My laptop is kaput :(

On a lighter note, I did manage 175,000 Points before the graphics fucked up on me...

Passed 25000 saves

At 2/20/13 01:06 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: I still have one of my old animated sigsfrom back in the day. (Figured I'd save everyone's sanity and just link to it instead of including it in this post.) :P The "-AD-" were the initials of the other alias I used to switch back and forth with

Lame! :P

(Metal_Therapy being the other.) Maybe I should have demanded my name changed to MetalUnderscoreTherapy? Betcha I'd have a lot more b/p right now if I did...

About 100,000 more?

Oh boy...

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I feel much better now.

By the way, that sounds like an incredibly silly movie. :P

It IS! It's a quality movie from Troma!

At 2/19/13 05:55 PM, Haggard wrote: T.T

Hey, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I thought that; you two are always bickering like an old married couple! XP

Wow, I wonder what my wife would say if she read this. :P

At 2/20/13 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: My laptop is kaput :(

My first thought was: Nice wallpaper... on your wall and on you laptop. ^^

At 2/20/13 04:40 AM, iGranadoz wrote: Whys it so hard to actually blam?

Because a lot of users just vote 5 on everything to quickly get saves.

Level 34

43,000 B/P Points.

Listening to:

Therion - Lemuria. Man, how do I overlook albums like this? At least I'm trying it out on Spotify, even though they've been giving me Welsh ads today... Don't ask why.

At 2/19/13 02:54 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/19/13 01:16 PM, Bahamut wrote: Mine's 120GB. It was the cheaper option at the time and I still have at least half of it to fill up.

I have a fair amount of video on mine, which takes up a lot of space. I got the biggest one available because I never wanted to worry about running out of room and having to choose what to remove to make room for new stuff. (I still have around 90GB free, so that's not going to be an issue anytime soon.)

I tend to not have videos as it's usually only stuff from iTunes that you can use on it. I never really looked into it that much, though. If DVD/blu-ray releases had a digital option tacked with it, I'd be using it more often.

Hopefully you can manage it all.

I'm not worried about the workload; I did the top reviewers with nothing but my browser, a calculator and a notepad file every week. This is just a lot more complex than what I'm used to. I've been trying to do a mock update, following the instructions you sent. I've gotten to the part with copying the 1x10k'ers into the separate spreadsheet. I'll be in touch with you soon to chat about it, just iron out any bumps.

Just give me a shout at any time. It IS a lot to take in and despite doing it for years I did slip up here and there.

At 2/19/13 05:55 PM, Haggard wrote: I never had a picture in it, because... users with pictures in their signature are just lame (dragons and cricket players excluded, you guys are awesome, even with pics in your signature). :P

Maybe Coop needs cricket on his signature. :P As for mine, I'm good with it as it is.

At 2/19/13 01:16 PM, Bahamut wrote: I don't expect that mishap to happen ever again.

Never say never. Also, I'm sorry, but Nijsse's story even tops your story.

I'm not going to argue with that. Cars >>>>>> iPod in terms of value and importance. Mind you, I'm 22 and still can't drive but I know how vital cars are to most of us. I'd have a car but with no job, I don't have funds for driving lessons or even money to get a car and then insurance and because of that, there are some jobs I can't even get because they require you to drive or the distance is too far. If employers in this country weren't such fascist pricks, I would have gotten somewhere by now with a full-time job.

I never will. And besides, my girlfriend finds me to be an adorable dragon and I'm meant to be fierce. :P

See? Dragons can be adorable. And Grisu is most adorable.

I'm becoming too adorable to her, it seems.

Pre-re-redesign? You're talking about 2007, right?

Yes.

I still liked those auras but the new ones don't gaze into your eyes so it feels more of a background. As much as I liked gold aura, I'll admit that the colours were a little too bright.

It's a series I recommend watching. I feel the episodic formats of Batman helps to present various villains in the franchise.

Hopefully it also has a logical story line and isn't a reboot of the reboot that rebooted the reboot from 3 years ago. Seriously, "The Dark Knight" just fucked around with the story line too much. The whole idea was that Joker created Batman and Batman created the Joker. But in the Dark Knight? Some killer creates Batman and Joker just appeared out of nowhere? LAME!

The Animated Series doesn't have a strict canon. They are standalone episodes that rarely make references to previous events. They are able to cater for many villains in the Batman franchise so it works out great. Some villains they've not even put on the films yet so their light shines better here.

At 2/20/13 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: My laptop is kaput :(

How long have you had that for?

