Not tea, father. KOHI!

And not just any coffee... FRESH PORTAL-POURED COFFEE.

GAWWWWDAYUM my first newspost had better comments than this one has so far.

But things are looking up. Thanks for stopping by, resident friendly neighborhood statwhore man!

NICE USERNAME (but then, I already told you that a couple weeks ago over at yer place, now didn't I)

Repenting sins is what Catholics do every damned mass, man. Why does it have to be Armageddon?! #;-}>

Technically, it reached 130, but if you subtract comment #38 (which I made myself) and comment #130, which I made myself, then 128 is the number of comments from non-gfoxy persons. (and minus Betty's, when the Betty account was deleted, also).

Hey, at least my music review responsecount is now "2" so "Music Review ResponseS:" is accurate. Otherwise, it'd look quite silly with a "1" next to it. #;-}>

HELL NO, WE WON'T GO.

But... you just did one. O_O 18th, 17th, whatever. This'll be open for 365 days, man. There be no rush.

Realising that if I never made a new newspost, there was never going to be a comment #36 again, or a comment #42... ;_;

So now, there can be a new #36 and #42... EVERY YEAR. Well, as long as you guys post at least 1 comment per week. #;-}>

Also, I thought to myself "what year will it be once I've posted 36 news posts" so long as NG + gfox are still both around?"... and.... well, it'll be 2042 when I hit 36 news posts on all three accounts.

FTW!

So? O_o I either live through age 37 or I don't.

Besides.... 37 isn't a black cat crossing my path. I love black kitties, anyway, and I never worry about that superstition. I'm an all-37-all-the-time-and-nothing-e lse kinda guy, when it comes to worrying about bad luck.

Now, if EXACTLY 37 black cats were hanging around me, I might start to worry. #;-}>

There's SEKRIT LEMONPARTY encoded in that portal coffee picture, LLL. If you can't see it, you don't have the proper decoder.

OMG PORTALS is correct. PORTAL FTW.

... come to think of it, I really need to redo my "top 10 games" list in my profile's faves section. I included 5 console games and 5 classic (i.e. early 90s) PC games, but TF2 and HL1/HL2 and Portal... or just "Orange Box" really needs a mention. Plus Bioshock. and... OMG. :::head explodes due to not enough room in a top 10 list for all the awesome console + PC games... need separate top 10s... STAT:::

Awesome! Glad I inspired you to find something practically useful for you. I never see things like "10 hot keys" advertised on the little placards next to every keyboard at say a Best Buy, but I guess it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that such macro-ful keyboards are still out there.

Oh wait, though. By hot key do you mean like the "pictures" button and the "documents" button, and the "media player" button? Because those are some of the buttons I was referring to when talking about how all new keyboards do seem to contain media center sections and all. And yeah, usually Microsoft or Logitech (or whoever) does let you change what those buttons do (but then you've got remember that the button with the musical note on it does "ctrl-alt-delete" #;-}>).

But I didn't know those things would let you do long strings of text, I thought it was just generally simple windows functions, launching a single application, or doing any simple keypress (i.e. any key, or any key in combo with alt/shift/ctrl).

But if you found one that does (or they all do and I'm just clueless, either way)... WTG!

Cool beans, my man.

13,432. Good number. CONGRATULATION!

76,242 saves, ladies and gentlemen. This man is the master. When he took me and ramagi down from our spots at the top of the top 50 saviours... he took up the mantle of protection with style. :::bows to Toocool:::

There's something about this girl I know, there's something about this girl.
I can't remember what her fucking name is though... I think... maybe Pearl?

THIS MAN IS THE ANTITHESIS OF TEH TOOCOOLS. IGNORE HIM!

First with the movie quoting, now with the song quoting! What IS it with this guy! Oy gevalt. </old jewish man>

I AM EXPERIENCING SEVERE DEJA VU.

Too late. And there's no way in hell I'm gonna post #37. #;-}>

If you really wanted me to have it, you shoulda coordinated when it was at 34 comments, and you coulda gotten me live, then you posted one, then me. Or somethin'.

So anyway, unless you're gonna delete a comment, IT'S TOO LATE. #;-}>

Oh, really? Cause yeah, I thought it was an intentional double-comment, I never woulda guessed it was an error. #;-}>

YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE IN THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD IN FFX-2 RIGHT AWAY? Holy crap that is so wrong. #;-}>

I have X-2, but I never finished X, so I haven't played X-2 as a result.

Yep, I was only involved in teh X and XII convos as a result of that.

Ah, my good friend EKR. As I told someone in my RD1 (redesign year 1) newspost's comments/responses, I got 5 free stickers along with a t-shirt from Tom Fulp back when I was a mod along with all the other mods at the time, and I'm not that bit of a "sticker person," so no... still no paid-for stickers in my profile. If there was ever some "package deal" in the NG store with stickers + shit I really wanted... maybe then. But that's one stat I don't care to pad just for padding's sake. (GASP, I know) #;-}>

Thanks.

Yep. Been here for 11,000+ straight days and counting. NG sure has been amazing ever since I was born in 1977!

But you know what's strange?

I've been using NG every damned day of my life, just like you said... only I was born a few months before Tom Fulp was born... how weird is THAT, eh? O_O

No...

...thank you.

But thanks for the offer! And no worries about an error like that, dude. You didn't really need to post a third one in a row just to explain the other two, but hey... #;-}>

I AM AWARE OF THAT, AND ALL OF THE OTHER IMPLICATIONS IT ENTAILS.

