I found a great article about Friday the 13th, and I wanted to share it with everyone.
After reading that, I was wondering about the history of sneezing, and I came upon this article:



Hope you enjoyed the read!
Source(s):
http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2009/11/13/news/news05.txt
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1...-after-a-sneeze

Okay so many(if not all of you) know about the extremely popular Warcraft 3 Custom Game, DotA. So S2 Games decided to take DotA to a whole new level, and with Icefrogs permission, they created Heroes of Newerth. It's basically a standalone DotA game where you join one of many DotA rooms and play.

Some cool features:
1) Levels: Each time you play a game, you gain experience. This helps you level up. There are 3 Tiers to the game, Noobs Only, Noobs allowed and No noobs allowed. Noobs are considered anybody from level 1-6. When you're past that range, you cannot join a Noobs only game. This helps from Pros stomping noobs and a bunch of raging.

2) Autobalance/Lock system: Host has the ability to Auto-Balance the teams, which rearranges them based on their Win/Loss ratio so the teams are balanced. Host can also Lock slots of his choice, which keeps them in the same team after autobalance.

3) Organization: HoN is extremely organized, making it easy to find the perfect game. Unlike Warcraft, when creating the game you choose from many options such as Game Mode(AP,RD,etc), Tier(Noobs only, etc), and such. This helps players refine their searches by being able to organize the games into categories.

The only problem: It's a closed beta so you need a beta key. For those who don't have any, here's a link!

Heroes of Newerth Beta Keys

There are only around 4,000 left so hurry!

Hello everyone, today I'm going to teach you how to pick a secure password. I've been using this method for years now, and I've never had any trouble with it. It will stop every password cracker and it's very easy to remember your password. It involves several steps, which you can get fast at over time. So, let's begin?

The first step, is to pick 3 words of your choice. Let's say, "the red tree", for instance. I just picked this at random, but you can pick things that are relevant to you, like your favorite number, color and city. It really doesn't matter, just something that is easy for you to keep track of.

The second step is to turn it into the password format, which would be "theredtree", we don't was spaces in the password, while valid, just adds length and get's in the way later.

Now, we add capitalization to the equation, this step is optional, but all the well more secure. One good way is to do the first letter of each word that you previously picked. And then the last letter of the password. In this example, it would become "TheRedTreE".

But we're not done yet, next we add numbers. Here's a great way to keep track of what goes where:

I = 1
S = 5
E = 3
T = 7
O = 0

Based on that, our password now becomes: "7h3R3dTr3E"
You want to try and keep the numbers to every other character, because it's organized. This way we don't have too many. You don't have to make the password this complicated, because even just doing one or two letters will make the difference.

Now we need to add something to the end the password, to make it unique. It can be your birthday, your favorite numbers, random numbers that you already remember. Or something relating to those 3 words. In this case, for the example, we'll use 00.

So our password, has now become "7h3R3dTr3E00".

The last step is what makes the password secure, it's the make or break for most passwords, the symbol character. You need to add a symbol in your password, something that's easy to type. We don't want your password to take you 10 minutes to enter in, so let's pick an easy finishing symbol, like the comma, the period, or the quote.

Finally, the finished product is this: 7h3R3dTr3E00'

All you have to do is keep track of what numbers stand for what, and that every other letter is either capitalized, or numbered. And anyone can remember at the end it's 00'. So all you have to remember is, the red tree. With that said, goodluck everyone!

Thanks for reading.

So, I was on my way home from college, and it's like 6:15pm (earlier today). Their was an Ambulance driving in apparently the same direction. Which was odd, because in this area you don't generally see them driving around without their lights on. So, I was just thinking about how it would be ironic for something to happen and have the ambulance already there.

There's a section of highway on my way home that does some really large turns downhill, under an overpass, and then back up hill over another overpass. And everyone always drives 50-60 around this bend. And right under the over pass, for some reason everyone always drive 20-30. Mind you, this is during peak commute hour. On a good day with no traffic you could hit this turn at 80 no problem.

