Any plans for a new-years resolution?

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:49 pm

So, anyone made any plans for a New Years resolution? And any requests from anyone to someone else here?

Personally, I'd like to see Pinhead resolve to rise above his lower nature and stop being an asshole.

As for me, I have resolved to try to take a shit more often, it feels so good to get rid of that poison out of my system. Maybe I'll post some videos on You Tube.

Oh, sorry, I forgot it's not April 1 yet.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 7:27 pm

A food video, not a USED food video!

THE
SCATMAN
AARDVARK

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:13 pm

Yeah, we want a new Paul video.

Paul, I'll give you $2 over Paypal for every friend of yours that agrees to let me use a head shot of them in my next computer game. With a limit of $20.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:43 am

Sorry, I was skimming and saw "Paul" and "head shot" in the same sentence and got excited. Too much Call of Duty around here.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:32 pm

Flack wrote:Sorry, I was skimming and saw "Paul" and "head shot" in the same sentence and got excited. Too much Call of Duty around here.

I know what you were thinking...

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:35 pm

1. No yahoo.com.
2. No caltrops.com.
3. No hard liquor.
4. Lose 60 pounds.
5. Take overall better care of myself, like to the level a nine year old has already mastered.
6. Keep 4xgamer going.
7. No facebook.com.
8. Get back to Gold once HotS is released.

I'm pretty confident about 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.

(Well, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7.)

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:54 pm

Oh wait, two more:

9. Learn a little more about what the fuck it is I actually do for a living.
10. Don Rogers.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:52 am

That's pretty good. I wish I had grabbed some of your ideas.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 3:21 pm

DAY ONE UPDATE (3:19 PM)
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1. No yahoo.com. -- ACCIDENTALLY WENT THERE ONCE OUT OF HABIT FOR TWO SECONDS BEFORE SHUTTING IT OFF
2. No caltrops.com. CHECK
3. No hard liquor. CHECK
4. Lose 60 pounds. ATE LIGHT AND WALKED A COUPLE MILES, SO I FIGURE I'M DOWN AT LEAST A HALF POUND ALREADY.
5. Take overall better care of myself, like to the level a nine year old has already mastered. CHECK
6. Keep 4xgamer going. NO POSTS TODAY -- FAIL!!
7. No facebook.com. CHECK
8. Get back to Gold once HotS is released. PENDING
9. Learn a little more about what the fuck it is I actually do for a living. LEARNED NOTHING SO FAR TODAY
10. Don Rogers. FAIL!!

DAY ONE GRADE: B+

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 3:31 pm

I wrote a post for 4xgamer. In your defense, you didn't specify who had to do the updates.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 3:49 pm

Oh, awesome! Thanks dude! Good article too. Games of Endless Space take three times longer than they need to because you end up just staring at the planets, drooling.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 3:58 pm

Here's where I'm at so far. These are not set in stone. Also most of this list was pretty simple to come up with because a lot of it was in the 2012 list of shit I did not do.

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Resolutions - 2013

Health and Exercise

01. No Sugar (Cereal, Snacks, Desserts)
02. Limit drinks to: Water (Plain/Flavor), Black Coffee, Unsweet Ice Tea.
03. Exercise: 30 minutes a day/5 days a week.

Projects

01. One hour of writing every morning before work..
02. One picture posted, every day.
03. One podcast weekly (Sunday Morning)

Life

01. Wear my seatbelt.
02. Digitize one thing daily (DVD, VHS, or Book). Throw the thing away.
03. Clean out the garage enough so Susan can park in there.

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I didn't get into specific writing goals yet, but I have several books I need to either get finished or get started, so expect that this year.

Jizaboz · Post by **Jizaboz** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 2:28 pm

1. Clean out the "back room" to make room for Bosconian.
2. Cut down on cigarettes, buy an e-cig
3. Finish another IF or 2

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 2:04 am

How we doing?

Writing More : No.

Program More : More? No.

More Swimming : No.

Girls Are Gonna Be Fun Again : Yes

No More Hate-Reading : Haha, well. OK, sure. Yes. I mean, I took a scatter diagram of baseball pitches that one blogger created and plotted a hand giving the finger on it. So aside from this, it's a yes.

No More Mister Fists In Eyes Waaargh : Yes. I think this is true.

No More Spending All My Money On Arcade Projects : True. No money on arcade stuff yet.

I'm Getting My Teeth Whitened : Not yet.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 4:11 am

Back on the 750 calories per day. This has worked well for me the past year but I had gone off it between Halloween and the new year.

Reading more Shakespeare. I have neglected my classics miserably and wish to atone (or at least catch up ) with them.

That's about it.

THE
SIMPLE TWEAKS
AARDVARK

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:20 am

AArdvark wrote:Reading more Shakespeare. I have neglected my classics miserably and wish to atone (or at least catch up ) with them.

Our revels now are ended
These our actors, as I have told you
Are all melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
- The Tempest

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:53 am

File that under 'song lyric infraction'

Starting with the older ones first and working my way into the 1600s, so I may not get to The Tempest for a little while.

The Happiness Engine · Sat Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm

Retroactively resolving to cut my hand way the fuck open: SUCCESS!

CutCo: Because no knife should ever be this sharp.

RetroRomper · Post by **RetroRomper** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:03 am

Let me steal Flack's format and... We more or less have the same resolutions?

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RetroRomper's 2013 New Year Resolutions

Health and Exercise

01. Little to no Sugar (snacks, desserts, etc)
02. Limit drinks to: Water, milk, and the occasional cop O' juice
03. Exercise: at least 30 minutes a day/5 days a week.
03a. Develop a resting pulse of at most 65
03b. Ignore my weight: focus on pulse and at most, waist size

Projects

01. One hour of writing every morning before work.
02. One video / cassette digitized daily
03. Code at least three times a week
04. Research and take part in real activities on the weekends
05. Set aside three hours after work for other projects

Life

01. Wear my bike helmet.
02. Get rid of the precariously boxed storage containers in my closet
03. Quit bitching about my job to Hapticanimal and my co-workers.
04. Stick to my weekly / monthly budget
05. Avoid eating out
06. Save at least $1000 a month

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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:17 am

Would you be happier getting a new job rather than working at one you dislike?

Or is the complaining a way to relieve stress?

I've had both. Shitty job I needed to leave, and good job that nevertheless wound me up.