RV Name: Magicana Drofulcus
Post count: 6554
Skill total: 2595 (579,631,209 xp, Time Played: 397 days, 2 hours)

Message:

How's life going? Anything new? Got that full time job yet (You should do).

RV Name: Landerpurex

Post Count: 5911

Well, we love Jaron for continuing to do these. I LOVE YOU, JARON.

I haven't much to say, future self. You are becoming more like an adult. Becoming more realistic/giving up on dreams, both are happening depending on perspective. But never stop learning, and never consider your opportunities squandered.

Do you still live in Baltimore? Wal-Mart? Salaried? You will have married Leah by now, how was the wedding? Honeymoon? This will have been a really eventful year for you, cheers to many more. Stay real.

RV name: Rory
Post count: 6,722
Message: As of this post you are nursing a sprained ankle from basketball training. You have a casual position working as Nightfill at Coles for a manager who seems to have no clue what he's doing. He has managed to run your department over the budget and you're losing shifts as a result. You are currently attending a gym that has been hugely beneficial to you socially, mentally and physically. You also play Wheelchair Basketball twice a week and mixed basketball once a week.

A week from now you'll be attending your first local Wheelchair basketball tournament. The weekend after that you're off to Adelaide for your cousin's wedding. In January you'll be going to a national? wheelchair basketball tournament on the sunny coast.

How is that all going?

