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Angrier, less tolerant, bitterer. All in all as negative as ever.
How have you changed in the last decade?
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previously "bubu_X"
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Worst ten years of my life. I feel like nothing I do is ever right. That would include just about everything I've done in the last ten years.
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HeartlessNinny
Heartlessness is a virtue
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you were cooler 10 years ago.
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To be fair, there are other members who got hit by the detroit virus that I still dont know who they are. I'm just not on the up and up on who got change to who.
It was only like last week or so I realized who Ghost Dog was changed to.
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Me 10 years ago:
Me today:
Me today:
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I met Bobak!
But who hasn't (the answer is Wayne)
*raises hand*
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Is there a contest in your neighborhood or something? Slow down, Sir Procreates-alot.
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10 years ago I was in a doomed marriage, working a shit job, spending money I didn't have on gaming shit I didn't need, and started to balloon like stay-puff.
Today I'm a single father, going to school, over 100lbs lighter, and spending whatever free time I have studying.
This is probably backwards for a lot of people. I hope in ten years that the fruits of my delayed efforts pay off.
Today I'm a single father, going to school, over 100lbs lighter, and spending whatever free time I have studying.
This is probably backwards for a lot of people. I hope in ten years that the fruits of my delayed efforts pay off.
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Hmmm...
in 2000 I had been married for 2 years, had no kids.
I was just starting an apprenticeship in the union for an electrical position. I made $12/hr.
Lived in a shitty apartment in a neighboring town.
Had a short fuse...my temper of that time is legendary with those that know me. It was nothing to brag about but it was violent. No, I never hurt anyone but that doesn't mean I didn't any damage with my mouth. Guys I work with that have been with me for years tell the new guys of how I used to be. The gaming world was a HUGE deal to me...the anticipation of the Oct 2000 PS2 release was insane to me.
I weighed around 200 lbs.
Now...still in the trade. My 10th ann was June 12th. Still married, working on my 13th year. Bought a house in '04 Had our daughter in summer of '08...she had balanced me in more ways that I could have imagined.
I'm calmer...slower to react. I tend to have a better ability to let things slide that really don't matter now. I'm still friends with the same people. I game but it is a fraction of what it used to be. I'm very calm with gaming. I watch new things coe out and will sit and wait for the prices to come down...rarely do I ever buy a game a release anymore.
I weigh 240 lbs...
in 2000 I had been married for 2 years, had no kids.
I was just starting an apprenticeship in the union for an electrical position. I made $12/hr.
Lived in a shitty apartment in a neighboring town.
Had a short fuse...my temper of that time is legendary with those that know me. It was nothing to brag about but it was violent. No, I never hurt anyone but that doesn't mean I didn't any damage with my mouth. Guys I work with that have been with me for years tell the new guys of how I used to be. The gaming world was a HUGE deal to me...the anticipation of the Oct 2000 PS2 release was insane to me.
I weighed around 200 lbs.
Now...still in the trade. My 10th ann was June 12th. Still married, working on my 13th year. Bought a house in '04 Had our daughter in summer of '08...she had balanced me in more ways that I could have imagined.
I'm calmer...slower to react. I tend to have a better ability to let things slide that really don't matter now. I'm still friends with the same people. I game but it is a fraction of what it used to be. I'm very calm with gaming. I watch new things coe out and will sit and wait for the prices to come down...rarely do I ever buy a game a release anymore.
I weigh 240 lbs...
topher
Tesse's Maintainence Man
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Nah, just decided to round it out to 4. Figured with 4 there was more of a chance of getting one to change my diaper when I'm old and decrepit.
fmdof
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lost 100 lbs, gained it all back
gained back hair, but lost head hair
learned what it was like to have a g/f fuck everyone but you
watched a store I ran have record sales, followed by no sales
became less optimistic
these are just a few off the top of my head.
gained back hair, but lost head hair
learned what it was like to have a g/f fuck everyone but you
watched a store I ran have record sales, followed by no sales
became less optimistic
these are just a few off the top of my head.
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I think it's important for everyone, at least once, to go back and look at their earliest posts. Sometimes it's hard to tell how much you've changed until you're able to view yourself in the past.
