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A fantastic seventh game in Risk: Legacy! I won! Woot! Great Britain now has a major city named after me (though I was tempted to call it TARDIS, but the odds being against me winning again I just had to name something after myself). We also revealed the new Mutant faction, which was fun to play as in the eighth game but that itself had messy battles, strong tensions, and not too many options for my own gameplay. :/ But I’ve been in Risk withdrawal after a week and a half without it, so it’s all good. (Truth be told, I’m also in a Munchkin withdrawal. Maybe I’ll get to play that soon.) Maybe if I win again I’ll rename Europe. That would give me a good bonus at times. I’m calling myself Deus Pangaea (“God of the World” or something), and have a city named after myself called Benjamiel (because angels have “iel” at the end), so I could call it Heaven for more tongue-in-cheek blasphemy which is really annoying one of my friends. XD But I’m actually favoring calling it Raxacoricofallapatorius. We’re also super-close to placing the World Capital down. I hope I get to do that. Except then I’d have to think of another name.
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I've been feeling like Pinkie Pie in the episode Party of One. Without the happy end of a surprise birthday party. <.<
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Today was Free Comic Book Day! (Sorry for telling you so late, but maybe your local comic shop is still open and has some good stuff left.) I picked up a Serenity/Star Wars flip-cover comic and a preview of The Hypernaturals. And got an extra DC New 52 comic which preluded the Earth 2 #1 I picked up today (along with World's Finest). And I really want to keep reading those! Oh and an X-Men comic. I also stopped by TRU today. When I called they said they had the Series 7 figs. What I failed to comprehend is that they wouldn't have a nearly full box to sort through. So from about a dozen or so figs I picked out the dark knight, rocker chick and space marine. Which is what I wanted. But I also want at least another spacer, an Aztec, and a bagpiper (for a friend). But I live near a TRU at home, when I'll have a car. Good day, except for the terrible game of Risk. Oh well. -CF
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I bought my cap and gown today, for graduation. "Today" meaning Friday, despite it being 3am on Saturday, because it's still today, Friday, because I have not gone to bed yet. So I guess this whole graduation thing is really happening in a week. A "week" being seven days, counting from today, technically Saturday. Until then I'd best send out resumes and pack my room. And I kept telling myself I'd go where jobs are, but then I actually see job listings for reporters in places NOT in my home area (or relatively near) and I think "on second thought, do I really want to move to Minnesota or California or Iowa right now, so soon? At all? We'll see. -CF
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No, nothing to but the student living below me. Rather, the musical performance Stomp came to the school's esteemed Ferguson Center for the Arts, and I snagged tickets with some friends for $10 each! High in the balcony, but the performance was still absolutely fantastic! I have been anticipating this performance since the center's show schedule was published back at the end of the summer. Stomp has been on my "to see" list for almost ten years now, so finally getting that chance was, simply put, a dream come true. It was so fun to watch them make music off of literally anything. The brooms, of course, or simply their feet and hands, and trash can lids and buckets and flexible tubes and whatever else suited their fancy. What I also thought while watching the performance was that the troupe is almost the antithesis of the Blue Man Group. BMG takes tubes and paints and stays almost lifeless while they play futuristic, wild-looking instruments, whereas Stomp shows they are there to have fun using whatever junk they found around the street. (Either way, awesome!) The performers are very ingenuitive and know how to put on a show. There was never a dull moment and their cleverness shone each moment. -CF
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How silly of me to forget. I joined in with the hype, being a Harry Potter fan myself, and just had to find out my house. Way back when, I of course wanted to be in Gryffindor. The house. Harry's house. Hey, I was in 3rd, 4th grade, frantically reading books 1-3 and eagerly awaiting book 4. But, after a while, I ascribed to Ravenclaw. Smart folks, them Ravenclaws, and I felt I wasn't going with the popular house. However, after careful reflection, I definitely liked Gryffindor and felt it was my house. I very much like the idea of bravery, standing up for what you believe in even if opposed, holding oneself accountable, following through, having guts, etc. I felt Gryffindor was where I belonged. Now, what Pottermore provides is just another one of many House-tests online. Some are highly inaccurate, some are done by psychologists with a Myers-Briggs test angle in determining your house (though from what I've seen temperament has nothing to do with it). What I wasn't expecting was the test that JK came up with for the Sorting Hat. The test has been getting some criticisms, depending on if you like your house or not. I almost don't feel JK should have decided unless consulting with a psychologist, but oh well. Some of the questions/choices were quite weird. In the end I got sorted into Ravenclaw! I can live with that. After reading the welcome letter, Ravenclaws are clever and witty, more than the average Gryffindor, and eccentric, to which I ascribe, so I am quite content with my house placement. I just might start to identify with it again like I used to. -CF
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Can be quite awesome. But for me, equally awesome are also my hiking boots. Secure, rugged, wonderful. Puts me in a good mood whenever I wear them. -CF
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One of my relatives... I dunno' what he is, maybe a second cousin once removed or something? Anyway, he's like 7, and he had brought a bag of lego to my grandparents' house. I had met this kid once before maybe when he was two-ish, so I started talking with him and he showed me some sets he had and stuff. I was messing around with a star wars set (that green and yellow one from the clone wars) and a piece fell off. I picked it up, and looked briefly around the ship to find where it fell from, but he grabbed it from me and said "it goes here, dumb***". And I was just like shocked. First of all, like, I've been playing with lego since before you were born, so I think I know how to find where a piece came from. Excuse me if I couldn't see it in three seconds on a set I'd never built. Secondly, when did kids start using such language? I never even heard any of those words 'till I was 10-ish. Now, don't get me wrong, he is a nice enough kid. Just the differences since I was his age are very apparent, and makes me feel really old, but I'm only 17 lol. Also it's not nice to grab.
