At 8/13/17 11:41 AM, Haggard wrote: Level 36 IRL!

Happy birthday! Wonderful number that is.

At 8/13/17 11:48 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Congrats on the achievement Bro. You could very well be the last person to ever get 20,000 Blams.

Yeah, the last 100 took way too long.

And Happy Birthday to you, may your day be filled with joy, presents & cake.

Thanks!

At 8/13/17 05:52 PM, Bmwd wrote: Congratulations on getting 20,000 blams. And I hope you have a marvelous birthday today.

Thanks. Yes, it was a nice day. It didn't rain, for starters. That's quite rare latetly, lol.

At 8/14/17 04:15 AM, ADR3-N wrote: Congrats to @Haggard on your 20k blams and RL level-up. Hope you had a good time. :)

Thanks!

At 8/14/17 05:18 AM, Murray wrote:

At 8/13/17 11:41 AM, Haggard wrote: Level 36 IRL!

Happy birthday! Wonderful number that is.

Yes, if only Mr. Cook was still here. ;)

At 8/14/17 04:15 AM, ADR3-N wrote: 100 audio tracks
3k posts
First time ever front paged
Engaged for 2 years as of the 11th
Got my first pair of fancy designer socks

Congrats to all of those.

Congrats to @Haggard on your 20k blams and RL level-up. Hope you had a good time. :)

Summary congrats to @NekoMika, @Murray, @Jolly, @GUTHRIE, @Xiivi, @iscrulz, @Viper,

Thanks mate. Its clock day hmm well good luck with all the saves back in 2006 it was a totally different story.

RISE FROM THE GRAVE...

so! apparently I forgot to swing by for CD16... so, from CD15 to CD17 there's a nice big gap. Looks like the topic is pretty slow moving these days, tho!

... ANYWAY, Happy Clock Day, all!

... oh, and apparently last time I voted (probably CD16, so exactly a year ago) I must have gone over 35,000 blams as when I started voting last night I was at 35,003, so...

35k blams, woo woo! nearly to my final resting place for blams in another few years. ;D

... catch-up time!

At 8/15/15 06:20 PM, jonthomson wrote:

At 8/15/15 06:02 PM, gfoxcook wrote: stuff

Hi greg, hope all's good

Hey there, jon... thanks, thanks. likewise.

At 8/17/15 04:31 PM, Murray wrote:

At 8/15/15 06:02 PM, gfoxcook wrote: what.. the...

where am I? ...

I dunno, you tell me. I'm becoming as much of a stranger to this forum as you are these days. :P

... Is that still the case? :)

At 8/17/15 07:00 PM, Viper wrote:

At 8/17/15 04:31 PM, Murray wrote: Cheers, although that's not a name I go by these days and haven't for two years now. ;)

Really? It's already been two years? God I feel old now...

And now it's apparently been four years since the death of Bahamut. ;_;

Newfangled namechangery and all. Why, I never!

At 1/25/16 01:16 PM, Murray wrote: Had not one but two jumps in EXP rank in a single day which is very rare where I am. #63 in EXP now and it appears I'm now ahead of @gfoxcook.

I'm apparently #98 now. But still #50 in blams, amazingly. Congrats on passing me, bro!

... RISE FROM THE GRAVE... continued!

At 4/5/16 04:33 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 3/31/16 03:50 PM, Decky wrote: Congrats to:
@solitonmedic - Level 10, Police Officer Rank
@gamejunkie - 25,000 Blams
@Viper - 18,000 Saves

Thanks to:
@DoctorStrongbad
@Viper
@gamejunkie
@EDM364

Very neat. Haven't seen one of those in a long time.

Oh, wow... yeah, those ol' lists of people's landmarks and such. I remember those. #;-}>

Anyway, today's a very special day for this account, because I now finally reached LEVEL 60!

CONGRATS! ^_^

At 8/28/16 01:54 PM, Jolly wrote: 100,000 total stats.

Only took me 8 years.

grats, dude! epic pentalist-y type achievement there. ;D

At 11/30/16 02:26 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: That's cool. Makes me wonder what Gfox is doing nowadays, and everyone in the RG crew, should check up on some of the old veterans...

... mostly playing EVE Online, TBH. It's a life-sucker!

Nice. :) Bit surprised you say you thought they had died btw, did they do anything to make it seem that way, or just leave without a trace? Guess I'm still a bit naive, but unless there's some post about it I usually just assume people are elsewhere. Even when it does become official someone's passed it's hard to believe, feels like interacting online - without face to face contact, the presence you feel from someone never disappears the same way as it would in real life. So much harder to grasp people really die, online. Especially when their accounts live on, maybe... well, anyway, didn't mean to delve into the pondering of potentially depressing afterrealms here...

Yeah, generally I'd say don't assume disappeared-off-the-face-of-yer-internet-borders peops are dead unless A) a family member posts on their account saying they're dead, B) you knew they had a terminal illness, or C) they were pretty old and you haven't heard from 'em or heard anything about 'em for decades (not just years).

That said, I did just turn 40 in June, so... time does go on by, doesn't it.

At 8/14/17 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/14/17 05:18 AM, Murray wrote:

At 8/13/17 11:41 AM, Haggard wrote: Level 36 IRL!

Happy birthday! Wonderful number that is.

Yes, if only Mr. Cook was still here. ;)

You fucking RANG, mate?! ;D

At 8/15/17 04:40 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 8/14/17 04:15 AM, ADR3-N wrote: Congrats to @Haggard on your 20k blams and RL level-up. Hope you had a good time. :)

Summary congrats to @NekoMika, @Murray, @Jolly, @GUTHRIE, @Xiivi, @iscrulz, @Viper,

Thanks mate. Its clock day hmm well good luck with all the saves back in 2006 it was a totally different story.

oh shit! it's iscrulz and I'm posting right below his fresh, fresh post!

