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(I figured I'd post this entry in my tl blog since I think gamers would get it more).
I like upgrading my character. In the past, I hadn't really focused on it's well-roundedness and I've just been doing what everyone else does. I finished putting my character through school to upgrade it's intelligence level because that seems to be the first basic step. The next step was to get a job and that seemed pretty straight-forward too. The goal was to get a positive cash flow to upgrade my character's finances. As time goes on and my character's experience increases, I can add more skill points, get a better job and continue to increase finances with a higher salary.
I found fun hobbies for my character to do. The more time I get my character to play games I enjoy, the higher it's skill level becomes and the better I get at these games. This does increase my character's overall happiness and even it's social skill level but it just didn't seem as productive. I wanted to go through bigger level-ups.
I did a lot of research online and found strategies that will help me increase my finance level through wise allocation of money through investments. I also got a book that gave me an idea of what I needed to do. Excited with all this new knowledge since I found out how to optimize my money long-term, I reallocated my money and put them into highly rated and recommended mutual funds and the best interest bearing CDs and money market accounts. I feel like this is a great way to level up my character in the long run. Sort of like building moon wells in my base in the best locations.
Health and nutrition is another aspect of my character which I had neglected. I made sure to bring my character in for regular check ups and maintenance. My character is healthy but I have found strategy guides on improving nutrition. As of now, I am researching this and I will figure out the best way to optimize my character's nutrition. When that happens, I will feel fulfilled again!
Here are the categories I focus on:
- Relationship - I think I'm doing great with this aspect of my character's life. I've chosen to match my character with an amazing character that helps boost my level for every category.
- Happiness - I can never be satisfied. I always need to improve. I am happy with life overall but I always want to make things better.
- Job (Incoming Money) - I feel like I've made great job choices. It is always something that gives me a good flow of income, adds plus points to my happiness, and doesn't stress me out too much.
- Finance (Money Management) - I think I've optimized this as much as I can. I am glad to have done my research so that I don't have to worry about it anymore. I can just leave this alone now and let it grow. http://www.morningstar.com/ was my best friend.
- Intelligence - I feel like I haven't done much since I graduated college. I have been increasing knowledge in a lot of areas in life to improve myself in multiple categories but I do want to be more up to date with the latest in web coding and technology. This will also help me increase monetary intake through work (not only through my main job but also through side jobs). I need to know http://www.w3schools.com/ inside out.
- Fitness - I am going to the gym twice to three times a week and I have dance once or twice a week. I feel like this puts me in about an average level in fitness. I do want to push some sort of exercise to five days a week and research more about how to optimize my strength, cardio and flexibility. I've learned a lot about men's fitness and I've been following along with guy exercises but I want to see how to optimize toning within a woman's physique and see if it's any different o.Oa.
- Spiritual - I get a healthy serving of God in my life through church and small group every week.
- Social - I am constantly exposed to people. I do have fun with social activities but I get tired out quickly since I am highly introverted. I know I'm supposed to be reaching out and making new friends and networking more. I just need a lot of time alone to 'reboot' and get energy to hang out with people.
- Health/Nutrition - This is my next research project. I don't like food much and I am not the healthiest eater but I do wanna figure out how to eat a balanced diet. http://mypyramid.gov/ is going to be my new best friend.
- Family - Considering I am no longer surrounded by my family, I can only keep touch by phone call, email and infrequent visits. I am doing what I can and flying to California once in a while and to the Philippines once a year lately. I do hope to be reunited more often in the future.
What is your strategy for optimizing upgrades to your character?
I do feel like I am my own character in this game of Life. I strive to improve. I want to be better. I guess that is the competitive gaming side of me coming out. It's difficult to want to be better at everything since I have a tendency to spread myself out too thin. I guess my only way to focus is to obsess. The problem with this? I can't relax. I can't clear my head because I keep wanting to get back on my favorite MMORPG and use the time to upgrade. If I don't relax I will stress myself out. Sometimes I just need to force myself to turn 'it' off, to relinquish control of the game and leave the character be, idling and having it go on automatic, or maybe even have it sleep more. I need balance in my life.. balance and sleep.
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It seems to me you're doing well, are you depressed in some way?
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The idea of imagining yourself as an RPG character with stats and attributes and all never once crossed my mind. I think that's pretty cool. Meh, back to grinding intelligence. I think if I kill enough problem sets (with correct technique of course) on this quest I hear I can get a "Bachelor's Degree Rank 5" which gives +5 Job.
I have the opposite problem, extreme nonmotivation or something like that and need to start getting things in order. But seriously, if you obsess over improving yourself to the point where you worry about working too hard, you've almost certainly earned whatever break you choose to take.
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I was just going to post something along these same lines as I decided to make some major life changes today, well they are major to me. Heres how I see it.
