Finally reached 110,000 medal points.

At 9/2/12 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Not milestone worthy but according to NG Logs my post per day has finally dropped below 10. Doesn't surprise me too much since decline of BBS activity has cut back on my posting rate as well. This would have happened long ago had it not been for me becoming a BBS mod.

My posting rate keeps going up. But it's not hard to go up from a mere 1.8 posts per day.

At 9/1/12 10:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/1/12 05:33 AM, Bahamut wrote: But can you mix the two? Actually, yes you can. *points to bronies*

What are bronies?

Wow, you really do hide away from the internet at times. Bronies are the scum of the earth and that's all you need to know.

I wouldn't say so, but you can't know everything.

Guess I'll chill out then while Earth goes boom.

I don't think that's part of the lyrics.

Who fucking cares? It's not like anything else is remembered after "And I feel fine."

Well, I remember "That's great it starts with and earthquake", but that's the very first line of the song.

Except consoles are getting far behind PC gaming right now.

It is? I have been fed up with PC gaming for quite a few years now. All this copy protection bullshit that has been going on, and how you are never able to play the newest games at full resolution, unless you buy a new graphics cards (or a new processor)... and what if your newest game doesn't support your nice game pad? Tough luck. Buy a new one or pray that someone can come up with a work around...

Consoles are stuck with the same graphics card and processors so as more new games are made with better technology, the consoles fall more and more behind until there is a brand new console. I even look at some PS3 games and can see the graphics are starting to take a turn. Usually I wouldn't mind but not only is it showing its age, it does harm the frame rate as well and that should never be acceptable.

But graphcis on consoles get better as well, once the developers figure out how to program for a given console. Just compare the very first games for PSOne and the very last games that where released for it.
But yes, a dropping frame rate is always a bad sign. However, if you buy a game for a console, you can be sure that it works. If you buy it for the PC, there's always the chance of the game not working properly.

At 9/2/12 10:34 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Thanks for voting, SCTE3! Your experience has been automatically deposited!

With that vote, you now have 15,200 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 38.

Awesome. I wish I knew what my new thingy is.

Does anyone know what my new level 33icon is?

Coop sets himself up for the final weekend of the season (report below), while congratulating:
Tycrane: 30,000 B/P; Supreme Commander
gamejunkie: 53,000 B/P
DiMono: 22,000 Saves; Commander; 10.00+ Total Voting Power
Jolly: 32,000 Saves
Gagsy: Level 46
The-Great-One: 6th NG Berfday
SCTE3: Level 38
VJF: 110,000 Medal Points
Knuckstrike: Level 33

At 9/1/12 11:01 AM, DiMono wrote: 3,500 Blams (with blams being this hard to come by, we can celebrate the 500s, right?)

No - why cheapen the achievement? It's an even bigger achievement to get 1,000 Blams, or a multiple thereof.

At 9/1/12 10:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/1/12 06:19 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/31/12 02:20 PM, Haggard wrote:

Hm, maybe he uses the same gum over and over again?

Except at mealtimes, when he sticks it behind his ear. Just like Violet Beauregarde

That thought is disgusting.

Yes, but that's Roald Dahl for you - wonderful mind, just what a child needs to get into reading. Personally, I feel that reading Dahl from 6-13 was great, followed up by a nice dose of Discworld. Perhaps I should have gotten into Robert Rankin sooner, but what the hey.

The witches is a pretty cool book. But I don't think I've ever read something else by Dahl.

One of my favourite memories of my grandfather is him reading "George's Marvellous Medicine" to me on my 6th birthday. the quote referring to George's grandma "and she had a small puckered up mouth, like a dog's bottom" really tickled him. I can still hear him chuckling in the background for the rest of the afternoon.

I also never read The Neverending Story, I just watched the movies. :o

I've seen the movie, but never read the books. Discworld, by Terry Pratchett is much better.

At 9/2/12 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/1/12 06:19 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/31/12 09:48 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now that's another good choice.

