Colonel B/P badge. Looks a lot better than the previous one. Clock Day is an awesome day.

Happy Clock Day!

Also, 70,000 Total Stats! >:(

At 8/15/10 03:28 AM, Auz wrote:

At 8/14/10 05:51 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/12/10 02:14 PM, Auz wrote: Lol, oh well, we all finish our studies at least a year later than initially planned. That's what being a student is all about.

Yep. Also, it's very hard to finish the studies in only 9 semesters. I only know of one person who did it out of all the guys and girls I started studying with.

9 semesters? Yeah, that's short though still half a year longer than how long it's supposed to take right?

No, the framework tells me I should finish in 9 semesters. But most people need 12 or even more semesters. Next semester will be my 11th.

I got 3 years for my bachelor, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna take me at least 1 year longer. In my studies that's quite normal =/

I wonder who works out those frameworks anyway. Those people seem to think that a student only lives to study and learn and has more than enough money to pay any tuitions without having to work in a sidejob.

We coulnd't also play in Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. Oh, and no Denmark and Holland as well, as there are quite a number of people who at least can read german.

Oh well, if we just play in the Western borders of Switzerland and Holland, South in Belgium and North in Denmark I'm pretty sure nobody would speak German. That still leaves Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, but only three people live there anyway so that's no big loss.

But I want to play shows in my home country as well.

Neuk sounds good. We could also include "swaffelen". ^^

|= |

I bet you guys can't even pronounce it right...

Which one, neuk or swaffelen? :P

Swaffelen.

I bet you would do that 'sch' stuff, but the UK'ers will probably have most trouble with it.

There are some "sch"/"sh" sounds in the english language. If you are talking about a "sh" like in "shoe", that is.

But yeah, my knowledge of the dutch language is very limited. I only know you pronounce the 'g' a bit like we pronounce our 'ch' in words like "Bach" or "Buch".
Oh, and "ij" is pronounced a bit like our "ei". So the "Meijer" is pronounced like "Meier" in german. ^^

Yep, we do that ggggg, but even in Holland there are certain regions where people can't do that.

I always wince a bit if people here say "van Gaal" with a "g" like in "Go".

And "ei" and "ij" are the same here. I don't know why we actually have different ways of writing them =/

Because they are different languages? :P
Some languages have the character "ÿ" in their alphabet, I read it derived from "ij".

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/14/10 05:51 PM, Haggard wrote: But I think I'll just buy some new CDs, like the new Blind Guardian and the new Iron Maiden album

DO IT DO IT DO IT!

I WILL I WILL I WILL!

At 8/13/10 08:38 AM, Bahamut wrote: Not sure if I can make it to Germany yet.

So, you have the same problems that I have.

Hey, you're 29 and can travel to many places just fine.

What hinders you to travel to germany at age 20? Besides money, that is. But money is what hinders me to travel to London whenever there is a meet up. ;)

Nope, God can do everything.

How, if he's a lie?

But he isn't!

So Hypocrisy lied when they said God is a lie?

You can still slip up from time to time

Yeah, but that happens to all of us, no matter if we have a monitor to look at or not.

And without a monitor, you weren't able to know if you made mistakes or not.

Usually I notice when I type a wrong letter, the only problem would be that I couldn't correct it, because I wouldn't exactly know where I typed the wrong letter.

Dammit Haggard, stop being lazy!

Says the right one. :P

Yes I am right about your laziness but dammit, make some photoshops already!

Made with paint.

At 8/15/10 01:48 PM, thenewbies wrote: 2000 blams.

Did I say blams? I meant saves.

At 8/15/10 04:53 PM, Haggard wrote: Happy Clock Day!

Also, 70,000 Total Stats! >:(

Congrats! Why so ANGARY? #;-}>

HAPPY CLOCK DAY TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

At 8/15/10 12:22 PM, NEVR wrote: Clock day seems pretty tame this year. I remember Clock day '08 being absolutely mental and I ended up reaping over 1,000 saves for the day... what's happened to this grand tradition? :(

How's everybody else enjoying the day?

Well, it was pretty tame in 2009 compared to 2008, too. Things have definitely been on the downslide for a bit, so this year is no surprise.

Anyway, one thing's for sure: there's plenty of voters in the portal for Clock Day. Just not enough submitters. Since about noon NG time, the saves aren't around for long, though they were the first 12 hours of the day... but the quantity just isn't there. Next year's the big 1-0, so it might have a bit of a boost, but I think we can expect the downward slide to be back by 2012, and probably never let up till CD dies. ;_;

It was a shitty Clock Day, but I at least managed to get my next B/P rank after months of inactivity.

Back from camp. 20k Medal Points.

Jazz.

