At 8/22/04 11:09 AM, NameChangeWhatsThat wrote: Well you are a ... damn it what can i argue :_<

Sorry to intrude, but I was wondering how come you have so many points in such a short period of time? Do you have some sort of cheat that allows you to do it? Or do you stay in all day?

At 8/22/04 01:11 PM, i_love_busted wrote: Sorry to intrude, but I was wondering how come you have so many points in such a short period of time? Do you have some sort of cheat that allows you to do it? Or do you stay in all day?

Pshh... have you seen my rank I'm almost nearly a Elite Guard Corporal and I've only been on NG a little over a month. How do I do it... ummm... lets see... I really don't have anything to do besides go on NG.

At 8/22/04 01:11 PM, i_love_busted wrote: Sorry to intrude, but I was wondering how come you have so many points in such a short period of time? Do you have some sort of cheat that allows you to do it? Or do you stay in all day?

Well im not here much time (less than 50 years..) and im ranked 60!
There are so many b/p out there, you should try getting some fast =)

FIRST... two posts to reply to all the replies to my posts back on 8/17-18 and afterwards:

At 8/18/04 03:11 AM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/18/04 12:19 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Ban count is a different sort of stat from most other NG stats... whereas exp might be like the score in American football... and b/p might be like the score in basketball... ban count is more like the score in golf: the lower... THE BETTER. #;-}>

Everytime I hear the word macho I always think of Laurie Anderson ^^ Since I mentioned that, I've tried, hard, and I have yet to come up with an instance in which I've been banned from any BBS ~shrug~ probably it has more to do with my penchant for understanding the "Why?" and "How?" of things than anything else.

Should you really have to try that hard to come up with anything? I can simply tell you with complete certainty that I was never banned from the BBS before I was modded, in the 9ish months I was a regular user. I mean, I never missed more than 2-3 days without making at least one post back in those days (unlike nowadays when I might disappear for 5 days at a time or more), and bans had to be at least 3 days back then. I suppose some jokester may have banned me for 5 minutes and then cleared it, just to say they'd banned gfox, but no one ever claimed to have done that or anything, nor should anyone have had reason to, so... That wouldn't really count, anyway.

You and I, we are the BBS ban low-scoring golfmasters, with an incredible 0 strokecount.

At 8/17/04 11:44 PM, gfoxcook wrote: There ya go. I couldn't remember who the king of the normal people was. Recon will be invited to our Kings' Council Meeting, of course.

Long Live Bakunin!!

Errrr... I'm not quite sure I remember who Bakunin is, but those are warrant officer bars if I'm not mistake, aren't they? O_o

At 8/18/04 03:41 AM, SouthPhillyGangsta wrote: GFOX-LOOK,NOTICE ANYTHING DIFFERENT?

Not different. The way it should be. Good job, man. I appreciate it, and so do the starving bunnies in outer space. :::tips cap:::

At 8/18/04 05:48 AM, FlGMENT wrote:

At 8/18/04 01:22 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Yay for being all caught up! Let's see how many days it takes for me to go insane/fall asleep next time I try to catch up in here, eh?!

I have a couple of pages to catch up on every day, which beats 20 or however many it was in a month or however long it was. Think about it. :P

Well, everyone obviously has some amount of catchup in here unless they're a fixitesque BBS robot. That said, some people seem to fully use this as the lounge it became day-in and day-out, with many conversational posts in one page... Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, I wish I could do that more often, in fact, but... it ends up making the pages per day count go so far up as to make it really difficult to catch up in here, and to work up the effort and desire to do so, hence my usual practice of responding to posts in my listtopics, other people's listtopics, and even the newbie question topics before I come here. Today I'm coming here first to catch up as I've posted a couple times in the past few days in here without catching up on all that came before, so I felt I should rectify that ASAP in case I end up not catching up on the rest of Wi/Ht?. Yes yes.

Anyway, it was 14 pages today, not 20. heh. #;-}>

The level system was implemented AFTER people began collecting exp, so humantarget went from no level to level 30 in one go. Pimp and Shrapnel would have skipped quite a few levels as well.

But -bomb- was level 30 before HT was, I believe. And Pimp was level 30 for awhile and then HT got it back, etc. etc.

At 8/18/04 07:12 AM, Baron_Von_Bad_Guy wrote:

At 8/18/04 12:59 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Even BVBG?! UNPRECEDENTED.

Actually, Dobio and I have been getting along fine for a good while.

If you say so. :::distrustful eyes flick back and forth:::

Unlike me and you, you cheating bastard, I trusted you, and you went and slept with my mother!

>:(

I couldn't help it, man. She was begging for it. Hell, she strapped me to the bed. ;_;

In all seriousness, nah, that didn't happen... I only wish that it did, alas. Your mom is soooo hot. #;-}>

At 8/18/04 09:02 AM, Slightly_Crazy_Dude wrote:

At 8/17/04 11:32 PM, gfoxcook wrote: Why on earth would I go and quote a post of yours from months ago in a locked topic I never posted that much in to begin with to reply to it now in level up!?! O_o

I think you were confuddled mate, i was simply implying there wasnt really a need to discuss it, sorry for the confusion.

Yes i understand that, but as i said, i think maybe both of us are confused as to what we were actually implying, you to me and me to you....I think thats gonna make alot less sense than i thought it did :)

What the shit? O_O

okay, let me explain:

At 8/12/04 09:23 AM, Slightly_Crazy_Dude wrote: Fair enough Gfox, 36 posts is quite nothing, compared to what your regularaccount has now. And i dunno why were even talking about it now, i think that discussion was in Dobios old Top Posters topic, correct me if im wrong.

