At 2/9/13 06:30 PM, Auz wrote:

At 2/8/13 07:39 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/8/13 05:57 AM, Auz wrote: Level 52!

Remember when we were level up buddies? That's no longer the case when I'm 55 days away from my next level up.

Yeah that was quite a while ago, wasn't it? Odd that there's already a 55 days difference.

Anyway, I seem to be level up buddies with Haggard now.

Yes. We wheren't that far away leveling wise from each other anyway. Everytime you leveled up, I knew that I was a few weeks away from leveling up as well. But now, we almost level up on the same day.

At 2/8/13 01:19 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/8/13 05:57 AM, Auz wrote: The riddle scene with Gollum was excellently executed in my opinion. I was a bit worried they were going to cut that scene a lot, show like two riddles and move on, but they gave it a proper amount of time.

They had to. It's one of the key scenes in the book. Without the ring, the whole story wouldn't work out. So there's really no reason at all to cut down the riddle scene.

Also, I think they were trying to make some clear connections with the Lord of the Rings films, just for the crowd that never read the book.

I read a comment the other day. Somebody watched the movie and one guy in the theatre asked. "Huh? Why does he have the ring all of a sudden? I thought it was destroyed?" Oh. My. God.

But yes, it was very well executed. I liked how Bilbo really was fiddling around in his pocket before asking: "What do I have in my pocket?", just like it was described in the book. And how he slowly realizes that he is invisible while wearing the ring.

I always imagined that part to be a bit silly. Like, how would Gollum even consider that to be a proper riddle? However, they made it fairly believable in the film.

Heh, he doesn't consider it to be a proper riddle, that's the whole point. ^^

As much as I enjoyed it, I still don't think three films was really necessary. Two, maybe, but three feels a bit like milking considering the book is only what.. 300 pages thick?

That's my main criticism as well. LortR had to be done in three movies. It's three books, after all. It just wouldn't work in one or tow movies. But "The Hobbit"? I don't know...

They even cut a lot of parts of the LotR just to keep it all within 3 hour portions.

Yes, that's why you just have to get the extended versions. It's really worth it!

But oh well. It seems to be hip nowadays to split books in as many films as they think they can get away with.

At least the movies aren't as shitty as Episode I - III. I watched Episode I in the movies, the other two, I only watched parts of III, when it was on the TV. And I really can't bring myself to watch Episode II...
It's like "What was he thinking?!"

At 2/10/13 07:26 AM, Coop wrote: Coop wonders how long Paul Gascoigne has left.

4 months, I say. :/

At 2/9/13 03:32 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/9/13 09:36 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/7/13 01:38 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/6/13 03:36 PM, Coop wrote: Eventually. They will need to get up early in the morning to beat me to the Portal :P

Nothing that some sleeping pills in your meal couldn't fix...

Only if the horse in my Findus Beef Lasagne was given Ketamine!

That can be arranged.

Only in the world of Dr. House

Wait, you mean that isn't real?

At 2/10/13 12:33 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/9/13 03:32 PM, Haggard wrote: Maybe he doesn't care... or he doesn't even notice it anymore.

It's quite clear that he's not caring, I'm just disturbed that someone thought bird feces would be a good idea for Radagast's character design.

Well, the birds don't care as well (they dump into their own nests!) and parent birds EAT the Guano of their children... I've seen it, man!
So yeah, maybe Radagast is just so much into nature that he doesn't care.

Sorry, it's in german, so I guess you won't understand much. I can't find any other languages, not even french... But be sure to listen to the theme music at the end of the video!

Don't worry, French wouldn't be any easier for me to understand. I understood the "happy birthday" song, though! lol

Yeah, but it's a french cartoon, so there have to be some french videos out there. I really would like to hear the original voices.

Oh, btw: That little kid that speaks the voice of Grisu is still in the business. He's a very well known dubbing actor. :)

Grisu is adorable!

I see, you understand. Bahamut on the other hand... :P

At 2/10/13 06:42 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/8/13 12:44 PM, Haggard wrote: Level 51!

The angry face never was more fitting than now. Even the Staff has an angry face mounted on top of it! >:(

Actually, I cannot argue with that.

Hooray!

At 2/8/13 01:19 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/8/13 07:39 AM, Bahamut wrote: Indeed. There's still so much more to find out and my mum keeps asking me if I found out anything else about her. My mum can do with getting off my back once in a while.

Ha, I'm just glad I moved out (or... had to move out ^^) rather quickly after meeting my wife.

That's something I still need to do... Still not getting anywhere with that.

It's not easy finding something without a proper job. I was incredibly lucky that my father-in-law vouched for us, when my wife and I where searching for an appartement.

I always like round numbers and 25 works fine. Stopping at 400 episodes with the movie would have been another reasonable place to retire but they had to go further.

Even M*A*S*H ended after 11 seasons.

And most Britcoms only had 2-3 seasons.

I'm sure I don't even know half of the stuff.

