Recent posts by BlueTube on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / Thanking Moderators

Originally posted by adv0catus:

Point of interest: you can still thank a moderator when they have you muted. It would seem that the messages are unblockable.

I thought mods weren’t allowed to mute people. (You’ll just have to imagine my disapproving expression at the idea of any mod muting someone. shock, horror, probe) I know they can do it because the mute button still works for mods, I just thought it was frowned on.

Edit : Or did adv0catus mean silenced rather than muted?

Topic: Technical Support / Broken link in footer?

Ah, that explains it. I’m using Firefox with a few add-ons and I use various flavours and types of security software. Pop-ups are generally disabled. The software I use is popular so I suspect many people won’t be able to see the Kong Plus information.

Edit : Forgot to say – thanks for the explanation!

Topic: Technical Support / Broken link in footer?

The Kong Plus link in the footer just links to the page I am currently on, rather than taking me to a page with info about Kong Plus.

Topic: Technical Support / Sola Rola - dead game!

Originally posted by uuu2:

Originally posted by BlueTube:

It is annoying that Sola Rola is appearing in my recommended badges section. Is there any way that I can get rid of it?

If you hover over it on the front page you can click the x to make it go away.

Thanks very much! I hadn’t noticed the x before. Now I can get rid of all the tower defense games that get recommended too. Yay!

Topic: Technical Support / Sola Rola - dead game!

It is annoying that Sola Rola is appearing in my recommended badges section. Is there any way that I can get rid of it?

Topic: Kongregate / Friends 4 ever

Thank you for bringing back Friends and Fans. :)

Topic: Serious Discussion / USA vs England

Originally posted by antiworld:

Originally posted by krazykanadian:

Originally posted by antiworld:

No people play a major role. People labor resources and land are all pivotal explanations of an economy. And all your land has is snow and water. We have gold mines, etc.

I love it when people get all pissy at a difference in opinion

Also, we went to war, for much more than that. Had the US not rebelled, Canada would not have been ale to do so.

Our economy is small, but the best in the world. You continue to deny that we’re not just snow.

prove it.

So are you really saying that you think there are nearly 330 times more drug offences in the UK than the US?

The figures are clearly not comparing like with like, and anyone with an ounce of common sense would realise that!

PS I’m glad I brightened up your day.

Maybe? Regardless of our opinions, it doesn’t matter. The fact is, the United nations is a more credible source of information than your opinion.

Okay, you wanted proof.

I found this document : http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/USA.pdf

and this document : http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/England%20and%20Wales.pdf

The website is for the United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime. The documents cover the period 2005-2006

If you take a look at page 5 of each document, section 2.50 Total Drug Crime Suspects :

The USA Rate for 2005 per 100,000 people is 651.77
The England & Wales Rate for 2005 per 100,000 people is 318.92

Topic: Serious Discussion / USA vs England

Originally posted by antiworld:

UK Drug Offences 183,419 per 100,000 people

US Drug Offences 560.1 per 100,000 people.

Further down the page for the US it says and I quote :

“world’s largest consumer of cocaine (shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean), Colombian heroin, and Mexican heroin and marijuana; major consumer of ecstasy and Mexican methamphetamine; minor consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering center "

You really believe that the figures are calculated in the same way in both countries?

Those numbers are about as reliable as a chocolate teapot!

Source from that comment: USER
SOURCE from my info: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)

PS: That is the gayest saying I’ve ever heard in my life.

So are you really saying that you think there are nearly 330 times more drug offences in the UK than the US?

The figures are clearly not comparing like with like, and anyone with an ounce of common sense would realise that!

PS I’m glad I brightened up your day.

Topic: Serious Discussion / USA vs England

Originally posted by antiworld:

I would be interested in knowing the source for the comment that the UK has more crime than the US. It is very difficult to compare crime figures in one country to those in another.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri_percap-crime-total-crimes-per-capita

1) If a conman commits one crime, but in the process he cons 10 people, is that counted as one crime or ten?
2) If someone commits an armed robbery on a shop, one can imagine that many crimes might occur in the process – criminal damage, hitting someone with the butt of a shotgun (actual bodily harm/grievous bodily harm?), making threats to kill, shooting someone (murder or grievous bodily harm again?). How many crimes are counted in this case I wonder? It could be that the criminal damage might get dropped in view of the greater seriousness of the other crimes.