Wow. I just did a fairly full catch up on the past 2 years of Wi/Ht? LUL... that would NOT have been possible in between saving some movies on the flash portal back 5 or 10 years ago... egad is the posting rate slow nowdays or are tons of posts just being deleted left and right, eh?

... and I'll leave you with... a nice random change of topic since I haz a pic to post:

Good to see jonthomson is still posting some flash here and there for various CD-related reasons! ;)

At 8/15/17 08:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 1/25/16 01:16 PM, Murray wrote: Had not one but two jumps in EXP rank in a single day which is very rare where I am. #63 in EXP now and it appears I'm now ahead of @gfoxcook.

I'm apparently #98 now. But still #50 in blams, amazingly. Congrats on passing me, bro!

... Correction: #25 in blams... that's incredible. I mean, I know 36000 blams is a lot but... that I haven't been passed by more people in like 10 years of not getting blams at all... is amazing.

It was #50 in b/p overall I was thinking of when I typed that. So about to fall off that list. And ofc my saves ranking is pitiful thanks to saves being easier to get than blams nowadays (and for some time now, I guess). And that was the ONE stat I was ever #1 in on all of NG. ;)

Ah well. Inflation, I s'pose! ^_^

Went to the newgrounds shop today and they told me I needed to hand in my golden spear. Was so upset about it until they gave me my replacement which is a new and improved molten spear in exchange for my old one.

In other words level 59 is now mine. But despite this it is not really a big deal >_<

At 8/15/17 08:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 8/17/15 07:00 PM, Viper wrote:

At 8/17/15 04:31 PM, Murray wrote: Cheers, although that's not a name I go by these days and haven't for two years now. ;)

Really? It's already been two years? God I feel old now...

And now it's apparently been four years since the death of Bahamut. ;_;

Newfangled namechangery and all. Why, I never!

Damn it's been two years since then? Time needs to stop flying by so fast.. hell my own name change happened around the same time as he stopped being Bahamut. If that's the case I've officially been Viper longer than I was "Viper50".

At 8/15/17 08:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote: ... RISE FROM THE GRAVE... continued!

Does your grave open with a nice squeaking sound?

At 4/5/16 04:33 PM, Haggard wrote: Anyway, today's a very special day for this account, because I now finally reached LEVEL 60!

CONGRATS! ^_^

Thanks, mate!

At 8/14/17 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote: Yes, if only Mr. Cook was still here. ;)

You fucking RANG, mate?! ;D

Yes, about time you picked up, man! What about that pizza now? Wanna order something too or can the guys and I go ahead, man?

At 8/15/17 08:31 PM, gfoxcook wrote: ... Correction: #25 in blams... that's incredible. I mean, I know 36000 blams is a lot but... that I haven't been passed by more people in like 10 years of not getting blams at all... is amazing.

I just looked it up on nglogs, I passed 19k blams on 14-05-21 (of course date format is yy-mm-dd), so it took me over 2 years to get the last 1000 blams. Okay, my overall B/P pace dropped to like 2 per day a while before that, but it's still quite sad to see. Especially considering how easy it was to get like 50 B/P a day in 2012/2013.

It was #50 in b/p overall I was thinking of when I typed that. So about to fall off that list.

Well, I'm #61 so you have nothing to worry about from me. :P

At 8/14/17 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/14/17 05:18 AM, Murray wrote:

At 8/13/17 11:41 AM, Haggard wrote: Level 36 IRL!

Happy birthday! Wonderful number that is.

Yes, if only Mr. Cook was still here. ;)

Seems like you can wake up the dead.

At 8/14/17 04:15 AM, ADR3-N wrote: Summary congrats to @Murray

Ta very much!

At 8/15/17 08:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote: RISE FROM THE GRAVE...

WHOA!!! :O

so! apparently I forgot to swing by for CD16... so, from CD15 to CD17 there's a nice big gap. Looks like the topic is pretty slow moving these days, tho!

Yeah, it's sad. I hardly even post here nowadays and only pop in to post for milestones even now which is just EXP and EXP rank only. I mean, what else can I even do on here at this point?

... ANYWAY, Happy Clock Day, all!

I took zero participation in it but aye!

... oh, and apparently last time I voted (probably CD16, so exactly a year ago) I must have gone over 35,000 blams as when I started voting last night I was at 35,003, so...

35k blams, woo woo! nearly to my final resting place for blams in another few years. ;D

... catch-up time!

You're mixing up your blams and saves, bro. I know you've not been here in so long but still... :')

At 8/17/15 04:31 PM, Murray wrote:

At 8/15/15 06:02 PM, gfoxcook wrote: what.. the...

where am I? ...

I dunno, you tell me. I'm becoming as much of a stranger to this forum as you are these days. :P

... Is that still the case? :)

Well, I've checked in more recent than you have but outside this thread, I doubt I'm remembered all that much on here nowadays.

At 8/17/15 07:00 PM, Viper wrote:

At 8/17/15 04:31 PM, Murray wrote: Cheers, although that's not a name I go by these days and haven't for two years now. ;)

Really? It's already been two years? God I feel old now...

And now it's apparently been four years since the death of Bahamut. ;_;

Can't believe it's that long since I dropped that name. It does feel more recent than that but I've focused so much less on NG since then so it feels that way cause of it. Over that time in my real life world, though, I've had plenty to experience so there's that. I feel I'm only starting to catch up on all the things I didn't do while I spent many days and nights in. Guess I just wasn't ready for many things back then but I sure as hell am now!

Seriously man, the fact that the last I heard from you was two years ago shows how much has changed with me since then! I've been in a steady job for the majority of that period which is saying something for me considering all the struggles I had to get permanent work.

