Metal Monday 2011 - Week 8: Diamond Head - Sweet and Innocent

Listening to:

Melechesh - The Epigenesis

Congrats to (gasp):

Ronald-McDonald-LoL - 2,000 blams
LittleWashu - 35,000 B/P
gamejunkie - 8.50 base VP

At 2/21/11 03:32 AM, reverend wrote:

At 2/20/11 03:00 PM, Bahamut wrote: That's what I aim to do. I'll just go inside and get them to meet our demands.

Something tells me that it can't be that easy. Ever since they go robbed several years ago, they might have beefed up security.

Oh come on, do you think their security will stand up to a dragon with a huge sword dick?

At 2/21/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/20/11 03:00 PM, Bahamut wrote: That's if I feel like it.

*pokes* Come on, it'll be like old times again!

There we go.

So, these guys or Trivium? I may as well get a kick in the balls.

Mr friend Dave wanted to see Dragonforce as the alternative, since he's seen Trivium at Download. Not the biggest fan of AC/DC, so he likes to head for something at least a little Metal.

Hell, I would have wanted to see DragonForce as well. Out of the three, their music is better.

LOL, I forgot Auz's posts since he made his post just a minute before mine last night.

At 2/20/11 02:59 PM, Auz wrote:

At 2/19/11 06:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: As regular posters, yes.

Yeah, I don't care much about them getting BP or not. But on the forums it'd be nice to see some of them return.

Yeah, there's that or they can hang out on Retrogade.

Hell, that doesn't even look bad. Maybe not as good as the N64 appearance but we've seen far worse.

Well, I just think they look way different from their N64 appearance and I don't like how they tried to move away from their cartoony look and tried to add some realism to their images. They did the same with Conker, although there they didn't do such a crappy job.

I guess after what I've seen happening to Crash and Spyro, it's not so bad.

Haha, we only wonder who'll still be around by then.

I'll be 36 then... well I wouldn't be the oldest user ever on NG, but I doubt I'll be able to connect very well with the teenagers on these boards anymore :p

Don't worry, Tom and Wade should still be around as well as a few old folks we have right now.

The magic spells was flexible (as in giving them to any character) but you still had Quistis' limit break for blue magic. Not only did I never use Quistis, I never really liked the limit break system in FFVIII. I feel we've talked about this before but I feel FFX does perfection with limit breaks.

I don't think we talked about limit breaks before. I think FF VIII system was alright, although you could abuse it to hell by keeping your HP low. That was actually the main attacking strategy for me throughout the game.

I wouldn't say abuse since you have to make sure you're not going to die, although that with Holy Water is downright abusive.

In FF IX I think the limit break system sucked ass. It took ages to load it up and it happened to me often that I had already done enough to kill an opponent and had to let someone's limit break go to waste.

FFIX could have done without the limit break system as well as FFVI. VI is the worst since you could go throughout the game and not encounter it once.

Yep, those alone can take off a lot of damage from Sephiroth. It's a shame he isn't strong once you've beaten Emerald and Ruby Weapon but at least he isn't a complete joke like Yu Yevon.

I've never beaten those two weapons, but I can imagine it's very easy to beat Sephiroth if you can take on those.

It is. Just make sure you don't use Knights of the Round. Without it, Sephiroth can put out a bit of a fight.

The thing about Sephiroth was, his Supernova always took 9/10th of your HP and would instantly charge up your limit breaks. So you could counter with Omnislash and what not which would pretty much kill him straight away (if you had decent attack that is though).

Heh, he never gets enough time to use Supernova on me. :P

55,000 medal points

5555 saves.

15,000 medal points

I know it's low for today's standards but I'm working my way up here, especially when I have a week off.

At 2/21/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote: They'd better spell my name right, remember that! L-I-D-E-O! Frankie Lideo!

Interesting fact about that name. The director of the film was Frank Dileo. Its true.

I am on Level 5 right now, I will might make myself on Level 10 in a few months.

At 2/20/11 02:59 PM, Auz wrote:

At 2/15/11 04:21 PM, Auz wrote:

At 2/15/11 03:25 AM, Haggard wrote:

If you have a wide array of vegan restaurants there I could probably convince my gf to go to Hamburg this summer. Although she might rather go to Berlin. She's talked about spending a holiday there several times now.

Vegan Restaurants? I honestly don't know, but I'm pretty sure there are some.
*looks up restaurants on google*
Well, by the looks of it there are quite a few vegetarian restaurants that also offer vegan meals.

Alright. I'm sure she'll gladly go there someday then,

YAY!

but perhaps not this summer yet. We might be a little bit short on funds due to us moving to Den Haag and all.

Oh... :(

I suppose in the end the German cities got it worst during the war.

Quite so. But to look on the bright side: At least Germany lost the war. I really wouldn't want to live in a world where the Nazis had won the war.

