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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    :diablo: MIDTERMS :diablo:

    woe is me

    gonna hit up the dubtechno & ambient threads for reinforcement; I also have tea & some bananas

     

    but here I am larking on watmm so clearly I'm already bolloxed

     

     

    midterms usually take fucking forever to grade as well....this semester is probably the first time in history I finished them waaay ahead of the promised return date. I was just in the zone i spose. Gotta take those small victories.

     

     

    I feel quite privileged... At my university, all exams are graded and returned to students within 10 days. Although we are a distance/online university, we have the exact same final exams, syllabus, course materials, etc as a regular university.

     

    I still hate exams though. lol

     

     

    I used to have a one week policy....now that I am teaching and taking grad classes, that is fucking impossible.

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    :diablo: MIDTERMS :diablo:

    woe is me

    gonna hit up the dubtechno & ambient threads for reinforcement; I also have tea & some bananas

     

    but here I am larking on watmm so clearly I'm already bolloxed

     

     

    midterms usually take fucking forever to grade as well....this semester is probably the first time in history I finished them waaay ahead of the promised return date. I was just in the zone i spose. Gotta take those small victories.

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    y u no ebook ?

    (i'm a teaching/research assistant for like 15 professors this semester so i'm going all passive-agressive techno-elitist each time i get a chance with those professors who can't function without stacks of decades old notes and printouts that they can barely comprehend themselves)

     

    man and you are absolutely right in bringing up that point.

     

    Ill be honest, I have no idea or any experience whatsoever with using ebooks, I wouldn't even know where to start. If you could guide me to a website with a comprehensive "how university students can get max use out of an ebook", I'd seriously appreciate it. My bookshelves are about to break from the weight of the books on top of them.

     

    One of my peeves is the e-highlighting....is there a program that allows easy quick-click referencing to pages you highlighted? That would be amazing.

    Would you leave your country and why?

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    Id absolutely move to Canada if they offered me a job. Beautiful weather, beautiful cities (Toronto and a few others Ive visited), and the people are like night and day compared to the typical American. Plus I welcome socialized healthcare, and Canada seems to be pretty efficient in that regard.

     

    I would technically at least consider moving back to South Korea, other than the isolated incident, I loved the culture and the nightlife. Problem in reality though is that at best I could only be an ESOL teacher, and make scraps.....though compared to what im making now it might actually be more....hmm...

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    Midsemester has got me stressed out. I feel like theres never any time to calm down...always some assignment or book to read. My gf is long-distance, shes visiting in a week but other than that and classes Im pretty much a hermit.

     

    I can only hope that as I get further acclimated to the pace of reading and writing that I am far more efficient in time management.

     

    Im almost positive that I am going to die of a stress-induced heart attack.

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    I, too, had a series of lucky inheritances. And a few really fortunate fabricated claims happening within a few years. And really good relations with most of the other petty kings of Ireland, so that when I declared myself King, they were like "cool, can I be yr vassal?" Then I took over Cornwall.

     

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    Also, my King's name is Brian mac Brian Ua Brian. Which is hilarious. And his heir's name is Brian, as well.

     

    Also also, France is currently getting their asses handed to them by the Castilians, which is hilarious to watch.

     

     

    Seems like Spain is steamrolling everyone in these games. I was really looking forward to clashing with a massive French Empire in this game too :(

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    BEHOLD, my Austro-Hungarian Empire:

     

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    Created the Union about 250 years before it actually happened with a series of incredibly lucky inheritances. Managed to inherit Hungary, Holland, Bohemia, and Milan all within about a century. I finally managed to take a few Dutch provinces from Burgundy in some nasty wars with their gigantor Iberian Empire ally. Slowly focusing on building up my economy to afford a few more ships and troops for the inevitable series of showdowns with Iberia down the road. Conversely, doing really, really well with Holy Roman Empire reforms...might even be able to form that if I make it through the Reformation unscathed?

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    had some free time so played Europa Universalis III as Austria on hard mode. The game has become unexpectedly entertaining. Spain somehow got into a personal union with France and is now completely dominating Western Europe, allying with Burgundy, Savoy, and Sweden. I'm focusing on inheriting Hungary as soon as possible for the extra manpower, and consolidating authority over the Holy Roman Empire....right now I can't even touch Spain-France....we fought an 8 year war over Normandy and Im positive it hurt me way more than it did them.

