Official Thread of Brag

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:26 pm

(Given that of the three I haven't got, two are impossible to get over 150 and the other one hasn't had a max anywhere near 150 yet)

Robert Baxter · Post by **Robert Baxter** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:23 pm

Worst rating after 50 games.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:53 pm

A unique occurrence for me, a full front page pencil list:

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:55 pm

Congrats on your first full frontal, Ian.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:42 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:Congrats on your first full frontal, Ian.

Hope you liked it

Karen Pearson · Post by **Karen Pearson** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:55 pm

Full frontal for me too but I can't work out how to paste the image (and I'm sure everyone's dying to see it

)

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:57 pm

Karen Pearson wrote:Full frontal for me too but I can't work out how to paste the image (and I'm sure everyone's dying to see it )

(yes, I have too much time on my hands)

Karen Pearson · Post by **Karen Pearson** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:01 pm

Thanks Michael. That's so kind of you. How did you do it?

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:05 pm

Karen Pearson wrote:Thanks Michael. That's so kind of you. How did you do it?

Use the Print Screen key to take a screenshot, which you can then save somewhere on your computer. I then whipped out an image editor to crop it down to the relevant bit (although you probably already knew how to do that bit).

To upload it I have a gmail account which comes with webspace where I can host images, but there are places like photobucket (amongst others) which let you upload images too. Once you've uploaded something there, you just have to take the image's url and paste it here with [img][ /img] tags around it.

JackHurst · Post by **JackHurst** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:37 pm

Went out the other night, ventured to the touch machine in SPOONS, whilst I was pretty Drunk. Forced some old college pals to watch me on words soup, and I got to a no words remaining, including spotting KORUNA.

Dint win Fack all tho mate.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:52 am

This number 1 spot has been held by Chris Davies for *ages* (not sure how long - Charlie?) and I've finally got it - well happy as he was miles ahead at one point and I thought it'd take years to catch him.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:54 am

JackHurst wrote:Went out the other night, ventured to the touch machine in SPOONS, whilst I was pretty Drunk. Forced some old college pals to watch me on words soup, and I got to a no words remaining, including spotting KORUNA.

Dint win Fack all tho mate.

I had a go on the old Countdowner's favourite Hex Appeal the other day and came across 2 Countdowny words:

Types of Cocktail: Negroni
Food: Romaine Lettuce

Embarrassingly I lost on the latter

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:17 am

Dinos Sfyris wrote: Embarrassingly I lost on the latter

Geez, it has loads of vowels too. Poor.

Martyn Simpson · Post by **Martyn Simpson** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:40 am

I think my best ever numbers solve is worthy of appearing in this thread:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 3734430136

Round 14

although missing Kagouls/Cagoule in consecutive rounds was perhaps less boastworthy.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:56 pm

I'm proud to have created a program which can produce moments of beauty like this.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:45 pm

I got a nice pencil in this game which was otherwise totally unnoteworthy. Ignore all the 9s by my opponent

Adam Gillard · Post by **Adam Gillard** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:42 am

CARBOXYLASE in a 10-second Hypertouch round is one of the best spots I've ever made on apterous.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:05 pm

I am better than Matt Morrison.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:03 am

Booyah.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:24 pm

Jack Hurst eat your heart out:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=10ql81s&s=7

(I don't know how to upload pics and I can't find Matt's help).

This would have beaten Chris' quickest conundrum attack of 20.4 seconds as this was 17.4 seconds. I'd have smashed my record too as I was slightly behind Adam on the 3 I missed. Sadly this was only a practice game too

Edit: If it's small click on the image to make it bigger, then on the bigger (but still small image) right click and click "view image". It makes it bigger again.

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:36 am

Kirk, put [img](url)[/img]

Ryan Taylor · Post by **Ryan Taylor** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:15 pm

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Kirk, put [img](url)[/img]

Plus on something like TinyPic it even gives you the link in this form and says something about using this on message boards/forums.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 5:10 pm

[img]
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=10ql81s&s=7[/img]

Edit: Nope, Rhys, it doesn't work.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 5:15 pm

Kirk Bevins wrote:[img]
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=10ql81s&s=7[/img]

Edit: Nope, Rhys, it doesn't work.

Yeah, he didn't explain it very well. img tags will only work around urls that are image files (so will end in .jpg or something). For your link you need to right-click and select "copy image location", that then gives you http://oi53.tinypic.com/10ql81s.jpg which you can tell is an image by the .jpg at the end. Stick that between img tags to get the picture to appear here.

Edit: But I'm not going to do that because it's fucking huge.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 5:21 pm

Here it is, I've ensmallened it for you:

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 5:26 pm

And they were all Talcs so it's really not that exciting anyway.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:19 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:And they were all Talcs so it's really not that exciting anyway.

I've never got so many sub second conundrums. Chris' record for speediest 20 is when they were all (or mostly) talcs too and it's still impressive.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:20 pm

Michael Wallace wrote: Yeah, he didn't explain it very well. img tags will only work around urls that are image files (so will end in .jpg or something). For your link you need to right-click and select "copy image location", that then gives you http://oi53.tinypic.com/10ql81s.jpg which you can tell is an image by the .jpg at the end. Stick that between img tags to get the picture to appear here.

Edit: But I'm not going to do that because it's fucking huge.

Thanks for the explanation - computers are tricky beasts. Thanks for being understanding of my retardedness when it comes to using them.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:52 pm

Sorry Matt.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:59 pm

Ah shit, how are you logged in? No fair!

