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Title: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Vector on December 31, 2014, 05:13:09 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Noel.se on December 31, 2014, 07:51:04 pm

I think I'm going to do this, but first I need to think about the goals.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Caz on December 31, 2014, 10:07:02 pm

Need to think of goal things. What to do, what to do...

I guess making one of my goals "Think up Twelve Behemoth list" would be a bit of a cop-out.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Spehss _ on December 31, 2014, 10:26:26 pm

Spoiler: enhanced draft with more things, updated 1/1/2015 (click to show/hide)

Major things:
1. Play more guitar.
2. Compose more music. Actually follow through on ideas and concepts.
3. Record music for once. Actually follow through on these things instead of daydreaming about it and procrastinating.
4. Apply for the auditions to get into the college music department and the studio recording department of the music department. No audition means no chance of getting in, rather than the potential chance of not getting in.
5. Get in shape. Go to the rec. Get buff. Social anxiety be damned, everyone started from nothing.
6. Make friends. getting into the small classes of the college studio recording department drastically increases the likelihood of making friends due to similar interests and passions. Friends with music people, would be totally cool.
7. Ask a girl out. Get over anxiety, everyone asks people out, it's natural and not some cringe-worthy thing like in elementary school.

Less major things:
8. Learn to speak japanese, if I have the time for it. Because why not. Also because I could fully appreciate the japanese singers I occasionally listen to. Also could better appreciate the animation in anime because I won't be missing frames by reading english subs.
9. Meditate more often.
10. Spend less time on the internet. Anything other than surfing the same websites over and over and over.
11.
12.

"Rerolls" left: 3

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Caz on December 31, 2014, 10:46:21 pm

snip

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Shook on December 31, 2014, 10:53:33 pm

Oh man, missed last years version of this thread, so now i'm totally going to jump in on the fun. Finding 12 goals is probably going to be a bit hard, but let's see if it isn't possible, in no particular order:

Spoiler: IT BEGINS (click to show/hide)

1. Finish Angry Laser Space, or at least get it to 1.0. This bloody project has been in progress for over 4 years now, and i think it's about time to wrap it up as neatly as possible, so i can get going on other things.

2. Get into the habit of drawing something every day. Doesn't have to be anything specific or mindblowing, just SOMETHING so i can keep up the practice, be it digital or traditional.

3. Paint something with the acrylic paint (and canvas) that i got for my birthday. Something that isn't just a half-hearted leaf.

4. Give someone in meatspace uncensored access to my deviantArt page, preferrably one of my immediate relatives. This may sound simple, but due to personal issues, is comparable in fear and difficulty of execution to russian roulette. It is most definitely the "all in" move of my life right now, and a bad result could have dreadful consequences for my psyche, while a good result could possibly result in me finally breaking the shackles cast upon me by my oppressors back in elementary school.

5. Start talking to people over the intertoobs with my microphone. I am EXTREMELY SHY AND AWKWARD but my past experiences have been a lot of fun.

6. A vague one: Try to stop caring so much about what others think. It goes hand in hand with my crippling lack of self-esteem, and is, in essence, what makes things like 3, 4 and 5 very hard to do.

7. Get a hold of my sleeping rhythm. At the moment, if people didn't wake me up, it'd keep advancing all the time, and sleepytime is already WAY past midnight and approaching the next morning.

8. Try my hand at some kind of music-ing. I like listening to music too much to at least not try making some myself. :v

Well, only 8 goals for now. Fortunately, 2015 is still VERY young, and i will probably add the last 4 goals as i think of them.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Orange Wizard on December 31, 2014, 11:00:36 pm

I can't think of twelve, but whatever. Here goes.

Spoiler: List of the Twelve(ish) Behemoth (click to show/hide)

1. Think up Twelve Behemoth list.
2. Keep living spaces tidy. Pick up clothes, put things away, dust, vacuum, clean, etc. This only involves a lot of effort when I don't do it, so yeah.
3. Build good study habits. Keep up with the workload and so on. Straightforward, but I have an abominable track record with this kind of thing so I won't be surprised if it falls flat.
4. Exercise. I want to build this up from the current "sometimes walk a little bit" to "go for a walk/jog most days". This is less about fitness/losing weight/whatever and more about keeping myself active so I don't die of heart disease before the age of forty.
5. Stop worrying about being an arsehole when I'm in public/with polite company. I'm always ludicrously polite and well-spoken in those type of situations, so it's really a non-issue.
6. Be less of an arsehole around friends/with "relaxed" company. There is no middle ground for some reason.
7.

So, yeah. Pretty generic at this point. I have to start somewhere. New issues will crop up along the way, though. By the end it should be a bountiful harvest. 7. Stop mixing metaphors.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Caz on December 31, 2014, 11:01:54 pm

Quote from: Orange Wizard on December 31, 2014, 11:00:36 pm

1. Think up Twelve Behemoth list.

Little cheater. :P

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: MaximumZero on December 31, 2014, 11:07:19 pm

Spoiler: 2015 goals! (click to show/hide)

1. Remember to actively give more of my time to my family. I spend a lot of time on the computer.
2. Get the hell out of retail/customer service, no matter what it takes. I'm miserable and I hate it.
3. Get custody of daughter.
4. Get back to coding. #1 takes priority, though.
5. Pay off student loans/medical debts. Get credit score up. #2 may have to happen first.
6. Get back to making art of some kind. Doesn't matter what kind. Just art.
7. Buy a house? Buy a haus. #5 definitely comes first.
8. Exercise! Get under 200 lbs!
9. Eat better, try more fruits and veggies.
10. Host more P&P roleplaying sessions.
11. Work on Neo Dreams: Chronicles of Avarsiin. P&P and video game form.
12. Make my Sims LP more hilarious.

That was...actually a lot easier than I thought it would be.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Spehss _ on December 31, 2014, 11:08:17 pm

We don't actually need 12 things, do we?

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Bauglir on December 31, 2014, 11:17:11 pm

Alright, I'm game. Learning a bit from last year, I'm going to post my draft now. I'll consider it finalized in a week, and will update this post accordingly. It's less wiggle-room, and more that I'm confident I've forgotten something important due to fatigue.

This is the list, and it stays that way! Unless I need a reroll >________>

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Make significant progress on game.
    -Minimum Milestone: Complete Alpha Draft
    -Hoped-For Milestone: Character Creation Client
    -Magical Christmasland: Gameplay Client
    -Batshit Insane: Associated Website

2. Arrange monthly expenses to allow a savings of $500 per month.

3. Finish all coursework for my degree a semester early, keeping in mind that I'll need to take one throwaway course during that semester to qualify for a continued assistantship.

4. Teach niece some arithmetic.
    -Minimum Milestone: Addition/Subtraction
    -Hoped-For Milestone: Multiplication/Division
    -Magical Christmasland: Algebra

5. Finish the Peloponnesian War, then the Aeneid.

6. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a math subject I've never studied before.

7. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a computer science subject I've never studied before.

8. Learn Lisp.

9. Cook at least two homemade, nutritious meals a week.

10. Eat at least one new food, or drink at least one new beverage, each month.

11. Shave every two days, trim beard at least every month.

12. Paint myself a nightlight.

Thanks for running this again, Vector.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: rabidgam3r on December 31, 2014, 11:18:49 pm

I'll jump in, just so whenever I skim GD I guilt trip myself. :P
(also is it just me or is the 0 in 2015 weird)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1: Oral hygiene. Do it, you butt.
2: Find a worthwhile way to spend money that isn't draining it into meaningless objects or just spending it as it comes.
3: 'Lectric geetar! Learn that shit.
4: Find a solution to this whole 'education' problem before you hit college age and faceplant into stupidity.
5: Get outta the house more, you prick.
6: Eat better. Actually, just get into the habit of eating.
7: Fix up that sleep schedule.
8: Make that shaman staff, you've had the damn thing since winter started.
9: Talk to your friends more you butt
10: I SAID TALK TO THEM
11: Finish watching Attack on Titan, for god's sake.
12: ehhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhh... beat Alien: Isolation?

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Worldmaster27 on December 31, 2014, 11:53:59 pm

I ought to do this too.

Spoiler: Worldmaster's List of Things to Accomplish (click to show/hide)

1. Utterly cliche, but I really need to exercise more and hopefully lose weight and gain some upper body strength.
2. Be more social. Don't just be another body in the crowd.
3. And for crying out loud, when you do talk, don't be an asshole. Doubly so in regards to friends.
4. Hand in hand with #2, get your friends' phone numbers. Seriously. Screw your fears of what they might think.
5. More socialness: Ask your crush out, quit fearing the possible results.
6. Eat a more varied diet that isn't nearly 100% chicken, beef, and/or bread.
7. Try to draw & write more. You're already not!horrible at writing, but it needs some a lot of work.
8. Talk more and be more comfortable with your family. Try not to dislike them so much.
9. You could do with getting out of the house more and going to places that aren't on the internet. Hopefully with a girlfriend.
10. Do small hygiene stuff more regularly, rather than just every couple of days at best.
11. Wear your retainer every other night like you're supposed to as opposed to maybe a couple times a month if that.
12. Be less opposed to personal posting in the emotion threads - that's what they are there for and you aren't going to get support/encouragement from them otherwise.

Not as hard to come up with as I thought, though completing certain ones are going to take a bit of effort.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Itnetlolor on January 01, 2015, 01:47:07 am

I've been doing something different as a form of resolution. Resolutions by cumulative statements (5-verse clusters, so far).

It has been reliable so far, since I first started, and been adding onto it since then as a snowballing resolution series: 5 years and still going.
r1 - "I Reject your reality and substitute my own."
   //Or simply put "Fuck everyone's opinion.". I took things too personally, this would stop it.
r2 - "I know what the fuck I am doing."
   //I'll believe in myself more and my own methods to my madness; higher chance of working anyhow; regardless how insane.
r3 - "Just who the hell do you think I am?"
   //Nothing will put me down anymore. I can accept hits when necessary, but I will never go down. Just as well; kick reason to the curb and do the impossible.
r4 - "It's best to cut our losses and move on..."
   //Good timing on this resolution, seeing as I lost 3 pets last year (1 dog, 2 cats; minimum of 5-10 years residing), along with my old job. Original intent was that I needed to stop being so uptight and such a perfectionist. Funny enough, allowing flaws back in made me more badass, get better times, and overall, made me handle losing, and unfortunate losses much better in the long run.
r5 - "No regrets: I will do what makes me happy."
   //I did my tenure of misery, let's cash this check, and see what all these "flaws/setbacks/misfortunes/calamities/un-cashed-in (intentionally rejected) miracles and favors (both a form of personal pride and challenge; no help from God, so to speak.)" can buy me (like a point-buy system; take a ton of crap so you can profit in benefits later. So misery now, peace of mind later. Now it's time for peace for me.). In other words, I no longer want to live a miserable hell of an existence. I'd rather go to Hell on my own terms; with a BFG9000 a super shotgun, and an absurd amount of ammo. And going to Hell as a form of recreation, not punishment. Just as well, I have my own method of running my freelancing I'm applying, and it shows promise.

So overall, my resolution for this year reads as:

Quote

I reject your reality, and substitute my own;
I know what the fuck I am doing. Just who the hell do you think I am?
It's best to cut our losses and move on...
No regrets: I will do what makes me happy.

Every resolution previously made spans the others as well, and are still in play. Only real catch is that the overall statement combined must retain some level of sense when spoken out, and can be followed like a credo. Make it sound like a prayer if you must.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Cheeetar on January 01, 2015, 02:02:23 am

Thanks for running this! I actually feel pretty motivated coming into 2015.

Spoiler: Goals (click to show/hide)

1. Visit America
2. Get a job
3. Host the Liar's Game thing on these forums
4. Keep up good Uni grades
5. Stay friends with people
6. Finish reading Foundation series
7. Upgrade computer

Only got 7 so far. I'll edit in more if they occur to me, iunno.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Silthuri on January 01, 2015, 02:59:18 pm

Here goes...

Spoiler: Goals (click to show/hide)

1. Get my depression under control
2. Spend more time with friends and family
3. Read something every night before bed
4. Get to rewriting the novel I wrote a few years ago
5. Update my things on a timely basis (includes games and fanfiction)
6. Learn how to play the guitar
7. Get into meditation and yoga
8. Get my cumulative GPA above 3.25 (It's currently 2.85)
9. Scholarships, scholarships, scholarships
10. Schedule a tour of a prospective law school
11. Start the Dragon Age themed DnD game I've been thinking about for months now
12. Become a bit more social

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: scriver on January 01, 2015, 06:47:10 pm

Goal #1: Overcome the combined fear of commitment and opening up enough to make a real list.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on January 01, 2015, 07:07:10 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on January 01, 2015, 10:06:06 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Spehss _ on January 01, 2015, 10:57:02 pm

Went and updated my draft. Still haven't reached a full 12 things, and a lot of it is just taking the earlier 3 broad things and dividing it into smaller less broad chunks. I could easily think of stuff to throw in if I just wanted a full 12, but such "filler" doesn't have as much appeal or importance to me as the major things I listed.

Don't think adding things to my list counts as a reroll, does it? Considering I didn't have 12 things at the start, and it seems a theme to have a list of 12.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on January 01, 2015, 11:01:40 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Worldmaster27 on January 02, 2015, 12:19:59 am

I thought it was because we're, y'know, Bay12. In hindsight the calender thing is fairly obvious.

:P

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: MaximumZero on January 02, 2015, 12:24:32 am

Quote from: Vector on January 01, 2015, 10:06:06 pm

Right.

Right. Hnnnngggg Kendo and Archery I would help if I could, Vec.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum on January 02, 2015, 12:29:47 am

Quote from: Worldmaster27 on January 02, 2015, 12:19:59 am

I thought it was because we're, y'know, Bay12. In hindsight the calender thing is fairly obvious.

:P

Yeah, I thought it was because of bay12...

Maybe I'll post some goals eventually.

Spoiler: Courage to post... (click to show/hide)

Maybe I'll actually post this... Okay. I can do this, right?
2 minutes later...
Kal, you have written up almost 7 replies and then closed the tab without posting. Posting is not a big deal!
And so I guess I'll ramble in a spoiler tag, and maybe never post it.
Hits post, runs away.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Orange Wizard on January 02, 2015, 12:41:23 am

Wait, twelve is because of months?

Huh. Okay.

...

Also: You can do it, Kal!

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: SalmonGod on January 02, 2015, 12:42:16 am

Never bothered with new year's resolutions, and I'm not good at setting short-term goals.

