At 9/15/04 01:34 PM, -Mazza- wrote: Lot's of people use i's, apparently.......

I say we remove one of the two letters from the alphabet, to prevent any further abuse of the letters.

:o Shocking.

You know, I felt like a name change. So I decided to used one of Tanner's many, many old aliases, Forever_Knight, which, I have to say, is my favourite out of all of his past aliases.

At 9/15/04 01:11 PM, -Mazza- wrote: Wow, for a minute I thought you wrote 'EGSC' :P

Psh... I wish.

Congrats, by the way.

Yeah yeah... thanks.

At 9/15/04 07:41 AM, --delteated-- wrote: Grats to Continuum for EGSS

Thanks. I appreciate that.
(when are you going to calm down a bit?? Otherwise we'll surely have a contender for the fastest to EGSC ever...)
Me? Stop b/ping? Ha!

At 9/15/04 07:22 AM, BonusStage wrote: Continuum rank up: dear lord boy, i hope your mom doesn't see you come home with F's, when midterms come out ;P

Meh, I get good grades... most of the time.

I'll dig back through the last 10+ pages of posts and make individual comments when I actually have some spare time. For now, just a general "Grats!" to everyone.

Most of you are aware of the fact that I've spent innumerable (something over 70) hours since May trying to straighten out my Verizon bills after having made the mistake of believing one of their sales reps. They've sent me to collections over their inability to keep their books; payments I've made never get applied, charges on nonexistent accounts are accrued, etc. I've sent the Public Utilities Commision (NH version of the FCC, but dealing with all utilities) to go have a chat with them, filed complaints with the FCC, and discussed suing them for the time required by them with counsel.

I just picked up my mail and there was a noteworthy event in my box, so I thought it bore my resurfacing for a few moments to share it. The only piece of mail today was my Verizon bill. It was accurate. Halle-fucking-lujah!!

/me goes off to celebrate.

WTF!?
I am an elite guard major now. I thought I had another 500 points to go until I would reach that.
I am shocked to say the least, seeing as I went to sleep with 13,999 blams and saves, and woke up with a new badge. I first thought it was some glitch.
I liked the old badge better.
But what ever, I got a large voting power boost "0.12" so now I have a 8.22 vp.
Pfft, I still remember when I had a voting power of like "6.00" and thought it was a big deal.

Mike

At 9/15/04 06:30 PM, Baron_Von_Bad_Guy wrote:

I am an elite guard major now. I thought I had another 500 points to go until I would reach that.

Well congratulations ! Must have been a good surprise. I remember it happened to me once long ago when I thought I had 1000 gaps when it was only a 500 one !

I liked the old badge better.

But I prefer the one you just got.,

Pfft, I still remember when I had a voting power of like "6.00" and thought it was a big deal.

Yeah, you were teh 1337 !

At 9/15/04 06:58 PM, Shpouiten wrote: Well congratulations ! Must have been a good surprise.

Thank you my good man, not much longer before you are at this badge as well. By then I assume you will also be in the top 50. Though it is getting harder now, a bunch of members I never heard of are really pushing through the ranks, today I was bumped from spot 46 to stop 47.

Bah, I would bet money that they will burn out before they reach the last badge. Like the song goes "Time is on my side".

Mike

At 9/15/04 01:37 PM, ShittyKitty wrote: Intriguing idea.....perhaps I could make a program that has the following features:

* Fixes quoted HTML tags by italicizing the brackets
* Breaks apart posts at every 6.5k (set to break at carriage returns or quote blocks)

Any thoughts?

Well, I didn't get any feedback, but that didn't stop me from making this program! ;-P I've made a thread for it here.

Thanks for the congratulations everyone. I have to agree that the level 19 icon isn't very threatening, but it's something. I think I'm at 19 permenantly now if I can keep depositing. It's hard because I don't have internet yet.

At 9/15/04 09:22 PM, Jen_the_Great wrote: It's hard because I don't have internet yet.

Do you think you'll have it permanently soon ? I'd like to see you post more !

At 9/15/04 10:25 PM, Shpouiten wrote:

At 9/15/04 09:22 PM, Jen_the_Great wrote: It's hard because I don't have internet yet.

Do you think you'll have it permanently soon ? I'd like to see you post more !

wait who loses the internet?

At 9/15/04 09:22 PM, Jen_the_Great wrote: Thanks for the congratulations everyone. I have to agree that the level 19 icon isn't very threatening, but it's something. I think I'm at 19 permenantly now if I can keep depositing. It's hard because I don't have internet yet.

