Passed EXP rank 1,700

At 7.77 voting power which my brain enjoys

Hit Lieutenant rank

Passed global rank 700

Over 12,000 saves

Right behind NikoN1nja!

Got B/P rank named Sergeant!

Next levels todo:

Silver Whistle

Staff Sergeant B/P rank

Level 9 (tomorrow xd)

4000 medals

1 Trophy

Supporter 2m

Wow, it's been 6 years since I've posed! It looks like a lot has changed around here since I left! I'm hopping to be a bit more active around here, Its cool to see this thread still going. Also, the general forum is closed? what is going on ??

Level Nine, I'm not a big fan of earning experiences, I like earning B/P points more!

Huh, so it is as well as Politics. Can't quite find anything that explains what's going on so will check back later.

Also, hi! How you doing? 😃

Oh wait, turns out this has been a few months now and I never noticed until this morning. 😅

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1522847

Oh geez! That is kinda sad about them being closed for good! I can understand the point of view where it is coming from, but I did love the general. Always was very random and something interesting #;-}>

Everything has been good just finished up graduate school and figured, why the hell not pop back on and try to be active around here again. More just exciting to see names that I remember still posting after all this time! Crazy how time moves !

Would you say this forum is still active as a whole ?

800 blams, 200 to go. Haven't made it so far :P

And also 800 reviews, 200 to go.

When I woke up, I realized that my whistle finally has been up. I have a silver whistle, next whistle level is Gold!

Seriously, I should have continued flagging stuff until I get Deity Whistle, so one level remains until Deity Whistle. So much win!

Records:

4 weeks for a Bronze Whistle (since I have created a new account)

2 or maybe 2.5 months for a Silver one, what kind of speedrun that was

Over 60,000 XP.

69,000 B/P.

100 blams. Small milestone, but at least it's something.

Level 46.

Damn, @DoctorStrongbad! You're moving through the ranks in record time! This must be why they call you the The Thing of Newgrounds!

Hit level 37 and am currently sitting on the illustrious and sexy Global Rank 666

6000 B/P and a new rank.

Congrats keep building onto that looking good

~X~

Level 42 in real life!

Hi,

I am trying to remember the name of an old turn based strategy game I used to play in the early 2000s. It was a battlegrounds-esque (something about the name was battlegrounds or newgrounds) style where you started with a certain number of turns that you used to recruit units for your army and they could also be used for exploiting the world map with those recruits, attacking other players or generating resources for your army. You had cash that you could generate more of and then use this cash to buy weapons for attack or defence. You could also get spys that would spy on another player to try and gain resources from them, mostly cash.

It was a rolling 7 day game which reset and at the end of the week al players were competing to have the highest networth. You could either play for free where your turns started to slowly replenish every 10 minutes or so or you could buy turns. You could get on the leaderboard for many things such as most attacks, most networth, most defences from attacks etc and at the end of the week you won cash prizes or additional turns for the next round.

I would love if someone can help me find this game so I can use a wayback machine to see what it looked like or maybe it is still going. It was a similar style game to themafiaboss.

HAPPY CLOCK DAY 2023, EVERYBODY! ;D

A) holy shitballs... this is... pretty unprecedented NG BBS news, eh wot? 2 entire forums being shut down.

Let me guess, they (being the closest thing NG had to something akin to 4chan or something) were the most difficult to moderate and thus weren't worth the trouble keeping open anymore? I'm glad Tom Fulp saw fit to archive them for posterity, at least. o7

B) whoa! someone's keeping my ol' 1990s style smiley alive, eh? ^_^

C) Anyway... glad to see you guys up and at 'em, posting, voting, blamming, saving... GOOD JOB, EVERYONE! and congrats on your recent landmarks and all.

Me? I'm just here for my annual Clock Day pilgrimage... and it appears I am nearing my goals from back in 2003-2005:

Blams:

36,000

Saves:

35,891

Sez I only got 109 more saves to go till my ol' 36k+36k=72k total b/p goal!

Well... better get at it. TTYL!

oh, and... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAGGARD! #;-}>

You know what I find funny about the General forum being closed? I once made a joke about it with us lot and now it actually happened lol.

Shall this be the year you finally reach your goal?

On a separate note, hope your birthday was amazing @Haggard!

Went up a rank to Brig. General, right on Clock Day too! It won't be long until I reach level 47 either

Well... I'm more surprised by General being shut down than Politics. As a general concept, I mean. But I get it.

Noishe prediction skillz!

Seems highly likely, since I voted to protect 24 UJ flashes by my count late last night (technically Clock Day morning) and... somehow, upon resuming voting midday today, my save count was up from 35891 to 35918 (+27)!

Not sure how I gained that many more than I think I was in position to help save/protect, but um....

I'll have to really be cautious once I cross over the 35980-35990 zone. I might just try to park right there at 35990 in case any other pending saves clear days or weeks later. Then check back in... maybe around Halloween or Christmas. And if I forget to? There's always next Clock Day, amirite? ;D

Hells yeah!

BTW, very belated to mention it, ofc, but I turned level 46 IRL myself at the end of June... and since I signed up on NG in 2000... that means I've had this account for HALF MY LIFE now.

I know, you youngins have already crossed that mark (well, some of you)... but to an old like me, it's impressive to finally hit!

In one way, I feel General should have been left open to have, um, general discussions with the forum community. On the other hand, I respect Tom's decision to move the focus away and save the energy on it.

I guess not as many mods needed with those two forums closed. All the less I'm needed these days after I stepped down many years back.

Only by like 13-15 years late lol. I was a prophet back then 😅

Something about finally clearing it in 2024 seems to be a more fitting year number for you than 2023.

Noice! Finally part of the half of lifetime club!

This happened to me back in 2018!

We still talk about total nonsense in supporters if people want the old general experience.

Sadly, the userbase is shrinking daily for supporters forum. When I clicked on a random collab thread, and saw it had 40 reactions compared to your average supporters thread having like 4? I knew that was the real reason it was closed: general was not necessary anymore; outlived it’s purpose.

Moderation is like cooking for all your roommates and they all have different palates. No matter what you do, someone is Going to be unhappy. So Tom decided to order pizza instead (closure)

Discord is the official reason why it was closed, and we can all go there to shitpost memes. But that old internet feeling of posting on a bulletin board AKA forum? It’s hard to replicate. Call me nostalgic, call me a bitter clinger, but I loved the old internet.

Damn I’m feeling nostalgic now.

nothing stopping people for posting general discussion in Regulars/Lounge threads, though.

couldn't agree more.

but what are us Level 5 and 10 peons doing in the Level Up Lounge thread?

Wait woah hold up. General got shut down? I got preoccupied with work and irl stuff and ended up not posting for a bit since my last time on here extensively (I hate posting on my phone and my laptop hasn't been working for awhile now) but I didn't expect GENERAL to get shut down. That's where well.. general discussion crap happens. I can see politics because the amount of times I visited that I can count on 1 hand and every time it was an abomination of a forum but still sorta necessary I guess.

Unfortunately yes, it happened back in March. They had been on the chopping block for a while as far as I'm aware. I don't miss Politics in the slightest, but damn I do miss General

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