I recently got into the top 10,000 exp ranks and will soon be at 3,000 B/P rank in the next couple of days.

Yay for not so impressive stats.

33,333 total stats... however i should have leveled up today but forgot to deposit yesterday...

Still feeling the after-effects of Monday's run, Coop returns to the office to congratulate:
Helloween: Level 38
NerdLiife: Level 12
DiMono: 12,000 B/P
Quinny: 5,000 Medal Points
WeirdAlthe3rd: 10.00 Total Voting Power
LegolaSS: 33,333 Total Points

Listening to:
Chris de Burgh - Don't Pay The Ferryman
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Thank you to:
Bahamut (x2)
Haggard
Jolly
Odyssic
reverend
Auz (x2)

At 1/25/11 04:22 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/25/11 03:00 AM, Coop wrote: 20,000 posts

Huge congrats on this fine milestone Coop! Not only that, it's good to see another 4x20k'er on board, even though that status is losing its specialty now.

Everything seems to lose its shine when I get there :(

At 1/25/11 06:10 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/24/11 01:50 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/23/11 06:06 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/22/11 06:58 AM, Haggard wrote: You propably already explained it, but what's Spirit?

Spirits are the harder drinks,

I see. Well, Vodka mixed with Sprite is a good drink, but I'm not that much into hard alc stuff.

I was never much of a vodka drinker. At the risk of offending lost of Russians, I always preferred to drink alcohol with flavour.

Speaking of "Russians": White Russian is a pretty good drink as well!

So I've heard. The problem with my friends is that they don't drive, so I never get a chance to experiment at cocktail bars, when we go out.

I'm a Southern Comfort man,

You should listen to Janis Joplin more often, then. ;)

Sorry, I don't get the reference...

On many pictures you can see her with a bottle of Southern Comfort. She even asked the company for money because of the commercial effect. The Company agreed and payed her 6,000$. ^^

Ah, I did not know that. If I make a Southern Comfort themed signature for the BBS, would they do the same?

At 1/25/11 03:49 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/24/11 05:54 AM, Coop wrote: Never - I hardly drive anywhere when she has to navigate these days, as I can't afford to go on holiday any more. The last holiday we had involved us taking the train to London :P

She didn't suggest a faster way to get to the train station or how to get around London?

She told me where she wanted to go and I navigated from there. She had the chance.

I've found a plateau at 14th, so I'll look up at 13th and then continue the ascent.

I'm stuck at 150ish at the moment. How long do you think it'll take for you to reach 10th?

That's over 10k away, so we're looking about a year...

*removes piece of paper from tuxedo jacket* Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the Academy, it is with great pleasure, I accept this award for third user to 4 x 20,000 points.

Sweet! It's going to be a long time before I even reach 10k let along 20k.

It's nice to finally get here, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by the fact that no-one made a thread about it in General. They've learned not to post stat threads!

At 1/26/11 03:39 AM, LegolaSS wrote: 33,333 total stats... however i should have leveled up today but forgot to deposit yesterday...

That's a rookie mistake. You've been doing this too long to simply forget >:(

Listening to:

Hammers of Misfortune - The Locust Years

Thanks to:

Odyssic
Coop

At 1/25/11 06:10 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/25/11 04:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: But not if Coop doesn't get drunker than me.

A hit on the head can work wonders sometimes.

But only if I don't drink at all at the meet. Not gonna happen.

THEY WANNA KEEP US DOWN BUT THEY CAN'T LAST!

I'm running out of witty comments here. :(

I smell victory. You will remember Manowar for all eternity.

WHEN WE GET UP WE'RE GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!

Nope, BrokenCYDE have worse fashion sense.

At least they are not wearing fur thongs!

Have you even seen what they look like?

But I never heard ANYONE saying "Noise is music", not even the ones who listen to noise. XD

Then clearly you haven't seen the Noise elitists.

At 1/25/11 04:39 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/25/11 04:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: I had Magnezone in my team and it was pretty cool.

Never considered that one. I already had Luxray as an electric type from the very beginning, so I had no need for another electric type.

Magnezone has very good special attack so that's why it was really good to me.

I was thinking Weaville or Mismagius, but they're both pretty weak and fall easily.

They should be better than that. The other high tier Pokemon of those kind are Electivire and Magmortar.

Huge congrats on this fine milestone Coop! Not only that, it's good to see another 4x20k'er on board, even though that status is losing its specialty now.

Not until we got about 10 of these users walking around.