Happy Clock Day! Congrats to:
NEVR - 7.77 Base Voting Power, 20k Saves and Level 37
Aci6 - 11k Experience
36Holla - Level 35
Domo - 24k Medal Points, Level 16 and 2k Saves
Lizzardis - 7k Experience ,14k Saves, 30k Total Stats and 17k B/P
Hacsev - 40k, 41k Medal Points, 24k Saves and 33k B/P
ixfd64 - 20k Medal Points and Sergeant First Class
Haggard - 44k B/P, 29 Years Old (Happy Belated Birthday!), Level 42 and 70k Total Stats
Odyssic - 24k B/P
Makeshift - Bronze Whistle
HeavyTank - 13k Saves
Sir-Nuts - 7.50 Base Voting Power, 28k B/P and 15k Saves
fx-dx - Level 18
Coop83 - 52k Saves, Top 18, 17 in B/P and 77,777, 78k B/P
thenewbies - 3 Years on NG, 10k Total Stats, 7 Total Voting Power, Top 9k in Experience, Level 18 Private First Class and 2k Saves
sixflab - 8k Saves, 22k Medal Points, Gold Whistle and 1k Medals
sushi13 - 9 Years on NG and 7 Base Voting Power
WeirdAlthe3rd - 15k Saves, 19k B/P, 4k Experience, Level 20 and Brigadier General
EJR - 3k Posts and 3k Saves
darksoldier567 - 6.00 Total Voting Power, Level 13 and 10k Medal Points
Zoete - 3k B/P, Private First Class and Level 12
illuminate - 27k Experience and 56k Saves
Faggard - 9k Experience
dx5231 - 13k Saves, Level 26 and Colonel
sumidiotdude - 1k Days on NG
RohantheBarbarian - 2k Posts and Top 2k in Experience
Soup83 - Level 11
Helloween - Level 36
Bahamut - 22k Posts and Level 45
Tetimaru000 - 9k B/P and Level 17
naronic - Level 16 and 1k Posts
Rabid-Animals - Gold Whistle
Kevin - 8k Experience, Level 28 and 7777 Saves
ThePigeonMaster - 200 Flash Reviews and 2222 Saves
letiger - 3 Years on NG
BobbaQ - 4k Posts
Fro - 37k Medal Points, Top 1k in Experience, 10k Posts and Quadralisted
JKMonkey - Level 28
reverend - 24k B/P
TehSlapHappy - Level 27
Myst - 10k Medal Points
Ship - 3k Saves, 1k Blams and Corporal
Stickman91 - 1k B/P and Police Sergeant
FroNickProductions - Level 24
Spoopy - Level 24
byteslinger - Level 31 and Triplelisted
vader316 - 6k Experience, 28k B/P and 20k Saves
LegolaSS - 17k Experience, Praporshchik and 11k B/P
Emlfuryoflion - Level 34
Soapbubble - 200 Audio Reviews and 5k B/P
Pokemonpoeguygcn - Level 27, 29k Saves and 39k B/P
iateamexican - Level 29
NewShape - Level 35
mranarchy - Level 35
gamejunkie - 19k Experience
S-k-y - 14k Experience
MegamanMegafan - Level 27
Danavers - Silver Whistle
TheNumberOfTheDragon - 14k Experience
VinnyXY - Level 25 and 2500 Posts
Fagamut - 14k Experience
amanda - 4k Saves and 2k Posts
Painbringer - Level 50
Auz - 64k B/P and 44k Saves
EmoDragon - 14k Experience
aldlv - 50k Total Stats
Sonofkirk - 8k B/P
jonthomson - 27k Experience
Donut - Level 15
Malachy - Corporal
iscrulz - 38k Saves
Bahamut7 - 8 Total Voting Power
AndrewGlisson13 - Sergeant First Class

Listening to:

Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller

Catch ups tomorrow. Sorry for not including links this time but it would break the character limit and I'd rather not make an unnecessary post.

Jazz.

Private First Class.

8000 saves.

Happy Colkc Dya

Oh also 10.00 Total Voting Power.

Keep yo threel in the heel, baby.

Listening to:
Queens Of The Stone Age - I Think I Lost My Headache

At 8/15/10 08:33 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

WAIT WHAT?????

At 8/15/10 04:53 PM, Haggard wrote: Happy Clock Day!

Also, 70,000 Total Stats! >:(

Congrats! Why so ANGARY? #;-}>

You should know that I always use the angry face to celebrate my achievements. :P

At 8/15/10 12:22 PM, NEVR wrote: Clock day seems pretty tame this year. I remember Clock day '08 being absolutely mental and I ended up reaping over 1,000 saves for the day... what's happened to this grand tradition? :(

How's everybody else enjoying the day?

Well, it was pretty tame in 2009 compared to 2008, too. Things have definitely been on the downslide for a bit, so this year is no surprise.

Yeah, I expected this Clock Day to be much slower than last years (and last years was already slow), so I'm not too disappointed. Also, I had an appointment on Sunday (at least I got 20 bucks for it), so I missed a few hours of voting.
Towards the evening (evening in GMT+1 that is) the portal sped up a bit, but around that time I had to go to bed, which sucked...
Well, I got around 120 saves this year (NG logs says 143, but I got a 21 saves headstart from the day before). I was hoping for 200 saves and I could've reached that goal if I could've spend some more time in the portal.

Anyway, one thing's for sure: there's plenty of voters in the portal for Clock Day. Just not enough submitters.