Scrolling through iTunes, I noticed that each of the other Dream Theater songs I have were rated and this one was bereft of stars. No longer. 5'ed.

I never really bothered with the star rating system on WMP or iTunes. If I like the songs, I'll simply keep going back to them.

Sometimes, I just let the player play on shuffle, so I can't really tell how good a song is by how many plays it has received. Wrathchild is in my top 25, for some reason...

Funny, I find less and less to get from HMV since I've got so much already. Amazon really is my friend these days.

The 5 Blu-rays for Ã'£30 did tempt me. I'll have to have a look and see what I can get from there - desperate companies do silly things, when the writing is on the wall.

Not a bad offer but I already spent Ã'£40 on Doctor Who series 1-4 from Amazon.

I'm not that big a fan of that series...

I never met that psycho but did meet Bex only once.

Yeah, but the Psycho was only on the scene for a matter of weeks...

Eh, the last relationship I had was a complete dud from day one. :P

I think I'd settle for a drunken fumble at the moment.

***Cricket report***

I was deployed to score for the 1st XI on Saturday, needing good results from our final two games to win the league. We won the toss and batted first, ensuring maximum points, were we to take a victory. Digging deep and compiling a score of 186-8, with no man reaching 40, we sat down for tea, noting that the sun had come out, probably turning the pitch back to batting's favour.

Starting inauspiciously with no-balls and wides coming quite freely in the first few overs, we calmed down in the 6th, takling the first wicket. A change of bowling tightened things up at the canal end for the 7th, then Paul Thomas came back to continue his spell from the car park end, taking a hat trick, his first for Cookley. In all, he delivered 14 balls and took 5 wickets, on overs 6, 8 and 10, ripping through Harborne's upper and middle order.

Harborne dug deep and when Cookley skipper Gary Mills came on to bowl, his first delivery removed Harborne's wicket keeper. The excuse was that "he ambled in at spin pace and he bowled seam-up!" Harborne now sat at 117-8, having been 69-7. Tommo came back on at the car park end, to remove Harborne's skipper, before contributing the final wicket on a run out. He finished with figures of 6-66, to leave Cookley sitting 3 points clear, with one game left.

The second XI faced a tough opponent, whose season had been decimated by rain. Harborne won the toss and elected to bowl, a decision that reflected well, after Cookley were reduced early to 40-2. Ben Southall returned from Essex in his first (and only) game for Cookley on a Saturday this year and combining him with Matt Goode was the making of Cookley, a three figure partnership ensued, with Southall finishing on 93 and Goode on 31. Cookley batted deep for a few runs apiece, posting a total of 246-8.

Every bowler took a wicket, with skipper Simon Anderson leading the way (3-45) and Dan Soley running out the danger man, Usman Hussain, for 68. Harborne finished on 212 all out and Cookley are now 7 points from the second automatic promotion spot.

All in all, it makes for a fun final weekend. Except for me, I've got to arange a team for the day after and this lot will probably still be drunk...

Now has revival seasons 1-4 of Doctor Who on DVD. I've already cleared season 1 but the others I will be occupied with for the next week or two. Soon I'll be needing seasons 5 and 6 on DVD and then I can be with everyone else and watch the new episodes as they come by.

Listening to:

Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes

At 9/3/12 02:49 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/2/12 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Not milestone worthy but according to NG Logs my post per day has finally dropped below 10. Doesn't surprise me too much since decline of BBS activity has cut back on my posting rate as well. This would have happened long ago had it not been for me becoming a BBS mod.

My posting rate keeps going up. But it's not hard to go up from a mere 1.8 posts per day.

The highest I had with my posting rate was 24 and that was in early 2006 so it's slowly been doing downhill since. I will never see myself posting the way I did in 2005 again on here. Most of the posts then were crap but it was a more active BBS.

Wow, you really do hide away from the internet at times. Bronies are the scum of the earth and that's all you need to know.

I wouldn't say so, but you can't know everything.

If you don't know them, you won't know whether they're scum or not but I can assure you they are.

Who fucking cares? It's not like anything else is remembered after "And I feel fine."