In recent events, though, I've hit the 6 week mark for being without smoking. That was something I took up back in 2013 and eventually phased out cigarettes this year in favour of vapes but even that I'm not doing anymore. 1st July was the very last time I even had a puff of the vape I had which I consider the very last time I had a smoke of any sort so I say I've done well with that. Come reply to me in a year or something and see how I am with this then. :P

What else have I done for myself? Oh yeah, I'm in the process of moving out! I know, right? I'm finally getting to have my own place. It's been waaaaaay overdue but one thing for sure, better late than never.

At 1/25/16 01:16 PM, Murray wrote: Had not one but two jumps in EXP rank in a single day which is very rare where I am. #63 in EXP now and it appears I'm now ahead of @gfoxcook.

I'm apparently #98 now. But still #50 in blams, amazingly. Congrats on passing me, bro!

Blimey, all the way down there now? Thank you, though even if you were one of those that I hoped would never stop but every little helps and I'm so close to the top 50 now yet so far... although after I reach that, I'm kinda like "What then?"

At 8/16/17 01:42 PM, Murray wrote:

At 8/14/17 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/14/17 05:18 AM, Murray wrote:

At 8/13/17 11:41 AM, Haggard wrote: Level 36 IRL!

Happy birthday! Wonderful number that is.

Yes, if only Mr. Cook was still here. ;)

Seems like you can wake up the dead.

Why does this remind me of this scene?

Blimey, all the way down there now? Thank you, though even if you were one of those that I hoped would never stop but every little helps and I'm so close to the top 50 now yet so far... although after I reach that, I'm kinda like "What then?"

Aim for the top! Always aim for the top!

Editing the post to say this:

What else have I done for myself? Oh yeah, I'm in the process of moving out! I know, right? I'm finally getting to have my own place. It's been waaaaaay overdue but one thing for sure, better late than never.

Hey, nice reading this. I know you had some trouble with your parents back in the days (even thought about changing your name back then, if I'm not mistaken?) so it's a) nice to see you held out for so long and b) that you are finally moving out. It's always a big step and even though sometimes it's big trouble, in the end it's SO worth it!
Also, we should totally hang out one day. I know we came close to meeting up last time I was in Manchester (back in 2012 it was, I think?) but you had just started a job then and didn't have time. It's not totally unlikely that I will visit Manchester again or even Liverpool in the future. ^^

At 8/16/17 02:10 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/16/17 01:42 PM, Murray wrote: Seems like you can wake up the dead.

Why does this remind me of this scene?

Monty Python, why not? :D I wonder who else we can bring back from the dead here.

Blimey, all the way down there now? Thank you, though even if you were one of those that I hoped would never stop but every little helps and I'm so close to the top 50 now yet so far... although after I reach that, I'm kinda like "What then?"

Aim for the top! Always aim for the top!

I'll forget even aiming for #1, though. I know they all say to aim for the top but for the EXP rank? Maaaaybe not that.

Hey, nice reading this. I know you had some trouble with your parents back in the days (even thought about changing your name back then, if I'm not mistaken?) so it's a) nice to see you held out for so long and b) that you are finally moving out. It's always a big step and even though sometimes it's big trouble, in the end it's SO worth it!

Admittedly, it's that stuff that I kinda wish I forgot about. Probably shit I said around a decade ago. I won't deny that I had some maturity issues back in the day but I like to think I get better with age and I say they have as well, particularly to still put up with me even to this date.

Nothing has happened or anything to cause me to move out. I just had that fated moment where I had found the ideal place for me to move in. Not gonna lie, the block on the outside look likes shit, especially the back garden but it's the inside that counts. For a one person flat, I've got a fair bit of space to work with and there is local shops and pubs as well as very handy public transport nearby.

However, what really brought me to this place is the fact that by moving in, I'll be living in the same block as one of my best friends. I've had many times hanging out at his place for drinks and smokes (but none of the latter anymore due to recent quitting) so I've even felt home there and now I can get to live not in that very flat but as a neighbour to it! I can't say how the other tenants are but the fact that I've got him as a neighbour is a step up by lightyears from the chavvy twats that I've had for nearly 25 years now.

While he has plans to move out in a year or two with his girlfriend, I say it's a great start to move elsewhere for the reason of having a friend there already! I was actually saying to him I was willing to take over his flat if it were possible but then I looked up properties online and by sheer luck found a place to rent in said block so I immediately acted upon it. At this time I'm still in pending stage of the application for references and all that but that should be sorted by the end of this week.

As for the whole name change, that is something that had been in my mind and admittedly still does so even now. Back in the day it was more due to being bullied over my name in school which lingered on for a few years after I left but nowadays if I really want to have it changed, it'll be more due to finally being sick of all the jokes I get about tennis. However, by doing that, maybe a bit of a novelty about me would be lost in the view of others. At the end of the day, though, a name change would still be down to myself and myself only and chances are, the majority of my family and friends will be fully behind it.

Also, we should totally hang out one day. I know we came close to meeting up last time I was in Manchester (back in 2012 it was, I think?) but you had just started a job then and didn't have time. It's not totally unlikely that I will visit Manchester again or even Liverpool in the future. ^^

Oh totally! I know we only talk to each other on here a few times a year at most these days but if you're ever around, definitely give me a shout! However, I remember how anti-social media you were and quite possibly still are so I can't just tell you to drop me an inbox on Facebook or Instagram when you make plans to come to Liverpool or Manchester. However, what I am willing to let you do is simply drop me a PM when that time comes. I'm still depositing on a daily basis (although slipping up here and there now but still doing well nonetheless) so I'm bound to check any PMs I get on here.

