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Post by Rated R on Feb 23, 2016 19:40:54 GMT -5
I'm 25. Been doing this for... actually, just too long. How I've put up with Shawn for nearly ten years is, in itself, the biggest question known to man. You and I really are the last of that third generation wave. You, me, Reckless, Eagle, Possessed Child, Dean and Bish, really just you and me left with the every few month Bish return till he has to leave for classes again and Dean JUST came back. It's kind of weird to look at who was huge/important at the time and what happened. Schneider: Retired Kyzer: Retired Rev: Essentially retired CBT: Dead (don't ask new guys, long story) Thunder: Retired Yukio: Essentially retired Mike: Part timer E: Retired Drakz and Bren have been here long before us but Bren was gone for years and until this run, Drakz was never around long term after 2006. Christ we're old, Dale. Old? You're old? Shut up. Seriously, you know how I know I'm actually old? I get hungover now. And they suck. On the character front, I'm one in one, and I couldn't be assed with creating another one at this point. Too much hassle. |
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Post by Drakz on Feb 23, 2016 19:57:32 GMT -5
Something tells me a comment from Deep Figure Value regarding the venom of his hangovers is pending. |
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Post by bad guy™ on Feb 23, 2016 20:00:42 GMT -5
You and I really are the last of that third generation wave. You, me, Reckless, Eagle, Possessed Child, Dean and Bish, really just you and me left with the every few month Bish return till he has to leave for classes again and Dean JUST came back. It's kind of weird to look at who was huge/important at the time and what happened. Schneider: Retired Kyzer: Retired Rev: Essentially retired CBT: Dead (don't ask new guys, long story) Thunder: Retired Yukio: Essentially retired Mike: Part timer E: Retired Drakz and Bren have been here long before us but Bren was gone for years and until this run, Drakz was never around long term after 2006. Christ we're old, Dale. Old? You're old? Shut up. Seriously, you know how I know I'm actually old? I get hungover now. And they suck. On the character front, I'm one in one, and I couldn't be assed with creating another one at this point. Too much hassle. Yes, because I didn't just say a few pages back I wrote an RP piss drunk that got a positive review, and certainly didn't have a headache the size of Texas the next morning. Never. |
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 23, 2016 20:04:31 GMT -5
Something tells me a comment from Deep Figure Value regarding the venom of his hangovers is pending. I can't remember the last time I had a hangover that exceeded the levels of "f*ck my head hurts". It was probably my best friend's bachelor party a few years back when I slept it off on the floor of my own backseat on the ride back from Connecticut to NH. |
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Feb 23, 2016 21:50:38 GMT -5
I cannot play the "name every theme song a character has had" because I'm pretty sure Schneider had somewhere in the range of 30 or so songs over the years. during the last run I was changing almost every match.
The song I posted is not the one I was going to use as a theme. The one I used was a PPV theme idea. This is the one I was going to use.
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Post by jdfranchise on Feb 24, 2016 12:05:18 GMT -5
So, in other news I officially received my diploma for completion of my master's degree yesterday. I just need to wait on the scores from my PLT test to be a licensed junior high and high school English teacher.
Hard work pays off.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 24, 2016 12:19:38 GMT -5
So, in other news I officially received my diploma for completion of my master's degree yesterday. I just need to wait on the scores from my PLT test to be a licensed junior high and high school English teacher. Hard work pays off. That's great, Josh. Not only am I confirmed to be in the upper upper tier of the age spectrum here, but now the youngins are passing by me in the educational spectrum, to boot! |
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Post by jdfranchise on Feb 24, 2016 12:27:37 GMT -5
So, in other news I officially received my diploma for completion of my master's degree yesterday. I just need to wait on the scores from my PLT test to be a licensed junior high and high school English teacher. Hard work pays off. That's great, Josh. Not only am I confirmed to be in the upper upper tier of the age spectrum here, but now the youngins are passing by me in the educational spectrum, to boot! Thanks Bren, but I think you're only a couple months older than me. I've been out of high school for 12 years now and was an active college student for 9 of those. So while I'm ecstatic to finally be in position to have permanent job security, it took a lot longer than I ever wanted. |
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 24, 2016 12:48:08 GMT -5
That's great, Josh. Not only am I confirmed to be in the upper upper tier of the age spectrum here, but now the youngins are passing by me in the educational spectrum, to boot! Thanks Bren, but I think you're only a couple months older than me. I've been out of high school for 12 years now and was an active college student for 9 of those. So while I'm ecstatic to finally be in position to have permanent job security, it took a lot longer than I ever wanted. I'm just joshin' ya (heyooo!). I've firmly earned my position in life, and all things considered, I'm pretty proud of what I've managed to pull off. Took me ten years, but I got my associates degree in 2013, and I locked down a secure job in my field of study three months after graduating. 3 months before graduating, I bought a condo which I just sold at a $20,000 profit so I could buy my wife and my kid a house with a yard and no shared walls. My kid brother who has a bachelors degree doesn't work in his field and pays out the a** for a tiny hole in the wall apartment in Brooklyn. I don't like to hold it over his head 'cause everyone's gotta do their own thing, but I know he's spent the past 3 years envying what I've pulled off by doing things "the hard way". I rest easy enough at night, hahaha. |
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Post by bad guy™ on Feb 24, 2016 13:14:12 GMT -5
