So I just got back from my 9-days-holiday. This year I went to France on a 'surfing'-vacation with a bunch of friends. Let me tell you, I can not recommend to go surfing.

Most important reason being that it is a very tough sport. Carrying the surfboards to the surfspot alone is already a big trouble and annoyance. The surfboards are just too large for their weight. They catch a lot of wind and water so that if you don´t point them in the direction of the currents, they start rotating and it´s hard to get them back to their original position.

Then once you´re at your surfspot, getting in sea is another big trouble. That is, if the waves are good. With low waves, it´s not so hard, but you can´t do much surfing either. With good waves however, it can be really hard. On one day for example, the waves were about 2.5 meters high, which looks very nice for surfing. But it was almost impossible to get into the sea with waves like that. Every time you thought you were finally at a decent distance from the beach, you´re board got taken by a wave and that took you all the way back to the beach ("square one"). In a whole hour, I think I caught about three waves. Which was pretty good considering some people couldn´t even catch one. Luckily, the other days weren´t that bad, but it´s always still very heavy.

Anyway, once you´re finally in a good position and you start pedalling to catch a wave, the most diffecult part came: Standing up. You gotta do this pretty fast and it´s so hard to keep your balance while you´re being pushed forward by a wave. After a whole week of lessons and practicing, I´ve only seen 2 people of our group of 10 managing to stand on a board for longer than 1 second and go for a few meters before falling off (myself included). I know someone else had lessons for three weeks a couple of years ago and even she couldn´t manage to stand up. So you really can´t learn to surf in less than a couple of weeks, but I was hoping that I would be a decent amateur surfer at the end of the holiday.

To summarize my opinion on surfing in one sentence: It´s a whole lot of trouble for very little fun. Still, the deal we had wasn´t bad since we paid less than 100 euro´s for a full week of lessons and material hiring. And I´m still glad to have done it once in my life.

The rest of the vacation was nice, beside the fact that our friendsgroup was split up and put in caravans on either sides of the camping. That was just ridiculous, but the arrogant French dick who owned the camping thought that foreign youngsters always caused trouble so he wanted to have them separated. Ironically enough, it were a bunch of French guys behind us who made the most noise in the middle of the night. Anyway, the rest was nice like I said. We had good weather, the food was good and cheap and our trip to the Spanish harbour city San Sebastian was awesome. If you´re ever on the north coast of Spain, I can recommend you pay San Sebastian a visit. Even a non-city-trip-fan like myself enjoyed it there and the food there is really good and relatively cheap.

Anyway, now I´m back home after a long bustrip with a whole month of absolutely nothing to do. First thing I´m gonna do today is go to the local DVD store and buy a shitload of DVD's. There are so many movies I still wanna watch, but I never had the time to do so. So I thought now would be a good time.

My wanted list currently consists of:
-Goodfellas
-Slumdog Millionaire
-Snatch.

Movies I have/bought:
-Requiem For A Dream
-Fargo
-Kung Fu Panda
-The Big Lebowski
-The Shawshank Redemption
-No Country For Old Men
-Scarface
-LA Confidential
-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
-The Dark Knight
-Full Metal Jacket
-The Prestige
-Office Space
-The Wall
-Reservoir Dogs
-Wall.E
-Saving Private Ryan
-Space Cowboys
-Vanilla Sky
-Unforgiven
-The Aviator
-Magnolia
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-V for Vendetta

If anyone else has any recommendations for great movies, I´ll be glad to hear them :)

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Pilgrimage

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Actually, you shouldn´t need any help with this game since it all speaks for itself. But if you feel like you need a guide, here it is:

Abstraction
Beat the game

Simple, just follow the game all the way to the right until the game becomes extremely blurry and and pixely. Continue until the medal shows up.

Imagination
Read all the signs

Just walk by all the signs. It will count as read when the text pops up in a purple box. There are 16 signs to be read in total.

Appreciation
Get all the coins

There are 200 coins to be collected in total. Collecting them all requires some backtracking although you can cleverly make use of the fact that you can jump much higher after you jump on an enemy. This could possibly save some time.

