This was my telephone ring when I had a phone that would use a song for a ring...soundds better on YouTube and even better on CD :)

I always liked the music but this is the first time I've seen the band/video of the band. It's, well, different. I lived through the time period and I can honestly say it is different...then, and certainly now. An Earth Wind and Fire show it is not...or Parliament...or Ohio Payers...or even Chic...it is, ...different (in a slightly disturbing way) :)

Thailand has a national lottery where you can choose your ticket numbers. I would like to know the winning numbers...in the winning order of course :)

I am sick to death of this trash system. The game has been ruined to accommodate this poorly thought out MM system. So many of the thing that made Tanki a great game are just gone...poof. It is still a playable game as a time killer, but it isn't nearly what it once was. Remember, we could choose our own maps, join full or empty battles, do daily missions on convenient maps an number of players...we could even buy a propass and do missions in a battle we created with a friend. Tanki was easy when you wanted and difficult when you wanted. You could eyeball a battle and see if the ranks were too high or too low. MM is just awful awful garbage. Short games making missions too difficult. I just joined 7 battles in a row with less than four minutes...crap. I have counted players getting injected into a losing side...one time I was on the losing side and counted 46 players...46 on one team joining and leaving. Horrible rank bracket differences ...just garbage garbage garbage. I'm actually stunned that Tanki only lost a few thousand players in the lat few months. Actually Tanki would probably be a pretty good game as it is now if I had never experienced Tanki when it was good and fun. I don't know why they are doing this to the game there are no "new" players. The starting rank games are nothing but alt account players. I played with newbies before an 99.9% of the players in a newly created account battle are pros that don't want to deal with the constant drug wars. I'm ranting because I just had a really junk few hours trying to actually play Tanki like in the old days. It is more frustration than fun. I'm going back to just doing my one mission a day and forget this star week malarkey.

I was looking for a good rendition of Dvorak #9 and ran across this...fun! I think it may have been created for this really cool YouTube challenge/award

I just played on my Rico account. They have turned Rico into Twins. Twins and Rico are much closer turrets now. I just don't understand why they keep reducing the uniqueness of each turret and hull over tha last couple of years.

Even shorter battles...OMG!? I know their twisted thinking with this foolishness is that less game duration per game will force players to complete daily missions through an increased number of joined games...more churn for MM to work with. The problem is that it will make each battle even less enjoyable than they are now. These devs seem to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Make the game more fun and you will get more players. Shortening the duration of each game is the wrong direction.

I woke up with this playing in my head. I wonder what in the world motivated my synapses to bring this early 90's ditty to the forefront of my mind?

The star tier level is getting easier to achieve. This sadly means that gameplay will be fouled up all this week. Didn't we just finish one of these star things? Tanki, do another War if you need to attract players, These star things are too much humbug for too little reward, even with the reduced tier levels. The star thing causes really crappy gameplay since players become completely selfish and forget about any kind of team work. Create an event, like the War, that promotes working together, interaction of players, and some sort of feeling of accomplishment. ....and you forgot to include alterations in the garage sale...yet again. The double battle funds are welcome and generous...thank you.

Da F U N K Brilliant. It made my Sept 21st much better :) Here is a fine bit of Maurice White's production outside of EW&F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcPIOolkZz0

I like the movie version that Smoky posted, but this version better. It doesn't have to deal with the itself as a movie score and goes right for the music. I'm grateful to you and Celtic Women :) ...and of course smokeyh2 for starting the ball rolling This one is going into my monthly rotation...almost no reason to do so since I can't keep it from playing inside my head.

I had a dream that I forgot something in this post. I was going to just let it go but it has been bothering me so I added it as the last picture in the spoiler. I hope you have the time to look at the pictures as you listen to this song. It is a very sweet song of love and longing.

I have a warm fuzzy for Gaelic Storm. I went pub crawling with a couple of guys from this band! We all started at an after concert party, but devolved into enibriated antics at a couple of local Irish pubs. They played some tunes and I played bones with them...well, spoons really since I didn't have my bones with me. It was great fun and a very memorable night. My favorite song from Gaelic Storm: I posted this before, but I don't think anyone noticed it...it's really fun.

