Metal Monday - Week 33: Savatage - The Hourglass

Happy Clock Day everyone! Here's my Clock Day contribution:

• Unpublished Submission

Listening to:

Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling

At 8/14/11 01:30 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/14/11 09:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: And not once have I bothered with the extra for the 3D edition. It's not like I'm missing out on anything special.

Nope not at all. It's a cheap gimmick to nab some extra money, that's all.

And it will bite back later on!

That's it! Hopefully Sony will drop the 3DTV bullshit. They go non-stop about that crap at E3.

Oh yeah, I wonder how that will work out. I know some people who have a 3D TV now, but they still need to watch with those silly glasses and if you only got one pair of them...

Sony had to cut the prices on the 3DTV's. I guess they're not selling well.

They probably have to tell you that you need to get it online.

Hmm like find a site that offers it and I can play it on my PC?

Pretty much.

I'm guessing you've played SMB already. If you've got space left, it's a game you may as well pick up.

I've never beaten it or anything and never owned it either. But a friend of mine had it and we used to play it often.

You could try beating it then. :P

At least he's got a right mind with FFX-2. He'll go on about some horrible parts of the game (monkey scene) but he's still commenting on the gameplay. As a matter of fact, I can't remember what he said about the battle system now. To be fair, the battle system is good. It's a damn shame it was wasted on an awful game.

Can't remember exactly, but I thought he was fairly possitive about the battle system and the ability learning system. Of course the dress spheres are weird, but leveling them up was alright.

Oh yeah, that's it now. He did say the battle system was interesting and immediately commented on the Sphere Grid.

If I had any...

Fuck. So it's like Dragonheart for you then?

That's how it goes.

At 8/14/11 02:47 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/14/11 09:15 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/13/11 06:58 AM, Haggard wrote: Real life level up! Reached level 30 now!

I hope it was good.

Of course!

And I managed to resist crashing the party with Manowar. I hope that saved your day.

At 8/13/11 06:09 AM, Bahamut wrote: Good stuff! Individual Thought Patterns is another Death album to get.

Yes, but I already own that. :P

Oh, nevermind then. What about The Sound of Perseverance?

He should ragequit!

And this stupid blue dragon... oh, wait!

No Haggard, we're talking about those above me. Wait, don't you mean WavyGravy who used to call himself BahamutReborn?

Well, at least we're remembering this adorable dragon.

I can't decide if Grisu is more adorable or the Bubble Bobble dragons.

Just cuddle them all.

At 8/14/11 10:51 PM, reverend wrote:

At 8/13/11 06:09 AM, Bahamut wrote: Well, he is the boring fuck who watches crappy soap operas.

Well we all have our negative qualities. I'm sure you can look past that.

Nope, not for that boring turd.

Uhh, yeah, you do that. I'll have my shotgun ready.

Nice try. You live in the UK, you guys don't have guns or the Second Amendment there. :P

I'm talking about my own gun.

At 8/15/11 03:16 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/14/11 09:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: Don't forget!

I was so knackered and what not, I did forget. I'll get to it, don't worry.

It'll have to be tomorrow. You're not going to lose focus on Clock Day.

I'll probably pick it up when it comes out. Maybe, not definite.

I'll let you know how good it is.

I might let you know as well. :P

43,000 B/P points.

7,000 saves.

Cheers Clock Day :3

With the help of the clock day submission I've passed 77,000 BP!

Happy Clock Day everyone! I hope you're all enjoying yourselves. Here are some of my favourite submissions so far:

• 

  Leek + Renegade 2

  by StrangeClock

  Leek and Renegade are roommates.

  Movie

  7,068 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  Strawberry Slot Car

  by PineappleClock

  StrawberryClock gets to drive in this thrilling re-enactment of the novel by the same name

  Game

  20,374 Views

  (Everyone)

• 

  Invasion Of Teh Clocks

  by MadVTaco

  StrawberryClock shall rule Newgrounds!

  Movie

  15,315 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• Unsuitable Submission

  This submission contains age-rated material and requires an account to view.

• 

  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

I became a Corporal! Clock day helped boost it up quicker.

You passed 40000 Total Points. Bodacious!

What a bullshit achiev- errr, I passed 40k total points!

Hit 1k saves a little while earlier, it's the start of something.

I can never remember what level I am until it appears next to my posts.

At 8/14/11 02:47 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/13/11 01:05 PM, Auz wrote: Lol! I always imagine Scandinavian languages sounding even more silly to foreigners than Dutch does :p

Swedish seems to be pretty close to german. At least I heard from different sources that learning swedish isn't too hard for a guy who already speaks german.

