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.

Congrats to:
Quinny: 8,000 Experience
SCTE3: 333 Art Reviews
Dream-of-Duke: 8,000 Post
Asandir: Sergeant Major

Reached level 8, small accomplishment but still an accomplishment

18,000 Saves.

Revisiting my youth just after the previous redesign today.

Level 50

Your turn, Auz.

Coop re-reads the ninja manual and dresses in black, before congratulating:
Quinny: 8,000 Experience
SCTE3: 333 Reviews (Art)
Dream-of-Duke: 8,000 Posts
Asandir: Sergeant Major
Jolly: 18,000 Saves

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

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.

So... have you calibrated your Mega Flare recently?

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

O.o

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

I've found 2 of the 3, now I'm stumped with the other one.

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.

My just over a week off starts tomorrow, so that should help me.

At 8/17/11 06:09 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 8/16/11 08:22 AM, Coop wrote: Only 50 failed blams? I think I had about 150-200 of them and still managed 97 Saves.

Well, over 50, but I don't know the number, but it IS over 50 failed blams.

Oh, that's okay then.

At 8/17/11 04:28 PM, Auz wrote:

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).

Yeah, I saw that, though I prefer the sketch.

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.

Perhaps I'll go and create some life of my own?

300 Audio Review Responses (:

Level up!

I'm now in the golden icons. I wasn't too big of a fan of level 47 at first, but with a golden aura behind it it is much more likable.

Listening to:

Root - Black Seal
Satan - Court in the Act

At 8/17/11 04:28 PM, Auz 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.

Well that won't be me.

I'm happy for you then.

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.

Yeah, the top 10 for Clock Day were all relevant submissions. Thankfully mine didn't win but it is high up on the collection page right now. So undeserving, though.

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.

It'll probably hurt your eyes that way, lol.

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?

Who cares if they are?

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

2D is the way to go.

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".

Hahahaha, obviously it's not.

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 FFX, it actually meant something. It added to the accuracy, evasion and critical hits so it was vital for the dark aeons.

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.

Yeah, that was the only way to max stat. You only needed to focus on power source and maybe the odd stuff from the others.

At 8/17/11 06:02 PM, Haggard wrote:

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

I better look into that. HMV does free shipping for CDs so I could do with pre-ordering Anthrax's new album and I might get something from Sepultura, Deicide or Cannibal Corpse (first album only).

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.

Wait, what is this?

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...

That guy is a complete and utter douchebag.

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

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

Then cuddle Bub and Bob even more.

At 8/18/11 02:51 AM, Coop wrote: Revisiting my youth just after the previous redesign today.

Level 50

Nice one. You know what means, Coop? Not long until my level up which is in 35 days time. Hang on, why am I looking forward to my next level when it's the shitty bow and arrow?

At 8/18/11 04:15 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/17/11 05:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: And those will be possible suspects. I'll just stick to what I see from the top 10 gainers.

So... have you calibrated your Mega Flare recently?

I'll save it for Sunday.

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

I've found 2 of the 3, now I'm stumped with the other one.

The last one is tricky.

Alright then. I look forward to it.

My just over a week off starts tomorrow, so that should help me.

Even better!

At 8/18/11 06:26 AM, Auz wrote: Level up!

I'm now in the golden icons. I wasn't too big of a fan of level 47 at first, but with a golden aura behind it it is much more likable.

I told you it was a great level icon.

You entered the top 900 in B/P Points. Outstanding!

yay

Exp rank: 666

Wonder how long it will stay.

Been a while since I have posted here. Just did a checkup on my stats and I have hit 43,000 B/P sometime in the last couple of weeks.

At 8/18/11 07:33 AM, Bahamut wrote: I better look into that. HMV does free shipping for CDs so I could do with pre-ordering Anthrax's new album and I might get something from Sepultura, Deicide or Cannibal Corpse (first album only).

Cannibal Corpse is one band I never will get an album from.

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.

Wait, what is this?

It's an invitation to all of my future birthday parties. :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...

That guy is a complete and utter douchebag.

Sure is. If he just could quit newgrounds (like he did with the BBS so long ago) I could finally pass him in Exp.

