I'm aura hopping again to match the new sig I made myself. Am I the only one who does that? I guess for mods it really wouldn't matter though...

Congrats to:
HeavyTank: 47k Medal Points
36Holla: 13k Posts
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 33333 Saves
Coop83: 56,000 Saves

Thanks to:
Coop83 x4
reverend x3
Odyssic x4

At 11/13/10 03:41 AM, HeavyTank wrote: Holy shit!That's quite a unique coincidence...unless you found a way to do in on purpose :P

Sorta, sorta not, lol. I saw them both coming and we had a wave of blams that day so I lucked out.

You forgot shit

Blimey.

At 11/13/10 05:29 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, and the B/P seems to be down for everyone this week - I've had a stinker and I hope that missing almost 2 days this weekend, for the Rugby and the pub will not stop me from posting respectable numbers on Sunday...

I hear ya. Sometimes I wish I could catch a couple b/p on the go with my cell phone, lol.

Awesome, thanks for your help. And thanks to Bahamut for helping me play around with Opera to get it uploaded.

Not a problem.

9,000 EXP

Axe upgrade.

Coop marks Remembrance Sunday, while congratulating:
36Holla: 13,000 Posts
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 33,333 Saves
Kevin: 9,000 Experience
NEVR: Level 38

Thank you to:
Auz
reverend
Odyssic (x2)
SeeD419

At 11/13/10 01:13 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/13/10 05:29 AM, Coop83 wrote: Any idea on prices for Maiden yet? I couldn't find anything, so it looks like I'll have to wait until next Friday...

I'm afraid not. Members of the Maiden Fanclub will get to order tickets before everyone else.

Well, I've got the week off work now and since they are released on Friday, I'll be doing my research and getting some numbers sorted for who will be accompanying my little gang.

Wow, didn't realise how close she was in terms of saves. Ah well, if she does retire at 77,777 saves, you can easily pass her again sometime.

Yeah, but byteslinger is another matter - once she passes me, that may well be for good, unless she ever retires.

I guess she'll be another long-running B/P'er in the future along with Afro_Stud and harryjarry.

It'll be interesting to see if she will ever catch me for Blams. I'm trying to prevent that from ever happening, but that is a long time in the future.

At 11/13/10 02:48 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/13/10 05:29 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/12/10 12:30 PM, Auz wrote: Awesome!

I've been stuck at number 17 for as long as I can remember.

Can't be long before you get another place, surely?

Well as you can see I've already come a long way. There is a huge gap between me and the #18 right now. When I will rank up again depends on how RemRulzz and Ehwaz will do. I'm still 900 points behind atm, but the gap is closing slowly.

Well, that's about a month to six weeks Saving for you, isn't it?

At 11/11/10 04:00 AM, Coop83 wrote:

We always say you're the winner among the losers :p

That's so true, it's sad, really.

Second last is still the saddest place on any rank list. At least when you're last you tend to get some attention.

I don't know. KWAS never really got recognised as the top Review Responses guy :P

At 11/13/10 03:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

Which reminds me of the Darwin awards and Murphy's laws.

Yeah, I guess the quote and the Darwin Awards go hand in hand together.

"Everything that can go wrong dies in an amusing fashion"?

At 11/13/10 11:03 PM, SeeD419 wrote:

At 11/13/10 05:29 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, and the B/P seems to be down for everyone this week - I've had a stinker and I hope that missing almost 2 days this weekend, for the Rugby and the pub will not stop me from posting respectable numbers on Sunday...

I hear ya. Sometimes I wish I could catch a couple b/p on the go with my cell phone, lol.

If I did that, I'd get fired from work, for not getting any work done. At least with the laptop, they know I'm only on it at Lunch.

Thanks for voting, Haggard! Your experience has been automatically deposited!

With that vote, you now have 19,580 experience points.You need 0 more to get to Level 43.

The level icon is great, but there doesn't seem to be any aura that really fits it. I think light looks best here.

Thanks for voting, Fro! Your experience has been automatically deposited!

