At 2/21/04 12:22 PM, Mr_Pop_Alot wrote: I'll second that. It's almost as equally weird seeing them without their chucks/silver gaunlet. What's going to be really weird is seeing pox with the hammer soon.

And I'll second THAT observation. I was thinking he was trading in teh spiked dildo for the hammer. That's gonna be weird indeed.

At 2/21/04 01:12 PM, punk6sic6 wrote: yeah I am now a Elite Guard Private

Congrats to you! Welcome to the EG.

At 2/22/04 05:48 AM, Sturmpanzerwagen wrote: it's time to bask in my own glory. reached lvl 14 today! yeay!

Congrats, PZY! I'm sure ye be enjoying climbing up in exp and VP... and if I'm not mistaken, you actually enjoy your new icon, right? Eh. #;-}>

Good for ya, in either case.

I know there's been a lot of level ups in the past couple days, but I'm quite shocked that no one's said one word about me hitting 5000 posts. If that's the way it's gonna be, maybe I WILL go ahead and post my future postcount landmarks in Dobio's top posters topic instead of here. Nyah. #;-}>

But seriously, now... more importantly: check out teh new blam and save list updates.

They are the largest, most impressive ones I've ever seen in my... almost full year now of doing the save list. 21/50 rankups on both lists, tons of list entries and exits... people moving up to insane heights all around. Two extra 10,000+ save people, fixit broke 14,000 saves... etc. etc.

In about 5 mins I'll be an Elite Guard Sergeant Major.......YEA! And in two days I'll be on lvl 12 so YEA! again

At 2/22/04 04:59 PM, jonthomson wrote: Is anyone else getting those incredibly annoying Expedia adverts in the top left of the "thanks for voting" page, amongst other pages?

Yup, i've encountered many of these ads. Highly irritating, but i admit that they're pretty effective.

YAY! I am now an Elite Guard Sergeant First Class!
Congrats to everyone else who leveled up.

At 2/22/04 04:59 PM, jonthomson wrote: Is anyone else getting those incredibly annoying Expedia adverts in the top left of the "thanks for voting" page, amongst other pages?

Yes, I hope they disappear soon.

At 2/22/04 05:05 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Congrats to both you guys. It is indeed teh rare day when we see two 15+ levelups on the same day in here.

Yeah, and if they do, most of the time you won't even realize that another one leveled up. (Since they may not be a frequent poster, or not post at all.) Back in June of last year though.. I believe I leveled up to 16 the same day that Calderon leveled up to 17. That was weird.

At 2/22/04 05:45 PM, MrX2003 wrote: YAY! I am now an Elite Guard Sergeant First Class!
Congrats to everyone else who leveled up.

At 2/22/04 04:59 PM, jonthomson wrote: Is anyone else getting those incredibly annoying Expedia adverts in the top left of the "thanks for voting" page, amongst other pages?

Yes, I hope they disappear soon.

Congrats j00 Bastard!
You beat me to it! >:(

One day of hanging out with my friends got my sleeping time all fucked up and I missed out on lots of stuff. No fear, I am back to teh old style, I even stayed home a day from hanging with my friends to lvl up more!

Mike

At 2/22/04 07:31 PM, Baron_Von_Bad_Guy wrote: One day of hanging out with my friends got my sleeping time all fucked up and I missed out on lots of stuff.

I plan on getting all messed up tonight as well Baron but it won't be from lack of sleep. My fridge is stocked, I myself am stoked, and in about 4 hrs. 30 min. my weekend will be upon me.

"... a case of Dr. Bud is just a pint of monster blood."

At 2/22/04 05:45 PM, MrX2003 wrote: YAY! I am now an Elite Guard Sergeant First Class!

Contrats mrx, you seem to know how to make up for those b/p points you miss during TAFE.

~sigh~ I whiffed ... I was trying to rank and level on the same day ... forgot and voted on too much yesterday. At least I don't have that stupid barb wire boxing glove anymore ... has to be the silliest icon in the lot.