It doesn't feel that special to me now. :P

At 1/26/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/25/11 04:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: Huge congrats on this fine milestone Coop! Not only that, it's good to see another 4x20k'er on board, even though that status is losing its specialty now.

Everything seems to lose its shine when I get there :(

I think the exact same thing when it comes to levelling up. Level 46 may be impressive to those below me but where I am it's just meh when looking at those who are above me.

6.66 base VP!

At 1/26/11 04:21 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/25/11 04:39 PM, Auz wrote: Never considered that one. I already had Luxray as an electric type from the very beginning, so I had no need for another electric type.

Magnezone has very good special attack so that's why it was really good to me.

I see. Luxray was more of a physical attacker which is actually not that good cause there are no good physical electric moves =/

Later on I went over to Zapdos. I know using legendaries is lame, but he brings back good memories from the Red/Blue era where I pretty much always used Zapdos or Articuno as soon as I could get them.

I was thinking Weaville or Mismagius, but they're both pretty weak and fall easily.

They should be better than that. The other high tier Pokemon of those kind are Electivire and Magmortar.

Those two looked pretty good to me, but you had to go through some stuff to evolve them. If you could evolve them more easily I would've probably used them.

Not until we got about 10 of these users walking around.

It doesn't feel that special to me now. :P

I don't think many people pay attention to any other statistics beyond having 10k of something. But only three 4x20k'ers still makes it special to me.

Congrats to:
Helloween: Level 38
NerdLiife: Level 12
DiMono: 12,000 B/P
Quinny: 5k/6k Medal Points/6.66 Voting Power
Decky: Top 10,000 in Experience
WeirdAlthe3rd: 10 Voting Power
LegolaSS: 33,333 Total Stats

At 1/26/11 03:39 AM, LegolaSS wrote: 33,333 total stats... however i should have leveled up today but forgot to deposit yesterday...

Start B/Ping. If you B/P everyday, all day, it's impossible to miss a deposit.

You passed 23000 Saves. Way to go!

In other news I'm laying in bed sick when I should be at school teaching my first graders. Perhaps in a little I'll get ahead in some lesson plans, but for now laying down and doing little to no mental or physical exercise sounds pretty good.

Today we viewed two more appartements which are only two streets away from where we live right now. 4 rooms, maisonette, with a great roof terrace... would be great if we could get one of these apartements.

Listening to:
Radiohead - The Bends (Collectors Edition)

The collectors edition also features the singles B-Sides. Pretty nice.

At 1/25/11 06:10 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/24/11 03:47 PM, Auz wrote: Two rooms? Well that should be enough, but yeah...

It was in the beginning. But now that my gf sometimes works night shifts it would be really nice to have some more space.

I suppose she wants to rest during daytime. I can imagine that's a bit difficult if you're sitting in the room next to her making all kinds of noises.

The big advantage is that she only has to work one night and can rest the other one (ie she works the night from Monday to Tuesday. Next time she has to work is the night from Wednesday to Thursday), but yeah, when she gets home she needs some rest. So I have to leave the Bedroom where my PC is and can only surf the web with my Netbook. ^^

Also, she wants to have an own room for sewing alone and I want to have an own room for my video games. XD

A video game room? That could be pretty cool, but I'm fine with playing them in the living room. Fortunately my gf doesn't like watching TV that much, so she'll probably be okay with it if I go play a game on the TV there.

Well, I'm a collector and I have to keep my stuff somewhere... :P
I'm not that extreme like some other people, but I currently own 4 consoles and over 100 games. I think once I earn my own money the collection might grow to over 1,000 games. XD

Also, our neighbours are pretty cool as well, it's only since last year (around August) that those from above us began listening to loud music and being simply loud in general. I really don't know what happened there. :/

I don't know what kind of people they are... Perhaps they suddenly decided to throw a party at their place every week?

At first I thought they have some visitors, but it looks like all of them are going to stay.

What I got from conversations so far is that most students don't want to live too far away from the Uni. Sometimes I get asked why I live "so far off" and if it isn't annoying to have to "travel for so long". But in my opinion the low rent is worth it.

Yeah, people are sometimes a bit amazed as well at how long I have to travel. I think within 90 minutes is perfectly doable though. I don't have to wake up that early and I won't be home that late. No need to go spend hundreds of euros per month on some room just so I can sleep for an extra hour.