Just watch out. It may be a bonfire but Grisu shall find a way to make the fire bigger. ;D

He's more keen to keep it small or putting it out, though. See pic.

I'm sure he has the more pure dragon side to him as well.

Nope. He's constantly looking for a way to "put out his inner fire".

Coop tries to be appreciative of music that is not "him", while congratulating:
Jolly: 37,000 Saves
LiquidFire: Top 800 Experienced
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 64,000 Saves
LiquidFire: 27,000 B/P
AnalPenguinFarming: Top 600 Experienced
Fagamut: Level 46
Decky: Major
sandwich-eater: 12,000 Experience
Metal-Therapy: Level 33
Aci6: General; Level 39
gamejunkie: 57,000 B/P

Listening to:
Jethro Tull - Aqualung. Lose the vocals and you've got a half decent tune here... even then, it lacks form.
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Weird Al - Cavity Search
Metallica - Anasthesia (Pulling Teeth)

At 2/10/13 12:33 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/10/13 07:26 AM, Coop wrote: Oh. Sorry, the [:P] made it look like sarcasm...

I use that emoticon too much. :(

So it would seem

Miming playing the drums is a difficult skill. You'd need a Passage to Bangkok to get away from that sort of crowd ;)

I've got pretty good Chemistry behind the skins, but lets face it, you'd need to travel Half The World to find another with Peart's skills...

There aren't that many - Buddy Rich was one, I think that Nicko McBrain and Mike Portnoy could possibly manage it, though they are very different masters.

By the Shapes Of Things, I thought it was, but Circumstances have changed. I'm a Working Man and I will continue to work at this!

I knew you wouldn't be so Faithless as to Turn The Page now, but will you remain Driven as we continue to Carve Away The Stone?

Driven, that's repetition, surely!

Wow, that could leave the contest in Limbo. For What It's Worth, I'm carrying on, in case we aren't playing that rule!

Are you sure? 4.5 months to get 10,000 B/P? More like May 6th 2007...

Very sure. Have you forgotten what kind of pace I was putting up back then?

I signed up for NG Log on May 8th 2008, so I added on 2 days to the end date to compensate:

I see. Clearly, I had forgotten that sort of 70 per day pace that you were knocking out at will...

At 2/10/13 06:42 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/9/13 09:36 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/6/13 07:37 PM, Bahamut wrote: Yeah, I miss your morning LUL posts.

Sorry, I'm in bed, reading at that stage. It helps me to wake up. Perhaps if I move somewhere closer to work, I may start again...

Then again, I'm missing some days in the LUL myself so I'm not all that better. Not even made a LUL post for at least 48 hours until now.

It happens. So long as we make amends, all shall be forgiven.

Congratulations To

Fagamut: level 46
Decky: Major
sandwich-eater: 12,000 exp.
Aci6: level 39, General
gamejunkie: 57,000 b/p
Chrausner: 10,000 medal points

A nice bunch of achievements there. :)

Listening To!

Type O Negative: The Profit of Doom, September Sun

At 2/11/13 03:09 PM, Bahamut wrote: So I did some voluntary work at a local indie game shop today. My main job was meant to attend the Facebook page for the store for any incoming messages/comments about any queries but I ended up sorted out all the shelves for the shop. Well, almost all of them anyway. Made the place look a whole lot neater and the store owner was really pleased with the work that I did.

That's great that the owner likes you; maybe you could get a (paying) job there!

I'm glad it was discussed about before we all jumped ahead and had it on board. I didn't mind the idea at first but if it meant to restrict it to supporters only, I become less fond of it.

The more I think about it, the more I think things should just say the way they are now. I'll stick around to see what happens either way, though. ;)

You need to be me, that's all. :P

Does that include the dragon obsession? :P

Yeah, about that... I think what might be best to do is sort out the update on Sunday and alongside type up the step by step guide. However, if Sunday plans do suddenly change like seeing my girlfriend, then it could become more of a task at hand.

I think putting together a list of instructions while making the update would be the most thorough way of doing it. I'm going to need a walkthrough on the whole process anyway; expect a few questions from me along the way, too. ;)

At 2/12/13 02:24 PM, Haggard wrote: Well, the birds don't care as well (they dump into their own nests!) and parent birds EAT the Guano of their children... I've seen it, man!
So yeah, maybe Radagast is just so much into nature that he doesn't care.

Yeah, he's like nature in human form... That almost makes the bird shit acceptable. Almost.

Yeah, but it's a french cartoon, so there have to be some french videos out there. I really would like to hear the original voices.

Why are the originals so hard to find? I think Grisu's voice sounds fine in the German version, anyway.

I see, you understand. Bahamut on the other hand... :P

Maybe he doesn't like cute dragons?

At 2/12/13 03:57 PM, Coop wrote: So it would seem

I'm trying to cut back. (Damn, my fingers instinctively went for the SHIFT, ; , p there. Must...resist.)

