At 1/27/06 12:39 PM, _TheFallenOne_ wrote:

does anyone notice anything different about me today? eh? :)

My bat > your gloves.
Anyways, I get to be here for like forty five before I have to go back and let them take pictures of my now glow in the dark bones.
Oh joy.
At least I got a few music albums while I was in town.
Meh, time to defend the portal until I gotta go back!

I personally think 10 looks cooler then nine, and that ten looks cooler then 11. 11 looks too much like 6. Thats just my personaly preference. I think the coolest looking level icon below 20 is 12. *salutes*
-Captain rslegend

At 1/27/06 02:04 PM, EagleRock wrote: True. I should be making level 10 soon enough, but I guess I'll have to wait for level 11 to look cool again...

Only 5 more days my friend, but no one knows why the hell level 11 isn't the icon of 12. It destroys the boxing glove sequence...

At 1/27/06 02:20 PM, Ghost_Phantom wrote:

At 1/27/06 02:04 PM, EagleRock wrote: True. I should be making level 10 soon enough, but I guess I'll have to wait for level 11 to look cool again...

Only 5 more days my friend, but no one knows why the hell level 11 isn't the icon of 12. It destroys the boxing glove sequence...

I guess you could answer that simple enough, sir...

A boxing glove without anything is less powerful than brass kunckles. A boxing glove with barbed wire is more powerful than the brass knucks. Of course, why is a glove with spikes less powerful than a boxing glove?

Ahh, the mysteries of Newgrounds...

At 1/27/06 02:53 PM, EagleRock wrote: A boxing glove without anything is less powerful than brass kunckles. A boxing glove with barbed wire is more powerful than the brass knucks. Of course, why is a glove with spikes less powerful than a boxing glove?

A boxing glove keeps you from breaking your hand's bones during a punch, brass knuckles carry a much stronger punch but may still break your arm. Making you fist now worthless... Besides the level 9 glove appears to be leather making it very light and the same chance of breaking you arm and the spikes are truly not that sharp. Now my father ( Back in Russia ) had real spiked brass knuckles... I was angry with him when he said he didn't bring them here when they moved to Israel...

At 1/27/06 02:58 PM, Ghost_Phantom wrote:

A boxing glove keeps you from breaking your hand's bones during a punch, brass knuckles carry a much stronger punch but may still break your arm. Making you fist now worthless...

But what I always thought is that isnt it just like an inch of cushioning between the barbed wire and your bare hand? So like if you really made a good punch the wire would pierce the padding and cut your hand... for every punch.

Besides the level 9 glove appears to be leather making it very light and the same chance of breaking you arm and the spikes are truly not that sharp.

Those spikes arnt meant for punching, if so it would be more like a backhand slap. : P

Now my father ( Back in Russia ) had real spiked brass knuckles...

*drools*

I have seen a pair before when I was younger... I remember they were surprisingly heavy.

At 1/27/06 12:39 PM, _TheFallenOne_ wrote:

At 1/27/06 11:18 AM, LittleWashu wrote: easy whistle points in the portal http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/291813 all it is a one frame picture with a link to a website

well, it already got blammed anyway :P
does anyone notice anything different about me today? eh? :)

You look better with the other gloves...

At 1/27/06 03:07 PM, Major_punk wrote: But what I always thought is that isnt it just like an inch of cushioning between the barbed wire and your bare hand? So like if you really made a good punch the wire would pierce the padding and cut your hand... for every punch.

All it takes to solve that is a smart designer who knows a thing or two about impact and force...

Those spikes arnt meant for punching, if so it would be more like a backhand slap. : P

Sounds like another word for "bitch gloves" no offence though...

I have seen a pair before when I was younger... I remember they were surprisingly heavy.

Well it is metal after all.

well barb wire gloves would hurt like fuck, even more than brass knuckles. as for the spikes on LVL.9, those are actually rhinestones.

At 1/27/06 03:09 PM, -Rule- wrote:

You look better with the other gloves...

Heh, nice flash in the portal, -Rule- SIR!

I really hope you will make more great flashes.

