Today...

[Solemn]

I want to play Runescape but the thrill is gone, I want to play League but my friends are gone. I don't get too many kicks out of many single player games anymore. I'm jjust bored at this point.

[Ammako]

Single player games are lonely.

[Bonez899]

I can have lots of fun in single player games, even if they are lonely. Remember probably 90% of what you experience is attitude.

[Ammako]

I can have lots of fun in single player games, even if they are lonely. Remember probably 90% of what you experience is attitude.

It's not as easy as you make it out to be.

[Solemn]

Life leads to the darkening of imagination.

[RpgGamer]

At least in single player games I don't have 12 year olds telling me i suck and insulting my mother

[Kalphite]

I was drunk pretty much straight from 9 pm friday night until I woke up this morning. gotta love game day~ especially when you don't even go to the football games lol. My school ended up losing in the last 10 seconds to a completely flubbed play though (University of Michigan vs Michigan State if anyone here actually cares about American college football), which really demoralized the campus but it was still a great weekend overall.

 

Also ended up scoring interviews with snapchat and dropbox over the last few days which I'm pretty excited for as I haven't really been getting many interesting interviews lately. 

 

Lastly, found out today that I got accepted into an Alternative Spring Break program I applied to! I'm going to be road tripping to do a habitat for humanity build with some of my friends from a student org I'm in that's organizing the trip. I've never gone on any sort of spring break trip before, so I'm super excited for this haha.

[Hedgehog]

Yeah I was [bleep]ing about ESPN playing the Michigan game when the Gators game already started, then that crazy ending happened. That's an awful way to lose and I feel so bad for that poor punter

[Guest Rob]

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[MuffinMaddy]

So I'm in Canada as many of you know and I still haven't been murdered by a bear.  :D

I'm going for a weekend in Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa in late November and I couldn't be more excited.

Everyone's been having weekends away and I haven't left campus since the 20th of September so I've been feeling a little bit left out even though I've had a great time overall.

I've had a midterm, and I have two more this week. After this week it's Halloween and I look forward to drinking again (I'm still European) - I have Jagermeister this time round as well!

I've started saying 'eh' in speech naturally and I only just did a double take and thought wtf. It bloody snowed today. In normal British fashion I was ecstatic and took photos and then realised there's plenty more to come so I told myself to calm down and went back to sleep. 

 

My plans are to go to Toronto for Christmas and New Year. I will spend my 21st birthday in New York City because hey, I'll be able to drink in the USA finally. (Although I won't be drinking because I'll be staying with family that I haven't seen for about twelve years.) It will be my second time ever in the United States. My first ever holiday when I was 3 years old was to New York - obviously my only memories are stored in adorable photographs.

Then I'll spend my one week break in Washington DC because tourism. It feels good to have a plan now for my time.

So a little more studying to push through and then onto my exciting plans for the year woohooo  :D

[Tim]

So much for starting at the gym. I had to go to the hospital this morning, got discharged this afternoon but I can't do anything physical for a week and after that I have to reduce and avoid heavy lifting so it's pretty much limited to cardio for a month.

[Veiva]

Recently got done reading all the witcher books. Anyone have any book suggestions? I'm good for anything really as long as the characters are interesting

 

 

edit: probably going to read ringworld since despite being my username since 2004 I've never actually read the book :lol:. 

 

I don't know what you've read or what you like, but here's some stuff I've enjoyed very much so over the years, off the top of my head:

 

Modern literature

• A Song of Ice and Fire series: Character-driven medieval fantasy. Realistic in the sense that importance or plot won't save any character. The prose isn't that good, however. Doesn't actually avoid tropes or cliches, as many believe or claim. Compared to high-fantasy like Lord of the Rings, it's not so much world-building as it is character-building. Indescribably superior to the HBO TV series.
• His Dark Materials trilogy: I read this series a few years back. Doesn't have the depth of series with similar audiences in mind (Harry Potter, Narnia), but it's refreshing because of its approach to religion/divinity.
• Anything of Terry Prachett's. Witty humor supplements fantasy. There's plenty of times you're also hit with some deep moral questions/problems. I especially like Nightwatch and Hogfather. Death is probably my favorite character throughout the series, for various reasons.

 

Modernist

• U.S.A. Trilogy by Dos Passos: Excellent historical fiction. The lives of fictional smallfolk are the center of his work as they live through political, economic, and social changes after the turn of the century. The first book in the series really captures young naivete, especially in the modern setting with youth being attracted to Bernie Sanders for idealistic reasons, and how they'll be disappointed because they won't do their part when working towards a "socialist revolution" sort of thing, which will probably make Sanders look at fault in the end (if Sanders becomes president, to be clear).
• The Hollow Men / The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: Excellent poetry. The samples here are my favorites. The Hollow Men simply has amazing and haunting imagery. Reading The Love Song... from a modern perspective is humurous when you realize how well a all the flavors of the stereotypical "nice guy" can be substituted in place. And The Waste Land, much like The Hollow Men, is beautiful and haunting; however, it requires careful reading for full appreciation, unlike the other. I'd advise against learning about the man himself if separating the author from his work isn't easy for you.
• Ulysses / Dubliners / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: Excellent works if the writing style doesn't ruin them for you. They can be a mouthful to read, however. I'd do no justice summarizing these works, but at the same time, they require an investment to appreciate, so I suppose these works aren't advisable unless you enjoy other modernist works.