Well, I remember "That's great it starts with and earthquake", but that's the very first line of the song.

That's not after "And I feel fine", though so it's not relevant.

Consoles are stuck with the same graphics card and processors so as more new games are made with better technology, the consoles fall more and more behind until there is a brand new console. I even look at some PS3 games and can see the graphics are starting to take a turn. Usually I wouldn't mind but not only is it showing its age, it does harm the frame rate as well and that should never be acceptable.

But graphcis on consoles get better as well, once the developers figure out how to program for a given console. Just compare the very first games for PSOne and the very last games that where released for it.

Once they do figure out better graphics, it only turns to bad loading times and other sorts of bullshit.

But yes, a dropping frame rate is always a bad sign. However, if you buy a game for a console, you can be sure that it works. If you buy it for the PC, there's always the chance of the game not working properly.

And that's why there are programs out there to test your machine against modern games just so you can be sure you can play it just fine.

At 9/3/12 05:48 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/2/12 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: I never really bothered with the star rating system on WMP or iTunes. If I like the songs, I'll simply keep going back to them.

Sometimes, I just let the player play on shuffle, so I can't really tell how good a song is by how many plays it has received. Wrathchild is in my top 25, for some reason...

I use shuffle on my iPod at times and last time I did it I was getting loads of my favourite songs by pure luck. I should do shuffle play on my iPod more often.

Not a bad offer but I already spent £40 on Doctor Who series 1-4 from Amazon.

I'm not that big a fan of that series...

I only started with the first season of the revival and really enjoyed it. It deserved a DVD purchase of something big like that so I will be occupied for a while. I wasn't a fan beforehand because I never gave it a chance. I always wanted to dedicate a lot of time to get into it if I was to get into it and look where I am now. I was actually expecting a slow start with Doctor Who but all the episodes turned out to be the opposite so it really got me enthralled quickly. I don't think many TV shows can do that for me but maybe the true discovery of drama shows is the next path for me to take.

At 9/3/12 07:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now has revival seasons 1-4 of Doctor Who on DVD. I've already cleared season 1 but the others I will be occupied with for the next week or two. Soon I'll be needing seasons 5 and 6 on DVD and then I can be with everyone else and watch the new episodes as they come by.

I think that I've grown disenchanted with the franchise. I'll stick to Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother for now. When it comes to BBC series, I did enjoy Merlin, though that was another that I kind of fell out of touch with, as Bex would go on about it so much. At least my friends and I can crack Harry Dresden jokes now and she's not got a clue what we're going on about...

At 9/3/12 05:48 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/2/12 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: I never really bothered with the star rating system on WMP or iTunes. If I like the songs, I'll simply keep going back to them.

Sometimes, I just let the player play on shuffle, so I can't really tell how good a song is by how many plays it has received. Wrathchild is in my top 25, for some reason...

I use shuffle on my iPod at times and last time I did it I was getting loads of my favourite songs by pure luck. I should do shuffle play on my iPod more often.

I started with Black Sunshine and got about a dozen of my top favoured quality tracks in a row, which was nice. I even got "Masterchef Synthesia" in there, which I've not heard for weeks.

This time I mean it!

45,000 Medal Points

I'm off to play some Assassin's Creed

7,000 experience points. It's at this point I realise that the levels are getting more then a month of solid voting long. I'm saddened by this as I'll only be a few more levels higher when I reach my 3rd NG birthday.

Just achieved level 37 also im very close to 10 VP overall!

Listening to:

Crystal Viper - Metal Nation

At 9/4/12 06:33 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/3/12 07:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now has revival seasons 1-4 of Doctor Who on DVD. I've already cleared season 1 but the others I will be occupied with for the next week or two. Soon I'll be needing seasons 5 and 6 on DVD and then I can be with everyone else and watch the new episodes as they come by.

I think that I've grown disenchanted with the franchise. I'll stick to Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother for now. When it comes to BBC series, I did enjoy Merlin, though that was another that I kind of fell out of touch with, as Bex would go on about it so much. At least my friends and I can crack Harry Dresden jokes now and she's not got a clue what we're going on about...

