My sleep was never that weird, but as a kid/early teenager it always took me a long time to fall asleep. And I got up pretty early too. 5 to 6 hours a night was plenty for me. Since a few years I fall asleep really easy (most of the time) and in comparison, I like how it is now, it's much better. But I can't stay up as long as I used to. I fall asleep before mod and get up around 8, 9 in the morning on a weekend. Just like some old fart, lol...

Summer has hit here as well. It's 6pm and it's still 30 degrees (Celsius, of course). What the fuck man...

Like I said TO iscrulz, I meant... sheesh. I see we have an edit button, but I guess it's temporary, eh? Goes away in a matter of minutes? :)

Mine's more just getting tired in the first place. a 24 hour schedule doesn't work for me. Every night I'm off by a bit, off by a bit, off by a bit. I'm probably actually from a planet with a 26 or 28 hour solar cycle and this 24 hour thing just isn't working for me, hence I stay up later and later by nature.

I can sleep with noise, with lights on... my wife's the opposite. Goes to bed at almost the same time every night, but can be woken up by the slightest noise or by lights on (not just in the room she's sleeping in, I mean--even in the hall/bathroom, coming in under the door, through the outside window, etc.).

I think I meant to type too, not 2... but 2 works as well, becuase this season is breaking a lot of records from 2005 (year of Katrina, ofc), which was the previous truly crazy hurricane season in the Atlantic for North America. So... in that light, that year was #1 and this year is #2... gonna get all the way from A to Z (well, A to W... in 2005, they stopped the A-Z at Wilma... then it was greek alphabet after that. was just reading on wikipedia about it... freakin' 6 more storms AFTER W. alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta... fuckin' A).

WHERE EVERYBODY ELSE AT?!?

:::tries to finish voting on all the UJ flash from the end of CD20:::

HAPPY CLOCK DAY TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

15 minutes, I think. Enough to edit out those spelling mistakes that you only realize the millisecond after you hit the post button, even though you proofread three whole thing twice.

Sounds to me like you are from Bajor. Say, does the bridge of your nose look any different from the rest of us?

I am very sensitive when it comes to noise. Heavy breathing is enough to keep me awake. But of course I can fall asleep in front of the TV with no problems, heh. Light doesn't bother me so much. My wife doesn't like new surroundings. She needs some time to adjust to a different room, so whenever we are traveling she has a hard time getting enough sleep.

Couldn't they come up with names that start with X, Y and Z?!

No hurricanes for me, no earthquakes, very low chance of a flood. I think I found a pretty safe spot to live.

@Cyberdevil is on his summer break, I think. And the other old users just aren't as active anymore, or stopped coming here at all. Too bad.

Happy belated birthday and belated congrats on your 10k posts.

HE LIVES AGAIN! And dammit, I forgot it was Clock Day yesterday but in my defence, it was friend's birthday party and we're still in need of sessions after the lost time from lockdown.

I still remember very well. Unfortunately I'm not #42 anymore but rather found my way in the top 40 now. However, once I reach #36 I'll be sure to give you a little tag. 😁

Awww yis! Suck on that emojis!

I timed badly there. However, I always know you'll come around next Clock Day. As for Madness Day, perhaps stick it in your calendar. 😉 I'll try and remember when that comes up cause it's potentially a bonus EXP period.

But if Clock Day is the next time you reply, I'm gonna make this a time capsule and say I hope Covid packed its bags, fucked off and stopped disrupting fucking everything!

Jeez, hope you're alright man. For both parts, that is. I know how vast Covid has been in America so I have thought to myself those I know over there I hope are staying safe.

As for me, to summarise myself in this year. All big plans of course went out the window including gigs, Comic Cons and my big 30th birthday party (but did a smaller celebration to compensate). I was lucky to have been able to stay in work through all of lockdown so that was some boost in savings while I couldn't go out anywhere to spend money but did take this time to invest further in my CD collection and even start collecting vinyls.

Still living in the same place for three years but my ultimate goal is to eventually get on the property ladder and get myself a house someday.

Crossed 175 fans after the whale I mentioned earlier got put on the front page. May also be my fifth art submission to be frontpaged but I'd have to double check.

6,000 posts. Sometimes I think of all the days off from the site and what my true tally would be.

I finally got to the Sup. Commander rank, since 10:22 PM, that took me years and months to do this and it was worth it! I would love to type in more, but I’m tired now.

