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Geek Culture / My 2012 resolutions... and yours?- also Karate

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MrValentine
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In short my New Year resolutions for 2012 consist of...

- Completing several published applications both games and apps....

- Learn more advanced coding techniques...

- Develop applications that benefit users at all times. No time wasting apps...

- Support other developers through all my projects for 2012 and future. Not just once but continually...

- Set goals that are achievable...

- Make more friends and fewer enemies... [The last one cannot be helped sometimes]

- Have Fun... you have just one life... make the best of it always!!!

So what say you? [you do not need to match 7 just post as many as you like]

These are in no particular order my top 7 new year resolutions... yes 7 is my lucky number...

I have more but these are what come to mind for now as I might rejig it soon as your allowed 7 days into the year to clarify and revise your resolutions [my rules]

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Seppuku Arts
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Err...well...what would I like to do in 2012?

-Not having the world end would be nice.

-Get thin again
-Get fit again
-Start up squash again - get back into Karate too
-Get a full-time permanent job - nothing temporary or part time
-Finish a game project
-Finish my novel
-Break my addiction from playing MMORPG's
-Get back into spoken word performances
-Start smoking and the give it up


-Not kill the first person who makes a new years desktop resolution joke, I tried that last year, sadly...the guy didn't make it. *Sigh* why do they always have to be so young?


I thought you only need 1 new year's resolution, but those are all my goals for 2012 anyway.

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-Rule the world(though understandably this takes some time)

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Yah that ruling the world thing could take some time... But working on it always helps, right?!?!?

Anyway, my main resolution is to pick my lazy butt up and stop procrastinating and finish the console by May at least!

There are 10 types of people: those who read binary and those who don't.
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Gather as much information about my environment as i can before the dream starts collapsing! [2012 ]

Cheers,

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-Buy a gaming rig between £800-1100.
-Sort out wiring for my broadband.
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Get out of Prison.

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Keith... I thought it was the other way around?

ee?

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Prison?

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- get a working demo done in Unity 3D
- get a full time job. i only have a part time job that pays good enough to live with roommates
- get a good PCB to start on a project like Origenboard/Pandaboard
- On January start on my pro wrestling training that I've already agreed to the trainer.
- loose my gut and become slightly muscular
- start going back to the gym.
- wash my car
- maintenance on my car
- fix up my car. 2005 Scion xA aka toyota ist.(cosmetics)
- Prototyping character fashion design using dolls and fabrics (this is what i wanted to show my creativity of my character fashion designs.)



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Quote: "get back into Karate too"

@seppuka - Thats cool, what style of Karate do you do? I Train In Tang Soo Tao

my resolution this year is to be ready for my black belt grading in November

hardest new year resolution I've ever made.

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Seppuku Arts
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I used to do Shotokan Karate, I actually stopped a few months before my black belt grading because I spent more time studying for exams and then going to Uni where I couldn't find a decent club. however, I'm sure your grading will be fine, you got plenty of time to practise.

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Keith killed a guy, didn't you know?

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Best of luck mate, my friend just started work as a prison officer, he too must be insane.

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Wait... what? So huh... fill me in...

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Heh, I believe I've mentioned this a few ages ago, but I also take Shotakon karate. I've been practicing it for nearly 2 years now. I'm only a 4th kyu. Sensei's pretty strict on testing... Sometimes it's nearly 6-7 months before he grades people.

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Keith works in a prison...




...as a snitch.
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Quote: "Heh, I believe I've mentioned this a few ages ago, but I also take Shotakon karate. I've been practicing it for nearly 2 years now. I'm only a 4th kyu. Sensei's pretty strict on testing... Sometimes it's nearly 6-7 months before he grades people."


sweet mate, good stuff.

At our school we too have to demonstrate the necessary qualities before being offered the opportunity to grade.

If you train hard, attend class, listen and apply the information you can do a low level grading in about 3 months and a higher level gup(kue) grading in about 6 months.
(my advanced red grading took 6 months)

being ready for a black belt grading in November is a huge ask and Kiosa(teacher) says I should set out a training plan and aim for it.

hence my resolution.

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- Finish and release a game.
- Make lots of money.
- Become famous.
- Make new game dev team.
- Release awesome game that I've designed. (please contact if interested :p)
- Have beautiful woman feed me grapes and Pepsi while I game/dev

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I don't have any, I am perfect.

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- Get fit.
- Realize my game design dreams.


That' is pretty much what I want to acomplish this year

Take care folks.

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Finish my game, Malevolence, by the quoted release date :-P

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I am resolved to not make any resolutions this year, and so I have already accomplished everything I wanted to this year. Now it's time to take a break.

!retupmoc eht ni deppart m'I !pleH

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Two big things:
-Keep studying math (I'm starting get to the crazy awesome stuff. So far just discrete math but once I'm done with that [soon] I can move onto analysis)
-Learn Special Relativity (Definitely possible by the end of the year)

I have a crapton more stuff I want to do (programming and game making included) but those are the two biggest ones.

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Learn to dance.

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- Getting up early
- Painting and drawing a lot more
- Cooking more
- Starting a serious relationship
- Getting some cool part time jobs through the year
- Finding an apprenticeshipplace towards the end of the year
- having a good time.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Seppuku Arts
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Quote: "Heh, I believe I've mentioned this a few ages ago, but I also take Shotakon karate. I've been practicing it for nearly 2 years now. I'm only a 4th kyu. Sensei's pretty strict on testing... Sometimes it's nearly 6-7 months before he grades people."


