At 11/21/11 05:15 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/21/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote: I am officially the 100th most experienced user ever to have logged on to Newgrounds.

Not only that, you're close to 22,222 posts. Yeah, I've still yet to make that 5k bridge between us.

Yeah, I'll just leave this here for now.

22,222 Posts

Coop is rather pissed that 3 of his posts disappeared overnight. Congratulations to:
GoryBlizzard: 8th NG Berfday

Listening to:
The Beatles - Back in the USSR
The Beatles - Get Back

Thank you to:
Odyssic (x2)

At 11/21/11 05:15 AM, Bahamut wrote:

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

At 11/20/11 08:28 AM, Bahamut wrote: Always good to listen to once in a while.

Most tracks on Toxicity are good to listen to. Perhaps I'll get their self-titled album at some stage, but I like this and Toxicity at the moment.

I still enjoy Toxicity a lot. Self-titled is worth getting for sure.

I've heard a few tracks off it, just never got around to getting the album itself.

Mind you, this week appears to be quite musical - 112 tracks have found their way onto my iTunes Library and I'll be getting a copy of the Discovery Boxed Set later this week :D

American Anthems II and 4 Beatles CDs which I'd never borrowed from Dad before... strange.

And that person is...

*opens golden envelope with gaudy image of Bahamut on it* And the winner of Bahamut's love and affection 2011, is...

It's a tie! That's right, the invitation goes to both Coop and Gagsy.

So, how about a threesome?

I think my facial hair means that's a no :P Ladies first, as we gentlemen say.

At 11/21/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote: I am officially the 100th most experienced user ever to have logged on to Newgrounds.

Not only that, you're close to 22,222 posts. Yeah, I've still yet to make that 5k bridge between us.

I was up to 22,222, but I'll get back there in a few minutes. I'm sure you'll do what you have to do.

At 11/21/11 07:07 AM, Decky wrote: You two's stats make me sad :(.

You signed up in 2010. We were both new to this game in 2004. These things take time.

I'm approaching the top 6,000 experience and nearing the 2,000 posts milestone. One day they'll be impressive, one day.

Exactly - we never went out there on day 1 thinking that these milestones would just appear overnight. They have taken time and effort.

Hey guys, I finally made my review for Megadeth's Th1rt3en.

Listening to:

Megadeth - Youthanasia

At 11/21/11 07:07 AM, Decky wrote:

At 11/21/11 05:15 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/21/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote: I am officially the 100th most experienced user ever to have logged on to Newgrounds.

Not only that, you're close to 22,222 posts. Yeah, I've still yet to make that 5k bridge between us.

You two's stats make me sad :(. I'm approaching the top 6,000 experience and nearing the 2,000 posts milestone. One day they'll be impressive, one day.

You'll be with the big boys someday. I remember saying that to Gagsy and look where she is now.

At 11/21/11 10:57 AM, Coop wrote: Yeah, I'll just leave this here for now.

22,222 Posts

Too bad you didn't do anything special for it.

At 11/21/11 11:55 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 11/20/11 08:28 AM, Bahamut wrote: Spoony has badmouthed Zelda many times, although the difference is that Jim Sterling works as an editor for Destructoid and has several big roles.

Spoony doesn't like anything, nah but seriously, what you said. Jim is a pretty big game reviewer, and Nintendo actually send him games to review.

Haha, his latest Jimquisition had him saying "Fuck you Sony, fuck you Nintendo and FUCK YOU EA!" It's OK, he'll still get their games to review. I look forward to when I receive some promos for album releases and I give them bad reviews because I didn't enjoy them. Chances are they won't speak to me again after it. :P

At 11/22/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/21/11 05:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: I still enjoy Toxicity a lot. Self-titled is worth getting for sure.

I've heard a few tracks off it, just never got around to getting the album itself.

I understand. It should only be £5 in HMV so it's worth it.

It's a tie! That's right, the invitation goes to both Coop and Gagsy.

So, how about a threesome?

I think my facial hair means that's a no :P Ladies first, as we gentlemen say.

OK Gagsy, you're first!

Congratulations to:

Nemo103 - Base VP 5.00
DoctorStrongbad - 1,000 posts
SCTE3 15,000 medal points
Hacsev - 45,000 B/P
sushi13 - top 1,000 experience
Coop - top 100 experience & 22,222 posts
GoryBlizzard - 8 years on NG

M - Merauder.
No, I haven't abandoned this.

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

At 11/20/11 02:38 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/19/11 07:06 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/18/11 08:01 AM, Haggard wrote: All right, my brother told me yesterday that he ordered two tickets for the champions league match ManCity vs Bayern Munich, today we looked up a few flights. So, I will be in Manchester from December 6th to December 8th.

Anybody interested in a small meet up either on the 6th or the 7th before the match?

Were that my money would allow it - I am struggling to make financial ends meet before the January meet in Manchester, so I'm still a maybe on that front.

See above. Maybe the place of the potential meet up has to be moved to Liverpool.

There's not much in it - a return from Worcester to Liverpool against a return Worcester to Manchester. You're talking a train to Birmingham and either a coach or a train onwards.

For me it would be cheaper if the meet up would happen in Manchester (duh!), but if Bahamut can't make it that would be a pity.

Also - on a totaly unrelated sidenote - I still think it's hilarious how "Worcester" is pronounced "Wuuster". It's like writing "ghoti" and saying "It's pronounced 'fish'".
ENGLISH LANGUAGE! Y U MAKE NO SENSE!

