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Geek Culture / "100 things to do before you die"

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MikeB
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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 16:56 Edited at: 10th Jul 2007 13:55
Ok, the idea of this thread is that each poster posts ONE thing to do before you die.

As you can probably guess I'm aiming for 100 posts, but as people comment it will likely go over that.

To make it easier for me to update my list, if you are commenting rather than posting a thing to do could you put this at the top of your post:

=======I AM COMMENTING=======


Mine is: Play a major role in the making of a successful game


Ok, this is the list of things so far:

1. Play a major role in the making of a successful game <-Eldest Dragon
2. Skydive <-Zotoaster
3. Grow an Afro <-VanB
4. Become immortal <-Dazzag (Probably the best thing actually...)
5. Go on XFactor <-Fallout
6. Smash a car with a big hammer <-Lucifer (Good idea)
7. Speak over 4 different languages <-Grandma (I'm a quarter of the way there...)
8. Go into space
9. Uh...let's keep this suitable people
10. Stand ontop of the eifel tower
11. Join the army for 4-6 years
12. Make a million dollars
13. Make, and eat, an exact replica of those sandwiches that Shaggy and Scooby used to eat
14. Sue someone for a few mil
15. be at the centre of some government scandal and be given a name like "the key keeper" by the media, and my whereabouts will be a mystery until one day i break my silence condemning corrupt politicians to their fate. Then in my will I'll say that I made the whole thing up.
16. See Earth from outer space - it must be such a beautiful view.
17. Have a kid and raise him/her - to leave at least something here on Earth.
18. Do or create something to be remembered by.
19. Buy 7 nuclear bombs, and aim them at the moon....
20. Rule the world.
21. Meet Chuck Norris, and not die.
22. Yell "YAY!" before dieing, to try and see what people think.
23. Watch FLCL.
24. Meet Bill Gates.
25. Get Married to the girl I love who loves me, regardless of what else happens
26. I would like to finish my illustrated book before I die. I've already missed my last deadline.
27. live in a very strange country <-cuoldn't resist (this was not an actual thing that someone posted as a "something to do")
28. Master a musical instrument.
29. Start a musical in the the middle of the street
30. Create a first mmorpg with dark basic pro
31. Grow a really big beard then run around everywhere pretending to be captain caveman <-My favourite so far
32. Eat a whole gallon of pork and beans in one sitting.
33. breathe
34. visit North Korea
35. Create a large company in less than 3 days, which would out do Microsoft, and whatever Mexican company out-did them. Then, you can point and laugh at everyone below you.
36. Kill your evil twin.
37. Single-handedly create a succesful next-gen game before I turn
38. See Rammstein live
39. Successfully find Bigfoot.
40. Drive a flying ice cream truck
41. Publish a book. (I'm working on this at the moment...wish me luck...I'll need a LOT...)
42. slap a bald man on the back of the head. (harsh person)
43. Say every word in the English language (how about every other word. Then it would be "the language". Get it?)
44. Get saved spiritually (the only deep and meaningful one on this list pretty much)
45. Paint a self portrait. (Van B, I thought that was your avatar )
46. Build a house.
47. find a game dev team in my city familiar wit everthing i use.
48. sell a cheap feaking game for 50 bucks and get alot of sells (I think lots of big game companies have already done that. See Jeku's cartoon in the "TGC Comics" thread about Madden '08.





Enjoy,


Mike

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:07
Grow an afro


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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:13
Discover how to become immortal.

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:18
Go on XFactor.

I was gonna say fly, but I reckon Skydive covers that sensation.

I think Dazzag might agree with me on this one though:

Push a fast car to its limits.


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Quote: "Push a fast car to its limits"
Yep. Although which limits? Fastest acceleration was easy enough, must admit top speed I didn't quite make (limited at 155mph I think. I only made 135mph before bottling it). But the going around corners stupidely I was never that great at. Even though the Scoobie was awesome at that. Think the main reason was ploughing a Ford Puma off a roundabout and off the road within the 1st week of getting it as a company car when racing my boss in his Saab Aero (I won, but didn't know the breaking of the new car really well). Never took a corner like I used to after that.

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buy a car and just wreck it with a big hammer.. yeah..



