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[Ambient_Malice]

I just hope my sarcasm was obvious enough. @_@

Do you have an interest in mathematics or physics or computers? Nerdy stuff? Or do you prefer not to get involved with the whole "how it works" thing? (For example: do you know how a bootstrap loader works?)

[cultr1]

If definitely wasn't lost on me. I hope you don't think I'm taking notes on you, that would be incredibly false. Yep, totally untrue. Verily.

Yes! I have a very big interest in all three of those things. I loved "getting my hands dirty" as a kid, figuratively. Wasn't much of a dirt playing child, Lego was more my style. Anyway, I would eagerly disassemble whatever was put in front of me, just to see what's up. Of course, I would get down to the chips an processors and reach an impass, which got old after a bit. Once we had started the circuitry unit in Physics class, however, a second tier of understanding was made clear to me, and I got excited all over again. That's basically the main reason I want to be an engineer. As a bit of a side note, I much prefer this process applied to Chemistry over Electronics. It's more fundamental to life, which makes it a little more intriguing to me. The fact I can see a chemical in a list, firgure out what it looks like with some certainty (oxymoron, whatever), and understand how it works and reacts with other chemicals is why I'm going back for another round of Chemistry next year.
And yes, it has to access the ROM with a bootstrap "program" in order to do a power check and find and start the OS, from what I understand.

Edited by cultr1, 09 April 2012 - 06:00 AM.

[Ambient_Malice]

*claps* That's fairly solid.

Okay, next question: what was the first videogame you ever played?

[GIRakaCHEEZER]

What's a Junior?

[cultr1]

*claps* That's fairly solid.

Okay, next question: what was the first videogame you ever played?

Thanks.

Ocarina of Time. I remember everything about that game, but more importantly, the things happening while I played it. Sounds and smells of the room I was in, What school was like back then, all of these things were kind of solidified in my mind because of OoT, it's a rather important piece of my life, actually.

What's a Junior?

11th grade.

[Ambient_Malice]

Who would you call your favorite comedian?

[Kanpachi]

1. Is there any significance behind your username?

2. What's your favourite day of the year?

3. Any religious beliefs?

4. What's your favourite flavour of ice cream?

5. Favourite colour?

woohoo, intelligent questions xD

[Hiino]

1) What was the worst thing you ever experienced in your life?

2) What was the best one?

3) Where do you think you will be in 10 years? In 20 years?

4) What would you do of your last 24 hours if you were to die tomorrow? What would be your last will?

5) What's the most precious thing you have? What would you sell/trade it for? Assume you were forced to trade/sell it (so that you can't say "I wouldn't sell it for anything in the world hurr"

[cultr1]

Who would you call your favorite comedian?

Louis CK. I couldn't tell you why, he just does everything right for me.

1. Is there any significance behind your username?
2. What's your favourite day of the year?
3. Any religious beliefs?
4. What's your favourite flavour of ice cream?
5. Favourite colour?
woohoo, intelligent questions xD

1. c-u-ltr, and 1 because cultr is too short for most sites and is the lowest number. I've had this handle for a while, and in the process have gone from saying "see you later" to "See-You-Ell-Tee-Err-One," finally landing on "cult-err." Or cult for short. I haven't actually told this story here before, so I guess now is the best time.
Well, funny story. I was 10, playing Runescape. I saw tons of people in Banks asking for GFs, and giving away free stuff to their pseudo-partners. Now of course, I would have been a fool not to capitalize on this, and I made an alternate female account. I of course had to think of something more feminine than whatever manly names I could come up with in my head, and I somehow landed on "see you later." I didn't really grasp all the acronyms at this point, so later became "ltr" instead of "l8r." I guess that's a good thing, since now I can interpret it differently.

Anyway, I made tons of money and got tons of runes, and eventually became higher level than my main with her. I abandoned my poor previous account, and eventually became a member with Cultr1, and it stuck that way. I became rich enough to abandon the schtick though, and switched back to a male, but the name stuck.

2. The first day of nice weather in the spring. It's relaxing to be able to commute sans-jacket, and be outside at whatever hour you please with little weather issues. Night time is basically my favorite time, so this just marks the start of my unhindered access to it.

3. Well both of my parents are rather liberal Athiests (not the douchebag kind, though), so I inherited that without thinking twice about it. I live in a very liberal town, so I never was presented to a counterpoint to Atheism. When I hit middle school, however, I realized that I didn't know jack shit about the universe, I didn't have enough information to have an opinion. So I became an Agnostic, I guess.