At 11/16/11 08:54 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/15/11 09:53 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/15/11 04:05 AM, Coop wrote: Hitler
Dustbin

I will have to watch this videos on a later date. I'm on my netbook again, waiting for the next "lecture" (it's not really a lecture...) to start.

Well, he's the funniest thing ever to have come out of India, for a start, but I'm sure you'll enjoy them.

Still hadn't had the time to watch it. Damn!

Some things are worth the wait

Haste makes waste!

Oh yes, but the pies are totally worth it.
O.o Remember, you're supposed to be giving me reasons to go there...

Hitler with a Ukulele. That was hilarious.

At 11/21/11 05:15 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/20/11 02:38 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/18/11 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: That's during the weekday. It'll be difficult for me with all the interviews going on.

Maybe I will visit you in Liverpool, then. A return ticket isn't THAT expensive and I have a whole day to waste after all. The match doesn't start until 20:45.

I'm becoming more and more weary about possibly having a job by then. Considering I have three jobs to hear back from, it's likely I could start soon. I'll have a definite answer next week but then there's the chance I could have yet more interviews. How desperate are you to see Liverpool itself?

Is there anyting worth to see in Liverpool? Google image search gives me 3 pages of Liverpool FC before showing me the a picture of the skyline. Lol.

We're in a sad age for the internet when IE can be defended.

True. :(
At least IE6 finally dies out.

But AOL lives on. Well, at least they have the IM service.

AIM is shit. Also, they had that annoying ad back in the early 00's with that yellow man making noises...

I use Windows.

Opera almost never crashes for me when running Windows.

Either you've dodged every bullet or Opera is paying you to defend them. :P

I would be happy if Opera would pay me, but no, that's not the case. It just never fails for me. :P
Well, never, except for when web programers are too stupid to code correct HTML and they then make use of browser sniffing to lock Opera out of their web pages. FAIL!

How else will you shock us?

If I would tell you then it wouldn't be as shocking anymore. Plus, I really have no idea how I should shock you. Or why.

You better come up with something.

This leaves the question "Why?" unanswered, still.

At 11/18/11 05:49 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/17/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: If that was Berlusconi's salary than kudos to him on that aspect. Many other politicians in his position with that kind of power would've at least wanted a few million I'm sure.

I'm sure that Cameron is on this kind of money

In the UK I bet they have set the bar at that level, but I doubt Berlusconi has the decency.

At 11/18/11 08:01 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/16/11 03:18 PM, Auz wrote: Could be. I don't know. It doesn't help that I don't speak Spanish.

Me neither. :(

Also: Germany 3 - 0 Holland! Sorry, I just had to do that! :P

Grrrrrr!!

Well I haven't seen the match because I don't care much for the friendlies to be honest (matches are usually boring as hell). But from what I heard Germany fully deserved the victory. Holland has really been playing crap lately. Lost to Sweden, tied to Switzerland, lost to Germany... if they play like this at the EC I doubt they'll make it through the group phase.

At 11/18/11 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/17/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: TGWTG is not so bad, is he? I don't follow him that closely, but I do find that he has some good stuff every now and again.

Doug Walker is terrible these days. Did you see Suburban Knights? My god, the shit factor that film exceeded Seltzerberg. Couldn't even stand watching his videos since and now he's on a heavier decline with heavily repeating his old meme-like jokes over and over again and now starting to steal jokes from the internet or blindly throwing in clips. When you have three episodes running with at least one Monty Python clip thrown in (as great as it is), that's when you should start freshening up your show a bit. At this point there shouldn't even be anything for his NC videos to review.

I didn't watch Suburban Knights, no. I was interested, but I just never got to watching it and forgot about it.

Anyway, I remember most of his older videos were pretty good and well watchable. He had decent opinions on things and occasionally he had some good jokes.

I also still like Spoony's main videos, but he hasn't really done anything in a while. I'm still waiting for the next FFX-II episode.

He was meant to get something else out according to his Twitter. He seems to do fine with the vlogs but I don't watch them since I don't need him to go on for an hour about one film. That's another reason why I stopped watching NC and Linkara since they couldn't justify 30 minutes of reviewing one thing.

Well he did a one and a half hour review of Twilight: Breaking Down recently (together with Linkara and JewWario live in video chat), which was waaaay too long in my opinion. I did actually sit through the whole thing (not in one sit though) because it was pretty funny. But I really hope he isn't going to make this standard, because in that amount of the time I'd rather go watch the film myself instead.

I just wish he would cut back to 15-20 minutes again. That's an okay sit for the viewers and provides him more than enough time to express his thoughts. He doesn't need to cover every single minute of the film.

Never heard of Jim Sterling, I think...?

He's a review editor for Destructoid and does weekly videos for his Jimquisition series. It's like my gaming rants but better. His videos are usually around 5 minutes so it's all within decent timing. Well, he can't have them for long considering he has a lot to do on Destructoid as well.

Oh I see. Well if it's only 5 minutes I might as well watch a few. Any recommendations?

And did they also add the ending with Saruman taking over the Shire and then Frodo and co. come to save the day? That would've been an hilarious ending to the trilogy :p

It was a little more than that. :P

An additional 15 endings? :p

Out of curiosity, is there a European equivalent for Thanksgiving? I'm gearing up for the US version and it's going to be a busy day of family and food, I can feel it.

