At 1/9/11 06:10 AM, Knuckstrike wrote: I just passed 55,555 medal points.

Congrats.

At 1/9/11 07:42 AM, Odyssic wrote: Skyrim news, detailing a lot more then I thought. Need a trailer showing some of these things and then make me hyped.

Reading that has me hyped up quite a bit already. I honestly didn't realize it until now, but the level up system on Oblivion was terrible. I'm glad there's no level cap on Skyrim like there is in the Fallout series. I HATE level caps.

"Players can learn unique abilities called "dragon shouts" by absorbing the souls of dragons - one of the benefits of the dragonborn - of which there are over 20 in the game and each is formed from three words of power. They can push enemies away, slow down time, transport you and even summon a dragon, amongst other things."

SKYRIM HAS DRAGONS?! THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST GAME EVER.

Elder Scrolls + Dragons = Best Game Ever.

"Dropping weapons in the street can end in different outcomes; for instance, it could remain there forgotten, it could be picked up by a small boy and returned to you, or two men could fight over its ownership."

That sounds interesting. Also, Children in the TES world? That's going to be odd. They're probably going to be a fairly rare sight, as they are in Fallout.

It didn't say anything about voice actors, besides the "in-game mentor", hopefully there's more than 2 voice actors for this one.

At 1/9/11 07:42 AM, Odyssic wrote: Need a trailer showing some of these things and then make me hyped.

I agree. The "trailer" was terrible, in my opinion. It didn't show any clips of the game, and just explained the story a bit. The story sounds pretty badass though.

At 1/9/11 04:44 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 1/9/11 03:39 AM, Jolly wrote: I might make the Achievement of the day daily.

Doing it any other way would just be silly!!!!!

I just don't want to judge what the best achievement is everyday. Rage's achievement was a pretty big deal, so it was really easy to judge. The one previous time I had an achievement of the day was for Domo getting Level 20, and that's only because it's his favorite level, for some reason.

I hate level 20.

EXP update will be posted later today.

Listening to:

Van Canto - A Storm to Come and Hero

Thanks to:

Coop

At 1/8/11 06:53 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/7/11 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote: Looks like I'll have to write up a request for the both of us and then you can do one for yourself.

Dare I ask what you're thinking? I'd hate to only come primed for a few dozen songs this year :P

Iron Maiden, of course.

At 1/8/11 07:02 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/8/11 06:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: If we're both at the top you'll be one taking the top spot.

I have the earlier sign up date, so I deserve top spot more.

And that's why you get #1.

You can just look at some dragon porn pictures and decide then.

Okay, I'd rather look at dragon porn pictures than Manowar pictures, I give you that.

Finally, we have an agreement. Dragon porn is eye candy to me while Manowar... Not so.

At 1/9/11 12:31 AM, RageVI wrote: Level 52. Golden hammer. Yes.

That's a nice butter-made hammer.

At 1/9/11 08:20 AM, Jolly wrote: It didn't say anything about voice actors, besides the "in-game mentor", hopefully there's more than 2 voice actors for this one.

CHRISTOPHER FUCKING LEE OR DIE IN A FIRE BETHESDA!

At 1/9/11 07:42 AM, Odyssic wrote: Need a trailer showing some of these things and then make me hyped.

I agree. The "trailer" was terrible, in my opinion. It didn't show any clips of the game, and just explained the story a bit. The story sounds pretty badass though.

It has dragons in it, that's all we need to know.

My first achievement of the year, 49,000 Saves!

In the course of this month I got a few other ones coming up that are pretty sweet.

56k medal points.

"Thanks for voting, Alfraydo! Your experience has been automatically deposited!

With that vote, you now have 2,500 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 16. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 9 hours, 38 minutes, and 29 seconds.

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I'm contemplating going to Light for this icon, just because it looks so good with it.

At 1/9/11 12:34 AM, reverend wrote: My British to American Dictionary doesn't have the word chav in it but I'll take your word for it. You got to admit that bonnet does look good on you.

I think it's funny how two nations who have english as their native language develope so huge differences in it that the one nation cannot understand the other.

Same goes for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. All three countries are native german speaking countries (well, Switzerland is kind of an exception, since they also speak french and italian in other parts).

Anyway, I adopted some british english words and some american english words. For example, I always write "colour", but I would never write "armour". Also, I always write "-ization" and would never write "-isation".

At 1/9/11 08:44 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/8/11 07:02 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/8/11 06:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: If we're both at the top you'll be one taking the top spot.

I have the earlier sign up date, so I deserve top spot more.

And that's why you get #1.

YAY!
So that's another thing we agree upon.

You can just look at some dragon porn pictures and decide then.

Okay, I'd rather look at dragon porn pictures than Manowar pictures, I give you that.