Congrats on the accomplisment; and all the milestones you have made since joining here :-)

Thanks, but originally I didn't get that much involved in the portal, in the past few years. I thought that I would get this rank by 2022 (it was a report of a NG login from 2016, before the redesign of that website). What got me quick b/p points (but surely and slowly at the time) was organization, using the mobile device a lot more for NG, and setting up a goal for how many points I can get in a day. Do this every morning, noon, and the evening to get here with the last b/p rank. So that I got it, I might as well contribute to the portal while getting to level 60 at the same time.

9,000th post! Soon to be OVER NINETHOOOOUSAND!!!!

heh, i got to lvl 14 and didn't notice until i saw my lvl icon in the forums :D

weeee pipe

Sweet. Too bad I didn't notice during that window... I just saw that typo again in my notifications half an hour ago before reading up on all the threads I posted in on Clock Day to just manually make replies this time.

As much as I love the ability to reply straight from the notifications, you can't multi-quote reply (as easily) while doing so, so... doing it ze old-fashioned way right now instead. BIG OL' REPLY time. (edited to add: well, I was GONNA but between the big reply to you and to Bahamut... it wasn't going to work out, so... mostly-separate posts time ANYWAY, after all!)

Hahahaha... mayyyyybe. But I'm not Vedek Bareil, I promise!

Eerie that you should make a DS9 reference to me right now of all times, btw. After only watching some of it live back in the mid-90s (mostly season 1+2 while TNG was still on as I was a big TNG fan)... once TNG was off the air I was primarily an X-Files fan while at college and wasn't really watching much DS9 (or Voyager beyond maybe checking out the pilot ep?) or Babylon 5 until my wife got me to watch most of it with her in the 00s...

Anyway, after years of thinking about doing it one day (and watching occasional TNG/Voyager re-runs on BBC America since like 2015 or so... for some reason they never did DS9... maybe didn't have the rights to it?) I finally decided that what I really wanted to do was watch DS9 from ep 1 to ep 176... and my wife and I did so from May 4th (Star Wars day, yep! ;D) till June 24th on Netflix.

Not only that (it was awesome, btw! loved it, see why a lot of Star Trek fans love it most... not sure it can top TNG in my heart, but maybe it does in my head now)...

... but then my wife and I went ahead and watched Voyager from ep 1 to ep 172 from June 26th to August 25th (aka yesterday). Epic. ;D

And while I've seen all 178 eps of TNG at least once, many of them 2 or 3 or 4 times before, my wife says she's only seen about 50%, so we might go ahead and do that next. 176+172 is 348 eps of ST we've just binged in 4 months... if we do 178 from TNG in 2 more months or so, that'd be 526 in half a year (!!!).

Interesting.

I mean, there are not a lot of names in English that start with X, Y, or Z. Xander or Zander as a nickname for Alexander comes to mind, but it's not usually a full name. Xavier?

Gotta remember they reuse the list of tropical storm/hurricane names every 6 years, too. Every even-numbered year is A C E G I K M male names and B D F H J L N female names (such as Gonzalo/Hanna back in July and now Laura/Marco in August). Odd-numbered years the opposite, ACE etc. female and BDF male.

And only a truly damaging/noteworthy storm gets the name retired/removed from the lists, otherwise it'll be used again in 6 years. But when they are removed, they gotta pop a new name in there. So that's 6 male and 6 female names for every letter... and then reserve ones to add in case of retired names, too!

Well, I've seen a Bahamut, a Haggard, a Cyberdevil (from his replies to me on my profile from months ago before his break, I guess), a Fro, a few others... oh, such as a jonthomson just now! a James, too (don't think I saw him post but I did see him react to a post).

Ye Olde COOP 53 83 loverboy is the biggest MIA user, IMO, that I haven't talked to in years. I saw a post from him somewhere just an hour ago and checked his profile... his latest post was in 2014. Then again, so was mine. So... guess that's not that telling on its own.

MWAHAHAHA! I was wondering if you'd forgotten Clock Day, you seemed awfully absent while I was on the portal and on the forums 2 or 3 times that day. I was hoping to be on more, I missed so many saves on the big flashes of the day from the actual crew and all. Got about 75 saves, way down from the 150 or so I got in 2019 (albeit some were from the 16th+17th that time, I went on a 3 day voting binge!).

Fucking A!

I saw your post in the old users intro thread, btw, and when you mentioned your spot in the top exp list... oh, and also your post on your profile, saw it there, too... I looked in yer profile stat page itself and... you're like 18000 exp ahead of me now? INSANITY! ;D

I'm amazed I'm even at around #150 with all my inactivity.

Hee.

