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

I'm finally a rank three! I feel really good about it because it took so long since I make sure to watch every flash to its full extent.

Rank 4, here I come!

12,000 saves.

Listening to:
Death - Symbolic

Hats off to Amazon. They already sent me the Death album, and I didn't even had to pay shipping costs!

At 8/15/11 03:30 PM, Auz wrote:

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.

Sometimes I have the feeling that all the european languages are just one big familly. Well, except for french of course... XD

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.

Yeah. Like the time when they translated the pen&paper RPG "Dungeons and Dragons" literally. Everybody was like "WTF?"

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!"

Geitenbreier seems to be a pretty good word. A quick search for a translation revealed many useful translations.

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.

Hair Metal is awesome!

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.

And you can carry an unlimited amount of ammunition.

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).

Distracting mumbling isn't dubbed most of the time. So, no advanage for subtitles there. :P

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.

"Camping Life". Hm, judging by common stereotypes, this must be an awfully succesful show. :P

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.

Hm, we have RTL and RTL 2. I wonder what happened to RTL 3 and 6.
Also, RTL 2 is even worse than RTL.

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."

"It's not even a flesh wound!"

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.

I did a google search on this, and all I found was someone saying it was taped in front of a real audience.
M*A*S*H originally had a laughing track as well. They took it out in the geman dub. And for the DVD release they included the option to watch it in english without the laughing track. This is really nice.

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

Sometimes? All the fucking time! Especially with Al.

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

Which is why I almost never watch sitcoms.

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

Yeah, and they are so different. The exact opposite of Bill Cosby.

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.

I'm not too experienced with the original. All I can say is, she's whiney in the dubbed version as well.

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

Doesn't make much sense either.

Heinrich then?

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

Und Wilhelm?
I thought they were mostly named Wilhelm.

Wilhelm II. was the last german Kaiser.

At 8/15/11 04:35 AM, Bahamut wrote: And I managed to resist crashing the party with Manowar. I hope that saved your day.

It sure did.

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?

I guess Spiritual Healing will be the next album I get.

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?

When I said "above you" I actually didn't mean just you, but "you" in a broader sense. Like in "everyone". So, you are above me in XP rankings. So I should hate you for that. :P

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.

I don't know. Do dragons like being cuddled?

Oh man, almost reaching character limit with this post again. Characters remaining: 23

At 8/16/11 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote:

Oh man, almost reaching character limit with this post again. Characters remaining: 23

And now I know why I still had some characters left. Somehow the links I posted to my Clock Day Movies aren't there anymore. :(

So, here they are again:

• 

  Explaining Clock Day

  by Haggard

  Fun with Penguins: A penguin explains Clock Day

  Movie

  7,137 Views

  (Ages 13+)

• 

  A flash made of B's:Part5

  by Haggard

  The series continues

  Movie

  5,772 Views

  (Everyone)

I actually put some effort into the first one. It still looks shitty, though.

Review both of them and I'll respond to the reviews. ;)

Top 800 for B/P. Didn't think I'd go up so many places in one day.

26.000 Medal points.

Never thought i came this far

I forgot to mention yesterday, but I reached 25,000 B/P points. Only 5k to go, yay.

Today was like clock day, but with a lot less submissions. I blammed, at the very least, 4 submissions and they all passed. I hope I actually get a blam point soon... I'm nearing 3,000 Blams.

Congrats to:
Kevin: 16,000 B/P Points
Asandir: Top 700 B/Pers
Gagsy: Level 42
Nijsse: 25,000 Saves
Spilda-Bongwata: 10,000 Medal Points
Tycrane: 12,000 Saves
Quinny: Top 800 B/Pers
dx5231: 25,000 B/P Points

Coop seems to be getting over a virus, while congratulating:
Nijsse: 25,000 Saves
Spilda-Bongwata: 10,000 Medal Points
Tycrane: 12,000 Saves
Quinny: Top 800 B/Per
dx5231: 25,000 B/P

At 8/16/11 10:11 AM, Bahamut wrote: 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.