Finally, we have an agreement. Dragon porn is eye candy to me while Manowar... Not so.

Don't worry. Manowar only comes in second place behind Napalm Death in the "ugliest band of the world" contest.

At 1/6/11 02:56 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/5/11 04:19 PM, Auz wrote: So, what's it like to be an uncle? It'd sound pretty weird to me if some kid called me uncle for the first time.

Tbh, it's not really different from not being an uncle. ^^

Lame :p

At 1/3/11 12:49 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/3/11 12:09 PM, Haggard wrote:

That seems to be everyone's favorite Creedence Song. I like it very much as well, but after Run Through The Jungle I'd pick Born On The Bayou as my second favorite.

Yes, Born on The Bayou is great as well.
A few days ago I stumbled across "45 Revolutions Per Minute". Now this one is REALLY strange... especially the backwards part.
*shameless self plug*
I made a short youtoube video, reversing the reversed part...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooEUOiY1a dA
*end shameless self plug*

Lol, views count +1.

I haven't heard of that song yet. As far as I know, it wasn't on the greatest CCR hits double CD we have here. I'll look it up soon.

Lol :p

Come on, an MP3 player can't be that hard to operate. I have more trouble operating our TV nowadays since there are three remote controls for it =/

No, it isn't hard to operate. I just wanted to know which functions it had. But it didn't mention the key lock. I accidentally discovered it and then searched the web to find out how to activate it.
It's kind of unbelievable that they didn't mention it in the manual...

That's strange indeed. Maybe they assumed that everybody knows that all MP3's have a key lock?

Oh yes, that annoys the hell out of me as well. You have this very powerful, intense, emotional scene and then some loud commercial goes: "THIS FILM IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY...!!!".

And then they say: "The commercials are just as loud as the movies". Well, has something to do with compression as well... the commercials appear to be louder, so you have to turn down the volume of the TV...

Maybe the loudest scenes in the movie are as loud as the commercials.

Indeed, they always stick these commercials in the last five minutes of the film, even when the film was already supposed to end according to the TV guide...

This reminds me of the time when I tried to record the MASH-episodes on VHS. The station that showed them didn't care too much about the times in the TV guides and often I ended up with some sitcom that ran before MASH and with no MASH on VHS at all...
So they managed to run the show about an hour later than planned.

Yeah that's just bullshit. Last week I was at a friends house and he recorded some films on his DVD recorder. We watched two and for both they ended well before the ending of the film because the times in the TV guide were wrong. We were like: FFFFFFFFFFFFF- >:(

Well, I only listen to the radio when I'm driving, and talkshows / news are generally not the things I'd like to listen to there.

I can't drive, so when I'm in a car I'm always on a passenger seat. I don't care too much what's on the radio then. ^^

Lol. You still haven't gotten your license yet?

Well you don't really need it while you're still studying I guess, but I find it quite handy for travelling to peoples places in the evening. The public transport is usually not that available anymore after 20:00 and cycling is not always an option either.

We used to have a channel called Arrow Classic Rock, which played some pretty sweet music. But they are now only available via the cable, so I'm stuck with shittier channels. One is alright though, it broadcasts 80s and 90s music mostly which is cool sometimes. Although sometimes they come up with shit like Snap...

"Oops up" was THE SHIT back in the 90s!

Oops up? That's one I don't know. It's usually Rhythm is a Dancer and I've got the Power.

At 1/7/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/6/11 01:47 PM, Auz wrote: I don't know, maybe it differs per country too.

I know in the 40's and 50's, the church still had a big influence here. Using condoms and such was considered a disgrace and was forbidden by the church. Hence why we had all these large Christian families around who had eight children or so.

Both of my parent's families are Christian - on my mum's side, there were 9 kids from 2 marriages, while on my dad's, there are only 2 kids. Mind you, both of his parents came from large families (6 and 4), so they might have wanted to stop earlier.

Maybe they both had bad experiences living with so many in one house?

Well, not when you're just getting pissed and your kid starts screaming.

But I've seen the side effects of gaming and kids - since my best mate and his wife had their first, I've not spent any time at his playing on the PS3 with him :P

Lol :P Because they don't want to play violent games with the kid around?

At 1/7/11 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote: With that vote, you now have 23,000 experience points.

Woooh!

At 1/6/11 01:47 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/6/11 12:37 PM, Bahamut wrote:

I wouldn't say going to college or something is 'taking a step back'.

To me it is.

Well I will agree if you already have a college degree.

Anyway, I guess he wants you to stay until the end of the schoolyear? Halfway in the year doesn't sound like a convenient time to have to look for a replacement for you.

Uhh, my headteacher isn't a man. Anyway, they're trying to get me on for a few more months. Not necessarily the end of the year but at least a few more months to help them out.