With that vote, you now have 12,830 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 35. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 15 hours, 16 minutes, and 12 seconds.

This post will be the first time I'm seeing the icon next to my name on the forums. Here's to hoping that it looks alright, but like always I'm sure I'll get use to it.

11k Medal Points

The EXP Update will be posted sometime today but for now, see how I went seeing an Iron Maiden tribute band last Friday.

Listening to:

Gamma Ray - Blast from the Past

At 11/13/10 02:48 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/13/10 01:13 PM, Bahamut wrote: Only makes me more glad they changed the level system.

Agreed there. For the higher levels, leveling up would've been hell at this point.

I think it's worse for the newer users. After reaching level 9, they would have found themselves spending over half a year reaching the next level. That's the main reason why the old level system was bad.

At 11/13/10 03:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/12/10 11:58 AM, Bahamut wrote: FUCK. YEAH! Whichever publisher says no to this better cease to exist right away.

What if Bobby Kotic decides to publish this game?

He won't.

You know, I may tolerate Dimmu Borgir but even I know that they have nothing on Immortal. That's how good Immortal are.

Yes, Immortal are good, but Dimmu Borgir are about the exact opposite of everything that Immortal are.

We can easily agree that Immortal are awesome.

Why do I think of Motörhead when Portishead is said?

Because both band names end with "-head"?

Pretty much.

No, I'm just saying I'm immune to ghosts.

You only think you are. You haven't seen ME as a ghost yet.

Trust me, I have nothing to worry about.

At 11/13/10 03:37 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/13/10 01:13 PM, Bahamut wrote: That could be about the Xbox 360 game called Blue Dragon. Isn't there a club for that already?

I don't think there is one, but I'm sure this specific club isn't going to be about any video game. :P

It could be interpreted as a club for that video game, though.

At 11/14/10 05:27 AM, NEVR wrote: Axe upgrade.

I AM THE AXEMAAAAN!

At 11/14/10 05:44 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/13/10 01:13 PM, Bahamut wrote: I guess she'll be another long-running B/P'er in the future along with Afro_Stud and harryjarry.

It'll be interesting to see if she will ever catch me for Blams. I'm trying to prevent that from ever happening, but that is a long time in the future.

Blams are so sparse these days. It'll be AGES before she passes you or even myself.

At 11/14/10 07:26 AM, Haggard wrote: The level icon is great, but there doesn't seem to be any aura that really fits it. I think light looks best here.

I like it with blue and grey. Heh, funny how all these level ups are happening around the same time. I'm due to level up in two days time.

Listening to:
Hellsongs - Run To The Hills
Hellsongs - Jump
Hellsongs - Orgasmatron

At 11/14/10 05:44 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/13/10 02:48 PM, Auz wrote: At 11/13/10 03:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

Which reminds me of the Darwin awards and Murphy's laws.

Yeah, I guess the quote and the Darwin Awards go hand in hand together.

"Everything that can go wrong dies in an amusing fashion"?

Entertaining as well, but I was more thinking about the quote that we should get rid of all caution warnings and the Darwin Awards. :P
IE: Get rid of warnings like: "Don't leave the steering wheel of this caravan as long as you are driving on the road" and give out Darwin Awards to people who die just because of that.

At 11/14/10 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/13/10 03:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/12/10 11:58 AM, Bahamut wrote: FUCK. YEAH! Whichever publisher says no to this better cease to exist right away.

What if Bobby Kotic decides to publish this game?

He won't.

Yes, it's unlikely. But just imagine it for a moment. What would you do if he did?

You know, I may tolerate Dimmu Borgir but even I know that they have nothing on Immortal. That's how good Immortal are.

Yes, Immortal are good, but Dimmu Borgir are about the exact opposite of everything that Immortal are.

We can easily agree that Immortal are awesome.

Yes.

Why do I think of Motörhead when Portishead is said?

Because both band names end with "-head"?

Pretty much.

So, you are also thinking of Motörhead when you hear the name "Radiohead"?

No, I'm just saying I'm immune to ghosts.