Plus, you can have a nap or do some homework for Uni while you travel.
It's pretty cool, usually I wake up exactly at the station I have to get off. So I can sleep a bit longer and when I arrive at the Uni I am pretty well rested. XD

It's a different story for my gf though. She has to travel for 2 hours and 30 minutest to get to her uni, which means that she often won't be home before 20:00. Or even midnight if she has lectures in the evening (which she usually has one day of the week). In her case, I can imagine you're looking for something a little bit closer by.

Yeah, 2:30 is extreme. I don't know how long my gf had to travel when she still lived with her parents, but I think it was around 2 hours as well. And she even had to go by car to the next train station, because there where no busses!

Yeah, if there are students willing to pay so much for a lousy room... each to their own, I guess,

Indeed. Most of them seem happy or proud even that they 'live on their own' now. Though some of them can hardly take care of themself yet. I know of some guys who only eat microwaved pizzas everyday and their house is one big mess cause they never clean up anything =/

If I hadn't moved in with my gf, I would be the same. ^^

I do find one occasionally at some thrift store, but they always look old and I'm not sure if they're still working.

Maybe you should look for a new one in a Hi-Fi store? :P

I don't know if they still sell them there.

They do. Some companies learned that LPs are still selling well, so that's why you usually see an LP section in bigger music stores.
One of my friends only buys his music on LPs (remember the discussion about the "loudness war"? I guess that's the reason why some people are back to buy LPs).

Also, the bulding I live in can be seen from pretty far away as well. There are four similar buildings, the rooftops are in a pyramid shape, so they are very recognizable.

Always handy if you're lost on your way home ;)

Yeah, it at least gives you the general direction. ^^

Could be, or maybe Germans just like disco pop and the fact that his last name sounds German? :p

"Hasselhoff"? Hm, doesn't sound that "german" to me.

It certainly doesn't sound English to me, and don't you guys have places like Hoffenheim? Hassel also looks like a German word to me.

Yes, Hoffenheim is a small town in germany, but "Hassel"? Hm, I don't know. It is similar to "hassen" ("to hate") and to "Hasel" ("Hazel").
But it's pronounced different, obviously. Maybe I can make his name look dutch if I add a "van" to it? "Van Hasselhoff". ^^

I don't think the same can be said about that Knight Rider movie that came out last year.

I didn't see it.
Also the new series is bad as well.

Well I haven't seen it either, but the reviews I heard were not too positive. One of the major complaints from the fans was the new car they used :p

Yes, the new car sucks major ass!
The series is so... "stylish" and everything seems to be so perfect. The old series had some kind of trashy charme. This is completly lost in the new series.

At 1/26/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote:

I was never much of a vodka drinker. At the risk of offending lost of Russians, I always preferred to drink alcohol with flavour.

Speaking of "Russians": White Russian is a pretty good drink as well!

So I've heard. The problem with my friends is that they don't drive, so I never get a chance to experiment at cocktail bars, when we go out.

Too bad. But you can easily mix it yourself, the ingredients are very cheap (Milk, Kahlua and Vodka of course).
If you use a whiskey glass for your cocktail and put a toothpick in it, then you have White Russian "Dude" style. ^^

I'm a Southern Comfort man,

You should listen to Janis Joplin more often, then. ;)

Sorry, I don't get the reference...

On many pictures you can see her with a bottle of Southern Comfort. She even asked the company for money because of the commercial effect. The Company agreed and payed her 6,000$. ^^

Ah, I did not know that. If I make a Southern Comfort themed signature for the BBS, would they do the same?

I'm afraid you aren't quite as famous as Janis.

WTF? I need a second post so I can reply to Bahamut. I tried cutting down this post, but it didn't work out...

SECOND POST!
It almost feels like the old times, when some of us needed three posts to reply to all the conversational stuff!

At 1/26/11 04:21 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/25/11 06:10 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/25/11 04:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: But not if Coop doesn't get drunker than me.

A hit on the head can work wonders sometimes.

But only if I don't drink at all at the meet. Not gonna happen.

You don't have to be sober to hit someone. Even though it does help a bit with your accuracy.

THEY WANNA KEEP US DOWN BUT THEY CAN'T LAST!

I'm running out of witty comments here. :(

I smell victory. You will remember Manowar for all eternity.

Yes, for bad music and complete lack of fashion sense.

WHEN WE GET UP WE'RE GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!

Oooh, Manowar are mad at me. I'm so scared! Ooooh, Manowar!
*hides behind Smithers*
Uh oh, Manowar are going to get me!

Nope, BrokenCYDE have worse fashion sense.

At least they are not wearing fur thongs!

Have you even seen what they look like?

