You entered the top 70 in B/P Points. Outstanding!

You entered the top 4000 in B/P Points. Outstanding!

Also, 78k medal points.

Damn, it's hard to find good threads to post in, but somehow I've reach 8,000 posts.

Level 19. I guess that's cool.

Congrats to:
Strategize: Level 12
Pokemonpoeguygcn: Top 70 in B/P
Kauvin: Top 4,000 in B/P Points/78,000 Medal Points
Makeshift: 8,000 Post
WeirdAlthe3rd: Level 23
Donut: Level 19

Coop tries to tie up chapter 3 with chapter 2 of his story. It's so difficult writing out of sequence. Congratulations to:
RuinedMartyr: Level 20
Strategize: Level 12
Pokemonpoeguygcn: Top 70 B/Per
Kauvin: 78,000 Medal Points
Makeshift: 8,000 Posts
WeirdAlthe3rd: Level 23
Donut: Level 19

Listening to:
Apollo440 - Stop the Rock
Michael Jackson - PYT (Pretty Young Thing)
Velvet Revolver - Loving the Alien

At 1/14/11 04:17 AM, reverend wrote:

At 1/13/11 08:10 AM, Coop wrote: Pfft. I thought you were cool.

Meh, would 40k be cool enough? It'll take way too much time to reach the Top 50 in B/P let alone number 1.

That's a defeatist attitude and I'll have none of it. Having an idea about retiring at your age is laughable!

At 1/14/11 10:16 AM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 1/14/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/13/11 10:04 AM, LittleWashu wrote: Cootie and Ronald-McDonald-LoL are two others I know that vote the right way as well.

The trick now is to make sure that every one of these correct voters is online at the same time, voting the same way on the same flash. The former is the issue, since we have no trouble when it comes to their voting habits.

There are a few others I know that vote correctly as well but yeah you are right. It was the same was that the spammer used to get their garbage to pass in the past they voted together and use their high voting power to overpowered the masses. (The BPB a couple years back is a big example of this)

A co-ordinated effort would certainly help, but the problem is that it's forbidden under NGBBS rules. I'm sure that elsewhere on the internet, it wouldn't be so frowned upon though :P

More recruits are required and then we can give the portal a scrub like it's never been scrubbed before!

That or the current users on NG need to realize that their votes are count, because if they didn't the then everything that came into the portal would still be on NG unless marked for review then deleted.

Yeah, but once it's marked for review, it sits around and waits patiently for admin attention, while out of sight of the lay user.

With this post, I now have 100,000 Total Stats!

I believe I'm the 29th user to ever reach that, so it's not that extraordinary anymore. However, it's a great achievement in its own right. I'm looking forward to the next pentalist update.

At 1/15/11 06:38 AM, Auz wrote: With this post, I now have 100,000 Total Stats!

Congratulations, great effort.

Also 36,000 B/P points.

1k exp

57k medal points.

At 1/15/11 05:59 AM, Coop wrote: Coop tries to tie up chapter 3 with chapter 2 of his story. It's so difficult writing out of sequence. Congratulations to:
RuinedMartyr: Level 20
Strategize: Level 12
Pokemonpoeguygcn: Top 70 B/Per
Kauvin: 78,000 Medal Points
Makeshift: 8,000 Posts
WeirdAlthe3rd: Level 23
Donut: Level 19

Listening to:
Apollo440 - Stop the Rock
Michael Jackson - PYT (Pretty Young Thing)
Velvet Revolver - Loving the Alien

At 1/14/11 04:17 AM, reverend wrote:

At 1/13/11 08:10 AM, Coop wrote: Pfft. I thought you were cool.

Meh, would 40k be cool enough? It'll take way too much time to reach the Top 50 in B/P let alone number 1.

That's a defeatist attitude and I'll have none of it. Having an idea about retiring at your age is laughable!

At 1/14/11 10:16 AM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 1/14/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/13/11 10:04 AM, LittleWashu wrote: Cootie and Ronald-McDonald-LoL are two others I know that vote the right way as well.

The trick now is to make sure that every one of these correct voters is online at the same time, voting the same way on the same flash. The former is the issue, since we have no trouble when it comes to their voting habits.