You only think you are. You haven't seen ME as a ghost yet.

Trust me, I have nothing to worry about.

You should trust me that you can never be too sure.

At 11/14/10 07:26 AM, Haggard wrote: The level icon is great, but there doesn't seem to be any aura that really fits it. I think light looks best here.

I like it with blue and grey. Heh, funny how all these level ups are happening around the same time. I'm due to level up in two days time.

So we are almost level up buddies? Aweseome.

At 11/13/10 03:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/12/10 12:30 PM, Auz wrote: I don't know, sometimes I got the feeling that controlling and checking whether people are violating copyright laws often causes more trouble than it prevents.

There are actually machines that can check if a text is copy pasted. They scan in the text and have access to a huge database of scientific texts. So they can find out any similarites very quickly.

Yeah I've heard of them, and they sound easy to use. For me however, I still hate to have to write down a shitload of references in the correct way every time I hand in a report.

But I also meant in the music and film business and such, with for example that AFTA stuff they wanna do right now. Checking computers for illegal downloads, copyright violations and other things. I really think it might be cheaper and better for everyone if they just dumped a bag of cash at the authors straight away as a compensation.

Of course there's always those kind of guys. Although that sounds more like something for high school homework assignments, which I don't really have anymore.

Sometimes we had some compulsory tutorials and we had to get some kind of certificate. One of the criterias to get this certificate usually was "gather at least 50% of all the points". This propably was implemented to force the students to actually solve the problems, but in maths it was just an incentive to copy the solutions from elsewhere.
In my first semester I got really lucky. I know a guy who studied physics and he is really good in maths. He did all of my "maths homework" for me. ^^

Oh wait, yes now I remember some first year courses where they still liked to do things like that. We had to do some assignments every week as well and if you didn't score high enough you were not allowed access to the exam. They were rather easy though and indeed, usually there were some people who had all the answers in a document from someone from former years. Document like that always spread like wildfire.

At 11/13/10 03:37 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/13/10 02:48 PM, Auz wrote: That is excluding the +1 experience point that adds up to the gap once every two days or so.

Of course. It was a guesstimate since I haven't broke out the spreadsheet to figure exactly where it would be at for today.

Yeah. Like I said, I haven't updated that blog in a long time so I'm not sure where exactly it is right now either. But surely, it must be near 2,000 Exp by now.

At 11/14/10 05:27 AM, NEVR wrote: Axe upgrade.

It's strange seeing you without a golden aura =/

At 11/14/10 05:44 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/13/10 02:48 PM, Auz wrote: Well as you can see I've already come a long way. There is a huge gap between me and the #18 right now. When I will rank up again depends on how RemRulzz and Ehwaz will do. I'm still 900 points behind atm, but the gap is closing slowly.

Well, that's about a month to six weeks Saving for you, isn't it?

About a month I think. Indeed the end is near, but you gotta consider the 4,000+ saves gap I've already left behind. I've been on #17 for too long in my opinion.

At 11/11/10 04:00 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Second last is still the saddest place on any rank list. At least when you're last you tend to get some attention.

I don't know. KWAS never really got recognised as the top Review Responses guy :P

But that has other reasons. We all hated KWAS with a passion.

At 11/14/10 07:26 AM, Haggard wrote: The level icon is great, but there doesn't seem to be any aura that really fits it. I think light looks best here.

Now that's where you're wrong. Evil is obviously the best aura for level 43.

At 11/14/10 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/13/10 02:48 PM, Auz wrote: Agreed there. For the higher levels, leveling up would've been hell at this point.

I think it's worse for the newer users. After reaching level 9, they would have found themselves spending over half a year reaching the next level. That's the main reason why the old level system was bad.

I still remember these whiny threads where new users were like: WTF? I HAVE TO DEPOSIT FOR MONTHS TO REACH THE NEXT LEVEL! RAAAAAGEEEE!

and then older users were like:
Stfu noob! We have to deposit for years >:|

At 11/14/10 12:46 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/14/10 05:44 AM, Coop83 wrote: "Everything that can go wrong dies in an amusing fashion"?