But I want this to be the year I escape Indiana.

Also, I've ordered a headset for use with Google Cardboard, and want to tinker with VR stuff.  Perhaps actually be involved in making something.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Caz on January 02, 2015, 11:55:03 am

preliminary updoot

Spoiler: Goals 02/01/2015 (click to show/hide)

ha

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on January 03, 2015, 01:43:09 am

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: smirk on January 03, 2015, 01:53:17 am

Posting to make myself post goals later. (step 1: acknowledge the future exists.)

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Tiruin on January 03, 2015, 04:58:55 am

Quote from: Vector on January 01, 2015, 07:07:10 pm

Quote from: scriver on January 01, 2015, 06:47:10 pm

Goal #1: Overcome the combined fear of commitment and opening up enough to make a real list.

I've been there. Good luck, man. I'm trying to do that more this year, too, instead of just posting a list of Accomplishment goals.

You can do this scriver :O
First steps be always the hardest!
A thing I found is to consciously tell yourself that you can do it, as a foundational support.

...
*list to edit here*

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Xantalos on January 03, 2015, 05:12:34 am

Oh jeez, I really should do this.
.........

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Arx on January 03, 2015, 05:33:26 am

Ah, I'll do my best.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Get at least one story published, in any magazine.

2. Work harder at school. At least four distinctions in Matric.

3. Get fitter. By the end of the year, be able to comfortably run at least five kilometres.

4. Get back into drawing and sculpting. Try to draw or sculpt something at least twice a week.

5. Finish that damn suit of armour.

6. Apply to universities. Attend open days and do research, first.

7. Lose the irrational stress. Or at least, start on it.

8. Meditate before bed, or at least read.

9. Practice the flute, at least every other day.

10. Practice singing. Consider tying to flute practice.

11. Practice social skills. They're okay-ish now, but they need work.

12. Become more active in charitable stuff.

I need to get more goals to work towards. I hope this keeps me a bit more motivated.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Tack on January 03, 2015, 06:03:56 am

Oh god it's all so rigid and structured.
TWELVE goals? I have trouble finding ONE goal.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Spehss _ on January 03, 2015, 10:52:16 am

Quote from: Tack on January 03, 2015, 06:03:56 am

Oh god it's all so rigid and structured.
TWELVE goals? I have trouble finding ONE goal.

Do it mang. I had 3 things when I first posted. Only reason I got more was by splitting those 3 primary things into smaller steps.

Spoiler: minor updoot (click to show/hide)

Minor update in that over the last couple days I've been researching various music things and came up with several interesting composition concepts I could try. So, that goes towards the whole "do more music" thing I've got going.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Shook on January 03, 2015, 11:26:05 am

Great to see you guys making progress in such a short amount of time! :D

Spoiler: slight update?? (click to show/hide)

Green = DONE
Yellow = IN PROGRESS
Red = NOT STARTED
Black = FAILED
*asterisks* = NEW

1. Finish Angry Laser Space, or at least get it to 1.0. This bloody project has been in progress for over 4 years now, and i think it's about time to wrap it up as neatly as possible, so i can get going on other things.
Game Maker has decided to not work, which is making this a bit difficult.

2. Get into the habit of drawing something every day. Doesn't have to be anything specific or mindblowing, just SOMETHING so i can keep up the practice, be it digital or traditional.
Have so far successfully drawn something unspecific every day, without feeling pressure.

3. Paint something with the acrylic paint (and canvas) that i got for my birthday. Something that isn't just a half-hearted leaf.

4. Give someone in meatspace uncensored access to my deviantArt page, preferrably one of my immediate relatives. This may sound simple, but due to personal issues, is comparable in fear and difficulty of execution to russian roulette. It is most definitely the "all in" move of my life right now, and a bad result could have dreadful consequences for my psyche, while a good result could possibly result in me finally breaking the shackles cast upon me by my oppressors back in elementary school.
Need to gather an absurd quantity of balls for this.

5. Start talking to people over the intertoobs with my microphone. I am EXTREMELY SHY AND AWKWARD but my past experiences have been a lot of fun.

6. A vague one: Try to stop caring so much about what others think. It goes hand in hand with my crippling lack of self-esteem, and is, in essence, what makes things like 3, 4 and 5 very hard to do.
Difficult to quantify progress on this one, but it is easier than ever to show my immediate relatives what i've been drawing. Only the non-spoopy stuff, though.

7. Get a hold of my sleeping rhythm. At the moment, if people didn't wake me up, it'd keep advancing all the time, and sleepytime is already WAY past midnight and approaching the next morning.
Went to sleep at 5am last night. >:I

8. Try my hand at some kind of music-ing. I like listening to music too much to at least not try making some myself. :v

*9. Get a hold on my crippling lack of self-esteem.*

So i got that going for me. :v

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Silthuri on January 03, 2015, 01:30:59 pm

Spoiler: Updoot (click to show/hide)

1. Get my depression under control Cannot start until school starts back up and I can return to seeing my therapist. Tomorrow after work, I plan on trying out my newest anxiety medication.

2. Spend more time with friends and family Heading over to my boyfriend's today and planning to go out for ice cream and perhaps a trip to a gaming store. My aunt isn't feeling well, so I can't go visit her... It must wait until the summer, but she's planned to get my half-sisters and me together for a dinner to catch up. I suppose I could try to catch them home and visit as well...

3. Read something every night before bed Did this the night before last. Last night I worked until 1am and got home at 2am, so I didn't have the brainpower to read anything...

4. Get to rewriting the novel I wrote a few years ago lol nope

5. Update my things on a timely basis (includes games and fanfiction) I've been updating my DnD game quite well lately. I'll shoot for updating my fanfiction once every two weeks. So far, I have the next chapter for my pet project halfway done.

6. Learn how to play the guitar The guitar still sits in my corner, gathering dust.

7. Get into meditation and yoga Not yet. I might get a yoga mat later today.

8. Get my cumulative GPA above 3.25 (It's currently 2.85) I need to get my textbooks ordered ASAP after my book advance comes in. I need to ask my friend to borrow a textbook from her, and should also invest in a copy of the bible for my religion class and start reading that.

9. Scholarships, scholarships, scholarships Ooh so lazy...

10. Schedule a tour of a prospective law school Again, winter break. But the law school I wish to go to is on my college campus so... shouldn't be too hard to just stop by someday.

11. Start the Dragon Age themed DnD game I've been thinking about for months now Wrote a bit of the opening flavor. Too lazy to write up descriptions for all of the Dalish deities.

12. Become a bit more social I talked to people at work yesterday. I may have made a friend.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: smeeprocket on January 03, 2015, 04:25:51 pm

My resolution is to keep going. That is what I am after.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Noel.se on January 03, 2015, 06:14:41 pm

Well...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Do exercise on a regular basis (surprise!)
2. Improve piano playing prowess
3. Maintain a sleeping schedule that doesn't make me feel awful
4. Make a friend whom I can trust
5. Get used to studying. I don't actually need it right now, but that's the problem because I'm lazy which will probably become an issue when education starts to get harder.
6. Finish school with at least a 5.5/6 in maths (Swiss system)
7. Write my world building stuff down.
8. Be capable of buying something in a shop. Anxiety always causes me to find a reason to not buy what I want. Even if it's food.

That's what I came up with over the last few days. I'll try to add more later.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Shook on January 08, 2015, 11:40:47 am

aw yiss more updatery

Spoiler: zoopdoop (click to show/hide)

Green = DONE
Yellow = IN PROGRESS
Red = NOT STARTED
Black = FAILED
*asterisks* = NEW

1. Finish Angry Laser Space, or at least get it to 1.0. This bloody project has been in progress for over 4 years now, and i think it's about time to wrap it up as neatly as possible, so i can get going on other things.
Got Game Maker working again, now i just have to overcome my own fat arse to get it done. :v

2. Get into the habit of drawing something every day. Doesn't have to be anything specific or mindblowing, just SOMETHING so i can keep up the practice, be it digital or traditional.
So far so good, still at least one drawing every day.

3. Paint something with the acrylic paint (and canvas) that i got for my birthday. Something that isn't just a half-hearted leaf.
Nope.

4. Give someone in meatspace uncensored access to my deviantArt page, preferrably one of my immediate relatives. This may sound simple, but due to personal issues, is comparable in fear and difficulty of execution to russian roulette. It is most definitely the "all in" move of my life right now, and a bad result could have dreadful consequences for my psyche, while a good result could possibly result in me finally breaking the shackles cast upon me by my oppressors back in elementary school.
Noooooooooope.

5. Start talking to people over the intertoobs with my microphone. I am EXTREMELY SHY AND AWKWARD but my past experiences have been a lot of fun.
Nyet.

6. A vague one: Try to stop caring so much about what others think. It goes hand in hand with my crippling lack of self-esteem, and is, in essence, what makes things like 3, 4 and 5 very hard to do.
Got an unreasonably negative comment on Imgur last night. Felt like a fucking knife in my gut, but i survived.

7. Get a hold of my sleeping rhythm. At the moment, if people didn't wake me up, it'd keep advancing all the time, and sleepytime is already WAY past midnight and approaching the next morning.
Got up earlier today. Was a complete trainwreck of a man because of it, and ended up being ready for the day at the same time as if i had slept for another two hours. :v

8. Try my hand at some kind of music-ing. I like listening to music too much to at least not try making some myself. :v
Nothing yet.

9. Get a hold on my crippling lack of self-esteem.
PROGRESS! Been trying my hand at thinking and speaking more positively, and managed to pull myself out of the SAD MOJO before it turned nasty.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: rabidgam3r on January 08, 2015, 05:07:15 pm

Quote from: rabidgam3r on December 31, 2014, 11:18:49 pm

I'll jump in, just so whenever I skim GD I guilt trip myself. :P
(also is it just me or is the 0 in 2015 weird)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1: Oral hygiene. Do it, you butt.
2: Find a worthwhile way to spend money that isn't draining it into meaningless objects or just spending it as it comes.
3: 'Lectric geetar! Learn that shit.
4: Find a solution to this whole 'education' problem before you hit college age and faceplant into stupidity.
5: Get outta the house more, you prick.
6: Eat better. Actually, just get into the habit of eating.
7: Fix up that sleep schedule.
8: Make that shaman staff, you've had the damn thing since winter started.
9: Talk to your friends more you butt
10: I SAID TALK TO THEM
11: Finish watching Attack on Titan, for god's sake.
12: ehhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhh... beat Alien: Isolation?

OH HEY
GUESS WHAT I FORGOT ABOUT
(Goal 1: done, goal 8 in the doing)

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on January 22, 2015, 01:05:26 am

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: MaximumZero on January 22, 2015, 02:50:51 am

Spoiler: MAXIMUM UPDOOT (click to show/hide)

Using Vector's color scheme

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Remember to actively give more of my time to my family. I spend a lot of time on the computer. I've been spending a little bit less time on the computer, and actively paying attention to people.
2. Get the hell out of retail/customer service, no matter what it takes. I'm miserable and I hate it. I'm trying, but I have to rely on other people, for references, and things aren't looking super good on that front.
3. Get custody of daughter. No change.
4. Get back to coding. #1 takes priority, though.  GME has been fired up more than twice in the last month, so we're doing good.
5. Pay off student loans/medical debts. Get credit score up. #2 may have to happen first. No change.
6. Get back to making art of some kind. Doesn't matter what kind. Just art. No change.
7. Buy a house? Buy a haus. #5 definitely comes first. No change.
8. Exercise! Get under 200 lbs! Ha, very funny. No change.
9. Eat better, try more fruits and veggies. I'm eating applesauce, and I've committed to finding something that doesn't hammer on my gag reflex...I just actually have to eat it.
10. Host more P&P roleplaying sessions. None yet.
11. Work on Neo Dreams: Chronicles of Avarsiin. P&P and video game form. It's started as a vidja gaem, and I've made no progress whatsoever on my P&P game. I blame working full time and having a new baby.
12. Make my Sims LP more hilarious. I'm still getting good feedback, so I'm counting this one as a win so far.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Caz on January 22, 2015, 07:15:37 am

Spoiler: Upderp 22/01 (click to show/hide)

o-o

Spoiler: BONUS: Motivational Cat Picture (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/g6tUw5t.jpg)

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Silthuri on January 22, 2015, 04:20:05 pm

Spoiler: Man, I suck. (click to show/hide)

(Stealing this from Vector because it's awesome)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!


1. Get my depression under control - I'm seeing my therapist every Tuesday and next week I'll be scheduling a medication evaluation to try to get a depression medication that works.

2. Spend more time with friends and family - I'm spending more time with A friend...

3. Read something every night before bed  - I did this maybe twice. I did finish a book a few days ago

4. Get to rewriting the novel I wrote a few years ago - Still haven't looked at the thing.

5. Update my things on a timely basis (includes games and fanfiction)  I was updating my game on time, but now I'm not. I haven't updated the fanfiction at all.

6. Learn how to play the guitar - I played for ten minutes about a week ago.

7. Get into meditation and yoga  - I did yoga maybe twice. Haven't hit the mat since.

8. Get my cumulative GPA above 3.25 (It's currently 2.85) - I just got around to putting all of the exams and due dates in my planner. I've barely read shit, have a paper due next week I've barely started on, and need to start research for yet another paper.

9. Scholarships, scholarships, scholarships - I really REALLY need to do this or I might not be going back to school next semester.

10. Schedule a tour of a prospective law school - After I get my bearing at school and get over my extreme fear and shyness, I'll look into this.

11. Start the Dragon Age themed DnD game I've been thinking about for months now - I haven't done shit.

12. Become a bit more social - Well I'm here I guess. The fear of being ignored or rejected is holding me back quite a bit.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: MaximumZero on January 22, 2015, 06:40:05 pm

Quote from: Silthuri on January 22, 2015, 04:20:05 pm

12. Become a bit more social - Well I'm here I guess. The fear of being ignored or rejected is holding me back quite a bit.
[/spoiler]

The thing to remember is this: Just because no one answered doesn't mean no one read your post. It's okay if posts go unanswered for a while, and sometimes they never get answered. That just means that no one had anything to add to what you said. We tend to be a pretty civil bunch unless you get us talking about hot-button issues (gender, politics, religion, etc.) Another thing to remember: If you're not being a dick, you're welcome here.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Tiruin on January 22, 2015, 06:50:05 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on January 22, 2015, 06:40:05 pm

Quote from: Silthuri on January 22, 2015, 04:20:05 pm

12. Become a bit more social - Well I'm here I guess. The fear of being ignored or rejected is holding me back quite a bit.
[/spoiler]

The thing to remember is this: Just because no one answered doesn't mean no one read your post. It's okay if posts go unanswered for a while, and sometimes they never get answered. That just means that no one had anything to add to what you said. We tend to be a pretty civil bunch unless you get us talking about hot-button issues (gender, politics, religion, etc.) Another thing to remember: If you're not being a dick, you're welcome here.