    Favourite YouTube Videos

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    for whatever reason this song was stuck in my head for the past two days.....and its one of the few that im happy was stuck in there...makes you remember how seriously amazing and classic some of these old works are...we take classics too much at face value these days in their "classic"ness methinks. Sometimes it takes re-listening to these guys devoid of external critique to remember how amazing these are thematically, sonically, etc. Anyway

     

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    About a month ago I discovered this amazing mod for Hearts of Iron, called Black I.C.E. Now the game is even better, more in depth with more events and better immersion. Also I think it's a bit harder than the original. Although it is more focused towards historical style, I have somehow managed to go way around historical events: it's summer 1939 and I already conquered Poland, Denmark and Czechoslovakia. Because the independence of Czechoslovakia was guaranteed by Romania and Yugoslavia, I am now at war with both of them, plus with France and Great Britain... and I kind of don't have enough army to defend so many fronts. The good thing is, I've managed to build up some fortifications on the Rhineland so I can use less forces to defend there. Great Britain is giving me a headache with their strategic bombing of my industrial centres, but I have managed to build quite a strong naval force and had succeeded in sinking Great Britain's three battleships and a couple of cruisers and destroyers. Still wasn't able to sink that aircraft carrier d****. Anyway, due to insufficient ground forces I'm playing strictly defensive until I can make a temporary peace with Romania and Yugoslavia, so I can attack France. But Soviet Union is very tempting to invade at this point as well, because they haven't mobilized their Red Army yet... Still I think I kind screwed it up from a strategic point of view and would like to begin again though. First class!

     

     

    awesome man, glad you love the Paradox games too! Youll be hooked soon enough.

     

    Which Hearts of War is it? I only have II, but id love to get III+all the expansions once it gets cheap enough.

     

    The Soviet Union is such a bitch to beat after 1940, pretty much impossible after 1941...team up on them early when you have the massive infrastructure and tech advantage, and then do nothing but encircle their infantry, rinse and repeat over and over. I think the fastest I had ever gotten the SU to sue for peace was one year. Another time I had to drive all the way into Siberia and it didn't end until late 1945.

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    ugh. i totally brainfarted and forgot about a paper i have to write for wednesday that involves reading two whole good sized books. and i work 9 hours tomorrow. in short, i'm fucked, or i'm not sleeping tomorrow night.

     

    you can do it!! i was in a similar situation. Drink a whole pot of coffee and power the hell through it!! You got this!!

    errr 6 days ago my aunt killed herself. And I just can't imagine what was so painful. I hate mysteries. They just pick away at me. Like who took the knobs off my friend's jaguar bass in my practice room.

     

     

    The medical examiner is yet to release the note she left but I have a feeling that it's gonna be like Love Liza and not really answer any questions.

     

    Everyone in my family just fucking self-destructs. I know I have the genes but I think I'm doing pretty well with it at the moment.

     

    /bummer

     

     

    fwp: I'm too lazy to do anything today. I've got a fresh new analog synth and a newly-learned-how-to-use MPC4000 staring at me accusingly all like "and the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon..."

     

    sorry to hear that man. and I completely understand what you mean by having that intense need to know why. All I can say from experience is, you'll never get the exact answer you want, so acceptance, as hard as it is, takes time but in the end really makes it easier to grieve.

     

    Best wishes to you and your family Limpy, seriously.

    Million Dollar Extreme's Youtube account got pulled down

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    Assuming this isn't an inside job made to look legit, Sam has balls of fucking steel. Arjun doing the intro :lol:

    Imagine the things you could do if you had confidence like this. I'd do so much awesome stuff if I wasn't crippled by the thought of what others might think. It's something that makes me feel dissapointed in my self. Anyway, yeh funny vid

     

    like squatting in abandoned drug houses?

    Films Recently Watched

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    me and the girl like to watch just about any horror movie in the theater, so we watched Insidious Chapter II. Pretty much average; a lot of it was hilarious. There was some horribly fucking woody acting, but that's to be expected in any horror movie. Only legit creepy part of this movie was the dad smiling...holy shit he has a disturbing face.

     

    I was a big fan of the first one too, because I felt that despite its flaws, the director really used some of those classic tricks of old horror movies to get jump scares that were "legit"and built up on suspense and sound manipulation, rather than just AHH THAT WAS UNEXPECTED FUCK.

     

    More mainstream horror movies need to go back to the suspense building.

     

     

    Ill give it a 5/10 (the original I'd give a 7/10)

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