I couldn't download the Flash Trial from adobe. It just wouldn't let me log in. >:(
So I couldn't submit my two movies.

Next year's the big 1-0, so it might have a bit of a boost, but I think we can expect the downward slide to be back by 2012, and probably never let up till CD dies. ;_;

Maybe it has something to do with the newer users don't even know what the Clock Crew is?
Anyway, I wasn't that hyped before Clock Day anyway, and I doubt it will ever be as mental as '08.

Coop comes to terms with a poor show on Clock day (116 Saves), while congratulating:
Auz: 44,000 Saves
iscrulz: 38,000 Saves
thenewbies: Private 1st Class; 2,000 Saves
Hacsev: 33,000 B/P
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 39,000 B/P
LegolaSS: Praporshchik
Bahamut7: 8.00 Total Voting Power
Haggard: 70,000 Total Points
EJR: 3,000 Saves
AndrewGlisson13: Sergeant 1st Class
WeirdAlthe3rd: 16,000 Saves
Danavers: Private 1st Class
Kevin: 8,000 Saves
WilhelmTheVampire: 10.00 Total Voting Power

Thank you to:
RohantheBarbarian
reverend
WilhelmTheVampire (x5)

Listening to:
Megadeth - Captive Honour
Monty Python - Galaxy Song

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/15/10 07:45 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 8/14/10 05:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: WAIT! *sees the new Maiden albums arrives through the post* HOORAY!

Damn, mine hasn't arrived yet!

I pre-ordered mine early. Plus, HMV have been reliable with shipping.

Same here - Play posted it on the 12th, so it should be here today...

Yes. On Clock Day, I will be playing cricket.

There goes a lot of save points for you. :P

Tell me about it.

Alright? I think I'd do really good at shooting. If I don't win gold medal, I'll be disappointed.

I don't know. Sonic is pretty good with a gun. God only knows why.

Why Sonic? I remember Shadow with one, though...

Mario & Sonic at the Olympics is one of the games that I've played, sadly :P

At 8/15/10 10:40 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 8/15/10 07:46 AM, Coop83 wrote: Meh, nothing much, I'm off to play some cricket. Toodles.

Have fun my boy I hope you lose or get beaten by bats.

We won - our 7th of the year and we're in a solid 2nd place - we could be tied for first, if Coseley beat Bridgnorth yesterday.

At 8/15/10 11:34 AM, reverend wrote:

At 8/15/10 07:45 AM, Coop83 wrote: By the end of 2011, that's not optimistic, that's almost normal pace!

Haha, whoops I misread that and thought you meant the end of this year. :P But yes, he should own it by then.

Exactly - I won't predict blistering pace for my favourites, merely that they will do standard achievements. Albert will get to 400 HR later this month, Ichiro will get to 200 hits, etc.

Well, 4-5 yesterday with 3 HRs was a good start on that track.

Good Lord, every time I shit talk A-Rod he does something epic. I probably should shut up before he has another 3 HR game. Ha!

And he went 0-for last night :P

Meh, nothing much, I'm off to play some cricket. Toodles.

You want borrow my goggles?

Nah, I don't play cricket in goggles.

At 8/15/10 08:33 PM, gfoxcook wrote: stuff

Hey Greg! Did you get any saves on Clock Day?

Level 16

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  Orange tells a joke

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  OrangeClock tells a joke. StrawberryClock is not amused.

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My second submission yesterday, in an attempt to make clockday a tiny little bit better. I got 217 saves, which is of course terrible and yesterdays clockday was pretty bad altogether if you ask me (worst clockday yet). I don't even care so much about the saves. I already accepted a low turn-out this year when I woke up and saw the portal in the morning.

I think it's mostly the general attitude a lot of people had that bothered me. I saw a lot of people in the general forum who told everyone to go vote 0 and such, up to the point where it almost became trolling. Of course there is always your occasional (what we call a) ´moralknight´ but those were always just noobs who witnessed their first clockday and went berserk over it. This year it seemed like even more experienced users wanted to ruin it, just for the sake of ruining it. I thought it were mostly the pre-08'ers who really wanted to make something out of it this year, and make it better than 2009. Most of the rest didn't care much for that or just wanted to fuck it up for everyone.

Also, I'm very disappointed in what the top 5 of yesterday looks like. The winning submissions just barely got a score over 4.00 and I got a feeling that some of those submissions would've gotten a better score if they were submitted on an ordinary day. I think those 0-voters I mentioned before just didn't look at what they were 0-voting and so they also ended up voting down the good stuff.

The absence of any admin was also something. By the time the clockday header was put up, it was already 8 PM here in Europe and not even a single "happy clockday" newspost... I get that it's Sunday and it's not really a workday for them, but just a silly little post and putting the banner up sooner would've been nice.

Those are my thoughts on clockday and what might've been wrong with it. I hope next year will turn out to be better, but I doubt it. Especially now that the newer generations haven't seen a really good clockday yet and they probably won't care so much about it anymore at some point. It looks like it'll be a party for the older users eventually.

I'll post replies later.

CD10 was crap, got no blams, moving on.