Keep in mind I'm not using the BBC itself to watch Doctor Who. Yet. It'll be fun to see which will be first: The mid-season finale or myself catching up with the modern series.

I use shuffle on my iPod at times and last time I did it I was getting loads of my favourite songs by pure luck. I should do shuffle play on my iPod more often.

I started with Black Sunshine and got about a dozen of my top favoured quality tracks in a row, which was nice. I even got "Masterchef Synthesia" in there, which I've not heard for weeks.

My iPod did not give me luck yesterday. Had three interlude tracks in a row. I really should take such tracks out of the playlists dedicated to shuffle plays.

Not sure who is a review mod anymore but thought i would pass this along.

there is this reviewer reviewing all the HTD games with the exact same reviews, something to look into i would think.

http://holonboy.newgrounds.com/reviews/game

~X~

I finally earned myself a golden chainsaw! =)

At 9/4/12 11:47 AM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Not sure who is a review mod anymore but thought i would pass this along.

there is this reviewer reviewing all the HTD games with the exact same reviews, something to look into i would think.

http://holonboy.newgrounds.com/reviews/game

~X~

and here is another one of another acount, seems like it could just be alts pushing up review scores or something

http://dragonprince1337.newgrounds.com/reviews/game

~X~

There sure are a lot of 5-point medals today. But my latest achievement isn't an amount of medals.

I've reached 200,000 medal points!

At 9/3/12 07:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now has revival seasons 1-4 of Doctor Who on DVD. I've already cleared season 1 but the others I will be occupied with for the next week or two. Soon I'll be needing seasons 5 and 6 on DVD and then I can be with everyone else and watch the new episodes as they come by.

I just finished watching "The Prisoner". That's another series worth looking into.

At 9/3/12 02:49 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/2/12 09:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Not milestone worthy but according to NG Logs my post per day has finally dropped below 10. Doesn't surprise me too much since decline of BBS activity has cut back on my posting rate as well. This would have happened long ago had it not been for me becoming a BBS mod.

My posting rate keeps going up. But it's not hard to go up from a mere 1.8 posts per day.

The highest I had with my posting rate was 24 and that was in early 2006 so it's slowly been doing downhill since. I will never see myself posting the way I did in 2005 again on here. Most of the posts then were crap but it was a more active BBS.

I'm not sure if I ever posted that many posts on a single day.

Wow, you really do hide away from the internet at times. Bronies are the scum of the earth and that's all you need to know.

I wouldn't say so, but you can't know everything.

If you don't know them, you won't know whether they're scum or not but I can assure you they are.

I didn't even bother to look it up. I have more important things to do. ^^

Who fucking cares? It's not like anything else is remembered after "And I feel fine."

Well, I remember "That's great it starts with and earthquake", but that's the very first line of the song.

That's not after "And I feel fine", though so it's not relevant.

Quite so.

Consoles are stuck with the same graphics card and processors so as more new games are made with better technology, the consoles fall more and more behind until there is a brand new console. I even look at some PS3 games and can see the graphics are starting to take a turn. Usually I wouldn't mind but not only is it showing its age, it does harm the frame rate as well and that should never be acceptable.

But graphcis on consoles get better as well, once the developers figure out how to program for a given console. Just compare the very first games for PSOne and the very last games that where released for it.

Once they do figure out better graphics, it only turns to bad loading times and other sorts of bullshit.

I don't think "long loading times" and "better graphics" are correlated. Like, I've seen some shitty graphics, but the game still took ages to load up. But GTA: Vice City didn't have long loading times, but the graphcis and the animations where OK on PS2.

But yes, a dropping frame rate is always a bad sign. However, if you buy a game for a console, you can be sure that it works. If you buy it for the PC, there's always the chance of the game not working properly.

And that's why there are programs out there to test your machine against modern games just so you can be sure you can play it just fine.

