1) Isn't Frost Sub-Zero's student/protege/minion? Maybe it's just be, but reading about Subby putting the moves on her feels like Ryu wooing Sakura, which for me feels wrong in some way...
2) In that last "cliffhanger" scene, is the temp worker who I think she is?
-Sig
.hack//sars
Posted on May 19, 2003, 9:23 PM from IP address 210.23.250.79
I thought you finished the Senshi Muyou ending already. ^_^;;;
For the record, I've made zilch progress with the IDFRL continuation. I almost want to skip if it didn't mean passing the buck to you to make the ending.
Er, yeah... so, I thought we ought to remind each other again to work on this stuff. ^_^;;;
So, yeah... I'm off to work on IDFRL... soonish... hopefully...
Mark Poa
Posted on May 18, 2003, 9:11 AM from IP address 210.14.31.18
...I just keep forgetting to take you up on that offer. My apologies.
I remember replying to you and asking for ideas. I don't know if that got through though, or if I was just sleepy and deleted the email instead of sending it by mistake. ^_^;;;
So, like email me, dude.
I'd email you, but my brother has monopoly on our computer with the edsamail program. And typing on the online Edsamail thing is damn irritating. ^_^;;;
Mark
Posted on May 22, 2003, 9:46 AM from IP address 210.14.31.18
You know what would be really cruel? The pet-raising area theme from Legend of Mana. It's like four seconds long, and kind of annoying to begin with, so after twenty or thirty iterations your BRAIN EXPLODES.
Posted on May 14, 2003, 9:46 AM from IP address 68.35.208.116
Don't know if you guys saw the Anime Web Turnpike's new redesign. Looks nifty.
www.anipike.com
Oh, and Merv, I tried looking for Indie Madnesse among the fanfiction links. It appears to be gone (probably when they did the redesign). Maybe it's a good time to update them of the website new URL.
New visitors are good... might motivate us to write... er, still no IDFRL... ^^;;;
Mark Poa
Posted on May 11, 2003, 11:40 PM from IP address 210.14.31.18
You know, I remember seeing that the guy who used to write "Last Exit before Toll" (Ryan Matthews?) was writing a column somewhere else. I wondered if he was still writing Last Exit.
I guess not.
Dammit, I liked Last Exit.
Posted on May 12, 2003, 2:17 AM from IP address 203.20.192.9
It was a quiet night in South Town tonight, which was pretty ironic
given the rampaging robot, giant monsters and 50 foot naked hottie
melee yesterday. but the people of this not so fair city are
notoriously jaded, and as such, things that normally stay on CNN for
weeks on end recieve barely a passing notice in South Town.
Which is why on this fine day, People were partying down at Club
Shorty's Dance Dance Rave-o-lution, which was packed and presenting a
most delicious atmosphere for getting jiggy with it, shaking your
groove thang, or in the case of a certain master ninja, doing your
damndest to get lucky with at least two fine foxy ladies.
Which is exactly what Sub-Zero, the chinese ninja warrior with his
heart SO COLD, was trying to do. To be precise, he was trying to score
with both the women known simply as Frost and Nina Williams.
"So ladies," he said, mustering all his skills as a playa, "how about
you, me, and you come back to my place. I mean, I know that," gesturing
to Frost, "are a cold-hearted high-horsed backstabbing powergamer,
while your freind here is a ruthless assassin who's been in the deep
freeze and under some mexican demon's mind control. But hey, both of
you like the cold, I like the cold, so let's say you two and me head
back to my place and warm things up, okay?"
The two women sat there silent in their refusal, choosing to sip their
drinks. Sub-Zero was about to Launch into another attempt to woo their
frigid hearts, when he spied the notorious batwoman Jenny in her full
chiropteran glory. which was to say, bare-ass naked save for
strategicly placed tufts of fur, doing the Batusi under the pulsing
strobe lights. having heard the rumors of her loose morals and
attraction to older men, he danced his way over to play his masculine
wiles once again.
Unfortunately, he never got the chance to find out if he could pull it
off this time, as he was suddenly pulled to the side and into the gaze
of Fuuma.
"Hey," Sub-Zero said cooly, "Nice to see you here, Fuuma. I take it
you have come seeking my aid in attaining the secret arts of nookie?"
"Not exactly," said the blue-haired kid next to fuuma, whom Sub-Zero
recognized as that Jack kid who fuuma was on the side of fighting Giga
Bowser. "But we do need your help."
