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[Duke 2.0]

Spoiler: Dude, I'm G-Modding. (click to show/hide)

The Blind People: Yo
[DFC] WorkerDrone: I'm going to give you three a choice.
[DFC] WorkerDrone: ...
[DFC] WorkerDrone: A:
[DFC]Chaoticag: Planning the roll to dodge game, youu guys in?
[DFC] WorkerDrone: You play in Cag's Live RTD using GameTable.
[DFC] WorkerDrone: B:
[DFC] WorkerDrone: I beat you to death.
[DFC]Chaoticag: Or that.
The Blind People: And C?
[DFC] WorkerDrone: There is no C.
Luke_Prowler: He beats you to death with his other hand
The Blind People: Three choices?
[DFC] WorkerDrone: Twp choices.
Luke_Prowler: I choose A
The Blind People: You gotta either stay consistant, or be threatening with that man
The Blind People: Luke had the right idea there

[Aqizzar]

Aw man, I completely forgot it was game night.  I've been fucking around with imaginary Legos for hours while you guys have been having all the fun.

[ein]

Aw man, I completely forgot it was game night.  I've been fucking around with imaginary Legos for hours while you guys have been having all the fun.

This has made my day.

[chaoticag]

You didn't miss much, my computer went senile on me, and couldn't reconise what ipconfig means, stopping me from opening ports up... Duke tried, but I kept failing to connect, so I asked Janet to do that...

Which means it will have to be next week, while I figure out the kinks that might pop up from GMing a game that you don't host.

[Outcast Orange]

Aw man, I completely forgot it was game night.  I've been fucking around with imaginary Legos for hours while you guys have been having all the fun.

This has made my day.

[Aqizzar]

Which means it will have to be next week, while I figure out the kinks that might pop up from GMing a game that you don't host.

Next weekend being Mother's Day, I wonder how many people will be available.  I don't know if I will be.

As if all that imaginary playing with Legos wasn't bad enough, I forgot that I was supposed to take an online quiz before midnight.  Technically.  The due date was actually set for April 31st.  Yeah.  I'm actually happy about this, because it appears that the course's coordinators were having so many issues themselves that they just wiped the duedates from the system.  The grade tracker doesn't list any dates, and my mid-semester said I had a C, despite doing an exam a week late.  So I might just pass anyway.

[chaoticag]

Friday, not saturday. Besides which, there is going to be a party at my house on Saturday.

[Vector]

Figures that the only novels I've read are my incomplete X-Wing series and a couple books from an old English course.

It might be kind of cool to start a B12 kultured book club of some sort, or at the very least a group where we try to read/recommend books with kultural leanings.  Maybe read something, write a summary/recommendation, and so on.



Found an aikido dojo so I can do martial arts 6 days a week (mostly extremely low-impact >_>) if I feel like it.  Also found a Zen center/monastery and got data on the local Buddhist temple.  Researched wushu halls near my university and found what looks like an extremely good one.  Found the cloth for my apron, so I can start my sewing project up pretty soon and, from there, go learn how to cook a bunch of scrumptious foodstuffs.  Discovered that I finally feel like reading the huge amount of manga and French novels I've amassed in my room.  It's always good to use what you've bought.

I'm also cleaning a bunch of stuff out of my room that no longer fits with who I am.  It's nice to change my life and embrace all the changes I've made of late.  I'm glad I can take down all the motivational posters I made in high school, since I'm not lacking in motivation anymore.  I've also managed to become less dependent on all of my friends, and am getting along quite a bit better with my parents.

I seem to have finally cheered up and gotten over Rosewood, though I do have the occasional desire to go beat the shit out of him.  Though I'm still an angry person, I think that anger is slowly fading.  It's just that people who treat me that badly tend to get rather a lot of wrath aimed at them.


Somehow, it feels as though something very large and very painful is behind me.

[Aqizzar]

Somehow, it feels as though something very large and very painful is behind me.

Precisely because it is, and congratulations for it.

I'm going to put together a book list.  All of the books that I own, and which of them I've read.  It'll be very depressing, but it will give me a quantifiable goal, and I'll actually do all the reading that I've been telling myself to do for so long.  I urge others to do the same; knowledge is power, power corrupts, and corruption is fun.

[Vector]

Somehow, it feels as though something very large and very painful is behind me.

Precisely because it is, and congratulations for it.

Thanks, man.  I appreciate all the help you've given me--you and everyone else.