Congratulations to: -

Auz - 44,000 Saves
iscrulz - 38,000 Saves
thenewbies - Private First Class and 2,000 Saves
Hacsev - 33,000 B/P
Pokemonpoeguygcn - 39,000 B/P
LegolaSS - Praporshchik
Bahamut7 - 8.00 Total Voting Power
dx5231 - Colonel
Haggard - 70,000 Total Stats
EJR - 3,000 Saves
AndrewGlisson13 - Sergeant 1st Class
WilhelmTheVampire - 20,000 Medal Points and 10.00 Total Voting Power
WeirdAlthe3rd - 16,000 Saves
Danavers - Private First Class
Kevin - 8,000 Saves
PabMo - 6.00 Base Voting Power
RuinedMartyr - Level 16

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/14/10 06:23 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

At 8/14/10 05:41 AM, Bahamut wrote: I thought his appearance was good enough. Just having to be careful throughout and random attacks got me in tension.

Fair enough, I just felt given how well Poison Ivy and the Scarecrow hallucinations were done the other boss battles could have been done better, the Titan ones and Killer Croc being the ones I'd pick on most.

I can see that but I suppose not all performances can be on that level of magnitude.

True I suppose.

I thought the sticker would be on the pan anyway.

Can never have enough :P

But one is enough for a pan.

OR IS IT?

Probably

We could do with someone playing the vuvuzela. Would that be alright with you?

Could I be a self-loathing musician? Give me some time to think about that.

BBBBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

You seem happy enough with the vuvuzela so welcome aboard.

Thank you, I shall make you all proud.

*ahem* BBBBBBBBBBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

That's talking about your freedom, though. As for me, I guess we were all lucky. Wonchop really pissed off Luis but his account is still intact. :P

If you're awesome enough you can get away with anything :P

I guess that's why Luis didn't get my account deleted either. After all, I did get my car stuck with his as seen at 2:23.

That and angering a dragon is even less wise than an admin.

Thank You to: -

WilhelmTheVampire

So what the hell happened to Clock day this year?! Possibly the worst one I've seen, although 138 saves for the day was enough to gain me the 150th spot for overall B/P. Dunno if that counts on your lists and all that but yeah.

I think the Clock crew need to pull their socks up next year for their 10th annual Clock day.

Man, what a disappointment Clock Day turned out to be. While I got 235 saves with Bahamut7 and gained two ranks as a result, I expected more. Hopefully next year will be much better than this one. The only good thing about the less amount of submissions for this Clock Day is not having to go through as many submissions.

And to think we were disappointed at the performance of Clock Day 2009.

Listening to:

Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

Thanks to:

WilhelmTheVampire
Coop83
Odyssic
RohantheBarbarian

At 8/15/10 11:34 AM, reverend wrote:

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: There was no rain, just clouds. Last night was much better since I caught two meteors. :D

Nice. Hope you made some good wished off them.

Don't worry, I thought of something good. :)

And then the next one will be the Geminids Meteor Shower in December.

I need to be informed of this when the time comes. I know I'm going to forget about this soon enough.

At 8/15/10 04:53 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Hey, you're 29 and can travel to many places just fine.

What hinders you to travel to germany at age 20? Besides money, that is. But money is what hinders me to travel to London whenever there is a meet up. ;)

I'm still very young. And yeah, money is an issue. I should start saving up soon if I intend to go somewhere next year.

And without a monitor, you weren't able to know if you made mistakes or not.

Usually I notice when I type a wrong letter, the only problem would be that I couldn't correct it, because I wouldn't exactly know where I typed the wrong letter.

And that's why it's amazing how you made that post without a monitor. Well, if you didn't use any at the time. :P And besides, you told me your monitor exploded again!

Yes I am right about your laziness but dammit, make some photoshops already!

Made with paint.

That's more like it! However, we've already heard about my dragon magic. NEXT!

At 8/16/10 03:33 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: I pre-ordered mine early. Plus, HMV have been reliable with shipping.

Same here - Play posted it on the 12th, so it should be here today...

Wait, Play actually posted it on time for you? Why have they been a failure to me recently? I'm still waiting for one CD I bought from the summer sale.

Why Sonic? I remember Shadow with one, though...

Mario & Sonic at the Olympics is one of the games that I've played, sadly :P

I feel sorry for you.

At 8/16/10 05:13 AM, Odyssic wrote: Been watching the Simpson's again, I think we should make a top 10 episodes, then we're do futurama.

I'll have an easier time naming my top 10 Futurama episodes than The Simpsons episodes. Infact, I can't name one episode that's my very favourite out of the lot.

At 8/16/10 08:17 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: But one is enough for a pan.

OR IS IT?

Probably

No, one sticker IS enough for the pan. I don't feel like having one on one side and the other on another side.

You seem happy enough with the vuvuzela so welcome aboard.

Thank you, I shall make you all proud.

Awesomeness. Hey Auz, you might want to keep Rohan in mind for the vuvuzela.

I guess that's why Luis didn't get my account deleted either. After all, I did get my car stuck with his as seen at 2:23.

That and angering a dragon is even less wise than an admin.

