How have you changed in the past year?

Pulse

<!--quoteo(post=1563205:date=Jul 18 2006, 12:50 PM:name=6john)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(6john @ Jul 18 2006, 12:50 PM) [snapback]1563205[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><ul><li>ive completed my first year in college</li><li>started learning java</li><li>play games less</li><li>ive been told that im more compassionate</li><li>ive become decent at mapping for source. ive yet to finish a map but the parts of maps that i have finished look pretty nifty in my opinion.</li></ul>(after reading and seeing that i sound like hella sad nerd i added the following)<ul><li>beefed up</li><li>gotten all de ladiez</li><li>killed a man by throwing a live bear at him</li></ul><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You threw the bear? Wuss. A <i>real</i> man would've found another bear and made <b>bear chucks</b>.

Then, when he was finished, he would eat the bears.

Yeah, I haven't changed one bit. I must be living in a black hole or something.

Mr_Headcrab

Woah, odd to be back in the blue!


-Got a steady job

-Eve with Magey

-learned to drive a crane, and burn things real good

- discovered i can deadlift my body weight (double seems to throw out my back

-oh, and i bought a car....
<img src="http://blackmage.org/crabby/Crabby/IM002451.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

The previous owner did some... ricification, but im restyoring it....

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tsa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::tsa::" border="0" alt="tsa.gif" />

CForrester

That is one riced-out car.

CatCop

Uhh.
I dated a few more chicks.
Aged a year. Or so.
...
That's... it, and that's... sad.

CoolCookieCooks

Forgot to add that my spine exploded and I was paralysed, but thats a story in itself <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />

Creepin_Jeezus

Raaargh, It's been an interesting year for me, quit my boring office job to persue my photographic/photojournalistic career, which is slowly turning out pretty damned good.

I too felt the temporary addiction to WoW, but I quit shortly after hitting level 60. And I've been playing DOD:S mostly with spurts of Hidden: Source, which is an interesting mod to say the least.

Been a busy guy though, made my own portfolio webby, invested in way too much camera equipment, and have taken over 25,000 photos of just about everything <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />. All while having a part time job... And partying. Very hard. Rawk!

[Edit] Oh yeah, and my hair is a hell of alot longer too <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Pithlit

I cryongenically froze myself when the forums went down and have only thawed a few days ago.
So, no, nothing has changed for me <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

twoflow

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Filthy.

Insane

I killed a man in cold blood just to watch him die. I did it with my <i>mind</i>.

Comprox

More beer.

SLizer

WEll I finished my school
-looked for a job
-turned few bad jobs down
-wondered where to get money
-had lots of booze
-started playing poker
-lost lots in poker
-made it all back
-making steady income
-and being generally hooked to it now
-otherwise hitting the army in half a year
-writing in the godsent bluepages1

Im find and as bad and spammey as ever! one year of asylum in YO-clan wasnt good for me <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

torque

Graduated from university.
Got a job in the gaming industry. Love it. The pay is swell and I love my team.
Bought a new car. Upgraded the hell out of my computer.
Got a serious boyfriend. Looks like we may get married in a year or two.
Reached a somewhat better truce with my parents.

All this has made me appreciate life more, I think. I've found that I have a lot more emotional depth than I used to, and along with that, a lot of stress (worrying about grades and finances) is gone.

Melatonin

+ Moved back to London
+ Survived 6 months living with a flatmates bats**t crazy girlfriend
+ Got a job with the poh-leece
+ Didnt miss my PC that much when it died
+ Subsequently ventured into the outside world
+ Started Wing Chun
+ Failed to quit smoking <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />


/obligatory "wow, NS forums back up!"
//must remember im not on fark any more...

arctica

<ul><li>Started last year of high school</li><li>Furthered art ability</li><li>Watched a lot of House M.D</li><li>###### off my Physics professor</li><li>Remained 5'04"</li></ul>
Among other things, Not much <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Monkfish

<ul><li>Moved house another 2/3 times</li><li>Still no Education</li><li>Or job</li><li>Or friends</li><li>Probably starting Cognitive Behaviour Therapy soon</li></ul>Good times huh?

Tonee

I have a relationship...
a better job...
and I'm slightly more mature (only marginally)...

Beast

-completed Year 1 of my university course
-Got a pwnage Girlfriend
-Went to anthrocon (yay!)
-built a new pwnage computer
-grew my hair :O
-socialise more <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> yay

esuna

<ul><li>Got back together with my girlfriend of 4 years, making it over 5 years now</li><li>Moved in with her to a different part of the UK</li><li>Quit drinking so much soda</li><li>WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW WoW </li><li>Had my skin recoloured so i'm no longer a damn cracker like the rest of you</li></ul>

locallyunscene

Broke up with girlfriend of three years.
Tried dating other girls(has not worked so far)
Finished my B.S. in Computer Science
Got a job as a Software Engineer for a military industrial complex
Moved to a new state
Wondering what to do with the rest of my life.