School - Right now school probably the most vital thing since education is nice and my parents are much happier if I am in college. Though most people would say that is a bad motivator since I am not going for myself, if my parents are happy it makes me feel better and thus in turn school makes me feel better. Dunno how far I will go (first year) as far as degrees go, but I sure plan to make money off of college somehow.
Health (physical) - Today I quit smoking cigarettes (fucking cold turkey god damnit), I had a sudden realization this weekend when my little cousins were showing me up in the endurance department by quite a bit. I have been smoking a pack a day for like 5-6 years and I have tried to quite before a million times with all kids of gum, pills, and patches but this time its for real, COLD TURKEY ARGH! I also began working out again today, even if its just 30 sit ups and 30 pushups plus a half mile run I already feel alot better and when my lungs are back in a reasonable shape I think I might run cross country again :D
Health (Mental) - This is where shit goes downhill for me since I have such a terrible time keeping away from my vices, which in turn make me feel worse as person even when I dont have anything to do with them at that moment. I have been thinking about a therapist lately cause I know they can be helpful but I may have gone to one too many when I was a kid since I just don't think I can find a good one anymore. Not to mention at sometime I think a person has just got to buck up and deal with their shit, meh.
Financial - Could definitely use the biggest upgrade right now, but I dont plan for that to happen anytime soon since I most definitely am going to be poor throughout college and probably for awhile afterward. But hell I got a shitty job making more than minimum wage so I cant really complain too much, it pays the bills when it needs to be done. I really need to pick up a second job and get out of my parents house pretty soon since those are the two things I think are holding me back right now.
The Internet/Games - Probably the most unhealthy thing for me right now, but also en essential part of my life since I maintain many friendships over the internet and just importantly I love to fucking play computer games, especially anyone that allows me to stomp on real people. No idea what to do here as the world does not seem eager to give up on the Comp or Internet so I dont think I will either.
Women - I really need a god damn girl but I think I am finally ready to wait for a decent woman to come along (not to settle down, but a girlfriend). Though I know that these things dont just come to those who wait, I am being proactive about it I just dont think I have found the right one yet.
Overall I am fairly satisfied with my life right now, but only because of the way I look at the future and how things are going to turn out. You never know whats up ahead but everyone has a good idea :D
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On September 23 2008 06:57 Sp1ralArch1tect wrote:
I was just going to post something along these same lines as I decided to make some major life changes today, well they are major to me. Heres how I see it.
School - Right now school probably the most vital thing since education is nice and my parents are much happier if I am in college. Though most people would say that is a bad motivator since I am not going for myself, if my parents are happy it makes me feel better and thus in turn school makes me feel better. Dunno how far I will go (first year) as far as degrees go, but I sure plan to make money off of college somehow.
Health (physical) - Today I quit smoking cigarettes (fucking cold turkey god damnit), I had a sudden realization this weekend when my little cousins were showing me up in the endurance department by quite a bit. I have been smoking a pack a day for like 5-6 years and I have tried to quite before a million times with all kids of gum, pills, and patches but this time its for real, COLD TURKEY ARGH! I also began working out again today, even if its just 30 sit ups and 30 pushups plus a half mile run I already feel alot better and when my lungs are back in a reasonable shape I think I might run cross country again :D
Health (Mental) - This is where shit goes downhill for me since I have such a terrible time keeping away from my vices, which in turn make me feel worse as person even when I dont have anything to do with them at that moment. I have been thinking about a therapist lately cause I know they can be helpful but I may have gone to one too many when I was a kid since I just don't think I can find a good one anymore. Not to mention at sometime I think a person has just got to buck up and deal with their shit, meh.
Financial - Could definitely use the biggest upgrade right now, but I dont plan for that to happen anytime soon since I most definitely am going to be poor throughout college and probably for awhile afterward. But hell I got a shitty job making more than minimum wage so I cant really complain too much, it pays the bills when it needs to be done. I really need to pick up a second job and get out of my parents house pretty soon since those are the two things I think are holding me back right now.
The Internet/Games - Probably the most unhealthy thing for me right now, but also en essential part of my life since I maintain many friendships over the internet and just importantly I love to fucking play computer games, especially anyone that allows me to stomp on real people. No idea what to do here as the world does not seem eager to give up on the Comp or Internet so I dont think I will either.
Women - I really need a god damn girl but I think I am finally ready to wait for a decent woman to come along (not to settle down, but a girlfriend). Though I know that these things dont just come to those who wait, I am being proactive about it I just dont think I have found the right one yet.
Overall I am fairly satisfied with my life right now, but only because of the way I look at the future and how things are going to turn out. You never know whats up ahead but everyone has a good idea :D
Good to know about your life but she was asking how to improve hers, blog stealer!
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I picked an imba heritage feat which lets me automatically roll natural 20's on every intelligence check and thus my character have a very easy time doing university physics/math.
The only downside of that feat is that my mood halftime is much shorter than a normal char and as such I need to get the character to do things all the time or he gets a huge penalty to morale saving throws.