Oooh, also! Note that personal assumptions may carry over from that fear--as one who had that fear too (hooray friendly intervention), I've to note that sometimes, its also personal rather than external on how things are perceived.

Like, if you remember a certain derogatory or mean thing a {certain person you're in common contact with} has said before, and it had a lasting effect on ya--maybe try to talk it over with the person in question other than letting the idea 'be' part of how you see that person.

Personal experience anyway, though I do note that its a common factor in most people with that fear.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Silthuri on January 22, 2015, 08:00:13 pm

I'm much more comfortable here on the forums than I am in real life. I have quite a few issues with myself, possibly due to my very shitty past. The fact that I'm rejected by myself doesn't help any. I always make things pretty awkward in social situations. At least with people I'm not familiar with...

I remember mean crap people did to me when I was five... I've always had trouble letting the past go and I'm always more than ready to add to the list.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Tiruin on January 22, 2015, 08:34:26 pm

I think adding a goal of 'accept myself' should be a top priority. If you want, we can talk about it over in PMs (I could say I can relate but...differing experiences in a big world.) ._.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Silthuri on January 22, 2015, 09:30:11 pm

PMs would be nice, Tiru, if you have the time.

Also, thanks MaximumZero!

Spoiler: New Goals 2 rerolls remaining (click to show/hide)

1. Get my depression under control.
2. Accept myself for who I am, let go of the past and stop being so pessimistic about the future. Have hope, for once.
3. Try my best to enjoy life's smallest pleasures. Yoga and meditation in the morning to enjoy the quiet. Just take a moment out of my busy, stressful day and breathe.
4. Start reading again. There was a time when I had my nose in a book 24/7. I miss it...
5. Start writing again. Seriously. This used to be my escape. It shouldn't be a burden now.
6. Get my GPA high enough to get decent scholarships and have a shot at getting into law school.
7. Be able to manage my anxiety/anger without medication.
8. Take care of myself a bit better. Exercise, eat healthier foods, give myself a treat every now and again and not feel guilty
9. Learn to play the guitar so I can play my boyfriend a song.
10. Plan my day so I can avoid feeling rushed and drained.
11. Spend time with my friends and family. They won't be around forever. Tell them how much I love them as much as possible.
12. Start caring about what's going on in the world. Read up on the current events, watch the news.

Spoiler: Miscellaneous things it'd be nice to do (click to show/hide)

13. Learn to draw
14. Tour the local law school
... will add more as I think of them.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: MaximumZero on February 02, 2015, 01:27:48 am

Spoiler: Max Updoot, 2/1 Edition (click to show/hide)

Using Vector's color scheme

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Remember to actively give more of my time to my family. I spend a lot of time on the computer. Having a new baby means that I spend a lot less time on the computer, what with feeding and changing and attention paying, and more feeding and more changing, and various other baby nonsense. I'm doing my best to keep up with my wife and oldest kid, too, but that leaves me very little time for myself, and it's been extremely hard to wind down, especially with my ungodly stupid work schedule.

2. Get the hell out of retail/customer service, no matter what it takes. I'm miserable and I hate it. I'm going to put in for a new job tomorrow, 2/2. They were just waiting on professional references for me. Let's hope they're still waiting and haven't filled the job yet.

3. Get custody of daughter. No change. There won't be any changes for quite a while. Other things have to get this ball rolling.

4. Get back to coding. #1 takes priority, though.  GME has been fired up more than twice in the last month, so we're doing good.

5. Pay off student loans/medical debts. Get credit score up. #2 may have to happen first. Nothing yet.

6. Get back to making art of some kind. Doesn't matter what kind. Just art. Nothing yet. No time to myself yet.

7. Buy a house? Buy a haus. If all goes well, we may not actually have to buy a house. One may fall into our laps. It's not the greatest, but it's a damn good start, and it's paid off.

8. Exercise! Get under 200 lbs! Ha, very funny. No change.

9. Eat better, try more fruits and veggies. No change since last time, although I did have a chat with Wolfeyez and her mom about the types of juice and things I like.

10. Host more P&P roleplaying sessions. None yet. No time.

11. Work on Neo Dreams: Chronicles of Avarsiin. P&P and video game form. Have been moving forward very slowly with Game Maker, and I mostly blame my very severe lack of confidence in my skill and having next to no free time. *sigh* I'd kill for just a few days all to myself a month to work on all of my projects. As of right now, I get approximately 0 days a month all to myself.

12. Make my Sims LP more hilarious. I'm still getting good feedback, so I'm counting this one as a win so far. I really need to update that. I have Tuesday off, so I'll probably do it then.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Orange Wizard on February 02, 2015, 04:41:55 am

Oh hey, I should probably give an update.

Spoiler: List of the Twelve(ish) Behemoth (click to show/hide)

Vector's ubiquitous colour scheme awakens!

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Think up Twelve Behemoth list.
2. Keep living spaces tidy. Pick up clothes, put things away, dust, vacuum, clean, etc. This only involves a lot of effort when I don't do it, so yeah. - This is impossible to "complete" as such. I'm kind of keeping up with it, but also frequently lagging behind by a few days. Not great, in any case.
3. Build good study habits. Keep up with the workload and so on. Straightforward, but I have an abominable track record with this kind of thing so I won't be surprised if it falls flat. - Semester hasn't started yet so this isn't applicable.
4. Exercise. I want to build this up from the current "sometimes walk a little bit" to "go for a walk/jog most days". This is less about fitness/losing weight/whatever and more about keeping myself active so I don't die of heart disease before the age of forty. - I started walking more, but that didn't last long. Maybe when the summer months bugger back to Hell I'll feel up to more exercise.
5. Stop worrying about being an arsehole when I'm in public/with polite company. I'm always ludicrously polite and well-spoken in those type of situations, so it's really a non-issue. - I think this is going well. I'm gradually becoming less anxious about all that social nonsense in general, so that's pretty awesome.
6. Be less of an arsehole around friends/with "relaxed" company. There is no middle ground for some reason. - I haven't reduced anyone to tears lately. Progress? Hopefully.
7.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Bauglir on February 02, 2015, 10:50:02 am

Spoiler: Baugumentation (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Make significant progress on game.
    -Minimum Milestone: Complete Alpha Draft
    -Hoped-For Milestone: Character Creation Client
    -Magical Christmasland: Gameplay Client
    -Batshit Insane: Associated Website

2. Arrange monthly expenses to allow a savings of $500 per month.

3. Finish all coursework for my degree a semester early, keeping in mind that I'll need to take one throwaway course during that semester to qualify for a continued assistantship.

4. Teach niece some arithmetic.
    -Minimum Milestone: Addition/Subtraction
    -Hoped-For Milestone: Multiplication/Division
    -Magical Christmasland: Algebra

5. Finish the Peloponnesian War, then the Aeneid.

6. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a math subject I've never studied before.

7. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a computer science subject I've never studied before.

8. Learn Lisp.

9. Cook at least two homemade, nutritious meals a week.

10. Eat at least one new food, or drink at least one new beverage, each month.

11. Shave every two days, trim beard at least every month.

12. Paint myself a nightlight.

Maintenance stuff is going pretty well, but one-off achievements aren't going well. I might have to use a reroll to strike the game stuff - I'm even managing to backslide, and have found most of my time this year that I've spent on it restructuring things that would invalidate much of what's already done. I'll wait to see how things look after this semester, which is the primary timesink I have to work around. I just have to remember that if I can get through this nightmare, my limits will have more to do with the number of hours in the day and less to do with my own endurance. And that'll be nice to know.

On the plus side, I got the entire nightlight thing sketched and some paint down. I was overly optimistic about how brightly the paint could glow, but it should still do what I need it to (that is, serve as an obvious beacon in the dark).

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Arx on February 02, 2015, 01:13:36 pm

Well, it's been nearly a month.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Get at least one story published, in any magazine.

This would require time, which I need to make, but can't right now. Excuses, dammit!

2. Work harder at school. At least four distinctions in Matric.

Posterior is being hauled. Have yet to get less than 80% on a task.

3. Get fitter. By the end of the year, be able to comfortably run at least five kilometres.

More posterior hauling. Not there, but moving along!

4. Get back into drawing and sculpting. Try to draw or sculpt something at least twice a week.

I've been doodling, but not sculpting.

5. Finish that damn suit of armour.

No time! Ever! Dammit.

6. Apply to universities. Attend open days and do research, first.

I've done a little poking around, but I need to up my game significantly here.

7. Lose the irrational stress. Or at least, start on it.

I get to sleep at a reasonable hour most nights, now.

8. Meditate before bed, or at least read.

Sorta. Sometimes.

9. Practice the flute, at least every other day.

Yeesh. Time, time, time. I may actually need to re-roll to something less time-intensive.

10. Practice singing. Consider tying to flute practice.

I have been practicing, but not as rigidly as I should be.

11. Practice social skills. They're okay-ish now, but they need work.

Getting there. Slowly, but getting there.

12. Become more active in charitable stuff.

Involvement in a number of projects looks possible. Should be going somewhere.

Some of those are green, I guess. I need to work harder at these.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Worldmaster27 on February 02, 2015, 06:48:59 pm

Spoiler: Worldmaster's List of Things to Accomplish, 1 Month Update (click to show/hide)

Red = Not Started
Slow Progress
Good Progress
Started, but stopped (temporarily)

1. I really need to exercise more and hopefully lose weight and gain some upper body strength.
2. Be more social.
3. When you do talk, don't be an asshole. Doubly so in regards to friends.
4. Hand in hand with #2, get your friends' phone numbers. Seriously.
5. Ask your crush out, quit fearing the possible results.
6. Eat a more varied diet that isn't nearly 100% chicken, beef, and/or bread.
7. Try to draw & write more. You're already not!horrible at writing, but it needs some a lot of work.
8. Talk more and be more comfortable with your family. Try not to dislike them so much.
9. You could do with getting out of the house more and going to places that aren't on the internet.
10. Do small hygiene stuff more regularly, rather than just every couple of days at best.
11. Wear your retainer every other night like you're supposed to as opposed to maybe a couple times a month if that.
12. Be less opposed to personal posting in the emotion threads.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Silthuri on February 02, 2015, 09:20:29 pm

Spoiler: Update (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Get my depression under control.  - New depression medication in my grasp. Awaiting the time to test its effects on me. I've shown this list to my therapist, who thinks it's a brilliant idea. We're trying a few new things to move toward some of these goals. Yay progress!

2. Accept myself for who I am, let go of the past and stop being so pessimistic about the future. Have hope, for once. - Easier said than done...

3. Try my best to enjoy life's smallest pleasures. Yoga and meditation in the morning to enjoy the quiet. Just take a moment out of my busy, stressful day and breathe.  - I've done this a bit, but I keep failing to make time for this in the morning because I'm always rushing to get to school on time.

4. Start reading again. There was a time when I had my nose in a book 24/7. I miss it... - Gods, reading feels GOOD! Already my writing senses are tingling. My brain is flooded with ideas begging to be put to paper. When I'm done doing school stuffs, I'll be writing my backside off.

5. Start writing again. Seriously. This used to be my escape. It shouldn't be a burden now. - I've written a couple sentences... I have discovered that I prefer paper and pen to a computer. Looks like I'm going to invest in some more notebooks before too long.

6. Get my GPA high enough to get decent scholarships and have a shot at getting into law school. - Very, very bad progress. I need to catch up readings for class, study for an exam and write a paper this week. I can get it done, but I never should have procrastinated like this!

7. Be able to manage my anxiety/anger without medication. - If only the doing was as easy as the saying...

8. Take care of myself a bit better. Exercise, eat healthier foods, give myself a treat every now and again and not feel guilty. - I eat fast food all the time because I work at a fast food restaurant. We have salads, but I can't stand salads. I found out the rec center at school is still open despite the construction going on. I should get off my lazy butt and start running the treadmill again. I hear running is a great way to get rid of some unwanted stress.

9. Learn to play the guitar so I can play my boyfriend a song. - Guitar continues to gather dust.

10. Plan my day so I can avoid feeling rushed and drained. - Considering how I can't even get up on time, this is quite hard to do.

11. Spend time with my friends and family. They won't be around forever. Tell them how much I love them as much as possible. -

12. Start caring about what's going on in the world. Read up on the current events, watch the news. - I keep forgetting about this... I am ashamed.

Spoiler: Miscellaneous things it'd be nice to do (click to show/hide)

13. Learn to draw.
14. Tour the local law school.
15. Get my ears pierced.
... will add more as I think of them.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: tompliss on February 03, 2015, 05:33:40 am

Posting to think about doing it sometime later.

Also, Vector (or somebody else), do you have a link to the 2014 edition ?
Nevermind, found it (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=134553).
I have (too many) goals to take from the previous one :/

Spoiler: "Goals :" (click to show/hide)

1. Find a better job. You know, a job where you want to go.
(still here from last year. But at least, I changed job once already and it's a bit better)
2. Move out from my parents'.
(I could already put that green : visited 3 apartments, one of them is cool enough)
3. Talk to people.
(still here from last year too. Still need a lot of work there)
4. Hang out with your friends.
(ditto)
5. Do some work on this Squad no-random Puzzle-Roguelike.
(taken from last year. Seriously, just testing whether the fake UI prototype would fit in a smartphone isn't enough work for a year)
6. Do some work on the Race game.
(taken from last year. This could be something I could show to people and play with them, if I spend a week or two on it ... Why don't I ? )
7. Learn to cook.
(taken from last year. fuck.)
8. Do some different sport.
(I run twice a week, yay. But now, I've got big calves and that's ugly. Yay.)
9. Birthdays. don't forget them. And give presents. Seriously, a book for mom's 60th birthday.
10. Books. read some.
(taken from last year. Two books in a year clearly wasn't enough)
11. Try some more clothes. Different clothes. I know what I mean.
(yay, that's new.)
12. Don't flee this thread because you know you haven't done anything.
(more or less taken from last year. And that was not successful then.)

