Nitro Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 I just noticed this from your previous post... Originally posted by edlib Funny thing is, he once admitted to never reading any of the Hichhiker's books... What the hell!? I figured if anyone had read it, he had... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 been playing galaxies like crazy...i love the combat upgrade. i'm glad i don't have to fork out 15,000 credits whenever i want to go kill something. They put a thing in it so people could respec their skills, and well...i'm having a good old time abusing it, i keep getting investigation I, then surrendering that skill and putting the points towards one of the others. XD think it ends not this week but next week....and i can respec every 12 hours, so if i keep getting that same skill and surrendering it, i'll have a good enough combat level to start battling players. life is alright....same stuff every day, work 2:30-11.....i take naps on the job when i finish early, or watch some tv.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 Originally posted by Nitro What the hell!? I figured if anyone had read it, he had... No. It seemed strange to me too... I encouraged him to look into them. It seemed to me to be a perfect match of sensibilites. I guess all that whackiness and stuff was 100% pure Zoom... Of all the people I have encountered here at LucasForums, he's the one I am most curious about as to what he's like in real life... with Nute being a close 2nd. Redwing is in the running too. (So many questions...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 Originally posted by edlib Of all the people I have encountered here at LucasForums, he's the one I am most curious about as to what he's like in real life... *totally agrees, but feels left out anyway* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 Well, I'm not all that curious about what you are like in real life, since I think I already have a pretty good take on it... I don't imagine that there's a huge chasm between your online personality and interests and your "meat-space" one. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't want to hang out with you. I once had an idea for a thread that I never got around to posting (for fear of causing hurt feelings by leaving people out, and perhaps saying the wrong thing) that went something like this: 1. Who do you know from Lucasforums in real life? 2. Who would you most want to meet from LF in RL if you could? (List reasons) 3. Who would you not want to meet? (Also list reasons) My answers: (These are the short versions, since I'm at work. I'll expand the reasons tonight when I get home.) 1. As far as I know, nobody. There are a couple of folks that I know live fairly close by, but I have yet to actually make contact. I may have met somebody, but without knowing it however... 2. This is easy... Zoomie (I really want to know if he's really like that all the time. I have a wild vision of him contructed in my mind that I'd like to see how closely it matches up with reality.) Nitro (Really remids me of the people I went to college with. I think we could just hang out, jam, watch wierd movies, swap dirty jokes...) Redwing (Just to clear up all the questions... plus Red just seems like a genuinely nice person.) Dark Sad Shadow (I dunno, I just think he'd be fun to be around.) Rogue 15 (Reminds me A LOT of myself at that age. I mean A LOT!!!) Ray Jones (It's one thing to show up every day to a forum and behave like a weirdo in your own native language... it's an entirely different thing to do so in a language that's not your first. That's dedication! I like people with that level of passion.) Gunner (He really reminds me of my best friend growing up.) 3. This is tough... Nute (Even though I'm really curious about what he might actually be like, I have a whole mythology built up in my mind's eye about him, just like with Zoom, but I'm afraid that finding out the mere mundane reality might collapse it, and I'm not sure I'd ever want that to happen. In this case I think I like the illusion. The Myth wins out over the real man...) Keyan (We get along pretty good online, and I respect his views very much, although I don't often agree with them since we're on about the polar opposite side of almost every issue, that I'm just afraid that meeting him in person without the filters that the forum provides could potentionally get ugly... especially if the subject turned to politics or religion, even perhaps music... that angry words could get exchanged, and we could end up not liking each other very much... and I wouldn't want that to happen.) Ike (I dunno... it would kinda feel like hanging out with your school principal or the town's Police Chief. I've always viewed him as our ultimate authority figure, and I tend to keep a respectful distance in those cases. I very much suspect that I'd just be uncomfortable the whole time... although I'd really like to go through his music collection someday...) Rogue Nine (Again, I really like him online... I'd just be afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing and screwing it up, and having him leave thinking "Jeez, what a shmuck! I thought he was cooler than that...") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Damn... If I made a list, it'd be almost identical, though I'd pull DSS off since I haven't interacted that much with him, and I'd add the long-missing Fondas & Master Lynn. I also think that a gathering of you, Zoomie, and myself would result in one very deep evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Originally posted by edlib Keyan (We get along pretty good online, and I respect his views very much, although I don't often agree with them since we're on about the polar opposite side of almost every issue, that I'm just afraid that meeting him in person without the filters that the forum provides could potentionally get ugly... especially if the subject turned to politics or religion, even perhaps music... that angry words could get exchanged, and we could end up not liking each other very much... and I wouldn't want that to happen.) I seriously doubt that, considering the anonymity that the Internet provides usually leads to people being bigger jackasses to one another than they would ever be in real life. Plus, why would you think discussing music could get ugly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Well, I deal with musicans all day and they're a pretty opinionated bunch... I can only assume I can be the