Share yourself with your mapcorian friends

As soon as I get INS rolling on the right track (i.e. released), I plan on getting on with life. Yeah, sure it's fun and all, but there's more to it. I don't want to get into the industry, so it kind of all seems like a waste.

I'm (finally) buying a Digital SLR as soon as I can afford it after paying off next term's tuition. That will really get me rolling better with photojournalism, which I hope to ultimately do with my life.

I'm in total relax mode at the moment. Work is slow. Starting a new game from scratch takes a long ass time so there won't be any crunch mode for a good while. Complete lack of stress.

I've met a girl I can very easily be with for the rest of my life. We've been dating for almost half a year now. I've moved in with her, and things couldn't be better. In fact, I just made dinner, and I never cook! I'm so giddy all the time now, nothing can touch me.

So I guess I'm doing well at the moment.

ive had the most difficult, stressful, and just awful year of my life, starting new is hard mino, very hard, but i've kept a smile on my face and i dont think i'd have changed anything, you can always chalk up the worst, to experience. now its been a year since ive been home, and ive earned a good break, so for one month im just going to relax.

good luck mino, and dont let the lady's get you down, as my dad always says "dont let it stop you from doing your school work", and the best advice i could give is to surround yourself with friends who care

I moved out of my house a couple months ago and its completly different. Youll find it much harder, but life becomes way more interesting. its hard being on your own, but ive seem to do fine so far. I was you 6 months ago, real bored with life. i had a few friends that im real close to, some crappy girl who kept screwing me over, and a full time job, and i completly hated it, so i decided to do somthing i really want and go to school for game design. so i started applying to schools and got accepted. in january im moving to arizona to go to school. im pretty exited to see what it all has to offer me. good luck in the real world mino.

I live with Mike and Mojo. I'm pretty happy with that. I'll be giong back to get my Master's degree next August most likely (depends on how jobs/scholarships/randomness of life turns out).

How I feel over my life.

If my parents didnt bought me a pc I would be working as a president long time ago with girls around and had a steady rappin, party cracking everyday drinkin coconut milk and chrystal champagne in my red ferrari.

it's a big difference.

My plans over the coming years.

Finnish school, get job, get a life. and make my own game called Nexusshorts.

You should also consider taking some english classes

So I gotta take Calculus I again next semseter. Not because I failed (Hell, I have a B atm), but because I dont feel like I'm learning anything. This instructor is all over the place, and in my opinion, is just a bad instructor. The only reason I understood Derivatives is because I learned myself (hence the B), but due to finals coming up for other classes and crunch time for a project to significantly increase revenue at work, I dont have time to teach myself Integrals. The professor everyone recommends is teaching it next semester, so I'll retake it then and maybe I'll actually learn something. Why am I doing this, why not just take the B? Well, I have two tests left that determine about half of my grade and they are both on integration, which i suck at, so it wont be a B for much longer, and two, I need to take Calc II and possibly III, which is pretty integral based, so I kinda need to have an understanding (more of an understanding than a B). Such is the hazard of a Computer Science major with a potential Math double major. Yes, I'm one of those rare breeds that actually enjoys math (only when its taught correctly and I understand it).

Seems these days even art cant calm me down from all this. I do artwork at work, and some psychological term for the lack of motivation when a hobby turns into a career (intrinsic or extrinsic or something). Most I can do these days to keep me from going insane (again) is playing a game or the occasional art scribble or program snipped that never leads anywhere. Hopefully I'll get around to writing a small program or make a portfolio webpage or flash game or a level between semesters this winter.

And we now have a potential client at work (unorthidox arcade game distributor) who wants a demo intro to see whether or not the investors want to work with us (work being web design and e-commerce management) and guess who gets to make the damn thing! So basically, if I fuck up, we're still crawling, but if I dont, well, the company would not be crawling anymore, and I could finally get that better workstation and the raise.

Such is my rant. Gonna be under a-lot of stress for the next week.

If you have questions about derivatives and integrals, just ask me. They're my speciality.

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A laundry line, 190 inches in length, hangs between the tops of two poles that are each 135 inches high. The middle of the rope hangs 40 inches above the ground. What is the distance between the two poles?

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I've met a girl I can very easily be with for the rest of my life. We've been dating for almost half a year now. I've moved in with her, and things couldn't be better. In fact, I just made dinner, and I never cook! I'm so giddy all the time now, nothing can touch me.So I guess I'm doing well at the moment.

You stole the words from my mouth, except I'm moving together with her next year

I'm working like a monkey as a personal graphics designer for a small company, slowly gathering different concepts and projects as a portfolio to showcase my skills. If I can't land a job with that, my backup plan is to continue with a project of mine to do and publish my own small game.

