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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19231 Posts
January 07 2013 02:27 GMT
#1
      Alright, well I have a series of misc. thoughts that I'm going to throw at you guys just because its nice to talk about things every once in a while.

1.My girlfriend wants to go to school. Specifically for her it's cosmetology school. The problem is she has no money and her family can't help pay. With the new laws on private loans, private loan companies make it impossible to get one to pay for trade school education. I don't need advice on how Obama made getting loans harder or that cosmetology is not a good career. I want her to do what she is passionate about instead of settling for school loans in a career she won't care about. So if anyone has any ideas on this it would help greatly.

2.What's the SC2 multiplayer scene on battle.net like these days? I haven't played the game in over a year and I'm sure I'm crap. I have always been a protoss player but since the inception of SC2 I feel like the only race that has been worthy of playing is Terran. I love the lengths of management and multitasking the play style forces me to play. Since I've been a 24/7 viewer of SC:BW and SC2 I really only play the game against AI or UMS games. And if I player ladder it's only 4v4 because then I came blame other people for losing haha.

I don't get why I"m so lazy when I play 1v1. I know I could be scouting but I generally just don't care. I see units that I should counter but I just choose to build whatever feels fun that game and try to win anyway. Which I micro good enough that I tend to do well anyway. I also play very unsafe taking hidden expansion instead of my natural. I swear I could be playing perfect games if I mentally could force myself to. I feel like its a metaphor for how I am in real life. Naturally lazy and doing just enough to be where I want to be.

3.On a new topic how does one balance anything at all? I'm supposed to practice coding everyday after work, go to the gym, watch what I eat, clean the place. But as I get older I just want to sleep more, play some games, and maybe choose at least one thing I should be doing and get it done. However, when I was 21 (25 now) I would drink a lot, have energy drinks every day, never sleep, code all the time and always be playing video games and I was completely happy. I wish that energy was back but I know junk food and energy drinks isn't the way to get me back to that energetic self is it? I could honestly care less about my weight but it's about knowing I'm taking care of myself.

4. I feel like there is a four but I haven't thought of it yet. There's always time where everything seems like it needs answers. I'm on the verge of going back to my old ways, and maybe that's ok for another couple years. I just want to be happy and successful and right now I should feel both but I"m not acting it. I'll get my act together.

Thanks for any listening to my thoughts. I'm not depressed, I"m just sitting here with motivation screaming in my head but it just won't translate to action, and that's the hardest challenge for anyone to overcome, the reason many never reach greatness.

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hoby2000
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States918 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-07 02:44:24
January 07 2013 02:44 GMT
#2
1. I have no idea what to tell you. There has to be other options for cosmetology, because I've had several friends go into the field. Surely there must be information the trade school can provide her with to get money to go to school right?

2. I get on every once in awhile, nothing has really changed I guess? People seem to be friendlier. I get harassed every once in awhile for playing Zerg. I say do whatever you want, and who cares if you lose. Today, when I went to go play my placement match, I got an important text message and knew said conversation was going to take my concentraion - so i 6 pooled A TERRAN PLAYER WITH NO BANES. I let him know after I had some other shit to do and would be down to rematch if he wanted to later. He declined because I play Zerg, haha. SO yeah, just get on and have some fun. Fuck winning - Do a mass reaper all-in and watch as the other player gets super pissed.

3. Don't balance - only do what you want to do, because if you're not doing what you truly want to do, then why are you doing it? Sounds crazy, right? If people really thought this way, surely it would be a huge chaotic mess? But no, really think about it. If you don't really want to do something ,then you're going to half-ass it at best. Life is about being happy, if you're not happy coding or going to the gym, then stop doing it. I'm not saying become a fat lazy slob, but stop pretending the standard set by society or someone who appears above you is the best idea. True happiness comes from within.

4. Success is how you perceive it. Happiness comes from within - so does success. You are successful because you deemed it so, not because anyone else did.

I'm planning on becoming an educational psychologist, and with that, I have to know general psychology. Not saying my answers are more correct because of that, but I like to try my hand at helping people using what I know.
A lesson without pain is meaningless for nothing can be gained without giving something in return.
sevia
Profile Joined May 2010
United States954 Posts
January 07 2013 09:50 GMT
#3
My girlfriend wants to go to school. Specifically for her it's cosmetology school. The problem is she has no money and her family can't help pay. With the new laws on private loans, private loan companies make it impossible to get one to pay for trade school education. I don't need advice on how Obama made getting loans harder or that cosmetology is not a good career. I want her to do what she is passionate about instead of settling for school loans in a career she won't care about. So if anyone has any ideas on this it would help greatly.