Entertaining as well, but I was more thinking about the quote that we should get rid of all caution warnings and the Darwin Awards. :P
IE: Get rid of warnings like: "Don't leave the steering wheel of this caravan as long as you are driving on the road" and give out Darwin Awards to people who die just because of that.

Overpopulation problem solved.

Congrats to:
Coop83 - 56k Saves
Kevin - 9,000 Exp
NEVR - Level 38
Haggard - Level 43
Fro - Level 35
SeeD419 - 11k Medal Points
Cootie - 9,000 Exp

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At 11/14/10 05:27 AM, NEVR wrote: Axe upgrade.

All you need is an aura upgrade and you'll be set.

At 11/14/10 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote: It could be interpreted as a club for that video game, though.

Guess who would delete those posts who think that.

At 11/14/10 02:17 PM, Auz wrote: Yeah. Like I said, I haven't updated that blog in a long time so I'm not sure where exactly it is right now either. But surely, it must be near 2,000 Exp by now.

1862.67 for today. Level 10 would be at 2,263 exp.

At 11/14/10 02:49 PM, Cootie wrote: Vegeta, what does the scouter say about Cootie's experience points?

IT'S OVER 9000!!!!

I'm sorry. I could not resist.

You should have tried harder. It's been repeated and beaten to death especially in the LUL. :/

Over 9000 medal points.

At 11/14/10 05:08 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/14/10 05:27 AM, NEVR wrote: Axe upgrade.

All you need is an aura upgrade and you'll be set.

lol, I just don't have the time right now buddy.

ATM I've got like 3 coursework deadlines for this month alone, and on top of that I'm working weekends. It's a busy time and I honestly can't see it getting any less busy until I finish my degree, which suuucks.

Not like I'm gonna fall off the radar completely though. I'll have a little more time during the holidays to get on NG and perhaps after uni I'll find the time to pencil this place into my schedule again. I have to say though, it's somewhat liberating not to have to constantly deal with the truckloads of shite being trafficked through the BBS daily... not to mention the ever-expanding crap pile of flagged reviews.

But anyway, to all you guys I consider friends here, stay cool and await my glorious return. I'll have a parade and all that kinda shit and we'll get trolleyed and shoot up a nunnery.

At 11/14/10 02:49 PM, Cootie wrote: IT'S OVER 9000!!!!

I'm sorry. I could not resist.

No, I'm pretty sure you could have.
I'm also sure it's more of a question that you didn't want to resist the temptation...

Listen to FF Xiii Will to fight

Congrats to

EJR: 6.66 Base Voting Power
DiMono: Level 19
illuminate: 28,000 Experience
Coop83 - 27k Medal Points/ 14 in Exp/ 56000 saves
HeavyTank - Level 30 and 18k B/P
High-Dark - 39k Medal Points
Donut - Top 10,000 in Exp
gamejunkie - 34k B/P
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 45k Medal Points/33333 saves
Ronald-McDonald-LoL: 1234 Blams
Valjylmyr: Private First Class
xRiskiiyxBlaze: Level 15
SeeD419: 2,222 Blams; 3,333 Saves; 5,555 B/P; 555 Reviews (Flash)/ 11k Medal Points
36Holla - 13k Posts
Kevin: 9,000 Experience
NEVR: Level 38
Haggard - Level 43
Fro - Level 35
Cootie - 9,000 Exp

These are tears of joy for the how lot's of you.

Level 31 a few days ago! It's all downhill from here. Te hill is just 90 times longer on this side.

My metal implement has grown unsettlingly rusty. Oh dear.

At 11/14/10 10:02 PM, Cootie wrote: I was incapable. I tried and tried to resist but my hand was drawn to the keyboard. I picked up my hatchet and tried to sever the unruly limb, but by that time it was already too late.

Who's laughing now!?!

I bought a new brand knife as my new level icon.
Level 28!

By the way, expect a new blog from my series in a while :)

I leveled up to 23 three days ago.