Will make this one a bit more comprehensive given my lack of effort for the previous few!

~~~

RV name: Muscular Ape
Post count: 8,478
Message: If you're still alive you've exceeded expectations.

Mmorpg tracker

Runescape: Playing OSRS Ironman primarily, 94 Firemaking (Ranked #1), 92 Woodcutting (Ranked #2). Thinking about working on Agility, Thieving, Hunter, Fishing & Cooking after that. You're considering playing this casually over Gw2.

Guild Wars 2: You are not playing Gw2 much atm and are playing OSRS Ironman instead. You are WvW rank 609, sPvP rank 36, have 3 Legendaries and 9/10 of your characters are lvl 80. You also have 3755 total hours played. You have roughly 3000g and are going for Eternity or possibly one of the new Legendaries that are supposedly coming out. Depending on how much OSRS continues to pique your interest, you are considering putting Gw2 on the backburner.


Life tracker

University: You've recently dropped two subjects in your second semester of your second degree, B.IT. You're excelling in the subjects you're doing but are stressed out and lack motivation/direction. You're not sure if you will continue or not although it's likely you will.

Exercise: You aren't really overweight (80kg) but you're incredibly unfit and fixing this has been a goal of yours you continue to neglect. You're playing Indoor Soccer, though, and are fairly confident it will inspire you to get off your ass and get fit this Summer.

Travel: For a long while now, you've wanted to go traveling and even live abroad. While this is not something you may do in 2015, it's something you at least want to be working towards and thinking more seriously about.

General life: You have an adorable labrador puppy who means the world to you. You still live at home and don't really get out much which you'd like to change. You don't have any real idea what you're going to do with your life.

Chin up, bro.

RV name: The123king
Post count: 5,060

Wow, it's been a long time since i did one of these, and i picked a day to do it. Today, Thursday 13th of november, is not only my 23rd birthday, but also this forum's 12th. It's strange to look back on what's happened the last few years and see that it's all over. I've done my schooling, got my degree, and spent 3 years of my life partying, drinking and playing minecraft in lectures, but now i have to face the real world. but here I am, still sat at home, watching repeats of family guy and tapping at a laptop at the early hours of the morning, working menial jobs to pay my way. I wonder if anything will have changed by next year...

Have you actually got a proper job in computers? Did you ever redesign the Swan's website? Are you still at the Swan? (if yes, WHY THE MAN, LIKE, WHY THE ?) Are you back in Cambridge? Were you bottom of the pool league (I hope so!)? Still playing Minecraft? Still dabbling in RenSkep?

Oh, so many questions, and so many that i know the answer to... However, there's many known knowns and known unknowns, but it's the unknown unknowns that you have to watch out for. I hope you have avoided some of the known unknowns, grasped by the knackers the unknown unknowns and steer far away from the known knowns.

Now if you can remember wtf the last paragraph meant in a years time, i'll be very impressed, if so, treat yourself to a beer! if not, treat yourself to a beer! It's your birthbay !

Now where'd i put that beer...

RV name: Petrifiedparrot
Posts: 771
I sure hope you're not still doing exactly what you're doing right now by this time next year. Still in undergraduate studies? I hope not. RS skill total at 2250 now. How many levels will you get?

RV name: Eadwulf
Post count: 4485
Message:

RV name: Hiei
Post count: 2455
Alright you little shitter... Yeah you're sort of employed and doing something related to your specialty but are you still drinking every single moment of your life away? Dedicated to end up like your parents, aren't you?
Hell, if you insist on acting like some character from some TV show like always, at least pick better characters to imitate...
Now you better go find some decent girl, get your ass to studying and working, try your little damn darndest to quit smoking and drinking (LIKE THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN HAH), and get your together.
Also, how's the depression working out for you, lulz. Still lying to the psychiatrist so you don't get committed?
Try not to lose all your friends though, if you can manage that.

When I hear from you the next year you better be back in school, heading towards graduation, assface.

RV name: Applequest
Post count: 12,113
Message: Congrats on another year RV!

Kikori
11,254 when this is done
Well, you can thank Jaron for extending the Time Capsule.

So, what's new? ... Wait, I have to give you a comparison first.
At the time of writing this, I'm about 125 nodes into trying to get a Piesteskin Treasure Map after recently having returned from Adam's. Jesus Christ, I'm not even in the future yet and I can see you just shaking your head at this. I also just got done figuring out just how much it sucks to have a green name. THEM'S THE BREAKS, SON, YOU CHOSE IT.