I see what you mean now, but the "I dunno why we're even talking about it now, I think that discussion was in Dobio's old top posters topic" part sounded to me like you were saying "Why are you replying to me about that now? Weren't you and I talking about this (the post I replied to) back in that topic, not this one?!" It's something about the way you phrased it. Now, if you'd just said "I think this sort of thing was discussed back in the top posters topic, why bother talking about it now in level up!?" I would have said. "Eh, for the hell of it" and that woulda been it. Oh wells. ;_;

At 8/18/04 02:09 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote:

At 8/18/04 12:59 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Seriously, what's your beef with Toocool? O_o

Mine is he's never around. There's a lot of other people who deserve to be here more than he does. The guy virtually disappears for months then catches wind of yet another election (3rd time's a charm 'eh?) and decides to pop out of the woodwork? Bullshit. If he gets in then something's seriously wrong. This is definitely rare footage but I agree with Dobio on this one (although I assume for different reasons).

I would presume so, but since Dobio never said why he had a problem with Toocool, and would vote for ANYONE but him, we may never know. ;_;

As for your reason, I don't agree with your cynical assessment that he only shows up when he thinks there's an election coming. He shows up when he shows up. There's seldom been any alignment there, and if there has been, I would wager it was coincidental. I think the reason he deserves to be in the official membership is simply that he USED to do a shitload around here, he was here before a lot of the now current regulars, and there IS such a thing as rewarding past (and future) performance, not just present performance. I don't like a "what have you done for me lately?" method of rewarding people...

If Toocool were voted in, it is indeed possible he'd not show up very often still, and wouldn't help out much, but I have a feeling his attendance around here might just increase if he felt more appreciated due to such an act on our parts. :::shrugs:::

As I said in the e-mail where I was NOMINATING two people (not voting for them, spancker's e-mails were confusing, as you should know)... If we vote people in while predicting whether they'll be around in the future, then why were Drimarki and redrum and so forth ever added? I don't think it's right to predict future behaviour at all, but especially based on past behaviour, for the purposes of an election into a group of friends who just share similar interests on this portion of the NG BBS, but anyway...

Understood. Someone scowl at me anytime. This election has been screwed up from the start. First, aren't we supposed to have a list of nominees to choose from? Second, aren't we supposed to only vote for one person? Which brings me around to number 3. Unfortunately I already know how three members voted (I'm not running this one guys) so now my vote (which I haven't cast yet) will be biased. Seeing as we can vote for more than one person I better make a list.

Again, I wasn't trying to vote for two people.. I was under the impression that we were supposed to nominate any and all people we thought should be considered for addition, tell spancker WHY we think they deserve to be added, and then SPANCKER was going to make the decision himself. That IS what he said in the e-mail that I received. Perhaps I didn't receive some other mail between that and the actual results e-mail, but if so that isn't my fault.

And finally, nominating more than one person, voting for more than one person, and more than one person being able to join at once (something I am majorly in favour of, and have been since January as you know, since we hold elections so rarely, and have added two at once twice before) are all three very different things... and I think there's been some confusion about all of that in the past.

SECOND... two more posts covering stuff between my posts on page 612 and 621 that I felt like replying to:

At 8/18/04 10:09 PM, D0GMA wrote: LOL 20 minutes to get 2 points with 9 flash parked UJ :-P~~~

Ain't that always the way? Seriously, though, you can't complain that much about ranking up at 10:09 PM NG time... I mean, I think my last rankup was around 6 AM, and when it's 6 AM or so, you have to wait a LOT longer for 9 flash parked in UJ to finally clear. Hell, I was waiting most of that night/morning just to get enough UJ flashes to help me along to 30000 in the first place.

All that said, and having already congratted you via e-mail... Congrats again!

At 8/18/04 08:48 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: I just passed Joe for the number 5 spot on the top 50 blam/protect list. Now didn't the guy in the number 4 spot say I'd never pass him? Then again I said I wouldn't catch him until school started back up in the fall. I guess we were both wrong.

Congrats on moving up from 6th to 5th, Recon!

At 8/21/04 12:59 AM, Recon_Rebel wrote: I also jumped ahead of Crono- a few minutes ago to take over the number 4 spot on the top 50 list. Looking at the point gap I have to cover if I want a shot at catching ramagi or gfox makes me sick to my stomach.

And congrats on moving up from 5th to 4th as well, man.

As for the gap... heh, sorry about that. It wasn't put in place for you alone, but I've spent many a month building up this moat between me and ramagi and the rest of you all, and I don't regret it for a second. I could take a nice long vacation from b/ping without any fear of falling out of the top 3.... and that is sweet, sweet luxury.

At 8/21/04 01:43 AM, Crono- wrote: awesome. i should go change my sig now for that and the VP update.

BTW... You should also change the link to the VP topic from page 29 to page 42, BTW, as you weren't exactly #19 on page 29's update. O_o

At 8/18/04 09:33 PM, NameChangeWhatsThat wrote: sad to see that you just gave up, well it seems to be a 50/50 thing once you get EGSC, on whether or not you'll continue :(, in fact its 50/50 exactly

Don't care (or are a robot that was terminated in april from getting anymore points) :
Cr0no-
TheJoe324
fixit
DuMa_RyoHahn

Still going and going etc :
Bila
ramagi
Recon_Rebel
gfoxcook

Heh i was just bored, i knew all of you could've done the math yourselves ;P

Yeah, that's pretty much how it's shaken up in the end. But don't forget that ramagi took a several-month long break at 36,000 while fixit was still moving... and don't forget that before fixit stopped in April (and it wasn't termination, it was his program telling him to stop at 49500 so his creator could get the last 500 points to 50k manually... alas, he'd already killed his creator ;_;)...

anyway, before fixit stopped in April, he gained almost 20,000 more points than he needed for EGSC, so... ramagi and fixit kinda belong on both sides of that two-group list of yours (both have/still care and don't/didn't care at some point). And Dogma now needs to be added to the still going side, as well.

At 8/18/04 10:16 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Have you noticed the freakin' point gap between Crono- and gfox? It's damn near 7,000. That's insane. There's no way I'm giving up the fight but I doubt I'll ever catch ramagi or gfox unless they at least slow down on their daily point gains (stopping completely would make Recon a happy camper).

