Everything is Rockin'! [RML Thread 4]

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Postby C.A.P. » Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:16 am

Oh hey, 2,000 posts. And it only took me 8 years to get here.

Guess that's pretty rocking.
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Postby IronEvangelion » Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:55 pm

I've finally come up with a good idea for a new IP. Essentially it's going to be a Warhammer 40K-style grimdark space epic. I'm in the process of writing the lore for the various factions so that I have a solid base to build upon and can write cohesive and non-contradictory stories using it. That should take about a year or two if I work on it in my free time. After that, I can begin writing books. If the books do well, I hope to expand the franchise to include a tabletop war game (which is really the main goal). That's probably years down the road, though.

One thing I want to avoid doing is focusing too much on the human factions and overdeveloping them at the expense of underdeveloping the nonhuman factions (Warhammer 40K has a bad habit of doing that), so I'm trying to focus on all factions equally. I know what I've said so far is really vague, but I can't say much more about it because it's still in early development and I don't have anything copyrighted yet. Hopefully this will all work out and enable me to quit my retail job in a few years or so. That would make me very happy.
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So, I managed to snag both DVD sets of Death Note for $13 at a thrift shop today. And they've got all the discs and no scratches. ^_^
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Postby Justacrazyguy » Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:17 pm

Remember that Gameboy game that was stolen from me? I sure do.

With some help from my brother I found the game on the internet. It's not the one I had, obviously, but I care more about the games inside it than the specific piece of hardened plastic and circuits that contain them.

I even went and had it warped to give it to myself has a Christmas present.

So yeah, I'm feeling pretty good right now.
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Postby Gus Hanson » Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:32 pm

After so much time worrying about a Christmas gift, I will be getting in time for the big day a brand new camcorder from WalMart. It'll definitely come in handy for the conventions so I can hopefully document the celebrities when they talk to fans in conference rooms. I know there are cameras in cell phones but just call me a sucker for nostalgia! :tongue:
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Postby ::KL7:: » Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:50 pm

I forgot to post yesterday, but got out of surgery better than expected. It was my first one and was for a deviated septum. In total spent about 3 - 4 hours at the hospital and am feeling pretty good right now other than cleaning my nose every couple of hours. But hopefully I'll be able to breath better once I'm all healed up. :)
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Postby Reichu » Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:56 pm

Glad you're okay! Surgery is serious business. I hope the original ailment is eased by the correction.
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Postby ::KL7:: » Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:33 pm

View Original PostReichu wrote:Glad you're okay! Surgery is serious business. I hope the original ailment is eased by the correction.

Thank you Reichu, I have the nasal splints taken out tomorrow so I'll finally be able to breath through my nose. These last few days have been hell. But hopefully it's all worth it.
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Postby DarkBluePhoenix » Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:11 pm

Well, it's nice to have good news to share... so here goes. I got an "F" in a class, long story short, teacher was an asshole. I appealed the grade based on teacher bias and lost the appeal (basically a whitewash from the appeal board), so I appealed that decision based on the original appeal both taking too long (past the two week time limit of their own rules) and their seemingly not actually reading the ten page appeal I put together, and the grade was successfully changed. While it's not as high as I wanted, it is a passing grade, so there are worse things, and on the bright side, I don't have to retake the class.
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Postby Gus Hanson » Sat Feb 16, 2019 5:05 pm

Feeling great because this Monday is my 31st birthday. I'll be sure to indulge in cake and spend lots of cash on presents.
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Postby Gus Hanson » Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:48 am

According to my dad, because tomorrow is my birthday and the day is off, we're going to visit my grandma and other relatives in Bayamon. Definitely looking forward to it because I haven't seen them in over a year and the food is always delicious.
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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:22 am

Hey guys, wanna hear a positive rejection story? One that spans over a year full of regret and still ends as platonically and positively as Mako and Raleigh in Pacific Rim?