Your experience gave you a voting power of 7.00 votes. Your blam and protection points gave you an additional 48% of your experience power, meaning that your total vote power was worth 10.35 votes!

7 Voting Power.

At 11/22/11 07:37 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/18/11 08:01 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/16/11 03:18 PM, Auz wrote: Could be. I don't know. It doesn't help that I don't speak Spanish.

Me neither. :(

Also: Germany 3 - 0 Holland! Sorry, I just had to do that! :P

Grrrrrr!!

LOL! (see picture below)

Well I haven't seen the match because I don't care much for the friendlies to be honest (matches are usually boring as hell).

Yeah, haven't watched it either, just some parts every now and then.

But from what I heard Germany fully deserved the victory. Holland has really been playing crap lately. Lost to Sweden, tied to Switzerland, lost to Germany... if they play like this at the EC I doubt they'll make it through the group phase.

I was surprised how weak the holland team was. I mean, they just CAN'T be happy with losing 3:0 against one of their biggest rivals, even if it was just a friendly match.
But don't worry about the EC. I think Holland is a lot like Germany: Playing like crap just prior to a tournament, starting very weak into the tournament but performing "better than expected" later on. ^^

At 11/22/11 09:17 PM, reverend wrote: Out of curiosity, is there a European equivalent for Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving is a bit like the "Harvest Festival", even though the harvest festival isn't such a big thing europe.

At 11/23/11 02:00 AM, Haggard wrote: LOL! (see picture below)

Yeah, I forgot to include the pic....

Saves: 9,000

Just another 1k to go :D...

if only i could blams as quick... nothing seems to die anymore! >:(

Coop tries to avoid throttling his sister in law, while congratulating:
Jolly: 7.00 Base Voting Power
LegolaSS: 7,000 Saves

Listening to:
Whitesnake - Would I Lie To You?
Alice Cooper - Eat Some More
Alice Cooper - I Just Wanna Be God
The Knack - My Sharona
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

Thank you to:
philonous (x2)

At 11/22/11 06:54 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/21/11 07:07 AM, Decky wrote:

At 11/21/11 05:15 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/21/11 04:09 AM, Coop wrote: I am officially the 100th most experienced user ever to have logged on to Newgrounds.

Not only that, you're close to 22,222 posts. Yeah, I've still yet to make that 5k bridge between us.

You two's stats make me sad :(. I'm approaching the top 6,000 experience and nearing the 2,000 posts milestone. One day they'll be impressive, one day.

You'll be with the big boys someday. I remember saying that to Gagsy and look where she is now.

Potentially spit-roasted between a stat-whore and a dragon. Tasty :P

At 11/21/11 10:57 AM, Coop wrote: Yeah, I'll just leave this here for now.

22,222 Posts

Too bad you didn't do anything special for it.

Like what? I've got big plans for 30k, trust me.

At 11/22/11 03:54 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/21/11 05:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: I still enjoy Toxicity a lot. Self-titled is worth getting for sure.

I've heard a few tracks off it, just never got around to getting the album itself.

I understand. It should only be £5 in HMV so it's worth it.

Ah, but the budget for Xmas is already crippled, by a £1,200 bill from Mastercard >:( Xmas is cancelled for my family!

At 11/22/11 01:38 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/21/11 04:04 AM, Coop wrote: There's not much in it - a return from Worcester to Liverpool against a return Worcester to Manchester. You're talking a train to Birmingham and either a coach or a train onwards.

For me it would be cheaper if the meet up would happen in Manchester (duh!), but if Bahamut can't make it that would be a pity.

Yeah, I understand. I hope you guys win though - I hate Man City almost as much as Man Utd!

Also - on a totaly unrelated sidenote - I still think it's hilarious how "Worcester" is pronounced "Wuuster". It's like writing "ghoti" and saying "It's pronounced 'fish'".
ENGLISH LANGUAGE! Y U MAKE NO SENSE!

Have you not met my friend, Mr. Cholmondly-Warner? It's pronounced "Chum-lee", but it doesn't look like it :P

I love heading particularly American tourists asking for directions to "Lee-ah-ming-ton Spar", as opposed to "Lemm-ing-ton Spar" Leamington is a lovely place. Worcester is just pronounced as that by the locals. Your could probably get away with pronouncing it as "Worster", but our accent changes it to Wusster.

Hitler with a Ukulele. That was hilarious.

Like I said, Spike was a genius. Sadly missed.

At 11/22/11 07:37 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/18/11 05:49 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/17/11 03:51 PM, Auz wrote: If that was Berlusconi's salary than kudos to him on that aspect. Many other politicians in his position with that kind of power would've at least wanted a few million I'm sure.

I'm sure that Cameron is on this kind of money

In the UK I bet they have set the bar at that level, but I doubt Berlusconi has the decency.

Woah, woah, hold on a second - I'm not having you suggest that our politicians are decent upstanding members of society. They are cheating, lying embezzlers, who only leave their job if the very worst happens and there isn't a shred of halfway decent reputation that they can still cling onto.

At 11/22/11 09:17 PM, reverend wrote: Out of curiosity, is there a European equivalent for Thanksgiving? I'm gearing up for the US version and it's going to be a busy day of family and food, I can feel it.

Not that I know of. Unless you mean Xmas, that is.

We just get on with it and make the most of any holiday we can get.