I'm sure they can't look as ugly as Manowar in fur thongs.

But I never heard ANYONE saying "Noise is music", not even the ones who listen to noise. XD

Then clearly you haven't seen the Noise elitists.

I have. He explained to me that Noise isn't music, but Noise.

86,000 B/P

Time to head home and then to bed.

Your blam and protection points gave you an additional 22% of your experience power, meaning that your total vote power was worth 8.88 votes!

WOOOOO

At 1/26/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote: It's nice to finally get here, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by the fact that no-one made a thread about it in General. They've learned not to post stat threads!

Mod oppression is working it seems.

peeks in General

Maybe not.

So... i had an axe... a hammer... and now a sword... BUT WHERES MY BOW I WAS PROMISSED!!!

... just another year...

LEVEL UP!!!

Coop hopes he can get his car back today. Congratulations to:
Quinny: 6.66 Base Voting Power
FBIpolux: 18,000 Posts
Fro: 23,000 Saves
Ronald-McDonald-Lol: 8.88 Total Voting Power
LegolaSS: Level 42

At 1/26/11 04:21 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/26/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/25/11 04:22 AM, Bahamut wrote: Huge congrats on this fine milestone Coop! Not only that, it's good to see another 4x20k'er on board, even though that status is losing its specialty now.

Everything seems to lose its shine when I get there :(

I think the exact same thing when it comes to levelling up. Level 46 may be impressive to those below me but where I am it's just meh when looking at those who are above me.

It will lose its shine during my tenure there, but not the instant I get it.

At 1/26/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote:

I was never much of a vodka drinker. At the risk of offending lost of Russians, I always preferred to drink alcohol with flavour.

Speaking of "Russians": White Russian is a pretty good drink as well!

So I've heard. The problem with my friends is that they don't drive, so I never get a chance to experiment at cocktail bars, when we go out.

Too bad. But you can easily mix it yourself, the ingredients are very cheap (Milk, Kahlua and Vodka of course).
If you use a whiskey glass for your cocktail and put a toothpick in it, then you have White Russian "Dude" style. ^^

That's a little too much effort.

I'm a Southern Comfort man,

You should listen to Janis Joplin more often, then. ;)

Sorry, I don't get the reference...

On many pictures you can see her with a bottle of Southern Comfort. She even asked the company for money because of the commercial effect. The Company agreed and payed her 6,000$. ^^

Ah, I did not know that. If I make a Southern Comfort themed signature for the BBS, would they do the same?

I'm afraid you aren't quite as famous as Janis.

Dammit! *picks up phone* So, Mr. marketing guy at SoCo, what would I need to do to get an advertising deal like Janis Joplin?

*listens to reply*

Heroin and SoCo, you say? I think I'm going to have to turn you down, then.

At 1/27/11 01:55 AM, reverend wrote:

At 1/26/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote: It's nice to finally get here, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by the fact that no-one made a thread about it in General. They've learned not to post stat threads!

Mod oppression is working it seems.

You wish :P

peeks in General

Maybe not.

lol

Listening to:

Epica - The Classical Conspiracy

At 1/26/11 09:07 AM, Auz wrote:

At 1/26/11 04:21 AM, Bahamut wrote: Magnezone has very good special attack so that's why it was really good to me.

I see. Luxray was more of a physical attacker which is actually not that good cause there are no good physical electric moves =/

Magneton wasn't able to learn Thunder Bolt so a friend of mine had to give it a Thunder Bolt TM. In HG/SS, getting the Flamethrower / Ice Beam / Thunder Bolt TMs were a bitch to get, especially when you could only get them by playing Voltorbsweeper.

Later on I went over to Zapdos. I know using legendaries is lame, but he brings back good memories from the Red/Blue era where I pretty much always used Zapdos or Articuno as soon as I could get them.

Zapdos is awesome.

They should be better than that. The other high tier Pokemon of those kind are Electivire and Magmortar.

Those two looked pretty good to me, but you had to go through some stuff to evolve them. If you could evolve them more easily I would've probably used them.

I can't remember the evolution method for them now but they must be worth it.

It doesn't feel that special to me now. :P

I don't think many people pay attention to any other statistics beyond having 10k of something. But only three 4x20k'ers still makes it special to me.

When you get there, you'll be like "Meh." as others reach it as well.

At 1/26/11 01:15 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/26/11 04:21 AM, Bahamut wrote: But only if I don't drink at all at the meet. Not gonna happen.

You don't have to be sober to hit someone. Even though it does help a bit with your accuracy.

