Congrats to all that advance level's etc over the past while :D

Only gonna got round 30 points today, that's what ya get for being online for 2 hours only, ah well

I've been up for 20 hours straight at this stage and I'm quite the tired one. Work and then Harry Potter film, I'm a fool.

*SALUTES*

Hey guys! I'm back from Summer Camp, so I haven't be able to B/P in a while, but I'm looking forward to protecting Newgrounds.

First: Anything of interest happen over the last week?

Second: read meh story about camp. It's NSFW, so don't read unless you are alone.

Between you and me, it's fake. Just don't tell anyone.

STOLEN: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/388308
ORIGINAL: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/bes t-weekend-web.php

At 7/15/07 10:49 PM, HappyBull wrote: STOLEN: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/388308
ORIGINAL: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/bes t-weekend-web.php

Yup, I just saw that and whistled it myself.

Well hello everyone, how do you all like my brand new shiny level? and with any luck it will be my last one before the big update. Personally I'm thrilled, it's about time... I see there isn't anything too new here, some quiet can be good I guess.

At 7/16/07 02:57 AM, Phantom wrote: Well hello everyone, how do you all like my brand new shiny level?

Congrats on the new level Phantom.

Also I wanted to take this time to ask everyone a question about something that I experienced while guarding the Portal about a year ago.

One night (after work) ,so I'd say at about 10:00 pm PST , I logged onto Newgrounds to see what flashes were under judgement and to vote on them. Yet when the portal popped up on my screen, there were about 30 flashes under judgement, and they were all from the Clock Crew. After watching and voting on them I was puzzled because each submission was just a screen saying, " JOIN THE CLOCK CREW", and " THE CLOCK CREW IS WATCHING YOU". Yet the two sayings were portayed differently on each flash, like Claymation, 3-D, etc. After that night I never saw anything like that hit the portal again. Now my question is: Has anyone here ever seen this occur in the portal?

*Salutes*

At 7/15/07 01:47 PM, RSQViper wrote:

At 7/14/07 09:25 PM, LinaKimura wrote: I understand that some people don't like them, but this flash should have a higher score than it does, in my opinion.

I'd guess that a lot of people zero'ed simply because of who made it and the title.

Although it is a decent Flash at best, I don't feel any of those fuckers that make those Flashes ever deserve a score better than a 3.0, ever for anything. They make Newgrounds a less respectable site with the way they treat this place as their personal urinal and their total disrespect for the portal system.

I was under the funny impression that the whole point of the Elite Guard Barracks was to vote on every submission fairly, based on its content and not the person or organizations behind its creation.

Anyhow, there's a LOT of buzz about the re-design in General, and it's all saying that the re-design is today (Johnny Utah refuses to confirm or deny anything, which is kind of hope-inducing in itself). He also said that the site would have to be down for a few hours to implement the redesign, so...if that happens...

...get your liquor and prostitutes ready, because we is gonna have a crazy-ass party.

I have a good feeling about this.

and if it's not true I AM GOING TO FUCKING SNAP/play Real Lives for another few days

At 7/16/07 05:19 AM, SlashFirestorm wrote: Anyhow, there's a LOT of buzz about the re-design in General, and it's all saying that the re-design is today (Johnny Utah refuses to confirm or deny anything, which is kind of hope-inducing in itself). He also said that the site would have to be down for a few hours to implement the redesign, so...if that happens...

Well, I'm not expecting it and surely if it was about to happen, there would be quite a big news announcement about it.