Listening to:

Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero

At 11/22/11 08:19 AM, Odyssic wrote: It's a good reason for this though, with SOPA going to fuck everything up. Jim is slowing becoming one of my favourite internet reviewer/rant person, I would hate for all his episodes to be gone just after I got into them.

I just don't see this bill passing at all, even if we're all speaking against it. It's way too much hassle to be even worth it. Remember ACTA?

At 11/22/11 01:38 PM, Haggard wrote: M - Merauder.
No, I haven't abandoned this.

So, this is a bonus post as opposed to the long awaited Manowar review.

Good luck with N.

At 11/21/11 05:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'm becoming more and more weary about possibly having a job by then. Considering I have three jobs to hear back from, it's likely I could start soon. I'll have a definite answer next week but then there's the chance I could have yet more interviews. How desperate are you to see Liverpool itself?

Is there anyting worth to see in Liverpool? Google image search gives me 3 pages of Liverpool FC before showing me the a picture of the skyline. Lol.

Well, are you a Beatles fan? Plenty of stuff to check out relating to them.

But AOL lives on. Well, at least they have the IM service.

AIM is shit. Also, they had that annoying ad back in the early 00's with that yellow man making noises...

Yet we still use it, lol.

Either you've dodged every bullet or Opera is paying you to defend them. :P

I would be happy if Opera would pay me, but no, that's not the case. It just never fails for me. :P

Then you are dodging all those bullets.

You better come up with something.

This leaves the question "Why?" unanswered, still.

Now that's shocking.

At 11/22/11 07:37 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/18/11 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: Doug Walker is terrible these days. Did you see Suburban Knights? My god, the shit factor that film exceeded Seltzerberg. Couldn't even stand watching his videos since and now he's on a heavier decline with heavily repeating his old meme-like jokes over and over again and now starting to steal jokes from the internet or blindly throwing in clips. When you have three episodes running with at least one Monty Python clip thrown in (as great as it is), that's when you should start freshening up your show a bit. At this point there shouldn't even be anything for his NC videos to review.

I didn't watch Suburban Knights, no. I was interested, but I just never got to watching it and forgot about it.

Yeah, it may have Spoony in it but he doesn't save the film that much. I will say that some of the better parts of the film were actually from his appearances but then you had the idiotic writers overdoing the jokes which ended up ruining them.

Anyway, I remember most of his older videos were pretty good and well watchable. He had decent opinions on things and occasionally he had some good jokes.

By old, you could mean his sketches from 2006 or before. :P Now that's old school TGWTG. Even when considering his main videos, NC and Bum Reviews were at their best in 2008. 2009 still had plenty of moments but 2010 had many forgettable videos. Both of these characters are drawn out at this point.

Oh, and when Doug has to make a reference to My Little Pony, you know he jumped the fucking shark.

He was meant to get something else out according to his Twitter. He seems to do fine with the vlogs but I don't watch them since I don't need him to go on for an hour about one film. That's another reason why I stopped watching NC and Linkara since they couldn't justify 30 minutes of reviewing one thing.

Well he did a one and a half hour review of Twilight: Breaking Down recently (together with Linkara and JewWario live in video chat), which was waaaay too long in my opinion. I did actually sit through the whole thing (not in one sit though) because it was pretty funny. But I really hope he isn't going to make this standard, because in that amount of the time I'd rather go watch the film myself instead.

I thought 50 minutes of trash talking Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was enough. I went through that but there was a lot of time spent on "Is movie X better or worse than Transformers?" More and more I focus on other video makers for genuine reviews. A lot I've seen are straight to the point and don't drag for 30 minutes.

He's a review editor for Destructoid and does weekly videos for his Jimquisition series. It's like my gaming rants but better. His videos are usually around 5 minutes so it's all within decent timing. Well, he can't have them for long considering he has a lot to do on Destructoid as well.

Oh I see. Well if it's only 5 minutes I might as well watch a few. Any recommendations?

I'll throw in some videos. Boycotting and the current state of Square Enix are good examples of what he does on a weekly basis.

It was a little more than that. :P

An additional 15 endings? :p

Well, it is LOTR extended so that should be the case.

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/22/11 06:54 AM, Bahamut wrote: You'll be with the big boys someday. I remember saying that to Gagsy and look where she is now.

Potentially spit-roasted between a stat-whore and a dragon. Tasty :P

Goddammit Coop, you don't need to keep eyeing on my crotch.

Too bad you didn't do anything special for it.

Like what? I've got big plans for 30k, trust me.

See you there in five years. I'll try for next year.

I understand. It should only be £5 in HMV so it's worth it.

Ah, but the budget for Xmas is already crippled, by a £1,200 bill from Mastercard >:( Xmas is cancelled for my family!

Now that blows.

Level 33.

At 11/22/11 09:17 PM, reverend wrote: Out of curiosity, is there a European equivalent for Thanksgiving? I'm gearing up for the US version and it's going to be a busy day of family and food, I can feel it.

Nope, and I see no reason for why we should celebrate Thanksgiving.

At 11/23/11 02:00 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/22/11 07:37 PM, Auz wrote: Grrrrrr!!

LOL! (see picture below)

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I haven't seen the match because I don't care much for the friendlies to be honest (matches are usually boring as hell).

Yeah, haven't watched it either, just some parts every now and then.

I couldn't even find a summary on Youtube.

