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Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:08 am**

Okay, I think I get it now...

Life to me is an adventure of sorts. I am 24 and I teach high school. My parents divorced when I was 12, but other than that, I've had a pretty sheltered and protected environment throughout my teens. Nobody died on me. Nobody betrayed me, I think. I've had one serious relationship that lasted a little under 5 years because she was out of reasons to stay with me, but I've emerged a stronger, better person with a head full of romantic ideas still intact and ready to be distributed amongst the girls of this world. The hot ones, preferably, but I guess any princess resembling what I see in dreams will do. I've had flings, but they don't mean a thing to me now.

All through my high school years, I've suffered from unrequited love and failed attempts at romance. Woe was me. I've never been a good student, I've always done things my own way, made mistakes, miscalculations and flat out stupid decisions - but I wouldn't have it any other way. As for trusting people, I'm quick to trust anyone who appears to recognize what I believe myself to be. Which is my weakness but it keeps me young at heart. I don't hold grudges but once I strike people off of my list, they're gone gone gone. Which is my only strength.

In ten years, I'll be older than jesus, and I'm afraid that by then, I won't have accomplished any more than I have in the past ten years. I don't have any "life's work" or set goals, I'm loose electricity and I creep past under the radar of, well, most anyone. They notice me, but they don't know me. Part of it's my own fault, part of it's theirs. My ex-girly once said to me I was inaccessible (whatever the hell that means... Girls...) and that I keep people at bay. I don't know - at the time I thought she was crazy, but she may have been right.

Regarding my life as a teenage/adolescent/adult videogame fanatic, I've spent a good many years making shit for Starcraft. At some point, I decided 'sound' was going to be my thing and I've gained a lot of experience here. I'd like to thank everyone who's ever helped me here, but even if I remembered their names, it wouldn't add anything. This is a very close community, but also a very unreal at the same time. When I close this window, you're all gone. Apart from contributing to other people's works, I've never really DONE anything here and I feel kind of weird about that. My sound editing skills, though sometimes revered by some people, aren't really special at all. I've been making music for a long time, I've always been a 'listener' - be it voices of people, music or nature's own big box of SFX - and I can safely say that what most people who are into sound editing as well have produced far surpasses what I've ever done. There are campaign/sound veterans here that spray me with compliments and even ask me if I would consider lending my skills to them, and to them I'd like to say: thanks so much, but you could've gotten a lot better.

My internet life, as I prefer to call it, means quite a bit to me. Though these being merely ones and zero's, I feel that a lot of times, communication here is as real as it gets.

I don't believe in destiny, but I'd love to. I think what's brought me here is the choices I made and didn't make. My plan is to move to a big city one day and lose myself because I've been seeing too much of myself lately. Of course, I'll come back looking for me, eventually... but wouldn't it be nice if you could just take a trip outside your own head?

Even adventures get boring sometimes.

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:58 am**

Legion, I think you and I have a lot of things in common. I seem to creep under the radar, but mine isn't from a lack of trying but rather being shit when I got there, or just average.

A trip outside your own head, but into whose?

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:08 pm**

coko wrote: Legion, I think you and I have a lot of things in common. I seem to creep under the radar, but mine isn't from a lack of trying but rather being shit when I got there, or just average.

A trip outside your own head, but into whose?

Not necessarily someone else's. I suppose a trip into that great void would do. Only for a day, and I'll promise to back in time for dinner.

What I meant with that was that I think it'd feel good to be without your own ideas, ideals and values for a while. Just to see what it's like.

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:21 pm**

Legion wrote: Okay, I think I get it now...

Life to me is an adventure of sorts. I am 24 and I teach high school. My parents divorced when I was 12, but other than that, I've had a pretty sheltered and protected environment throughout my teens. Nobody died on me. Nobody betrayed me, I think. I've had one serious relationship that lasted a little under 5 years because she was out of reasons to stay with me, but I've emerged a stronger, better person with a head full of romantic ideas still intact and ready to be distributed amongst the girls of this world. The hot ones, preferably, but I guess any princess resembling what I see in dreams will do. I've had flings, but they don't mean a thing to me now.