I don't know if they could really have managed to take over countries like Russia, America, China and so forth. If they hadn't stranded in Russia, they would've probably stranded somewhere else.

Yes, I doubt they would've managed to take over the whole world, but over the half of Europe would be bad enough.

Of course you never know how the teacher will react. If he has a sense of humour he'll probably laugh about it, but if he doesn't... well you might have a problem. I know some teachers hate to be disturbed during the lectures.

Also, there's a no eating rule in the lecture rooms, so I can imagine I won't be allowed to eat the pizza anyway unless I go sit outside :p

We only have such a rule in computer labs, but not in the normal lecture rooms. Sometimes I think the prof doesn't care what the students do during the lecture, as long as they don't disturb it.

The profs don't care about eating, but occasionally some janitor walks around and tells people to put away their drinks and sandwiches. Most people just put their food back on the table as soon as the lecture starts though, the janitor won't come back in anyway :p

Lol, our janitors are too lazy to walk around the building anyway. ^^

At 2/20/11 03:00 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/20/11 08:35 AM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Radiohead - Little By Little
Radiohead - Feral
Radiohead - Lotus Flower
Radiohead - Codex

That's a lot of Radiohead. I listened to Lotus Flower yesterday and from what I can tell, this is not going to click on the first time. I should probably get other Radiohead albums before I get the new one.

It's a very strange album and I guess it takes some time to get really into it. The first time I listened to it I only noticed that this time they hardly make use of melodies, everything is very "beat driven".
The second time I listened to it I could discover some melodies are hiding behind all those beats.

At 2/19/11 06:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: What the fuck Maiden? You have Airbourne, an AC/DC clone as a support act for the Manchester show and Trivium for the London show?

Lol, sellouts! :P

Good thing they'll never be as bad as Ozzy. I'd mention Metallica but the worst they did was making a mainstream friendly album?

I really wish the black album would be considered "mainstream" today as well. Whenever I listen to the radio I hear absolutely nothing that can be compared with the black album.
Other than that, I really don't see anything wrong with making tons of money with your music. ^^

Yeah, that I can live with. We can make "The absolute noisiest" as a joke bonus track.

Okay, that way we both are happy.

It's a good day in Wi/Ht? when we're both happy with something.

I marked the day in my calendar.

It'll be there before you know it.

I don't care too much for the future because the here and now is much more important to me. Maybe that's why I feel 2014 is so "far" away.

I can't predict where I'll be in 2014 but hopefully I'm getting along with my life well. Having a relationship by then WOULD be nice!

Life is full of surprises. :)

I take it you'll switch to Dark when you reach level 45. That'll separate you from gamejunkie.

Well, I always change my aura when I level up. Also of course the most fitting aura for level 45 is the dark aura.

If I knew I was going to be a BBS mod in August, I would have had dark aura with level 45 for a while.

That would've been amazing. Now you are stuck with that golden aura. :/

At 2/21/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/20/11 08:35 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/19/11 06:47 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/18/11 11:48 AM, Haggard wrote: I only saw this incident while I was already half asleep. But I guess Gattuso would stand no chance against Jordan.

They made footballers from sturdy materials back in the day. Especially scottish ones.

Yes, one can get the impression that scots are of tough stock. Jordan should've pulled out his fake teeth and look angrily at Gattuso. I bet he would've showed the white feather.

The fact that he did nothing said a lot more. "Y'arnae worth it, pal. Pish off hame tae yer mammy."

I doubt that Gattuso would be able to understand that. ^^

At 2/21/11 03:32 AM, reverend wrote:

At 2/20/11 02:59 PM, Auz wrote: Mashed potatoes with some vegetables I'd say. Not a very convenient type of food to fish out of the garbadge cans :p

So if I was a poor college student in the Netherlands, what would I survive on? Here in the US it's instant noodles like Ramen.

I think most students go for cheap pastas and microwaved food (pizzas etc.). Not many can cook that well, so they'd rather eat cheap and simple things :p

My gf loves to cook though, so I won't have to go into such a diet :)

I'm sure women can appreciate a guy with a sense of humor :p

A sense of humor can only go so far. Now, a sports car and a six figure salary...

The type of girl that would instantly fall for that wouldn't be the type of girl I like on the long run :p

At 2/21/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/20/11 02:59 PM, Auz wrote: I don't know about that, but Joe Pesci has this typical way of talking that only makes him suitable for mobster roles.

They'd better spell my name right, remember that! L-I-D-E-O! Frankie Lideo!

Either that or a case of getting him to play a bumbling fool in Home Alone.

I knew it! He plays Harry right? I recognized him from Home Alone, but other people said I was wrong. Ha!

Anyway, he's still a thief there. Close enough to a mobster.

At 2/21/11 08:14 AM, Bahamut wrote: LOL, I forgot Auz's posts since he made his post just a minute before mine last night.