Cant complain about how things are going so far, but I also plan on spending less time on computers and more time on social stuff in the future. Even I can see the absurdity in completing like 4 games per week . Although I live for games and movies, then I want to do some other things with my life, especially at this point. Need to get my own place first though

Best of luck getting into that uni mino, sounds like a good opportunity!

I'm currently in my 4th and final year of uni, studying computer games tech. The uni is pretty shitty but I met some good mates - unfortunately too closed a group and now that half of them have left uni, I basically just chill with my flatmates. I'd say that's not the best situation to find yourself in by the way - we never end up going out, which would probably be true regardless given my current workload and financial status!

My social life only really exists back at home - at uni I seem to live only for computery stuff. I think I got in with a "bad crowd" Women...well occasional things here and there back home but I haven't pulled at uni for...well, two years or something I'm somewhat disillusioned with my previously chosen career (level design), so don't know what I'm going to be applying for once I finish uni in 6 months. I lack any modern engine portfolio stuff for level design, have too much stuff to do for uni to really focus on improving my modelling skills, and while I'm a reasonable programmer, I'm far from the competence level to be applying for games programming jobs! I don't wanna be one of those graduate supermarket attendants

All in all, things could most certainly be worse, but I'm not at my best :roll:

That sounds awesome peris. I always wanted to teach somthing in another country. You'll probably get alot out of it.

well, work is good although getting busier and deadlines are tight...

I still love Montreal even though winters here are a bitch

I wanna go out more and be more active but sometimes i just dont have the energy to do anything when I'm home... plus it's winter now and its damn cold outside. my gf just broke up with me a couple weeks ago for some bs reason and now I'm trying not to get too worked up about it and get her out of my system...unfortunately it doesn't always work that easily...Been getting back into writing and been playing lots of guitar....

i'm going to san francisco for christmas and will see a really good friend again (havent seen him in over a year) so I'm really looking forward to that

been an up and down year for me. obviously being a bit older than most of you and a recent MBA grad from a top school you'd think professionally I'd be doing great.

On the contrary, work is hard and the gaming industry has been tough. Won't go into details, but obviously STALKER has not shipped yet and how long has that been in development? yeah...a rollercoaster. I'm starting to think that gaming may just not be for me...at least not directly. I should probably be analyzing the industry from an outsider's point of view. Dunno.

Recently I met a great woman I was not expecting to meet, and wow things are going great with her despite my career frustrations at the moment. If anything, I do not want to mess that up for anything because she is just so right for me.

So the next few months could be a little crazy for me. Not sure what's going to happen next...maybe I'm at E3 next year, maybe i'm out of the industry...I really don't know.

....pray for a breakthrough for me, people...pray for a breakthrough.

well, lets see, where should i start. I guess it all started in like summer going into grade 8 when i went from being the loser at my grade school to being the class clown which also allmost saw me fail grade 8(i only pulled it off because the teacher liked me and jsut gave me 6 months of makup asignments in the last 3 weeks) which then got even worse once i met my new bestfriend going into grade 9(first year of highschool in canada) durring that summer he decided we should take up smoking so we'd be cooler when we got to highschool. starting the next year at school i imidiatly moved groups to the "bad crowd", which of course also did drugs and skipped class etc, etc.

so fastforward 2 years later and im getting kicked out of school for the first time, of which one condition of my reinstatement was getting a full-time job which i did working overnight cleaning at mcdonalds. once i got back into school nothing was changed, same crowd, same temptations, same problems. Now this was around the same time i started getting into computers, since i didnt have any money and alot of free time it was only natural, fast forward 3 years of me wasying my life going from one deadend job to another and here i am at 21 with no highschool diploma, no refrences from previous employers(i allways left on bad terms) and basicallu no hope for the future.

my only real hope is going back to school in sept for something computer related and hope my math/writing skills dont hold me back. but at the same time theres this fear that i'll fall back into the same school routines..... and the question of what i will do for money untill thne since my last boss left me high and dry after closing up hop without giving me warning. Should be an interesting year, also i still have the same shitty drug habbit i picked up in highschool and its not getting better, im hoping i can kick it before school next year but its not like i havent been trying for the past 3 years, i hope something changes soon. i need a break.

word Hinkey, i had a tough drug problem junior/senior year in highschool. Me and my friends all use to smoke alot of weed and do shitty pills. Now they all prick themselves with needles, fortunetly i got out and im doing fine now, just smoking alot of weed, but ill probably get out of this phase in about 5 years.