All through my high school years, I've suffered from unrequited love and failed attempts at romance. Woe was me. I've never been a good student, I've always done things my own way, made mistakes, miscalculations and flat out stupid decisions - but I wouldn't have it any other way. As for trusting people, I'm quick to trust anyone who appears to recognize what I believe myself to be. Which is my weakness but it keeps me young at heart. I don't hold grudges but once I strike people off of my list, they're gone gone gone. Which is my only strength.

In ten years, I'll be older than jesus, and I'm afraid that by then, I won't have accomplished any more than I have in the past ten years. I don't have any "life's work" or set goals, I'm loose electricity and I creep past under the radar of, well, most anyone. They notice me, but they don't know me. Part of it's my own fault, part of it's theirs. My ex-girly once said to me I was inaccessible (whatever the hell that means... Girls...) and that I keep people at bay. I don't know - at the time I thought she was crazy, but she may have been right.

Regarding my life as a teenage/adolescent/adult videogame fanatic, I've spent a good many years making shit for Starcraft. At some point, I decided 'sound' was going to be my thing and I've gained a lot of experience here. I'd like to thank everyone who's ever helped me here, but even if I remembered their names, it wouldn't add anything. This is a very close community, but also a very unreal at the same time. When I close this window, you're all gone. Apart from contributing to other people's works, I've never really DONE anything here and I feel kind of weird about that. My sound editing skills, though sometimes revered by some people, aren't really special at all. I've been making music for a long time, I've always been a 'listener' - be it voices of people, music or nature's own big box of SFX - and I can safely say that what most people who are into sound editing as well have produced far surpasses what I've ever done. There are campaign/sound veterans here that spray me with compliments and even ask me if I would consider lending my skills to them, and to them I'd like to say: thanks so much, but you could've gotten a lot better.

My internet life, as I prefer to call it, means quite a bit to me. Though these being merely ones and zero's, I feel that a lot of times, communication here is as real as it gets.

I don't believe in destiny, but I'd love to. I think what's brought me here is the choices I made and didn't make. My plan is to move to a big city one day and lose myself because I've been seeing too much of myself lately. Of course, I'll come back looking for me, eventually... but wouldn't it be nice if you could just take a trip outside your own head?

Even adventures get boring sometimes.

Holy shit, man..... You remind me so much of myself. Like, seriously, pretty much word-for-word describes how I am (besides being 24 and a high school teacher). You're like an extended version of me. Weird......

If you don't mind me asking, what subject do you teach?

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:26 pm**

thebrowncloud wrote:
Legion wrote: Okay, I think I get it now...

Life to me is an adventure of sorts. I am 24 and I teach high school. My parents divorced when I was 12, but other than that, I've had a pretty sheltered and protected environment throughout my teens. Nobody died on me. Nobody betrayed me, I think. I've had one serious relationship that lasted a little under 5 years because she was out of reasons to stay with me, but I've emerged a stronger, better person with a head full of romantic ideas still intact and ready to be distributed amongst the girls of this world. The hot ones, preferably, but I guess any princess resembling what I see in dreams will do. I've had flings, but they don't mean a thing to me now.

All through my high school years, I've suffered from unrequited love and failed attempts at romance. Woe was me. I've never been a good student, I've always done things my own way, made mistakes, miscalculations and flat out stupid decisions - but I wouldn't have it any other way. As for trusting people, I'm quick to trust anyone who appears to recognize what I believe myself to be. Which is my weakness but it keeps me young at heart. I don't hold grudges but once I strike people off of my list, they're gone gone gone. Which is my only strength.

In ten years, I'll be older than jesus, and I'm afraid that by then, I won't have accomplished any more than I have in the past ten years. I don't have any "life's work" or set goals, I'm loose electricity and I creep past under the radar of, well, most anyone. They notice me, but they don't know me. Part of it's my own fault, part of it's theirs. My ex-girly once said to me I was inaccessible (whatever the hell that means... Girls...) and that I keep people at bay. I don't know - at the time I thought she was crazy, but she may have been right.

Regarding my life as a teenage/adolescent/adult videogame fanatic, I've spent a good many years making shit for Starcraft. At some point, I decided 'sound' was going to be my thing and I've gained a lot of experience here. I'd like to thank everyone who's ever helped me here, but even if I remembered their names, it wouldn't add anything. This is a very close community, but also a very unreal at the same time. When I close this window, you're all gone. Apart from contributing to other people's works, I've never really DONE anything here and I feel kind of weird about that. My sound editing skills, though sometimes revered by some people, aren't really special at all. I've been making music for a long time, I've always been a 'listener' - be it voices of people, music or nature's own big box of SFX - and I can safely say that what most people who are into sound editing as well have produced far surpasses what I've ever done. There are campaign/sound veterans here that spray me with compliments and even ask me if I would consider lending my skills to them, and to them I'd like to say: thanks so much, but you could've gotten a lot better.