There are a few others I know that vote correctly as well but yeah you are right. It was the same was that the spammer used to get their garbage to pass in the past they voted together and use their high voting power to overpowered the masses. (The BPB a couple years back is a big example of this)

A co-ordinated effort would certainly help, but the problem is that it's forbidden under NGBBS rules. I'm sure that elsewhere on the internet, it wouldn't be so frowned upon though :P

Sad but true becauase even though we are trying to do the right thing others would see it as a form of Mass voting. Also yeah that is how some of those spammers worked. They had their own forums and would plan on their forums to vote together as one to pass their shit.

More recruits are required and then we can give the portal a scrub like it's never been scrubbed before!

That or the current users on NG need to realize that their votes are count, because if they didn't the then everything that came into the portal would still be on NG unless marked for review then deleted.

Yeah, but once it's marked for review, it sits around and waits patiently for admin attention, while out of sight of the lay user.

That is a plus and a minus. The plus is that it can be passed until it get out of judgement and if it is truly rule breaking it will be deleted. Bad because you have to wait until the Admin to delete it which could take months or even a year and change.

On another note next milestone passed 33000 B/P, as well as the number sequence of 123 B/P Rank neither of them are really a big deal though >_<

I've become level 35 since yesterday, I'm going to be a little more active as I did during past years (basically between 2004 and 2007).

In top 3000 people for blams/saves

Another busy few days. Congrats and thanks to all of you.

I've slowed down immensely but I'm on the verge of three decent milestones, so...we'll see when I can get in some quality b/p time.

7000 Total Bp

Master Sergeant Rank

30,000 exp.

That is all. Till I level up in 2 days, that is!

Be back to catch-up tomorrow night, hopefully.

LV 31 and 9990xp

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

With that vote, you now have 12,090 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 34. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 19 hours, 32 minutes, and 14 seconds.

The more experience points you have, combined with BLAM and PROTECTION

Next milestone passed 777 EXP. Not really a big deal though >_<

Coop tries to balance his books, concedes and decides to go to the pub, all while congratulating:
Auz: 100,000 Total Points
gamejunkie: 36,000 B/P
schumaccercat: 1,000 Experience
Tycrane: 57,000 Medal Points
LittleWashu: 33,000 B/P; #777 Most Experienced
MrT-Time: Level 35
High-Dark: 7,000 B/P
gfoxcook: 30,000 Experience; 30k triplelisted
HeavyTank: Level 31
Sispri: Level 34

At 1/15/11 01:14 PM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 1/15/11 05:59 AM, Coop wrote: A co-ordinated effort would certainly help, but the problem is that it's forbidden under NGBBS rules. I'm sure that elsewhere on the internet, it wouldn't be so frowned upon though :P

Sad but true becauase even though we are trying to do the right thing others would see it as a form of Mass voting. Also yeah that is how some of those spammers worked. They had their own forums and would plan on their forums to vote together as one to pass their shit.

It's only against the BBS Rules. That's all I have to say on the matter.

That or the current users on NG need to realize that their votes are count, because if they didn't the then everything that came into the portal would still be on NG unless marked for review then deleted.

Yeah, but once it's marked for review, it sits around and waits patiently for admin attention, while out of sight of the lay user.

That is a plus and a minus. The plus is that it can be passed until it get out of judgement and if it is truly rule breaking it will be deleted. Bad because you have to wait until the Admin to delete it which could take months or even a year and change.

This is the reason that I would like to see Portal Mods, to help Wade. He seems to be the only person that deals with this, so a small handful of these should help keep abusive flagged flash down to a minimum.

Plus, with the additional Blam points that will produce, it might also influence the voting crowd.

At 1/15/11 05:59 AM, Coop wrote: That's a defeatist attitude and I'll have none of it. Having an idea about retiring at your age is laughable!

Scofff! What you call defeatist I call realistic. Maybe if the number one B/P would retire I might reconsider but there is no possible way to catch him. Why climb Everest when Everest keeps getting taller and taller? :P

At least with levels you get a new icon in 3-4 months.

At 1/15/11 06:38 AM, Auz wrote: With this post, I now have 100,000 Total Stats!

Sweet!

Congrats to:
Auz: 100,000 Total Stats
gamejunkie: 36,000 B/P Points
schumaccercat: 1,000 Experience
Tycrane: 57,000 Medal Points
MrT-Time: Level 35
Saint-Jesus: Top 3,000 in B/P
High-Dark: 7,000 B/P Points
gfoxcook: 30,000 Experience
HeavyTank: Level 31/10,000 Experience
Sispri: Level 34
LittleWashu: Rank 777 in Experience

At 1/16/11 05:20 AM, Coop wrote: This is the reason that I would like to see Portal Mods, to help Wade. He seems to be the only person that deals with this, so a small handful of these should help keep abusive flagged flash down to a minimum.

