The One-Year Topic

[Roy Karrde]

College Grad guys! You now are talking to some one who OFFICIALLY has a degree in Video Game Design!

( Too cheap to pay for Full Sized Pics )

Edit: Er oh yeah the debate. For me I would be taking less risks in my life, taking the train instead of a plane, etc. Because if this truly is it, if there is no God or deity above, no afterlife, then it truly is scary how easily we could end our lives, and just blink out of existence just doing a ordinary task like driving to the mall.

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

That question is tricky to me because I'm a sceptic. But perhaps getting a definitive proof would make me change my attitude. Being a sceptic means that I doubt every religion, but if I got a proof either way I could go with it. Or stay with being sceptic, because I would even doubt that proof. I don't really know.

And congratulations on your Video Game Desinger degree Roy Karrde!

[Houndoom_Lover]

Congrads! Now go make us game :3 Good ones- with lots of explosions and rainbows! Explosbows!

[Blademaster]

College Grad guys! You now are talking to some one who OFFICIALLY has a degree in Video Game Design!

I hate you.

...Don't suppose you have any job openings, huh? ):

[Drago]

Congrats Roy! Make sure you slip us some free copies of whatever you end up making!

In my case, as an atheist, I would love it - LOVE IT - if there were irrefutable evidence of God existing. Because gee golly, wouldn't that make the world a better place? People would stop being jerks out of fear of punishment in the afterlife, and I could really try and live the best, most honest, fulfilling life I can, assured that by being good in this life I'll get what's coming to me in the next. (overuse of the word life, but oh well)
I'm not an atheist because I want to be. I'm an atheist because it's simply what I believe; that this is it. I'm not happy with that notion, and I would like to find out otherwise (before it's too late, if you know what I mean) - an overseeing figure of goodness and a kingdom of peace and happiness waiting in store is much nicer than an eternity of non-existence. On a slightly unrelated note, this is why I'd rather be cremated than buried - the concept of being a dead body, unaware of my own lack of existence for all eternity is a maddening, frightening concept - I would much rather just be burnt to dust and cease to exist entirely, rather than my body exist in a state of lifeless decay. Additionally, I wouldn't mind my ashes being spread about a few locations.

[PancaKe]

Yay congrats on graduating Roy! So now you can custom design us Heart Gold!

[Roy Karrde]

Yay congrats on graduating Roy! So now you can custom design us Heart Gold!

Well I made a Poke Gear once, what would you like from Heart Gold?

[PancaKe]

:-) There's a whole topic on that in Advanced Gen discussion :-)

IM SO HUNGRY

[Telume]

Maybe one day they'll invent a machine to turn pictures of food on the internet into real food, then I won't need to go grocery shopping, YAY!

[Houndoom_Lover]

Did we have this conversation before- with food and the internet? I wanted to bump this year long thread ^w^

I'm doing arts and crafts right now. Can you guess what that is?

[Telume]

Yes I do!

It's where you're painting/drawing stuff or making something with youir hands.

Do I get something for being right?

[Houndoom_Lover]

I was making stuff with my hands!

You sure do-Ummm, here! You get a Muk! *hands you a massive glop of purple slime* Go forth and live it up.

Oh gosh, I'm watching Kid vs Kat. Its about a space cat and a boy. It seriously is the most outragous show. Kind of like Invader Zim...with brighter colours, simpler animation, and less screaming XD

[Blademaster]

How do I keep forgetting this topic...?

I got a good joke courtesy of Team Fourstar. Ahem...

"What's the opposite of Christopher Walken?





Christopher Reeves."


That is all.

[Telume]

Must I always get a Muk? :[

[Houndoom_Lover]

They just love you, look at the bright side....................
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You have alot of Muk!

[Drago]

I always thought Muk looked like it was flipping people off.


Now then, remember the early warning guys to make sure that this thread doesn't just degenerate into pointless spam. If this thread doesn't pick up, I kill the whole thing two times. Though Blade gave it a lifeline with the Christopher Walken joke, that lifeline won't last long.

