At 3/31/12 10:49 PM, Gimmick wrote: Happy April Fool's day everyone! (At least, it's April Fool's Day where I live).

Indeed, the day of random jokes and nobody taking you seriously when you say you've broke your leg because they think it's part of a prank. I'm not really a fan to be honest.

Hopefully in another hour and 10 minutes, a good April Fool's joke will roll around, unlike last time when there was a rather large joke by Tom which acted as a bug correcting session -- hopefully the staff aren't lazy this time :P

I don't think that I've heard of anything so far. Anybody else?

At 4/1/12 09:29 AM, Decky wrote: I don't think that I've heard of anything so far. Anybody else?

Well, I've heard nothing either -- it seems the staff are too busy correcting the redesign bugs that they aren't making an april fools day prank.

Anyhow, where IS the roster update?

Barracks Roster as of April 1st, 2012:

Milestones::
Asandir - 18K total B/P
byteslinger - 75K saves, 87K total B/P
Coop - 73K saves, 103K total B/P
Cootie - 21K saves, 25K total B/P
Decky - 5K total B/P
EagleRock - 27K saves
Gimmick - 12K saves, 13K total B/P
IzzyDude - 2K blams
Jolly - 26K saves, 30K total B/P
Little-Rena - 55K total B/P
SpiffyMasta - 2K saves
Tycrane - 20K saves, 22K total B/P

Promotions::
Decky - Sergeant
Gimmick - Lieutenant
Jolly - Sup. Commander
Tycrane - Lt. General

Reactivated: PossiblePancakes

Leaving The Barracks:: None

The List:
No. B/P / Gain / Average / Level / Change / Username / Rank / Posts / Level
01) 103,018 | 1,276 | 41.16 | A | +016.21 | Coop Sup. Commander | 16 | B
02) 87,912 | 1,102 | 35.55 | B | +021.63 | byteslinger Sup. Commander | 13 | C
03) 80,294 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | Phantom Sup. Commander | 0 | F
04) 55,291 | 0,341 | 11.00 | C | -010.73 | Little-Rena Sup. Commander | 4 | D
05) 51,720 | 0,117 | 03.77 | D | +000.00 | EagleRock Sup. Commander | 1 | D
06) 32,109 | 0,003 | 00.10 | D | -072.73 | ArtDanVal Sup. Commander | 0 | F
07) 30,568 | 1,184 | 38.19 | B | +005.90 | Jolly Sup. Commander +1 | 2 | D
08) 30,348 | 0,001 | 00.03 | D | -098.91 | idiot-buster Sup. Commander -1 | 0 | F
09) 28,955 | 0,283 | 09.13 | C | -004.39 | RohantheBarbarian Commander | 0 | F
10) 26,223 | 0,051 | 01.65 | D | -081.52 | sixflab Commander | 0 | F
11) 25,181 | 0,894 | 28.84 | B | +022.97 | Cootie General | 6 | C
12) 22,625 | 1,408 | 45.42 | A | +011.48 | Tycrane Lt. General +1 | 7 | C
13) 21,772 | 0,078 | 02.52 | D | +077.27 | Lizzardis Lt. General -1 | 0 | F
14) 19,221 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | Ismael92 Colonel | 0 | F
15) 18,321 | 0,486 | 15.68 | C | +056.77 | Asandir Colonel | 11 | C
16) 13,371 | 1,578 | 50.90 | A | +020.73 | Gimmick Lieutenant | 56 | A
17) 11,265 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | AnalPenguinFarming Praporshchik | 0 | F
18) 10,811 | 0,402 | 12.97 | C | +035.81 | IzzyDude Sgt. Major | 0 | F
19) 9,928 | 0,004 | 00.13 | D | -042.86 | SeeD419 Sgt. Major | 0 | F
20) 9,352 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | NGFan14 Sgt. First Class | 0 | F
21) 9,265 | 0,138 | 04.45 | D | +000.00 | BrokenDeck Sgt. First Class | 0 | F
22) 8,387 | 0,138 | 04.45 | --- | +000.00 | PossiblePancakes Sgt. First Class NEW | --- | ---
23) 7,315 | 0,016 | 00.52 | D | +000.00 | phantomlassuk Master Sergeant -1 | 10 | C
24) 6,364 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | HeavenDuff Staff Sergeant -1 | 0 | F
25) 6,154 | 0,027 | 00.87 | D | -054.24 | Ronald-McDonald-Lol Staff Sergeant -1 | 4 | D
26) 5,430 | 0,019 | 00.61 | D | +072.73 | BenwaHakubi Sergeant -1 | 0 | F
27) 5,309 | 0,356 | 11.48 | C | +017.49 | Decky Sergeant | 14 | B
28) 5,073 | 0,001 | 00.03 | D | -093.75 | Afro-Mann Sergeant -2 | 0 | F
29) 4,787 | 0,750 | 24.19 | B | +269.46 | SpiffyMasta Corporal +3 | 27 | B
30) 4,581 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | Luke Corporal -2 | 0 | F
31) 4,539 | 0,331 | 10.68 | C | +164.80 | ZJ Corporal -1 | 0 | F
32) 4,287 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | EmmDubya Corporal -3 | 0 | F
33) 4,062 | 0,004 | 00.13 | D | -077.78 | MultiCanimefan Corporal -2 | 2 | D

Top 5 Gainers::
Gimmick - 1,578 (14.54% of total)
Tycrane - 1,408 (12.98% of total)
Coop - 1,276 (11.76% of total)
Jolly - 1,184 (10.91% of total)
byteslinger - 1,102 (10.16% of total)

Top 5 users accounted for 60.35% of B/P points (6,548 total)

Top gainers, repeat appearances::
byteslinger (39)
Jolly (15)
Gimmick (6)
Tycrane (4)
Coop (3)

Total gain for month: 10,850 (25 Active Members)
That's 350.00 per day, or 14.00 per day per active member

Jolly isn't doing the roster anymore - so I'll do it for now.