4. Vanilla. It's the one flavor of ice cream that I never get sick of, no matter how much you give to me. In southern Oregon we have this company (Umpqua something rather) who makes the best vanilla ice cream in the world oh my god it's so good

5. I'd have to say Green like a Forest, or Dark Blue like the Night Sky. Both of these things are really peaceful, just visualizing them helps me relax. It also helps that I am surrounded by forests, and live under the sky, so I get to see them every day.

1) What was the worst thing you ever experienced in your life?
2) What was the best one?
3) Where do you think you will be in 10 years? In 20 years?
4) What would you do of your last 24 hours if you were to die tomorrow? What would be your last will?
5) What's the most precious thing you have? What would you sell/trade it for? Assume you were forced to trade/sell it (so that you can't say "I wouldn't sell it for anything in the world hurr"

1. Okay, this is a really personal one. I'm going to be blunt, and 100% honest about every detail, I have no reason to embellish this story for you guys. Sorry if I glaze over stuff that seems mega important, I'm compressing 8 months into a few paragraphs.

Alright, the worst thing I've experienced in my life is my first girlfriend. I was a freshman, and this was my first relationship, so I didn't know how to end it when I should've, and was way too gullible in general. Don't get me wrong, she cared for me when she was happy, she even threw me a surprise birthday party. Sadly, she had other factors going the opposite direction for her. She was an extraordinarily needy person, except any attention was good attention for her. She was mildly depressed, but more importantly a pathological liar. She would tell me complete and utter lies every day, and I had no choice but to believe them, as a massive guilt trip would result if I called her out. It was a mess, I would be on the phone literally begging her not to kill herself every single night.

She admitted later that she made up the stuff about cheating on me out of anger and cutting herself, but of course I couldn't be furious when I found out that things weren't as bad as I had thought. I was completely blinded with pity that should never have existed, I basically lost contact with all of my friends because I had to spend so much time caring about her. My freshman year was a complete wash, for all intents and purposes it never existed. I still aced all my classes, but I had basically no social life or emotional life. No life at all really, just hers. Of course she forced me to end my friendship with my best female friend through her jealousy; she never forgave me for it.
Finally, at the start of summer, she was pulling her bullshit again, I kept a totally clear head and broke up with her in the car on my way to the SFO airport (I'll explain that in a bit). My dad gave me a high five, and we got some ramen at this amazing noodle house to celebrate.

2. So this is basically the emotional bleach followup question. My favorite experience is kind of a toss up, between my New York trip and the Robotics Tournament this year. I'll go over both briefly I guess.

Summer after freshman year, I got to live with my aunt in NYC for 6 weeks. She worked all day, and the cousin I was supposed to babysit spent much more time at the uncle's house than my aunt's (they're divorced, in case that wasn't clear), so I essentially had all the free time in the world to do whatever I wanted, in the biggest city in the US. I got an unlimited subway pass, and my parents would put more money in my account when I needed, so money and transportation were both unimportant. It was awesome, all the benefits of being an independent without any of the downsides. Plus that's when I made #curlybrace and skype friends with all you guys, which was amazing.

The robotics tournament was fun for similar reasons. It was basically 4 days in Portland with complete freedom, with a comfy convention center to return to, and all the friends I could ask for in one place. I made friends with a bunch of people, got to meet some skype friends who were also there, and made better friends with the the people I was already good friends with. Doing stupid shit all day is way more fun when you have a billion friends to do it with.

3. In 10 years, my engineering degree has landed me my dream job as a chemical engineer, where I'll be making a more than decent wage. I'll be in a long term relationship with someone, hopefully, considering marriage. In 20 years, I'll hopefully be married, living in a house that it is mostly paid for already, with 1 or 2 kids. I just want to have a good life so my kids will have a good one.

4. I would fly out to the east coast and meet as many of you guys as I could. I'd go skydiving, or bungee jumping. I would travel to a rainforest, I'd go see something built by Frank Lloyd Wright. I would give away my music library and headphones to my music buddy, we have basically the same taste in electro music (my favorite genre, basically). I'd give my phone to someone who needs it more than me, I'd give my steam account to someone who can't afford games. That's basically all I have to give D:

5. I'd say the most important thing to me is my skype account. I spend so much time on it, it's my only form of communication with many of my friends. That's honestly more important to me than tangible stuff. I'd say a close second would be my music library; it's essentially the most honest thing I have, you really get to see what someone is like based on their music. Plus, it's quite a few GB, it would be quite the hassle to get it all back D:
If I had to, I would trade either one for (ironically) a laptop, it's something equally personal, and using a mediocre desktop in senic middle of the house feels a little impersonal. An iPhone is closer, but really hard to communicate quickly with.

[linkruler]

I have a good one:
what's an event in your life that permanently changed your life (not including ponies)