If I be sober, I won't have any drink funs and then I won't be on karaoke.

I smell victory. You will remember Manowar for all eternity.

Yes, for bad music and complete lack of fashion sense.

No, it's awesome music. And besides, this all started when you reminded us that Crazy Frog existed.

WHEN WE GET UP WE'RE GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!

Oooh, Manowar are mad at me. I'm so scared! Ooooh, Manowar!
*hides behind Smithers*
Uh oh, Manowar are going to get me!

WHEN OTHER BANDS PLAY, MANOWAR KILL!

Have you even seen what they look like?

I'm sure they can't look as ugly as Manowar in fur thongs.

They're emo trendwhores to the extreme. Emo fashion is beyond ugly.

Then clearly you haven't seen the Noise elitists.

I have. He explained to me that Noise isn't music, but Noise.

Maybe you're talking to the odd Noise elitist who doesn't relate it to music?

At 1/27/11 03:57 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/26/11 04:21 AM, Bahamut wrote: I think the exact same thing when it comes to levelling up. Level 46 may be impressive to those below me but where I am it's just meh when looking at those who are above me.

It will lose its shine during my tenure there, but not the instant I get it.

In around 6 months time, we'll have over 200 users who are level 46 and above. Remember when we only had 15 of them?

Congrats to:
FBIpolux: 18,000 Post
Fro: 23,000 Saves
Coop: 86,000 B/P Points
Ronald-McDonald-LoL: 8.88 Voting Power
LegolaSS: Level 42

At 1/27/11 03:21 AM, LegolaSS wrote: So... i had an axe... a hammer... and now a sword... BUT WHERES MY BOW I WAS PROMISSED!!!

... just another year...

LEVEL UP!!!

Congratulations. The sword levels are the best, in my opinion.

21,000 Blam Points!

21 doesn't mean much to me, but every 1,000 blams is worth throwing a party for nowadays. On to 22k!

I'll have another nice achievement soon by the way.

ZOMG! Tomorrow it will be decided if we get one of the appartemens we viewed yesterday! Wish me luck!

At 1/27/11 03:57 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/26/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote:

I was never much of a vodka drinker. At the risk of offending lost of Russians, I always preferred to drink alcohol with flavour.

Speaking of "Russians": White Russian is a pretty good drink as well!

So I've heard. The problem with my friends is that they don't drive, so I never get a chance to experiment at cocktail bars, when we go out.

Too bad. But you can easily mix it yourself, the ingredients are very cheap (Milk, Kahlua and Vodka of course).
If you use a whiskey glass for your cocktail and put a toothpick in it, then you have White Russian "Dude" style. ^^

That's a little too much effort.

But it's worth it.

I'm a Southern Comfort man,

You should listen to Janis Joplin more often, then. ;)

Sorry, I don't get the reference...

On many pictures you can see her with a bottle of Southern Comfort. She even asked the company for money because of the commercial effect. The Company agreed and payed her 6,000$. ^^

Ah, I did not know that. If I make a Southern Comfort themed signature for the BBS, would they do the same?

I'm afraid you aren't quite as famous as Janis.

Dammit! *picks up phone* So, Mr. marketing guy at SoCo, what would I need to do to get an advertising deal like Janis Joplin?

*listens to reply*

Heroin and SoCo, you say? I think I'm going to have to turn you down, then.

Too bad, but at least you gave it a try.

At 1/27/11 04:12 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/26/11 01:15 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/26/11 04:21 AM, Bahamut wrote: But only if I don't drink at all at the meet. Not gonna happen.

You don't have to be sober to hit someone. Even though it does help a bit with your accuracy.

If I be sober, I won't have any drink funs and then I won't be on karaoke.

You can have fun without drinks. Plus, I never will sing karaoke, no matter how drunk I am.

I smell victory. You will remember Manowar for all eternity.

Yes, for bad music and complete lack of fashion sense.

No, it's awesome music. And besides, this all started when you reminded us that Crazy Frog existed.

Crazy Frog > Manowar.

WHEN WE GET UP WE'RE GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!

Oooh, Manowar are mad at me. I'm so scared! Ooooh, Manowar!
*hides behind Smithers*
Uh oh, Manowar are going to get me!

WHEN OTHER BANDS PLAY, MANOWAR KILL!

Ah, now we have reached the bottom of Manowar's lyrical emissions...

Have you even seen what they look like?

I'm sure they can't look as ugly as Manowar in fur thongs.

They're emo trendwhores to the extreme. Emo fashion is beyond ugly.