Happens to me as well sometimes :)

At 2/20/11 02:59 PM, Auz wrote:

At 2/19/11 06:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Yeah, I don't care much about them getting BP or not. But on the forums it'd be nice to see some of them return.

Yeah, there's that or they can hang out on Retrogade.

But Retrogade has been closed for years now, hasn't it?

Well, I just think they look way different from their N64 appearance and I don't like how they tried to move away from their cartoony look and tried to add some realism to their images. They did the same with Conker, although there they didn't do such a crappy job.

I guess after what I've seen happening to Crash and Spyro, it's not so bad.

Maybe it's because they were your childhood heroes and Banjo, Kazooie and Conker were mine. It just doesn't feel right when they drastically change their looks like that.

I'll be 36 then... well I wouldn't be the oldest user ever on NG, but I doubt I'll be able to connect very well with the teenagers on these boards anymore :p

Don't worry, Tom and Wade should still be around as well as a few old folks we have right now.

We'd be like the elders of the BBS. Some kind of senate that will vote against any changes :p

I don't think we talked about limit breaks before. I think FF VIII system was alright, although you could abuse it to hell by keeping your HP low. That was actually the main attacking strategy for me throughout the game.

I wouldn't say abuse since you have to make sure you're not going to die, although that with Holy Water is downright abusive.

With high/maxed out Vitality it usually wasn't a big problem. Your limit break activates at 1/4th of max HP so with 2,499 HP remaining you could still take a hit or two. Otherwise you could always cast protect and shell.

Furthermore, you could upgrade your speed so that the ATB loaded in like... 0.1 second. I had that with Squall. I could rape about every enemy before he even noticed I was attacking him :p

In FF IX I think the limit break system sucked ass. It took ages to load it up and it happened to me often that I had already done enough to kill an opponent and had to let someone's limit break go to waste.

FFIX could have done without the limit break system as well as FFVI. VI is the worst since you could go throughout the game and not encounter it once.

Can't remember what it was like in FF VI again. Didn't they improve it in the GBA version?

I've never beaten those two weapons, but I can imagine it's very easy to beat Sephiroth if you can take on those.

It is. Just make sure you don't use Knights of the Round. Without it, Sephiroth can put out a bit of a fight.

Lol, yeah that summon was soooo cheap. Although it can not kill the weapons instantly if I remember correctly.

The thing about Sephiroth was, his Supernova always took 9/10th of your HP and would instantly charge up your limit breaks. So you could counter with Omnislash and what not which would pretty much kill him straight away (if you had decent attack that is though).

Heh, he never gets enough time to use Supernova on me. :P

Doesn't he start using it after his HP drops below 1/2 of his max health? I don't know, but he did use it on me once and afterwards I killed him with Omnislash.

At 2/21/11 12:14 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/20/11 02:59 PM, Auz wrote: Alright. I'm sure she'll gladly go there someday then,

YAY!

but perhaps not this summer yet. We might be a little bit short on funds due to us moving to Den Haag and all.

Oh... :(

I can't help it. So far we've invested hundreds of euros already and the furniture is probably going to cost us 1500 euros more at the very least. We might rather skip going on vacation this year.

Although we have some friends coming up with plans for a roadtrip in eastern Europe... sounded interesting to me, but I don't know yet. My summer holiday isn't very long and it might be better if I go find a summerjob to replenish my bank account.

I don't know if they could really have managed to take over countries like Russia, America, China and so forth. If they hadn't stranded in Russia, they would've probably stranded somewhere else.

Yes, I doubt they would've managed to take over the whole world, but over the half of Europe would be bad enough.

Maybe if things settled down, it wouldn't have been that bad for us. Although I wouldn't have been happy with the concentration camps of course =/

The profs don't care about eating, but occasionally some janitor walks around and tells people to put away their drinks and sandwiches. Most people just put their food back on the table as soon as the lecture starts though, the janitor won't come back in anyway :p

Lol, our janitors are too lazy to walk around the building anyway. ^^

Heh. I remember the janitors in high school seemed to work a lot harder than the ones in university.

I just turned level 24.... a week ago...

3k blams and 40k medal points.

Finally some sort of progress in something other than saves.

I just passed 2,222 blams. Onward and upward!

Rank 500 in B/P

Level up tomorrow.

Level 33.

3000 EXP points!

Level 31.

180 Ex in 18 days W00T the noob is now to level 5 im so proud lol

HOLY FUCKING EPICNESS. Yes, gfox is catching up, but that's not what I mean...

I just managed to catch up with one post, and had 2k+ characters to spare. Not sure whether to be overjoyed or saddened by this, so I'll be wistfully content instead. #;-}>

At 1/18/11 04:14 AM, Jolly wrote: Congrats to:
gfoxcook: Level 53

Thankee kindly!

At 1/17/11 08:24 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 1/17/11 08:11 PM, Jolly wrote: Level 55 is a super sexy level.