Predestination
Kill all enemies

Kill all the enemies by jumping on top of them. There are 45 enemies in total.

Juxtaposition
Don´t take damage

Don´t get hit by any enemy during the game. Just try to avoid as many enemies as possible. In that one part where many enemies are walking on one platform, simply wait until they walk in line and keep bouncing on top of their heads until they´re all gone.

Just a tip: When you have missed a certain medal, you can always walk back to collect all the stuff that you were missing. This way you can avoid having to play the game all over again from square 1.

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A Small Favor

If this medal guide isn´t clear to you, I suggest you take a look at
A Small Favor; Medal walkthrough from 7794
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I know there is an official walkthrough on the game, but that walkthrough does not tell you how to collect the medals. Therefore I made this blogpost to help you guys out.

A note beforehand: You will only get the medal AFTER completing the game. Not during the game. And you can only get ONE MEDAL AT A TIME since the medal you get is based on your rank after beating the game. The only medal that can always be obtained along with another one (except blind ambition) is Pink Massacre.

ALSO VERY IMPORTANT:
Do not do anything more than what is stated under the medal you want to achieve. Sometimes doing different stuff might give you a different medal. This is the case for Homicidale for example when you decide to do all the favors as well. You will then get the Elite medal instead of Homicidale.

The Guide

Relentless
- Complete the game without doing any favors.
- Just kill Milos without getting the green vial.

Reliable
-Just do the basic walkthrough that involves killing Milos
-Kill Milos immediatly after you walk into his room (iow, don´t get green vial)
-Do the bodyguard favor
-Do not kill any bunnies

Professional
- Complete all the four favors (check walkthrough on how to).
One warning: You have to make sure the characters you need to help have ASKED you for the favor. So do not complete the favor before you have first talked to the character, because the game will ignore the completion then.

Elite
-Do all the main objectives in the game, except "Eliminate the Worm"
-Do all the favors in the game
-Kill all the characters in the game, except the Worm
(Video-walkthrough by jmalouin7)

Homicidal
Kill every character in the game except for the Worm. In other words:
-Kill the bodyguard when he´s in the bathroom.
-Go to Milos, get the green vial from him and kill him
-Go to the scavenger and let him make the bomb for you. Then kill him.
-Go to the trade guy in the hallway and use the bomb on him
-Kill the senator at the end of the game

Ruthless
-Get green vial from Milos
-Take it to Scavenger to create the bomb
-Use bomb on the Worm
-Go to Milos and receive the yellow badge
-Kill Milos afterwards

Blind Ambition
- Kill Milos after he gave you the green vial
- Go to the scavenger and let him make a bomb for you
- Use the bomb on the Worm (and DO NOT do the chip quest first!)
- Go to the room with the coffeemachine to get shot by a guardrobot

Pink Massacre
- Kill 60 pink bunnies. (the number might be lower)
Note: Besides outside, there are also bunnies in the middle locker of which the code is '1977'

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If you don´t know where to find what: Here´s a map made by Caraboo

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Epic Battle Fantasy

FAQ written by Auz.
With some help from: RYNOL, Eon2, Hacsev, CHP, Cronoz34, OneRedMage and matt-likes-swords (the creator of the game).

Medal Guide by 7794

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Tips
-What is the difference between the diffeculties?
Enemies will have more HP and will do more damage. The attack patterns of the enemies will stay the same for every diffeculty however.
-What to buy in the shop at the beginning?
Waters of Life, Ethers, Potions
-What not to waste money on yet?
Bob-ombs, Magic and Attack Potions, Antidotes. It´s better to buy Bob-ombs and Antidotes in the shop halfway in the game.

- The mage recovers MP by defending against magic attacks. Because of this, she has infinite MP when Goku begins spamming Sprit bomb because it recovers a whopping 500-700 each time.
- The fighters MP recovery sword is useful when you don't want to waste ethers during a fight against easy enemies (slimes, crabs, ghosts) and basically gives you the comfort of spamming power metal.
-Seal and poison are stackable. So you better heal it as soon as possible.