At 1/27/06 03:34 PM, KungFuCow wrote:

Heh, nice flash in the portal, -Rule- SIR!

I really hope you will make more great flashes.

Ya it was good. I reviewed it and he gave me a nice response.

*cough* check your flash reviews KungFuCow

Im a cheater.

At 1/27/06 03:31 PM, Mutant_BusterJr wrote: well barb wire gloves would hurt like fuck, even more than brass knuckles. as for the spikes on LVL.9, those are actually rhinestones.

Nothing like jewelry on your gloves eh?

At 1/27/06 03:34 PM, KungFuCow wrote: Heh, nice flash in the portal, -Rule- SIR!

Protected it myself as well.

At 1/27/06 03:39 PM, Major_punk wrote:

*cough* check your flash reviews KungFuCow

Yes, i've noticed your review long ago, Major_punk sir, but i have not gotten to responding to it yet, sorry. I'l get to it in a little bit, first I have to call my friend about something.

At 1/27/06 03:41 PM, Ghost_Phantom wrote: Nothing like jewelry on your gloves eh?

well jewelery is for making stuff look good. besides, by the look of the hand, i'm sure it alone can break some shit.

Hai.
Thanks for all your support guys.

At 1/27/06 03:31 PM, Mutant_BusterJr wrote: well barb wire gloves would hurt like fuck, even more than brass knuckles. as for the spikes on LVL.9, those are actually rhinestones.

11>12 The boxing gloxes sux hard! I can't wait until I get to level 13 so i can be done with the sucky boxing gloves forever!

At 1/27/06 03:50 PM, LittleWashu wrote: 11>12 The boxing gloxes sux hard! I can't wait until I get to level 13 so i can be done with the sucky boxing gloves forever!

what they should've come up with is a baseball bat with barb wire on it. hmmm....

Wow, page 99. I'm surprised how fast the EG Barracks grew here. Too bad I probably won't be here to post in page 100 :(

At 1/27/06 03:43 PM, KungFuCow wrote: Yes, i've noticed your review long ago, Major_punk sir, but i have not gotten to responding to it yet, sorry. I'l get to it in a little bit, first I have to call my friend about something.

I just want to ask one question. Will you try and respond to reviews you get to that flash quickly or at least sometime?

At 1/27/06 03:50 PM, LittleWashu wrote: 11>12

NO WAI! But that's your opinion.

The boxing gloxes sux hard! I can't wait until I get to level 13 so i can be done with the sucky boxing gloves forever!

And even better, you'll be done with the fist/hand icons forever except for when you'll get level 17 and 18 which do look like a hand/fist weapon.

At 1/27/06 03:58 PM, VicinityOfObscenity wrote:

The boxing gloxes sux hard! I can't wait until I get to level 13 so i can be done with the sucky boxing gloves forever!

And even better, you'll be done with the fist/hand icons forever except for when you'll get level 17 and 18 which do look like a hand/fist weapon.

17 and 18 are good, but they root from Level 25, the greatest level EVAR!!!!
Imagine me with Elite Guard Supreme Commander status and Level 25. I'll be unstoppable.

At 1/26/06 10:02 AM, EagleRock wrote: I thought so as well, sir. It was quite the lucky grab, too!

I havent had the luck in screenshots I am looking forward to 8,888 saves but blams guess its going to be 17,000

Well, we try to stop two-word posts before they start. At one point (I forget when), people were making over 3 pages of posts a day here, almost ALL of them one-liner posts. That is something very conspicuous to mods and not what we want the Barracks to be about. Our line of thinking is simple: before you post, think if it contribues something of value to the thread. If not, wait for next time. Often, I'll chain my little one-word nothing responses with my more thoughtful ones.

Must of happen when I was awol this was during winter holiday. I am guessing. I think so if the mods really care maybe the posts will be deleted maybe not depends on a number of factors. Well the main point is to keep those kinds of posts out. Look what happened to the NGArmy club to much spam and stuff, I never posted in that thread but thats may happen. I wouldnt be on alert though.