If this ever happens. Send me the first application form.

I'm back from Manchester. Lots of stuff happened but overall it was an excellent time! Some events there will make you wish you attended. I'm looking at you, Coop. :P

Listening to:

Primordial - To the Nameless Dead

At 1/13/11 08:10 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/12/11 11:39 AM, Bahamut wrote: SHUT. THE FUCK. UP! WAIT UNTIL THE FUCKING MEET!

Gratuitous plug alert!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 02081

You can be happy with that for the time being. BTW, I did not sing Iron Maiden on karaoke night. I'm saving it for London for you.

At 1/13/11 11:18 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/12/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: True. There are many commercial jingles that I'd like to forget :(

"Crazy Frog" comes to my mind here.

I thought I forgot him forever.

At 1/13/11 04:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now that's an excellent idea. How can we argue about this?

Only problem is that there are so many other users in front of us who disagree with our plans.

Baaaaah, you are right about this. We know Coop is strongly against our idea.

It's still an improvement for you. :P

Okay then. They still play shitty music, though. :P

But not the worst, right?

At 1/13/11 04:46 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/13/11 04:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: It makes you wonder if there's a stable country right now. Looks like we'll all go back to square one eventually.

China seems pretty stable at the moment, and willing to help other nations out. Of course they want a little influence in return, which might be bad... or good... I don't know yet.

China know they deal well with other countries so they wouldn't want them to fall.

For apprenticeships, the usual age range they ask for is 16-19. I started applying to hell to them at the age of 18 and even got turned down because someone had more experience than me. You're taking these courses for the fucking experience.

Oh so you were a bit late perhaps. But yeah, that last thing doesn't make sense.

Maybe I was too old but it wouldn't make sense for some of those employers to pick someone with more experience than me.

But not for Pokemon Black/White. We're getting it just before America does.

Awesome! I don't think I'll check it out anytime soon though. I'm just about done with playing Platinum and I still got Soul Silver to play through. But for now I'd rather play something other than Pokemon.

I'm not sure if I'll be in a rush for Pokemon Black/White. Sure, I do want to get it but I'm not sure about first day buy. I'll see what my friends think of the game and decide from there.

You know, I can't remember if Spoony still has a job or not. I'm all for video makers getting a bit of money in return for their videos but when it came to critiquing Spoony, it was regardless of how much money he's earning.

I've always wondered if he had a job. I think he's making quite a lot of money with ads on his website.

I spoke to another friend of mine who's also a Spoony fan and he says he has no job. It's just the videos that are getting him money but considering he's one of the biggest names for video game reviewers, I wouldn't be surprised if he earns enough money to maintain his life.

At 1/14/11 12:21 PM, Haggard wrote: Hey Bahamut!

HEY HAGGARD!

What do you know any of these bands and if so, can you reccomend some of them?
AGENT STEEL
ENFORCER
EPICA

I know those three bands. I only have one Agent Steel album but Unstoppable Force is SPEED FUCKING METAL! I've yet to pick up an album by Enforcer but they're pretty good from what I've heard. As for Epica, I'm more fond of their classical set on the live album rather than their own tracks but what they've written themselves is still alright. Some of their songs I really like but others I need time to get used to.

At 1/15/11 06:38 AM, Auz wrote: With this post, I now have 100,000 Total Stats!

Congrats! Welcome to the 100,000 cool club.

At 1/15/11 11:49 PM, gfoxcook wrote: 30,000 exp.

That is a grand milestone.

At 1/16/11 04:59 AM, LittleWashu wrote: Next milestone passed 777 EXP. Not really a big deal though >_<

No way, it's lucky sevens.

Listening to:
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sailor's Lament
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chameleon

At 1/16/11 11:20 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/13/11 11:18 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/12/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: True. There are many commercial jingles that I'd like to forget :(

"Crazy Frog" comes to my mind here.

I thought I forgot him forever.

LOL! Again.

At 1/13/11 04:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now that's an excellent idea. How can we argue about this?

Only problem is that there are so many other users in front of us who disagree with our plans.

Baaaaah, you are right about this. We know Coop is strongly against our idea.

Maybe we can bribe him?

It's still an improvement for you. :P

Okay then. They still play shitty music, though. :P

But not the worst, right?