I feel I've said more than enough about myself here and how I've been lately so I want to hear how the rest of you have been in the however long that we've not posted here for.

At 8/16/17 01:59 AM, Viper wrote: Damn it's been two years since then? Time needs to stop flying by so fast.. hell my own name change happened around the same time as he stopped being Bahamut. If that's the case I've officially been Viper longer than I was "Viper50".

Are you shitting me?! That's who everyone is? Well damn! I used to be Andrea364 up until about 2014. Can't really remember. Was EDM364 until @littlemisfortune bought me a supporter subscription. Speaking of, finally a supporter, but that should be obvious lol.

Bahamut. How about that.

At 8/16/17 12:55 PM, Haggard wrote: Does your grave open with a nice squeaking sound?

... Yes.

Yes, if only Mr. Cook was still here. ;)

You fucking RANG, mate?! ;D

Yes, about time you picked up, man! What about that pizza now? Wanna order something too or can the guys and I go ahead, man?

Order ALL THE PIZZA!

I just looked it up on nglogs, I passed 19k blams on 14-05-21 (of course date format is yy-mm-dd), so it took me over 2 years to get the last 1000 blams. Okay, my overall B/P pace dropped to like 2 per day a while before that, but it's still quite sad to see. Especially considering how easy it was to get like 50 B/P a day in 2012/2013.

... speaking of things I've been neglecting... NGlogs... though all 3 of my accounts are at 2011, so maybe I froze it there on purpose. But eh... as long as I'm semi-active every year around CD, I might as well do some logging, try to get to 2222 on all 3 or something. ;)

It was #50 in b/p overall I was thinking of when I typed that. So about to fall off that list.

Well, I'm #61 so you have nothing to worry about from me. :P

... YET!

At 8/16/17 01:42 PM, Murray wrote:

At 8/14/17 12:24 PM, Haggard wrote: Yes, if only Mr. Cook was still here. ;)

Seems like you can wake up the dead.

... BRING OUTCHER DEAD!

At 8/15/17 08:18 PM, gfoxcook wrote: RISE FROM THE GRAVE...

WHOA!!! :O

Yea-eah! \o/

Yeah, it's sad. I hardly even post here nowadays and only pop in to post for milestones even now which is just EXP and EXP rank only. I mean, what else can I even do on here at this point?

... we can all manage to come back at once next clock day. COME ON, FELLAS! ;D

I took zero participation in it but aye!

I got about 100 saves. Before, during, and day after. There were only ~80ish, same as the last two years, submitted on the actual day from midnight to midnight, I noticed. Glad it's kinda steady, at least, but the %age of submissions that was clock-related was way down.

You're mixing up your blams and saves, bro. I know you've not been here in so long but still... :')

Yeah. Thankfully, I didn't mix 'em up while voting. ;D

I'd rather make the mistake on the BBS while writing about it... than talk correctly about it and then fuck up the actual voting.

Well, I've checked in more recent than you have but outside this thread, I doubt I'm remembered all that much on here nowadays.

... NEVAR! And if that's the case, it's because of your name change.... everyone loved the dragon! ;)

Can't believe it's that long since I dropped that name. It does feel more recent than that but I've focused so much less on NG since then so it feels that way cause of it. Over that time in my real life world, though, I've had plenty to experience so there's that. I feel I'm only starting to catch up on all the things I didn't do while I spent many days and nights in. Guess I just wasn't ready for many things back then but I sure as hell am now!

... Interesting!

Seriously man, the fact that the last I heard from you was two years ago shows how much has changed with me since then! I've been in a steady job for the majority of that period which is saying something for me considering all the struggles I had to get permanent work.

In recent events, though, I've hit the 6 week mark for being without smoking. That was something I took up back in 2013 and eventually phased out cigarettes this year in favour of vapes but even that I'm not doing anymore. 1st July was the very last time I even had a puff of the vape I had which I consider the very last time I had a smoke of any sort so I say I've done well with that. Come reply to me in a year or something and see how I am with this then. :P

What else have I done for myself? Oh yeah, I'm in the process of moving out! I know, right? I'm finally getting to have my own place. It's been waaaaaay overdue but one thing for sure, better late than never.

... great stuff! Congrats on the moving out, first and foremost... the job secondly... and the smoking/vaping cutting down on lastly. YOU DID WELL! Dragon is credit to team!

I'm apparently #98 now. But still #50 in blams, amazingly. Congrats on passing me, bro!

Blimey, all the way down there now? Thank you, though even if you were one of those that I hoped would never stop but every little helps and I'm so close to the top 50 now yet so far... although after I reach that, I'm kinda like "What then?"

Yes. I'm awfully low in exp. I should really deposit more even if I can't be arsed to b/p (or just p) or post much except around CD season.

Anyway, I've deposited 3 straight days thanks to CD17 and I'm gonna try to keep it going a bit longer than usual this time of year for old time's sake. We'll see how that goes, tho. ;)

At 8/16/17 02:10 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/16/17 01:42 PM, Murray wrote: Seems like you can wake up the dead.

Why does this remind me of this scene?

... Great minds think alike, I couldn't help but think of the line as well. ;)

Blimey, all the way down there now? Thank you, though even if you were one of those that I hoped would never stop but every little helps and I'm so close to the top 50 now yet so far... although after I reach that, I'm kinda like "What then?"

Aim for the top! Always aim for the top!

... and me, I'll aim to get a bit up again but maybe not quite into the top 50 again. I was there once, that may have to be enough considering how inactive I am now.

I'm glad some of my ol' friends from this place got to pass me, tho, I remember having fun passing people back in the day... ah yes.

Hey, nice reading this. I know you had some trouble with your parents back in the days (even thought about changing your name back then, if I'm not mistaken?) so it's a) nice to see you held out for so long and b) that you are finally moving out. It's always a big step and even though sometimes it's big trouble, in the end it's SO worth it!