Note: The damage is the MAXIMUM damage the enemy will do to your characters. You should make sure your HP stays above that amount, otherwise you´ll be in danger of getting killed.

Stage 1
Blobs x2
Blobs x2
Blobs x3
Blobs x3
Weakness: None

Easy: ±4,000 HP, ±400 Damage (on one character)
Norm: ±5,000 HP, ±500 Damage (one)
Hard: ±6,000 HP, ±600 Damage (one)
Epic: ±7,000 HP, ±700 Damage (one)

Boss: King Slime
Weakness: None

Easy: ±56,000 HP, ±3,000 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±70,000 HP, ±3,750 Damage (both)
Hard: ±84,000 HP, ±4,500 Damage (both)
Epic: ±98,000 HP, ±5,250 Damage (both)

Note: This boss can cure himself for 7,000-11,000 HP

Stage 2
Floating Eyeball x2
Floating Eyeball x3
Weakness: Ice

Easy: ±10,000 HP, ±800 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±12,500 HP, ±1,000 Damage (both)
Hard: ±15,000 HP, ±1,200 Damage (both)
Epic: ±17,500 HP, ±1,400 Damage (both)

Boss: Beholder
Weakness: Ice

Easy: ±88,000 HP, ±2,300 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±110,000 HP, ±2,875 Damage (both)
Hard: ±133,000 HP, ±3,450 Damage (both)
Epic: ±155,000 HP, ±4,025 Damage (both)

Note: This boss can poison you.

Stage 3
Tree x1
Weakness: Fire

Easy: ±26,400 HP, ±1,200 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±33,000 HP, ±1,500 Damage (both)
Hard: ±39,600 HP, ±1,800 Damage (both)
Epic: ±47,200 HP, ±2,100 Damage (both)

Tree x2
Weakness: Fire

Easy: ±19,200 HP, ±1,200 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±24,000 HP, ±1,500 Damage (both)
Hard: ±28,800 HP, ±1,800 Damage (both)
Epic: ±33,600 HP, ±2,100 Damage (both)

Tree x3
Weakness: Fire

Easy: ±15,200 HP, ±1,200 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±19,000 HP, ±1,500 Damage (both)
Hard: ±22,800 HP, ±1,800 Damage (both)
Epic: ±26,600 HP, ±2,100 Damage (both)

Note: These enemies can poison you.

Boss: Sentinel
Weakness: Thunder, Bob-omb, Airstrikes
Strong vs screamers damage

Easy: ±152,000 HP, ±3,200 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±190,000 HP, ±4,000 Damage (both)
Hard: ±228,000 HP, ±4,800 Damage (both)
Epic: ±266,000 HP, ±5,600 Damage (both)

Note: A lot of his attacks hurt both of your characters. He also has three attack patterns which will change after his HP dropped to a certain level. In the first stage he will only use stab attacks. In stage 2 all his attacks and in stage 3 only his bombshell attack (his most powerful attack).

After this battle you´ll get a break and are allowed to stock up on some more items. Now it would be a good idea to buy a few bob-ombs and some antidotes. Some of the upcoming bosses are weak against bob-ombs and purify alone might not be enough on the last few enemies and bosses.

Stage 4
Crabs x2
Crabs x3
Weakness: Thunder, Earth. Slight weakness to Airstrikes and Bombs

Easy: ±23,000 HP, ±2,000 Damage (on one character)
Norm: ±28,750 HP, ±2,500 Damage (one)
Hard: ±34,500 HP, ±3,000 Damage (one)
Epic: ±40,250 HP, ±3,500 Damage (one)

Boss: Regice
Weakness: Fire
Immune against ice (will not heal from ice attacks, even though the game suggests otherwise)
Strong vs screamers damage

Easy: ±80,000 HP, ±4,000 Damage (on one character)
Norm: ±100,000 HP, ±5,000 Damage (one)
Hard: ±120,000 HP, ±6,000 Damage (one)
Epic: ±140,000 HP, ±7,000 Damage (one)

Note: Also has a strong attack on both characters. This boss has 90% defense and 120% magic defense. In other words, physical attacks will hurt him more.