Well... better than Justin Bieber at least. But that isn't saying much.

At 1/14/11 12:21 PM, Haggard wrote: Hey Bahamut!

HEY HAGGARD!

Oh hi.

What do you know any of these bands and if so, can you reccomend some of them?
AGENT STEEL
ENFORCER
EPICA

I know those three bands. I only have one Agent Steel album but Unstoppable Force is SPEED FUCKING METAL!

Sounds good. I'm more into Thrash, but Speed is good as well.

I've yet to pick up an album by Enforcer but they're pretty good from what I've heard.

I listened to one song so far, and it sounded okay. I guess I will check them out a bit better then.

As for Epica, I'm more fond of their classical set on the live album rather than their own tracks but what they've written themselves is still alright. Some of their songs I really like but others I need time to get used to.

I was sceptical when I read about them, I think I put them near the bottom of my "bands to check out" list.

Hello Newgrounders, I have reached level 34. This has to be the second most interesting level icon right behind level 26.

Manchester is a fine place, Bahamut. I am glad you enjoyed your time.

Sorry for slacking a bit with the replies here lately. I have some good excuses.

First thing is, I have received the key to my new apartment last Thursday and we have payed the rent for this month. So now it's officially me and my gf's place, but of course we have a shitload of paperwork to go through before we officially live there and everybody is aware of that. Also, we have to get working on the ceilings, walls, floors and have to move all our stuff in and buy some more stuff we need.

Along with that, I had to hand in a report and one chapter of a report and I also have exams in the upcoming two weeks.

So busy times here. Chances are I might not be around so much every now and again.

At 1/14/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/13/11 04:46 PM, Auz wrote: Well that's too bad. If you don't have any good memories, then it's gonna be difficult changing the way you think about your brother.

When we were young, I was rewarded for performing well in most subjects at school (Grade A/B), while my brother was rewarded the same, despite his lower performance (Grade C/D, which migh be generous, but I never really paid attention, so long as he was worse). To a certain extent, I was jaded that he could be rewarded for "trying his best", when I got the same reward for coming top of the class. In High School, my grades dropped and, while I don't regret that now - I wouldn't have been any better off in life had I tried harder, I don't think, there might not have been my better interests at heart.

Now it's unfair to drop this, along with everything else at my parent's door, since they have the hardest job in the world. If they were to not reward him for not reaching my levels, I would have been better off, but that would only have made him the bitter one. At least I can be philosophical and know that I'm the normal one out of us.

I think I see, but I'm not fully sure.

Honestly, it's the same at my place. I've always been the one who had the better grades and my brother was always at a lower level at school. We also always got the same rewards for our results, but it never really bothered me that he did worse than I did while we still got the same.

I understand that my parents were just trying to raise us equally and that we both have our good and bad qualities. They didn't want to make it seem like they preferred me over my brother or the other way around. I'm sure your parents must have had the same idea.

At 1/14/11 12:21 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/13/11 04:46 PM, Auz wrote: I don't know how much you paid for it...

About 25 Euros.

That sounds like a good deal for seven CCR albums.

Well if she's working 9 to 5 every day of the week, then it might be a problem. But if she's a part-timer, there must be an oppertunity to use the car from time to time. Unless your schedule coincides with hers.

9 to 5? You wish... her regular work schedule is from 8 to 4, but most of the time she works until 5 or even longer. Plus, she has to work on some weekends and sometimes even night shift. (after all, she works as a medical doctor in a hospital ;) ).

As a doctor? Nice!

Yeah I guess that's pretty heavy work which requires a lot of flexibility.

And then you made clear that a man's driving skills are far superiour to that of a woman, even when he is a beginner. Am I right? :p

Everytime I try that all I get is a boot to the head. :(

Same here :p Although my girlfriend can't drive anyway, so who's she to tell me I'm wrong?

32.000? Holy shit 0.0

Big city, big Uni. ^^

Yeah. I'm sure the universities in Amsterdam and Rotterdam have many students as well, but Delft is not even that much of a city.

I think the Technical University of Delft only has about 15.000 students or so. Then again, Germany probably has 5 times as many students in total.

Yeah, maybe. There is also a Technical University in Hamburg, but I don't know how many students it has.

So Hamburg has two universities?

Well that's not too bad. It's about 1 hour and 30 minutes for me, but once I have moved to The Hague it's no more than about 50 minutes.