These are busy times for them I guess?

I don't know how hard they are to collect in FFX, but I assume quite hard since that's always one of the rarest items in FF.

It is. The only way to even get them from battles besides dark aeons is the Battle Arena so that's grinding yourself to battling loads of special fiends and Dark Matters are rare drops.

Shit!

Is there no way to steal them from enemies with a decent success rate?

I think he mentioned only one or two things about it, but didn't go into any details.

Too bad he didn't say much. That's actually a key point to the game that should be explained properly. It's a shame he spent more time on bitching about random trivial things and mediocre sketches than talking about the sphere grid. Some of the new characters Spoony introduced last year are really poor. Black Lantern Spoony is just Spoony with a black shirt and evil while Spoony Bum, his voice isn't good for a bum impression. Of course, by bum impression I mean Chester A. Bum.

Hmm yes, I didn't care much for Black Lantern Spoony either. I still don't know where exactly that character came from. As for his bum impression, well he doesn't use it much. I've only seen him using him in two or three of his movies.

But yeah, he could've dedicated a whole episode to the sphere grid system.

Doesn't sound too bad, but I guess there have been better systems in FF games.

The sphere grid isn't the best system but it's not terrible. Even if some systems don't work out well such as the junction system from FFVIII, I still liked Square's ambition to make the system of the latest FF game different to all the others. However, those ideas are wearing thin now.

Personally I liked the Materia system of FFVII most, next to the classic system where weaponry learned you skills (like in FFIX). Only downside with the latter was that you could miss weapons or sell them and then you'd never be able to learn all the moves.

You passed 36,000 Saves. Way to go!

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At 1/9/11 06:26 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/6/11 02:56 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/5/11 04:19 PM, Auz wrote: So, what's it like to be an uncle? It'd sound pretty weird to me if some kid called me uncle for the first time.

Tbh, it's not really different from not being an uncle. ^^

Lame :p

:(

At 1/3/11 12:49 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/3/11 12:09 PM, Haggard wrote:

That seems to be everyone's favorite Creedence Song. I like it very much as well, but after Run Through The Jungle I'd pick Born On The Bayou as my second favorite.

Yes, Born on The Bayou is great as well.
A few days ago I stumbled across "45 Revolutions Per Minute". Now this one is REALLY strange... especially the backwards part.
*shameless self plug*
I made a short youtoube video, reversing the reversed part...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooEUOiY1a dA
*end shameless self plug*

Lol, views count +1.

YEEAAHH!

I haven't heard of that song yet. As far as I know, it wasn't on the greatest CCR hits double CD we have here. I'll look it up soon.

Well, it's not much of a song anyways. But the fake interview on 45 Revolutions per Minute, Part 2 is pretty funny.

Lol :p

Come on, an MP3 player can't be that hard to operate. I have more trouble operating our TV nowadays since there are three remote controls for it =/

No, it isn't hard to operate. I just wanted to know which functions it had. But it didn't mention the key lock. I accidentally discovered it and then searched the web to find out how to activate it.
It's kind of unbelievable that they didn't mention it in the manual...

That's strange indeed. Maybe they assumed that everybody knows that all MP3's have a key lock?

Maybe they did, but I have to press the menu button and the play button at the same time for one or two seconds. Not something you would discover by simply "trying out the device".

Oh yes, that annoys the hell out of me as well. You have this very powerful, intense, emotional scene and then some loud commercial goes: "THIS FILM IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY...!!!".

And then they say: "The commercials are just as loud as the movies". Well, has something to do with compression as well... the commercials appear to be louder, so you have to turn down the volume of the TV...

Maybe the loudest scenes in the movie are as loud as the commercials.

Maybe.
I just remembered a commercial that was really quite. Only some text appeared on the screen saying something like: "And now a few seconds of silence". I don't even know which company did this commercial or what product they tried to sell with it. But it was a very nice commercial. ^^

Indeed, they always stick these commercials in the last five minutes of the film, even when the film was already supposed to end according to the TV guide...

This reminds me of the time when I tried to record the MASH-episodes on VHS. The station that showed them didn't care too much about the times in the TV guides and often I ended up with some sitcom that ran before MASH and with no MASH on VHS at all...
So they managed to run the show about an hour later than planned.

Yeah that's just bullshit. Last week I was at a friends house and he recorded some films on his DVD recorder. We watched two and for both they ended well before the ending of the film because the times in the TV guide were wrong. We were like: FFFFFFFFFFFFF- >:(

Oh yeah, I still don't know the ending of Tatoo (<- Link warning), since our recording ended before the movie ended... :/

Well, I only listen to the radio when I'm driving, and talkshows / news are generally not the things I'd like to listen to there.