I know there's a couple people (I forget if it was jon or merc running their grids against Greg) who have the patterns for the levels down. What's the pattern on 13 again? Sorry, but I don't feel like rumaging through 9 threads of 50+ pages trying to figure out where exactly that set of posts was.

Is this what you are talking about D0GMA?

level 14 2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3

I have the rest too, so if you want more just give a yell.

At 2/23/04 12:54 AM, James0 wrote: Is this what you are talking about D0GMA?

level 14 2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3

I have the rest too, so if you want more just give a yell.

Except for the fact that that line starts with level 14, yeah that's what I was talking about lol

At 2/23/04 12:54 AM, James0 wrote: Is this what you are talking about D0GMA?
level 14 2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3
I have the rest too, so if you want more just give a yell.

Hey James, what topic and page did you find that information on?

At 2/22/04 05:05 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 2/21/04 01:50 AM, biteme2514 wrote: Thanks. I need all the luck I can get. Things seem to be going quite well right now though. I managed to reclaim my #21 spot on the Top Saviors/Blammers List and right now, I'm beating Oderus_Urungus 14,574 points to 14,568 points.

Looks like you're doing even better now. Good show.

Yeah, I know. I just took a quick look at the Top Saviors/Blammers List again and assuming I did the math right, I'm in the Top 20 right now. Of course, that could change by morning, but right now, the scores look like this. Oderus_Urungus has 14,683 blam/protects, _altr_ has 14,730 and I happen to have 14,736 of them. Say, if it's not too much trouble, when the list updates itself and you happen to see me in the #20 slot tomorrow morning, could you take a screenshot for me with some of the users around me in the picture too? Thanks in advance, gfoxcook.

But enough about blam/protect points. I've been worrying about that for whole weeks now. Which is exactly why I kind of took today off to have a little fun before going back to school tomorrow. I hung out at a friend's place for most of the evening just sitting around and watching American Beauty (I had already seen it a few times, but my friend hadn't), and right now, I'm just chilling and listening to the Billy Talent CD that I bought earlier today. Yeah, I know it's not the greatest music, but hey, it was only ten bucks Canadian, so I can't complain. Besides, Billy Talent's one of my favourite bands. In very much the same way that American Beauty is one of my favourite movies. Hell, both those two things are actually in my profile, you know. Not like it really matters, but I figured I'd mention it anyways. But yeah, I should probably get back to picking off those Under Judgement submissions in the Portal. Need to make up for what I'm going to be missing tomorrow. Have a doctor's appointment and then, I think I'm spending the night watching that DVD copy of Gladiator that I bought earlier today. Yeah, I did some shopping. I love having two thousand bucks that I can just play with whenever I want. Guess I shouldn't be spending it all though.

At 2/23/04 12:56 AM, D0GMA wrote:

At 2/23/04 12:54 AM, James0 wrote: Is this what you are talking about D0GMA?

level 14 2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3

I have the rest too, so if you want more just give a yell.

Except for the fact that that line starts with level 14, yeah that's what I was talking about lol

That's the level you're levelling up *to*, so it's correct. Recognise that pattern anywhere. Nice job on getting the bat.

yeah I am really leveling up during the vacation, yesterday I've become an elite guard private and now I only need 374 blam/protection point to the next level: more then 100 points in one day w00t

At 2/22/04 05:13 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 2/22/04 05:48 AM, Sturmpanzerwagen wrote: it's time to bask in my own glory. reached lvl 14 today! yeay!

Congrats, PZY! I'm sure ye be enjoying climbing up in exp and VP... and if I'm not mistaken, you actually enjoy your new icon, right? Eh. #;-}>

It's not exactly beautiful.. but I can withstand it, yes. And the >:( face was NOT a mistake from my part. Going to lvl 14 is both good (lvl up, yeay!) and bad (ugly icon). So I made my post happy and the icon angry.