Not that Sub-Zero was listening, as he was paying more attention to
the spandex-clad platinum blonde with them.
Angel, recognizing the look on Sub-Zero's face, began to lay on the
charm, by bending forward slightly, and fluttering her eyes.
"We would really appreciate the help of a big, strong, experienced
ninja like you, Sub-Zero."
Sub-Zero, having had a few beers earlier tonight in addition to a rum
and coke, was all ears. "No problem there, lady. After all, I swore to
Fuuma that5 I would always be there for him when the need arose, and
my word is my bond, and together, we can overcome any obstacle. After
all, who was it that kicked Goro in the teeth."
"I believe that was Liu Kang," Jae replied, glacing out the club's
front window.
"True enough, but who was it that bested Quan Chi's deadly alliance?"
"That was Kung Lao," Angel said.
"With some help that is from your's truly. but Who was it that beat
both Moloch and Drahimin?"
"I think that was Scorpion." fumma scratched his head in memory
"Fraid not, my freind, I was there when Scorpy got chucked into the
abyss, and it was I who avenged him upon the Oni."
Jae, Angel and Fuuma applauded this oft-forgotten facet of fighting
legendry, and once the clapping died down, Sub-Zero spoke once more.
"So," he said, picking a martini from a passing waitress, "Exactly
what sort of trouble do you guys need my help in fighting?"
Jae was about to reply, when he again looked outside, then shouted to
everyone in the club "Everybody down!" as he tackled Fuuma and Angel
to safety, and Sub-Zero, his life honed by a lifetime of Ninja
training, followed suit, as the front of the club exploded inward
amidst a shower of broken glass, dust and smoke. And when the smoke
cleared, the screaming began, for standing in the whole it had just
created in the rave-house wall, was a Colossal arachnid composed of
stone both solid and molten, a mix of steam and dust rising from it
as the creature lurched forward. While closely resembling a spider,
the frightened clubbers watched as a long, sinuous tail that was
barbed like that of a scorpion arose from the creature's abdomen.
It's great head looked about, eyes of faceted sapphires gleaming
under the remaining light.
Fuuma pointed at the creature from behind an upturned table. "Um,
that," he said softly, answering his feind's question a little late.
The Monster roared with enough ferocity to shake the ceiling, and then,
much to everyone's surprise spoke.
"Kim Jae Hoon," It bellowed, it's voice harsh and inhumanly throaty,
"Surrender your power, and die!"
Jae looked at Fuuma. "Shouldn't that be 'Or die'?"
[---]
Forgot About Jae
Chapter 43: Race For your Life, Kim Jae Hoon!
Syndicated weekly by Shelby 'Darkheart One' Scott
Used to taunt Impro-eating tree by Jim 'Grahf316' Eperson
[---]
Last time On Forgot About Jae:
- Mama Mia! Luigi's a chick. Don't ask.
- Dong began his career as Dooms stunt double.
- Thank Dan It's Friday! But there's still work to be done.
- Jae and Angel went Swashbuckling
- AIEE! Togera!
- AIEE! Giant robot!
- AIEE! Giant monkey!
- Aiee! Aliens! Want! Wimmens! Underhings!
- AIEE! Giant nympho Muppet!
- Angel's huge! No, the other meaning!
- And a good brawl was had by all.
[---]
Posted on May 11, 2003, 8:21 PM from IP address 24.42.201.146
Very good chapter. With all the storyline stuff that's perpetually added, it's nice to see a self-contained chapter similar to the earlier ones.
- Good follow-up on the Jae/Angel bits, especially "Do my breasts look bigger than they were a moment ago?" Once I read the title, I knew exactly where this was going.
- Dong as Doom was great. I'd love to see this gimmick stick around some more. Something about Dr. Doom saying, "You shall obtain the popcorn," had me rolling.
- Eiji's "Trevor" email segueing into the Ghostdusters scene was well done.
- Lots of format problems, but I still found it easy to follow.
- Nice use of the War of the Monsters characters (I've still yet to play it). Still, where's Mecha Sweet Tooth?
- I didn't really like the Pocahontas thing, but mainly because I already used the "ENUCK CHUCK!" gag for Bad Mr. Frosty.
- Same with the "want pants too!" bit. I actually used that in RECBT, but with the Jojo villains. And it worked a little better because Vanilla Ice really does need some goddamn pants. Seriously, I'd almost like him as much as Hol Horse if he didn't walk around in a speedo.
All in all, great chapter.