I'm going to put together a book list.  All of the books that I own, and which of them I've read.  It'll be very depressing, but it will give me a quantifiable goal, and I'll actually do all the reading that I've been telling myself to do for so long.  I urge others to do the same; knowledge is power, power corrupts, and corruption is fun.

Rather than compiling a written list, you might prefer to just physically organize your books in a sensible fashion and move on from there.  In my experience, written lists tend to be too daunting and move one towards completion-oriented reading, rather than learning and enjoyment.

Personally, I'd set a couple of shelves aside for stuff you've read, and then sort by subject (and, within those groupings, in the order you think you should read the works).  From there, it's a lot easier to figure out what you need to do without getting overwhelmed.  I'm about to set off and do something along those lines, myself, since my shelves have gotten astoundingly messy over the past few years.


Haha, I'm so excited ~

[ein]

Borrowed Fable 2 from a friend.
This game is completely insane.

[Acanthus117]

Borrowed Fable 2 from a friend.
This game is completely insane.

Yeah, I get tired of hookers chasing me around in Bloodstone.

[WorkerDrone]

BLACK AND PURPLE.

I WAS RIGHT.

[Aqizzar]

Personally, I'd set a couple of shelves aside for stuff you've read, and then sort by subject (and, within those groupings, in the order you think you should read the works).  From there, it's a lot easier to figure out what you need to do without getting overwhelmed.  I'm about to set off and do something along those lines, myself, since my shelves have gotten astoundingly messy over the past few years.

My books are already spread everywhere but in order, and overwhelmed is how I live every day of my life.  So screw it, I compiled a list.

Spoiler: Books I own and can find (click to show/hide)

Read
Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
Adulous Huxley - Brave New World
Alexander Sholzenitzen - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Oscar Wilde - The Portrait of Dorian Grey
Jon Ronson - The Men Who Stare at Goats (maybe not finished)
America - The Book
The Onion - Our Dumb World
Dennis Miller - The Rant Zone
Lewis Black - Nothing's Sacred
Left Behind (hhuuuurrrrkkk)
Max Brooks - World War Z
Zack Parsons - Your Next Door Neighbor Is a Dragon
Robert Young Pelton - The World's Most Dangerous Places, Edition 5
Saria Shah - The Storyteller's Daughter
Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation
various Star Wars novels
several good webcomics, some finished altogether
more GURPS and Warhammer rulebooks than I care to think about, among others


Partially Read
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Robert Yound Pelton - WMDP, Edition 4
Stephen Colbert - I Am America and So Can You
Russ Kick - Abuse Your Illusions
Sam Harris - The End of Faith
Thomas Frank - The Wrecking Crew
Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives
Plato's Essentials
Machiavelli's The Prince
Jane Austin - Emma
David Lodge - Changing Places
many interesting textbooks
many good webcomics and amateur fictions, like "The Salvation War"


Not Read
Terry Pratchett - Night Watch (yes, that's the only Pratchet book I own)
Frederick Forsyth - The Dogs of War
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island
Ernest Hemmingway - A Moveable Feast
William Hodgson - The Night Land
Philip Wheelwright - The Way of Philosophy
Rush Limbaugh - The Way Things Ought to Be
Herman Cain - They Think You're Stupid
Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad Poor Dad
Paul Krugman - Depression Economics
Andrew Bacevich - The Limits of Power
Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jere King - World War I
John Berger - Hold Everything Dear
Andrew Mueller - I Wouldn't Start From Here
Alexandra Kitty - Don't Believe It
Bryan Mealer - All Things Must Fight to Live
Anna Politkovskaya  - A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
Robert Yound Pelton - The Hunter, the Hammer, and Heaven
Robert Yound Pelton - Licensed to Kill
Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone
Dexter Filkins - The Forever War
Jim Wallis - God's Politics
Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great
Peter Groff - Islamic Philosophy
Ed Hussein - The Islamist
Murat Kurnaz - Five Years of My Life
The Old and New Testaments and the Qu'ran

That's certainly not all the books I've read, just the ones I own.  But it's pretty close to all that I've read, and certainly all that I've read in the past six or seven years.  Pretty thin list really.  But it's actually easier for me to look at all compiled together instead of spread over all my furniture.  Funnily enough, I remember starting a thread specifically for talking about reading, some time ago.  No need to bump or create any threads though, at least by me.

No wonder I'm so depressed about reading though, look at that list.  Twenty seven books about religion, politics, or war, many of them now rendered years out of date.  I need some new hobbies.

[Jackrabbit]

Read. Night Watch.

The thought of it just gathering dust offends me, sah, offends me!