I misclick-typed to try to get to the general forum from somewhere and hit forum 11 instead of forum 1. Naturally, after being banhammered, this should come up with a "sorry, you're not permitted to come here" type of message. But no. It's a blank screen. Completely blank. Nothing on it whatsoever. Same with the other mod forums (that'd be 9, bbs mod, 11, review mod, 12, general mod for those who care and don't know).

Now while I respect the fact that Newgrounds is sensitive to users' bandwidth requirements (hence the fact they've had tight upload limits for more or less ever), is it really that hard to put up a simple "you're not supposed to be here, go away" message in text? I mean really, it can't be that difficult. Come on. It takes basically two seconds. A blank screen is horribly unprofessional.

Also opening up this blog post for general UFC 83 discussion. I have opinions, and will air them if prompted.

Also. TtFaF is the best track ever, and checking out the mod forum blankness has allowed my alt to deposit, lol

[edit - it's not just those, it's if you're shifting the portal id number up one waiting for new submissions. it's hugely annoying, especially when you have a massive screen just spewing white at you]

Seeing how they've added this embed feature in, some classic chris rock for you all.

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Just played a poker session, down about a buyin and a half (thanks to those who cracked AA with KQ and J5s respectively). But I had to post some hand history highlights. Firstly, what sets the guy off. Notice the expert preflop limp-call with 32s:

Full Tilt Poker Game #6002909359: Table Portrait Peak - $0.05/$0.10 - No Limit Hold'em - 8:48:05 ET - 2008/04/12
Seat 1: pablo442 ($2)
Seat 2: pranaman ($17.70)
Seat 3: idolfan1986 ($4.15)
Seat 4: jigglypuff64 ($5)
Seat 5: lol_me_is_good ($2.15)
Seat 6: CharlieFreck ($13.80)
Seat 7: iching64 ($10.70)
Seat 8: SteelAleks ($2)
Seat 9: faxxenaxx ($2)
iching64 posts the small blind of $0.05
SteelAleks has 5 seconds left to act
SteelAleks posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jigglypuff64 [Kc Ac]
faxxenaxx folds
pranaman folds
idolfan1986 calls $0.10
jigglypuff64 raises to $0.45
lol_me_is_good folds
CharlieFreck folds
iching64 folds
SteelAleks folds
idolfan1986 calls $0.35
*** FLOP *** [3c 5d 6c]
idolfan1986 has 15 seconds left to act
idolfan1986 bets $0.70
jigglypuff64 calls $0.70
*** TURN *** [3c 5d 6c] [2c]
idolfan1986 bets $1.50
jigglypuff64 raises to $3.85, and is all in
idolfan1986 calls $1.50, and is all in
jigglypuff64 shows [Kc Ac]
idolfan1986 shows [2s 3s]
Uncalled bet of $0.85 returned to jigglypuff64
*** RIVER *** [3c 5d 6c 2c] [4c]
jigglypuff64 shows a flush, Ace high
idolfan1986 shows a straight, Six high
jigglypuff64 wins the pot ($7.65) with a flush, Ace high
idolfan1986 is sitting out

Going to simply cut out the best of the chat highlights from here on out:

idolfan1986: PIECE OF SHIRT
idolfan1986 has returned

(I then repop him on flop with top two pair after he minraises me preflop blind v blind)

idolfan1986: u &@$@#$
idolfan1986: u fayggot

(some idiot who minraised preflop with KTs outdraws him on river after he limp-calls 87s and flops top pair)

idolfan1986: U FYUCKING PIECE OF SHYT
CharlieFreck: quit going all in on &@&$e hands
idolfan1986: quit being a little FAGGGOT AND CALLING WITH NO PAIR
jigglypuff64: tilt much?
idolfan1986: FYUCK U BIATCH
CharlieFreck: quit being a whiny $@@@!
idolfan1986: fyuck u biatch
idolfan1986: u suck DIACK
CharlieFreck: and i have like $15 of your money
idolfan1986: u sucked out like a little bytch
CharlieFreck: only once
idolfan1986: no all the tikmes
idolfan1986: quit being a pussy he didnt have an 8
kunzy007: Beeftime?
idolfan1986: y did u fold charlie u suck ur such a little bittch u and gayboy jigglypuff over here
CharlieFreck: I fold when I can't win
kobebryant1 (Observer): can i ask u something
CharlieFreck: that's why i don't have to buy more chips every 5 minutes like you
kobebryant1 (Observer): whats ur problem idolfan?
idolfan1986: i get sucked out on alot
idolfan1986: u just hit ;lucky hands

Gets a bit dull for a while

CharlieFreck: online fights are the best, no bruises.
kobebryant1: :)
kobebryant1: right
kunzy007: and everybody who dont want to fight can also mute the persons so dont cry
idolfan1986: ur just a fagg like everyone else
kobebryant1: ask somebody else around here
CharlieFreck: how can you call someone a fagg with a name like idolfan
idolfan1986: u r dump? do u speak english
idolfan1986: ask jigglypuff how gay
kobebryant1: backward , i forgot to say
kunzy007: i thought polish
idolfan1986: how is that chinese explain?
kunzy007: bye bye little biatch

Charlie then stacks off with overcards against flopped nuts

idolfan1986: CHARLIE WOW U SUCK
CharlieFreck: still have more than you
CharlieFreck: didn't even have to rebuy
idolfan1986: ur a terrible player
idolfan1986: it was obvious he had a straight
CharlieFreck: and your a donkey
idolfan1986: no u r im not the one calling a straight with just a pair when the opponent made it obvious he had it
CharlieFreck: no you the player who goes all in on 8 7
idolfan1986: i had u beat u sucked out
CharlieFreck: you had a pair of sevens get over it
idolfan1986: not even chasing a flush C HASING A PAIR
idolfan1986: WHOS THE DONKEY U GOT LUCKY
CharlieFreck: and you didn't it's called a game of chance
idolfan1986: hey didnt u have like 15 dollars in chips at one time?
CharlieFreck: hey haven't you already lost like 15 dollars

About this time I get bored so buddylist and chat block both of them.