I doubt I'll even get 500 points for the week, unlike some.

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.

O.o

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?

Yes - this virus has laid me low, plus I'm trying to work through it (silly boy!), but I hope to get something sorted at some stage, as with the photos.

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.

lol :P

At 8/16/11 12:26 PM, Haggard wrote: Review both of them and I'll respond to the reviews. ;)

I hope the internet is working at Lunch.

At 8/16/11 10:12 AM, gamejunkie wrote: 187 saves and 1 blam. Which means my 172 other blam attempts were unsuccessful.

DAMMIT! Why can't I get a blam on Cock day?! *mutters*

Manilla Roadkill - Part 3: Road of Kings (Open the Gates)

Listening to:

Labyrinth - No Limits

At 8/16/11 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Death - Symbolic

Hats off to Amazon. They already sent me the Death album, and I didn't even had to pay shipping costs!

Free postage for a great album? Amazon sure treated you well.

At 8/15/11 04:35 AM, Bahamut wrote: And I managed to resist crashing the party with Manowar. I hope that saved your day.

It sure did.

You may not be lucky next time.

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

I guess Spiritual Healing will be the next album I get.

Let me know what that album is like.

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

When I said "above you" I actually didn't mean just you, but "you" in a broader sense. Like in "everyone". So, you are above me in XP rankings. So I should hate you for that. :P

But we're hating on those who are above me in EXP. So, that poxpower guy...

Just cuddle them all.

I don't know. Do dragons like being cuddled?

Sure they do. They do need a bit of love after all.

At 8/17/11 04:17 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/16/11 10:11 AM, Bahamut wrote: 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.

I doubt I'll even get 500 points for the week, unlike some.

And those will be possible suspects. I'll just stick to what I see from the top 10 gainers.

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

O.o

That's right, my flash has two other medals to find.

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

Yes - this virus has laid me low, plus I'm trying to work through it (silly boy!), but I hope to get something sorted at some stage, as with the photos.

Alright then. I look forward to it.

Oh goddammit, you beat me to it.

lol :P

At least I still made a fun comment of my own.

8,000 XP.

8000 posts. :D

I rankep up, I am a Sergeant Major now :D

At 8/16/11 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/15/11 03:30 PM, Auz wrote:

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

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

Sometimes I have the feeling that all the european languages are just one big familly. Well, except for french of course... XD

Those snobby French!

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

Yeah. Like the time when they translated the pen&paper RPG "Dungeons and Dragons" literally. Everybody was like "WTF?"

Verliesen und Drachen?

"Wat een geitenbreier!"

Geitenbreier seems to be a pretty good word. A quick search for a translation revealed many useful translations.

Yeah, the literal meaning is correct I suppose. However, it's a very uncommon, perhaps a bit old-fashioned insult. I'm sure if you seriously insulted someone with 'geitenbreier' you'd be laughed at :p

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.

Hair Metal is awesome!

Hair Metal? Makes me think of bands like Van Halen and Kiss.

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.

And you can carry an unlimited amount of ammunition.

Not only that, any small backpack can carry up to at least 20 items. No matter how big or heavy they are.

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).

Distracting mumbling isn't dubbed most of the time. So, no advanage for subtitles there. :P

Oh I see. Clever.

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.

"Camping Life". Hm, judging by common stereotypes, this must be an awfully succesful show. :P

Well it's mostly about a bunch of presentors going to France or some place to talk with Dutch people on vacation there and check out the area and the camping site and stuff. Not exactly top class television.

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.

Hm, we have RTL and RTL 2. I wonder what happened to RTL 3 and 6.
Also, RTL 2 is even worse than RTL.

Well here they are usually on the 4th, 5th and 7th channel so I suppose it makes sense. SBS6 is of course the 6th channel on most TVs.

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

"It's not even a flesh wound!"

Of course laughing without twitching a single muscle in his face :p

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.

I did a google search on this, and all I found was someone saying it was taped in front of a real audience.