I suppose. I think German is generally a bit closer to Scandinavian languages than Dutch.

Yeah. I know sometimes the subbing is also shit, but at least I can hear it then and laugh at the terrible job someone did translating it.

But sometimes it's more like *face palm*

True true. Occasionally I see a translation of which I wonder if the translator even understands the language, or the film for that matter.

Furthermore, phrases like "What an asshole!" have lead to plenty of creative and hilarious translations in the subtitles :p

Original: "He's a dirty motherfucker!"
Translation: "He isn't a very nice person."
XD

"Wat een geitenbreier!"

Seen it happen in several cartoons. I believe it was/is kinda hip to change the soundtrack from Japanese cartoons to something more... American if it's ever broadcasted on TV for children. This can sometimes just set an entirely different mood for a scene.

Well, if they replace shitty J-Pop with something else I have nothing against it.

Yes, but not every Japanese cartoon has shitty J-pop with a techno beat as a soundtrack :p And even then, it probably still beats shitty American 80's rock music for this purporse.

Yeah! They taught me how to double jump :D

They also taught me that doors are unbreakable, no matter how big your weapons are!

And eating a magical green mushrooms allows you to jump into lava pits, get crushed, get spiked etc. without dying. You'll just reappear brand new.

As long as it's not romantic comedies I'm open for anything.

How about Mulholland Drive? I cannot imagine watching this while reading subtitles. It's hard enough to follow the movie without reading subs. Let alone understanding the movie (I gave that up a long time ago ^^)

Heh, I actually did watch that one with subtitles and it was fine in my opinion. But I agree, the film is very confusing. Perhaps subtitles actually help a bit as they show you exactly what is important and what isn't (no distracting random mumbling at the background).

Lol!

We call our SBS6 the "camping channel", I suppose it's a similar set-up as your RTL.

"SBS 6 is de familiezender van Nederland met veel amusement, topseries, films, sport en (show) nieuws uit binnen-en buitenland."

"family station", sounds like "shitties station ever broadcasting" to me. ^^

Yeah family station which has a stupid news program that often highlights stuff like ducks getting saved by a group of children and a bunch of old folks complaining about a new sidewalk. Furthermore they got programs like "Camping Life" (which I suppose is where it has gotten its nickname from) and crappy 'Hollands Got Talent' shows.

I guess they're mostly aiming for the older audiences.

Also, you do have your own RTL in Holland, right?

Yep. We have RTL 4, RTL 5 and RTL7. They're alright in my opinion. RTL 4 has some nice programs from time to time.

It looks like they haven't included his horrible pain pace yet.

Amazing how he never even twitches a single muscle in his face while turning around the machete.

And how he laughs it away with "This? This is nothing."

Oh but the artificial laughter is in the original show as well, and plenty of sitcom shows use it so I'm kinda used to it by now (even though I don't like it much either).

I always thought it was real laughter in the original series. After all you can sometimes see the characters standing around doing nothing, while they wait for the laughter to die down.

Naah, I'm pretty sure they use a tape for that too. At least, the laughter pretty much always sounds the same so I doubt it's real. And yes, they usually wait for a second or two and stand still until the artificial laughter dies down. I guess it's supposed to trick you into thinking they're acting in front of an audience.

Do they sometimes also yell "WHOOOOOO" in the German version when Al Bundy or any of the other characters come in?

Anyway, it's one of the main things I dislike about sitcoms. Artificial laughter. In every one of those shows you can really distuingish a pattern of:
-Character A makes remark
-Character B says something witty
-*Artifical laughter for 2 seconds*
-Repeat former steps for 15 minutes

Though I do think Married with Children is an alright show. At least the jokes are sometimes actually funny in my opinion.

Anyway I think Peg needs to sound more whiney, like she does in the original ("but AAAAHAAAAAAAAL") :p

Oh, she does sound pretty whiney from time to time. ^^

Less whiney than in the original. She's constantly whinig there.

Lol, I can imagine. I thought one thing was that he kept talking to them but they couldn't really understand him.

Yeah, it's kinda dumb to get that young soldier (forgot his name, the guy who wants to carry around his typewriter at the beginning of the movie) to translate for them if they all speak german in the first place.

Lol yeah :p

They should've thought of a solution for that. Maybe a horrible German accent?

Heinrich then?

Heinrich is good. After all there where a few Kaisers named Heinrich.

Und Wilhelm?

I thought they were mostly named Wilhelm.