Aye... that it is.

I think I like level 56 a bit more, though. Level 55 is my 2nd favorite.

I don't remember what 56 looks like, but a lot of the mid-50s are good, yes. It's only towards the end of the 50s/60 that they get a bit silly. #;-}>

But everything is much better with a Dark Aura.

Says you!

Well, honestly.. There's a level or two I think Neutral looks better with, like Level 44... But it's only slightly better.

Dark is the best aura.

If there wasn't Neutral, I'd be Dark. It's the second best. #;-}>

You don't love green (and neutrality!) like I do, clearly. That's fine, different colours for everyone. :D

At 1/18/11 04:18 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/17/11 08:21 PM, gfoxcook wrote: YES, PLZ. Oh wait, it's probably stale by now. ;_;

I put some in the freezer, but I don't know if that helped at all. :/

That works better with ice creams and the like.

BUT I HAVE AND I WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO! Now where's your ToS GOD?!

BLASPHEMY! You'll feel the consequences of your actions soon enough!

Yes. The consequences being nothing out of the ordinary happening to me. WINRAR. #;-}>

"before noon" and "after noon" in Latin.

I figured that, but I don't know how to write it in latin. :P

Ante-Meridiem and Post-Meridiem and all. #;-}>

Well, they all sound silly to a non-German speaker, so rest assured. #;-}>

Oh. :(

Worry not, there are worse things than having a silly language, you sillyhead! :::ducks:::

At 1/18/11 05:38 AM, Coop wrote: Coop stops mid-flow for an impromptu sing song. Congratulations to:
gfoxcook: Level 53

Thank ya!

At 1/17/11 08:21 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 1/1/11 08:50 AM, Coop wrote:

At 12/31/10 12:15 PM, gfoxcook wrote: COOP FOR NG KING!

I shall wear my crown at a jaunty angle then.

First, paint your crown PINK AS HELL!

What? I'm neutral, so green all the way. Yellow is just a proto-green.

Oh, but of course. The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime it is, then.

Grab the paint can, Bahamut, I'll go fetch his crown!

lolololololol *Troll faic*

SEE! I knews it!

(see pic at bottom of ze post for my graphical representation of you mocking the people misinterpreting you)

Yes, with the exception that the troll faic should be replaced with my own face :P

But of course. But your own face imitating the troll face, not just looking normal or some such nonsense!

Balderdash! I would have passed him anyway, since he's going backwards for points.

Don't ruin the illusion!

Thankee kindly, good sir! Especially for reminding me of that latter side-achievement. Hadn't thought of that (recently). #;-}>

I should be 4x20k listed before your next catchup :P

Good for you. Congrats on ze 20k posts. #;-}>

At first I read that as "It should be 4x20k," as in meaning my 3x20k will be 4x20k before I catch up next. And I was all "WTF? How am I gonna get to 20k posts without catching up (many many many dozens of times) first?" #;-}> Then I re-read the first word and said "oh, nvm." Heh.

But speaking of 20k... I AM going to hit 20,000 total plays on Last.fm tonight, however!

Don't think that counts for the pentalist here on NG, though, unless Bahamut wants to super-inflate his already-high pentapoints total with his nearly 136,000 LFM plays. #;-}>

(HINT, HINT)

At 1/18/11 12:19 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/17/11 08:21 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

That isn't even manners at all. Who even uses their feet for knives and forks at a dinner table anyway?

A dragon who feels like it?

I don't see why any sane dragon would do that.

Again, who's going to stop them? #;-}>

ME!

You're going to stop yourself (the them refered to a sane dragon) from using your feet for knives and forks at the dinner table?

Well, very well, you can certainly do that (no one else will, which was the whole point), but then the key question remains:

Why would you WANT to prevent yourself from having such funs? #;-}>

UNCRATING HATS, there we go. #;-}>

Uncrating can be bad, especially when you paid for standard weapons as well as duel mini-games.

Yes, but if you get 2 hats out of 4 or 5 crates, which has happened to me at least twice, it's very fun. :D

At 1/19/11 12:14 PM, reverend wrote:

At 1/17/11 08:24 PM, gfoxcook wrote: In HONOUR of me?!?! more like DIShonour. ;_;

So if I do that are you going to commit seppuku?

Nope.avi

At 1/23/11 04:29 PM, Auz wrote:

At 1/17/11 08:24 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 1/1/11 04:27 PM, Auz wrote: Pussy!

Pfft. Courage would be silly in the case of a 0% chance of winning bet. A fool or a moron would take such a wager!

I should've come up with something more clever to still let you take that bet.

Well, it would have had to mislead me into thinking I had greater than a 50% chance, at the very least.

Work on that, and get back to me. #;-}>

I was actually thinking that we should nip it in the bud and just delete your accounts.

That's even worse. ;_; Blasphemer!

Yeah well, that's what you get for choosing your wife and your games over the Wi/Ht?.