... Indeed! All the drama... who needs it, I tells ya!

At 8/16/17 03:19 PM, Murray wrote: Monty Python, why not? :D I wonder who else we can bring back from the dead here.

... is Coop dead? Get that bastard on the line!

I'll forget even aiming for #1, though. I know they all say to aim for the top but for the EXP rank? Maaaaybe not that.

... Indeed. go for top 50, then top 25, then top 10. Or somesuch.

However, what really brought me to this place is the fact that by moving in, I'll be living in the same block as one of my best friends. I've had many times hanging out at his place for drinks and smokes (but none of the latter anymore due to recent quitting) so I've even felt home there and now I can get to live not in that very flat but as a neighbour to it! I can't say how the other tenants are but the fact that I've got him as a neighbour is a step up by lightyears from the chavvy twats that I've had for nearly 25 years now.

Noishe, noishe. Just be careful being around smokers... don't let it tempt you back into starting again if you'd prefer to stay smoke-free!

As for the whole name change, that is something that had been in my mind and admittedly still does so even now. Back in the day it was more due to being bullied over my name in school which lingered on for a few years after I left but nowadays if I really want to have it changed, it'll be more due to finally being sick of all the jokes I get about tennis. However, by doing that, maybe a bit of a novelty about me would be lost in the view of others. At the end of the day, though, a name change would still be down to myself and myself only and chances are, the majority of my family and friends will be fully behind it.

... I know it was probably bad having the same name as a famous sportsman, but man... you gotta realise that compared to what some kids go through because of their names, tennis jokes... it could be far, far worse is all I'm saying. ;)

At 8/16/17 09:35 PM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 8/16/17 01:59 AM, Viper wrote: Damn it's been two years since then? Time needs to stop flying by so fast.. hell my own name change happened around the same time as he stopped being Bahamut. If that's the case I've officially been Viper longer than I was "Viper50".

Are you shitting me?! That's who everyone is? Well damn! I used to be Andrea364 up until about 2014. Can't really remember. Was EDM364 until @littlemisfortune bought me a supporter subscription. Speaking of, finally a supporter, but that should be obvious lol.

Bahamut. How about that.

Wow, you didn't know Murray was Bahamut? Heh.

I'm one to talk, though! I saw you were fans of/fanned by various people I know here so I already added you to my follows or fans or whatever list... but I had no idea who you were. Andrea doesn't help. but EDM364? I think I know you from that name... at least, mystery solved! ;D

... now, about those other 10-20 people I also added but am not sure who they are... hm.

At 8/16/17 03:19 PM, Murray wrote: Monty Python, why not? :D I wonder who else we can bring back from the dead here.

Well, there are many people I'd like to hear from again. Coop for example.

Aim for the top! Always aim for the top!

I'll forget even aiming for #1, though. I know they all say to aim for the top but for the EXP rank? Maaaaybe not that.

Yeah, even if everyone would stop depositing right now it still would take years. I'm surprised I even made it to the Top 80.

However, what really brought me to this place is the fact that by moving in, I'll be living in the same block as one of my best friends. I've had many times hanging out at his place for drinks and smokes (but none of the latter anymore due to recent quitting) so I've even felt home there and now I can get to live not in that very flat but as a neighbour to it!

That's pretty cool. When I moved out it wasn't too far away from my mom and my dad also lived nearby. Then my brother moved in a few streets down from my block (later, I moved into the same street, lol). And one of my sisters-in-law also bought a house very close by.

I can't say how the other tenants are but the fact that I've got him as a neighbour is a step up by lightyears from the chavvy twats that I've had for nearly 25 years now.

Many flats would be way better if other people didn't tend to be so annoying. First flat we also moved out because it really became unbearable. First there where some kids on the 8th floor (and we lived on the 11th floor!) who kept the whole house awake by listening to loud music all night long (LITERALLY all night long). Took quite some time to finally figure out where that noise was coming from, so we could finally complain to the landlord.
After we got those two idiots quite, the neighbours right above us would start listening to loud music, running around, singing karaoke (and singing BAD) way past midnight. I think it was a three room flat, but they always had like 20 people up there, with little kids. What the hell?
I remember one night on 24th of Decemer I went up and asked if they could turn down their music, as it was already 4 am. Ok, they agreed (after some discussion with a heavily drunk guy). But guess what? On the very next day, they started blasting their shitty music at full volume again? Are you fucking kidding me?
I finally called the cops on them, that kept them quiet for at least some time. All in all we spent 1 year suffering from loud neighbours, that shit really gets to you.

As for the whole name change, that is something that had been in my mind and admittedly still does so even now. Back in the day it was more due to being bullied over my name in school which lingered on for a few years after I left

Hm. Being not a native speaker I really have no Idea how you could get bullied over your name. I think it's for the best I don't know it. ;)

but nowadays if I really want to have it changed, it'll be more due to finally being sick of all the jokes I get about tennis.

I guess that can get pretty annoying. I share the same last name with someone who was in the news for a few days. An oarswoman who was at the olympic games in London. During her stay there people discovered her boyfriend was in a right-winged party in Germany (and considering the history of this country people still get pretty upset about that, and for all the right reasons, I might add). My mom got some calls from a few press people asking her if she was related... propably because she's only listed under her last name (no address either) in the phone book.
I got one or two people asking me at work if I was related and THAT was annoying as hell. So I can imagine how you must feel.

Also, we should totally hang out one day. I know we came close to meeting up last time I was in Manchester (back in 2012 it was, I think?) but you had just started a job then and didn't have time. It's not totally unlikely that I will visit Manchester again or even Liverpool in the future. ^^

Oh totally! I know we only talk to each other on here a few times a year at most these days but if you're ever around, definitely give me a shout! However, I remember how anti-social media you were and quite possibly still are so I can't just tell you to drop me an inbox on Facebook or Instagram when you make plans to come to Liverpool or Manchester.