Since Adam's immediately on the mind, he somehow managed to get up at 5 a.m. to get out to Murfreesburro for an army thing. I can't tell if this is gonna be a train wreck or a salvation made real, but it's really got me curious. Is he still out there in the sticks? Still putting off killing Dragons with a simple Wooden Sword and set of clothes paired with supposedly undogly enchantments? (He better be happy I got him to 100...)
What do you know, got on about other people before myself again. Let's see.

Job: Showing no signs of improving. A 0% satisfaction rate among workers and a ~30% decrease in performance is apparently not enough to undo the biggest turd in the place raining down on everyone. Sigh. If you're still a Material Handler, however, that'll be utterly disappointing.

Home: We constantly preached early 2015. I'll even accept mid-early 2015. If it hasn't happened, take a hammer to your computers. After writing a new Time Capsule so you can mark it down for yourself. But we both know it's going to have happened. The biggest curiosity is where, how much was spent overall. Adam-bro will be curious just how much got spent on household stuff after all he offered. As long as it's warm, comfortable, stable, and pleasant. (And safe and well fortified and not in the sticks.)

Love: This should go along with Home. Not a thing needs asking here. Just some good wishes.

Games: The good stuff. Since Adam's still vaguely on the mind due to relations, let's just say I FINALLY got a taste of Skyrim through him, and... it's not bad. I'll really like the idea of pulling a half-him-half-what I wanted if I do end up getting it... but that's if I end up getting it. Kinda hoping I cave in and do. Sorta.
At the moment, it's Final Fantasy XIV as the big one. Damn near a full year of playing. This one might be a keeper!
The DS currently has The World Ends With You again. Even though EVERYTHING'S been done a dozen times over, it's just that amazing.
Jaron's TF2 is/was fun, but at the time of writing this, has slowed down tremendously.
PSO was a fun run, though without anyone else's assistance to look forward to, it's all but gone, too.
Skyrim might be a new thing depending on the whims. We'll see. (It will most likely happen and we both know it. As this is typed you're already looking at Steam deals.)

You've never been one to forget friends, so I'm sure you won't have trouble breaking down the important ones' evolution over time. ;D

Did you ever learn to sing The Bells? Surely you have a shirt to accompany it. Is Homestuck FINALLY finished? I really ate my old words last time, because that Gigapause. GGaR still awesome? NoEvil any more active? Did you finally get that tooth looked at? Still the top dog on Whatpulse? Ever find out about Jack? Nathan ever get brave enough to travel? (For that matter, have you?) Sigh. Too many thoughts. I'm sure the point of this is being missed anyway; it's not for me to predict the future, it's for you to reflect on the past. I just hope it's pleasant.

Spirographed says:
Is everything ok? You're about to make some big decisions. It'll work out.

RV name: Riptide
Post count: 3293
Message: How's school? Tennis? Keeping fit in general? Got a job yet? How about your license? If you can answer yes to all of those, you are both doing well and a smartass.

RV name: Jaron
Post count: 18,331
Message:

Happy near-end of 2015 from Siebel Center's 2nd floor! I hope things are going well for you in California. I got some great news this morning, and it's left me excited for the year ahead.

If this time capsule is opened at the beginning of November as scheduled, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving planned! I just got back from Thanksgiving break myself, where, among other things, Nathan and I played Hyrule Warriors non-stop both Saturday and Sunday. It was awesome and I really, really hope we get to do it again sometime before I move.

As far as UIUC goes, tomorrow Jaime and I are finishing up our Portal path tracing presentation. Later this week I'll be recording and filming a Want You Gone parody for the CS225 final exam with Zach and Alvin, which should be pretty great. My Mulan parody for midterm 2 apparently has 2,199 views now, which is more than I thought it'd get. I may try to make a third video for the first midterm next semester. ...Good times! Philip and I are meeting tonight (as we do every Tuesday) to work on the IDSC project. I'm going to miss his knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm on the project. Tonight's the time we try to get it functional for the third time, so I can carry on using it next semester. Philip, Michael, and Chenghao are all graduating in a couple of weeks, so unless I get some new people on the project, I'll be all alone in the home stretch of my master's thesis work come Spring. Then again, you probably only have (er, had) CS519 next semester along with your master's work, so you should have more than enough time to spend on it!

My life right now is my schoolwork, basically (whereas yours, I know, is actual work). Are you doing cool things?