Had I deposited everyday like a good little boy, I would be at level 40 by now, but my computer just had to die on me, didn't it? According to NG logs, if I do keep depositing every single day from now on, I'll reach that level on 01/07/2014....or in 1149 days.

PROFOUND SADNESS.

Coop pops into the office during his holiday, to congratulate:
Haggard: Level 43
Fro: Level 35
SeeD419: 11,000 Medal Points
Cootie: 9,000 Experience; -52,000 Cool points.
Donut: 9,000 Medal points; -2,000 Cool points. You didn't quote the meme, per se, just alluded to it >:(
AlphaCentauri: Level 31; 10,000 Experience
ohbumbuh: Level 21
ThePigeonMaster: Level 28
ArtDanVal: Level 23

Thank you to:
Odyssic
reverend
LittleWashu (x3)

Listening to:
Queen - Bicycle Race
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
AC/DC - Touch too Much

At 11/14/10 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/14/10 05:44 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/13/10 01:13 PM, Bahamut wrote: I guess she'll be another long-running B/P'er in the future along with Afro_Stud and harryjarry.

It'll be interesting to see if she will ever catch me for Blams. I'm trying to prevent that from ever happening, but that is a long time in the future.

Blams are so sparse these days. It'll be AGES before she passes you or even myself.

I'm still over 10,000 Blams behind you. That's plenty, but considering that she's about 24k behind you, I'm not sure you'll be losing sleep for the next decade or so.

At 11/14/10 12:46 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/14/10 05:44 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/13/10 02:48 PM, Auz wrote: At 11/13/10 03:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

Which reminds me of the Darwin awards and Murphy's laws.

Yeah, I guess the quote and the Darwin Awards go hand in hand together.

"Everything that can go wrong dies in an amusing fashion"?

Entertaining as well, but I was more thinking about the quote that we should get rid of all caution warnings and the Darwin Awards. :P

Just keep the Darwins underground ;)

IE: Get rid of warnings like: "Don't leave the steering wheel of this caravan as long as you are driving on the road" and give out Darwin Awards to people who die just because of that.

I really totally agree with this, as some people are a danger to society, just by remaining alive.

At 11/14/10 02:17 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/14/10 05:44 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/13/10 02:48 PM, Auz wrote: Well as you can see I've already come a long way. There is a huge gap between me and the #18 right now. When I will rank up again depends on how RemRulzz and Ehwaz will do. I'm still 900 points behind atm, but the gap is closing slowly.

Well, that's about a month to six weeks Saving for you, isn't it?

About a month I think. Indeed the end is near, but you gotta consider the 4,000+ saves gap I've already left behind. I've been on #17 for too long in my opinion.

And if you think that, look at me spending about a year at 14th on the B/P list ;)

At 11/11/10 04:00 AM, Coop83 wrote:

Second last is still the saddest place on any rank list. At least when you're last you tend to get some attention.

I don't know. KWAS never really got recognised as the top Review Responses guy :P

But that has other reasons. We all hated KWAS with a passion.

I pitied him, to be honest. Now Ultor, on the other hand...

At 11/14/10 06:47 PM, NEVR wrote: But anyway, to all you guys I consider friends here, stay cool and await my glorious return. I'll have a parade and all that kinda shit and we'll get trolleyed and shoot up a nunnery.

We've been saving the bog roll for your return ;)

At 11/14/10 07:27 PM, LittleWashu wrote: Coop83 - 27k Medal Points/ 14 in Exp/ 56000 saves

I really wish I had enough experience to be 14th ;)

6.0 voting power

I don't know if i should post this here but what the hell..

Exp. Rank #: 100 w00t! Finally

I'm now over 100 Art Review Responses.

I think I'm going to keep on reviewing art submissions until I get around 1,000 of them. It'll be a very long process though as I'm only going to do a couple of them every night, but slow and steady wins the race I suppose.

I should still have some minor level ups and milestones coming in the near future. They always seem to come in bunches and then die out for awhile.