But that's just another negative thing for PC gaming, imo. I have to test out things, or I have to download third party programs. I wanted to play a game from 2008, but it kept saying I hadn't enough RAM. I had to download a program to make the game think I had enough... when in reality, I had MORE than enough RAM. My guess is, that I have so much RAM, the game simply can't recognize it and thus keeps saying, I don't have enough.
And worst of all: The game didn't even work properly after that! So I just gave up and uninstalled it.

Forgot to say this, 16,000 Experience Points!

The house could have been set aflames last night. The boiler had a leak and it just so happened it was dripping over a power box. This caused all the sockets barring the odd one to all go down. The electrician company thought it wasn't an emergency but that leak could have caused the whole house to explode. The call centre advisor needs a slap on the wrist for possibly being responsible for the destruction of our house. Good thing my parents were vigilant and weren't going to back down one bit.

Listening to:

Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

At 9/4/12 02:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/3/12 07:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now has revival seasons 1-4 of Doctor Who on DVD. I've already cleared season 1 but the others I will be occupied with for the next week or two. Soon I'll be needing seasons 5 and 6 on DVD and then I can be with everyone else and watch the new episodes as they come by.

I just finished watching "The Prisoner". That's another series worth looking into.

I know that show well but only because of Iron Maiden. :P

The highest I had with my posting rate was 24 and that was in early 2006 so it's slowly been doing downhill since. I will never see myself posting the way I did in 2005 again on here. Most of the posts then were crap but it was a more active BBS.

I'm not sure if I ever posted that many posts on a single day.

I did make 100 posts in a single day but that was all the way back in 2005. It was the peak of the BBS as well as my best motivation to post.

If you don't know them, you won't know whether they're scum or not but I can assure you they are.

I didn't even bother to look it up. I have more important things to do. ^^

Good, you keep away from them. It's a good thing to do.

Once they do figure out better graphics, it only turns to bad loading times and other sorts of bullshit.

I don't think "long loading times" and "better graphics" are correlated. Like, I've seen some shitty graphics, but the game still took ages to load up. But GTA: Vice City didn't have long loading times, but the graphcis and the animations where OK on PS2.

I recall the later games on the PS1. FFIX for example had some shit loading times.

And that's why there are programs out there to test your machine against modern games just so you can be sure you can play it just fine.

But that's just another negative thing for PC gaming, imo. I have to test out things, or I have to download third party programs.

You mean a free online test is bad? At least it gives you a warning.

Coop wonders how the story ends. Congratulations to:
Decky: 7,000 Experience
Tony-Darkgrave: Level 37
Nijsse: 1,111 Posts; Level 55 That's so groovy, it's off the scale
Knuckstrike: 200,000 Medal Points
HAcsev: 16,000 Experience

At 9/4/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/4/12 06:33 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/3/12 07:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now has revival seasons 1-4 of Doctor Who on DVD. I've already cleared season 1 but the others I will be occupied with for the next week or two. Soon I'll be needing seasons 5 and 6 on DVD and then I can be with everyone else and watch the new episodes as they come by.

I think that I've grown disenchanted with the franchise. I'll stick to Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother for now. When it comes to BBC series, I did enjoy Merlin, though that was another that I kind of fell out of touch with, as Bex would go on about it so much. At least my friends and I can crack Harry Dresden jokes now and she's not got a clue what we're going on about...

Keep in mind I'm not using the BBC itself to watch Doctor Who. Yet. It'll be fun to see which will be first: The mid-season finale or myself catching up with the modern series.

It depends on how many episodes you're watching a week. You have the chance to watch them all before episode 4 of the series, given that episode 1 was aired on Saturday...

I use shuffle on my iPod at times and last time I did it I was getting loads of my favourite songs by pure luck. I should do shuffle play on my iPod more often.

I started with Black Sunshine and got about a dozen of my top favoured quality tracks in a row, which was nice. I even got "Masterchef Synthesia" in there, which I've not heard for weeks.

My iPod did not give me luck yesterday. Had three interlude tracks in a row. I really should take such tracks out of the playlists dedicated to shuffle plays.