Good for ya, in either case.

Thanx.

I recntly leveled up to level 10 and that makes me happy. my whistle just changed from bronze to silver and in about two hours i will be the next level in blams/saves
whats up?

At 2/22/04 05:18 PM, Payne_to_the_max wrote: In about 5 mins I'll be an Elite Guard Sergeant Major.......YEA! And in two days I'll be on lvl 12 so YEA! again

At 2/22/04 05:45 PM, MrX2003 wrote: YAY! I am now an Elite Guard Sergeant First Class!

At 2/23/04 01:24 PM, Stampede38 wrote: I recntly leveled up to level 10 and that makes me happy. my whistle just changed from bronze to silver and in about two hours i will be the next level in blams/saves

Congrats to all three of you on your varied accomplishments!

At 2/22/04 07:19 PM, TheJoe324 wrote:

At 2/22/04 05:05 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Congrats to both you guys. It is indeed teh rare day when we see two 15+ levelups on the same day in here.

Yeah, and if they do, most of the time you won't even realize that another one leveled up. (Since they may not be a frequent poster, or not post at all.) Back in June of last year though.. I believe I leveled up to 16 the same day that Calderon leveled up to 17. That was weird.

At 2/23/04 01:05 AM, biteme2514 wrote: Yeah, I know. I just took a quick look at the Top Saviors/Blammers List again and assuming I did the math right, I'm in the Top 20 right now. Of course, that could change by morning, but right now, the scores look like this. Oderus_Urungus has 14,683 blam/protects, _altr_ has 14,730 and I happen to have 14,736 of them. Say, if it's not too much trouble, when the list updates itself and you happen to see me in the #20 slot tomorrow morning, could you take a screenshot for me with some of the users around me in the picture too? Thanks in advance, gfoxcook.

done and done. Got one of all teh 14,000-15,000 peops. They're all Majors, too, so I snipped teh ranks to make it all fit. Sometimes I'll actually edit a screenshot to get ranks into it if that's important, but it takes too long. So hopefully the spot #, name, so forth, and point total is enough for ya. ENJOY!

I'm just chilling and listening to the Billy Talent CD that I bought earlier today. Yeah, I know it's not the greatest music, but hey, it was only ten bucks Canadian, so I can't complain. Besides, Billy Talent's one of my favourite bands. In very much the same way that American Beauty is one of my favourite movies.

I have no idea who Billy Talent is. But American Beauty is indeed teh good movie. #;-}>

You never commented on my comments on Lost in Translation, BTW. Nor on teh mention that Rushmore is still better. I think I've asked you like THREE times now: have you seen Rushmore or not? #;-}>

At 2/23/04 07:22 AM, Sturmpanzerwagen wrote: It's not exactly beautiful.. but I can withstand it, yes. And the >:( face was NOT a mistake from my part. Going to lvl 14 is both good (lvl up, yeay!) and bad (ugly icon). So I made my post happy and the icon angry.

Ah, okay. I musta been thinking of another of the recent level 14s, then.

At 2/23/04 12:29 AM, D0GMA wrote: ~sigh~ I whiffed ... I was trying to rank and level on the same day ... forgot and voted on too much yesterday. At least I don't have that stupid barb wire boxing glove anymore ... has to be the silliest icon in the lot.

whoops. Congrats on both, day apart or not. I noticed you'd ranked up while I was doing my list updates. Teh fun.

At 2/23/04 12:32 AM, D0GMA wrote: I know there's a couple people (I forget if it was jon or merc running their grids against Greg) who have the patterns for the levels down. What's the pattern on 13 again? Sorry, but I don't feel like rumaging through 9 threads of 50+ pages trying to figure out where exactly that set of posts was.

I don't recall where that was, either, but I have posted my pattern list in other topics, as well.