Well, I do have a fake facebook account for all those sites where you cannot create accounts anymore, but they force you to log in via twitter, facebook, etc. but I don't really use it (plus, I really don't know how FB works, so... ;) ).

However, what I am willing to let you do is simply drop me a PM when that time comes. I'm still depositing on a daily basis (although slipping up here and there now but still doing well nonetheless) so I'm bound to check any PMs I get on here.

I guess that would be the best option. But I still have AIM, ICQ and so on. Even Threema. But no WhatsApp.

I feel I've said more than enough about myself here and how I've been lately so I want to hear how the rest of you have been in the however long that we've not posted here for.

As I've told in another thread already, my wife and I bought a house a few km south of Hamburg. Plus, I got another job pretty close to where I live, so my commute isn't 45-60 minutes with public transportation, but about 15-20 minutes by bikes, so that's pretty awesome.

And... well... we tried to have kids. But it didn't work out so far. :(
And yes, misscarriages suck major ass and we suffered through three already. I guess we where lucky after all that it happened pretty early during the pregnancy and not like after 8 months or so. Plus, miscarriages aren't that uncommon, either. It's just that nobody ever talks about it.
Right now I'm thinking, the state the world is in right now, it's propably for the best to NOT have kids. We'll see what the future brings...

Posting from my smartphone now. Let's see how this works out.

At 8/17/17 01:42 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 8/16/17 12:55 PM, Haggard wrote: Does your grave open with a nice squeaking sound?

... Yes.

Cool.

Yes, if only Mr. Cook was still here. ;)

You fucking RANG, mate?! ;D

Yes, about time you picked up, man! What about that pizza now? Wanna order something too or can the guys and I go ahead, man?

Order ALL THE PIZZA!

"Hello, Pizza Palace? Yes, you heard him. ALL THE PIZZA!"

... speaking of things I've been neglecting... NGlogs... though all 3 of my accounts are at 2011, so maybe I froze it there on purpose. But eh... as long as I'm semi-active every year around CD, I might as well do some logging, try to get to 2222 on all 3 or something. ;)

Strangely enough, nglogs is something I simply continued doing. Not every day anymore, but at least a few times a week.

Well, I'm #61 so you have nothing to worry about from me. :P

... YET!

It's at least a few years considering my current pace. ;)

At 8/17/17 01:49 AM, gfoxcook wrote: ... Great minds think alike, I couldn't help but think of the line as well. ;)

Maybe it just was that obvious. And now, for something completly different.

... and me, I'll aim to get a bit up again but maybe not quite into the top 50 again. I was there once, that may have to be enough considering how inactive I am now.

Well, I was in the top 50 for saves for a short while. Maybe I try to get back into it.

... Indeed! All the drama... who needs it, I tells ya!

Worst thing is that when you are young you tend to think you're sooooo smart... But in reality you are just as stupid as everybody else, lol.

At 8/16/17 09:35 PM, ADR3-N wrote: Well damn! I used to be Andrea364 up until about 2014.

Yes, I remember that name!

Bahamut. How about that.

Aye, it is me.

At 8/17/17 01:42 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 8/16/17 01:42 PM, Murray wrote:

... we can all manage to come back at once next clock day. COME ON, FELLAS! ;D

I took zero participation in it but aye!

I got about 100 saves. Before, during, and day after. There were only ~80ish, same as the last two years, submitted on the actual day from midnight to midnight, I noticed. Glad it's kinda steady, at least, but the %age of submissions that was clock-related was way down.

Damn, that is way way less than what I remember it used to get. However, the last time I even got any B/P on my account was such a long time ago. Probably like 10 years now.

I'd rather make the mistake on the BBS while writing about it... than talk correctly about it and then fuck up the actual voting.

Too bad you didn't catch onto the mistake right after. You could have edited it out (I keep forgetting the BBS has an edit button now).

Well, I've checked in more recent than you have but outside this thread, I doubt I'm remembered all that much on here nowadays.

... NEVAR! And if that's the case, it's because of your name change.... everyone loved the dragon! ;)

Touché. I did feel like I dropped into obscurity on here after I moved away from Bahamut. It's a name I've long abandoned and the only times I even have that name around nowadays are my email address (although slowly phasing that out), my PSN ID and Last.fm. I only have it around for those two simply because I am unable to change my name for either of them.

... great stuff! Congrats on the moving out, first and foremost... the job secondly... and the smoking/vaping cutting down on lastly. YOU DID WELL! Dragon is credit to team!

Thank you for all of them. It is indeed a lot accomplished in that time and I think the way things are going now, there's still tons more I'll be doing. One other accomplishment I have made in that time is finally getting myself to go on flights again. I went to Dublin last month for a weekend trip and that marked my first time on a plane in almost a decade! It was also my first time abroad since Paris in 2011 so I can only wonder what I'll get up to next year.

And yes, I did go to the Guinness Storehouse while I was there and I must say, the Guinness was divine everywhere I went. Even the first pint there was like the best I ever had but now I'm back to sub level Guinness over here. :P

Also, when you say Dragon is credit to team, I gotta say... I don't think I'm as much of a dragon fan these days as I was back in the day. They're still awesome but I just lack that fascination for them these days. If not dragons, what animal/creature do I like most then? ....I guess goats... goats are metal!

Blimey, all the way down there now? Thank you, though even if you were one of those that I hoped would never stop but every little helps and I'm so close to the top 50 now yet so far... although after I reach that, I'm kinda like "What then?"