I can't drive, so when I'm in a car I'm always on a passenger seat. I don't care too much what's on the radio then. ^^

Lol. You still haven't gotten your license yet?

Nope. I never went to driving school either. :P

Well you don't really need it while you're still studying I guess, but I find it quite handy for travelling to peoples places in the evening. The public transport is usually not that available anymore after 20:00 and cycling is not always an option either.

Lol, this is something unimaginable for me. Public transportation is avaiable 24/7 here. Okay, during the week it may take an hour or two to get from A to B (normal traveling time during the day 20 or 30 minutes) because only busses are avaiable but at least there is public transport.

Also, Cycling isn't an option here as well. First of all Hamburg is way too big to comfortably go around by bike and second, most of the bicycle lanes are in a very poor condition.

We used to have a channel called Arrow Classic Rock, which played some pretty sweet music. But they are now only available via the cable, so I'm stuck with shittier channels. One is alright though, it broadcasts 80s and 90s music mostly which is cool sometimes. Although sometimes they come up with shit like Snap...

"Oops up" was THE SHIT back in the 90s!

Oops up? That's one I don't know. It's usually Rhythm is a Dancer and I've got the Power.

Yes, I've got the Power was a great song as well.
Also, Oops up (<- another link)

Next milestone achieved 12.34 Voting power. Funny sequence number for voting power. However, it is not really a big deal though >_<

At 1/9/11 05:13 AM, Coop wrote: Fortunately, I got an OED for Xmas :P

A dictionary for Christmas? I thought getting clothes for Christmas was bad. :P

Chav Noun; British, informal, derogatory. A young lower class person who wears designer clothes and typically behaves in a brash or loutish way.
- ORIGIN Perhaps from Chatham, Kent, or related to Romany "chavi", meaning child

Is it akin to mall rats?

At 1/9/11 03:39 PM, Haggard wrote: I think it's funny how two nations who have english as their native language develope so huge differences in it that the one nation cannot understand the other.

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." -George Bernard Shaw

It's not the language that is so different, it's really the everyday slang that varies. A bonnet? A boot? Do you mean a hood and a trunk?
Little things like that.

Coop is going to go back to bed, after congratulating:
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WilhelmTheVampire: Commander
LittleWashu: 12.34 Total Voting Power

At 1/9/11 08:44 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/8/11 06:53 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/7/11 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote: Looks like I'll have to write up a request for the both of us and then you can do one for yourself.

Dare I ask what you're thinking? I'd hate to only come primed for a few dozen songs this year :P

Iron Maiden, of course.

So that'll be Number of the Beast, then? IIRC, that was the only one we could find on the playlist that he has :( I'd better get rehearsing:

I lived alone, my mind was blank.

At 1/9/11 06:26 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/7/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/6/11 01:47 PM, Auz wrote: I don't know, maybe it differs per country too.

I know in the 40's and 50's, the church still had a big influence here. Using condoms and such was considered a disgrace and was forbidden by the church. Hence why we had all these large Christian families around who had eight children or so.

Both of my parent's families are Christian - on my mum's side, there were 9 kids from 2 marriages, while on my dad's, there are only 2 kids. Mind you, both of his parents came from large families (6 and 4), so they might have wanted to stop earlier.

Maybe they both had bad experiences living with so many in one house?

Possible, but having had just one brother doesn't make me want to procreate like there was no tomorrow.

Well, not when you're just getting pissed and your kid starts screaming.

But I've seen the side effects of gaming and kids - since my best mate and his wife had their first, I've not spent any time at his playing on the PS3 with him :P

Lol :P Because they don't want to play violent games with the kid around?

I think he's too tired to :P

At 1/10/11 02:40 AM, reverend wrote:

At 1/9/11 05:13 AM, Coop wrote: Fortunately, I got an OED for Xmas :P

A dictionary for Christmas? I thought getting clothes for Christmas was bad. :P

I wanted one to help with my writing. And a Thesaurus as well.

Chav Noun; British, informal, derogatory. A young lower class person who wears designer clothes and typically behaves in a brash or loutish way.
- ORIGIN Perhaps from Chatham, Kent, or related to Romany "chavi", meaning child

Is it akin to mall rats?

I believe that chavs are much worse, since they are more extensive.

Listening to:

Hammers of Misfortune - The Bastard

At 1/9/11 03:39 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/9/11 08:44 AM, Bahamut wrote: And that's why you get #1.

YAY!
So that's another thing we agree upon.

Only technically. I still think we're both #1.

Finally, we have an agreement. Dragon porn is eye candy to me while Manowar... Not so.

Don't worry. Manowar only comes in second place behind Napalm Death in the "ugliest band of the world" contest.

