At 11/15/10 01:51 PM, Haggard wrote:

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

Yeah you have to write down initials, surname, year of publishing, title of the paper/book (in italics or between quote marks), publishing company and some other things. In that order, and that's only for papers and books. There are lots of other source types with their own rules as well.

Then you also have to refer to them in the text you're writing =/

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.

Yeah with the rise of the internet so that everybody has access to anything at all times... It's just getting in the way nowadays.

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. ^^

Lol :p

Our teacher caught a few guys with such a document though and she gave out a warning that the next person she catches will not be allowed access to the exam.

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. ^^

Now Ultor is unbanned from reviewing and he's spamming reviews again...

At 11/16/10 06:22 AM, Coop83 wrote: At 11/15/10 12:33 PM, Auz wrote: 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).

Well, wasn't it always to goal to get into the top 50? Once you've done that, you naturally look higher. What do you aim for when you reach the top 10?

Top 5 I suppose. And then top 3, and then top 1? :p

Yeah I guess the aim is always to get higher up, no matter how high you've come already. But a 17th spot as a highest on the saviors list still doesn't sound satisfying, regardless of the fact that the BP system started many years ago.

At 11/16/10 04:05 AM, Bahamut wrote: We will, GIVE 'EM THE AXE!

AWESOME! Congrats!

And I passed 68,000 BP!

Looking forward to reaching 70,000.

20,000 Medal Points!

My goal that I had until June 1st, 2011 to reach. 7 months early.

50 Posts away to my first 1,000.

At 11/16/10 11:42 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/15/10 01:51 PM, Haggard wrote:

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

That does sound hilarious but I don't think anything can beat a cappella Battery or symphonic metal Imperial March.

Battery sounds like crap. :/
Hellsongs - Blackened suddendly sounds like a pretty funny and joyful song. ^^

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.

No, it's because I know it won't happen in a million years, unless Kotick got his act together and that is highly unlikely.

You know, that's why I said "just imagine it". A few decades ago no one would've believed that men could fly (and dragons simply would've laughed at that idea!) and now the sky is so crowded that pilots have to be careful not to crash into other planes.

Motöradiohead doesn't sound like a bad name.

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

We were trying to come up with a name for our Wi/Ht? band. Let's go with Motöradiohead!

Hell yeah!
If that doesn't work out, we can always fall back to a generic metal band name.

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

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

Very sounds very confident.

Ghosts can be dangerous, even for dragons. It's a fact. :P

At 11/16/10 03:07 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/15/10 01:51 PM, Haggard wrote:

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

Yeah you have to write down initials, surname, year of publishing, title of the paper/book (in italics or between quote marks), publishing company and some other things. In that order, and that's only for papers and books. There are lots of other source types with their own rules as well.

I actually had some tutorial for that, but I forgot most of it already. :(

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.

Yeah with the rise of the internet so that everybody has access to anything at all times... It's just getting in the way nowadays.

For example I never got why websites are sued for displaying song texts. Nothing else, just the song text. Many (if not all) sites hosted on a german server where sued for compensation. Compensation for what? That's so ridiculous...

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. ^^

Lol :p

Our teacher caught a few guys with such a document though and she gave out a warning that the next person she catches will not be allowed access to the exam.

Fair enough.

Now Ultor is unbanned from reviewing and he's spamming reviews again...

Yeah. :(

At 11/16/10 04:57 PM, NerdLiife wrote: 50 Posts away to my first 1,000.

This isn't the "Hey I'm going to level up!"-Lounge, you know? Come back in 50 posts and announce your achievement when you actually got it.

46,000 medal points

At 11/16/10 04:55 PM, WeHaveFreshCookies wrote: Thanks to a new Achievement Unlockedgame, I now have 14,000 medal points.

Yeah, I've been playing that for far too long now... I need to get out more.

28,000 Medal Points

12k Medal Points

I'm sure we all know where those extra points came from :P

40 K medal Points!

5,000 BP points

47,000 Medal Points

Here's to none for a little while now, but they'll slowly come around again. I'm assuming I'll get to 48,000 medal points before I get to anything else though.

53,000 Medal Points! Thanks to Achievement Unlocked 2!

Congrats to all of you medal whores:
Auz: 68,000 B/P
Jolly: 20k Medal Points
WeHaveFreshCookies: 14k Medal Points
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 46k Medal Points
Coop83: 28k Medal Points
High-Dark: 40k Medal Points
amanda: Sergeant
Fro: 47k Medal Points

I got promoted to Major which knocked my total voting power up to 9.99.