My internet life, as I prefer to call it, means quite a bit to me. Though these being merely ones and zero's, I feel that a lot of times, communication here is as real as it gets.

I don't believe in destiny, but I'd love to. I think what's brought me here is the choices I made and didn't make. My plan is to move to a big city one day and lose myself because I've been seeing too much of myself lately. Of course, I'll come back looking for me, eventually... but wouldn't it be nice if you could just take a trip outside your own head?

Even adventures get boring sometimes.
Holy shit, man..... You remind me so much of myself. Like, seriously, pretty much word-for-word describes how I am (besides being 24 and a high school teacher). You're like an extended version of me. Weird......

If you don't mind me asking, what subject do you teach?

I teach English. It's never been my dream to teach, but you know what they say. Those who can't do teach.

Enough with the self-deprecation. On with the stories, people.

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:45 pm**

Legion wrote:
I teach English. It's never been my dream to teach, but you know what they say. Those who can't do teach.

So, depending on where you are from, that could mean two different things: English the language or English literature, writing, etc. My guess would be the latter, but I could be wrong....

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:27 pm**

I'd say he teaches English as a subject rather than as a language. He writes too "good"

24 teaching High School "kids"? Nice.

Tell me you don't find some of your slightly younger students HOT! That's what, like 6-7 years difference.

I remember dating my English Professor in college. She was 28 and I was 20. Turned out to be a real whack job, but I got a B for work that prob deserved a D at most. Yep... English teachers.

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:05 pm**

oh shit, you kids are taking this thread seriously. ok then

i'm 20, born in USSR, my moved to brooklyn, NY at 5 with $3000, was enrolled in some bullshit eagle class program for gifted kids, my father had to work 2 jobs to put my mother through college because america doesnt accept foreign degrees, moved to Jersey at 9 after my mom got a job, stopped caring about school because i was like 2 years ahead from the special program, moved again at 12, i was pretty average in school, in highschool i knew everyone, focused on comp-sci classes because i thought i wanted to program before i learned that was a bunch of bullshit that i cant do on a daily basis, graduated, went to community college for freshman year cause my grades failed, lived as a hermit that year because my license was suspended and there is no public transportation or anything in my town the biggest thing is the supermarket 4 miles away, fuck montgomery, transferred to rutgers, last year my laptop got drunk so i haven't really had too much access to the internet since then, but now i'm majoring in communications and philosophy, I've got an internship at the school radio station and a job as a valet, i'm looking for a second job because while the valet gig is an awesome effort to pay ratio, its only friday and saturday from 5 to whenever the last drunk comes to get his car, so it is pretty much my weed/gas/cigarettes/vodka money, I'm also hoping to move the fuck up out of my parents house because i didn't feel like taking out another 10000 loan for housing. but yea, thats my life in a nutshell. as for issues I used to get really bad depressions, but honestly ever since i've started smoking on a regular basis i haven't had one, I might have a shitty day or something, but i'm not going to get all suicidal over it. I feel that it helps me re-evaluate what is important in life, most of the day to day bullshit that everyone has to deal with just gets forgotten about i guess. As for girls, i've been in a few relationships but they're all interconnected and thats a whole complicated convoluted affair that i dont wanna go into. I also apparently "suffer from mild psychosis" according to some quack shrink, i have a twisted sense of humor that he found disturbing when i explained some things that i find funny. oh well. but yea, thats me.

edit, holy shit that is a big ass paragraph with a big ass sentence in it

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:38 pm**

Oh, Legion. You forced me out of the closet.

All right. I'm 24, and I teach high school... and middle-school. I've been teaching since I was 22, and yes, we young educators get flak for our youthful charm, and are often confused to be high school seniors. And no, bajaduice, we don't find our students hot. The moment they enter our classroom, we see them as they are: confused, emotional adolescents with acne and biopolar hormones.

I am surprised by how so many of you struggle with internal feelings, depression, and anxieties over relationships. You've always seemed more.. upbeat on the forum.