Wow, you're actually giving Manowar some credit? :P

At 1/9/11 06:26 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/7/11 12:18 PM, Bahamut wrote: With that vote, you now have 23,000 experience points.

Woooh!

23 is a meh number but 24 will be even better.

To me it is.

Well I will agree if you already have a college degree.

I just feel getting a college degree is a waste of time. Hell, college as a whole to me was a waste of my time. I only had one real year there and only had one AS Level certificate. I had to take Physics at first because Media Studies was full but then I lost interest in Physics and had taster sessions for Media for half of the year. I didn't get an A Level or anything for it. Infact, I only dropped out of Media in the second year after only a few weeks. Computing didn't go well for me either so they just shoved me to another bad subject and then I gave up with the college completely.

I would have been much better off job seeking right after I left school. At least the economy wasn't complete shit back in 2006.

Uhh, my headteacher isn't a man. Anyway, they're trying to get me on for a few more months. Not necessarily the end of the year but at least a few more months to help them out.

These are busy times for them I guess?

No, it's because some staff are on maternity leave so they need them covered. On Thursdays and Fridays, it's only myself in the office to take any phone calls. Without me, they're fucked.

It is. The only way to even get them from battles besides dark aeons is the Battle Arena so that's grinding yourself to battling loads of special fiends and Dark Matters are rare drops.

Shit!

Is there no way to steal them from enemies with a decent success rate?

Nope, you can't even steal Dark Matter at all. Just shows how tedious Square wanted to make for customising abilities that require Dark Matter.

Hmm yes, I didn't care much for Black Lantern Spoony either. I still don't know where exactly that character came from.

He was supposedly the old Spoony revived.... Doesn't make any sense to me.

The sphere grid isn't the best system but it's not terrible. Even if some systems don't work out well such as the junction system from FFVIII, I still liked Square's ambition to make the system of the latest FF game different to all the others. However, those ideas are wearing thin now.

Personally I liked the Materia system of FFVII most, next to the classic system where weaponry learned you skills (like in FFIX). Only downside with the latter was that you could miss weapons or sell them and then you'd never be able to learn all the moves.

The materia system is easily my favourite but I also liked learning magic abilities from espers in FFVI. Sure, that made every character powerful eventually but it made sense.

At 1/10/11 03:56 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/9/11 08:44 AM, Bahamut wrote: Iron Maiden, of course.

So that'll be Number of the Beast, then? IIRC, that was the only one we could find on the playlist that he has :( I'd better get rehearsing:

I lived alone, my mind was blank.

HOLD IT! Let's save it for the meet!

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At 1/9/11 08:20 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/9/11 06:26 PM, Auz wrote: I haven't heard of that song yet. As far as I know, it wasn't on the greatest CCR hits double CD we have here. I'll look it up soon.

Well, it's not much of a song anyways. But the fake interview on 45 Revolutions per Minute, Part 2 is pretty funny.

Lol, I've just listened to it. Some weird and funny stuff indeed.

That's strange indeed. Maybe they assumed that everybody knows that all MP3's have a key lock?

Maybe they did, but I have to press the menu button and the play button at the same time for one or two seconds. Not something you would discover by simply "trying out the device".

Not something you would guess, no. Most have a lock function somewhere on the outside of the device.

Maybe the loudest scenes in the movie are as loud as the commercials.

Maybe.
I just remembered a commercial that was really quite. Only some text appeared on the screen saying something like: "And now a few seconds of silence". I don't even know which company did this commercial or what product they tried to sell with it. But it was a very nice commercial. ^^

It's funny how that silence would probably attract a lot of attention from the viewers.

Yeah that's just bullshit. Last week I was at a friends house and he recorded some films on his DVD recorder. We watched two and for both they ended well before the ending of the film because the times in the TV guide were wrong. We were like: FFFFFFFFFFFFF- >:(

Oh yeah, I still don't know the ending of Tatoo (<- Link warning), since our recording ended before the movie ended... :/

Looks like one of them films where all will be revealed at the end. So yeah, that sucks :p

Lol. You still haven't gotten your license yet?

Nope. I never went to driving school either. :P

Oh well, you'll probably find some time to get it once you're done studying.

Well you don't really need it while you're still studying I guess, but I find it quite handy for travelling to peoples places in the evening. The public transport is usually not that available anymore after 20:00 and cycling is not always an option either.

Lol, this is something unimaginable for me. Public transportation is avaiable 24/7 here. Okay, during the week it may take an hour or two to get from A to B (normal traveling time during the day 20 or 30 minutes) because only busses are avaiable but at least there is public transport.

