really, well -- Well you're going to get a smash in the chops and no questions answered anyway!

*Richie is about to punch Eddie, when there is a knock on the front door.*

Sounds like a good alt name.

It could well be. We have more varieties than Heinz, you know :P

Would you be alright if I made the Soup83 alt for laughs? If you object for any reason, however, no worries.

Sure, go for it.

Clangers and the what now?

You've never heard of the Soup Dragon?!

Sadly not. :(

:(

And for Bahamut, the Soup Dragon:

Hmm, the mouse looks vaguely familiar.

It's not a mouse, it's a fucking clanger!

At 4/11/10 12:46 PM, reverend wrote: Well as I mentioned yesterday that they added on Art Reviews to everyone's profile. Of course I'm sure there is a wanting need eventually for a list of who has the Top Art Reviews in line with Flash and Audio Reviews (not to mention to itch my curiosity). So I created a fairly accurate list of the Top 50 Art Reviewers.

Nice work - Perhaps it's not worth getting a list yet, until we get over 100 profiles found for the list. Once you've got past there, it might be worth putting it up to the top 100 list, to fit in with the Flash and Audio reviewers lists.

I'm not quite sure if it's worth creating a full thread about it; so I was wondering what you guys thought. Do you think it's worth being tracked like the Flash and Audio Reviews Threads or should it be shelved for the moment? By 'worth being tracked' I mean are you personally going to have some interest in it. :P

I have interest in it - I've got to beat MindChamber! I can certainly see me doing that over the next few weeks, since there are plenty of new arts out there for me to review :D

At 4/11/10 05:30 PM, Fro wrote:

At 4/11/10 04:16 AM, Coop83 wrote: Minted - not quite enough to start your own website, but it's certainly a great little place that you're getting some comeback from the fans. For some reason, someone gave me a shedload of clicks, so I've got over a dollar from my profile adverts :P

It's been nice. I hope the next one is so much better that perhaps it gets front paged and gets even more views. Oddly enough more than 75% of the views are coming from China.

Ah, we will have to be Xenophabic and call you "Flo" then :P

At 4/12/10 02:11 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/11/10 08:03 PM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 4/11/10 06:04 PM, WeirdAlthe3rd wrote: Forget what I said before. My whistle went back to gold.

My question is: why do you even keep flagging after Deity since you can risk you whistle?

Because you shouldn't flag to get up your whistle but to get rid of abusive reviews and flashes. ;)

Exactly this - if you're trying to flag stuff to get your whistle level up, you deserve to go down in levels, imo.

Awesome! Thanks to Bahamut (and some other people) I finally got myself to 200 Flash Review Responses!

At 4/12/10 02:11 AM, Haggard wrote: Because you shouldn't flag to get up your whistle but to get rid of abusive reviews and flashes. ;)

Yeah, sure, and whoever is voting on submissions isn't doing it for the ranks, but to help NG get rid of spammy flashes.
If this was true, we wouldn't have so many awful, awful flashes on the verge of being blammed (a score of 1.60 or something), but that still stay on the site, probably because of users who vote 5 on every submission just go get quick points.
If everyone actually watched them and voted based on that, they would have a score of 0.10...
Come on, how many users would be flagging reviews (and I mean regularly, not occasionally) if the whistle system wasn't implemented?
By the way, just out of curiosity, why didn't you include me in the "congrats to" list? :(

New gaming rant: GameFAQs' Character Battle contests

Listening to:

Fates Warning - Inside Out

At 4/11/10 09:08 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/11/10 08:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: Not always, though. Would you rather pay £5 for one game online or £50 for a physical copy?

Depends on which game it is. :P

True but which ones would you spend £50 on rather than £5? Also, I will give you one thing about not reselling games on Steam. I bought Fallout 3 standard edition and a few months later GOTY edition came out. That wasn't pleasant for me.

Who even uses ICQ these days?

A lot of people.

I can only name you. :P ICQ is so ancient.

At 4/11/10 12:46 PM, reverend wrote: So I created a fairly accurate list of the Top 50 Art Reviewers.

Looking good so far. I'm now wondering when we'll put all the reviewers lists together. :P

At 4/11/10 08:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: An even better reason to make that alt.

I still like my Poop83 even though it sounds like it's from some butt-hurt user. I think it'll go well with gfoxcock.

Poop83 isn't creative but it would be a name a butt-hurt user would use to refer to Coop.

At 4/12/10 03:36 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 4/11/10 08:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: Eddie Hitler, you total bastard! How did you know about my secret copy of "Girlie World"? Right, that's it, you're going to get a knuckle sandwich and I don't mean a sandwich with some knuckles in it! Well, I do actually, er -- well no, I don't really, well -- Well you're going to get a smash in the chops and no questions answered anyway!

