Well guys I just entered the top 2,000 list, I feel slightly more accomplished.

At 7/25/08 01:06 PM, Joshiwa wrote: Well guys I just entered the top 2,000 list, I feel slightly more accomplished.

Congrats, Josh. I hit rank #1,400 today, so I'm creeping ever closer to the top 1,000. I think the watermark for the top 1,000 EXP users is located somewhere in the midst of level 29, so I should hopefully be a top 1,000 EXP user by the end of the year (I'm hitting level 30 the day before New Year's Eve).

At 7/25/08 09:29 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/24/08 03:30 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/24/08 12:44 AM, YoinK wrote: It would be so swEEt to one day hit the top 10 in experience... but it would definitely take some time...

It's going to take you a lot less time than me :P

And much much less than me. Infact, I don't think I'll ever reach the top 10 in EXP. Top 50, maybe but top 10, forget it.

Well, the odds look less likely with four slots taken up by me and the three gfox accounts, none of which seem to be slowing up with depositing ;)

That's a hell of a long way away, so just stick to the ranks just ahead of you or you'll go crazy chasing a dream like that :P

Aaak, I keep going down in rank, even though I am depositing my experience everyday :/.

At 7/25/08 06:32 PM, Mrputter wrote: Aaak, I keep going down in rank, even though I am depositing my experience everyday :/.

I'm guessing it's because some days you deposit between 12am and 5am, and other days you deposit after 5am.

The site rankings for EXP and B/P update at around 5am every morning, so if you deposit after the 5am site update on day 1, and then before 5am early on day 2, by the time the rankings update on day 2 at 5am, it'll register that you've deposited twice since the last rankings update.

Conversely, if you deposit before 5am early on day 1, and after 5am on day 2, by the rankings update at 5am on day 2 it will register that you've deposited 0 times since the last site rankings update, so you'll probably go down a few ranks.

Hope that helped clear things up for you a bit. ;)

Hey all:

EXP List has been updated! :D

It appears I'm missing 29 users from that list, so I hope to be able to find them soon.

At 7/25/08 05:33 PM, Coop83 wrote: That's a hell of a long way away, so just stick to the ranks just ahead of you or you'll go crazy chasing a dream like that :P

That's not a problem at all. Right now, I'm aiming for #333 and I'm only a few ranks away from there now. But looking at the users above me, the ones I'm most likely to pass soon are Andersson (sorry :( ), Error and JerkClock. This shall be interesting.

Only 9 more spots to go before I can come in here to socialize. Technically I think this breaks the rules too, so I'll just step outside for a few weeks until I can come in.

At 7/26/08 12:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hey all:

EXP List has been updated! :D

Man, that's looking really nice, kudos for doing it. :)

It appears I'm missing 29 users from that list, so I hope to be able to find them soon.

They'll turn up.

I should be getting 10k+ EXP early on into next year. Probably around February time.

At 7/26/08 01:26 PM, 36Holla wrote: Only 9 more spots to go before I can come in here to socialize. Technically I think this breaks the rules too, so I'll just step outside for a few weeks until I can come in.

Heh, we aint gonna bust your chops for it. You're just as welcome to post in here as any of us top 2,000 kids ;P

At 7/26/08 12:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hey all:

EXP List has been updated! :D

Awesome!! :D:D!!

You are the man Bahamut!! This was my favorite of the lists back when it was updated regularly. It'd be sweet if you got the level pics and stuff like it used to have. But this is more than I'd ever hoped for after the Newgrounds update. I appreciate the effort it must've taken to put this together.

At 7/26/08 12:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hey all:

EXP List has been updated! :D

Thats a nice list you have there I can't wait til I have 10,000 exp. I am thinking in a year maybe less idk.

At 7/18/08 12:03 AM, OsAmARaMa wrote: There are times I wish NG would do top 500 lists of exp, b/p, etc...

Yeah, there were times when the rest of us around here wished that, too. (2005... 2006... 2007 pre-redesign)

And then the redesign's fairly epic list failure (the whole "lists not updating for months and months and months" part being worse lessened the impact of no 51+ lists, I think) kinda dashed those hopes and wishes, alas.

Fortunately we still have a decent-sized and talented crop of stat-dedicated listmakerers to fill the gap left by NG's top-50-and-only-50-philia.

At 7/18/08 09:06 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/17/08 03:47 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/15/08 01:25 PM, Bahamut wrote: You DID save them then? Damn! I'd really like to have those files.

Ah, I was afraid of that.

You should have known I was going to ask for them.

And you should have known I was gonna be really lame at getting them to you quickly. Hey, at least I managed to do so in less than 10 days of finding out for sure that you wanted them. That's pretty fucking fast for lazy ol' procrastination man. #;-}>

I'm still waiting for the list. If you've got other things to do, that's fine. I'll be fine as long as I get the list before 26th July. ;)

;_;

If only you'd said "on" July 26 instead of "before"... then I coulda been right on the money with what actually happened in reality.

I know, I know. I'm always going to think of that. It may be hard to climb up ranks now, but it's certainly nothing compared to what the top 100 is like.

And that's nothing compared to the 50. Which is nothing compared to the 25. Or the 20. Or the 10. Or the 5. Or the 1.

And the 1 is nothing compared to the 0, actually. Just you try getting to rank #0 in ANY NG stat. It's so fucking hard, man. It might as well be impossible!