123 reviews, 123 bbs posts, 46000 medal points, 5000 exp, 1111 b/p points.
Maybe I should post some more, and not leave a lot of achievements to one post. Ah well

:whee

At 11/14/10 02:49 PM, Cootie wrote: Vegeta, what does the scouter say about Cootie's experience points?

IT'S OVER 9000!!!!

Oh boy...

At 11/14/10 05:08 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/14/10 02:17 PM, Auz wrote: Yeah. Like I said, I haven't updated that blog in a long time so I'm not sure where exactly it is right now either. But surely, it must be near 2,000 Exp by now.

1862.67 for today. Level 10 would be at 2,263 exp.

Oh still a bit off from 2,000 experience point gaps then.

At 11/15/10 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/14/10 02:17 PM, Auz wrote: About a month I think. Indeed the end is near, but you gotta consider the 4,000+ saves gap I've already left behind. I've been on #17 for too long in my opinion.

And if you think that, look at me spending about a year at 14th on the B/P list ;)

Well there's always those who have it worse of course. I just want to make a move into the top 10 for once, but at the moment I'm getting stuck on several lists where I could potentially hit top 10 someday (not too long from now).

At 11/11/10 04:00 AM, Coop83 wrote:

But that has other reasons. We all hated KWAS with a passion.

I pitied him, to be honest. Now Ultor, on the other hand...

Yeah, he was never the worst reviewer on the list actually. At this point, I'm sure Ultor is. Let's hope that guy never gets in a notable position on the reviewers list.

Getting a cold sucks, especially when you're coughing all day afterwards. I better be 100% tomorrow for Motörhead.

Listening to:

In Flames - Lunar Strain

At 11/14/10 12:46 PM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Hellsongs - Run To The Hills
Hellsongs - Orgasmatron

They sound familiar. By they, I mean the songs.

At 11/14/10 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote: He won't.

Yes, it's unlikely. But just imagine it for a moment. What would you do if he did?

I'm not going to imagine it because I know it won't happen.

Pretty much.

So, you are also thinking of Motörhead when you hear the name "Radiohead"?

Motöradiohead doesn't sound like a bad name.

Trust me, I have nothing to worry about.

You should trust me that you can never be too sure.

But I'm very sure when it comes to ghosts.

I like it with blue and grey. Heh, funny how all these level ups are happening around the same time. I'm due to level up in two days time.

So we are almost level up buddies? Aweseome.

We are but you'll be reaching level 44 like a week or two before I enter the golden levels. It was better for me and Auz levelling up around the same time but now he gets a new level at least three weeks before I do.

At 11/14/10 05:08 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/14/10 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote: It could be interpreted as a club for that video game, though.

Guess who would delete those posts who think that.

But it would be relevant.

At 11/15/10 03:59 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/14/10 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote: Blams are so sparse these days. It'll be AGES before she passes you or even myself.

I'm still over 10,000 Blams behind you. That's plenty, but considering that she's about 24k behind you, I'm not sure you'll be losing sleep for the next decade or so.

The big question is, who will still be here by the next decade?

At 11/14/10 07:27 PM, LittleWashu wrote: Coop83 - 27k Medal Points/ 14 in Exp/ 56000 saves

I really wish I had enough experience to be 14th ;)

One day, right?

5,000 Saves!

Congrats to:
Donut - 9,000 Medal Points
AlphaCentauri - Level 31
ohbombuh - Level 21
ThePigeonMaster - Level 28
ArtDanVal - Level 23
RuinedMartyr - 6.00 Base VP
Dent0n - Top 100 in Exp!
Fro - 100 Art Review Responses
Knuckstrike - 5,000 Exp
Jolly - 5,000 Saves

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At 11/14/10 06:47 PM, NEVR wrote: ATM I've got like 3 coursework deadlines for this month alone, and on top of that I'm working weekends. It's a busy time and I honestly can't see it getting any less busy until I finish my degree, which suuucks.

I completely abandoned NG whenever I got to busy with college several years ago. This site is nice, but fifteen, twenty years down the road my college degree is going to be more important. I know the feeling.