Yeah, but you live in Hamburg. I live on some island with some small towns, about 20 km away from 'the big city' (Rotterdam). I know in Rotterdam the public transport is always available, but where I live there are only busses and they only come once an hour after 20:00. After midnight there are no busses anymore until five in the morning or so.

So going to parties with the bus isn't that handy since you'll have to leave at around midnight.

Also, Cycling isn't an option here as well. First of all Hamburg is way too big to comfortably go around by bike and second, most of the bicycle lanes are in a very poor condition.

I know cycling tends to be dangerous in some cities :p

I live on the countryside so it's nice and safe to cycle, but going from one town to another can take about an hour or so.

Oops up? That's one I don't know. It's usually Rhythm is a Dancer and I've got the Power.

Yes, I've got the Power was a great song as well.

NOOOOOOO! >: (

Also, Oops up (<- another link)

Fuck that shit! >: (

At 1/10/11 03:56 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/9/11 06:26 PM, Auz wrote: Maybe they both had bad experiences living with so many in one house?

Possible, but having had just one brother doesn't make me want to procreate like there was no tomorrow.

No of course not. I was just saying that people who come from big families are more happy to have children than people who were only child or come from smaller families.

Lol :P Because they don't want to play violent games with the kid around?

I think he's too tired to :P

I'm guessing he's not catching much sleep because the kid often starts whining in the middle of the night.

At 1/10/11 04:32 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/9/11 06:26 PM, Auz wrote: Well I will agree if you already have a college degree.

I just feel getting a college degree is a waste of time. Hell, college as a whole to me was a waste of my time. I only had one real year there and only had one AS Level certificate. I had to take Physics at first because Media Studies was full but then I lost interest in Physics and had taster sessions for Media for half of the year. I didn't get an A Level or anything for it. Infact, I only dropped out of Media in the second year after only a few weeks. Computing didn't go well for me either so they just shoved me to another bad subject and then I gave up with the college completely.

I would have been much better off job seeking right after I left school. At least the economy wasn't complete shit back in 2006.

I'm not too familiar with how colleges work in the UK, but if I understand you correctly you were just forced to do some courses which you ended up not being interested in, or it didn't work out well for you.

If the education system is working against you then I can imagine that you're not so interested in getting college degrees.

These are busy times for them I guess?

No, it's because some staff are on maternity leave so they need them covered. On Thursdays and Fridays, it's only myself in the office to take any phone calls. Without me, they're fucked.

Ha, sounds like a good oppertunity to dick around on Newgrounds while earning money at the same time :p If you don't have anything else to do that is.

Shit!

Is there no way to steal them from enemies with a decent success rate?

Nope, you can't even steal Dark Matter at all. Just shows how tedious Square wanted to make for customising abilities that require Dark Matter.

Damn. No way to blend stuff together to make dark matters either? Cards to get items from?

So it just comes down to that if you want to get abilities like Break Damage Limit, you have to go through some painful sidequest to get it. But I also saw that once you have that skill, the main game becomes easy as fuck... So the only reason you might have to get them is for the sake of completing the game 100%.

Hmm yes, I didn't care much for Black Lantern Spoony either. I still don't know where exactly that character came from.

He was supposedly the old Spoony revived.... Doesn't make any sense to me.

The Spoony that died from the explosion after the FF VIII review? Makes some sense, but I don't think he explained it that well.

Personally I liked the Materia system of FFVII most, next to the classic system where weaponry learned you skills (like in FFIX). Only downside with the latter was that you could miss weapons or sell them and then you'd never be able to learn all the moves.

The materia system is easily my favourite but I also liked learning magic abilities from espers in FFVI. Sure, that made every character powerful eventually but it made sense.

Oh yes, that wasn't a bad system either. Unfortunately I never finished FFVI cause my save file got corrupted, but I remember I was busy teaching Terra and Cecil every magic spell as well as getting the last few espers I needed. Then I was gonna storm Kefka's castle.

Just reached 70,000 BP!

A pretty sweet achievement in my opinion. There's a more impressive one coming up though, and after that I got some more achievements coming.

Been super busy lately, so let me just drop in a congrats to everyone since my last post.

I doubt anyone's gonna lose any sleep over not being in my list, lol. Feels like I missed more than just 2 pages, but w/e.

I might catch up later...thanks to those who gave me congrats on my review milestones.

Level 31. I'll be back here tomorrow for my 10,000 experience points.

77000 medal points.

At 1/10/11 03:56 AM, Coop wrote: I believe that chavs are much worse, since they are more extensive.

Is it like some adolescent phase one goes through? Like did you have a chavs phase when you grew up?

At 1/10/11 04:36 PM, Auz wrote: Just reached 70,000 BP!

Auzsome!