I'm sure the admins aren't afraid of a dragon. If they've handled a lot of chaos over the years with flash crews, a dragon doesn't mean much to them.

Real Life Level Up:

I asked my girlfriend to marry me this morning and she said yes. So I guess that makes me:

Engaged

Fro was only on the computer for about thirty minutes, but managed to get 20 Saves; Congrats To:

NEVR: Level 37
Auz: 64,000 B/P
amanda: 2,000 Posts
EmoDragon: 14,000 Experience Points
aldlv: 50,000 Total Stats
Sonofkirk: 8,000 Experience
sushi13: Base VP of 7.00
jonthomson: 27,000 Experience
Haggard: 29 Years Old, Level 42
WeirdAlthe3rd: Brig. General, 16,000 Saves
Sir-Nuts: 15,000 Saves
Kevin: Level 28, 7,777 Saves
Donut: Level 15
Malachy: Corporal
vader: 20,000 Saves
ThePigeonMaster: 2,222 Saves
Coop83: 78,000 B/P
Auz: 44,000 Saves
iscrulz: 38,000 Saves
thenewbies: Private First Class
Hacsev: 33,000 B/P
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 39,000 B/P
thenewbies: 2,000 Saves
LegolaSS: Praporshchik
Bahamut7: Total VP of 8
dx5231: Colonel
Haggard: 70,000 Total Stats
EJR: 3,000 Saves
AndrewGlisson13: Sergeant First Class
Danavers: Private First Class
Kevin: 8,000 Saves
WilhelmTheVampire: Total VP of 10.00
PabMo: Base VP of 6.00
RuinedMartyr: Level 16

Thanks To:

RohantheBarbarian

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My Clock Day flashes:

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  Frodozers Vs. Clock Day 3

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  Happy Clock Day 10!

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  Frodozers Vs. Clockday 4

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  Happy Clock Day 2010!

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  6,980 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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At 8/13/10 09:18 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

It is a tough one. Given the importance of the occasion I'd say go, but find some way to protect and/or amuse yourself (heckling, earplugs, bringing an iPod claiming it's "just better quality", booze, vuvuzela, all of the above? :P)

My iPod died on the way there as it was a three hour ride, but I did manage to fall asleep half way through the concert just to wake up with only two songs left to go.

At 8/13/10 09:45 PM, ThePigeonMaster wrote:

By the way, it looks like your life is just hilarious. But because you always watch hilarious things, not because you end in the middle of an embarrassing situation or problem like me :P

I have a very eventful and funny life. I have a life that people would pay good money to read about or watch a movie about. Once I get out of college I'll be sure to make this possible. :)

At 8/14/10 05:25 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Yes, but what sports would Newgrounds Nation be any good at? I can't do cricket, as I'd need 10 more blokes to help and a similar situation for Fro and American Football, neither of which I'm entirely sure are Olympic disciplines.

I do remember them at least trying an Olympic football league several years ago, but I don't remember if it's still existent as I only say it once. In about a month's worth of training I would be Olympic football material though as their team was nothing more than a semi-pro team, which I've played on plenty of in my life.

At 8/14/10 09:59 AM, Auz wrote:

School teacher? Cool.

Maybe you should be one of those computer science teachers so that you'll easily have an excuse to be on NG all day long.

It's an Elementary Education major so I really don't get a choice in a subject in most American schools as I'll be teaching every subject. I can also be a guidance counselor with that major, something that I would enjoy doing very much as I have a social work and psychology background as well as a philosophy background.

At 8/14/10 10:37 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

At 8/14/10 09:59 AM, Auz wrote:

Somebody made a birthday thread yet?

They have now Auz :P

Happy birthday man!

And here comes a belated bump of the thread because I wasn't around.

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Happy Clock Day!

Flash number 100!

At 8/16/10 10:18 AM, Fro wrote: Real Life Level Up:

I asked my girlfriend to marry me this morning and she said yes. So I guess that makes me:

Engaged

Wow. Ho. Ly. Shit. CONGRATS DUDE!!!

Seriously man, I'm really really happy for you, congratulations! I hope all goes well for the two of you :)

At 8/16/10 10:18 AM, Fro wrote: Real Life Level Up:

I asked my girlfriend to marry me this morning and she said yes. So I guess that makes me:

Engaged

That also makes you the luckiest man on Earth! Congrats to you both, and may this be the start of a lifetime of happiness together. Mazeltov!

As for Clock Day, it was nothing compared to last year. This year, a little over 400 submissions, and most were crud. I pulled an all-nighter, and managed 1 blam (out of at least 80 attempts) and 260 saves. It did help me squeak past 57K total BP, though.

Last year (2009) we had over 800 Clock Day submissions, and in 2008 there were over 1,000. It looks like Clock Day is rapidly becoming a "non-event" here at Newgrounds. Bad news for stat-whores, but good news for the rest of us.

Oh, well. Time to get back to your lives, citizens. Nothing to see here...