That is too bad. I remember when I was 19. I couldn't wait to get to the next level.

Ugh, I finally post fast once, and I end up getting 4th. Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow. Today's top 10 analysis:
No one hit it on the dot today. =( But the top 3 all posted one second afterwards. We have 2 Fs and 1 unknown today. =) 1 01', 5 02's, 1 03', and 3 04's. =)

At 9/16/04 12:08 AM, OsAmARaMa wrote: Once again the mysterious out of order deposits are present.

And this is why I'm doing my list by hand. In the Quick Draw! list, I reversed the two so that the times are in order. Sorry Smurfette, but I had to bump you down to 5th...

At 9/16/04 12:08 AM, OsAmARaMa wrote: Once again the mysterious out of order deposits are present.

I still wonder why it does that sometimes.

At 9/16/04 12:15 AM, TheJoe324 wrote:

At 9/16/04 12:08 AM, OsAmARaMa wrote: Once again the mysterious out of order deposits are present.

I still wonder why it does that sometimes.

Before all you freaks were trying to be the first to deposit. It would happen too. Just more peoplenoticing it now. I think it's a fluke in the database. Liljim probably the only one that might have a good explaination.

In other new I had to wait all day to see if games2play would deposit or not. SO much fun doing that. I get to stay number 41.

At 9/16/04 01:15 AM, ramagi wrote:

At 9/16/04 12:15 AM, TheJoe324 wrote:

At 9/16/04 12:08 AM, OsAmARaMa wrote: Once again the mysterious out of order deposits are present.

I still wonder why it does that sometimes.

Before all you freaks were trying to be the first to deposit. It would happen too. Just more peoplenoticing it now. I think it's a fluke in the database. Liljim probably the only one that might have a good explaination.

And gfoxcook also has a good explaination, which was on the previous page. When too many people deposit, the list screws up. EDN. Just because some of us were trying to be first during the past few weeks doesn' mean there weren't others depositing at the same time. He also has four examples of what can happen.

At 9/15/04 10:37 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I already explained that sort of thing in one of my huge posts on page 683.

Between midnight and 1 AM the 50 most recent deposits list OFTEN screws up because of the vast amounts of people trying to deposit at the same time or very near the same time. These screw-ups include, but are not limited to, the following:

A) the entire list resets, and you will find that your name is off the end of it (for me, my main account gfoxcook will be gone, but my main alt, gfoxclock, might still be on it, for instance) and it's only 15 or 20 names long.

B) the list is fully intact, but your name doesn't appear on it anywhere between 1 and 50, despite the fact that you DEFINITELY deposited within the time range. I believe this happened to Crono last week. Quite common. Happened to me last night, in fact.

C) one line of the list is totally fucked up. Usually this will manifest itself in a copy of the line above or below it (IOW, a person's deposit is cloned), and sometimes the font gets fucked up or something, or the entire list underneath the error line is screwed up due to a partial font or /font tag that got sliced in two.

D) the order of two or more people on the list is fuxxed. This isn't as common as the above three, but as you guys found out on my girlfriend's birthday (Sep 13), funnily enough, it CAN happen.

And now we can all be happy again as we have not only learnt something, but it was from gfox as well. Well no, but be happy anyway. Or else...

In other new I had to wait all day to see if games2play would deposit or not. SO much fun doing that. I get to stay number 41.

Congrats on your on being 41 and having 44,444 points, which really seems great compared to my 4,444 saves.

At 9/15/04 10:37 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 9/12/04 10:26 PM, Qwoxyl wrote:

At 9/12/04 09:45 PM, gfoxcook wrote: At some time later, gfoxcook wrote: (whew)... DONE!

Yes, you can rest now. So can I from reading all that. ;)

nods:::

If you guys don't want that to happen again.... DON'T POST 38 PAGES OF POSTS IN HERE (that's over 1100 posts) IN 10 DAY'S TIME!

I don't even have 38 pages of posts and my PPD has nearly gone down to 3. I only made 19 posts in those 10 days. I can't exactly post less.

HAhahahaha. Maybe that'll slow down you rapidposters in here. The threat of more HUGE AMOUNTS OF GFOX POSTINGS to catch up, eh?! #;-}>

I think Bonus would be very happy if there were more gfox posts. Although I wouldn't as it takes you forever to catch up and write them, and before the gfox style post 'fad' came along, those posts combined would be the equal of reading an entire page (only without the useless stuff).