Nice! I knew somebody on the forum had mentioned it, in fact I think more than 1 person has, I just couldn't remember who. The fact your Sensei is strict is a good thing, it's one of the things I love about Shotokan, because it actually pays off. When it comes to around 4th Kyu it pretty much is 6-7 months for us too, though for the earlier grade we managed to get people grading every 3 months.

Generally they'll only let you attempt a grading if they think you're ready. Though I almost failed my 1st Kyu on grounds of etiquette, I wasn't being rude, I was just exhausted as I was practising too much whilst the lower grades were grading. So a tip there, if you're waiting to go through, don't do too much practising because if they ask you to go through all the Kumite and Kata up to your current grade (our judges were cruel like that) then you might not have the energy to do it with the best etiquette.

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-Pass my second year of university as well as I did in 2011. If not better.
-When in uni there isn't much time for other stuff but study I have found so... Study lots.
-Socially gather.
-Moving out of my dorm to flat with my girlfriend so I have to apply myself to cooking/cleaning and do my part!!
-Program more on projects I want to do, not just overdoing my university work. Although it is good practise

Er.

-Go to gym more since I still have a year of free gym access.
-Eat healthier.

Lots more but I'm too tired to think right now.

January 2nd and still recovering...

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-going to bed earlier
-get through school
-write more short stories
-Get back on track with the Open Source Shooter
-Finish Mega Mash Mothers

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Quote: "Get out of Prison."


You'll never get out, not after what you did. I can't beleive you the entire thing. Yous in there for life Mister!

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Quote: "- having a good time."


That's a good one
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- Relationship
- Better sport seasons
- Finish my oft-delayed and oft-rewritten project, WasTeLanD
- Complete InGaCreMo for once
- Pass my college classes with A's again
- Socialize more with different people

Follow WTLD's progress on Twitter
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-well I guess I'll attempt to beat all the games I just bought on steam, but its gonna be hard with all the games I bought.
(all for under $50!)


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Maintain my current level in math, English and physics and improve chemistry.

Get my GCS account up and running and making some fpsc weapons that are of an acceptable standard.


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@ Karate sub-discussion,

Yeah, it's generally 3 months at least for some of the earlier ranks to be graded. I also think it's good for teachers to be strict. If you're not ready for the next rank, then some of the techniques introduced to you might be overwhelming.

The dojo I'm currently in focuses a lot on the control of power. Every technique is to be thrown at full power, including blocks and the like. Our sensei teaches us that our blocks are more suitable for strikes rather than blocks. Sort of less traditional, I suppose, but he's more into the real life application of things anyways. For example, during one of the recent student's test for their black belt, sensei introduced a pretty difficult challenge. He held up a ball point pen straight up with his middle and pointing finger and also his thumb. The student was required to take a stance and strike at the pen with full power and stop the punch before it's knocked out of the teacher's finger's. Obviously, not expecting the test, the student missed the pen completely or just knocked it out of his fingers after a few tries, but never completed the test perfectly. So the teacher failed him and told him he'd test him again when he was ready.

Needless to say, though, that that student carries around a pen with him almost wherever he goes, asking people to hold it up for him, haha.

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-Get my driver's license back and stay seizure free
-Finish my game
-Live everyday as happily as I possibly can

Quote: "- Socialize more with different people"

That one too

"So hold your head up high and know. It's not the end of the road"

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go to sleep at night.
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nice pen test.
I like the sound of your sensei.

reminds me slightly of our candle test.

our blocks are used as strikes too.

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Your Sensei sounds like he has the right idea. We practised control through sparring, but the pen test seems like a good way to get somebody thinking about it, but also a good way to practice without having a sparring partner, so useful homework that doesn't involve flooring your mates. I generally practised it against the wall...and my dad, but then he studied Karate with him, so the perfect excuse to beat him up (and for him to beat me up in return). However, he continued to do Karate when I stopped and is coming up to do his 2nd dan, meaning I've got some catching up to do.

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- Make more friends.
- Create more games.
- Get more sleep.
- Save more money for my new computer.
- Get rid of my depression. ( it really sucks sometimes )

@ Venge

That made my day . Thanks !!!

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@ Karate sub-discussion,
do carry on I am enjoying reading- you have my approval for the SubNess of the topic

@ Venge, Please do elaborate or in case I did get the joke lol

@ Norion, I know the feeling man DEPP is a right bother...

@ TheConnorian, you will never succeed hahahahaha as long as you remain a member of the forums... that one is impossible... these forums keep me awake til 7am lol

@ Prison topic... seriously shed some light here I am curious

@ All... argh too many to reply on but keep them coming

EDIT

DEPP

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Interestingly enough, statistics show that 88 percent of new years resolutions fail!

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but then again 76.8% of all statistics are made up


Hmm, I wonder what's coming in 2011?
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And then Statistics are just Numbers ^^ People are Real

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DBD79 for such blasphemy you are hereby ordered to sit with this silly looking pear on your head and sit on the naughty step.

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Quote: "And then Statistics are just Numbers ^^ People are Real"

100% of people decapitated by an axe while they sleep die, but you're right, numbers aren't real people are. See you at midnight ಠ_ಠ

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Ahahahahaha WTH

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If you smoke you should resolve to give that up this year, because 100% of people who smoke die. That statistic is true!

Brian.

!retupmoc eht ni deppart m'I !pleH

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Quote: "If you smoke you should resolve to give that up this year, because 100% of people who smoke die. That statistic is true!
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Thats true as someone that does not smoke may be smoking passively... [second hand smokers lol eww

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...and in my home town there's an average of 3.5 people in each household...

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Wow...

So something like this?



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@ Venge - Curse you I was going to post that

-don't burn spaghetti

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