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Was yesterday. And yes I was inspired by Bunda's blog entry. Wow, 9 years. I've been a staffie for more than a third of that, and a fan of LEGO for more than twice that. I've visited/attended 6 LEGO conventions and met countless awesome members (I say countless because, while a sidebar tracks that, it might be inaccurate due to not writing down new names at last BrickFair. But it's a lot). I've been on BZPower for middle school, high school, and college, never wavering. There have been MOCs and stories and reviews. And there has been you! So...here's to 9 more? -CF
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You guys. I have exactly two weeks of classes left in my undergraduate career. Every time I think about it, I get a little anxious and a butterflies-in-my-stomach type of feeling. I'm really excited, but at the same time I'm pretty scared. Not scared so much as... unsure, really. Unsure of what's going to happen over the next year or so. I've applied for an iPhone development internship that would pay really well and would be an absolutely fantastic experience because I want to get into the application/game development side of programming. Unfortunately, you have to be enrolled in classes to be selected for the internship. From what I hear, not many people have applied. I sent the guy in charge my resume but have yet to hear back from him. Hopefully if they need someone desperately enough, they will allow an exception to the rule and hire a recently graduated student. I'm fleshing out my resume to apply for an entry-level application development position at a business in Durham, North Carolina. I'm certainly not opposed to moving to a completely different state for a job. It'd be rough saying goodbye to my nephew and nieces, however. I've heard plenty of nice things about North Carolina and I'd be relatively close to parts of Virginia that I'm familiar with. Just about any city would be far more interesting than where I currently live. I do, after all, love exploring new cities... I also have a few other job opportunities through people I know from school. Most of these positions are technical support rather than systems development (my major is Systems Development), but if I have to take a job doing that for a while, I'd be hard pressed to turn it down. Luckily I've still got a good amount of money saved up from my previous job that I can live off of until I do find a steady job. I'd also be working with people I know, so there's that. Before then, however, I've still got plenty of assignments to keep me busy until graduation on May 12th. An 8-page paper, a 10-page research paper, a presentation, and at least 5 Android programs have to be done by May 1st. Woo! Good luck to anyone else out there that is also graduating, high school or college. It's a fun time.
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I was inspired by my sister (who downloaded some cool fonts for me) to make some mock-up album covers for my band, which might be used on our first demo recording whenever that happens. I made up three using some pictures I found online, and I'd love some critique from you all. in order of my least favourite to favourite: All Things Must Die I have this one for if we lean more to the evil-er side of metal, with the doom and gloom and yeah. I dunno', I'm not a huge fan of it. Those That Pray This one is a bit more intelligent, with the name and picture actually representing something, but that goes a bit close to my views on religion so I'll stay out of those waters (no pun intended). I really like the look of this but it does feel slightly tacky. Whole Lotta Nothing This one here is a bit less "metal", but I think it stays truer to who we are as guys, with our wacky sense of humour. Also, our bassist learned to play when he moved to saskatchewan (which looks very similar). He was super bored, so decided to buy a bass. In a big way, we owe the band's existence to a "whole lotta' nothin'". Anyway yeah, this is just me trying to get some ideas out and see if they're successful at all. This would only be for a demo recording, as I have grand plans for an actual album cover, but I would still much appreciate thoughts. Also I'm not even sure which would fit the music best 'cause I don't actually know what the music is. ha.
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Where everything just goes perfectly, and there's absolutely nothing to complain about? 'Cause I'm having one right now. I got to sleep in, and then I got up at 9:30 to get a ride with my friend to the theatre to practice for the talent show tonight. Our rehearsal went amazing, and on the drive around we jammed to some Megadeth cassettes my friend found in his truck. We went to Subway afterwards, which I've not been to in ages, and then we just kinda' hung out in town with another friend, visited some stores and stuff. I decided to get some exercise and walk home, passing by a pawn shop which is always closed. However, today it was open, so I popped in, and I found Dream Theater's "Images And Words" on cassette for fifty cents. I got home and then left again, to pick my mom up from work, jammin' to my new tape all the way. 'Course, when I got home, my sister started ridiculing me for eating all the fudge (of which there was still another box), going on the computer (which I've not extensively used for a week) and yeah. But not even that can bring me down. I've not been this legitimately happy for months, and it feels great. Hope you're all having great days too!