Gavok somberly walks away and hitchhikes to the sound of sad piano music
Posted on May 10, 2003, 12:26 AM from IP address 66.66.35.107
The "I want pants" part was a bit strained, I agree, but I didn't know "I want pants" was done already. I wanted to riff the other Legion of Doom spoof short Cartoon Network did, the one with Aquaman and Wonder Woman tied up, but I couldn't think of a better Disney stand-in for the Powerpuff girls than Gozalin Mallard in her Quiverwing gear (Ariel the ex-mermaid being the stand-in for Aquaman, of course. "My power to talk to fish is no help here!")
I did really enjoy writing Dong trying to be Doom. I was going to have (but forgot to put it in) Dong reading from a little cheat sheet of "Doom Rules." The first rule was "There is no 'I' in 'Doom!'" and the last was "If all else fails, blame Richards!" And Dong screaming "Curse you, Keith Richarrrrds!" over the spilled UFO fuel scene didn't happen as a result.
If we do more of the "Dong pretending to be Doom" stuff, we could put that cheat sheet thing in there, though. Or something like that.
I did the Pocohontas thing as a last-minute idea, so it wasn't the best I could have made it. I needed one more giant woman to really justify a "War of the 50 ft. Women" and got the idea that since I was mixing Superfriends with Kingdom Hearts, merging Apache Chief and Pocohontas seemed natural. Apache Chief sucked about as much as Pocohontas did in my chapter, though. All he ever accomplished was picking people up only to have them blast him in the face with a mind-control ray.
Formatting would have been better too if I had spent more time proofreading, but I was already way over extended so I panicked and sent it ahead. At least I remembered to spell check it...
But all in all I had a blast writing it. I still need to work on making fight scenes longer or more exciting, but I think I did better this time. I have a few ideas for introducing the Ghostdusters to their "Walter Peck" if I get a chance to.
I also decided to make this one self-contained because I got the feeling Grahf probably wanted to do something that I didn't want to spoil by having too many loose ends. I was going to have Phantom lava-bore himself out of the earth looking for Jae in my chapter, only to discover he had tunneled into the bottom of the ocean, but it was a throwaway joke, so I left it out.
Glad you liked it for the most part. The next time in the queue that I'll be able to write I'll be out of school for summer, so I'll have way more time to write and that chapter will be better.
Let me know anything else, and thanks.
JP Chabot
Posted on May 10, 2003, 11:32 PM from IP address 64.12.96.202
...Pokemon are just normal animals, injected with a cocktail of G-Virus and Extract of Politician, created for one sole purpose...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD'S CHEESE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-*cough* cough *hack* wheeze *die*.
Zeroin, a tad hyper today.
Posted on May 9, 2003, 2:30 PM from IP address 63.120.179.155
Though it'll be coming in later than I wanted it to. I'm doing a rush job on it now, a whole bunch of unexpeted, unwanted things happened the past week, but I really wanted to get this in because (depending on how things go in the storyline of FAJ) this specific point in the plot might be the only place to do the chpater I had in mind.
Expect it to be in the inbox by tonight.
JP
Posted on May 8, 2003, 4:51 PM from IP address 63.202.111.62
I decided I didn't particularly like parts of it, and no one seemed to read it anyway, so I never converted it to the new page format back in...uh...2001? But if people are interested, I'm willing to dust off the ol' Umlaut brothers again.
...Actually, upon checking, it's still in the directory. It's still here.
Posted on May 3, 2003, 11:29 AM from IP address 68.35.208.116
gavok, that writing tourney's going to start this afternoon.
also, we need one last guy to get 8 people so we get an even bracket.
the rules are you assemble a group of 5 characters (preferably mainstream marvel/dc), with at least 1 street level guy and at most one sorceror-type character, then write some short fics on how your team could whup the other teams in play.
please provide an immediate response.
thank you.
Posted on May 1, 2003, 1:02 PM from IP address 24.42.201.146
Rick is the anti-hero character from the old beat'em-up series Splatterhouse. You know, he's that guy who looks like a complete ripoff of Jason Voorhees.
Posted on Apr 30, 2003, 5:29 AM from IP address 66.66.35.107
Actually though, I didn't really intend Rick to be based on Brock. It's just that after writing him for a little while I realized that he was pretty much 25% Buck Tuddrussel, 25% Joe the wheelchair-bound neighbor from Family Guy and 50% Brock from Venture Brothers. Then I figured "fuck it" and tossed in the urination gag for the hell of it.
