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Caller
Poland8075 Posts
That's why, TL, you need to come up with a list of shit for me to do these next three months. They can be productive, they can be unproductive, whatever. There are three categories: Productive, Multimedia (meaning TV Shows/Movies/Games), and Unproductive non-multimedia. The winners will get to have whatever they want for my Profile Picture, Signature, and an MS Paint in their honor. Get to it!  | ||
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vx70GTOJudgexv
United States3161 Posts
Start absorbing knowledge of shit that interests you. For me, it's starting to learn coding. Or Work out. Unproductive Non-Multimedia: Get on Mafiascum dude. Multimedia: Depends on your likes (what do you like watching?) In terms of games - BF Heroes, Quake Live and America's Army 3 - free shooters that have quality development behind em. :D | ||
LosingID8
CA10835 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
On July 08 2009 06:30 LosingID8 wrote: go learn a language This. If I had enough spare time this summer I would do some more studying for languages as well ~_~ Also, beat Zelda: OoT on the PC as well(using an emulator of course)/ | ||
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ydg
United States690 Posts
On July 08 2009 06:30 LosingID8 wrote: go learn a language I second this. Especially if you really want to learn a language. Like if you wanted to learn Japanese, start learning Japanese like words for productive), for multimedia watch anime or japanese dramas. | ||
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GGQ
Canada2653 Posts
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
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samachking
Bahrain4949 Posts
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disciple
9071 Posts
Multimedia: Watch the new season of TopGear, if you dont know what the show is all about spend time watching the previous 12 seasons, they are fun as hell Unproductive: Drink a lot of G&T, I mean like every day. At least I do it, and its great | ||
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Clasic
Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts
On July 08 2009 06:57 samachking wrote: Watch every JD ZvZ VOD multiple times and find out his secret then post it on TL. Lol | ||
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SnowFantasy
4173 Posts
fakesteve already covered that one. | ||
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
On July 08 2009 06:30 LosingID8 wrote: go learn a language go learn a programming language in my opinion :D | ||
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epicdoom
United States489 Posts
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ThePhan2m
Norway2751 Posts
Learn language, you can combine this with watching movies. (like japanise, animes & japanise movies, really many good ones) (or korean, korean dramas & vods) Get inspired by people. read biographys, really good. Games: Learn Settlers at games.asobrain.com. really fun, I waste so much time there, cant get enough. And its quite easy to get decent at it. If you dont watch Youtube, get into the community there. Check out channels with high subs and best alltime views, loads of good stuff, fun surfing, neverending videos. You wont be bored. I wish I had more time!!!!! | ||
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prOxi.swAMi
Australia3091 Posts
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Daigomi
South Africa4316 Posts
So for productive, I would say get a few BBC documentaries on topics you like. If you're into economics, I recently watched Million Dollar Traders and The Ascent of Money which are both quite good. Million Dollar Traders is a reality show (without being cheesy like 99% of them are) in which a big hedge fund manager gives 1,000,000 pounds of his own money to 8 people that have never traded on the stock market, and then teaches them to be speculators. It's very interesting and quite informative. The Ascent of Money, on the other hand, is a five or six part (I can't remember) documentary on the history of money and finance. I'm at episode three at the moment, and the topics covered so far are the rise of banks, the advent of the stock market, and the importance of bonds. Episodes are each an hour long, and they're presented by professor Niall Ferugson. It's quite cool. But basically, watch any proper documentary series. Not a series that's dumbed down so that it can reach a mass audience, but a documentary that actually challenges you. Also, you can learn a new skill, like photoshopping or learning an instrument. I'd recommend these above learning a langauge, as you tend to see the results sooner. With photoshopping, following a few tutorials will get you making nice pictures in no time, while most modern instruments can be played reasonable with minimal training (although obviously they take a lifetime to master). Back to the economy topic, if you're not investing any money at the moment, you can get more into it by playing around with an investment simulator somewhere. I would recommend that you take it seriously though, and that you work at it a lot. These things are only really fun if you're scared to lose, and if you put effort into it. Just gambling won't be any fun. Media: You can combine media and productive by getting a season of QI (Quite Interesting). It's a British panel show in which Stephen Fry is the quiz master and they get interesting comedians and topical people to discuss intersting facts. It's hillarious, and informative if you're the kind of person that enjoys random facts. Other than that, you can try a few different comedians. My personal favourite is Jimmy Carr. TV shows I'm sure you'll know way more than me. Recently I've been enjoying 30 Rock a lot though  I've also been playing a bit of Element TD 4.0 (a War3 map). I don't generally enjoy TD's, but this one is more strategic than the average TD, and fairly tricky, especially at the higher levels. It kept me busy for a few hours Non-media: Read a novel. Not non-fiction, non-fiction goes under productive, and while it has it's place, in my experience it doesn't have the power to get a holiday over as quickly as a novel or series has. I would also advise you to avoid doing anything like reading the nobel literature prize or booker prize winners. While this might seem constructive, it's just buying into an arbitrary system of literary criticism which is designed by academics for academics, and is basically not enjoyable to anyone else. Choose a genre you like, and go online looking for lists of the top ten books in the genre in a specific year. If one book is mentioned consistently, give it a go. I'll make a few of my own recommendations, but obviously I don't know what you like, so they might be completely wrong for you :p For fantasy, everybody likes Trudi Canavan, and her books are easy to read and very enjoyable. Not the most high-brow fantasy out there, but A for entertainment. The same goes for Joe Abercrombie's books. Really fun fantasy. If you want something a bit more challenging, R Scott Bakker's "Prince of Nothing" series is my all-time favourite fantasy series, and is amazing. Anything series by Robin Hobb is also worth a read (although if you decide to go with the Shaman series, book one is a bit weird, but book 2 and 3 are amazing). For SF, I haven't read that much, but I really enjoyed the Foundation series by Asimov. The Ender series by Orson Scott Card is also awesome, and you should give it a try if you haven't read it yet. Recently, The Dreaming Void by Peter Hamilton has gotten very good reviews, and supposedly Anathem by Stephen Donaldson is very good but very difficult. I've got both of those on my to read pile for this holiday, but I haven't gotten to them yet. Other books that I've read recently that I can think of... Hugh Laurie's "The Gun Seller" combines amazing wit with good action, and is tons of fun to read, I think pretty much anyone would enjoy that. Also, any fiction by Stephen Fry is amazing if you're not squeamish about overt homosexuality. P.G. Wodehouse short stories are also fun to read (and available on Gutenburg), but I'm not sure if they're for everyone. Finally if you really want to read things of literary importance, I'd recommend plays. They're much easier to get through, and I tend to find them quite enjoyable. Obviously Oscar Wilde should be high on your list to read, as should George Bernard Shaw. Harold Pinter is also quite interesting, although less witty, as is Arthur Miller. Haha, basically, I 'vejust recommended everything I've done in my last few holidays Hope you find something in there useful! | ||
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benutbutter
United States66 Posts
Me personally, I'm taking a C++ fundamentals class and working with a postdoc over the summer and reading/watching a bunch of books/movies I've always wanted to while making a commitment exercise everyday. | ||
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DrTJEckleburg
United States1080 Posts
On July 08 2009 06:30 LosingID8 wrote: go learn a language I just had to reformat my computer after going to torrentbox to borrow rosetta stone in German. But this is a great idea, I'm trying to refresh my German/Russian this summer. | ||
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Caller
Poland8075 Posts
come and speak right now losingid8 is winning | ||
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LosingID8
CA10835 Posts
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