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    <body>For those having difficulty achieving he medium badge, I added a little tip to the description (though you should still climb 26 floors just to be safe until that can be fixed).

Play on survival mode, and bank your gems at every opportunity. You'll skip a good percentage of floors and reset the difficulty for the first floor after every bank. This actually makes the whole game a bit easier and adds some breathing room, though it might make the impossible badge a bit harder (since you're increasing the difficulty of the floors faster than gathering gems).</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;For those having difficulty achieving he medium badge, I added a little tip to the description (though you should still climb 26 floors just to be safe until that can be fixed).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Play on survival mode, and bank your gems at every opportunity. You&amp;#8217;ll skip a good percentage of floors and reset the difficulty for the first floor after every bank. This actually makes the whole game a bit easier and adds some breathing room, though it might make the impossible badge a bit harder (since you&amp;#8217;re increasing the difficulty of the floors faster than gathering gems).&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/65574?page=2#posts-1480426'&gt;Llanos&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;i dont have very many friends at all and they dont play kong much anymore so i have to rely on trading with ppl in the chat but i have already beend lied too twice, is there something i can do?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I'll give you an axe at least.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/65574?page=2#posts-1480426&quot;&gt;Llanos&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;i dont have very many friends at all and they dont play kong much anymore so i have to rely on trading with ppl in the chat but i have already beend lied too twice, is there something i can do?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ll give you an axe at least.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>You could indeed do this with 20 alts, but it would probably end up being more work than the normal way.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;You could indeed do this with 20 alts, but it would probably end up being more work than the normal way.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
    <created-at type="datetime">2009-11-20T13:44:32-08:00</created-at>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/65182?page=4#posts-1478811'&gt;askon&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/65182?page=4#posts-1478562&quot;&gt;sellyme&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;I got pissed off when I exited on level 25 and it only said 24 :( Oh well, it&amp;#8217;s not that hard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Greg: I think you should change the medium to reach the 24th floor instead of 25th, because to report a stat of the 25th you actually have to exit at the 30th. Or at least say reach the 29th, if you don&amp;#8217;t want to change the difficulty &amp;#8211; just so as not to confuse people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I actually tried doing that earlier today and it broke the site for a bit. I sent the developer an email about it.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/65182?page=4#posts-1478811&quot;&gt;askon&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/65182?page=4#posts-1478562&quot;&gt;sellyme&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;I got pissed off when I exited on level 25 and it only said 24 :( Oh well, it&amp;#8217;s not that hard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Greg: I think you should change the medium to reach the 24th floor instead of 25th, because to report a stat of the 25th you actually have to exit at the 30th. Or at least say reach the 29th, if you don&amp;#8217;t want to change the difficulty &amp;#8211; just so as not to confuse people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I actually tried doing that earlier today and it broke the site for a bit. I sent the developer an email about it.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>bq. What a terrible suggestion. Please leave kongregate to the pros

Yes sir. :(</body>
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&lt;p&gt;What a terrible suggestion. Please leave kongregate to the pros&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Yes sir. :(&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/65182?page=2#posts-1475517'&gt;hiperson134&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;500k score is my winner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All 64 trophies: too much of a grind.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;100 floors: good idea, but the game is called Tower of &lt;strong&gt;Greed&lt;/strong&gt;, and going up as high as you can doesn&amp;#8217;t really test greed. If you disregard getting any gems, this actually sounds kinda easy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;500k score: follows the idea of greed, and would probably include 100 floors anyways. Sounds to be the most challenging, as would be characteristic of an impossible badge. definitely a challenge comparable to some of the better impossibles&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Yeah, this actually articulates what I was thinking pretty well.

