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What do you do besides game?
the420kid
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I'm not sure about the rest of you but I don't game with every minute of my spare time.. My question is what else do you guys do?
For me I play guitar and compose music.
What else do you gamers do to kill your spare time?
Btw if you want to see my guitar work check me out on
www.youtube.com/the420kidIf you don't then by all means don't but what is it that you gamers love to do besides game?
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Think about gaming.
Make games. Watch the Military Channel in the hopes of improving games.
You really don't wanna know, well, besides this.
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I am a forum warrior........
Play with my kids, Movies, JetSki, RC Planes and Cars.
Play with my kids
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It all seems so stupid
It makes me want to give up
But why should I give up
When it all seems so stupid
no kids for me yet .. knock on wood
Read
Ride my bike
I would say write but that's my job now so it doesn't count...
make embarrassing attempts at drawing.
pace back and forth and think while listening to music
spend time with the wife
...
Well....
... that was depressing.
I somehow thought that my life was more full and robust than that...
I think I'm gonna go curl up into a ball and cry myself to sleep now...
I like reading books.. gaming books...
also, I like drawing a bit... drawing my fave gaming characters.
http://stagelife.multiply.com/
Ever since I injured my knee I've done fuck all, not to mention the fact my license is suspended... yeah woo. So gaming it is, for the moment.
O_o o_O
reading scifi/fantasy
spend time with the wife
take some time to see as much of Europe as i can while living in Switzerland.
some photography as well.
www.flickr.com/photos/14607952@N00/page3/
Quite amazing pictures in the post above me (didn't bother to quote it though). I theorycraft about games, I currently play Guild Wars and a major aspect of the game is theorycrafting. I'm with friends, although that's quite rare since they all are with their respective girlfriends... I read around 200 pages per day, and sometimes even more. I spend lots of time on forums too.
Make games, do business paperwork regarding my game company.
Watch TV/Movies.
Beg the girlfriend for sex.
Drink when the last one doesn't work.
Drink anyways.
Forum Warrior.
- CaesarsGhost
Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
"When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."
I spend most of my time at work. Either in the office or my part time job as a landscaper. I much prefer the outdoors work. I enjoy travelling when I can to Asia to see my wife there. I enjoy reading, sketching animals to make in spore and I also enjoy sex. Yup, Love sex with my hun. Cant beat it.. Not even if I wanted to try
My boo... shes hot.... Sigh IF YOU SEE THIS BOO I LOVE YOU!!!
Ok ok back on track. I also enjoy to cultivate flowers, berries and various plants. God.. I actually do alot...
Not much actually. I used to work a lot and now I'm on a break. But when I did work a lot I'd just come home and fall asleep just so that I can get up the next day. If I didn't fall asleep all that fast I'd spend my time reading or hitting on the girls at the local Second Cup coffee place. Weekends I'd game with my friends. We'd all gather at someones place or go to a lan place somewhere downtown and play some crap together. Now all I do is take it easy, game a bit when I find something I like and read while trying to fid a new place to work at.
Fairly straight forward.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
work
troll forums
socialize alot
snowboard
expand useless knowledge
electronics / computers
rarely watch tv
school
some DIY stuff
and like the op i just got into music composition
P.S to the OP what do you use to compose music? i just got Reason 3 and found an old midi enabled keyboard and hooked it all up and played around with it a bit and im not horribly bad anymore .... but my question is i cant seem to get it all going or record anything i input into it.... if you have any suggestions or comments on anything id love to hear it
First off (priority order it seems), DAMN you're good. I can see the lack of musical education coming through in your playing style, and whilst if I were critiquing singing or something that would be a negative comment, I don't think I could mean it in any more positive a way. You should check out David Mead if you haven't already, as (whilst being an educator himself) his style is quite similar to yours, as is his music. You clearly have a lot of natural talent and understanding of the instrument, not to mention music and tonality itself. I could quite happily chill out for hours on end listening to this stuff.