At 4/1/12 04:10 PM, byteslinger wrote: Barracks Roster as of April 1st, 2012:

O' yeah, roster time :).

Milestones::
Decky - 5K total B/P

Promotions::
Decky - Sergeant

Enough milestone and promotion in the bag. Congrats to all of the others :).

The List:
No. B/P / Gain / Average / Level / Change / Username / Rank / Posts / Level
26) 5,430 | 0,019 | 00.61 | D | +072.73 | BenwaHakubi Sergeant -1 | 0 | F
27) 5,309 | 0,356 | 11.48 | C | +017.49 | Decky Sergeant | 14 | B
28) 5,073 | 0,001 | 00.03 | D | -093.75 | Afro-Mann Sergeant -2 | 0 | F

Now in the Sergeant section of the list. I'll aim to get to the top of this area by the next roster.

Jolly isn't doing the roster anymore - so I'll do it for now.

Fair enough.

At 4/1/12 04:10 PM, byteslinger wrote: Barracks Roster as of April 1st, 2012:
26) 5,430 | 0,019 | 00.61 | D | +072.73 | BenwaHakubi Sergeant -1 | 0 | F
27) 5,309 | 0,356 | 11.48 | C | +017.49 | Decky Sergeant | 14 | B
28) 5,073 | 0,001 | 00.03 | D | -093.75 | Afro-Mann Sergeant -2 | 0 | F
29) 4,787 | 0,750 | 24.19 | B | +269.46 | SpiffyMasta Corporal +3 | 27 | B
30) 4,581 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | Luke Corporal -2 | 0 | F
31) 4,539 | 0,331 | 10.68 | C | +164.80 | ZJ Corporal -1 | 0 | F
32) 4,287 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | EmmDubya Corporal -3 | 0 | F
33) 4,062 | 0,004 | 00.13 | D | -077.78 | MultiCanimefan Corporal -2 | 2 | D

Oh nice, I leaped 3 people! Not at the bottom anymore!

Top 5 Gainers::
Gimmick - 1,578 (14.54% of total)
Tycrane - 1,408 (12.98% of total)
Coop - 1,276 (11.76% of total)
Jolly - 1,184 (10.91% of total)
byteslinger - 1,102 (10.16% of total)

I've concluded you guys spend too much time on here. Watching or playing 1000+ flash games and movies in a month is crazy. I would probably be able to do that if I didn't have a life on the weekends ;-). Plus I probably vote a lot lower on the scale and lose out on at least 100-200 saves.

Top 5 users accounted for 60.35% of B/P points (6,548 total)

I think I took 7% of that

At 4/1/12 04:10 PM, byteslinger wrote: No. B/P / Gain / Average / Level / Change / Username / Rank / Posts / Level
01) 103,018 | 1,276 | 41.16 | A | +016.21 | Coop Sup. Commander | 16 | B

Thanks for the update, byteslinger. Nice work.

Wow, 103,000? A nice number, but it will taste bitter until I crack the top 10!

33) 4,062 | 0,004 | 00.13 | D | -077.78 | MultiCanimefan Corporal -2 | 2 | D

And I'm now less than 1,000 away from lapping MultiCanimefan, which is nice. The pack just ahead of him should provide me with the motivation to keep going past Ehwaz :P

Top 5 Gainers::
Coop - 1,276 (11.76% of total)

11.76% Is good for third place and yes, I was one of those contributing to the 60% for the top 5. Sweet Jesus, we need more activity here.

Top gainers, repeat appearances::
byteslinger (39)
Coop (3)

Starting to falter a little Miss byte. However, the streak is still there.

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And no; he's not lying.

Derp.

At 4/2/12 01:55 PM, Coop wrote:

At 4/1/12 04:10 PM, byteslinger wrote: No. B/P / Gain / Average / Level / Change / Username / Rank / Posts / Level
01) 103,018 | 1,276 | 41.16 | A | +016.21 | Coop Sup. Commander | 16 | B

Thanks for the update, byteslinger. Nice work.

Any time, my fellow comrade-at-arms. And..did you noticed I fixed the field size so your score isn't truncating? Just for you!

Wow, 103,000? A nice number, but it will taste bitter until I crack the top 10!

Well, just think of this this way - by the end of the year, you'll be sitting around the fireplace, drinking eggnog in front of the tree, and basking in the glow of your hard-earned top-ten status here.