Congratulations To

Coop: 175,000 total stats
LiquidFire: 25,000 saves
sandwich-eater: level 34
Jolly: 43,000 b/p

Listening To

Fuel: Shimmer

At 2/20/13 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: My laptop is kaput :(

Damn, that sucks. Something similar happened to my old laptop, after I spilled Redbull on the keyboard -no wings though, just dead. :D

At 2/20/13 04:31 PM, Haggard wrote: Lame! :P

But everyone was doing it! I even remember ramagi changing her alias; it was along the lines of "IronFist", or something similar.

About 100,000 more?

More like 150,000 more. ;_;

It IS! It's a quality movie from Troma!

It came out the year I was born. Feelin' like an old man these days.

Wow, I wonder what my wife would say if she read this. :P

You should probably tell her about you two. It's not healthy to keep things from your wife like that. ;)

At 2/20/13 05:10 PM, Winrar1337 wrote:

At 2/20/13 04:40 AM, iGranadoz wrote: Whys it so hard to actually blam?

Because a lot of users just vote 5 on everything to quickly get saves.

I thought this was common knowledge?

At 2/21/13 09:51 AM, Bahamut wrote: I tend to not have videos as it's usually only stuff from iTunes that you can use on it. I never really looked into it that much, though. If DVD/blu-ray releases had a digital option tacked with it, I'd be using it more often.

None of the video I've got on mine came from the iTunes store; I just dragged and dropped it in and it worked fine.

Just give me a shout at any time. It IS a lot to take in and despite doing it for years I did slip up here and there.

Thanks a lot. :)

At 2/21/13 09:51 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/19/13 05:55 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/19/13 01:16 PM, Bahamut wrote: I don't expect that mishap to happen ever again.

Never say never. Also, I'm sorry, but Nijsse's story even tops your story.

I'm not going to argue with that. Cars >>>>>> iPod in terms of value and importance. Mind you, I'm 22 and still can't drive

Hey, I'm 31 and don't have a drivers licence. :(

I never will. And besides, my girlfriend finds me to be an adorable dragon and I'm meant to be fierce. :P

See? Dragons can be adorable. And Grisu is most adorable.

I'm becoming too adorable to her, it seems.

Is that a good sign or a bad sign?

Pre-re-redesign? You're talking about 2007, right?

Yes.

I still liked those auras but the new ones don't gaze into your eyes so it feels more of a background. As much as I liked gold aura, I'll admit that the colours were a little too bright.

Yeah, the curse of being a mod: Not being able to change your aura.

The Animated Series doesn't have a strict canon. They are standalone episodes that rarely make references to previous events. They are able to cater for many villains in the Batman franchise so it works out great. Some villains they've not even put on the films yet so their light shines better here.

So, it's like a "reboot"? It can help a series, but you have to be careful with that. For example, I don't undestand why they needed to produce just another Spiderman movie that shows how Peter Parker becomes spiderman... but a different Spiderman from a different universe.

Also, MJ >>>>> Gwen Stacy.

At 2/21/13 02:34 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/20/13 04:31 PM, Haggard wrote: Lame! :P

But everyone was doing it! I even remember ramagi changing her alias; it was along the lines of "IronFist", or something similar.

I was talking about that animated sig of yours. But changing names is also lame. I never changed the alias of this account, even when I was able to do it. :P

It IS! It's a quality movie from Troma!

It came out the year I was born. Feelin' like an old man these days.

I know that feeling all too well.

Wow, I wonder what my wife would say if she read this. :P

You should probably tell her about you two. It's not healthy to keep things from your wife like that. ;)

Hey, I'm really not into dragons. :(

You passed 81,000 B/P! Congrats!

At 2/20/13 01:06 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: So, how many days in a row is this now for 50+ under judgments...?

12 days now I believe. I was going to make a thread about it in General and ask why NG'ers aren't voting. In the hope that some actually would and help clear up the logjam in The Portal. There's probably also a stack of submissions below the Latest 50 Under Judgements that have been sitting there for days. Wade even made an appearance in the Chat the other day and asked people to go vote to help clear it up but alas it fell on deaf ears. Sad days indeed.

Congratulations To

Pokemonpoeguygcn: 81,000 b/p

Coop, hurry up and get a new laptop; I hate posting achievements and not getting any congrats for them! >:(

And Odyssic, stop being so damn busy!

Weren't there like 5 or 6 people doing these lists a few years back?

At 2/21/13 04:14 PM, Haggard wrote: I was talking about that animated sig of yours. But changing names is also lame. I never changed the alias of this account, even when I was able to do it. :P

Oh, sorry. Anyway, the guys in the sig are supposed to be me (the tazer) and my old friend from high school (the tazee) - I was such a great friend. :P

As far as name changing goes, I honestly do miss being able to screw around with my alias. I don't think I'd have it changed now, though -I've just had it for way too long to do so. (Same thing with my sig.)