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on February 10, 2015, 11:50:36 am

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Tack on February 10, 2015, 12:09:39 pm

Yeah, I grew up in the "era of Ritalin", and still am unsure to this day if I may have had ADD, because doctors were so quick to diagnose it that my family just thought they were lazy/jumping to conclusions.

Then highschool came around and I had that fun little fling with bipolar which also went untreated because I thought I could "fake it until I made it".
To my continuing arrogance, I actually pulled that one off quite well, despite the ostracism of a few of my less patient friends- but those were all "acceptable losses".
But I'll never know. Maybe I was self-diagnosing, as a backlash from the ADD days.


Point being that both assuming you have mental health issues and assuming you don't are both massive sinkholes that are easy to fall into. Best person to ask about it is a psych, because GP's aren't trained to recognize when you're subconsciously trying to "push" a certain diagnosis.

Tl;dr, just drivel saying "I get that" about the special-snowflake fear.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on February 10, 2015, 12:17:32 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: MaximumZero on February 10, 2015, 12:20:57 pm

Aren't all of the well-known Bay12ers (myself included, oh so very much,) a little special-snowflakey? That just kind of happens when you know intimate details of a person. We've all been through different experiences, and it makes us unique, and it's impossible for us to highlight those differences without calling them out. You know, limitations of a largely text medium and all that.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Orange Wizard on February 10, 2015, 03:55:04 pm

I dunno, being a snowflake implies you'll melt easily, and that doesn't sound at all healthy. I'd prefer it if Vector didn't melt.
Being different, on the other hand, is totally normal. It has the bonus effect of making people more interesting, rather than merely featureless flakes of snow.

I think I'm babbling. I'd post an update to distract you but nothing's changed since the last one.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Tack on February 10, 2015, 11:31:48 pm

Actually Mzero you make an awesome point.
What if everyone in the actual world is incredibly unique and is full of fears, inner demons and traumatic past experiences, but they hide it just like we hide it.
So it's only here where we're looking behind the curtain that we manage to see just how insanely screwed up a good portion of humanity is.

Which means that even B12 aren't special snowflakes. Everyone is tortured.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Bauglir on February 10, 2015, 11:33:57 pm

That's basically the case. Think about it - really, what are the odds that your life is that much deeper, more difficult, or meaningful than average? Everybody else you see day to day - they're as complicated as you. And they don't see you as anything more than you see them.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: MaximumZero on February 11, 2015, 01:26:40 am

Congratulations, guys, we've achieved Sonder. Well done.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: penguinofhonor on February 11, 2015, 01:40:36 am

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tack on February 11, 2015, 02:02:43 am

You are one of those behemoths.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Shook on February 11, 2015, 03:35:36 am

Well hey, i was just thinking about this thread. :v

Spoiler: shookdate (click to show/hide)

Green = DONE
Yellow = IN PROGRESS
Red = NOT STARTED
Black = FAILED
*asterisks* = NEW

1. Finish Angry Laser Space, or at least get it to 1.0. This bloody project has been in progress for over 4 years now, and i think it's about time to wrap it up as neatly as possible, so i can get going on other things.
Well, not finished, but i have made more progress, so that's pretty neat.

2. Get into the habit of drawing something every day. Doesn't have to be anything specific or mindblowing, just SOMETHING so i can keep up the practice, be it digital or traditional.
Only missed one single day so far, and that was because i was busy in my usual drawing time, so i got that going for me.

3. Paint something with the acrylic paint (and canvas) that i got for my birthday. Something that isn't just a half-hearted leaf.
Nein. However, i have applied for a drawing/painting course, so maybe soon!!

4. Give someone in meatspace uncensored access to my deviantArt page, preferrably one of my immediate relatives. This may sound simple, but due to personal issues, is comparable in fear and difficulty of execution to russian roulette. It is most definitely the "all in" move of my life right now, and a bad result could have dreadful consequences for my psyche, while a good result could possibly result in me finally breaking the shackles cast upon me by my oppressors back in elementary school.
NON. Although one thing somewhat relatable to this is that i've mentioned to my family how i do draw dark and spoopy things occasionally, and have even shown these things to my brother. Reactions have been favourable.

5. Start talking to people over the intertoobs with my microphone. I am EXTREMELY SHY AND AWKWARD but my past experiences have been a lot of fun.
Still nothing.

6. A vague one: Try to stop caring so much about what others think. It goes hand in hand with my crippling lack of self-esteem, and is, in essence, what makes things like 3, 4 and 5 very hard to do.
I guess there's some progress in this, since it's easier than ever to show my drawings to my friends and family.

7. Get a hold of my sleeping rhythm. At the moment, if people didn't wake me up, it'd keep advancing all the time, and sleepytime is already WAY past midnight and approaching the next morning.
Well, with uni starting up again, i'm getting a bit better at getting up early, but i'm NOT enjoying it, nor am i getting enough sleep at the moment.

8. Try my hand at some kind of music-ing. I like listening to music too much to at least not try making some myself. :v
No dice.

9. Get a hold on my crippling lack of self-esteem.
Kind of fallen into a hole again, one full of weltschmerz and general dissatisfaction with myself and the actual real world.

*10. Find out what i want/am to do with my life.*
Good lord this is going to be fucking difficult. I veer towards non-clinical depression whenever i'm not practicing escapism of some kind distracted by other things, because of how much it feels like i won't ever be able to find my place in this world.

Some good things, some bad things. Could do without the bad things, if i am to be honest.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tiruin on February 11, 2015, 03:48:11 am

Must...do...#1.

1. Create Goal List @_@

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Caz on February 15, 2015, 08:50:23 pm

Spoiler: Upblargh 15/02 (click to show/hide)

yeah!

Can I like re-roll my whole list? I pretty much failed in half of it already. Life re-roll pls.

Edit: i re-read the OP and apparently you're actually allowed to do this. Not sure what to replace the goals with though or if failed goals are allowed to be replaced. If they are, maybe I'll start with 'extract the giant shit-spraying machine that seems to be nuking everything in my life' atm. Also I wrote a massive rant then deleted it because no one needs to hear that crap. Damn I wish I could get some sleep. Eh.

Quote from: Tack on February 10, 2015, 11:31:48 pm

Which means that even B12 aren't special snowflakes. Everyone is tortured.

Deep.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on February 16, 2015, 06:28:30 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Skyrunner on February 19, 2015, 03:02:36 am

1. Learn multivariable calculus
2. Learn some 3D rendering.
3. Make a water simulation involving Navier-Stokes equations
4. Get a good GPA... not sure how hard it is seeing that I'm not in college yet. At least a 3?
5. Make a moderately complex minecraft mod!

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Rince Wind on February 20, 2015, 07:16:35 pm

So, I found this thing here, looks like I will have to write down some goals as well.


Silthuri: Running is great, it helped me a lot, until my knees started hurting. You get outside (probably during the day, and natural light is good for you), get some fresh air and some excercise which makes you produce your very own happy meds. Not everyone likes it, of course, but for me it was important that I could do it alone and at any time.
I took part in a half-marathon after about 6 months of training (even though I did not train for almost ten years I was still in good shape, I don't smoke and I hardly ever eat fast food, so I did not start at the lowest level) and it was great. I really enjoyed those mass sports events when I was young, and it seems I still do. After the winter break I tried restarting, but my knees would always hurt. I should probably see a specialist about that.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: penguinofhonor on March 01, 2015, 01:28:13 am

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Orange Wizard on March 01, 2015, 06:12:21 am

NO I DID NOT ACCIDENTALLY OVERWRITE THIS UPDATE WHEN I TRIED TO POST THE NEW UPDATE

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN CONSIDER SUCH A THING

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on March 01, 2015, 04:51:40 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Worldmaster27 on March 06, 2015, 05:14:46 pm

Spoiler: Worldmaster's List of Things to Accomplish, 2 Monthish Update (click to show/hide)

Red = Not Started
Slow Progress
Good Progress
Started, but stopped (temporarily)
No progress since last update

1. I really need to exercise more and hopefully lose weight and gain some upper body strength.
2. Be more social.
3. When you do talk, don't be an asshole. Doubly so in regards to friends.
4. Hand in hand with #2, get your friends' phone numbers. Seriously.
5. Get a date, maybe
6. Eat a more varied diet that isn't nearly 100% chicken, beef, and/or bread.
7. Try to draw & write more. You're already not!horrible at writing, but it needs some a lot of work.
8. Talk more and be more comfortable with your family. Try not to dislike them so much.
9. You could do with getting out of the house more and going to places that aren't on the internet.
10. Do small hygiene stuff more regularly, rather than just every couple of days at best.
11. Wear your retainer every other night like you're supposed to as opposed to maybe a couple times a month if that.
12. Be less opposed to personal posting in the emotion threads.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on March 07, 2015, 02:57:37 am

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tiruin on March 07, 2015, 06:25:57 am

ALRIGHT LET'S DO THIS THING. :I

0. Create 2015 BEHEMOTH GOAL LIST.
Hooray! \o/ Tutorial completed!

Spoiler: 3/7/2015; in which I copy Vector's rating sheet (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = Started, Stopped Progress
Orange = Started, Suboptimal progress
Green = Started, Good progress
Bold = Moderate Catastrophe
Strikethrough = Complete!

1. Family Stuff.
Left vague for a reason, I need to talk to my Uncle about this, including being ok with myself and my dysphoria.

2. a Actually post in the Cartographer's Guild
    b Create a map worthy of posting in the Cartographer's Guild
The Guild in question (http://www.cartographersguild.com/content.php) is a magnificent place, filled with an attraction that attached my geographical affinity along with art onto the many, splendid and breathtaking ways on how topographical charts and realistic renditions of scenery and ideas were made. This is a two-step goal, which should in the least be finished by the end of the year.

3. Self Management.
Keyword: Time Management, and that memory of my BioSci I teacher regarding the teacher as the facilitator instead of the spoon-feeder.
Must learn how to manage the self, to manage the 24 hours allotted each 'day' spent, including how to 'automate' and move through the strange inconsistencies (ie possible procrastination//Depression//Focus) which may plague what may have been essentially productive days. Inclusive would be the forward and continued development of the drive and passion which has gotten {me} to where {I} am now.

4. No more flaking. Actions speak louder than words. Do the thing!
Sorry Vector, copying this here.
Public speaking. Your father and parents got you this far out of that trauma in the past; forward it better by mastery of your home language. This is in part, already fulfilled given that you can speak and express yourself, far better than initially predicted a long time ago.

5. Food Improvement. Diet Improvement.
The Cordilleran region is known for its famous vegetable dishes.

6. Exercise!
Other than the usual 3km you have to walk daily to public transport up the mountainous terrain, try a martial art! Other than Taekwondo which you did before, try other arts which hold your interest! Eskrima seems like a nice place to start, or at least return to your archery skills which you've somehow shown an innate talent in before!
Also watch those noodle arms. Your ratio of upper body strength to lower body strength is not balanced.

7. Digital Arts Focus
You have been acknowledged by one of the region's finest DA school instructors as 'capable'. Develop that talent and your creativity in general.

8. Knowledge on Medicine, specifically regarding DNA and ancestral matching. {May pass onto the proceeding year}
Keyword: Adopted.
Initial stages have been a success--you've met the first responders, though not contacted the security company in charge (though the records may be very... old. Note: 1994. Inquire to local precincts as to the possible travel time and qualitative data regarding initial findings of that date.)

9. Help Others {Get your terminology in gear!}
Learned from great people who had the knowledge how to empower the person and overcome great troubles. Learn how to pass what you learned onto others. What you are now is in part, the result of others who help and believe in you ever since...that past time.

10. Arts/Literary Project
That backlog on gifts for 'best friends who helped you through life' must be done.
First step: Learn how to consistently draw. Your spurts of brilliance do not seem to be controlled enough to use as a basis.
Others:
> That RTD Library you volunteered for. FINISH THAT DRAFT THAT'S SITTING THERE (or else others will assume you just didn't do it. :I)
> That RTD which you have in your signature. Revive it. In a new thread.
> Finish those maps. Those incomplete...maps.
> That FEF you're making. You have the character classes, XP rules, mechanics, plotline going. Polish them.
> Storytelling. Improve stock of literary books. Maybe participate in the 52 books per year thread. Possibly borrow books from friends due to lacking funds.

11. Thank that Grade 6 teacher.
Easiest way is through Facebook, but contacting her is the first step that must be done. Consider a letter of appreciation +art or a story +art.

12. Learn to drive.
._. Driving. With four wheels. Two more than your now-broken bicycle. And on the road.

13. Join Extracurricular areas!
You have been acknowledged by the Student Psych President as 'able' in debating. Follow up on it.
You have been acknowledged by your English III Instructor as very well written in verse and literature, with the suggestion to work on the school newspaper team. Go for it.
Head Teacher of your course noticed your potential and followed it up with the Guidance Counsel. Expound that.
You've come this far. Very far from your childhood. You can do this.

14. Keep in contact with friends
Friendship makes the world go round. It is among the first forms of love experienced.
Especially on this forum--first forum you joined. First forum you broke through your communication barrier. First forum you met very nice people which helped you meet nice people offline.

15. Remember names other than remembering only faces.
Probably connected either with something in the past, or something with lingual memory.

16. Learn trade skills.
Your dad is great teacher. Construction. Plumbing. Pipe-repairs. Use that toolbox. Learn the tools. Analyze the house-water-system. Learn to sandpaper correctly. Wear gloves.
I mean seriously. One of his colleagues is in welding, and she's awesome at it.
Be that inner mechanic-expert you've always been dreaming of...when playing Steampunk games.

17. Make Parents Proud.
...Filler goal, most likely. You know they're proud of you despite...your current state, but maybe change the title to 'fulfill potential' or something.

18. Language Studies!
You've noticed that you've a ton of affinities for many things--art, philosophy, theology, math, and even languages! Your past horrors cannot even compensate for the tiniest speck of that very distinct feeling you've got in these fields and more.
Try to at least get into mastery of a language or dialect this year.

19. Emotion Control
Its not apparent to mostly anyone, due to how far you've progressed in understanding and realizing many things. Control towards the ego, rather than anger or hate--due to the lack of the latter experienced in anything.
This year, practice recall of situations where emotions may be a hindrance and utilize personal abilities to aid interaction in those situations, past and future.

20. Remember and honor friend/s who cannot be seen again.
I'll never fail this.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Silthuri on March 07, 2015, 11:43:26 am

So I think I'm finally going to separate my goals into smaller, more achievable things. This is much better for tracking progress and is also a confidence booster if I can check some things off.