My strategy is to capitalize as much on this special and as such I study at a 200% rate which is no problem thanks to all my critical rolls for understanding concepts.
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On September 23 2008 07:09 il0seonpurpose wrote:
Good to know about your life but she was asking how to improve hers, blog stealer!
no no, i also want to know how other people want to improve theirs as well. i learned that there is a lot to learn from other people's experiences. there are no full manuals to life. all we can do is learn from each other. i did ask "What is your strategy for optimizing upgrades to your character?". feel free to answer here!
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Korea (South)11577 Posts
wtf how can u not like food?
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On September 23 2008 07:17 CaucasianAsian wrote:
wtf how can u not like food?
i like the feeling of being nourished but i dont like the necessity of food intake for survival. i dont like the kitchen much and i dont really cook. im also very picky when it comes to what i eat. it doesnt help that i go on the 'gamer diet' whenever i go binge gaming..
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Your character would beat my character in a duel right now. =(
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My gut feeling says that this very performance/achievement-oriented take on life will make you lose something hard to define but yet valuable. Good thing it's just a blog.
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I feel that as long as you make the things,people,places you are around or at a little bit better after you have left or while there,makes me happier.Smile more.Say thank you.Show someone who normally gets passed by that you care at least about others happiness.
Not sure if this applys but mehhh.
I enjoyed reading your blog mnm and im very glad your doing well.
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On September 23 2008 07:09 il0seonpurpose wrote:Show nested quote +On September 23 2008 06:57 Sp1ralArch1tect wrote:
I was just going to post something along these same lines as I decided to make some major life changes today, well they are major to me. Heres how I see it.
School - Right now school probably the most vital thing since education is nice and my parents are much happier if I am in college. Though most people would say that is a bad motivator since I am not going for myself, if my parents are happy it makes me feel better and thus in turn school makes me feel better. Dunno how far I will go (first year) as far as degrees go, but I sure plan to make money off of college somehow.
Health (physical) - Today I quit smoking cigarettes (fucking cold turkey god damnit), I had a sudden realization this weekend when my little cousins were showing me up in the endurance department by quite a bit. I have been smoking a pack a day for like 5-6 years and I have tried to quite before a million times with all kids of gum, pills, and patches but this time its for real, COLD TURKEY ARGH! I also began working out again today, even if its just 30 sit ups and 30 pushups plus a half mile run I already feel alot better and when my lungs are back in a reasonable shape I think I might run cross country again :D
Health (Mental) - This is where shit goes downhill for me since I have such a terrible time keeping away from my vices, which in turn make me feel worse as person even when I dont have anything to do with them at that moment. I have been thinking about a therapist lately cause I know they can be helpful but I may have gone to one too many when I was a kid since I just don't think I can find a good one anymore. Not to mention at sometime I think a person has just got to buck up and deal with their shit, meh.
Financial - Could definitely use the biggest upgrade right now, but I dont plan for that to happen anytime soon since I most definitely am going to be poor throughout college and probably for awhile afterward. But hell I got a shitty job making more than minimum wage so I cant really complain too much, it pays the bills when it needs to be done. I really need to pick up a second job and get out of my parents house pretty soon since those are the two things I think are holding me back right now.
The Internet/Games - Probably the most unhealthy thing for me right now, but also en essential part of my life since I maintain many friendships over the internet and just importantly I love to fucking play computer games, especially anyone that allows me to stomp on real people. No idea what to do here as the world does not seem eager to give up on the Comp or Internet so I dont think I will either.
Women - I really need a god damn girl but I think I am finally ready to wait for a decent woman to come along (not to settle down, but a girlfriend). Though I know that these things dont just come to those who wait, I am being proactive about it I just dont think I have found the right one yet.
Overall I am fairly satisfied with my life right now, but only because of the way I look at the future and how things are going to turn out. You never know whats up ahead but everyone has a good idea :D Good to know about your life but she was asking how to improve hers, blog stealer!
"What is your strategy for optimizing upgrades to your character?"
Tht was my goal, though I failed to an extent, so your right ::D
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you should focus your stats. in a lot of rpgs, if you split up your stuff in too many different skill points and stat points, your character becomes useless. you pretty much can't do anything in a party and you can't solo well either.
i hope it's not too late because levels are harder to make now that you're this high. maybe you could message an admin to get it fixed.
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On September 23 2008 07:33 mnm wrote:Show nested quote +On September 23 2008 07:17 CaucasianAsian wrote:
wtf how can u not like food? i like the feeling of being nourished but i dont like the necessity of food intake for survival. i dont like the kitchen much and i dont really cook. im also very picky when it comes to what i eat. it doesnt help that i go on the 'gamer diet' whenever i go binge gaming..
Off topic but what is your "gamer diet"?
Mine's blue full throttle, pizza, and mike 'n' ikes.
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