 

Romantic/Transcendentalist/Gothic

• Civil Disobedience and Walden by Henry David Thoreau: Both are excellent and relevant to modern political and social movements, especially the former. Many people seem to have some concept of civil disobedience, but don't understand it honestly or properly (see the Snowden controversies), resulting in faulty idealizations or arguments/understandings of what we, as citizens, should do in the face of injustice by the state. In summary: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." If your English teacher in high school didn't ruin Walden, I'd advise reading that as well.
• Much of anything by Poe. He essentially laid the groundwork for detective work through fiction. His usage of unreliable narrators in many works adds another dimension. Most of his works can be read in a sitting, so there's really no need to explicitly point out any in particular, I suppose. Favorites, prose or poem, of mine include The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, Annabel Lee, and The Cask of Amontillado.
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Excellent feminist work. Very similar to many of Poe's works in execution. Very short, so I don't want to give too much away.
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: Another excellent work featuring an unreliable narrator. A wonderful ghost story, even if the authenticity of the ghosts is debatable.
• John Keats: A sickly young man, he died young, and his grasp of mortality is present through many of his poems.

 

Older

• Many of Shakespeare's plays are wonderful if you read them at your own pace without the burden of a grade. As You Like It is my favorite, especially when considering actors were exclusively male (a young boy would have acted as Rosalind, who goes on to disguise herself as a man... who later, as a man, plays the role of a woman...). There's the dramas and tragedies, such as Macbeth and Hamlet, but also Othello, and the histories (both Henry IV parts) and others. Funnily enough, I've never read Romeo and Juliet...
• John Skelton of the Tudor era, if you have the patience to translate Ye Olde Englifh. I like to romanticize him as the first rapper due to his structure (contemporaries considered his works doggerel). His lyrics are obscene and insulting, to boot.

[Estonian dude]

The Forever War.

Pretty much perfect sci-fi. Sequels get shittier though.

 

I am playing the waiting game with my knee... MRI on 27. and then I will know exactly how [bleep]ed and for how long will I be. Probably no proper exercising for at least 8 months.

[Ammako]

At least in single player games I don't have 12 year olds telling me i suck and insulting my mother

I don't run into that because I don't play call of duty with voice chat on with complete strangers.

[Alg]

Recently got done reading all the witcher books. Anyone have any book suggestions? I'm good for anything really as long as the characters are interesting

 

 

edit: probably going to read ringworld since despite being my username since 2004 I've never actually read the book :lol:.

Have you read the Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss?

[Kalphite]

 

Recently got done reading all the witcher books. Anyone have any book suggestions? I'm good for anything really as long as the characters are interesting

 

 

edit: probably going to read ringworld since despite being my username since 2004 I've never actually read the book :lol:.

Have you read the Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss?

 

 

Seconding this. Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy is awesome character-driven fantasy as well (also obviously a Song of Ice and Fire is mindblowing but I figure at this point it's so well known you don't need it to be recommended lol).

[Jonanananas]

 

 

Recently got done reading all the witcher books. Anyone have any book suggestions? I'm good for anything really as long as the characters are interesting

 

 

edit: probably going to read ringworld since despite being my username since 2004 I've never actually read the book :lol:.

Have you read the Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss?

 

 

Seconding this. Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy is awesome character-driven fantasy as well (also obviously a Song of Ice and Fire is mindblowing but I figure at this point it's so well known you don't need it to be recommended lol).

 

Also Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. I haven't actually read it myself yet, though I want to soon, but my brother heavily recommended it, and it has won just about every major SciFi award (Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and two or three more) so it has to do something right :P

[champion]

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[Skull]

Congrats on adulthood.

 

No recreational marijuana where I live though. Yet.

[unkn0wnwarrior]

So I'm in Canada as many of you know and I still haven't been murdered by a bear.  :D

If you're going north then you should worry more about the moose. I've witnessed a moose attacking a pickup. The truck was totaled and the moose walked away like it was nothing.

[Bonez899]

 

 

So I'm in Canada as many of you know and I still haven't been murdered by a bear. :D

If you're going north then you should worry more about the moose. I've witnessed a moose attacking a pickup. The truck was totaled and the moose walked away like it was nothing.

Seconded.

 

In other news I have barely started and already hate college/university applications as I personally cannot follow all of the info required, when it is required, etc... Along with that they all take ages to respond to email inquires, I'm sure due to sheer volume, but anything that works slower than me is an annoyance.

[Hedgehog]

Pretty sure almost all of us went through that process, so feel free to ask us any questions you have

[muggiwhplar]

Yes I, too, have been the victim of a moose attack. Feel free to ask me any questions about it

[Bonez899]

Pretty sure almost all of us went through that process, so feel free to ask us any questions you have

Ehh, right now half my problem is I am applying for programs that require a ton of supplementary documentation and I either physically or mentally can't understand when they require the documents.

 

I also mean a literal ton of supplementary documents from a resume to immunation forms and beyond. Along with this some of the documentation is required you get from specific approved sources, etc... So I need to figure out when/where to get them so I can send them at the appropriate time.

 

I really should just make some time and call the appropriate people instead of trying to use email for everything. Only one of the schools I am looking at provides a nice easy checklist of documentation required to be sent with the application.

[Randox]

Election night in Canada. Interesting enough so far. Global News is already declaring a Liberal Government, which seems a bit premature (most ridings have returned less than 10% of their votes. British Columbia is still voting), but not unexpected since it looks like the Liberal Government has taken every riding in the Atlantic Region. As annoying as the long election season has been, it's been relatively interesting for Canadian politics I think. If anything, the length seems to have come back to haunt the Conservatives, who only started losing the lead to the Liberals in the last week or so.

 

Anywho, I look forward to staying up too late to see if I can at least see a confirmation on who will lead the new government, and maybe see if there is a solid guess on majority or minority government. Ah, good times.