So, in other news I officially received my diploma for completion of my master's degree yesterday. I just need to wait on the scores from my PLT test to be a licensed junior high and high school English teacher. Hard work pays off. That's great, Josh. Not only am I confirmed to be in the upper upper tier of the age spectrum here, but now the youngins are passing by me in the educational spectrum, to boot! If it makes you feel older, Josh and Bish know, I'm working on my masters in a M.A. Ph.D combination program, allows me to, should all the courses be passed and my thesis successfully defended, come out in three years with my Ph.D when it would normally take at least 2/2.  |
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Post by jdfranchise on Feb 24, 2016 13:25:06 GMT -5
That's great, Josh. Not only am I confirmed to be in the upper upper tier of the age spectrum here, but now the youngins are passing by me in the educational spectrum, to boot! If it makes you feel older, Josh and Bish know, I'm working on my masters in a M.A. Ph.D combination program, allows me to, should all the courses be passed and my thesis successfully defended, come out in three years with my Ph.D when it would normally take at least 2/2. Man I'm done with going to school for a while. I'm ready to make a little money. *That moment you realize that you work in a school* Sh*t! |
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 24, 2016 13:36:47 GMT -5
That's great, Josh. Not only am I confirmed to be in the upper upper tier of the age spectrum here, but now the youngins are passing by me in the educational spectrum, to boot! If it makes you feel older, Josh and Bish know, I'm working on my masters in a M.A. Ph.D combination program, allows me to, should all the courses be passed and my thesis successfully defended, come out in three years with my Ph.D when it would normally take at least 2/2. Yeah, but you're an American born and bred who insists on saying he goes to "university". I'll never feel lesser standing beside you. ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 13:59:46 GMT -5
All this talk about school reminds me this place really helped me discover the love I have for English. I'm probably going to become an English teacher when I'm older.
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Post by bad guy™ on Feb 24, 2016 14:40:15 GMT -5
All this talk about school reminds me this place really helped me discover the love I have for English. I'm probably going to become an English teacher when I'm older. It's ok young child, you'll learn to hate it. |
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Post by jdfranchise on Feb 24, 2016 15:01:30 GMT -5
All this talk about school reminds me this place really helped me discover the love I have for English. I'm probably going to become an English teacher when I'm older. It's ok young child, you'll learn to hate it. You're gonna say that around an English teacher? |
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Post by Drakz on Feb 24, 2016 15:53:19 GMT -5
I did an MSc at university. I don't work in that field. I work in a piece of sh*t shop, running around like a lunatic for barely above minimum wage. The shop/warehouse is freezing cold and floods when it rains. I work with (mostly) total f*cking idiots who I'm surprised can even dress themselves on a morning and I serve rude, unappreciative, thick as sh*t builders who are all much better paid than me.
My being the world champ here is honest to God the best thing I've got going for me right now. Just let that sink in.
What am I doing with my life?
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Post by Markw on Feb 24, 2016 16:04:37 GMT -5
I preferred it when Americans were discussing the futility of their university education. *gulp*
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 24, 2016 16:10:41 GMT -5
I preferred it when Americans were discussing the futility of their university education. *gulp* Of course a private university education is futile if you go and get a masters in something inane like Mediterranean Oceanography like half the schlups are doing these days. I've got me a two year degree from a public little community college in a nothing city in a nothing state and I've been working in my field ever since. |
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Post by bad guy™ on Feb 24, 2016 17:21:25 GMT -5
It's ok young child, you'll learn to hate it. You're gonna say that around an English teacher? You gonna try telling me you don't hate classes sometimes? You teach in high school. That's the pits even if you like what you do. While I work my tuition off at my college in their writing lab, I'm a TA at the community college I first attended, helping the professor who mentored me. So I help when needed and occasionally teach a lesson if she has a meeting (department head) so she doesn't have to cancel. I like it, and that's what I want to do, it can still be the pits if you have bunghole students who are not there to learn, only because mom or dad made them go if they wanted to keep living under their roof. And what makes it worse is she does blue book essay exams and she has me look over them and give her what I would award the student grade wise and this current semester is brutal because literally no one's paying attention so half of them are failing. Someone on one tried explaining in their own way that slavery and indentured servitude weren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be now. Was in her office and put my head in my hands and she asked how bad it was and I handed it to her and she wasn't sure if she wanted to scream, laugh or cry. It's a cruel world for educators. |
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Post by bad guy™ on Feb 24, 2016 17:34:58 GMT -5
I preferred it when Americans were discussing the futility of their university education. *gulp* Of course a private university education is futile if you go and get a masters in something inane like Mediterranean Oceanography like half the schlups are doing these days. I've got me a two year degree from a public little community college in a nothing city in a nothing state and I've been working in my field ever since. I feel ya regarding grad school for off the wall things that have very little career opportunities. At least a masters in history, with a teaching certificate allows me to consider education lower than the collegiate level should I not be able to find an adjunct position somewhere right out of the gate. But you're an accountant right? Most people need some sort of accountant at some point in their life. Perhaps not as in demand as nursing or whatever, but hey, maybe some corrupt Wall Street corporation will pay you a nice penny to do their books.  |
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I dont know good luck 
