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Post by Dawnsky on Jun 19, 2014 7:05:02 GMT -5
We did that when we first moved here from across the country, but not this time. The scenery is amazing, though.
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Post by Ripplestream on Jun 19, 2014 8:27:32 GMT -5
My hamster always hides in his "fortress of solitude". When he isn't there, he's always on the wheel. And he is very fast. You can't just hold him in your hand like some do.
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Post by Snowfeather on Jun 23, 2014 21:43:33 GMT -5
What are your favorite games you've ever played?Okami will always be my personal favorite, www.okami-game.com/gameinfo.phpwww.okami-game.com/index.phpThe game combines several Japanese myths, legends and folklore to tell the story of how the land was saved from darkness by the Shinto sun goddess, named Amaterasu, who takes the form of a white wolf, Reborn from 100 ago year battle with orochi, an a eight headed demonic serpent. The game is amazing in every way and I've replayed it several times, The art style is very unique
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Post by Foxy on Jun 23, 2014 22:11:18 GMT -5
Favorite game? Hmm....
Probably Xenoblade Chronicles despite never beating it.
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Post by Dawnsky on Jun 24, 2014 10:22:23 GMT -5
Probably Minecraft, partially just because i don't play a lot of games, but mostly because of all the things you can do with it.
For non-video games, I'd have to go with Risk.
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Post by Whitedove on Jun 24, 2014 11:07:27 GMT -5
I'd go with either Super Smash Bros Melee or Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Both, pretty good games.
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Post by Ripplestream on Jun 24, 2014 11:21:34 GMT -5
I've actually played a little bit of Okami. It was fun.
My favorite game... that's too hard! I really like Portal. and Guild Wars 2. and Heroes of Might and Magic 5. and Civilization 5. and on and on and on.
There is this one game that looks interesting that I really want to play. It's called Fez, and it appears to be a puzzle/platforming game.
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Post by Snowfeather on Jun 27, 2014 19:45:40 GMT -5
Oh risk! Now that was fun game, has anyone ever played sequence?~
Super smash brothers was amazing, along with both of the portals, Spent hours on them (especially portal ;P)
The new telltale games coming out are incredible
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Post by Snowfeather on Jul 12, 2014 22:24:14 GMT -5
New question~
What "new" movies are you looking forward to seeing/ think about them?Warning! slight spoilers but nothing you most likely wouldn't know Transformers, age of extinction was really good, Always loved the series, They dont have sam in it like you would of thought and the storyline is new and interesting, The characters are extrememly fun and full of it~ How to train your dragon 2 I saw with my nephew and we both loved it, Plenty of unexpected parts and truly tops the original~ Planet of the apes is one i really want to see, It came out yesterday, interested to see how the get all those war horses and guns Dracula untold is another one that looks amazing about how he got his powers
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Post by Dawnsky on Jul 14, 2014 17:06:47 GMT -5
Well, I was looking forward to How to Train Your Dragon 2, but than I watched it. (And it was really good.) Other than that, nothing really.
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Post by Snowfeather on Feb 5, 2015 1:35:23 GMT -5
If you could preserve/protect any area in the world, what would it be? This means no one can touch it or enter the land until you want them too
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Post by Dawnsky on Feb 5, 2015 7:13:42 GMT -5
Hmm...Amazon Rainforest. So many species of plants and animals live there.
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Post by lionclaw0612 on Feb 5, 2015 15:02:32 GMT -5
same as dawnsky, the amazon, or the congo in Africa
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Post by Snowfeather on Feb 16, 2015 0:52:34 GMT -5
Do you have any military background in your family? (Has anyone in your family been in any major war?)
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Post by Mod Blackbolt on Feb 16, 2015 1:47:49 GMT -5
I had a few great-uncles serve in World War II on my maternal side (my grandfather turned 16 around 5 months before the end of World War II thus missing out.) On my paternal side my grandfather served in Tito's Partizan army against the Nazi occupation of former Yugoslavia, before that his father served in World War I for Austria-Hungary. To my knowledge, all of my immediate relatives who served during the war ended up surviving active service. Though I know my great-great grandfather had multiple brothers who likely also served during World War I however they are unknown to me and so I cannot comment. My paternal grandmother also has a very big family, of which I know nothing about. The only time I fully realized this was at my grandmother's funeral where a great deal of the flowers provided were from a family name I had never heard of. My grandmother had 8 siblings and was orphaned at the age of around 5, her family survived with help from her neighbors and her elder sister. I know nothing about my grandmother's parents and only two of her siblings are still alive today. Both remaining siblings are younger than her and possess no more knowledge than she had.
