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Shademp

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Not really "on here", but yes in my room all day. Nothing really unusual for me.
Because I don't focus on the screen while playing, I just enjoy any other entertainment I can find through my laptop. Actually watched a rather strange british movie today, "Hot Fuzz". Entertaining.
 
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Oh, you have it in "forever" mode. I haven't seen Hot Fuzz. That's the one with simon pegg in ain't it. I heard it's good. He's in the new Star Trek film isn't he. Wonder what that'll turn out like (not that I'm a fan or anything.)
 
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I don't have much faith in that movie. Can't fully explain it, but something with the trailers bug me. Interesting to see how the original Star Trek team got together, but I think all the action and atmosphere will conflict with what defined the old movies.

I don't think it will be a big hit.

Edit: And what be this? Did -4992 check my profile info? :monster:

Edit again: If there is any movie I look forward to, it is Watchmen. I have never read the graphic novel, but it looks promising.
 
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Well I'm going to check the film out since I do't have high expectations of it :monster:

Did I check your profile? Can't remember! I have in the past.
 
Shademp

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[quote author=kunoichi link=topic=29.msg25066#msg25066 date=1235935372]
Did I check your profile? Can't remember! I have in the past.
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Well, how else would you have seen my online time?

Except for Watchmen, I also want to see "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". Let us not also forget the BIG ONE, FFVIIACC.
 
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[quote author=Shademp link=topic=29.msg25070#msg25070 date=1235935712] Well, how else would you have seen my online time? Except for Watchmen, I also want to see "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". Let us not also forget the BIG ONE, FFVIIACC. [/quote]

Your name is on the list at the bottom, that's how i knew. And god forbid we forget ACC :duhard:
*sigh* monday soon, don't really want to get up so early for work 8\
 
kunoichi

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Both my jobs are really rubbish, you don't want too know *shakes head* I've been looking round but the job centre don't seem to have much nowadays. Of course this damn recession don't help.
 
Shademp

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Hmm, I can see why you are so stressed. Wish there was something I could do, but unfortunately I don't have the power to magically boost a country's economy and job availability.
 
kunoichi

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=_=......

I'm just hoping things pick up in another year or so tbh, otherwise I might just emigrate. lol
So what you got planned for the future? Anything nice? (I mean generally.)
 
Shademp

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Success!

My plan is to pray to the gods that I pass at least two of the three upcoming exams. Then pray even more that I can pass that other exam in april.

It all depends on how well my studies go. If they go well, I have a future. If it doesn't work out, I have no future and will die a sad and lonely man.
 
Cthulhu

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I did my laundry yesterday, which makes me awesome.

Also, scientific research concluded that praying doesn't work, :monster:.
 
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[quote author=Shademp link=topic=29.msg25089#msg25089 date=1235938706] Well, two minutes from now I have to check if I have a free spot for my laundry... *leaves for a short while* [/quote] You sound like you live the rock 'n' roll lifestyle :duhard: And yes, good luck with your exams :monster:
 
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[quote author=Cthulhu link=topic=29.msg25093#msg25093 date=1235939502]
Also, scientific research concluded that praying doesn't work, :monster:.
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Which goes without saying, as far as divine intervention is concerned. However there are methods to reinforce oneself's self confidence, some of those methods may be considered "praying" by some.

But the best thing of course would to form a plan and execute it well. If I recall correctly Ctulhu you are an engineer, right? Tell me about your occupation :monster:
 
Shademp

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Professions. I was actually about to ask the lot around here what they were aspiring to be when they were kids, or at least dreaming of being. So I'll do that.

What did/do you want to be when you grew/grow up?
 
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When I was a kid I was really interested in the study of paleontology (well, I still am). Now I do everything related to the entertainment business (ex. performing arts), I love writing (ex. screenwriting, maybe?), the study of criminology, human psychology, languages, parapsychology, and... I think one more.
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How old are you again? Are you old enough to be a profession?

How come you stopped wanting to be a vet Kunoichi?
 
Cthulhu

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Also, scientific research concluded that praying doesn't work, :monster:.
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Which goes without saying, as far as divine intervention is concerned. However there are methods to reinforce oneself's self confidence, some of those methods may be considered "praying" by some.
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Funny that you mention that, since according to the research (which I read about in a book that probably can't be considered 'neutral' on the standpoint, mind), it's the other way around. They had three groups, a total of 1800 people or so, who all had had a particular type of heart surgery performed on them. The members of one group received prayers from churches (that were all a pretty big distance from the hospitals) without them knowing they were being prayed for, another didn't get prayed for (and also didn't know it, double-blind research and whatnot), and the third were prayed for and did know about it.

There was no significant difference between the two groups that were and weren't prayed for, but there was in the group that was prayed for and knew about it - they showed more complications and longer recovery times after the surgery. It can probably be attributed to a psychological cause though - them getting nervous or pressured into getting better faster because they were getting prayed for or something. But in any case, the results are lulzy, :monster:.

I do quite like a comment that followed that particular section though:

He [Richard Swinburne] rightly suggests that if God wanted to demonstrate his own existence he would find better ways to do it than slightly biasing the recovery statistics of experimental versus control groups of heart patients. If God existed and wanted to convince us of it, he could 'fill the world with super-miracles'.
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But the best thing of course would to form a plan and execute it well. If I recall correctly Ctulhu you are an engineer, right? Tell me about your occupation :monster:
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That's a broad subject, :monster:. I'll start a new thread on my programming adventures in Amsterdam for that, even, fgj.
 
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Why did I stop wanting to become a vet? Because I'd be a wreck when having to put those cute animals to sleep =( (that and the fact that I don't agree with that anymore.)
 
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Why did I stop wanting to become a vet? Because I'd be a wreck when having to put those cute animals to sleep =( (that and the fact that I don't agree with that anymore.)
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I would be so sad too :< And I don't know about agreeing with it or not, it's so complicated. I mean, what if that animal is suffering? Do we just let it suffer?
 
Shademp

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[quote author=kunoichi link=topic=29.msg25124#msg25124 date=1235941193]
Because I'd be a wreck when having to put those cute animals to sleep =(
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You know, I think that euphemism just made George Carlin turn in his grave :comedian:

Personally I shifted between wanting to be a video game maker, a painter, an author and a scientist.
I naturally wanted to be a "mad scientist" who used my own esoteric science to make myself immortal, powerful, intelligent and all that shitz.

Sucked at drawing but did it so much that I thought of it as potential future profession. Wrote a lot of stories and conjured up whole worlds in my head but never really finished them.
 
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[quote author=Shademp link=topic=29.msg25131#msg25131 date=1235941587]
[quote author=kunoichi link=topic=29.msg25124#msg25124 date=1235941193]
Because I'd be a wreck when having to put those cute animals to sleep =(
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You know, I think that euphemism just made George Carlin turn in his grave :comedian:

Personally I shifted between wanting to be a video game maker, a painter, an author and a scientist.
I naturally wanted to be a "mad scientist" who used my own esoteric science to make myself immortal, powerful, intelligent and all that shitz.

Sucked at drawing but did it so much that I thought of it as potential future profession. Wrote a lot of stories and conjured up whole worlds in my head but never really finished them.
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LMAO, I once inspired to be a mad scientist myself until I discovered that I get bored from talking about science and chemistry. :monster:
 
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