Yes, how DARE I choose time with my wife and the best PC game of all time over my 10,000 hour in the past decade posting to Wi/Ht?. #;-}>

...

And that'll do it! Only got two congrats on level 53, I was a bit stunned. Come on, guys, I've only got a half dozen of these level ups left, and this IS the level up lounge. Get a bit more excited about my damned meaningless golden weapon icon avatars, okay? Jeeeez. #;-}>

Oh, and HAPPY NI-NI-NI DAY! (2-2-2 sounds like cats meowing in Japanese, so it's kinda like a Japanese Caturday, only it's once a year, not every weekend, but oh well! :::waits eagerly for Feb 22nd, 2022, since he doubts he'll be around for the one in 2222:::)

LEVEL 24!

Much better than the previous level.

STOP

hammer time

Coop will head off to the dentist, after congratulating:
gamejunkie: 8.50 Base Voting Power
Pokemonpoweguygcn: 55,000 Medal Points
Quinny: 5,555 Saves
Bahamut: 15,000 Medal Points
Cootie: 10,000 Experience; Triplelisted
k6ka: Level 24
sixflab: 3,000 Blams; 40,000 Medal Points
SCTE3: 900 Reviews (Flash)
DiMono: 2,222 Blams
Jolly: Top 500 B/Per
DarkSoldier: Level 33
High-Dark: 3,000 Experience
Kevin: Level 31
Jolly: Level 24
Martin: 25,000 Saves
jonthomson: Level 52 - You need to quit your butter smuggling job!

Thank you to:
gfoxcook

At 2/21/11 08:05 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/21/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/20/11 03:00 PM, Bahamut wrote: That's if I feel like it.

*pokes* Come on, it'll be like old times again!

There we go.

Yay! *achieves stuff*

So, these guys or Trivium? I may as well get a kick in the balls.

Mr friend Dave wanted to see Dragonforce as the alternative, since he's seen Trivium at Download. Not the biggest fan of AC/DC, so he likes to head for something at least a little Metal.

Hell, I would have wanted to see DragonForce as well. Out of the three, their music is better.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

At 2/21/11 10:04 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 2/21/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote: They'd better spell my name right, remember that! L-I-D-E-O! Frankie Lideo!

Interesting fact about that name. The director of the film was Frank Dileo. Its true.

Now that's incredible. I must remember that.

At 2/21/11 12:14 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/21/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/20/11 08:35 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/19/11 06:47 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/18/11 11:48 AM, Haggard wrote: I only saw this incident while I was already half asleep. But I guess Gattuso would stand no chance against Jordan.

They made footballers from sturdy materials back in the day. Especially scottish ones.

Yes, one can get the impression that scots are of tough stock. Jordan should've pulled out his fake teeth and look angrily at Gattuso. I bet he would've showed the white feather.

The fact that he did nothing said a lot more. "Y'arnae worth it, pal. Pish off hame tae yer mammy."

I doubt that Gattuso would be able to understand that. ^^

"We were both speaking in Scottish, I can't tell you what we actually said, because it's unprintable." Quote from Gattusso in the papers.

At 2/21/11 12:43 PM, Auz wrote:

At 2/21/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/20/11 02:59 PM, Auz wrote: I don't know about that, but Joe Pesci has this typical way of talking that only makes him suitable for mobster roles.

They'd better spell my name right, remember that! L-I-D-E-O! Frankie Lideo!

Either that or a case of getting him to play a bumbling fool in Home Alone.

I knew it! He plays Harry right? I recognized him from Home Alone, but other people said I was wrong. Ha!

Correct.

Anyway, he's still a thief there. Close enough to a mobster.

Bumbling mobster - one that gets bumped off as collateral damage early on in the film ;)

At 2/22/11 12:48 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 1/18/11 05:38 AM, Coop wrote:

At 1/17/11 08:21 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 1/1/11 08:50 AM, Coop wrote:

At 12/31/10 12:15 PM, gfoxcook wrote: COOP FOR NG KING!

I shall wear my crown at a jaunty angle then.

First, paint your crown PINK AS HELL!

What? I'm neutral, so green all the way. Yellow is just a proto-green.

Oh, but of course. The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime it is, then.

Grab the paint can, Bahamut, I'll go fetch his crown!

So what colour were we painting it again? Green is good, Gold and Black for Newgrounds is better, but I'll be here when you need me.

lolololololol *Troll faic*

SEE! I knews it!

(see pic at bottom of ze post for my graphical representation of you mocking the people misinterpreting you)

Yes, with the exception that the troll faic should be replaced with my own face :P

But of course. But your own face imitating the troll face, not just looking normal or some such nonsense!

I see that no-one is volunteering this for use yet...

Balderdash! I would have passed him anyway, since he's going backwards for points.

Don't ruin the illusion!

Aaw.