My ppd has been between 3.45 and 3.75 for the past 2 years. So yes, it is 3.7 from time to time... it's bound to happen when my ppd has been stuck in such a small range for so long. You'll note it was 3.69 at the time of the redesign anniversary, however. NYAH. #;-}>

Congrats on the 29, then!

Hey, there was a brief moment when the whistles were introduced and I saw the lovely green colour of the garbage whistle... that was back in June 2003, mind... and I was envious. Then I noted the cracked appearance of said whistle, and that together with the lame status it denoted dissuaded me from wanting to have it. I was quite happy with normal for 2 days, silver for years, and then deity after the whistle system change. #;-}>

43 was good, yep. 56, eh? 56 is one of the last few ones before the "final suck level icons," I know, but 55's the one for me. Either way, good luck to us both, yes. Thanks for dropping by!

[edit: Sorry, dude... it's comment #28 now, thanks to that spam account that posted here a day before you did now being being deleted... and its comment here deleted along with it... ;_;]

Nothing you would understand, most likely. But trust me... it's far more than "just" interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_(
number)

The above doesn't show ALL the cool things about 36, but it shows the basic cool things about it. The rest... are just things unique to me as an individual, and perhaps a few other mega-36 fans, and... again, you probably wouldn't care to know those... things... yes. But to sum them up:

6 is my favourite single digit number. 6 squared is 36. It's hip to be square (you do the math, eh?)...

Or, if you prefer, I could delete your first comment and this one would be #29.

Eh, it was #29 when you made what is now #28, and that's what matters, "in spirit." #;-}>

~250 and counting, my man. Gonna break last year's haul of 465 on CD07 (562 saves total including 2 hours into 8/16, also).

Aiming for... eh... 800 or so, would be nice.

HAPPY CLOCK DAY TO EVERY BOY AND GIRL IN THE WORLD!

Jumping? Who said anything about jumping? Maybe you refer here to PORTAL jumping thanks to all the portal coffee references? #;-}>

4 hrs? PFFFFT. I slept Thursday evening instead of sleeping Thursday night/Friday morning. SIMPLE SOLUTION.

CART IS NOT MOVING. PUUUUUSH LITTLE CART!

Because I deposited on only 90 days between 2000 and the end of 2002. It is... my greatest sin.

No idea on the whistle. I was a silver whistle from the very beginning, due to much whistling and review flagging before June 2003 (when the whistle system began)... and the whistle system had a huge change in 2005 or 2006, not sure when exactly, and so many of us high-silvers jumped to deity. Just a totally different scale now, so no idea there.

Supreme Commander? Well, it depends on how much you're going to use the portal. I had 0 saves and 0 blams at the start of 2003. I started gaining them around Jan 5th 2003. I hit 30,000/EGSC on March 4th, 2004, approximately 14 months later.

My pace was not as high as some. You could get EGSC anywhere between... say... 10 months... and 2 years... if you're a good paced NG statwhore. Or it could take forever if you don't gain many blams or saves. #;-}>

Just deposit your exp every day, that's the main thing. LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE. Keep your days deposited/days of account existence ratio as close to 100% as you can.

Mine used to be under 10%, and now it's 70%. But it's taken 5 years of work to get it up there. And it'll never be close to 100%, even when I hit the top ... eh, top 25 exp, let's say. (I should be #5 in exp right now, if I had 95%+ deposits instead of ~70%)

My ratio (from http://nglog.denvish.net/browse.p hp?id=127 <---NGlog will calculate it for you automatically every day if you want it to) is:

Deposit rate: 68.46% (this means I have deposited nearly 70% of the days possible since creating my account)

Your ratio can be found from the following two bits of info from your profile:

Sign-Up Date: 2/7/08
Exp. Points: 530 / 550

53 deposits / 191 days since you created your account = 27.75% deposit rate

Yours right now after a few months of account existence... is far better/higher than mine was on January 1st, 2003 after nearly 3 years of account existence (90 deposits / 1045 days = 8.61%). So it's not too late to fix it/increase it. Stop missing deposits, if you don't want to miss out on those golden Pimp levels. #;-}>

While I would have preferred a random Wi/Ht?er picked up #36 like happened last year (with NEVR accidentally snagging it), I noticed that my back and forth was spiraling ever closer to the mark, so I had to go ahead and snag it myself to make it... count, as it were.

BUT I KNEW THERE WAS A RISK. A HIGH RISK OF IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF THE HOLY MARK AND CARRY OVER INTO THE UNHOLY LANDS. Fortunately, I already discovered the counterbalance to this technique LAST YEAR, and I shall employ it once again.

I type 100+ wpm. Whether the fact that I type at that speed allows me to type a lot and so I just DO...... or whether I like to type a lot, and being able to type quickly encourages that fetish...

... is a condundrum that not even I am 100% sure about. As much as I DO type a lot, it ends up wasting a ton of my time when I'm not concise on NG BBS, say (which I don't enjoy very much, and ends up causing me to stay away from long threads therein for days or weeks at a time, causing me to spend more time catching up when I finally do try to catch up there).... and wasting my own time (unless I'm in the mood for killing time) I DO NOT LIKE.

But every human has a little masochist (and sadist) inside them... and that probably has something to do with it.

But anyway, you asked me to explain the "ratio" I spoke of. And it's not exactly something you can explain fully in one sentence. After all, my prior long-ass reply to you had left you going "huh?" and if I'd just said "it's how many days you've deposited divided by how many days your account has existed," you likely would have still not gotten the point/understood its importance.

