Whee. I'm actually sitting here by myself, with room to breathe. This is a rare occurance in our house these days, but it's understandable.
Oh God. Yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate day. Glad I missed that one.
@Night vs. Day: I used to work nights at a packing plant when I was younger and, although the work itself was pretty annoying, I found the schedule to my liking. I worked twelve hours from 3pm to 3am, and after that my friends and I would go to one of the bigger cities and have our run of the place. It's amazing how many places are open 24 hours in nowhere, Ohio.
Although my schedule is very different now. I hate waking up after 8am - being rather the type A personality, it makes me feel like I've already wasted time, so to speak. I still go to bed pretty late, but my mood in the morning is directly proportionate to how long the sun's already been up.
Hey folks.. I stayed up ALL night updating Academy block--feel free to check out the new and improved Academy! This time, I've heavily reinforced experience, as well as the other themes for each color, and redesigned Feud entirely.
I stayed up all night watching anime with my friends... and then I came back home at around three in the morning and was promptly sick. Since then I've been in bed (having called off work), generally just feeling like dirt. Ugh. I don't know what it is - must be some kind of virus or something - but it's not being kind to me.
I think I just need to stay in bed and watch anime via my computer today. I got the policies/procedures manual and contract through the mail today for my new job, but I just don't have the energy to do anything with it.
Small change in plans Alacar. I got an internet bill yesterday that was a little larger than I expected (there is a $74 service charge I am not sure what is for I will have to ask them about)
Because I already have a Paypal Xfr going through, I will be sending you cash through there when it goes through instead of through the mail.
I tossed together an annoying UB deck online last night. I finished one game in 2hg last night by casting Beacon of Tomorrows on myself eight turns in a row (Drawing more with Mikokoro and Arenas) and could have played the 9th one in my hand if my opponents weren't such bad sports and died on me. Sigh...weakness....
I had another game where I had 7 Cabal Coffers in play (because I had nothing better to Vesuva)and Consumed someone for 100.
I tossed together an annoying UB deck online last night. I finished one game in 2hg last night by casting Beacon of Tomorrows on myself eight turns in a row (Drawing more with Mikokoro and Arenas) and could have played the 9th one in my hand if my opponents weren't such bad sports and died on me. Sigh...weakness....
I had another game where I had 7 Cabal Coffers in play (because I had nothing better to Vesuva)and Consumed someone for 100.
I just love over indulgence like that. Some of the best times I've ever had in Magic are Blazing for like 200, or going off with Mind's Desire for 120. It is part of what makes the game so fun.
I've started to read Atlas Shurgged by Ayn Rand. Has anyone here read it before? I want to know if I might be wasting my time. After all, it is a 1050 page book.
Update on the Bible in class thing: The girl who was whining has cut a deal and she doesn't have to go to class when we are discussing it, but she has to write an 8 page paper on the Torah instead. What an idiot!
Small change in plans Alacar. I got an internet bill yesterday that was a little larger than I expected (there is a $74 service charge I am not sure what is for I will have to ask them about)
Because I already have a Paypal Xfr going through, I will be sending you cash through there when it goes through instead of through the mail.
I tossed together an annoying UB deck online last night. I finished one game in 2hg last night by casting Beacon of Tomorrows on myself eight turns in a row (Drawing more with Mikokoro and Arenas) and could have played the 9th one in my hand if my opponents weren't such bad sports and died on me. Sigh...weakness....
I had another game where I had 7 Cabal Coffers in play (because I had nothing better to Vesuva)and Consumed someone for 100.
Your allies are weak. That is why you fail. Not because of you.
And the money... it's okay, just.. try to get it to me ASAP
Hello people just popping by for a quick coffee and a quick chat, thats if anyone cares to indulge me in a conversation, if not then I will sit on my own in the corner before I take a mournful respite within Sakura's corpse ridden trunk.
Yeah currently feeling guiltly for scaring off all the new girls that enter the house, karmah, ladyofthenight, ophelia and many more, they must have seen my ugly mug somewhere on the internet and have thought lets not stay in the coffeehouse while that hideous figure is in!