You keep bringing up the gap. Stop focussing on how far above Crono (and now you) I am, and start thinking about making it to a nifty number. When I passed Crono and Joe (in that order, not Joe and Crono like you did... interesting how they've swapped almost perfectly symmetrically, eh?) back in the fall, I wasn't aiming directly for ramagi or fixit, I was aiming for 36000 points. Then when I hit the ugly 37000, I was aiming for 38000 ASAP... and then I wanted to hit 40k. And then 42k became my goal. Etc. etc. etc.

At 8/19/04 12:28 PM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/19/04 06:12 AM, jonthomson wrote: Congrats to D0gma on now having no need to vote on anything under judgement ever again.

I at least need to finish out the week ... have to keep up my gold pace ;)

Not NEEDING to vote on UJ flash again perhaps... not WANTING to? That may be a different story.

So what's it gonna be, Dogma? You mentioned alt-account voting instead, much like Joe voted a lot for NemesisM66 after he hit EGSC and lost some motivation... but you're #9. Is that high enough for ya or no?

If you want to split time between your main account and one or more of your numerous alts, I'd suggest at least getting a goodly number of saves for D0GMA each week. Never hurts to help out that ratio. And then your alts can become Hitler-esque blam ratio machines as a result. heh. #;-}>

Everyone is used to the static-scaling system in place now. There's been rumours of either an entirely new system (for both ranks and levels), or just more ranks and levels, being implemented at some unknown future date. Just wait for it.

Entirely new system for ranks AND levels? Possible, but I hope not. As long as expcount and b/pcount remain unchanged, and the systems for gaining exp and b/p remain the same, I suppose it really doesn't matter that much whether there's new ranks or levels and whether scaling/static stuff remains the same or not, as it doesn't take away anything that we've done in the past, but... it would frustrate a lot of people who're close to a certain level or rank and then BOOM, they can't get it EVER due to the change in the system. But oh well, there's always alt accounts to experience a level that you were approaching and then suddenly zoomed right past, if you really want to hit it that badly.

(for instance, if they added 20 more levels, and I was suddenly zapped from level 17 to 25, and thus missed out on 24 and a few other of my fave levels between 16 and 24... I'd probably be slightly upset but then I have a level 13 and level 10 alt right now, and one of those would probably end up at 22 and the other at 20 or something, so it wouldn't be so bad)

At 8/19/04 09:42 AM, Eldarion wrote:
Level 30 is almost impossible to get, especially for a level 9 like me. Let me do some calculations...

<snip out math>

Work it out however you like, the fact remains that it's a good system as it is representative of the fact that you are constantly increasing both your experience and your proporionate experience. I've used this example a number of times:

Your parents are 20 when you are born.
When you are 5, you are 20% of their age.
When you are 10 you are 33.33% of their age.
When you are 20, you are 50% of their age.
When you are 40, you are 66.67% of their age.
When you are 60, you are 75% of their age.

At no time are you ever any closer than 20 years younger than your parents, but your percentage constantly goes up. In the experience system, this is reflected by the fact that your base voting power is constantly increasing.

That's an excellent analogy. I might just save that to the file with the "this is what happens when HT deposits" miniFAQ.

The fact that there are "levels" arbitrarily placed along the way causes people to think that more levels would actually mean something. They are simply there as a courtesy to let people have shorter range goals to attempt to achieve, as well as having predefined BBS icons.

Indeed. Not just shorter range goals (because every 000 or 500 ending exp amount could be considered that), but also a VISUAL goal, and thus something that seems more tangible... to reach for sooner rather than later.

At 8/19/04 11:24 PM, TheJoe324 wrote:

At 8/19/04 10:58 PM, BonusStage wrote: because it's not like that stops me from giving help to whoever i can give it to ^_^,

I help more people than any of the Wi/Ht members! haha!

A winner is me!

Is THAT why you didn't want to join us over a year ago? Not because you had any problem with any of our members or whatever... but simply because you wanted to lord your independent helping-out status over us in a super-pointless competition? #;-}>

At 8/20/04 07:22 PM, jonthomson wrote: www.hangman.no

Pick the "100 Rock Bands" round. 97 is the score to beat, although one of the three I got wrong featured a number which is technically cheating :-)

98. I missed King's X and MC5, the one with the number. ;_;

At 8/20/04 07:27 PM, Marman124 wrote: guess what NO1 GIVES A SHIT AND U SHOULDN'T EITHER

Ahem...

At 8/20/04 07:36 PM, --delteated-- wrote:

At 8/20/04 07:34 PM, BonusStage wrote: and he's talking tooooooo??????

jon, i think. Not necessarily the smartest move.

Guys, just because his post was under jon's post about that hangman game doesn't mean it was a response to it. In fact, I'd wager a significant sum that he was replying to an ancient post, most likely the one that created this topic.

Spancker, 2 years ago, crows about being level 11 or whatever, and says he's better than everyone 10 and under...

Many people replied immediately.

Month after month, still more noobs see that first post in the first page and they reply to him with some sort of "OMG SO WHAT YOU FUCKER?!?!?!" post. When you see such a post, assume it is in response to spancker's topic-starting post unless quoted text shows otherwise, okay? Christ, people. This is nothing new, get with the program and use some deductive reasoning to figure these things out on your own. I didn't see one person suggest what I just suggested about that noob's post. #;-}>

At 8/22/04 01:34 PM, NameChangeWhatsThat wrote: average of 69 per day heh ^_^

Oh right, I see. Thanks for answering.

At 8/22/04 02:48 PM, BonusStage wrote: Baby cakes, I just don't know know.

How bad do you kiss arse? I mean, it's bad enough you don't go out. But to sit there and write all of that? Get some sex and keep off Newgrounds for a while to keep your sanity.

How bout dem apples I'm a lvl 10 as of today, anyways take it easy kids!

