Alex Amnell

I'd press the button, probably eventually regret it but outside of like seven people I could easily live without talking to humans anymore. ...Not sure how that happened; I remember typing one. Well, Retype: If you press the button you'll instantly see your greatest dream in life fulfilled, but with the knowledge that you'll have to live through the most terrifying nightmare you've ever had sometime in the near future as well.

I would press that button, puppies are wonderful but way to hard to house train, my latest puppy barely lasted into a glorious chilled out doghood. I'd hate to cause the death of a puppy but...honestly it wouldn't be the first time. If I'm lucky the random puppy would end up being from Africa or parts of south America where dogs and humans have been so hostile to each other for so long that they instantly attack each other anyway.

Murder a tiger with a shotgun in exchange for an undefined treasure? I'll have to pass that one up. If you press the button you'll create alternate earths for every type of ideology that exists and transport people with like ideologies to the same earth, thus insuring world peace and fulfilling your own personal idea of utopia for at least the duration of your own natural life, but anyone born from that point on who doesn't agree with their planet's particular ideology will be born into a completely polarized world hostile to change.

Maybe I am, but the way I see it the two concepts parallel each other in that in both cases the 'fans' have an idea in their head for what they think an idea will look like that is likely...decidedly unrealistic to what can actually be created from that idea at this time. I think we get to many expectations in our heads and then are to harsh on the people who try to fulfill those expectations when they can't pull it off effectively. I don't know what the fans who actually wanted ESO thought they were getting but what we actually got was more or less exactly what I expected it to be, but then I never wanted an online Bethesda game either.

I pretty much agree with killozapit; I see it as a resurrected fad that millions of people truly believe they want but that either won't ever reach the expectations they have for it or if it does will require more monetary investment than the vast majority will be willing/able to spend in order to see those expectations fully realized. Basically a platform version of Elder Scrolls Online, a beautiful dream that becomes an unsightly nightmare once developed as all of the rabid fans demanding to see that dream brought to reality suddenly turn on and espouse hatred towards the developers once they finally get around to giving them exactly what they asked for, leaving them bitter and unwilling to entertain the idea any further ("Play on different tv's and platforms sitting next to each other? (for multiplayer)").

What is the biggest mistake you've made? Almost a decade ago I broke the arm of my then best friend in a groggy delirium when he tried to wake me from a nightmare in which said friend was committing a horrible atrocity in front of me. We haven't spoken since he got out of the hospital. What Genre of Music do you listen to? Pretty much every genre, excluding new country, and mainstream rap/hiphop/pop. Some Favorite bands and artists: Kansas, Within Temptation, Breaking Benjamin, Simon and Garfunkle, Frederick Chopin, and Lost Prophets (At least until their lyrics were given a drastically more f***'d perspective after the lead singer got arrested, now it's just hard to listen to them and harder to enjoy sadly). Favorite Disney Movie? The fox and the hound, without question. What are your favorite cuisines? Anything that comes out of the sea pretty much. So lots of oriental dishes and Caribbean gumbos and such. I guess if I had to pick one it would probably be Chinese, but again I haven't found the seafood yet that I didn't enjoy eating. Trump or Clinton (...or other)? Begrudgingly Trump for the sole reason that Clinton is the only alternative to him getting in. If virtually anyone else were running on the progressive-socialist side of American politics I'd either abstain from voting entirely, or else write in a candidate so that I couldn't be chastised for not voting, but I can't in good conscience not try to stop a pathologically lying warmonger from gaining so much power even if the only alternative is a thin-skinned man-child whose only redeeming quality when it comes to the office is an understanding of business economics, which I guess is technically better than nothing while being vastly preferable to Clinton. As it is I'm actually trying to get my family out of the states right now, tired of being called racist just because I want to see a stop to sex-slave trafficing in my own backyard around my children. Tired of the name calling in general, it seems the only tactics America knows anymore to get it's point across is to divide, segregate and demonize, and it's a disgusting shame considering how far above that we've tried to climb in recent years. But as a society we can no longer seem to get beyond sound bites for our news, and are perfectly willing to ignore anything that doesn't fit our own dogma and chalk all other thoughts up to "well you are just a bigoted fool and your opinions are evil." It's sad. Okay, question time...umm... What is the most notable thing you've believed in the past but that was proven wrong to you through further life experience?

Alexander is my first name, Amnell a chosen pseudonym borrowed from a favorite character in a book series. Very boring and unimaginative. Unfortunately with the space Alexander Amnell is 17 characters, so I had to abbreviate on my name, as much as I'm loath to do so usually, because I've accepted at this point in my life that four syllables is two syllables to many for the vast majority of society to pronounce anyway, whatever my preferences.

I can't really speak for Argentina but here in the states the labor shortage isn't in high education fields and as a result having a degree as a 'door opener' has actually resulted in more closes for me than openings, to the point where when I've needed employment in the past in fields unrelated to my original education I'd lie by omitting my college/university credentials because many places where labor is the shortest in this country (infrastructure, electricity, retail, plumbing; blue collar etc.) would prefer to hire a younger individual without a degree and train them themselves/pay them less than a guy fresh out of college expecting their degree to help them make more money. If you can see yourself in the field you are working towards and the job market is conducive to you finding work in that field then you should stick it out, because higher education can help you greatly if you have a plan and the determination for it. However, it sounds like at best if you made it through you'd do what I did and try to use it as a door opener to find work as needed rather than as a devoted career choice within a particular field, in which case, it's not half as worth it as most people try to claim it is, at least within my experiences. My personal recommendation would be to take a break and seriously consider what your plans are and what you want and how viable they are. As I've said I have nothing against higher education if you have a plan and know what you want from it, however I did not have either during my college days and I have nothing but regrets from those times, all the hard work I did working multiple jobs to avoid going into debt (college here can be upwards of 60K for just a four year degree, while doctorates can put you in debt for life if you aren't careful) and I honestly feel, even now years later, that I'd have gotten just as much help for my future from burning that 60k in a garbage can than I did with sticking it out in a field I didn't like that lead to career choices that didn't exist where I was living. But after investing so much effort into it, I couldn't let myself just quit (well I did, but I ended up going back and finishing) even though in the end like I said I ended up omitting my degree more often than not for better hiring prospects.

I didn't really get started yesterday either. Plan for today is to map everything for the game. I hate mapping, so hopefully by getting it done first I'll be more productive along the way than if it were left to be done til nearly the end. I seem to have an unfair advantage, the family is off visiting relatives out of state and free time is more plentiful than it's ever been this week. Hopefully I won't squander it. @people arguing over clocks you don't use them while speaking no, but the : doesn't just disappear on the clock when you set it to 24-hour time either. In a lot of places that's the standard format for clocks, so while for people like us whose only exposure to that format is within the military 1800 may appear more familiar, 18:00 is still the technically correct way to write it as that's how it would appear on a clock.

I'll participate too.