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:59 pm

It hurts. A lot. A real big lot.

Well done though.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:28 pm

Just beat Prime 200-190 in a hyper numbers attack. And the "max" was only 197. I want Rex though.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:51 pm

Better than Rex again! I've also got my highest ever rating - 2200. I can't help but think how much higher it'd be if RB didn't make me lose like 50 rating points. I also broke my highest score in goatblitz, getting a lovely max:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=352698

Bragging over.

Ryan Taylor · Post by **Ryan Taylor** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:11 am

Kirk Bevins wrote:I can't help but think how much higher it'd be if RB didn't make me lose like 50 rating points.

Just let it go mate; Larsen was on good form that night.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:17 am

Ryan Taylor wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:I can't help but think how much higher it'd be if RB didn't make me lose like 50 rating points.
Just let it go mate; Larsen was on good form that night.

I think Larsen also beat Rex that night so it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Quite why you then had to put all the contents of The Sanctum onto Gandiseeg just to make it look like Larsen didn't beat you is beyond me though.

Phil Collinge · Post by **Phil Collinge** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:39 am

Kirk Bevins wrote:I can't help but think how much higher it'd be if RB didn't make me lose like 50 rating points.

I'm with Kirk on this one.

The spurious RB games should be excluded from anything they adversely affect as they were obtained by cheating.

How the Kirk-Jason head to head can be left to read 8-1 is beyond me.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:20 am

Phil Collinge wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:I can't help but think how much higher it'd be if RB didn't make me lose like 50 rating points.
I'm with Kirk on this one.

The spurious RB games should be excluded from anything they adversely affect as they were obtained by cheating.

How the Kirk-Jason head to head can be left to read 8-1 is beyond me.

That's Kirk's penance for being a retard.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:36 pm

Charlie Reams wrote: That's Kirk's penance for being a retard.

I wasn't a retard - many people use the same password for a few sites.

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:39 pm

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote: That's Kirk's penance for being a retard.
I wasn't a retard - many people use the same password for a few sites.

Yes but they are all retards. I used to, and I admit it's retarded. For the last two years or so everything I've signed up for gets a different password.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:55 pm

Matt Morrison wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote: That's Kirk's penance for being a retard.
I wasn't a retard - many people use the same password for a few sites.
Yes but they are all retards. I used to, and I admit it's retarded. For the last two years or so everything I've signed up for gets a different password.

But then people also say it's retarded to write passwords down, and given the number of accounts people have on the internet, unless you're memory man, yo uhave to either reuse passwords or write them down. Or both.

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:01 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote:But then people also say it's retarded to write passwords down, and given the number of accounts people have on the internet, unless you're memory man, yo uhave to either reuse passwords or write them down. Or both.

Yeah, I save everything on Firefox. SO that's not perfect, but a million times better than one password for all. The only thing I have to do is trust anyone who uses my PC, which I do. (Though, if I didn't, I'd just use a master password on Firefox to control all the sub-passwords.)

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:16 pm

Just personalise your password depending on the website, it makes stuff a lot easier to remember.

(Obviously I don't do it)

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:23 pm

Matt Morrison wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:But then people also say it's retarded to write passwords down, and given the number of accounts people have on the internet, unless you're memory man, yo uhave to either reuse passwords or write them down. Or both.
Yeah, I save everything on Firefox. SO that's not perfect, but a million times better than one password for all. The only thing I have to do is trust anyone who uses my PC, which I do. (Though, if I didn't, I'd just use a master password on Firefox to control all the sub-passwords.)

What about logging into accounts from other computers without your Firefox on? And what if Firefox breaks? Or won't that happen?

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:25 pm

Finally got 200 in a Nasty Numbers Attack after over 200 goes. Now I just need to wait for this to update and I've got them all!

Ryan Taylor · Post by **Ryan Taylor** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:30 pm

I got Carol Vorderman's 'It all Counts' for Christmas.

Craig Beevers · Post by **Craig Beevers** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 3:06 pm

All your CSW record are belong to us.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:06 pm

Craig Beevers wrote:All your CSW record are belong to us.

And I should think so too.

Adam Gillard · Post by **Adam Gillard** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:31 am

3 of ye 4 most multitalented crowns belonging to we.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:55 pm

Adam Gillard wrote:3 of ye 4 most multitalented crowns belonging to we.

You need to get working on the other one then!

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:48 am

Finally got a solo duel win

Matthew Tassier · Post by **Matthew Tassier** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:11 pm

Bullet Hypernumbers Attack

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:02 pm

...And frustration at the misclick in the final round (did 100-4, meant to do 100-3).

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:47 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:...And frustration at the misclick in the final round (did 100-4, meant to do 100-3).

Why does Mr Dog sometimes comment on games and sometimes not?

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 5:30 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:...And frustration at the misclick in the final round (did 100-4, meant to do 100-3).
Why does Mr Dog sometimes comment on games and sometimes not?

I didn't have a benchmark score for numbers.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:20 pm

Another thing I can tick off the 'been after for bloody ages' list...

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:51 pm

I was quite pleased with 19 maxes in an all 6-small game. I know 20 has been done but for me that's pretty good. (And yeah I know one was impossible making it a free round.)

Nick Deller · Post by **Nick Deller** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:37 pm

CSW pencils are cheap. Just sayin'...

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:29 pm

Brinkmanship.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:38 pm

(After a two-month break, who else but me would bring this thread back?)

High score table request- conundrumathon.

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:41 pm

Edit: Aw nuts. Didn't stand for long.