I'm thinking something like this:

Easy: Collect 10 blue gems in one game
Medium: Reach the 25th floor (maybe 30)
Hard: Collect 55 trophies (maybe 50)
Impossible: Score 500k</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/65182?page=2#posts-1475517&quot;&gt;hiperson134&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;500k score is my winner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All 64 trophies: too much of a grind.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;100 floors: good idea, but the game is called Tower of &lt;strong&gt;Greed&lt;/strong&gt;, and going up as high as you can doesn&amp;#8217;t really test greed. If you disregard getting any gems, this actually sounds kinda easy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;500k score: follows the idea of greed, and would probably include 100 floors anyways. Sounds to be the most challenging, as would be characteristic of an impossible badge. definitely a challenge comparable to some of the better impossibles&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yeah, this actually articulates what I was thinking pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m thinking something like this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Easy: Collect 10 blue gems in one game&lt;br /&gt;
Medium: Reach the 25th floor (maybe 30)&lt;br /&gt;
Hard: Collect 55 trophies (maybe 50)&lt;br /&gt;
Impossible: Score 500k&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>Tower of Greed is scheduled for tomorrow's challenge. I'm currently debating whether to implement an impossible badge, and what it should be if I do.

Three contenders:

- &lt;b&gt;All 64 trophies:&lt;/b&gt; The most difficult would be 100 floors.
- &lt;b&gt;100 floors:&lt;/b&gt; Just to cut out some of the grindy trophies for people who manage to do the most difficult one. This would leave the trophies stat open for a 50-trophy hard or something.
- &lt;b&gt;500k score:&lt;/b&gt; This would be more difficult than the first two, but it is possible... according to Mr Rubix!</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;Tower of Greed is scheduled for tomorrow&amp;#8217;s challenge. I&amp;#8217;m currently debating whether to implement an impossible badge, and what it should be if I do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Three contenders:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- &lt;b&gt;All 64 trophies:&lt;/b&gt; The most difficult would be 100 floors.&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;b&gt;100 floors:&lt;/b&gt; Just to cut out some of the grindy trophies for people who manage to do the most difficult one. This would leave the trophies stat open for a 50-trophy hard or something.&lt;br /&gt;
- &lt;b&gt;500k score:&lt;/b&gt; This would be more difficult than the first two, but it is possible&amp;#8230; according to Mr Rubix!&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>What a grim set of options. :(</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;What a grim set of options. :(&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/65182?page=1#posts-1470973'&gt;Darkruler2005&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I actually wanted to add badges to Tower of Greed before it was cool to want badges in Tower of Greed, but the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;API&lt;/span&gt; was messed up and I had a large queue going by the time the developer fixed things. I did plan to look into it today, though, as much as I hate encouraging this behavior&#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#8217;t test Tower of Greed when you&amp;#8217;re owning in Heroes of Gaia!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I'm not the best multitasker in the world, but I'm pretty sure I can at least do one other thing while playing Heroes of Gaia.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/65182?page=1#posts-1470973&quot;&gt;Darkruler2005&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I actually wanted to add badges to Tower of Greed before it was cool to want badges in Tower of Greed, but the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;API&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; was messed up and I had a large queue going by the time the developer fixed things. I did plan to look into it today, though, as much as I hate encouraging this behavior&#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#8217;t test Tower of Greed when you&amp;#8217;re owning in Heroes of Gaia!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m not the best multitasker in the world, but I&amp;#8217;m pretty sure I can at least do one other thing while playing Heroes of Gaia.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>I actually wanted to add badges to Tower of Greed before it was cool to want badges in Tower of Greed, but the API was messed up and I had a large queue going by the time the developer fixed things. I did plan to look into it today, though, as much as I hate encouraging this behavior...</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;I actually wanted to add badges to Tower of Greed before it was cool to want badges in Tower of Greed, but the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;API&lt;/span&gt; was messed up and I had a large queue going by the time the developer fixed things. I did plan to look into it today, though, as much as I hate encouraging this behavior&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/64669?page=1#posts-1468119'&gt;Darkruler2005&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#8217;t you give us easier games to test?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I could, but those games wouldn't be tremendously useful in determining whether the API in Ultimate Assassin 2 is working properly.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/64669?page=1#posts-1468119&quot;&gt;Darkruler2005&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#8217;t you give us easier games to test?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I could, but those games wouldn&amp;#8217;t be tremendously useful in determining whether the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;API&lt;/span&gt; in Ultimate Assassin 2 is working properly.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>The only person I'm seeing with the stat submitted in the past week is killmaster3000. If you're getting the stat to resubmit properly, please log in with an alt account so I can actually see it on the high score board. Thanks!</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;The only person I&amp;#8217;m seeing with the stat submitted in the past week is killmaster3000. If you&amp;#8217;re getting the stat to resubmit properly, please log in with an alt account so I can actually see it on the high score board. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/64864?page=2#posts-1465789'&gt;damijin&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think more inconsistencies should be added to Kongregate in order to distract the populace from real problems, like communism and destruction of the rain forest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

