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:

• 

  Frodozers Vs. Clock Day 3

  by Fro

  Happy Clock Day 10!

  Movie

  7,784 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  Frodozers Vs. Clockday 4

  by Fro

  Happy Clock Day 2010!

  Movie

  6,968 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.

For me, I think this makes a bit for yesterdays bad clockday:

Top 30 B/P

Yesterday was the third anniversary of Valjylmyr's account and he got Safety Patrol. (He can't post because he's banned).

Wilhelm is probably not going to be able to do cross country or track this year since he can't attend the meets, and is visibly seething. That aside, congrats to:
WeirdAlthe3rd - 16k Saves
Danavers - Private First Class
Kevin - 8k Saves and Top 666 in B/P
PabMo - 6 Base Voting Power
RuinedMartyr - Level 16
NEVR - Top 150 in B/P
Fro - ENGAGED!
C0GMA - 2,222 B/P
EDDDDDDDDD - Level 15
LegolaSS - 30k Total Stats
sumidiotdude - 10k B/P and 9k Experience
Cootie - Master Sergeant
Auz - Top 30 in B/P

At 8/1/10 05:17 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/31/10 09:29 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote: After a quick Google search, I see what you mean. I really have no idea how cricket works or really anything at all about it.

It's hard and makes a slap when it comes off the palm of my hand. It was more of a "boing" off my eyebrow, according to sources related to the cricket club.

A boing? I dunno about you but I don't think those things are capable of boing-ing based on the pictures I saw. The description seems to make light of the situation, although at this point I'm sure you do too. It's a great conversation starter.

I hope it heals quickly because it must feel strange walking around with a black eye everywhere.

It doesn't fell different at all.

Do people look at you when you walk by? It's not everyday that you see a man walking about with a black eye.

At 8/1/10 10:11 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 7/31/10 09:29 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote: Oh man, that'll be fun. Hopefully by then I'll be in college so I probably won't see a rabbit infestation.

Fun for them, trouble for your family. That will be fun until they takeover your bedroom.

My room infested with little baby bunnies? I dunno if that's really a bad thing. :P

I'd be nervous to leave a cat outside. Every time people tell me they do that I just think, if I had a cat it would totally run away. Cats don't like me.

Hmm, my cats stay home at night, during the day they are free to... do cat stuff. =P

I bet when cats are alone they become the cats from the musical "Cats" and start dancing and singing. I never trust cats for this reason.

And cats seem to like me. My cats like me, the neighbour's cats are starting to like me... I hope I don't become that lady from The Simpsons...

AGYHAGYHGGHYAGYHYGAYGYH (screaming cats in the background)!!!!!!!

Haha, yeah I meant to post a picture but I hit the Post It button by accident. :P

Meh, I've never even finished one of those Rubik's Cubes, so...

Most people haven't, I'm just madly obsessed.

At 8/2/10 01:35 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 7/31/10 09:29 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote: I don't think I have it in me to watch those.

One video in particular was horrobile, but it has been taken down by the uploader. He was right in the huge crowd that tried to reach those stairs.

I'm glad he took it down. Knowing the details is overwhelming enough, but witnessing them is just too much.

Does anybody know the cause of the panic yet? It must have been pretty major to cause a stampede like that.

From what I read so far it went like this:

It's like waiting in line for a roller coaster, only on a much larger scale. The wave effects make sense and I can see how they can get out of control. The fences...I'd rather not talk about people being nearly crushed to death.

The strangest thing is: Other people standing right next to where the panic happened didn't even realize the situation was serious. They had enough room to stand comfortably...

That's horrible, but at the same time in such a large crowd, how could they have known? I think the police or the security could have done a much better job regulating the crowds, or at least of informing people about the situation.

At 8/4/10 09:48 AM, Fro wrote:

At 7/30/10 08:17 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote:

Depression? Wow, this is/was some serious stuff then, eh? Now I'm kinda scared of cross country and it starts in less than three weeks :O

It was a problem, but not anymore. I guess when you know you'll go to college for free for football and know that you even have a chance to play professional football that it get's pretty bad when you don't even know if you'll be able to run like you use to be able to. (Which I can't)

Yeah, I kinda understand that. I guess it would be like losing a lung right before an audition for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or some important musical institution for me. I'd have a horrible time getting over it. Glad it's gotten better for you.