Trust I can not feel, only pain
And my burning mind has gone insane

Ok, I guess that covers it. No need to repeat the first and second verse here. ^^
Also, kinda odd to sing "Violent Revolution" while there are riots in England. Maybe they started rioting because of that song? :/

Yeah it's kinda applicable now to what happens in England.

B/P Level: Scout
Saves: 200

Blam? Protect!

At 8/14/11 10:51 PM, reverend wrote:

At 8/13/11 01:26 PM, Auz wrote: Oh yeah there were a bunch of people who had done next to nothing. At least I have done something, even though it's not much compared to the likes of Bahamut and Tom himself.

We can do what we have time to do. I barely have time for R&R on NG without having to babysit the Reviews and BBS let alone the Icons and Genres.

That's why I'm trying to sit back a little and relax when it comes to modding. I used to watch the forums like a hawk, but that really becomes a sore.

I think they'll look at me like 0.0 whaa...?

I'm not under the impression that employees of (fast food) restaurants know all that much about the food they're selling.

Yeah, I'm sure corporate tells them how to assemble it and doesn't mention about quality or what's really in it. Put lunch meat A on Bread slice B. Add condiment K and place Bread slice A on top.

Yep, that's what I would guess. It's not that they really NEED to know I suppose, but it would be nice if they could tell their customers what they are serving.

Oh come on. What can a couple of bears do?

According to Chronomut, have sex with you. That might be a different kind of bear that what you're thinking of though...

Oh you mean like the gay bears club? :p

At 8/15/11 03:16 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/14/11 01:30 PM, Auz wrote: Shit! I suppose making you fuck off to Mars isn't going to work.

Pfft, I did that shit in 1985!

Fuck! There goes my dream of being the first man on Mars :'(

At 8/15/11 04:35 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/14/11 01:30 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/14/11 09:15 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Nope not at all. It's a cheap gimmick to nab some extra money, that's all.

And it will bite back later on!

Hopefully! As long as they don't make an effort to improve the technology I'm staying away from those films as much as I can.

It's sad how my cinema is trying to rip off people by selling gold memberships now. "For only 6 euros a month extra you can visit all the 3D films you want without extra charge." (that's on top of the regular membership).
I hope most people will realise that they'll need to visit FIVE 3D films per month to get profit out of this deal, and that there is usually only one worth seeing at most anyway. Heck, there are hardly five 3D films screening right now and it's fucking blockbuster season.

Oh yeah, I wonder how that will work out. I know some people who have a 3D TV now, but they still need to watch with those silly glasses and if you only got one pair of them...

Sony had to cut the prices on the 3DTV's. I guess they're not selling well.

Good. Please let the 3D gimmick die until companies finally come up with decent technology for it.

Hmm like find a site that offers it and I can play it on my PC?

Pretty much.

I suppose I could look for that. Though I'd be a bit worried that it will be slightly different from the original (the translations and all). I'm a purist when it comes to that.

I've never beaten it or anything and never owned it either. But a friend of mine had it and we used to play it often.

You could try beating it then. :P

I suppose I could, but I've played plenty of Mario in my younger days. I'd rather go for something else I think.

Can't remember exactly, but I thought he was fairly possitive about the battle system and the ability learning system. Of course the dress spheres are weird, but leveling them up was alright.

Oh yeah, that's it now. He did say the battle system was interesting and immediately commented on the Sphere Grid.

Yeah, that it was way better than the Sphere Grid. I don't know, the Sphere Grid actually didn't seem all that bad to me, but I never played FFX so I can't really tell. What appealed to me was that you could set up your characters in any way you like. That freedom is sometimes missing in Final Fantasy games.

Fuck. So it's like Dragonheart for you then?

That's how it goes.

So... am I right to assume that in real life you sound just like Sean Connery?

13,000 total B/P.

well, with about ~225 saves for the day i think i'll have to call it a night. it's not the same as it used to be but the 10 year anniversary seems to have brought some good shit out

90,000 Medal Points! This took like forever, even so, I still got 10K more to go!

You passed 59,000 B/P! Congrats!

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

With that vote, you now have 22,480 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 46. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 23 hours, 58 minutes, and 22 seconds.

Well, that took over 6 years of regular depositing.

^CONGRATS goryblizzard your level is beastly

level 17 as of tonight

Level 37 #;-}>

1,000 saves

At 8/15/11 05:02 AM, Addict wrote: Clock Day is coming along great so far :)

Nope. This clock day was terrible. I was expecting it to be the biggest yet since it's the 10th year but it wasn't. Clock day was a disappointment.