I know that feeling all too well.

We're all just old men here in the LUL.

Hey, I'm really not into dragons. :(

But you love arguing with them. :P

At 2/23/13 12:19 AM, gamejunkie wrote: 12 days now I believe. I was going to make a thread about it in General and ask why NG'ers aren't voting. In the hope that some actually would and help clear up the logjam in The Portal. There's probably also a stack of submissions below the Latest 50 Under Judgements that have been sitting there for days. Wade even made an appearance in the Chat the other day and asked people to go vote to help clear it up but alas it fell on deaf ears. Sad days indeed.

I think it's simply a case of the elevated amount of submissions we've had in February overwhelming what little users are voting on a daily basis. I've honestly never seen anything like it before, though -not for this many days in a row, anyway. (Seems like so long ago when 10 or more UJ's at any given time was a lot. And whatever happened to waking up in the morning and seeing that a handful of submissions had passed while I was asleep?) :P

Went to a pub crawl. I didn't drink too much, although I feel like I had loads. I recall getting pinned to the ground as well as some of my friends teabagging me.

Listening to:

Voivod - Target Earth

At 2/21/13 02:34 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/21/13 09:51 AM, Bahamut wrote: I tend to not have videos as it's usually only stuff from iTunes that you can use on it. I never really looked into it that much, though. If DVD/blu-ray releases had a digital option tacked with it, I'd be using it more often.

None of the video I've got on mine came from the iTunes store; I just dragged and dropped it in and it worked fine.

Ah, I really should try that. However, it would be a matter of ripping the video files from my DVDs so that's another factor to consider.

Just give me a shout at any time. It IS a lot to take in and despite doing it for years I did slip up here and there.

Thanks a lot. :)

I'll be happy to help whenever.

At 2/21/13 04:14 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/21/13 09:51 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'm not going to argue with that. Cars >>>>>> iPod in terms of value and importance. Mind you, I'm 22 and still can't drive

Hey, I'm 31 and don't have a drivers licence. :(

My aunt is almost 55 and she has no drivers licence.

I'm becoming too adorable to her, it seems.

Is that a good sign or a bad sign?

Hard to say. At least she likes me for it.

I still liked those auras but the new ones don't gaze into your eyes so it feels more of a background. As much as I liked gold aura, I'll admit that the colours were a little too bright.

Yeah, the curse of being a mod: Not being able to change your aura.

I don't mind keeping the gold aura. I've had it for at least 2 1/2 years now.

The Animated Series doesn't have a strict canon. They are standalone episodes that rarely make references to previous events. They are able to cater for many villains in the Batman franchise so it works out great. Some villains they've not even put on the films yet so their light shines better here.

So, it's like a "reboot"? It can help a series, but you have to be careful with that. For example, I don't undestand why they needed to produce just another Spiderman movie that shows how Peter Parker becomes spiderman... but a different Spiderman from a different universe.

It was the first Batman animated show so a reboot wasn't necessary at all.

Hey, I'm really not into dragons. :(

You should ask my girlfriend's input on them.

At 2/23/13 12:19 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 2/20/13 01:06 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: So, how many days in a row is this now for 50+ under judgments...?

12 days now I believe. I was going to make a thread about it in General and ask why NG'ers aren't voting. In the hope that some actually would and help clear up the logjam in The Portal. There's probably also a stack of submissions below the Latest 50 Under Judgements that have been sitting there for days.

So that's why I keep seeing 50+ UJ. Shame it's come to this now. Maybe the only way to settle this is to reduce the vote threshold to 150. It seems the voters aren't like how they were back in the day.

Wade even made an appearance in the Chat the other day and asked people to go vote to help clear it up but alas it fell on deaf ears. Sad days indeed.

You can't really have much faith in this site's community, it seems.

At 2/23/13 12:19 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 2/20/13 01:06 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: So, how many days in a row is this now for 50+ under judgments...?

12 days now I believe. I was going to make a thread about it in General and ask why NG'ers aren't voting. In the hope that some actually would and help clear up the logjam in The Portal.

I was thinking about it as well. So maybe we should just do it. ^^

There's probably also a stack of submissions below the Latest 50 Under Judgements that have been sitting there for days.

Just go to the "Under Judgement" page instead of the classic portal and you can see all the flashes that are under judgement (d'uh). On some of those I have voted three days in a row... it's really sad.

At 2/23/13 01:54 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Weren't there like 5 or 6 people doing these lists a few years back?

I stopped making lists because there where so many people doing it... and because it felt more like a chore doing them.