So you wish to wait until November to do that?

Hell, just wait for the holidays. Make it a nice lil' X-mas/New Year's present to us all. A new Gang of Green photo op to ring in the new year!

Jeez, I've got 2000 usernames for you, you noob!

D:

SHORTLY.

OK then.

... I shouldn't have hyped it so much, eh? DAMNIT.

Hey, you know... if I were REALLY lazy, I wouldn't even have brought up that I had saved it. I woulda never mentioned it, so you'd never have asked me for it. But I ain't cruel 'n' evil, alas. #;-}>

Believe me, it's tough finding all these users. I had to look through all the users on NG Log just to find them. You can help out if you want, but gfox should be giving me the top 2000 EXP users of 17th July 2007 soon, which should get me all those missing users.

We hope "all," yes. But not forever, alas.

At 7/20/08 04:48 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/17/08 03:47 AM, gfoxcook wrote: An epic half-century of users indeed. Coop has attest to the joys of inclusion.

No, I'm currently ranked 51 for VP. I got bumped by bmxgamer reaching a new B/P rank. The perils of there still being 245 people ahead of me for experience, I suppose.

Did he bump you after you hit #50 or before it, though?

There's good and bad to either. You've either already been in the top 50 (and once a top 50er, ALWAYS a top 50er, my friend! So what I said still applies)... or.... well, you won't have to deal (hopefully) with getting bumped out of it once you do make it.

I thought I saw you at #50, so I'm gonna assume you got bumped down after going 51-50(and now -51 again) rather than 51-52-51. Thus... the former.

I don't care what Coop says. XP

OH SNAP.

...

That was Bahamut being unruly, wuddn't it.

Okay, maybe the TENSE in my intentionally-crappy olde english was a BIT OFF THERE. Jeeeez louise, PLEASE do not use my lame all-caps line up there as an excuse for no pentalist topic posting. POST ALREADY. #;-}>

*increases tension*

JEEEEEBZ LOOOOEEEEBZ!

At least you finally freakin' posted in there. Like 3 lines, too. BIG POST THERE, man. #;-}>

Awww... it's like watching a touching moment between Fry and Bender. Like in the ep where they try out a different apartment but end up back in the "closet" robot apartment.

I don't think I could ever stomach living with my freinds. I'd kill them.

Yeah, well. You and Bahamut having fun Fry/Bender moments on Wi/Ht? is close enough to the real thing, anyway. Minus the death. Huzzah!

When this popular opinion is wielded by someone with the capability and possible inclination to tenderise the parts that some women cannot reach with a rather large mallet, sometime you'd best pay attention to the popular (present) vote.

Well of course. I was just commentating on these indisputable truth while my own popular-opinion-wielding S.O. wasn't over me shoulder. #;-}>

At 7/24/08 12:44 AM, YoinK wrote: It would be so swEEt to one day hit the top 10 in experience... but it would definitely take some time...

Dude... you're #14.

More importantly, you're screaming down the exp-path right at Shrapnel and humantarget.

A) They're both sitting ducks.
B) You're going to be #12 VERY, VERY soon.

I know it's gonna be a long path from #12 to #10 compared to that. But you're about to get a super-fast +2 boost... at rank #14. A +2 boost at ANY spot in the top 50 is insanely rare.

So just enjoy that for now, eh? It can't be Christmas every fucking day. No one'd appreciate it then. #;-}>

At 7/24/08 03:30 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/24/08 12:44 AM, YoinK wrote: It would be so swEEt to one day hit the top 10 in experience... but it would definitely take some time...

It's going to take you a lot less time than me :P

I was planning on typing up something like that to him when I saw his post in the thread itself before clicking open a new tab for it, then I had a moment as I was doing that and about to move on down the thread to find more things to quote... a moment where I realised that multiple people already had said what I was gonna say to him.

And sure enough. Ye and Bahamut did not fail to disappoint me by proving me wrong. Youse guys proved me so very right.

So, good thing I came up with some longass ramble instead. WOOT!

At 7/25/08 01:06 PM, Joshiwa wrote: Well guys I just entered the top 2,000 list, I feel slightly more accomplished.

Congratulations! You have forever* locked down a spot on the monthly voting panel, even if the whole top 2000 votes some month in fictional fairy land NG.

(* - provided Tom doesn't change the way the monthly vote works, stop the monthly vote, take NG down altogether, or..... you stop depositing, of course)

At 7/25/08 05:33 PM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/25/08 09:29 AM, Bahamut wrote: And much much less than me. Infact, I don't think I'll ever reach the top 10 in EXP. Top 50, maybe but top 10, forget it.

Well, the odds look less likely with four slots taken up by me and the three gfox accounts, none of which seem to be slowing up with depositing ;)

I've mentioned plenty of times how I doubt I'll deposit forever with gfox.

And gfoxclock I'll probably retire eventually as well. Especially if with Pimp at 60 there is no scaling. I'll just plop gfoxclock down on a kick ass level like 45, say.

gfox can stay at 42.

Or something like that.... (might decide to aim a bit higher for both of 'em... but 55 is the only level with real staying power above 50, and I can't imagine getting gfox to 55... maybe gfoxclock someday)

So anyway... I'll only be clogging 1 (2 tops) spots in the top 50, most likely. Let's not even get started on the top 10.