I got over it when I played one year of semi-pro ball. I was quite good and could handle it both physically and mentally, but after so many years off I had just lost the heart to play ball anymore. Now I'm not in great shape, but I can hold my own. I won't be back to break school weight lifting records Fro anymore, but I can still lift with the best. I usually take around 3rd place in competitions.

Third place in lifting competitions and supposedly not in great shape? You must be in better shape than I am.

At 8/13/10 07:23 PM, Painbringer wrote:

But we should also be looking out for WavyGravy since he is the first and only '03 account to make it to the top 50 - Perhaps he hasn't missed a single day!

He's missed a few, but he is certainly someone to look out for.

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

Engaged

Achievement of a lifetime right here!

At 8/16/10 03:22 PM, ThePigeonMaster wrote: First, my paternal grandmother got serious brain damages, now my maternal grandmother got diabetes. This fucking sucks...

I'm sorry, man. I really am. Let's hope for the best.

You passed 600 Reviews. On to the next 100!

- 3,000 B/P
- Private 1st Class
- 8.00 Total Voting Power

At 8/16/10 03:16 AM, PabMo wrote: 6.00 BVP

congrats..
Level 16 or something.

Congratulations to: -

C0GMA - 2,222 B/P
EDDDDDDDDD - Level 15
LegolaSS - 30,000 Total stats
sumidiotdude - 10,000 Total B/P and 9,000 Experience
Cootie - Master Sergeant
Kevin - Rank #666 in B/P
Auz - Top 30 in B/P
WeirdAlthe3rd - 20,000 B/P
Soapbubble - 600 Flash Reviews
ThePigeonMaster - 3,000 B/P, Private First Class and 8.00 Total Voting Power
Simkiss - Level 16

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

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.

Fair enough.

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.

*note to self; design electric vuvuzela, piss millions off*

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.

Perhaps you're right.

I forgot to mention, here's my 100th flash:

• Unpublished Submission

Listening to:

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

Thanks to:

Fro
reverend
ThePigeonMaster

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 on engagement! I'm glad it worked out for you! It seems more and more people I know are getting married. One person on Facebook yesterday announced his engagement.

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

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!

Oh come on, that's a lame wish.

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.

Why wasn't I told about this before? .__.

At 8/16/10 02:01 PM, Haggard wrote: My third new CD. I also bought Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time and Iron Maiden - The Final Froniter.

Those are two excellent choices.

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.

In that case, you should be able to enjoy At the Edge of Time. Just wondering, is there any Blind Guardian albums you don't like?

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.

Am I really missing out on something this good?

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

When you're older, you're more likely to have a job with a better wage. For me, I only have a 6 month contract.

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.

You were lucky that time.

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...

You really need to stop having these monitors exploding.

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

I'm not that creative.

Maybe reverend can do something for us. ;)

At 8/16/10 02:14 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/15/10 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: We have byteslinger and AllReligiousDrunk from time to time.

AllReligiousDrunk is a girl? 0.0

As a matter of fact, yes.

Sorry, I always expect everyone to be a dude.

Are you following that "No girls on the internet" statement? You know that's bullshit, right?

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 >.<

Then get 8 stars, dammit!

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.

That's why you need to mix the old with the new. Maybe I can do more here since I play a lot of old and new games.

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.

Nah, it's not a trouble making those icons at all. Most of them only take 30 seconds.

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.

I want to watch the movie as well but I refuse to give him any of my money!

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.

Naive maybe but blind? Nope! I can see her clear as day that she's a dragon. NOW GET OUTTA MY WAY!

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.

Unless Luis wants to take a lot of pictures of myself considering I'm supposedly a legend at the office.

At 8/16/10 02:19 PM, Auz wrote:

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

You're right about that, I can easily shout out "THIS ISN'T STRAWBERRY, IT'S RAWBERRY!"

At 8/17/10 07:39 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

At 8/16/10 09:54 AM, Bahamut wrote: Awesomeness. Hey Auz, you might want to keep Rohan in mind for the vuvuzela.