Yes. I'm awfully low in exp. I should really deposit more even if I can't be arsed to b/p (or just p) or post much except around CD season.

Well, that's all down to you.

Anyway, I've deposited 3 straight days thanks to CD17 and I'm gonna try to keep it going a bit longer than usual this time of year for old time's sake. We'll see how that goes, tho. ;)

Hey, just means we'll have you around for a bit longer this time. :P As for me with the deposits, it seems I've missed yet another one very very recently. I knew I forgot one while I was away the other weekend but now I've slipped once again. Dang, I'm starting to get bad with this now. I won't be surprised if this was a missed one from not getting the deposit done before an 11 hour shift at work and then not remembering to do the daily deed at all when I got back home. Ah well, my rank is still secure for the time being if I stay sharp after this.

At 8/17/17 01:49 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 8/16/17 03:19 PM, Murray wrote: Monty Python, why not? :D I wonder who else we can bring back from the dead here.

... is Coop dead? Get that bastard on the line!

You know you can use the @ tag, right? It's a good way to wake up some zombies. I'll try it now with @Coop! Failing that, I'll give him a shout on Facebook since he has that now!

I'll forget even aiming for #1, though. I know they all say to aim for the top but for the EXP rank? Maaaaybe not that.

... Indeed. go for top 50, then top 25, then top 10. Or somesuch.

I'm thinking top 40 once I reach #50. With getting to the top 50, from the looks of things, I'm still a bit of a way off until I'm even there despite being only a mere two ranks away.

However, what really brought me to this place is the fact that by moving in, I'll be living in the same block as one of my best friends. I've had many times hanging out at his place for drinks and smokes (but none of the latter anymore due to recent quitting) so I've even felt home there and now I can get to live not in that very flat but as a neighbour to it! I can't say how the other tenants are but the fact that I've got him as a neighbour is a step up by lightyears from the chavvy twats that I've had for nearly 25 years now.

Noishe, noishe. Just be careful being around smokers... don't let it tempt you back into starting again if you'd prefer to stay smoke-free!

I've been around smokers many times since I quit. As a matter of fact, just being around any actual smokes makes me feel sick these days. Vapers I can tolerate being around as long as I can get some nice scents of flavours from them. The worst I've feared about possibly getting back into it is when I'm on a night out and having many to drink. I'm still fearing now that I may end up falling back onto it but if results so far are anything to go by, I should be alright with my smoke-free life.

... I know it was probably bad having the same name as a famous sportsman, but man... you gotta realise that compared to what some kids go through because of their names, tennis jokes... it could be far, far worse is all I'm saying. ;)

Well, the tennis jokes were after school when a certain tennis player became more and more of a notable sports figure. At least I can say my very own name has trended numerous times on social media.

At 8/17/17 01:45 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/16/17 03:19 PM, Murray wrote: Monty Python, why not? :D I wonder who else we can bring back from the dead here.

Well, there are many people I'd like to hear from again. Coop for example.

I've given him a call so let's see what's up!

I'll forget even aiming for #1, though. I know they all say to aim for the top but for the EXP rank? Maaaaybe not that.

Yeah, even if everyone would stop depositing right now it still would take years. I'm surprised I even made it to the Top 80.

Yep, probably like five years just to get to #1 for me and that's if I'd still even have the depositing habit by then.

However, what really brought me to this place is the fact that by moving in, I'll be living in the same block as one of my best friends. I've had many times hanging out at his place for drinks and smokes (but none of the latter anymore due to recent quitting) so I've even felt home there and now I can get to live not in that very flat but as a neighbour to it!

That's pretty cool. When I moved out it wasn't too far away from my mom and my dad also lived nearby. Then my brother moved in a few streets down from my block (later, I moved into the same street, lol). And one of my sisters-in-law also bought a house very close by.

That's very handy for family then. With me, most family members are in the Wirral but then you get someone like my sister who's down in London and my aunt who's up in Dundee.

Many flats would be way better if other people didn't tend to be so annoying.

If my mate's words are anything to go by, there shouldn't be much troubles with the other neighbours (if any). Of course, I'll have to do my part by not being the obnoxious neighbour myself. Really, I think I'll just be the same with volume of stuff as I am back here.

Sorry to hear about your obnoxious neighbours at one point. That sounds like how mine used to be or at least the one guy that was always the problem. However, we don't hear so much of them now but the mother is still a right sod. Most I hear over thin walls is stupid noises they make for the new generation in there.

I got one or two people asking me at work if I was related and THAT was annoying as hell. So I can imagine how you must feel.

Yep, like almost every time someone who doesn't know me sees my name, they will crack on the tennis jokes. I'd have thought by now I'd be tired of them but it really doesn't phase me at all cause I'm that used to it.

Oh totally! I know we only talk to each other on here a few times a year at most these days but if you're ever around, definitely give me a shout! However, I remember how anti-social media you were and quite possibly still are so I can't just tell you to drop me an inbox on Facebook or Instagram when you make plans to come to Liverpool or Manchester.

Well, I do have a fake facebook account for all those sites where you cannot create accounts anymore, but they force you to log in via twitter, facebook, etc. but I don't really use it (plus, I really don't know how FB works, so... ;) ).

Ah, so you kinda have one but not enough to be actually using it. :P Ah well, it's a start.

I guess that would be the best option. But I still have AIM, ICQ and so on. Even Threema. But no WhatsApp.

Dear me, you really haven't changed your internet habits. AIM, ICQ, IN 2017?!?!

As I've told in another thread already, my wife and I bought a house a few km south of Hamburg. Plus, I got another job pretty close to where I live, so my commute isn't 45-60 minutes with public transportation, but about 15-20 minutes by bikes, so that's pretty awesome.

Ooh, that's good. Glad to hear of improvements with transport like that.