Clock Day stats: 272 Saves + 1 Blam = 273 B/P
Last year's = 311 :/

Congrats to:
Hacsev - 33k B/P
Pokemonpoeguygcn - 39k B/P
LegolaSS - Praporshchik
Bahamut7 - 8.00 Total VP
dx5231 - Colonel
Haggard - 70k Total Stats
thenewbies - 2,000 Saves and Private First Class
EJR - 3,000 Saves
AndrewGlisson13 - Sergeant First Class
WeirdAlthe3rd - 16k Saves
Danavers - Private First Class
Kevin - 8,000 Saves
WilhelmTheVampire - 10.00 Total VP and 20k Medal Points
PabMo - 6.00 Base VP
RuinedMartyr - Level 16

Thanks to:
WilhelmTheVampire x2

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At 8/15/10 08:33 PM, gfoxcook wrote: HAPPY CLOCK DAY TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

Where gfoxclock at???

At 8/16/10 03:33 AM, Coop83 wrote: Exactly - I won't predict blistering pace for my favourites, merely that they will do standard achievements. Albert will get to 400 HR later this month, Ichiro will get to 200 hits, etc.

Yeah 400 is really close. His last HR gave him this 10th consecutive 30-HR season. Nice way to start your career, I say.

And he went 0-for last night :P

It works!

At 8/16/10 05:48 AM, Auz wrote: I think it's mostly the general attitude a lot of people had that bothered me. . . . Most of the rest didn't care much for that or just wanted to fuck it up for everyone.

Yeah the general mood of thing yesterday was pretty poor. I don't know what's was up with all the negativity. I guess since the staff didn't seem involved as in past Clock Days, this year's Clock Day just was pretty aimless and lacking heart.

The absence of any admin was also something. By the time the clockday header was put up, it was already 8 PM here in Europe and not even a single "happy clockday" newspost... I get that it's Sunday and it's not really a workday for them, but just a silly little post and putting the banner up sooner would've been nice.

I'm not sure if they are really busy or just apathetic to Clock Day now. The side banner have been the same for the past two years. I just think that the whole concept of flooding the portal is starting to get old for them and the community. I don't remember who said it, but somebody said what's the point when spam already gets passed regardless of Clock Day.

Those are my thoughts on clockday and what might've been wrong with it. I hope next year will turn out to be better, but I doubt it. Especially now that the newer generations haven't seen a really good clockday yet and they probably won't care so much about it anymore at some point. It looks like it'll be a party for the older users eventually.

I hope for the best. It's going to be the tenth anniversary of Clock Day so it will be definitely better, but thereafter is another question.

At 8/16/10 09:54 AM, Bahamut wrote: Don't worry, I thought of something good. :)

One of my wishes was for a sandwich and I got it. Ha!

I need to be informed of this when the time comes. I know I'm going to forget about this soon enough.

Sure. It's always in Mid-December. I'll probably make a blurb about it.

At 8/16/10 10:18 AM, Fro wrote: I asked my girlfriend to marry me this morning and she said yes. So I guess that makes me:

Engaged

All thanks to the Jonas Brothers.
Congrats Corey and best of wishes!

don't pull a gfox when you do get hitched. :P

2,222 B/P

Clock day was unkind. A confusing sentiment, given that they are machines.

I went to level 15 now, but the level icon is a whip.... I must deposit every day.

30,000 total stats :3...

(along way to go to catch up with the rest of you but its a start)

10,000 total B/P and 9,000 EXP. Almost over 9000.

Listening to:
Anvil - Speed of Sound

My third new CD. I also bought Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time and Iron Maiden - The Final Froniter.
Both are great albums, but I have to listen more closely to them, especially to the Guardian album. The only Guardian album I instantly liked was "Somewhere far beyond", for all the other albums after that I needed some time to truly appreciate their epicness.
And the Anvil album? I instantly thought: "Wow, this is great!". One reviewer called them "the best metal band that never made it" and he was right.

At 8/16/10 09:54 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/15/10 04:53 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Hey, you're 29 and can travel to many places just fine.

What hinders you to travel to germany at age 20? Besides money, that is. But money is what hinders me to travel to London whenever there is a meet up. ;)

I'm still very young. And yeah, money is an issue. I should start saving up soon if I intend to go somewhere next year.

I think it's best to travel while you're still young. Your body is much more resilient at that age, so you can stay at cheap youth hostels and the like and you don't have to spend as much money. XD
Seriously though, I think traveling at a young(er) age is much better.

And without a monitor, you weren't able to know if you made mistakes or not.

Usually I notice when I type a wrong letter, the only problem would be that I couldn't correct it, because I wouldn't exactly know where I typed the wrong letter.

And that's why it's amazing how you made that post without a monitor.

I was extra careful while typing, so I didn't slip up.

Well, if you didn't use any at the time. :P And besides, you told me your monitor exploded again!

It did. But I found another one in the stairwell. And this isn't a joke! I had to get some things from the attic on Friday and I used the stairs (I live on the 11th floor, the attic is on the 16th floor) and there was lying a monitor...

Yes I am right about your laziness but dammit, make some photoshops already!

Made with paint.

That's more like it! However, we've already heard about my dragon magic. NEXT!

I'm not that creative.