At 2/12/13 03:57 PM, Coop wrote: Driven, that's repetition, surely!

Driven had not been used yet. Though I suppose I won, if repeating a song is grounds for forfeit. (For What It's Worth, Lessons, Limelight and Circumstances were all used before.) I don't really care about that, though.

Here's the list of songs each of us has used so far.

Coop (26 songs)

Roll The Bones
One Little Victory
Ceiling Unlimited
Spirit of Radio
Ghost of a Chance
The Trees
Face Up
Bravado
Malignant Narcissism
The Way The Wind Blows
Resist
Leave That Thing Alone
Distant Early Warning
Tears
Seven and Seven Is
Circumstances
Armor and Sword
Crossroads
Hope
Vital Signs
Sweet Miracle
Red Sector A
Passage To Bangkok
Shapes of Things
Working Man
Limbo

Metal (50 songs)

The Big Money
Mystic Rhythms
Limelight
Red Barchetta
The Necromancer
Rivendell
Something For Nothing
The Weapon
What You're Doing
Losing It
How It Is
Marathon
Best I Can
Hymn of Triumph
The Pass
In The Valley
Monsters!
Dog Years
Natural Science
Challenge and Defiance
Into Darkness
The Stars Look Down
Grand Designs
The Battle
Between Sun and Moon
Scars
Freewill
Lessons
In The End
Bravest Face
Stick It Out
For What It's Worth
Mission
You Bet Your Life
O Baterista
Home Again
Cut To The Chase
Grand Finale
Bastille Day
Chemistry
Half The World
Faithless
Turn The Page
Driven
Carve Away the Stone
Take A Friend
Mission
Hand Over Fist
High Water
Epilogue

76 total songs used

Oh, and my pun for the day:

Wow, that could leave the contest in Limbo. For What It's Worth, I'm carrying on, in case we aren't playing that rule!

I want you to know that you can Take A Friend in me, but that doesn't change that fact that it's still my Mission to keep pouring on Rush puns Hand Over Fist. Can't you see the High Water rising? I hope you're still In The Mood, because I'm beginning to sense that the Epilogue isn't too far off now...

I see. Clearly, I had forgotten that sort of 70 per day pace that you were knocking out at will...

I had started working by then. My pace from May to around the end of July 2008 was scratching 100/day. Impossible to manage these days, though I would be if the Portal would allow it.

Level 40! Only 20 to go! :D

Listening to:

Riot - Thundersteel

At 2/12/13 02:24 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/10/13 12:33 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Grisu is adorable!

I see, you understand. Bahamut on the other hand... :P

I will never accept this!

At 2/10/13 06:42 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/8/13 12:44 PM, Haggard wrote: Level 51!

The angry face never was more fitting than now. Even the Staff has an angry face mounted on top of it! >:(

Actually, I cannot argue with that.

Hooray!

That said, the icon kinda sucks. Too goofy for my liking for the high tier level icons.

And most Britcoms only had 2-3 seasons.

I'm sure I don't even know half of the stuff.

I still have a lot to catch up on.

I'm sure he has the more pure dragon side to him as well.

Nope. He's constantly looking for a way to "put out his inner fire".

Laaaaaaaaaaame.

At 2/12/13 03:57 PM, Coop wrote:

At 2/10/13 06:42 PM, Bahamut wrote: Then again, I'm missing some days in the LUL myself so I'm not all that better. Not even made a LUL post for at least 48 hours until now.

It happens. So long as we make amends, all shall be forgiven.

But if life gets too busy to have any time for the BBS, that also happens. Right now I still have spare time but when I get my girlfriend wanting to see me the following day, then I've got even less free time. At this time we cannot go all the way to see each other as travel expenses will completely demolish our money.

At 2/12/13 06:41 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/11/13 03:09 PM, Bahamut wrote: So I did some voluntary work at a local indie game shop today. My main job was meant to attend the Facebook page for the store for any incoming messages/comments about any queries but I ended up sorted out all the shelves for the shop. Well, almost all of them anyway. Made the place look a whole lot neater and the store owner was really pleased with the work that I did.

That's great that the owner likes you; maybe you could get a (paying) job there!

She has mentioned there is a possibility of hiring someone when the business develops. She wants the shop to expand to a comic and video game cafe but that's a long way off for her finances.

I'm glad it was discussed about before we all jumped ahead and had it on board. I didn't mind the idea at first but if it meant to restrict it to supporters only, I become less fond of it.

The more I think about it, the more I think things should just say the way they are now. I'll stick around to see what happens either way, though. ;)

I'm glad we all discussed about it. More and more the doubtful comments showed up and I wanted to reach out to them.

You need to be me, that's all. :P

Does that include the dragon obsession? :P

Yes!

Yeah, about that... I think what might be best to do is sort out the update on Sunday and alongside type up the step by step guide. However, if Sunday plans do suddenly change like seeing my girlfriend, then it could become more of a task at hand.