Conversational piece; I'm hosting not one but two children's parties at work tomorrow. Which sucks when you consider I've only ever hosted one by myself before, and now I've got two with just two hours break between them on the busiest day of the week. I hate hosting kids parties; I'm best at dealing with customers for brief periods of time because I recycle the same routine with each person - by having to spend a solid two hours with one group of people I have to come up with new material and remember names. Plus I gotta haul ass to serve food, drinks, cakes and crap. Plus - party moms are the WORST. Pushy broads who snap with little provocation.

On the plus side, at least I'm sporting a kickass Link costume at work nowadays. I forked over some serious dough on eBay to nab this sucker, I should be able to chuck some pics up at some point or another. Starting to smell though, and I'm too afraid to wash it for fear of ruining it.

...There. Conversation has shifted to work-related discussion. Feel free to change the subject if you want, just as long as things don't continue to wallow in mediocrity.

[MToolen]

I have three jobs over the summer. First, my afternoons are spent at the local pool running the front desk or concession stand. There's rarely over 40 people there so I have tons of free time. Enough time to pick up Gold version again and get farther than I ever have.

My second job is once a week at the municipal band in the next town over. We practice an entire concert one night, play it the next, and start new the next week. It's fun stuff and it pays decently.

Lastly, I'm in pit bands around the area. Since April, I've played The Music Man and Urinetown; my current project is Bye, Bye, Birdie; and I'll play for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory next month. It's like acting but with less practicing, no off-book date, and a paycheck to boot.

[Asilynne]

Speaking of work, I got a new job ^-^ I work at an animal shelter, where basically I take care of all the dogs on Line 8. Its a lot of hard work cleaning and feeding and caring for them all and for the kennels but once all the manual labor is done for the day I pretty much get paid to play with dogs ^.^ I even remember most of my dogs names already XD and I wish I could take them home with me T.T
Btw, its a no kill shelter which is the reason why Im working there, I couldnt work for a shelter where I would have to watch a dog walk the green mile...

[Houndoom_Lover]

Children's parties...Yeah, that makes you sound like a clown. Are you a clown ^w^?

Wow, since I don't have a job, this means I can't contribute to this conversation. I bumped this thing! Sqwa!

Currently, I'm surfing on graduation money. ^_^ Once that runs out, I dunno what I'll do. I plan to spend it all one school books anyway. I may have to get a job. But that's a horrible idea.

I hate working >w<

[DarkestLight]

Ugh work.

I'm still at the current job of grading diamonds-but I've finally begun trying to get my butt back into Paleo mode. First step was getting to talk to the head of Vertebrate Paleo at the American Museum of Natural History here...which was a daunting task.

Otherwise-my job is bleh. They now think that they can produce more reports, and so raised our minimum output a day. I'm still over that level, yes, but its just annoying that I can't have a bad day cushion. I'm going to laugh (and cry) when they hit that diamond snag and can't really do that, then feel like fools when the levels across the world drop.

So much for global expansion --;;

[Houndoom_Lover]

You grade diamonds, DL? That is SO cool! I guess the coolness would wear off after awhile, but still!

How do you grade diamonds? By colour, size, and weight?

[PancaKe]

I always thought you worked at a bar, Tony. What kind of parties does a bar host for kids??

I was doing tutoring for a while, a short gig that got me $60 a week. But then I decided I wanted no more of that, and well, so did they. So just as I was planning to quit, they dropped me. Win win everyone!

I also have been working at Gloria Jeans for like the last year and a half. They're good to me there. I make coffee, be happy, and they give me money and free trip to the snow :-) Sounds like a good exchange to me!

Right now I'm working hard because I want to go to Perth for a few days in July , so that's what I'm saving for. Visiting Perth, maybe a few other places, ah I just am too lazy to travel really. I hope I go this time. I just don't want to go alone

The end.

[Jeff]

Yay, unemployment!

Yeah, it sucks. Currently considering a job at Best Buy though.

[PancaKe]

Best Buy? What is that?

[Jeff]

Wow, is there anything good down in Australia???

Best Buy is a chain of stores that sell electronics. Computer supplies, video games, you name it. It's pretty much Nerd Heaven.

[Telume]

Wow, is there anything good down in Australia???

Veggiemite?

[Drago]

Veggiemite?

