EPTThat's a lot.
I CHANGED a lot! Being awesome so far.
I got a full snowboard gear for 400 bucks today [board and bindings not included]. Well, it seems now that it includes my not-so-distant birthday present, which I'd get in February in other cases but I don't mind it all.
My snowboard history is laughable. Actually, I've been on board for 10 hours in my life and had already 2 semi-serious accidents.
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The first accident happened when I was 14 years old (20 now), I just started to learn the whole thing and my trainer brought me to a fuckin scary and high slope with full of other people, and somehow my left knee just .. broke after trying to not hit others and not being able to break]
The first accident happened when I was 14 years old (20 now), I just started to learn the whole thing and my trainer brought me to a fuckin scary and high slope with full of other people, and some tendons in my left knee just .. broke after trying to not hit others and not being able to break.
The second accident happened like 2 years later when I tried boarding again (after a long period of building up courage again lol). I went to a 1 week skiing with my school, it was organized by the PE teacher, the moron CLEARLY advertised the tour with the promise of a snowboard teacher who happened to NOT be around after the bus already took off.
I was asking the PE teacher, "where is the snowboard trainer" 'well, he is not here' . What the fuck. There was no way back. The bus was halfway to Austria already. ....
On the second day, I somehow hit my head brutally [selfeducated snowboarder], actually so hard that I couldn't remember any of the accident [amnesia is fuckin disturbing and scary, especially when your classmates are making photos with you where you have one disturbingly smiling facial expression]. I got brain concussion and got freaked out from snowboard for a while, meanwhile I learnt to ski halfdecently but I always tought snowboarding was cooler but I was afraid of it.
The first accident happened when I was 14 years old (20 now), I just started to learn the whole thing and my trainer brought me to a fuckin scary and high slope with full of other people, and some tendons in my left knee just .. broke after trying to not hit others and not being able to break.
The second accident happened like 2 years later when I tried boarding again (after a long period of building up courage again lol). I went to a 1 week skiing with my school, it was organized by the PE teacher, the moron CLEARLY advertised the tour with the promise of a snowboard teacher who happened to NOT be around after the bus already took off.
I was asking the PE teacher, "where is the snowboard trainer" 'well, he is not here' . What the fuck. There was no way back. The bus was halfway to Austria already. ....
On the second day, I somehow hit my head brutally [selfeducated snowboarder], actually so hard that I couldn't remember any of the accident [amnesia is fuckin disturbing and scary, especially when your classmates are making photos with you where you have one disturbingly smiling facial expression]. I got brain concussion and got freaked out from snowboard for a while, meanwhile I learnt to ski halfdecently but I always tought snowboarding was cooler but I was afraid of it.
These experiences kind of traumatized me over snowboarding but now I DONT FUCKING CARE because my long term life aim is to widen my comfort zone so I gotta face this fear now.
I still got my old snowboard and my old board clothes but those don't fit me so I needed to replace those. Also my feet grew bigger with one number so needed new shoes too.
The general regression seemed to have put his finger on everything as I found miracolous downed prices on basically every snowboard related stuff in THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY.
I got snowboard jackets, pants, a pair of new soft shoes, new snowboard glasses, A HEAD PROTECTOR [head damage I laugh you into the face], snowboard gloves with wrist protector for really cheap. After a half day, I still got no buyers' remorse so my spidy sense says it was all ok.
That's about it, I will show everyone (who cares) that I am not afraid of this ridiculous sport where people are basically sliding down on snow on a piece of plastic and wood. I WILL GET THIS HANDLED.
I will to go this heartmoving adventure with my father in the near future [he will be skiing, SO UNCOOL].
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MAGIC:
Yea yea, I am into magic, HARDCORE. I don't feel too old for this and all my friends find it fascinating and they always ask for tricks [or.. as the practicioners of the art like to say, effects and routines].
I am chewing trough Card College vol 1. and I just got down two third of De'Vo's De'ring routine, the latter is a really fine impromptu piece what I can show everyone who asks what my hobbies are.
It's been 5 months since I started, and HELL, how much is ahead!
Now I want do a big shotout for FuDDx, My HANDSHAKING IS ALMOST GONE, thanks for your PM's !!
He is an awesome balloon manipulator as you all know, with nice kids.
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VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT:
Game development is another one of my hobbies and I hope it can be my profession later on.
At the moment of writing this I am only thinking in 2D games, I am in love with them to be honest.
I just started discovering the endless depth of physics engines and I gotta say it's not too easy at times. Sometimes there are INTERESTING PROBLEMS (aaaaarrrghh), but the fact that arranging the underlying physics of a game can make you feel like a CREATOR ON AN ANOTHER LEVEL makes up for it.
Also I started screwing around with the different path finding algorithms (now basically the different versions of A*), after completing the task of writing one for a school project.
Btw for my 2D game workframe I use SFML for graphics, audio and input handling and Box2D for physics.
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