Congrats to:
EJR: Sergeant
Addict: 14,000 Saves / 15,000 B/P Points
gamejunkie: 43,000 B/P Points
SCTE: Level 33
Quinny: 7,000 Saves
Martin: 40,000 B/P Points / Top 50 Savers / 34,000 Saves / Level 27
Auz: 77,000 B/P Points
Gimmick: Corporal
dx5231: 40,000 Total stats
joeyjoah: 1,000 Saves
atypop: Level 13
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 59,000 B/P Points
GoryBlizzard: Level 46
Spilda-Bongwata: Level 17 / 1,000 Saves
idiot-buster: Level 37

You passed 16000 B/P! Congrats!

Even though it's mostly P and not B

I entered the top 700 in B/P Points.

Just noticed my new gleaming sword. Feels fucking sexy.

Blams: 21,882 (+0 since last log)
Saves: 55,267 (+199 since last log)
Yesterday I said that if I could get 200 saves I'd be satisfied, lol. Oh well, at least it's not that much worse than last year when I got 217 saves. Too bad I failed again to get that illusive blam point. I did try to blam some, but to no avail.

On the more positive side:
Reviews that day: 5
Review responses: 210 (4 since last log)

Audio Reviews that day: 2
Audio Review responses: 76 (2 since last log)

I thought I'd finally put some effort into uppening my reviews a bit and some extra responses are always nice ^^

At 8/16/11 04:57 AM, Kevin wrote: I vote 2 on everything so I'm not effecting the score much and I still get save points.

This is the result.

sup bro, please die in a fire

Still feeling a little shitty, Coop congratulates:
EJR: Sergeant
Addict: 14,000 Saves; 15,000 B/P Savewhore.
gamejunkie: 43,000 B/P
SCTE3: Level 33
Quinny: 7,000 Saves
Martin: 40,000 B/P; Top 50 Protector; 34,000 Saves; Level 27
Auz: 77,000 B/P
Gimmick: Corporal
dx5231: 40,000 Total Points
joeyjoah: 1,000 Saves
Tycrane: 13,000 B/P
Hacsev: 90,000 Medal Points
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 59,000 B/P
GoryBlizzard: Level 46
idiot-buster: Level 37
Spilda-Bongwata: 1,000 Saves
Kevin: 16,000 B/P
Asandir: Top 700 B/Per
Gagsy: Level 42

At 8/15/11 03:52 AM, EJR wrote: Apparently I just became a Sargeant.

Nice.

No, you became a sergeant.

At least spell your rank right :P

At 8/15/11 04:35 AM, Bahamut wrote: Happy Clock Day everyone! Here's my Clock Day contribution:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/57 7068

You deserve a medal!

At 8/15/11 03:16 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/14/11 09:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: Don't forget!

I was so knackered and what not, I did forget. I'll get to it, don't worry.

It'll have to be tomorrow. You're not going to lose focus on Clock Day.

The only excuse for me l;osing focus was that I felt shitty. Given time, fluids and enough rest, I'll be back on form.

Hell, at least the videos from the London meet went up there :P

I'll probably pick it up when it comes out. Maybe, not definite.

I'll let you know how good it is.

I might let you know as well. :P

Fair enough.

At 8/15/11 10:11 AM, Auz wrote: Happy Clock Day everyone! I hope you're all enjoying yourselves. Here are some of my favourite submissions so far:

Exquisite choice, sir.

At 8/15/11 02:57 PM, atypop wrote: I can never remember what level I am until it appears next to my posts.

Click your username above every NG Page and you go to your profile. Check it there ;)

At 8/15/11 04:06 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/15/11 03:16 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/14/11 01:30 PM, Auz wrote: Shit! I suppose making you fuck off to Mars isn't going to work.

Pfft, I did that shit in 1985!

Fuck! There goes my dream of being the first man on Mars :'(

And yet, I am still not completely immortal - Tachyons are a weakness you've learned of.

At 8/15/11 07:39 PM, Odyssic wrote: Blams: 6110 (+0 since last log)
Saves: 25370 (+165 since last log)

After about 50+ failed blams, I think I will call it a day, looking back at last year.

Only 50 failed blams? I think I had about 150-200 of them and still managed 97 Saves.

At 8/16/11 05:33 AM, Gagsy wrote: Just noticed my new gleaming sword. Feels fucking sexy.

I wonder why... could it be to do with the fact that your level icon is now Bahahut's cock?

At 8/16/11 05:37 AM, Addict wrote: I really can't complain and neither can anyone else, it's hundreds of free save points. Y

Yeah, if you want to be a cock like that. You should still vote properly and try to delete the absolute turds that are out there.