I think putting together a list of instructions while making the update would be the most thorough way of doing it. I'm going to need a walkthrough on the whole process anyway; expect a few questions from me along the way, too. ;)

Yeah, doing it the first time can be tough. I was like that as well when I took over from gfox. Hell, I didn't have my own instruction manual to do it all; I mostly had to work it all out myself. As for my PM inbox, you take up quite a fair amount of space on page 1 but then again, I keep deleting one kid's PMs I get. I don't even read what he says; just delete immediately so thankfully my inbox isn't clogged up with his crap.

Congratulations To

ZJ: level 40 -you're stuck in the past, too, eh? You should use your user icon for the old level icons, like I do. :P

At 2/12/13 06:41 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Metal (50 songs)

Oops, looks like I counted a song in that last one I did that I had used before. (Mission) So, that's 49 songs then.

At 2/13/13 08:13 AM, Bahamut wrote: She has mentioned there is a possibility of hiring someone when the business develops. She wants the shop to expand to a comic and video game cafe but that's a long way off for her finances.

That sounds like a pretty cool place to work. I would definitely ask to do more volunteer work there in the future; try and make yourself a shoe in for that future job opening. ;)

I'm glad we all discussed about it. More and more the doubtful comments showed up and I wanted to reach out to them.

Do you know if this is happening, or is it still just in the "idea" stage? All I know is that Tom seemed pretty fond of the idea when it was first mentioned. My excitement has for some reason turned to indifference these last few days.

Yes!

Not sure I could pull that off as well as you, though. :P

Yeah, doing it the first time can be tough. I was like that as well when I took over from gfox. Hell, I didn't have my own instruction manual to do it all; I mostly had to work it all out myself.

Hopefully you'll prove a better teacher than gfox? :P

As for my PM inbox, you take up quite a fair amount of space on page 1 but then again, I keep deleting one kid's PMs I get. I don't even read what he says; just delete immediately so thankfully my inbox isn't clogged up with his crap.

Why don't you block sender on this kid's PM's?

Thank You

Coop

Listening to:
Ensiferum - In My Sword I Trust
Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes

At 2/12/13 06:41 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/12/13 02:24 PM, Haggard wrote: Well, the birds don't care as well (they dump into their own nests!) and parent birds EAT the Guano of their children... I've seen it, man!
So yeah, maybe Radagast is just so much into nature that he doesn't care.

Yeah, he's like nature in human form... That almost makes the bird shit acceptable. Almost.

I doubt we'll see him again in the next two movies.

Yeah, but it's a french cartoon, so there have to be some french videos out there. I really would like to hear the original voices.

Why are the originals so hard to find? I think Grisu's voice sounds fine in the German version, anyway.

Yes, his german voice is awesome. As I've said, the guy who did the voice is a well known voice actor now, he dubs Ben Stiller, for example. Even the english wikipedia has an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Rohrbeck

I see, you understand. Bahamut on the other hand... :P

Maybe he doesn't like cute dragons?

He has to accept it some day.

At 2/13/13 08:13 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/12/13 02:24 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/10/13 12:33 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Grisu is adorable!

I see, you understand. Bahamut on the other hand... :P

I will never accept this!

You HAVE to! Sooner or later.

At 2/10/13 06:42 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/8/13 12:44 PM, Haggard wrote: Level 51!

The angry face never was more fitting than now. Even the Staff has an angry face mounted on top of it! >:(

Actually, I cannot argue with that.

Hooray!

That said, the icon kinda sucks. Too goofy for my liking for the high tier level icons.

I like it. But it isn't that important anymore, since the level icons are so small...

And most Britcoms only had 2-3 seasons.

I'm sure I don't even know half of the stuff.

I still have a lot to catch up on.

Well, I just finished the 6th season of The X-Files, so only 3 more to go. Maybe I will also get the two movies on DVD. If only I could get my hands on the spin off "The Lone Gunmen". Critics praised that spin off, but it only had like one season.

I'm sure he has the more pure dragon side to him as well.

Nope. He's constantly looking for a way to "put out his inner fire".

Laaaaaaaaaaame.

Cuuuuuuuute!

Coop notes Oscar Pistorius' false start to Valentine's Day, while congratulating:
ZJ: Level 40
tyler2513: Level 24

At 2/12/13 06:41 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/12/13 03:57 PM, Coop wrote: So it would seem

I'm trying to cut back. (Damn, my fingers instinctively went for the SHIFT, ; , p there. Must...resist.)

I can't even tempt you into that...

At 2/12/13 03:57 PM, Coop wrote: Driven, that's repetition, surely!

Driven had not been used yet. Though I suppose I won, if repeating a song is grounds for forfeit. (For What It's Worth, Lessons, Limelight and Circumstances were all used before.) I don't really care about that, though.

Fuck.

Here's the list of songs each of us has used so far.

76 total songs used

Oh, and my pun for the day:

Wow, that could leave the contest in Limbo. For What It's Worth, I'm carrying on, in case we aren't playing that rule!

