Goal #1
I made last year's fitness goal of benching over my own weight (>145) but I still feel like a twig. I want to bulk up some more (evenly) and bench over 200 while getting six pack abs. Part of my motivation isn't what you think - it's that good looking people get paid more. As secondary goals some of my friends are pushing me to do a half marathon and yoga. The rewards for this goal are obvious.

Goal #2
My next large goal will hopefully be a lot easier - complete a full metal song on rocksmith to my own satisfaction. I'll reward myself with this*.

Goal #3
My final large goal is related to some of the weird posts I'm putting up and somewhat of a reach - publish a game by ConnectiCon. Long story short is this - I always wanted to start a game company and all the resources I need are being handed to me on a silver platter. It's just a question of getting shit done. The concept of the company is simple:

• I know a bunch of people who have good board game ideas but can't afford a publisher and don't want to risk spending over ten grand on something that may fail. This is through both ConnectiCon and the Boston/Cambridge area.
  
• I can publish their boardgames to the web and use google analytic and lean startup style metrics to test the boardgame and fun factor.
  
• Once the game is polished enough I'll start a kicksater. People will throw in money to have a phyiscal version of the board game. If enough people pitch in cash, then I can get the game mass produced and distribute it. If not enough people kick in cash then everyone will get their money back and I won't have wasted massive effort on a failed venture.
  
• I'm actually a good 60%-80% done for my first minimum viable product but I'm not going to release anything to the public until I've got a good liability shield in place. MA labor laws are screwed up and I've seen too many people get fucked for not being careful**.
  
• If you were wondering what the point of my previous experiment post was it was to test out new technologies for the game. In the case of Unity 3d - what you saw, I'm working on a simlife style house. You can invite other player's avatars over to your house to play board games. You can customize your house using items you buy from points. You get some points when you lose games and a lot when you win.
  

Goal #4
Brew my own beer. I've got a Mr Beer which is pretty much plug and play. It's a trivial goal but who cares . The reward of this goal is beer.

*I currently have a Mexican Start. Single coil isn't exactly the best for metal - but the lack of distortion makes it more obvious when I fuck up so I figure it's good for now. I can still play Pink Floyd on it .

**Example: SOE thought I was Zaza and threatened to sue my house away if I didn't stop doing things that weren't actually happening. They assumed Zaza was doing things he wasn't and that I was him. They they managed forced false confessions from my parents. It was resolved in the end but I didn't get so much as a "sorry for the slander - our bad." I've seen much worse happen to others for things they didn't do as well - a liability shield isn't optional.

Ghost of Forums Past fucked around with this message on 01-15-2012 at 07:54 PM.

- Join a gym and work out to slim down. My roommate goes to Planet Fitness, so I threw in with her and the social support we both provide makes us both want to go. My goal isn't to become really strong or anything, but instead to trim some of the waist I've accumulated over the past decade.

- Learn passable guitar. I DID have my sights set on Rocksmith to help me with this one (Especially since now I already have a basic amp and a nice Fender), but the PC version isn't due out until fucking May 31st. And I don't have a regular television anymore for my xbox. Sigh. Still, learning a few songs and practicing some every day helps with building my callouses, at least.

I think my goals are pretty short-reaching, but just going with what I think I will stick to.

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I like it when Ghost of Forums Past says:
Goal #4
Brew my own beer.

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I've got a Mr Beer

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By all means, use your Mr Beer, but I'm going to warn you the end result will taste more like hard cider than actual beer. This is coming from personal experience of 3 failed Mr Beer batches, which really discouraged me from home brewing and resulted in me taking like two years off of it.

It wasn't until I met some other home brewers and saw how they do things that I really realized how wrong Mr Beer has it.

- Brewing from malt results in some pretty lackluster beer in general.
- The Mr Beer container does not block light. Yeast and light do not get along. Make sure you put it in a dark place.
- The instructions for how to prime your bottles are terrible- they suggest putting a teaspoon of sugar in first. Do yourself a favor and go with simple syrup instead. And give it like 4 weeks to carbonate instead of the recommended 1 week, because the yeast they give you in the kit is terrible and you won't have much left over post fermentation.

Buy this. Use it to brew this or another basic ale. Learn proper homebrewing techniques, and your reward will be beer that's so good, it hurts.

EDIT: the reason your beer will taste like hard cider is because most of those Mr Beer kits call on you to add table sugar. A beer kit should have everything you need in it to make the beer.

Karnaj fucked around with this message on 01-16-2012 at 10:07 AM.

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Karnaj had this to say about dark elf butts:
Or even better: Fuck Mr. Beer in the face.

Buy this. Use it to brew this or another basic ale. Learn proper homebrewing techniques, and your reward will be beer that's so good, it hurts.

EDIT: the reason your beer will taste like hard cider is because most of those Mr Beer kits call on you to add table sugar. A beer kit should have everything you need in it to make the beer.

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I got Mr. Beer on the cheap from woot. I have very low expectations for it but if I find it enjoyable or feel the need to make something better I'll definitely check that out.

As for the startup, I'm going have a few friends help me polish up my sales pitch next Sunday so I can qualify for Bizspark and have something reasonable to show a lawyer and/or accelerator. I hope to have a minimum viable product ready by March so I can apply to MassChallange.

Once my simplest proof of concept is online (a web based version of liar's dice) I will make a post on this fourm asking for testers and feedback - just like I did with ConnectiCon (which turned out well).

Ghost of Forums Past fucked around with this message on 01-21-2012 at 10:06 AM.