But from what I heard Germany fully deserved the victory. Holland has really been playing crap lately. Lost to Sweden, tied to Switzerland, lost to Germany... if they play like this at the EC I doubt they'll make it through the group phase.

I was surprised how weak the holland team was. I mean, they just CAN'T be happy with losing 3:0 against one of their biggest rivals, even if it was just a friendly match.
But don't worry about the EC. I think Holland is a lot like Germany: Playing like crap just prior to a tournament, starting very weak into the tournament but performing "better than expected" later on. ^^

Well for one thing, our defense is fucking terrible. We have an amazing offense as you might know, but we lack solid defenders.

And yeah, I do think a lot of people in our country would've loved it if we beat Germany. I did read some letters in the paper the next day in which people were complaining about how bad we played.

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/22/11 07:37 PM, Auz wrote: In the UK I bet they have set the bar at that level, but I doubt Berlusconi has the decency.

Woah, woah, hold on a second - I'm not having you suggest that our politicians are decent upstanding members of society. They are cheating, lying embezzlers, who only leave their job if the very worst happens and there isn't a shred of halfway decent reputation that they can still cling onto.

Or! Or! Leave their job when they can get a better (paying) job elsewhere.

But yeah, a lot of politicians are opportunistic scumbags. However, surely they can't be any worse than the Italians. Heck, at least they threat women respectfully in the UK (last time I checked).

At 11/23/11 07:31 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/22/11 07:37 PM, Auz wrote: I didn't watch Suburban Knights, no. I was interested, but I just never got to watching it and forgot about it.

Yeah, it may have Spoony in it but he doesn't save the film that much. I will say that some of the better parts of the film were actually from his appearances but then you had the idiotic writers overdoing the jokes which ended up ruining them.

Heh, is it anything like that Molesia (or whatever it was called) thing they did? I thought that was alright, but not every part was funny.

Anyway, I remember most of his older videos were pretty good and well watchable. He had decent opinions on things and occasionally he had some good jokes.

By old, you could mean his sketches from 2006 or before. :P Now that's old school TGWTG. Even when considering his main videos, NC and Bum Reviews were at their best in 2008. 2009 still had plenty of moments but 2010 had many forgettable videos. Both of these characters are drawn out at this point.

I liked his more serious work, like his top 11 lists and everything. Last time I watched them was probably around 2008-2009 though.

Oh, and when Doug has to make a reference to My Little Pony, you know he jumped the fucking shark.

Jesus... =/

Well he did a one and a half hour review of Twilight: Breaking Down recently (together with Linkara and JewWario live in video chat), which was waaaay too long in my opinion. I did actually sit through the whole thing (not in one sit though) because it was pretty funny. But I really hope he isn't going to make this standard, because in that amount of the time I'd rather go watch the film myself instead.

I thought 50 minutes of trash talking Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was enough. I went through that but there was a lot of time spent on "Is movie X better or worse than Transformers?" More and more I focus on other video makers for genuine reviews. A lot I've seen are straight to the point and don't drag for 30 minutes.

Oh yeah, that was a bit silly. His brother is probably a nice guy and he has decent things to say at times, but most of the reviews Spoony does with him drag on for too long indeed.

Oh I see. Well if it's only 5 minutes I might as well watch a few. Any recommendations?

I'll throw in some videos. Boycotting and the current state of Square Enix are good examples of what he does on a weekly basis.

I do like his style and 5-6 minutes is a reasonable amount of time.

I liked the GameOver Thinker as well. I think he had a similar style to Jim Sterling, but recently he has also stuffed some plot into them and to be honest, he kinda sucks at acting and writing. I wish he just went back to his old style.

An additional 15 endings? :p

Well, it is LOTR extended so that should be the case.

Lol!

Coop tries to get the smell of garlic away from his general area, while congratulating:
dx5231: Level 33

At 11/23/11 07:31 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/22/11 06:54 AM, Bahamut wrote: You'll be with the big boys someday. I remember saying that to Gagsy and look where she is now.

Potentially spit-roasted between a stat-whore and a dragon. Tasty :P

Goddammit Coop, you don't need to keep eyeing on my crotch.

It's not your crotch - it's the bucket of KFC behind you that I'm eyeing. Mmm.

Too bad you didn't do anything special for it.

Like what? I've got big plans for 30k, trust me.

See you there in five years. I'll try for next year.

Five years? I'll aim to be there sooner, but that will mean that I've got 30k in 4 stats by then. Your fourth will probably be experience.

I understand. It should only be £5 in HMV so it's worth it.

Ah, but the budget for Xmas is already crippled, by a £1,200 bill from Mastercard >:( Xmas is cancelled for my family!

Now that blows.

I can cope, I just need some of the old financial juggling, that's all.

At 11/23/11 03:11 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/22/11 09:17 PM, reverend wrote: Out of curiosity, is there a European equivalent for Thanksgiving? I'm gearing up for the US version and it's going to be a busy day of family and food, I can feel it.

Nope, and I see no reason for why we should celebrate Thanksgiving.

I personally am thankful for our ancestors, for deciding that America was too expensive to run, so allowing them to take it for themselves.

Now there's an attitude to piss of "patriotic" Republicans :P

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/22/11 07:37 PM, Auz wrote: In the UK I bet they have set the bar at that level, but I doubt Berlusconi has the decency.

Woah, woah, hold on a second - I'm not having you suggest that our politicians are decent upstanding members of society. They are cheating, lying embezzlers, who only leave their job if the very worst happens and there isn't a shred of halfway decent reputation that they can still cling onto.