Spoiler: Updoot (click to show/hide)

My own personal key:
Not started
Done
Making decent progress
Not much progress
Absolutely terrible progress
Complete mess.
Failed

1. Get my depression under control.
~Take my meds. - I forget way too often. The more I take them like I'm supposed to, the more likely I'll start seeing some changes.
~Pamper the self - Perhaps soon. I finally have some time.
~Put some of the advice my therapist gives me to work. - This is very hard.

2. Accept myself for who I am, let go of the past and stop being so pessimistic about the future. Have hope, for once.
~Accept the fact that I'll never be perfect. - I'm starting to.
~Acknowledge my weaknesses AND my strengths - I focus mainly on the former, but the latter is making decent progress.
~Look forward to a brighter future - This sometimes gets me through a tough day.
~Have some hope - I've got a bit.

3. Try my best to enjoy life's smallest pleasures. Yoga and meditation in the morning to enjoy the quiet. Just take a moment out of my busy, stressful day and breathe.
~Instead of picking out the tiny negatives, pick out the tiny positives - Not as easy as one would think.
~Yoga once a week - Surely I'll be able to take fifteen minutes per week. Of course as I actually start doing this regularly, the frequency will increase.
~When I start feeling overwhelmed, just drop everything, close my eyes, and take a deep breath. Blank out my mind when doing so. - I do this regularly. Except for the last bit.
~Meditate before bed each night - Will start immediately. Hopefully.

4. Start reading again. There was a time when I had my nose in a book 24/7. I miss it...
~52 book challenge - Three books! Woot!
~Visit the library regularly. Sit in a comfy chair and read instead of watching YouTube - But... internet...

5. Start writing again. Seriously. This used to be my escape. It shouldn't be a burden now.
~Update fanfiction regularly. -  I've got writers block!
~That book I wrote in middle school? Revise, revise, revise! Get it published! - I haven't even looked at it.
~Try to get my poetry writing more than a once and a blue moon thing - Nope.
~Join the Writer's Apprenticeship. - I've been lurking around that thread for a while now.
~Post in the poetry thread - Again, I've been lurking but not posting.

6. Get my GPA high enough to get decent scholarships and have a shot at getting into law school.
~Get a big calendar. Write EVERYTHING on it. - Perhaps later today.
~Use my spring break to get ahead for the rest of the semester - Today is the beginning.
~Quit procrastinating. - Easier said than done.
~Stop deleting the emails from that website that puts a ton of scholarships in one place and matches them to you. - <.< ... >.> What emails?

7. Be able to manage my anxiety/anger without medication.
~Take therapist's advice into consideration - Easier said than done.
~Keep a journal of my daily feelings and triggers. Learn to avoid the triggers and find warning signs for anger explosions so I can avoid them. - I've made... one journal entry.
~Take a more logical approach to things. Weigh possible consequences before acting. Is this worth it? - Harder than it sounds.
~Stop blaming. Both myself and others. - Very hard.
~Stop forming so many expectations and getting royally pissed when a small detail goes wrong. Increase flexibility. - This is a huge issue for me, and thus is harder than the rest.


8. Take care of myself a bit better. Exercise, eat healthier foods and the like.
~Stop eating at Wendy's every single day. Eat at that pasta place at school and always have some kind of vegetables with it. - I love the pasta place. I might try their whole-grain pasta.
~Eat before I go to work. If I'm hungry at work, eat a baked potato or something. Not burgers and such. - But... bacon...
~Every other week, buy a clothing piece that makes me feel better about my body. - This is actually a necessity. My clothes are quickly becoming unwearable due to holes and a still-growing me.
~Pursue the idea of jogging with my best friend. Possibly Zumba or other fitness activities. - This doubles for exercise and depression. I feel better when I'm around my bud and we're both doing something healthy.
~Get upon time and eat breakfast. - I never eat breakfast.

9. Learn to play the guitar so I can play my boyfriend a song.
~Find decent books to teach me. - To the library!
~Swallow my pride and ask my dad to help - Perhaps...

10. Plan my day so I can avoid feeling rushed and drained.
~Step one: Get up on time. - I oversleep almost every day.
~Have set times to do important things like looking over school notes, studying, and doing homework. - Will do.
~Set a bedtime. Do not make excuses for staying up past it. - Self control...

11. Spend time with my friends and family. They won't be around forever. Tell them how much I love them as much as possible.
~Make plans to see my aunt either this week or during the summer. - Absolute must.
~Friend sisters on Facebook. If Dad finds out, explain that I'm only on it to keep in contact with high school friends and my sisters, who have very busy lives. - I've been putting this off...

12. Start caring about what's going on in the world. Read up on the current events, watch the news.
~Watch the news while I'm getting ready for school in the morning - No too terribly hard.
~My school offers free newspapers. Get them and read them. - I forget...

Spoiler: Miscellaneous things it'd be nice to do (click to show/hide)

13. Learn to draw.
14. Tour the local law school.
15. Get my ears pierced.
16. Hair cut?
17. Take up calligraphy

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on March 16, 2015, 02:40:25 am

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Reelya on March 16, 2015, 09:48:31 am

Quote from: Vector on March 01, 2015, 04:51:40 pm

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I notice you were thinking about the food thing. I've been working on that myself for a couple of years now and have some tips. One great way to cut carbs is to substitute vegetables for pasta or rice in dishes. Chinese cabbage works really well for me here (I use the napa cabbage/wombok type), and the stuff is packed full of nutrients. So, see about adjusting dishes so that you match them with leafy vegetables instead of rice bread and pasta.

Also, cabbage > lettuce if you don't have really regular eating habits or you find yourself throwing out food often. Lettuce is nutritional crap compared to cabbage. Plus, leave some cabbage in the fridge for a month and it's probably still edible, whereas lettuce will turn into a black slime in a matter of days.

Another thing is onion skins. They contain about 90% of the micronutrients of the onions, and a whole lot of fiber. When I found that out, I just got lazy and don't bother skinning onions anymore. The idea takes some getting used to, but once the onion skins are cooked in a dish they're hardly noticeable.

Also, raw oats. That stuff is magic for nutrition, quick to make and very filling. Plus, it's probably cheaper than the cheapest white bread you can get. Mix other stuff into it to make your own muesli much cheaper than packaged stuff. I put shredded coconut and sunflower kernels in.

I also know how to make instant soup mix much cheaper than you'd pay for it, but also zero preservatives and you control what goes into it. Good for snacks on a budget. i'll outline it if anyone's interested.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Bauglir on March 16, 2015, 10:35:40 am

Quote from: Reelya on March 16, 2015, 09:48:31 am

Another thing is onion skins. They contain about 90% of the micronutrients of the onions, and a whole lot of fiber. When I found that out, I just got lazy and don't bother skinning onions anymore. The idea takes some getting used to, but once the onion skins are cooked in a dish they're hardly noticeable.

I require an explanation on this one. I've occasionally let pieces stay in my food, and they inevitably turn into woody, unchewable strips. How do you cook them? I've always been frying them, which might be the problem.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Arx on March 16, 2015, 10:40:13 am

Your problem may be making them too large. If you finely dice the onion (for a curry, macaroni cheese, or potato salad, say) the skins can just be swallowed sans chewing, I imagine.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Reelya on March 16, 2015, 10:57:15 am

I chop the onions so the pieces are about 1-2 cm^2. So I'm basically chopping up both the onion and the skins at the same time. They don't really require chewing then. I do fry the onions. It could depend on the type of onions used too i guess. I use brown onions, occasionally spanish.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Vector on March 16, 2015, 02:32:06 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tiruin on March 16, 2015, 09:27:48 pm

Tiny question due to this tangent...where or how does one learn how to cook ._.
^{Yes, this is me.}

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Vector on March 16, 2015, 09:30:59 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tiruin on March 16, 2015, 09:32:47 pm

Quote from: Vector on March 16, 2015, 09:30:59 pm

Find a friend, or pester your relatives. Or watch cooking videos online! When you're first starting, though, it's best to cook with a buddy.

Bad net, so no cooking videos x_x nor am I even sure that the cooking shows can apply to me...
But thanks! :D
_{Now to...find a way how to approach a friend with asking this kind of thing here.}

New Goal added in the draft for later on! :)

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Vector on March 16, 2015, 09:47:39 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Bauglir on March 16, 2015, 09:51:41 pm

Once you get the mechanics down, the next step is to follow recipes. But, yeah, the first thing to do is get a feel for the basic stuff like cracking eggs without getting bits of shell everywhere, salting your various boiled starches, reasonable temperatures for cooking certain ingredients, and so on. Paragraphs have a minimum of three sentences.

If you want to branch out into freestyle cooking, still start with recipes you've gotten real familiar with, and then modify them one bit at a time to get a feel for what does what. Also, eat a wide variety of foods and seasonings, so as to develop a familiarity with various flavors and textures. Be prepared to make many mistakes, and choke down many a semi-failure, if you wish to venture off the path of well-defined recipes. I think it's worthwhile, though.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: hops on March 16, 2015, 10:22:35 pm

1. Finally go to Q-Youth, jesus.
2. Get my eyebrows done every 4 weeks and get into the habit of saving money for them.
3. Play piano daily until the end of this month.
4. Get into the habit of showering every night, because I'm a disgusting slob.
5. TIDY MY ROOM EVEN THOUGH I DONT LIVE IN IT.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Orange Wizard on March 17, 2015, 03:23:56 am

MID MARCH UPDATE

WORDS

EXCITEMENT

NOW WITH 72.81% LESS FLAVOUR TEXT

Spoiler: List of the Twelve(ish) Behemoth (click to show/hide)

Heretofore deploying Vector's ubiquitous colour scheme!

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Think up Twelve Behemoth list.
2. Keep living spaces tidy. Pick up clothes, put things away, dust, vacuum, clean, etc. This only involves a lot of effort when I don't do it, so yeah. - Still no change. It's not really bad, but things are still generally messy.
3. Build good study habits. Keep up with the workload and so on. - I am behind on assignments. Completely missed one, have another due yesterday, and a bunch more upcoming that I am probably going to completely screw up.
4. Exercise. I want to build this up from the current "sometimes walk a little bit" to "go for a walk/jog most days". - Still no walkies. Mostly just to and from my car which isn't ideal.
5.
6.
7. Make public that roguelike game I'm working on. Then keep updating it. - It's not playable and with the state no. 3 is in it probably won't be for a while.
8. Attempt to make some friends at university. - There appears to be a lot of people in my class who play Magic: The Gathering. I don't play Magic: The Gathering.
9.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: tompliss on March 17, 2015, 08:32:18 am

March update... AKA "wow, only one goal done ?"

Spoiler: vector-styled update (but without the funny name) (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Find a better job. You know, a job where you want to go. - Not changing job for now, and likely not in the next months. Current job should be getting a bit better though, so it may not be that worrisome.
2. Move out from my parents'. - Done ! just moved this weekend-, should be getting internet at home in a day or two
3. Talk to people. - yeah ...going back on OKC once I can spend a full weekend at home, and should meet people once I get my fitness center subscription.
4. Hang out with your friends. - now nearer to them, and hanging out the next 2 weekends. but nothing planned after that, and I know myself well enough to know what it means...
5. Do some work on this Squad no-random Puzzle-Roguelike. - look what I didn't do ! D:
6. Do some work on the Race game. - look what I didn't do ! x2 D:
7. Learn to cook. - need to buy food to cook food. Let's buy food...
8. Do some different sport. - still need the fitness center subscription
9. Birthdays. don't forget them.  - haven't forgotten any yet. I think. Because there as none yet. Maybe.
10. Books. read some. - .... RPG books don't count.
11. Try some more clothes. Different clothes. I know what I mean. - planned to do this a bit this weekend. but I know what happens when I plan something like that ... :/
12. Don't flee this thread because you know you haven't done anything. - yay, haven't fled yet. But god, those colors...

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Arx on March 18, 2015, 02:59:13 pm

And over two months.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Get at least one story published, in any magazine.

This holiday. I am going to hit up magazines left, right, and centre.

2. Work harder at school. At least four distinctions in Matric.

So far so good. Don't think I'm under an A in any subject so far.

3. Get fitter. By the end of the year, be able to comfortably run at least five kilometres.

Not much change since last time, but it's steadily chugging along and I'm certainly not regressing.

4. Get back into drawing and sculpting. Try to draw or sculpt something at least twice a week.

Drawing continuously, and I've been experimenting with some other media (charcoal, paint, markers), so I'm going to call this a current success.

5. Finish that damn suit of armour.

Finally did a little on this!

6. Apply to universities. Attend open days and do research, first.

I've done a little poking around, but I need to up my game significantly here.

7. Lose the irrational stress. Or at least, start on it.

Eh, maybe? Still had a panic attack on the bus after thinking I missed a deadline. Not fun.

8. Meditate before bed, or at least read.

Things I do when I'm not working include- oh wait. I'M ALWAYS WORKING!

9. Practice the flute, at least every other day.

Yeesh. Time, time, time. I may actually need to re-roll to something less time-intensive.

10. Practice singing. Consider tying to flute practice.

I've been singing! And I'm good enough to do it in public! <dances>

11. Practice social skills. They're okay-ish now, but they need work.

Choo-choo...

12. Become more active in charitable stuff.

Committing an hour a week for certain, and basically offering a free tutoring service.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: MaximumZero on March 19, 2015, 01:28:00 am

Spoiler: Mid March Maximum Updoot! (click to show/hide)

I'm on my (now busted) phone, so if this is screwy, that's why.

1. Remember to actively give more of my time to my family. I spend a lot of time on the computer.

--I've been away from B12 in particular for over two weeks now. No one has seemed to notice. I lurk now and again, but I'm trying really hard to not post as much, especially after the trolling fiasco and the bout of tumblritis that the lower boards seem to be going through. So, I've been staying away, and will probably continue to do so for a while. I'll still happily answer PMs if anyone needs me, though. All the newfound time means more family time, which is exactly what I wanted.

2. Get the hell out of retail/customer service, no matter what it takes. I'm miserable and I hate it.
--I'm not getting out of customer service, but I may be making a big move into a job that pays triple what I make now plus bonuses plus commission. Fingers crossed.

3. Get custody of daughter.
--Need to wait until a "Major change" happens before I can make a move.

4. Get back to coding. #1 takes priority, though.
--I'm coloring this one red because I've run into the same brick wall I always run into: code intimidates the hell out of me. I'm not supposed to be intimidated, I'm the hero of the story, right?