Eh, I ain't gonna go to any effort to remember. I have no problem remembering to come back here every August 15th. I'll either remember for Sept 22nd or not. But hey, here I am 11 days after Clock Day just dropping by to check on replies. I haven't even hit the portal. should. need moar saves! ;D

After 18 months straight? Hope so! But we'll see! o_o

Aye. I just covered more of the aftermath and financial crap from it in a reply to an iscrulz reply in my profile news post, btw, so I won't repeat all that junk here.

But I will just say about the accident itself that... I was going about 20, 30 mph through a fresh green light in downtown Houston when I had less than a half-second's warning something was up, just a flash out of the corner of the eye or whatever... and a car that ignored/missed the red light from like 4, 5 seconds prior slammed into my passenger side door at 35, 40? mph t-boned/broadsided/call it what you will me.

She was okay (just hit my head-on with her front bumper), my car got spun around about 180 degrees and slid halfway down the block from that intersection... so I was bruised up from my seatbelt but mostly okay... my car nearly hit some homeless people on the sidewalk under the freeway overpass, it was a rainy morning and they were all taking cover from the rain there. Only the curb stopping my tires prevented my car from being flung up on the sidewalk and possibly knocking into some of them... very fortunate... Um... what else. Oh, and I had just dropped my wife off at work about 8 blocks before then, so it's a damned good thing, as since I got hit on the passenger side... couldn't even open the doors on that side, she mighta been pretty damaged, legs/right arm/head. Very very thankful I had dropped her off and she wasn't still in the car, above all else.

Gigs, eh? I think I saw you say "sessions" either in that other thread or on your profile newspost or whatnot. You in a band, man?

Congrats on the EGSC, as we used to say.

Your mobile screenshot makes me wonder... how many people these days type on the NG forums and/or news posts/replies with their phones instead of a keyboard on a desktop/laptop PC/Mac/linux box?

I wonder if Tom Fulp has done any surveys Steam-style about that.

Says it's at 9069 as of right now.

Niiiiice.

also, CONGRATS! ;D

Sadly the date has slipped my mind half of the time in recent years. Should try and have a thought for next year for 20 years of B but it's festival season then and I need a good metal camping weekend after losing out this year.

Mad times. Ages ago I had seen many big names who I never expected to surpass in EXP but ended up doing so further down the line. You were one of the very few I felt bad to overtake. 😂

Damn!! All the way down there?

You reappeared much sooner than expected so there's that. Only thing I'm doing on 22nd September is working so that'll be a quick pop in that day.

Yes you do. Still gotta get that 36k after slowly working towards it in.... how long now? 😜 At least I wrapped up my business over a decade ago

It had fucking better. Lost enough great plans this year, another whole year of plans lost would really fucking suck. 12 months is a lot of time so where we're at by then who knows. 🤷‍♂️

Damn, that's some detail on recalling what had happened. Just glad you made it out fine for the most part. Car accidents are one of the main things that kinda scares me from driving at some point. I know, I'm 30 and still don't drive but with current circumstances, not only can I do without one just fine, it's just way too fucking expensive in terms of driving lessons and then of course getting myself a car. If I get myself on a better wage and have gotten a house, we'll see then.

Thank goodness for that part at the very least after all of that.

I wish. Session just meant drinking with friends. I have a few dumb but fun ideas for a few songs, though. Back in March I had picked up a guitar. I wanted to get one for a while but with lockdown being imminent, I figured to act on and get it while I could as I had no idea how delivery services were gonna be affected by Covid. I ended up purchasing one the day Boris announced lockdown so felt lucky I was still able to get it delivered to work two days after.

Sadly, I haven't gotten quite far with learning to play it. Was making some decent basic progress but then FFVII Remake happened (my second panic buy as that game got an early release in Europe) and that caused a chain reaction of playing numerous FF games back to back followed by Xenoblade on the Switch. All of that game time took me up until the day lockdown was over to me (i.e. the reopening of pubs).

In any case, I've got myself a guitar at home and it can be for show. It's there to be played at any time while I'm home. Incase you're wondering, this was what I picked up. A Jackson Snow White. Set me back around £120 but I say it's a fine first purchase.

But what I meant with gigs on that post was bands to see live. Bloodstock aside, I was meant to see Helloween in October and Igorrr back in April. You'll have heard the name Helloween many many times from myself back in the old days but Igorrr was a band that caught my attention after hearing songs from their recent album. They have a perculiar style mixing black and death metal with classical, beatcore and whatever else they please to mix with. This song is an example of what they're like:

https://youtu.be/Z5Qk89_xMcs

I'm of the mobile crowd these days. It's just way easier to get NG on my phone whenever I'm catching up on here. Makes for easier depositing as well. Since moving out to the flat, my laptop usage plummeted. I still use it, mind you but it's not an every day use like it used to be. Unless it's games, most things are way more convenient to use by other means. Take YouTube for example. Can just throw it on my smart TV or Xbox or just watch videos through my phone.