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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:25 Edited at: 4th Jul 2007 17:26
Saying that, my friend in his one-off-an-M3 BMW is nutty about cornering and sliding about. I remember once being behind him in the Scoobie while taking a tight bend onto an M4 sliproad. We were belting it some but I had to lay off a bit when his car started fish tailing like no tomorrow (was really really wet). Afterwards he laughed and said how it was great rear wheel racing type driving. Erm, nope, I thought he had a puncture or something. My car might as well as been in total dry conditions at 10mph. Loved that car...

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:27
Quote: "Cehers"


Mwuhahaha you're lying in bed right now.

Ok I'll stop being immature and act my age now.


Mike

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:29
Rats. The same thing happened last time I mis-spelled Cheers. Do people lie in wait for it or something?

And no, I was swapping between MSN sessions and my work VPN, and cocked up a bit. Too much at once. No excuse though...

Cheers

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:33
Speak 4 different languages. (or more if you wish ofcourse, just a minimum )

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:39
**** CHAT ****

I'm not really a nutter either, but I'm getting better. Acceleration is easy. My nan could floor an accelerator pedal. Top speed is nigh on impossible. The fastest I've been is 140, so pretty much the same as you. Apparently my car is capable of up to 170mph, and there's no way in hell I'll find a road long enough, straight enough, with few enough police, and few enough pot holes to try that out (I'd be too scared to).

What I really mean is, you gotta find a road with clear visibility, with non blind corners, and lots of of them, where you're not going to put another driver at risk, and bloody rag it! I've still not really pushed my car yet. I got a little bit of oversteer last week while coming off a roundabout in the wet. Unfortunately cars like mine and your ex scooby have to be going very fast to reach their limits. But man and machine pushed to the limits is definitely an experience. When I drive anywhere, I keep my eyes open for that safe stretch of country road with good visibility, good corners and no curbs! so I can go back there and rag the tits of my car later.

Still looking.


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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:48
Stand on top of the Eiffel Tower.

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 17:49
Quote: "Stand on top of the Eiffel Tower."


On the pointy bit at the very top?


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Quote: "Acceleration is easy"
Yeah true. Although not so much for my friend who had a Focus RS. Torque steer like no tomorrow that did. Pretty fast though for what it was. As for top speeds I was never so bothered (empty middle of nowhere dual carriageway at 3am is just right). I just wanted to get to 100mph as fast as possible. Used to *love* those Elises, and they did a good job to 60mph (friend had the model that does it in about 5.2 secs), but you could leave them behind upto 100mph.

Quote: "Stand on top of the Eiffel Tower"
Done that. It's a bit cold in november. There is a wax work effort on one of the highest outside points. I mean the wall changes from metal to glass and you see this little room with these 2 wax work efforts inside. Well weird when nowhere else does this in the tower.

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Have se... erm, best not say .

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Go into space

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How about that van surfing like they did in Teen Wolf? Always wanted to do that. Unfortuantly I never had a friend with a van. Otherwise I would have done that. Honest...

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Oh, and Long island ice tea like they do them in Dubai. Should be illegal with the amount of alcohol they put in them (in pint glasses).

Ooh, talking about alcohol, everyone should do a yard of ale at least once. Is an experience I can tell you...

Cheers

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 19:07
Make a million dollars.

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Make, and eat, an exact replica of those sandwiches that Shaggy and Scooby used to eat...

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Save up a fair bit of change (say about £50k will do, or about $100k for US) then blow it all on something really amazing but you know cannot be justified. Totally amazing feeling. I remember buying my £2.5k TV and feeling slightly giddy at the time. My £20k car was also one of those tight chested dry mouthed experiences as I knew it would depreciate like a rock. And it did. 4 years later got about £3k for it (although was an auction site as I was too lazy and was leaving the country the week later. Still wouldn't have got more than about £5-6k though). Total loss of £17k in the end ($34k) plus all the costs inbetween cost a *lot*. Great car though...

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Sue someone for a few mil

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these lists always get given such a morbid title, why not "100 things to do while you're alive"

for me...

be at the centre of some government scandal and be given a name like "the key keeper" by the media, and my whereabouts will be a mystery until one day i break my silence condemning corrupt politicians to their fate. Then in my will I'll say that I made the whole thing up.

I don't have a sig, live with it.
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For the record people, I don't want to go on XFactor.


....


... or do I?




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Oh, that reminds me. I'd love to be a guest on Conan O'Brien. But I'd have to be famous somehow, soo... yah.

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Start a musical in the the middle of the street

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Try not to die.

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Quote: "Try not to die."


That's two of you...