33) 4,062 | 0,004 | 00.13 | D | -077.78 | MultiCanimefan Corporal -2 | 2 | D

And I'm now less than 1,000 away from lapping MultiCanimefan, which is nice. The pack just ahead of him should provide me with the motivation to keep going past Ehwaz :P

So we determined that a lap is 100,000 b/p points long? Ok... so what's that in miles? You damn English and your over-simplified and common-sense Metric system! How are we arse-backwards Americans ever to understand it?

Top 5 Gainers::
Coop - 1,276 (11.76% of total)

11.76% Is good for third place and yes, I was one of those contributing to the 60% for the top 5. Sweet Jesus, we need more activity here.

Top gainers, repeat appearances::
byteslinger (39)
Coop (3)

Starting to falter a little Miss byte. However, the streak is still there.

No, not faltering...just been busy with work IRL...I can still hold my own with the best of them - and quite frankly, I'm starting to think that the "0" and "1" buttons on the voting pages just don't work. I keep hitting them, but nothing's working. I'm lucky to get 3 or 4 blams a day - but I know I've been hammering them. I think for the most part I try to blam almost half of what I view / vote on. That's a lot of time spent with nothing to show for it...

As long as I keep ahead of #6 (usually Cootie) I'll stay in the top 5. And besides your one month of "what happened?" with your voting, your streak is 38 - just one behind me. I enjoy the friendly competition...it makes for interesting conversations.

At 3/30/12 05:33 PM, EagleRock wrote:

At 3/29/12 10:58 AM, SpiffyMasta wrote: There isn't one at the moment, there will be a new system in the near future with flash mods.

I've already reported it to Wade, so it'll get taken car of soon enough.

Oh man, that can't come soon enough... I can think of a ton of people to recommend as Flash mods...and the majority of them are in this club :-)

Eagle? Is that REALLY YOU?!?!?!?! Holy mother of God, I thought you were abducted by aliens and enjoying endless days of anal probes on your way to Alpha Centuri Prime! You know, you've been MIA a long time...we kinda took your parking spot...and your garden...and your storage area...oh, and part of your office. But we're making a kick-ass entertainment room! Speaking of which, please don't call up Visa and dispute the last four months of billing from Best Buy and the Sharper Image - we ran out of our own funds so we had to subsidize it with your credit cards. You're not too mad now, are you? Look, we made a gamer chair just for you - it has full-body feedback, built-in surround sound 7.2, automatic 3-D visualization heads-up screen, 500Mb triple-channel wireless directly to your servers of choice, and full hand-motion control. No more keyboards - just flail your hands in front of you to control the system. It puts XBOX Kinects to shame.

So, are you gonna stick around some more, or was this just a cameo walk-on part?

At 4/2/12 03:23 PM, byteslinger wrote: No, not faltering...just been busy with work IRL...I can still hold my own with the best of them - and quite frankly, I'm starting to think that the "0" and "1" buttons on the voting pages just don't work. I keep hitting them, but nothing's working. I'm lucky to get 3 or 4 blams a day - but I know I've been hammering them. I think for the most part I try to blam almost half of what I view / vote on. That's a lot of time spent with nothing to show for it...

I feel your pain byte. The most blams I get are from stolen flashes. Wade's been on his A game lately too, lots of good catches out there.

If you guys point out any stolen flashes here in the thread, I can say that with a 90% assurance it will get taken care of.

Hello Eaglerock sir! nice to see the founder of this club on here. Thanks for the Roaster byteslinger no change in b/p for me. I was hoping there was going to be a april fools day joke this year alas I don't think there was. What a shame I miss the China one from 2009. I remember reviews being like that spamming the same review, it wasn't a chain letter by any chance?

Stolen game:

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It's not the *actual* plants vs zombies game. I remember Pop-Cap releasing the full version of plants vs zombies online. Just to be sure I viewed the source, copied the SWF's URL and saw this:

Loading http://uploads.ungrounded.net/<something//moongrains.mp3

This would obviously not work since only SWFs are allowed. And "moongrains" are one of the title tracks in the real game.

At 3/31/12 04:17 AM, Gimmick wrote: Oh, hello there EagleRock! I thought you were inactive all these days!

Yeah...real life really gets in the way sometimes. I wish I could say I was less busy with my life, but it never really seems to get less busy...just more busy. But either way, I'm glad I'm here right now... :-)

At 4/1/12 04:10 PM, byteslinger wrote: Barracks Roster as of April 1st, 2012:

Thanks for the roster!

At 4/2/12 03:23 PM, byteslinger wrote: No, not faltering...just been busy with work IRL...I can still hold my own with the best of them - and quite frankly, I'm starting to think that the "0" and "1" buttons on the voting pages just don't work. I keep hitting them, but nothing's working. I'm lucky to get 3 or 4 blams a day - but I know I've been hammering them. I think for the most part I try to blam almost half of what I view / vote on. That's a lot of time spent with nothing to show for it...

