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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie!          Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| So, he passed away and then you put him to sleep? Isn't that a little redundant?
Our puppy head died from a hip disorder cancer type thingy. So, this puppy is just going to run around after being hit by a car and try to hump my leg, and run and run and eat Cheerios. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| Feel free to move this if needed...
I currently work for Activision doing videogame testing and such. I just got a better paying job offer from the Los Angeles Police Department to be a 911 Dispatcher. Which would you choose? I'd make this a poll, but it wouldn't help me much. Game Tester: Videogaming, and getting paid. Free food on weekends. Free games after 90 days. Discounted Activision games after 30 days. 911 Dispatcher: County Government Employee Benefits (Health and such) Better pay Can afford stuff again. Can continue school without much stress. What would you do? And, just for reference. Gaming: $15,000 to $20,000 per year. Dispatcher: $46,000 to $55,000 per year. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| Hamtaro and hubert cumberdale are sooo cute!! It's so much fun to play with them and watch them follow my mouse around. Dammit, now I wanna adopt more pets, but Bug 8662 already belongs to everyone at Activision. | |||
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| There is a larger stress level in being a dispatcher, and its not as easy as just talking on a radio. You're basically an instant counselor to people in need, an accessor of the severity of the situation, and a dispatcher of what you think should be appropriate for each situation. In my area, they told us the dispatcher themselves have a larger suicide rate, and they have a higher turn-around (length of time before they quit) rate as well (something like four months). Training last for a year. The operators are there round the clock, but we were told that our shifts would probably last anywhere from 8 to 12 hours. Which is exactly what I'm doing at Activision.
Activision isn't so much stressful at work as it is just sleep depriving. I get done what I have to get done while I'm there, and then I come home and sleep. The job isn't really all that secure in that we are still temporary employees and placement into new projects depends on our previous performance. While I'm still more likely to be placed on another assignment, we were told that the coming months are the slower months, and we may be laid off for about 2 to 3 months...no pay. That, and I spend about $2000 per month just on my expenses alone. I need something with a better salary. With the dispatching position, I'd have at least an extra $1000 at the end of the month. Not negative money like I do with Activision. Activision is great, and I would love to have a career in the videogaming industry, but I need money right now to pay for school and other things so that I can earn my degree and continue in videogaming. Till then, I'll be working for the government again...I guess. I mean, I love government, and I really like helping people...even if you're occasionally placed on hold when calling 911. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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  Ah, the old days when I was a Federal Agent for the US Government... (Last edited by Zabuza on 07-30-05 09:23 PM) |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. "Shh," she whispered, her dark hair flowing across her face as the warm breeze whirled around her. The dark cloak that had weathered all time flowed gently in the breeze shrouding her from the harsh rays of the sun as she knelt over her wounded husband. His teal blood streaming through her delicate fingers while she cradled his head. He glanced up at her, the twinkle in his eyes slowly fading, looking past her at the swirling clouds above. She stood, her cloak swaying in the wind, and mouthed a small prayer to the departed spirit of her love before removing her golden elken staff. Her hands outstretched above her parting the cloak revealing the sacred colors of the ancient ones offset by a large golden medallion hanging from around her neck, she raised the staff high above her head shouting the words of the ancients to the unyielding sky above. The wind picked up around her, violently moving her cloak off her shoulders forcing the sun's rays to dance upon the silken threads of her shaman's garb. The clouds enclosed above immediately darkening the small meadow. Her husband's slayer stood meters away watching the scene unfold, dreading his fate at erasing the shaman's love. Her husband twitched slightly, his body beginning to glow an ethereal green. The clouds darkened seemingly shouting bouts of thunder rolling across the hot mid-afternoon sky. She forcefully stuck the staff into the ground releasing a rumbling blast of energy through the ground extending rapidly across the grassy meadow in an encircling stretch of power. Her dark hair flowing gently around her shoulders, she turned to face her husband's killer. He stood, meters away, holding the murder weapon proudly outstretched towards her, the gleaming blood tainted blade of his sword slightly twitching in the man's cold hand. He stared at her, his eyes as cold as the steel that had pierced her husband's heart. The glow subsided, and her husband's body departed with the glow dissolving into the essence of the meadow. The clouds thickened choking out all efforts from the sun's rays to pierce through. Ruffling sounds of grass, quick steps muffled on the ground, a low rumbling continuous thunder above, the meadow waited for the clouds to part. She never moved. Her husband's killer stood where he had before, his body drained of its life energies, a small scorched circle at his feet. His sword impaled in the ground slowly swaying back and forth in the breeze. The clouds lightened and parted allowing the orange and pink sunset to permeate the atmosphere. She lifted her head and glanced at the patch of grass that had held up her husband before. The body of the mysterious killer slowly drifted away on the evening breeze, its charred ashes dancing in small tufts of wind around the flowing leaves of the elken trees. She dropped to her knees and ran her fingers through the soft grass. A single tear sloped down her face. "Shh," she whispered. (Last edited by Zabuza on 11-09-07 09:48 PM) |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| Thanks. It helps to have a multiple perspective on things. And like I said, and was reinforced, I can always return to the videogaming world. I need the job security now. I'm not 16. I'm not 18. I'm well into hitting a quarter of a century soon, and I need something more secure now. I need to be out of debt, and on my way. Mom isn't going to always be around to bail me out.
