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Post by Viking Dong on Jan 12, 2011 17:46:29 GMT -5
The mandatory on-topic thread, gents, 'bout the workings and wonders of post-high school life. Get to it!
Just got out of my Genetics lab. Holy shit, my brain is fried. I never realized how much I had forgotten about the DNA replication process and the chemistry behind it. It's basically, as the professor put it in his own terms, "a chemistry class." FML. It's basically Chem 4 or something, and I'm taking Chem 2 this semester as well.
This semester is going to be intense. I can't slip, although the possibility is very real.
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Post by sascrotch on Jan 12, 2011 17:48:56 GMT -5
Yoinks, mate. Yeah, I have to go to the unemployment office to see if my benefits go up or not. If not, it's off to work for me (maybe). Anyway, first two months in the apartment have been good. This whole responsibility thing is weird, though.
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Post by Viking Dong on Jan 12, 2011 17:51:09 GMT -5
Aye, we'll all have to face it one day in full force. Wife, kids, 9-5 in the cubicle and driving the Honda Civic. It is coming, lads!
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Post by sascrotch on Jan 12, 2011 17:51:33 GMT -5
Hell, I just want to work for Wizards :/
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Post by sascrotch on Jan 12, 2011 17:51:50 GMT -5
As in the company. Not you, Jim.
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Post by Viking Dong on Jan 12, 2011 17:55:13 GMT -5
Ah, we have a spot open actu-- Oh. I dunno what I wanna do. Possibly get a masters? I've started to run out of easy classes - especially after this semester. Guess it's time to get to the meat of things.
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Post by sascrotch on Jan 12, 2011 17:59:45 GMT -5
True that. Dee pointed out to me that I love to write, but what comes the easiest to me and what I can immerse myself in is D&D and Magic cards. I've already dabbled a bit in card design. Read all the articles on design, followed the great designer search 2, and made a few mock cards of my own, and it is really fun. Hopefully I'll be ready to compete in the next design search.
As for D&D, my adventures and campaign arcs have become more simple and more adaptable, and I believe more entertaining and rewarding. Maybe I can take that and design worlds, adventures, classes, races - just everything and anything I can pour out of my head.
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Post by Viking Dong on Jan 12, 2011 18:04:38 GMT -5
Sounds like at least you can do something you're passionate about. All I thought during genetics lab was "why do I have to know how to do this shit. I could care less." Buuut, this is practically the only degree that has the potential to land me a job that involves the outdoors and if I'm gonna stick with college I sure as hell ain't getting a boring ass job.
What I'd like to do most of all is be a sound engineer/producer/whatever in a studio but that's highly unlikely.
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Post by sascrotch on Jan 12, 2011 18:08:38 GMT -5
Hey, you never know. Follow the path that is most likely to succeed but keep recording, keep doing what you're passionate about and it may well turn out good for you.
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Post by Viking Dong on Jan 12, 2011 18:09:17 GMT -5
Sass = fortune cookee
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Post by sascrotch on Jan 12, 2011 18:12:51 GMT -5
Hey! I could write those too...
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Post by Viking Dong on Jan 12, 2011 18:16:31 GMT -5
Someone's gotta do it and it sure ain't the Chyneez.
Maybe. At least it's a job.
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Post by sascrotch on Jan 12, 2011 18:18:03 GMT -5
Haha for troof. I have started writing more, though, after I guess what you would call a slump.
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Post by Viking Dong on Jan 12, 2011 18:28:15 GMT -5
I've been bandying some thoughts around. I keep meaning to start on a novel. Or a short story at least. A western, except not a silly, cliche, and generic dime novel. Something with depth, you dig?
Been thinking about doing it in a setting that is an alternate ending to the Civil War - where after the war is prolonged to nearly twice its length, it spirals out of rational control with the result being everything east of the Mississippi burned and pillaged and the nation effectively destroyed. The only civilization that exists in the American boundaries is the West at the time of the Civil War. All of the other world powers sat by and watched in the meantime, waiting for the war to end and swoop in and divvy up the land among them.
So basically it's the West dealing with struggles of refugees, greedy and bloodthirsty foreign powers, an Indian populace intent on driving the whites back - now that they could since there was no bluecoat army to stop them. Ultimately it deals with the struggle of rebuilding a nation after near self destruction. And of course some badass gunbattles.
I doubt much will actually come of it, but it's a thought.
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Post by sascrotch on Jan 12, 2011 18:35:52 GMT -5
Sounds awesome-o. Best advice I've gotten about writing big works like that - brainstorm about main points and major characters, then sit down and write. As fast as you can. Screw grammar, sentence structure, etc. just bang it out a chapter or two at once, as quickly as possible, letting the story flow as it will. Then you can go back and start rewriting, adding details and fixing plot holes once you know where the story leads.
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