Over the last couple days I hit Level 35, ranked up from Master Sergeant to Sgt. First Class AND got a deity whistle! Woo!

At 7/8/17 03:47 AM, EDM364 wrote: Well, it WAS 3k posts. No idea where 350 or so of them went. Oh well, will get there again eventually. They were probably shitposts, but seriously, now I want to know which posts got deleted. @Nekomika, ya think they were my 11-year-old shitposts?

It's just people having their accounts deleted or their posts wiped. When a user's posts are deleted all of their threads are gone too, and if you posted in those threads that means your posts are gone as well. It sucks. I can understand people wanting their posts gone but to me the BBS is a fascinating time capsule and it sucks to see it filled with holes, and of course it sucks to have my own posts removed without notice. It would be nice if the process could be reworked so threads stay up with a blank OP rather than the whole thread going down.

The most popular thread on the VG forum used to be the old xbox gamerscore leaderboard, but then the user who started it (Jawdyn) had his account deleted, and hundreds of pages of other people's posts are gone alongside it. The newer (now defunct) leaderboard gives me mad nostalgia when I flick through it, so it's a shame to see the older one gone forever.

Same with private messages, I have an IRL friend who had his NG account deleted and all of the pages upon pages of retarded nonsense we used to message eachother is gone forever too. I miss it.

I go through phases where I don't post much but still log in every day, and that's when I notice my post count is almost constantly declining. Homicidee also had his posts wiped fairly recently and I'd posted in a lot of his threads so that put a nice dent in my post count too. I think everyone should have the right to wipe their posts but it just stings a bit when they cause collateral damage, like they're hurting NG itself in a tiny way.

43,000 experience points!

52,000 Experience Points.

I have finally reached 2,000 blams!

You know. When the site redesigned and we had new level icons I had one simple desire. And that was to make it to level 46 so I could have a shark with a frickin' laser beam attached to it's head!

At 7/6/17 02:58 PM, akin11 wrote: 1000 B/P and Police Sergeant

Congrats mate. I finally reached 50,000 exp. points it took me way too long but I made it. Onward to 100K

At 7/25/17 01:37 AM, Viper wrote: You know. When the site redesigned and we had new level icons I had one simple desire. And that was to make it to level 46 so I could have a shark with a frickin' laser beam attached to it's head!

I missed that level I think even my alts are way past it but it is rather sweet.

08/01/17 01:57 PM

Colonel Rank

This might be a weird accomplishment. But as of a couple weeks ago:

I've been a member of Newgrounds for a longer period of my life than I haven't been a member of Newgrounds. Aka the majority of my life I have officially been a member of Newgrounds.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

Level 52

47k EXP.

20,000 Blams!

I've been waiting for this for a very long time! This means this account now is a 3x20k account with >20k saves, >20k Exp and >20k blams. YAY!

Also, today is my brithday, so:

Level 36 IRL!

At 8/13/17 11:41 AM, Haggard wrote: 20,000 Blams!

I've been waiting for this for a very long time! This means this account now is a 3x20k account with >20k saves, >20k Exp and >20k blams. YAY!

Also, today is my brithday, so:

Level 36 IRL!

Congrats on the achievement Bro. You could very well be the last person to ever get 20,000 Blams.

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

At 8/13/17 11:41 AM, Haggard wrote: 20,000 Blams!

I've been waiting for this for a very long time! This means this account now is a 3x20k account with >20k saves, >20k Exp and >20k blams. YAY!

Also, today is my brithday, so:

Level 36 IRL!

Congratulations on getting 20,000 blams. And I hope you have a marvelous birthday today.

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 @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, @Nimhster2, @Painbringer, @Jackho, @LittleWashu, and @LexaHergon, in no particular order, for your various achievements which quite vastly outstrip mine. :P

At 8/14/17 04:15 AM, ADR3-N wrote: Got my first pair of fancy designer socks

Thanks for your words.
It's hard to outstrip having fancy designer socks, but maybe one day ...
A man can only dream.

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.