At 7/26/08 01:26 PM, 36Holla wrote: Only 9 more spots to go before I can come in here to socialize. Technically I think this breaks the rules too, so I'll just step outside for a few weeks until I can come in.

lols. "Technically," he says... "rules," he says...

You're such a joker, 36. #;-}>

At 7/26/08 12:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hey all:

EXP List has been updated! :D

It appears I'm missing 29 users from that list, so I hope to be able to find them soon.

Goddamnit, I opened the actual list in a tab, but by the time I had collected quotes in a notepad window, I'd already closed it... and I never opened your update post itself in a tab. #;-}>

So... separate tiny reply to go with the "250 characters remaining" reply I just made... FUN!

THANKS FOR THE UPDATE!

60 Uniqueusername 21,258 250 +1
61 gfoxcook 21,030 280 +1
62 BlueAsterisk 21,013 0 -2
63 punisher1 21,010 270 0

Fun fun fun!

I noticed I was up from 62 to 61 the other day, wondered who I'd passed. BlueAsterisk.

I don't think he's moved in... well, years (was gonna say months, but that's an understatement)...

But... that guy was in the top 10. Maybe even the top 5.

Passing him... is truly epic. Thanks for the moment, BlueAsterisk. You were once a legend, 1999 user. ;_;

At 7/25/08 05:33 PM, Coop83 wrote: That's a hell of a long way away, so just stick to the ranks just ahead of you or you'll go crazy chasing a dream like that :P

That's not a problem at all. Right now, I'm aiming for #333 and I'm only a few ranks away from there now. But looking at the users above me, the ones I'm most likely to pass soon are Andersson (sorry :( ), Error and JerkClock. This shall be interesting.

At 7/26/08 12:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: It appears I'm missing 29 users from that list, so I hope to be able to find them soon.

Actually, make that 30. Yesterday, I saw a user who was listed TWICE! So I've removed the duplicate.

Also, despite the amount of users I'd be missing out on, I'm thinking of extending the list to all users with 8,990+ EXP.

Your thoughts on this extension?

At 7/26/08 01:26 PM, 36Holla wrote: Only 9 more spots to go before I can come in here to socialize. Technically I think this breaks the rules too, so I'll just step outside for a few weeks until I can come in.

Well, you need around 3600 more EXP to get on my EXP list. :P Well, maybe 2600.

At 7/26/08 01:39 PM, NEVR wrote: I should be getting 10k+ EXP early on into next year. Probably around February time.

Around March, actually.

At 7/26/08 09:31 PM, pwroftheseagoat wrote: You are the man Bahamut!! This was my favorite of the lists back when it was updated regularly. It'd be sweet if you got the level pics and stuff like it used to have.

I was wanting to get the levels up on this update, but sadly the formulas didn't agree with me. To start off with, I would have just displayed the level number of each user.

At 7/27/08 12:07 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/18/08 09:06 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'm still waiting for the list. If you've got other things to do, that's fine. I'll be fine as long as I get the list before 26th July. ;)

;_;

If only you'd said "on" July 26 instead of "before"... then I coulda been right on the money with what actually happened in reality.

Yeah, you gave me the list AFTER the update. Oh well, there's still the next update.

I know, I know. I'm always going to think of that. It may be hard to climb up ranks now, but it's certainly nothing compared to what the top 100 is like.

And that's nothing compared to the 50. Which is nothing compared to the 25. Or the 20. Or the 10. Or the 5. Or the 1.

Yeah, but let's not talk about getting into those ranks.

And the 1 is nothing compared to the 0, actually. Just you try getting to rank #0 in ANY NG stat. It's so fucking hard, man. It might as well be impossible!

0 B/P = #0 in B/P

And let's not forget when Shrapnel was #0 in EXP. :P

So you wish to wait until November to do that?

Hell, just wait for the holidays. Make it a nice lil' X-mas/New Year's present to us all. A new Gang of Green photo op to ring in the new year!

You'd need green, red and yellow aura users to make it look more christmassy, but to keep it simple, we'll all stick with blue to go with the winter theme. :P But of course, you don't ever want to change auras, so we'll all have to be green.

Believe me, it's tough finding all these users. I had to look through all the users on NG Log just to find them. You can help out if you want, but gfox should be giving me the top 2000 EXP users of 17th July 2007 soon, which should get me all those missing users.

We hope "all," yes. But not forever, alas.

Yeah, more and more users will get 10k EXP. *sigh* Soon, there'll be over 1000 accounts with at least 10k EXP. I mean, there's now over 1000 accounts with at least 9k EXP.

At 7/25/08 05:33 PM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/25/08 09:29 AM, Bahamut wrote: And much much less than me. Infact, I don't think I'll ever reach the top 10 in EXP. Top 50, maybe but top 10, forget it.

Well, the odds look less likely with four slots taken up by me and the three gfox accounts, none of which seem to be slowing up with depositing ;)

I've mentioned plenty of times how I doubt I'll deposit forever with gfox.

And gfoxclock I'll probably retire eventually as well. Especially if with Pimp at 60 there is no scaling. I'll just plop gfoxclock down on a kick ass level like 45, say.

gfox can stay at 42.

So I do have a chance at passing your alts after all. :) I plan to get to level 60 sometime since I like the idea of someone taking over the world. And you should know how much I want to take over the universe. :)

So anyway... I'll only be clogging 1 (2 tops) spots in the top 50, most likely. Let's not even get started on the top 10.