Strange you're having trouble with your 0 and 1 keys...for some reason, my whistle just doesn't seem to stop those Flash anymore...can't figure out why... :-)

At 4/2/12 03:23 PM, byteslinger wrote: Eagle? Is that REALLY YOU?!?!?!?! Holy mother of God, I thought you were abducted by aliens and enjoying endless days of anal probes on your way to Alpha Centuri Prime! You know, you've been MIA a long time...we kinda took your parking spot...and your garden...and your storage area...oh, and part of your office. But we're making a kick-ass entertainment room! Speaking of which, please don't call up Visa and dispute the last four months of billing from Best Buy and the Sharper Image - we ran out of our own funds so we had to subsidize it with your credit cards. You're not too mad now, are you? Look, we made a gamer chair just for you - it has full-body feedback, built-in surround sound 7.2, automatic 3-D visualization heads-up screen, 500Mb triple-channel wireless directly to your servers of choice, and full hand-motion control. No more keyboards - just flail your hands in front of you to control the system. It puts XBOX Kinects to shame.

So, are you gonna stick around some more, or was this just a cameo walk-on part?

Ah, if it isn't the dear Byteslinger, who through her bombastic personality, jocular jabbing towards my recent absence, and her otherwise unrelenting and incessant need to consistently bust my balls, really makes me feel at home. It is through a mere two-line post that I have unleashed a torrent (no, not a .torrent, Byte) of witty repartee of which I must linguistically dodge and parry in a good ol' fashioned verbal throw-down.

The fact of the matter is, my dear Byte, that your purported creative liberties that were taken with my quarters weren't exactly taken against my will. You see, I knew that once you started creeping into my quarters to fit your frivolous Best Buy purchases, you and the other Barracks members would thus be compelled to spend further. Hence why I left my credit card unattended only in a five-stage combination safe with only rudimentary 512-bit encryption on the digital portion of the lock. Naturally, as you were cracking away, the by-standing Barracks members (especially Coop) were eyeing my watch collection, conveniently displayed next to the safe in 6-inch bulletproof glass with a containment system even your grubby "grey-hat" couldn't dream of getting her hands on.

Naturally, once you gained access to the credit card safe, it was off to Garden State Plaza with you and the Barracks, off to the Best Buy. I then, through my expert social engineering, compelled you all to walk into Torneau and talk to the 19-year old pimply-faced guy behind the counter talking about expensive watches. After about 5 minutes of getting nowhere with the kid (after all, this is the one that thinks "Patek" rhymes with "wreck"), you and the rest of the members being wandering, conveniently to the Sharper Image (the one right past the calorie-o-rama California Pizza Kitchen).

Of course, with Eagle's credit card in hand, the $400 iPhone controlled helicopter doesn't seem like a frivolous purchase, right? Naturally you and the rest went crazy with your shopping spree, racking up my credit card as I, again, predicted. It was here that I ensured the owner of the Sharper Image installed all of those RFID tags in all of the devices you people bought.

Now, the only device I really cared to RFID tag happened to be that silent dehumidifier you always wanted, which I knew would not make into the gamer's den that was previously my office, but rather, that little hole-in-the-wall basement complex you've been building underneath the Barracks where you've been stealing all of my hardware. Granted, it was only 7 or 8 IBM x3950's, but I'll be damned if you're going to siphon off the Barracks goods on my watch.

So, needless to say, I have already confiscated said hardware, thanks in part to the RFID tag on the device that made it down there, due to your need for a HEPA filter in your little server cave. It appears your natural aversion to airborne particles in this time of year is what did you in.

Am I mad? Nah. Playing into my trap rarely ever makes me upset. I will, however, put you on maintenance duty. Manually updating my 564 Debian servers without aid of shell scripting nor SSH without password. Don't say I didn't warn you. :-)

Okay, I had enough of that :-) I'll leave you with two things:

First, to those of you that said there was no April Fools jokes this year, don't forget this one:

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And second, I'll leave this little bit of geek porn you might be interested in right here:

eaglerock@delorean:501:~$ uptime
21:09:01 up 502 days, 4:18, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.16

I gotta say, I really liked Tom's April Fools joke this year. Gag games always make me laugh.

Anyway, a quick heads-up for everyone. Chain mail reviews seem to be showing up a little more often lately. The most common one I've seen is that obnoxious "Don't read this, you will be kissed" one. It's actually kind of nostalgic, since that review has been around since at least 07, and rarely shows its ugly head on NG anymore.

Stolen flash:

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He just simply downloaded the source code that

ZONE

tweeted out on his twitter and uploaded it on Newgrounds.

At 4/3/12 07:35 AM, Tycrane wrote: Stolen flash:

He just simply downloaded the source code that ZONE tweeted out on his twitter and uploaded it on Newgrounds.

I saw this and I have a few questions, no doubt that it is a stolen flash but the tags were "stolen" and "deletion", is this the guy being a total dick or has this been changed by mods? Also has anybody noticed the the percent of stolen flashes that are an adult rating seems to have sky rocketed? Do the thieves come to the conclution that these are less recognisable flashes do you think?

At 4/2/12 03:23 PM, byteslinger wrote:

At 4/2/12 01:55 PM, Coop wrote: Thanks for the update, byteslinger. Nice work.

Any time, my fellow comrade-at-arms. And..did you noticed I fixed the field size so your score isn't truncating? Just for you!

Do you know I actually didn't notice? Probably because it looked right.

Wow, 103,000? A nice number, but it will taste bitter until I crack the top 10!

Well, just think of this this way - by the end of the year, you'll be sitting around the fireplace, drinking eggnog in front of the tree, and basking in the glow of your hard-earned top-ten status here.

Yeah, but I've got to keep up the pace. Nearly 100 points down since the last update, you never know when the portal will go quiet again!