Lol, I always have to stop and think which city is meant by "The Hague". ^^

I guess in Germany it might also be known as 'Den Haag'.

1 hour 30 minutes can be quite long when you are riding a train.

It's not only the train. It's about 30 minutes bus, 15 minutes subway, 15 minutes train and 30 minutes walking and waiting in between.

Wait, David Hasslehoff? 0.o
I always thought it was this guy.

Oh, Peter Maffay and his singing wart.

I think David's german is better than Peter's...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmibSTB5G HI

Lol. I didn't know David could actually sing. I do know he tried a singing career once, but... it didn't work out :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsF F8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKPwFEPsu eU

Don't know, I only know him from that one song :p
Though it can't get any worse than The Hoff, can it?

Well, Hasselhoff had one or two good moments in 4 seasons of Knight Rider. Reim has... nothing.

Like I said I don't know much about Reim :p

All I know about the Hoff is that he is a washed up B-grade actor who used to play in series like Baywatch and Knight Rider. I used to watch Knight Rider as a kid, but I have no idea if it was such a good series or not. Probably not.

At 1/15/11 09:35 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 1/15/11 06:38 AM, Auz wrote: With this post, I now have 100,000 Total Stats!

Congratulations, great effort.

Also 36,000 B/P points.

Thank you and congrats yourself :)

At 1/16/11 11:20 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/13/11 04:46 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/13/11 04:20 AM, Bahamut wrote:

China seems pretty stable at the moment, and willing to help other nations out. Of course they want a little influence in return, which might be bad... or good... I don't know yet.

China know they deal well with other countries so they wouldn't want them to fall.

Yes indeed. It's gonna hurt them as well in the end, so they better try to keep them alive.

Oh so you were a bit late perhaps. But yeah, that last thing doesn't make sense.

Maybe I was too old but it wouldn't make sense for some of those employers to pick someone with more experience than me.

No, not if it goes via that program thingy you mentioned.

Awesome! I don't think I'll check it out anytime soon though. I'm just about done with playing Platinum and I still got Soul Silver to play through. But for now I'd rather play something other than Pokemon.

I'm not sure if I'll be in a rush for Pokemon Black/White. Sure, I do want to get it but I'm not sure about first day buy. I'll see what my friends think of the game and decide from there.

Same here. I'm fine with playing it later, after I've heard how well it has been received by everyone.

I've always wondered if he had a job. I think he's making quite a lot of money with ads on his website.

I spoke to another friend of mine who's also a Spoony fan and he says he has no job. It's just the videos that are getting him money but considering he's one of the biggest names for video game reviewers, I wouldn't be surprised if he earns enough money to maintain his life.

Yeah I thought so. Like I said, it doesn't look like he lives in a very expensive place and as far as I know, website ads are big business. As long as he stays popular he can probably live of those earnings.

At 1/16/11 05:20 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/15/11 01:14 PM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 1/15/11 05:59 AM, Coop wrote:

That or the current users on NG need to realize that their votes are count, because if they didn't the then everything that came into the portal would still be on NG unless marked for review then deleted.

Yeah, but once it's marked for review, it sits around and waits patiently for admin attention, while out of sight of the lay user.

That is a plus and a minus. The plus is that it can't be passed until it get out of judgement and if it is truly rule breaking it will be deleted. Bad because you have to wait until the Admin to delete it which could take months or even a year and change.

This is the reason that I would like to see Portal Mods, to help Wade. He seems to be the only person that deals with this, so a small handful of these should help keep abusive flagged flash down to a minimum.

I see kind of like how wade was the only one removing abusive reviews until they gave the review mods the power to do the same thing. That would help big time

Plus, with the additional Blam points that will produce, it might also influence the voting crowd.

True but that would only be for those who actually pay attention and flag the abusive flash. Many people just let a lot of abusive flash pass for the protect point even if they do know it is abusive. Plus they would have to vote 0 or 1 to get the point otherwise they would only get whistle points.

At 1/16/11 11:20 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/16/11 04:59 AM, LittleWashu wrote: Next milestone passed 777 EXP. Not really a big deal though >_<

No way, it's lucky sevens.

If they were so lucky I wouldn't be having computer problems the moment I got that number. As a result I have been thrown off of my A game and will be gaining less B/P points until further notice.

Damn, it seems like I'm always late when I recently leveled up a few days ago. I think it was the seventh or so.

Also not counting this post I had 3,333 posts!

65,000 Medal Points!