The Game's Down Thread.

[My 2 sids]

for the going into debt part... i'm going to break cultural bread with you, this rather unnecessary education is a serious driving force in life for both me and my mother, who imprinted this notion in my heart at an early age from mother korea. its an honor to have a degree, and a source of pride and happiness after getting. before getting--- it is fun, a joy ride, something that you should probably be doing, and that side of the family is honestly not going to be happy if i quit now--- but i love learning too much for it to be a bother. its a problem that cannot exist for me.

/crazy asians

what i can't stand is the fact that my cousin finished high school, didn't go to college, is trying to become a rock star and that side of the family is hating on him. i dislike that. he is following his dream. i see nothing wrong with it. i wish him luck, he'll need it.

As you said, let's break cultural bread.   The generation (and maybe a generation or a half before that) that is approaching 20 - 30ish range was raised to think each block of education prepared one for the next step which eventually prepared one to go to college for four years at which time a mid-level entry job would be handed out.  That is, many followed school because of the money... not the education.  When they got out and found there was no magical "here's your new high-ranking employment" they became frustrated (mult that if they were 1st or 2nd generation to go beyond high school).   I guess what I'm saying is sadly it's a bit of a cultural thing for people to be a bit bitter when it comes to higher learning right now.

Secondly, give a few years for Tea Party to quiet down (they hate public servants like social workers) and you're going to find ample jobs open to you in the fields of social work and elderly care (Boomers are getting older!!  Some are enjoying being active seniors, others working to rebuild their nest eggs, some raising grand kids...  but pretty soon they'll join the rest homes)

[Sam]

With all this free time everyone has, they should be voting for Arm on TMS and TMC.

[Norcal]

Sigh. This stinks. Tomorrow I have to go overseas to "Where There Is No Internet Land "for two months. Two months, no email, no internet NO ARMAGEDDON. I had hoped to spend my last couple days here, playing Arm to my hearts content.  I have been patient. I have been REALLY patient. But the game is still down.  

Is it ok to break down and throw things now?

[Clavis]

I can haz Arm, sooon?

[My 2 sids]

I can haz Arm, sooon?

OOOH!!  We need more LOLarm!!!!

[i can haz mantis]

*twitch*

[Gimfalisette]

As you said, let's break cultural bread.   The generation (and maybe a generation or a half before that) that is approaching 20 - 30ish range was raised to think each block of education prepared one for the next step which eventually prepared one to go to college for four years at which time a mid-level entry job would be handed out.  That is, many followed school because of the money... not the education.  When they got out and found there was no magical "here's your new high-ranking employment" they became frustrated (mult that if they were 1st or 2nd generation to go beyond high school).   I guess what I'm saying is sadly it's a bit of a cultural thing for people to be a bit bitter when it comes to higher learning right now.

Secondly, give a few years for Tea Party to quiet down (they hate public servants like social workers) and you're going to find ample jobs open to you in the fields of social work and elderly care (Boomers are getting older!!  Some are enjoying being active seniors, others working to rebuild their nest eggs, some raising grand kids...  but pretty soon they'll join the rest homes)

Uh. I'm not "bitter" about higher learning. I went to college because I wanted to, not because I thought it would grant me a job, and studied something I enjoyed studying. I managed to get out of there with no debt (20 years ago exactly) with a degree from an extremely prestigious university, because I transferred from the local community college and my parents paid part and I worked the whole way through AND because it was, compared to what it costs today, insanely cheap. (I believe it was in the range of $3k per year in academic fees for me to attend UC Berkeley, at the time.)

But knowing what I know now (that I would be required to be the sole supporter of my family, also that I enjoy working with numbers), if I had it to do over again under the current conditions (poor job prospects, expensive higher education), I would do something very, very different. I might not go to college at all; and if I did go, I'd definitely choose to study something that would justify the cost and time.

IMO, the romanticization of the liberal arts degree and accompanying "bohemian" lifestyle is something that anyone who comes from a lower-middle-class or working-class background can't really afford; rather, it's an aping of the educational leisure of the upper classes and ultimately serves to keep the lower classes in our place (because we end up with a crapton of unnecessary debt and then have to go to work at the bottom rung of the corporate machine anyways). But heck, if your parents can afford to send you off to do something that's fundamentally a consumption of resources rather than production, and you wanna do it, then go for it.

[My 2 sids]

Bottom line is companies (no matter how large or small,  no matter if the position to be filled is important or trivial) hire people.  And people often come in two sets:  those with job-skills and those with people skills (and a very few who manage to have both).   Hiring managers can teach job-skills 

Had I done things differently, I would have taken more electives and fewer job-related courses. 

[Marauder Moe]

[Akaramu]

And I love Moe yet again. I just remembered I still owe you a drink.

[Fredd]

45 minutes and I get to leave work and go home to Arm! (hopefully... Saikun said 8pm est, right? Right?!)

Around there. He'll need to boot her up and all that. but hopefully within 30 mins

[Fredd]

Sigh. This stinks. Tomorrow I have to go overseas to "Where There Is No Internet Land "for two months. Two months, no email, no internet NO ARMAGEDDON. I had hoped to spend my last couple days here, playing Arm to my hearts content.  I have been patient. I have been REALLY patient. But the game is still down.  

Is it ok to break down and throw things now?

If you have a laptop, you can use a satalite ISP. there expensive, but if you really wants net..... (my friend brought one on his second tour of Iraq)

[Marauder Moe]

[Erythil]

Hey, we broke Atonement, too.

[Cutthroat]

Haiku mixed with cats?
Cats can make great poetry
When not scratching eyes.

[Fredd]

Hey, we broke Atonement, too.

It started broke.


Oh, while I can asks.....

There used to be a mud out there. It was all ascii mapped. You built forts, and turrets, and the whole game was pvp. There was a couple people running servers years ago, does anyone know this game/ know a server? Great time killer.

Edit: when I say "built forts" I mean you literally built walls of turrets a to keep people out, a weapon shop to make guns, an armor pace, a secret weapons lab, ect. all were represented on the map. And you could go pwn in real time.

[My 2 sids]

Moe,  Cutthroat,  you're my heroes

[BlackMagic0]

*twitch*

I want arm...

[Marauder Moe]

[Clavis]

game not down game go up, me play game must arm must arm already playin the Celtic music must arm arm must must arm
gotta arm gotta beat them all... *twitchs spastically eyes rolling wildly* please I just want to play

I don't care if the mantis comes and eats my head just wanna play just wanna do that one thing with that one person and then do it again.

[Reiloth]

While Armageddon was down, I booked a residency of four shows in May, 2 shows in February, finalized recording prospects that don't put my band in the hole too much, three out of town gigs in February, and helped build a website.

...

[Erythil]

Am I the only one that's kind of grateful the game went down?  I like having my routine shook up.

I guess I'm weird that way; I usually enjoy power outages, too.

[FantasyWriter]

I've always sorta wished Arm did go down from time to time for a few days.
Then some of us might well... have lives.

[a strange shadow]

This is why I miss Saturday downtimes.

[Marauder Moe]