Whilst your recording stuff isn't exactly 'pro quality', you've got a very recordable sound. That is to say, the art in a good recording is making each note different from the last one, whilst making it essentially the same. An easier example than a guitar one is drumming for me - if I'm recording a straight 8 rock beat, I want the backbeat (big snare hit on 2 and 4) to be IDENTICAL every time I hit it, so I strike exactly the same part of the drum head with exactly the same force (in theory
). Your sound is very clean and pleasant to listen to as consequence of this. I'm working my way through your videos whilst typing, and loving all of them.
For a broken guitar with toothpick, you sure as hell get a nice sound out of it. My recommendation would be to get your hands on a new mic/recording suite asap really, as your recorded sound is only ever as good as your recording equipment, and never as good as your guitar. With a proper mic setup, you'll probably begin to pick up some of the negative qualities of the guitar, in which case, I'd then get a new guitar asap if you want to take guitar playing anywhere (which imho you really should). Then these recordings would easily be of 'CD quality', and quite ready to hit the streets with.
Now who is this weirdo advising/critiquing so much on a random forum? Noone you'd know by name unfortunately (one day I hope
), but my answer to that comes in my answer to your original question. I play drums, and have done since i came to secondary school. Only taken them seriously for a couple of years though, and I'm teaching drums as my full-time career now, and utterly loving it. I also play keys, guitar and bass, and whilst none to the standard I drum, they give me a good insight into what's going on with bands I play with, and equally, into your videos.
Over the next month most of my free time is getting devoted to practicing (even moreso than usual), as I'm about to be drumming for a production of 'Chess' (if you don't know it, I suggest you check it out; it's awesome-wicked-cool!) at the end of July.
Other than drums and gaming then... I don't think I do much actually! Hahaha! Now I feel sad
Anyway, keep up the good work!!
Well, I don't do much but here are a few things.
- I like to browse around these forums and chime in from time to time.
- I usually work all week ( - 2 days) from 10am - 7pm (sometimes 9).
- I like to take my dogs down to the park so that they can hang out, swim, and get some exercise.
- I have to do homework over the summer for some of my courses I am taking in the fall of 08.
- Other than that I occasionally go hang out with some of my closer friends when they go partying. They drink too much and I always end up having too drive them home, but I guess it is the right thing to do.
There are a few more but I don't think anyone cares to hear about them.
STOP WHINING!
sometimes i pretend im a bumble bee and go buzzzz around my house with joyfull expressions!!
sometimes i sit in a foldout chair looking outside my window, waiting for interesting things to happen
I like to stare into slabs of marble or granite and try to find the most amount of desings i can while trying to pretend im a small fetus inside a barrel of pickels
I tend to be quite the insect sometimes, i play with dirt and eat worms. Sometimes i even play on the monkey bars with my three friends from the planet Obotoke. They are pretty cool, (they get so annoying some times if you know what i mean)
I also like to play catch phrase with my other half, (people say im a skitzo but im really not..) i usually end up losing catchphrase..
sometimes i even like to bbq these things called turkish wallets, - so good.
ps - i am 32 years old
Wa?
Thank you very much for your kind comments, and I do plan to upgrade my equipment to try and get a higher quality of recording I am just really poor atm. If you record some drum vids pls do send me a pm so I can check them out I love all things music. I will def go and check out David Mead although the name sounds firmiliar Im not sure and will check it out. I am a huge fan of Anotine dufour , Andy McKee, Don Ross and I would love to take my guitaring to the next level. One day I hope I can. Thanks again for your kind comments and I will def take what you said to heart.
As for the question in the post above you I just use 1 guitar a crappy mic and a crappy webcam. I capture video from webcam with windows movie maker then I add credits / fade in out and compile it as a movie and upload to youtube. Nothing fancy at all although one day I hope to be doing much higher quality like others I see on youtube.
I work a lot of hours and really don't have the time to spend playing video games.
Besides work I have been reading, listening to music , spending time with my girlfriend and for the last week or so have been rebuilding my deck
When I do play video games I have been staying away from mmorpg's and been playing older hack'n'slash games such as Diablo 2, Divine Divinity, and Planescape
Wow, it's like we are the same person! I love doing those things
Especially the bumblebee one, and I've been saving up honey to give to my neighbor, Mr.Bear
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