Will I ever get a spot in the top 50? I'll have to see how I do with the other ranks.

At 7/27/08 12:10 AM, gfoxcook wrote: THANKS FOR THE UPDATE!

No problem.

I noticed I was up from 62 to 61 the other day, wondered who I'd passed. BlueAsterisk.

I don't think he's moved in... well, years (was gonna say months, but that's an understatement)...

But... that guy was in the top 10. Maybe even the top 5.

Yeah, he was #5. I remember 3 years ago, the top 5 was like:

1. humantarget52
2. Pimp
3. Shrapnel
4. bomb
5. BlueAsterisk

And now BlueAsterisk has fallen all the way down to 62. Myself, I'm still surprised I've passed some former Top 50 EXP users from 2004 (e.g. PrikedElik). Heh, in 2 years time, I'll have more EXP than BlueAsterisk.

At 7/26/08 12:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hey all:

EXP List has been updated! :D

YAY!

The top 600 is now getting really close.

At 7/27/08 12:07 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/18/08 09:06 AM, Bahamut wrote:

And that's nothing compared to the 50. Which is nothing compared to the 25. Or the 20. Or the 10. Or the 5. Or the 1.

And the 1 is nothing compared to the 0, actually. Just you try getting to rank #0 in ANY NG stat. It's so fucking hard, man. It might as well be impossible!

Which was pretty much my point when I said (way back and what pretty much started all this) that you're only as high rank as you feel. Do you think bomb feels he's at a high rank? Maybe he does, but I'm willing to bet he'd give his right foot to be number 1 and, until he does, he's not 'truely' happy. We're always running and running and, in the end, all that seems to matter is our relative position to the next in line, which is why so few seem to be really happy with the rank they're in.

And even Pimp probably isn't all that pleased with the situation, since he's constantly looking over his shoulder and seeing us all chasing after him...

In the end, I recon that the best thing to do is simply enjoy the trip / exp grinding and hope that Tom changes those crappy 51-53 levels icons (man, they suck so bad when compared to the rest of the level 50's...).

At 7/26/08 12:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hey all:

EXP List has been updated! :D

Oh cool! I'm ranked 647.

At 7/26/08 12:08 PM, Bahamut wrote: Hey all:

EXP List has been updated! :D

Hooray! Thanks for the update, Bahamut.

Looks like there are 3 users directly above me, who keep on depositing. I am slowly climbing still, but it's going to take a while before hitting anything significant for now.

At 7/25/08 05:33 PM, Coop83 wrote: That's a hell of a long way away, so just stick to the ranks just ahead of you or you'll go crazy chasing a dream like that :P

That's not a problem at all. Right now, I'm aiming for #333 and I'm only a few ranks away from there now. But looking at the users above me, the ones I'm most likely to pass soon are Andersson (sorry :( ), Error and JerkClock. This shall be interesting.

Sounds like fun. I'll keep on chasing AnzRage and gfox, while they continue keeping pace.

At 7/27/08 12:07 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/20/08 04:48 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 7/17/08 03:47 AM, gfoxcook wrote: An epic half-century of users indeed. Coop has attest to the joys of inclusion.

No, I'm currently ranked 51 for VP. I got bumped by bmxgamer reaching a new B/P rank. The perils of there still being 245 people ahead of me for experience, I suppose.

Did he bump you after you hit #50 or before it, though?

I was at #50 for one single update. Hopefully, I'll be able to bump KWAS out of the top 50 in about 3 updates time ;)

There's good and bad to either. You've either already been in the top 50 (and once a top 50er, ALWAYS a top 50er, my friend! So what I said still applies)... or.... well, you won't have to deal (hopefully) with getting bumped out of it once you do make it.

One day, I will get there for good!

I thought I saw you at #50, so I'm gonna assume you got bumped down after going 51-50(and now -51 again) rather than 51-52-51. Thus... the former.

That is correct

I don't care what Coop says. XP

OH SNAP.

...

That was Bahamut being unruly, wuddn't it.

Yes, that dragon is a law unto himself.

Today will be a day for me to remember, as I finally reached the 50th rank mark.

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!! After receiving the 17th July 2007 Top 2000 EXP users update from gfoxcook, I had a look through most of the users and was able to find EVERYONE who has at least 10k EXP! So no need to worry about any missing 10k+ EXP'ers until a few months time.

At 7/27/08 03:15 PM, Vert wrote: Which was pretty much my point when I said (way back and what pretty much started all this) that you're only as high rank as you feel. Do you think bomb feels he's at a high rank? Maybe he does, but I'm willing to bet he'd give his right foot to be number 1 and, until he does, he's not 'truely' happy. We're always running and running and, in the end, all that seems to matter is our relative position to the next in line, which is why so few seem to be really happy with the rank they're in.

You know, if I was #2 in EXP, I'd probably be like that. Sure, I'd feel high rank enough, but I wouldn't be truly happy until I'm #1. However, right now, I can't complain about my EXP rank. It would be nice if I was further up, however. ;)

In the end, I recon that the best thing to do is simply enjoy the trip / exp grinding and hope that Tom changes those crappy 51-53 levels icons (man, they suck so bad when compared to the rest of the level 50's...).