Or! Or! Leave their job when they can get a better (paying) job elsewhere.

Ah, you mean Tony Blair quitting as Prime Minister, to become a Middle Eastern Peace Envoy. It's like selling the promise of water in the middle of the desert.

But yeah, a lot of politicians are opportunistic scumbags. However, surely they can't be any worse than the Italians. Heck, at least they threat women respectfully in the UK (last time I checked).

Well, if they've done all of the housework, we respect them.

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At 11/23/11 10:50 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 11/23/11 07:31 AM, Bahamut wrote: I just don't see this bill passing at all, even if we're all speaking against it. It's way too much hassle to be even worth it. Remember ACTA?

I remember ACTA, but that wasn't as threatening wasn't it?

Well, it brought concern to many.

At 11/23/11 03:11 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/23/11 07:31 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yeah, it may have Spoony in it but he doesn't save the film that much. I will say that some of the better parts of the film were actually from his appearances but then you had the idiotic writers overdoing the jokes which ended up ruining them.

Heh, is it anything like that Molesia (or whatever it was called) thing they did? I thought that was alright, but not every part was funny.

That was Kickassia and I thought Suburban Knights was much worse. Both had too many forced jokes, though.

By old, you could mean his sketches from 2006 or before. :P Now that's old school TGWTG. Even when considering his main videos, NC and Bum Reviews were at their best in 2008. 2009 still had plenty of moments but 2010 had many forgettable videos. Both of these characters are drawn out at this point.

I liked his more serious work, like his top 11 lists and everything. Last time I watched them was probably around 2008-2009 though.

Apart from his review for The Room, you're not missing out on much.

Oh, and when Doug has to make a reference to My Little Pony, you know he jumped the fucking shark.

Jesus... =/

I didn't even mention the worst part of Subparban Knights.

I thought 50 minutes of trash talking Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was enough. I went through that but there was a lot of time spent on "Is movie X better or worse than Transformers?" More and more I focus on other video makers for genuine reviews. A lot I've seen are straight to the point and don't drag for 30 minutes.

Oh yeah, that was a bit silly. His brother is probably a nice guy and he has decent things to say at times, but most of the reviews Spoony does with him drag on for too long indeed.

At least his brother is willing to take part in some of his videos.

I'll throw in some videos. Boycotting and the current state of Square Enix are good examples of what he does on a weekly basis.

I do like his style and 5-6 minutes is a reasonable amount of time.

Oh yeah, those are reasonable lengths. Keep in mind that he does reviewing for video games as well as news reporting on Destructoid so he's a heavy multitasking individual.

I liked the GameOver Thinker as well. I think he had a similar style to Jim Sterling, but recently he has also stuffed some plot into them and to be honest, he kinda sucks at acting and writing. I wish he just went back to his old style.

I never really got into GameOver Thinker and considering his recent bullshit, I'm less motivated to go through his videos.

At 11/24/11 04:10 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/23/11 07:31 AM, Bahamut wrote: Goddammit Coop, you don't need to keep eyeing on my crotch.

It's not your crotch - it's the bucket of KFC behind you that I'm eyeing. Mmm.

Uhh, good. You do that while I see Gagsy and take off all my clothes.

See you there in five years. I'll try for next year.

Five years? I'll aim to be there sooner, but that will mean that I've got 30k in 4 stats by then. Your fourth will probably be experience.

It will. I'll be the first to reach 4x30k but there'll be no 4x40k for me. 3x40k isn't bad, though and yet by then, ZAAL will still have more posts than me.

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At 11/24/11 04:10 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote:

Or! Or! Leave their job when they can get a better (paying) job elsewhere.

Ah, you mean Tony Blair quitting as Prime Minister, to become a Middle Eastern Peace Envoy. It's like selling the promise of water in the middle of the desert.

Oh it's not just Tony Blair. We've also had prominent members of parties getting a high position at banks and big international companies. As an "advisor" or some title like that.

But yeah, a lot of politicians are opportunistic scumbags. However, surely they can't be any worse than the Italians. Heck, at least they threat women respectfully in the UK (last time I checked).

Well, if they've done all of the housework, we respect them.

Heh, well it does seem like a lot of politicians only become popular AFTER they've left politics.

At 11/24/11 07:33 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/23/11 03:11 PM, Auz wrote: Heh, is it anything like that Molesia (or whatever it was called) thing they did? I thought that was alright, but not every part was funny.

That was Kickassia and I thought Suburban Knights was much worse. Both had too many forced jokes, though.

I was kinda hoping they would make Dr Insano a more potent mad scientist, but alas, that part turned out pretty silly.

I liked his more serious work, like his top 11 lists and everything. Last time I watched them was probably around 2008-2009 though.

Apart from his review for The Room, you're not missing out on much.

Oh yeah I've seen that one as well. That was pretty good :p

Jesus... =/

I didn't even mention the worst part of Subparban Knights.

Do I want to know?

Oh yeah, that was a bit silly. His brother is probably a nice guy and he has decent things to say at times, but most of the reviews Spoony does with him drag on for too long indeed.

At least his brother is willing to take part in some of his videos.

Well, yeah, but the vids with him are a bit slow.

I do like his style and 5-6 minutes is a reasonable amount of time.