There are lots inconsistencies in capitalization in badge names. Always kind of bugged me. I need to clean it up someday...</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/64864?page=2#posts-1465789&quot;&gt;damijin&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think more inconsistencies should be added to Kongregate in order to distract the populace from real problems, like communism and destruction of the rain forest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are lots inconsistencies in capitalization in badge names. Always kind of bugged me. I need to clean it up someday&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462961'&gt;Frogmanex&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&#8217;s not true, and even your explanation contains a grammatical error; it should be &#8220;multiple Speses.&#8221; Proper nouns that end with S need the ES to be plural. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not true. If &amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8221; were properly pluralised by adding -es, then the profile would show Speses&amp;#8217;, not Spes&amp;#8217;. Since the profile shows Spes&amp;#8217;, one must assume that the plural form of &amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8221; is indeed &amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8221;, much like deer/deer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note: That would be necessary for Jabor&amp;#8217;s explanation to work, nothing further.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edit: Either that, or he&amp;#8217;s assuming that there is one spe and many spes&amp;#8230; o.O&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

There are so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin. Please, children, do not listen to this man. :(

bq. If &#8220;Spes&#8221; were properly pluralised by adding -es, then the profile would show Speses&#8217;, not Spes&#8217;.

Why would a profile be plural...?

bq. Since the profile shows Spes&#8217;, one must assume that the plural form of &#8220;Spes&#8221; is indeed &#8220;Spes&#8221;

No, no, no. Because there are styles in which the second S is NOT added after the apostrophe in a possessive proper noun that ends with an S, you CANNOT assume that just because there isn't a second S, this means that the first S is making the word plural. What you CAN assume here is that the plural form of Spes would be Speses because you know that the SINGULAR form of Spes is, surprise, Spes!

Even if you did not know that the plural form of Spes is Speses, you could deduce this from the possessive form of Spes being Spes's on the profile page, as the second S would not exist if the first S were being used as a plural.

bq. much like deer/deer

Totally irrelevant, since an S is not involved. There are many words in the English language that are exceptions to rules, but these exceptions do not actually change the rules.

bq. Edit: Either that, or he&#8217;s assuming that there is one spe and many spes&#8230; o.O

Also irrelevant because we already know that the singular form of Spes is in fact Spes.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462961&quot;&gt;Frogmanex&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&#8217;s not true, and even your explanation contains a grammatical error; it should be &#8220;multiple Speses.&#8221; Proper nouns that end with S need the ES to be plural. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not true. If &amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8221; were properly pluralised by adding -es, then the profile would show Speses&amp;#8217;, not Spes&amp;#8217;. Since the profile shows Spes&amp;#8217;, one must assume that the plural form of &amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8221; is indeed &amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8221;, much like deer/deer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note: That would be necessary for Jabor&amp;#8217;s explanation to work, nothing further.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edit: Either that, or he&amp;#8217;s assuming that there is one spe and many spes&amp;#8230; o.O&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are so many things wrong with this, I don&amp;#8217;t even know where to begin. Please, children, do not listen to this man. :(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If &#8220;Spes&#8221; were properly pluralised by adding -es, then the profile would show Speses&#8217;, not Spes&#8217;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why would a profile be plural&amp;#8230;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since the profile shows Spes&#8217;, one must assume that the plural form of &#8220;Spes&#8221; is indeed &#8220;Spes&#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, no, no. Because there are styles in which the second S is &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; added after the apostrophe in a possessive proper noun that ends with an S, you &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CANNOT&lt;/span&gt; assume that just because there isn&amp;#8217;t a second S, this means that the first S is making the word plural. What you &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CAN&lt;/span&gt; assume here is that the plural form of Spes would be Speses because you know that the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SINGULAR&lt;/span&gt; form of Spes is, surprise, Spes!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even if you did not know that the plural form of Spes is Speses, you could deduce this from the possessive form of Spes being Spes&amp;#8217;s on the profile page, as the second S would not exist if the first S were being used as a plural.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;much like deer/deer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Totally irrelevant, since an S is not involved. There are many words in the English language that are exceptions to rules, but these exceptions do not actually change the rules.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edit: Either that, or he&#8217;s assuming that there is one spe and many spes&#8230; o.O&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also irrelevant because we already know that the singular form of Spes is in fact Spes.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462828'&gt;generalvalter&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jabor&amp;#8217;s right. You only remove the &amp;#8216;s&amp;#8217; when it&amp;#8217;s &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; a plural noun &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; already ends in a &amp;#8216;s&amp;#8217;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#8217;s grammars fault for being so confusing, though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