So anyway, the ambulance is 2-3 cars back now, and I see the traffic, as usual and I just let my car cost down hill around the corner slowing down as we all group up under the usual overpass. But then out of no where I see this car (of an older model) fly by me down this hill. But he's in the other lane (to my left) where as I'm on the far right lane for the exit after doing under this overpass.

And just as I join the rest of the cars in this slow downhill turn, this other car that flew past me is slamming on his breaks, and tries to desperately avoid hitting any cars in front of him. Unfortunately, by the time he'd slowed down and my traveling at 15mph had caught up to him.. he smashed into the guy in front of him. And this was right next to my car. So, I was passing the accident and had to avoid fly debris as both cars involved in the accident were pushed all over the road.

But then, the ambulance that was on the same path I was heading, pulls over next to the accident vehicles to help. And all of the traffic behind me comes to a complete stop. And luckily I was stuck in that, and my car wasn't hit by any of the debris. But when you're going 15-20mph and a car slams into another car literally 10 feet away from you it's really freaky. I had all my windows down so I hear and saw the whole thing.

I don't think anyone was hurt, it was just a fender bender, and he wasn't going very fast by the time he bit the other car (which wasn't moving at all). So, at most maybe some whiplash. Anyway, I just had to post, it was pretty freaky actually seeing it happen, and amusing that the ambulance was right behind us.

There have been hundreds of accidents like this at this same place, and I've passed maybe 10 in the last 2 months. That's the only reason I even know to slow down and really watch out at this turn and I keep having to wait in traffic and driving by all these cars on the side of the road.

Okay everyone.. I'm going to start using twitter. So, everyone follow me or sign up and then follow me. I'll be posting a bunch of stuff.. Gaming news, cool shit, updates about my websites, etc.. And especially if we ever have any downtime, you'll be able to follow me and find out what's going on.

Here's the site: http://www.twitter.com/XGhozt/

I was just wondering, what are your biggest accomplishments from 2008? I think just about everyone I know did something cool, or amazing or at least progressively eye catching. So what did you accomplish in 2008? For some, it's an easy question to answer, for others it's something to stir the mind with reflection. For me, I think my greatest accomplishment in 2008 is establishing at least a semi-life plan and figuring out what I wanted to do for the nest 10 years.

I've figured out what college I want to go to, and I've planned out some area's of expertise for my future job or business. But this year was really important for me, I learned a lot about expanding my horizon, spending time with friends, family and making memories I'll never forget. I've learned about stocks, money management, and simplistically establishing myself as a designer.. The list goes on an on, so.. what about you?

I know some of you graduated high school, ..and others' turned 18.. So let's hear it!

Dear Readers,

Last year, I made an attempt to start sending out monthly or bi-weekly emails with news and updates about Ghoztcraft. Well, I'm going to try again, but this time I'm taking a new approach on the idea. This is a picture of what the eMail looks like (click). It may change, as I want to start adding other elements into the eMail as well, and I'm sure over time I will get better at this.

So, in the mean time, you should receive the eMail within the next 24-48 hours, it's sent to all staff, and members with more than 15 posts who allow administrators to send email to this. If you do not want to be a part of this, simply change your email settings in your User CP.

For anyone else who receive the eMail, please provide some feedback! Although, I will admit, I found one epic flaw in my design, in that I forgot to include the date on each post. I'll be adding that on the next one! Also, if you have any ideas as to what I could add to this eMail that would be great. I was thinking, possibly "Hot topics of the week" "new gallery images" and possibly some blog stuff? Perhaps a random quote from the iQuotes in the footer?

Thanks, enjoy,
~ XGhozt

Saw it yesterday with some friends.
It was alright, except that there were flying demons and shit in the movie, which don't even exist the game, but I guess they were added for more understanding of the story line.
It starts out real slow, but towards the end there is a lot of gun fighting.

In that, I give this movie about a 6.5/7 out of 10.

Note: You will probably enjoy the movie more if you have played the Max Payne games. They only made two games (I have them, and beat them both), and I hope that they don't make anymore. After seeing the end of the movie, it is clearly obvious that they will make a second one, and I'll probably go see that one also.
I recommend that anyone who has played any of the video games to go see this movie.