Whether you do even now... is another matter for another day. Ta!

Well, if you add RD yr 1's comments to RD yr 2's comments, it should definitely hit 256 by mid-2009.

But as for an individual news post's comments count... yeah, not likely. Still, I had more comments on this year's post in the first month of its creation (just a few days ago marked that event).... than I did in around 6 months after last year's posting.

So... eh. It's up to youse guys, of course. #;-}>

Wii News? As in you're quoting the above oil jump from the Wii News Channel, and it has a funny pic? I'll have to check it out (or not... depends on how lazy I am... I actually have been playing some Guitar Hero Aerosmith tonight, though, so once I quit it, I could check DAT OUT).

67.2% is not embarassing, man. If it is, then what's my 62.x%? (yeah, I've been on a losing streak lately + not answering every poll... been going on it maybe 1-2 times a month as of late).

CMOC surfer dudes? WTF? From the Mii contests? I stopped doing those three months ago, TBH...

YES, MAYBE, PROBABLY, MAYBE NOT, POSSIBLY, DEFINITELY, ABSOLUTELY.

SOOOO SHINY!!!

fuck?

My % is 5 points lower than yours, man. I've missed dozens of votes over the summer, but that's neither an excuse nor a reason. The votes I HAVE made.... I have done worse on than you, overall. But this is nothing new, your % has always been higher than mine. I just like to keep mine over 60%, though I really wish I could keep it over 66.6%...

LOL! TBH? You really had to look up TBH, man? Oy.... It's not even on that crazy list you found:

To. Be. Honest.

Come on, iscrulz. The 1990s are over. You should know the acronyms we all learned back then by now. It wasn't like it was during the 80s, which you have teh POP CULTURE AMNESIA from. #;-}>

WTF = What the fuck. BRB = Be right back. BBIAB = Be back in a bit. BTW = By the way. AFAIK = As far as I know. LOL = Laughing out loud. HTH = Hope this/that helps/helped. IIRC = If I recall correctly. And yes... TBH = To be honest.

Do we need to cover any more of the good ol' '90s basics? (cough)

No, I do not. I heard from my gf that you can do AIM stuffs inside Gmail, though.

I don't go on Gmail much, either, before you ask. #;-}>

The main place I am reachable for real-time chat funs, actually... is Steam:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/gfox cook

Screw poker wagering... I'll just trade you my 100 grand for that Snickers. Mmmm... Snickers.

I, too, will always take dark chocolate over milk... but I'm a super peanut AND almond fan. I love them both so much, so I could be in the mood for either at any given time.

Now, nougat/mashmallow vs. just nougat... ooo... I gotta try those. Thanks for the heads-up! #;-}>

I.... don't know? o_o :::edges away slowly:::

Thanks... I didn't specifically MEAN to not show it off to you guys... and all, but... um... yeah.... My gf had all four of her wisdom teeth out (at age 27, 28 this Saturday... a little late to be doing that) on Monday, you see.... and I've been playing nurse to her patient all week.

SUPER SWOLLEN AND PAINED GF FTL.

So... yeah. But I was thinking of swinging around. Maybe for a quick LUL levelbrag and attempted catch-up session... we'll see. WE'LL SEE.

Anywho, it's just 23 hours since I got the scythe, too, so it ain't exactly old news (YET). I'd better hurry, though... before it is.

BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE... FOURTY-FIVE.
WELL IT'S A BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE... FOURTY-FIVE.
BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE... FOURTY-FIVE.
WELL IT'S A BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE... FOURTY-FIVE.

EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM FOR A PILLOW...
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM FOR A PILLOW...
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM FOR A PILLOW...
EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM
...
MINE'S ON THE RPM

Weird is the new "cool," man.

...

Anyone wondering if I lived through Hurricane Ike.... yeah, I did. No worries, I ain't a zombie or nothin'.

My apartment's power supply wasn't so lucky, however. It started flickering Friday night around 9:30PM (about... 45 minutes after the above comment I posted that night)... kept dipping or going out for a second or two on and off for the next few hours. It bravely kept our A/C and fridge and lights on... for many hours, however.

Finally... gave up the ghost... and ceased functioning at at 1:52AM, just 15 minutes or so before the eye of the hurricane came ashore down at Galveston.

42+ hours without power and counting... if we go past 60 hours without power, I'll start to regret living through this. Sleeping in still air, no breeze through the windows, at 82 degrees Fahrenheit... was not fun last night. ;_; But the weather forecast says it'll be more like 81 during the days and 65 during the nights for the next 48 hours, so... that's tolerable.

(I'm typing this at my parents' house 40 miles west of Houston, but I'm heading back into the "dead zone" in a few minutes to pick up my gf from work at the police department downtown, and then head back to our apartment in the Medical Center)

Dunno when I'll next be able to get back on NG. See yas, folks. Wish me luck.

I'M BACK, BITCH!

144 hours without power.... OVER.

Well, for the past 20 minutes or so, at least. :::crosses fingers::: DON'T CHANGE YOUR MIND, PLEASE, POWER... PLEASE DON'T CHANGE IT. ;_;

Oh. Hi there, I didn't see you come in!