THIRD... three final posts catching up on everything since then. Ay-yi-yi... sorry for the superhugechunksof7totalposts, fellas:

At 8/21/04 06:10 AM, Qwoxyl wrote:

At 8/21/04 04:19 AM, RedCircle wrote: Yes, congratulations Qwoxyl!!!
I will be adding you to the Wi/Ht vs Mod list tomorrow.

Good job on that. I get to bring the Wi/Ht stats down for everything except for the number of blam points. The exp rank goes up and the b/p rank also goes down, but in the b/p case it's good. I've got a lot of work to do.

Hey now, don't look at it that way. Look at it as an opportunity to increase your stats aside from your already high blampointcount, and thus help out the Wi/Ht? side of the "competition" in the end, eh? #;-}>

At 8/21/04 05:24 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Congrats, Qwoxy. Yes, that's right, Qwoxy. It's my new nickname for you. Pronounced Kwahhhkkk-zeee, you see. Ummmm hmmm. #;-}>

Thanks, and I will call you gfoxy. Or not Q_Q.

Heh.

Qwox

Shortening my name? Again!?!

I am a master of teh maddening nameshortenings.

You mean my main will pass your alt one day? But it sounds like something Baron would do to keep the pipe level if he deposited for his alt.

If I stop depositing for it, yes. We'll see. By the time my main alt gets to level 16, it could be so far down the line that my love affair with 16 has weakened somewhat and I decide to just keep depositing with it, who knows... or I could have given it to my gf, which is something I've been thinking about doing almost ever since I created it as a name-placeholder, and is the reason why I started depositing for it in the first place. Then again, I have an alt alt that has no posts on it like my main alt does, and thus that's more likely to be a good account to give her if she should want a NG account. Ehhhh.

At 8/21/04 06:24 AM, TheJoe324 wrote:

At 8/21/04 06:10 AM, Qwoxyl wrote: Shortening my name? Again!?!

He'll be calling you "Q" in about a day or two.

More like already called him Q elsewhere. Heh. #;-}>

At 8/21/04 08:09 AM, Qwoxyl wrote: Well gfox called me Q in the VP topic, so at least my name can't get any shorter. He also didn't get my e-mail. I found out why, a lot of infections. Yay. I knew I should have sent an e-mail with my address at the library, now I have to wait until Monday to send. Although I could drop hints at what my e-mail is, even though I have no idea how I'm going to make it obvious to some and make it go right over other people's heads.

As you certainly noticed! Heh.

Anyway, the funny part of all of this is that I actually like your Qwoxyl name more than a lot of others around here seem to, and I never had a single problem remembering how to spell it as some have had... so... it's kinda silly that I've shortened it three different ways, but it really lends itself to that quite well. Gomen nasai!

As for your e-mail... damnit, I don't care how you get it to me, just get it to me. #;-}> Post it in ROT-13 code in the memberlist topic for all I care. Damned paranoid people with their hidden e-mail addies. Screw spam-fear. Just filter it, damnit.

Other than q, w and x being in the same word, I don't know what makes it hard either.

It needs a Z, as well, to be truly insane.

At 8/21/04 07:30 AM, FlGMENT wrote: Yup. Ramagi, Joe and Newgrundling all insist on being 'vigilante helpers', as spancker puts it. They're too cool for this club.

Back in January/February/March of 2003, I was too cool for ANY club, really. But when invited to join this King of Clubs, as it indeed is, I couldn't say no to the honour. Alas, the three of them didn't feel the same way, really. And NGling went on to be like the leader of that damned web-clicky game thread in C&C, too. Eugh... he had the bad taste in clubs, methinks. ramagi and Joe are in the BC, so... perhaps that was enough for them. I ended up joining the BC website this January, and it's nifty, so I'd understand that. But Joe's recent post where he was laughing about being more helpful than any Wi/Ht? member leads me to believe that's not the reason after all... he's just too competitive with us to join us, apparently... maybe he once thought we had a "no competing with fellow members" clause. haha. Anyway.

At 8/21/04 10:13 AM, Slightly_Crazy_Dude wrote: Congrats Qwoxy ( i have adopted Gfox' name for you ) I knew it was gonna be you that got to join the gang, i even posted it, but meh, well done and im sure everyone will benefit from your help.

Haha. WEll, it was okay for you to predict it as you didn't have Spancker's e-mail about him Qwoxy winning it but also spancker's warning to not talk about it yet because he hadn't gotten e-mail confirmation which ended up taking 36 freakin' hours and could have been done within 1 or 2 hours if he'd just asked Q on the BBS to join and etc. etc. etc. Okay, I think I've beaten that dead horse enough now. #;-}>

At 8/21/04 12:50 PM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/21/04 02:11 AM, innphernoe wrote: I'm Level 25!

Grats =)

Indeed. Congrats, innphernoe.

At 8/21/04 06:10 AM, Qwoxyl wrote: Thanks, and I will call you gfoxy.

That sounds like a strippers name ...

hahahaha.

Wow. The first seven consecutive posts on page 625 (following my ill-timed level up! post two from the bottom of page 624) all included congrats and replies to that post (and then five more posts thereafter, but no longer in-a-row)...

I certainly didn't expect that, thanks guys. Then again, I've made such a big deal about loving level 16 and wanting to get to it for so long and then how much I love being in when I finally got there for the past year or so that my time at 16 ending can't possibly have been a small event, I suppose. Especially on such a slow news night. #;-}>

At 8/22/04 01:20 AM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: Holy fucking shit you're level 17 :O
congratulations!!!!

MTE, I find it hard to comprehend, swallow, and accept as well. Thanks, though. #;-}>

At 8/22/04 01:25 AM, Baron_Von_Bad_Guy wrote: This level doesn't fit you. 16 matched you the best in my opinion. It will take a lot of getting used to. But congrats, level 17 is one of my favorites!

