What have you achieved that you're really proud of?
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johnfm said:
HereBeMonsters said:
I've finally managed to get the hang of these new FPS games. I was so stuck in the Goldeneye universe that when my sister came over with her fella last week to find me playing Perfect Dark, he bought me a copy of Killzone 2 for my PS3 (which has only ever had GT:5 Prologue and Ridge Racer played on it so far) and has been trying to teach me how to play it.
I just couldn't get my head around how the one stick does walking forward/sidestepping and one does looking. What was so wrong with one doing walking forwards or sideways, and one do sidestep/look up/down?
Anyway, I've managed to play the story mode up to the point where I get on the train to chase after my colleagues who have been taken prisoner. I die on average about 15 times per mission, but it doesn't seem to matter, which is nice.
And this is an achievement? To be proud of?I just couldn't get my head around how the one stick does walking forward/sidestepping and one does looking. What was so wrong with one doing walking forwards or sideways, and one do sidestep/look up/down?
Anyway, I've managed to play the story mode up to the point where I get on the train to chase after my colleagues who have been taken prisoner. I die on average about 15 times per mission, but it doesn't seem to matter, which is nice.
Of course I failed to mention that I was ranked #1 in the World on Colin McRae Rally 2005, Asphalt Urban GT and top ten on NFS: Underground, so driving games are not a problem. It's these new fangled FPS things with two analogue controllery sticks.
^^^^^^^^^^ I'm looking for any smileys. Nope, he's serious!
Also forgot to mention setting up my business in 2007 (
great timing!) and am now standing on my own two feet with some solid contracts. Hate the paperwork love the freedom.
Oh, and losing a stone in weight.
Also started running three/four times a week.
Stopped picking my nose and eating it (painful while running)
Thats it!
Also forgot to mention setting up my business in 2007 (
great timing!) and am now standing on my own two feet with some solid contracts. Hate the paperwork love the freedom. Oh, and losing a stone in weight.
Also started running three/four times a week.
Stopped picking my nose and eating it (painful while running)
Thats it! Pretty proud of getting my degree in law from University of Copenhagen. And my job, from that.
Also pretty pleased with being able to co fund a charity foundation (along with others in my family), and to be elected president of the Board, were we have been fortunate enough to get involved in MFI and VSLA groups all over the world. Currently we fund 5 projects from Nepal to Equador with a total spending frame of just around £200,000 - whilst being in the process of finding 2 more projects to support.
Also pretty pleased with being able to co fund a charity foundation (along with others in my family), and to be elected president of the Board, were we have been fortunate enough to get involved in MFI and VSLA groups all over the world. Currently we fund 5 projects from Nepal to Equador with a total spending frame of just around £200,000 - whilst being in the process of finding 2 more projects to support.
King Herald said:
jp1982 said:
Not much to most. Mine is passing my offshore survival course despite being afraid of swimming pools/water.
I've done it about ten times now, but until the very last one I've been so scared of the helicopter dunk I would nearly puke. Not sure what happened this last time, in May, but I just told myself not to be such a fvckin' blouse and get on with it, and I quite enjoyed it. Using the re-breather bag is a weird thing.
There's a few good race wins that stick out
Other than that, probably getting 72% in my first Dissertation despite having only started working on it two weeks after the deadline and 4 days before my final deadline. AND that was after I'd managed to Bulls
t myself a sabbatical year to go racing because I hadn't started working on the dissertation on the original deadline the year before.
Those 4 days though... I barely had any blood flowing through my red bull system.
Other than that, probably getting 72% in my first Dissertation despite having only started working on it two weeks after the deadline and 4 days before my final deadline. AND that was after I'd managed to Bulls
t myself a sabbatical year to go racing because I hadn't started working on the dissertation on the original deadline the year before.Those 4 days though... I barely had any blood flowing through my red bull system.
robm3 said:
Was homeless at 16 years old and managed to look after myself pretty well, I continued going to school for 2 years, hold down a part time job and outwardly seemed quite normal.
Now have a great life with my own family.
But can you play Killzone 2? Now have a great life with my own family.
Seriously though, that is majorly impressive. Being made homeless has always been one of my worst fears, I don't think I could cope. Luckily I have never been near, but it must be terrifying.
HereBeMonsters said:
robm3 said:
Was homeless at 16 years old and managed to look after myself pretty well, I continued going to school for 2 years, hold down a part time job and outwardly seemed quite normal.
Now have a great life with my own family.
But can you play Killzone 2? Now have a great life with my own family.
Seriously though, that is majorly impressive. Being made homeless has always been one of my worst fears, I don't think I could cope. Luckily I have never been near, but it must be terrifying.
The worst thing (apart from Drunks haressing you in your car - I used to put a car cover over it when I slept on suburban streets) is the 'attention' you get at school from assigned case officers and do-gooders. You just crave to be normal and fit in but keep getting called in for interviews and assesments.
Ironically there used to be something in Australia called Austudy. It was set up to keep poor kids in school basically and if you lived at home you got around $25 per week (I think) but if you were homeless it was $75 (or at least around 3 times the amount for kids with a roof) BUT, in order to qualify you had to have an address and your parents, guardian or official to sign off on it! I couldn't get any of that so went without...
Near the end of this period my girlfriends mother used to let me stay on a camper bed in their front room every second or third night and my grandparents let me stay on and off (but they were about two hours drive from my school). Before too long I got a proper job and my own apartment and it's been onwards and upwards from there on in.
To this date I don't think many of my old school friends even realise that I was homeless becuase I made such an effort to appear normal (I even used to fake my mothers signature on school trip permission notes).
Edited by robm3 on Thursday 22 October 14:03
robm3 said:
HereBeMonsters said:
robm3 said:
Was homeless at 16 years old and managed to look after myself pretty well, I continued going to school for 2 years, hold down a part time job and outwardly seemed quite normal.
Now have a great life with my own family.
But can you play Killzone 2? Now have a great life with my own family.
Seriously though, that is majorly impressive. Being made homeless has always been one of my worst fears, I don't think I could cope. Luckily I have never been near, but it must be terrifying.
The worst thing (apart from Drunks haressing you in your car - I used to put a car cover over it when I slept on suburban streets) is the 'attention' you get at school from assigned case officers and do-gooders. You just crave to be normal and fit in but keep getting called in for interviews and assesments.
Ironically there used to be something in Australia called Austudy. It was set up to keep poor kids in school basically and if you lived at home you got around $25 per week (I think) but if you were homeless it was $75 (or at least around 3 times the amount for kids with a roof) BUT, in order to qualify you had to have an address and your parents, guardian or official to sign off on it! I couldn't get any of that so went without...
Near the end of this period my girlfriends mother used to let me stay on a camper bed in their front room every second or third night and my grandparents let me stay on and off (but they were about two hours drive from my school). Before too long I got a proper job and my own apartment and it's been onwards and upwards from there on in.
To this date I don't think many of my old school friends even realise that I was homeless becuase I made such an effort to appear normal (I even used to fake my mothers signature on school trip permission notes).
Edited by robm3 on Thursday 22 October 14:03
k me that sounds like a rough couple of years, good on you for not giving up. Something to be rightly proud of.
Cara van man said:
Los Palmas 7 said:
I've been off the booze since Monday.
That's like Harold Shipman claiming to have cured a few old people of flu.
I haven't even done my usual "Oh well, you've got as far as Thursday and done really well. Why not celebrate with a few beers?"
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