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My avatar is a picture of Jonny Lang. I honestly don't really remember why I put it on there years ago but I think I was digging his new material then and have grown up playing guitar, etc.

 
Jayded said:
My avatar is a picture of Jonny Lang. I honestly don't really remember why I put it on there years ago but I think I was digging his new material then and have grown up playing guitar, etc.
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Nah, that's John Cougar Mellencamp.

 
"Nothing warms a Wall Breaker's cold and undead heart like blowing up walls. A squad of them will make way for your ground units, and they will do it with a BANG!"

  • SummaryThe Wall Breaker's appearance is that of a small skeleton that wears a brown aviator hat and has a small scar across its right eye socket. It carries a large bomb.
  • The Wall Breaker attacks by locating the nearest protected building and destroying its protective Wall by blowing itself up kamikaze style. It deals splash damage around its target and deals 40x damage to Walls.
  • Upon dealing damage, Wall Breakers will perish (regardless if they damage a Wall, building or enemy Troop).
  • Wall Breakers will attack Walls until all the Walls are gone, even if you put it far away from the Wall.
  • Offensive StrategyWall Breakers destroy Walls faster than any other unit and make gaps for other units such as Giants to enter the opponent's base.
  • Wall Breakers will look for the nearest building/turret that is trapped (fully or partially) by Walls and target any Wall that is trapping them. The exact mechanic can be found in the video below.
  • Wall Breakers cost a fairly high amount of Elixir and, due to their low health, spamming Wall Breakers will result in many losses. To combat this, one or two Giants may be placed first to distract the nearby defensive structures. Wall Breakers can then be used to target Walls without being fired upon.
  • Giants and Wall Breakers make an excellent team: The Giants distract and in return the Wall Breakers destroy the wall. Then the Giants can move in successfully. All possible with teamwork.
  • Wall Breakers can be extremely effective if you deploy 2 at a time very quickly, and do a straight line of 2 Wall Breakers each.
  • Once Wall Breakers have destroyed a protecting Wall, the remaining Wall Breakers will proceed to destroy the protecting inner Walls.
  • Wall Breakers have small amounts of health so use them wisely.
  • Before you deploy Wall Breakers, place a couple Barbarians or Giants to soak up hits so the Wall Breakers don't die before they explode. It is helpful to place the Barbarians or Giants a short distance away from the target Wall so that splash damage from a Mortar or Wizard Tower won't catch the Wall Breakers as well.
  • Wall Breakers do splash damage, so it can also be used to finish off buildings close to the Walls.
[*]Defensive Strategy
  • Wall Breakers are no longer fooled by spiked or decoy Walls.
  • Wall Breakers will not target a Wall unless it can see a building behind it.
  • Note that Wall Breakers will not target single Walls. There needs to be at least 3 connected Walls for a Wall Breaker to target it, and it must be protecting a building fully or partially.
  • Having double layers of Walls is ineffective vs. Wall Breakers, as Wall Breakers deal splash damage that will destroy both layers of Walls.
  • Always try to keep less important buildings outside of your walls (collectors, builder huts, etc.), so the enemy's Wall Breakers have to be placed farther away. This increases the chances of the Wall Breaker getting killed by your defenses before it blows up your walls.
  • Wall Breakers are not recommended to have in Clan Castles, since they blow themselves up to destroy the opponent's troop, however doing very little damage.
  • Upgrade DifferencesAt level 3, the bomb that the Wall Breaker is holding becomes larger.
  • At level 5, the Wall Breaker's bomb turns golden.
  • At level 6, the Wall Breaker exchanges its bomb for a barrel of explosives, similar of that to part of a Giant Bomb.
  • TriviaThe Wall Breaker is one of two Troops of which the picture in the Barracks resembles an upgraded version, the other being the Dragon.
  • If there are no Walls and you deploy a Wall Breaker, it will run to the nearest building and blow itself up. However, it will do much less damage to the building compared to what it can do against Walls, e.g. a level 5 Wall Breaker will do only 46 damage to a building, whereas it will do 1,840 damage to a Wall.
  • When Wall Breakers are sent to your Clan Castle, during an attack they will target the attackers and blow themselves up, which makes it a bad Troop to be donated for defensive purposes. When attacking, they are also pretty much useless, since they come out in large groups (like 5-10 at a time), blowing up a lot of Walls if they survive, but they may also die from a single Mortar shot. It is also quite rare for the remaining Wall Breakers to blow up the first layer of Wall and the compartment inside.
  • Wall Breakers can be useful in the Clan Castle for low level players, though. If the low level player doesn't have Wall Breakers unlocked or the Wall Breakers are low level, a high level Wall Breaker or two in the Clan can really help them.
  • You can have a maximum of 120 Wall Breakers at one time in a complete set of fully upgraded Army Camps. This number increases to 137 if you include the 17 that can fit into a fully upgraded Clan Castle.Note: Having this many Wall Breakers is highly discouraged (only second to an all-Healer army) as your army will end up breaking nothing other than walls.
[*]Wall Breakers take up two spaces in your Army Camp as of the March 12, 2013 update. Prior to this update the Wall Breaker took up only a single housing space.
[*]Balloons are "promoted" Wall Breakers.
[*]Wall Breakers resemble dead Builders since both of them have similar leather hats.
[*]In the Chinese language setting of the game, the Wall Breaker is called "Bomberman" literally, which could be a reference to the Hudson game Bomberman, in which the player-controlled Bomberman break through walls with his bombs.
TL;DR = Wall Breakers will attack Walls until all the Walls are gone, even if you put it far away from the Wall.