That show really needs to be more than just a one-shot.
Gavok
Posted on Apr 30, 2003, 9:38 PM from IP address 66.66.35.107
Wow. How am I going to do justice to that chapter? I'm going to have to work harder than before and come up with a sizeable chapter. So far all I've done is come up with stuff that avoids the main plot with the elemental spirits and Kyo and stuff. But you've given me a lot to work with (Phantom, yay!)
For one, I just have had a few ideas of what to do with Angel, but I don't believe I've ever played a game with her in it. What kind of attacks does she use and what is her basic style? (In FAJ I think it's already been more than well established what her personality is. Heh.)
The same questions go for Billy Kane, and maybe S-Ko and Zappa.
JP
Posted on Apr 30, 2003, 1:24 PM from IP address 204.75.252.20
>But you've given me a lot to work with (Phantom, yay!)
Grahf is so going to kill me.
>For one, I just have had a few ideas of what to do with Angel, but I don't believe I've ever played a game with her in it. What kind of attacks does she use and what is her basic style?
Her official KOF profile claims she has no style in particular. I'm no expert with playing as her, but most of her moves are based on chain combos. Her only real special ability is to do a rapid dash of about five feet where she's invisible for a split second. With that she can zip past her opponent and hit them from behind or zip into them and spin toss them with her legs while on her back.
In KOF2K2 she was given the People's Elbow as a Hidden SDM attack. Instead of running around, she just zips back and forth before the exaggerated elbow drop. A lot of her attacks have a sense of useless movement. An example would be like instead of just throwing a punch, she would lift one knee, reel back kind of far with her fist and then step forward, letting her opponent have it.
>The same questions go for Billy Kane, and maybe S-Ko and Zappa.
Billy is pretty straightforward. His style revolves around his weapon, a staff that stretches into three pieces, connected by rope. Here are some of his more well-known attacks:
-Lunging his staff forward so it stetches and pokes his opponent.
-Using it to polevault off screen and land elsewhere.
-Twirling it fast and creating a ring of fire. Then he tosses the ring at his opponent.
-Jumping and swatting his staff downward, but when he does it, the end looks like a dozen staffs bunched together (I guess because of the speed).
But keep in mind that Billy's became a giant monster of a man in FAJ, so he may not use the staff quite as much.
Zappa is an odd one. He's a possessed guy who fights with his back arched, swaying to and fro. S-ko is a direct homage to Sadako/Samara from Ringu/The Ring. She only really appears during blocks and during his Instant Kill. During that, she reaches out and tries to grab the opponent's head. If she succeeds, the screen cuts to some weird imagery based on the videotape from The Ring, followed by a message of "DESTROYED!"
Zappa summons ghosts randomly during the fights and they are everything from three ghosts in straightjackets, a dog skeleton with half opaque black skin, a floating sword and some big ghost guy with blue flames (he almost never appears). Once he's hit, his ghost helpers disappear. So fighting as and against him is pretty unpredictable.
I can't remember all of his attacks, but he can use the straightjacket ghosts as projectiles, the dog reaches its neck and skull out of its mouth as an attack, and the sword just stabs and cuts.
could you keep phantom fairly low key in your chapter? I've been hoping to use that critter for some time now and gavok, unaware of your going before me, was kind enough to write the guy in for my use.
you can still use him, It's just I had a few scenes intended for the guy and your tendency towards cliffhangers may foul up what I had in mind.
thank you.
Posted on Apr 30, 2003, 6:00 PM from IP address 24.42.201.146
The general plot of my whole chapter, as it's shaping up (and for once, it's going to resolve most or all of the plot complications it starts up) doesn't involve Phantom at all, so that's not a problem. I just thought it was pretty cool that he entered into play.
JP
Posted on Apr 30, 2003, 6:31 PM from IP address 67.123.220.147
http://puar.iscrappy.com/kof2k2-billy.html Okay, there aren't any actual attacks here, but it does have his intro against Iori where Eiji shows up and that's good enough for me.
Posted on May 1, 2003, 12:26 AM from IP address 66.66.35.107
So lately, all the visited links in IE have been staying their original, un-visited color. All the the links I've visited more than a week or so ago, however, are appropriately darkened. It's tolerable most of the time, but it get annoying on message boards. Anyone seen anything like this before, or have a solution?
