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!

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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!

It can legally drink beer now!

Wow, that's a real rip-off. I will never pay that much for a single concert. Even a festival for that price would be expensive.

That it is. It's also nice music to listen to while you work. Thanks to working from home I don't even need to wear headphones

Yeah, I only ended up at Deezer because I had 6 months for free because I extended my mobile contract at Vodafone. I told myself that I will cancel my account there after those 6 months... But music streaming is a real bliss. Too bad that artists apparently don't get much money from streaming.

Too bad I don't listen to radio stations, heh. Only NDR Info, which doesn't play music at all during the day, so...

But I listened to NRK P13 during ny holidays in Norway, they play a wide range of music and I could practice my Norwegian skills a bit. But they are not quite good enough to really follow along what the hosts are saying.

That's great!

The Dom and Fro Show reached the level of Safety Patrol! (300 B/P)

Blams:

150

Saves:

151

Yesterday I got just over 600 blam points.

Not in my country! Well, give it another two years so it's near enough.

I may pay that much to squeeze in one more time to see Maiden while I can but that's the furthest I'll go for standalone shows. Festivals on the other hand, Bloodstock is £150 and Download is at least another 100 on top. The former is more worth it for me.

Wish I had the working from home luxuries. Would have far more freedom with that and even less reasons to use public transport.

This is the sad thing. There's so much to get but not enough money for everything I want and best ways to get more exposure for them is streaming services.

Whaaat? I thought legal drinking age in the UK was 16 as well!

The last (one day) festival I have been was 20€, lol. But they only have very small, mostly local bands (nothing wrong with that) and usually one of the bigger cover bands. Two years ago they had Motörizer, last year it was Powerslave. Same songs but way less money to pay, heh. This year... Well...

Working from home can suck, though. Noone to talk to. Today I started talking to myself again, just to hear anyone talk, lol.

Exactly. If I ever became insanely rich I would buy so many things to support bands that I'd need a storage room or two just to store all the CDs and LPs.

Nope, it's always been 18 here for as long as I can remember. Okay, so I've had some drinks prior to turning 18 but that was more at home at the time than anything.

Sounds far cheaper than the likes of Wacken and Summerbreeze, that's for sure. I'm all for hearing cover bands play as they provide fun nights out when there's something on.

I really want to support bands directly more often but money limitations is a thing. I'm just glad I managed to buy Haken's latest album directly from them. Annoyed that I missed out on the coloured vinyl but I'm still happy enough with the CD+LP package and an album so amazing to my ears deserves direct support to the band. And before you ask, they are well aware of how badly timed an album title as such is for 2020.

Level 60.

Just got over 30,000 save points and getting into level 55! Thanks to Tom's thread and this thread, just right before Madness Day.

24k EXP sailing back over Exp rank 525.

Fun fact: in Germany you can drink beer before you can vote. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Especially the official cover bands do a damn good job. It's not quite the same as seeing the original, but it's good enough to have a great time.

I mean... It's a very fitting title for 2020.

Hit level 27 today and crossed 1100 posts not that long ago

Oh yeah! Level 48!

Getting up there, Congrats!