Thankee kindly, good sir! Especially for reminding me of that latter side-achievement. Hadn't thought of that (recently). #;-}>

I should be 4x20k listed before your next catchup :P

Good for you. Congrats on ze 20k posts. #;-}>

Thanks very much - now I need to focus on reviewing again. Sadly, Civ V is going to get in the way of that, I can tell.

At 2/21/11 08:05 AM, Bahamut wrote: Oh come on, do you think their security will stand up to a dragon with a huge sword dick?

Depends, I heard rumors that it's Level 26 instead of Level 55. :P
Regardless don't underestimate the defenses of NG. They might have knights which can defeat a dragon pretty quickly.

At 2/21/11 12:43 PM, Auz wrote: I think most students go for cheap pastas and microwaved food (pizzas etc.). Not many can cook that well, so they'd rather eat cheap and simple things :p

So really no different than over here. I was hoping there would be some exotic foods over there.

My gf loves to cook though, so I won't have to go into such a diet :)

Lucky, lucky.
I love cooking. I usually keep it simple since it's just me but whenever I visit family I'm usually the one doing all the cooking.

The type of girl that would instantly fall for that wouldn't be the type of girl I like on the long run :p

That is very true but shallow girls need love too.

At 2/22/11 12:48 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Nope.avi

So that's where that derives from. I've always wondered.

Listening to:

Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa. Who wants to know what that means?

Congrats to:

Cootie - 10,000 EXP and Triplelisted. Nice!
k6ka - Level 24
sixflab - 3,000 blams, 40,000 medal points
SCTE3 - 900 flash reviews
DiMono - 2,222 blams
Jolly - Top 500 B/P, Level 24
DarkSoldier - Level 33
High-Dark - 3,000 EXP
Kevin - Level 31
Martin - 25,000 saves
jonthomson - Level 52

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Coop

At 2/21/11 11:35 AM, DeviantArtDude wrote: I am on Level 5 right now, I will might make myself on Level 10 in a few months.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

At 2/21/11 12:14 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/20/11 03:00 PM, Bahamut wrote: That's a lot of Radiohead. I listened to Lotus Flower yesterday and from what I can tell, this is not going to click on the first time. I should probably get other Radiohead albums before I get the new one.

It's a very strange album and I guess it takes some time to get really into it. The first time I listened to it I only noticed that this time they hardly make use of melodies, everything is very "beat driven".
The second time I listened to it I could discover some melodies are hiding behind all those beats.

I hear it's a relaxing album and oddly enough, I'm wanting to get a few relaxing albums right now. Could this be the right bet or is there anything else from Radiohead I should get first?

Good thing they'll never be as bad as Ozzy. I'd mention Metallica but the worst they did was making a mainstream friendly album?

I really wish the black album would be considered "mainstream" today as well. Whenever I listen to the radio I hear absolutely nothing that can be compared with the black album.

I thought the black album was to have a more mainstream appeal. Nothing Else Matters is one that easily fits on radio stations.

Other than that, I really don't see anything wrong with making tons of money with your music. ^^

Well, going to the Load/ReLoad albums lost some meaning to the name Metallica.

It's a good day in Wi/Ht? when we're both happy with something.

I marked the day in my calendar.

Have you done this to any other days when we were both happy on something?

I can't predict where I'll be in 2014 but hopefully I'm getting along with my life well. Having a relationship by then WOULD be nice!

Life is full of surprises. :)

Of course, I even said that in my interview.

If I knew I was going to be a BBS mod in August, I would have had dark aura with level 45 for a while.

That would've been amazing. Now you are stuck with that golden aura. :/

Unless I ask to step down but we're far too late now.

At 2/21/11 12:43 PM, Auz wrote:

At 2/21/11 08:14 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yeah, there's that or they can hang out on Retrogade.

But Retrogade has been closed for years now, hasn't it?

Wrong, Retrogade is BACK! However, we're still in alpha phase.

I guess after what I've seen happening to Crash and Spyro, it's not so bad.

Maybe it's because they were your childhood heroes and Banjo, Kazooie and Conker were mine. It just doesn't feel right when they drastically change their looks like that.

I think even if I was with Nintendo back then, I'd still see the new Crash and Spyro 100x worse than new Banjo and Kazooie.

Don't worry, Tom and Wade should still be around as well as a few old folks we have right now.

We'd be like the elders of the BBS. Some kind of senate that will vote against any changes :p

And the young users better respect the elderly.

I wouldn't say abuse since you have to make sure you're not going to die, although that with Holy Water is downright abusive.

With high/maxed out Vitality it usually wasn't a big problem. Your limit break activates at 1/4th of max HP so with 2,499 HP remaining you could still take a hit or two. Otherwise you could always cast protect and shell.

When it comes to the bigger bosses, it's not a good idea to have low HP.

FFIX could have done without the limit break system as well as FFVI. VI is the worst since you could go throughout the game and not encounter it once.