5. Pay off student loans/medical debts. Get credit score up. #2 may have to happen first.
--No progress here.

6. Get back to making art of some kind. Doesn't matter what kind. Just art.
--Nothing yet.

7. Buy a house? Buy a haus. #5 definitely comes first.
--A house fell into my wife's lap, so we're moving in in a few months!

8. Exercise! Get under 200 lbs!
--Yeah, no.

9. Eat better, try more fruits and veggies.
--I know this is stupid to most of you, especially given my age, but I'm legit excited. I tried a lot if new things for the first time recently! Broccoli is not bad! Asparagus is really bad. I have no idea how people eat oranges or raspberries. The texture is just so awful.

10. Host more P&P roleplaying sessions.
--No time for that.

11. Work on Neo Dreams: Chronicles of Avarsiin. P&P and video game form.
--Nothing at all lately.

12. Make my Sims LP more hilarious.
--Serious problem. Haven't updated in quite a long time. Not sure if I want to go back to it. Going to take more time off from the forums.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tylui on March 21, 2015, 11:07:36 am

Let's see if I get anywhere THIS year (doubtful)

1. DK Website
2. Stream schedule, yo!
3. Podcast/Movie - help friends with THEIR projects.
4. I wonder how long I can wait with that real estate stuff?
5. Don't quit job. This is actually a big one, I'm pretty restless when it comes to work
6. Do some cool math stuff- I've watched enough lectures so now I should see if I can do things on my own a little
7. Gaming content; videos? articles? social media one-liners?
8. Find some friends up here... Yep.
9. Potty training!
10. Alphabet!
11. Moar reading!
12. Count to 100!

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tiruin on March 22, 2015, 01:39:57 am

Quote from: Tiruin on March 07, 2015, 06:25:57 am

Spoiler: 3/22/2015; in which I totally make a spiel about RL-in-vague; edits in > (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = Started, Stopped Progress
Orange = Started, Suboptimal progress
Green = Started, Good progress
Bold = Moderate Catastrophe
Strikethrough = Complete!

1. Family Stuff.
Progress is slow, mostly in part because of fear, and in part because of wondering how to explain what is going on; the idea of timing and when to mention things is at hand, and the other idea of knowing that I am supported, both online and offline does help quite a lot (thank you Guidance Counselor!)
...Problem being assumptions in the way. Do I have to be inferred as gay for some reason x_x or having an identity crisis? Hmm...

2. a Actually post in the Cartographer's Guild
    b Create a map worthy of posting in the Cartographer's Guild
The Guild in question (http://www.cartographersguild.com/content.php) is a magnificent place, filled with an attraction that attached my geographical affinity along with art onto the many, splendid and breathtaking ways on how topographical charts and realistic renditions of scenery and ideas were made. This is a two-step goal, which should in the least be finished by the end of the year.

> Err...requires mapmaking(1) to start. I currently have mapmaking (0.9).
Must do in free time. Free time = D:


3. Self Management.
Keyword: Time Management, and that memory of my BioSci I teacher regarding the teacher as the facilitator instead of the spoon-feeder.
Must learn how to manage the self, to manage the 24 hours allotted each 'day' spent, including how to 'automate' and move through the strange inconsistencies (ie possible procrastination//Depression//Focus) which may plague what may have been essentially productive days. Inclusive would be the forward and continued development of the drive and passion which has gotten {me} to where {I} am now.

> New day - new knowledge! Totally working out perfectly. And I'm helping others too! Bonus!

4. No more flaking. Actions speak louder than words. Do the thing!
Public speaking. Your father and parents got you this far out of that trauma in the past; forward it better by mastery of your home language. This is in part, already fulfilled given that you can speak and express yourself, far better than initially predicted a long time ago.

> ...Bad past memories popping up equal slowing down of progress. Knowledge of dealing with such memories are helping.
Problem is starting the talk in the first place. Introductions =

5. Food Improvement. Diet Improvement.
The Cordilleran region is known for its famous vegetable dishes.

> I must learn how to cook first...
Instead of relying on the many food outlets present (though to be honest, there are food outlets which serve traditional cuisine at extremely affordable values--this is orange, because I can't -replicate- such good food, but I am eating well!)
...Can't gain weight though >_>

6. Exercise!
Other than the usual 3km you have to walk daily to public transport up the mountainous terrain, try a martial art! Other than Taekwondo which you did before, try other arts which hold your interest! Eskrima seems like a nice place to start, or at least return to your archery skills which you've somehow shown an innate talent in before!
Also watch those noodle arms. Your ratio of upper body strength to lower body strength is not balanced.

> Jogging uphill. That uphill walk from home to the local highway. Then riding a jeep to jog from the dropoff to school.
Much exercise for lower body.

...Upper body, not so well. Noodle arms still exist.

7. Digital Arts Focus
You have been acknowledged by one of the region's finest DA school instructors as 'capable'. Develop that talent and your creativity in general.

< Lacking free time. Ideas are being written down though. Visions are being recorded for future remaking.

8. Knowledge on Medicine, specifically regarding DNA and ancestral matching. {May pass onto the proceeding year}
Keyword: Adopted.
Initial stages have been a success--you've met the first responders, though not contacted the security company in charge (though the records may be very... old. Note: 1994. Inquire to local precincts as to the possible travel time and qualitative data regarding initial findings of that date.)

> Right, so long story here. The problem being that I've tried to trace distance and time from the destination point--with the title actually referring to 'Track biological parents down'. Currently at a standstill due to...lacking...tools and ideas on what to even do.
> Probably must visit local precinct, or the security company which hosted the guards of 1994 at that certain area. Or visit that certain area and inquire in-depth during a free weekday (of which a scant few exist)

9. Help Others {Get your terminology in gear!}
Learned from great people who had the knowledge how to empower the person and overcome great troubles. Learn how to pass what you learned onto others. What you are now is in part, the result of others who help and believe in you ever since...that past time.

> I bloody know I can do better but the wording comes out very differently when typed or written down compared to when thought out. ARGH. Must find better ways to convey the exact idea!

10. Arts/Literary Project
That backlog on gifts for 'best friends who helped you through life' must be done.
First step: Learn how to consistently draw. Your spurts of brilliance do not seem to be controlled enough to use as a basis.
Others:
* That RTD Library you volunteered for. FINISH THAT DRAFT THAT'S SITTING THERE (or else others will assume you just didn't do it. :I)
     > Art project underway quite well. But goodness gracious. I am nearly a WHOLE YEAR LATE (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=137548.0) because of personal issues! But I still want to do it :I
* That RTD which you have in your signature. Revive it. In a new thread.
     > Remake underway. Just need more free time; planned to be after the above.
* Finish those maps. Those incomplete...maps.
     > Same with above.
* That FEF you're making. You have the character classes, XP rules, mechanics, plotline going. Polish them.
     > Same with above ;_;
* Storytelling. Improve stock of literary books. Maybe participate in the 52 books per year thread. Possibly borrow books from friends due to lacking funds.
     > I need to save more from allowance ;~;

11. Thank that Grade 6 teacher.
Easiest way is through Facebook, but contacting her is the first step that must be done. Consider a letter of appreciation +art or a story +art.
     > She's overseas. Message sent.
12. Learn to drive.
._. Driving. With four wheels. Two more than your now-broken bicycle. And on the road.

     > ...

13. Join Extracurricular areas!
You have been acknowledged by the Student Psych President as 'able' in debating. Follow up on it.
You have been acknowledged by your English III Instructor as very well written in verse and literature, with the suggestion to work on the school newspaper team. Go for it.
Head Teacher of your course noticed your potential and followed it up with the Guidance Counsel. Expound that.
You've come this far. Very far from your childhood. You can do this.

     > Of course, this will all happen during the next 1st semester...

14. Keep in contact with friends
Friendship makes the world go round. It is among the first forms of love experienced.
Especially on this forum--first forum you joined. First forum you broke through your communication barrier. First forum you met very nice people which helped you meet nice people offline.

     > Some...friends.[/vague]

15. Remember names other than remembering only faces.
Probably connected either with something in the past, or something with lingual memory.

     > Working on it. Memory needs practice consistently.

16. Learn trade skills.
Your dad is great teacher. Construction. Plumbing. Pipe-repairs. Use that toolbox. Learn the tools. Analyze the house-water-system. Learn to sandpaper correctly. Wear gloves.
I mean seriously. One of his colleagues is in welding, and she's awesome at it.
Be that inner mechanic-expert you've always been dreaming of...when playing Steampunk games.

     > Proactivity.[/vague]

17. Make Parents Proud.
...Filler goal, most likely. You know they're proud of you despite...your current state, but maybe change the title to 'fulfill potential' or something.

     > ...I don't know if..[/ReallyVague]

18. Language Studies!
You've noticed that you've a ton of affinities for many things--art, philosophy, theology, math, and even languages! Your past horrors cannot even compensate for the tiniest speck of that very distinct feeling you've got in these fields and more.
Try to at least get into mastery of a language or dialect this year.

     > Reading comprehension is going swell. Speaking replication is...not. Must improve.

19. Emotion Control
Its not apparent to mostly anyone, due to how far you've progressed in understanding and realizing many things. Control towards the ego, rather than anger or hate--due to the lack of the latter experienced in anything.
This year, practice recall of situations where emotions may be a hindrance and utilize personal abilities to aid interaction in those situations, past and future.

     > Totally working out perfectly.

20. Remember and honor friend/s who cannot be seen again.
     > I'll never fail this.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Caz on March 22, 2015, 05:02:21 am

Spoiler: 'On 22/03, I remembered this was a thing' Updoop (click to show/hide)

caz stop wrecking 2015 please

[/list][/list]

^ Also idk why the [/list] keeps appearing. It re-appears after deleting. Guess the BBcode is screwed somehow.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Tiruin on March 22, 2015, 08:50:34 pm

Quote from: Caz on March 22, 2015, 05:02:21 am

^ Also idk why the [/list] keeps appearing. It re-appears after deleting. Guess the BBcode is screwed somehow.

CAZ! You totally know my pain! :D
(Yeah that was my problem in making the OP of my RTD...It was so bad, that it broke the forum coding and had text out of the...text...screen...)

The problem here is noting that the {list} tag is usually misplaced once it is quoted or edited due to extraneous variables like added formatting inside the list-box. This is fixed by ensuring, on the ORIGINAL post, that the bbcode tags are all in comfy-place so there won't be those mess ups.

...Dear gods was I surprised that I was able to break the forum post-box with text all over that way ._.
Though on the other hand, I did a nifty code-thingy with spoilers and it was all totally worth it.
But then the RtD went ded due to very slow updates due to my RL fears. But its fixed-ish now.

Also you can totally re-roll goals that generalize the whole year. Like, instead of 'no fites this year D:', you could focus more on the roots which cause that (I mean, you may be involved in a 'fight which has to defend others' so that's technically breaking it, or reword into 'no CAUSING fights this year'), or reword it into 'maintain inner peace' and such! :D

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Bauglir on March 22, 2015, 09:25:52 pm

Spoiler: GETTIN' HUGE...ly behind (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. I need to reroll #1. Game stuff is nice, but grad school this semester just doesn't allow the time, and it's not enough of what I want to do with my life to justify taking priority. Hobby's are nice, but this is one I can't fairly sustain this year. I'll come up with something to replace this with, and just make sure to keep up enough effort to avoid going too rusty.

2. Arrange monthly expenses to allow a savings of $500 per month.

3. Finish all coursework for my degree a semester early, keeping in mind that I'll need to take one throwaway course during that semester to qualify for a continued assistantship.

4. Teach niece some arithmetic.
    -Minimum Milestone: Addition/Subtraction
    -Hoped-For Milestone: Multiplication/Division
    -Magical Christmasland: Algebra

5. Finish the Peloponnesian War, then the Aeneid.

6. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a math subject I've never studied before.

7. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a computer science subject I've never studied before.

8. Learn Lisp.

9. Cook at least two homemade, nutritious meals a week.

10. Eat at least one new food, or drink at least one new beverage, each month.

11. Shave every two days, trim beard at least every month.

12. Paint myself a nightlight.

This has been a bad month, and stressful. I was a fucking moron when I signed up for classes. Ambition's nice, but keeping up with them and basic maintenance is all I seem to be able to do lately. I carve out a net couple hours of leisure every day, but I seem to need to spend them in idleness to stay sane. Should probably cut back on the posting. v unfortunate, much am disappoint

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Caz on March 23, 2015, 12:19:39 pm

Quote from: Tiruin on March 22, 2015, 08:50:34 pm

The problem here is noting that the tag is usually misplaced once it is quoted or edited due to extraneous variables like added formatting inside the list-box. This is fixed by ensuring, on the ORIGINAL post, that the bbcode tags are all in comfy-place so there won't be those mess ups.

Yeah... it can be kinda unclear where exactly the 'comfy-place' for the tags not to break goes though. I gave up on fixing it. <_<

Quote from: Tiruin on March 22, 2015, 08:50:34 pm

Also you can totally re-roll goals that generalize the whole year. Like, instead of 'no fites this year D:', you could focus more on the roots which cause that (I mean, you may be involved in a 'fight which has to defend others' so that's technically breaking it, or reword into 'no CAUSING fights this year'), or reword it into 'maintain inner peace' and such! :D

I suppose that could work. I don't instigate fights but seem to just end up in the midst of them due to refusing to back down on anything. If I do a non-violent action that causes someone to become violent, it's causing a fight - at least partially.

Gonna grab some of that "maintain inner peace". They sell that in Walmart, right?

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Vector on March 30, 2015, 10:47:11 pm

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Bauglir on March 31, 2015, 09:03:26 pm

Nothing has changed, so no full update, but I've figured out what I'm gonna blow a reroll on.

Less Bay12. It's starting to remind me of how I felt about Facebook before I closed that account, minus such severe privacy issues. Only I actually like you people so I doubt I'll be jumping ship entirely. But I'm spending too much time here, instead of doing my work. I'm going to say that for, oh, maybe 2 consecutive hours of time I'd have available for checking up on threads and stuff, I will not open a Bay12 tab.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tiruin on April 01, 2015, 03:29:14 am

Quote from: Bauglir on March 31, 2015, 09:03:26 pm

Less Bay12. It's starting to remind me of how I felt about Facebook before I closed that account, minus such severe privacy issues. Only I actually like you people so I doubt I'll be jumping ship entirely. But I'm spending too much time here, instead of doing my work. I'm going to say that for, oh, maybe consecutive hours of time I'd have available for checking up on threads and stuff, I will not open a Bay12 tab.