Just make one called "metal" and have done with it :P

At 9/4/12 11:47 AM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Not sure who is a review mod anymore but thought i would pass this along.

I've dealt with it - I'm still a review mod.

At 9/4/12 12:38 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: and here is another one of another acount, seems like it could just be alts pushing up review scores or something

And I'd dealt with this one before reading your post, so something in the system works :P

At 9/4/12 02:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/3/12 07:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now has revival seasons 1-4 of Doctor Who on DVD. I've already cleared season 1 but the others I will be occupied with for the next week or two. Soon I'll be needing seasons 5 and 6 on DVD and then I can be with everyone else and watch the new episodes as they come by.

I just finished watching "The Prisoner". That's another series worth looking into.

The original one, or the shitty remake?

I am not a number, I am a free man!

At 9/5/12 05:45 AM, Bahamut wrote: The house could have been set aflames last night. The boiler had a leak and it just so happened it was dripping over a power box. This caused all the sockets barring the odd one to all go down. The electrician company thought it wasn't an emergency but that leak could have caused the whole house to explode. The call centre advisor needs a slap on the wrist for possibly being responsible for the destruction of our house. Good thing my parents were vigilant and weren't going to back down one bit.

Well, that would have been a first - an explosion on the Wirral that wasn't down to an angry dragon :P

Glad to hear that everyone's alright

Over 50,000 medals once again

With that vote, you now have 16,030 experience points. You need 0 more to get to Level 39. The next Grounds Gold day begins in 6 hours, 52 minutes, and 8 seconds.

At 8/31/12 02:42 PM, Fagamut wrote:

At 8/29/12 09:01 PM, S-k-y wrote: With that vote, you now have 21,000 experience points.

With that vote, you now have 21,000 experience points.

With that vote, you now have 21,000 experience points.

Wow i haven't been here in awhile! College is going great, classes are fun... Bio, chem, bio and chem labs. I want to be active again but i doubt i'll be anytime soon. Miss you all

oh and 13.00 total vp!

Yahoo, level 48!

At 9/5/12 05:45 AM, Bahamut wrote: The house could have been set aflames last night. The boiler had a leak and it just so happened it was dripping over a power box. This caused all the sockets barring the odd one to all go down. The electrician company thought it wasn't an emergency but that leak could have caused the whole house to explode. The call centre advisor needs a slap on the wrist for possibly being responsible for the destruction of our house. Good thing my parents were vigilant and weren't going to back down one bit.

Good thing you discovered it before anything happened.

At 9/4/12 02:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/3/12 07:26 AM, Bahamut wrote: Now has revival seasons 1-4 of Doctor Who on DVD. I've already cleared season 1 but the others I will be occupied with for the next week or two. Soon I'll be needing seasons 5 and 6 on DVD and then I can be with everyone else and watch the new episodes as they come by.

I just finished watching "The Prisoner". That's another series worth looking into.

I know that show well but only because of Iron Maiden. :P

Yeah, but the show is good as well. :P
Or you could just try and watch that Simpsons episode: http://www.wtso.net/movie/389-913_The_Joy_of_Sect.html

The highest I had with my posting rate was 24 and that was in early 2006 so it's slowly been doing downhill since. I will never see myself posting the way I did in 2005 again on here. Most of the posts then were crap but it was a more active BBS.

I'm not sure if I ever posted that many posts on a single day.

I did make 100 posts in a single day but that was all the way back in 2005. It was the peak of the BBS as well as my best motivation to post.

I know my post rate went up for the last World Cup and for the Olympics as well. But I really don't know how many posts I made during that time.

If you don't know them, you won't know whether they're scum or not but I can assure you they are.

I didn't even bother to look it up. I have more important things to do. ^^

Good, you keep away from them. It's a good thing to do.

Maybe I'll look it up later. :P

Once they do figure out better graphics, it only turns to bad loading times and other sorts of bullshit.