And... well... we tried to have kids. But it didn't work out so far. :(

Awwww shit, so sorry to hear about all of what you and your wife have gone through. You wanted to have a family but fate has gone horribly against you in that aspect. I feel it's a bit of a personal subject but if your wife cannot give birth to a child, have you two had any thoughts on adoption? Stupid question, I know since surely that would have been considered at least once but I'm just finding out what the answer is.

Right now I'm thinking, the state the world is in right now, it's propably for the best to NOT have kids. We'll see what the future brings...

It's hard to say how the future will bring for better or worse. The way I see it, the state of the world has always been ugly. I know a lot is going on right now but it has sadly always been the case with many issues through time and history. If I do have a child of my own, even if the world is in an ugly state, I can only hope they bring some beauty to the planet we live on.

Sorry for the late reply, I was at a wedding over the weekend.

At 8/17/17 06:00 PM, Murray wrote: I've given him a call so let's see what's up!

He still hasn't appeared. Maybe if we call him by his old name Coop83? Will that help?

That's very handy for family then. With me, most family members are in the Wirral but then you get someone like my sister who's down in London and my aunt who's up in Dundee.

Yeah, now that we moved, the other part of my family is closer by. My other sister-in-law and her two kids (no husband, because the father of the kids is just a giant douchebag. I'm glad my sil realized that, albeit a little bit too late), my parents-in-law are also a lot closer now, too.

Sorry to hear about your obnoxious neighbours at one point. That sounds like how mine used to be or at least the one guy that was always the problem.

Ah yes, I remember you wrote a bit about him. I mean, I like to play some songs at full volume from time to time, too. But I don't get why some people have to be loud at all times.

Well, I do have a fake facebook account for all those sites where you cannot create accounts anymore, but they force you to log in via twitter, facebook, etc. but I don't really use it (plus, I really don't know how FB works, so... ;) ).

Ah, so you kinda have one but not enough to be actually using it. :P Ah well, it's a start.

Yeah, but I propably only see messages a few years after they have been sent, so don't get your hopes up too high. :P

I guess that would be the best option. But I still have AIM, ICQ and so on. Even Threema. But no WhatsApp.

Dear me, you really haven't changed your internet habits. AIM, ICQ, IN 2017?!?!

Well, I'm not online in AIM very often, but I still remember the account + password. ICQ I use daily. Mostly because it's an easy way to communicate with my wife, lol. But seriously, it's much faster to write an ICQ message than to shout something and then only get a "whaaaaat did you saaaay?" back. :P
Also, a few (online) friends hang out in ICQ from time to time, so it's not entirely useless. Even in 2017. ;)
I also use XAMPP daily, which is a really simple protocol, so it runs nearly everywhere.

The main means of communication is Threema, however.

Awwww shit, so sorry to hear about all of what you and your wife have gone through. You wanted to have a family but fate has gone horribly against you in that aspect. I feel it's a bit of a personal subject but if your wife cannot give birth to a child, have you two had any thoughts on adoption? Stupid question, I know since surely that would have been considered at least once but I'm just finding out what the answer is.

It's not like she definetly can't have children, it's that sometimes a pregnancy just goes wrong, and it's really nobody's fault. Sometimes there's just an error when the chromosomes divide (it's the most common reason for a miscarriage). As I've said, it happens more often than one might think.

That 40+ years old couple with a little kid? They didn't just wait so long to have kids, it just didn't happen sooner. The couple with two kids where one is significantly younger than the other? Same thing, they propably had a few miscarriages to suffer through as well.

My ex-colleague told me that her daughter nearly died during birth, and that it's for the best IF the pregnancy goes wrong, that it happens as early as possible, and I have to say she's right. A friend of ours became a mother just last year and a colleague of her's lost her baby in the 8th month. I can't imagine what my friend's colleague and her partner had to go through... :(

So yeah, IF a pregnancy goes wrong, please let it happen early. It's still not easy, but a lot easier to cope with than losing the baby at birth or shortly before birth.

We haven't really talked about adoption, but I think my wife is against it. I'm not too sure myself either.

i became a level 20 about 13 days ago and i passed 1000 saves

26,000 experience

You need 0 more to get to Level 56.

30,000 experience points

making me feel very sentimental

Today marks 14 years since I made my account. Time flies by.

Level 53! Slowly, but surely after almost 10 years.

At 8/28/17 06:11 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: Today marks 14 years since I made my account. Time flies by.

14 years?! wow

57,000 saves

Level 24
11 years on NG

Aaaaaand...
Gonna have a special composition featured in @RealFaction's Venturescape series tomorrow! It's looking like a fantastic ride. Really excited.

On a more somber note, one of my friends committed suicide not long ago, which inspired said song in the first place. If you're the praying type, please pray for her friends and family, some of which are also dealing with the aftermath of Harvey or preparing to get slammed by Irma.

Hope everyone is doing alright. I've been pretty off kilter for the past week.

At 9/8/17 05:21 AM, ADR3-N wrote: Level 24
11 years on NG

Good stuff! Myself, I've hit 13 years on NG. Yeah, the ol' saying goes, now my account is old enough to make its own account on here... I've been here too long.

On a more somber note, one of my friends committed suicide not long ago, which inspired said song in the first place. If you're the praying type, please pray for her friends and family, some of which are also dealing with the aftermath of Harvey or preparing to get slammed by Irma.

So sorry to hear about that. Thoughts are with you and family and friends of your lost friend.

Hope everyone is doing alright. I've been pretty off kilter for the past week.

I've been settling in with my new flat. Been sleeping in it for over a week now and things are running smoother than expected. Still some issues here and there, namely the hot water right now. The shower's fine but not so much the sinks... I'll eventually have it all sorted.