33) 4,062 | 0,004 | 00.13 | D | -077.78 | MultiCanimefan Corporal -2 | 2 | D

And I'm now less than 1,000 away from lapping MultiCanimefan, which is nice. The pack just ahead of him should provide me with the motivation to keep going past Ehwaz :P

So we determined that a lap is 100,000 b/p points long? Ok... so what's that in miles? You damn English and your over-simplified and common-sense Metric system! How are we arse-backwards Americans ever to understand it?

26 miles, 385 yards.

And we English use miles. Our speeds are calculated in miles per hour, we still stand around six feet tall and weigh between 10 and 15 stone (generally speaking, though most Americans are confused by the notion of 14 lbs to the stone.)

Top gainers, repeat appearances::
byteslinger (39)
Coop (3)

Starting to falter a little Miss byte. However, the streak is still there.

No, not faltering...just been busy with work IRL...I can still hold my own with the best of them

Glad to hear it - I need you to keep pushing me here, as impetus is always great.

and quite frankly, I'm starting to think that the "0" and "1" buttons on the voting pages just don't work.

Oh they work - you just have to be more savvy. I think that we need to have a few users at the top of the table neutralised, so that their votes don't register. That might lend us some parity.

As long as I keep ahead of #6 (usually Cootie) I'll stay in the top 5. And besides your one month of "what happened?" with your voting, your streak is 38 - just one behind me. I enjoy the friendly competition...it makes for interesting conversations.

What the interesting conversations that we had when I was right behind you? I bet you do miss them, you flirt :P

At 4/2/12 09:28 PM, EagleRock wrote:

Ah, if it isn't the dear Byteslinger, who through her bombastic personality, jocular jabbing towards my recent absence, and her otherwise unrelenting and incessant need to consistently bust my balls, really makes me feel at home. It is through a mere two-line post that I have unleashed a torrent (no, not a .torrent, Byte) of witty repartee of which I must linguistically dodge and parry in a good ol' fashioned verbal throw-down.

Yes, you can try - but I think you're out of practice, my dear friend.

The fact of the matter is, my dear Byte, that your purported creative liberties that were taken with my quarters weren't exactly taken against my will. You see, I knew that once you started creeping into my quarters to fit your frivolous Best Buy purchases, you and the other Barracks members would thus be compelled to spend further. Hence why I left my credit card unattended only in a five-stage combination safe with only rudimentary 512-bit encryption on the digital portion of the lock. Naturally, as you were cracking away, the by-standing Barracks members (especially Coop) were eyeing my watch collection, conveniently displayed next to the safe in 6-inch bulletproof glass with a containment system even your grubby "grey-hat" couldn't dream of getting her hands on.

I wasn't going for grand-theft. Those are your watches, and quite frankly I don't like to deal with stolen merchandise. However, if I really wanted them, that case would be empty as well. Bulletproof is not the same as laserproof.

Naturally, once you gained access to the credit card safe, it was off to Garden State Plaza with you and the Barracks, off to the Best Buy. ...etc

Yes. The honeypot. The purchases we made were somewhat justifiable and could be argued in court. What you don't realize is that the card had been cloned, and with some of MY social engineering skills I managed a direct access to your bank accounts, and ghost routed a fair amount of funds to my off-shore bank account in the Tartugas.

Of course, with Eagle's credit card in hand, the $400 iPhone controlled helicopter doesn't seem like a frivolous purchase, right? Naturally you and the rest went crazy with your shopping spree, racking up my credit card as I, again, predicted. It was here that I ensured the owner of the Sharper Image installed all of those RFID tags in all of the devices you people bought.

Oh, I knew that. I had to let you think that I was unaware of your monitoring. The first rule of being a grey-hat is to realize you're ALWAYS being monitored.

Now, the only device I really cared to RFID tag happened to be that silent dehumidifier you always wanted, which I knew would not make into the gamer's den that was previously my office, but rather, that little hole-in-the-wall basement complex you've been building underneath the Barracks where you've been stealing all of my hardware. Granted, it was only 7 or 8 IBM x3950's, but I'll be damned if you're going to siphon off the Barracks goods on my watch.

One of Two. Do you think I'd put it all in one place? By the way, removing the RFID tags was a simple matter with our anti-spy technology - and a pair of pliers.

So, needless to say, I have already confiscated said hardware, thanks in part to the RFID tag on the device that made it down there, due to your need for a HEPA filter in your little server cave. It appears your natural aversion to airborne particles in this time of year is what did you in.

Yes, we needed that in the cave. However, the reconditioned 1960's fallout bunker located in the southwest corner is fully self contained, and didn't require those filters. That's where the REAL gamer room is located. It's buried 40 meters underground and the 18 inch thick steel doors with the retina scan locks will keep out most of the riff-raff.

Am I mad? Nah. Playing into my trap rarely ever makes me upset. I will, however, put you on maintenance duty. Manually updating my 564 Debian servers without aid of shell scripting nor SSH without password. Don't say I didn't warn you. :-)

It will only take me a few hours to get .root and then regen the shell. Once scripting is reactivated, I will recursively lock all the servers and connect them to my network via 2,048 bit encryption. Their uniqueness will be added to my own - resistance is futile. You see, I've been busy IRL - with LINUX. Seems like more customers like that, and now, I can spread my dark shadow into new regions of the galaxy.