*goes and hides in the storeroom with the light off until everyone has left*
First of all, chill. We were joking around. It's all good. Secondly, bold red text is for mods only. Please take it down.
lol, im a great mood, for my creative writing class we were told to write a paper on your "glory days"
i picked circa 1998-2000 when me and my elementary schol friends would come to my houe watch toonamis anime block then play pokemon on gameboy, the kill each other in goldeneye and super smash bros and mariokart 64 and starfox
Man, way to make me feel old. When I was a kid/tennager I'd invite everyone over to play Battletoads, the original Super Mario Kart, and Seiken Densetsu 2.
i picked circa 1998-2000 when me and my elementary schol friends would come to my houe watch toonamis anime block then play pokemon on gameboy, the kill each other in goldeneye and super smash bros and mariokart 64 and starfox
That was high school for me... I'm not feeling much younger than ether at this moment.
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When I was a kid/tennager I'd invite everyone over to play Battletoads, the original Super Mario Kart, and Seiken Densetsu 2.
The hot stuff at my place usually involved Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat somehow and there was always the occasional game of F-Zero flying around when I had access to an SNES. Good stuff.
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Yes sir, did'nt realise that, my brain has done a runner, last seen boarding a plane for Tokyo I think, erm. Reason is my brain is gone is to much work, I'm definetly overworked, I need to settle down, does anyone want to marry me???
I'll marry you!
Just kidding! But you do sound like you need some rest... or vacation... or something. Good luck with that...
Not much happening around here at current. Just kinda tying up some loose ends on some personal stuff in town. Nothing major though.
I've started to read Atlas Shurgged by Ayn Rand. Has anyone here read it before? I want to know if I might be wasting my time. After all, it is a 1050 page book.
I used to be vaguely obsessed with Ayn Rand, a couple of years ago. (I used to be known as an intolerable Randian back in the MtgNews days.) It's worth reading, but take it with a grain of salt.
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ol, im a great mood, for my creative writing class we were told to write a paper on your "glory days"
i picked circa 1998-2000 when me and my elementary schol friends would come to my houe watch toonamis anime block then play pokemon on gameboy, the kill each other in goldeneye and super smash bros and mariokart 64 and starfox
those were the days
My high school days were awesome. The best times I had were spent flying down the highway at 95, a car packed full of drunks singing along badly to Bob Dylan, AC/DC, and Green Day, having absolutely no amount of environmental consciousness as we threw empty cans out the windows, going to the beach at two in the morning and staying until sunrise, sleeping on porches and in hammocks and in cars.
As Janis said, I would trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.
I've felt a little bit weary of MTGS lately, so I haven't been around as much. However, I have noticed people are starting to pick up Skype. I just had a perfectly pleasant conversation with Joyd and Alacar this evening, and it was fun- a lot more personable than IM, which was really appreciable.
I really think we should try to get some sort of group thing together, or at the very least try and open the channels between the regulars on that level so we can have some more intimate communication (and by intimate, I mean "friendlier than text", not "Sakura with a riding crop").
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@LittleD: You dont scare off those girls, maybe they just find the coffeehouse too big..And of all the girls that stopped by here, Karmah is the one I consider a real hottie..
Im kinda hungry...maybe I'll eat first..Ill be back later.
I've felt a little bit weary of MTGS lately, so I haven't been around as much. However, I have noticed people are starting to pick up Skype. I just had a perfectly pleasant conversation with Joyd and Alacar this evening, and it was fun- a lot more personable than IM, which was really appreciable.
I really think we should try to get some sort of group thing together, or at the very least try and open the channels between the regulars on that level so we can have some more intimate communication (and by intimate, I mean "friendlier than text", not "Sakura with a riding crop").
Indeed it was a pleasant conversation. I agree, we definitely need to get more people here on the Skype bandwagon and have a conference call/chat, if we can. Maybe Sunday?
Booo on remembering how old i am....boo on remembering my crappy high school days (well they werent crappy...just the last 2 years coz everyone betrayed me and i had to go through it without anyone to support me and being attacked by my ex-friends)... yay for remembering my addiction to seiken densetsu... we used to get together to try and beat that game in 2p mode.... after that it was all chrono trigger...god i loved that game... rpg was and is my addiction since 3 grade.
Hey Jun sorry im not up in the mornings so yo wont find me here at this hours...gotta work on my thesis... man this program is so easy but getting it explained is taking me so much time... the rest of the team cant help coz its my idea and i know the formats... *sigh*
Dont worry LittleD im sure you are not scaring away the girls, they are just spending more time in the mall than the coffehouse or something like that...we were justjoking around with you just chill and get a weekend off...it seems you need it.
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So, this is a tad out of the blue, but I've been podering quite a bit lately about why I value my anonymity so much. There are many things about myself I never share on principle online, including real name, pictures, voice sample, etc.