I highly doubt those level icons will ever go, unless there'll be another redesign in 5 - 10 years time. :P

At 7/29/08 12:12 AM, someone-else wrote: Today will be a day for me to remember, as I finally reached the 50th rank mark.

Well done someone else! :)

At 7/29/08 05:07 PM, Bahamut wrote: GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!! After receiving the 17th July 2007 Top 2000 EXP users update from gfoxcook, I had a look through most of the users and was able to find EVERYONE who has at least 10k EXP! So no need to worry about any missing 10k+ EXP'ers until a few months time.

Well, that's awesome news, Professor! I can't wait for the next update :)

At 7/26/08 01:26 PM, 36Holla wrote: Only 9 more spots to go before I can come in here to socialize. Technically I think this breaks the rules too, so I'll just step outside for a few weeks until I can come in.

lols. "Technically," he says... "rules," he says...

You're such a joker, 36. #;-}>

Well I waited like a good boy and now I'm the 2000th ranked person so I can legally talk in here without being taken away by the authorities screaming crazily that I'm not insane and that they've got the wrong guy.

So guys...

wait for it

Sup

lame conversation started achieved!

At 7/31/08 08:56 AM, 36Holla wrote:

At 7/26/08 01:26 PM, 36Holla wrote: Only 9 more spots to go before I can come in here to socialize. Technically I think this breaks the rules too, so I'll just step outside for a few weeks until I can come in.

lols. "Technically," he says... "rules," he says...

You're such a joker, 36. #;-}>

OMG, I know that smiley anywhere! Where is your green aura, Greg!

Sup

lame conversation started achieved!

The Sky.

At 7/31/08 09:19 AM, Coop83 wrote: At 7/31/08 08:56 AM, gfoxcookwrote:

At 7/26/08 01:26 PM, 36Holla wrote: Only 9 more spots to go before I can come in here to socialize. Technically I think this breaks the rules too, so I'll just step outside for a few weeks until I can come in.

lols. "Technically," he says... "rules," he says...

You're such a joker, 36. #;-}>

OMG, I know that smiley anywhere! Where is your green aura, Greg!

I hope I didn't confuse anyone with that misquote. For a second there, I thought you were referring to me as Greg. No, I am not him, I just conveniently forget to place a colon at the beginning of the sentence to make the sentence not appear in quote form, just so I can steal the use of his smiley. My evil plan was a success.

Sup

lame conversation started achieved!

The Sky.

Nu uh! All I see is a ceiling.

At 7/27/08 09:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: Also, despite the amount of users I'd be missing out on, I'm thinking of extending the list to all users with 8,990+ EXP.
Your thoughts on this extension?

'sfine as long as you mean 9000+. #;-}>

Also has the bonus of the 9000-10000 area being a sort of "catch 'em if you can" gap. If it's not 100% accurate between 9k and 10k on some updates, so be it. But you can focus on getting people before they hit 10k if you miss them before they hit 9k, and that way you can probably increase the accuracy (and how easy it is to keep it accurate) of the 10,000 and up portion of the list. Woot, woot.

At 7/27/08 12:07 AM, gfoxcook wrote: If only you'd said "on" July 26 instead of "before"... then I coulda been right on the money with what actually happened in reality.

Yeah, you gave me the list AFTER the update. Oh well, there's still the next update.

I know, that's why I said if only you'd said "on" instead of "before." "On" could mean before or after the update was posted (and obviously before it's posted but after you've already done most of the work... would still have been TOO LATE), but either way had you said that, and had gone "HEY, GFOX, WHAT'S WITH THE LATENESS!" I could say "hey, man, I did exactly what you said. Sorry it was too late on the 26th itself, but it WAS on the 26th. #;-}>

And that's nothing compared to the 50. Which is nothing compared to the 25. Or the 20. Or the 10. Or the 5. Or the 1.

Yeah, but let's not talk about getting into those ranks.

Why not? Coop and I love talking about those ranks. And the getting into them, especially. #;-}>

And the 1 is nothing compared to the 0, actually. Just you try getting to rank #0 in ANY NG stat. It's so fucking hard, man. It might as well be impossible!

0 B/P = #0 in B/P

I can point you to several thousand profiles that show people with 0 b/p, and they most assuredly are not listed as rank #0.

They're listed as rank #500,000 or #600,000 or so, tied with tens... er... make that hundreds of thousands of other non-b/pers behind them in signup date or exp or whatever NG's using nowadays.

And let's not forget when Shrapnel was #0 in EXP. :P

That was fake #0ness. Doesn't count.

So... DOUBLE FAIL, dragon man. #;-}>

I threw in the dragon because of the twin failage. I won't use that anymore unless you deserve it! heheheh... :::runs:::

Hell, just wait for the holidays. Make it a nice lil' X-mas/New Year's present to us all. A new Gang of Green photo op to ring in the new year!

You'd need green, red and yellow aura users to make it look more christmassy, but to keep it simple, we'll all stick with blue to go with the winter theme. :P But of course, you don't ever want to change auras, so we'll all have to be green.

Who needs yellow for Christmas? O_o

If anything, Christmas is either green/red or red/white in colour scheme for the most part. What's this yellow stuff about? o_o

Well of course I'll be green, you'd still need green to do what you're talking about.