I'm really not very knowledgeable about this, but is federal aid not enough to pay for it, or does it even apply at all? FAFSA, Pell Grants, all that? Again, not really an expert here.

What's the SC2 multiplayer scene on battle.net like these days? I haven't played the game in over a year and I'm sure I'm crap. I have always been a protoss player but since the inception of SC2 I feel like the only race that has been worthy of playing is Terran. I love the lengths of management and multitasking the play style forces me to play. Since I've been a 24/7 viewer of SC:BW and SC2 I really only play the game against AI or UMS games. And if I player ladder it's only 4v4 because then I came blame other people for losing haha.

I don't get why I"m so lazy when I play 1v1. I know I could be scouting but I generally just don't care. I see units that I should counter but I just choose to build whatever feels fun that game and try to win anyway. Which I micro good enough that I tend to do well anyway. I also play very unsafe taking hidden expansion instead of my natural. I swear I could be playing perfect games if I mentally could force myself to. I feel like its a metaphor for how I am in real life. Naturally lazy and doing just enough to be where I want to be.


I'm starting to play terran now after neglecting it for a long time (high masters zerg, mid masters protoss). I think it's by far the hardest race to play at a high level. It certainly takes tons of knowledge to play P or Z well, but their macro is simpler and more rhythmic, and micro (barring mirror match-ups) is generally just splitting and forming concaves. Their play style is oriented around game flow and timings rather than crisp macro and speedy micro.

I'm jealous of all the people that picked terran from the very start and stuck with it. On NA at least, the whole race has experienced a sort of 'natural selection' effect, where the only terrans left in high masters and GM are absolute monsters compared to your average P or Z. You see the same phenomenon in the professional scene, too. You can count the number of good foreign terrans on one hand, and balance bitching is absolutely rampant... but at the same time the best Korean terrans are dominating, and proving time and time again just how incompetent everyone else is in comparison.

On a new topic how does one balance anything at all? I'm supposed to practice coding everyday after work, go to the gym, watch what I eat, clean the place. But as I get older I just want to sleep more, play some games, and maybe choose at least one thing I should be doing and get it done. However, when I was 21 (25 now) I would drink a lot, have energy drinks every day, never sleep, code all the time and always be playing video games and I was completely happy. I wish that energy was back but I know junk food and energy drinks isn't the way to get me back to that energetic self is it? I could honestly care less about my weight but it's about knowing I'm taking care of myself.


It's all about habit forming, I suppose. Once you get used to always having the place clean and always doing your work as soon as you need to, it doesn't take so much energy to keep on doing it. But I don't really know, I'm awful at it; it's 5a.m. and instead of going to sleep I choose to browse TL. shrug

Thanks for any listening to my thoughts. I'm not depressed, I"m just sitting here with motivation screaming in my head but it just won't translate to action, and that's the hardest challenge for anyone to overcome, the reason many never reach greatness.


I know exactly what you mean. Feels like I'm procrastinating my life away.
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MtlGuitarist97
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States1539 Posts
January 07 2013 10:54 GMT
#4
I can only help you with #3 to be honest

Working out shouldn't be so much of a chore as it should be something that you enjoy. If you enjoy working out (either playing basketball with friends, jogging in a park, weight lifting, anything really), you're more likely to do it and you won't be as reluctant to go do it. You don't need to go to the gym to go work out and you can easily buy some cheap workout equipment (medicine balls, mat, dumbbells, resistance band, etc.) and just work out at home.

In regards to having more energy and balancing your diet, you just form habits. Reducing the amount of alcohol and soda you drink definitely helps (just replace soda and alcohol with lots of water), and just eating better quality of food improves your mood. Fruits and vegetables are really quick snacks that taste good and can improve your mood. Clementines, strawberries, bananas, any fruits taste great and are healthy.Even if you don't want to eat much healthier meals, just eating more frequently and smaller portions every time helps. Make your snacks healthier and you're on your way to eating much healthier without much effort.

Cleaning your house...well there's nothing you can do to avoid that, unless you want to hire a cleaning lady lol. Honestly, the best way to find balance in your life is to do things that you enjoy that are healthier. If lifting weights is boring to you, you're never going to be motivated to do it. Just find healthy foods that you enjoy eating, find exercises that you thin are fun, and just do it enough that it becomes habitual.

Hope any of this helps.
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