I remembered something today

Being home, drinking homebrewed espresso, and anticipating football games on a sunny Sunday afternoon, but not playing intense MOHAA, BFV, or CS:S, made me remember something. I also got in touch with one of my old MOHAA buddies again today and it just reminded me something

The meaning of life is ownage. That's all we ever strived for in MOHAA, complete and utter domination. How does that manifest itself now? Through money. I started to feel the relaxing, carefree Italian attitude while home again, but this morning woke up to remember the other Italian and MOHAA attitude- the one devoted to domination and money, not to necessarily spend it, but measure it as it grows like a game, because the more money you have the more ownage that translates to

So now, being home again, I feel that surge in risk-taking and aggression that I don't have in college, to live up to the meaning of life

Wait, wait. You're saying the meaning of life is MONEY and owning stuff?

No, not owning "stuff." The meaning of life is OWNAGE, from the MOHAA or CS:S sense of the word. Before ownage meant getting 5 kills in a row without dying in some random worthless round, when it meant getting 8 kills in a row without dying every round against a superb opponent

Ownage now, for me and the guys I played with, is money. Not spending it, because that lowers the amount of money you have. And I wish the best of luck to those guys too in pursuing their endeavors, not that they need luck

I'm just in the mood to rip off heads

Oh, I see....'ownage'.

Well, I guess that can be a GOAL in life...I wouldn't necessarily call it the meaning of.

What's that? --> "MOHAA or CS:S"

First person shooters. Games that have been preventing young men from getting laid since 1992.

For me pwnage would be successfully separating myself from the system. No massive lifelong debts, no 9-5 drudgery, no morning commute.... Money's one way of doing it. It'd have to be a huge sum. A home business that generates income 24/7 with minimal input on my end. A hermitage. Maybe an income generating website that I can run from a country with an extremely low cost of living.

You are your parents sissy, DM. Do you even work?

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Originally Posted by boobaa [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

You are your parents sissy, DM. Do you even work?

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I'm my parents sissy? What is that supposed to mean?

For the record, I can do well in college at a good school without having it handed to me

I had my first job as a freshman in high school, I worked on a farm over summer for $5.15 an hour more than 40 hours per week alongside migrant workers from Mexico. My next job was working at the drive-thru window at McDonalds, which was an improvement from the farm job. The next job I got, which I held up until last year, was selling home improvements, and with bonuses I made sometimes up to $20 per hour. I had to earn my way up to that job, as with the other jobs

So please, clarify what you mean by a sissy. That I don't work? I was able to work 20 hours a week in high school and do volunteer work and jump through all the stupid hurdles colleges want you to do these days and still managed to graduate in the top of my class and rape my AP exams

So yes, I worked all throughout high school and over winter breaks while in college

So suck it you jealous piece of shit?

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Originally Posted by shh! [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

What's that? --> "MOHAA or CS:S"

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MOHAA = Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (for PC!)

CS:S = Counter-Strike: Source

I don't get what boobaas problem is. Like his political views, he looks at things not as they are, but how he imagines they are

Ok, I am satisfied.

So what's the point of having money if you won't spend it?

I'm quite amused by those who work themselves to death just to make a lot of money so that they don't even have time to spend and live a miserable life in luxury.

And then they die, and their difference in the world is a 10% loss in company stock value.

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Originally Posted by Lipp [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

So what's the point of having money if you won't spend it?

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It's like a game to play, that's it. It seems very similar to playing MOHAA and raping your opponent every round over and over

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Originally Posted by Lipp [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

I'm quite amused by those who work themselves to death just to make a lot of money so that they don't even have time to spend and live a miserable life in luxury.

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If you don't have time to spend the money you aren't living a life of luxury. Besides, luxury to me is probably different than a lot of other peoples. Money for a kick ass car, espresso, an occasional vacation when I feel like it, a top-notch computer rig, and pizza, wingss, and coke for dinner is my idea of luxury

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Originally Posted by Lipp [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

And then they die, and their difference in the world is a 10% loss in company stock value.

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10% loss in company stock value? What the hell are you talking about?

I don't fool myself and pretend to have lofty goals for humanity, but surgeons and anesthesiologists make a pretty good difference in the world, saving people every day at work. Is that a small difference to you? What are you going to do for humanity that puts you in such a position to judge?

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It's like a game to play, that's it. It seems very similar to playing MOHAA and raping your opponent every round over and over

If you don't have time to spend the money you aren't living a life of luxury. Besides, luxury to me is probably different than a lot of other peoples. Money for a kick ass car, espresso, an occasional vacation when I feel like it, a top-notch computer rig, and pizza, wingss, and coke for dinner is my idea of luxury.