Still, if it does go down, I'm expecting it to be in a couple of hours, so I can't get to the portal on my lunch hour :(

I don't know when the redesign will happen but I do hope it comes soon, I'm glad I got to level 11 before-hand though! :)

Hows everyone doing in the Portal? I'm doing quite well if I do say so myself! :)

*Salutes*

At 7/16/07 07:44 AM, DarkLotusJuggalo wrote: I don't know when the redesign will happen but I do hope it comes soon, I'm glad I got to level 11 before-hand though! :)

I would really like to get to level 16 but that will never happen since the new laout is going to come out soon and level 15 would take at least 5 months for me to achieve since I checked on NG Log. :/

Hows everyone doing in the Portal? I'm doing quite well if I do say so myself! :)

I'm quite slow as usual with the portal stuff. I gotta stop going to bed early. :/

At 7/16/07 08:30 AM, Seamonky wrote: I would really like to get to level 16 but that will never happen since the new laout is going to come out soon and level 15 would take at least 5 months for me to achieve since I checked on NG Log. :/

I should at least be a level 16 but I'm not, at least I got to level 11 though before the new layout. :)

Hows everyone doing in the Portal? I'm doing quite well if I do say so myself! :)

I'm quite slow as usual with the portal stuff. I gotta stop going to bed early. :/

Its fine, all the good stuff will remain, you just miss out on points. :/ Or you can do what I do and don't go to bed... I should but the coffee says otherwise. :)

At 7/16/07 02:57 AM, Phantom wrote: Well hello everyone, how do you all like my brand new shiny level? and with any luck it will be my last one before the big update. Personally I'm thrilled, it's about time... I see there isn't anything too new here, some quiet can be good I guess.

Well, it's about time! Of course you're gonna get the knife... :-)

Level 19, huh? Never thought I'd see the day. This should be fun!

So how's the rest of the Barracks? Long time no see...

I don't recognise anyone any more.... and nice getting your rank literally hours before the redesign Phantom! These new levels are amazing though...

Total changes to the portal, and I love it. Automatic depositing, no more pop up windows, everything looks sexy... and new badge designs!

So much to take in, so little time...

Finally! The Redesign is here! Now, on to the Portal!

A lot to get used to, but fucking sweeeeeeeeet!

The sexy-ness is a little hard on my machine, but...it's adaptable. :-D

Hm, technically there's no Elite Guard ranks any more, HEH. I guess we're just the HARDCORE BARRACKS now or something. XD

It seems some of the lower ranks have been changed, as well...heh.

EGSC...er, Supreme Commander...sure looks hot, though. :-D

SUPER ANGRY FAIC ATTACK

Guys, what do I do now? I lost my Elite Guard status! I'm now a "Sergeant" again and how does that work? Anyone know what it takes to get up to Elite Guard again? Does this mean I have to leave?!

Your experience gave you a voting power of 9.29 votes. Your blam and protection points gave you an additional 60% of your experience power, meaning that your total vote power was worth 14.87 votes!

Oh my god, I think I just fainted.

Wow this redesign is so cool!!! But the new icons for Blamming and protecting kind of throw the Brracks off a bit, wonder how that will affect it?

I'm not even a Praporshchik now ):

That greatly saddens me...

I'm going to have to b/p once more...

Haven't posted here in a while. So I figured now is as good as any time to do so.

Yeah, the redesign has finally been implemented. I like seeing all these new features, and how the whole thing looks. Also, the Staff page is the coolest thing in this redesign that I've seen so far. With all these new levels, I don't recognize the people that I know and love now. :(

Anyway, there are still a lot of features I have yet to look into. So I'm going to do just that.

At 7/17/07 05:29 PM, DarkLotusJuggalo wrote: Guys, what do I do now? I lost my Elite Guard status! I'm now a "Sergeant" again and how does that work? Anyone know what it takes to get up to Elite Guard again? Does this mean I have to leave?!

Good question. I'm still thinking about that, but I don't think it's fair to kick out those that lost their EG status. I'm thinking of several methods of doing this:

- Transferring eveyrone to the NGPD that is no longer EG (rather harsh...)
- Figuring out a cutoff point where people are close to being in the NG (such as 2000 B/P +) and deferring everone else
- Allowing all that have joined to stay and stop accepting people under 2500 B/P (probably what I'll do)

In the meantime, those that were members are still members. Like I said, I don't see kicking anyone out. However, if you were an Elite Guard Barracks member and become inactive, you might have to stay out until you get back up to 2,500 B/P. As you might have guessed, I didn't exactly expect to have to do this...