Your experience gave you a voting power of 7.14 votes. Your blam and protection points gave you an additional 40% of your experience power, meaning that your total vote power was worth 9.99 votes!

13k Medal Points

On a roll tonight, apparently.

20,000 S-experience points.

8 years on NG :D.

When I look back on my time here, I think to myself, "What would life be like if I never saw that magazine article talking about Newgrounds?" I envision better grades, a college degree, and perhaps a more athletic build. But hey, where is the fun in that?

Remember the old days? Freakin' sweet lol. Back when the clock crew was the only one :p. Now if you'll excuse me, I have beer to finish.

Sorry for dbl post. But it just occurred to me but had I posted every day, I would be at level 52....I am at level 18.....I am rated number 10 on most deposits missed on NGLogs....doh...

I passed 8,888 total B/P tonight. I'm so close to 9,000 I can pee on it.

At 11/16/10 04:55 PM, WeHaveFreshCookies wrote: Thanks to a new Achievement Unlocked game, I now have 14,000 medal points.

Same here...but it's 49,000 :p

Coop endures screaming kids and a shitty net connection, to congratulate:
iscrulz: 27,000 Experience
HeavyTank: 49,000 Medal Points
Auz: 68,000 B/P
Jolly: 20,000 Medal Points
WeHaveFreshCookies: 14,000 Medal Points
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 46,000 Medal Points
SeeD419: 13,000 Medal Points
High-Dark: 40,000 Medal Points
amanda: 5,000 B/P
Fro: 47,000 Medal Points
Hacsev: 53,000 Medal Points
sushi13: Major; 9.99 Total Voting Power
gamejunkie: 20,000 Experience
dawg25043: 8th NG Berfday
DiMono: 8,888 B/P

Thank you to:
SeeD419

At 11/16/10 11:42 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/16/10 06:22 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/15/10 12:57 PM, Bahamut wrote: The big question is, who will still be here by the next decade?

I don't see why I won't be :P

It might be a stretch for me but we'll see.

Take it one day at a time and you'll find out one way or the other.

At 11/16/10 03:07 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/16/10 06:22 AM, Coop83 wrote: At 11/15/10 12:33 PM, Auz wrote: 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).

Well, wasn't it always to goal to get into the top 50? Once you've done that, you naturally look higher. What do you aim for when you reach the top 10?

Top 5 I suppose. And then top 3, and then top 1? :p

You'll get there - the ranks are more spread out, but they are achievable.

At 11/16/10 04:57 PM, NerdLiife wrote: 50 Posts away to my first 1,000.

Haggard's already explained this, but we don't allow stuff like that in here. Come here for 1,000, sure. Don't make a nuisance of yourself though.

Rev is tired of looking at blue elephants on parade; congrats to:
Auz - 68k B/P
Jolly - 20k Medal Points
WeHaveFreshCookies - 14k Medal Points
Pokemonpoeguygcn - 46k Medal Points
Coop83 - 28k Medal Points
High Dark - 40k Medal Points
amanda - 5,000 B/P
Fro - 47k Medal Points
Hacsev - 53k Medal Points
sushi13 - Major and 9.99 Total VP
SeeD419 - 12k and 13k Medal Points
gamejunkie - 20k Exp
dawg25043 - 8 Years on NG
HeavyTank - 49k Medal Points
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At 11/16/10 11:42 AM, Bahamut wrote: Creating a club about a certain blue dragon is vague anyway so it'll be more relevant to the video game called Blue Dragon.

Well if there is a rule that strikes out discussion of that specific game, what else is there? I don't know too many other dragons who are blue.

It's definitely badass. Not only that, it's the most metal level icon out of them all.

In a week or so I'm going to get the cheap knockoff version of that level. Metal jr. I guess.

Motörhead kicked ass!

Listening to:

Manilla Road - Crystal Logic

Thanks to:

Auz

At 11/16/10 06:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/16/10 11:42 AM, Bahamut wrote: That does sound hilarious but I don't think anything can beat a cappella Battery or symphonic metal Imperial March.

Battery sounds like crap. :/

I forgot that you were the one who declares St. Anger as good.

No, it's because I know it won't happen in a million years, unless Kotick got his act together and that is highly unlikely.