You weren't here to stop me...hehehe....

And second, I'll leave this little bit of geek porn you might be interested in right here:

eaglerock@delorean:501:~$ uptime
21:09:01 up 502 days, 4:18, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.16

My nipples are hard. Really.

At 4/3/12 08:32 AM, Decky wrote: I saw this and I have a few questions, no doubt that it is a stolen flash but the tags were "stolen" and "deletion", is this the guy being a total dick or has this been changed by mods?

These tags are added by genre mods. Although I don't know how effective this really is, or how appropriate it is.

At 4/3/12 09:52 AM, byteslinger wrote: My nipples are hard. Really.

Best thing I've ever read in this entire club's post history. No joke.

At 4/3/12 06:04 PM, EJR wrote:

At 4/3/12 10:55 AM, SpiffyMasta wrote:

At 4/3/12 08:32 AM, Decky wrote: I saw this and I have a few questions, no doubt that it is a stolen flash but the tags were "stolen" and "deletion", is this the guy being a total dick or has this been changed by mods?

These tags are added by genre mods. Although I don't know how effective this really is, or how appropriate it is.

I personally believe it's pretty ineffective at this point. They should just be reported to Wade immediately instead of being tagged as "stolen" because that's useless without evidence. I don't think Wade ever checks the "deletion" tag and by the looks of it, Tom hasn't been doing it lately either so it's better to just get it out of the way ASAP rather than wait a few weeks.

There are also some flash that are focused around deletion, thus they have the deletion tag even though they're legit. There may be some with the tag "stolen" as they focus on something "stolen" and so the tag is marked "stolen", so if the "flash mods", wherever they are, were to delete ALL the ones with the tags "stolen" and "deleted", then there'd be some very angry authors indeed.

Of course, this may be unlikely, but happening once may be once too many.

Need your help guys.

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I have a strong suspicion these are stolen. Why? Well, first the author comments just say lol on both. Second, the style on both are completely different. Third, the account was created a week ago and now has two submissions one after the other. Fourth, the flash with the frog has a signature that says mausryka or something, but the cow animation speaks french.

Now, I've looked up mausryka, mansryka, to no avail. Can anyone try and see if they can prove that these flashes came from somewhere else?

At 4/5/12 10:13 AM, SpiffyMasta wrote: Need your help guys.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/593225
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/593226
I have a strong suspicion these are stolen. Why? Well, first the author comments just say lol on both. Second, the style on both are completely different. Third, the account was created a week ago and now has two submissions one after the other. Fourth, the flash with the frog has a signature that says mausryka or something, but the cow animation speaks french.

Now, I've looked up mausryka, mansryka, to no avail. Can anyone try and see if they can prove that these flashes came from somewhere else?

I actually managed to find the french speaking cow - http://www.leconcombre.com/board/dl/us2/become-star1us.html - hope it helps.

At 4/5/12 10:13 AM, SpiffyMasta wrote: Need your help guys.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/593225
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/593226
I have a strong suspicion these are stolen. Why? Well, first the author comments just say lol on both. Second, the style on both are completely different. Third, the account was created a week ago and now has two submissions one after the other. Fourth, the flash with the frog has a signature that says mausryka or something, but the cow animation speaks french.

Now, I've looked up mausryka, mansryka, to no avail. Can anyone try and see if they can prove that these flashes came from somewhere else?

Good call there, Spiffy. It's mandryka, by the way. Here's the source, called "The Frog and the Fly":

http://www.leconcombre.com/board/dl/us/downloadflas0us.html

And the source for the second, called "Become a Star!":

http://www.leconcombre.com/board/dl/us/downloadflas6us.html

And the main site: http://www.leconcombre.com

There is one issue: Here is the site disclaimer:

you can download freely
all these flash movies
and use them freely on your site
if it is a personnal site
or a non commercial site
otherwise
you must ask permission to
www.leconcombre.com

Now, Newgrounds is a commercial site, but the user uploaded it for non-commercial reasons. Either way, it is obvious that the person did not make the Flash, and that should be brought up to Wade. Good work, Spiffy!

Thanks guys! Good work! I knew I could count on you haha.

Sent IM to Wade with supporting evidence. It'll get taken care of.

EagleRock, you do bring up a good point that it says you can use it freely, but Newgrounds policy says that you must be the creator and owner of the content you submit. That's the rules here, no matter what the rules outside are.

At 4/3/12 09:52 AM, byteslinger wrote: I wasn't going for grand-theft. Those are your watches, and quite frankly I don't like to deal with stolen merchandise. However, if I really wanted them, that case would be empty as well. Bulletproof is not the same as laserproof.

Of course you weren't. You're a hacker. You value information and knowledge way more than a fine watch. I can't say the same for everyone around here though... *looks around suspiciously*

Yes. The honeypot. The purchases we made were somewhat justifiable and could be argued in court. What you don't realize is that the card had been cloned, and with some of MY social engineering skills I managed a direct access to your bank accounts, and ghost routed a fair amount of funds to my off-shore bank account in the Tartugas.