*Richie is about to punch Eddie, when there is a knock on the front door.*

Well who on earth can that be at this time of night?

Would you be alright if I made the Soup83 alt for laughs? If you object for any reason, however, no worries.

Sure, go for it.

Alright, I'll work on it later.

They're gonna hafta' bury whats left of ye in a soup can!

Hmm, the mouse looks vaguely familiar.

It's not a mouse, it's a fucking clanger!

Fine, clanger. I've seen the clanger before.

Achievement of the Day
It's a tie this time between:
WeirdAlthe3rd: Deity Whistle
FroNickProductions: Deity Whistle

Deity whistles are pretty rare achievements these days. So congrats to you both ^^

Congrats to:
Tetimaru000: 4,000 Saves
HeavyTank: Sergeant Major

At 4/12/10 02:11 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/11/10 12:43 PM, Auz wrote: Yeah I can see what you mean. I wasn't very motivated to look for a job last year either. My parents pay for almost everything I need and on top of that my summer holiday was only five weeks long anyway. That's way too short to go and waste it on doing stupid summer jobs imo.

Yeah, you need some time to relax every now and then. When I have holidays I have to study for examns (because I never manage to do so during the semester -.-), so I don't want to waste any time in a job that doesn't even pay too good.

Do you also have resits at the end of August then? Last year I failed miserably for all of them. The weather was just too good plus my parents were on vacation for two those weeks :p

Oh you'll probably have plenty of time then. I believe generally uni-people earn about 30k per year max when they just start working. So I suppose you'll still have a couple of years before you have to start paying back, and once you do you got a decent salary already.

Statistics say that people who study the same thing as I do earn an average of exactly 30k in their first year. XD

Yeah same with me, but I believe I'm on the high side for an engineering studies. Most engineers and researchers would probably earn a little lower on average, and arts/language studies generally don't earn that much either. I think some of the business and medical studies earn most in the first years. They'd probably go over that 30k, but for the rest 30k is a lot for most.

Lol, "smart people" as in: A bunch of nitwits who actually know jackshit about stuff that has anything to do with education? :p

That's exactly what I meant. ^^

Lol :p Yeah that's sometimes a problem here as well.

Probably some new people got in charge and they just want to make some changes. You know, to put their mark on something. But they don't really know what they're talking about and in couple of years they'll turn it back because it doesn't work.

But can't you just take a cheap student loan then? I suppose that if you go working in the summer, get some money from your parents and loan a bit you could gather enough money to make it for another year.

I really don't want to take another loan. I'm not too happy with the loan I already have (but I didn't wanted to sponge off my parents more than I already do) so yet another loan is out of the question for me.
Luckily I shouldn't take too long to finish my studies anyway. Only problem is, I really don't know where I should apply for a job if I graduate. ^^

I suppose you could sent a letter to some major companies in your field. Otherwise I'm sure you could find something in papers and on the internet.

Milestones:

6 Years on Newgrounds
28,000 Medal Points

I'm sort of upset that I missed my 6 Year NG Birfdai, which was actually yesterday, but a day late isn't too bad I guess. What did you guys get me?

Fro has a busy week like usual, but things will start to look up while saying Congrats To:

HeavyTank: Sergeant Major
Auz: 200 Flash Review Responses

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At 4/11/10 11:40 PM, WeirdAlthe3rd wrote: Sorry for the double post, but I'm letting you guys know that I got Diety back for good.

Now just because you lost it once before don't stop marking things that are abusive! You were probably just right on the border line and had one or two mistakes that brought you back down to gold. It's all about clearing stuff from the website and not about a shiny whistle. That's just a prize. :)

At 4/12/10 03:36 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Ah, we will have to be Xenophabic and call you "Flo" then :P

I thought you guys would enjoy this. It kind of reminds me of Chinagrounds... The Chinese site that our game is on changed the title of the game to, "Escape the Terrorist Room."

Timmy and I decided that the Chinese view American education as terrorism, therefor the dorm room was a terrorist room.

At 4/12/10 05:50 AM, Auz wrote: Awesome! Thanks to Bahamut (and some other people) I finally got myself to 200 Flash Review Responses!

If you review the things that I submitted (I'm coed on like 40+ submissions so you have to pick and choose) I'll be sure to respond to each and every one. :)

At 4/12/10 08:52 AM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 4/12/10 02:11 AM, Haggard wrote: Because you shouldn't flag to get up your whistle but to get rid of abusive reviews and flashes. ;)

Yeah, sure, and whoever is voting on submissions isn't doing it for the ranks, but to help NG get rid of spammy flashes.

Yes I am actually.

If this was true, we wouldn't have so many awful, awful flashes on the verge of being blammed (a score of 1.60 or something), but that still stay on the site, probably because of users who vote 5 on every submission just go get quick points.

