Whats making you happy right now

#7481 Adjutant Stormy~

Captain, Team Quick Ben

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Posted 22 March 2012 - 10:01 PM

My friend Chris, who had to withdraw from university because his financial aid didn't survive the partisan battles in the legislature, has taken his 6 months of free time to start a daily analysis / replay show for the game we both play, League of Legends. He started doing it pretty much just out of boredom, but he's a top 5% player and he's really insightful.

Anyhow, after a month of doing it, he got interviewed by one of the major community sites, and he's a featured commentator now. Which is pretty sweet.

He tried to play competitively last year, but he never got to the top, tippy top level where your team gets invited to tourneys and with national coverage. But now he's got recognition, and he's so much happier now than he's been in at least 2 years.

I'm pretty happy for him, and there's some community momentum to get him on the tournament webcast commentator team for one of the next big tournaments. And those spots actually pay money!

(if anyone plays LoL, he's Studio, and he runs the Studio Daily. Ex: Studio Daily #19)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Aptorian @ Nov 1 2008, 06:13 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=462161"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>God damn. Mighty drunk. Must ... what is the english movement movement movement for drunk... with out you seemimg drunk?

bla bla bla

Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french

EDIT: We has editted so mucj that5 we're not quite sure... also, leave britney alone.</div>

#7482 Centzon Totochtin

For Pony!

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Bunnies!

Posted 23 March 2012 - 07:09 AM

SW:TOR

Having far too much fun with this game

On the plus side I am also being otherwise productive... due to gym going and general healthiness I have lost 9kgs :w00t:

I am pleased

Edit: also, dancing around my house cleaning to very loud old school metal/rock is fun... I am so domestic

This post has been edited by Centzon Totochtin: 23 March 2012 - 07:14 AM

That Elephant is looking rather frayed at the edges

#7483 Loki

Knight Commander of Team Quick Ben

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 08:50 AM

DATE NIGHT!

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#7484 HoosierDaddy

Believer

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 09:35 AM

The application slowly builds. $400 bones to a passport is a big ass commitment for me. It's like an all in thing. Which is why I like it. At least it's movement.

Terrifying.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#7485 SylvanShade

Lieutenant

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 10:04 AM

Came across some sort of special edition of Dorian Gray today, so naturally I used the last of my money on it as opposed to getting lunch. I regret nothing, although my stomach is to the contrary...

And I bought a printer. :w00t:

Ive never had one before, it's amazing. I love great days.

If I look back, I am lost.

#7486 Illuyankas

Retro Classic

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Will cluck you up

Posted 24 March 2012 - 01:49 PM

Saw John Carter* with the lady yesterday, then chilled out in the sunshine and watched 30 Days of Night (finally) at hers later. Really good day.

Now off to see some buddies of mine then it's roast meal day tomorrow, fun times are here again!

*Surprisingly good, and definitely worth a watch.

Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.

#7487 Tsundoku

A what?

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 05:11 PM

I too saw John Carter yesterday (2D of course). I agree that it could have been better (especially the love story, and the River to Iss bit), but overall it was good matinee type fun.

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker

#7488 Slow Ben

Ranger

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 06:44 PM

H.D., on 24 March 2012 - 09:35 AM, said:

The application slowly builds. $400 bones to a passport is a big ass commitment for me. It's like an all in thing. Which is why I like it. At least it's movement.

Terrifying.

Where you goin?

It is absofriggin fantasmically beautiful outside today.

Gonna sit outside, watch the ball games and drink beer. Pretty nice little Saturday.

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#7489 Tsundoku

A what?

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 11:56 PM

Looking at this thread:

http://forum.malazan...showtopic=22707

I followed a few youtube links and found myself here:

Damn. Just ... damn. Sends shivers up and down my spine every time.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 24 March 2012 - 11:57 PM

#7490 King Lear

Une belle quelquesomething sans merci

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 10:46 AM

robot unicorn attack revival

also alcohol

also (most of all) lovely friends :wine:

*Men's Frights Activist*

#7491 RodeoRanch

The Midnight Special

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 02:33 AM

My new house. Eventually. And you know...make it real.

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#7492 Anomander

Wielder of Dragnipur

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 02:49 AM

Congrats! Good choice adding a porch to the front. Is this a development type deal or did you have this personally designed for you?

And so the First denied their Mother,
in their fury, and so were cast out,
doomed children of Mother Dark.

#7493 Macros

D'ivers Fuckwits

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 03:23 AM

Illuyankas, on 22 March 2012 - 01:27 PM, said:

Don't worry, this should cleanse your palate: http://twonormalsizedhands.tumblr.com/

This website scares the fuck out of me

2012
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"

#7494 Loki

Knight Commander of Team Quick Ben

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 04:14 AM

I finally found a use for my Steam account - point and click adventure games! XD

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#7495 Studious Lock

Whore of the State

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Interests:Playing sexy, sexy mandolin.

Posted 26 March 2012 - 09:50 AM

Passed both of my wing chun gradings with distinction yesterday. :wine:

Downside - I hurt everywhere...

Hi, I'm Tom, and I put the Man in Mandolin.

#7496 McLovin

Cutlery Enthusiast

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Interests:Knives. Stabbing. Stabbing with knives.

Posted 26 March 2012 - 12:47 PM

My new USB trackball.

I forgot how much better trackballs are.

This one's even got a scroll ring which is AWESOME.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

#7497 Satan

Hunting for love

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 02:16 PM

This! Oh God, this!

Since its inception, the Norwegian air shuttle company Norwegian has had famous Norwegians on the tail of their planes (later also famous people from other Nordic countries). As part of a marketing gimmick, Norwegian now wants the Norwegian population to vote on who they want to grace the tails of some of their new air planes. Top of the list for Oslo is Øystein Aarsether, aka. Euronymous, aka. one of the seminal people behind the start of the black metal movement in Norway. If that doesn't make every single one of you horny, well, then I simply don't understand you lot!

Legalise drugs! And murder!

#7498 Shiara

High Scribe of Team Quick Ben

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 11:55 PM

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*casting the shaved knuckle*

#7499 Loki

Knight Commander of Team Quick Ben

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WWQBDFTW?

Posted 27 March 2012 - 05:43 AM

Shiara, on 26 March 2012 - 11:55 PM, said:

THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS:

Hmm...I don't have a new email from Subpress....anyway - YEA!!!

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#7500 Gothos

Map painting expert

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Posted 27 March 2012 - 06:32 AM

Good old fashioned caffeine.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.