Metal Monday 2011 - Week 2: Budgie - You're the Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk

Listening to:

Hammers of Misfortune - The Locust Years

At 1/10/11 12:59 PM, Odyssic wrote:

At 1/9/11 08:44 AM, Bahamut wrote: It has dragons in it, that's all we need to know.

I don't know, Dragon age sucked. Also, am I the only one who thinks Dragon age is overrated?

Dammit, that's another game I still need to play. I do have it on Steam but like all the other games I've yet to play it. I just need the Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath patch up so I can get the most enjoyment out of the performance.

At 1/10/11 03:45 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/10/11 04:32 AM, Bahamut wrote: I would have been much better off job seeking right after I left school. At least the economy wasn't complete shit back in 2006.

I'm not too familiar with how colleges work in the UK, but if I understand you correctly you were just forced to do some courses which you ended up not being interested in, or it didn't work out well for you.

Yeah, that was pretty much it.

If the education system is working against you then I can imagine that you're not so interested in getting college degrees.

Had I known it was going to be like this, I would have went for a job instead. Hell, getting an apprenticeship wouldn't have been so hard then and they're made for 16-19 year olds to gain experience. You know, the job applications that I applied to hundreds of and didn't get a single fucking job for it? It's even sadder when I got a job at a school with ease and they ask for high expectations considering criminal record checks are needed as well as high quality work.

No, it's because some staff are on maternity leave so they need them covered. On Thursdays and Fridays, it's only myself in the office to take any phone calls. Without me, they're fucked.

Ha, sounds like a good opportunity to dick around on Newgrounds while earning money at the same time :p If you don't have anything else to do that is.

Newgrounds is the last site I even want to go on at work. Even if no-one in the office is watching me I'm sure they log the sites the workers go on. Infact, Newgrounds could be blocked for all I know considering it's school computers.

Nope, you can't even steal Dark Matter at all. Just shows how tedious Square wanted to make for customising abilities that require Dark Matter.

Damn. No way to blend stuff together to make dark matters either? Cards to get items from?

Not even them.

So it just comes down to that if you want to get abilities like Break Damage Limit, you have to go through some painful sidequest to get it. But I also saw that once you have that skill, the main game becomes easy as fuck... So the only reason you might have to get them is for the sake of completing the game 100%.

To beat everything besides Nemesis, some arena fiends and the dark aeons, it's actually a walk in the park. However, if you really want to beat Penance you'll need the best customization from the weapons and armour. For American players, they have nothing to worry about since they didn't get dark aeons or Penance. That's actually a bummer for them since they missed out on great challenges.

He was supposedly the old Spoony revived.... Doesn't make any sense to me.

The Spoony that died from the explosion after the FF VIII review? Makes some sense, but I don't think he explained it that well.

But why that Spoony turned evil and where the other Spoony came from makes no fucking sense whatsoever. Meh, it's a weak plot point so I shouldn't be surprised at the bigger plot holes Spoony puts in his own than FFVIII and FFX ever had.

The materia system is easily my favourite but I also liked learning magic abilities from espers in FFVI. Sure, that made every character powerful eventually but it made sense.

Oh yes, that wasn't a bad system either. Unfortunately I never finished FFVI cause my save file got corrupted, but I remember I was busy teaching Terra and Cecil every magic spell as well as getting the last few espers I needed. Then I was gonna storm Kefka's castle.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Be sure to give that game a second chance.

does 100 ng logs count?

Coop recovers from a bout of dodgy gutz, while congratulating:
SCTE3: Level 30
Odyssic: 23,000 Saves
Auz: 70,000 B/P
Hemlok: Level 31
Kauvin: 77,000 Medal Points

At 1/10/11 04:32 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/10/11 03:56 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/9/11 08:44 AM, Bahamut wrote: Iron Maiden, of course.

So that'll be Number of the Beast, then? IIRC, that was the only one we could find on the playlist that he has :( I'd better get rehearsing:

I lived alone, my mind was blank.

HOLD IT! Let's save it for the meet!

Woe to you, oh earth and sea..?

At 1/10/11 03:45 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/10/11 03:56 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/9/11 06:26 PM, Auz wrote: Maybe they both had bad experiences living with so many in one house?

Possible, but having had just one brother doesn't make me want to procreate like there was no tomorrow.

No of course not. I was just saying that people who come from big families are more happy to have children than people who were only child or come from smaller families.

Possible - I know that mum wanted 6 kids, but was stopped by dad at two. Sometimes, I wish that he'd put his foot down after one, then it would just be me.

Lol :P Because they don't want to play violent games with the kid around?

I think he's too tired to :P

I'm guessing he's not catching much sleep because the kid often starts whining in the middle of the night.

Well, he's the most well adjusted baby I've ever met - he sleeps through seven hours at night, before waking for a feed, then back to sleep.