At 9/15/04 11:39 PM, ramagi wrote: That is too bad. I remember when I was 19. I couldn't wait to get to the next level.

I know you can't wait to get to this level. Just remember it's gonna take you 7 years to reach it, have fun =[. Having fun tinkering with my EXP calculator at all?

At 9/16/04 03:16 AM, NeMeSiSM66 wrote: I know you can't wait to get to this level. Just remember it's gonna take you 7 years to reach it, have fun =[. Having fun tinkering with my EXP calculator at all?

Oh, man. Are you trying to depress us? :) I don't think HT will be depositing everyday for the next year or so, but it's all a gamble. I think that once he/they stop, then Pimp will take the Reigns of #1 for much longer, but who knows.

The Exp Calc is pretty shweet. Thanks for making that!

Also, you shoudl update your sig VP, you have much more than you have labeled. Just think, if you actually got those last two BP ranks, you would have 14.something. That would be quite an accomplishment indeed, but you still have done very well, grats!

At 9/16/04 03:55 AM, deck_head_tottie wrote: Well, I'm now the most awful icon ever.

Oh it's not that bad. Could be worse...(below)

LEVEL 11.

w00t! Nice Knuckles. You earned 'em.

At 9/16/04 04:34 AM, deck_head_tottie wrote: Oh yeah, I remember being level two thinking it was the bee's knees...

Heh...well, it was the first new level you get, so I guess it was cool...er...yeah...

I did, didn't I.

You did, didn't you?

<modest/>

Random Question #456: What does "deck head tottie" come from? Been meaning to ask you that for a long time now.

Nothing much going on here in the Wi/Ht, things look like they got back to the way they used to be! Good!

Anyway, what do you all think of my new sig picture?
I saw it on a site for a band called "The Melvins", and thought it would make a really cool sig picture. You all should check out The Melvins some time, they kick ass.

The picture is actually making me hungry for a hamburger.

Mike

At 9/15/04 10:40 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Yep. A tldr. Shameful. Shall we boot him from the membership?

Too complicated, can't bother.

How appropriate.

Pfft. If you guys REALLY wanted to live on the edge, you'd be trying for the LAST DEPOSITOR OF THE DAY

LOL! Hey Jon, wanna play? :P

Wootage.

I've since added Pico's Unloaded and Fallen Angel: Teaser. I can not believe that thing was made in Flash. Hot damn.

Anyway, I'm glad you liked 'em. Got an ordering to which you liked best?

Not really, but 1 and 4 are my favourites. I could never work at the RSPCA.

As in... the obvious? #;-}>

O_O

As in... good news?

BAHH!!!! THAT SUCKS!!! THAT SUCKS TOTAL ASS, MAN!

I know gfox, I know. My shoulder is free, spend as much time there as you like. I'm here for you. :P

;_;

Cheer up ol' chap. You know we love ya.

if that's what you guys want, let me know and I'll try to satisfy you.

Please no. You're one of the few quality posters left. I'd hate to lose you too. : (

At 9/15/04 10:56 AM, ShittyKitty wrote: I figured out how to make an HTML tag not mess up when you're posting "how to create a link" instructions.

Or we could post leeboy's image and let it do the explaining for us. We don't need to worry about italic tags that way.

At 9/15/04 02:03 PM, Forever_Knight wrote: You know, I felt like a name change. So I decided to used one of Tanner's many, many old aliases, Forever_Knight, which, I have to say, is my favourite out of all of his past aliases.

So you're confessing to mod impersonation eh?

FOXPLZBAN. :P

At 9/15/04 06:24 PM, D0GMA wrote: /me goes off to celebrate.

Hahaha awesome D0GMA! Give it to them corporate bastards!

ONE FOR THE LITTLE GUYS.

At 9/15/04 08:05 PM, ShittyKitty wrote: new program

Are you extremely bored at home or something SK? You've been creating things at an insane rate. Are you on a campaign to make everything NG-related before anyone else can? Haha.

Can't complain though. There are plenty of worse things to do with your time.

At 9/16/04 03:16 AM, NeMeSiSM66 wrote: EXP calculator

What's this? Has the EXP Calc been released to the public? I ran a topic search for calculator but didn't see anything new. Enlightenment, anyone?

At 9/16/04 03:55 AM, deck_head_tottie wrote: Well, I'm now the most awful icon ever.
LEVEL 11.