But still Manowar can easily top that by simply dressing as always.

Then clearly you haven't seen the Noise elitists.

I have. He explained to me that Noise isn't music, but Noise.

Maybe you're talking to the odd Noise elitist who doesn't relate it to music?

Well, he said something like: "You can listen to music while doing other stuff, like cleaning the house. But when listening to Noise, you have to only do that: Listening."

At 1/26/11 01:13 PM, Haggard wrote: Today we viewed two more appartements which are only two streets away from where we live right now. 4 rooms, maisonette, with a great roof terrace... would be great if we could get one of these apartements.

Roof terrace? Sounds awesome! You should consider installing a whirlpool there.

At 1/25/11 06:10 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/24/11 03:47 PM, Auz wrote:

I suppose she wants to rest during daytime. I can imagine that's a bit difficult if you're sitting in the room next to her making all kinds of noises.

The big advantage is that she only has to work one night and can rest the other one (ie she works the night from Monday to Tuesday. Next time she has to work is the night from Wednesday to Thursday), but yeah, when she gets home she needs some rest. So I have to leave the Bedroom where my PC is and can only surf the web with my Netbook. ^^

Oh well, that's not bad is it? I used to use my PC all the time, but now I got used to my laptop.

A video game room? That could be pretty cool, but I'm fine with playing them in the living room. Fortunately my gf doesn't like watching TV that much, so she'll probably be okay with it if I go play a game on the TV there.

Well, I'm a collector and I have to keep my stuff somewhere... :P
I'm not that extreme like some other people, but I currently own 4 consoles and over 100 games. I think once I earn my own money the collection might grow to over 1,000 games. XD

I think I know what you mean. I'd love to have a room with a huge bookshelf where I can put all my DVDs, games, books and whatever. And a very comfy chair and a fire place.

I don't know what kind of people they are... Perhaps they suddenly decided to throw a party at their place every week?

At first I thought they have some visitors, but it looks like all of them are going to stay.

Heh, are you sure they're not simply letting some people live there but pretend they're only guests?

Yeah, people are sometimes a bit amazed as well at how long I have to travel. I think within 90 minutes is perfectly doable though. I don't have to wake up that early and I won't be home that late. No need to go spend hundreds of euros per month on some room just so I can sleep for an extra hour.

Plus, you can have a nap or do some homework for Uni while you travel.
It's pretty cool, usually I wake up exactly at the station I have to get off. So I can sleep a bit longer and when I arrive at the Uni I am pretty well rested. XD

I can never sleep while travelling, but yeah... it's pretty convenient for homework and such. I can check up on some last things before an exam for example.

Indeed. Most of them seem happy or proud even that they 'live on their own' now. Though some of them can hardly take care of themself yet. I know of some guys who only eat microwaved pizzas everyday and their house is one big mess cause they never clean up anything =/

If I hadn't moved in with my gf, I would be the same. ^^

My desk is a bit of a mess, but for the rest I like to keep things clean. As for the food... well I'm pretty clumsy in the kitchen, but I can at least make a few simple things that are a lot healthier than microwaved pizzas. I'm sure I'd feel pretty sick in a few days if I only ate the same kind of cheap food every day.

But yeah, it's good that I have a girlfriend because she loves to cook and she's much better at it than I am. I'm sure that together we can keep the household running just fine.

I don't know if they still sell them there.

They do. Some companies learned that LPs are still selling well, so that's why you usually see an LP section in bigger music stores.
One of my friends only buys his music on LPs (remember the discussion about the "loudness war"? I guess that's the reason why some people are back to buy LPs).

I see. I do know one guy who got his hands on a fairly new LP player. He said it was a second hand one made in 2004 or so. He also bought a lot of LPs cause they're pretty cheap nowadays, you could get them at thriftstores for less than a euro each (except for the rare ones of course).

It certainly doesn't sound English to me, and don't you guys have places like Hoffenheim? Hassel also looks like a German word to me.

Yes, Hoffenheim is a small town in germany, but "Hassel"? Hm, I don't know. It is similar to "hassen" ("to hate") and to "Hasel" ("Hazel").
But it's pronounced different, obviously. Maybe I can make his name look dutch if I add a "van" to it? "Van Hasselhoff". ^^

If you got rid of the second f than yeah, it would sound quite Dutch. I would believe someone named van Hasselhof had Dutch parents.