I don't think "long loading times" and "better graphics" are correlated. Like, I've seen some shitty graphics, but the game still took ages to load up. But GTA: Vice City didn't have long loading times, but the graphcis and the animations where OK on PS2.

I recall the later games on the PS1. FFIX for example had some shit loading times.

I did only play through that game once, so I don't know how long the loading times where. But maybe it was just your PS1 acting weird? I know that the very first models of the PS1 had an overheating problem. And they ran faster when you put them on the side.

And that's why there are programs out there to test your machine against modern games just so you can be sure you can play it just fine.

But that's just another negative thing for PC gaming, imo. I have to test out things, or I have to download third party programs.

You mean a free online test is bad? At least it gives you a warning.

You shouldn't even have to test anything before you buy a new game. It should just run on your machine. Another thing I didn't even mention is the bullshit you have to put up with if you are installing a new game. Shit like SecuROM shouldn't be installed anywhere. "Oh wait, you have Nero Burning ROM installed? I'm sorry, but you cannot play this game!" Fuck you, I payed for this game, so I have a right to play it and you shouldn't care about what else I have installed on my machine!

On a totally unrelated side note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GApCMW1F7a0
Fuck yeah! I want this game! NOW!

Coop prepares to step back into the breach, while congratulating:
Decky: 50,000 Medal Points
Hacsev: Level 39. Groo- Oh wait.
SirAlex: Level 21
Sekhem: Brigadier General
EmoDragon: 21,000 Experience
idiot-buster: 13.00 Total Voting Power
DrHood: Level 48

Hmm, perhaps I can make something useful, with all of those metals I wasted hours smelting last night on LOTRO...

60,000 Medal points.

Listening to:

Bathory - Nordland I

Thanks to:

Coop
Odyssic

At 9/5/12 05:56 AM, Coop wrote: Coop wonders how the story ends.

This comes to mind...

At 9/4/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: Keep in mind I'm not using the BBC itself to watch Doctor Who. Yet. It'll be fun to see which will be first: The mid-season finale or myself catching up with the modern series.

It depends on how many episodes you're watching a week. You have the chance to watch them all before episode 4 of the series, given that episode 1 was aired on Saturday...

So that's about three weeks off. I could do that if I fully focus. I'll have to make a real dedication after the weekend, though.

My iPod did not give me luck yesterday. Had three interlude tracks in a row. I really should take such tracks out of the playlists dedicated to shuffle plays.

Just make one called "metal" and have done with it :P

I have over 10,000 tracks to cover and I want to include all the progressive rock as well.

At 9/5/12 05:45 AM, Bahamut wrote: The house could have been set aflames last night. The boiler had a leak and it just so happened it was dripping over a power box. This caused all the sockets barring the odd one to all go down. The electrician company thought it wasn't an emergency but that leak could have caused the whole house to explode. The call centre advisor needs a slap on the wrist for possibly being responsible for the destruction of our house. Good thing my parents were vigilant and weren't going to back down one bit.

Well, that would have been a first - an explosion on the Wirral that wasn't down to an angry dragon :P

Glad to hear that everyone's alright

And the boiler was looked into today so it should be all good now.

At 9/6/12 02:41 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/5/12 05:45 AM, Bahamut wrote: The house could have been set aflames last night. The boiler had a leak and it just so happened it was dripping over a power box. This caused all the sockets barring the odd one to all go down. The electrician company thought it wasn't an emergency but that leak could have caused the whole house to explode. The call centre advisor needs a slap on the wrist for possibly being responsible for the destruction of our house. Good thing my parents were vigilant and weren't going to back down one bit.

Good thing you discovered it before anything happened.

Well, what was happening throughout the day was some strange thuds. Had not idea what it was and by 8:30PM, the thud happened twice and then all the power sockets went down.

I know that show well but only because of Iron Maiden. :P

Yeah, but the show is good as well. :P
Or you could just try and watch that Simpsons episode: http://www.wtso.net/movie/389-913_The_Joy_of_Sect.html

But I've seen that Simpsons episode many times. Still good, though.