Boss: Regirock
Weakness: Ice, Bob-omb, Airstrike
Immune against Earth (will not heal from earth attacks, even though the game suggests otherwise)
Strong vs screamers damage

Easy: ±88,000 HP, ±3,000 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±110,000 HP, ±3,750 Damage (both)
Hard: ±132,000 HP, ±4,500 Damage (both)
Epic: ±154,000 HP, ±5,250 Damage (both)

Note: Earth attacks will heal him. This boss has 120% defense and 90% magic defense, meaning magical attacks will hurt him more.

Boss: Regice and Regirock
Weakness: See above

Easy: 72,000 (Regice), 80,000 (Regirock)
Norm: 90,000 HP (Regice), 100,000 HP (Regirock)
Hard: 108,000 HP (Regice), 120,000 HP (Regirock)
Epic: 126,000 HP (Regice), 140,000 HP (Regirock)

Note: Killing Regice will give you the medal. Also, their attack is slightly lowered.

Stage 5
Spiked Floating Eyeball x2
Weakness: Slight weakness to Thunder, Ice, Airstrike and Bombs

Easy: ±21,600 HP, ±2,000 Damage (on one character)
Norm: ±27,000 HP, ±2,500 Damage (one)
Hard: ±32,400 HP, ±3,000 Damage (one)
Epic: ±38,800 HP, ±3,500 Damage (one)

Spiked Floating Eyeball x3
Weakness: Slight weakness to Thunder, Ice, Airstrike and Bombs

Easy: ±20,000 HP, ±2,000 Damage (on one character)
Norm: ±25,000 HP, ±2,500 Damage (one)
Hard: ±30,000 HP, ±3,000 Damage (one)
Epic: ±35,000 HP, ±3,500 Damage (one)

Note: These enemies can seal your abilities for three turns (stackable). This can be cured by using the purify spell (which will be your only skill available after being sealed).

Boss: Mecha
Weakness: Thunder, Bob-omb, Airstrikes
Strong vs screamers damage

Easy: ±208,000 HP, ±8,000 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±260,000 HP, ±9,999 Damage (both)
Hard: ±312,000 HP, ±9,999 Damage (both)
Epic: ±364,000 HP, ±9,999 Damage (both)

Note: Like the sentinel, this boss also has three attack patterns which change depending on his HP. Stage 1 is mostly stab attacks. Stage 2 all of his attacks and stage 3 only his stronger attacks.

Similar to Goku, his beamcannon can instantly kill both your characters. Make sure your HP is always high in this battle and whenever he charges it, use defensive moves to prevent dying (it´ll still do about 5,000-6,000 damage).

Stage 6
Ghosts x2
Weakness: Holy
Strong vs screamers damage

Easy: ±36,000 HP, ±1,700 Damage (one)
Norm: ±45,000 HP, ±2,125 Damage (one)
Hard: ±54,000 HP, ±2,550 Damage (one)
Epic: ±63,000 HP, ±2,975 Damage (one)

Ghosts x3
Weakness: Holy
Strong vs screamers damage

Easy: ±32,000 HP, ±1,700 Damage (one)
Norm: ±40,000 HP, ±2,125 Damage (one)
Hard: ±48,000 HP, ±2,550 Damage (one)
Epic: ±54,000 HP, ±2,975 Damage (one)

Note: These enemies can poison you and take away your active stat boosts (stackable). The poison is stronger than the poison from the trees.

Boss: Goku
Weakness: Holy
Strong vs screamers damage

Easy: ±360,000 HP, ±8,000 Damage (on both characters)
Norm: ±450,000 HP, ±9,999 Damage (both)
Hard: ±540,000 HP, ±9,999 Damage (both)
Epic: ±630,000 HP, ±9,999 Damage (both)

Note: He can poison you, take away your active stat boosts (debuffed) and seal your abilities for two turns (stackable). This boss also has three attack patterns. Stage 1 is punches and slashes. Stage 2 all of his attacks and in stage 3 only his stronger attacks and twice as much chance for casting a Spiritbomb.