Posted on Apr 29, 2003, 4:47 PM from IP address 68.35.208.116
Know how Windows tend to save the adresses of visited pages, so you can go back in case you forgot to make a bookmark? (And also so your boss/wife/parents can spy on you and find out about all the sordid things you do?)
Well, now your comp has stopped doing so. No idea why, but, if you erase those saved adress files, used links should darken properly. Of course, it'll also mean all darkened links will be initially undarkened, but that's a side effect. Should help.
Posted on Apr 29, 2003, 5:33 PM from IP address 193.10.185.3
1) any time Starlin writes Thanos, he makes it a point to retcon any loss on Thanos's part to be all part of his big plots. beaten by thor? nope, just a clone. trapped in a dimensional vortex? no, it was all just a test. Even doctor doom at least has 'setbacks' and defeats
2) post Infinity gauntlet, Thanos is made in starlin's stories to be one of the central protagonists (or the central protagonist once starlin stopped writing adam warlock stories)
3) the bad guy is supposed to be more dangerous to the hero, but not to a point that the hero can't possibly squeak out a win (such as the time Thanos takes a full-power blast from a ticked silver surfer to the face and doesn't blink. even galactus reacts to shots like that.)
4) name thanos' flaws. go on, I dare you. if it's the 'he trips himself over because death doesn't love him and deep down he knows it' self-defeating clause that got written out.
5) anytime Starlin has come back to marvel, he only writes thanos stories.
6) infinity abyss limited series. rightly described as "mastrubatory thanos fantasy", in which thanos mages to destroy a being described as twice as powerful as galactus that he created.
Mr. Wilde, I'm sure you can back up my claims here, would The Agency have an unclaimed hit contract out on this guy?
Posted on Apr 27, 2003, 5:58 PM from IP address 24.42.201.146
The focus of SE is on internet-based, fan-created self-insertions. Almost always has been, with an occasional deviation into shooting everyone.
Thanos is an annoying bastard of a character, a Darkseid ripoff from way back, and the fact that only Starlin is willing to use him these days should be a pretty massive clue just how low Thanos's stock is.
But he's still a canon character.
Once a character enters canon, he is null and void. He will not be in SE, period. There are all sorts of documentable self-inserts in fiction--Clive Cussler's irritating habit of showing up in his own Dirk Pitt novels, Satoshi from the original Japanese Pokemon, Nabeshin, John Byrne's old habit of drawing himself into the occasional page of an occasional comic book (which culminated in Byrne being a full participant/observer in the "Trial of Reed Richards" Fantastic Four storyline), Elminster, the list goes on--but they're all, fortunately or not, canon characters. There are no contracts out on canon characters.
Within what's become the established cosmology of SE, the characters who're actual targets for the Agency are the ones who, via one method or another, have become imposed upon a given Earth from without, by an outside force (i.e. Dreammakers). Even if it'd be oh so very cute, the Agency doesn't put out hits on anyone else, verifiable self-insert or not.
Thomas Wilde
a.k.a. Wanderer
Working on SE, really
Posted on Apr 28, 2003, 2:33 AM from IP address 64.72.51.7
Despite all of that, Thanos w/ Gauntlet is still one of the easiest fighting game bosses ever. Off the top of my head, the only guys I can think of who could be considered easier are Apocalypse and KOF EX Geese Howard (but that's mainly because the game had no AI to speak of). It's even funnier when you realize that since MSH is basically a sequel to XM:CotA, easy Thanos was following up super hard Magneto.
Gavok
FAJ prereaders should check their inboxes sometime this afternoon.
Posted on Apr 28, 2003, 2:56 PM from IP address 66.66.35.107
makes me sad that Chabot gets to go before me (any chance you can ask him to avoid using mr. big and crispy?)
I'm still going over it, but I think that amidst the slaughter IC should be both shreiking at the pain and begging for his life as the 4th member does their business on IC. after all, such curbstomping desreves shreiks of pain and abject gutless begging that falls on deaf ears.
best bit: everyone took three steps back
Posted on Apr 28, 2003, 9:18 PM from IP address 24.42.201.146
If you're in any way offended by kwetching, ranting, complaining and general wallowing in self-pity, click 'back' now. You're warned.
So school's been going seriously pissy the last year. I failed the lit study course last spring, the one that was kinda essential. No prob, I thought, I'll take the necessary courses for fall, then retake the lit course next spring.
Fall goes by, and I think I'm doing all right. I had to drop one course because the schedule was messed up - I had classes at different locations at the same time, sometimes three at the same time. But no, I somehow fail the tests on all three other courses. I thought I was doing well, but apparently I didn't explain things in enough detail. You know, all those things I thought were so obvious they didn't need explaining apparently wasn't. Crap.