I want you to know that you can Take A Friend in me, but that doesn't change that fact that it's still my Mission to keep pouring on Rush puns Hand Over Fist. Can't you see the High Water rising? I hope you're still In The Mood, because I'm beginning to sense that the Epilogue isn't too far off now...

Well, with that Discovery, I really should Carve Away The Stone and climb into my hole. Would you care to sing the Soliloquy?

I see. Clearly, I had forgotten that sort of 70 per day pace that you were knocking out at will...

I had started working by then. My pace from May to around the end of July 2008 was scratching 100/day. Impossible to manage these days, though I would be if the Portal would allow it.

A massive if, I'm afraid.

At 2/13/13 08:13 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/12/13 03:57 PM, Coop wrote:

At 2/10/13 06:42 PM, Bahamut wrote: Then again, I'm missing some days in the LUL myself so I'm not all that better. Not even made a LUL post for at least 48 hours until now.

It happens. So long as we make amends, all shall be forgiven.

But if life gets too busy to have any time for the BBS, that also happens. Right now I still have spare time but when I get my girlfriend wanting to see me the following day, then I've got even less free time. At this time we cannot go all the way to see each other as travel expenses will completely demolish our money.

Been there, done that - travelling to see my girlfriend when we were both up north at Uni. Sure, it wasn't far, but sometimes, we were taking two, three or even four evenings a week on trains between Manchester and Leeds. when neither of us had a job, that eroded a lot of our money. But damn, it was fun!

Medals from 1,000 Games.

Listening to:

Helloween - Straight Out of Hell

At 2/13/13 12:30 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/13/13 08:13 AM, Bahamut wrote: She has mentioned there is a possibility of hiring someone when the business develops. She wants the shop to expand to a comic and video game cafe but that's a long way off for her finances.

That sounds like a pretty cool place to work. I would definitely ask to do more volunteer work there in the future; try and make yourself a shoe in for that future job opening. ;)

I've said to her that if she needs me in for additional days, she can go right ahead and ask me. She has my contact on Facebook so it's a matter of messaging me on there.

I'm glad we all discussed about it. More and more the doubtful comments showed up and I wanted to reach out to them.

Do you know if this is happening, or is it still just in the "idea" stage? All I know is that Tom seemed pretty fond of the idea when it was first mentioned. My excitement has for some reason turned to indifference these last few days.

I believe it's still the idea stage for now. It's not something to rush into straight away, especially when we've been discussing the cons about it.

Yeah, doing it the first time can be tough. I was like that as well when I took over from gfox. Hell, I didn't have my own instruction manual to do it all; I mostly had to work it all out myself.

Hopefully you'll prove a better teacher than gfox? :P

That I can hope.

As for my PM inbox, you take up quite a fair amount of space on page 1 but then again, I keep deleting one kid's PMs I get. I don't even read what he says; just delete immediately so thankfully my inbox isn't clogged up with his crap.

Why don't you block sender on this kid's PM's?

I ought to... I was hoping he'd get the message by not that I really don't like him.

At 2/13/13 02:39 PM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Ensiferum - In My Sword I Trust
Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes

Goood, gooooooood.

At 2/13/13 08:13 AM, Bahamut wrote: I will never accept this!

You HAVE to! Sooner or later.

Hell no.

That said, the icon kinda sucks. Too goofy for my liking for the high tier level icons.

I like it. But it isn't that important anymore, since the level icons are so small...

Yeah, it's hard to bring myself as much excitement as I did for the 2007 levels whenever I level up. I guess reaching level 60 will have a "meh" effect to it.

I still have a lot to catch up on.

Well, I just finished the 6th season of The X-Files, so only 3 more to go. Maybe I will also get the two movies on DVD. If only I could get my hands on the spin off "The Lone Gunmen". Critics praised that spin off, but it only had like one season.

I'm slowly but surely going through season two of Batman: The Animated Series.

At 2/14/13 03:24 PM, Coop wrote: Been there, done that - travelling to see my girlfriend when we were both up north at Uni. Sure, it wasn't far, but sometimes, we were taking two, three or even four evenings a week on trains between Manchester and Leeds. when neither of us had a job, that eroded a lot of our money. But damn, it was fun!

Manchester is a place that's reachable for both of us. Ticket will be something like 11 something for return so I could possibly do that sometime.

Congratulations To

tyler2513: level 24
gamejunkie: earned medals from 1,000 different games

At 2/13/13 02:39 PM, Haggard wrote: I doubt we'll see him again in the next two movies.

I can live with that.

He has to accept it some day.

Has he ever ended up agreeing with you in the end on anything? I do think he needs to accept all types of dragons, though, even cute ones that don't like breathing fire. ;)

At 2/14/13 03:24 PM, Coop wrote: I can't even tempt you into that...

It doesn't require much tempting; I'm just trying my hardest to be strong! (boy, that sentence would have looked perfect with a SHIFT/;/p on the end.) *sigh*

Fuck.