No kidding it doesn't fit me. It doesn't fit the neutral aura in general, in fact. But it fits me better than the level 14 rusty pipe thingie, so I guess that's good. Thanks, and I'm glad you'll enjoy seeing the bronze gauntlet around even more than it already was (just Recon lately, I believe?), and yes... it'll take SOME getting used to. Understatement of the day right there. heh.

At 8/22/04 01:28 AM, D0GMA wrote: Ah, so you've finally gotten it for good eh? Grats =)

I never had it not-for-good. If, on Friday night/Saturday morning I'd deposited right away, I would have been 17 for 2 or 3 hours and then fallen back when HT's deposit took effect a bit before the server recalc time, but... I ended up waiting until about 10 minutes before server recalc time to deposit so I could avoid that indignity, and it worked. I saw the amount for level 17 go up from 6719 to 6723 and knew it was safe to deposit up from 6710 to 6720 and did so.

At 8/22/04 01:35 AM, BahamutReborn wrote: Congrats Gfoxcook! Those Nunchaku sure are looking good at the moment.
So how does it feel to return to a fist icon eh ole' chap?

Nunchaku always look good. ;_;

It feels okay. I don't have anything particularly for OR against fist levels in general. I liked the boxing glove levels, for one thing... I had 10 back in January-February 2003 and 12 a few months later, back when I was new to the BBS and all... so fond memories of those times.

This is my least fave of the high-level gauntlets, however. I prefer silver to bronze, and the gold one just kicks so much ass. I don't normally like gold, so that's even more impressive that I dig level 25's icon (I like the look of silver or platinum better in general, real life or .gif pics alike).

Anyway, thanks!

At 8/22/04 01:36 AM, RedCircle wrote: Excellent. Now I won't recognize you anymore. You have always had those chucks since I have been taking notice. Also, gfox, check your mail.

I don't even recognise MYSELF anymore. My profile looks all wrong, and my posts look like they belong to Recon or lightning or someone else. ;_; Anywho, thanks. And I shall check it shortly if it pleases ye. O_o

At 8/22/04 02:06 AM, YoinK_VineS wrote: congrats gfox! i was so use to you having those nunchucks.. lol anyway nice to see you level up. ;)

A third person bemoaning the difficulty of getting used to me being 17 instead of 16. I feel yer pain, man. No one's pain over this can be as weighty as mine, after all. #;-}> Thanks, though. One more step towards the holy land of 20+ highleveldom, eh? I think I'm firmly ensconced in the "upper-middle class" of NG levels, though, so that's good (but I'm a big fan of the "middle-upper class," specifically levels 24 and 25)...

At 8/22/04 02:14 AM, NameChangeWhatsThat wrote: heh i was going to post that as a matter of fact, once i saw your HNT Finale review, and clicked the profile, and then i say to myself, WELL LOOKIE HERE gfox is level, but of course you are the one that should post that so i basically let you, heh nah it'd've been a horrible thing to do, so congrats gfox, congrats ^_^

Thanks for not stealing my "thunder," weakly posted as it was (I didn't want to make a huge deal about a level up I'm not entirely happy about, for one thing. I probably didn't celebrate ENOUGH when I hit level 16, now that I think about it... but then, I never ever ever once took having level 16 for granted, either. I love that level. ;_;). Thanks for the congrats. I saw your HNT Finale review as well, in fact. What a coinkydink!

At 8/22/04 06:13 AM, FlGMENT wrote:

At 8/22/04 06:01 AM, RedCircle wrote: It's the fact that you have come to this thread 4 times, post something completely irrelevant to our conversation, then leave. Having no regard for what the users here are talking about.

Just because it's not relevant to a conversation that may be going on doesn't mean it's out of place in this thread. All of us regulars have posted a rank up at some stage or another. I don't see you complaining about gfox announcing his level up when it had nothing to do with Bonus depositing for carmel. You can't expect everyone to put their two cents in and then go "Oh btw, the real reason I'm posting is to announce my achievement." That's just a hassle.

Well, even though you used my disconnected-from-the-rest-of-the-convo level up! post as an example, I wholeheartedly agree with your message. One BBS user cannot be treated with a completely different set of standards than another, especially in this wonderful topic of ours. We must embrace the same things or shun the same things from different users, in general at least.

I would just say that if RedCircle, or anyone... has a problem with a noob who only posts 4 times in here over the course of however long a time period (a year, two years, whatever it was)... and never seems to come back and reply to replies or appreciate the congrats he's given for his accomplishments or whatever... that you simple don't congrat the person! There's no need to put down their accomplishment as "too minor" to say anything about or whatever. I mean, hell... Yoink's level is far superior to mine, but does that mean he scoffed at my level 17 rankup as beneath him? Nope, he congratted me the same as all of you who have a lower level than me. :::shrugs:::

Anyway, I think that's a good policy. If you respect a person who posts a level/rankup post in here, then congrat away. If you don't, then just don't reply. There's no need to say something negative in place of a congrats, after all. It's the ol' "if you can't think of something nice to say to someone, better to say nothing at all than something mean" policy that is followed all too rarely.

At 8/22/04 06:39 AM, FlGMENT wrote:

At 8/22/04 06:18 AM, RedCircle wrote: You say regulars. They have earned that respect.

So everyone who posts an achievement here for the first time has to be shot down until they're a regular? o_O

Well, *I* certainly was shot down when I first came to Wi/Ht?, SO I SAY HELL YES!!!! #;-}>

Heh, but of course I wasn't... I was greeted here as a fellow NG fan by my fellow NG fans, and rapidly included in the group. We were smaller back then, and perhaps it was easier to accept new people, especially when they post as long and non-nooby posts as me (WINK), but just because the BBS is overflowing these days doesn't mean we have to "guard" against newness. Just respond as you feel is necessary, but preferably with some measure of politeness, and ignore those you feel should be ignored.

At 8/22/04 06:41 AM, IM_KOOL_R_U wrote: Congrats also thought I would be congratulating MPA today but I guess not. Wonder why he suddenly stopped.

He stopped what? Thanks, man.