I'd also like to add that in the video game, to refill your health, you eat Pain Killers, and that is non-existent in the movie.

Edit: Oh jeez I forgot to add that they incorporated Bullet Time from the game into the movie, and when it happened, it was pretty sick!

Hi everyone!

So, I'm really excited, I've been waiting like 2 months to see this and it's finally happened! We've finally managed to get 10,000,000 hits in one month! This is pretty big, considering less than 6 months ago, it was only 7,523,484. And we're nearly doubled our unique visitors stats as well. For the month of June, we hit 61,495 Unique Visitors, and less than 6 months ago, that was a measly 34,891! So, everyone, pat yourself on the back and pour yourself a cup of whatever the hell you drink.

We must be doing something right:

Also, http://www.quantcast.com/ghoztcraft.net

I just watched the movie WANTED today. Right from the started I was laughing my ass off as the sarcastic comments, then to the instant rush of adrenaline at the pure excitement of the show. The moves and action shots are done so well it'll make you sit up in your seat, and that's rare from movies these days. One thing's for sure, this movie will quickly become one of your favorites. So far, the quintessential summer movie, so absurd, slick and entertaining, it's an outright blast. Angelina Jolie has never been quite so intimidating ..or fun!

First and foremost, I finally managed to buy myself a computer. So you'll end up seeing alot more around here. I bought a friend's old motherboard and amd dual core for $70 total, bought 2gigs of ram, an old case my brother had, an extra power supply we had, and an old pci video card for the time being. I couldn't get it working with IDE ports so I ordered a 500gb sata hdd and dvd/cd rw drive from newegg and had a friend burn me an xp disc. It all installed perfectly fine on thursday and now I'm here. If you talked to me alot before, you'd probably know that I previously only used the family computer that we all shared which extremely limited my computer time. In a few days I'll be ordering a new video card and maybe a new power supply with the $400 paycheck I'm getting. Which brings me to my second topic.

About three or four weeks ago I got hired at a store as a cashier and now work part-time there. I can't say I enjoy working there but I do love talking to all the other employees. I'm hoping sometime around when school starts back up that I can get a job as a computer network engineer or technician. That way I wouldn't have to work so many hours for such a low paycheck and I'd actually be learning and getting real experience. A job in the field of computer networking is what my current aspiration is for a career. Though I haven't fully decided on it yet because I want to keep my options open until when I actually need to make a decision.

Okay, so today I had a plane ticket to depart from CLT at 2:35 pm, and arrive at ORF at 3:45 pm...

So, I got to the airport at about 12:20, and I was at the gate by about 12:45...

So I was sitting there for about an hour and a half, and the lady came across the intercom and was like, Does anyone have a flexible schedule? Well see, I had nothing to do today, so I jumped up immediately, and was like I'll do it! So, then they were like okay, you will leave at 5:34 p.m (and arrive at 6:44... which we actually got there early so yea.) Sure, why not, I'll let that old asshole who can't wait two hours get on my plane... (Thats who I gave it up to... a bitchy old asshole... I hate those guys)

So anyways, I was sitting at the gate, and she was printing my new ticket... And then she said "Okay, to be fair, we are going to hook you up as well..."

So, in return for waiting two hours... *I did have my laptop so I was cool with it...* I got a free dinner from them, and I got a round trip ticket to anywhere in the US for free... I think I might visit ghozt!

Lesson? Give up your seats! If you have the ability, GIVE IT UP! Free tickets FTW!

Hello Everyone,

I'm sure you all missed me over the last 10 days or so. Anyway, I'm back now and I brought pictures! I only edited and uploaded about 60 of them (from a total of 300 or so). But they're pretty nice anyway.

The gallery is located here. (Good ones start on Page 3)
- And yes, some of the pictures are HUGE, resize them on your own time.

I was there a total of 8 days. I went camping with 5 of my friends at Burney Falls. It was a total of 6 or 7 hours to drive up there, not including the way back. Oh, and the good news, I got a tan! Haha.. The nice thing about this place (besides the giant water fall) is that I had an EDGE connection (phone data/internet transfer) around about 70% of the camp site. And it there is even Wifi access provided as an att hotspot! So I was able to check up on things and relax at the same time while out in the middle of North California.