You should always have barrier on in this battle. Protect is also very handy, but less necessary.

-How to prevent dying from the Spiritbomb?
First you gotta make sure your characters are always in a healthy condition. If your characters are low on HP and Goku casts the Spiritbomb, you will not have much of a chance to survive. In the turn after Goku has casted the Spiritbomb, put your characters on defensive mode and the damage from it will be halved. Barrier will lower the damage even more.

Strategy by CHP
First check if you have almost maximum HP, if not use Heal More. If you do, then move on. Cast Barrier and Protect. DO NOT cast Temper or use a Magic or Attack potion. After you do that, you might need to heal again. Then change your sword to Heaven's gate if your playing Hard, Normal, or Easy mode. If you are playing Epic mode and you are fairly good t the game you can still use Heaven's Gate, but if you need a handicap then use Stone edge. Now that we have prepared, lets focus on attacking. Barrage Goku with Seiken and Registeel (to lower the defense for Seiken). After you have used Registeel twice then focus on healing with the mage, and if you are both healed over half then use Canti. Continue with Seiken. If your health drops under half then use heal if it's just one player, or Heal More if they both need assistance. If they both have under 1000, then use Power Metal and Heal More in the same turn. If Goku starts his spirit bomb thing, then check your HP. If you need to, use heal more. Note if you do this the mage will die. If they are good on HP, then defend for your life! If the fighter needs replenished MP, obviously use an ether. This is the last boss, so don't hold up on the items. Repeat this strategy until it seems Goku can be killed with Catastrophe (note by OneRedMage: This can be very risky, so you might not wanna do this). Use an ether on the mage, then use Catastrophe. If that didn't work then revive the mage and do it again. By now you should have won.
YAY!

(Additional) Strategy by OneRedMage
CHP did a good job on saying how to kill goku, as I used the same strategy. I added, though, that if ONLY the mage´s hp is below 9000, I have her use judgement rather than canti to heal and damage goku. Use antidotes on the mage if Goku seals, and ALWAYS keep your hp above 9000. The spirit bomb on epic difficulty can do ~8000 damage while you're defending so he could kill anyone with the followup attack. ALWAYS have barrier on as well. If either player doesn't have over 8000 HP when he launches the bomb, I sacrifice the mage with a barrier to save the fighter (I got the "owned medal doing this). I wouldn't risk using catastrophe during this fight on epic since ending a turn with ~4000 HP is a VERY risky move. Again, buy antidotes. They're cheap, so its not a big loss and helpful vs. seal or stacked poison (Goku does seem to seal more often in epic, and he does use poison).

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Curious about what your current level would have been if there had never been a redesign? Here´s a list of all levels and their required exp. amounts as they would´ve been right now in the old system.

Level 01: 0 - 50
Level 02: 50 - 100
Level 03: 100 - 150
Level 04: 150 - 200
Level 05: 200 - 250
Level 06: 250 - 300
Level 07: 300 - 350
Level 08: 350 - 400
Level 09: 400 - 2,080
Level 10: 2,081 - 3,761
Level 11: 3,762 - 5,443
Level 12: 5,444 - 7,124
Level 13: 7,125 - 8,805
Level 14: 8,806 - 10,486
Level 15: 10,487 - 12,168
Level 16: 12,169 - 13,849
Level 17: 13,850 - 15,530
Level 18: 15,531 - 17,211
Level 19: 17,212 - 18,893
Level 20: 18,894 - 20,574
Level 21: 20,575 - 22,255
Level 22: 22,256 - 23,936
Level 23: 23,937 - 25,618
Level 24: 25,619 - 27,299
Level 25: 27,300 - 28,980
Level 26: 28,981 - 30,661
Level 27: 30,662 - 32,343
Level 28: 32,344 - 34,024
Level 29: 34,025 - 35,705
Level 30: 35,706+

The experience gap between each level is 1681,... experience points.

For a list of all the old level icons, go here.