 
Though no one has survived battle with the Black Eyed Joe Hog Rider long enough to give a good description of him, other Hog Riders have been well documented:​
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"Having tamed the fierce leaping hog, the Hog Rider punishes those who hide behind their puny walls! Fueled by Dark Elixir, these warriors have never known defeat!"

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Levels 1 & 2 Levels 3 & 4 Level 5
  • SummaryThe Hog Rider is a rugged, dark-skinned man riding a large hog. He is bare-chested, wearing only a brown leather loincloth, a red belt and a pair of leather sandals. He has two large golden wristbands and a gold earring. His weapon of choice is a large warhammer.
  • His mount is a large boar/hog, about half its rider's height; the Hog Rider holds a brown leather bridle which is looped around the boar's tusks.
  • Because of his hog he can jump over Walls, giving the user a great advantage over the enemy base.
  • Although he has high damage per second and moderate hit points, he only takes 2 minutes to train.
  • Hog Riders make good distractions when deploying other units such as Archers.
  • Because of his moderate levels of health and high levels of damage, and his preferred target being defenses, the Hog Rider can be used as a replacement for Giants.
  • Offensive StrategyHe can be used to jump over any level Walls, rendering them ineffective against Hog Riders. Note that while this allows Hog Riders free access to what lies behind the wall, it does not open up gaps for other troops to move through. If the Hog Riders need the support of other ground troops, you will still need to deploy Wall Breakers in order to assist them.
  • The Hog Rider could potentially be used in a fashion similar to Barbarians, i.e. a "Hog Rider Rush", without requiring any Wall Breakers to break Walls. However, this would likely be a poor tradeoff of resources, as a large raid of Hog Riders would cost a significant amount of Dark Elixir.
  • Hog Riders are quite capable of acting as distracting troops like Giants; they have nearly as much health as a similar-level Giant, move twice as quickly and do considerably more damage.
  • They work well with the Healing Spell when you group several of them together.
  • When used all together they can be extremely effective offensive troops, though this is balanced by the fact that you must use a substantial amount of Dark Elixir.
  • The Hog Rider is the one of the best troop types for distracting Clan Castle troops, as it can avoid Walls to penetrate deep enough to reach centrally-placed Clan Castles (and enough health to not die before it gets there). Deploy one or a few to trigger the Clan Castle troops, then lure the reinforcement troops to the corner side, and deploy multiple Archers to slaughter them, and then deploy the remainder of your Hog Riders. This strategy is especially effective during Clan War raids.
[*]Defensive Strategy
  • Defending against Hog Riders is tricky, as their ability to bypass walls renders them irrelevant. However, the fact that they can jump over walls and attack defenses means that they may leave behind their ground support (such as Barbarians, etc.), as they will not be able to follow. This will allow your interior defenses to concentrate on the Hog Riders.Another way to defend against Hog Riders is to exploit the fact that they will attack the closest defensive building. You can arrange your base in such a way so that you have high power defense on the inside and lower power defense on the outside, with a layer of resources in between. That way, the hogs will (in theory) complete a loop around your base before being able to attack your interior defenses (Inferno Towers, X-Bows, etc.), by which time they should have all been killed by the interior defenses.