Everyone's ragging on level 11 lately, what's the deal? The only reason I'm depositing on my alt is to get it to that level. I think it's awesome. Brass knuckles. Simple, but effective.

At 9/16/04 05:58 AM, FIGMENTUM wrote:

At 9/15/04 10:40 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Pfft. If you guys REALLY wanted to live on the edge, you'd be trying for the LAST DEPOSITOR OF THE DAY

LOL! Hey Jon, wanna play? :P

Are you talking to me? I really couldn't be arsed staying up until five to play chicken with the new Newgrounds day. Trying to get two deposits in the same recent 50 list, now that would be interesting.

At 9/16/04 03:16 AM, NeMeSiSM66 wrote: EXP calculator

What's this? Has the EXP Calc been released to the public? I ran a topic search for calculator but didn't see anything new. Enlightenment, anyone?

Try doing a topic search for Voting Power. I've got a copy of it somewhere if you can't find it, I'll email you it later when I get back from work.

Congrats to DHT for level 11 and Baron for EGMajor and new sig.

At 9/16/04 05:35 AM, Baron_Von_Bad_Guy wrote: Nothing much going on here in the Wi/Ht, things look like they got back to the way they used to be! Good!

Nice and slow, it won't last long, but I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts.

Anyway, what do you all think of my new sig picture?

New (it is the coverart for their new album and the picture was posted yesterday) sig-like and picturery. I like it.

I saw it on a site for a band called "The Melvins", and thought it would make a really cool sig picture. You all should check out The Melvins some time, they kick ass.

I probably will tomorrow, I've already been to the site, but I only looked at the lyrics.

At 9/16/04 05:58 AM, FIGMENTUM wrote:

At 9/16/04 03:16 AM, NeMeSiSM66 wrote: EXP calculator

What's this? Has the EXP Calc been released to the public? I ran a topic search for calculator but didn't see anything new. Enlightenment, anyone?

Jon was talking about this calculator, it's been around for a while.

At 9/16/04 06:09 AM, jonthomson wrote: Are you talking to me?

Indeed I am. What, has another Jon crept up around here without me realising?

I really couldn't be arsed staying up until five to play chicken with the new Newgrounds day.

Haha. I picked on you because you're not that much ahead of me in exp. It was a rather lame attempt at passing you.

Try doing a topic search for Voting Power.

Haha. Searching for 'calculator' returned about half a page of results, while 'Voting Power' spawned a second. Anyway, I've got the VP Calculator (I even checked the last page in the thread to see if Nemesis had released it in that topic), but this EXP one is something I've been hearing about and looking forward to for a while. Has it even been released or is this just one big misinterpretation?

At 9/15/04 10:44 AM, gfoxcook wrote:
First off, I didn't call you a spammer. I put your name on the tail-end of a list of people I think of when I think of people who post in this topic the most often as of late, as far as I've seen/noticed.

Well you assumed it so be honest. I cant imagine why youve seen my name alot in here during the last few weeks because of the simpe fact that i dont have time to post alot anymore at all, anywere.

I, of course, aren't in this topic anywhere near enough to keep up on it, and I never claimed that my view of it is 100% accurate or objective. I was going off an impression. And hell, I'm not going to go back through 38 pages of shit I caught up on over a period of like 10+ hours this past weekend to be able to post those 6 posts that half the people who've replied to me have complained about the lengths of, when of course the amount of time it takes to read those 6 posts is nothing compared to the amount of time I (and everyone else who doesn't post in here every day) spend trying to catch up after time away. (sigh)

I understand your point of view, it does feel the same way for me although not 36 goddamn pages, i think catching up on 4 pages a day is enough to agitate me, so i completely understand your view.

In any event, I probably saw some convo that you were taking part in that kinda summed up how I felt about the whole situation so I included your name. Heck, if anything you should feel happy that I think of you as a reg of this topic. #;-}>

Well in my opinion i would rather be thought of as a nobody rather than someone who rapidly posts in the lounge, its just not cricket my man. Sure i probably took part in a subject that you remembered and thought fuck it put his name in aswell, so its understandable.

But in any event, it wasn't supposed to be an insult. Do you see joobie or Bonus taking it as insult? And they were #1 and #2 on the list (i.e. the most common posters in here, from what I can tell). It's not an indictment of shame or anything. Hell, I'd be on that list as well if this was March, 2003. I just can't be around here that much anymore. And to be honest, it's probably more a result of how MANY people are posting in this topic than how much the top posters in here are posting. But it is both, in the end.