At 2/23/04 12:56 AM, D0GMA wrote:

level 14 2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3

Except for the fact that that line starts with level 14, yeah that's what I was talking about lol

... but level 14 is exactly what you need, man!

At 2/23/04 02:12 AM, jonthomson wrote: That's the level you're levelling up *to*, so it's correct. Recognise that pattern anywhere. Nice job on getting the bat.

see? Jon always knows what he's talking about. #;-}>

If I'd made the list to show what level you were ON, then it would only go up to 29, since there IS no pattern for 30, so that wouldn't be very cool. Teh listen shows HOW much the boundary of the NEXT level is shifting by. I measured the START of each level's movement each day, not the END of each level's movement.

And here's the full chart in case anyone else was interested, as Recon seems to be:

level10 1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-0-1
level11 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-0-1-1-1
level12 2-1-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-1-2-1-2
level13 2-2-2-2-2-2-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-1-2-2
level14 2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-3
level15 3-3-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-3-3-3
level16 3-3-4-3-3-4-3-3-4-3-3-4-3-3-4-3-3-4-3-3
level17 4-3-4-4-4-4-3-4-4-4-4-3-4-4-4-4-3-4-4-4
level18 4-4-4-5-4-4-5-4-4-4-5-4-4-5-4-4-4-5-4-4
level19 4-5-5-5-4-5-5-5-4-5-5-5-4-5-5-5-4-5-5-5
level20 6-5-5-5-6-5-5-5-6-5-5-5-6-5-5-5-6-5-5-5
level21 6-6-5-6-6-6-5-6-6-5-6-6-6-5-6-6-5-6-6-6
level22 6-7-6-6-6-6-7-6-6-6-6-7-6-6-6-6-7-6-6-6
level23 7-6-7-7-7-6-7-6-7-7-6-7-7-6-7-7-7-6-7-6
level24 7-7-7-8-7-7-7-7-7-7-8-7-7-7-7-7-7-8-7-7
level25 8-7-8-7-8-8-7-8-8-7-8-7-8-8-7-8-8-7-8-7
level26 8-8-8-8-8-8-9-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-9-8-8
level27 8-9-8-9-9-8-9-8-9-8-9-9-8-9-8-9-8-9-9-8
level28 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-a-9-9-9
level29 9-a-9-a-9-a-9-a-9-a-9-a-9-a-9-a-9-a-a-9
level30 a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a

where a = 10

And now... 5050 posts means I'm done for the day. I moved up from #32 to 31 in VP rank today by passing Tanukitsune, and I moved up from #41 to 40 in BBS rank today by passing hugh_jarse. Woot woot? 5050!

At 2/23/04 01:05 AM, biteme2514 wrote:

Besides, Billy Talent's one of my favourite bands. In very much the same way that American Beauty is one of my favourite movies.

Great movie with a great soundtrack also. Thomas Newman, the guy who composed the music is a genius, and it's not the run-of-the-mill rubbish that lacks originality used in the soundtrack either. The instruments he uses are pretty different and distinct. Great stuff.

I just noticed that being a Praporshchik is now a rank for the 51+.

At 2/23/04 02:43 PM, Mr_Pop_Alot wrote: I just noticed that being a Praporshchik is now a rank for the 51+.

Yeah, I noticed that earlier and alluded to it in the b/p thread. It'll soon be 10K, which is scary. Glad I already have 6K+ in the bank...

I just made Elite Guard Private today. It sure feels good to be part of the Elite Guard finally

At 2/23/04 02:55 PM, DRD wrote: I just made Elite Guard Private today. It sure feels good to be part of the Elite Guard finally

Congrats. Well over 500 now. Crazyness, I remember getting there and being in the high 200's, how times have changed...