At 2/21/13 04:14 PM, Haggard wrote: I know that feeling all too well.

We're all just old men here in the LUL.

As long as we don't start talking like old men... "Back in OUR days...." or "You know kid, when I was young..."

Hey, I'm really not into dragons. :(

But you love arguing with them. :P

Can't say for sure as I've been arguing with only one of those. :P

At 2/23/13 07:09 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/21/13 04:14 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/21/13 09:51 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'm not going to argue with that. Cars >>>>>> iPod in terms of value and importance. Mind you, I'm 22 and still can't drive

Hey, I'm 31 and don't have a drivers licence. :(

My aunt is almost 55 and she has no drivers licence.

I wonder if she has to listen to all this crap from her in-law family that I have to listen to as well?

I'm becoming too adorable to her, it seems.

Is that a good sign or a bad sign?

Hard to say. At least she likes me for it.

So, it's a good sign. :3

I still liked those auras but the new ones don't gaze into your eyes so it feels more of a background. As much as I liked gold aura, I'll admit that the colours were a little too bright.

Yeah, the curse of being a mod: Not being able to change your aura.

I don't mind keeping the gold aura. I've had it for at least 2 1/2 years now.

I would really miss not being able to change my aura whenever I level up. ^^

Hey, I'm really not into dragons. :(

You should ask my girlfriend's input on them.

No, she's biased.

Coop comes to terms with computing without his laptop. Congratulations to:
Knuckstrike: 13,000 Experience; Sergeant Major; 10,000 Medals; 1,500 Games for Medals; 10.00 Total Voting Power
Cyberdevil: 10,000 Reviews (Game / Movie)
Auz: 90,000 B/P
EmoDragon: Level 46
Jolly: 60,000 Medal Points; 43,000 B/P
gamejunkie: 28,000 Experience; 90,000 Total POints
Nijsse: 333,333 Medal Points. YES!
sumidiotdude: Level 37; Major
Winrar1337: Brigadier General
Metal-Therapy: 29,000 Saves
Martin: 13,000 Experience
GUTHRIE: 29,000 Experience
Ronald-McDonald-Lol: Level 40
Haggard: 61,000 B/P
Decky: 7.00 Base Voting Power
Muffin: Colonel
LiquidFire: 25,000 Saves
sandwich-eater: Level 34
Pokemonpoeguygcn: 81,000 B/P

listening to:
The Zutons - Valerie
Creedence - Fortunate Son
The Caesars - Jerk It Out
Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommt Alex
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames

Thank you to:
Odyssic
Metal-Therapy (x2)

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.

No, because everyone knows that chainsaws are groovy.

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

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

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

It won't last

:P
:P
:P
:P

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...

We'll find something else to do.

At 2/17/13 11:20 AM, Bahamut wrote:

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.

You talk as if one of us is dead - there is still a chance that it could happen.

At 2/18/13 12:35 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Reaching Supreme Commander in saves alone will be a pretty nice milestone. :)

Trust me, the endorphins released upon achieving it for Blams are a lot better!

At 2/20/13 04:31 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/20/13 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: My laptop is kaput :(

My first thought was: Nice wallpaper... on your wall and on you laptop. ^^

The flash increased the intensity of the green, methinks. But that's good and the fucked laptop is bad :(

At 2/20/13 05:10 PM, Winrar1337 wrote:

At 2/20/13 04:40 AM, iGranadoz wrote: Whys it so hard to actually blam?

Because a lot of users just vote 5 on everything to quickly get saves.

You realise that if I feel you're doing this, I'll petition Wade and Tom to remove your privileges?

At 2/21/13 09:51 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 2/20/13 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: My laptop is kaput :(

How long have you had that for?

It's having a 5th birthday part in August :)

At 2/21/13 02:34 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/20/13 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: My laptop is kaput :(

Damn, that sucks. Something similar happened to my old laptop, after I spilled Redbull on the keyboard -no wings though, just dead. :D

Shouldn't that be [D:]?

I've hit it a few times, but I do know one guy who has hit his laptoip so hard that they keyboard broke off.

At 2/23/13 01:54 AM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Coop, hurry up and get a new laptop; I hate posting achievements and not getting any congrats for them! >:(

It's not the having a laptop, it's the having time! I'm on the desktop computer here, but I get hardly any chance to get on and surf.

Wow, all of that for a post and I still have over 4,000 characters remaining...

Today marks my 8th Newgrounds Birthday!

[Insert long winded speech about my time here]

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

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.

Indeed. You'd expect them to keep at least some level of seriousness. I just hope they won't go too far with comic relief in the next two films.

