My uni costs me roughly $300 per course and I'm only takin' 3 courses a symister(sp?) and just slowly buildin' my credits up with intro courses till I have enouph for the high level ones - hopefully I'll have enouph credits in the right department to get an Associate Of Arts degree.

If it makes ya feel better Glaiel my girl who I loved more then everything precious in this world broke up with me and that sure shoke me up pretty bad.
Life goes on though, ya carry the shit that happened in it all the way, but it's cool cause the entire time your just heading for a better tomorrow - assuming ya learn from your mistakes. :P

I should just write a fucking book - "Derek Leroy Vandenberg: Learning To Love Life. :3"

At 8/6/08 11:32 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: If it makes ya feel better Glaiel my girl who I loved more then everything precious in this world broke up with me and that sure shoke me up pretty bad.

Dude other people's emotional suffering doesn't make me feel better (now other people's physical suffering, like a swift kick to the groin, can lighten my mood).

Not that I feel bad in the first place. In fact, I feel great, I'm finally away from home, 3000 miles away from home even. I'm free, I can do whatever I feel like doing now (besides getting a license yet). I don't have to deal with my crazy family anymore (other than asking my parents for money). I don't have to worry about anything anymore. I can buy whatever food I feel like eating, I can do whatever I want to my room, I can be a slob in my room without a nagging mother telling me to clean it, I can sleep late without being bothered in the morning, my roommate respects my privacy unlike my family, and if I miss my parents for any reason, there's video chat.

I don't have to pay for gas anymore cause my new area has public transportation (damn good public transportation).

Plus I get a chance to restart my social life. Sometimes you wish you had that chance in the middle of high school, but by the end of it everyone is too firmly planted in their tight social circles to let you in too close. You get out of one you're sick of and it's tough to go into a new one. I dealt with that. In my junior year I realized most of my friends were becoming deadbeats who cared about nothing but WoW and weird animes, and their performance in school suffered so I weaseled myself away. I was still friends with a few of them (who were ones I was friends with for a long time). But then I wasn't really in any group. I found a lot of new friends my senior year and enjoyed it a lot because of that. But you know, all these people had known each other since elementary school, and I had basically just got to know them this year. It was a weird feeling, I felt like I belonged but at the same time felt a little out of the loop at times.

So screw the social dynamics of high school, they sucked anyway. I'm really looking forward to college where (in my case) everyone is a gamer (even the girls) and everyone is at least a little nerdy. A lot of people are starting anew without any friends going to school with them. Most everyone is academically capable.

Everyone I know says the college social dynamics are a lot more mature and manageable than the high school ones.

I couldn't be more excited to start school now. I've met a few people in the area so far who go to digipen, and they are all very friendly. Everyone in this area is friendly (except for people driving cars). I've met a lot of nice personalities online who are going to Digipen too, can't wait to meet them in real life.

It's nice being in an area where everyone has heard of Digipen. In MA, nobody ever heard of it. Here, even the old grannies at the supermarket bagging groceries have heard of it.

The digipen financial office guy mentioned to me while I was waiting to find news about my scholarship that he was looking at the stats of last years graduates, and the lowest income for one of them was 66k/year, which isn't bad. The highest was over 150k, which is pretty good for right out of college, The market is growing well even in this recession, there's a lot of jobs opening up, and a lot of competition for good programmers. The future is bright.

Anyway we'll see how my mood changes when I go to school and they plop a book on my desk and say "do these math problems by 6:00 today, and I expect a full featured XBLA game by tomorrow".

At 8/6/08 11:58 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Dude other people's emotional suffering doesn't make me feel better (now other people's physical suffering, like a swift kick to the groin, can lighten my mood).

You are a douchebag. thnx.

At 8/6/08 08:15 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: This is the problem with Canada. The french side has been tryin' to run the country with this odd thing called "reason". If marijuana and prostitution was legalized, boy I tell ya life would be different!

I have less than nothing to do with the french. They force us into bilingual packaging / road signs, but I don't represent them :P

I heard 98% of canadians live on U.S. border...truth?

Yeah, seems like a pretty fudged number. We're of coursed condensed more towards the south, but that just makes sense. Temperature, proximity to our largest resource trading buddeh, etc. Don't let it flatter you guys or anything! :P

At 8/7/08 12:13 AM, Luis wrote:

At 8/6/08 11:58 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Dude other people's emotional suffering doesn't make me feel better (now other people's physical suffering, like a swift kick to the groin, can lighten my mood).

You are a douchebag. thnx.

seriously though, how many times have you laughed at a groin hit compared to the times you've laughed at someone telling you whats wrong in their life?

So what do i do at 2 in the morning when im bored? Other than playing games on Steam, i turn my vista into a mac by adding the same folder bar thing at the bottom and shit.

At 8/7/08 01:57 AM, zrb wrote: Ooh I want that, where did you get that ?

Right
Huur kind sir. =D

I'm with the kid. People gettin' kicked in the nuts is great! I suggest we all start bringing camcorders to meet-ups so we can find some poor bastered and kick him in the nuts on cam.
Once we get to 100 we can make an epic montage of it. :3

Oh I feel so thrilled now.

At 8/6/08 04:43 PM, CrazyChihuahua wrote: Wolfears, good luck making a music video of a Dragonforce song :P That's gonna have to be a powerful video.

Holy crap someone paid attention to me. I now feel inspired. Prepare to see the finished thing in a loooooong time.