At 2/23/04 02:02 PM, gfoxcook wrote: done and done. Got one of all teh 14,000-15,000 peops. They're all Majors, too, so I snipped teh ranks to make it all fit. Sometimes I'll actually edit a screenshot to get ranks into it if that's important, but it takes too long. So hopefully the spot #, name, so forth, and point total is enough for ya. ENJOY!
You never commented on my comments on Lost in Translation, BTW. Nor on teh mention that Rushmore is still better. I think I've asked you like THREE times now: have you seen Rushmore or not? #;-}>

Thanks for the screenshot, dude. I knew I could count on you. Things are going extremely well in the blam/protect department though. I just checked the list again and so far, I seem pretty safe in my #20 spot. However, I should still watch my back. If I'm not careful, Oderus_Urungus could catch up to me again. Right now, he's got 14,725 blam/protects. On the other hand, I'm almost 100% certain that I'm past _altr_ for good now. He's only gained fifteen points from last night's total of 14,730 points. He's at 14,745 right now. So, even if Oderus_Urungus gets in front of me again, all I need to do is pass either the relatively slow-moving stafffighter or Captain_Bob to get back into the Top 20. I am currently at 14,763 blam/protect points. I'm going to enjoy my stay in the Top 20, you can count on that.

As for your comments on Lost In Translation (which, I might add, is another one of the movies I have listed in my profile under Favorite Films), I agree wholeheartedly. I could really connect with both Murray's character, Bob, and Johansson's Charlotte. Which is kind of what made the ending of the movie all the more touching. I kind of felt sorry for Charlotte too when she was making that phone call near the beginning of the movie. Those two are really great actors, are they not? You know, I bought the DVD without even seeing it beforehand at the time and I regret nothing. It's just an awesome film. And all the people who disagree just don't get it. Or so I say to make myself look better. It's stuff like this that makes the world go round. Oh, and as for Rushmore, it's on my rental list. I'll get around to that after I watch the twenty or so flicks that my friends recommended to me the other day. In time, gfoxcook. In time.

At 2/23/04 02:24 PM, leeboy105 wrote: Great movie with a great soundtrack also. Thomas Newman, the guy who composed the music is a genius, and it's not the run-of-the-mill rubbish that lacks originality used in the soundtrack either. The instruments he uses are pretty different and distinct. Great stuff.

Yeah, tell me about it. Thomas Newman, you say. Well, thanks for telling me who that guy was. That was actually something I needed to know. Long story short, I have some friends who are interested in actually creating some films, and just for fun, we wanted to put together a little parody of the movie and call it "Canadian Beauty". It's good that I now know the name of the composer though. Should make my job of finding the music so much easier. But yeah, I totally agree. I love the music in that flick. It's always nice to know that there are people out there with the same cinematic tastes as you.

At 2/23/04 12:58 AM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Hey James, what topic and page did you find that information on?

This topic, unsure on page. I saved it onto my computer, narf! No digging through posts for me!

At 2/23/04 03:11 PM, Dobio wrote: I suppose I should try to catch up my lost ground, but I keep getting distracted with real life. :-/

Yeah, I never thought you know what that is ;) Nah

At 2/24/04 01:03 AM, James0 wrote:

At 2/23/04 12:58 AM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Hey James, what topic and page did you find that information on?

This topic, unsure on page. I saved it onto my computer, narf! No digging through posts for me!

That's okay James, gfox just posted it again on this page. Thanks gfox. Now I can see why it's gonna take me forever to reach level 25. I want that gold gauntlet!

At 2/24/04 06:07 AM, Demon0 wrote: Im baaaack! For the moment that it...
I leveled up finally!
Lvl 12, kick ass!

Congratulations, now like me you're stuck with my least favorite icon for some months.

At 2/24/04 10:42 PM, Impetus wrote:
Congratulations, now like me you're stuck with my least favorite icon for some months.

That glove you got is 1337!
I like the boxing glove, I am not a big fan of the lvl 11 though, it's the same as lvl 4-7 only has brass knuckls on it.

Still can't wait for that Pipe!

Mike