Only one war veteran in my family is going strong at age 92. He is my grandmother's brother-in-law and has outlived my grandmother's 2 brothers who served alongside him. One of my other relatives went to sign up and found out in the process that he had diabetes which eliminated him from serving (at least that is what I have been told.)
Another interesting note is that I also have a large family in England who I know nothing about. Part of this is because my maternal great-grandfather had 2 families, one in Canada with 6 or 7 siblings and one in England with an unknown amount of children. The other is that when my great-great-great-grandfather came to Canada from Britain he left a number of siblings who are no longer traceable. But if we go back that far then everyone would have an incredibly interesting family military history worth noting.
One of my family members in England married a soldier and while he was off fighting ended up having an affair with another man (unsure of the relation but she appears at my cottage every 5 or so years it seems.) When the soldier got back home she had 2 illegitimate children on her hands. Naturally these kids had to go in order to salvage an already somewhat ruined marriage, this relative thought it best to send them over from England to Canada to live in the basement of my grandfather's house, which for a 3 bedroom bungalow was already teeming with 4 children of its own.
I am sure I would be able to retell a much more fascinating family military history if my lineage was not so jumbled and utterly untraceable. I know I have family in England, Canada, United States, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia but either I only have their facebook account and a language barrier to overcome (often times for something I already knew) or everyone who is in a position to tell me about the past is dead.
Most of my knowledge of my paternal side comes from stories my grandmother told me or a very sparse family tree my aunt made.
Apologies if I ramble a little bit, I thought that perhaps adding a bit of background knowledge would string together a more cohesive narrative. Too tired to read what I have written over so I am not sure if I succeeded with that.
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Post by Snowfeather on Feb 16, 2015 23:16:58 GMT -5
(Sorry about your grandmother) You're fine! that was really interesting, it's amazing your grandfather supported that many kids, Did you ever hear any stories passed down your lines from there experiences or maybe where they were stationed within their branch?
I've had at least one person or more in every other generation in the military (as far back as the early 1900's, theres more im sure but our family is pretty scattered) Almost of them came back home, the only exception would be a solider we had in my maternal side lineage, he was in the Battle of San Jacinto (The battle which truly gave Texas its independence from Mexico) we know he was in the Texan army but we don't know much about him other then that.
We had a pilot for Army Air force corps during WW1 (before the Air Force became its separate branch and they were just a section of the army , we aren't sure if he was a fighter, bomber or reconnaissance pilot (though if i had to guess from details I think he was a fighter pilot, He was my.. great great grandfather I believe, he died in a mid-age a long time ago and his stories died with him, with the Air Force being my dream, I would of loved hearing those.
My grandfather on my mothers side was in WW1 stationed in Italy, it wasn't a hospital exactly , and it wasn't a base, a lot of soldiers were brought there that needed to be tended to, it might of been a small MASH. He was a company clerk for the army , he would play "Reveille" in the morning to wake the soldiers up and "Taps" at night, he slept with his bugle under his pillow because they would try and take it so they could sleep a little later.His stories were I think one of the only ones passed on when he died. For some reason though we never knew he was with a lot of other soldiers and they were getting on.. I forget what its called but its those boats that they filled military with during D-day, they would fill those things to the brim of sinking and when he got on, one of them stopped him and told him that the boat was full and couldn't take anymore men, he stood to wait for the next one and in the distance he saw a wave capsize the same boat he was going to get on. The packs and equipment they carried were so heavy they drowned everyman on it before they could take it off, he always felt guilty for it, when ever he told that story his eyes were so distant.