[*]Clan Castle troops and Heroes can be an annoyance to mass Hog Rider raids, as Hog Riders will not attack them unless all defensive buildings have been destroyed. Make sure to centralize them if you want to beat Hog Riders.
[*]Multi-target Inferno Towers can be a severe hindrance to Hog Riders, being able to block out Healing Spell effects, having high HP to take several hits from Hog Riders, while hitting large groups of them.
[*]As of the July 3, 2014 update, Giant Bombs do 1.5x damage to Hog Riders. This means that a centralized Giant Bomb can easily wipe out a horde of Hog Riders before Healing Spells can be deployed. This was likely done to put another nerf on the Hog Riders, who could easily destroy unprepared bases without mutli-targeted Inferno Towers.
[*]Although the Hog Rider is certainly not a liability on defense, the fact that all defensive troops are unimpeded by walls negates the primary advantage of the Hog Rider. As of the 30 Jul 2013 update, they take up the same amount of housing space (5) as Giants but are much faster and do considerably more damage. They are also much less susceptible to Lightning Spell attacks than Minions and Tier 1 troops, so they may be a good alternative for the Clan Castle if your clanmates don't mind donating Dark Elixir Troops.
  • Upgrade DifferencesInitially, the Hog Rider has a black Mohawk and beard and a gold earring in his right ear. He has two heavy golden wristbands, a red belt, and a brown loincloth. The Hog Rider's hammer is smaller and has two brass bands.
  • At level 3, the Hog Rider's hammer increases in size and turns black. The brass bands on the hammer's head disappear, replaced by a massive golden knob.
  • At level 5 his mohawk turns from black to orange, making it similar to that of a level 5 Goblin.
  • TriviaThough the Hog Rider appears in many ways to be a mounted barbarian, unlike the Barbarian the Hog Rider's teeth appear to be in perfect condition.In the clan wars commercial, if you look carefully, you can see a gold tooth.
[*]He has more than a passing resemblance to "Mr. T", an American actor.
[*]He was added in the 12 March 2013 update. On 27 August 2013 his training time was reduced from 5 minutes to 2, and he was given a preferred target (defenses).
[*]Hog Riders bounce in the air when their Army Camp is tapped.
[*]You can have a maximum of 48 Hog Riders at one time in a complete set of fully upgraded Army Camps. This number increases to 55 if you include the 7 that can fit into a fully upgraded Clan Castle.
[*]He is the only ground troop able to jump or bypass Walls without using the Jump Spell.
[*]They have a similar body build to the Barbarian.
[*]The Hog Rider has a pierced right ear.
[*]Hog Riders have the most amount of legs than any other troop with a total of six (including man and hog).
[*]The phrase,"Did somebody say Hog Rider?" comes from the Clash of Clans TV commercial.
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Check out my sig for what's the story with my avatar.... This little guy and his family need help. Any donations and/or prayers are much appreciated...

 
I dig Matisse and wanted an avatar that popped as a simple icon. Chose Matisse's "Flight of Icarus".

Did that go full-blown artsy-fartsy too quickly? ;)

 
I am loving the Clash of Clans avatars about ten times more than something else that happened over the summer, which I will not jinx by naming.

My avatar? Simply Anna Karina smoking. Perfect black and white pic, perfect oral fixation. In her youth, something else. Was thinking about a switch to Grace Kelly, but that might just be too much for me.

 
I was on my way to the dentist a couple of months ago and saw the Otis insignia at the bottom of the elevator. It was a Saturday morning and the place was empty so I held the door open, got down and took a couple shots with my iPhone 6. They came out pretty sweet. The rest is history. The Oreo will always be a tremendous avatar; the one I had in between was sort of meh; this one looks totally awesome IMO.

That is all.