They get hard to keep track of after a while.

Well, with that Discovery, I really should Carve Away The Stone and climb into my hole. Would you care to sing the Soliloquy?

I was hoping to hear the Good News First, yet I find you Here Again, before the Countdown has completed. In truth, it was a Far Cry to think we'd be able to use every last song; I see that now I no longer need concern myself with Finding My Way against you, the Digital Man. I want to hang onto this Everyday Glory, but alas, I cannot make Time Stand Still. It was fun Making Memories, but now it's time to remove the War Paint and pass Under The Shadow, To Sleep, Perchance To Dream...

A massive if, I'm afraid.

Indeed. :(

At 2/15/13 10:00 AM, Bahamut wrote: I've said to her that if she needs me in for additional days, she can go right ahead and ask me. She has my contact on Facebook so it's a matter of messaging me on there.

Hopefully she'll be in touch.

I believe it's still the idea stage for now. It's not something to rush into straight away, especially when we've been discussing the cons about it.

My gut tells me it's not going to happen, but we'll see, I guess.

That I can hope.

I'll hope, too. :P

I ought to... I was hoping he'd get the message by not that I really don't like him.

Block that bitch! ;P

Top 60 in Voting Power.

#59 in fact.

8 in vote power

Coop finishes assembling a fence with his dad, before congratulating:
gamejunkie: Medals from 1,000 Games; Top 60 Voting Power
LiquidFire: 8.00 Base Voting Power

Listening to:
Andy Williams - The Impossible Dream (The Quest)
Bruce Dickinson - Gypsy Road

At 2/15/13 10:00 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/14/13 03:24 PM, Coop wrote: Been there, done that - travelling to see my girlfriend when we were both up north at Uni. Sure, it wasn't far, but sometimes, we were taking two, three or even four evenings a week on trains between Manchester and Leeds. when neither of us had a job, that eroded a lot of our money. But damn, it was fun!

Manchester is a place that's reachable for both of us. Ticket will be something like 11 something for return so I could possibly do that sometime.

I've been talking about meeting an old flame in Leicester, but it would be just that - casual, nothing serious and perhaps a chance to catch up on old times. God, I sound like I'm going through a midlife crisis...

At 2/15/13 02:26 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/14/13 03:24 PM, Coop wrote: I can't even tempt you into that...

It doesn't require much tempting; I'm just trying my hardest to be strong! (boy, that sentence would have looked perfect with a SHIFT/;/p on the end.) *sigh*

lol

Well, with that Discovery, I really should Carve Away The Stone and climb into my hole. Would you care to sing the Soliloquy?

I was hoping to hear the Good News First, yet I find you Here Again, before the Countdown has completed. In truth, it was a Far Cry to think we'd be able to use every last song; I see that now I no longer need concern myself with Finding My Way against you, the Digital Man. I want to hang onto this Everyday Glory, but alas, I cannot make Time Stand Still. It was fun Making Memories, but now it's time to remove the War Paint and pass Under The Shadow, To Sleep, Perchance To Dream...

O.o

Seriously, uncle. My brain has crawled off into the corner to die.

#86 Most Experienced

I only noticed this because I looked at my stats from the Voting Power list... Shocking.

At 2/15/13 10:00 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/13/13 02:39 PM, Haggard wrote: You HAVE to! Sooner or later.

Hell no.

Hell yes.

I like it. But it isn't that important anymore, since the level icons are so small...

Yeah, it's hard to bring myself as much excitement as I did for the 2007 levels whenever I level up. I guess reaching level 60 will have a "meh" effect to it.

Which is really disappointing.

I'm slowly but surely going through season two of Batman: The Animated Series.

Nothing beats the TV series with Adam West!

At 2/15/13 02:26 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Has he ever ended up agreeing with you in the end on anything? I do think he needs to accept all types of dragons, though, even cute ones that don't like breathing fire. ;)

Actually, we do agree on some things. ;)

A couple of achievements I didn't even notice!

I ranked up to Sergeant Major, got 13,000 exp and have 10,000 medals from 1,500 games. Plus 1*10^0 submissions.
I used to have over 10,000 medals, but with the glitch I lost a thousand of them. Luckily it's fixed.

Oh, and with this, my voting power is now over 10.00. Only 1.96 more to enter the list.

10,000 reviews! :)

Which means I'll finally get pentalisted! :D

90,000 B/P!

At 2/10/13 12:33 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/9/13 06:30 PM, Auz wrote: That is true perhaps. I agree that the scene in the Goblin caves was so silly that it started to look a bit cartoony. Like how they dashed through the caves and not a single arrow hit them. Heck, they didn't even have a scratch when they walked out.