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 bet they want to work to a DUN DUN DUN! moment for those not familiar with Tolkien's novels.

To be honest though, I wasn't sure who the Necromancer was either until I looked it up after I watched the film. It feels a bit like I spoiled a major plot twist there.

At 2/18/13 09:09 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/16/13 11:54 AM, Auz wrote: 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.

Yes. Also, how can you miss all the talk going on, that Jackson is now brining THE PREQUEL to the cinemas now?

Indeed. But I guess there's always a large crowd that doesn't really care all that much about what they're watching.

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.

Yes, he complains about it but Bilbo insists, so Gollum doesn't really have a choice.

Yeah okay, but he could've just refused and eat Bilbo :p

I thought this part was adapted well in the movie. Bilbo even does fiddle around with the ring before he asks that question, just as it is described in the book.

Yeah they nicely paid attention to the details. As they should, because it was definitely the major scene of this first part.

By the way, for some reason I always imaged that Gollum was sitting on that island during the scene and didn't actually see Bilbo, but I suppose I misread something in the book.

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.

DVD. LOL! :P
I have bought the BluRay-Box on the last Amazon "Cyber Monday". It was money well spent, since the additional scenes add so much more value to the movies... the only thing that pisses me off slighty is that there are sometiems different camera angles for the same scenes in both versions. ^^

I can imagine Lord of the Rings would be awesome to watch on Blu-Ray. The thing is that I don't have a Blu-Ray player (yet) because we still have one of those old fashioned TVs with a (relatively) small screen. I don't think I'd notice much difference between DVDs and Blu-Rays on such a TV.

You're talking about Star Wars, right?

Of course. Are there any other shitty movies with "Episode I - III" in the title? ^^

No I guess not, but just checkin' :p

At 2/19/13 05:55 PM, Haggard wrote: Oh boy...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LV1S2q2GA]"Who controls the beaches?" - "The Surfers!"[/url]
[urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_Nazis_Must_Die]"Who controls the surfers?" - "The Surf Nazis!"[/url]

Ahaha! Noob! XD

115,000 B/P

Now to march on the the next few thousand

At 2/23/13 07:35 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/23/13 12:19 AM, gamejunkie wrote: 12 days now I believe. I was going to make a thread about it in General and ask why NG'ers aren't voting. In the hope that some actually would and help clear up the logjam in The Portal.

I was thinking about it as well. So maybe we should just do it. ^^

I gave it some serious thought Haggard but in the end I decided against it because I figured that anyone who read the thread would just go and blindly vote 5 on everything under judgement and what little chance we have of gaining any Blam points, well, you know the rest. But if you feel it's worth it, please be my guest and make the thread.

OMG! OMG! OMG! Will you look at this. It's finally happening. The Toilet aka The Portal is unclogging. (I call it the 'toilet' because of all the shit in it.)

Congratulations To

Coop: 115,000 b/p

At 2/23/13 07:09 AM, Bahamut wrote: as well as some of my friends teabagging me.

?!

Anybody who puts their balls in my mouth gets castrated. End of story.

Ah, I really should try that. However, it would be a matter of ripping the video files from my DVDs so that's another factor to consider.

I don't recall ever ripping a DVD, just CDs. Can't be too difficult, though.

At 2/23/13 07:35 AM, Haggard wrote: I stopped making lists because there where so many people doing it... and because it felt more like a chore doing them.

You should start again, as there's now next to nobody making them. I honestly always enjoyed seeing my name and achievement listed here, even if the typical congrats list is a bit routine and generic -it's a LUL tradition, anyways. ;)

As long as we don't start talking like old men... "Back in OUR days...." or "You know kid, when I was young..."

Now hold on there, sonny, I think I said "whippersnapper" on the BBS the other day, though I don't quite remember. Ya see, my memory ain't what it used to be. *sucks on dentures*

Can't say for sure as I've been arguing with only one of those. :P

I'd imagine dragons would be great to argue with, as they've always stuck me as grumpy beasts. :P

At 2/23/13 08:57 AM, Coop wrote: It won't last

P
P
P
P

You're only hardening my resolve!

We'll find something else to do.

I suppose... Maybe we could talk about Game of Thrones, you know, once you read it? :x

At 2/23/13 09:04 AM, Auz wrote: Indeed. You'd expect them to keep at least some level of seriousness. I just hope they won't go too far with comic relief in the next two films.

I'll be happy if they keep it where it belongs... Hopefully they don't ruin Smaug by turning him into a clown.

I bet they want to work to a DUN DUN DUN! moment for those not familiar with Tolkien's novels.

As in discovering the Necromancer is the reemergence of Sauron?