Playing Morrowind did detract from my time, too. Shit, that game is addictive.
So spring rolls by. I have to change my plans a lot when I don't get accepted to the courses I signed, because I messed up and sent the papers in too late. Plus I don't get any student money because I didn't take enough points. Fortunately my parents understood the situation and would loan me money to pay rent and food. I don't really want to do that, but had to swallow my pride. Feels like such a parasite.
After lots of phone banter with student funding, I find that if I can take at least 10 points, I'll get cash. So no prob, just take a retest on two of the courses. The phil. course I had I don't know how to retake, since the tutor vanished off to England and never answered my e-mails. I sign up to write my exam, opting for a three-year plan instead of the planned four-year.
Then I fuck up and loiter away most time. I study well for the first re-test (Adaptive robotics), but no, I fail again. Crap, crap, crap.
Getting more depressed and irritated at my inability to get anything done, which in turn makes it even harder to study. Great crap.
The retest on the other course (Connectionism and AI) comes by, and I get the offer to write a thesis instead. 7000 words, but I get a month to do it. Great offer, right? 'Cept I loiter away that time too ("Oh, I still have three weeks. I don't have to do it right now...") Deadline's the 30th, and so far I've gotten little beyond nowhere. Huge crap, the size of which the gods themselves never seen.
So, yeah. Drop that rather than spend the last few days agonizing. Focus on my current courses and my exam paper. That one probably won't be finished on time, but I can get an extension over summer. It'll have to take the time it takes.
Fortunately I've got a good chance at a job over summer, so I should be able to pile up some cash. That's a relief, at least.
Yeah, I'm deep in dodo, and I'd probably be the king of the procrastinators, except true procrastinators don't care.
Sometimes I wish I hadn't done so well in school previously. All those years of progress apparently gave my fucked-up dumb head some notion of being 'smart', so I think I can accomplish anything. If I had more challenge, I might've actually, y'know, been able to handle it better. No self-dicipline at all. Reality's harsh, isn't it?
So, yeah. I've got loving parents that'll loan me cash for the rest of spring, no matter how much I screw up. I've got a job, hopefully, for summer. I should be able to score at least ten points for my courses and ten more if I finish my exam paper... though I have little faith in myself to do so. (I have time and resources, sure, just not faith to think that I won't fuck up again, y'know?)
I dunno what's worse: going under and knowing it, or seeing a chance to get up and succeed, yet keep fumbling it.
Life just sucks sometimes, doesn't it? Oh well. I'm off for a long walk in the rain to breathe and think, then back to do some non-thinking.
Posted on Apr 27, 2003, 1:17 PM from IP address 193.10.185.3
Yeek. That's some harsh goings-on you're dealing with.
(Un)fortunately, it's a lesson well-learned. You've taken a good step forward by acknowledging your problems and shortcomings. Now it's time to beat those suckers back.
For what it's worth, I'm rooting for you.
Posted on Apr 27, 2003, 7:05 PM from IP address 68.13.31.181
I would have bought the T-shirt, but I didn't get around to it...
Not to make your problems seem trivial--that's the last thing I want to do, because I KNOW how difficult these problems are to deal with! You don't want to know how closely I came to not graduating...at least, not graduating the year that I did. It took seven years, but it could easily have been eight. But I stuck with it, and earned my email address. And I bet you will too!
(...now I just need to find time to get a good job...)
John
^_^; as always
Posted on Apr 28, 2003, 12:01 AM from IP address 24.47.110.241
You know, this all sounds eerily familiar. I did well at high school and the first couple of years of university, then totally and utterly fucked up, and kept on fumbling all my attempts to recover, get up and start succeeding again. I was supposed to graduate in 1996. Because of depression, procrastination and almost not-caring, it took me until mid-1999 and it still haunts me and stuff.
You might need to take some time off (like six months or so), if that's possible in Sweden. Because if every time you try getting up and succeeding again, and you've only just recently had a crashing failure that's staring you in the face... well, it's hardly the best, is it?
So, um, yes. Feel free to vent, we won't mind.
And one last thing, because I just can't not be silly:
(dons silly hat)
(waves banners, penants, and Jonatan-plushies around)
You can do it! Go go Jonatan! Rah!
Posted on Apr 28, 2003, 5:53 PM from IP address 203.51.234.86