Well, anyway, time to get back to whatever it is I do around here.

Enjoy the Pictures,
~XGhozt

Hello newcomer, and Welcome to the Community.

This website is a forum, as you probably already know, and is dedicated to gaming and the community surrounding it. This particular website is dedicated to hacking and exploiting, it's main means for attracting new members.

My name is Chris, and I want to help you to make a good impression and possibly fit in better in the community. Now, you can fit in and be as unique as you want, that's not what this is about. I don't want to make you think I am trying to make you a robot. No, by fitting in I mean not doing stupid things that will get you a bad reputation, or even banned.


The first step to joining a new forum is to admit you are new.

I am a seasoned forumer (pronounced "forum whore") but I am still new to Ghoztcraftz. This means that my first step in joining the community should always be lurking. By lurking I mean observing, not burrowing underground and waiting for an opportune time to strike your opponent, who hopefully sends marines.

Observe the forum, and get to know the members from behind the scenes. Usually you should lurk for about an hour tops (over two days) before beginning to post. Think this is stupid and making the internet more seri0us bizness than it needs to be? Then we don't want you posting, because you aren't going to fit in. People may not consider the forum their lives, but someone who can't take a measly 40 minutes to get a grasp on a forum with multitudes of members and literally hundreds of topics will just not fit in with the people on a website dedicated to a 10 year old game.

The next step in joining the community, which can actual be done while initiating the first step, is to post an introduction. Now, in your introduction, introduce yourself and do nothing more. Do not go into detail about a subject, as it will make you seem conceited, save that for the appropriate board. Always search for an introduction board before posting, and read the last 2-3 introductions to get an idea of what to say. Seasoned forumers usually have experience with this step, and can copypasta an introduction from their hard disk.

Do not lie on a forum. Your first name is not a dangerous thing to share. Making up a last name sounds alright, but lying at all can really hurt your credibility. Anonymity is a great thing in essence, because it means people can only judge you on your thoughts and feelings. On the other hand, anonymity can also allow people to say and do things with minimal consequence. Which leads us into the next guideline, Sensitivity.

Don't be over sensitive to people on the forum. If you are a sensitive person, there are ways to emulate that without sounding like a baby. Also, if you are new to a forum and have done minimal lurking, do not play the hero for anyone. Always try to sit the fence until people actually notice you, and will care about your opinion. Your join date and your post count, when studied together, can cause a great deal of skepticism towards you, and ultimately if you make a post against the current "bandwagon" or just the main feelings of the members, you will already have earned yourself a bad reputation. Do not take this the wrong way though. Having your own opinions is important, and is what makes forums possible, but when posting your opinions, especially when new, make sure you aren't over zealous with them. For the most part steer clear of the flame board until you have 30 solid, meaningful posts. (or are a seasoned whore) That doesn't mean when you post count hit's 30!
Also, remember the only thing we have to judge people on here is their wit. Making physical threats over the internet is stupid. Even if you have the means to get to that person's home, you aren't going to do it. Trust me. I've been on the receiving end of many e-threats, some of which where very plausible and could very well have happened. They never do. If you have to resort to using physical threats to win an e-fight, you lost. You just don't have the wit to keep up with the other person, obviously, and are doomed to ridicule for the rest of your stay on the forum.

Realize that everyone here is a nerd, and should be treated as an equal. I, while participating in many sports and having a decent social life, am quite a huge computer geek. Everyone posting on this website is, that is why they are on a 10 year old game. If you have some notion that you are not a nerd, and are somehow better than everyone else because of this, please refrain from showing us how cool you are by posting. We really do not need it.

Don't spam. Posts that only have three words, as represented by an acronym, are not helpful or boosting to a topic. Unless something is posted as comedy, or in a flame/spam board. Posts limited to "LOL" are not appreciated.