But what you're talking about is some silly greeting-card-like holiday event, which would be fine. But it'd have to be separate and apart from the Gang of Green photo op. Which again... wasn't supposed to be tied to X-mas specifically, but just the winter holidays. Do your thing around X-mas, and then a week later for New Year's we'll do Gang of Green to ring in 2009. #;-}>

Yeah, more and more users will get 10k EXP. *sigh* Soon, there'll be over 1000 accounts with at least 10k EXP. I mean, there's now over 1000 accounts with at least 9k EXP.

Damn those ambitious newbs! HOW DARE THEY GET EXP. #;-}>

I've mentioned plenty of times how I doubt I'll deposit forever with gfox.
And gfoxclock I'll probably retire eventually as well. Especially if with Pimp at 60 there is no scaling. I'll just plop gfoxclock down on a kick ass level like 45, say.
gfox can stay at 42.

So I do have a chance at passing your alts after all. :) I plan to get to level 60 sometime since I like the idea of someone taking over the world. And you should know how much I want to take over the universe. :)

Sure. Hell, I just missed a deposit on gfoxclock and gfox yesterday, and because I didn't like the idea of gfoxclock being 20 exp behind gfoxcook (in the last two digits of exp only, I mean), but then gfox being 10 exp behind him still, I'm letting gfox miss a 2nd deposit in a row today so the three accounts will be 20 exp apart now instead of 10 exp apart (which I put into place after a similar missed deposit incident ruined my "all accounts have the same last two digits of exp" perfection).

In my defense, the reason I didn't alt deposit yesterday is that I deposited while protecting in the portal on gfoxcook late Friday night/early Saturday morning, and then after sleep and much of Saturday's events, I tried to deposit for gfoxclock (and would have then gone on to do so for gfox), because I didn't think I had yet, but all the BEEBO and Marc M movies I vote on every day to deposit for my two alts now (now that gfoxcook deposits by UJ voting) said I'd already voted on them.

Which it also says today.

I noticed Tom Fulp posted that P-bot broke down on 8/01 and didn't post at the start of 8/02 or 8/03, and I'm pretty sure the cause of that is the same thing as the cause of movies not "clearing" your IP these past two days and letting you vote on them again even though you haven't voted on them in well over 24 hours.

So anyway, that lameness convinced me I had deposited on my two alts and just forgotten I had, back before I went to sleep early Saturday morning.

So anyway... I'll only be clogging 1 (2 tops) spots in the top 50, most likely. Let's not even get started on the top 10.

Will I ever get a spot in the top 50? I'll have to see how I do with the other ranks.

Sure you will. It's only a matter of time and persistance.

I noticed I was up from 62 to 61 the other day, wondered who I'd passed. BlueAsterisk.
I don't think he's moved in... well, years (was gonna say months, but that's an understatement)...
But... that guy was in the top 10. Maybe even the top 5.

Yeah, he was #5. I remember 3 years ago, the top 5 was like:

1. humantarget52
2. Pimp
3. Shrapnel
4. bomb
5. BlueAsterisk

Exactly. Yep.

And now BlueAsterisk has fallen all the way down to 62. Myself, I'm still surprised I've passed some former Top 50 EXP users from 2004 (e.g. PrikedElik). Heh, in 2 years time, I'll have more EXP than BlueAsterisk.

It's so sad when I pass these dudes. Maybe it won't be for you, but... at least give ol' BlueAsterisk a thought as you pass him by in turn... after all, you remembered his precise "high water mark" even better than I did, so... heh. Well done.

At 7/27/08 03:15 PM, Vert wrote:

At 7/27/08 12:07 AM, gfoxcook wrote: And that's nothing compared to the 50. Which is nothing compared to the 25. Or the 20. Or the 10. Or the 5. Or the 1.
And the 1 is nothing compared to the 0, actually. Just you try getting to rank #0 in ANY NG stat. It's so fucking hard, man. It might as well be impossible!

Which was pretty much my point when I said (way back and what pretty much started all this) that you're only as high rank as you feel. Do you think bomb feels he's at a high rank? Maybe he does, but I'm willing to bet he'd give his right foot to be number 1 and, until he does, he's not 'truely' happy. We're always running and running and, in the end, all that seems to matter is our relative position to the next in line, which is why so few seem to be really happy with the rank they're in.

Our current convo was started by whatever you're referring to "way back?" Are you sure you can directly trace this back, man? Because such topics are basically omnipresent in the list topics. They come up from time to time no matter which user or users bring them up, and they're usually fairly repetitive.

But A) time passes, and things are worth discussing again.
And B) sometimes something new is brought up, or a different angle on an old topic makes it even more worthwhile to dig back up.

But yep. Like you just said. We're always running after the grass on the other side.

And even Pimp probably isn't all that pleased with the situation, since he's constantly looking over his shoulder and seeing us all chasing after him...

No, I'm fairly sure Pimp is pleased as punch. HT and Shrapnel "gave up," and his main competition is thus basically dead. His future competition is all distant compared to the way it used to be.

In the end, I recon that the best thing to do is simply enjoy the trip / exp grinding and hope that Tom changes those crappy 51-53 levels icons (man, they suck so bad when compared to the rest of the level 50's...).

:::shrugs::: 55 makes 'em worth it.

There's still nowhere near as bad as 23 was back in the 30 level system.

