It has been a good fight, it was a long one, a struggle indeed. Went through and past many obstacles along the way, and lost many good friends and comrades. We will always remember their sacrifice, it has been a long road coming here. It was worth it.
At 6:55 PM Sunday October 14th, I have Finished the fight.
Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
Is this a suicide post?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
*whacks Dante* I beat Halo 3 nub!
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
Sheesh. I thought the same thing. I hope you didn't mean for it to sound that way.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Nope I meant it to sound like a war memorial.
Posted by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged (Member # 7476) on :
Are you saying you have a Xbox360 Blayne?
I was under the impression it was PS3 or bust for you....
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I borrowed a friend's 360 and rented Halo 3. SHould've asked for the communicator as well so I could play online.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Good thing you were laid off, so you had time to finish the campaign.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
i only worked about 8 hours a day, there's 24 hours in a day and a 6 pack of redbull to go!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I thought it was a suicide post as well. I was shocked and concerned.
Get. A. Freaking. Blog.
EDITED to tone down my annoyance.
[ October 15, 2007, 12:16 PM: Message edited by: Icarus ]
Posted by Saephon (Member # 9623) on :
I can't knock Blayne for his posts because insides jokes like this brighten my day. I award you ten internets.
Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
I definitely thought it was too- especially after the thread about his father and him losing his job. But I'm not gonna beat him over the head.
Happy to hear you beat that!
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Man blayne you're a strange kid.
Posted by krynn (Member # 524) on :
we have that game at our house, but i dont really see my roommates playing it that often. i didnt play the first two, but what i've played of 3 i enjoyed. congrats on beating the series.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
How many total hours did it take?
I finished Half-Life in 21 straight hours, and I've seen Half-Life 2 finished in four hours, so there's a lot of room in between there.
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
Cool. Now do it again on Legendary.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
If I'm able to keep the 360 for another weekend and borrow a communicator I will do it with co-op.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Why should he get a blog, Icarus? He gets way more comments here.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
*nod*
And to think steven thinks attention-seeking is primarily a trait characterizing females.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
what?
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: If I'm able to keep the 360 for another weekend and borrow a communicator I will do it with co-op.
If we can schedule the time, I'd be willing to do a mission or two.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
a mission or 2? nonono.
First we do Halo, then Halo 2 and finally Halo 3.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
You can't play online co-op in Halo 1 and 2...
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
I can see Blayne's parents' worries about his maturity and drive were completely unfounded.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
if I were to show the same fanaticalism towards a baseball game I would somehow suddenly become more mature?
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
No, Blayne. If you put that kind of dedication into more important matters, like finding a job and a place to live, you would suddenly become more mature.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Fanaticism is almost never a sign of maturity. The ability to manage your time and not spend the majority of your waking hours escaping reality is more mature, though. Still not mature, but a positive step.
Hey, I know plenty of guys who are addicted to video games. But they all have real jobs or are full-time students (on top of being well-adjusted socially, though I recognize that makes them a little unusual) who do not live at home.
It's fine to have hobbies, but you have obsessions, Blayne.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I applied to work at futureshop but many f you are forgetting that I don't have a car, so I can't go around finding places to live, I can't go downtown to find places to work because those would be 4 hour round trips, and I generally have classes during the day so I cant go find jobs then, the best I can do is apply for student loans right now and apply for jobs at computer and electronic related stores online.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Can you apply for a loan that would suffice for your tuition, housing, and transportation? My brother made it through college that way, although of course paying such a loan back has been difficult for him.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I am a full time student and a contented social life, having a girlfriend is something I'm working on.
here's the breakdown of my weekely schedual.
8x7 sleeping 10x7 at school 15 at work //minus this currently 9 per week in transit 3x7 hmwk
56+70+15+9+21=
171-15 hours a week doing non video game related things.
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
Do you take classes during the weekend? It sounds to me like you have been and are planning to play video games all weekend.
edit: Blayne, those numbers don't add up. I'm pretty sure that, with the recent conversion issues, Canadian hours are pretty much on par with American ones, in which case, there are only 168 a week.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I was planning on finishing (and succeded) playing Halo 3, lacking the communicator I did not do any multilayer play, so I worked saturday and played on sunday.