TychoCelchuuu

<ul><li>I went to PAX</li><li>Uh... yeah that's pretty much it</li><li><img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" /></li></ul>

SoulSkorpion

<ul><li>Graduated from uni, to my great surprise. I was convinced I'd failed some of my last units.</li><li>Got a <a href="http://www.intergraph.com/about/aboutppm.asp" target="_blank">job</a>, which I'll have finished my three month probationary period for on Monday. Today I'm supposed to be emailing my boss to say "yes I'll take the job but pay me more money", except I'm hung over. So bleah.</li><li>Got a new car, because my old one was apparently a deathtrap <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />. We took it for a service, and the mechanic said he was surprised it hadn't broken and crashed already. So yeah, new car. I never realised what a piece of crap my old car was until I drove something else.</li><li>Computer died. Currently on my ancient pentium 90. In the process of researching what parts I'm going to get for its replacement.</li><li>Various other, personal stuff.</li></ul>

Nurot

<ul><li>My life fell apart for personal reasons</li><li>I got up and moved to the middle of nowhere in Baxley, Georgia from Vermont to get away from crap</li><li>Got a new job</li><li>Got a new girl</li></ul>

CplDavis

hmmm finished my degree and got a full time job.

Swiftspear

I...<ul><li>Became a furry</li><li>Stopped gaming</li><li>Joined scientology</li><li>Joined myg0t</li><li>and started cutting</li></ul>


Ok, actually that list is total BS. I really barely changed at all other then gaining more intellect and experience behind my outlook on life.

Beast

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I...<ul><li>Became a furry</li><li>Stopped gaming</li><li>Joined scientology</li><li>Joined myg0t</li><li>and started cutting</li></ul>Ok, actually that list is total BS. I really barely changed at all other then gaining more intellect and experience behind my outlook on life.
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But weren't you a furry anyway? I mean, isn't the cat a big giveaway? j/k <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

CplDavis

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But weren't you a furry anyway? I mean, isn't the cat a big giveaway? j/k <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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If I ended up an animal/something else i think id be skulk <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" /> due to my smaller stature but with the heart of an onos ! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

or better yet, a snonos! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Swiftspear

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But weren't you a furry anyway? I mean, isn't the cat a big giveaway? j/k <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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It's my kitten, not my persona. Her name is teddy and she flops in your hands like a little ragdoll if you pick her up, and she can do backflips.

I love cats and they love me, but I rather fancy cat's as more human then they really are if I'm playing pretend about animals then fancying myself more animal then I am.

UltimaGecko

Although I've seen very litle in interest towards myself, I will amuse my own crazy self by listing my year or so worth of events:


- Wasted two summers (woot): wone working at a meat packing plant so I could go on a semester abroad, the other looking for a less annoying, smelly, disgusting, backbreaking job while spending the other half of it playing WoW and being bored 80% of the time (...playing WoW). On that note, anyone wanna buy a fifty-something priest account on Demon Soul <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

- Had my 'intensive German study' semester abroad in Magdeburg, Germany. I'd like to think I'm at least partially fluent in Germany now.
-- Visited: Rome, Italy | Lisbon, Portugal | Aachen, Germany | Berlin, Germany | Prague, Czech Republic | Weimar, Germany (...not in that order)
-- Almost had a girlfriend, twice. Both times my social ineptitude completely botched my chances.
-- Took more pictures of random things than should be physically possible.
-- Got drunk 3 times, only very drunk once...in Prague...lost a hat...(by very drunk I mean that I sound like an idiot (more of one) on camera)

- Learned no one wants to hire someone incapable of driving a car at night due to vision inadequacies (woot, thanks crappy eyesight).

- Learned that all the forces on Earth do not want me to get in better shape. I finally start working out - BAM ...gall stone -> surgery -> recovery time -> back to university.

- Forgot a majority of programming knowledge, while expanding my ability to modify Paradox's Hearts of Iron 2 (probably a poor trade-off in retrospect).




Overall I'm feeling kind of useless at the moment because nowhere I apply for jobs do I get hired, and due to the afforementioned visual problems I can effectively only work somewhere within walking distance (not that I have a car anyway, even if I could drive at night). Plus I feel like I'm forgetting more than I'm learning, which isn't really a good sign. It's like that feeling of being lost even though you know exactly what to do. Someone hire me to do something productive <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> . Plus I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with German and History majors and an International Studies minor when I'm done with college in one year.


There, not just a recap of my last year, but a recap of my present state of mind, woohoo. (Effectively 3 months of monotonous boredom, followed by 3 of the greatest months humanly possible followed by the last 9 months of 'meh' and 'bah').

viper

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two words: <a href="http://www.eve-online.com/" target="_blank">Eve-Online</a>
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^

Chem

1. Lost 120lbs
2. Joined the Marines
3. Got to shoot a m240g
4. Now in my A school for an Aviation Powerplant Mechanic
5. Quit WoW and threw the cd's into the gulf of mexico
6. Currently in Pensacola, FL having the time of my life