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

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

Then cuddle Bub and Bob even more.

Okay, that sounds good.

At 8/17/11 06:02 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/17/11 04:21 PM, Auz wrote: Those snobby French!

Off with their heads!

"They're dreadfully fond of beheading people there; the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive!"

Verliesen und Drachen?

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

Oh I see, I see. I looked it up and it did say Verliese, but plural with an N seemed more logical to me (cause in Dutch it's also usually an extra 'en' or 'n' for the plural).

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...)

The Little Vampire? Doesn't ring any bells here.

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

Right on!

But isn't that genre called "Glamour Rock"?

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..."

"Oh there it is, in the front pocket, next to the med kit, C4 explosives, machine guns and my trustworthy swiss knife."

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

Oh yeah I do think they do that. Like... rate caravans and all. Kinda like how they rate cars ("this one is modestly priced and is very child friendly.")

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?

I have no idea. Maybe it went bankrupt?

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

Yeah, I wonder how he does that.

Well he IS an ex-CIA agent of course, and martial arts expert, and his old partner betrayed him, and they kidnapped his wife and his daughter, and he has to deal with his past...

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?

Hehe, you think they could get them to watch hundreds of episodes live?

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. ^^

Yeah. But they still add pauses then? Or do they cut those out?

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. ^^

Indeed, she does :p

Me neither.

*artificial laughter from an imaginary audience*

I don't think I ever watched his show.

Me neither.
*even more artificial laughter*

Alright, if you say so.

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

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!*

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.

Yep.

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.

At the time when Germany still consisted of hundreds of little kingdoms?

At 8/18/11 02:51 AM, Coop wrote: Revisiting my youth just after the previous redesign today.

Level 50

Your turn, Auz.

Oh, I didn't know we were going to level up on the same day. Congrats! ^^

At 8/18/11 04:15 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/17/11 04:28 PM, Auz wrote: What do you know. Someone made a flash about that video you send me a while ago (with the Dutch cops).

Yeah, I saw that, though I prefer the sketch.

Of course, but I liked the reference.

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

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

Ah yes, every indestructable man has his kryptonite.

Perhaps I'll go and create some life of my own?

Nah that'll be too easy. How does a giant clock made of Mars sand sound?

At 8/18/11 07:33 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/17/11 04:28 PM, Auz wrote: Well that won't be me.

I'm happy for you then.

I'm happy for me too. No dragon rage on me :)

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.

Yeah, the top 10 for Clock Day were all relevant submissions. Thankfully mine didn't win but it is high up on the collection page right now. So undeserving, though.

Lol! It looks like Haggards submission also got included in the collection. I don't know how the order is determined...

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.

It'll probably hurt your eyes that way, lol.

Yeah and they'd probably need to reconstruct theaters because if I'm sitting in front I probably won't be able to see much of it (other holograms are obstructing my sight).

Are they all in 3D?

Who cares if they are?

Hopefully they'll at least offer the oppertunity to see it in 2D if they are also 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.

2D is the way to go.

I'm glad most great directors agree with that.

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

Hahahaha, obviously it's not.

Of course it isn't, but not everybody reads the gaming newspapers :p

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

In FFX, it actually meant something. It added to the accuracy, evasion and critical hits so it was vital for the dark aeons.

Oh yes, I've heard those were quite a bitch.

I think it did similar things in FFVIII (and perhaps other FF's too), but it's not like you really needed to boost it that much in those games. Boosting defense and strength was far more useful.

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.

Yeah, that was the only way to max stat. You only needed to focus on power source and maybe the odd stuff from the others.

Yeah, but it took ages. I remember I had Cloud at level 90 or so at some point and I was nearly done maxing his Strength stat, but that alone already required hours upon hours.

At 8/18/11 06:26 AM, Auz wrote: Level up!

I'm now in the golden icons. I wasn't too big of a fan of level 47 at first, but with a golden aura behind it it is much more likable.

I told you it was a great level icon.

I wouldn't call it great, but it's a fairly good one and the mod gold makes it come out nicely.