There are some plans once Joe's xbox arrives in the mail to do a 3 way co-op on
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
Um, there's only 168 hours in a week...
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I was planning on finishing (and succeded) playing Halo 3, lacking the communicator I did not do any multilayer play, so I worked saturday and played on sunday.
There are some plans once Joe's xbox arrives in the mail to do a 3 way co-op on lengendary.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
That is what you think my little friend.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by MattP: Um, there's only 168 hours in a week...
168 of your primitive "Earth hours".
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: That is what you think my little friend.
Burn...
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
You know, I was a full time student at what is considered a pretty tough school and where I dual degreed and was in the honors program, and I never had 10 hours of class a day. Are you maybe not using hours as your unit of measurement there?
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
quote:Originally posted by Noemon:
quote:Originally posted by MattP: Um, there's only 168 hours in a week...
168 of your primitive "Earth hours".
Puny Hugh-mans!
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
quote:168 of your primitive "Earth hours".
I think you've got it wrong. The n00bs are working on unascended n00b-time. Ascended Gamers, though...man, they're lucky. Time goes slower for them. Chemicals affect their bodies differently, too!
I mean, a n00b would have difficulty functioning normally after mainlining caffeine in the form of a 6pk of Redbull, but for an Ascended Gamer? No problem. They can down all that Redbull and then go to bed at a reasonable hour, and then wake up normally as well and go to work.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Blayne, if you're actually spending 13 hours a day on your classwork, bully for you. But I smell a rat.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
by those 10 hours it is the time spent at Abbott, classes start usually at 8:30 and end usually at 5:30... ok so 9 hours, where did I get 10 from???
but 3-4 hours of homework once im home does make sense, some weeks its less some its more.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Ah, to be 20 again.
Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :
So you are at school from 8:30 to 5:30 all seven days of the week and do all of your 21 to 28 hours of homework outside of that time?
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
Blayne, If you are school from 8:30 to 5:30 and you are looking for a job, what is preventing you from doing your homework in the down time between classes and getting a job on or near campus?
edit: I'm pretty sure that Blayne doesn't go to school 7 days a week. Let's say that was a mistake. He should have put 5s in the place of 7s.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Do they not have any on-campus jobs you could look into? Those don't pay well, but they're typically very accommodating of your schedule (i.e., you could work during breaks between classes).
And if you're at school for 9 hours a day you're taking way more credits than is allowed an any accredited institute I'm aware of. Or you have some serious breaks during the day you're not taking advantage of.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
quote:Originally posted by MrSquicky: You know, I was a full time student at what is considered a pretty tough school and where I dual degreed and was in the honors program, and I never had 10 hours of class a day. Are you maybe not using hours as your unit of measurement there?
I did. (Engineering at the University of Waterloo.)
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
One thing you need to take into account is that when you are looking for a job after graduation, companies are going to want you to have work experience and references. You are already at a disadvantage because it sounds like you haven't worked any programming jobs. Getting and keeping a job now isn't just a matter of getting paid, but also of making yourself more attractive to potential employers.
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
twinky, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week?
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
quote:Originally posted by twinky:
quote:Originally posted by MrSquicky: You know, I was a full time student at what is considered a pretty tough school and where I dual degreed and was in the honors program, and I never had 10 hours of class a day. Are you maybe not using hours as your unit of measurement there?
I did. (Engineering at the University of Waterloo.)
That's all the labs and tutorials, right?
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I had one or two days a week when I'd have class 8am-9pm, but I'd have about three hours of breaks during the day.
-pH
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
At theatre school I had somewhere between 60-72 hours of school a week, not including time spent on homework.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
quote:Originally posted by MrSquicky: twinky, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week?
No. But you said you never had 10 hours of class in a day. I did.
quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit:
quote:Originally posted by twinky:
quote:Originally posted by MrSquicky: You know, I was a full time student at what is considered a pretty tough school and where I dual degreed and was in the honors program, and I never had 10 hours of class a day. Are you maybe not using hours as your unit of measurement there?
I did. (Engineering at the University of Waterloo.)
That's all the labs and tutorials, right?
No, straight lectures. Not often, but it did happen. Labs made 8+ hour days more common. (Added: Some labs were 8 hours long on their own.)
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