Brad's 2009 Resolutions

from JoeUser Forums
  1. Improve my email communication skills. How I communicate online is very different from how I am in person even though I use the same words.
  2. Standard losing weight goal: Get down to 165lbs by my birthday.
  3. Keep future house project on schedule.
  4. Spend more time with my boys.
  5. Write a fantasy novel for publication.
  6. Put more effort into being a better husband.
  7. Spend more time with friends (George, Sherry, Pat, Paul, Kristin, Kirk, Phil, etc.).
  8. Get the lower level of the Stardock building finished to start hiring second games team.
  9. Take a real vacation this year (i.e. not just "working" vacations).
  10. Participate more in our communities.

 

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

As part of your resolution.

I think what you need for your Novel Writing is some friendly competition! I'm working on Novels myself. :) I haven't started the core writing yet, but I betcha if you had someone to go against you'd start putting time into them.

Oh and, finish the lower level of Stardock so you guys can hire me. :)

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

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# Get the lower level of the Stardock building finished to start hiring second games team.

 

Any chance I can get you to hold off on that long enough for me to graduate and then apply for the job?  :D

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Well, if you need to hire people for afformentioned games team.  Let us know

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I can be the coffee runner!:thumbsup:

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Great list there, Brad.  Let me know how #5 shapes up and you can bet I'll be picking that up!

As for #2, best of luck to you!  I'm doing my own weight loss project right now, although mine started in mid-November.

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Novels? Who needs authors anymore?

Might as well go for broke and try hitting the filming industry with the next superlatively rare and exotical revolutionary scenario (otherwise know as scripts, screenplay drafts or even specs) just i like i did in August'00 with "Panic..." for Paramount's ST:Voyager TeeVee show.

 

Heck, if Shane Black could get a million for Lethal Weapon i don't see why our local Draginol can't have at least half as much for an upcoming ..Dominion of Korx' financial collapse in a Galaxy near you.. spelled checked and represented by a formal, valid literary agent who, btw... would take its usual 15%+ cut for daring to stir big silver screen Corps.

 

Might as well insert...

1a. Backport some important TA options to DA.

1b. Tweaks & Fixes to both the above.

1c. Release WarofMagic:Elemental beta soon afterwards *1a & 1b*.

1d. Follow up of the 'Please slam my game' thread issues while customer feedbacks start pouring in about *1c*.

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11. Forge strategic alliances with other key Game developpers except EA - for moooo money to afford every previous resolutions found herein.

12. Delay everything for next year--  unless, wife & boys disagree.

:grin:

And if you should want to know, i stopped myself from gambling on such predictions cuz last i did, i still smoke *Tobacco* -- only. Although i keep a close watch on currently ongoing profound thoughts; X-Worlds & CoSH mods.

B)

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

I could be the sounding board ;P

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

12. Delay everything for next year-- unless, wife & boys disagree.

Why would we agree to delay everything for next year?

Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

No... HIS wife(6) and children(4). :blush:

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

No... HIS wife(6) and children(4).

I am HIS wife and I know his children pretty well.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

ROFL:rofl:

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

Improve my email communication skills. How I communicate online is very different from how I am in person even though I use the same words.

Brad, would you happen to be slightly autistic?  I don't mean that as any type of assault.  I have a friend that is autistic and he mentioned the exact same thing to me because he knows he lacks some empathy because of his autism and misses how some of his words come across (also very slight).

Get the lower level of the Stardock building finished to start hiring second games team.

Ugh, not enough hours in the day for me to handle two stardock games and still be a productive member of the human race dude.

 

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top


Improve my email communication skills. How I communicate online is very different from how I am in person even though I use the same words.
Standard losing weight goal: Get down to 165lbs by my birthday.
Keep future house project on schedule.
Spend more time with my boys.
Write a fantasy novel for publication.
Put more effort into being a better husband.
Spend more time with friends (George, Sherry, Pat, Paul, Kristin, Kirk, Phil, etc.).
Get the lower level of the Stardock building finished to start hiring second games team.
Take a real vacation this year (i.e. not just "working" vacations).
Participate more in our communities.  

Woohoo, second games team! What about an ops team and some infrastructure in a datacentre so you can finish that MMORTS? ;)

I love new year's resolutions, they're always completely insane. Is it just me or is that enough goals for a decade? :)

 

cheers,

James

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Mine include loosing weight too, though my numbers are a bit bigger.  