To be honest though, I wasn't sure who the Necromancer was either until I looked it up after I watched the film. It feels a bit like I spoiled a major plot twist there.

I didn't know for sure, either, (though I did suspect it was Sauron) after reading The Hobbit for the first time. I ultimately decided to look it up, just to know for sure. :P

Thank You

Coop :P :P :P

I almost had a heart attack when I saw this:

I've fallen a bit behind on depositing (you're welcome, people that passed me up!) but I finally passed 25k experience! Yeeaaaaaaaaaa

At 2/20/13 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: My laptop is kaput :(

That is one large compact Thesaurus.

Coop almost forgets that it's the Daytona 500 today, before congratulating:
Auz: 8th NG Berfday
DrHood: 25,000 Experience
FBIPolux: Level 51; 12.00 Total Voting Power

Listening to:
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

Thank you to:
Metal-Therapy

At 2/23/13 04:38 PM, gamejunkie wrote: OMG! OMG! OMG! Will you look at this. It's finally happening. The Toilet aka The Portal is unclogging. (I call it the 'toilet' because of all the shit in it.)

We're working on it. At least I got 5 Blams out of yesterday's work at the shit farm.

At 2/23/13 04:39 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/23/13 08:57 AM, Coop wrote: It won't last

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You're only hardening my resolve!

Well, so long as I'm not hardening your e-penis, we're onto a winner :P

We'll find something else to do.

I suppose... Maybe we could talk about Game of Thrones, you know, once you read it? :x

Well, I've not finished book 3 of Emperor yet. Less than 100 pages to go there, but I'd rather conquer the world on Civ V... or wait for Sim City to come out.

At 2/23/13 10:37 PM, reverend wrote:

At 2/20/13 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: My laptop is kaput :(

That is one large compact Thesaurus.

Yeah, it was an Xmas present, along with the dictionary. I'm very thankful for the pair of them, to be honest.

Congratulations To

DrHood: 25,000 exp
FBIpolux: level 51, 12.00 total vp

Oops, I forgot to quote the rest of your previous post, Coop. Sorry.

At 2/23/13 08:57 AM, Coop wrote: Trust me, the endorphins released upon achieving it for Blams are a lot better!

Oh, hell yeah, but too bad that's never going to happen for me!

Shouldn't that be [D:]?

It would have been, if the laptop wasn't nearly 10 years old and in its death throes at the time, anyway -it was more of a mercy-killing, really.

At 2/23/13 04:38 PM, gamejunkie wrote: OMG! OMG! OMG! Will you look at this. It's finally happening. The Toilet aka The Portal is unclogging. (I call it the 'toilet' because of all the shit in it.)

Beat me by a minute. ;) Oh, and guess what: it's clogged again. Does somebody have the plunger handy? :P

At 2/24/13 06:17 AM, Coop wrote: Well, so long as I'm not hardening your e-penis, we're onto a winner :P

My epenis is always hard; only looking at the top blammers list can render it flaccid.

Well, I've not finished book 3 of Emperor yet. Less than 100 pages to go there, but I'd rather conquer the world on Civ V... or wait for Sim City to come out.

Fine, be that way. x_x

Sergeant Major

Coop makes it 3 days in a row (OMG!), of congratulating:
Spretnaz: Sergeant Major

At 2/24/13 03:43 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote: Oops, I forgot to quote the rest of your previous post, Coop. Sorry.

Shocking.

At 2/23/13 08:57 AM, Coop wrote: Trust me, the endorphins released upon achieving it for Blams are a lot better!

Oh, hell yeah, but too bad that's never going to happen for me!

Shouldn't that be [D:]?

It would have been, if the laptop wasn't nearly 10 years old and in its death throes at the time, anyway -it was more of a mercy-killing, really.

Electronics never suffer from mercy killings, especially if you kill them because they don't work right.

At 2/24/13 06:17 AM, Coop wrote: Well, so long as I'm not hardening your e-penis, we're onto a winner :P

My epenis is always hard; only looking at the top blammers list can render it flaccid.

Well, I've not finished book 3 of Emperor yet. Less than 100 pages to go there, but I'd rather conquer the world on Civ V... or wait for Sim City to come out.

Fine, be that way. x_x

I will. I need to plan how to conquer the world and how to get more sims into my new city, which will be being built soon. March 8th is release date, it's still not available for pre-order on Steam...

At 2/23/13 08:57 AM, Coop wrote:

At 2/20/13 04:31 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/20/13 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: My laptop is kaput :(

My first thought was: Nice wallpaper... on your wall and on you laptop. ^^

The flash increased the intensity of the green, methinks. But that's good and the fucked laptop is bad :(

But you still have a green wallpaper. That's fucked up, man!