I did make 100 posts in a single day but that was all the way back in 2005. It was the peak of the BBS as well as my best motivation to post.

I know my post rate went up for the last World Cup and for the Olympics as well. But I really don't know how many posts I made during that time.

My post rate is just steady but slowly declining.

I recall the later games on the PS1. FFIX for example had some shit loading times.

I did only play through that game once, so I don't know how long the loading times where. But maybe it was just your PS1 acting weird? I know that the very first models of the PS1 had an overheating problem. And they ran faster when you put them on the side.

For random battles, it did take its sweet time but at least it's not as as bad as FFV and VI on PS1. Thankfully I traded in FFVI on the PS1 yesterday as I have it on GBA.

9.00 Base Voting Power!

At 9/6/12 09:02 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/6/12 02:41 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/5/12 05:45 AM, Bahamut wrote: The house could have been set aflames last night. The boiler had a leak and it just so happened it was dripping over a power box. This caused all the sockets barring the odd one to all go down. The electrician company thought it wasn't an emergency but that leak could have caused the whole house to explode. The call centre advisor needs a slap on the wrist for possibly being responsible for the destruction of our house. Good thing my parents were vigilant and weren't going to back down one bit.

Good thing you discovered it before anything happened.

Well, what was happening throughout the day was some strange thuds. Had not idea what it was and by 8:30PM, the thud happened twice and then all the power sockets went down.

Just imagine this had happened during the night...

I know that show well but only because of Iron Maiden. :P

Yeah, but the show is good as well. :P
Or you could just try and watch that Simpsons episode: http://www.wtso.net/movie/389-913_The_Joy_of_Sect.html

But I've seen that Simpsons episode many times. Still good, though.

So, you are all set for the real series. :P

I did make 100 posts in a single day but that was all the way back in 2005. It was the peak of the BBS as well as my best motivation to post.

I know my post rate went up for the last World Cup and for the Olympics as well. But I really don't know how many posts I made during that time.

My post rate is just steady but slowly declining.

As I've said, my post rate cannot decline, since it's very low to begin with. ^^

I recall the later games on the PS1. FFIX for example had some shit loading times.

I did only play through that game once, so I don't know how long the loading times where. But maybe it was just your PS1 acting weird? I know that the very first models of the PS1 had an overheating problem. And they ran faster when you put them on the side.

For random battles, it did take its sweet time but at least it's not as as bad as FFV and VI on PS1. Thankfully I traded in FFVI on the PS1 yesterday as I have it on GBA.

Hm, I have Final Fantasy Anthology, and I didn't notice any long loading times. Besides, Final Fantasy isn't exactly well known for its good graphics. :P
Gran Turismo is a game that had good graphcis for it's time, and it didn't have overly long loading times. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver had absolutly no loading times (except for cut scenes), because it constantly streamed the content from the disc. That was pretty nice.

Medals from 400 Games

That's jumped quite a bit in the last few days. Let's see if I can keep this up...

At 9/6/12 02:41 AM, Haggard wrote: I know my post rate went up for the last World Cup and for the Olympics as well. But I really don't know how many posts I made during that time.

Mine too. I'm surprised no-one made a thread for the Paralympics. By the time I realized it was already 3/4 days in so I didn't bother, I figured if anyone was interested in it, there would have already been a thread made. I have watched most of it though. I find it far more inspiring than the Olympics. China are just blitzing it. 2nd through to 6th is pretty close. (Medal Count).

Australian swimmer Jacqueline Freney is a freaking machine. She has 7 Gold Medals for this her first Paralympics and still has 5 races to swim and it's quite possible she could end up getting 12 Golds in 1 Olympics. Add to that the fact that our Champion male swimmer Matt Cowdrey has also racked up 4 Gold Medals (for a total of 12 Gold Medals in 3 Paralympics) with a couple more swims to go and a good chance of winning more Gold.

Has anyone else been watching the Paralympics? If so, how is your team doing and what do you think of it all so far? Have you enjoyed it? Has it lived up to your expectations? What's your favourite event? Who's your favourite Paralympian?