NO. Granted, I was raised in Canada, so I can't say this as a bona fide Aussie kid, but I can't stand Vegemite. Tastes like tarmac. Just this salty, nasty, pasty crap with a certain flavour that you can't quite fathom.

Anyhow, I work in a games arcade. So among selling cash cards, trading tickets for prizes, fixing games or running the laser skirmish, at times I unfortunately have to host children's birthday parties. Keep an eye on 'em during their gaming sessions, serve their food and cake, etc., all the while keeping up a bubbly, upbeat demeanor. It was hard work for sure, the first bunch of kids were six year olds (try that on for size!). The second was easier; twelve year olds - but I think I did ok... got a $10 tip out of it, so that's always a good sign.

You probably thought I work at a bar Tara, because of the bowling lounge connected with the arcade - it's run by the same lot, only it's staffed by different people. They have a bar there, but it's not that often that I end up drinking over there.

[Blademaster]

PancaKe... You don't know what S'mores are. You don't know what Best Buy is.

For God's sake, woman, get off TPM and go get an American edumacation, will you?!

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

I work in a bar. Actually I'm a freelance bar-tender. People just ask me to come and help them out. I like a flexible schedule. Gets me around from time to time. No complaining here. I wouldn't mind working more, though.

Lol, I'm belgian and I knew what Best buy is. Failed at the s'mores, though.

[Houndoom_Lover]

S'mores fail. The worst kind of fail.

I just downed a few myself. I was thinking of going on a diet, but so far no attempt has been sussful....sucsessful.

[Rossymore]

Successful Houndy! ;D

They don't particulary look very interesting...I shan't try them if I go to America.

[Houndoom_Lover]

Thank ya, Rossy!

But you have to! Just try it- for me. Pleeeeeease! Go grab some gramcrackers, and a piece of chocolate and a slightly warm marshmellow and push them all together like an orgy of flavor. And eat it. Just take a great big old bite outta it!

[mastermysterious#2]

Yay, unemployment!

No kidding, I graduated into a recession. Trying to get a job as a teller. An Economics degree doesn't seem to be obviously useful...

But you have to! Just try it- for me. Pleeeeeease! Go grab some gramcrackers, and a piece of chocolate and a slightly warm marshmellow and push them all together like an orgy of flavor. And eat it. Just take a great big old bite outta it!

Sounds yummy. but by association, it reminds me of camping. That time, I was in a canoe with three friends and it tipped over. We were so scared since none of us knew how to swim than we kinda remembered that we had lifejackets on so we floated there for a while until people came to rescue us.

[PancaKe]

PancaKe... You don't know what S'mores are. You don't know what Best Buy is.

For God's sake, woman, get off TPM and go get an American edumacation, will you?!

Why does everyone need to pick on me because I'm not American-ized! As if you Americans know what a Coles or an IGA is Or a Red Rooster.

I can't think of anyting else overly Australian....

[Asilynne]

We have a Khols but I dont think its the same thing

[Crystal Tears]

Why does everyone need to pick on me because I'm not American-ized! As if you Americans know what a Coles or an IGA is Or a Red Rooster.

I can't think of anything else overly Australian....

I know what Coles and IGA are. But than again I'm not American.

[Blademaster]

Actually, I know what all that shit is thanks to my spending time with Ben on MSN. Quiet guy, but a fountain of information when you get him to open his trap.

Also, Crys, you live in North America. That makes you American. We've been over this. <<

[Crazy Elf Boy]

First off I will put the beat down to any one that says Vegemite doesn't taste awesome because we all know that it does.

Second Pancake you left out other cool stuff like ABC Shops, Mother, Woolworths, Tooheys, Best & Less, Target and Dick Smith.

[Houndoom_Lover]

Speaking of things that of from Down Under, you know Ugg boots?

Well, a store just opened up that sell them and all the other rare and expensive shoes my Mom grew up with and loves. Poor rich child.

Me, I like a good sturty black pratical boot. Anywho, we went there because her favorite pair of sandals wore out and this is one of the only stores that carry them.

400 dollars.

For sandals.

Seriously.

[Blademaster]

^And that's why I hate rich people. Spending more money than I make a YEAR in order to buy a pair of fucking flip-flops. Where's Robin Hood when you need him? -_-*