At 2/23/13 09:04 AM, Auz wrote: [Insert long winded speech about my time here]

*booooo*

At 2/18/13 09:09 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/16/13 11:54 AM, Auz wrote: 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.

Yes. Also, how can you miss all the talk going on, that Jackson is now brining THE PREQUEL to the cinemas now?

Indeed. But I guess there's always a large crowd that doesn't really care all that much about what they're watching.

Just as there's always a large crowd that seems to be just stupid.

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.

Yes, he complains about it but Bilbo insists, so Gollum doesn't really have a choice.

Yeah okay, but he could've just refused and eat Bilbo :p

Bilbo still had a sword.

I thought this part was adapted well in the movie. Bilbo even does fiddle around with the ring before he asks that question, just as it is described in the book.

Yeah they nicely paid attention to the details. As they should, because it was definitely the major scene of this first part.
By the way, for some reason I always imaged that Gollum was sitting on that island during the scene and didn't actually see Bilbo, but I suppose I misread something in the book.

You know, I always imagined the same thing. So maybe he just does sit on his island in the book. But that wouldn't have been very interesting to watch, so they changed it a bit in the movie.

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.

DVD. LOL! :P
I have bought the BluRay-Box on the last Amazon "Cyber Monday". It was money well spent, since the additional scenes add so much more value to the movies... the only thing that pisses me off slighty is that there are sometiems different camera angles for the same scenes in both versions. ^^

I can imagine Lord of the Rings would be awesome to watch on Blu-Ray. The thing is that I don't have a Blu-Ray player (yet) because we still have one of those old fashioned TVs with a (relatively) small screen. I don't think I'd notice much difference between DVDs and Blu-Rays on such a TV.

Well, I have a PS3, so I also have a BluRay-Player. But yes, you should get one of those nice Plasma- or LCD-TVs as soon as possible. I used to have the PS3 hooked up to an CRT-TV via RCA Jacks (those cables with two audio -red and white- and one video output -yellow-). It looked OK. Then, we got a Plasma-TV and I used that RCA Cable to hook up the PS3 there. It looked a lot better. Than I bought a HDMI Cable... it's a difference as great as day and night!

At 2/19/13 05:55 PM, Haggard wrote: Oh boy...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LV1S2q2GA]"Who controls the beaches?" - "The Surfers!"[/url]
[urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_Nazis_Must_Die]"Who controls the surfers?" - "The Surf Nazis!"[/url]

Ahaha! Noob! XD

Says the one with the 2005 signup date. ROFL!

At 2/23/13 04:39 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/23/13 07:35 AM, Haggard wrote: I stopped making lists because there where so many people doing it... and because it felt more like a chore doing them.

You should start again, as there's now next to nobody making them. I honestly always enjoyed seeing my name and achievement listed here, even if the typical congrats list is a bit routine and generic -it's a LUL tradition, anyways. ;)

Nowadays I have even less time to do lists.

As long as we don't start talking like old men... "Back in OUR days...." or "You know kid, when I was young..."

Now hold on there, sonny, I think I said "whippersnapper" on the BBS the other day, though I don't quite remember. Ya see, my memory ain't what it used to be. *sucks on dentures*

All those young'uns round here are driving me mad!

Can't say for sure as I've been arguing with only one of those. :P

I'd imagine dragons would be great to argue with, as they've always stuck me as grumpy beasts. :P

I guess I would be grumpy as well if I had to live in caves the whole time.

I almost had a heart attack when I saw this:

And now it has come to this:

Level 14

At 2/23/13 04:39 PM, Metal-Therapy wrote:

At 2/23/13 09:04 AM, Auz wrote: Indeed. You'd expect them to keep at least some level of seriousness. I just hope they won't go too far with comic relief in the next two films.

I'll be happy if they keep it where it belongs... Hopefully they don't ruin Smaug by turning him into a clown.

Hehehe that would be interesting :p

Nah it's Benedict Cumberbatch so it should be cool. He's also playing the Necromancer by the way, so he basically plays both bad guys.

I bet they want to work to a DUN DUN DUN! moment for those not familiar with Tolkien's novels.

As in discovering the Necromancer is the reemergence of Sauron?

Yeah like:
"Oooh shit it's Sauron, I did not see this coming!" DUN DUN DUN!

To be honest though, I wasn't sure who the Necromancer was either until I looked it up after I watched the film. It feels a bit like I spoiled a major plot twist there.

I didn't know for sure, either, (though I did suspect it was Sauron) after reading The Hobbit for the first time. I ultimately decided to look it up, just to know for sure. :P

I read it was vaguely referenced in the book, but I was probably like "whatever, this can't be important" when I was at that bit.