At 8/22/04 06:52 AM, jonthomson wrote: Congrats to gfox on owning the bronze gauntlet of doom.

Thanks, jon.

At 8/22/04 08:14 AM, Slightly_Crazy_Dude wrote: Congrats to Gfox for getting a level up, i guess it wont be the same with you now at the bronze gauntlet, but we can get used to it :P

No kidding it won't be the same. Okay, now you're the fourth person to say something like that. Heh. Any bets on HOW LONG it will take most people to get used to it? Then bet on how long it will take ME to get used to it. #;-}>

Thanks.

At 8/22/04 08:16 AM, Qwoxyl wrote: Congrats, you have the first fist icon that actually looks good. It will take a while to recognise you... who am I kidding? Your posts are always long and full of info, it would be impossible to miss you.

I consider the boxing glove icons "fist" icons as they do represent fists, albeit covered (so do the gauntlets, though), and I like how they look, so I wouldn't call 17 the first "good-looking" fist icon. I'd call 10 and 12 that, and then 18 and 25. 17 is probably 5th in terms of fist/coveredfist levels in my book. But it's okay. I'll get over it sooner or later.

And a bit after Christmas, I'll be hitting 18's silver goodness, so that'll make me quite happy indeed.

hahah, thanks for the vote of long-post-chock-full-of-info confidence. #;-}>

At 8/22/04 10:10 AM, --delteated-- wrote: Congrats gfox, looks a bit weird to see you with the bronze glove instead of the nunchaku, you'll be having a fist for a while now...

No kidding. You're now the SIXTH person or so, if I missed any others, to say that so... come on, people, lay down those bets about everyone & me getting used to it. #;-}>

And yep, a fist for probably 11 months or so. It took 4 months to go from 16's start to 17's start, so say almost 5 months to 18 (like I said, a bit after Christmas and the New Year, methinks.. 8/22 to 1/11ish...)... and maybe almost 6 months from 18 to 19 (maybe 1/11ish to 6/30ish... just in time for my 28th birthday on June 30th, 2005! Woo hoo).

At 8/22/04 02:48 PM, BonusStage wrote: The little meanie head :(, he just wanted to act as he was to good for Wi/Ht not the forum OH NO, but the club yes :o

Heh. Pretty much. #;-}> But in all seriousness, it doesn't matter to most of us whether someone's in the "club" or not. I mean, have you been made to feel unwelcome? I certainly hope not. And I don't reply to your posts any differently than I do to a longstanding member's like say leeboy's... or to a new member like MPA's or Qwoxy's, so... Eh. I thought it'd be cool when Spancker asked Joe to join us, but when he said no, it wasn't like some crushing rejection or something. He still hangs out here, and that's what counts.

Heh remember gfox i didn't get all my site knowledge on the first day, by the time i started looking at top 50 b/s users, ramagi had started again :)

Ahhhh. Well, she wasn't moving between December 8th or so 2003 and erm... sometime around the start of spring. At least 2 months, maybe closer to 3, can't recall.

At 8/22/04 02:20 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
You and I, we are the BBS ban low-scoring golfmasters, with an incredible 0 strokecount.

So what does that make my handicap?

At 8/17/04 11:44 PM, gfoxcook wrote: There ya go. I couldn't remember who the king of the normal people was. Recon will be invited to our Kings' Council Meeting, of course.

Long Live Bakunin!!

Errrr... I'm not quite sure I remember who Bakunin is, but those are warrant officer bars if I'm not mistake, aren't they? O_o

Bakunin was one of the "leaders" of the Anarchist movement at the beginning of last century. The symbol was an all black flag. That image I used is a symbolic version of a waving black flag from the band Black Flag. Henry Rollins was their lead singer for the last 8 years or so before the band broke up. If you've seen him in concert or at the movies, you might have noticed a tattoo on the top of his spine that looks just like that.

At 8/22/04 02:48 PM, BonusStage wrote:
Now adding D0gma to the cares list, yeah basically 5/4 with caring is winning :D

For now. I'm stalling at 36,509 for at least a bit, but I don't know if that will be a final point.

Can someone please tell me how to register retrogate? I searched EVERYWHERE and found not register button...

At 8/22/04 03:46 PM, BonusStage wrote: i do believe it is nestled at the top of every page, but for some reason RG isn't coming up for me, and i haven't deposited there yet today :_<

I know, i just think that there might be a problem with my computer or they changed it... anyways, check out the edge of the post =P

Ok gfox, this user is really getting annoying and constant flaming is against the rules right, even though i've never heard of you banning someone, well actually might i inquire when was the last time you did o.0

Lol gfox already banned him after his new post :D

carmelhadinosaur

Retrogade had been going thru many upgrades and the button to register was not set up, so as soon as Retrogade gets some bandwith back ill find you a link...

~X~

At 8/22/04 03:59 PM, BonusStage wrote: I sure did, now that is one hell of a sig, i'll change whenever, and of course replace the who made line ;)

Well thats the least i can do to you, i need to make a drawing or something lol...

Yeah as you can see above you heh, i was probably still typing while that 2 post conversation took place ^_^

Hehe yeah, that happens to me alot :D

At 8/22/04 04:01 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: carmelhadinosaur

Retrogade had been going thru many upgrades and the button to register was not set up, so as soon as Retrogade gets some bandwith back ill find you a link...

~X~

Thanks! I would really like to see what would they think of my photoshop skills :P

At 8/22/04 06:01 AM, RedCircle wrote: I am totally cool with that. All for you raising ranks man.

I didn't mean to sound harsh earlier. My gripe with you has nothing to do with experience.

It's the fact that you have come to this thread 4 times, post something completely irrelevant to our conversation, then leave. Having no regard for what the users here are talking about.

It's like if you had a thread about sprites, and you were in the middle of a conversation with your buds, and I came in and said "I like sprites!" four times, you would get annoyed too.

Anyway...