Well I haven't seen it either, but the reviews I heard were not too positive. One of the major complaints from the fans was the new car they used :p

Yes, the new car sucks major ass!
The series is so... "stylish" and everything seems to be so perfect. The old series had some kind of trashy charme. This is completly lost in the new series.

I guess the older series has a bit of an 80's vibe to it, with fashion of that era, technology of that era etc. Stuff that we laugh at now. If you modernize all that I suppose it just doesn't feel the same.

At 1/27/11 04:12 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/26/11 09:07 AM, Auz wrote: I see. Luxray was more of a physical attacker which is actually not that good cause there are no good physical electric moves =/

Magneton wasn't able to learn Thunder Bolt so a friend of mine had to give it a Thunder Bolt TM. In HG/SS, getting the Flamethrower / Ice Beam / Thunder Bolt TMs were a bitch to get, especially when you could only get them by playing Voltorbsweeper.

Yeah that's always been one of my complaints. You could get all kinds of great TMs from the game corners and stuff like that, but getting like 5000+ coins took ages and required way too much luck. That's why I always just bought all those coins, even though that costed more than a ton.

What I also really hate is that there is usually only one of each stone available in the games after the original three. Especially for fire I found this very annoying since I could never choose between using Flareon, Arcanine or Ninetails.

Later on I went over to Zapdos. I know using legendaries is lame, but he brings back good memories from the Red/Blue era where I pretty much always used Zapdos or Articuno as soon as I could get them.

Zapdos is awesome.

Indeed he is. I didn't like how the legendary birds weren't available until the fourth gen.

Those two looked pretty good to me, but you had to go through some stuff to evolve them. If you could evolve them more easily I would've probably used them.

I can't remember the evolution method for them now but they must be worth it.

I think you had to give them some item and then trade them, but I never had someone to trade with so I couldn't obtain them.

I don't think many people pay attention to any other statistics beyond having 10k of something. But only three 4x20k'ers still makes it special to me.

When you get there, you'll be like "Meh." as others reach it as well.

I have that with about every achievement cause right now I'm always like the 20th person to get there. 100,000 Total Stats and 50,000 Saves would've totally awesome a few years back.

Level 31.

Great icon, and only a day to 10k experience and a doublelist status. Or maybe I'll just stop depositing today, you never know.

1,000 posts after almost 3 years.

Finally.

14000 exp points. Took some time to get, but it is not really a big deal >_<

7,000 medal points.
550 medals, I guess this is an every 100 thing though?

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

With that vote, you now have 10,670 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 32.

~ smooches ~

Ecstatic to have his car back, Coop congratulates:
Auz: 21,000 Blams
WilhelmTheVampire: Level 31
NewgroundsNation: 1,000 Posts
LittleWashu: 14,000 Experience
Faggard: Level 32

Listening to:
Motorhead - Bye Bye Bitch Bye Bye
Evanesence - My Last Breath
No Doubt - Don't Speak

Thank you to:
Odyssic
Jolly

At 1/27/11 04:12 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/27/11 03:57 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/26/11 04:21 AM, Bahamut wrote: I think the exact same thing when it comes to levelling up. Level 46 may be impressive to those below me but where I am it's just meh when looking at those who are above me.

It will lose its shine during my tenure there, but not the instant I get it.

In around 6 months time, we'll have over 200 users who are level 46 and above. Remember when we only had 15 of them?

So? We're closer to the top - if ever I become the most experienced user on the site, there will be dozens of Level 60 users. I won't care one bit.

At 1/27/11 03:29 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/27/11 03:57 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/26/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote:

I was never much of a vodka drinker. At the risk of offending lost of Russians, I always preferred to drink alcohol with flavour.

Speaking of "Russians": White Russian is a pretty good drink as well!

So I've heard. The problem with my friends is that they don't drive, so I never get a chance to experiment at cocktail bars, when we go out.

Too bad. But you can easily mix it yourself, the ingredients are very cheap (Milk, Kahlua and Vodka of course).
If you use a whiskey glass for your cocktail and put a toothpick in it, then you have White Russian "Dude" style. ^^

That's a little too much effort.

But it's worth it.

I hope so - that's a lot of ingredients to buy that I don't just have lying around the house to make something I don't like.

I'm a Southern Comfort man,

You should listen to Janis Joplin more often, then. ;)

Sorry, I don't get the reference...

On many pictures you can see her with a bottle of Southern Comfort. She even asked the company for money because of the commercial effect. The Company agreed and payed her 6,000$. ^^

Ah, I did not know that. If I make a Southern Comfort themed signature for the BBS, would they do the same?