You know, that's why I said "just imagine it". A few decades ago no one would've believed that men could fly (and dragons simply would've laughed at that idea!) and now the sky is so crowded that pilots have to be careful not to crash into other planes.

At least it makes sense.

We were trying to come up with a name for our Wi/Ht? band. Let's go with Motöradiohead!

Hell yeah!
If that doesn't work out, we can always fall back to a generic metal band name.

That's the plan!

Very sounds very confident.

Ghosts can be dangerous, even for dragons. It's a fact. :P

No, it's bullshit.

At 11/17/10 10:19 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/16/10 11:42 AM, Bahamut wrote: It might be a stretch for me but we'll see.

Take it one day at a time and you'll find out one way or the other.

I hope to at least be there in 2015 so I can reach level 60.

At 11/17/10 11:21 AM, reverend wrote:

At 11/16/10 11:42 AM, Bahamut wrote: Creating a club about a certain blue dragon is vague anyway so it'll be more relevant to the video game called Blue Dragon.

Well if there is a rule that strikes out discussion of that specific game, what else is there? I don't know too many other dragons who are blue.

The dragon from Eragon? Salamence?

It's definitely badass. Not only that, it's the most metal level icon out of them all.

In a week or so I'm going to get the cheap knockoff version of that level. Metal jr. I guess.

But after that, it's the chainsaw!

Listening to:
Led Zeppelin - We're gonna groove

At 11/17/10 12:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Motörhead kicked ass!

Was it loud enough?

At 11/16/10 06:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/16/10 11:42 AM, Bahamut wrote: That does sound hilarious but I don't think anything can beat a cappella Battery or symphonic metal Imperial March.

Battery sounds like crap. :/

I forgot that you were the one who declares St. Anger as good.

And what exactly has St. Anger to do with the Battery a cappella sounding like crap?

No, it's because I know it won't happen in a million years, unless Kotick got his act together and that is highly unlikely.

You know, that's why I said "just imagine it". A few decades ago no one would've believed that men could fly (and dragons simply would've laughed at that idea!) and now the sky is so crowded that pilots have to be careful not to crash into other planes.

At least it makes sense.

Of course it does.

We were trying to come up with a name for our Wi/Ht? band. Let's go with Motöradiohead!

Hell yeah!
If that doesn't work out, we can always fall back to a generic metal band name.

That's the plan!

A man a plan... oh wait, that was something different.

Very sounds very confident.

Ghosts can be dangerous, even for dragons. It's a fact. :P

No, it's bullshit.

Just 'cause you feel it
doesn't mean it's there

Oh wait, that's something different again.
Just because you don't believe it, doesn't mean it's bullshit. :P

Achievement unlocked 2 helped me to get to 30,000 Medal Points. Been a while since I last had a medal achievement.

4,000 Medal Points.

At 11/16/10 06:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/16/10 03:07 PM, Auz wrote: Yeah you have to write down initials, surname, year of publishing, title of the paper/book (in italics or between quote marks), publishing company and some other things. In that order, and that's only for papers and books. There are lots of other source types with their own rules as well.

I actually had some tutorial for that, but I forgot most of it already. :(

I had a course which dealt with it and they had some book online which I just saved on my laptop. Had to consult it several times already because it's indeed hard to remember it all.

Yeah with the rise of the internet so that everybody has access to anything at all times... It's just getting in the way nowadays.

For example I never got why websites are sued for displaying song texts. Nothing else, just the song text. Many (if not all) sites hosted on a german server where sued for compensation. Compensation for what? That's so ridiculous...

I never knew those kind of sites were dealing with copyright infringement issues as well. I agree with you it's a little bit silly. It's not like anyone is gonna pay money to look up a song text.

At 11/17/10 10:19 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 11/16/10 03:07 PM, Auz wrote: Top 5 I suppose. And then top 3, and then top 1? :p

You'll get there - the ranks are more spread out, but they are achievable.

Just gotta stick around long enough I guess.

At 11/16/10 07:30 PM, Fro wrote: 47,000 Medal Points

Here's to none for a little while now, but they'll slowly come around again. I'm assuming I'll get to 48,000 medal points before I get to anything else though.

48,000 Medal Points

And only a few hours have passed since I made this post before I had received 48,000 Medal Points. If I were to have waited a little longer to post the milestone I wouldn't have back to back medal point milestones.

level 14! Power will be mine!

You passed 36000 B/P! Congrats!