At 1/26/06 10:23 AM, VicinityOfObscenity wrote: Well, I need around 150 B/P to get to 23000 B/P. After that, I'll be aiming to get Lieutenant General which I should get around mid-February.

600 more points to go well you'll get their when you do. It may take until march for myself to reach general. And last fall I was saying I would reach egsc in april. Guess its June now sigh.

At 1/26/06 11:11 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 1/26/06 04:15 AM, iscRulz wrote:

At 1/25/06 11:33 AM, Coop83 wrote: Thank you SIR *salutes*

*salutes* Your welcome solider get more saves.

Will do sir. *proceeds to the portal, double time*

FIne work there Praporshchik Coop83 *continues*

At 1/26/06 04:49 PM, Major_punk wrote:

At 1/26/06 03:35 PM, Ghost_Phantom wrote: How is every one doing on their B/P average?

Im in a stat frenzy mood right now so i'll be going into some detail.

This is my b/p per day and its taken from each Thursday weekly:

B/p schedule I started a daily one in june 05 just like depositing exp I updated.
had date time total pionts and rank. Now I can laugh when getting to 100th rank only took 14,300 now its up to 17400

At 1/26/06 05:48 PM, SlashFirestorm wrote: My daily gains since I started keeping track:

Impressive son. I see are you be any chance an over achiever. Anyways if I had that pace for 100 days I would beyond egsc. I decided to take the slow and consistent path occisionly sprinting. Now I am slowing down 3 people have passed me. and such well keep at it.

At 1/26/06 06:30 PM, SlashFirestorm wrote: We also have BB infiltration on the portal..."Dirty Bathtub Water"...it's harder to spot than the typical ALL CAPS TITLES, so I e-mailed Wade about it.
I'm sorry to hear the NGPD is having those problems...but yes, I advise you to ignore them...don't even open any suspicious e-mails, as they may have viruses or other such problems.

salute:

I am not sure about this but I think opening the email doesnt spread viruses and the spyware downloading .exe files usually do. I would get a good chuckle if I recieved an email. But they probably saw the tomfoolery and thought eh lets not.

At 1/26/06 10:06 PM, LittleWashu wrote: Oh since I am feeling nice right now I will share with you the one of my secret ways of finding abuse review. I look in the graveyard and find someone who has left a abusive review. though that one can't be flagged I look through the profile and if I find any abusive reviews I post it in the abuse review thread. the best part is that the graveyard has everyone who has ever made a review to a blammed flash in there so I have unlimited people to check and port if they meet my standard! now I am going back to the portal to find some more stoogies who can't review ^-^

Nice method there LittleWashu I left many abusive reviews to flash that was going to get blammed and did expectedly tell me or not if stumble across any. I want to find one of my reviews to see if I can mark it has abusive to see, I dont remember which ones though sure stuff in the top 50 to many review pages to look through.

At 1/27/06 12:21 AM, LittleWashu wrote: People this was just blammed and the guy has submitted it again http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/291780 It is easy whistle points flag it!

Hmm I wish that wasnt a whisltable flash. Its just missed blams for many people. Same goes for the free blam point. Just blam it and if the author submits 2 submissions and are blammed 15 day portal ban. if it whislted it just stays in limbo flagged then wade after months just deletes it and you dont get your blam pionts.

At 1/27/06 11:08 AM, VicinityOfObscenity wrote: The BB threat, well, I've had no emails from them. The email might've most likely gone to the spam folder, but thanks for the warning.

I am betting they wont unless a former SS is probably the on that does it. I finally figure out why you and afro guy dont get along. anyways check your spam folder for itchybarney@something.com

At 1/27/06 11:18 AM, LittleWashu wrote: easy whistle points in the portal http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/291813 all it is a one frame picture with a link to a website

I saw it and blammed I didnt notice a link to a website. I saw underneath the window trying to go to some link forget the name. so I guess its a negative whislte pt then.

At 1/27/06 12:39 PM, _TheFallenOne_ wrote: well, it already got blammed anyway :P
does anyone notice anything different about me today? eh? :)

The underscores I mean congrats on the level up. getting to 10 is quite a feat(sp?)