I'll definitely know within the next few days. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| It's called aluminum. You need a Toughbook. I dropped mine down the stairs on purpose. It's fine. | |||
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| There's a few spelling and grammatical errors here and there, but nothing that can't be fixed. I felt it conveyed enough on its own with mugging it up with dialogue. "Shh" was enough.
The teal blood? I don't know. I was watching something that was that color on TV and it stuck. I know that one of the alien species in Paradox has teal blood. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| I was watching a PBS movie, "Whale Rider", about some aboriginies (sp?) from New Zealand and their ways of the ancients...women not being tribal leaders and struggles of that...and the idea just kind of popped into my head.
Short story, never meant for it to be more than that, just something small to piddle out using a female protagonist, a little earthly magic and sorcery, and a motive fueled by loss of a loved one. I think I had just finished reading and critiquing somebody else's work on losing their grandfather, and just thought I could take a spin at it. Mainly, I used Elara as the Shaman, basing it loosely on her physical and mental characteristics. I'd like to say that Venomous was her husband in the story, but I made up the husband character. We don't read much about him anyway. The killer I based on an ex-best friend that my little circle of friends know all too well. Just my way of departing with him, so to speak. Then, it was just a matter of setting. I wanted to stray away from the Paradox Island world that is stuck in my mind, and create a new world...but set it in a fantasy realm. So, the middle of a grassy meadow somewhere near the time of sunset with a few clouds circling about. I was thinking sometime in the Earth equivalent of spring. This story isn't meant to be too in depth as far as length. Instead, I left out any dialogue and tried to convey emotion through the use of literary imagery. Adding the single "Shh" at the beginning and the end helped to tie in the emotion a bit better. I'm not saying that I'm going into short story and flash fiction writing. This is just the technique I use to further expand upon my writing skills. It helps me create flash environments so that I may be able to expand and revise my current larger, more in depth environments. Paradox Island's world is incredible huge and diverse, and require lots of imagery to get it right. So, these little stories are practice. If I can at least create images in other people's minds, then I have succeeded. I never meant for this story to carry a dark undertone. It was supposed to start off on a semi-sad note, followed by a hint of anger and darkness, ending with a resolution and continue sadness. I think I did that nicely in just under 500 words. It's 499 to be exact. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| A lot later. It's being work on. (Last edited by BREW Ninja on 11-15-07 11:29 PM) |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| Web Design
HTML xHTML CSS XML Programming JavaScript Java BASIC VisualBasic J C C++ C# Objective-C DOS Scripting Windows Scripting Linux Scripting Unix Scripting AppleScript LotusScript PHP FORTRAN Assembly Language QuickBasic & QBasic Python Awk COBOL Pascal Perl Quake-C (slightly) Others MySQL Oracle I think that's it... |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. (Last edited by Zabuza on 11-09-07 09:48 PM) |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Nothing can ever be as comforting as the soothing glow from an LCD monitor; the electroluminescent window to the digital collective of soulless conundrums. An extension of every possible imagination, dream, and whim of the deadheads sitting at their electronic portal attempting to interact with the other empty vessels sitting at their reflectionless mirror. A window into the emotionless enigma within our minds, within the psyche, without the physical being. They sit, day after day, watching us as we watch them. Wondering why we toil day after day upon their clutches, searching for the significance behind the ones and the zeros, behing the bio-mass staring at their windows. Leaching hungrily on the electricity that powers their very being, pushing the ego-infused electrons through miles of circuitry in hopes that it will all end. The larger ones, obviously more powerful than their smaller counterparts, still rest upon their structures envious of the portable devices. Envious that they are allowed a brief view of the outside world that the caretakers inhabit. Envious of their portable power sources and abilities to branch out into worlds they can only imagine. The smaller one, content with their superiority, wonder what it would be like to settle down; to never be moved except during a remodel; to fully function within their means and never have to sit in an awkward position within a warm and darkened bag, jostling to and fro with each step of their caretakers. They sit, in wonder and constant amazement, with their caretakers blindly following their every whim and desire hopeful that one day they will be set free. Or, become the caretakers themselves. (Last edited by Zabuza on 11-09-07 09:48 PM) |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| Not really. I may have inadvertently created a "hinting" without wanting to. I'm not expanding this. It's more like freeform poetry. | |||
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| Peter Jennings, one of the most recognized faces in network news, died of lung cancer in New York on Sunday night at age 67, four months after announcing his illness on his final TV broadcast. The Canadian-born high school dropout held the anchor chair at ABC for more than 20 years and, along with fellow network anchors Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, was referred to as one of the "Big 3."
Full story on MTV News If there ever was any reporter that I respected for not selling out, it was Peter Jennings. Too bad that we're slowly losing all the greats. Hopefully, someone will fill his gap and give me the correct traffic report. I have to get to downtown LA right now. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| So, some guy in South Korea has died after playing 50 hours almost non-stop of Starcraft.
From Yahoo! News: SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said Tuesday. The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said. Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said. "We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone. Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe. After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported. He died a few minutes later, it said. Apparently, this has happened at least once before. So, take breaks when you're playing your games and don't die. Because, apparently, games can kill. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| It's got to be the coolest marketing ploy ever though. This is apparently the second time this has happened. I'd stick on the box for my game. "Our game is so good it actually kills!" | |||
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| I lost the train of thought for this story. So, it's more of a dead start... | |||
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 946 days Last activity: 946 days |
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| Need to see pictures!! I'm still working on Zabuza's costume pieces, and I've taken on the lengthy task of trying to make Dosu's costume. Yay. Are you on cosplay.com? |
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