At 2/18/13 09:09 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 2/16/13 11:54 AM, Auz wrote:

Yeah okay, but he could've just refused and eat Bilbo :p

Bilbo still had a sword.

But it's not like he's an experienced sword fighter or anything and Gollum is pretty strong for such a little guy. I'd put my money on Gollum if the two were to fight it out.

Yeah they nicely paid attention to the details. As they should, because it was definitely the major scene of this first part.
By the way, for some reason I always imaged that Gollum was sitting on that island during the scene and didn't actually see Bilbo, but I suppose I misread something in the book.

You know, I always imagined the same thing. So maybe he just does sit on his island in the book. But that wouldn't have been very interesting to watch, so they changed it a bit in the movie.

Ah so I might have been right about it after all. I discussed it with my girlfriend who read the book again right before we went to see the film, and she said they got it correct in the film.

I can imagine Lord of the Rings would be awesome to watch on Blu-Ray. The thing is that I don't have a Blu-Ray player (yet) because we still have one of those old fashioned TVs with a (relatively) small screen. I don't think I'd notice much difference between DVDs and Blu-Rays on such a TV.

Well, I have a PS3, so I also have a BluRay-Player. But yes, you should get one of those nice Plasma- or LCD-TVs as soon as possible. I used to have the PS3 hooked up to an CRT-TV via RCA Jacks (those cables with two audio -red and white- and one video output -yellow-). It looked OK. Then, we got a Plasma-TV and I used that RCA Cable to hook up the PS3 there. It looked a lot better. Than I bought a HDMI Cable... it's a difference as great as day and night!

The problem is that we're only uni students though, so we don't have that much money to spare. As long as our current TV still works I don't feel like making the purchase yet.

As soon as I get a fancy TV I'll definitely make the switch to Blu-Rays though. I don't think I'll have much of a choice anyway :p

At 2/19/13 05:55 PM, Haggard wrote: Oh boy...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LV1S2q2GA]"Who controls the beaches?" - "The Surfers!"[/url]
[urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_Nazis_Must_Die]"Who controls the surfers?" - "The Surf Nazis!"[/url]

Ahaha! Noob! XD

Says the one with the 2005 signup date. ROFL!

Psssshhh!

I only signed up for an account in 2005, but I already came to this site in 1998 man!

</noob excuse>

Congratulations To

Spretznaz: Sergeant Major
iGranadoz: level 14

At 2/25/13 01:39 PM, Coop wrote: Coop makes it 3 days in a row (OMG!), of congratulating:

I've noticed; and here I was fearing we'd see you less, after seeing that pic of your laptop.

Electronics never suffer from mercy killings, especially if you kill them because they don't work right.

Maybe, but this laptop was ancient and I was only using it as an auxiliary computer at the time (it wasn't even online) so I didn't really blow a gasket when I broke it. Now, if I spilled Red Bull on my expensive custom-build, THAT would be a different story. ;)

I will. I need to plan how to conquer the world and how to get more sims into my new city, which will be being built soon. March 8th is release date, it's still not available for pre-order on Steam...

Never got into The Sims.

At 2/26/13 03:33 AM, Haggard wrote: Nowadays I have even less time to do lists.

I put the list together as I'm typing up my reply. (which I do in notepad) I've found that it doesn't add more than a few seconds onto the time it takes me to get everything typed up -especially when you do them daily. It's no biggie, though, I understand being busy.

All those young'uns round here are driving me mad!

*see pic*

I guess I would be grumpy as well if I had to live in caves the whole time.

*see pic*

And now it has come to this:

Yeah, submissions just stopped last night, but I wasn't expecting to still see it dead when I woke up... What the hell is going on? Did they shut down the Portal again, or something? This is just too much.

At 2/26/13 10:17 AM, Auz wrote: Hehehe that would be interesting :p

More like freaking infuriating. :P

Nah it's Benedict Cumberbatch so it should be cool. He's also playing the Necromancer by the way, so he basically plays both bad guys.

Is he known for being a badass? Sorry I know nothing about actors/voice actors. (Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit were like the only movies that I've watched in the last 10 years or so.)

Yeah like:
"Oooh shit it's Sauron, I did not see this coming!" DUN DUN DUN!

It would be interesting, but they'd have to deviate pretty far from the book to make him anything more than a LOTR cameo.

I read it was vaguely referenced in the book, but I was probably like "whatever, this can't be important" when I was at that bit.

Guess it was too vague for me to pick up on, too. I'm sure I'd be like "DUH!" if I read through it again now, though. :P