I think that the reason this is so isn't necessarily (or merely, at least) because I'm embarrassed by them. Rather, I feel like there is a distinction between my online identity and my identity in person, and that's a distinction I like to keep. Myself as Mamelon isn't affected by impressions people have formed based on my appearance or my name or any other such associations. I feel like it's an environment in which I can act more freely without needing to consider all these extraneous factors I have to compensate for.
When I log on here I actually feel like I'm entering a different state of mind, one less burdened and restricted. I want that to remain the same, as it's like a haven from the "real" world. I wanted this identity to be pure, distinct, unfettered by the other.
I'm coming to reexamine my feelings about this. I'm aware that it actually creates something of an impassable barrier, because there's a line I can't cross if I want to keep that distinction. The recent thing with Skype voice chat brought this to my attention. That's something I couldn't do and still preserve the purity. And Mr. Stuff has asked multiple times if he'd ever see me at a convention, and each time I felt bad because I knew such a meeting could never happen with anyone here. Because that'd be crossing the line.
The way I'm looking at it now, I want the two identities to combine. I don't want to think of them anymore as seperate selves or states of mind. I want the unfettered, pure one to also be the one I am in my daily life. So I think I need for the line to be crossed. If I'm ever going to be comfortable with it, I'll need to let go of the separation. I want purity to mean something different, something other than dissociating from myself.
The least I can do is start with my name. It is . . .
Matthew. This is what most people call me in person. I actually like this name, as names go, though I still prefer to be called Mamelon on MTGS.
Spoiled for those who may actually prefer the mystique, heh. If that's even necessary.
Anyway, it's just something I wanted to say.
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All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the light that you see. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
But the rainbow is an image of hope for many reasons, as it is a brilliant sight coming out of oftimes dismal weather.
*Alacar hugs Mamelon Thanks for sharing that with us, Mamelon. You've been Mamelon to me for as long as I've known you, and while I already knew your name, Mamelon is what you will be.
Speaking of Skype, I asked your brother what people call you around the house, and while he told me they just use your name, I think I'll never find that name comfortable enough for you and I. It's not because you aren't who you are, it's just because Mamelon is what I call you.
And if you ever decide to talk to someone on Skype, I'll be here, eh?
*Muscles his way in for his share of Mamsies hugs*
I'm having trouble articulating this morning, so I guess I won't say much. But to me ******* (censored for those who prefer the mystique ) and Mamelon are the same person. I understand when you explain about having a seperate persona online from real life, but to me I've always felt the true difference was that ******* is the person you are/were and Mamelon is the person you want to be; and this change says to me that you are starting to reconcile becoming the person you want to be without rejecting who you are and were. Maybe I'm over analysing (I tend to do that), but that's what I see right now. And I'm very, very happy for you.
@Fox: sweet deal, mate! Good luck in your interview. Knock their socks off!
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Thank you for sharing that, Mamelon. Once the mob dies down, I'll hug you as well.
I'm spending the day at an amusement park with a handful of friends. We've been attempting this trip for weeks, but it's been rained out every time. I'm an unapologetic hedonist, and I think that the amusement park is something of an Epicurean Temple and holy ground. Smoking is permitted within the park, though drinking is not. But hell, that's why God invented the flask.
Wow...if all you guys are hugging her, I can only imagine what Sakura's gonna do ¬_¬;;
I'll keep a Blazemost ready just in case.
@Skype: I'm...not comfortable with my voice, for certain reasons. For one thing, I'm afraid that I really do sound gay when I talk. I know most people in the 'house would agree that in reality this isn't much of a concern, but for me it would mean the difference between comfortable socializing and remaining a paranoid hermit. If I'm male I want to sound male, and for the most part I'm comfortable in the assumption that I do, but who knows.
Also, I've always been painfully aware that my voice sounds totally different to other people than it does to me. I enjoy the way my voice resonates inside my own head, so to speak, and I kind of despise that it doesn't sound anything like that to other people. So yeah.
Wow...if all you guys are hugging her, I can only imagine what Sakura's gonna do ¬_¬;;
I'll keep a Blazemost ready just in case.
@Skype: I'm...not comfortable with my voice, for certain reasons. For one thing, I'm afraid that I really do sound gay when I talk. I know most people in the 'house would agree that in reality this isn't much of a concern, but for me it would mean the difference between comfortable socializing and remaining a paranoid hermit. If I'm male I want to sound male, and for the most part I'm comfortable in the assumption that I do, but who knows.