Let's see what else we can manage to compare between now and the future. Recent video games I've played include Hyrule Warriors, the Mario Kart 8 DLC, and of course Smash Bros. 4 for both consoles. I also recently got Project Diva F 2nd and have beaten every song on that, though not yet on Hard or Extreme. That's one game I intend to platinum. I got super far on Dark Souls 2 as well, but with everything else going on, I'm not sure I'll be able to platinum that one as well. I'm halfway through NG+1 and I'd have to beat every boss in the game one more time to reach the middle of NG+2 for the trophy. My PSN account is at level 14.59 with 22 platinum trophies, but I can think of probably two more that I'll have in a year's time. Did TF2 add any Mann vs. Machine missions? If so, I bet you guys cleared all those on Peridot lickety-split.

Speaking of gemstones, I have the full intention of buying a nice new desktop next summer. I'll have finally reached Dragonstone, haha! ...I have no idea what I'll call my desktop after that one. I hope it's got a nice speedy hard drive, since that's what my current laptop is lacking. Also graphics and whatever. Whatever!

So last summer I spent it working on Crissaegrim. I had a lot of plans for it but they slowed down pretty bad near the end of the summer, and it didn't help that it was tough to overcome the lag inherent in such a multiplayer game. It was pretty awesome, though. Did you do anything of a similar variety last summer? With Peridot online, you've got a lot of options available.

117,123 plays right now on Last.FM. 2,030 of those are on Black Rose / Green Sun which retains its top spot, since #2 Biolizard is just a smidgen over 1,100. On WhatPulse I have, like, 36 million keys and 7.36 million mouse clicks. Garnet has 16.2% of my total keys with almost 6 million. Where's Dragonstone at?

So I guess that's all I've got for the time being! I'm sure other neat things will happen over the course of the next year. You'll probably play a lot of Smash Bros. 4 (good luck with the Challenge board), maybe Starcraft 2's final part will come out, and hopefully you'll have some nice vacations and travels between now and then. I wish you the best of luck. See you next year!

RV name: rangerpker
Post count: 295
Message: Did your get smacked up by Micro? You were warned, bro. Still haunted by what you can't have or are they bullets dodged? Are they mirin? If not, you're dead to me. P.S. pls tell me Frankenstein is still alive and you got him things that go loud.

RV Name: Market Man6
Post Count: 4605
RS Skill total: 1988
RS Display Name: Market Man6. Ares Dawn

Yeah, making that avatar was pretty good I have it saved all over the place.
did you go snowboarding in the 2014/2015 season??!! How are the Banff friends?
Tough Mudder was fun. 3hrs 20mins. I'm hoping to be faster the second time.
Tank farm is finally done. After 281 days, its done. It went well into November this year.
Now I'm doing odd jobs around Calgary before christmas. Its nice to be working out of the house. My current job is a pipeline near turner valley. Its nice out there!
Did you end up getting sleds last winter?
Carron doesnt drive yet, but she is working at the nursing home.
My truck still doesnt have much work done to it but maybe this time next year they will have a 1/2 ton ram hellcat that would be awesome!

As for investments, student loans are 30% paid off. Truck is paid off. I havn't been putting anything extra into the mortgage though. Roy has 7k now. I have dropped ~2k into the basement, and it isn't finished yet. So no renters.
Can't wait to get rid of this double typing Q10. Hope the Classic rocks!
How did the deck building go?




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RV Name: Topsummoner
Post Count: 7045
Message:

BY THE TIME YOU GET THIS MESSAGE you will be a graduate of Con College's Film Production Program.

How was your Thesis Film? Was it a steaming pile of garbage, or was it bretty gud?

This time last year you felt as though you had finally beaten the bout of depression you were going through for most of the year.

Your best friends were Aden, Hayden and Dylan. Hayden and Dilron have since gone home-- have you seen them since? For that matter, are you still even living in Tundra Bay? Hope not, but who knows, maybe you needed a year to get on your feet.

You were also sorta getting to know a girl round this time. Did anything come of that? It looked bretty gud.

Hope things are okay. Happy birthday btw

PS:
>IT TAKES A LOT TO MAKE A STEW
>ISN'T IT STRANGE, HOW TIME MAKES YOUR APPEARANCE CHANGE?
>IIIIIIIIIII LOOOOOOOOOOVE YOOOOOOOOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIST
>it's 2014, there's no excuse.

RV name: Eadwulf
Post count: 4485
Message:

RV name: Jaron
Post count: 18,331
Message:

Happy near-end of 2015 from Siebel Center's 2nd floor! I hope things are going well for you in California. I got some great news this morning, and it's left me excited for the year ahead.

If this time capsule is opened at the beginning of November as scheduled, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving planned! I just got back from Thanksgiving break myself, where, among other things, Nathan and I played Hyrule Warriors non-stop both Saturday and Sunday. It was awesome and I really, really hope we get to do it again sometime before I move.

As far as UIUC goes, tomorrow Jaime and I are finishing up our Portal path tracing presentation. Later this week I'll be recording and filming a Want You Gone parody for the CS225 final exam with Zach and Alvin, which should be pretty great. My Mulan parody for midterm 2 apparently has 2,199 views now, which is more than I thought it'd get. I may try to make a third video for the first midterm next semester. ...Good times!