At 1/27/06 02:14 PM, psykolord wrote: My bat > your gloves.

swing your bat at my fist. Crack it shatter I need to get a newer gaunlet. The shipment wont be until 28days

Keep any eye out for thismovie if the score drops drastically they changed the file or down voted it.

*salutes to all*

At 1/27/06 03:55 PM, Mutant_BusterJr wrote: what they should've come up with is a baseball bat with barb wire on it. hmmm....

If any one has ever been to one of NG buddy sites like Retrograde they have cool icons. Bad people, good icons. By the way I like all levels above 11... I'm not too happy with this one... It looks too simple compared the others... But that is just my opinion in this.

At 1/27/06 03:50 PM, LittleWashu wrote:
11>12 The boxing gloxes sux hard! I can't wait until I get to level 13 so i can be done with the sucky boxing gloves forever!

Baseball bat does look much cooler than level 10 and 12...

At 1/27/06 03:55 PM, Mutant_BusterJr wrote:
what they should've come up with is a baseball bat with barb wire on it. hmmm....

Mick Foley, anyone? Maybe one on fire...ah, I hope they play with the levels/level icons someday...

Today has been decent so far...50 points on the dot...I should get a decent haul today. I'm also trying to put a little more time in abusive review flagging. Speaking of that, another "Death to It" episode has been submitted...if it passes (likely will, somehow...), there should be lots of abuse there...

Anyone else see this flash last night? ZekeySpaceyLizard is a SS member, and makes a lot of crappy flashes, but this one was great. I wish he made more flashes like that, so he'd be known for his flash skill instead of his...less artistic works.

Well, I'm headed back to the portal. Good hunting/happy flagging, everyone! :salute:

At 1/27/06 04:04 PM, Ghost_Phantom wrote: If any one has ever been to one of NG buddy sites like Retrograde they have cool icons. Bad people, good icons. By the way I like all levels above 11... I'm not too happy with this one... It looks too simple compared the others... But that is just my opinion in this.

well they do have better ones but i'm more used to our icons. have you noticed their lvl. 27 looks like our lvl. 30?

At 1/27/06 03:58 PM, VicinityOfObscenity wrote: And even better, you'll be done with the fist/hand icons forever except for when you'll get level 17 and 18 which do look like a hand/fist weapon.

but they look more cooler than the other fists, mainly the color.

How time flies! This thread is on the verge of reaching three-digit page numbers. I will try my best to become the first one posting on page 100, it will be my honor as a member here. ;) On the side note, I just got my 13500th b/p points a while ago, EGM is in sight now. ;)

At 1/27/06 02:58 PM, Ghost_Phantom wrote: A boxing glove keeps you from breaking your hand's bones during a punch, brass knuckles carry a much stronger punch but may still break your arm. Making you fist now worthless...

I see. In other words, you can punch harder than you would barefisted and get more damage out of the guy, hence making the glove powerful. Makes sense to me. However, by THAT logic, wouldn't the brass knucks be below the glove then, since you have to not punch as hard to keep your arm from breaking?

At 1/27/06 03:07 PM, Major_punk wrote: But what I always thought is that isnt it just like an inch of cushioning between the barbed wire and your bare hand? So like if you really made a good punch the wire would pierce the padding and cut your hand... for every punch.

I was thinking that myself...however, if you were going to be gutsy enough to put barbed wire on your boxing glove, wouldn't you make sure the barbs are facing outward? Otherwise, I'd take you as dumb. :-)

At 1/27/06 03:31 PM, Mutant_BusterJr wrote: well barb wire gloves would hurt like fuck, even more than brass knuckles. as for the spikes on LVL.9, those are actually rhinestones.

Oh, right. For some stupid reason, I was thinking they were on the knuckles...don't ask me why. When I typed that, I wasn't looking at the picture, so I thought it was different. However, padded leather gloves are better than nothing when talking about pure fist protection.

