Stitch on 31/12/2006 at 17:25
My goals for 2007 are:
* Spend at least an hour each day drawing without any real purpose in mind
* Get my current project to a state where it can be shared with the public
* Take time each day to write for non-project items (e-mail correspondence, blogging, etc.)
* Continue with my current diet/fitness regimen
* Stay single for at least a couple of months
Fingernail on 31/12/2006 at 17:36
My resolutions for the new year will mostly be 1680x1050 :cool:
RIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE LIKE A BLINDING FLASH OF PURE COMEDY
on a serious note, I will try as hard as I can to be the best that I can be, in all possible areas! The sky is the limit, surely? Unless I develop some sort of flying device.
This piece of entertainment has been brought to you courtesy of immense boredom before going out to celebrate the new year, a kind of calm before the storm.
Shayde on 31/12/2006 at 17:37
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
Since I quit online poker yesterday...
Say it aint so!
That said my resolution is to kick the smoking habit completely.
19 days so far.
Last year my resolution was to accept every invitation I got. It was bloody exhausting. This year I will accept whatever I want and tell the rest to go to hell. I am doing exactly what I want to do this year. :cool:
Malygris on 31/12/2006 at 18:40
This year, I will be less afraid.
Strangeblue on 31/12/2006 at 20:10
Quote Posted by Briareos H
My new year resolution is to get
fucking money in one way or another, apply for a
fucking visa and book a
fucking flight so I can go visit my sweetheart in february and make this the awesome-st fairytale I've ever lived. :o
So... the purpose of your trip is fucking, I take it. (I didn't know one needed a visa for that activity--bureaucracy is everywhere....)
MOG on 31/12/2006 at 20:19
The smoking thing ..... mainly (again)
jimjack on 31/12/2006 at 23:20
Actually I'm going to add abit more to my resolutions. To be happy and confident are good goals but too general. Seeing now that the year is fast drawing to an end here and I don't always go about I doing too much serious thinking on what I want, where I want to be, and how to go about it nor much about the right or wrong choices. ..But I maybe should. I have recently been literally given a good start to a better life here in Canada, it just happened for me based on circumstances that would have had me not giving much of a shit about resolutions much less another year ahead.. I can't take where I am now in my life for granted. There are other people to make me want to improve myself in some areas..Its just that the bigger areas to change and the less likely I am to follow through on any of them. Unless I start to Apply The Plan to smaller things and funny enough these just arose to my mind just now because if I had previously addressed them I would not have just discovered this, I need a good shirt to wear and the only decent one is without a button on the top ..so:
I will learn to sew/attach buttons on something as soon as they fall out.
I will put things back where I found them when I am done with them.. this is more for the adults sake as well as mine it pisses everyone off.
To run alot. like three times a week, three miles. ok maybe two or one times a week to start off and slightly less than three miles.
Think like Wayne Rooney
Think about actually applying some of mylecherous thoughts to a Plan.
otherwise Learn to like myself much more
Text less, read more, talk to actuall people more when I could text or IM them.
Study better. To not leave any assignments to last minute.
Pass japapnese. That will cover next years learn a new language resolution
get some nads and ask her out. In what I previously resolved to do: pretend to be confindent
complete list of games to do.
Figure out what is worth keeping, what is not
Read people better. Keep rational
maybe get learners? Increase chance by doing more chores.
Other things to be resolved cant be broadcast at this point in the year. So I will add one or two more..to be morally sound, have people make me happy. Make them reasonably pleased with me and to be here in canada for another year if I apply all this.
its still december 31..so happy hogmanay then...and I hope you all Stick To The Plan and get :thumb: Results
Scots Taffer on 1/1/2007 at 07:01
Quote Posted by Shayde
Say it aint so!
Afraid so. Online poker tournaments feel like too much of a grind to me and due to the number of hands you see in daily play, the number of bad beats are horrendous - plus there is some serious fudging going on with their randomised card dealing, not saying "online poker is rigged" but there's just too much coincidence that after a run of bad cards, when you get a good hand and win a big pot, the next one or two hands (even if they are unsuited trash) connect with the flop in a massive way.
For example, I had AK and pushed all in when I flopped a pair of Aces on a non-scary board, won the lot after I got called and in the next hand I got 3 8 offsuit, absolute trash. I fold it and the flop comes two pair, the river brings a full house. That shit is happening CONSTANTLY in online poker and I just can't bring myself to consign that to random probability.
Anyway, the largest frustration I have with online poker is the grind aspect - it's purely monetary, which isn't the largest component of the play to me; it's the social and psychological dynamics that make the game and these are mostly absent in online play. You have to restrict yourself to betting patterns and hand histories which is reliable but ultimately easily corruptible for a skilled player. It's a lot easier looking at someone and trying to figure out how they'd play if they hit the flop in a certain way, body language and reactions are everything.
I've only recently gotten over a big bluff that got pulled on me in our last real poker game, because my gut instincts told me that it was a bluff, as I was putting him on pocket aces or kings and the fact that an ace hit the turn and he had no change in demeanour at all, I took it to mean that the ace was meaningless to him - so he didn't have aces and he couldn't have kings because he bet out the same amount again afterwards without hesitation. If he didn't have aces or kings, I had him beat because all he had left is a bluff, but he pushed all-in and I second-guessed myself out of calling with a pair of Queens.
Anyway, the point of all that ramble is that I feel like my poker insticts are good in face-to-face games but that my online play feels to mechanical and I can't get into it as much, so only real-life cash tourney games from now on. :D
Vasquez on 1/1/2007 at 10:00
Quote Posted by Pyrian
I'm currently about 37 hours away from completing my year without chocolate. :D
:eek: Does not compute!!! Insane!:eek:
I promise to post more :p
Also I hope there will be another fabulous TTLG Finn-Meet in 2007! :D
Vivian on 1/1/2007 at 14:54
1. Become better at dancing. Specifically, get a better signature move than the opposite-foot sideways spaz shuffle
2. Learn the ukelele
3. Apply myself properly to the dinosaur PhD I seem to be engaged in
4. Practice small-talk
5. Just be way cooler than I already am, if at all possible