No, it's a stylistic distinction with no hard rule. It's only the plural form that should never have the extra S at the end. Possessive proper nouns that end with an S can go either way depending on preferred style.


&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462814'&gt;Jabor&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Actually, the tab is the correct one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No it&amp;#8217;s not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A possessive apostrophe should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be followed by an &amp;#8216;s&amp;#8217; unless it is on a plural noun.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8217;s profile&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; one Spes, it&amp;#8217;s his profile.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8217; profile&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; multiple Spes, it&amp;#8217;s their profile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

That's not true, and even your explanation contains a grammatical error; it should be &quot;multiple Speses.&quot; Proper nouns that end with S need the ES to be plural. Examples:

- We are going to Jone's house. (house of some dude named Jone)
- We are going to Jones's house. (house of dude named Jones)
- We are going to Jones' house (same thing, with a stylistic distinction that could also be considered correct)
- We are going to the house owned by the Joneses. (referring to a house owned by multiple people with the last named Jones)
- We are going to the Joneses' house. (same thing in possessive form)
- We are going to the Joneses's house. (incorrect)</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462828&quot;&gt;generalvalter&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jabor&amp;#8217;s right. You only remove the &amp;#8216;s&amp;#8217; when it&amp;#8217;s &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; a plural noun &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; already ends in a &amp;#8216;s&amp;#8217;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#8217;s grammars fault for being so confusing, though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, it&amp;#8217;s a stylistic distinction with no hard rule. It&amp;#8217;s only the plural form that should never have the extra S at the end. Possessive proper nouns that end with an S can go either way depending on preferred style.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462814&quot;&gt;Jabor&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Actually, the tab is the correct one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No it&amp;#8217;s not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A possessive apostrophe should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be followed by an &amp;#8216;s&amp;#8217; unless it is on a plural noun.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8217;s profile&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; one Spes, it&amp;#8217;s his profile.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Spes&amp;#8217; profile&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; multiple Spes, it&amp;#8217;s their profile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#8217;s not true, and even your explanation contains a grammatical error; it should be &amp;#8220;multiple Speses.&amp;#8221; Proper nouns that end with S need the ES to be plural. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- We are going to Jone&amp;#8217;s house. (house of some dude named Jone)&lt;br /&gt;
- We are going to Jones&amp;#8217;s house. (house of dude named Jones)&lt;br /&gt;
- We are going to Jones&amp;#8217; house (same thing, with a stylistic distinction that could also be considered correct)&lt;br /&gt;
- We are going to the house owned by the Joneses. (referring to a house owned by multiple people with the last named Jones)&lt;br /&gt;
- We are going to the Joneses&amp;#8217; house. (same thing in possessive form)&lt;br /&gt;
- We are going to the Joneses&amp;#8217;s house. (incorrect)&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462491'&gt;charredmonkeys&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lol. Marh, see if KongStaff will hire you to be the official Kongregate Grammar Nazi. =P&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#8217;m going to check my tab and see how it&amp;#8217;s pluralized.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I'm already the official grammar Nazi, and I'm ashamed of this inconsistency. :(


&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462767'&gt;Nodergak&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462502&quot;&gt;Tasslehoff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;I approve this message. The tab is better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The page is technically correct, though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Neither one is technically correct; it's a stylistic distinction. Personally I've always been a fan of adding the S after the apostrophe, but I think without the S might be a little more common. It should be consistent either way, though.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462491&quot;&gt;charredmonkeys&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lol. Marh, see if KongStaff will hire you to be the official Kongregate Grammar Nazi. =P&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#8217;m going to check my tab and see how it&amp;#8217;s pluralized.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m already the official grammar Nazi, and I&amp;#8217;m ashamed of this inconsistency. :(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462767&quot;&gt;Nodergak&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/64864?page=1#posts-1462502&quot;&gt;Tasslehoff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;I approve this message. The tab is better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The page is technically correct, though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Neither one is technically correct; it&amp;#8217;s a stylistic distinction. Personally I&amp;#8217;ve always been a fan of adding the S after the apostrophe, but I think without the S might be a little more common. It should be consistent either way, though.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>Way more effective than a stupid petition! (Which I only noticed after selecting the game for badges, by the way.)