same way at times. ("You like what?!? Dude, that sucks! You play that?") Well, your reaction is pretty much why I stopped myself from doing this as a thread. Even when I posted that I had the feeling that it might not go so well... If I was really presented with the opportunity to meet anyone I post with everyday, I'm sure I would take it without any hesitation. I should have posted an caveat to that effect, and that my reasons I listed aren't really all that strong. It's possible that we would behave much differently in person than we ever would online, and stop ourselves from discussing certain topics... or at least getting deep into them. On the other hand, I have had some really heated debates with friends who are even slightly more conservative than myself, and they have gotten a bit uncomfortable at times. I dunno... trust me: these reactions have much more to do with myself than they do with you. I have been known to be a jerk in real life, often without intending to, or even being aware of the reaction I'm inspiring in others. Either that, or boring... Truthfully, I would be a a little nervous about meeting anybody from the web for fear of them realizing all my faults that I can keep concealed behind the screen of written language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 It's probably just as well, considering I tend to kill and eat people I meet from the Web Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 You're not that crazy German penis flambé loving butcher, are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Yes. ...I mean no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 [sings]"People... People who eat people... Are the luckiest people... In the world..."[/sings] 5/3/05 Long, kinda dull day at work. Setting up for the big Commencement concert and Graduation ceremonies, which are both taking place off-campus, down the street at Northeastern's hockey rink. It's a huge setup... giant stage, big lighting system, monster PA... the big problem is that it's a hocky rink, with all the acoustical nightmares that implies. I'm glad I'm not mixing... I went over to help setup, and tried to make myself as useful as possible, but there just wasn't much for me to do there. Still, I stayed to the bitter end (about 11 o'clock.) 5/4/05 I had hoped to sleep in a bit, but the painters showed up bright and early, and needed to get into the house, as they had stored all the paint in the cellar. They finished today. Looks nice, although it might take me a while to get used to the new colors, even though I picked them out. Hopefully this paint job lasts a few years. I didn't go over to the arena where the graduation concert is being held. I figured if I went over that I'd get stuck there, and there really wasn't anything for me to do, so I avoided it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Today's biggest accomplishment: Drilling a hole through a urinal cake over the span of the 19 bathroom breaks I took today to break up the monotony of my shift. I also come bearing poetry... Once upon a midnight dreary, While I porn surfed, weak and weary, Over many a strange and spurious site of "Hot XXX Galore". While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, And my heart was filled with mourning, Mourning for my dear amour. "Tis not possible!", I muttered, "Give me back my free hardcore!" Quoth the server, "404". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 hmm... paycheck day.....i stopped in at mcdonalds just to see if there was any sanity left in the place, ordered the same thing, the lady asked that i repeat my order, and I did.....guess what i got? THE SAME WRONG THING I GOT LAST TIME!!!! man.....i TRIED to eat the ****ing thing, just to see if i could get sick off of it and sue the place /sarcasm only managed to eat half of it before i lost my appetite. i mean it's so damn DRY, bagel, egg, sausage, and cheese. no ketchup or anything....which is why i like mcgriddles...but this must've been something else. stupid ****. I'm going to do the same thing next week....if i don't get what i want....*emperor's theme plays* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 I would be the greatest disappointment in the history of the universe. My intense verbosity and profanity laced insulting does not translate well into a coherent medium. I'm a very quiet, shy person. An introvert to the maximum allowable levels allowed by law. Allowable? Allowed? My, my vocabulary fails. I'm a hermit. I talk to people, but have few friends. And fewer in this town. I spend a lot of time alone. Never could I figure out if this was on purpose or not. I just never make the effort to meet people. Frankly, I'm wasting the supposed best years of my life. I haven't even bothered to ask a girl out in...years. We'll just leave it at years. With no qualifier. I go to class. I watch a lot of TV. No job right now. I don't "do" much. That is unless you were to observe me through a powerful telescope as I'm around people I've known for years. Then you'd get something closer to the product and/or service advertised in this space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 I'm exactly the same way. My crazy schedule pretty much keeps me from socializing with people other than the ones I work with. And I have gotten a bit more isolated as the years have gone by. I've been living in this neighborhood since 2001 and I only know the names of 2 of my neighbors, and other than that I really don't know anything else about them. Dating is really a thing of the past for me as well... I was always really, really bad at it anyway, so it's no great loss to the female population of the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 ed, man... You sound more and more like my Uncle Dave every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 Uh... is that a good thing, or... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 Oh, it's all good... He's my mom's younger brother and essentially a 40 year old version of me. Despite having spent maybe a grand total of 30 hours of our lives together, we've got the same sense of humor, outlook on life, general personality, and according to both my mother and grandmother, the exact same set of laughs, from to giggling to maniacal laughter. He's a trucker, I'm a call center phone money (the modern equvalent to trucking, really... It's the job you work when you can't find anything else), his musical tastes are just as diverse as mine (he's got a briefcase full of trance albums parked next to his suitcase of classic rock, we went to a KMFDM show last time he was here, and he loved the Man Trilogy when I played it for him...), and we both love tequila... His friends call him "Tequila Dave", mine call me "Tequila Cole"... He started going bald at 17, but it stopped halfway back his head so he grew out the back and wears a bandanna to hide the bald front hald, I started going grey on one side of my head at 17, and either wear a hat to hide it, or run a little Just For Men through it before a first date. I could really go on all night, but I won't... I've got a pack of 16 year old girls here for a sleepover trying to break down my door, and I'm not exactly sober, so fending them off with charm and wit won't work... I'll have to resort to either being an asshole or playing the "creepy guy" routine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 me.i'm a lonely guy. i've grown attuned to it from the homeschooling thing down in florida, i guess....before that, when i lived in new york, i had friends from gradeschool, which was cool since we hung out like nearly every day, i get down to florida and wanted to be homeschooled cause i was wary of the homework i'd have to do in a regular school. didn't really care to make any friends i guess, the ones i did make i only saw at church, and they didn't pay me much attention since they were 2-3 years younger than me. I was happy to leave florida to move to pennsylvania, because my "best friend" from new york lived nearby, I got to hang out w/him for a while...then I realised what a big piece of ****ing dog **** he really was (last year)..all he ever did was lie to me and use me for ****, and then he'd have a problem with my parents looking out for me, etc. so i ditched the ****head after basic. and so like, he calls me on christmas, after not talking to him forever, and asks if he could borrow an xbox controller. I got pissed off cause then my eyes were totally open to the bull****er he is, and I lied and said i only had one, and was too sick to hang out. (i was just getting over bronchitis lol) Haven't seen him since I kinda ran into him where I temp'd before, and he was working day shift. I let him use me one last time for a ride home, and haven't really seen him since. Anyways...that's the last friendship i've had. As for me being social, it's weird for me. I just don't have anything to say, so I remain silent. It makes me mad, as I've got this silent addiction, hell, sometimes I feel like I'm being rude (but unintentionally) cause like when someone walks into a room, I think "should i say 'hi?' and then just go back to staring at the table or floor and feel annoyed that the person even walked in the room. I also hate meeting new people....I dunno maybe my subconscious is trying to keep me from getting hurt or something....I just hope this doesn't make me look like a rude bastard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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edlib Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 Nitro... you'll notice that I always wear a hat in every picture of me. I started my personal male-pattern adventure when I was about 19. Tried the Rogaine thing for a while, but it cost too much for questionable results, so I gave up and let myself succumb to letting mother nature have her way with me. At the moment I'm in a bizarre state of 'not-really-bald, but-far-too-little-hair-to-actually-do-anything-useful-with.' Plus I've started going grey too, which doesn't really bother me that much... my beard has been half-grey for 15 years. Speaking of crazy schedules... I got volunteered to work the concert last night after all, then stick around and oversee the turn-around to reset the stage so they could hold the commencement ceremonies on it this morning. I was there till 2:30 am. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 8, 2005 Share Posted May 8, 2005 I played Galaxies for 14 hours yesterday. Master Carbineer, on my way to Master Bounty Hunter.... today I got my clone trooper armor and proton carbine. I can finally play the game and NOT get killed! not quite ready for pvp yet. i think i need to go get some fresh air and stuff.....missed a beautiful weekend, but it was well worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 Weather sucked here this weekend. Cold, rain, and wind. Bleargh. 5/5/05 through 5/8/05 Took Thursday off since I had a long weekend ahead of me. I ended up working the graduation concert Friday night, anyway. I was "volunteered." Got stuck there until 2:30am tearing down after the show. The next day I did sound for the jazz sax player Sonny Rollins and his band. Last night I did sound for "The World Famous Intruders" (an old school R & B band)... funny, but I've never heard of them, and didn't recognize a single song they played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 well yesterday was OK for a little bit...i felt a little headachey the whole day, i decided to warm up some chili that had been sitting in the microwave since friday. Played galaxies for a good 7 hours.while watching movies i rented......Pulp Fiction and The Thing, pretty good movies...the thing was a bit ****ed up tho..then i started feeling a bit of a stomach ache, so i stopped playing, and got on instant messenger.....my parents got home, i started feeling more sick. then my sister came in my room and i started saying that i felt sick and that i haven't thrown up since 3rd grade, and the things that i ate that day......then she had to be evil and repeat them back to me and say that the chili was gross since it was in the micro since friday....and when she walked out of the room i was like 'o crap' and i ran out and puked into a bucket. haven't thrown up like that in so long.....and i guess the meat that was in the chili was spoiled so...yeah. after throwing up i took some pepto-bismol, kinda dumb of me....cause like 5 minutes after, i had to throw that up. XD i don't think i got all the spoiled meat out though... i found out that we might be able to move sooner than expected, if everything goes good, it'll be within 2 months. a little earlier than i expected.....i'm a little nervous cause i'm not sure what jobs will be available up there, and especially since it's like a resortish area, (poconos mountains) i fear i may end up working for minimum wage. maybe i can get a job at a hotel or something. i dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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