Really? Seems odd to me, because again, the laughter pretty much always sounds similar. But if someone else says so...

M*A*S*H originally had a laughing track as well. They took it out in the geman dub. And for the DVD release they included the option to watch it in english without the laughing track. This is really nice.

Heh, I would definitely watch it without the laughing track if given the option.

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

Sometimes? All the fucking time! Especially with Al.

Lol, yeah Al always gets the most applaus. Christina Applegate gets a good deal of yelling and whistling too when she comes on.

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

Which is why I almost never watch sitcoms.

Me neither.

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

Yeah, and they are so different. The exact opposite of Bill Cosby.

I don't think I ever watched his show.

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

I'm not too experienced with the original. All I can say is, she's whiney in the dubbed version as well.

Alright, if you say so.

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

Doesn't make much sense either.

No I guess it doesn't, but at least it would make a bit more sense that they need a translator.

Und Wilhelm?
I thought they were mostly named Wilhelm.

Wilhelm II. was the last german Kaiser.

Oh, so there were only two then.

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

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.

What do you know. Someone made a flash about that video you send me a while ago (with the Dutch cops).

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

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

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.

Ah yes, every indestructable man has his kryptonite.

At 8/16/11 10:11 AM, Bahamut wrote: 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.

Well that won't be me.

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.

Well I'm just glad a lot of Clock Day related submission were listed in the top 10 of 15/08. I believe that was different last year.

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

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

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 don't know. I suppose it could be cool if you could see holograms and stuff without glasses, but I don't think it will do the films that much good.

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!

Are they all in 3D?

I thought Christopher Nolan prefered to stick to 2D so I would expect that The Dark Knight Rises will be in old fashioned 2D.

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

Or let it go forever. :P

Fine with me as well.

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.

That is true I suppose. Oh well, I'll see if I can find it then.

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.

I think it is, yes. Stores here have already anticipated on the price cuts, of course pretending that it's "A UNIQUE OFFER".

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.

Oh well, the luck stat was never that big of a deal to begin with.

In FFVIII it was a bit odd, because certain stats weren't so hard to max out. HP was easily maxed with Curaga or Full-Life spells, Vitality with Meltdown and spells like Ultima, Meteor and Flare pretty much instantly maxed out other stats if you were at a decent level. Of course getting the spells could be tedious but via item refinement it could be quite easy too.

In FFVII I remember it was quite tedious to morph all those enemies in that sunken... ga.... something, but it seemed to be the only way to max your stats.

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

Sadly not.

Too bad.

At 8/16/11 10:12 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 8/16/11 05:49 AM, Auz wrote:

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.

So you did get that one blam point? Nice.

At 8/17/11 05:57 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/16/11 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Death - Symbolic

Hats off to Amazon. They already sent me the Death album, and I didn't even had to pay shipping costs!

Free postage for a great album? Amazon sure treated you well.

It's one part of my order. The second part is the 9th season of Columbo, which is released in october. So, I was over the 20 Euro limit (if your order is above 20 euros, you don't pay shipping costs, don't know how high the limit is for amazon.co.uk), but I never thought they'd split the order in two parts and charge no shipping costs, since they now have to ship twice and none of the items reaches the 20 euro limit.

At 8/15/11 04:35 AM, Bahamut wrote: And I managed to resist crashing the party with Manowar. I hope that saved your day.

It sure did.

You may not be lucky next time.

On the other hand, if you want to crash my party with Manowar, this would mean, you'd be AT my party. You know, if you ever make it to my birthday party, I'd listen to a whole Manowar album with you.

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

I guess Spiritual Healing will be the next album I get.

Let me know what that album is like.

Will do.

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

When I said "above you" I actually didn't mean just you, but "you" in a broader sense. Like in "everyone". So, you are above me in XP rankings. So I should hate you for that. :P

But we're hating on those who are above me in EXP. So, that poxpower guy...

But there are only so many users above you. While I have one particular user above me that seems to like Afros really much...