Oh yeah, those are reasonable lengths. Keep in mind that he does reviewing for video games as well as news reporting on Destructoid so he's a heavy multitasking individual.

Well he doesn't do films, board games and things like that then, does he?

I liked the GameOver Thinker as well. I think he had a similar style to Jim Sterling, but recently he has also stuffed some plot into them and to be honest, he kinda sucks at acting and writing. I wish he just went back to his old style.

I never really got into GameOver Thinker and considering his recent bullshit, I'm less motivated to go through his videos.

His first ones are pretty good. He had some interesting things to say and his videos were fast paced (which I liked).

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/22/11 01:38 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/21/11 04:04 AM, Coop wrote: There's not much in it - a return from Worcester to Liverpool against a return Worcester to Manchester. You're talking a train to Birmingham and either a coach or a train onwards.

For me it would be cheaper if the meet up would happen in Manchester (duh!), but if Bahamut can't make it that would be a pity.

Yeah, I understand. I hope you guys win though - I hate Man City almost as much as Man Utd!

I will sit between ManCity fans, though, most likely with a City strip on. My brother is a City fan (and he was before the Sheik came and bought the club). ^^

I love heading particularly American tourists asking for directions to "Lee-ah-ming-ton Spar", as opposed to "Lemm-ing-ton Spar" Leamington is a lovely place. Worcester is just pronounced as that by the locals. Your could probably get away with pronouncing it as "Worster", but our accent changes it to Wusster.

Last week I was browsing through the english football pyriamid and found a small town called "Ucking". Me and my friends wondered how that should be pronunced. "Ucking" with a "u" as in "university" or like "Fucking" without the "F"? ^^

At 11/23/11 07:31 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/22/11 01:38 PM, Haggard wrote: M - Merauder.
No, I haven't abandoned this.

So, this is a bonus post as opposed to the long awaited Manowar review.

LOL!

Good luck with N.

I should do a post about Nanowar.

At 11/21/11 05:15 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'm becoming more and more weary about possibly having a job by then. Considering I have three jobs to hear back from, it's likely I could start soon. I'll have a definite answer next week but then there's the chance I could have yet more interviews. How desperate are you to see Liverpool itself?

Is there anyting worth to see in Liverpool? Google image search gives me 3 pages of Liverpool FC before showing me the a picture of the skyline. Lol.

Well, are you a Beatles fan? Plenty of stuff to check out relating to them.

I'm not really a fan (I don't own any albums) but I still like their music.

But AOL lives on. Well, at least they have the IM service.

AIM is shit. Also, they had that annoying ad back in the early 00's with that yellow man making noises...

Yet we still use it, lol.

I wouldn't use it if wasn't for many NG users only having an AIM account...

I would rather use Jabber

Either you've dodged every bullet or Opera is paying you to defend them. :P

I would be happy if Opera would pay me, but no, that's not the case. It just never fails for me. :P

Then you are dodging all those bullets.

I don't know which bullets there are to dodge. Opera is just working fine for me without any "dodging".

You better come up with something.

This leaves the question "Why?" unanswered, still.

Now that's shocking.

YAY! Unintentional shocking is still... shocking.

At 11/23/11 03:11 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/23/11 02:00 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/22/11 07:37 PM, Auz wrote: Well I haven't seen the match because I don't care much for the friendlies to be honest (matches are usually boring as hell).

Yeah, haven't watched it either, just some parts every now and then.

I couldn't even find a summary on Youtube.

There you go :P

At 11/23/11 02:00 AM, Haggard wrote: Thanksgiving is a bit like the "Harvest Festival", even though the harvest festival isn't such a big thing europe.

Is that more of a local German holiday or is it widespread across Europe?

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote: Not that I know of. Unless you mean Xmas, that is.

We just get on with it and make the most of any holiday we can get.

Nah, not Christmas. It's basically a day to give thanks and eat food with family. Anything like that?

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At 11/24/11 05:28 AM, Decky wrote: SCTE3 - 17,000 Medal Points

Just a quick heads-up - Don't congratulate for anything other than 5,000 increments of Medal Points. We don't want to encourage people to post achievements that they can get in under a day, otherwise we might get spammed out of this place.

At 11/24/11 07:33 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/24/11 04:10 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/23/11 07:31 AM, Bahamut wrote: Goddammit Coop, you don't need to keep eyeing on my crotch.

It's not your crotch - it's the bucket of KFC behind you that I'm eyeing. Mmm.

Uhh, good. You do that while I see Gagsy and take off all my clothes.

On a related note, I sliced my finger open while cleaning up after last night's trip to KFC. Don't ask.

See you there in five years. I'll try for next year.

Five years? I'll aim to be there sooner, but that will mean that I've got 30k in 4 stats by then. Your fourth will probably be experience.

It will. I'll be the first to reach 4x30k but there'll be no 4x40k for me. 3x40k isn't bad, though and yet by then, ZAAL will still have more posts than me.

I think I might be the second to 4x30k, correct? I wonder if I've got it in me to ever reach 4x40k...

At 11/24/11 03:16 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/24/11 04:10 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote:

Or! Or! Leave their job when they can get a better (paying) job elsewhere.

Ah, you mean Tony Blair quitting as Prime Minister, to become a Middle Eastern Peace Envoy. It's like selling the promise of water in the middle of the desert.

Oh it's not just Tony Blair. We've also had prominent members of parties getting a high position at banks and big international companies. As an "advisor" or some title like that.