 

I'd say my main resolution is find a job.   Followed by do more for the community.

Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top

I am changing my diet to reduce the level of processed foods (avoiding anything with more than 5 ingrediants and anything I can't pronounce or don't recognize), and eating as local as I can.  Better weight and health should improve as a by-product.

Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Great list, all you need now is for the Earth's rotation to slow down so that we get 40 hour days, which should be just about enough to give you the time needed to get all of that done within in the next 334 days ;)

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

Brad, eat more sardines. If you are not hungry enough to eat sardines, you are not hungry. With a nice great huge big salad.

Get the lower level of the Stardock building finished to start hiring second games team. Good! Now see if Microsoft will sell you the IP and existing code and art for Freelancer 2. Then you would have a first person space adventure to go with Galciv 2 and Sins!

Write a fantasy novel for publication. Wowsers, Brad, do I have a plot for you; since you know the gaming industry. See, there's this bunch of highly talented people who leave the North Studio of the famous Buzzard Entertainment Corporation (publishers of World of BoreCraft) to found their own studio, which is to become known as Failship Studios! Their goal is to produce a game called Failgate London, which is all about how hell rifts open up in London and spew out great hordes of demons and evil critters, and ghosties, and ghoulies, and American tourists! Their CEO is the famous gaming industry guru and grandeloquentspeak, Bill Sushi.

But soon things begin to go hellishly wrong! First they have to get financing from an obscure fictional Asian nation known as Corerea. The Corereans will turn out to be Satanists and possessed of demons, who will in the end want to possess Failship Studios as well and devour it. The plot grows even darker as the doomed game developers fall under the fatal allure of the foul, evil, vampiric publisher EArrrrrrrgh! Well, you can take it from there. Just send me a free game from time to time.

 

Reply #18 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting coderunner82, reply 13

Brad, would you happen to be slightly autistic?  I don't mean that as any type of assault.  I have a friend that is autistic and he mentioned the exact same thing to me because he knows he lacks some empathy because of his autism and misses how some of his words come across (also very slight).
 

I imagine brad has the exact same issue as me.  That is that tone carries a lot of weight is some people's style of speech and that without tone, the meaning of the text can be difficult to discern.  This leaves you with two options, (1) write boring emails that sound nothing like you, or (2) write emails like you talk and hope people add the correct "tone-age" to them.

Reply #19 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting JillUser, reply 11

No... HIS wife(6) and children(4).
I am HIS wife and I know his children pretty well.

 

Then, sorry Mrs. Wardell... but JillUser wasn't particularly obvious to forum users.

Btw, could you please drop a virtual bomb on him to push my suggestions so that he follows up on these too once 6 & 4 are properly resolved? :sun:

Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top

I'd say my main resolution is find a job.

I bet that's a popular one this year.

Reply #21 from Stardock Forums Top

Btw, could you please drop a virtual bomb on him to push my suggestions so that he follows up on these too once 6 & 4 are properly resolved?

I don't push Brad about anything.  He is the most focused, goal oriented person I've ever met.  I just do my part at home and work and help in whatever way I can (mostly staying out of the way) so he can get his goals accomplished.  It has been a very rewarding partnership thus far! :)

JillUser wasn't particularly obvious to forum users

That was by design since I wanted to see how I did on my own merit as a blogger before people were on to me about my association with the big guy.  Happily, I was well received even when people didn't know who I was.

 

Reply #22 from Elemental Forums Top

Lol it could only be a Stardock forum when a) The CEO starts threads in OT and b ) the CEO's wife posts on it  :P

Reply #23 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I have a resolution not to make any resolutions in 2009. I'm doing really well so far...

Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 16
I am changing my diet to reduce the level of processed foods (avoiding anything with more than 5 ingrediants and anything I can't pronounce or don't recognize), and eating as local as I can.  Better weight and health should improve as a by-product.
You're either going to be eating really simple things, or you're going to go hungry whenever you're not home.

Quoting JillUser, reply 21
I bet that's a popular one this year.
Oh yeah... It's one of mine as well... along with a whole lot of part-time people and even a bunch of old-timers from my last job...

Reply #25 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Is Brad really "fat" or chunky??  From the pics of him, i don't think so.  He has to tell me how to gain weight.   I can't because i have such a high metabolic rate.