Can't remember what it was like in FF VI again. Didn't they improve it in the GBA version?

I haven't got the GBA version yet, let alone playing it. However, I did win a copy for £12 on eBay so I'll get to that once I'm done with FFV. I could care less if FFVI Advance still has the limit break or not. It's never necessary to beat any bosses.

It is. Just make sure you don't use Knights of the Round. Without it, Sephiroth can put out a bit of a fight.

Lol, yeah that summon was soooo cheap. Although it can not kill the weapons instantly if I remember correctly.

Nah, the weapons are far too strong to be beaten down by the knights in one blow. Sephiroth on the other hand, he's toast if your magic is strong enough.

Heh, he never gets enough time to use Supernova on me. :P

Doesn't he start using it after his HP drops below 1/2 of his max health? I don't know, but he did use it on me once and afterwards I killed him with Omnislash.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a move that's used when he has low HP.

At 2/22/11 12:48 AM, gfoxcook wrote: HOLY FUCKING EPICNESS. Yes, gfox is catching up, but that's not what I mean...

Excellent! Now you'll disappear forever for MMORPGs?

At 1/18/11 12:19 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 1/17/11 08:21 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Again, who's going to stop them? #;-}>

ME!

You're going to stop yourself (the them refered to a sane dragon) from using your feet for knives and forks at the dinner table?

No, I'll stop any other dragon who tries to use their feet for knives and forks on the table.

Well, very well, you can certainly do that (no one else will, which was the whole point), but then the key question remains:

Why would you WANT to prevent yourself from having such funs? #;-}>

Again, it's not myself, it's the others.

Uncrating can be bad, especially when you paid for standard weapons as well as duel mini-games.

Yes, but if you get 2 hats out of 4 or 5 crates, which has happened to me at least twice, it's very fun. :D

I've had bad luck with crates recently. Getting Direct Hits and Force-a-Natures make me want to punch Robin Walker and Gabe Newell in their fucking faces.

At 2/22/11 04:50 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/21/11 08:05 AM, Bahamut wrote: There we go.

Yay! *achieves stuff*

OMG me too! I hope to aim for 1k medals before I go back to work, even though I should try even more productive things with my free time.

Hell, I would have wanted to see DragonForce as well. Out of the three, their music is better.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

I'd somewhat win in this case since I'd have the band I'd rather see live.

At 2/22/11 06:34 AM, reverend wrote:

At 2/21/11 08:05 AM, Bahamut wrote: Oh come on, do you think their security will stand up to a dragon with a huge sword dick?

Depends, I heard rumors that it's Level 26 instead of Level 55. :P

A shitblade can't stand up to a dragon.

Sergeant rank! (5,000 B/P)

Top 3,000 for experience.

65k medal points!

2nd achievement for the day :D

Listening to:
WIZO - Überflüssig
WIZO - Die letzte Sau
WIZO - Lug & Trug
Wizo - Das Goldene Stück

At 2/21/11 12:43 PM, Auz wrote:

At 2/21/11 12:14 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/20/11 02:59 PM, Auz wrote: Alright. I'm sure she'll gladly go there someday then,

YAY!

but perhaps not this summer yet. We might be a little bit short on funds due to us moving to Den Haag and all.

Oh... :(

I can't help it. So far we've invested hundreds of euros already and the furniture is probably going to cost us 1500 euros more at the very least. We might rather skip going on vacation this year.

For the first appartment I suggest second hand furniture. We bought a three-piece suite for 70 Euros(!) when we moved in here.

Although we have some friends coming up with plans for a roadtrip in eastern Europe... sounded interesting to me, but I don't know yet. My summer holiday isn't very long and it might be better if I go find a summerjob to replenish my bank account.

Sounds really nice, but I always wonder why people have so much free time to do such road trips, heh.
Oh well, our last trip to Scotland was pretty nice, even though it lasted for only 10 days. Next time we might go to Canada, but it would be a much longer trip than only 10 days. :)

I don't know if they could really have managed to take over countries like Russia, America, China and so forth. If they hadn't stranded in Russia, they would've probably stranded somewhere else.

Yes, I doubt they would've managed to take over the whole world, but over the half of Europe would be bad enough.

Maybe if things settled down, it wouldn't have been that bad for us. Although I wouldn't have been happy with the concentration camps of course =/

Just imagine this:
No freedom of speech - If you critize your leader, you might end up in prision
No free press - Because freedom of speech is limited, the press isn't free anymore as well
No "visiting other countries" - If there are "other countries" left I doubt you would be allowed to travel there. For example people who lived in eastern germany where only allowed to travel to Russia, Hungary and other "communist countries".
Plus: A leader whom you just can't understand, because he speaks so indistinguishable >_>

The profs don't care about eating, but occasionally some janitor walks around and tells people to put away their drinks and sandwiches. Most people just put their food back on the table as soon as the lecture starts though, the janitor won't come back in anyway :p

Lol, our janitors are too lazy to walk around the building anyway. ^^

Heh. I remember the janitors in high school seemed to work a lot harder than the ones in university.