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cover my house with chrome plating and line it with blue neon lights (just to see if the neighbors share my unique decorating ideas)

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Perhaps it should be update your "100 things to do before you die" thread....

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Quote: "7. Speak over 4 different languages <-Grandma (I'm a quarter of the way there...)"


Then learn boy!

I couldn't live with myself if i only knew 1 language, there's so much to gain by pushing yourself to learn another language. I find it fun actually and very rewarding.

By 2010 i will speak 5 languages and understand 7....and then i'm off going crazy traveling.

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Quote: "Perhaps it should be update your "100 things to do before you die" thread....

Cheers"




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Quote: "Oh, and Long island ice tea like they do them in Dubai"

As opposed to a Long Island ice tea from long island, lol sorry, had to say that

I dunno, I'm pretty sure I'm going to run for President when I'm 35. I just have to be famous enough to do it, lol. So that gives me eight years to make something of myself . Maybe Lewis Black will be my running mate . Anyway, that's what I want to do before I die.. become the President of the United States of America.

Another thing I'd love to do before I die is see MISoft Studios become the first self-publishing independent game studio in the world to compete with major "mainstream" companies. Kind of silly, since if we get that big we'd more than likely be considered mainstream . But whatever, I get to have my dreams lol.

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I can speak 3 languages.
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Quote: "That's two of you..."


I actually meant, try not to die before its time to die. Don't die before you have to die.



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Quote: "Stand on an asteroid"


Zotoaster,

With the asteroid heading towards earth you may get your chance LOL

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Quote: "I can speak 3 languages.
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Be happy?"


No! NEVER! *foams from mouth*

....ok then, but only if you grow an afro, and a green one at that.

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- See Earth from outer space - it must be such a beautiful view.
- Have a kid anf raise him/her - to leave at least something here on Earth. (Yeah I know everyone with babies will laugh at having that as wish but I really want that, a year or 10 and we'll see again.)
- Do or create something to be remembered by.

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Buy 7 nuclear bombs, and aim them at the moon....

Rule the world.

Meet Chuck Norris, and not die.

Yell "YAY!" before dieing, to try and see what people think.

Watch FLCL.

Meet Bill Gates.


Cheers,

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Get Married to the girl I love who loves me, regardless of what else happens

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like others have said, skydive, and maybe bungee jumping.
dont want to kill myself though


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Imagine if one of the 100 things to do before you die was to kill someone? You'd have to kill someone before you die, but before they die, they'd have to kill someone first, and so on and so on. So if anyone actually adds 'kill someone' to the list, it should result in the annihilation of the human race. And one poor sod at the end (well technically the start) won't have anyone to kill, so will have to die without true satisfaction in life.

The only real solution to the problem is for everyone in the world to stand in a big circle and all kill the person to their left at the exact same moment. Any mistakes would have devastating consequences, causing breaks in the chain which would result in many non-deaths and many people dying without true satisfaction.

Therefore, I propose we don't add "kill someone" to the list, and instead add "stroke a bunny".


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Quote: "And one poor sod at the end (well technically the start) won't have anyone to kill, so will have to die without true satisfaction in life."


He can kill himself though. That serves double purpose even, because if he were to kill himself, he would know the exact time of his death, effectively managing to yell "YAY!" when dieing. And that person would even reach DB user 2006+'s goal of "Rule the world". But preceding that, the person could succseed in meeting Bill Gates (there was no requirement for Bill to be alive).

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I can't believe you took my totally serious suggestion of global homicide and made a mockery out of it by suggesting the first person in the chain kill himself. Did you not stop to think that if the first person in the chain kills himself, the 2nd person has nobody to kill? It would have a devastating ripple effect, as everyone has to kill themselves. And suicide is not homocide!


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Please re-read my post, i suggested the LAST person killed himself.

The deal was to "kill someone" not to do homocide, not the same thing.

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Why would the last person kill himself?!?!!??! The last person in the chain has someone to kill. It's only the first person in the chain that has nobody to kill. The first person in the chain doesn't kill someone ... the first person in the chain dies. If the first person in the chain killed someone, the person he killed would not be able to kill somebody. But if they had already killed somebody, then they wouldn't be after the first person in the chain .. they'd be before them, thus the first person in the chain is not the first person in the chain, but is infact the last person in the chain. So it's the first person in the chain that dies first and dies an unsatisfied death.


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......They could all run at each other with large swords

I would like to finish my illustrated book before I die. I've already missed my last deadline.

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