Nice note to poke (just my opinion here from experience .-.) is that the forums can wait until first-priority work is done. PM those who may be awaiting a significant post from you, or organize your time schedule in lieu of posting on the forum. :)

I've found that organization helps a ton in removing the worry about 'this before that = no time! :( '

...And my habit of mouse-wheel clicking tabs. That too. >_>
T'would be nice to also bookmark a certain subset under a folder to denote which threads you're intently watching, and what boards/subboards you're scanning for other threads at times, and such. :D

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Reelya on April 01, 2015, 03:39:27 am

If anyone is interested I have a GreaseMonkey / javascript which culls threads from my unread replies. You need to modify the list though to match specifically the threads you want to have erased. I just chucked it up here:

http://jgame.net.au/scripts/bay12topic.user.js

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Xantalos on April 01, 2015, 03:46:00 am

Quote from: Reelya on April 01, 2015, 03:39:27 am

If anyone is interested I have a GreaseMonkey / javascript which culls threads from my unread replies. You need to modify the list though to match specifically the threads you want to have erased. I just chucked it up here:

http://jgame.net.au/scripts/bay12topic.user.js

You are literally the best thing ever.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Vector on April 21, 2015, 08:54:08 pm

-snip-

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Bauglir on April 21, 2015, 09:09:19 pm

I gave it a whirl, looks like you need to grab the thread ID from the thread URL and shove that in the array topics. The ID is the very last bit of the thread's URL if you go to the first post, between the '=' and the '.' From there, I installed it through Tampermonkey, since I'm using a browser based on Chrome, but your mechanism may vary and it sounds like you already got that part worked out.

Interestingly, it nuked the thread I tested it on on the normal forum index page. That may or may not be intended.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Worldmaster27 on April 21, 2015, 09:30:33 pm

I figured it's about time to update this...

Spoiler: Worldmaster's List of Things to Accomplish, Mid-Late April Update (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Exercise.
I do some stuff like pushups and what-not sometimes.

2. Be more social.
I talk to people regularly now, so that's a plus

3. When you do talk, don't be an asshole. Doubly so in regards to friends.
I should work on this.

4. Get your friends' phone numbers. Seriously.
Weeee progress

5. Get a date, maybe
Eh, not interested in anybody and I doubt anybody would be interested in me, so eh.

6. Eat a more varied diet.
I mean I ate a salad last week...

7. Try to draw & write more.
I didn't actually think I'd do this, but a friend is teaching me how to draw and I'm improving (I think)

8. Find things other than the internet to occupy your time.
Just off the top of my head, I can probably find an actual book to read or something.

9. You could do with getting out of the house more and going to places that aren't on the internet.
I might be doing things soonish, hopefully, maybe, for an hour or two...

10. Do small hygiene stuff more regularly
well sometimes i guess, I need to put more effort into this

11. Wear your retainer every other night like you're supposed to as opposed to maybe a couple times a month if that.
ahahahahah

12. Volunteer for something
Seems like a good thing to do, and it'll get me out of the house hopefully.

Spoiler: Dropped tasks/fails (click to show/hide)

*Dropped Goal*
Failure

*Talk more and be more comfortable with your family. Try not to dislike them so much.*
This isn't going to work out.

*Post more in emotion threads*
Kind of am, I guess. *shrug*

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: MaximumZero on April 22, 2015, 03:42:42 am

Spoiler: Mid-April Maximum Updoot (click to show/hide)

forum default = unstarted
red = started, stalled
yellow = started, some progress
green = good progress
strikethrough = total catastrophic failure

1. Remember to actively give more of my time to my family. I spend a lot of time on the computer.
This one I'm actually doing a good job on. I think.

2. Get the hell out of retail/customer service, no matter what it takes. I'm miserable and I hate it.
I won't be getting out of retail, but I'm waiting to hear back about taking over my own store. At the very least, we should be looking at me doubling, possibly tripling my base pay, and also getting bonuses, commission, and benefits. The downside is that I won't be working for my current employer anymore, but that's a price I'm willing to pay to raise my own price. I'm not holding my breath, but I can't help but feel like $_$.

3. Get custody of daughter.
My ex-wife sued me for custody, and I'm going to be deflecting as much of the lawsuit as possible. If #2 goes through, I'll be counter-attacking, as well.

4. Get back to coding. #1 takes priority, though.
This has fallen completely off again. Stupid work, taking up all my time.

5. Pay off student loans/medical debts. Get credit score up. #2 may have to happen first.
Haven't started yet. Money constraints.

6. Get back to making art of some kind. Doesn't matter what kind. Just art.
Haven't started yet. Time constraints.

7. Buy a house? Buy a haus. #5 definitely comes first.
This is tentatively green. We're not buying the house, apparently, we're renting it. Either way, it's a house.

8. Exercise! Get under 200 lbs!
Yeah, no. Haven't started yet.

9. Eat better, try more fruits and veggies.
This has fallen way off, gotta get back on the horse...and eat it.

10. Host more P&P roleplaying sessions.
Yeah, no. I haven't even tried to put one together yet.

11. Work on Neo Dreams: Chronicles of Avarsiin. P&P and video game form.
Haven't had time to work on anything with all of the actual work and freelancing I've been doing.

12. Make my Sims LP more hilarious.
The Haus is no more. I just don't have time to do it anymore.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Orange Wizard on April 26, 2015, 01:04:04 am

Not-Quite-May Update: Featuring Fuckloads of Failure (and alliteration, which automatically makes it better!)

Spoiler: List of the Twelve(ish) Behemoth (click to show/hide)

Heretofore deploying Vector's ubiquitous colour scheme!

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Think up Twelve Behemoth list.
2. Keep living spaces tidy. Pick up clothes, put things away, dust, vacuum, clean, etc. This only involves a lot of effort when I don't do it, so yeah. - I picked stuff off the floor today. The floor needs to be vacuumed.
3. Build good study habits. Keep up with the workload and so on. - Fucking catastrophe indeed. I have managed to shit $3000 worth of education all over the floor. Go me.
4. Exercise. I want to build this up from the current "sometimes walk a little bit" to "go for a walk/jog most days". - I am tremendously lazy.
5.
6.
7. Make public that roguelike game I'm working on. Then keep updating it. - I keep putting this one off, or working on a different project, or whatever.
8. Attempt to make some friends at university. - Lolnope
9.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Bauglir on June 06, 2015, 08:43:55 pm

Spoiler: Livin' on a Prayer, Chronologically Speaking (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Spend at least 2 consecutive hours of time I could have spent on Bay12 each day, not on Bay12. Not even a tab open.
2. Arrange monthly expenses to allow a savings of $500 per month.
3. Finish all coursework for my degree a semester early, keeping in mind that I'll need to take one throwaway course during that semester to qualify for a continued assistantship.
4. Teach niece some arithmetic.
    -Minimum Milestone: Addition/Subtraction
    -Hoped-For Milestone: Multiplication/Division
    -Magical Christmasland: Algebra
5. Finish the Peloponnesian War, then the Aeneid.
6. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a math subject I've never studied before.
7. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a computer science subject I've never studied before.
8. Learn Lisp.
9. Cook at least two homemade, nutritious meals a week.
10. Eat at least one new food, or drink at least one new beverage, each month.
11. Shave every two days, trim beard at least every month.
12. Paint myself a nightlight.

2 Rerolls Remain

Overall, doing a lot better now. Unfortunately, it turns out my goal Number 3 is impossible for reasons beyond my control. Not all the courses I need are available at the right time. I'll have to figure out a replacement goal; the obvious one is not likely to be finished until next year, simply because applications won't be open soon enough. So it won't do.

Need to get to work on those studying things and teaching my niece stuff. I totally fucked up the cooking thing over the last half of the semester, but now that that particular fustercluck is over I'm eating vegetables again. So there will be recovery. There was a lesser stumble in the shaving department, but that's back on track now.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Silthuri on June 14, 2015, 11:11:34 pm

Lately, my updates have been so filled with either no progress or complete messes that I've just deleted them and forgot about them. Upon two weeks of thinking, I've gotten rid of goals that I find trivial and added a few that I find important. Hopefully, these stick because I can only reroll once more. Of course, I don't think I'll be making progress for the next couple weeks at the least due to personal events tearing my world asunder. Well... here goes...

Spoiler: Sil's 14 Behemoths (click to show/hide)

My own personal key:
Not started
Done
Making decent progress
Not much progress
Absolutely terrible progress
Complete mess.
Failed

1. Anxiety depression. Get it under control.
2. Be more social. Talk to people. Gain people skills necessary for my future career.
3. Develop a healthier lifestyle. Exercise and eat healthier.
4. Organize my life. Clean house and start getting my act together.
5. 52 book challenge. Do it.
6. Take up the hobbies once more. Writing, calligraphy and maybe drawing. Try to develop skills in music.
7. Start paving the way for my future career. Get the GPA up where it should be. Tour the law school I want to attend. Save up money and apply for scholarships. Start putting some hours in clubs and volunteer work to build a good resume. Make myself stand out more to my professors so that I’ll have options if I need references.
8. Become more informed on what’s going on in the world today.
9. Practice my religion and make my claim to belong to it more than just words.
10. Care about how I look. Instead of complaining how I don’t like it, change. Wear clothes that flatter me and care about my hair and such.
11. Write in my journal once a day. Make this as much for my mental health as well as forcing myself to write something every day.
12. Yoga and meditation. Increase mindfulness to help with other behemoths and live challenges.
13. Watch my finances. Start keeping check on my account balance and spending my money wisely.
14. That thing. Stop it. You know what it is.
 

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Bauglir on December 28, 2015, 02:09:04 pm

Spoiler: Livin' on a Prayer, Chronologically Speaking (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = started, stopped progress
Orange = started, suboptimal progress
Green = started, good progress
Bold = fucking catastrophe
Strikethrough = complete!

1. Spend at least 2 consecutive hours of time I could have spent on Bay12 each day, not on Bay12. Not even a tab open.
2. Arrange monthly expenses to allow a savings of $500 per month.
3.
4. Teach niece some arithmetic.
    -Minimum Milestone: Addition/Subtraction
    -Hoped-For Milestone: Multiplication/Division
    -Magical Christmasland: Algebra
5. Finish the Peloponnesian War, then the Aeneid.
6. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a math subject I've never studied before.
7. Watch at least one course's worth of lectures in a computer science subject I've never studied before.
8. Learn Lisp.
9. Cook at least two homemade, nutritious meals a week.
10. Eat at least one new food, or drink at least one new beverage, each month.
11. Shave every two days, trim beard at least every month.
12. Paint myself a nightlight.

Overall, disappointing. I never found the opportunity to spend much time with my niece, between work and being exhausted when I'm not working - I've generally been unable to enjoy any family time, in fact. I never figured out an alternative goal for Number 3. Also, turns out my copy of the Aeneid is in Latin. Oops. I started Plato's dialogues instead, but only got about halfway through it. It's also a much longer book, but still not satisfied enough to cross it off. I failed to make myself watch a new computer science course, unfortunately, and I haven't got a good excuse for that. Must work harder. I got through a big chunk of an Introduction to LISP, but I never finished it or did any coding, so I can hardly claim to be proficient. Cooking got even worse after the Fall semester started, for no discernible reason, as did the shaving.

Not the best results, and with Vector gone someone else will have to step up to make another one of these.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: MaximumZero on December 29, 2015, 03:38:40 am

Spoiler: End of 2015 Maximum Updoot (click to show/hide)

forum default = unstarted
red = started, stalled
yellow = started, some progress
green = good progress
bold = finished
strikethrough = total catastrophic failure

1. Remember to actively give more of my time to my family. I spend a lot of time on the computer.
I'm doing my best, but work is killing my family time. I'm rating this one a 5/10.

2. Get the hell out of retail/customer service, no matter what it takes. I'm miserable and I hate it.
0/10. Did not find a new job. Made lots of headway into being promoted, and I'm not quite as miserable as I used to be, but it would still be retail.

3. Get custody of daughter.
This is long and complicated. tl;dr: I'm never going to get full custody unless my ex-wife decides to kick the bucket because the courts in this shithole favors mothers at the expense of fathers. I did manage several small victories in the battle, though, so it wasn't a complete failure. 5/10.

4. Get back to coding. #1 takes priority, though.
0/10. I'm no further along than I was at the beginning of last year. I'm probably worse off due to no practice.

5. Pay off student loans/medical debts. Get credit score up.
0/10. When you pay 24% of your gross pay to child support, and another 20% to taxes, there's not a lot of wiggle room.

6. Get back to making art of some kind. Doesn't matter what kind. Just art.
I drew one thing over the past year. 0/10, this was an utter failure.

7. Buy a house? Buy a haus.
5/10. Renting a haus.

8. Exercise! Get under 200 lbs!
I'm still not under 200, but I'm well under what I used to be. I entered the year at 235 or so, and ended it at about 210-215. That's decent progress. 6/10.

9. Eat better, try more fruits and veggies.
I've started eating applesauce frequently, but that's as far as I got. We can call this a solid fail. 2/10.

10. Host more P&P roleplaying sessions.
Hosted two over the last year. 2/10.

11. Work on Neo Dreams: Chronicles of Avarsiin. P&P and video game form.
I haven't touched my game in months, let alone started trying to learn code. 1/10.

12. Make my Sims LP more hilarious.
Despite the early death, I'm considering the Haus a tentative success. It was pretty good while it lasted. 6/10. Read it here. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=144979)

That is 32/120. A highly unremarkable 26.7% of points possible. Maybe next year will be better.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Skyrunner on December 29, 2015, 09:21:20 am

Of five goals I have only completed one--I have a very good GPA!

Woo?

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: birdy51 on December 29, 2015, 05:06:38 pm

I think I'll need to do this for the coming year. Build my resolve. Get things done. Figure out just what I'm going to be doing past college. I could use the focus!

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: SalmonGod on December 30, 2015, 08:34:46 pm

I never set goals for myself in this thread, but 2015 was a hell of a year anyway.  Full of much hard-won success and transformation, but not in anything I expected or necessarily wanted.  Feeling very much knocked off course and lost right now...  and tired.  Looking to regain some direction in 2016.  It seems like this was a turbulent year for everyone... In pretty bad ways for a lot of people I know.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: penguinofhonor on December 31, 2015, 12:16:44 am

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Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tiruin on December 31, 2015, 09:37:25 am

/me sifts through her list...

