Next milestone passed 17,000 saves. Not really a big deal though >_<

48k Medal points! FTW

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

At 1/12/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: Oh well, it looks like all the countries are in a bad shape right now and the EU is under great pressure with euro becoming instable. It does feel like something big is gonna happen sooner or later.

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.

I guess there are lots of new young people entering that market every year, so perhaps your chances are never that high to begin with?

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.

Lol :p

My school also went to great lengths to block every site that provided some form of entertainment. Sites like Youtube got blocked, and even some sites that could easily provide useful information for students.

YouTube is one that either gets blocked or doesn't. I don't know about the kids but the school computers I use don't have YouTube blocked. The only site I know is definitely blocked to both students and staff is Facebook. Heh, this is reminding me of how the college were on and off with blocking YouTube.

Lol!

I'd rather block Youtube than Facebook if I wanted to prevent kids from wasting time on the internet during school time. Surely there's not that much to do on Facebook if everybody is attending classes at that moment.

But usually it's the Europeans that get the worst and have to wait the longest, so it's nice they do something back for us.

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.

Oh well, at least he's not actually making a ton of money by passing off a cheaply made, poorly written film as proper cinema material.

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. Also, he seems to live in a not-so-expensive apartment, so I wouldn't be surprised if he lived on those earnings. But what he does for the rest, I don't know. Sometimes I got the feeling he's just watching films and playing games the whole day.

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

At 1/12/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: Baw :(

So all you guys did was fight all the time?

Selective memory - I choose to only remember the bad, since that's the more recent.

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.

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

At 1/12/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: I think I'll dig through my dads collection. He must have some more CCR CD's somewhere.

The CCR Box isn't that expensive. After all you'll get all 7 albums of CCR!

I don't know how much you paid for it...

True. There are many commercial jingles that I'd like to forget :(

"Crazy Frog" comes to my mind here.

Oh God! Just when I thought I had completely erased it from my memory... :(

Surely you may borrow it sometimes, right? As long as you pay for the gas?

And how should my gf get to work then?

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.

Also, whenever I am riding along in the car, we share the gas money. ;)
Also also she said (half joking): "I will not let you drive the car when you are still a beginner." >_>
After all it's a factory new car.

LOL!

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

No parking spots there? That's weird. Every building on our universities' campus has its own parking place, which are never full. Also, it's longer for me to go via public transport due to the waiting times between busses, trains, subways etc.

There are about 32.000 students imatriculated at the University of Hamburg, plus the buldings are quite old. So no, there aren't too many parking spots.

32.000? Holy shit 0.0

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.

Also, there's a train going from where I live to the University. Takes me about one hour overall to get from door to door.

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.

Well it was about 8.5km for me, so 17km per day which usually took me 35 minutes or so for one way. Although I did have a very strong tailwind once and it took me only 12 minutes :p It sucked on the way back though =/

Lol, I nearly always had head wind. Which was quite strange, since there where quite a few 90 degree turns on one part of the way. XD

That's peculiar indeed.

Indeed that's still not a good idea. Although at New Years I simply went driving anyway after not sleeping at all and not drinking anymore for about five hours. I felt fine, but if there was an alcohol check somewhere I would've been screwed probably.

Another advantage of not having a drivers license: I cannot lose it! XD

True. And that'll save you the hundreds of euros you have to pay to do a new exam.

No that's just when:
DUUUUUUUHUUUUUUUHUUUUU
DU ALLEIN KANNST MICH VERSTEHEN!

Oh. My. God.
Can it get any worse than David Hasslehoff?

Wait, David Hasslehoff? 0.o

I always thought it was this guy.

VERDAMMT ICH LIEB DICH! ICH LIEB DICH NICHT!

I really don't know if Matthias Reim is in any way better than "The Hoff"... :/

Don't know, I only know him from that one song :p

Though it can't get any worse than The Hoff, can it?

3,000 posts. Woo!

Sgt. Major!

At 1/12/11 06:16 AM, Jolly wrote: Hemlok: 10,000 Medal Point

I should stop making my list at 5:00/6:00 am so I stop making stupid mistakes like that...

6000 Experience Points.
800 posts.
15th news entry.

err, yeah I think that's it.

I always vote as I see fit, although I tend to vote lower than the norm for entirely personal reasons. The standards have clearly fallen through the cracks since my last great period of activity (Aug. 2006-Nov. 2007) and my vote reflects this - even things with a 'great' score hardly get more than a 3 from me, as over-bloated scores and terrible judgment as of late has really soured the tune for me.

I don't vote low enough to be deemed 'Evil', but just low enough to be considered 'dark', which goes along with my reviewing temperament fittingly. I hope my next milestone shall be 200 reviews, as I hope to complete my mission of reviewing over 1500 Flash submissions between now and my 19th Birthday in March.

5,555 experience points.

Been waiting for that to happen for a long, long time.

Coop hopes for a dynamic weekend, while congratulating:
LittleWashu: 17,000 Saves
High-Dark: 48,000 Medal Points
steph2568: 3,000 Posts
Jolly: Sergeant Major
ArtDanVal: 6,000 Expeirence
SeeD419: 5,555 Experience

At 1/13/11 10:04 AM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 1/13/11 02:15 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 1/12/11 11:39 AM, Bahamut wrote: You would if the majority of voters weren't retards!

^^ This comment 100% correct. ^^ This is why I like you guys, (Coop, Auz, Reverend, LittleWashu, and a few others), you have the right attitude, even when you know most times its not going to help you still vote 0 or 1, I applaude your stand. I know it does'nt help much, by I still try too, to rid the portal of the bombardment of poop.