... I have to say though, it's somewhat liberating not to have to constantly deal with the truckloads of shite being trafficked through the BBS daily... not to mention the ever-expanding crap pile of flagged reviews.

From now on I'm going to sign my bans with ~NEVR so half of my hate mail goes to you.

At 11/14/10 10:02 PM, Cootie wrote: I was incapable. I tried and tried to resist but my hand was drawn to the keyboard. I picked up my hatchet and tried to sever the unruly limb, but by that time it was already too late.

I'm fairly sure a three day ban can cure that really fast. :P

At 11/15/10 12:57 PM, Bahamut wrote: But it would be relevant.

I'm sure there could be a club rule that strikes out any discussion of that particular video game.

Listening to:
Janina - 1 2 3
Janina - Der Moment
Janina - Warum reimt sich

At 11/14/10 02:17 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/13/10 03:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/12/10 12:30 PM, Auz wrote: I don't know, sometimes I got the feeling that controlling and checking whether people are violating copyright laws often causes more trouble than it prevents.

There are actually machines that can check if a text is copy pasted. They scan in the text and have access to a huge database of scientific texts. So they can find out any similarites very quickly.

Yeah I've heard of them, and they sound easy to use. For me however, I still hate to have to write down a shitload of references in the correct way every time I hand in a report.

Quoting texts "the right way" and writing down references is much too complicated, imo.

But I also meant in the music and film business and such, with for example that AFTA stuff they wanna do right now. Checking computers for illegal downloads, copyright violations and other things. I really think it might be cheaper and better for everyone if they just dumped a bag of cash at the authors straight away as a compensation.

Never heard of it before, so I don't have to say too much on this topic. ^^
Just that I think the idea of the "copyright" doesn't really fit into the modern society anymore.

Sometimes we had some compulsory tutorials and we had to get some kind of certificate. One of the criterias to get this certificate usually was "gather at least 50% of all the points". This propably was implemented to force the students to actually solve the problems, but in maths it was just an incentive to copy the solutions from elsewhere.
In my first semester I got really lucky. I know a guy who studied physics and he is really good in maths. He did all of my "maths homework" for me. ^^

Oh wait, yes now I remember some first year courses where they still liked to do things like that. We had to do some assignments every week as well and if you didn't score high enough you were not allowed access to the exam. They were rather easy though and indeed, usually there were some people who had all the answers in a document from someone from former years. Document like that always spread like wildfire.

Yeah, this is one of the reasons that forum I was talking about earlier was set up. I would never have passed the maths examns if it wheren't for that forum. ^^

At 11/15/10 12:33 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/11/10 04:00 AM, Coop83 wrote:

But that has other reasons. We all hated KWAS with a passion.

I pitied him, to be honest. Now Ultor, on the other hand...

Yeah, he was never the worst reviewer on the list actually. At this point, I'm sure Ultor is. Let's hope that guy never gets in a notable position on the reviewers list.

I remember this: Right after the redesign the review mod tools where broken, Ultor was spamming reviews like crazy (more like, copy pasting reviews). When the tools where fixed I reported him in Rage's thread. The whistle of one of my alts went up from normal to almost gold. ^^

At 11/15/10 12:57 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/14/10 12:46 PM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Hellsongs - Run To The Hills
Hellsongs - Orgasmatron

They sound familiar. By they, I mean the songs.

Hellsongs do covers of metal songs. They play them in lounge music style. Sounds pretty funny.

At 11/14/10 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote: He won't.

Yes, it's unlikely. But just imagine it for a moment. What would you do if he did?

I'm not going to imagine it because I know it won't happen.

Admit it, you don't want to imagine it because it would mean you wouldn't buy the game.

Pretty much.

So, you are also thinking of Motörhead when you hear the name "Radiohead"?

Motöradiohead doesn't sound like a bad name.

We should name our Wi/Ht?-Band this way.

Trust me, I have nothing to worry about.

You should trust me that you can never be too sure.

But I'm very sure when it comes to ghosts.

"Very" doesn't sound too convincing. :P