At 8/16/11 07:54 AM, jonthomson wrote:

At 8/16/11 04:57 AM, Kevin wrote: I vote 2 on everything so I'm not effecting the score much and I still get save points.

This is the result.

sup bro, please die in a fire

Seconded.

25k saves! Not that amazing these days, but it feels nice anyway. =)

Submission-wise, Clock Day was a disappointment. My alt gained 168 saves while the blamming alt didn't even get anything. Not happy with that considering there were blatantly crap movies coming in. We'll see on Sunday who was save whoring the most and you WILL be questioned about it if I see you with the most points gained.

Listening to:

Dio - Angry Machines

At 8/15/11 10:11 AM, Auz wrote: Happy Clock Day everyone! I hope you're all enjoying yourselves. Here are some of my favourite submissions so far:

I came across a fair amount of good stuff. I'll have to check back on the highlights from Clock Day.

At 8/15/11 04:06 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/15/11 04:35 AM, Bahamut wrote: And it will bite back later on!

Hopefully! As long as they don't make an effort to improve the technology I'm staying away from those films as much as I can.

And is it even worth improving the technology for 3D effects?

I hope most people will realise that they'll need to visit FIVE 3D films per month to get profit out of this deal, and that there is usually only one worth seeing at most anyway. Heck, there are hardly five 3D films screening right now and it's fucking blockbuster season.

Hell, try thinking of five films worth watching from this year and five more for next year. Well, 2012 does have a few things to offer such as The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit (Part 1) and Pixar's Brave is looking good. I'm not quite sure about the Spider-Man reboot just yet but I'll at least give it a shot. The Avengers is another maybe so that makes it... FIVE!

Sony had to cut the prices on the 3DTV's. I guess they're not selling well.

Good. Please let the 3D gimmick die until companies finally come up with decent technology for it.

Or let it go forever. :P

Pretty much.

I suppose I could look for that. Though I'd be a bit worried that it will be slightly different from the original (the translations and all). I'm a purist when it comes to that.

It'll be better than nothing.

You could try beating it then. :P

I suppose I could, but I've played plenty of Mario in my younger days. I'd rather go for something else I think.

Ah well, save it for leftovers then. Actually, the offer for the free games might be too late for you now.

Oh yeah, that's it now. He did say the battle system was interesting and immediately commented on the Sphere Grid.

Yeah, that it was way better than the Sphere Grid. I don't know, the Sphere Grid actually didn't seem all that bad to me, but I never played FFX so I can't really tell. What appealed to me was that you could set up your characters in any way you like. That freedom is sometimes missing in Final Fantasy games.

I actually liked the Sphere Grid system. It combined the skill learning with stat increasing in one shot. Sure, navigation could be better but it was the best way to max your stats. Some games like FFVII and FFVIII made stat maxing tedious. Sure, getting 255 for luck in FFX is tedious as hell but at least the others are easy to reach.

That's how it goes.

So... am I right to assume that in real life you sound just like Sean Connery?

Sadly not.

At 8/16/11 05:33 AM, Gagsy wrote: Just noticed my new gleaming sword. Feels fucking sexy.

Oh look, it's my dick sword on your icon.

At 8/16/11 07:54 AM, jonthomson wrote:

At 8/16/11 04:57 AM, Kevin wrote: I vote 2 on everything so I'm not effecting the score much and I still get save points.

This is the result.

sup bro, please die in a fire

This! That's just as bad as voting five on everything. At least I made an effort to vote low on the crap efforts.

At 8/16/11 08:22 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/15/11 04:35 AM, Bahamut wrote: Happy Clock Day everyone! Here's my Clock Day contribution:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/57 7068

You deserve a medal!

Thanks for the inspiration! Now find the other two medals.

Hell, at least the videos from the London meet went up there :P

True that. Say, will you be making a recap for the meet?

At 8/16/11 05:33 AM, Gagsy wrote: Just noticed my new gleaming sword. Feels fucking sexy.

I wonder why... could it be to do with the fact that your level icon is now Bahahut's cock?

Oh goddammit, you beat me to it.

At 8/16/11 05:49 AM, Auz wrote: Blams: 21,882 (+0 since last log)
Saves: 55,267 (+199 since last log)

Nice try Auz.

My own effort was very similar.
24 hours straight voting.
Out of 360 flashes submitted on Clock Day, I managed to attain.
187 saves and 1 blam. Which means my 172 other blam attempts were unsuccessful.

10,000 medal points