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Author Topic: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014  (Read 7241 times)

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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #15 on: December 30, 2013, 02:04:40 pm »

The end is nigh, which means I should really post the list (funny how I'm planning out the next 12 months but don't have the motivation or willpower to plan out the next 24 hours).

In no particular order:
1. Achieve the 100 push-ups a day thing
2. Get a job
3. Go abroad, anywhere will do
4. Finally learn how to draw females
5. Ditto for faces
6. Start and finish building a world
7. Start learning a new language
8. Do a comission, any will do
9. Go on a long bike trip (I'm thinking transnational)
10. Start doing regular plein air sketching trips
11. Start a proper YouTube channel
12. Go skydiving, or paragliding, anything involving flight of some sort

And that's about it I think, not sure how feasible most of these are since a good part of them should fall into the same timeframe which means that panicking is more likely.

In any case, let's be generous and consider doing two thirds of them a success.
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2013, 04:40:52 pm »

2014 approaches. Challengers, ready your swords!

Spoiler: BOOM! (click to show/hide)
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #17 on: December 31, 2013, 06:35:52 pm »

Shit! I forgot to get a sword! How will I find one at this hour?
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #18 on: December 31, 2013, 06:46:22 pm »

20 minutes to go, so I guess I need a list:

1. Find time for at least 3 dives this year.
2. Don't give up on getting into uni
3. Write a game. I don't care what, or how complicated, just stop giving up halfway through.
4. Learn to draw faces
5. make a serious attempt to learn guitar
6. Revise for A-levels
7. Write > 10,000 words of coherence that isn't a forum game
8. Drink <= once per week
9. break into the pile of books on the desk. Seriously. DO IT.
10. Find non-substance related motivation
11. Find a source of income that isn't parents
12. Hang in there :)
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2014, 05:31:03 pm »

All right PROGRESS UPDATE POST

I'll plan to update once every week and a half or something.  That should be enough time to make reasonable progress.

Spoiler: UPDOOT (click to show/hide)

So, the clear next steps are moving stuff over to the new computer, going home to see my parents (and practice driving, and do sewing things) and getting a phone to replace the old one.  That shouldn't be too hard.
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2014, 04:36:56 am »

I'm late! Hurray!

1. Get my Real Estate License
2. Finish website for a fellow Bay12er
3. Finish website for friends' podcast
4. Launch 2 businesses
5. Teach daughter to read
6. Get into at least semi-regular meditation routine
7. Stop smoking cigarettes(e-cigs and hookah are fine)
8. Get a job for moonlighting purposes
9. Don't leave things in bins or boxes once they arrive at my new house. At least go through them and repack them. Inventory my shit, basically
10.Read and/or listen to a self-help book each month
11.Organize/back-up all data
12.Magically develop enthusiasm, motivation, and outgoingness
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2014, 08:04:45 am »

Spoiler: PROGRESS REPORT (click to show/hide)

something... do. will do. when i wake up. in a couple months.
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2014, 10:25:29 am »

So, the clear next steps are moving stuff over to the new computer and getting a phone to replace the old one.  That shouldn't be too hard.

Did both of these :I  Not sure what next.
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2014, 10:36:01 am »

Sign up for driving lessons. Because you put a big nope next to that, and if you can power through this apparently most difficult task the rest will be a breeze.
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #24 on: January 15, 2014, 02:15:18 pm »

I was overwhelmed by driving at first too. I started with an automatic so it was easier I think, and learning a manual was pretty swift. Basically, just relax. With an automatic, all you have to do is turn on the car and put it in Drive and it will start going. Steer to avoid hitting stuff and if that fails use the brake. END OF LESSON 1.

Seriously, start in an empty parking lot, like a church during the week. There are more buttons you use on a console controller than you will need at first to drive a car. And it gets super easy. At first I didn't think I'd be able to do anything else while I drive but now I'm making waffles, drinking soda, and making a forum post on the highway.
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2014, 05:59:30 pm »

Well I haven't made much progress, or any, the only thing I've done so far is started on number 5. That one is gonna be a long running one though, as I aim to do a 100 portraits of various people, the first one being me (and hopefully the last one being me too, for comparative purposes). Hopefully this is finished by the end of spring or something, since I need to start on the female one too.
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2014, 09:05:56 pm »

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Driving

Yeah, the reason why it's NOPE is because I have to go home to see my parents to do it and learn from them.  I'm just not doing a good job of being proactive when I'm there.


On the other hand I will probably start seeing a counselor next week, which is the most terrifying thing on the list for me by far.
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #27 on: January 21, 2014, 08:21:03 pm »

1. Run one mafia game per quarter
2. Read Les Miserables
3. Track down and eat ichigo daifuku
4. Write "Knots of Hay" [30-part web serial thing]
5. Translation project [no more details since I plan to publish]
6. Polish and attempt to publish one short story
7. Sew or knit something
8. Read through Dickens and attend the local Christmas Faire, possibly in costume
9. Read through Shakespeare and go to a play
10. Learn to drive
11. Finish all those outlining and design projects I keep promising myself I'm going to finish
12. Stop being a nincompoop and actually figure out how the local bank works
BONUS: Start seeing a counselor BOOM

The red one I am doing next!  I should be able to complete that goal on the first Sunday of February.  The orange ones I'm actively working on right now.
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2014, 11:21:17 pm »

Short story
1. Finish art
2. Write it all out
3. Compose accompanying music
Finish platformer
4. Draw all backgrounds ~0.7/5
5. Compose all songs
6. Do animations and programming
Do short comic
7. ~12 pages art for comic 0.5 Pages complete so far
Misc
8. Work on caricatures/plant illustrations/art in general Ongoing
9. Do some computing in DF
10. Write at least one happy song and fully finish it for public listening
11. Bake a pie correctly and have it taste good
12. Run more than 1 consecutive rack of 8/9-ball
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Re: CHALLENGE: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2014
« Reply #29 on: January 22, 2014, 12:32:08 am »

All right PROGRESS UPDATE POST
We can does updoots? :O

Did not know that.


Spoiler: NYAHAHAHA (click to show/hide)
Love those bonus objectives.
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