Please feel welcome to come here, and join in our conversations. And, seriously, good job on the rank ups. I had to get those too :)

I didnt mean to sound bad either, its just that I dont think it is that irrelavant to the thread, I came here four times to announce my level ups, not to be a n00b. And anyways, thanks for the compliment and I hope I dont come off as a n00b, lol

Looks like I missed out on the gfox level up discussion. I'm going to stray from the norm and say, wow gfox that gauntlet really fits you well, it's as if you were born to have that icon. ha

First off, anyone who can read all seven of my posts from the top to the middle of page 626... has read over 33k of gfoxposts. I congratulate you, whoever you are! :::salutes:::

At 8/22/04 03:21 PM, D0GMA wrote: So what does that make my handicap?

Er... +70 or so, I guess? O_o

Bakunin was one of the "leaders" of the Anarchist movement at the beginning of last century. The symbol was an all black flag. That image I used is a symbolic version of a waving black flag from the band Black Flag. Henry Rollins was their lead singer for the last 8 years or so before the band broke up. If you've seen him in concert or at the movies, you might have noticed a tattoo on the top of his spine that looks just like that.

I... see... the flag-tattoo looks awfully like an uneven chain of warrant officer bars. O_o

I know who Henry Rollins is, but I'm not very familiar with Black Flag in general. Anywho. Thanks for explaining all of that.

For now. I'm stalling at 36,509 for at least a bit, but I don't know if that will be a final point.

36,509? Why the 509? o_O

At 8/22/04 03:46 PM, BonusStage wrote:

At 8/22/04 03:39 PM, i_love_busted wrote:

At 8/22/04 03:37 PM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: Can someone please tell me how to register retrogate? I searched EVERYWHERE and found not register button...

*cough*loser*cough*

At 8/22/04 03:34 PM, i_love_busted wrote:

At 8/22/04 03:27 PM, shenlong-nataku wrote: wtf more than 600 pages just becuz sum guy lvld up:p

Yeah, I agree they need to get out more.

The two posts by i_love_busted you just quoted, and the post by shenlong-nataku, I might add (it added nothing and prompted that i_love_busted to reply), have now been deleted for anyone who's confused.

Ok gfox, this user is really getting annoying and constant flaming is against the rules right, even though i've never heard of you banning someone, well actually might i inquire when was the last time you did o.0

Never heard of me banning someone??! I banned 72 people between October 10th, 2003 and May 25th, 2004. Granted, 72 is not Joe or Steve or Tanner levels of bannination, but... hey, it's 73 now, okay? #;-}> It just so happens that I haven't banned anyone in the almost 3 months since then until today. The new surge of mods from May have made my slow-ass modding on the BBS mostly obsolete. A few topics locked is about all I've done on the BBS during June and July.

That said, I spend a shitload of time modding reviews almost every day.

Yeah you are definately needing of a serious flaming, any takers?

No flaming the trolls, silly. That just feeds them. Christ, doesn't anyone on NG BBS have a background in usenet? Flame the flamers, ignore the trolls. It's simple.

heh yeah i did it because Jujube is very nice on response along with http://www.newgrounds.com/gold/profile/template.php3?id=516658 that guys movies, i plan on doing Jube's (heh jube) other movies, because for some reason i just want a high response rate now :o, also of course i wouldn't STEAL THE THUNDER, i bet Zues wore a guantlet just like that ^_^, and you should celebrate and brag and such, you have the right to :)

Yeah, I should probably review all his other movies for easy responses as well, he digs my reviews. I've only reviewed his 4 HNTs and his clockday flash... how many other movies does he have? If you know offhand, I mean.

Zeus's gauntlet, eh? Heh, funny. The zeus gauntlet is a nifty item in the original Final Fantasy, which I believe casts LIT2 when used in battle. I always imagined it as a kinda opalescent blue, though, not bronze.

At 8/22/04 04:01 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Retrogade had been going thru many upgrades and the button to register was not set up, so as soon as Retrogade gets some bandwith back ill find you a link...

I find it kinda funny that Josh always talks about wanting to expand RG's userbase, but apparently the hosting deal doesn't cover enough bandwidth to even support the users we have now. That's a fairly massive problem, isn't it? Keeping RG small = perhaps a better idea, as it's cheaper.

At 8/22/04 04:34 PM, bbbomber wrote:

At 8/22/04 06:01 AM, RedCircle wrote: I didn't mean to sound harsh earlier. My gripe with you has nothing to do with experience.

It's the fact that you have come to this thread 4 times, post something completely irrelevant to our conversation, then leave. Having no regard for what the users here are talking about.

I didnt mean to sound bad either, its just that I dont think it is that irrelavant to the thread, I came here four times to announce my level ups, not to be a n00b. And anyways, thanks for the compliment and I hope I dont come off as a n00b, lol

As he said, it wasn't really that you were acting like a noob, he felt irritated by the fact that you'd just post once and leave, never replying to the people who took the time to reply to you.

But seeing as how you two have been replying back and forth for awhile now... I'd say that problem is solved, eh? #;-}>

At 8/22/04 04:44 PM, MPA wrote: Looks like I missed out on the gfox level up discussion. I'm going to stray from the norm and say, wow gfox that gauntlet really fits you well, it's as if you were born to have that icon. ha

You mean the stuff I was talking about with all the people saying they can't get used to me with this icon very easily? Yes, you've certainly bucked the norm right there. Heh, good job. #;-}>

However, you're completely and totally wrong. BORN TO HAVE THIS ICON?! You be smokin' teh crack, yo.

At 8/22/04 02:21 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
I see what you mean now, but the "I dunno why we're even talking about it now, I think that discussion was in Dobio's old top posters topic" part sounded to me like you were saying "Why are you replying to me about that now? Weren't you and I talking about this (the post I replied to) back in that topic, not this one?!" It's something about the way you phrased it. Now, if you'd just said "I think this sort of thing was discussed back in the top posters topic, why bother talking about it now in level up!?" I would have said. "Eh, for the hell of it" and that woulda been it. Oh wells. ;_;

Lol fair enough, i guess i will try harder next time, yeah right. You just confused me thats all, i was wondering if you had alterior motives while saying what you did.