*Last updated: 22 October ´09

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Made this blog for posting my achievements and the date I achievement them in (so it will be updated). It´s just for me to remember later and just for fun of course. Not much else to say about it really... =/

Here we go:

Latest Achievements

06/14/08: 36,000 bp

05/28/08: 15,000 Blams

05/19/08: 50,000 Total Stats

Older Achievements
05/15/08: 35,000 bp
05/07/08: 20,000 Saves
04/25/08: Top 80 bp
04/21/08: Level 33
04/07/08: 19,000 Saves
04/04/08: 33,333 bp
03/15/08: 11,000 Experience Points
03/09/08: 18,000 Saves
02/28/08: 14,000 Blams
02/23/08: 3 Years on NG
02/13/08: 31,000 bp
02/11/08: Level 32
02/09/08: 17,000 Saves
02/01/08: Top 100 bp'ers
01/23/08: Supreme Commander!!! (#115)
01/12/08: 16,000 Saves
01/04/08: 29,000 bp
12/21/07: 28,000 bp, 15,000 Saves
12/16/07: 13,000 Blams
12/06/07: 10,000 Experience Points (3*10k)
12/05/07: Level 31
12/03/07: 40,000 Total Stats
11/28/07: 27,000 bp
11/21/07: 14,000 Saves
11/20/07: 1,000 Days on NG
11/11/07: 11.11 Total VP
11/01/07: 26,000 bp
10/22/07: Commander (25,500 bp), 11.00+ Total VP, Top 150 VP
10/19/07: 13,000 Saves
10/12/07: 25,000 bp
10/01/07: Level 30
09/29/07: Deity Whistle
09/22/07: 24,000 bp, 12,000 Saves, 50:50 Blams:Saves-ratio
09/17/07: 12,000 Blams
09/09/07: General (23,500 bp)
08/30/07: 23,000 bp
08/28/07: 9,000 Experience Points
08/26/07: 11,000 Saves
08/15/07: 10,000 Saves (2*10k), 22,000 bp
08/14/07: Lt. General (21,500 bp)
08/06/07: 21,000 bp
07/29/07: Reached Level 29
07/25/07: 9,000 Saves
07/21/07: 7.00 Base VP & 8,888 Saves
07/17/07: Started as level 28 (BR Level 15), 10+ Total VP (BR 9.37 Total, 6.59 base).
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Stats at the end of ´08
Experience Points: 13,890/14,390 (+3,640)
Level 36 (+5)
Experience Rank: #402 (+189)
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Blams: 16,596 (+3,354)
Saves: 26,807 (+11,258)
Total B/P: 43,403 (+14,612) (Supreme Commander)

Blams Rank: #126 (+49)
Saves Rank: #46 (+29)
B/P Rank: #64 (+55)
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Whistle: Deity
Voting Power: 12.35 (+1.13), 7.72 Base VP (+0.48)
Voting Power Rank: #89 (+46)
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BBS Posts: 3,170 (+768), 2.25 per day (-0.06)
Flash Reviews: 470 (+29)
Flash Review Responses: 146 (+13)
Audio Reviews: 131 (+7)
Audio Review Responses: 56 (+3)
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Total Stats: 61,064 (+19,180)
(=Exp + B/P + Posts + Flash Reviews + Audio Reviews)

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Stats at the end of ´07
Experience Points: 10,250/10,670
Level 31
Experience Rank: #591
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Blams: 13,242
Saves: 15,549
Total B/P: 28,791 (Commander)

Blams Rank: #175 *
Saves Rank: #75 **
B/P Rank: #119
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Whistle: Deity
Voting Power: 11.22 (7.24 Base VP)
Voting Power Rank: #135
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BBS Posts: 2,402 (2.31 per day)
Flash Reviews: 441
Flash Review Responses: 133
Audio Reviews: 124
Audio Review Responses: 53
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Total Stats: 41,884
(=Exp + B/P + Posts+ Flash Reviews)

* Last updated on 8/29/07
** Last updated on 12/22/07

Note: Recycled an older news post, hence the date.
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