I wish my arms were HUGE so I could hug the entire fucking world!
I love this place. New and old - everyone here is just great.

At 8/7/08 02:18 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: I'm with the kid. People gettin' kicked in the nuts is great!

Agreed.

I stumbled upon this interesting brain test. Apparently I'm left brained. I thought it would be interesting to know who among the flash regs is "left" or "right" brained, following the discussion on animation vs programming and its implications in brain usage. so go test your brain and post your results - most people are able to see both clockwise and counterwise, but the one that you see first is usually the correct one.

At 8/7/08 09:39 AM, Toast wrote: I stumbled upon this interesting brain test. Apparently I'm left brained. I thought it would be interesting to know who among the flash regs is "left" or "right" brained, following the discussion on animation vs programming and its implications in brain usage. so go test your brain and post your results - most people are able to see both clockwise and counterwise, but the one that you see first is usually the correct one.

Strange, if it's not just switching animation randomly, then i see both, but at first, it was going clockwise. I don't agree with anything it says though, i'm not religous, i don't need physical representations, doesn't seem right to me. Anyway, the way the brain is seperated isn't that black and white.

Here's a good video on it, very interesting if you like sciency stuff :).

Yes, it's a real brain.

RE: Brain Test

It started off clockwise (right brained) for me, which isn't surprising, as I'm left handed. But if I drag the picture into it's own tab, I can use the favicon to change direction at will.

it shows up clockwise for me, which makes no sense :P

At 8/7/08 09:39 AM, Toast wrote: go test your brain and post your results - most people are able to see both clockwise and counterwise, but the one that you see first is usually the correct one.

I'm unable to see it counter-clockwise. That's just weird.

well actually, i fit into neither of them categories, i'm a near perfect 50/50 mix from the left and right

At 8/7/08 09:55 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: RE: Brain Test

It started off clockwise (right brained) for me, which isn't surprising, as I'm left handed. But if I drag the picture into it's own tab, I can use the favicon to change direction at will.

I couldn't get anything but clockwise :s And I'm right handed.

I guess it works for me. English was my best subject at college and everything. Always saw myself as more of an all-rounder, though...

I can change the direction it's going, does that mean I'm a mutant? Anyway, close you eyes, open them again and tell yourself that's it's going the other way around now. Try to convince yourself that when she's facing toward you she is actually facing away from you. Works for me.

I couldnt see it as anything but counterclockwise... then i started reading the article and it went the other way on me from the corner of my eye... cool little excersize i suppose.

At 8/7/08 10:13 AM, Luis wrote: I couldnt see it as anything but counterclockwise... then i started reading the article and it went the other way on me from the corner of my eye... cool little excersize i suppose

Thats exacty what happened to me.

I feel like most of us are having the same experience looking at this damn ballet dancer. I was seeing her as if she was going clockwise and convinced myself of that, and then started reading the clockwise things and all of a sudden she switched to counter-clockwise. I somehow after a while got her going clockwise again, went to finish reading it and she was back to counter-clockwise. That's fucked up.

I've had a course on the workings of the brain and eyes in uni last years. The input from the left eye is processed primarily in the right side of the brain, the input from the right in the left side. It's probably the other way around for people who are left-handed, I can't recall. Anyway, when you look at the image from the left side of your field of vision it rotates counter-clockwise (for me that is), when you look at it from the right side of your field of vision it rotates clockwise. That should work for everyone (in theory).

if you all suddenly see the dancer change direction while reading the article, maybe it means that you don't use the same part as much when looking at a dancer and reading an article! it makes sense, doesn't it?

At 8/7/08 09:54 AM, Depredation wrote: Here's a good video on it, very interesting if you like sciency stuff :).

Yes, it's a real brain.

yeah i saw that video. they have some really good stuff on ted talks.

oh and gust can't see counter clockwise! religious and artistic haha

At 8/7/08 10:34 AM, Toast wrote: if you all suddenly see the dancer change direction while reading the article, maybe it means that you don't use the same part as much when looking at a dancer and reading an article! it makes sense, doesn't it?

According to what I wrote above that would make sense because the dancer would be on the right side of your field of vision when you focus on the article, which is to the left of the dancer.

At 8/7/08 10:02 AM, Xeptic wrote: I can change the direction it's going, does that mean I'm a mutant? Anyway, close you eyes, open them again and tell yourself that's it's going the other way around now. Try to convince yourself that when she's facing toward you she is actually facing away from you. Works for me.

I got her to change directions ever 3 seconds. I just tell myself, she's going left, now right, now left. It makes it easier to do this when looking at either her hand or her legs.

At 8/7/08 10:37 AM, Xeptic wrote:

At 8/7/08 10:34 AM, Toast wrote: if you all suddenly see the dancer change direction while reading the article, maybe it means that you don't use the same part as much when looking at a dancer and reading an article! it makes sense, doesn't it?

According to what I wrote above that would make sense because the dancer would be on the right side of your field of vision when you focus on the article, which is to the left of the dancer.

yeah the result of the test might also be changed by the health of your eyes. I see a lot better with my left eye than my right eye, so sometimes i see the dancer dancing clockwise.

You guys are all mental. I can't see anything but clockwise.

At 8/7/08 11:31 AM, Paranoia wrote: You guys are all mental. I can't see anything but clockwise.

You're mental, I can't see anything but counterclockwise.

I'm so fucking confused by what everyone is seeing in this.

Aha! I can make it go anti-clockwise by looking at the shadow, and clockwise with the foot.

Silly brain.