Philip and I are meeting tonight (as we do every Tuesday) to work on the IDSC project. I'm going to miss his knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm on the project. Tonight's the time we try to get it functional for the third time, so I can carry on using it next semester. Philip, Michael, and Chenghao are all graduating in a couple of weeks, so unless I get some new people on the project, I'll be all alone in the home stretch of my master's thesis work come Spring. Then again, you probably only have (er, had) CS519 next semester along with your master's work, so you should have more than enough time to spend on it!

My life right now is my schoolwork, basically (whereas yours, I know, is actual work). Are you doing cool things?

Let's see what else we can manage to compare between now and the future. Recent video games I've played include Hyrule Warriors, the Mario Kart 8 DLC, and of course Smash Bros. 4 for both consoles. I also recently got Project Diva F 2nd and have beaten every song on that, though not yet on Hard or Extreme. That's one game I intend to platinum. I got super far on Dark Souls 2 as well, but with everything else going on, I'm not sure I'll be able to platinum that one as well. I'm halfway through NG+1 and I'd have to beat every boss in the game one more time to reach the middle of NG+2 for the trophy. My PSN account is at level 14.59 with 22 platinum trophies, but I can think of probably two more that I'll have in a year's time. Did TF2 add any Mann vs. Machine missions? If so, I bet you guys cleared all those on Peridot lickety-split.

Speaking of gemstones, I have the full intention of buying a nice new desktop next summer. I'll have finally reached Dragonstone, haha! ...I have no idea what I'll call my desktop after that one. I hope it's got a nice speedy hard drive, since that's what my current laptop is lacking. Also graphics and whatever. Whatever!

So last summer I spent it working on Crissaegrim. I had a lot of plans for it but they slowed down pretty bad near the end of the summer, and it didn't help that it was tough to overcome the lag inherent in such a multiplayer game. It was pretty awesome, though. Did you do anything of a similar variety last summer? With Peridot online, you've got a lot of options available.

117,123 plays right now on Last.FM. 2,030 of those are on Black Rose / Green Sun which retains its top spot, since #2 Biolizard is just a smidgen over 1,100. On WhatPulse I have, like, 36 million keys and 7.36 million mouse clicks. Garnet has 16.2% of my total keys with almost 6 million. Where's Dragonstone at?

So I guess that's all I've got for the time being! I'm sure other neat things will happen over the course of the next year. You'll probably play a lot of Smash Bros. 4 (good luck with the Challenge board), maybe Starcraft 2's final part will come out, and hopefully you'll have some nice vacations and travels between now and then.

I wish you the best of luck. See you next year!

RV name: Muscular Ape
Post count: 8,478

Mmorpg tracker

Runescape: Playing OSRS Ironman primarily, 94 Firemaking (Ranked #1), 92 Woodcutting (Ranked #2). Thinking about working on Agility, Thieving, Hunter, Fishing & Cooking after that. You're considering playing this casually over Gw2.

Guild Wars 2: You are not playing Gw2 much atm and are playing OSRS Ironman instead. You are WvW rank 609, sPvP rank 36, have 3 Legendaries and 9/10 of your characters are lvl 80. You also have 3755 total hours played. You have roughly 3000g and are going for Eternity or possibly one of the new Legendaries that are supposedly coming out. Depending on how much OSRS continues to pique your interest, you are considering putting Gw2 on the backburner.

Life tracker

University: You've recently dropped two subjects in your second semester of your second degree, B.IT. You're excelling in the subjects you're doing but are stressed out and lack motivation/direction. You're not sure if you will continue or not although it's likely you will.

Exercise: You aren't really overweight (80kg) but you're incredibly unfit and fixing this has been a goal of yours you continue to neglect. You're playing Indoor Soccer, though, and are fairly confident it will inspire you to get off your ass and get fit this Summer.

Travel: For a long while now, you've wanted to go traveling and even live abroad. While this is not something you may do in 2015, it's something you at least want to be working towards and thinking more seriously about.

General life: You have an adorable labrador puppy who means the world to you. You still live at home and don't really get out much which you'd like to change. You don't have any real idea what you're going to do with your life.

Kikori
11,254 when this is done
Well, you can thank Jaron for extending the Time Capsule.

So, what's new? ... Wait, I have to give you a comparison first.
At the time of writing this, I'm about 125 nodes into trying to get a Piesteskin Treasure Map after recently having returned from Adam's. Jesus Christ, I'm not even in the future yet and I can see you just shaking your head at this. I also just got done figuring out just how much it sucks to have a green name. THEM'S THE BREAKS, SON, YOU CHOSE IT.