THERE YOU ARE. Dragons must be allergic to hurricane victims. WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG, LATE-DROPPER-BY-ER? #;-}>

I noticed a few of those premature madness day flashes, as you so accurately call them, from Sunday eve, yep. A TWO DAY EVENT. I guess a lot of flash creators were jumping the gun because a Monday holiday tends to be no fun, especially on the INTERNETS. Or maybe they were all just in super-eastern time zones. EITHER WAY.

If I was going to do a hurricane-destroyed-my-internet troll, shouldn't I have done it... oh, I dunno, back the week I didn't have power? It's a little late now. #;-}>

You forget what? O_o
Fight... about... what? o_O
NDS = Nintendo DS... GTA = Grand Theft Auto... CW = .... The CW??!!? @_@

gfox's mind = blown

And is that last bit your GTA GPA? #;-}>

hah. Huzzah. And woot.

Good question. I meant to on the weekend, but I was BINGING ON STEAM GAMES due to my weeklong no-gaming-except-for-a-little-DS-
every-now-and-then-due-to-NOTABLE TORECHARGEIT-and-all powerlessness.

Mmmm... so much Team Fortress 2, BioShock, and Far Cry. SO MUCH BLOOD.

Ahem... yes... so... uh. When I get around to it? #;-}>

Give it a month or so if you don't mind. Still recovering from the meteorologic warface courtesy of Mr. Ike. No needs no more right nows. ;_;

I just lost power for 144 hours, that's all. Don't you read the last few comments before you post a comment, man? #;-}>

My point was that it was psychological warfare from Ike that I had endured, more than physical warfare (though the physical discomfort of sleeping in a hot, sticky, sweaty mess with windows open, no breeze, and one tiny little battery-powered fan (which we didn't get until after the first night, which was the worst of the 6 nights)... that's some physical warfare, too)... and since you were offering me some additional "psychological warfare" on top of that, I had to take a pass.

For now. Like I said, give me awhile, then feel free to continue. #;-}>

Coolies. I'll be around, it's weekend time and I don't have plans for both days like we did last weekend.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Thanks. Which one? :::checks:::

I am... beh.

My apartment's parking garage is being repaired, so everyone in the complex is fighting for spaces for the next 1-2 weeks.

My Astros didn't make the playoffs and the Texans just had the worst "give up a sure win" game since the Oilers dropped a playoff classic to the Bills in the early 90s (though at least the Cubs got swept out of the playoffs and the Yankees never made it in, so... baseball wise, I'm happy... and I ain't that much of an American football fan).

And finally, disc 1 of my 4 CD Planescape Torment game has a break in it (only about an inch break, but enough to make the game uninstallable on the desktop AND the laptop, and can't copy all the files over, either... most of them make it, 3 are damaged beyond repair by the crack).

On the upside (for your purposes), I started catching up yesterday, and that shall continue this afternoon in a moment.

Yeah, the garage had tons of cars in it due to people being scared of their car flooding out in the parking lot itself, and as a result of too many people with SUPER HEAVY SUVs driving all over it and parking all over it, there's a few spots in the garage now with crumbling pavement/structure. (sigh)

Steam name is gfoxcook, of course.

BTW, if you're planning to add me as a friend on Steam, better hurry up. I fluctuate between 145 and the max 150 friends, and IIRC I'm at 149 right now. HURRY! ACT NOW. #;-}>

"3,628 Pageviews"

Eh. Close enough.

I'm sorry, too. (sorry that I clicked that, looked at the stats on the right, noticed the 3628 and figured that's what you were yelling in my NG profile about, and then promptly closed the tab without really looking over your schtuffs) Sorry about that, man. o_o

It has been awhile. I don't mind it, actually (especially as it was stuck on a lovely # like 66), but scrolling up... it's amazing how it never seemed to go for more than 5 to 7 daysish without getting bumped by youse guys, all the way from the redesign anniversary when I posted it.... to... well, October 10th. Heh.

Anyway, I bow down to you. YOU'RE THE KICKSTARTER. TWISTED KICKSTARTER.

A) I thought we long ago established that unless a monthly Clock Day was instituted, I ain't making it to 36k before you pass me in saves.

B) I don't care about overall b/p rank anymore than I care about blamrank all that much and you know it, sir!

C) Well, one thing you don't have to wait to pass me in is "your/you're" mistakes. Dude, that's your second one since summer. YOUR BRAIN IS TEH BROKENS. ;_;

Never to late to start. So yeah, you should definitely do something cool for an NG anniversary.

I would start doing that myself on my anniversaries if it wasn't for the fact I'm already doing something cool every year on the redesign's anniversary, and I don't want things to get TOO confusing and pointless (also, I'm way more likely to forget it's 2/18 than forget it's 7/17). #;-}>

What is this you speak of? :::clicks profile link:::

You're wasting your time on Spore and WOW instead of working on your 100th flash?

Very well. I've spent 100 hours playing Far Cry 2 since it came out in mid-October, so... we're even. #;-}>

Uh... okay. Was just going off of what you posted in your most recent news post at the time you left me a comment. #;-}>

72k... and...? O_o

See? For you, it's a much more memorable date. For me, not so much. #;-}>

But... that was never really in doubt, dude. O_o

Anywho, if it being official matters that much to you, then there ya go, it's official. Nyah. #;-}>

AND YOU LIVED TO TELL THE TALE. HOLY SHIT. You're even more epic than the Ancient Mariner!

Tom Fulp sent me 5 stickers along with the free t-shirt back when I was a mod.

I feel no need to buy stickers when... I haven't used the 5 he gave me. O_o

Eh, they're okay, I s'pose.