Well that's the difference between users like you and users like us. (classifying almost every one of us in this thread that make lists) We do it because we generally love the site and would help in anyway possible. I'm sure the rest of the guys here would agree exactly with what I'm saying.

If everyone actually watched them and voted based on that, they would have a score of 0.10...
Come on, how many users would be flagging reviews (and I mean regularly, not occasionally) if the whistle system wasn't implemented?

If you think about it more people would be flagging reviews. They could flag whatever they want without anything negative happening to their whistles. The whistle system actually produces a honest marking system since there is a punishment if you abusive it.

It's perfect the way it is.

By the way, I mark abusive reviews almost every single day. Some days I'll even go looking for them.

Rev's eyes are burning; congrats to:
Tetimaru000 - 4,000 Saves
WierdAlthe3rd - Deity Whistle!
FroNickProductions - Deity Whistle!
HeavyTank - Sergeant Major
Auz - 200 Flash Review Responses!
Fro - 6 Years on NG and 28k Medal Points

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At 4/11/10 12:43 PM, Auz wrote: 8.25% rate still seems like a lot to me :p I don't know what the rate for a normal loan is, but I guess you could lose a lot of money there if you don't pay it back fast. Also, sucks to be in a higher income family with parents that don't want to jump in.

8.25 is really the cap for such rates. I think most of my loan averaged about 5.00 where the highest was 6.25 but still it's better than taking a loan from a bank where the rate are upwards of 15-22%.

Averaged only 15 hours a week in college? :p Last period I had 40 hours scheduled, which is pretty extreme even to our countries standards, but 20+ hours is normal here.

That's insane. The minimum for full time in the US for most colleges is 12 hours while the max is about 18 hours.

At 4/11/10 01:22 PM, Auz wrote: Ah nice work there.

Thanks

I think people will be interested in such a list, but maybe wait with making the thread for a bit longer? It seems to me like the feature hasn't even been developed fully yet. I suppose admins will eventually put them under the Flash and Audio reviews under Newgrounds Stats and will show which review belongs to which submission.

That is true but there is no telling when they will get everything working. I think the major hurdle for Rob is that the Art Thumbnails are bigger than 46x46 so it won't fit in the Review boxes. Something like that could mean several more months of work.

Once they implemented that, it may become easier to update the stat. On top of that you're probably gonna find some new users soon, so if you would post the list right now you might have to make a lot of changes later.

Also that is true but it's not like it going to be this week or next that such a thread will be created. I was just curious would such a thread be wanted.Trust me, every time I search the Art Portal I spot someone who I haven't found before so it's far from complete, especially the bottom half. ;)

At 4/11/10 05:30 PM, Fro wrote: Yeah, thanks for the current list and I'd be very intrested in seeing one. Perhaps we'll just need to check around to make it somewhat more accurate. Maybe making a thread in the art forum to see how many reviews people have just for the sake of accuracy.

I poked around the users in the Art Forum Lounge, Art Portal Patrol Club, etc.; they really don't review much. I really not sure they will be interested in such a topic and not to mention that when you post a new topic you have to post a pic. :P

I have found that it's the artist themselves who do most of the heavy reviewing so I might have to dig some more there.

At 4/12/10 02:11 AM, Haggard wrote: I would be interested in a thread as I've already mentioned, but on second thoughts I guess it's better to wait until art reviews and responses are fully viewable and are added to the box where the flash and audio reviews are displayed.

I've all but leaned that way. In reality the only two numbers I need are displayed on the user's review page, Art Reviews and w/ Response, I really don't need it on the main page or need to dig through the actual reviews.

At 4/12/10 03:36 AM, Coop83 wrote: Nice work - Perhaps it's not worth getting a list yet, until we get over 100 profiles found for the list. Once you've got past there, it might be worth putting it up to the top 100 list, to fit in with the Flash and Audio reviewers lists.

Currently I have found 110 users who have 60+ Art Reviews. The 100th user has 68 Reviews. I'm not quite sure how many profiles I have to look at for this list to be statistically significant but I have been through about 2400 of them in the past three days.

I have interest in it - I've got to beat MindChamber! I can certainly see me doing that over the next few weeks, since there are plenty of new arts out there for me to review :D

Excellent. I will update in a week with the new users I have found. I think you stand at #19, at the moment.

At 4/12/10 08:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: Looking good so far. I'm now wondering when we'll put all the reviewers lists together. :P

Good question . . .

At 4/12/10 08:52 AM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 4/12/10 02:11 AM, Haggard wrote: Because you shouldn't flag to get up your whistle but to get rid of abusive reviews and flashes. ;)

Yeah, sure, and whoever is voting on submissions isn't doing it for the ranks, but to help NG get rid of spammy flashes.

