Other interests besides gaming

[TwistedSystem]

Just wondering what you guys all do besides game. I am huge on two things. I love playing the guitar and snowboarding. I think im way past being a beginner at both and I enjoy both hugely.

[twistedblister]

Just wondering what you guys all do besides game. I am huge on two things. I love playing the guitar and snowboarding. I think im way past being a beginner at both and I enjoy both hugely.

Yeah everyone needs other intrests.

I am training / learning the guitar. My grandpa dead played all string instruments and i never had the dispostion to do it while he was alive. At least i am doing it now. I always loved music but was way to distracted to learn at any other point in my life.

I have an exercise regimine becase i dont want to develop adult onset diabetes. whihch runs rampant through the males on my dads side.
and i love to eat and cook and i love sugar. so if i want to enjoy food the rest of my life and not worry about it hurting my health. I am making a Tres Leches cake when my buddy and his wife come out next month.

I do read books/ comics. on the comics side its mostly starwars but the new conan is staying true to the Rob Howard vision which makes it very good.
Books. meh. anything fiction sicence, biographys , comedeys.

I have my A+ , Network +, Security + and am playing aroudn with VisBasic 2k8 but am being lazzy with it.

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oh yeah i enjoy running a 1.4 somthing celeron test machine with differnt Linux/ Debian / Gnu/ Unix distros to see how they run.

www.distrowatch.org. < very cool source

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I have toyed with short sotries and actually aplied to UNO's creative fiction progam but was rejected.

TV, MOvies, etc....

god i just signed up on anohter message board. man these things are addicting. George Carlin used to make fun of bizzare special topic magazines. the same joke applies here.

[cloud945076]

I drum for a metal band.
im also in my schools marching band. ive played bass drum, snare, and am playing quints now. am i a band geek? no.
but, hey, i like to drum.

I also like reading, but havent read a book in a while, last one i read was Crank...good book

[twistedblister]

I drum for a metal band.
im also in my schools marching band. ive played bass drum, snare, and am playing quints now. am i a band geek? no.
but, hey, i like to drum.

I also like reading, but havent read a book in a while, last one i read was Crank...good book

I wish i would have been smart enough to get some form of traditional educatin in music. I do in fact reget that amount of stupidity on my part. way to go you are living right.

[cloud945076]

Yeah....music helps you concentrate, and understand things better...at least it did for me.

[twistedblister]

Yeah....music helps you concentrate, and understand things better...at least it did for me.

wow nice addition.


I was not even thinking in that direction. just one of those missed oportunities i let slide past me. I was meerly cheering for him doing somthing creative.

[cloud945076]

heh...well yeah, the only bad thing is that band is extremely time consuming.

[twistedblister]

heh...well yeah, the only bad thing is that band is extremely time consuming.

that was one thing. I did not have the detrermination or the dedication or the concentration to learn. I was so distracted. meh. I had some fun and in my way of thinking that is somewhat important too.

[cloud945076]

well yeah. i like to have fun, but unfortunatly for me i have an overprotective mother and im only 15 soooo....bands a good way for me to leave my house.

[TwistedSystem]

Hmm I never joined the school with my guitar but I am playing in a band with my friends. Its pretty damn fun but I learn more by looking up songs on my own. I totally agree with you on everything cloud, when im all stressed or anything I just sit back and play my guitar.

[twistedblister]

Hmm I never joined the school with my guitar but I am playing in a band with my friends. Its pretty damn fun but I learn more by looking up songs on my own. I totally agree with you on everything cloud, when im all stressed or anything I just sit back and play my guitar.

its a good emotional outlet. stimulates the creativity center. bing.


Cloud

well yeah. i like to have fun, but unfortunatly for me i have an overprotective mother and im only 15 soooo....bands a good way for me to leave my house.

Ha well being that young does have some drawbacks for many people cloud. The world is a nasty place and she is doing her job. but yeah a band is a good excuse to cut losse.

[cloud945076]

Hmm I never joined the school with my guitar but I am playing in a band with my friends. Its pretty damn fun but I learn more by looking up songs on my own. I totally agree with you on everything cloud, when im all stressed or anything I just sit back and play my guitar.

Do u use tabs, or can u read music?

[cloud945076]

Ha well being that young does have some drawbacks for many people cloud. The world is a nasty place and she is doing her job. but yeah a band is a good excuse to cut losse.

I guess. But man, Im on lockdown like 24/7

[twistedblister]

Ha well being that young does have some drawbacks for many people cloud. The world is a nasty place and she is doing her job. but yeah a band is a good excuse to cut losse.

I guess. But man, Im on lockdown like 24/7

That sounds a little overprotective. but hey you can always log in here. ha. or any other board. If i would have been locked in at that age all i would have had to keep me company is the phone. this is much cooler trust me.

[twistedblister]

Hmm I never joined the school with my guitar but I am playing in a band with my friends. Its pretty damn fun but I learn more by looking up songs on my own. I totally agree with you on everything cloud, when im all stressed or anything I just sit back and play my guitar.

Do u use tabs, or can u read music?

I have to use basic tabs with the chords written in letters. I was attempting to teach my seaf to read music but got side tracked. i need to pick that book back up and finish.

I took lessons for about 6 months. I learned some cool things but had not yet gotten into phrasing before i moved. I know some blues scales in E , A , I have a penatonic in man i am probably wrong here but i think its D any way 3 spots on the fret boad is a variation of that penatonic in A, E and G? i forget the last one. I know the C maj penatonic. a couple of blues boxes on the 7 th and 5th and 9th frets.

all cool stuff but i want to know how to read and to learn the variations of the major minor chords better.

[elkhoury]

its good to know all of you guys/girls have interests but i dont have interests

[stickcult]

its good to know all of you guys/girls have interests but i dont have interests

[twistedblister]

its good to know all of you guys/girls have interests but i dont have interests

come on there has to be somthing on this planet besides games that has gotten your attention.

[stickcult]

Things wil briefly grab my attention, before I get bored and go back to games.

[twistedblister]

Things wil briefly grab my attention, before I get bored and go back to games.

yeah but come on. What DBKOK is saying is that he finds nothing else of intrest. HOW ? I dont belive it. its like the kid my nephew was friends with that claimed to only eat Penaut butter and French Fries ( not mixed just the only two foods he claimed to eat) You would die. I never believed him.

[TwistedSystem]

Things wil briefly grab my attention, before I get bored and go back to games.

yeah but come on. What DBKOK is saying is that he finds nothing else of intrest. HOW ? I dont belive it. its like the kid my nephew was friends with that claimed to only eat Penaut butter and French Fries ( not mixed just the only two foods he claimed to eat) You would die. I never believed him.

I bet he has interests that aren't games, they just have to do with games. Stuff like looking up games on the internet and posting on a gaming forum.

[stickcult]

I sort of make my own (very crude) games, and other programming things. (Crude games being DOS games).

[twistedblister]

I sort of make my own (very crude) games, and other programming things. (Crude games being DOS games).

wow very cool crude or not. that is very cool. I have the desire but no practical skill. I looked into text games but never did any thing with it.

OK TS yeah i guess that makes snese but no intrests besides gaming just sounds incredible to me.

[fishki]

oh yes...back to the DOS days, and all the FUN games we had then....thru countless hours of typing in commands I never did disarm that bomb on that damn ship.....

[stickcult]

So the ship blew up?

The games I try to make aren't DOS RPGs, though, I can't make those, nor really have a desire to.