So, in September of 2017 (yikes, that was a while ago,) me and my awkward self were finally transitioning from working slavishly at a swing shift job (2pm - 11pm) into a normal human waking hours, first-shift job. I had been pursuing various film gigs prior to getting that swing shift job, but none of the ones in my area were very good or promising, so I had to shift careers and build my own capital in order to have control over my own destiny in the video/film industry in an ever-shifting market. (Still working on that, BTW.) This new swing shift job resulted in socially stunning me (more than is typical for a creative film type) for pretty much all of 2015 going into 2016 and becoming very depressed. I couldn’t hang out with my friends as much, and I began feeling very, very lonely. The people I worked with were nice at least, but my supervisor was an “ex-marine” who was never really deployed. (Hence my use of quotations.) I think he was only employed for security or something. He seemed to have an “Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride” kinda beef with the marines because of that, I think. He mostly put on an “ex-marines” front to shield his short/bald complex. Needless to say, it was a pretty bad year for me. I’d feel helpless a lot of the time in light of his abusive management tendencies, and second guess if I was right in leaving a competitive yet unrewarding passion career of mine for something more stable that would eventually allow me to afford more control over my dream job.

Anyway, in summer of 2016 I finally transferred into a day job where I sell and repair glasses. This means that I got my social time back, and was able to strengthen old friendships that had been weakening due to my lack of sociable time, and in 2017 I even got to meet new people that my friends had met since my absence from the social scene. But because it’s been well over a year since I had a healthy amount of social time I was now an awkward person on top of being an eccentric creative person.

SO I CRUSHED ON A WOMAN.

She was one of the new people I had been getting to know through my old friends. I don’t remember when we first met. I honestly could have met her before transferring jobs during one of those scant few moments where I fought to have enough time off from work to talk to people but have completely forgotten because of how constantly tired I was. (I later learned that this had happened more that a couple times with other people. I found myself “meeting” people who already had introduced themselves to me before.) But I definitely remember “officially” meeting this person at a 4th of July party in 2017 at my friend’s house and really liking her.

Now, I’ve always been very shy about these things, and to top it all off I’m now this awkward person trying to recover from being socially stunned for well over a year. PLUS, this person is super attractive, and apparently had always been haunted by guy issues as a result. She had only recently become a Christian and had gone to seminary, which is apparently where awkward guys with weird, culturally retarded ideas of dating (or “courtship,” as they like to call it) reign supreme. After graduation she thought that she had gotten away from that weird sub-sect of Jesus otaku and was now scott free! (Let me be clear, I use the term “Jesus otaku” to mark a difference between normal, well-meaning Christians and puritanical religious fetishists who like nice things being said about a vaguely held understanding of God.) I also later found out that she was going through a lot of family issues at the time and was stressed over preparing for mission work across the ocean, and it just wasn’t a good time for-... AND HERE I COME WITH MY AWKWARD, UNWITTING SELF!!!!

I asked her out over text, and I remember it feeling so awkward that I honestly don’t want to go back through the chat log and prove exactly how awkward I may or may not have been at the time. But she turned me down in blunt, matter-of-fact, no-nonsense terms. I thanked her for at least hearing me out, said I still wanted to be friends with her if that was cool, and kinda lay awake in bed for most of the night. I think she might have also brushed me off on the whole friendship part over text, too. Again, I don’t want to go back and check only to be slapped in the face with me possibly being really cringe-y.

Aaaaaaaaaanyway, she goes off overseas to tell people about Jesus, and I just kinda sit on my butt, only getting up to kick it every so often for potentially being a nuisance. But I eventually got over it that week and went on with my life. I figured that at least I got something that I felt was important off my chest and that I could now try to go about life normally, focusing on my dreams of maybe building enough capital to make my own film gigs one day. She’s in another part of the world anyway, it’s not like I have to deal with her anytime soon. That could get awkward.

And then she comes back to the States a year later.

Back in my group of friends.

Back into my life.

Oh, shit! My friends are inviting me over to events she’s also invited to!

She doesn’t seem to want to talk to me anymore!

She seems to be actively avoiding me!

And it’s not like I just can’t show up to these events! I’ve made friends with her friends while she’s away, and we all like doing the same things and spending time together and-...

FUCK, I CAN’T EVEN GET “FRIEND-ZONED*” PROPERLY!!!

So I nonchalantly meantioned to a mutual friend that I haven’t heard much from this person since her return to the States, and that’s when I find out that, just before going on her missions trip, she told my other friends about me asking her out via text and that it really, really bothered her. Upon telling me this, my friend was quick to reassure me that it wasn’t anything I did, that I didn't do anything wrong, and that I’m actually a pretty great guy and shouldn’t feel bad about it.