At least they where really pissed when you tried to enter the schoolground when school was over.

At 2/22/11 12:48 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I just managed to catch up with one post, and had 2k+ characters to spare. Not sure whether to be overjoyed or saddened by this, so I'll be wistfully content instead. #;-}>

WE NEED MOAR LOUNGING!

At 1/18/11 04:18 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 1/17/11 08:21 PM, gfoxcook wrote: YES, PLZ. Oh wait, it's probably stale by now. ;_;

I put some in the freezer, but I don't know if that helped at all. :/

That works better with ice creams and the like.

You can have some instant cake...

BUT I HAVE AND I WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO! Now where's your ToS GOD?!

BLASPHEMY! You'll feel the consequences of your actions soon enough!

Yes. The consequences being nothing out of the ordinary happening to me. WINRAR. #;-}>

You will see where your blasphemous behaviour will get you, young man!

"before noon" and "after noon" in Latin.

I figured that, but I don't know how to write it in latin. :P

Ante-Meridiem and Post-Meridiem and all. #;-}>

Now I am a lot smarter! S-M-R-T!

Well, they all sound silly to a non-German speaker, so rest assured. #;-}>

Oh. :(

Worry not, there are worse things than having a silly language, you sillyhead! :::ducks:::

Yes, having a silly hat!

And that'll do it! Only got two congrats on level 53, I was a bit stunned.

WE NEED MOAR CONGRATULATING!

At 2/22/11 04:50 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/21/11 12:14 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/21/11 04:13 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/20/11 08:35 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/19/11 06:47 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/18/11 11:48 AM, Haggard wrote: I only saw this incident while I was already half asleep. But I guess Gattuso would stand no chance against Jordan.

They made footballers from sturdy materials back in the day. Especially scottish ones.

Yes, one can get the impression that scots are of tough stock. Jordan should've pulled out his fake teeth and look angrily at Gattuso. I bet he would've showed the white feather.

The fact that he did nothing said a lot more. "Y'arnae worth it, pal. Pish off hame tae yer mammy."

I doubt that Gattuso would be able to understand that. ^^

"We were both speaking in Scottish, I can't tell you what we actually said, because it's unprintable." Quote from Gattusso in the papers.

Lol, if I had any more space left in my signature, this quote would go straight to it.

8.00 total voting power!

third achievement of the day (probably last too)

I just noticed that I completly forgot to reply to Bahamut. Sorry. :'(

Listening to:
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Tom The Model

At 2/22/11 08:02 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/21/11 12:14 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/20/11 03:00 PM, Bahamut wrote: That's a lot of Radiohead. I listened to Lotus Flower yesterday and from what I can tell, this is not going to click on the first time. I should probably get other Radiohead albums before I get the new one.

It's a very strange album and I guess it takes some time to get really into it. The first time I listened to it I only noticed that this time they hardly make use of melodies, everything is very "beat driven".
The second time I listened to it I could discover some melodies are hiding behind all those beats.

I hear it's a relaxing album and oddly enough, I'm wanting to get a few relaxing albums right now. Could this be the right bet or is there anything else from Radiohead I should get first?

Hm, I guess it is somewhat relaxing. I think you can also relax to Kid A, but well... it's some kind of "uncomfortable relaxing", if you know what I mean.
The album I'm listening to right now (Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season) is a really quiet one and quite relaxing. ^^
Also, Beth Gibbons just has a really great voice, so the album is worth checking out, imo.

Good thing they'll never be as bad as Ozzy. I'd mention Metallica but the worst they did was making a mainstream friendly album?

I really wish the black album would be considered "mainstream" today as well. Whenever I listen to the radio I hear absolutely nothing that can be compared with the black album.

I thought the black album was to have a more mainstream appeal. Nothing Else Matters is one that easily fits on radio stations.

Yes, but that's about the only one. I just can't imagine hearing "Of Wolf and Man" on the radio.

Other than that, I really don't see anything wrong with making tons of money with your music. ^^

Well, going to the Load/ReLoad albums lost some meaning to the name Metallica.

"Fuel" could've been released on the black album as well. Just try it out yourself: Listen to the Black Album and then immediatly after that to Fuel.

It's a good day in Wi/Ht? when we're both happy with something.

I marked the day in my calendar.

Have you done this to any other days when we were both happy on something?

I think we never where happy about the same thing at the same time before.

If I knew I was going to be a BBS mod in August, I would have had dark aura with level 45 for a while.

That would've been amazing. Now you are stuck with that golden aura. :/

Unless I ask to step down but we're far too late now.

You could ask for a drop in Experience as well. :P

Lvl 28 MOTHERF*CKER !