I tell you what I like, though... I like 38 more than 37! Congrats on the level up.

"YOU'RE WINNER !"

OMG. It's the alphabets. I is disbelief'd.

KIRBY. NOOOO. YOU HAVE A TUMAAAAAAAAAAAAH. ON BOTH SIDES OF YOUR HEAD. NOOOOOO.

Oh, thank god. Not tumors... "music notes." Fair enough. Whew.

I hope you're happy now, sir. I SAID I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.

The death of you.... how? o_o

I actually noticed that on the official top 50 saves, which I don't check very often, but I was checking the 50 most recent deposterers after depositing and... yeah, I checked the other top 50s and noticed that right there. Congratulations on narrowing the gap to 3 digits.

Oh, and BTW, the missed deposits on my accounts a few weeks ago were a combination of by accident and on purpose.

As often happens, I missed a deposit on all 3 one day by accident, but I then missed various amounts on the two alts to get the last two digits to make some sort of "sense" to my brain so that I easily can see if I've deposited on all three on any given day without having to check NG log. Yar.

You won't be happy till then? Oh, I dunno... you seem to be getting plenty drunk (and therefore happy, I hope) plenty and I still haven't caught up in awhile. #;-}>

Crazy 18 year olds and their super-low drinking ages.

Bargle fargle. Thanks for the heads up...

YUIGOH... O_O Anyway, funs. I remember drunk posting from the 90s.

GET WITH THE TIMES, man. It ain't novel anymore!

I never have a set time of day to deposit. As long as I do it by midnight NG time, I'm happy. #;-}>

... unless NG has one of its infamous downtimes that day BEFORE I deposit, of course. Then I wish I had deposited earlier. That's only happened to me once of the various times it could have, fortunately.

OMG, SHOES.

I'll probably get GTA IV for the PC sooner or later, on Steam. Don't know if that'll mean we can play together or not, console-head. #;-}>

I don't see what Coop passing me in saves has to do with you getting revenge on him... the two things sound fairly independent of each other. Don't rope me into being the instrument for your revenge. Go make a deal with the devil (i.e. DoD).

Eh. The glory days of 42-43-44-45, 4 consecutive level icons I loved... are over. 46 is decent, but it pales in comparison. Thanks, anyhow.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Uh... :::thinks back::: We meant to leave town by 3PM on the 24th (4PM NG time), but we ended up heading out more around 4PM that day (5PM NG time), and you posted at 5:13 PM ET... I don't remember logging out of Steam though. I was on Steam the entire time I was out of town, just in offline mode. #;-}>

Anywho, I was gonna go on and say merry christmas and bye to you and any one else on, but I decided it'd just be a lot easier (read: faster) to leave a couple profile comments and then JET. #;-}> As you can see from the time differences, we were trying to get outta town for 2-3 hours. SUCH A LONG PROCESS. #;-}>

We got to a grocery store near my parents' place 200 miles from here at 7:10PM and it was closing at 8:00PM due to it being Christmas Eve and all, and we got one of the last 2 pork shoulders to do a roast on Christmas Day (and all the other ingredients needed), so we barely left town as it was. Whew.

ANYWHO. Happy (late) Boxing Day!... well, cept for those in Hawaii and Alaska, I think, for whom it's not late (yet). #;-}>

Huh? ... my b/p ranking? ... I hope you're being sarcastic, since #24 isn't very great when you were once #2. #;-}>

Sorry, man. Fallout 3 is my current obsession, with a little Left4Dead (my x-mas present from my baby) and Team Fortress 2 thrown in for good measure when I wanna multiplay.

You care if DOD passes you, I don't mind if Coop passes me... ding ding ding, you nailed it. #;-}>

Happy 2009, izzy.

That is pretty neat, but 35991 is achingly close to the holy land.

That's more like it! Congrats on passing me in savecount. When did you start the engines up again on your final approach to 7777777777777land, BTW?

EVEN THE LOSERS GET LUCKY SOMETIMES

But of course. 12 is just as much a foundation of 36ness as 6 is. Any multiple of 6 is gonna be a number I like by default.

Well, I sexed my fiance when she was 24 (now 28), and I'm sure I'll be sexing her when she's my wife at age 36, so... you're partly right. Just fix that "anyone" part. #;-}>

Memberlist updated, you whinger. #;-}>

up to "getting all this info," I thought you were talking about the stats in my news post, which is what you're replying to, technically, after all... and those stats are either directly from my profile (back on last July 17th), from using a calculator on numbers directly from my profile on that date, or... from NGlog back on that date as well.

All three of those sources of info took hardly any work at all, and I'd say that once a year, on the anniversary of NG's rebirth, I spend about 15 minutes or so making the new stat anniversary posts for all THREE of my accounts, not just this one, then posting them all in a minute or two. So it's really not that much trouble.

But then you say "for 100s of other people," and now I have no idea what "info" you're referring to. If you mean any of my lists, I haven't been running any lists for about a year now, so... it's a bit of a moot point.

I think you need to go here, since I searched the users page and there is no "kris008" on it. Though there is a "kris" (presumably the reason for your 008) and a "KristaX"... go here and log your data and boom, there's all your stats any day you want them:

http://nglog.denvish.net/

Not as special as your Wi/Ht? member #36 badge, but... yes, special enough. 3 digits, after all, is better than 2, no? #;-}> Happy 100th comment!

booyah, as the kids say.

heyyyyy, Macarena!

