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If You Had To Make A Brand New Username?

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:03:37 -0800

Had this thought in a random moment of boredom; what username would I (or others) pick if I/they had to change to something completely different to current/past ones? By this I do mean totally different, so I couldn't just say "Oh I'd use MoonfaceDesigns" or some other loose variant/alternate of Moonface.
Oh, and since I know some folks have had radically different usernames in the past such as @Mr EliteL with "Three Kings" and @ShiraNoMai with "yoshisbiggestfan", you can't use those here. Come up with something completely new and different from what you've got/had.

I still don't know what I'd come up with yet, although if I had to do this back in the ZetaBoards days when I was on their Support Team an easy answer would be to just use my real first name like most of the other staff for that service did.

Winning By Doing Nothing?

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:10:49 -0800

I already forgot what made me think of this despite only thinking of it like half an hour ago, but what are instances in media where if the protagonist (or antagonist if there's somehow an example of that) was to have pulled a Luigi and done nothing, they would've ended up coming out on top?

The best example I can think of is Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. The movie ends with the Nazi's opening the ark and all dying as a result, which would've happened even if Indy wasn't even present or even been involved in trying to find the ark. I forget where exactly it gets opened but it never seemed to be anywhere of note, so would anyone have even known it was there to go collect it? Furthermore, everybody present (except Indy and Marion) basically melts like the wicked witch of the west so there might not even be any evidence of what happened from opening the ark, so if more Nazi's came to get the thing there's a high chance they'd just suffer the same fate. Indy being present helps the ark be put into secure storage but if no one knew where the ark had been taken and it's in nowhere of note then surely that's just as good?

New Year Begins 2026

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:29:19 -0800

Happy New Year, everyone! '25 is over, did you get anything you hoped to do at the start of the year, and what are your hopes for this year if any?

I hoped to get back into doing art, weightlifting and get a car. I did none of those things, so really all that rolls over into this year. My '25 was rather lame overall, and there were times I wasn't taking care of myself, losing weight, not eating properly and started to get symptoms from that. So I started actually buying more food for myself then noticed a change back to relative normality I guess. I've put on some weight back on and close on being the heaviest I've ever been. It's not much, just 8st 8 I got to. I was dropping back into the 7st range earlier. Still have an eternal goal to get into 9st, but no more than 10, so in the middle really. Weightlifting should help. I should go back to a schedule of some sort but I've not been good at following one.

I do want this year to be a more positive turn around of getting stuff done.

Your Top Songs of 2025 (Spotify, YT, etc)

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:39:28 -0800

I got my YouTube recap last night and decided it's time to begin the topic for this year.

I'll do what I usually do and post the top 5 of what I think I've listened to mostly, as I don't use Spotify or iTunes to have an ongoing record of what I have done, still, plus what YouTube has told me in my recap. I usually listen to music on my MP3 player, on my phone at work using headphones or my laptop both on and off YouTube.

Artists/Bands

1- LEAH
2- Seventh Wonder
3- Kamelot
4- Celldweller
5- (can't determine)

Songs

1- Archangel - LEAH
2- I Carry The Blame/Under a Clear Blue Sky - Seventh Wonder
3- Little Stars/Speak to Me - LEAH
4- Sacrimony (Angel of Afterlfie) - Kamelot
5- Until Kingdom Come/Lunar Sanctum - Kamelot

I mentioned earlier in the year I wasn't listening to much, so some of this will of more recent and playlists I generally listen to that include these bands and songs. There's four songs I really like from LEAH's album that came out last year, though Archangel is featured in two playlists where as the other three weren't, but know I replayed the two I included in my top 5 more than the fourth song I enjoy, plus playing the full album as well. Similar with the two Seventh Wonder songs plus listening to the album they're from. The Kamelot songs, I listened to the Fourth Legacy album a number of times this year, Sacrimony I also listened to the album but also watched the music video more recently a number of times too, also as an attempt to get it into the YouTube recap, which I didn't succeed...possibly due to the cut off time maybe but don't know when that was.

5th place for Artists...I really can't think of what it could be, after the top 4 everything else was just whatever I felt like and not focused specifically, so it could be between like 4 or 5 or more different ones.

Alas, here's my foretold recap:

YouTube Music Recap

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Yeah quite a bit of WWE songs in there, two wrestler themes, two game songs and one PPV song. I also attempted to get a Celldweller song in my top 5, but that failed too but that got Celldweller into my 3rd place among other songs from him.

Christmas 2025

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:49:03 -0800

Christmas is getting closer. How are you getting on with Christmas presents and any plans for Christmas day?

Has Time Travel Ever Been Done Well?

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 17:44:37 -0700

I was looking at the Tears of the Kingdom subreddit this morning during break and one of the posts on there brought up how Zelda would have gone through 10,000+ years of events, and it made me start thinking about how many problems that would cause. In particular, how do any of Zelda's other incarnations exist in the time prior to BotW if only one is supposed to be alive at any given time?

Maybe there's an answer to it that makes sense, maybe not, but remembering how many times I've seen time travel used in something I can't think of many instances where it doesn't just cause a ton of continuity problems. Back To The Future might be one of the rare cases it worked well?

Would You Visit: Japan

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:53:52 -0700

Do you dress your pets up?

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:05:25 -0700

And if you have, what's the goofiest costume you got for them?

Do you prefer city or country life?

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 03:20:08 -0700

Having grown up in a city, I can tell you it's not all cracked up to be. It's nosey, it's crowded, the views can be an eyesore at times. I prefer the country life sometimes, being up in the mountains is incredibly peaceful and quiet.

How Many Sports Stadiums Have You Been To?

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 03:17:53 -0700

I've been to the following in my life time so far:

MLB
Oriole Park at Camden Yards (Orioles, of course)
Citizens Bank Park (Phillies)
Nationals Park (Nationals, of course)
PNC Park (Pirates)

Minor League Baseball
Ripken Stadium (Ironbirds)

NFL
M&T Bank Stadium (Ravens)
Lincoln Financial Field (Eagles)
Memorial Stadium (Ravens first ever home game)

NCAA Football
SECU Stadium (Maryland)
Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Navy)

I wished I didn't go so late into the seeing other Stadiums thing.

Would you go on a game show?

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 03:10:34 -0700

And provided you were selected, which game show would you go on? I'd like to go on the Price is Right to play Plinko, as that's my favorite game on that show lol. Also Wheel of Fortune, I feel like it's easy money to be won on that show.

Do you shop on sites like HSN and QVC?

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:20:59 -0700

I sometimes do for Christmas gifts and stuff that I can get on a cheap payment plan throughout the year, lol.

Would You Visit: Australia

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:07:53 -0700

Your Favorite Parts of Songs?

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:48:15 -0700

Are there any songs you listen to where even if it isn't necessarily your favourite song, there's that one part in it that you really like and can't wait to reach?

Here's mine from a couple of songs that I played recently which gave me the idea for this thread:

Sinner - Judas Priest | 2:50 - 4:55
Eek, feels a bit long seeing the time stamps for it now but whatever, I love this part of the song where it slows down a bit and uses a higher pitch for the guitar.
Under The Influence - Citizen King | 2:48 - 3:23
I don't know why, but this part of this song has been ingrained into my memory ever since I heard it as a kid when playing Street Skater 2.

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Fear/Nerves

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:12:08 -0700

So I'm at the airport right now, and I don't know why but I've found now that the last couple of times I've gone flying I get nervous about it once I'm on my way to the airport. I'm pretty sure that I wasn't bothered by flying at some point in the last decade.

I was gonna post my feelings in UCT but decided why not just make a thread for stuff that makes us nervous and whatnot instead.