Also, I've always been painfully aware that my voice sounds totally different to other people than it does to me. I enjoy the way my voice resonates inside my own head, so to speak, and I kind of despise that it doesn't sound anything like that to other people. So yeah.
Um, you do sound male. Your voice isn't notably deep, but most of the guys here aren't exactly sporting an Isaac Hayes voice, either. I think you are just being unreasonably concerned over nothing, pup.
The least I can do is start with my name. It is . . .
You just trainwrecked your cult like Galileo trainwrecked astrology!
P.S. And here I thought your name was Jean all this time...
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My speaking voice doesn't particularly bother me, though I do wish I could sing. I sing constantly, but I've been known to cause brain hemorrhaging. Seriously, it's awful.
I know I do sound male, but there's always that little fear in the back of my head that some Rip Taylor might sneak in there somewhere and wreck any semblance of gender identity I ever had. So nyeh =P
Oh God. Yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate day. Glad I missed that one.
@Night vs. Day: I used to work nights at a packing plant when I was younger and, although the work itself was pretty annoying, I found the schedule to my liking. I worked twelve hours from 3pm to 3am, and after that my friends and I would go to one of the bigger cities and have our run of the place. It's amazing how many places are open 24 hours in nowhere, Ohio.
Although my schedule is very different now. I hate waking up after 8am - being rather the type A personality, it makes me feel like I've already wasted time, so to speak. I still go to bed pretty late, but my mood in the morning is directly proportionate to how long the sun's already been up.
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I think I just need to stay in bed and watch anime via my computer today. I got the policies/procedures manual and contract through the mail today for my new job, but I just don't have the energy to do anything with it.
Because I already have a Paypal Xfr going through, I will be sending you cash through there when it goes through instead of through the mail.
I tossed together an annoying UB deck online last night. I finished one game in 2hg last night by casting Beacon of Tomorrows on myself eight turns in a row (Drawing more with Mikokoro and Arenas) and could have played the 9th one in my hand if my opponents weren't such bad sports and died on me. Sigh...weakness....
I had another game where I had 7 Cabal Coffers in play (because I had nothing better to Vesuva)and Consumed someone for 100.
I just love over indulgence like that. Some of the best times I've ever had in Magic are Blazing for like 200, or going off with Mind's Desire for 120. It is part of what makes the game so fun.
I've started to read Atlas Shurgged by Ayn Rand. Has anyone here read it before? I want to know if I might be wasting my time. After all, it is a 1050 page book.
Update on the Bible in class thing: The girl who was whining has cut a deal and she doesn't have to go to class when we are discussing it, but she has to write an 8 page paper on the Torah instead. What an idiot!
And the money... it's okay, just.. try to get it to me ASAP
First of all, chill. We were joking around. It's all good.
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Seriously though, it's all good buddy. You didn't drive the ladies away. We just joked around, yeah?
Whoa, hey.. I hit 7,300 posts a few posts back.
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i picked circa 1998-2000 when me and my elementary schol friends would come to my houe watch toonamis anime block then play pokemon on gameboy, the kill each other in goldeneye and super smash bros and mariokart 64 and starfox
those were the days
That was high school for me... I'm not feeling much younger than ether at this moment.
The hot stuff at my place usually involved Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat somehow and there was always the occasional game of F-Zero flying around when I had access to an SNES. Good stuff.
I'll marry you!
Just kidding! But you do sound like you need some rest... or vacation... or something. Good luck with that...
Not much happening around here at current. Just kinda tying up some loose ends on some personal stuff in town. Nothing major though.
i'm in distress, andre johnson is down and im in a clash of 2-0s in one of my most prizedleagues
gah the pains of fantasy football
however in the real fantasy game, stocks are up which means yours truly is one VERY happy camper, go googogogogog goldman sachs!
I used to be vaguely obsessed with Ayn Rand, a couple of years ago. (I used to be known as an intolerable Randian back in the MtgNews days.) It's worth reading, but take it with a grain of salt.
My high school days were awesome. The best times I had were spent flying down the highway at 95, a car packed full of drunks singing along badly to Bob Dylan, AC/DC, and Green Day, having absolutely no amount of environmental consciousness as we threw empty cans out the windows, going to the beach at two in the morning and staying until sunrise, sleeping on porches and in hammocks and in cars.
As Janis said, I would trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.