 
Used to have a picture of me in a cowboy hat. Then I decided that I'd rather look at a hot girl in a cowboy hat and this was the first Google image search result. Nikki Nova.

 
used to be gob being lifted in a crane in the banana suit. felt somehow appropriate for this place.

don't think I'll be able to let this one go for a while. brazil pro soccer minnows Chapocoense somehow make it as cinderellas to the finals of the Copa Sudamericana, but their plane crashed flying there.. killing all but 6 people on board, including all but 2 players. their Colombian opposition graciously awarded them the trophy posthumously and brazilian and world soccer did everything possible to help them field a team the following year- with top players coming forward to volunteer their services. 

 
Mentioned before but worth again, and apologies for the length.

Its a picture of our beloved @Tremendous Upside , who passed far too young a couple years back.

That picture was a time of pure joy and glee, but sadly underneath the surface a man who was there to look after everyone else was hurting, and unfortunately did not look after himself. 

The day of the pic was what I consider in many ways the "last great day" in my life, that of my (soon to be ex) wife and Sean's (TU). It was her 30th birthday and I got her and about 10 friends a limo to go vineyard hopping on the north fork of Long Island.  Sean was a friend of us both, one of my few friends she was really close to.

That Late August day was quite literally, a glorious (and drunken) day. Totally passed out on the ride home - that picture was Sean when we were probably half way through and thoroughly imbibed.

We only saw Sean a handful of times after that day. He used to come out to LI (he lived in Queens) almost every Sunday to watch games but did so maybe once or twice.  We knew he was spiralling, we meaning all his friends. We tried so hard to interject but Sean always found a way to get through.

This time he did not.

On Super Bowl Sunday, we got a call that afternoon as we just put out plates for a big super bowl party.  We immediately cancelled our 15-20 guests and ran to the hospital. He had near total organ failure as a result of drinking himself into that condition. Within two days Sean passed.

Soon after, my health issues began and I almost died - and may have if I had not sought out medical help as I had been prone to stubbornness, but could not ignore what was happening in the shadow of losing my best friend. 

Three major surguries later including going into septic shock and nearly dying myself (even after seeking medical help), I received medical clearance literally two weeks ago. 

Sean was my best friend - who I met here at FBGs, being invited to opening day for the Rangers on the first day back from the hockey strike because Sean's friend bailed at the last min and I seemed like a decent enough guy - for an Islander fan. It's one of the reasons I hold this community so dear.

I'm sorry for the sad story, but within it lies so many days of joy, sunshine, deep and challenging talks and a number of mutual Irish exits.

Sean tried one last Irish exit - never one to burden others with goodbyes. Thank god, we as his friends didn't let that happen.  

All his friends gathered around his bedside, we each had a chance to encourage him to fight, some of us with last final moments to let him know that if it was his time to move on this world, he was doing so surrounded by those he loved and who loved and cherished him - we wanted him to know that those memories we all shared, some to ourselves and many as a collective, would last us forever. 

Love you Sean - we all still do. We all will do so, always. 

 
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Kenny "The Enforcer" Easley. Was just inducted into the HOF this past year. He was my favorite player on my favorite team (84 Seahawks). 

Costacos brothers put together lots of different athlete posters dating back into the 80s. 

 
First time I showed up to a fantasy football draft and they asked for my team name. I hadn't thought about that, so as guys are calling out their names, I thought about my lunch. Been my team name ever since and now several internet handles.

 
ClownCausedChaos2 said:
Several years ago, I lost my job suddenly and unexpectedly. I was young and hadn't had time to really build a savings. Finding a new job was taking longer that I had expected. By Christmas, I was down to my last dime, depressed, and suffering panic attacks.

When my family got together to exchange presents, I had made the agreement with my sisters that we would not exchange presents. When I got there, however, my oldest sister handed me a box with a note that read, "For when times get tough". Inside was a case a Ramen noodles and a six pack of cheap beer, and a nudie mag.

She then handed me a second box with a note that read, "For when times get REALLY tough". Inside was a ski mask, a plastic pistol, and Mad Dog 20/20. She gave me a hug and said, "I figured that right now, you needed a laugh more than anything."

So, that is my avatar: Me, sitting on my parents' couch, wearing my Christmas present.
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You're fat.

 
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