Also, maybe exp rank would be as enjoyable as levels are whilst we grind if each rank above #100, say, had its own icon. #;-}>

Yeah, I know... we could by logical extension of that thought have icons for the top 100 b/p ranks as well or something, and our profiles would get a little out of hand what with level/ranking icons for exp/level and rank/ranking icons for b/p.... BUT EVERYONE LOVES ICONS/BADGES/etc. IT'S A PROVEN FACT. #;-}>

At 7/28/08 03:36 AM, Coop83 wrote: Sounds like fun. I'll keep on chasing AnzRage and gfox, while they continue keeping pace.

gfox just gave you a nice little present. Half thanks to NG's daily script fuxxor yesterday, and half on purpose today. ENJOY THE -20 EXP GAP CHANGE. #;-}>

At 7/27/08 12:07 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Did he bump you after you hit #50 or before it, though?

I was at #50 for one single update. Hopefully, I'll be able to bump KWAS out of the top 50 in about 3 updates time ;)

That's what I was afraid of. Oh well, you're in good company. Like many before you to make the top 100, 50, or 25 only to lose their spot an update or two later... and then regain it after more dedicated effort thereafter... you will be covered in sweat, dirt, and blood when you finally make it into the 50 for good, but it will make the earning of it all the sweeter.

One day, I will get there for good!

One day soon, I'm sure.

That was Bahamut being unruly, wuddn't it.

Yes, that dragon is a law unto himself.

SO HE THINKS, at least.

At 7/29/08 12:12 AM, someone-else wrote: Today will be a day for me to remember, as I finally reached the 50th rank mark.

It was always someone else's turn. Until one day... it was someone-else's turn!

GREAT JOB, MAN! Hold open the door for me and Recon for awhile, will ya? And I hope you kicked a few shins/calves on your way past the last few folks, so they'll be a bit hobbled for awhile. #;-}>

At 7/29/08 05:07 PM, Bahamut wrote: GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!! After receiving the 17th July 2007 Top 2000 EXP users update from gfoxcook, I had a look through most of the users and was able to find EVERYONE who has at least 10k EXP! So no need to worry about any missing 10k+ EXP'ers until a few months time.

Woot, woot. ALL GAPS FILLED. For the moment.

New gaps are far off in the distance. No use worrying about them right now, unless you want to try and find everyone down to 5000 exp so you can have a nice 1+ year break from worrying about user account location. #;-}>

At 7/31/08 08:56 AM, 36Holla wrote: Well I waited like a good boy and now I'm the 2000th ranked person so I can legally talk in here without being taken away by the authorities screaming crazily that I'm not insane and that they've got the wrong guy.

Heh.

So guys...

wait for it

Sup

lame conversation started achieved!

WIN!

At 7/31/08 09:19 AM, Coop83 wrote: OMG, I know that smiley anywhere! Where is your green aura, Greg!

Yeah, I had a moment of "WTF?" and then I realised the quote marker was just missing from that one line and I was like "eh, wotev'..." #;-}>

At 8/1/08 09:03 AM, 36Holla wrote: I hope I didn't confuse anyone with that misquote. For a second there, I thought you were referring to me as Greg. No, I am not him, I just conveniently forget to place a colon at the beginning of the sentence to make the sentence not appear in quote form, just so I can steal the use of his smiley. My evil plan was a success.

Only for half a second in my case. Coop's confusion appears to have been feigned, but I'm sure if he had any real confusion, it was similarly bypassed with ease.

GIMME BACK MY SON...

er... MY SMILEY!

At 8/3/08 11:07 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/28/08 03:36 AM, Coop83 wrote: Sounds like fun. I'll keep on chasing AnzRage and gfox, while they continue keeping pace.

gfox just gave you a nice little present. Half thanks to NG's daily script fuxxor yesterday, and half on

purpose today. ENJOY THE -20 EXP GAP CHANGE. #;-}>

Hooray :) That's the sort of thing that I've been counting on and so now another 6 of those and we'll be tied :P

At 7/27/08 12:07 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Did he bump you after you hit #50 or before it, though?

I was at #50 for one single update. Hopefully, I'll be able to bump KWAS out of the top 50 in about 3 updates time ;)

That's what I was afraid of. Oh well, you're in good company. Like many before you to make the top 100, 50, or 25 only to lose their spot an update or two later... and then regain it after more dedicated effort thereafter... you will be covered in sweat, dirt, and blood when you finally make it into the 50 for good, but it will make the earning of it all the sweeter.

I was just thinking "How can my effort be more dedicated?!" then I realised it was the other sense of more dedicated - as in a continuation of dedicated effort...

One day, I will get there for good!

One day soon, I'm sure.

KWAS will fall soon enough!

At 7/29/08 12:12 AM, someone-else wrote: Today will be a day for me to remember, as I finally reached the 50th rank mark.

It was always someone else's turn. Until one day... it was someone-else's turn!

Good show, sir. Good show.

At 8/3/08 10:57 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/27/08 09:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: Also, despite the amount of users I'd be missing out on, I'm thinking of extending the list to all users with 8,990+ EXP.
Your thoughts on this extension?

'sfine as long as you mean 9000+. #;-}>

Well, the users with 8990 - 8999 EXP would tell me if there's any missing users in between them and those with 9k EXP.