Yes, that's my main beef; when they were captured by the Goblins. I actually didn't mind the comedic nature of the Goblin King, with his grotesquely sagging jowls. It was the general sillyness of their escape, culminating with the Goblin King saying: "That'll do!" in response to Gandalf slashing his gut. HIS STINKING, STEAMING GUTS SHOULD HAVE SPILLED ALL OVER THE FLOOR, DAMMIT!! (ok, maybe that's a little much) That was just a wtf moment for me, anyway. :P

Oh yeah I remember that bit. During that split second of silence that fell before the joke I was thinking "Nah they can't make this THAT silly..." and then they did. It was a bit of a wtf moment for me too.

Well the additions they made to the original story were pretty good scenes at least. Like all the extra stuff with Radagast and the scene at Rivendell with Saruman. I'm curious about how they're going to work out the side plot with the Necromancer.

Should be interesting. I also like how they left us hanging with Smaug's appearance. Hopefully we'll get to see him in his entirety in the next movie. :P

Yeah I agree. I liked how they kept his appearance a bit of a mystery.

As for the Necromancer, my only concern with him is that he might take the wind out of Smaug's sails as the main villain. I just hope they'll keep it more as a sideplot and still keep Smaug as the major bad guy they have to beat.

Now that I take a good look at it again, it does look more like bird shit :p

All matted in his beard and shit. Eww.

I'm sure he smells pretty bad too :p

At 2/12/13 02:24 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/9/13 06:30 PM, Auz wrote: Yeah that was quite a while ago, wasn't it? Odd that there's already a 55 days difference.

Anyway, I seem to be level up buddies with Haggard now.

Yes. We wheren't that far away leveling wise from each other anyway. Everytime you leveled up, I knew that I was a few weeks away from leveling up as well. But now, we almost level up on the same day.

I guess things have reversed now.

At 2/8/13 01:19 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/8/13 05:57 AM, Auz wrote:

Also, I think they were trying to make some clear connections with the Lord of the Rings films, just for the crowd that never read the book.

I read a comment the other day. Somebody watched the movie and one guy in the theatre asked. "Huh? Why does he have the ring all of a sudden? I thought it was destroyed?" Oh. My. God.

LMAO XD

Fine if you haven't read The Hobbit, but even from the film itself it becomes obvious that it's a prequel to The Lord of the Rings.

I always imagined that part to be a bit silly. Like, how would Gollum even consider that to be a proper riddle? However, they made it fairly believable in the film.

Heh, he doesn't consider it to be a proper riddle, that's the whole point. ^^

Well if I remember correctly, he says something like: "Not fair!" but I don't hear him mentioning it's against the rules or that it isn't a riddle. In fact, he even starts trying to guess it.

They even cut a lot of parts of the LotR just to keep it all within 3 hour portions.

Yes, that's why you just have to get the extended versions. It's really worth it!

Yeah I would still like to get my hands on them someday. I believe we do have the films on DVD, but I don't think they contain many extras.

But oh well. It seems to be hip nowadays to split books in as many films as they think they can get away with.

At least the movies aren't as shitty as Episode I - III. I watched Episode I in the movies, the other two, I only watched parts of III, when it was on the TV. And I really can't bring myself to watch Episode II...
It's like "What was he thinking?!"

You're talking about Star Wars, right?

Of the three prequels, Episode III was the best one by far in my opinion. Episode I was okay (though it seems to be disliked the most by fans) and Episode II was absolutely dreadful if you ask me.

Congratulations To

Cyberdevil: 10,000 reviews, pentalisted

gamejunkie: top 60 in vp
LiquidFire: 8.00 base vp
Coop: exp rank #86
Odyssic: level 48
Knuckstrike: Sergeant Major, 13,000 exp, 10.00 total vp
Auz: 90,000 b/p

At 2/16/13 06:48 AM, Coop wrote: lol

I refuse to use that emoticon when replying to your posts now.

O.o

Seriously, uncle. My brain has crawled off into the corner to die.

It was fun. :) I'm honestly going to miss making these...

At 2/16/13 08:27 AM, Haggard wrote: Actually, we do agree on some things. ;)

Are these things able to be counted on one hand? :P

At 2/16/13 11:54 AM, Auz wrote: Oh yeah I remember that bit. During that split second of silence that fell before the joke I was thinking "Nah they can't make this THAT silly..." and then they did. It was a bit of a wtf moment for me too.

Exactly. There's a time and place for comic relief -that wasn't one of them.

Yeah I agree. I liked how they kept his appearance a bit of a mystery.

As for the Necromancer, my only concern with him is that he might take the wind out of Smaug's sails as the main villain. I just hope they'll keep it more as a sideplot and still keep Smaug as the major bad guy they have to beat.

I never really considered that... I'm honestly surprised at how much attention the Necromancer received in the movie, considering it was just more of a plot device in the book, foreshadowing Sauron's rise in LOTR. It'll be interesting to see how it develops, anyway.

I'm sure he smells pretty bad too :p

I bet he has a pleasant sent, like a pine forest in springtime. lmao

At 2/11/13 03:15 PM, Fagamut wrote:

At 2/9/13 08:01 PM, S-k-y wrote: Level 46.