3) How likely are people to report crime?

4) How likely are the police to record crime?

Look this shit up yourself. If your argument is that it’s different in the US, establish that. Use a source.

And on the subject of teeth… This fixation with British teeth is just stupid. I wonder how many people in the US die of poorly controlled diabetes compared to people dying of the same cause in the UK? A far more interesting comparison (to my mind) than worrying whether people in the UK have bad teeth or not.

Useless pondering that only proves your evasion, look shit up yourself. UK has a terrible oral cancer rate, overall DMFT, etc.

Also, we understand you guys don’t think Dental care is a big deal, which is why it actually became one.

I haven’t had time to check out all the things you commented on. But I took a look at that website you quoted.

I’d just like to comment on one of the figures.

UK Drug Offences 183,419 per 100,000 people

US Drug Offences 560.1 per 100,000 people.

Further down the page for the US it says and I quote :

“world’s largest consumer of cocaine (shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean), Colombian heroin, and Mexican heroin and marijuana; major consumer of ecstasy and Mexican methamphetamine; minor consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering center "

You really believe that the figures are calculated in the same way in both countries?

Those numbers are about as reliable as a chocolate teapot!

Topic: Serious Discussion / USA vs England

Originally posted by antiworld:

Why if obesity, education levels, and religous nutjobs were the only things that make a country great than I guess we win. But UK has more crime, child sextrafficking, higher gas prices, unstraightened teeth…

I would be interested in knowing the source for the comment that the UK has more crime than the US. It is very difficult to compare crime figures in one country to those in another.

Some random things to consider in making comparisons :

1) If a conman commits one crime, but in the process he cons 10 people, is that counted as one crime or ten?

2) If someone commits an armed robbery on a shop, one can imagine that many crimes might occur in the process – criminal damage, hitting someone with the butt of a shotgun (actual bodily harm/grievous bodily harm?), making threats to kill, shooting someone (murder or grievous bodily harm again?). How many crimes are counted in this case I wonder? It could be that the criminal damage might get dropped in view of the greater seriousness of the other crimes.

3) How likely are people to report crime?

4) How likely are the police to record crime?

Whatever decisions people make when collating statistics aren’t right or wrong, but will make comparisons difficult or impossible.

And on the subject of teeth… This fixation with British teeth is just stupid. I wonder how many people in the US die of poorly controlled diabetes compared to people dying of the same cause in the UK? A far more interesting comparison (to my mind) than worrying whether people in the UK have bad teeth or not.

Topic: Kongregate / BEHOLD. THE PROFILE FORMATTING TO END ALL PROFILE FORMATTING... ISSUES!

Originally posted by MicroGamer15:

What about links to other sites that are long?

Also, solution to textile breaking: lrn2html

HTML doesn’t work in profile formatting (or so I read in many posts when I searched for information about this topic a while ago).

Topic: Kongregate / BEHOLD. THE PROFILE FORMATTING TO END ALL PROFILE FORMATTING... ISSUES!

Originally posted by MicroGamer15:

This is located RIGHT NEXT TO EVERYONE’S POSTING BOX. How is this NOT obvious?!

This topic is about profile formatting. It is not about formatting posts in the forums.

Topic: Kongregate / How do people get 2000 points in a day?

It is easy to answer at least part of the question the OP asked. Look at any full profile, and click on the “Current Points” in the “About Me” section. A page comes up detailing exactly how the points were awarded and on what date. It isn’t that difficult to find people who have achieved well over 50 badges in 1 day. Whether those badges were earned legitimately is another question….

I found one high level user who had been awarded 34 badges on the 22nd December, 59 on the 23rd December, 126 on Christmas Eve, and 58 on Christmas Day.