Here's what you do. Load up Ultimate Assassin 2: http://www.kongregate.com/games/mastermax/ultimate-assassin-2

Beat the game (yeah, it's hard). Make an alt account. Load up the game. Check the high scores. Make sure that your alt account has your old save data submitted. Or at least make sure that you're ABLE to submit the &quot;GameComplete&quot; stat (by loading a level or beating the final level again or something) without having to wipe your save progress and start over.

I currently have reason to believe that the game statistics possibly stop reporting when the game is completed, but I need to verify that this is NOT the case before badges are added -- 'cause otherwise that would really suck for people who already completed it, or people who complete it during a connection problem!

Also feel free to suggest names/images if you want. The game is so hard that I'll probably just do one hard badge for completion.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;Way more effective than a stupid petition! (Which I only noticed after selecting the game for badges, by the way.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#8217;s what you do. Load up Ultimate Assassin 2: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kongregate.com/games/mastermax/ultimate-assassin-2&quot;&gt;http://www.kongregate.com/games/mastermax/ultimate-assassin-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beat the game (yeah, it&amp;#8217;s hard). Make an alt account. Load up the game. Check the high scores. Make sure that your alt account has your old save data submitted. Or at least make sure that you&amp;#8217;re &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ABLE&lt;/span&gt; to submit the &amp;#8220;GameComplete&amp;#8221; stat (by loading a level or beating the final level again or something) without having to wipe your save progress and start over.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I currently have reason to believe that the game statistics possibly stop reporting when the game is completed, but I need to verify that this is &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; the case before badges are added &amp;#8212; &amp;#8217;cause otherwise that would really suck for people who already completed it, or people who complete it during a connection problem!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also feel free to suggest names/images if you want. The game is so hard that I&amp;#8217;ll probably just do one hard badge for completion.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>bq. Any other badges going to be added to Trap Master? Or are we going to see some fresh badges? Either way I&#8217;m not sleeping tonight.

The stats aren't giving me a lot to work with, and I'm not sure what harder badges would be, so probably not. If the developer updates the API and there's something interesting that's hard but not overly annoying, I'll consider it. Otherwise, though, the game overall is pretty easy... By the last 10 waves I didn't even have to use my monster anymore. :-P</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Any other badges going to be added to Trap Master? Or are we going to see some fresh badges? Either way I&#8217;m not sleeping tonight.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The stats aren&amp;#8217;t giving me a lot to work with, and I&amp;#8217;m not sure what harder badges would be, so probably not. If the developer updates the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;API&lt;/span&gt; and there&amp;#8217;s something interesting that&amp;#8217;s hard but not overly annoying, I&amp;#8217;ll consider it. Otherwise, though, the game overall is pretty easy&amp;#8230; By the last 10 waves I didn&amp;#8217;t even have to use my monster anymore. :-P&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>Those who experienced the fun and excitement that was the Battalion Ghosts badges probably understand why it's been a little slower lately. Elona Shooter ones also took forever to figure out and test...

Trap Master's going up in a minute here.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;Those who experienced the fun and excitement that was the Battalion Ghosts badges probably understand why it&amp;#8217;s been a little slower lately. Elona Shooter ones also took forever to figure out and test&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trap Master&amp;#8217;s going up in a minute here.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>Ummm, we share more per page view.</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;Ummm, we share more per page view.&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/63776?page=1#posts-1438741'&gt;SuperMarioJump&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Depends how many views the 3 places get compared to the 1 place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

And other sites give more views? :-P</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/63776?page=1#posts-1438741&quot;&gt;SuperMarioJump&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Depends how many views the 3 places get compared to the 1 place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And other sites give more views? :-P&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>bq. For those of you who don&#8217;t want to read through this, stride claimed that a glitch (something they didn&#8217;t think of) allowed for multiple users to submit the same name. At the end of the contest, they basically announced that they can&#8217;t let 40 people all win from the same name, so a drawing would give random people the prizes, and people who submitted similar names would receive a unique pack of gum as a prize.

