Castle Paradox

[Ronin Catholic]

While all this is stuff I'd like to do, I don't feel any sort of urge to hurry up about doing it. I'm happy with my life as it is and wouldn't terribly much mind dying at any time.

5. Lose weight. I've dropped a considerable load since I began having to pay for my own food and/pr eat out of the trash, but I'm still rather fat. Perhaps I should say "get in shape" rather than "lose weight"; 230 pounds is healthy if you're strong enough to justify it.

4. Kill someone. I'd need a very good reason to do this, and since I don't have one, I'm quite likely to die without ever doing it.

3. Finish all the fanfiction I've been writing. I've got a lot of stories started, and enjoy writing all of them. But for some reason I don't seem to finish stuff very often.

2. Finish Maces Wild. This game has lost of goodness waiting to happen, and I want it to be well remembered. I just don't know where all my inpiration went.

*Drumroll*

1. Have sex with a woman. A human woman. Of the same species that I am. To whom I would be married.
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[jabbercat]

I am genuinely quite worried at number 4. That is meant to be a joke, right?
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[Bob the Hamster]

I agree! Ronin, 1,2,3 and 5 are all quite admirable, but 4 is alarming. I am glad at least that you qualified it by saying "I'd need a very good reason to do this".

Honestly, I am sure if I had a good enough reason to kill I might... but that belongs on my nightmares list, not on my goals list :P

[Bagne]

Movies and video games often have this weird thing where killing is equated with heroism. Like ... I donno, Metal Gear Solid.

I can understand wanting to be in a situation that demands an act of heroism on my part - but I don't agree with the movies - I think heroism very rarely involves inflicting violence.

I often wonder if I would have volunteered for WW2.
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[NeoSpade]

[Bagne]

Hey man, biochem is stupendously cool! That's not boring at all.
I wanna build a DNA computer.

Methinks my grandma is Welsh, but I didn't know that it was a language :-S (she only speaks English). What is it, Germanic?

In MGS I remember Snake describing how people are savage animals, that war and violence is inevitable, and that this justifies his actions (killing). This was long ago with the original game, and I was a wee lad, so maybe I's misremembering.
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[Fullcircle]

I think you're probably a little mixed up about MGS's message- the series actually (and oddly, considering the setting) has a continuing message of pacifism, the futility of war, and the manipulation of soldiers to achieve the agendas of politicians. For instance, one of the sections of MGS3 has Snake wading through a river populated with the ghosts of every single enemy that has been killed throughout the entire game, each one of them asking why he was killed. It's a pretty harrowing part of the game, and helps to drive home the message. This article does a pretty good job of explaining- http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_29/177-Metal-Gear-Pacifist.
[/rant]. Sorry about that, I'm just a huge MGS fan.

On Topic:
5. Own some more guitars. As in, more than two (18 would be heaven for me).
4. Have a pretty nice house.
3. Get an actual career. Not a job, a career.
2. Earn a degree, preferably in something that I enjoy/is actually useful.
1. Get married, and be a good husband.
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[Ronin Catholic]

Just remember: Never bring light to my lair, and always let me make your face the greatest in Coridai.
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'Twas that way when I got here"

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[Bagne]

Hey - this might be interesting, let's also make a list of cool-things-that-we-have-done-which,-had-we-not-yet-done-them-would-likely-still-be-on-our-'to-do'-list:

1) Climbed the walls of the UofS chemistry building (to the flag-pole at the very top of it's castle-like roof)
2) Helped design a gamma ray detector for nuclear physics research
3) Went on a mountainside fossil dig with a palaeobotanist
4) Played professionally with a symphony, and toured France with a youth orchestra
5) Walked on water across a toxic uranium-polluted lake at a north-Saskatchewan uranium mine ... during which time I probably should have drowned

Okay, fine ... 5) should probably instead say "walked on a layer of floating vegetation across a deep, toxic lake of uranium-polluted water". This is probably the stupidest thing I've ever done, so I try to describe it in extra-awesome terms. Also, I didn't mean to walk across that lake, I only realized I was standing over a lake when I was half-way across.
I also feel like mentioning that: 6) there has been an elephant in my backyard ... but I wasn't responsible for putting the elephant there, so that maybe doesn't count.

Yeah, I'm probably mixed up about MSG, I only saw 80% of the original, and I was 13, and I haven't seen any of the others.
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[Baconlabs]

Re: Bagne

1) See and shop in downtown Manhattan, NY
2) Venture to the southern islands (Neherlands Antilles in this case)
3) Acquire a significant amount of facial hair (goatee yay)
4) Build a snowman (you'd be surprised, snow's been very rare around here lately)
5) Locate the best free RPG Maker ever

[NeoSpade]

Things I have done:

5) Been mistaken for a woman by close friends and family members, without trying.

4) Living the true hippy life; Never eatting meat, walking everywhere, never cutting my hair and occationally saving small animals from cat.

3) (Accidentally) Dived off a cliff in Anglesea that was roughly the equivilant of a 4 story tall building, and recieved no bodily harm.

2) Overtook and jumped onto a moving vehicle whilst wearing full platemail.

1) Was given my dream come true last July, where I preformed Hotel California to a large live audience on my EDS-1275...and was given the smoke machine and all the lighting effects to mess around with...

...Maybe this explains why my first list was so dull :p

[Rya.Reisender]

[Bagne]

Re Hitler babies

I wouldn't do it. I don't think it would make much difference.
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[Bob the Hamster]

A cool science fiction story would be one where a time traveler goes back and assassinates hitler, and returns to their own time to be horrified to discover that rommel won the war, and the whole course of history has been shifted.

Somebody has probably already written it.

[Sh4d0ws]

Hm, I'd say:

1). Become an entrepreneur of some sort.
2). Grow a beard.
3). Donate an organ to science.
4). Have a near-death experience..
5). Discover the purpose of meaning.