At 1/11/11 04:08 AM, reverend wrote:

At 1/10/11 03:56 AM, Coop wrote: I believe that chavs are much worse, since they are more extensive.

Is it like some adolescent phase one goes through? Like did you have a chavs phase when you grew up?

Chav is not a phase - it's more of a life choice, like Goth, Emo or Hippy. Mind you, chav is much worse than any of the other life choices.

At 1/11/11 06:34 AM, High-Dark wrote: does 100 ng logs count?

No - nothing nglogs related counts, just stats on Newgrounds.

5k experience points.

Congrats to:
SCTE3: 444 Audio review responses/Level 30

Odyssic: 23,000 Saves
Auz: 70,000 B/P
Hemlok: Level 31/10,000 Experience
Kauvin: 77,000 Medal Points
Tycrane: 5,000 Experience Points

Achievement of the Day:
Auz: 70,000 B/P

At 1/10/11 12:04 PM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 1/10/11 04:56 AM, Jolly wrote: Congrats to:
SCTE3: 444 Audio Reviews

I meant Review responses but whatever I guess.

I congratulated you again with the correct.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lodi

Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again...

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cross-Tie Walker

At 1/10/11 04:32 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/9/11 03:39 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/9/11 08:44 AM, Bahamut wrote: And that's why you get #1.

YAY!
So that's another thing we agree upon.

Only technically. I still think we're both #1.

As long as it says "Exp. Rank #: 1" I don't care how many other users are also #1. ^^

Finally, we have an agreement. Dragon porn is eye candy to me while Manowar... Not so.

Don't worry. Manowar only comes in second place behind Napalm Death in the "ugliest band of the world" contest.

Wow, you're actually giving Manowar some credit? :P

If you want to call "2nd place in the ugliest band of the world contest" "giving credit", then yes.

At 1/10/11 03:45 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/9/11 08:20 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/9/11 06:26 PM, Auz wrote: I haven't heard of that song yet. As far as I know, it wasn't on the greatest CCR hits double CD we have here. I'll look it up soon.

Well, it's not much of a song anyways. But the fake interview on 45 Revolutions per Minute, Part 2 is pretty funny.

Lol, I've just listened to it. Some weird and funny stuff indeed.

Well... I agree, I agree.

That's strange indeed. Maybe they assumed that everybody knows that all MP3's have a key lock?

Maybe they did, but I have to press the menu button and the play button at the same time for one or two seconds. Not something you would discover by simply "trying out the device".

Not something you would guess, no. Most have a lock function somewhere on the outside of the device.

Yeah, and when I didn't see one I thought it doesn't have a key lock. After 2 or 3 years I discovered it by accident. Somehow the key lock activated itself in my pocket and I had no idea how it did that. So I had to take out the battery so I could operate it again.
Luckily I found a review where someone mentioned the key lock and how it works.

Maybe the loudest scenes in the movie are as loud as the commercials.

Maybe.
I just remembered a commercial that was really quite. Only some text appeared on the screen saying something like: "And now a few seconds of silence". I don't even know which company did this commercial or what product they tried to sell with it. But it was a very nice commercial. ^^

It's funny how that silence would probably attract a lot of attention from the viewers.

Yes, but it didn't work out. Or else I would remember the company. ^^

Oh yeah, I still don't know the ending of Tatoo (<- Link warning), since our recording ended before the movie ended... :/

Looks like one of them films where all will be revealed at the end. So yeah, that sucks :p

Indeed.

Lol. You still haven't gotten your license yet?

Nope. I never went to driving school either. :P

Oh well, you'll probably find some time to get it once you're done studying.

Doubt it. :P

Lol, this is something unimaginable for me. Public transportation is avaiable 24/7 here. Okay, during the week it may take an hour or two to get from A to B (normal traveling time during the day 20 or 30 minutes) because only busses are avaiable but at least there is public transport.

Yeah, but you live in Hamburg. I live on some island with some small towns, about 20 km away from 'the big city' (Rotterdam). I know in Rotterdam the public transport is always available, but where I live there are only busses and they only come once an hour after 20:00. After midnight there are no busses anymore until five in the morning or so.

That's why I could never live in a small city.
My gf comes from a very small city (about 200 inhabitants or so) and every kid there gets his/her drivers licence as soon as possible. It's just not possible to get around there without a car.

So going to parties with the bus isn't that handy since you'll have to leave at around midnight.

But going to parties by car isn't handy as well because you can't drink alcohol.

Oops up? That's one I don't know. It's usually Rhythm is a Dancer and I've got the Power.

Yes, I've got the Power was a great song as well.

NOOOOOOO! >: (

Come on. The bass is pretty awesome.

Also, Oops up (<- another link)

Fuck that shit! >: (

LOL! :P