At 8/22/04 03:11 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
Haha. WEll, it was okay for you to predict it as you didn't have Spancker's e-mail about him Qwoxy winning it but also spancker's warning to not talk about it yet because he hadn't gotten e-mail confirmation which ended up taking 36 freakin' hours and could have been done within 1 or 2 hours if he'd just asked Q on the BBS to join and etc. etc. etc. Okay, I think I've beaten that dead horse enough now. #;-}>

Lol, ofcourse its alright for me buddy, but it was just deduction, i was just wondering what my chances were, then i scoured back looking to see who was a regular before me. Turns out quite a few. It was between Baron and MrX, then i remembered seeing MrX post more than Baron a few months ago. Meh, its petty i know, but i was bored :)

At 8/22/04 03:14 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
No kidding it won't be the same. Okay, now you're the fourth person to say something like that. Heh. Any bets on HOW LONG it will take most people to get used to it? Then bet on how long it will take ME to get used to it. #;-}>

Well, all bets are on Gfox, i myself have myself as it down to 3 days to get used to it, so i have, lol. All bets are off on you getting used to it. It would appear you were quite attached to level 16 and it wont be forgotten, thats the reason bets are off.

Thanks.

No problem.

So now that i have replied to all of Gfox' posts, i have completely forgotten what i came here for....So i will say congrats to any and everyone who ranked/levelled/vp/blamsave/reviewed up.

At 8/22/04 01:19 PM, The_Mindless wrote:

At 8/22/04 01:11 PM, i_love_busted wrote: Sorry to intrude, but I was wondering how come you have so many points in such a short period of time? Do you have some sort of cheat that allows you to do it? Or do you stay in all day?

Pshh... have you seen my rank I'm almost nearly a Elite Guard Corporal and I've only been on NG a little over a month. How do I do it... ummm... lets see... I really don't have anything to do besides go on NG.

You've averaged over 70 points/day! for over a month!
Impressive, but it's not impossible and nobody should be suggesting you'd have to cheat to do it!
You've got alot of momentum going, I didn't realise the 1st elite levels could be reached so quickly. Great job

At 8/22/04 05:12 PM, gfoxcook wrote: 36,509? Why the 509? o_O

1337 sp34k for Elite Guard Supreme 09.

However, you're completely and totally wrong. BORN TO HAVE THIS ICON?! You be smokin' teh crack, yo.

Heh yeah, it looks weird as shit, i've confused you with Recon twice already. His soon-to-be level up ought to clear that up in a jiffy.

At 8/21/04 02:01 AM, Recon_Rebel wrote:

At 8/21/04 01:43 AM, Crono- wrote:

Thanks a lot Crono-. My main concern now isn't catching ramagi or gfox but trying to maintain the variable point buffer between Bila and myself. If and when I decide to take my vacation (I've taken only 6 days off in almost 2 years, so I'm due) I want a huge point gap between myself and whoever happens to be behind me at the time. Getting someone reliable to deposit for me shouldn't be a problem.

Did I hear my name mentioned? <evil laugh>
You shouldn't waste your energy looking over your shoulder. My woman is slowing me down by taking up too many of my nights.
You must have alot of vacation time built up! I took a week off last spring when my mother went ill, and still have 2 & 1/2 weeks to burn. (like you, i don't take vacation every year)

If you must go, have fun! Even If I do pass you you'll greatly enjoy passing me yet again!!!! :)

Feel free to post in my 5,000 post topic in General.

Finally I have reached the rank of EG Corporal now I get a 18% voting increase.

(This is also my 100th post.)

At 8/22/04 06:38 PM, deck_head_tottie wrote:

Right, I see. Yeah, that all makes good sense. Thanks Bonus.

It works particularly well on firefox, where you can have loads of tabs open with all the different posts you want to quote, thus saving you lots of window juggling. I use the "middle click to open in new tab thing", click on "Reply with Quote" for all the relevant posts, then cut and paste to my heart's delight

At 8/22/04 06:41 PM, The_Mindless wrote: Finally I have reached the rank of EG Corporal now I get a 18% voting increase.

(This is also my 100th post.)

That is incredible b/ping - I had that kind of rate about a fortnight after I started but then went away loads so it dropped dramatically (I lost about 3 weeks worth of b/ping :'( ) and congrats on 100th post also - many more to come I suppose...

At 8/22/04 03:12 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 8/22/04 01:35 AM, BahamutReborn wrote: Congrats Gfoxcook! Those Nunchaku sure are looking good at the moment.
So how does it feel to return to a fist icon eh ole' chap?

Nunchaku always look good. ;_;

It feels okay. I don't have anything particularly for OR against fist levels in general. I liked the boxing glove levels, for one thing... I had 10 back in January-February 2003 and 12 a few months later, back when I was new to the BBS and all... so fond memories of those times.

This is my least fave of the high-level gauntlets, however. I prefer silver to bronze, and the gold one just kicks so much ass. I don't normally like gold, so that's even more impressive that I dig level 25's icon (I like the look of silver or platinum better in general, real life or .gif pics alike).

Anyway, thanks!

I found your post to that of a fireworks show. Replies to everyone, in variable post messages from small to large, for the entire world to see.

I myself am looking forward to the Nun-chaku but dislike the Iron and Bronze fist. But I guess everyone has their own personal taste of the levels.

Well, heres a icon I made a long time ago for the "Add more levels" topic. A katana if you will.

And so, with the fitting of the gautlet for Gfoxcook, Recon_Rebel awaits for his gift.

At 8/22/04 05:53 PM, Bila wrote: If you must go, have fun! Even If I do pass you you'll greatly enjoy passing me yet again!!!! :)

Bahaha, I found that randomly thrown in picture of Anton LaVey to be rather funny! I bet you were waiting for the right moment to throw that in.

Mike