The most important part of posting on a forum is to have fun and enjoy yourself. If you aren't having fun or dislike the people in a community, it is going to show in your posts, so why not just leave. Don't come to a hacking website if you absolutely hate hackers and would never use one for yourself. Take for example me. I hate hacks in melee and ladder type games. I don't hate hackers as a whole, because they really aren't harming me or doing anything terrible. I use some hacks for Diablo and Warcraft, too. I wouldn't come to this forum for the sole purpose of saying "Fuck YOU!" to everyone. Why? It accomplishes nothing.

Respect the Administrators. It's their site. If they want to post two monkeys having intercourse as the point of the website, that is up to them. Global mods and VIP members are such for a reason, do not think that you have more say than them.

Realize that most of this is the opinion of myself, LoyaL, and not the Administrators of this website, unless they /sign it.

Enjoy your stay on the forum, and I look forward to posting alongside you.

Okay, so I've got a little story for you.

I know how confusing it is for everyone, who came up with that name, how do I spell it, is the C capitalized? Well, I'll tell you how I came up with the name, where it started and how to spell it. It's a long story, so I'll keep it short and leave out all the mushy stuff. I'm not going to tell you where and why I created the site, but I will explain the name and give you some good stuff to look at.

So, first of all, I'd like to clear up that it's spelled "Ghoztcraft" pronounced "ghost craft" and the C is not capitalized because it's one word, always has been. Now, the name has drifted away from the purpose of the website, but earned it's meaning from the content and respected community.

I spent a few days (mind you, I was 15) trying to find a name I could use, that was both unique, related to me and the original goal (at the time) of my project. I figured, well, I've had the name "xghozt" for a while now, and I want my site to be about my favorite game (at the time) StarCraft. So, after a while of googling to find 0 results, I finally found a name which was not in use, unique and related to what I wanted.

And thus, the geocities Ghoztcraft was born.
if you're interested in going down memory lane (for you senior members) or curious as to how embarrassing things began. I'll have you know I've got screenshots and saved versions of the old website, because I knew, one day, I'd want to look at them again.

Ghoztcraft Wiki: Ghoztcraft
Ghoztcraft Archive 1
Ghoztcraft Archive 2

So now you know the story, thanks for reading.

And yeah, you can laugh ,
~XGhozt

This game is so great, I love it even though I don't have it yet. But I will soon. So far, Super Smash Bros Brawl, and this game are the best on the Nintendo Wii! It has all of the great characters and items that you would expect to see in Mario Kart. If you wanna play with the WiFi club, it's free - go join it. The site (posted below) - has all the details about Mario Kart please go visit, and get behind the wheels . You can pick up this game for about $49.82 at your local game shop.

How exactly do you get behind the wheel? Check this out! --> (Picture)

QUOTE

Mario and friends once again jump into the seat of their go-kart machines for the first Wii installment of this popular franchise. New features this year are an online racing mode, new motorbike vehicle types, a special balancing system for new and veteran players, and (in its initial release) a special Mario Kart wheel packaged with the game.
~IGN.com

We love this game, it owns and I can't wait to get my hands on a copy.
The official new Mario Kart site is here.

The Top 17 Ways to Tell Someone Their Fly Is Unzipped!

17. You've got Windows on your laptop.
16. Sailor Ned's trying to take a little shore leave.
15. Your dork is ajar.
14. Quasimodo needs to go back in the tower and tend to his bells.
13. I can see your Gap dancers.
12.Paging Mr. Johnson... Paging Mr. Johnson...
11. Your pod bay door is open, Hal.
10. Elvis Junior has left the building!
9. Mini Me is making a break for the escape pod.
8. Ensign Hanes is reporting a hull breach on the lower deck, sir.
7. Captain, sensors detect a wormhole in the forward quadrant!
6. Lil' Shaq's at the free show line.
5. You've got your fly set for "Monica" instead of "Hillary."
4. Your closet door is open and Donato's peeking out.
3. You've got a security breach at Los Pantalones.
2. I see you have an opening in senior management.
1. Our next guest is someone who needs no introduction.

We hope you enjoy these! Got some more?
Post them in comments!