At 8/16/10 10:18 AM, Fro wrote: Real Life Level Up:

I asked my girlfriend to marry me this morning and she said yes. So I guess that makes me:

Engaged

Congrats, man!
We should open up a club of "Married and Engaged Newgrounders".

At 8/15/10 07:45 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 8/14/10 09:59 AM, Auz wrote: That explains a lot 0.o

So what's in your head right now?

My humorous, of course :P

You mean your silliness?

At 8/8/10 05:22 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Lol XD

I think it's fair to say that I've seen all the die hard movies now.

I have it on my iPod now and driving along with Bex trying to wrestle control of the iPod from the dashboard, while I'm driving is not the safest thing I've ever done :P

I can imagine driving around dangerously, nearly crashing your car into stuff will add to the experience of watching the movie though. As a matter of fact, it's probably the best way to watch a brainless action flick.

Oh but you can shave it there and grow something Abraham Lincoln-y.

Four score and ... I can't think of a Lincoln joke.

This might help.

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/14/10 10:02 AM, Auz wrote:

At 8/13/10 08:38 AM, Bahamut wrote:

It better work. We have been without female company for too long. It's bad for our image.

We have byteslinger and AllReligiousDrunk from time to time.

AllReligiousDrunk is a girl? 0.0

Sorry, I always expect everyone to be a dude.

Then you can get all 120 coins again.

But that'll only net me one star =/

At least it's something to do.

Yeah, but one star doesn't get me anywhere in that game. I need 8 to open up the first door to bowser >.<

Not to mention a major annoyance having all those F16's flying around you all day trying to sting you with missiles and other crap.

And none of us wants that. I've got to stay alive!

Well that won't be a problem. The billions of dollars of property damage you might do is a bit of a waste though.

Hmm maybe the videogame forum will be easier to convert to our ways than the general forum...

Come to think about it, VG is easier to take over. However, we can't share ALL our revolution plans over there. Still, we could do with more assistance over there.

True. I'd like to help out, but for a 'classic' gamer like me there are rarely any topics that appeal to me there.

Well that'd be nice. I'm sure it was a lot of work going through the thousands of spammy clockday submissions.

It was and wasn't. While there were many spammy submissions, they were easy icons.

Yeah but copy pasting and cropping the icons is still some trouble. Well luckily for you clockday 2010 was a fiasco, so you won't have a lot of work on that section.

Lol, so much for Tommy's bitching.

Nothing can stop him from the second upload of the review and he's got to deal with it!

I just checked this Tommy's whereabouts and I like how he is the director, writer, main actor and producer of his own shitty movie :p I'm actually starting to feel like giving it a watch someday.

Lilith can probably shapeshift just as well as dragons can.

Seriously, she's a dragon! She isn't a Lilith or anything so stop saying that! You don't realise how lonely I am.

Your loneliness is making you blind and naive.

... good point. You wouldn't want the NG Meet ruined by tons of people wanting to take pictures of a real dragon.

Well, I wouldn't mind having tons of pictures of myself but then I'll feel guilty for those who hardly got any pictures because of the attention I received.

Ah yeah the NG meet up picture pages would be flooded with Bahamut + random guy pics. Of course that wouldn't be very nice for Luis and the rest of the NGers.

At 8/15/10 11:34 AM, reverend wrote:

At 8/15/10 03:28 AM, Auz wrote: Happy Clockday!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/54 5257
There's not enough 5 voting this year.

Fiven! And yes there is not enough 5 voting this year, but I see it starting to get more green now so I think people are starting to get on the program... hopefully.

Yeah the portal started looking greener later today. I didn't like how there were so many 0 bombers around though. Seriously, my second flash lost 0.70 in score as it went from passing judgment to outside of the most recent.

At 8/15/10 04:53 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/15/10 03:28 AM, Auz wrote: 9 semesters? Yeah, that's short though still half a year longer than how long it's supposed to take right?

No, the framework tells me I should finish in 9 semesters. But most people need 12 or even more semesters. Next semester will be my 11th.

Well you're doing good then I suppose.

I got 3 years for my bachelor, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna take me at least 1 year longer. In my studies that's quite normal =/

I wonder who works out those frameworks anyway. Those people seem to think that a student only lives to study and learn and has more than enough money to pay any tuitions without having to work in a sidejob.

Heh, well in Holland the government practically gives you free cash so there isn't much need for a sidejob (that money is for paying your study, but most people just use it for other things). But they're gonna stop that soon, so yeah... soon we'll be needing sidejobs indeed. They're also gonna put up new rules stating that you have to completely finish your bachelor before you can do your master, so students here are getting fucked here pretty badly.

Oh well, if we just play in the Western borders of Switzerland and Holland, South in Belgium and North in Denmark I'm pretty sure nobody would speak German. That still leaves Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, but only three people live there anyway so that's no big loss.

But I want to play shows in my home country as well.

Too bad. The name is too awesome to be cast aside.

Swaffelen.

I bet you would do that 'sch' stuff, but the UK'ers will probably have most trouble with it.

There are some "sch"/"sh" sounds in the english language. If you are talking about a "sh" like in "shoe", that is.