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As an example, take the landlord that owns the share house that I'm renting a room in. He works from 10 AM to 10 PM every day, and while he has a pretty nice house, expensive appliances, a car and a motorbike, he has to make more money and so he spends all of his free time exhausted in front of his plasma TV, is pretty grumpy and probably as a result his family left him a few years back.

If you want to make money to stack it up for "ownage" you have to work hard and be lucky, and most likely it wont be at a job that you actually would enjoy since that's not where the money lies. And then you can go home and live a family life with the blonde bimbo who married you for your money and hopes that you'll get a heart attack so that she gets the inheritance.

Making money for the sake of keeping up a lifestyle rather than just for the sake of "ownage" on the other hand is far more enjoyable.

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10% loss in company stock value? What the hell are you talking about?

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It's a quote from Alien Versus Predator :P The rich businessman who launches a scientific expedition to take part of because he's got loads of money but nothing worth doing.

What I find enjoyable and others find enjoyable will be different, so fair enough

Interesting

I see the most important things in life are health and family. Money is just a tool to make above two run smoother. It should never be made at the expense of the above.

I completely agree Mish. What I meant was, assume health needs and good family situation were already there. So, above and beyond health and family comes money as a strong focus

Sounds like DM is a Machiavellian. An average person (exception: someone from a third world country) takes the basic necessities (water, shelter, food, etc) for granted; they don't really have to worry about it. DM is looking beyond that and is going for further acquisition and dominance.

Naw I'm not a Machiavellian, I don't agree with douchebag iron-fisted dictators running MY country and people. I just want to make money earnings and savings a serious game to play, like with MOHAA or CS:S. There just feels like so many connections between the two, I can't explain it or expect other people to feel the same way because I didn't even realize it until I had been playing for over 3 or 4 years

And I realize that back then, I didn't feel so bad, and a lot of it was probably because the things I did were IN MY CONTROL! As in, owning assclowns and whatnot. Literally ALL of my best memories were with my MALE friends, and none of us ever gave a shit about girls, and we were happy. Now once I started caring (which is natural and should be expected) I felt like crap. And I realized I had NO CONTROL in that area of life. In making money and my own career(s :evil:), I have complete control. I want to go back to that

Fair enough, just make sure that you keep a good balance, you have to be sharp and lucky (or just born rich, but that sucks) to actually make a lot of money while having a good lifestyle. Nothing comes for free in life, I guess.

When it comes to gaming actions reflecting in life, I think I have a great preference to face someone who's already got an advantage over me and still win through smart play. Has only happened in games though, not too sure of how it'd end up being a life thing. Probably facing a crappy life and turning the chips around to make things a hundred times better. Or something.

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why does that suck?

imo everyone plays psychological games to get what they want (money/power/happiness), whether they admit it or not.

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Originally Posted by ecojeanne [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

why does that suck?

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Because you don't learn as much, or at least less likely to. You don't appreciate what you've got since it's easier to assume it's always there, less of a need to perform well when studying or getting a job since it's not as much of a necessity, money management and budgeting is also not much of an issue, and the list goes on. Sure, rich kids can learn it as well, but it's less likely, and then they're in trouble if the business that has sustained them all their life breaks down and they've got to face the real world.

"If it's easy it's not worth doing".

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Originally Posted by Lipp [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

Because you don't learn as much, or at least less likely to. You don't appreciate what you've got since it's easier to assume it's always there, less of a need to perform well when studying or getting a job since it's not as much of a necessity, money management and budgeting is also not much of an issue, and the list goes on. Sure, rich kids can learn it as well, but it's less likely, and then they're in trouble if the business that has sustained them all their life breaks down and they've got to face the real world.

"If it's easy it's not worth doing".

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totally agree lipp, for development it can suck, there are a lot of rich kids out there that don't have a clue and in the end are the ones who get tricked and manipulated. Thats simply down to how their parents brought them up.

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Originally Posted by Lipp [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

Fair enough, just make sure that you keep a good balance, you have to be sharp and lucky (or just born rich, but that sucks) to actually make a lot of money while having a good lifestyle. Nothing comes for free in life, I guess.

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The harder you work, the luckier you get :D

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Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

Being home, drinking homebrewed espresso, and anticipating football games on a sunny Sunday afternoon, but not playing intense MOHAA, BFV, or CS:S, made me remember something. I also got in touch with one of my old MOHAA buddies again today and it just reminded me something

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Football games? Aren't you supposed to be reading or doing math?...or whacking off to one of GrkScorp's pictures of women he posted?