I'm afraid you aren't quite as famous as Janis.

Dammit! *picks up phone* So, Mr. marketing guy at SoCo, what would I need to do to get an advertising deal like Janis Joplin?

*listens to reply*

Heroin and SoCo, you say? I think I'm going to have to turn you down, then.

Too bad, but at least you gave it a try.

For the record, should any prospective employer of mine, or indeed my current employer be reading this, I have never and never intend to give heroin a try.

The other day, I took some driving lessons.

Listening to:

Fates Warning - The Spectre Within

At 1/27/11 03:29 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/27/11 04:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: If I be sober, I won't have any drink funs and then I won't be on karaoke.

You can have fun without drinks. Plus, I never will sing karaoke, no matter how drunk I am.

I need drinks to have fun at a meet. As for you singing karaoke, we'll see.

No, it's awesome music. And besides, this all started when you reminded us that Crazy Frog existed.

Crazy Frog > Manowar.

That went too far. Seriously.

WHEN OTHER BANDS PLAY, MANOWAR KILL!

Ah, now we have reached the bottom of Manowar's lyrical emissions...

WE LIKE IT HARD, WE LIKE IT FAST!

Maybe you're talking to the odd Noise elitist who doesn't relate it to music?

Well, he said something like: "You can listen to music while doing other stuff, like cleaning the house. But when listening to Noise, you have to only do that: Listening."

And that song I gave you sounds like a vacuum cleaner so you can hear that already when cleaning the house. :P

At 1/27/11 04:10 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/27/11 04:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: Magneton wasn't able to learn Thunder Bolt so a friend of mine had to give it a Thunder Bolt TM. In HG/SS, getting the Flamethrower / Ice Beam / Thunder Bolt TMs were a bitch to get, especially when you could only get them by playing Voltorbsweeper.

Yeah that's always been one of my complaints. You could get all kinds of great TMs from the game corners and stuff like that, but getting like 5000+ coins took ages and required way too much luck. That's why I always just bought all those coins, even though that costed more than a ton.

One problem, though. There was no way to buy coins in HG/SS. I sure hope they correct that in B/W.

What I also really hate is that there is usually only one of each stone available in the games after the original three. Especially for fire I found this very annoying since I could never choose between using Flareon, Arcanine or Ninetails.

Arcanine all the way for me. After all, he does have legendary stats, even though that could make it illegible to use in Pokemon tournaments.

Zapdos is awesome.

Indeed he is. I didn't like how the legendary birds weren't available until the fourth gen.

Wait, what about FR/LG?

I can't remember the evolution method for them now but they must be worth it.

I think you had to give them some item and then trade them, but I never had someone to trade with so I couldn't obtain them.

Oh yeah, it's coming back to me now. You couldn't even use online trading? Well, trading it using friend code with someone you know would be better.

When you get there, you'll be like "Meh." as others reach it as well.

I have that with about every achievement cause right now I'm always like the 20th person to get there. 100,000 Total Stats and 50,000 Saves would've totally awesome a few years back.

Heh, 50,000 saves would have been insane back in 2005.

At 1/28/11 03:50 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/27/11 04:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: In around 6 months time, we'll have over 200 users who are level 46 and above. Remember when we only had 15 of them?

So? We're closer to the top - if ever I become the most experienced user on the site, there will be dozens of Level 60 users. I won't care one bit.

I just like being special. :P

At 1/27/11 03:57 AM, Coop wrote: You wish :P

A man can dream, though . . . a man can dream.

Ecstatic to have his car back, Coop congratulates:

Did they toss in some add-ons like a police push bumper? :P
Well it's great that you have it back and it didn't take too long all things considered.

At 1/27/11 03:29 PM, Haggard wrote: ZOMG! Tomorrow it will be decided if we get one of the appartemens we viewed yesterday! Wish me luck!

Good luck!

At 1/28/11 04:17 AM, Bahamut wrote: The other day, I took some driving lessons.

Driving is easy when you get the hang of it, though roundabouts sound terrifying. We don't have those over here and I can't imagine what it's like for a new driver to try one.

I am now level 49! I can´t to be one of the 50+ around here

Congrats to:
WilhelmTheVampire: Level 31
NewgroundsNation: 1,000 Post
LittleWashu: 14,000 Experience
gamejunkie: 17,000 Medal Points
Faggard: Level 32
Dent0n: Level 49

At 1/28/11 08:20 AM, Dent0n wrote: I am now level 49! I can´t to be one of the 50+ around here

You left out a word.