Ahhh Steam, that was how I had a lot of contact with you outside NG but these days most of my gaming is now on the Xbox One. I was never an Xbox player up until two years back when a really sweet contract deal popped up. Basically got a new phone and for an extra £3 a month on top of the phone payment for a three year period, an Xbox One S was mine to keep. 😁

This reminds me when we constantly needed 2-3 posts in the LUL to reply to all the users there. Notepad was the way to go.

Same. Except for Babylon 5. I never watched that. I didn't like DS9 back then and after having watched all of it I still don't like it better than the other Treks. Too much religion going on, too much fighting (Gene Roddenberry never wanted Star Trek to be about weapons and explosions...) and the last season of DS9... Urgh. Plus, it really depicts Sisko as the worst father and husband of all time. After they spend 6 1/2 seasons showing him as a loving and caring father. Damn.

We have started at TOS some years ago, watched that, then TAS, TNG, DS9, Voyager and now Enterprise (also watched Discovery).

Can't watch Picard, because we don't have Amazon Prime.

I thought I watched most of TNG as a teenager, but while (re) watching it with my wife, there were so many episodes I either never watched before or that I just didn't remember anything about.

Speaking of witch, we spent the last night in a tent on a Norwegian camping ground. I didn't sleep that well... It was either too cold or too warm, depending on whether I had the arms outside the sleeping bag or inside, lol.

So, there won't be another hurricane called Katrina?

Auz used to be around a while back as well, but haven't seen him around in quite some time.

Yes, Coop immigrated to Canada, if I recall that correctly. That's the last I heard. I think he sometimes pops up on Twitter.

Just hit Level 28! YAY!!!!

AND got Major finally!!!!

8,000 blams.

Yesterday I celebrated 14 YEARS ON NEWGROUNDS!

I also SPENT 24 HOURS ON NEWGROUNDS!

DEAR GOD AM I TIRED I'M GOING TO FUCKING BED!

I recently reached the top 500 in experience and also became level 48. I didn't think I would like this level icon, but it's actually kind of grown on me.

Those are rookie numbers!

YOU HAVE PASSED 13 LEVEL - SOUND!

Congrats!!!

Congratulations you beat Newgrounds!

B/P rank 230. Looks like I'm slowly climbing again just by checking out 5 a day on the portal? Slow climb it shall certainly be.

It says something about my usage on the BBS when I had to figure out how the hell I even embed videos on here. That's a thing I haven't done in years due to the likes of Facebook and Messenger providing far easier ways to embed videos by merely copying and pasting the link of a video.

Let's just say for embedding YouTube videos, I had to go on the desktop version of the site to get them. All of that just to comment on one thread over in general.

On a completely random note, something I miss from the old LUL days was @Haggard talking shit about Manowar. Those fun arguments only sprung up to me lately when I was picking up one of their LPs. This was solely for the "piss yellow" vinyl. 😂😂 Haggard, care to rip on them for old time sake?

Yep, Coop moved over to Canada to live with his now married partner. I believe he's been married for a few years now and I'm sure around that point was when his activity on here dropped entirely. I still hear from him occasionally on Facebook.

Oh yeah. I remember those days too. Manowar still suck, of course. 😉

But thanks to Deezer ("Spotify from France" if you will) I discovered many new great bands. Truckfighters, My Sleeping Karma, 1000mods (I believe it's pronounced "chilia mods", they are from Greece), Earthless, Electric Wizard...

How could he abandon us so quickly? That's cold, man!

Why Do You Love Newgrounds?

44k Saves! WOW!

This account: 16 years old!! 😱

That was easily more agreeable from 2012. These days they're like "Yeah, we're retiring but now we're not". They were a pisstake with their latest UK show in Birmingham charging £95 a ticket. Really fucking cheeky that considering I can see Metallica for less!!

Best name I know there is Electric Wizard who I have their Dopethrone album which is pretty... dope.

I feel like I've heard of the name Deezer before. That said, Spotify has been an easy go to for music streaming. Can be on my phone or even use it on the Xbox if I want to play own music to gaming.

That does remind me, a while back my friend introduced me to the German radio Rock Antenne. Really impressed with the station which covers all sorts of metal. They won't just play all the big tracks, they'll literally play all sorts which I highly approve. Best part Rock Antenne has an app so that's how a non-German such as myself can use it. 😁

You hear us @Coop?! 🤪

One last note, got myself my two very favourite albums on vinyl!