Quote from: Tiruin on March 07, 2015, 06:25:57 am

ALRIGHT LET'S DO THIS THING. :I

0. Create 2015 BEHEMOTH GOAL LIST.
Hooray! \o/ Tutorial completed!

Spoiler: 3/7/2015; in which I copy Vector's rating sheet (click to show/hide)

Forum default = unstarted
Red = Started, Stopped Progress
Orange = Started, Suboptimal progress
Green = Started, Good progress
Bold = Moderate Catastrophe
Strikethrough = Complete!//Color Below = Finished!

1. Family Stuff.
Left vague for a reason, I need to talk to my Uncle about this, including being ok with myself and my dysphoria.

2. a Actually post in the Cartographer's Guild
    b Create a map worthy of posting in the Cartographer's Guild
The Guild in question (http://www.cartographersguild.com/content.php) is a magnificent place, filled with an attraction that attached my geographical affinity along with art onto the many, splendid and breathtaking ways on how topographical charts and realistic renditions of scenery and ideas were made. This is a two-step goal, which should in the least be finished by the end of the year.
{EndYearNote: See #10}

3. Self Management.
Keyword: Time Management, and that memory of my BioSci I teacher regarding the teacher as the facilitator instead of the spoon-feeder.
Must learn how to manage the self, to manage the 24 hours allotted each 'day' spent, including how to 'automate' and move through the strange inconsistencies (ie possible procrastination//Depression//Focus) which may plague what may have been essentially productive days. Inclusive would be the forward and continued development of the drive and passion which has gotten {me} to where {I} am now.

4. No more flaking. Actions speak louder than words. Do the thing!
Sorry Vector, copying this here.
Public speaking. Your father and parents got you this far out of that trauma in the past; forward it better by mastery of your home language. This is in part, already fulfilled given that you can speak and express yourself, far better than initially predicted a long time ago.

5. Food Improvement. Diet Improvement.
The Cordilleran region is known for its famous vegetable dishes.

6. Exercise!
Other than the usual 3km you have to walk daily to public transport up the mountainous terrain, try a martial art! Other than Taekwondo which you did before, try other arts which hold your interest! Eskrima seems like a nice place to start, or at least return to your archery skills which you've somehow shown an innate talent in before!
Also watch those noodle arms. Your ratio of upper body strength to lower body strength is not balanced.

7. Digital Arts Focus
You have been acknowledged by one of the region's finest DA school instructors as 'capable'. Develop that talent and your creativity in general.

8. Knowledge on Medicine, specifically regarding DNA and ancestral matching. {May pass onto the proceeding year}
Keyword: Adopted.
Initial stages have been a success--you've met the first responders, though not contacted the security company in charge (though the records may be very... old. Note: 1994. Inquire to local precincts as to the possible travel time and qualitative data regarding initial findings of that date.)

9. Help Others {Get your terminology in gear!}
Learned from great people who had the knowledge how to empower the person and overcome great troubles. Learn how to pass what you learned onto others. What you are now is in part, the result of others who help and believe in you ever since...that past time.

10. Arts/Literary Project
That backlog on gifts for 'best friends who helped you through life' must be done.
First step: Learn how to consistently draw. Your spurts of brilliance do not seem to be controlled enough to use as a basis.
Others:
> That RTD Library you volunteered for. FINISH THAT DRAFT THAT'S SITTING THERE (or else others will assume you just didn't do it. :I)
> That RTD which you have in your signature. Revive it. In a new thread.
> Finish those maps. Those incomplete...maps.
> That FEF you're making. You have the character classes, XP rules, mechanics, plotline going. Polish them.
> Storytelling. Improve stock of literary books. Maybe participate in the 52 books per year thread. Possibly borrow books from friends due to lacking funds.
{EndYearNote: Heavy anxiety issues have stifled your work, however due progress is noted in all the complete/incomplete works you have. Offline. Assess posting them online and balance your perfectionism with realism. }

11. Thank that Grade 6 teacher.
Easiest way is through Facebook, but contacting her is the first step that must be done. Consider a letter of appreciation +art or a story +art.

12. Learn to drive.
._. Driving. With four wheels. Two more than your now-broken bicycle. And on the road.
{EndYearNote: Lacking time.}

13. Join Extracurricular areas!
You have been acknowledged by the Student Psych President as 'able' in debating. Follow up on it.
You have been acknowledged by your English III Instructor as very well written in verse and literature, with the suggestion to work on the school newspaper team. Go for it.
Head Teacher of your course noticed your potential and followed it up with the Guidance Counsel. Expound that.
You've come this far. Very far from your childhood. You can do this.

14. Keep in contact with friends
Friendship makes the world go round. It is among the first forms of love experienced.
Especially on this forum--first forum you joined. First forum you broke through your communication barrier. First forum you met very nice people which helped you meet nice people offline.

15. Remember names other than remembering only faces.
Probably connected either with something in the past, or something with lingual memory.

16. Learn trade skills.
Your dad is great teacher. Construction. Plumbing. Pipe-repairs. Use that toolbox. Learn the tools. Analyze the house-water-system. Learn to sandpaper correctly. Wear gloves.
I mean seriously. One of his colleagues is in welding, and she's awesome at it.
Be that inner mechanic-expert you've always been dreaming of...when playing Steampunk games.
{EndYearNote: While your efforts haven't been primarily in the listed note above--your understanding of mechanics and its applications now enable you to help around the home with repair and other matters!}

17. Make Parents Proud.
...Filler goal, most likely. You know they're proud of you despite...your current state, but maybe change the title to 'fulfill potential' or something.
{EndYearNote: ...I have low self-esteem and I am unsure on this part. Must reassess and rework this...but through #1, you have learned that they love you. Unconditionally. Through any condition whatsoever.}

18. Language Studies!
You've noticed that you've a ton of affinities for many things--art, philosophy, theology, math, and even languages! Your past horrors cannot even compensate for the tiniest speck of that very distinct feeling you've got in these fields and more.
Try to at least get into mastery of a language or dialect this year.
{EndYearNote: While you have not focused into language studies, you have made good progress in an underlying field: Speed reading and lingual understanding. Knowing how to correlate the meaning behind words equal the parallel of understanding phonetic structuring and the system of language itself. These may help you in the future [I mean really. Speed Reading. So amazing.}

19. Emotion Control
Its not apparent to mostly anyone, due to how far you've progressed in understanding and realizing many things. Control towards the ego, rather than anger or hate--due to the lack of the latter experienced in anything.
This year, practice recall of situations where emotions may be a hindrance and utilize personal abilities to aid interaction in those situations, past and future.
{EndYearNote: I...can actually feel again. Hooray depression-gone, and hooray being more sensitive!...despite being sensitive in the first place >_>}

20. Remember and honor friend/s who cannot be seen again.
I'll never fail this.
{EndYearNote: }

Hoo! :D I got some of these done! Yaaay!
I should email Vector soon .-. Totally miss them.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tack on December 31, 2015, 01:16:48 pm

Uh. Crud.
Was there a different thread for the simplistic, simple resolutions?

'Cos I didn't post any here.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Silthuri on December 31, 2015, 01:20:46 pm

Quote from: Bauglir on December 28, 2015, 02:09:04 pm

Not the best results, and with Vector gone someone else will have to step up to make another one of these.

I'd like to make the next one. I'll have it up by tonight if there are no objections.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Tiruin on January 04, 2016, 04:14:08 am

Quote from: Silthuri on December 31, 2015, 01:20:46 pm

Quote from: Bauglir on December 28, 2015, 02:09:04 pm

Not the best results, and with Vector gone someone else will have to step up to make another one of these.

I'd like to make the next one. I'll have it up by tonight if there are no objections.

Go for it :D

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Shook on January 04, 2016, 08:37:40 am

Oh right, had forgotten all about this thread, let's see how i'm doing:

Spoiler: shookings (click to show/hide)

Green = DONE
Yellow = IN PROGRESS
Red = NOT STARTED
Black = FAILED
*asterisks* = NEW

1. Finish Angry Laser Space, or at least get it to 1.0. This bloody project has been in progress for over 4 years now, and i think it's about time to wrap it up as neatly as possible, so i can get going on other things.
Gotten VERY close, but hand pains prevented me from finishing.

2. Get into the habit of drawing something every day. Doesn't have to be anything specific or mindblowing, just SOMETHING so i can keep up the practice, be it digital or traditional.
Honestly thinking that i'm just going to abandon this one, because some days i just don't feel like drawing a thing, and i don't feel bad for that. Instead, i should rather focus on drawing a thing when i'm in that "i want to draw something but anxiety is crippling me" mojo, because THAT makes me feel bad. :v

3. Paint something with the acrylic paint (and canvas) that i got for my birthday. Something that isn't just a half-hearted leaf.
Done!!?!? This has made me realize that i MUCH prefer digital painting, because mixing colours is a pain in the arse.

4. Give someone in meatspace uncensored access to my deviantArt page, preferrably one of my immediate relatives. This may sound simple, but due to personal issues, is comparable in fear and difficulty of execution to russian roulette. It is most definitely the "all in" move of my life right now, and a bad result could have dreadful consequences for my psyche, while a good result could possibly result in me finally breaking the shackles cast upon me by my oppressors back in elementary school.
noooooope

5. Start talking to people over the intertoobs with my microphone. I am EXTREMELY SHY AND AWKWARD but my past experiences have been a lot of fun.
Nyet, although i haven't been feeling a huge need either.

6. A vague one: Try to stop caring so much about what others think. It goes hand in hand with my crippling lack of self-esteem, and is, in essence, what makes things like 3, 4 and 5 very hard to do.
Kind of, i guess? Therapy has been very helpful, but my brain keeps slipping back.

7. Get a hold of my sleeping rhythm. At the moment, if people didn't wake me up, it'd keep advancing all the time, and sleepytime is already WAY past midnight and approaching the next morning.
KIND OF had something going while i was studying, but then i dropped out and everything's back to "normal". Here's hoping 2016 will be better in that regard.

8. Try my hand at some kind of music-ing. I like listening to music too much to at least not try making some myself. :v
Nada.

9. Get a hold on my crippling lack of self-esteem.
Starting to feel a bit better about myself, so that's pretty cool.

10. Find out what i want/am to do with my life.
Still not sure, but at least i've found the next stepping stone, which is always something.

I'm using the BLACK COLOUR OF FAILURE because i failed to do those within 2015. Fortunately, the world hasn't ended yet, so i'm obviously going to keep them in mind this year as well. :v

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: Silthuri on January 11, 2016, 02:09:39 pm

Spoiler: Sil's 14 Behemoths (click to show/hide)

My own personal key:
Not started
Done
Made decent progress
Not much progress
Absolutely terrible progress
Complete mess.

1. Anxiety depression. Get it under control.  - I made pretty damn good progress in dealing with my mental issues, especially considering the hell my ex best friend put me through a few months ago. I finally found a medication that helps quite a bit, which helps a lot. I plan to progress further in this in 2016.
2. Be more social. Talk to people. Gain people skills necessary for my future career. - I managed to secure a position as secretary of a club and I'm developing some friendships with members of said club. I'm in a dnd group that's pretty awesome and I have a lot of fun with them.
3. Develop a healthier lifestyle. Exercise and eat healthier. - I've gained quite a bit of weight over the past year. I need to focus more on this in 2016.
4. Organize my life. Clean house and start getting my act together. - I haven't put any time into this at all.
5. 52 book challenge. Do it. - I didn't get anywhere near 52, but I think I made it to about 20, which is about 20 more than I read last year. I'm very satisfied with my progress here.
6. Take up the hobbies once more. Writing, calligraphy and maybe drawing. Try to develop skills in music.  - I haven't really had the time or desire to write. I have dabbled a bit in drawing. I haven't had the time to do much with music. 
7. Start paving the way for my future career. Get the GPA up where it should be. Tour the law school I want to attend. Save up money and apply for scholarships. Start putting some hours in clubs and volunteer work to build a good resume. Make myself stand out more to my professors so that I’ll have options if I need references. - My GPA isn't that great. I haven't been able to set up a tour for the law school. I will, however, be joining a club specifically for pre-law students, so that would be pretty nice. I'm going to work on my friendship with my professors, since most of those I have this semester know me from previous classes.
8. Become more informed on what’s going on in the world today. - What year is it again?
9. Practice my religion and make my claim to belong to it more than just words. - Outwardly, little has changed, but my inner thinking has and that's what really counts, yeah?
10. Care about how I look. Instead of complaining how I don’t like it, change. Wear clothes that flatter me and care about my hair and such. - Haven't really thoght about this at all. I did change how I care for my hair that seemed to help.
11. Write in my journal once a day. Make this as much for my mental health as well as forcing myself to write something every day. - I wrote like... five entries.
12. Yoga and meditation. Increase mindfulness to help with other behemoths and life challenges.- Yeah... no...
13. Watch my finances. Start keeping check on my account balance and spending my money wisely. - I sort of have to watch my finances. I don't make that much...
14. That thing. Stop it. You know what it is. - Thing effectively stopped. Congrats, me.
 

Yeah... 2015 wasn't a good year for me... I hope I can do better this year. Now... to decide what to put on my list...

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: miauw62 on January 11, 2016, 04:23:37 pm

Early 2015 was about as bad as 2014 for me, but then I got therapy and I went to my first con and started playing mtg so really, it was a good year and I got stuff done even if it's pretty immaterial. Looking to be the first year in a line of good years, also.

I didn't make a list but I considered doing it. It'd have had silly things I'd never get done on it anyway, such as the fact that "get a gf" would probably have been present.

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [Resolve-Building Thread]
Post by: wobbly on January 12, 2016, 04:08:15 am

Quote from: Skyrunner on December 29, 2015, 09:21:20 am

Of five goals I have only completed one--I have a very good GPA!

Woo?

Hey as long as it was 1 of the important 1s good achievement right?

Me I set no real goals, so can happy announce I achieved 3 out of zero goals!

Title: Re: Flight of the Twelve Behemoths 2015 [New Year's Resolutions]
Post by: Caz on January 12, 2016, 02:10:34 pm

o-o I forgot this was a thing. Oh man, guess I should tally up stuff.


...And I actually did ok. Well, pretty bad on the actual 'successes' but I can at least say I tried with as much effort as possible. A weirdly challenging year, but I learned some good lessons. I therefore present this award to myself and anyone else in the thread who did. :P



(https://i.imgur.com/2oQZwiS.jpg)