From Kane's tears of joy when he saw Hawaii, was born Poli'ahu, the beautiful white mantled kupua of snow and compassion. This song is of her heartbreak and longing when Aiwohi left her alone and in sadness on her home of Mauna Kea. I had to feed my dream, so I deleted this post and quoted it further on with an added a picture in the spoiler. It feels more complete now. I hope you enjoy this lovely song from my previous home, Hawaii. http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=23324&page=370&do=findComment&comment=6612233

They stole my name!!!!!!!! ;) Actually when I started my account I wanted ByeBye...as in bye,bye, you're dead, but it was taken so I added a third Bye. Since Tanki was just a little diversion game it didn't matter much...now it's a couple of years later and I'm a verified TO junkie...so much so that I even put up with MatchMaking...yuck. It's an OK song, but it's hard to desperate the boy-bandness of it from the tune :)

GS is completely and utterly useless. So many things need devs attention and they spend time on ridiculous stuff like this. Quote from the V-log: "What GS is and why is was needed: The GS index is a total score of how many upgrades your currently used tank has. It shows the modification and upgrades of turrets, hulls, and drone if its equipped, protection levels. and in the least if there's a skin and how rare the paint is and even the number of supplies that the player has. This is a short concise and easy to understand indicator. We have decided the tank information displayed in battles like it was before is excessive. Tanki Online is too dynamic of a game to stop and study detailed parameters of tanks during a battle at the same time the numerical index gives an instant understanding. This tank is cooler than mine, I need to be careful or this tank is so weak it's practically done." OMG, I am sick to death of the idiotic smarmy condescending spins that Tanki puts on every foolish tweak they do to make the game less and less. Why not spend some of this programming time in something that actually improves the game? Like more map suited for the toxic MM, fix the forums "My Content" section, HTML, all the known bugs and glitches with turrets, and many more. The GS rating is so completely useless it is actually kinda funny. Just a player rank tells you so much more than GS. GS was absolutely futile busy work for some programmer. The only good thing about GS is that it seems to have no effect on game-play.

I'm really getting sick of DM missions but can't get into DM battles. As I type this, there are 26.642 people online. My average wait time says 20s but I have been waiting this time for 12min 14sec, and still not in. I also have made several attempts of various shorter duration (under a minute) to try and click my way into a DM battle. It just hit 13 minutes so I will exit the queue and try again. With 26000 players it has to just about impossible for there to not be a suitable DM match for my rank within 30 minutes Either fix MM or get rid of the damn DM missions I just finished the DM mission after getting in with a 4 minute wait this time. Waiting this long for DM is ridiculous.

Quote from the V-log: "What GS is and why is was needed: The GS index is a total score of how many upgrades your currently used tank has. It shows the modification and upgrades of turrets, hulls, and drone if its equipped, protection levels. and in the least if there's a skin and how rare the paint is and even the number of supplies that the player has. This is a short concise and easy to understand indicator. We have decided the tank information displayed in battles like it was before is excessive. Tanki Online is too dynamic of a game to stop and study detailed parameters of tanks during a battle at the same time the numerical index gives an instant understanding. This tank is cooler than mine, I need to be careful or this tank is so weak it's practically done." OMG, I am sick to death of the idiotic smarmy condescending spins that Tanki puts on every foolish tweak they do to make the game less and less. Wy not spend some of this programming time in something that actually improves the game? Like more map suited for the toxic MM, fix the forums "My Content" section, HTML, all the known bugs and glitches with turrets, and many more. The GS rating is so completely useless it is actually kinda funny. Just a player rank tells you so much more than GS. GS was absolutely futile buy work for some programmer. The only good thing about GS is that it seems to have no effect on game-play.

I really like the groove and chord progression of this song. This is obviously not the the original video but it is more fun to watch someone that really likes the song than the typical kinda bland official video. The fidelity sounds about the same, but just for grins the original is in the spoiler if you happen to be curious.

Oh YEAH! This is a total winner. Elegant and lovely, this is going into my monthly rotation. Thanks for showing this to us. ...This is my fourth time through and it just gets better and better.

uuhhhh....we now have supplies in our garage...dd, da, s, rep kits. We have drones. We have ODs...and soon to be even more ODs connected to hulls. We have kits...that change about once a week. Daily mission are kinda the same, but in TO-Nirvana there wouldn't be supply missions because there would be no supplies in the garage. Containers are kinda the same as now because we have paint, skins, and crystals. I'll be generous in my pipe dream and let the shop flog the gold boxes, pro-passes, and clan license. "Hummm. Not a whole lot of difference between Nirvana and what we have now." Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems very different to me. Now if you were referring to the stuff for For AP/TO, then I understand and agree, not too much different from now...Tanki gotta get paid. a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world. As a Tanki-Nirvana it is close-ish to a Nirvanic state (I just made that word up) I think it would be much more fun and relaxing to just play Tanki instead of having to jab supply buttons constantly. No frustrating OD pops just as you are about to accomplish some stupendous Tanki feat. And no players wielding fully MUed kits three or four ranks before the equipment is even unlocked for everyone else. And as a bonus, vast hoards of returning players might even bump-up TO's bottom line...and if you are skeptical, there is as much chance of tens of thousnads of players returning to Tanki as there is of Tanki-Nirvana coming into the plane of our existence. :)

The stupidest sight in Tanki today was the GS score of my tank, the tanks on my team, and the tanks we battled with. Could there possibly be any statistic that meant less than GS?

A crunchy offering from Brazil somewhere in the mid 90s