That doesn't sound like a scam to me. It sounds like Stride did the fairest thing they could, and they didn't benefit at all from the problem, so I can't imagine how someone would think that they had malicious intent. The Kongregate contest is way different, anyway, since games can't have unlimited owners.

bq. There are also sites that share ad revenue not only from your game&#8217;s page but from your user profile and a blog you can host there.

Why does it matter where the revenue is being shared from if Kongregate's ad revenue share (even strictly on a per-view basis) blows other sites out of the water? Would you rather have a $2 cpm in 1 place or a $.20 cpm in 3 places?</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For those of you who don&#8217;t want to read through this, stride claimed that a glitch (something they didn&#8217;t think of) allowed for multiple users to submit the same name. At the end of the contest, they basically announced that they can&#8217;t let 40 people all win from the same name, so a drawing would give random people the prizes, and people who submitted similar names would receive a unique pack of gum as a prize.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That doesn&amp;#8217;t sound like a scam to me. It sounds like Stride did the fairest thing they could, and they didn&amp;#8217;t benefit at all from the problem, so I can&amp;#8217;t imagine how someone would think that they had malicious intent. The Kongregate contest is way different, anyway, since games can&amp;#8217;t have unlimited owners.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are also sites that share ad revenue not only from your game&#8217;s page but from your user profile and a blog you can host there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why does it matter where the revenue is being shared from if Kongregate&amp;#8217;s ad revenue share (even strictly on a per-view basis) blows other sites out of the water? Would you rather have a $2 cpm in 1 place or a $.20 cpm in 3 places?&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>The badges should finally be fixed. It was a really obscure issue with our servers -- not the game's/developer's/API's fault. Let me know if anyone has issues -- thanks!</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;The badges should finally be fixed. It was a really obscure issue with our servers &amp;#8212; not the game&amp;#8217;s/developer&amp;#8217;s/API&amp;#8217;s fault. Let me know if anyone has issues &amp;#8212; thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/63626?page=2#posts-1435600'&gt;Flooded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyone got any tips for the Bonus Map? I keep losing&amp;#8230; :(&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Build expensive units aggressively -- annihilator tanks and rockets, specifically. Get some anti-air going as well, then finish things up with a couple of raptors. Don't wait for Pearl to come to you -- she has a steady stream of income and you don't!


&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href='/forums/1/topics/63626?page=2#posts-1435519'&gt;JBirdman&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hey mr badge greg guy, your fix didn&amp;#8217;t work. Now what?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

It's been confirmed as a server problem on our end, which is unfortunately beyond my capabilities/knowledge (I'm not a programmer -- badges are created through an incredibly simple admin interface).</body>
    <body-html>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/63626?page=2#posts-1435600&quot;&gt;Flooded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyone got any tips for the Bonus Map? I keep losing&amp;#8230; :(&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Build expensive units aggressively &amp;#8212; annihilator tanks and rockets, specifically. Get some anti-air going as well, then finish things up with a couple of raptors. Don&amp;#8217;t wait for Pearl to come to you &amp;#8212; she has a steady stream of income and you don&amp;#8217;t!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Originally posted by &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/forums/1/topics/63626?page=2#posts-1435519&quot;&gt;JBirdman&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hey mr badge greg guy, your fix didn&amp;#8217;t work. Now what?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s been confirmed as a server problem on our end, which is unfortunately beyond my capabilities/knowledge (I&amp;#8217;m not a programmer &amp;#8212; badges are created through an incredibly simple admin interface).&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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    <body>It's a known issue that progress made before a couple of hours ago will have been reset. Sorry guys. :( Moving forward, though, is there anything failing to check off or award properly now?</body>
    <body-html>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s a known issue that progress made before a couple of hours ago will have been reset. Sorry guys. :( Moving forward, though, is there anything failing to check off or award properly now?&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
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