AFAIK, it isn't out here yet. O_o

Note: Due to be released 2 March 2009

YOU GOTZ ADVANCED ALBUMS?

I don't listen to leaked stuff, I buy CDs. Call me old-fashioned. #;-}>

Well, I do rip them to iTunes after I buy them, though.

Anyway, a day ago you said GOYB isn't so good, but the REST sound good... now you say it's the only one that has an edge to it, and the rest are boring pop? O_o

Make up your mind, man. #;-}>

But of course. Have been since... uh... May/June-ish 2007, I believe it was.

Hell yeah. HIGH FIVE!

I see. So... 1, 2, 8... still better than some albums, but... yeah, that doesn't sound too inspiring. We shall see.

Yeah, in... July 2008, man. O_o

Welcome to 8 months ago. #;-}>

They're nifty, but I don't play games on Steam just for achievements, nor will I play games on NG just for medals. The game's gotta be fun. Still, it's gotten me to try two games out on NG that I might not have otherwise so far. Still, I played Mastermind WC when it came out quite a lot, and it had no medals, so... again, not really a cause and effect thing for the most part, once the novelty's gone. Which... it is.

ShittyKitty got a school/work/love life and had no time for us, it's true. Sad, but true. Why you'd think I would be the one to resurrect his works, I dunno. I never programmed list tools like he and Denvish and Dogma and Casualty did in their own ways.

As I think I've told you before on Steam (maybe one of those times you were drunk O_o), I have Steam set to be in offline mode by default. If I'm playing 1P games I almost always leave it offline when I come on, and if I log off without ever coming on to pop up and see if anyone's around, then it'll show when I logged off even though I was never shown as logged on.

Like I said that time, if I play MP, I tend to go into online mode, if I play SP, I tend to stay in my default offline mode, though there's exceptions to both rules!

Oh, also... I've noticed that even if I leave Steam on for days... sometimes it'll say "last online: some short time ago" even though I didn't log off at that time. Steam can be screwy sometimes. O_o

Your top 4 is my top 4, yep. Just a different ordering of the 4, but they're definitely heads and shoulders above the rest. Tracks #3 and #4 are pretty good, too, though. Kinda the middle, and then the rest at the bottom for the most part.

I went to U2 shows in 97 and 01 and I missed out on the Vertigo tour in 04 or 05 or whenever it was. My gf's never been to a U2 show even though she's been a fan since at least 00, so I'd love to take her, but we'll see how it goes. I heard they're doing one swing through the US in 2009, and then another in 2010, so I may have two chances, too... so... might wait till the 2nd time through. Happy for you, though! Make sure to let me know here on my profile how the show went, which songs the played, whatever you remember. #;-}>

Like that should stop ya! #;-}>

YOU'RE A MAN OF YOUR WORD NOW, DOG!

Bahamut's a right bastich now, iddn't he!

NEEDS MOAR TAR.

Hey there. Hope you had fun at Distant Worlds.

I have no facebook, twitter, bebo, myspace, blogger, livejournal, blahblahblahblah etc. So no... I don't have one and likely never will unless forced to by a job or something.

Just in time for glorious red 'n' gold China day!

Just in time for glorious red 'n' gold China day!

I LIKED THE COLOURSCHEME A LOT, BUT THE CENSORSHIP NOT SO MUCH.

No BEEBO and Marc M (even for a day) makes gfox a sad panda. ;_;

NO. I WILL NOT. i.e. did not.

Not like you did THAT anywhere, eh? (wink)

I HOPE YOU'RE PROUD OF YOURSELF.

Are you sure it was me? There's another gfox (the bastard) on Steam as well, though I think his account's been inactive for half a year. At least, it was a few months ago.

If it was me, I sure as hell didn't know I was playing with you. O_o

I didn't reply to your greetings because I didn't see them/didn't know it was you. Are you talking about a Steam IM during the game, or just a "say" message in-game, in TF2 itself? o_O

I dunno what you mean by unknown 2fort. I play on a 24/7 2fort party server with lo-grav a lot lately, and I play on 2fort2furious, which really doesn't have anything to do with 2fort, though it does have the map in rotation every now and then. o_o

</thoroughly confused> @_@

yep, then it was the 24/7 2fort party server.... totally missed it, like you said. Glad it was the real me, at least. That means the other gfox is likely still in hibernation. #;-}>

Yeah, look me up again, or just join that server now and then. When I haven't played 2fort too much lately, I tend to go there (as I think 2fort + lo-grav is the ultimate way to play 2fort).

Bahamut told you to do that based on his silly misunderstanding of me accidentally deleting Corky's own 37-y news post, so... Bahammy boy is teh fail. ;_;

On the plus side, that more than outweighs the evil 37ness in your post, so it's all good! No worries, mate!

No.

Purple. What's it to ya?

I'm not lying, I really don't have MSN, dude. #;-}>

Look, I didn't give you a straight answer because I'm not a celebrity and you're not an interviewer from the E! television network. I didn't sign up for a questionaire, yet you suddenly came to my profile and starting asking me personal questions. Do I know whether you're black or white? No, and I don't care. Why are you asking me, eh? STFU or GTFO, your choice.

LAMENESS.

Oh, and to sum up the dd situation above, I have one thing to say: POLAR BEAR CANNON SCOREBOARD, BABY!