08/15/11 01:45 AM
24,000 Exp. Points

Congrats to:
Coop: Level 50
Soapbubble: 300 audio review responses
Auz: Level 47
FBIpolux: Level 46
Bryan: Private
SCTE3: 1,900 Audio reviews
tally1989: Top 900 B/Pers
Little-Rena: Top 666 in Experience
Emlfuryoflion: 43,000 B/P Points
GUTHRIE: 24,000 Experience

Thanks to:
Coop
Odyssic

At 8/15/11 03:16 AM, Coop wrote: We'll see. I'm not holding out for anything, but you never know what sort of creepy weirdo I might bump into :P

I'm sure the ladies love it when you call them 'creepy weirdo'.

At 8/15/11 04:35 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'm talking about my own gun.

What gun? All you have over there are bats, umbrellas and brooms to assault each other with.

At 8/15/11 04:06 PM, Auz wrote: 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 had to take a few days off NG to collect my thoughts. Modding is really becoming a buzz kill and I didn't get any joy in Clock Day. I can just feel myself drifting from NG.

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.

And that's why you need to ask if their is any cat meat in your sandwich. You'll never know for certain until you ask.

Oh you mean like the gay bears club? :p

Yeah. The way Chronamut makes it sound, the country is full of them.

Coop tries to stop feeling so rough, by taking it out on the Egyptians, in Russia. Congratulations to:
Soapbubble: 333 Audio Review Responses
Auz: Level 47
FBIpolux: Level 46
Bryan: Private
SCTE3: 1,900 Reviews (Audio)
tally1989: Top 900 B/Per
Little-Rena: 666 Most Experienced
Emlfuryoflion: 43,000 B/P
GUTHRIE: 24,000 Experience

Listening to:
Thin Lizzy - Out In The Fields
Foo Fighters - Hey, Johnny Park!
Jeff Wayne / Gary Osbourne - Thunder Child

Thank you to:
Odyssic
Jolly

At 8/18/11 07:33 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/18/11 02:51 AM, Coop wrote: Revisiting my youth just after the previous redesign today.

Level 50

Nice one. You know what means, Coop? Not long until my level up which is in 35 days time. Hang on, why am I looking forward to my next level when it's the shitty bow and arrow?

"Come on now workers, you still owe me ten more Iroquois twists."

At 8/18/11 04:15 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/17/11 05:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: And those will be possible suspects. I'll just stick to what I see from the top 10 gainers.

So... have you calibrated your Mega Flare recently?

I'll save it for Sunday.

How long does it take to calibrate that thing anyway?

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

I've found 2 of the 3, now I'm stumped with the other one.

The last one is tricky.

Clearly, I haven't found it. I spent half an hour looking for Tricky the clown, because of that. Clues plx.

Alright then. I look forward to it.

My just over a week off starts tomorrow, so that should help me.

Even better!

Still feeling shitty, stay tuned.

At 8/18/11 06:43 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/18/11 02:51 AM, Coop wrote: Revisiting my youth just after the previous redesign today.

Level 50

Your turn, Auz.

Oh, I didn't know we were going to level up on the same day. Congrats! ^^

It all happened when I deposited for you a few weeks back. I thought "he needs the same amount of experience as me to level. Sweet, we'll both level on the same day. Thus, I laid in wait!

At 8/18/11 04:15 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/17/11 04:28 PM, Auz wrote: What do you know. Someone made a flash about that video you send me a while ago (with the Dutch cops).

Yeah, I saw that, though I prefer the sketch.

Of course, but I liked the reference.

Nice to see classic comedy getting into things like this. Someone needs to make a dead peggey sketch for Clock Day.

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

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

Ah yes, every indestructable man has his kryptonite.

Perhaps I'll go and create some life of my own?

Nah that'll be too easy. How does a giant clock made of Mars sand sound?

What can you get for the man that has everything?

At 8/19/11 03:56 AM, reverend wrote:

At 8/15/11 03:16 AM, Coop wrote: We'll see. I'm not holding out for anything, but you never know what sort of creepy weirdo I might bump into :P

I'm sure the ladies love it when you call them 'creepy weirdo'.

You've never been in my home town on a Friday or Saturday night :P