Also has the bonus of the 9000-10000 area being a sort of "catch 'em if you can" gap. If it's not 100% accurate between 9k and 10k on some updates, so be it. But you can focus on getting people before they hit 10k if you miss them before they hit 9k, and that way you can probably increase the accuracy (and how easy it is to keep it accurate) of the 10,000 and up portion of the list. Woot, woot.

That's my idea. :)

Yeah, but let's not talk about getting into those ranks.

Why not? Coop and I love talking about those ranks. And the getting into them, especially. #;-}>

Fuck talking about the top 50 EXP. Well, you can go and talk about it if you want since you are quite close to there, but Coop, SHUT UP ABOUT IT!

0 B/P = #0 in B/P

I can point you to several thousand profiles that show people with 0 b/p, and they most assuredly are not listed as rank #0.

They are still fucking listed as #0 in B/P, so go FatherJack, tumahaB, NewsReporter, BahamutHyphen, AfroBahamut, LukeLovesLemonparty, EmoDragon, Fagamut, TheNumberOfTheDragon, S-k-y, DeviI and BBQBeefburgerdragon for being ranked #0 in B/P. :D

And let's not forget when Shrapnel was #0 in EXP. :P

That was fake #0ness. Doesn't count.

IT STILL COUNTED!! He was fucking #0 for a while! Actually, go Ctiger for being #0 in EXP. Heh, I don't know that guy very well, but I can remember him from the one post he made in the General forum 4 years ago.

So... DOUBLE FAIL, dragon man. #;-}>

YOU CALLED ME DRAGON MAN AGAIN! APOLOGISE THIS INSTANT!

You'd need green, red and yellow aura users to make it look more christmassy, but to keep it simple, we'll all stick with blue to go with the winter theme. :P But of course, you don't ever want to change auras, so we'll all have to be green.

Who needs yellow for Christmas? O_o

Gold/yellow is nice for Christmas trees.

But what you're talking about is some silly greeting-card-like holiday event, which would be fine. But it'd have to be separate and apart from the Gang of Green photo op. Which again... wasn't supposed to be tied to X-mas specifically, but just the winter holidays. Do your thing around X-mas, and then a week later for New Year's we'll do Gang of Green to ring in 2009. #;-}>

Alright then. The Gang of Green after the new year, it is.

So I do have a chance at passing your alts after all. :) I plan to get to level 60 sometime since I like the idea of someone taking over the world. And you should know how much I want to take over the universe. :)

In my defense, the reason I didn't alt deposit yesterday is that I deposited while protecting in the portal on gfoxcook late Friday night/early Saturday morning, and then after sleep and much of Saturday's events, I tried to deposit for gfoxclock (and would have then gone on to do so for gfox), because I didn't think I had yet, but all the BEEBO and Marc M movies I vote on every day to deposit for my two alts now (now that gfoxcook deposits by UJ voting) said I'd already voted on them.

Which it also says today.

Oh yes, the P-Bot problem that happened recently. Me and Afro_Stud noticed that minor problem as well. Oh well, they've fixed it, so no need to worry about it for now. Of course, the problem is likely to happen again sometime.

Will I ever get a spot in the top 50? I'll have to see how I do with the other ranks.

Sure you will. It's only a matter of time and persistance.

Let's hope there aren't at least 50 other users above me who won't miss a deposit in years. ;)

And now BlueAsterisk has fallen all the way down to 62. Myself, I'm still surprised I've passed some former Top 50 EXP users from 2004 (e.g. PrikedElik). Heh, in 2 years time, I'll have more EXP than BlueAsterisk.

It's so sad when I pass these dudes. Maybe it won't be for you, but... at least give ol' BlueAsterisk a thought as you pass him by in turn... after all, you remembered his precise "high water mark" even better than I did, so... heh. Well done.

I just remember the top 5 being like that when I joined, so I was still able to remember that. :)

At 8/3/08 11:07 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/29/08 05:07 PM, Bahamut wrote: GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!! After receiving the 17th July 2007 Top 2000 EXP users update from gfoxcook, I had a look through most of the users and was able to find EVERYONE who has at least 10k EXP! So no need to worry about any missing 10k+ EXP'ers until a few months time.

Woot, woot. ALL GAPS FILLED. For the moment.

New gaps are far off in the distance. No use worrying about them right now, unless you want to try and find everyone down to 5000 exp so you can have a nice 1+ year break from worrying about user account location. #;-}>

Of course, I am quite concerned about them. Right now, I don't have the majority of those users and this time next year, it could be quite a problem if most are still not on the spreadsheet. For now, no need to worry about the current 5k EXP'ers.

At 8/4/08 06:53 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/3/08 10:57 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 7/27/08 09:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yeah, but let's not talk about getting into those ranks.

Why not? Coop and I love talking about those ranks. And the getting into them, especially. #;-}>

Fuck talking about the top 50 EXP. Well, you can go and talk about it if you want since you are quite close to there, but Coop, SHUT UP ABOUT IT!

Oh, but over the last 2 days, I've become a whole 3 places closer to the top 50. It was completely unexpected as well, as I'd been rising really slowly since entering the top 250 :P

I'm number 263 of 2000?
That's quite high up.

well speaking of passing idle people, I remember watching Yume clime up from just below the top 10 then up to 7. Now he just another older user falling to the side. Even watching two 99 standards slowly fall is sad. I know the circumstance of why, so it is happy in a way for them. So it will be a slow climb 4 months to get past both