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DP Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2016
- Messages
- 4,583
- Reaction score
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- Location
- Southern Maine
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Progressive
Ah well, better late than never are words I live by.
I am the world's most highly educated Homer Simpson. I got my handle from a serendipitous accident, I was playing Warbirds, and my original handle was too hard to type while you were fighting in a furball. So they asked me to come up with a simpler one. I became late, but after I did, I realised that it described me far better than anything else I could have chosen.
I live in Maine, and I am tired and retired. I was a Nam protester when I was a kid, and became an activist when all that stopped.
I have a BS in Psychology, but that was an accident. Don't ask, I'll tell you and then you'll regret it.
Had a bunch of different jobs (there aren't a lot of good jobs in Maine) and I've been married for over 30 years.
I used to do a lot of hiking and backapacking into my 40s. When my knees turned to mush, I turned to cycling. Our trip of a lifetime was cycling across Italy, from the Adriatic to the Med.
I'm a cancer survivor.
I used to love to read, and would find myself reading a wide variety of topics
I love scifi, and I like video games. I have been looking for something to replace Skyrim, but that is head and shoulders about most video games. How good is it? I don't like sword and sorcery games, that's the only one I've ever played.
But the visual quality, the excellent gameplay and plot have conspired to make it seemingly impossilbe to replace.
I'm pretty good at political predictions, that happens if you have played that game for a while. I suck at predicting technology. Last year I thought this year was going to be The Year of VR. Boy, was I wrong.
The hardware isn't where I want it to be, the software hasn't showed up, and the ancillary devices are still getting the kinks ironed out.
Not that I would do it again, I went back to school for a couple years. Which resulted in my being close to degrees in math, comp sci,philosophy and history. A guy ran a stop sign, totaled my car and put me on crutches. So I went from 3 jobs and 3 classes to no job, no way to get anywhere, and no money. And that, as they say, was that.
I play Go. Which won't mean anything to you, but it is a staggeringly brilliant game. In Magister Ludi, a character says "Life is a simplified paradigm of Go." That's an exaggeration, of course, but you can see the appeal. Warning: learning Go will make your brain melt and drip out of your ears.
I am the world's most highly educated Homer Simpson. I got my handle from a serendipitous accident, I was playing Warbirds, and my original handle was too hard to type while you were fighting in a furball. So they asked me to come up with a simpler one. I became late, but after I did, I realised that it described me far better than anything else I could have chosen.
I live in Maine, and I am tired and retired. I was a Nam protester when I was a kid, and became an activist when all that stopped.
I have a BS in Psychology, but that was an accident. Don't ask, I'll tell you and then you'll regret it.
Had a bunch of different jobs (there aren't a lot of good jobs in Maine) and I've been married for over 30 years.
I used to do a lot of hiking and backapacking into my 40s. When my knees turned to mush, I turned to cycling. Our trip of a lifetime was cycling across Italy, from the Adriatic to the Med.
I'm a cancer survivor.
I used to love to read, and would find myself reading a wide variety of topics
I love scifi, and I like video games. I have been looking for something to replace Skyrim, but that is head and shoulders about most video games. How good is it? I don't like sword and sorcery games, that's the only one I've ever played.
But the visual quality, the excellent gameplay and plot have conspired to make it seemingly impossilbe to replace.
I'm pretty good at political predictions, that happens if you have played that game for a while. I suck at predicting technology. Last year I thought this year was going to be The Year of VR. Boy, was I wrong.
The hardware isn't where I want it to be, the software hasn't showed up, and the ancillary devices are still getting the kinks ironed out.
Not that I would do it again, I went back to school for a couple years. Which resulted in my being close to degrees in math, comp sci,philosophy and history. A guy ran a stop sign, totaled my car and put me on crutches. So I went from 3 jobs and 3 classes to no job, no way to get anywhere, and no money. And that, as they say, was that.
I play Go. Which won't mean anything to you, but it is a staggeringly brilliant game. In Magister Ludi, a character says "Life is a simplified paradigm of Go." That's an exaggeration, of course, but you can see the appeal. Warning: learning Go will make your brain melt and drip out of your ears.