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worffan101
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--Got into Swarthmore College, where I am now a freshman.
--Aced Chemistry.
--Got a paper published.
--Got on TVTropes.
--Became famous enough that people occasionally recognize me in-game, and Smirk has read my stories.
--Written two novels (neither of which were very good).
--Lost 15 pounds.
--Done a Spartan race (2 hours of pain, but SO worth it).
--Read Fifty Shades of Gray and became physically ill on chapter 3 because I was so creeped out.
--Made 17 friends.
--Got my first date ever, which was an unmitigated disaster.
--Got my second date ever, same person as the first one, we watched Pacific Rim while eating popcorn, very fun.
--Decided mutually not to do full-on dates again, but remain friends and hang out all the time.
--Verbally demolished a dirtbag who was saying racist sexist TRIBBLE on campus to a standing ovation from my classmates.
--Delivered Valentines while dressed as a ninja, and participated in an epic ninja duel against the beloved professor who teaches a class on Tolkein and Pullman, which is probably the high point of my life.
--Ran around dressed as an Orc and shouting war cries in a berserk mixture of tlhIngan Hol and Black Speech and hitting people with a foam sword in the campus's massive LARP event, the Dactyl Hunt.
--Learned to play badminton.
All of this since I started STO, and I remain a regular and loyal player. Not too shabby.
EDIT: I also
--Started the Hail Ba'al joke.
--Became Poster of the Year.
--Aced Chemistry.
--Got a paper published.
--Got on TVTropes.
--Became famous enough that people occasionally recognize me in-game, and Smirk has read my stories.
--Written two novels (neither of which were very good).
--Lost 15 pounds.
--Done a Spartan race (2 hours of pain, but SO worth it).
--Read Fifty Shades of Gray and became physically ill on chapter 3 because I was so creeped out.
--Made 17 friends.
--Got my first date ever, which was an unmitigated disaster.
--Got my second date ever, same person as the first one, we watched Pacific Rim while eating popcorn, very fun.
--Decided mutually not to do full-on dates again, but remain friends and hang out all the time.
--Verbally demolished a dirtbag who was saying racist sexist TRIBBLE on campus to a standing ovation from my classmates.
--Delivered Valentines while dressed as a ninja, and participated in an epic ninja duel against the beloved professor who teaches a class on Tolkein and Pullman, which is probably the high point of my life.
--Ran around dressed as an Orc and shouting war cries in a berserk mixture of tlhIngan Hol and Black Speech and hitting people with a foam sword in the campus's massive LARP event, the Dactyl Hunt.
--Learned to play badminton.
All of this since I started STO, and I remain a regular and loyal player. Not too shabby.
EDIT: I also
--Started the Hail Ba'al joke.
--Became Poster of the Year.
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Don't forget that one
~Smirk
I'm afraid to ask what that even means, but I hope it's a good thing.
Yes, yes it does. I hope it was benign.
Seconded. Hope you recover swiftly, organicmanfred!
It was ugly and on my head going deep near the skull.
But that is history and privat. And that doesnt really belong here in a thread that isnt mine.
Hey, Smirk. Can you move my post to my soon to be opened thread:
"My late friend Harry, or how it affected the income for the Women Movement in Nicaragua"
Only if it was a Teratoma....
~Smirk
... well, yes that is it. I think..
You sir, are crazy and I like you very much. :P
I discovered the joys of gregorian chants.
I scratched my right foot. But not my left. That wasn't itchy.
A Romulan Strike Team, Missing Farmers and an ancient base on a Klingon Border world. But what connects them? Find out in my First Foundary mission: 'The Jeroan Farmer Escapade'
I...uh...found those 15 pounds you lost if you want them back.
No, thanks. My freshman 15 was negative, and I want to keep it that way.
Maybe I learnt I'm even more useless than I was afraid I was. And I'm staying in STO despite my belief it's turning bad.
Congrats to you, Worffan, seems like you're better off.
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
And I can't afford to move out of the city. I'm stuck.
Other than that... Still alive, still enjoying hanging out with friends both online and off, and... trying to work up the courage to start posting chapters of a Star Trek crossover I wrote on a fanfiction site. Its done, I just haven't posted anything yet.
I was bored out of my mind, and I had a bet on with my buddy that I could make it through at least two chapters.
I made one hundred dollars and lost the ability to ever achieve perfect happiness. I don't know if it was worth it. Seriously, those books don't just glorify abusive relationships, they outright glorify r***. And it's horrifying.
I would have read the whole thing for that kind of money.
Other than that, *thumbs up* dude, those're some solid accomplishments :cool:
[Edit to add]
Given 50 Shades started life as Twilight fanfic, it was never going to be anything other than TRIBBLE which glorified abusive relationships. I aim to never read it...
Eh, we're rational adults, and the girl I like most is asexual/aromantic and we're fine as friends. It helps that I'm not really interested in intimate relationships anyway, and I value my friendships over everything else. Thanks for the advice, tho.
On the terrible books...don't read them. They're like FATAL (the only RPG I will never, ever DM for), in that their very existence means that the universe has run out of joy. Soon, Neelix will be conceived and the end will come!
But seriously, those books are repulsive and awful. Don't read them.
Could not agree more. Don't become somebody's safety net. Do not allow yourself to be used as a tool for an insecure personality. Burn those bridges, burn them to cinders. A particularly toxic personality can sap you of the will to cut those ties the longer you let it go on. Sometimes an extreme reaction like that is the only thing that can bring closure to yourself and the other party. If you let them sink their hooks back into you, they can easily drag you back down.
There are plenty of fish in the sea, and no human being is worth that kind of heartache. You owe it to yourself to recognize you are more than somebody else's crutch.
This is not in direct reference to you or the OP. This is just life advice in the most general sense.
And no worries, I have absolutely no intention of ever reading them or watching the movie(s) because what they promote and represent utterly sickens me... I'm more likely to read the Hobbit before I read 50 Shades, and I've gone my entire life deliberately not reading it, so no problem there :cool:
Nah, guys, it wasn't like that. It was just me and a friend, we wanted to try a romantic night, we went in mutually understanding that it might not work, we remain good friends, no ill will harbored.
I DID accidentally spill soup all down the front of my only suit, but that was just my clumsiness. And the tiny table.
That's great to hear. Not the soup spilling part. But that you are able to remain friends without any kind of lingering, unresolved issues.
People like that you don't cross paths with often.
As long as you/they weren't rude to the waitstaff... That's also the biggest warning sign that someone might be acting nice, but is really an a-hole...
Yes? Fine. It is spelled Dreck, by the way. Or Schund.
Then I spilled hot soup down my front, she accidentally knocked ranch dressing over her blouse while trying to help me, the waiter almost had a heart attack when he saw the disaster, and dinner ended up being cut short by about half an hour. Seriously, those tables were f*cking tiny.
We met again to try just hanging out and watching a movie some time later, and that went well, so we checked off of our lists and decided mutually that being friends was good, trying something more serious could lead to damage to the friendship (which neither of us wanted). We're still friends, nothing has changed.
It helped that she's just about the nicest person you can possibly imagine, and we already have an established friendship. And we're both very careful about friendships because both of us came from relatively isolated backgrounds (homeschooled for me, small charter school for her), and we don't want to mess these things up.
No, we both apologized so much the poor guy told us to stop apologizing. He looked like he almost had a heart attack when he saw the mess, though, so you can't really blame us. I thought my cheeks were going to catch fire, I was so embarrassed.
Like I said, unmitigated disaster. But at least all people involved were nice.