*note to self; design electric vuvuzela, piss millions off*

Hang on, are we wanting to piss people off or do we want to be the best band in the world?

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.

Perhaps you're right.

Still, if they threaten my account, I WILL come over to their office. :P

Coop suddenly remembers he has to post in the LUL today, so congratulates:
RuinedMartyr: Level 16
NEVR: Top 150 B/Per
Fro: Engaged
EDDDDDDDD: Level 15
LegolaSS: 30,000 Total Points
sumidiotdude: 10,000 B/P; 9,000 Saves
WilhelmTheVampire: 20,000 B/P
Cootie: Master Sergeant; Wooden spoon at local Spelling Bee
Auz: Top 30 B/Per
WeirdAlthe3rd: 20,000 B/P
Soapbubble: 600 Reviews (Flash)
ThePigeonMaster: 3,000 B/P; PrivaTE 1ST clASS; 8.00 Total Voting Power
Simkiss: Level 16

Thnak you to:
Odyssic
Fro
ThePigeonMaster

Listening to:
Iron Maiden - Isle of Avalon
Queens of the Stone Age - Go With The Flow
Laibach: Opus Dei

At 8/16/10 05:13 AM, Odyssic wrote: Must be the slowest clock day. I got 130 B/P.

Been watching the Simpson's again, I think we should make a top 10 episodes, then we're do futurama.

Top episodes of The Simpsons - Homer at the Bat. There's got to be more, but I can't think of titles at present.

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

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.

Yeah, they posted on time and I received a day after yours, so it's on my iTunes and I'm listening to it now :D Some of these tracks are a little slow for me, but there are some gems in there.

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.

It could be worse. Remember when I was addicted to World of Warcraft?

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

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.

Nice, but you're only one man. How many do you need for an American Football team?

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

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.

I like how they're still talking about the start of his career :P He's halfway through (or thereabouts) with an arguable shot at passing Bonds for the all time HRs lead, if A-Rod doesn't up the bar first :P

And he went 0-for last night :P

It works!

Well, 3 more RBI and he'll have an MLB record of 14 seasons with 100+ RBIs, which is really impressive.

Took an injury to the calf yesterday, so he's day to day now. I'll bench him for tonight.

At 8/16/10 02:14 PM, Auz wrote:

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?

The funny bone, located usually in the elbow

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.

I love those movies. They help me to unwind on occasion.

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.

If this is coffee, bring me some tea. If this is tea, bring me some coffee.

At 8/16/10 08:41 PM, Chadinator wrote: Yesterday was the third anniversary of Valjylmyr's account and he got Safety Patrol. (He can't post because he's banned).

He can post about his anniversary when his ban expires.

Tell him not to post about safety patrol. That's nothing to shout about :P

At 8/16/10 11:42 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote:

At 8/1/10 05:17 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/31/10 09:29 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote: After a quick Google search, I see what you mean. I really have no idea how cricket works or really anything at all about it.

It's hard and makes a slap when it comes off the palm of my hand. It was more of a "boing" off my eyebrow, according to sources related to the cricket club.

A boing? I dunno about you but I don't think those things are capable of boing-ing based on the pictures I saw. The description seems to make light of the situation, although at this point I'm sure you do too. It's a great conversation starter.

I believe that I chipped the bone that day. Occasionally, I knock it and the whole arm goes numb. Not nice, but it could be worse.

I hope it heals quickly because it must feel strange walking around with a black eye everywhere.

It doesn't fell different at all.

Do people look at you when you walk by? It's not everyday that you see a man walking about with a black eye.

No, they look at me for the hat now :P

At 8/17/10 08:19 AM, Bahamut wrote: I forgot to mention, here's my 100th flash:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/54 5391

At last. Now make a proper 100th flash :P

Rain on summer days, nice.; congrats to:
C0GMA - 2,222 B/P
EDDDDDDD - Level 15
LegolaSS - 30k Total Stats
sumidiotdude - 10,000 B/P and 9,000 Exp
WilhelmTheVampire - 20k B/P
Cootie - Master Sergeant
Kevin - Top 666 in B/P
Auz - Top 30 in B/P!
WeirdAlthe3rd - 20k B/P
Soapbubble - 600 Reviews
ThePigeonMaster - 3,000 B/P, Private First Class, and 8.00 Total VP
Simkiss - Level 16

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At 8/16/10 02:19 PM, Auz wrote: 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.