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Oh man. Awesome 11th, 11.5th, and 12th games of Risk Legacy tonight! I won game 11 (third win in the past two years of playing Risk) and STUFF WENT DOWN. So cool, amazing stuff. The game makers really knew what they were doing when designing the game. Twists and turns, etc. Seriously, if you have any interest in playing Risk with the same 3-4 people fifteen times, where each game builds on the last and allows for radical changes from out of the blue, where the game evolves over time, Risk Legacy is the way to go. Game 12 was also cool because we got to see the consequences of game 11, like causing everyone to have different strategies that put them out of the comfort zone they had built over the past 11 games. -CF
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No sleep last night. Bleh.
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I'm home. But I really want to leave. Pretty much so I can see people (like my girlfriend and my best friend and their friends and then have a fantastic evening unlike what I usually have at school). Y'know, I probably wouldn't be so eager not to be around my family had I already sent out dozens of job resumes. But I haven't, and I know my dad will ask, and I'll feel guilty and he'll make me feel guilty and worry about my future more than I already do (if I do, I just don't show it, heh). So you can see why I don't particularly want to be around for too long. Plus, hey, I have people to see that have similar interests as I do, so of course that is who I want to spend time with. Soon he'll be home and I'll be able to grab the car for the night. Until them I'm working on resume stuff... -CF
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The Guess W10227G1. The original price was €199, but I got it for €79.
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Listening to a playlist of the song, some original and a heck of a lot of remixes. xD
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Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing
Angel Beat posted a blog entry in Star Blogging across the universe
Also known as EMDR, it's a type of therapy that I'll start to receive tomorrow. Hopefully, this will help me to deal with the traumatic experiences I went through as a child and victim of 8 years of bullying. But for now, sleep. -
Started assertiveness training yesterday. I feel like bringing up the My Little Pony episode Putting Your Hoof Down during one of the next group sessions.
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Today is/was my birthday. I spent the day with my family. I couldn't have been happier. My nephew and nieces are simply -the cutest-. (Four weeks to PAX East!)
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Because in Risk Legacy you can totally do that. So I put a minor city in Japan and called it Mata Nui. Left my mark. Totally made up for the nonsense word "Otasu" I put in Asia earlier, but not as cool as the angelic name for myself of "Benjameal" for my first minor city. Just one thing--I'm pretty bad at Risk. We've been playing for 2+ years now and I've still only won one game. My friends have given me some analysis on what I do wrong, but there are just parts of gameplay I guess I still don't get. :/ Any tips? What are some "must dos" (and some don'ts) when it comes to fortifying, attacking, following through, retreating, and of course making risks. -CF
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So instead of school, today I went down to Washington state with my Dad, Korean, and Chilean international students. It was really fun, filled with many jokes. We spent a ton of time in Best Buy, then went to a mall, to Target, to a headphone store, and yeah. The two international students bought really nice Fanny Wang brand headphones, which I have to say are the best things I've ever tried. In Target they had SO MUCH MLP STUFF. It was awesome, and they also had Black Phantom and Rocka XL... but, sadly, I was on my Dad's budget (I have no money lol), but he was still nice enough to buy my some awesome things (CDs): Karmacode -- Lacuna Coil Permanent Waves -- Rush 90125 -- Yes Pieces Of Eight -- Styx Ozzmosis -- Ozzy Osbourne All in all, I'm pretty happy right now.
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“They say keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Gentlemen, we enter this war as friends and grow closer as the battle rages on, our throats being focused on day by day. Keep your petty trifles coming as you will, but they encounter a deaf ear by Deus Pangaea. The globe shall be one, the people unified, and all will a part of The Pangaea Unifecto!” —Deus Pangaea* before entering into the battle of a lifetime. My friends and I enjoy an epic game of Risk every now and then (not often enough). This has been going on since freshmen year (we are seniors now. Other friends have played with us as well, but it is usually us four), and is a great way to pass a weekend evening. (For the record, we have had much enjoyment with Risk: Onyx Edition, aka Risk: Reinvention, Risk Factor or Risk Revised Edition, and find it highly superior to standard Risk.) But now, for our epic conclusion to our college career, a roommate was referred to Risk Legacy, a new take on the ongoing battle amongst friends. Here, past victories, defeats, and tactics stay on the board. Through a series of 15 games, events take place that will have effects the following week, or maybe not until 10 games later next month. Rules change as things happen. Cards are to be ripped up and discarded, players make choices on advantages or disadvantages as the campaign continues. There are envelopes that have conditions on when to open them with unknown rules and game changes, and needless to say we can’t wait to open the envelope titled “Don’t open this, ever.” We got through the first two short games tonight—about 3 hours total. Throughout we were all quipping back and forth with our own faction’s names (between the Tribunals, Sovereignty, Legion and Unifecto, we have quite a reputation to uphold), and the following 13 games are going to be nothing to laugh at. What’s especially cool is being able to name continents and cities. I’ve got a mental list started, and I’m totally naming a continent after me. -CF *Me