You do know that money has a dye-pack in it, right? Yep...they make e-dye-packs now. :-P

Oh, I knew that. I had to let you think that I was unaware of your monitoring. The first rule of being a grey-hat is to realize you're ALWAYS being monitored.

And the first rule of being a sysadmin is to let the hackers think they know more than you do. While you were concentrating on making me think you were unaware, I was making you think I was unaware of you making me think you were unaware. And, just in case you were making me think you were unaware of me making you think I was unaware of you making me think you were unaware, I was prepared to make you think I was unaware of you making me think I was unaware of me making you think I was unaware of you making me think you were unaware.

One of Two. Do you think I'd put it all in one place? By the way, removing the RFID tags was a simple matter with our anti-spy technology - and a pair of pliers.

Oh, cute. You found the fake RFID tags. The real ones, thanks to the help of nanotechnology, are undetectable by the eye. They're also organically constructed, so even an EMP blast wouldn't do them in. But then again, an EMP blast would destroy that nice dehumidifier too, complete with deionizing action and whisper-quiet operation. So, really, it was over-engineered. But hey, what good server isn't unengineered? "Web server, you ask? We'll need a bank of 12 quad-core Xeons for that job for sure. Just in case our site gets on Reddit."

Yes, we needed that in the cave. However, the reconditioned 1960's fallout bunker located in the southwest corner is fully self contained, and didn't require those filters. That's where the REAL gamer room is located. It's buried 40 meters underground and the 18 inch thick steel doors with the retina scan locks will keep out most of the riff-raff.

Okay, you got me there. I forgot about that place. But then again, I haven't forgot the back-door entrances to that thing either. But I shouldn't require it, because I'm invited anyway...right? RIGHT.

And, it seems my master plan to furnish the EGB with a true gamer's pit has been completed. Good work!

It will only take me a few hours to get .root and then regen the shell. Once scripting is reactivated, I will recursively lock all the servers and connect them to my network via 2,048 bit encryption. Their uniqueness will be added to my own - resistance is futile. You see, I've been busy IRL - with LINUX. Seems like more customers like that, and now, I can spread my dark shadow into new regions of the galaxy.

You weren't here to stop me...hehehe....

Oh good. Finally catching up with the times, eh? ;-) I'd be interested to know what flavors of the Red Pill you took. I'm going to immediately assume RHEL/CentOS (and Fedora, if you have a stronger stomach than I do), plus some SLES/openSUSE peppered in. It's good to play around with the SUSE family a bit, as there are shops that use SLES out there, although a minority. Simple way to put it:

RHEL:Solaris::SLES:HP-UX

And if I catch you using Ubuntu, I'm revoking your gray hat card. :-P

My nipples are hard. Really.

Okay, that cracked even me up. Good work!

At 4/5/12 11:10 AM, SpiffyMasta wrote: EagleRock, you do bring up a good point that it says you can use it freely, but Newgrounds policy says that you must be the creator and owner of the content you submit. That's the rules here, no matter what the rules outside are.

True, true. There have been situations where someone, with permission from the author, was allowed to post content on Newgrounds. While this guy obviously didn't go through that trouble, it does present a loophole this guy could screw around with.

Now, my experience with Wade has told me he has little patience to deal with crap like that, but it IS worth nothing, and something that someone like Wade would need to be concerned with.

At 4/5/12 02:32 PM, SCTE3 wrote: True true, just because it says feel free to download them and put them up on your site, you never upload that kind of stuff to Newgrounds, especially if you had no part in making it. I guess that concept is hard for some people to understand. Kind of like those other users not understand chain letter spam won't make something true and doesn't count as a review.

These are also the same people that think they won't get caught uploading Flash that is in the top 50 of all time on Newgrounds...

God, people are stupid. It is at times like this that I am reminded of the wise words of George Carlin...

At 4/5/12 11:44 AM, EagleRock wrote:

At 4/3/12 09:52 AM, byteslinger wrote: I wasn't going for grand-theft. Those are your watches, and quite frankly I don't like to deal with stolen merchandise. However, if I really wanted them, that case would be empty as well. Bulletproof is not the same as laserproof.

Of course you weren't. You're a hacker. You value information and knowledge way more than a fine watch. I can't say the same for everyone around here though... *looks around suspiciously*

I'd check under Cootie's bunk if I were you....hehehehe

Yes. The honeypot. The purchases we made were somewhat justifiable and could be argued in court. What you don't realize is that the card had been cloned, and with some of MY social engineering skills I managed a direct access to your bank accounts, and ghost routed a fair amount of funds to my off-shore bank account in the Tartugas.

You do know that money has a dye-pack in it, right? Yep...they make e-dye-packs now. :-P

Yes, they were visible under the UV lamps - but exposing them to a combination of sodium salicyclate, benzene and yesterday's chicken soup (alleged) did the job of permanent deactivation. It also made the money smell like the inside of a new car.

Oh, I knew that. I had to let you think that I was unaware of your monitoring. The first rule of being a grey-hat is to realize you're ALWAYS being monitored.

And the first rule of being a sysadmin is to let the hackers think they know more than you do. While you were concentrating on making me think you were unaware, I was making you think I was unaware of you making me think you were unaware. And, just in case you were making me think you were unaware of me making you think I was unaware of you making me think you were unaware, I was prepared to make you think I was unaware of you making me think I was unaware of me making you think I was unaware of you making me think you were unaware.