I joined this community when I was 13 years old. I was skinny, and nerdy looking with large glasses. I loved StarCraft, video games, and the simple things of childhood. I was still playing with legos and micro-machines then. I can't believe 11 years have passed and gone away. This community, in some ways, has been a journal to my life. I came out to you guys before I came out to my own family. I have shared in my joys and losses with you. I imagine myself, ten years from now, 34, and still posting here. To me, Campaign Creations will always be a part of my life. Its the old friends, the new faces, and the spirit of a common interest that keeps me here. I'm fascinated by all of you, and am invested in your well-being. It struck me hard when Ruaquick1 committed suicide. I was deeply upset when Magic's mother died. I worry about Mesk sometimes. All in all, you're a virtual family, and I look to the future with a sense of optimism. What fun we are going to have with StarCraft 2. I see another Golden Age coming: ten more years of life, laughter, gaming, and new friends.

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:55 am**

AA7Dragoon wrote: What fun we are going to have with StarCraft 2. I see another Golden Age coming: ten more years of life, laughter, gaming, and new friends.

Here here!

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:03 am**

And no, bajaduice, we don't find our students hot. The moment they enter our classroom, we see them as they are: confused, emotional adolescents with acne and biopolar hormones.

Bummer.

I joined this community when I was 13 years old. I was skinny, and nerdy looking with large glasses.

You had to wear glasses at 13? Sounds like you were made to be an English Professor!

K, I stop being a smart ass now. You are obviously more mature than most 24 year olds.

At 24 I too did some substitute teaching in So.Cal on an emergency credential. I studied Math at CalPoly and like the other poster can remember how much work Math was. That, working, surfing, playing on the golf team and needy girlfriends pretty much kept me in check. After graduating, I checked out of the states and spent the next 2 years being a surf bum in South America. This is what the philosophy student who's dad hasn't let him work should do btw ... travel.

At 43, I am probably one of the oldest members of the community. And so I have experienced a world without personal computers or the internet.. I think the internet allows teens to be more expressive and definitely allows ppl to shed really personal and inner shit that you can't do in a normal face to face interaction amongst your peers. I sure as hell don't remember so many tweaked kids growing up. And if they were, they sure as hell weren't going to talk to another kid about it. ... ahh things have changed. And wow, some of you guys are really really screwed up. :) I'd make a great school counselor. Just tell it as it is man. YOU ARE FUK'D UP....DUDE!!

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:40 am**

bajadulce wrote: I'd say he teaches English as a subject rather than as a language. He writes too "good"

24 teaching High School "kids"? Nice. Tell me you don't find some of your slightly younger students HOT! That's what, like 6-7 years difference.

I'm 24, but I'm not mature enough to be that old. Don't know if that makes sense at all. Anyway, yeah, I teach kids 12-16 who are basically what AA7 said and cannot be considered anything other than what they are: helpless kids, haha.

However, the older people (the ones I don't teach) are indeed 6-7 years younger than me, sometimes even less. Suffice to say, the boy-girl situation does happen (and has) even though I'm supposed to be unavailable to her. It's hard to ever explain this without sounding like a pervert, so I'll shut up before its gets ugly. The thing is, I look like a senior student (some think I am one) even though I'm infinitely better looking and more athletic!

In my defense, though, I'm probably as fucked up as the next person you'll meet. At 24, what can you expect? Long as I don't engage in improper conduct, we'll all be fine. Hee hee.

Like AA7 said, I too find it surprising to see so many people caught up in the struggles of the mind. Time for good feelings, people!

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:18 am**

24 seems so young. Guess that's just cause I'm about to hit 30 in May. Ah, to be 24 again.... it would be... the same actually. Doh.

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:01 am**

How can I travel when I have no money? That's the other reason to have had jobs

(I assume bajaduiice is talking about me)

Also, I forgot to mention that I'm also a teacher of sorts. I teach piano lessons part time. My students are between ages 6 and 9. I never thought I'd be working with such tiny tots, but some of them are actually not completely unbearable!

Posted: **Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:07 am**

I've met several CCers in real life (ie, Q, Herc, lav, Dread...)

What are the chances we can have a big CC shindig and have just a little get together. You'd think after 11 years, itd be about fucking time. Maybe coincide with SC2 release date?

Whos interested?

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