I'm surprised that Blair didn't go for the title "Grand Vizier"

But yeah, a lot of politicians are opportunistic scumbags. However, surely they can't be any worse than the Italians. Heck, at least they threat women respectfully in the UK (last time I checked).

Well, if they've done all of the housework, we respect them.

Heh, well it does seem like a lot of politicians only become popular AFTER they've left politics.

Because when they've left, they stop pissing us off so much, by making appaling decisions that could ruin the country.

At 11/24/11 03:42 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/22/11 01:38 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/21/11 04:04 AM, Coop wrote: There's not much in it - a return from Worcester to Liverpool against a return Worcester to Manchester. You're talking a train to Birmingham and either a coach or a train onwards.

For me it would be cheaper if the meet up would happen in Manchester (duh!), but if Bahamut can't make it that would be a pity.

Yeah, I understand. I hope you guys win though - I hate Man City almost as much as Man Utd!

I will sit between ManCity fans, though, most likely with a City strip on. My brother is a City fan (and he was before the Sheik came and bought the club). ^^

Are you not-so-secretly cheering on Bayern Munchen?

I love heading particularly American tourists asking for directions to "Lee-ah-ming-ton Spar", as opposed to "Lemm-ing-ton Spar" Leamington is a lovely place. Worcester is just pronounced as that by the locals. Your could probably get away with pronouncing it as "Worster", but our accent changes it to Wusster.

Last week I was browsing through the english football pyriamid and found a small town called "Ucking". Me and my friends wondered how that should be pronunced. "Ucking" with a "u" as in "university" or like "Fucking" without the "F"? ^^

If one was being posh, then the suggestion of You-king seems appropriate. However, the pronunciation of Uh-king would be my first guess.

At 11/24/11 04:11 PM, reverend wrote:

At 11/23/11 05:18 AM, Coop wrote: Not that I know of. Unless you mean Xmas, that is.

We just get on with it and make the most of any holiday we can get.

Nah, not Christmas. It's basically a day to give thanks and eat food with family. Anything like that?

That sounds like Xmas - we usually give thanks when either we leave or the family leaves us for another year :P

In all seriousness though, I might have reasons to be very thankful, or very sombre this Xmas. I might have to get the old black tie and white shirt combo out twice before the festive season and that's not something nice to look forward to.

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At 11/25/11 04:05 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/24/11 05:28 AM, Decky wrote: SCTE3 - 17,000 Medal Points

Just a quick heads-up - Don't congratulate for anything other than 5,000 increments of Medal Points. We don't want to encourage people to post achievements that they can get in under a day, otherwise we might get spammed out of this place.

Fair enough, I'm sorry I was unaware of that rule. I'll be more careful of what I congratulate from now on. My apologise again.

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At 11/24/11 03:16 PM, Auz wrote:

At 11/24/11 07:33 AM, Bahamut wrote: That was Kickassia and I thought Suburban Knights was much worse. Both had too many forced jokes, though.

I was kinda hoping they would make Dr Insano a more potent mad scientist, but alas, that part turned out pretty silly.

Or at least not having Spoony going overdramatic about the character.

I didn't even mention the worst part of Subparban Knights.

Do I want to know?

I will warn you, it's very nasty.

Oh yeah, those are reasonable lengths. Keep in mind that he does reviewing for video games as well as news reporting on Destructoid so he's a heavy multitasking individual.

Well he doesn't do films, board games and things like that then, does he?

Nope, it's only video games he covers and he does very well. He's certainly a lot more dedicated to gaming than I will ever be.

I never really got into GameOver Thinker and considering his recent bullshit, I'm less motivated to go through his videos.

His first ones are pretty good. He had some interesting things to say and his videos were fast paced (which I liked).

I watched the one about saturation with mature rated games. That was an interesting one.

At 11/24/11 03:42 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 11/23/11 07:31 AM, Bahamut wrote: So, this is a bonus post as opposed to the long awaited Manowar review.

LOL!

I look forward to it.

Good luck with N.

I should do a post about Nanowar.

That would actually be funny.

Well, are you a Beatles fan? Plenty of stuff to check out relating to them.

I'm not really a fan (I don't own any albums) but I still like their music.

I suppose sightseeing trips relating to The Beatles wouldn't really be worth it for you. Well, there are some museums if they're of any interest to you.

Yet we still use it, lol.

I wouldn't use it if wasn't for many NG users only having an AIM account...

How many do you know still use it?

Then you are dodging all those bullets.

I don't know which bullets there are to dodge. Opera is just working fine for me without any "dodging".

You clearly can't see those bullets.

Now that's shocking.

YAY! Unintentional shocking is still... shocking.

But I wanted the regular shock.

At 11/25/11 04:05 AM, Coop wrote:

At 11/24/11 07:33 AM, Bahamut wrote: Uhh, good. You do that while I see Gagsy and take off all my clothes.

On a related note, I sliced my finger open while cleaning up after last night's trip to KFC. Don't ask.

Hmmm. Can't relate it to any sexual fantasies between us three.

It will. I'll be the first to reach 4x30k but there'll be no 4x40k for me. 3x40k isn't bad, though and yet by then, ZAAL will still have more posts than me.

I think I might be the second to 4x30k, correct? I wonder if I've got it in me to ever reach 4x40k...

Yeah, you should be the second to reach 4x30k or maybe it'll be Gagsy. She's at least halfway for 30k blams.

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