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.

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

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

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

At 1/12/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: So all you guys did was fight all the time?

Selective memory - I choose to only remember the bad, since that's the more recent.

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.

At 1/14/11 03:30 AM, ArtDanVal wrote: 6000 Experience Points.

err, yeah I think that's it.

Fixed your post for you ;) Neither of the other two are "achievements" here. Thanks.

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.

Not a big fan of this level.

Level 20

Congrats to:
LittleWashu: 17,000 Saves
High-Dark: 48,000 Medal Points
steph2568: 3,000 Post
ArtDanVal: 6,000 Experience Points
SeeD419: 5,555 Experience Points
RuinedMartyr: Level 20

Achievement of the Day:
ArtDanVal: 6,000 Experience Points

Thanks to:
Odyssic (x2)
Coop (x2)

At 1/13/11 03:25 PM, ThePoonjabi wrote: Two small achievements (in comparison) for me...

Level 6
100 saves

Hope to climb my way up the ranks even more!

Neither of which is worth congratulating. We start congratulating at Level 10, and Saves/Blams/Post Count is by the thousands. I'm not really 100% sure when we start congratulating B/P ranks, but I'd say anything over 1,000.

At 1/14/11 03:30 AM, ArtDanVal wrote: 800 posts.
15th news entry.

As Coop already said, those aren't real achievements. Again, we congratulate by the thousands when it comes to post.. And news post count doesn't matter at all. You moderate your news post, so you can spam many many news post in one day.

At 1/13/11 10:58 PM, Jolly wrote:

At 1/12/11 06:16 AM, Jolly wrote: Hemlok: 10,000 Medal Point

I should stop making my list at 5:00/6:00 am so I stop making stupid mistakes like that...

Well.. This post was even later.. Hopefully I didn't make any mistakes that I've left unnoticed.

At 1/13/11 09:53 AM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote:

At 1/13/11 07:45 AM, Jolly wrote:

At 1/12/11 03:37 PM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote: Clock Day

Speaking of Clock Day (I should ask this in the EGB thread, but I don't want to make a post dedicated to just asking it) What's the EGB's opinion on Clock Day? Should we vote honestly on every single flash even on Clock Day, or is that one day where we're allowed to bend those rules to celebrate Clock Day?

At 1/14/11 06:05 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote: Not a big fan of this level.

Level 20

Domo loves level 20, for some reason. I don't see the appeal to it. While I'm on the subject of levels I hate.. I've actually started to kind of like Level 23.. At first I hated it, but it's grown on me. It looks pretty nice.

At 1/14/11 03:43 AM, SeeD419 wrote: 5,555 experience points.

Been waiting for that to happen for a long, long time.

Really? If that's the case, you should stop depositing for.. 5 days, at least.. To go with the number, you know?

And maybe an additional 3 days to go with that. You need a break from depositing. ;)

But in all honesty, I just want to be ahead of you.

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

At 1/13/11 10:04 AM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 1/13/11 02:15 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 1/12/11 11:39 AM, Bahamut wrote: You would if the majority of voters weren't retards!

^^ This comment 100% correct. ^^ This is why I like you guys, (Coop, Auz, Reverend, LittleWashu, and a few others), you have the right attitude, even when you know most times its not going to help you still vote 0 or 1, I applaude your stand. I know it does'nt help much, by I still try too, to rid the portal of the bombardment of poop.

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)

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.

Hey Bahamut!

What do you know any of these bands and if so, can you reccomend some of them?
TRIPTYKON
AGENT STEEL
ENFORCER
ANACRUSIS
IN SOLITUDE
ATLANTEAN KODEX
EPICA
DISBELIEF
METAL INQUISITOR

That are the bands currently confirmed for this years Rock Hard Festival. ^^

Listening to:
Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Midnight Special
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Effigy
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (Live In Manchester, England; 9/1/71)

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

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

At 1/12/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: I think I'll dig through my dads collection. He must have some more CCR CD's somewhere.

The CCR Box isn't that expensive. After all you'll get all 7 albums of CCR!

I don't know how much you paid for it...

About 25 Euros.

True. There are many commercial jingles that I'd like to forget :(

"Crazy Frog" comes to my mind here.

Oh God! Just when I thought I had completely erased it from my memory... :(

Lol! :P

Surely you may borrow it sometimes, right? As long as you pay for the gas?

And how should my gf get to work then?

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 ;) ).

Also, whenever I am riding along in the car, we share the gas money. ;)
Also also she said (half joking): "I will not let you drive the car when you are still a beginner." >_>
After all it's a factory new car.

LOL!

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. :(

No parking spots there? That's weird. Every building on our universities' campus has its own parking place, which are never full. Also, it's longer for me to go via public transport due to the waiting times between busses, trains, subways etc.

There are about 32.000 students imatriculated at the University of Hamburg, plus the buldings are quite old. So no, there aren't too many parking spots.

32.000? Holy shit 0.0

Big city, big Uni. ^^

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.

Also, there's a train going from where I live to the University. Takes me about one hour overall to get from door to door.

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

No that's just when:
DUUUUUUUHUUUUUUUHUUUUU
DU ALLEIN KANNST MICH VERSTEHEN!

Oh. My. God.
Can it get any worse than David Hasslehoff?

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

VERDAMMT ICH LIEB DICH! ICH LIEB DICH NICHT!

I really don't know if Matthias Reim is in any way better than "The Hoff"... :/

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.

Sup stat-whores.

I got a couple achievements today.

Sold my first oz.

Leveled to 12.

I'll be back once I got 3k posts.

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