Currently listening to: Megadeth's Greatest Hits, 8/10

Than the sound of cpu fan grinding against heatsink. Not only does it sound awful, it also means buying a new cooling setup, and to be on the safe side using an older slower computer that doesn't have all my music on it (while I do have that on an external HD, it's formatted as NTFS so, iirc, win98 can't read it). At least it made itself known to me noisily, rather than just dying and allowing my mobo to melt.

As an aside, the lack of great april fools' gags everywhere is very disappointing

[edit - after god knows how much poking and shoving, because of socket A mobos having the most ridiculous system of attaching heatsinks, and fearing that i'd bricked the system at least three times, it seems to have worked, thank god]

Someone drew my attention to this blog:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.
com/

It's hilarious, and somewhat true. Of course, I feel the need to point out that I could probably post this on the BBS and see nothing happen, but if I posted a link to a similar blog about how certain people stereotypically like fried chicken and watermelon, I'd probably get banned.

Would also like to comment at this point that it really sucks that Europe doesn't have Brawl yet.

On the other site I moderate, linking to videos here, regardless of content, is deemed offensive. How about that?

Aside: Pigeon Detectives album, 8/10, quality

The Hoosiers - The Trick To Life (2007), 6/10
Kanye West - Graduation (2007), 7/10
The Wombats - A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation (2007), 7/10
Inaura - One Million Smiles (1996), 8/10
Cardiacs and Affectionate Friends (2001), 6/10
Charlie's Angels - Greatest Hits Vol 1 (unknown, doesn't say on sleeve), 5/10
Organ Radio - 1 (1997, 7), 2 (1997, 6), 12 (2000, 6), 13 (2000, 6), 15 (2001, 7), 16 (2001, 8)
Herzoga/To The Bones - Things To Say/Tycho split single w/lots of bonus tracks (2007), 7/10

Sadly my HD is now pretty much full so I can't rip half of these without buying a new one, in two minds whether to go internal or external at the moment.

Wow. Un-fucking-believable. Funny how "the greatest QB ever" looks like a deer in headlights when his o-line gets pwned. Best SB ever imo, at least since I've been watching (roughly XXIX, 49ers > Chargers). Some comments:

- Belichick's such a cock for leaving the field after they mess up the timing right at the end, sack him IMO
- Coughlin can just retire now to let Spagnuolo have the Giants gig
- The Sling is quite possibly the single most awesome non-scoring play ever, better than McNair - Dyson on the one more yard drive in the Rams - Titans SB imo
- Manning getting MVP for basically two drives in the fourth quarter is obviously expected but somewhat ridiculous considering it should have gone to the Giants' d-line
- Sucks to be Tiki Barber right now

Apparently you lot across the pond are choosing who's going to be your new overlord this year. Do go out and make yourself heard if you're eligible to do so (ideally for anyone but Clinton). I'll likely be up for a bit on Tuesday, hopefully to see Obama pwn.

Have recently got an awful lot of CD's, at some point I'll review a few of them but I'm still working my way through many of them.

Also, lol @ the Globe:

And I quickly discovered how an awful lot of the place is somewhat slack, and needs to be refined. I mean seriously, the NG mag has been a work in progress for what seems forever, and it still has a nice big option to check on in the main navbar. Most anticipated alpha is Madness Combat 6? Last I'd checked Krinkels had released the seventh (which is the third most anticipated alpha, nicely sandwiching Waterlollies which will surely appear some time soon... oh wait, it's number one of all time). Pretty much everything else is 18 months to a couple of years or more out of date (in fact greg's interview with fabulous999 of Beebo fame is still on the most recent, from roughly the time I was first moderated).

What's worse is that they have so many collections nowadays that you can't find what you're looking for. Love them or hate them, the Clock Crew are essentially a huge part of Newgrounds history (and whoever is on Wikipedia saying they're not can fuck off and die), but I couldn't see where their collection page is (but could find collections about file sharing networks that were dead from before the CC was even around, Mikey, a fad that was briefly interesting about six years ago but has been dead since then, and the Wazzup parodies). If it wasn't for ingenuity of deleting a random collections' name from the URL and replacing it with clockcrew, or the fact that I know that 28240 will never die, I wouldn't know to look in the Newgrounds page, as more or less everything can be related to that. I mean, for fuck's sake, they've been relegated to the same level as the Glock Group and the N00b Nation. Or worse, an art forum collabs section, which, with no disrespect to them, has barely been going long enough for people to recognise their forum exists at all.

Oh well, I'm in no position to give them pointers as to what to do, nor do I know what they're doing. So I'll forget it. Happy new year everyone.

[edit - I was meaning to mention that an interview that I gave relating to GameFAQs, a site where my moderating is still appreciated and is not cut off without any reason given, is available to view on the wiki about that site, at http://wikifaqs.net/index.php?title=Jo nthomson]

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/83 6073

Given events of the last two months, and the status of half the people posting in that topic, I find this absolutely fucking hilarious, yet not surprising in the slightest.

Also, Kirk Shepherd is overpriced to win the world title. He's +210, or 3.1, or 21/10 to win, which is insane. He's backable for profit up to +150, 2.5 or 6/4, whatever odds format you use. I've been destroying the bookies during this tournament, cash in while you can. For a more sure thing, wait until they open a handicap (i.e. Shepherd plus, say, 2.5 sets) market and hammer that.