Uh huh.

Like, I honestly trust my friends to call me out for being an asshole in that situation if I deserved it, and he didn’t call me out, so that’s good! But....

Uh huh.

Yeah, I kinda just went back to laying awake in the bed most of that night, kicking my butt every so often for being such a nuisance. Worse yet, they know about it! Other people know! How have they been seeing me this whole time if my actions were apparently bad enough to warn other people of my existence?????

I tend to take shelter in self-pity sometimes, if that makes sense, but I try to never stay there. It’s okay to feel bad for yourself. Sometimes, in that initial moment of being hurt, you’re the only one who’s there to hug yourself and tell you that it’ll be alright. But it’s not okay to let that sense of pity become a part of you. Cry, eat a jug of ice cream, throw yourself the biggest pity party you can for a night, and the move on with your life.

But I couldn’t let this get weird social hiccup get in my way either. I’m still going to social gatherings I’m invited to, and I’ll be hella polite if she’s there, and try to join in on group conversations and stuff. I’m exactly one year less awkward now than when she left, and I’m gonna meet up and have fun with everyone else, even if it means having to have fun with her too. I even invited her to social gatherings that I was hosting after a while, just to show that there weren’t any hard feelings. And she actually accepted the invitations!

I think she also realized that she didn’t handle rejecting me that well, because after a few social events and we started talking to each other more and more, she eventually became comfortable being friends with me and apologized for how she treated me back then, and actually appreciated that we could still be friends. She explained to me the difficult times she was going through back in 2017 and how my text had inadvertently become the straw that broke the camel's back, and she finally snapped. I told her that I understood where she was coming from and that I didn’t remember her texts being as abrasive as she seems to remember them being. (She was describing emotions that did not come across in those texts.) As it turns out, it was a good thing I texted when I asked her out, because if I had done that in person she would have not had the time to calm down and respond more properly.

She’s dating someone else now, while also dealing with another actual, honest-to-God Jesus otaku creep that doesn’t want to recognize the fact that she’s dating someone else right now. So me and my friends get to help her navigate her way through that. Outside of that bit of weirdness, we still have fun and I’m truly glad I can actually be friends with her. I honestly can’t wait to meet this person she’s dating.

Moral of the story? I dunno, be sad but don’t wallow endlessly in your own pity? Sometimes the “Friend-Zone*” is worth the effort to get there? Who knows, but I’m in a good place right now. I feel like I finally have closure on something that needed it.

* “Friend-Zone” is just another term for “being friends,” and that’s still one of the greatest relationships a human being could ever have with someone else. Cherish your friends and don’t complain about the fact that you’re “only friends.” That’ll only weaken the relationship you already have and make everyone involved very sad.

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Postby DarkBluePhoenix » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:28 pm

^ That's a good message to send out man
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Postby Shamsiel-kun » Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:23 pm

So I've successfully swapped my second-floor view on a park at the back and on a tree-lined parking lot at the front in a small town near where I went to university for a seventh floor view on several parks lined by some HUGE (well, by Dutch 1970s standards...) 15-story apartment blocks at the back and the skyline of The Hague and my own city (and even more parks) at the front. :D

No more Psycho-Neighbour (actually, no upstairs neighbours at all). I can now actually read a book without being deranged by loud *THUNKs*, and sleep with little to no noise disturbing me (despite being right next door to the stairways :facepalm: ).

Although the howling wind on stormy days like today is a little bit scary... ^_^
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Postby pwhodges » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:26 pm

Aw, we'll miss those crazy stories. I bet you won't though!
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Postby DarkBluePhoenix » Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:09 pm

Congrats Shamsiel-kun
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Postby child of Lilith » Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:18 am

Good on you making a clean getaway, Shamsiel-kun. ^_^
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Postby Chuckman » Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:55 pm

I haven't updated any legal documents yet but I've adopted Natalie as my new name.
the prophecy is true

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Postby child of Lilith » Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:38 pm

Congratulations, Natalie. :highfive:

Is it difficult to change your documentation? I've always wondered about that.
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Postby robersora » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:20 am

Oh Chuck, don't tell me *you're* Contrapoints!
Either way, congrats. I imagine this must be a taxing journey to go through... So I hope you feel that much more at home now. :)
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