#1. 523 gfox
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#7. 391 darknessdweller

LOL! I knew it was, as they say, A TRAP. I don't give a damn what race he thinks I am, but the reason I ain't saying is BECAUSE HE WANTS TO KNOW. And not only that, but didn't say why. Curiosity alone isn't enough, or else you could go around on any web forum asking EVERY SINGLE PERSON a/s/l? If they want you to know, they'll say it in their profile. JEEEEEZ.

And that's the way it should be. But very similar to decades, where technically 1980 is part of the 70s, and 1990 part of the 80s (if you don't know what I mean, remember that there is no year "0" and that the first year AD was 1, so 1-10, 11-20, etc. are the decades....

I feel that the 40s truly start at 41. The icons for 41-42-43-44-45 are so fucking excellent, and it's not like there's a ton of drop off at 46-47... etc., either. And even when some of the 47+ ones fail to impress, they're still golden and elite, so... can't complain too much, unlike with old level 23 lollipop, at least.

SO, congrats on level 40, but the main thing is you're one step away from the great 41-45 chain beginning for you. GODSPEED!

it depends on the situation. If you're asking why did I tell him I was purple instead of say... green... I was trying to go with the non-obvious answer. #;-}>

But most of the time, yes, green > all else. For skin colour, I don't... believe I'd choose to be green if I could, though. Too many Martian stereotypes. O_o

1) Man, I need to get both of those guns. I don't have very many "unique" guns in Fallout 3 at all, I'm still pretty much using standard weapons (but a nice range of them, and most in full condition thanks to my 100 repair + scavanging of spare weapons for spare parts, and my hoarding in my Megaton house's lockers).

I WANTS ME MY LINCOLN'S REPEATER. I can't remember much about the Vengeance, except I've read about it, too, and it sounds good.

2) Level 45 in Fallout3 or on NG? LOL. YOU BROKE FALLOUT3, MAN! Though I've heard the level 20 cap is removed in one of the DLC expansion packs. I won't even worry about those until I beat the game, of course.

Anyway, on second thought (well, really just looking at your profile): congrats on level 45! Great level icon, enjoy it, though I don't really like it with blue... oh, and great pipboy profile icon + "Age/Gender: 18, Male / Location: Capital Wasteland / Job: Adventurer" personal info.

3) Lastly, what is Edguy?

I first went online in the summer of 1994. And yes, both dial-up AOL and Prodigy, which I used for the first year of being online, before I went to college in 1995 and got a nice ETHERNET connection on campus..... had instant messaging. Actually, PIM started while I was there, in 94, but AIM was around before I joined in 1994, maybe as long as 1992 or 1993, not sure. And no, it didn't take 3 minutes to send or receive messages, IMing was the same speed then as now. Text is text, man. It's no big deal. You couldn't send pictures or sound or videos with your IMs, though, back at the start.

As for Bahamut not getting over something that happened 3 months ago: People have long memories, man. If you haven't learned that by now, you will... sooner or later. You will be held accountable for your actions, behaviours, and words. And it is very rare that you will find a person with both forgiveness AND forgetfulness, so... don't count on it.

In short, my main point to you in my responses to your silliness was that ASL type stuff is fine on chat rooms, but this ain't no chat room, man. When in Rome... do as the Romans do.

thanks, Bahamut. (ahem)...

Why thank you! I meant to post about it in LUL yesterday as well, but didn't end up even posting once. I'll rectify that tonight.

Thanks! I think you misunderstood my stalker quota, however. The 10 stalker limit is on stalkers attending our actual wedding ceremony. There's no limit on posting in my profile. Come now. #;-}>

Yeah, try the ol' gfox method. It's a winner!

Thank you! Well, we've been happily living together for 8 of our 9 years together, so... all signs point to yes. #;-}>

Just... come by the BBS only on weekends? Try that for starters.

Going from 7 times a week to just 1 or 2 or 3 (if you must come by Friday/Saturday/Sunday) times a week will be a dramatic reduction and give you way more time for other non-posting-on-NGBBS habits/hobbies/tasks/duties/whate ver during the rest of the week. Give it a try.

FO3: Yeah, I haven't even gotten to the Museum yet. I've been nearby, but not in it. I haven't even gone to Galaxy News Radio yet. Well, I went once, pwned some newbs (aka Super Mutants) and then reloaded, because I didn't want to advanced the plot. I'm so overleveled for this early in the game, it's not funny. I think I'm level 16 or so? And I haven't met Three Dog yet. heh.

Anyway, fun times. I'd love to find both those guns, and so I SHALL. I've pwned Deathclaws, but... I dunno how many are guarding the Vengeance at once. Only fought one or two at a time.

NG: Blue aura's fine, but... just arguing it's #2 to green for all time in my eyes, that's all. #;-}>

Weddin': Dunno where yet.

Edguy: Ah. BETTER THAN JUDAS PRIEST AND DIO? BLASPHEMER.

RR: Dunno! Your guess is as good as mine.

O_O Like I told iscrulz, not sure where yet. But thanks for your... enthusiasm. #;-}>

Always good to start young, yes.

I'm sure some people plan their weddings more than a year in advance. Ours will not be a spectacular affair, and as such, won't require months of planning, of that much I am already sure.

Is that the earliest memory of your childhood, as well? Or do you have earlier ones?

My earliest memory is my sister being born when I was 3, nearly 4, is why I ask. And it has been since I was a teen. And it's not really a full memory anymore. More of a memory of having that memory of the delivery room at the hospital, and now knowing that I once remembered it more fully. Ah, the human mind.

Anyway, good stuff. A LIFE OF RICHNESS FILLED WITH COMPUTING.