My Grandmothers father, in one of our more Native lineage he was going to enlist for the army but he had an accident with.. I think a hatchet or axe, and cut of his big toes off and part of another when he was chopping wood, because of that he had a lot of trouble balancing correctly and the army wouldn't take him, we had a few brothers of his that tried to enlist but one of them had diabetes and other one.. I think ADHD
My Uncle in law served in the Army in Vietnam, he was a mechanic, if any jeeps or vehicles like that broke down or had something wrong with it he would be sent to work on it, he wasn't in any of the fighting but to this day when im with him every few months he would not ever talk about it until recently, little by little but would never tell us what he saw, one of only things he said me was about "Driving through puddles of agent orange"
My cousin is a doctor in the Army that tended to wounded soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, he's one of the more.. distant family members we have so I don't much about him. All of those are on my moms side, I don't know but a small handful from my dads, military or not, his father served in the army and fought in Guadalcanal, he came back with PTSD, and would never talk about what happened, he turned to drugs because of that and died early so I never met him. There were probably more on my dads side that were in the military, but a lot of family on his side were Church of Christ members and didn't believe in any kind of war or military, (which is pretty ironic because some of the woman in my dad's line married soldiers, because of that a lot of the members in that line resented my mothers side because they were military, (including me, once I told my fathers grandmother about wanting to serve (shes Church of Christ) and she pretty much put me in the same category as the past military on my mothers side (though I don't want to be in the military only because I have a passion for it and want to continue the lineage of it, a few of my family members are having trouble financially and I'm taking the step to support them on that and myself in the future)
I'm sure I have plenty of other military members in my family, but like you said about your family, mine is incredibly scattered, not because of being in different countries (in fact i have no idea of any family outside the U.S) but because of arguments or family members hating each other. Certain sides of my family fought or had a argument with the other and completely distanced themselves, or just flat out wanted nothing to do with anyone else and live alone in the country. My families pretty much zig-zag'd cut when it comes to ties, especially my fathers side, a know him and his parents and thats all. I'm sure if it wasn't like that I could tell or know a lot more of my families military history.
Oh wow thats a lot, I didn't realized I typed that much
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Post by Whitedove on Feb 17, 2015 19:34:18 GMT -5
My grandfather on my dad's side used to work on building fighter planes :3 I'm sure I have more background history regarding military, I just haven't asked about it yet.
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Post by Snowfeather on Feb 17, 2015 22:55:38 GMT -5
Building fighter jets ? I would LOOOVEE to have that kind of knowledge
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Post by Snowfeather on Feb 19, 2015 21:53:31 GMT -5
New topic: (I might do two at a time but another will come shortly after this one,) What did you want to be when you were little compared to now? If you changed why? I always wanted to be a vet when I was younger, honestly I didn't understand what that meant I was going to do, as a kid I loved animals, little puppies and kittens , and having a job surrounded by little animals all day sounded like the coolest thing. One of my dogs started getting really sick when I was in late middle school , I started seeing what vets do while they were taking care of her.
It seemed a lot less interesting to me, I loved animals but didnt want to take care of them all day. High school started and at first I didnt give any thought about Air Force cadet corps, the uniform you wore looked uncomfortable , it looked like a dull program. We had a day where they take all PE periods to the JROTC room , this was interesting to me being in a new area but every one else seemed less then excited. The commander of the cadets , came and gave us a speech in front of the mixed class about what we did and his dreams, it was so moving to me that I talked to him directly afterward, telling him how amazing it was The next day I switched to that class and got plenty of warm welcomes. Later came lessons about the military, which I got starry eyed over , trips to states, bases, National momuments, Air and space muesum. Some of the best memories of my life, I always respected the military but never got a hand on what it was like and the kind of family you'd get from it, it really feels special being in that program and having your veteran instructors lead you through everything you learn to do, Im sure thats where I want to be.[/font]
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Post by Whitedove on Feb 19, 2015 23:20:58 GMT -5
Yeah, I was the same. I wanted to be a vet, but man, that would just be a lot of responsibility, and there's also the thing of having to put animals down, I wouldn't really want to do that either.
Now, I'm more interested in arts and media, like movies, cameras, acting, that all looks amazing to me. I'm in a film class at the moment, and we all get into groups of a producer, director, camera man, art director, editor, and then there's the actors. Since I'm interested in acting, I chose to be an actor, and it's just like, a new side of me comes out in front of the camera, I love acting. I also love science, mainly Chemistry, I'm pretty quick at learning everything, and I enjoy seeing how different elements react with each other to make something completely new just by rearranging their atoms. So yeah, being a chemist is another thing I'm interested in.
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