I've felt a little bit weary of MTGS lately, so I haven't been around as much. However, I have noticed people are starting to pick up Skype. I just had a perfectly pleasant conversation with Joyd and Alacar this evening, and it was fun- a lot more personable than IM, which was really appreciable.
I really think we should try to get some sort of group thing together, or at the very least try and open the channels between the regulars on that level so we can have some more intimate communication (and by intimate, I mean "friendlier than text", not "Sakura with a riding crop").
@LittleD: You dont scare off those girls, maybe they just find the coffeehouse too big..And of all the girls that stopped by here, Karmah is the one I consider a real hottie..
Im kinda hungry...maybe I'll eat first..Ill be back later.
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Hey Jun sorry im not up in the mornings so yo wont find me here at this hours...gotta work on my thesis... man this program is so easy but getting it explained is taking me so much time... the rest of the team cant help coz its my idea and i know the formats... *sigh*
Dont worry LittleD im sure you are not scaring away the girls, they are just spending more time in the mall than the coffehouse or something like that...we were justjoking around with you
I think that the reason this is so isn't necessarily (or merely, at least) because I'm embarrassed by them. Rather, I feel like there is a distinction between my online identity and my identity in person, and that's a distinction I like to keep. Myself as Mamelon isn't affected by impressions people have formed based on my appearance or my name or any other such associations. I feel like it's an environment in which I can act more freely without needing to consider all these extraneous factors I have to compensate for.
When I log on here I actually feel like I'm entering a different state of mind, one less burdened and restricted. I want that to remain the same, as it's like a haven from the "real" world. I wanted this identity to be pure, distinct, unfettered by the other.
I'm coming to reexamine my feelings about this. I'm aware that it actually creates something of an impassable barrier, because there's a line I can't cross if I want to keep that distinction. The recent thing with Skype voice chat brought this to my attention. That's something I couldn't do and still preserve the purity. And Mr. Stuff has asked multiple times if he'd ever see me at a convention, and each time I felt bad because I knew such a meeting could never happen with anyone here. Because that'd be crossing the line.
The way I'm looking at it now, I want the two identities to combine. I don't want to think of them anymore as seperate selves or states of mind. I want the unfettered, pure one to also be the one I am in my daily life. So I think I need for the line to be crossed. If I'm ever going to be comfortable with it, I'll need to let go of the separation. I want purity to mean something different, something other than dissociating from myself.
The least I can do is start with my name. It is . . .
Anyway, it's just something I wanted to say.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
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Thanks for sharing that with us, Mamelon. You've been Mamelon to me for as long as I've known you, and while I already knew your name, Mamelon is what you will be.
Speaking of Skype, I asked your brother what people call you around the house, and while he told me they just use your name, I think I'll never find that name comfortable enough for you and I. It's not because you aren't who you are, it's just because Mamelon is what I call you.
And if you ever decide to talk to someone on Skype, I'll be here, eh?
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Thats right Coffeebeans, I got first in a Player Run event tonight!
I'm having trouble articulating this morning, so I guess I won't say much. But to me ******* (censored for those who prefer the mystique
@Fox: sweet deal, mate! Good luck in your interview. Knock their socks off!
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I'm spending the day at an amusement park with a handful of friends. We've been attempting this trip for weeks, but it's been rained out every time. I'm an unapologetic hedonist, and I think that the amusement park is something of an Epicurean Temple and holy ground. Smoking is permitted within the park, though drinking is not. But hell, that's why God invented the flask.
I'll keep a Blazemost ready just in case.
@Skype: I'm...not comfortable with my voice, for certain reasons. For one thing, I'm afraid that I really do sound gay when I talk. I know most people in the 'house would agree that in reality this isn't much of a concern, but for me it would mean the difference between comfortable socializing and remaining a paranoid hermit. If I'm male I want to sound male, and for the most part I'm comfortable in the assumption that I do, but who knows.
Also, I've always been painfully aware that my voice sounds totally different to other people than it does to me. I enjoy the way my voice resonates inside my own head, so to speak, and I kind of despise that it doesn't sound anything like that to other people. So yeah.
Um, you do sound male. Your voice isn't notably deep, but most of the guys here aren't exactly sporting an Isaac Hayes voice, either. I think you are just being unreasonably concerned over nothing, pup.
You just trainwrecked your cult like Galileo trainwrecked astrology!
P.S. And here I thought your name was Jean all this time...
I know I do sound male, but there's always that little fear in the back of my head that some Rip Taylor might sneak in there somewhere and wreck any semblance of gender identity I ever had. So nyeh =P