Just cuddle them all.

I don't know. Do dragons like being cuddled?

Sure they do. They do need a bit of love after all.

But not all of them look as adorable as Bub and Bob.

At 8/17/11 04:21 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/16/11 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/15/11 03:30 PM, Auz wrote:

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

Sometimes I have the feeling that all the european languages are just one big familly. Well, except for french of course... XD

Those snobby French!

Off with their heads!

Yeah. Like the time when they translated the pen&paper RPG "Dungeons and Dragons" literally. Everybody was like "WTF?"

Verliesen und Drachen?

Kerker und Drachen. Also, the plural of Verlies would be Verliese.

"Wat een geitenbreier!"

Geitenbreier seems to be a pretty good word. A quick search for a translation revealed many useful translations.

Yeah, the literal meaning is correct I suppose. However, it's a very uncommon, perhaps a bit old-fashioned insult. I'm sure if you seriously insulted someone with 'geitenbreier' you'd be laughed at :p

Sounds a bit like "Geiermeier" (I hope "The Little Vampire" is known in the Netherlands...)

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.

Hair Metal is awesome!

Hair Metal? Makes me think of bands like Van Halen and Kiss.

Right on!

And you can carry an unlimited amount of ammunition.

Not only that, any small backpack can carry up to at least 20 items. No matter how big or heavy they are.

"Wait, where did I leave my bazooka..."

"Camping Life". Hm, judging by common stereotypes, this must be an awfully succesful show. :P

Well it's mostly about a bunch of presentors going to France or some place to talk with Dutch people on vacation there and check out the area and the camping site and stuff. Not exactly top class television.

But they do show a lot of caravans, right? :P

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.

Hm, we have RTL and RTL 2. I wonder what happened to RTL 3 and 6.
Also, RTL 2 is even worse than RTL.

Well here they are usually on the 4th, 5th and 7th channel so I suppose it makes sense. SBS6 is of course the 6th channel on most TVs.

Much like Pro7 is on the 7th channel here.
But I was more aiming for the names of the stations. If we have RTL and RTL 2 and you have RTL 4, where the hell is RTL 3?

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

"It's not even a flesh wound!"

Of course laughing without twitching a single muscle in his face :p

Yeah, I wonder how he does that.

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.

I did a google search on this, and all I found was someone saying it was taped in front of a real audience.

Really? Seems odd to me, because again, the laughter pretty much always sounds similar. But if someone else says so...

Maybe it was always the same audience?

M*A*S*H originally had a laughing track as well. They took it out in the geman dub. And for the DVD release they included the option to watch it in english without the laughing track. This is really nice.

Heh, I would definitely watch it without the laughing track if given the option.

Yeah, that's what we did. Most of the time I know where to laugh without a laughing track. ^^

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

Sometimes? All the fucking time! Especially with Al.

Lol, yeah Al always gets the most applaus. Christina Applegate gets a good deal of yelling and whistling too when she comes on.

Well yeah, she looks pretty nice. ^^

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

Which is why I almost never watch sitcoms.

Me neither.

*artificial laughter from an imaginary audience*

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

Yeah, and they are so different. The exact opposite of Bill Cosby.

I don't think I ever watched his show.

Me neither.
*even more artificial laughter*

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

I'm not too experienced with the original. All I can say is, she's whiney in the dubbed version as well.

Alright, if you say so.

*artificial laughter*
All right, all right! Can someone PLEASE get rid of this laughing box?

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

Doesn't make much sense either.

No I guess it doesn't, but at least it would make a bit more sense that they need a translator.

That's just the kind of stuff you have to live with if you watch dubbed films. Advantage subtitles, I guess.

Und Wilhelm?
I thought they were mostly named Wilhelm.

Wilhelm II. was the last german Kaiser.

Oh, so there were only two then.

Yes, two kaisers named Wilhelm. But there where also two Kings in the Kingdom of Württemberg who where also named Wilhelm I. and Wilhelm II.
Confusing.

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