The points are just some sort of incentive to vote. Also, you can also vote to save flashes. ;)
Also, if I wouldn't enjoy watching and voting on flashes I wouldn't still be active in B/Ping, as I've already reached the last rank.

If this was true, we wouldn't have so many awful, awful flashes on the verge of being blammed (a score of 1.60 or something), but that still stay on the site, probably because of users who vote 5 on every submission just go get quick points.

A paragraph earlier it was "whoever is voting" now it's "some users". I don't vote 5 on everything. I have over 14k blams, and there are days where I get more blams than saves.

Come on, how many users would be flagging reviews (and I mean regularly, not occasionally) if the whistle system wasn't implemented?

The whistle is an incentive to flag, sure. But we can't see how many whistle points we have, we don't know how many succesfully flagged reviews and flashes it needs to level up your whistle. Why do you think the system is that way? So we can't brag about our whistle points, but to flag mostly to get rid of abusive reviews/flashes.

I've got my deity whistle quite some time ago (must have been at least over two years ago...) and I still flag abusive reviews when I see them.

By the way, just out of curiosity, why didn't you include me in the "congrats to" list? :(

Me? I stopped doing lists a while ago. You propably mean Coop. You should check who you are quoting. :P

At 4/12/10 08:56 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/11/10 09:08 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/11/10 08:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: Not always, though. Would you rather pay £5 for one game online or £50 for a physical copy?

Depends on which game it is. :P

True but which ones would you spend £50 on rather than £5?

Can't think of any game I want so bad that I want to spend 50 bucks on it in the first place. :P

Sure, if the difference between the digital copy and the physical copy is that big I might just get the digital copy.

Also, I will give you one thing about not reselling games on Steam. I bought Fallout 3 standard edition and a few months later GOTY edition came out. That wasn't pleasant for me.

HA!
I'm glad I didn't have the money to buy F3 when it came out. By the time I had the money the GOTY was already out and I got it for about 35 Pounds (UK Import).

Who even uses ICQ these days?

A lot of people.

I can only name you. :P ICQ is so ancient.

I'm too lazy to count all the contacts I have in my ICQ list. :P
I guess it's more than 50, about 15 users are online regularly. The rest doesn't seem to use ICQ anymore (or they changed their account for whatever reason).

At 4/12/10 12:31 PM, Auz wrote:

At 4/12/10 02:11 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/11/10 12:43 PM, Auz wrote: Yeah I can see what you mean. I wasn't very motivated to look for a job last year either. My parents pay for almost everything I need and on top of that my summer holiday was only five weeks long anyway. That's way too short to go and waste it on doing stupid summer jobs imo.

Yeah, you need some time to relax every now and then. When I have holidays I have to study for examns (because I never manage to do so during the semester -.-), so I don't want to waste any time in a job that doesn't even pay too good.

Do you also have resits at the end of August then? Last year I failed miserably for all of them. The weather was just too good plus my parents were on vacation for two those weeks :p

Resits are in September/October most of the time. But I know what you mean. It's hard to study for exams if the weather is too good. ^^

But can't you just take a cheap student loan then? I suppose that if you go working in the summer, get some money from your parents and loan a bit you could gather enough money to make it for another year.

I really don't want to take another loan. I'm not too happy with the loan I already have (but I didn't wanted to sponge off my parents more than I already do) so yet another loan is out of the question for me.
Luckily I shouldn't take too long to finish my studies anyway. Only problem is, I really don't know where I should apply for a job if I graduate. ^^

I suppose you could sent a letter to some major companies in your field. Otherwise I'm sure you could find something in papers and on the internet.

Yeah, I can do that. But I just can't imagine what my workday will be like. XD

Everyone congratulate me on my hard work.

leveled to 8 today

4,000 metal points =) Not bad... But I don't play a lot of metal games..

First off, congrats to:
Tetimaru000 - 4,000 Saves
WierdAlthe3rd - Deity Whistle
FroNickProductions - Deity Whistle
HeavyTank - Sergeant Major
Auz - 200 Flash Review Responses
Fro - 6 Years on NG and 28k Medal Points
MegaGold - 3500 Posts
InnerChild548 - Level 26
Mags1722 - Level 8
vader316 - 4000 Medal Points (nothing to scoff at)

I just reached 3000 saves a couple minutes ago, on my way to Corporal which I should reach within the next two days unless something goes terribly wrong.

At 4/12/10 08:28 PM, FBIpolux wrote: Are you guys ready to see the experience requirement for the next level to raise everytime the level 60 user deposits, therefore making the last 10 levels almost impossible to reach if you aren't around level 45 already?

Not impossible, just time consuming. And a fixed amount of time if you deposit regularly.

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