Apparently it was drama from the Clock Crew and what happen last year. I guess Tom wanted to stay out of it and let things flow as they did. Who can blame him, but it really made things aimless.

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

I think the real clocks are long gone.

At 8/17/10 08:19 AM, Bahamut wrote: Oh come on, that's a lame wish.

Hey, it's the simple things in life that are the best. Not to mention I have several more. :)

Why wasn't I told about this before? .__.

It happens every year. While there are fewer in the sky per hour, they are yellowish and therefore easier to spot.

Oh yeah Bahamut, about the most successful thread (I didn't want to bump it), I didn't really mean anything other than what I said. The LUL will eventually pass the Regulars Lounge as things go now. Mal states back in Feb that the gap was 200 pages and now it is 89. Of course it doesn't really mean anything at the end of the day, but it was just a bit of foreshadowing. ;)

At 8/17/10 08:54 AM, Coop83 wrote: I like how they're still talking about the start of his career :P He's halfway through (or thereabouts) with an arguable shot at passing Bonds for the all time HRs lead, if A-Rod doesn't up the bar first :P

I don't think we have to worry about A-Rod in that regards. :P

Well, 3 more RBI and he'll have an MLB record of 14 seasons with 100+ RBIs, which is really impressive.

Took an injury to the calf yesterday, so he's day to day now. I'll bench him for tonight.

Yeah good idea. He might be out for a few games if not for his calf but for rest.

Listening to:
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

At 8/16/10 02:14 PM, Auz wrote:

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.

Yeah, I guess so. It's always comforting to meet other people you started studying with and learn that they are even farther away from finishing than you are. XD

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.

I think it's like that here as well. But I'm not really experienced with this Bachelor/Master thing. I only know that nobody seems to like it.

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

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

Then we have to find a better name.

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.

Oh yeah, I misread that. But why should I do that "sch" stuff if I'm not supposed to do it? :P
So, how is "swaffelen" pronounced, then?

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.

I think in the arabic language you have it as well, but other than that I too don't know any languages with such a sound.

At 8/16/10 11:42 PM, WilhelmTheVampire wrote:

At 8/2/10 01:35 PM, Haggard wrote: The strangest thing is: Other people standing right next to where the panic happened didn't even realize the situation was serious. They had enough room to stand comfortably...

That's horrible, but at the same time in such a large crowd, how could they have known? I think the police or the security could have done a much better job regulating the crowds, or at least of informing people about the situation.

Yeah, it was terribly planned and of course no one takes responsibility for it...

At 8/17/10 08:19 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/16/10 02:01 PM, Haggard wrote: My third new CD. I also bought Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time and Iron Maiden - The Final Froniter.

Those are two excellent choices.

Of COURSE!

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.

In that case, you should be able to enjoy At the Edge of Time. Just wondering, is there any Blind Guardian albums you don't like?

Nope. Well, maybe the cover album, but I only know a few songs from that album.

However, some albums are pretty hard to get into, like "A Night at the Opera" for example, because of the very complex material. But it was never like: "That sounds bad!" when I listened to a new Guardian album. It was always a bit like: "Oh, this sounds... different." and then after 2 or 3 play throuhgs I was like: "Oh, this sounds... awesome!"

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.

Am I really missing out on something this good?

Anvil - Speed of Sound. Listen for yourself. :P

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

When you're older, you're more likely to have a job with a better wage. For me, I only have a 6 month contract.

When you're older and have a job with a better wage it's much more likely that you don't have that much free time to go traveling. ;)

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...

You really need to stop having these monitors exploding.

It's not my fault!

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

I'm not that creative.

Maybe reverend can do something for us. ;)

I hope so. :)

5,000 Saves at long last!... i really think i should save more... if only i had a handfull more blams to take me upto 500 in rank as well :p

Sgt. Major.

7000 experience.

If you deposited every day, you would have 7640 EXP and you would be Level 27 :(

Level 16.