I had counted on you going "inception" on me, and figured that regardless of the depth, you would be aware of me, no matter how you disguised it. 2nd rule of grey hats: trust no one.

One of Two. Do you think I'd put it all in one place? By the way, removing the RFID tags was a simple matter with our anti-spy technology - and a pair of pliers.

Oh, cute. You found the fake RFID tags. The real ones, thanks to the help of nanotechnology, are undetectable by the eye. They're also organically constructed, so even an EMP blast wouldn't do them in. But then again, an EMP blast would destroy that nice dehumidifier too, complete with deionizing action and whisper-quiet operation. So, really, it was over-engineered. But hey, what good server isn't unengineered? "Web server, you ask? We'll need a bank of 12 quad-core Xeons for that job for sure. Just in case our site gets on Reddit."

True, an EMP blast wouldn't destroy them. But it seems that by placing all of the equipment in a large room overnight while running an endless loop of Republican debates caused the organics to eventually lose their higher order thinking capacities (as what usually happens when you listen to Republicans for too long) and they just forgot what they were supposed to be doing. However, they did all come together and planned to vote for Romney this election. God help us all!

Yes, we needed that in the cave. However, the reconditioned 1960's fallout bunker located in the southwest corner is fully self contained, and didn't require those filters. That's where the REAL gamer room is located. It's buried 40 meters underground and the 18 inch thick steel doors with the retina scan locks will keep out most of the riff-raff.

Okay, you got me there. I forgot about that place. But then again, I haven't forgot the back-door entrances to that thing either. But I shouldn't require it, because I'm invited anyway...right? RIGHT.

Invited? Kind sir, you will be the host and Grand Marshall!

And, it seems my master plan to furnish the EGB with a true gamer's pit has been completed. Good work!

You're welcome. By the way, all of you passwords have been set to "pi" to the 47th decimal place.

It will only take me a few hours to get .root and then regen the shell. Once scripting is reactivated, I will recursively lock all the servers and connect them to my network via 2,048 bit encryption. Their uniqueness will be added to my own - resistance is futile. You see, I've been busy IRL - with LINUX. Seems like more customers like that, and now, I can spread my dark shadow into new regions of the galaxy.

You weren't here to stop me...hehehe....

Oh good. Finally catching up with the times, eh? ;-) I'd be interested to know what flavors of the Red Pill you took. I'm going to immediately assume RHEL/CentOS (and Fedora, if you have a stronger stomach than I do), plus some SLES/openSUSE peppered in. It's good to play around with the SUSE family a bit, as there are shops that use SLES out there, although a minority. Simple way to put it:

RHEL:Solaris::SLES:HP-UX

I am currently on the fast-path on RHEL/CentOS 6.2 - nothing too extreme yet; Setting up LAMP systems and simple file shares. There are times I miss the simplicity of the Windows installer concept - REMI and YUM sometimes confuse me. Any way to make updates easier on CentOS? I mean, just updating Firefox took 4 commands. I can appreciate LINUX for what it is - but does that mean everything has to be so damn manual? I'll take any hints here if you have them.

And if I catch you using Ubuntu, I'm revoking your gray hat card. :-P

I only install Ubuntu on certain reclaimed end-user laptops. I have some clients that are cheap as well as non-technical, and they travel a bit. They had a few ancient Dell Inspiron 620 units (1GB RAM, 60GB disk, 2.2GHz CPU, XP) that just kept running slower and always got virii, no matter what AV I used - they just clicked on "OK" every time something popped up. I dropped Ubuntu on these units to make them run faster, make them damn close to bug proof, and easy to update from the end-user aspect. They're happy campers now - they have a GUI interface and they can browse the interweb, check e-mail, play on Facebook and watch whatever questionable content they desire - and not screw up their machines. So, you can't fault me there - you'd do the same!

My nipples are hard. Really.

Okay, that cracked even me up. Good work!

It's true. Just mention the word "nipples" around here and all you guys suddenly turn 17 and horny...

However - I am impressed that you kept it up (your server, that is) for over 500 days. Obiwan has taught you well...

With all that said - you sticking around for a while? It's really good to see you active here again. We definitely need the leadership and the presence of our illustrious commander now...

And, just to show you that I know my place around here...

*Salutes*

At 4/5/12 02:32 PM, SCTE3 wrote: True true, just because it says feel free to download them and put them up on your site, you never upload that kind of stuff to Newgrounds, especially if you had no part in making it. I guess that concept is hard for some people to understand. Kind of like those other users not understand chain letter spam won't make something true and doesn't count as a review.

I agree, guess the "rules" that say that you should upload them only for noncommercial uses on that site is only if you've made the website yourself and are planning to upload it on your website. Since NG wasn't made by that user it didn't apply :p

EagleRock cool to see you on here again I have not been doing much b/ping lately I would like to get more b/p though. I was curious as to why authors of flashes cannot delete there flashes anymore why? I'm confused I may check the portal and the obituaries what happened to Pico day its soon right?

At 4/10/12 11:04 AM, SCTE3 wrote: Any idea where this is stolen from as well?
www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/593489

You sure that's stolen? All of his other ones are in the same style and credit the same author name as this one.

(Besides, why would you steal something that crap in the first place?)