Yeah, but can they do the 'swaf'? And you're not supposed to do 'sch' by the way.

Yep, we do that ggggg, but even in Holland there are certain regions where people can't do that.

I always wince a bit if people here say "van Gaal" with a "g" like in "Go".

Lol, I can imagine what it sounds like. Yeah the ggggg is hard and I believe there aren't many languages which use it.

And "ei" and "ij" are the same here. I don't know why we actually have different ways of writing them =/

Because they are different languages? :P
Some languages have the character "ÿ" in their alphabet, I read it derived from "ij".

Hmm I believe in the older dutch language they only had the 'ei' so you might be right in that it is taken from another language at some point.

At 8/16/10 09:54 AM, Bahamut wrote:

You seem happy enough with the vuvuzela so welcome aboard.

Thank you, I shall make you all proud.

Awesomeness. Hey Auz, you might want to keep Rohan in mind for the vuvuzela.

Great idea!

Also that flash you uploaded yesterday might be a good inspiration for our first song!

At 8/16/10 10:18 AM, Fro wrote: Real Life Level Up:

I asked my girlfriend to marry me this morning and she said yes. So I guess that makes me:

Engaged

Congrats!

So how as that Jonas Brothers concert?

At 8/16/10 10:18 AM, Fro wrote:

At 8/14/10 09:59 AM, Auz wrote: School teacher? Cool.

Maybe you should be one of those computer science teachers so that you'll easily have an excuse to be on NG all day long.

It's an Elementary Education major so I really don't get a choice in a subject in most American schools as I'll be teaching every subject. I can also be a guidance counselor with that major, something that I would enjoy doing very much as I have a social work and psychology background as well as a philosophy background.

Elementary school? That's nice too, as long as the kiddies aren't being too annoying. Guidance counselor would seem less interesting to me, but if you like psychology I guess it'd be a nice job.

At 8/16/10 12:28 PM, reverend wrote:

At 8/16/10 05:48 AM, Auz wrote: I think it's mostly the general attitude a lot of people had that bothered me. . . . Most of the rest didn't care much for that or just wanted to fuck it up for everyone.

Yeah the general mood of thing yesterday was pretty poor. I don't know what's was up with all the negativity. I guess since the staff didn't seem involved as in past Clock Days, this year's Clock Day just was pretty aimless and lacking heart.

I couldn't agree more. It was as if nobody felt like contributing anything.

The absence of any admin was also something. By the time the clockday header was put up, it was already 8 PM here in Europe and not even a single "happy clockday" newspost... I get that it's Sunday and it's not really a workday for them, but just a silly little post and putting the banner up sooner would've been nice.

I'm not sure if they are really busy or just apathetic to Clock Day now. The side banner have been the same for the past two years. I just think that the whole concept of flooding the portal is starting to get old for them and the community. I don't remember who said it, but somebody said what's the point when spam already gets passed regardless of Clock Day.

Could be, but that kind of spam isn't nearly as worse as the stuff that passes judgment on clockday. But yeah, perhaps the admins are a little tired of it themselves. Although I think the fact that it was Sunday might have played a big role as well.

Those are my thoughts on clockday and what might've been wrong with it. I hope next year will turn out to be better, but I doubt it. Especially now that the newer generations haven't seen a really good clockday yet and they probably won't care so much about it anymore at some point. It looks like it'll be a party for the older users eventually.

I hope for the best. It's going to be the tenth anniversary of Clock Day so it will be definitely better, but thereafter is another question.

Oh yeah the 10th anniversary might boost the enthusiasm a little. Hopefully the real clocks will submit some more flashes themselves.

20,000 B/P. I'm beginning to realize how large these numbers are getting.

First, my paternal grandmother got serious brain damages, now my maternal grandmother got diabetes. This fucking sucks...

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List #118

Congrats to:

Coop83: 78,000 B/P
Auz: 44,000 Saves
iscrulz: 38,000 Saves
thenewbies: Private First Class
Hacsev: 33,000 B/P
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 39,000 B/P
thenewbies: 2,000 Saves
LegolaSS: Praporshchik
Bahamut7: 8.00 Total Voting Power
dx5231: Colonel
Haggard: 70,000 Total Stats
EJR: 3,000 Saves
AndrewGlisson13: Sergeant First Class
Danavers: Private First Class
Kevin: 8,000 Saves
WilhelmTheVampire: 10.00 Total Voting Power
PabMo: 6.00 Base Voting Power
RuinedMartyr: Level 16
C0GMA: 2,222 B/P
EDDDDDDDDD: Level 15
LegolaSS: 30,000 Total stats
sumidiotdude: 10,000 total B/P & 9,000 exp

Special congrats to:

Fro: Engaged ;D

Thanks to:

Odyssic
RohantheBarbarian
reverend
WilhemTheVampire
Fro

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I have to agree that the 9th clock day was AWFUL. Hell, even the spam flash wasn't that awesome like in the past years, I don't know what happened to the Clock Crew this year. Maybe they are wrapping the good stuff for the 10th anniversary? I don't know.

This year the CC disappointed me...

This clock day was a bust, but I can now add this to my level up list.