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[Pericolos0]

I'm currenlty doing a part time texture artist job in the hague, attending college in maastricht (which is like 150km or more from my job) and live in antwerp. travelling between all these places takes up alot of my time, but i still manage to find enough time to go out a few times a week and work on insurgency . But i'm scared shit is going to hit the fan once i start getting more college work. I dont want to end up burned out week after week so i'm rearranging my priorities abit right now.

Also i'm planning to go to south africa for a few months, i'll be teaching new media and digital arts related stuff there then on something called the belgian campus. Still very early in the planning stages though, but i cant wait to get away from this cold winter here and into the warm summer . This could become pretty much the experience of a lifetime so i'm exited about it.

[johnm487]

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

[kleinluka]

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

[Izuno]

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.

[Hinkey]

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.

[johnm487]

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.

[Hinkey]

i never got into the harder stuff(not becayse it wasnt around but because i recognised my addictive personality and stayed far away from anyhting not antural) but at one point i was actually high form the time i got up untill the time i went to bed for 6 months, but thats was allmost 2 years ago, now a days i'll smoke maby once, twice a day and small ammounts, but i think its still something i have to get under control. it seems to be my excuse now a days for not doing anyhting else, as wel las the only time i have any fun/am any fun to be around. basically i feel like who i am is a pot head, and when im not that im nothing... its wierd

[st0lve]

Well I wanna finish school (this (until summer) and 1 more year) and then get into the army for a year or 2. I need to get in shape, as in not "bodybuilding", but just running and maybe some gymnastics.

Oh and I need to skate more, I feel so much better when I skate, just forget all the crap and relax.

Gah I don't know, I'm still "young".

[Tequila]

I'm in my 2nd year of my English & Film Studies course at uni. It's great stuff, met lots of good people throughout my time here, but I get the feeling I'm not doing as much as I should be - wider reading, and all that.

I'm also feeling pretty burned out by constant computer usage. I feel my eyes, if nothing else, could do with a break.

And I bum kids.

[ginsengavenger]

Heh, I'm with ya tequila

Life is good. Two months ago I started at an awesome company on an incredible game. The work is challenging, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm making new friends and I'm really feeling productive and accepted. I have to commute but the time is reasonable and I drive against traffic. I'm still a bit stunned that I've managed to break into real gamedev jobs with no connections based on self-education and no college degree.

I'm almost twenty five years old. I've been married a little over a year. In August we moved into a great apartment in a nice neighborhood. We're finally pretty well settled in and the place is feeling like home now. She is working at a job she is excited about, if not happy to go to every day. Both of our cars are in excellent working order and I shop at Trader Joe's. We live near one of my brothers. My year-and-some-old nephew is asking for me by name.

*edit: sorry i have to post a picture of my nephew.

So, life is good. It has its ups and downs. Before this I was unemployed for almost a year living off my wife's job that she hated, we were spending way too much on rent, my car was broken, I had a serious WoW habit and both of my parents underwent major surgeries. Good times come and go.

[D3ads]

Well, this year has been somewhat eventful in the fact that I actually had a proper job for the first time in like ever, it sucked but I still did it anyway. I'm now working for a charity part-time doing all sorts of IT related tasks which is good, all that's missing from life now is a lady friend! Dad had a heart bypass and thus was off from work for the best part of the year, he's been back at work a month now and everything seems to be going well.

My MOD is progressing slowly, but I'm making sure I put work into it everyday unless I'm so tired that I haven't the energy to do so. With any luck once I've done with finishing up concepts and scripting I can actually make some of the proper core map content instead of just test ones. I'd really like to do something with Q4 but I just know I wouldn't have the time to do so with this current project in the works, so I have to prioritize my mod work, plenty of time for next-gen is what I say.

On the first day of the new year I'll be 22.. twenty fucking two.. dear God, I still feel like I'm about 16 or 17 at times, it's a scary prospect, still at least I'm not 30 I suppose.* I plan on doing something good this time, as last year I didn't go out or anything because I wasn't in the mood and all my friends were either away from uni or had other plans, sucks when your birthday is on NYD I suppose.

Plans for next year? No clue really, I'll just carry on as I am and see where it takes me I suppose, although I know I've definately gotta attend more gigs in the future.

Wow, wasn't that interesting? [/sarcasm-overload]

*appologies to anyone 30 or over, you have full authority to smack me in the mouth if you ever get the chance.

[Izuno]

...I shop at Trader Joe's. We live near one of my brothers.

Do you live in California? Does 'otown' mean Oakland?

Just curious.

[zeOx]

Well, this year has been kind of crappy in my case. Started off pretty good though, being a "russ" and all was pretty fun. Then it just went downhill from there. I barely passed the final-examns, but didn't really care either so that's my own fault. The whole summer I had to watch all of my friends basically either move to the other side of the country, or go to the army. Since then I've done nothing but sit on my ass, with the occasional job every month or so.

The thing I'm looking forward to now, is for this year to end, so that I can get into the army (going there january 10th). Hopefully, that'll be a change of pace.

After that, I'll probably go to some school, but I haven't figured out wich, or where yet, but it'll most likely be outside of Norway.

/rant

[ginsengavenger]

...I shop at Trader Joe's. We live near one of my brothers.

Do you live in California? Does 'otown' mean Oakland?

Just curious.

yep and yep

[hamst3r]

Life has been good recently. I decided to pretty much cut my computer time to the bare minimum over the summer, but now due to the cold weather the time keeps increasing, I haven't mapped in atleast the past three months and to be honest I don't really miss it. The only reason I log onto my computer is to talk with friends, play an ocasional game, and try to approve my social life. And really its been a wonderful decission that I don't regret. I made the varisty team my first year playing football in highschool, I probally have double the friends: including a girlfriend , my grades in school have gone up, I've lost weight (don't know why that matters), and overall I just feel better. I plan on getting a job after the holidays, and really I just plan on trying to find out what I want to do in life and have some fun along the way. simple.