At 1/27/06 04:04 PM, iscRulz wrote: Must of happen when I was awol this was during winter holiday. I am guessing. I think so if the mods really care maybe the posts will be deleted maybe not depends on a number of factors. Well the main point is to keep those kinds of posts out. Look what happened to the NGArmy club to much spam and stuff, I never posted in that thread but thats may happen. I wouldnt be on alert though.

Exactly my point, sir. Clubs like these are observed by the mods on a regular basis, I am sure. With historical precedencts like the BLAM club and the NG Army, it is hard for us to really not be identified as a similar club. Of course, the Barracks really have their own identity, as we are unique from these. Our goal is not to blam, nor save, nor just be our own army. Our goal is to protect the Portal and enjoy ourselves in the Barracks with our fellow Elite Guards. With our 100th page coming up, I'd like to keep that fresh in mind.

so what level will the DEFCON alert will be on for the 100th page? these days almost anything can happen.

At 1/27/06 04:33 PM, EagleRock wrote: I see. In other words, you can punch harder than you would barefisted and get more damage out of the guy, hence making the glove powerful. Makes sense to me. However, by THAT logic, wouldn't the brass knucks be below the glove then, since you have to not punch as hard to keep your arm from breaking?

That was the entire purpose of my post. To explain how weird the level 11 icon is compared to others/ Congratulations, you got it.

I believe that the way how levels are divided is based on how deadly each icon is. Say that the icon for level 1 is a harmless lollypop. Lollypop cannot do any damage, that is why it is the icon for level 1. Real weapons (does not include gloves) start to appear from level 13. It is easy to understand that a hammer (level 20) is more dangerous than a fist (level 3), that's how the icons of the levels are divided. It is based on how much the icon can damage. The better the weapon is, the high level it has.

DEFCON Update:

The Portal is currently not the opposite of not being the antithesis of the inverse properties of fast. Therefore, let's keep it at good ol' DEFCON 4, shall we?

At 1/27/06 04:22 PM, Dream_of_Duke wrote: How time flies! This thread is on the verge of reaching three-digit page numbers. I will try my best to become the first one posting on page 100, it will be my honor as a member here. ;) On the side note, I just got my 13500th b/p points a while ago, EGM is in sight now. ;)

Oh yes, it's so nice to see the Barrack and how far it's come. Also, congratulations with your potential Major promotion, sir!

At 1/27/06 04:36 PM, Mutant_BusterJr wrote: so what level will the DEFCON alert will be on for the 100th page? these days almost anything can happen.

It'll be whatever the current Portal's Defence Condition warrants. Just because the Barracks are up to 100 pages means nothing in terms of the Portal.

At 1/27/06 04:40 PM, Ghost_Phantom wrote: That was the entire purpose of my post. To explain how weird the level 11 icon is compared to others/ Congratulations, you got it.

I did kind of stupidly repeat what you said, didn't I, sir? Sorry about that.

At 1/27/06 04:44 PM, Dream_of_Duke wrote: I believe that the way how levels are divided is based on how deadly each icon is. Say that the icon for level 1 is a harmless lollypop. Lollypop cannot do any damage, that is why it is the icon for level 1. Real weapons (does not include gloves) start to appear from level 13. It is easy to understand that a hammer (level 20) is more dangerous than a fist (level 3), that's how the icons of the levels are divided. It is based on how much the icon can damage. The better the weapon is, the high level it has.

Perhaps that would be the idea in theory, but I don't know if I'd really say that the level system represents that. While your example makes perfect sense, it doesn't make sense to me that a double-headed battle axe (lvl 22) would do less damage than a golden gauntlet (lvl 25). Sure, the gauntlet looks cooler, but it really does not do more damage than that axe...

If I had to put forth an opinion, I'd say that there is no real system. I think the whole system is based on what looks "cooler." I'm sure some would agree with me in saying that the level system is very disorganized as a whole. It goes to the point that some people prefer to stay at a certain level rather than rank up, just because of the level. Now, I don't really have a problem with the system, as it is what it is, so I am not one to complain. I'm sure the admin have ideas about what to do with the system at some point in time, but hey...they do it when they do it. I'm in no rush.