Level 46.

Level 46.

60,000 medal points.

28,000 Exp Points. Also have another nice achievement coming very, very soon.

At 2/13/13 12:04 AM, ZJ wrote: Level 40! Only 20 to go! :D

It's awesome until you realize that the next 20 Levels take about the same time to attain as the first 40 Levels. Climbing from Level 40 to Level 50 is super slow going. I'm Level 51 and still have 2 years, 11 months of not missing any votes to reach that much desired Level 60.

I'm amazed I've yet to talk about this here. On Wednesday, I saw The Room in Liverpool's indie cinema and Tommy Wiseau was there to meet the fan as well as signing autographs and even taking pictures. To have myself a picture with Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero and my friends is a great honour.

However, then came a crisis. After leaving the cinema, I realised one of my coat pockets felt a bit empty and then realised that my iPod slipped out of the pocket. I had to speak to reception about lost property and sadly had to wait until tomorrow morning to hear if it was found. I was ready to prepare the worst and spend over 200 for a new iPod considering one of the last things you'd expect to get back after losing it somewhere is an iPod. Much to my surprise, the iPod was found and the cinema phoned up informing me they do have it. That was a really close one and next time, I shouldn't expect to be so lucky. To make sure this doesn't happen again, I now have a new coat with zipped pockets and not crappy buttoned pockets.

Listening to:

Threshold - March of Progress

At 2/15/13 02:26 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

It's on its way. ;)

At 2/15/13 10:00 AM, Bahamut wrote: I've said to her that if she needs me in for additional days, she can go right ahead and ask me. She has my contact on Facebook so it's a matter of messaging me on there.

Hopefully she'll be in touch.

She will but more in the sense of myself seeing her a week tomorrow for my second day of voluntary work there. I just wonder how tidy the shelves have been since I was last there.

I believe it's still the idea stage for now. It's not something to rush into straight away, especially when we've been discussing the cons about it.

My gut tells me it's not going to happen, but we'll see, I guess.

Yeah, the idea feels a little shot down now. Still, happy to discuss it and at least it wasn't an utterly dumb idea. One I heard about replacing the $100 prize draw with bonus EXP to a random user made me want to throw up.

I ought to... I was hoping he'd get the message by not that I really don't like him.

Block that bitch! ;P

I suppose it's a matter of time then. Maybe next time...

At 2/16/13 06:48 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/15/13 10:00 AM, Bahamut wrote: Manchester is a place that's reachable for both of us. Ticket will be something like 11 something for return so I could possibly do that sometime.

I've been talking about meeting an old flame in Leicester, but it would be just that - casual, nothing serious and perhaps a chance to catch up on old times. God, I sound like I'm going through a midlife crisis...

You know, I always hoped we could meet outside the NG events.

At 2/16/13 08:19 AM, Odyssic wrote: Level 48, Coop is this the new "Groovy" because this is the book from Evil Dead.

Nah, you got until level 55 to say that again.

At 2/16/13 08:27 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/15/13 10:00 AM, Bahamut wrote: Hell no.

Hell yes.

Nope nope nope, not ever.

Yeah, it's hard to bring myself as much excitement as I did for the 2007 levels whenever I level up. I guess reaching level 60 will have a "meh" effect to it.

Which is really disappointing.

I agree. That said, the auras are better looking for the current icons. Pink isn't such an eyesore now and purple aura is a welcome addition. Teal aura for writer/reader kinda blends in with game aura but I suppose I can live with it.

I'm slowly but surely going through season two of Batman: The Animated Series.

Nothing beats the TV series with Adam West!

I'd say the animated series is where it was best at. Maybe we can both agree that TAS surpasses all the films.

At 2/15/13 02:26 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Has he ever ended up agreeing with you in the end on anything? I do think he needs to accept all types of dragons, though, even cute ones that don't like breathing fire. ;)

Actually, we do agree on some things. ;)

Like....

At 2/16/13 12:39 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Congratulations To

Cyberdevil: 10,000 reviews, pentalisted

Seems fitting for my last update.

At 2/17/13 02:05 AM, gamejunkie wrote: It's awesome until you realize that the next 20 Levels take about the same time to attain as the first 40 Levels. Climbing from Level 40 to Level 50 is super slow going. I'm Level 51 and still have 2 years, 11 months of not missing any votes to reach that much desired Level 60.

I always thought level 42 was the halfway point considering you need 19,000 something EXP and 38,000 something EXP for level 60. At least I'm beyond 3/4 way mark to level 60. It's actually gonna be a sad feeling reaching the final level and knowing there won't be more to obtain. Ah well, good times have gotta come to an end, I guess.

Just reached 1/3 of a million medal points. Should I really go for this?

Level 37!

90,000 Total Points.

Brig. General get.

29,000 saves.

Reaching Supreme Commander in saves alone will be a pretty nice milestone. :)