For instance, wasabi used smilies sometimes back in the day.
I wish the old gamers.com message boards were still up so I could see what kind of stupid shit I wrote when I was 15.
For instance, wasabi used smilies sometimes back in the day.
I wish the old gamers.com message boards were still up so I could see what kind of stupid shit I wrote when I was 15.
Um...from a girl to a woman?
Back then I'd watch any anime available now I watch only what seems to be good.
I had only one-sided fights with my older brother, now I mess with him and get away with it.
Back then I only played rpgs now I play everything but sports games.
Oh...back then I was more innocent and now I'm not?
Used to watch tv and now the internet is more convenient.
That's about it.
Back then I'd watch any anime available now I watch only what seems to be good.
I had only one-sided fights with my older brother, now I mess with him and get away with it.
Back then I only played rpgs now I play everything but sports games.
Oh...back then I was more innocent and now I'm not?
Used to watch tv and now the internet is more convenient.
That's about it.
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Ten years is a long time, considering I was in my early teens. I did most of my major changing around 17, 18.
I was a lazy alcoholic drug user who did nothing but sit around, play video games, and eat. I hated work, and frequently jumped from job to job. I let other people do everything for me while I sat back and manipulated them. I had a large amount of misdirected anger and cynicism. I constantly hopped around from one spiritual aspiration to another, never spending any time grounding myself in any of them. I spent money like a fucking barfly, and would blow a pay check in a few hours on dope, booze, and other shit I didn't need. I was cocky, pretentious, arrogant, and shallow. I made a lot of people around me suffer, and as long as it was myself experiencing a gain of some kind, I didn't care and had a hell of a fun time doing it. I was "in a band".
I have turned laziness into cunning, alcoholism into not-alcoholism, and I ditched drugs completely. I have come to an understanding with my work life; I don't necessarily love it, but I do my job, and I am in a decent position. I don't use people anymore; if someone pisses me off, if I have a problem with them, I don't go on a rampage to crush them, I just get them out of my way, and move on. I have a healthy, incredulous cynicism; I'm not brooding and gullible. I have a Wife to support whom I love, and it's not always about me anymore. I have become much better off financially, and can actually handle money properly. I am into video games, but my experience with them does not exceed more than a few minutes a day; a game of Metal Slug here, level in Contra there. I spend a lot of time on that hobby in terms of collecting, displaying, etc. because it was always my dream to have a loaded game room; it's really out of nostalgia. I am altogether much more well rounded, much more easy going, and more focused on what I want in life.
But I'm still kinda fat.
I was a lazy alcoholic drug user who did nothing but sit around, play video games, and eat. I hated work, and frequently jumped from job to job. I let other people do everything for me while I sat back and manipulated them. I had a large amount of misdirected anger and cynicism. I constantly hopped around from one spiritual aspiration to another, never spending any time grounding myself in any of them. I spent money like a fucking barfly, and would blow a pay check in a few hours on dope, booze, and other shit I didn't need. I was cocky, pretentious, arrogant, and shallow. I made a lot of people around me suffer, and as long as it was myself experiencing a gain of some kind, I didn't care and had a hell of a fun time doing it. I was "in a band".
I have turned laziness into cunning, alcoholism into not-alcoholism, and I ditched drugs completely. I have come to an understanding with my work life; I don't necessarily love it, but I do my job, and I am in a decent position. I don't use people anymore; if someone pisses me off, if I have a problem with them, I don't go on a rampage to crush them, I just get them out of my way, and move on. I have a healthy, incredulous cynicism; I'm not brooding and gullible. I have a Wife to support whom I love, and it's not always about me anymore. I have become much better off financially, and can actually handle money properly. I am into video games, but my experience with them does not exceed more than a few minutes a day; a game of Metal Slug here, level in Contra there. I spend a lot of time on that hobby in terms of collecting, displaying, etc. because it was always my dream to have a loaded game room; it's really out of nostalgia. I am altogether much more well rounded, much more easy going, and more focused on what I want in life.
But I'm still kinda fat.
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