Alright Your admin XGhozt as asked that we (the staff) post a blog about something well... I am going to do a topic that he actually mentioned in the message he sent me... Not because he gave me the idea >.> In fact this is what I was going to write about when I read the title of the message.

So, here we go;

For fuck sakes, stop all the drama! I mean one of our staff has left because of this drama, I mean come on!. Why do you have to do shit just to piss people off? Now, that being said, when people do piss you off, don't bring it on Ghoztcraft! Now, why you do this? I really don't know, but you guys should stop doing that shit before we lose more members. There's no reason for it!

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Radio Drama;

Now this is also an issue between the old prankshows and the normal djing sessions at GHURadio.com. The real issue is that people get pissed off at what the Dj is saying and decides that they want to post about it on Ghoztcraft. Well, I'm going to say this here and now. We don't care what offends you on the GHURadio! The idea is free speech, and we're going to abuse it, don't like it, don't listen!

/blog

So.. I was cleaning my room and going though all my stuff..

I found a pile of envelopes, papers and letters all over my desk! These are all the things you guys sent into me.. Donations, letters and funny notes. I know I've got a few more on the way right now and I can't wait. Things like this are what really makes doing this worth it, thanks everyone. There's about 20 of them, by the way. The pictures doesn't have all of them because I found some more after I took the picture. I just wanted to show you guys that I keep all of this stuff and it means a lot to me.

Anyone else interested in joining VIP and you don't have papal you can mail in your donation with a note, more details here.

Have a good one,
~XGhozt

These are the top ten games I can not live without. Keep in mind, I have not played any game for PS3/360/Wii.
I don't own any one of those systems.

1. Ace Combat (The entire series) - PS2
2. Resident Evil 4 - PS2
3. F-Zero and F-Zero X - Super Nintendo - Nintendo 64
4. Super Smash Brothers - Nintendo 64
5. Mario Kart 64 - Nintendo 64
6. Need For Speed Underground 2 - XBOX
7. Black - XBOX
8. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - XBOX
9. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 - XBOX
10. Armored Core (The entire series) - Playstation 1 and 2

These are the top ten games that I just cannot live without. I am always playing these games and they are always in my cycle. There are some other guys that get into a cycle where I'll have a huge interest in it, play it for a couple days, and then not touch it again for several months.

Since the new page was put up at Ghoztcraft.net as a home page I've thought it looks pretty nice, but I have a small concern about it and wanted to see what you all thought so I can let Ghozt know what we think as a whole of how it should be. Now for whats going on here there are two ways that I've seen it and I want to show you and I want you to choose which you think is more convenient to you and everyone else around:

With Second Scroll Bar:
http://screencast.com/t/87NZGNaXiz
Here's an image also in case you don't want to watch the video..

And Simply Without Second Scroll Bar:
http://screencast.com/t/uaypMb9YoH
And image here also..

Now I want you to choose in the poll which one you like more and you think should be on the page.
Personally I think it should have one, because I don't like the long long long pages on websites and I like things being as compact as possible while still looking nice, and if it were possible to make a page look really nice while eliminating the big scrollbar I think it should happen. Or in this case make the scrollbar smaller.

Without the scroll bar I can see the page getting a mile long, but without it wont, it will maintain the same size and if someone were to look at the content in the second scrollbox then they can. But for the ones that don't want to bother with it at the time, I don't think it should be flowing down the pages for miles. Now hurry!!! Post your opinions and Vote in the poll.

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Update: You can now toggle the scrollbar.

Introducing the Ghoztcraft Blog.

The Ghoztcraft Blog is a new addition to the website. It officially begins once the new home page design is complete. A new rule will be set into place for all staff members active at Ghoztcraft. All Staff members are now required to post at least once per month in the blog. It will be approved and edited before it's displayed. On the blog, anyone can post in it or reply to an entry. All posts and replies are moderated!

I hope you guys enjoy the home page and our new blog! You can post about your daily life, things around Ghoztcraft, Gaming Rumors or news, interesting topics and otherwise something you'd like people to read. Please note that this is a BLOG, so your opinion on whatever you're posting must be extensive.

Post here any questions you may have.