In the meantime, I think I need to wait for the site to settle before I start doing the big stuff. Now I have to remember what my stupid sig was...

At 7/17/07 05:29 PM, Akatsuki321 wrote: Everything is just to damn slow though.

Yeah, I just noticed when I type theres like a 3 second lag before it shows up on my screen.
Hooray for the redesign, now to discover all these new functions =)

I miss the old top 50 b/p list. ;_;

That... place... has... CHANGED!!!
I didn't expected the redesign to be so great!
Though it's kinda slower than before because of all the stuff.
I still have to check a lot of things, like the level icons and so on.
Anyway, it's kinda troubling to see that...

At 7/17/07 05:56 PM, Major-punk wrote: Yeah, I just noticed when I type theres like a 3 second lag before it shows up on my screen.
Hooray for the redesign, now to discover all these new functions =)

That's the only problem I have with the redesign. My guess it will get fixed in a while. I will say this, the new format makes it a lot easier for one to rack up Blams and Saves.

At 7/16/07 05:19 AM, SlashFirestorm wrote:

Although it is a decent Flash at best, I don't feel any of those fuckers that make those Flashes ever deserve a score better than a 3.0, ever for anything. They make Newgrounds a less respectable site with the way they treat this place as their personal urinal and their total disrespect for the portal system.

I was under the funny impression that the whole point of the Elite Guard Barracks was to vote on every submission fairly, based on its content and not the person or organizations behind its creation.

Well, I see it as "You reap what you sew".
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As for this redesign, I still can%u2019t see much of it since I am at work so I%u2019ll check it out more when I get home.

What I can see, is I have the lame pipe which hopefully won%u2019t last long. Not sure I like that the avatars are bigger, either%u2026 I do like some of the other sexy avatars, like that crooked knife. The nun chucks are sweet as well and I need to decide if I want a new color background since there are some more options. The pipe wrench looks totally awesome!

I like the profile, but I can%u2019t add a message from work which is pretty dumb, so I%u2019ll do that later, too.

And%u2026 I%u2019m a corporal now. That sucks. How do all the new levels work now anyways? I also wonder about the EGB now that this is different.

Also, typing SUCKS! I am writing this in Word now and I%u2019ll have to copy/paste. I sure as hell hope that works. (It did)

And.. I won%u2019t get to deposit today since I don%u2019t get home from work until after midnight. :(

Loving the new site, except for a few bugs, like we can't view the user icon list, and some other minor things. But holy hell, i'm a level 27! But it kind of sucks I got de-ranked twice to Master Sergeant. I'm still taking everything in, but i'm sure we all will get used to it fast.

Loving the new site, B/Ping's gonna take a while to get use to though, very new, but very cool
As Viper said above there's a few bugs, and have you noticed the size of your VP, it's insane, anyway it's getting late and I think I'm gonna need time to get my head round the new site, so I'm going browsing :D

I don't like the new portal for one reason, I don't have the shaded text to know what I've already seen. If that was different then the portal would be perfect, but its awesome still since the new way to view flash! :)

Had to go work for a few hours >:(

This posting delay is pissing me off, hopefully that will be sorted soon.

Other stuff:

EXP cap! Hell yes, Pimp is only level 50 as of right now! That is awesome, and the level icons rock! (level 60 is hidden for now).

New badges are cool- going to need a new sig though, if anyone here can do that I'd much appreciate it. Just want the old one expanded a little and the badge changed- pic below.

Top 50 saves and blams lists- I'm actually going to be on one of them when they are put up :D

B/Ping is annoying right now as I don't know what I have already voted on, but the lack of popups and how easy and streamlined it is I love.

Just so much to see and do- this isn't a redesign, this is a whole new site! I feel like I have only just found the place again!