Well, you apparently learned of my engagement exactly ONE month to the day of my proposal to my honey! Anywho. You coulda... just... belatedly congratted me instead of wishing you could have made it a news story, yanno. #;-}>

You mean before age 4? You said "The earliest memory of using a computer I have is a cloudy day when I was 4." and I wanted to know if that's also your earliest memory period. Of course that was before age 6.... so I'm gonna assume you meant to type 4 there as otherwise.... yeah. #;-}>

Whoa. Nifty memories, man. Make posts with content more like that than what you usually do in Level up! Lounge and I'll wager you'd have a much better reputation on Wi/Ht?.

Also... Interesting that you remember both a bully from your childhood PLUS a nightmare from back then as well. Musta made an impression indeeeeed.

Yeah, man. Watch out or my stats'll cut you. O_O

Anyway, hardly get any stats yourself till 2012, and then go crazy for a couple years and keep at it for a total of 6 years till 2018, and you could have stats exactly like this by then. #;-}>

His new Co-Co nickname's been mentioned in at least 6 eps in the first three weeks, actually. All three of the Twitter nights (once per week, I hope they don't keep that up... it'll get stale within another week or so at this rate) + with other guests (Tom Hanks on the 2nd night, for example).

Anyway, get the DVR if you can, but if you'd rather be lazy and/or save the cash, you can just use the NBC website. Win/win. #;-}>

(GASP)

No lie, I'm actually listening to Judas Priest right now. I was going to listen to some Iron Maiden about 10 mins ago after listening to U2 for about an hour, but I hadn't listened to any Priest in a few months, so I put on Screaming for Vengeance, and I'm about 4 songs in right now. What a coincidence.

P.S. YOU GOT ANOTHER THING COMIN'.

150 or more pokemon? Uh... okay. YER QUOTE SELECTION IS LACKING TODAY, MATE.

Um... okay. It wasn't the first time I posted there, was it? #;-}>

I glance at/scan the review list, review response list, audio review list, and audio review response list... but since there are FOUR threads as a result and since I hardly review at all in either portal, I'm just not that active in participating in the threads. Rest assured, though, I still look at the list updates. I just don't wanna make a post thanking ya for the update and not having anything else to add, which is usually the case. #;-}>

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't an audience dude but rather Tom Hanks that started the Coco craze. In at least 5-10 shows since then, the audience has either started up a COCO chant or one or two loud dudes in the audience have yelled Coco, and that's when Conan makes another "if that catches on, I'm DONE in this town" joke.

Yeah, the wild animals were fun.

.... Your coolness scale sucks ass, but I think you already knew that. HTH.

What, you'd never looked at it before? #;-}> I assume you mean for the first time since I updated it around 6/20 or 6/21, whenever it was. Yeah, I noticed that about you, but I don't think I noticed it about Wylo. Pretty epic stuff, mate.

Which was worse to you? The Red Wings losing or you losing your regular status at around 3.8 years in?

kay... Sounds like a nice 3 + 6y dream there, dude.

Yes, I think a comment such as the previous one you left here is superior to most of your posts in LUL, that's why I said it. And it has nothing to do with you typing without acronyms, it was the tone of your posting, man. What you did was type without constant whimsy, you actually told a little story. meme-filled story, doesn't matter. A story nonetheless. A story that didn't invite ridicule. At least, not immediately. #;-}>

Just a little protip for you there. But if you're really that incredulous and don't believe me, then... eh, I ain't gonna work too hard to convince you. You do whatever you think you should do, and leave it at that. But... don't complain about how people react to you, eh?

At least you remember the 90s, unlike the 80s. WE SHOULD BE SAFE.

Is what still going on? Co-Co references? Eh, sure. Not every night, though. For some reason, my DVR failed to record Monday and Tuesday nights' shows, like it failed 2 weeks ago on a Monday night. Dunno what's going on, maybe they retitled it from just "Tonight Show" on the program guide to "Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien"... that type of namechangery bullshit always fucks with the DVR programming.

Your coolness scale may be right on in SOME aspects, but it said a braindead retard humming was > U2, which is just wrong, man. You gonna start U2 bashing to get me upset like Bahamut used to get when you FF bash? Too bad, it ain't gonna work. #;-}>

Awesome. That's a wild overhang above Bono, yeah. Thanks for the links, man. I'll show 'em to my honey later, she likes U2, too (harrrr).

OH YAH. Dude, if you hadn't just said that, I mighta forgotten. Sad but true. #;-}>

Like I told you on Steam... in the end, Valve beats us all. Valve beats us all, man. But we love it. We're like masochists and Valve is the sweet, sweet sadist. mmmm yeah.

You like GameStop better than Steam? Well then... you are not welcome on Steam anyway, so... it's a non-issue!

Eh. There are worse golden level icons than ye olde trident.

It's very plain-looking, but so are a lot of them. That's the problem with SINGLE COLOUR weapons like that, even if it's shiny gold.

The bow and arrow and the chainsaw and lots of other things look really boring because they're 100% gold. IMO, they shoulda mixed in gold with OTHER materials in the pics (which some of them do, but not enough of them).

Can't wait for 51 and 55, IIRthetwoswordlevelsC.

Depending on where your people are from exactly, that could either mean "a goat," "cool," or "nervous," apparently. But um.... I'll just assume you meant "a crazy stat freak," and say... thanks, man! #;-}>

My final response here.

[insert murder/suicide here]