Well i cant speak for j00bie or b0nus but i sure as hell took it as an insult, and im sure a few other people here thought of it as that aswell. Spamming is an indictment of shame, it means you sporadicly post just for postings sake, i come here for a reason, but recently that reason is being fogged over by some recent events. Anywho, the argument over the top posters posting more than anyone else is probably fact, i cant say ive not seen a page that either j00bie or Bonus havent posted on in a few months, when either both have been banned or otherwise.

Venting anger? I never said I was angry or pissed off at people. I was irritated by the amount of time I had to spend to catch up, but if I was angry with anyone, it was at myself for A) being so behind on the damned topic, B) feeling compelled to catch up completely instead of saying fuck it, screw pages 645 to 682 and just starting "from scratch."

I can understand that, as i said above i get irritated just by reading 4 pages worth of catch up, never mind 30 odds. But you shoudnt be angry at all, sure you have other commitments, but why do you feel compelled to read everything and respond to every single post aimed at you ? Its not needed, and it puts you under unneccesary pressure. If people want specific answers, they know what the Email Author button is for.

And like I just said, there's so many people who post in here, either small bits or large bits, than I'm not pissed at anyone in particular... no, not even joobie... when I see the dozens of pages I'm behind by. I'm just exhausted and disheartened by what a chore this topic can be, and it's making me start to wonder if I should bother with it anymore. I used to try to congrat everyone for every thing that they felt like posting about in here, and I gave up on that in May or June when I got too busy for it... but even just plain catching up on replies to me and replying to a few other interesting things... egad... it's getting to be insane.

Well IMO you shouldnt give up, the Gfoxy posts you do cant just be taken away from us, just dont respond to every single post aimed at you. I know i sure as hell dont. If its not in my interest anymore i wont respond, and if its out of the little time bracket ive set myself then i wont even read their posts. Its just principle for me, i dont have time, like im sure as hell you dont either. When visiting the club becomes a chore rather than being fun, seeing people level up gaining more B/S's and bigger more VP then in my opinion its not worth it.

I'm sorry you felt hurt by my post. I wasn't putting you on trial for being a spammer, nor was I angry at you, nor was I trying to insult you. I'd basically typed joobie and Bonus and didn't want to make them feel too singled out, so I added RedCircle and SCD because you two came to mind (again, I don't know exactly why, it may have been some page or convo between 645 and 682 or something), so I tacked you both on the end there, and added the "et al" which apparently everyone either ignored and didn't understand. Take it as "and crew." But ironically, instead of sparing joobie and Bonus' feelings, I hurt yours instead.

Ok thanks for the apology, and i do understand what Et al means, its just, and im not sure if you meant it at all, that you put my name there instead of someone elses then the "Et al". It just, to me implied anyway that i was spamming. Yes and instead of hurting peoples feelings anyway, maybe im just too damn insecure, and the need to feel accepted in taking over me, meh. Fuck it.

Wheeeee.

I dont know how to take this, but i cant be arsed really typing anyway...Apology accepted end of conversation.

And now after all that typing, i have completely forgotten who to congratulate except Ramagi ofcourse. Well done on the 44444 B/S accumulate.

At 9/16/04 06:43 AM, Slightly_Crazy_Dude wrote:

I'd basically typed joobie and Bonus and didn't want to make them feel too singled out, so I added RedCircle and SCD because you two came to mind. Take it as "and crew." But ironically, instead of sparing joobie and Bonus' feelings, I hurt yours instead.

Ok thanks for the apology...

Ha, and I thought you were pissed at me too geefox. I didn't really take it hard, but I was kinda sad too. I even posted about it after you vented, but you, nor anyone responded. That made me a sad panda. Oh well, at least I know what you were talking about. Thanks for explaining it.

At 9/16/04 05:35 AM, Baron_Von_Bad_Guy wrote:

Anyway, what do you all think of my new sig picture?

It's really weird, but I don't dislike it ! What is it supposed to be exactly ? I see some kind of half-face with a red eye.

You all should check out The Melvins some time, they kick ass.

What's their style ?

At 9/15/04 04:51 PM, BonusStage wrote: I'll be hitting the top 88 soon, where will you be by then Mazza ;)

That was my quote from Delteated's post. I'm number 87 right now :P