Since Adam's immediately on the mind, he somehow managed to get up at 5 a.m. to get out to Murfreesburro for an army thing. I can't tell if this is gonna be a train wreck or a salvation made real, but it's really got me curious. Is he still out there in the sticks? Still putting off killing Dragons with a simple Wooden Sword and set of clothes paired with supposedly undogly enchantments? (He better be happy I got him to 100...)
What do you know, got on about other people before myself again. Let's see.

Job: Showing no signs of improving. A 0% satisfaction rate among workers and a ~30% decrease in performance is apparently not enough to undo the biggest turd in the place raining down on everyone. Sigh. If you're still a Material Handler, however, that'll be utterly disappointing.

Home: We constantly preached early 2015. I'll even accept mid-early 2015. If it hasn't happened, take a hammer to your computers. After writing a new Time Capsule so you can mark it down for yourself. But we both know it's going to have happened. The biggest curiosity is where, how much was spent overall. Adam-bro will be curious just how much got spent on household stuff after all he offered. As long as it's warm, comfortable, stable, and pleasant. (And safe and well fortified and not in the sticks.)

Love: This should go along with Home. Not a thing needs asking here. Just some good wishes.

Games: The good stuff. Since Adam's still vaguely on the mind due to relations, let's just say I FINALLY got a taste of Skyrim through him, and... it's not bad. I'll really like the idea of pulling a half-him-half-what I wanted if I do end up getting it... but that's if I end up getting it. Kinda hoping I cave in and do. Sorta.
At the moment, it's Final Fantasy XIV as the big one. Damn near a full year of playing. This one might be a keeper!
The DS currently has The World Ends With You again. Even though EVERYTHING'S been done a dozen times over, it's just that amazing.
Jaron's TF2 is/was fun, but at the time of writing this, has slowed down tremendously.
PSO was a fun run, though without anyone else's assistance to look forward to, it's all but gone, too.
Skyrim might be a new thing depending on the whims. We'll see. (It will most likely happen and we both know it. As this is typed you're already looking at Steam deals.)

You've never been one to forget friends, so I'm sure you won't have trouble breaking down the important ones' evolution over time. ;D

Did you ever learn to sing The Bells? Surely you have a shirt to accompany it. Is Homestuck FINALLY finished? I really ate my old words last time, because that Gigapause. GGaR still awesome? NoEvil any more active? Did you finally get that tooth looked at? Still the top dog on Whatpulse? Ever find out about Jack? Nathan ever get brave enough to travel? (For that matter, have you?) Sigh. Too many thoughts. I'm sure the point of this is being missed anyway; it's not for me to predict the future, it's for you to reflect on the past. I just hope it's pleasant.

RV name: Petrifiedparrot
Posts: 771
I sure hope you're not still doing exactly what you're doing right now by this time next year. Still in undergraduate studies? I hope not. RS skill total at 2250 now. How many levels will you get?

RV name: Rory
Post count: 6,722
Message: As of this post you are nursing a sprained ankle from basketball training. You have a casual position working as Nightfill at Coles for a manager who seems to have no clue what he's doing. He has managed to run your department over the budget and you're losing shifts as a result. You are currently attending a gym that has been hugely beneficial to you socially, mentally and physically. You also play Wheelchair Basketball twice a week and mixed basketball once a week.

A week from now you'll be attending your first local Wheelchair basketball tournament. The weekend after that you're off to Adelaide for your cousin's wedding. In January you'll be going to a national? wheelchair basketball tournament on the sunny coast.

How is that all going?

How was your Thesis Film? Was it a steaming pile of garbage, or was it bretty gud?

RV Name: Topsummoner
Post Count: 7045
Message:

BY THE TIME YOU GET THIS MESSAGE you will be a graduate of Con College's Film Production Program.

How was your Thesis Film? Was it a steaming pile of garbage, or was it bretty gud?

This time last year you felt as though you had finally beaten the bout of depression you were going through for most of the year.

Your best friends were Aden, Hayden and Dylan. Hayden and Dilron have since gone home-- have you seen them since? For that matter, are you still even living in Tundra Bay? Hope not, but who knows, maybe you needed a year to get on your feet.

You were also sorta getting to know a girl round this time. Did anything come of that? It looked bretty gud.

Hope things are okay. Happy birthday btw

PS:
>IT TAKES A LOT TO MAKE A STEW
>ISN'T IT STRANGE, HOW TIME MAKES YOUR APPEARANCE CHANGE?
>IIIIIIIIIII LOOOOOOOOOOVE YOOOOOOOOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIST
>it's 2014, there's no excuse.

You were also sorta getting to know a girl round this time. Did anything come of that? It looked bretty gud.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAAH tfwnogf

I don't get the response. Is that last part an acronymn?