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Seeing as 2004 draws to a close, its time to look back on this rollercoaster of a year.

Post here with significant events and your views on it.

It may be international i.e. Gulf War 2 or things locally i.e. BTP

To start off I remember back in May when I went to the Northern Open Final of the Year's Rock Challenge tour and was part of a team representing Scotland. It was a great day and eventually coming 2nd was a great achievement. This meant we are now in the Premier Division for the 2005 Tour

Seeing as 2004 draws to a close, its time to look back on this rollercoaster of a year. Post here with significant events and your views on it. It may be international i.e. Gulf War 2 or things locally i.e. BTP To start off I remember back in May when I went to the Northern Open Final of the Year's Rock Challenge tour and was part of a team representing Scotland. It was a great day and eventually coming 2nd was a great achievement. This meant we are now in the Premier Division for the 2005 Tour
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The meaning of life is.... Forty-two!

this year is really for me, the year of worms.

Ive had trouble staying employed this year as carpentry is slowly being replaced by modular homes. While layed off ive learned how to animate and have taken a shine to Wormwars. Which you all know by now is my newest project.

Also I became heavily involved in W:A joined PpZ clan, and have been worming since. Although i also play Runescape, W:A is so much more fun and interactive. The comunity is different around here.

For me the bigest event, is the downfall of Wormwars. I came to visit the forums in late november to see that the last site update was in september. Truely a bad sign. So my recent take over hopefully will bring back the comunity I love so much, and futher aid me in learning the various animation programs that exist.

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION:

I want to gain more skillz as far as animating goes. And bring Wormwars a bit further than it went. Try to spend my free time Animating rather then goofing off playing Runescape.

I also want to learn PhP. And totally overhaul The wormwars website to be complely dynamicly generated.

later,
Keeper

This year was a year of worms for me too.
I started playing it again, and I discovered this very website back in June.

And this being my 600th post, it shows I'm a dedicated member, just like everyone else who is here everyday like me


This year also saw me having mass upgrades making my PC bigger and better than before. Mainly for Half-Life 2 and Doom 3

Me learning animation using Fireworks was a big step for me. I never thought I could do it untill I sat down and tryed it.
Just goes to show you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

EDIT BY DreamEater: and dont forget RunT, it's been a good year on the radio! keep it up dude

This year brought me the first ever time I ever sat down and made a website without site-design web-based crap.

WIth Dreamweaver installed in the school network I began making websites and gradually getting better and better.

New Year's Resolution:

Learn PHP and get a bit less artistically challenged. Learn to make graphics on the comp. (This can be achieved since a laptop I got from my uncle had Photoshop 4 in it)

This year brought me the first ever time I ever sat down and made a website without site-design web-based crap. WIth Dreamweaver installed in the school network I began making websites and gradually getting better and better. New Year's Resolution: Learn PHP and get a bit less artistically challenged. Learn to make graphics on the comp. (This can be achieved since a laptop I got from my uncle had Photoshop 4 in it)
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The meaning of life is.... Forty-two!

this year was SHIT

I went into high school.

That's about it....

School...something becoming more and more important lately for me.

With the Standard Grade Exams coming up in May and having just got my prelim results, its becoming more important.

In Feb I have to choose my subjects for 5th year and thus get a good idea of my career choice (Computer Programmer)

School...something becoming more and more important lately for me. With the Standard Grade Exams coming up in May and having just got my prelim results, its becoming more important. In Feb I have to choose my subjects for 5th year and thus get a good idea of my career choice (Computer Programmer)
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The meaning of life is.... Forty-two!

Ok i think ill elaborate.

The beggining of this year was interesting. My best mate started dating Debbie and we became good friends.

Me Mike Debbie and Barry hung out alot together for the 1st part of the year, it was great, ive never been in a gang as such, and to me, everyone being mates and stuff was really special. This was all good and great well into April.

In April BArry threw a few parties while his folks were away, and Anne seemed to come onto me a fair bit. Which i pretty much ignored, even tho i liked her alot. I didnt want to muck things up.

Eventually she asked me how i felt about her, by then i had the distinct impression she was liking me more than a mate. And i told her. Decovering she felt the same. We started going out.

Highlights of the year, everyone went camping a few weekends in a row. It was best month ever.

After about a month, i knew Anne was going to break up with me. And so she did. We still hung out, trying to get over ther short relationship. But it never worked out really well.

Mike and Debbie also broke up shortly after, and this sealed the fate of the one thing i truly loved. The gang of friends.

Everyone hung out less and less. And despite special efforts by myself and debbie. Everything went to pieces. I started to feel really low and depressed. Not going out and socializing made it worse.

I became more and more bipolar. Good for a day, then lower than low another. Very quickly, very randomly. I slept less and less.

About this time Anne began dating Jared. My good friend Adams big brother. This was very hard on me, as i was losing one of my best friends. It made it hard to talk to Adam too.

I still spoke to Anne, but we bickered and fought often. She told me, that her old friends were now "Her ex and his friends" and eventually i gave up chasing my friend.
At this point i also was on the verge of trying to kill myself. As close as counting pills in the cupboard. My internet friend Melissa helped me through this greatly. And without her, i probably owuld have gone through with it the night i felt Anne was gone for good.

I perked up a bit after things settled down. I hung out with Mike and Barry more, and my friendship with Adam slowly sunk. He reminded me too much of Anne.

After Xmas i suddenly get an email from Anne, she wants to say sorry, and get back hanging out with people.

Tonight she broke up with Jared, whom had threatened to hurt Barry, and only stopped when she got in the way. Alot of other things ive learned too. I still offered to go rounf to her house in the cold dead of night, if she wanted to talk. She kindly declined my offer though.

So tonight im wondering after retutning form Barry's after dicovering Jared was VERY pissed off ( his own brother was shit scared ) whats going to happen now.

I wish i could be optimistic about all this. But in the end, i think its already falling apart again...

So there you go, this year has revolved round my best female friend Anne, very much a Love/hate thing. But i said months ago, id be there when it all came down. And i am. Friends dont forget...

heh.. we got alot in common ......

this year was abit ok..
I met a close friend on the net at a kick ass evanescence concert in July. the past monthes bfore this was normal.. But then after the concert I had it in for a bumpy ride..

I came to BTP because IWas bored and Knifa , as you all know him and he's a close friend to me of I believe 2 years, insissted so i did. I came on to find Spaz and DJ. Those two are chracters! haha! I met all the rest and you all are interesting! haha.

But then my friend and I became adolesents finally.. Me and lili.. a good friend of 9 going on 10 years. I kindof think this was a horrible year heh I don't want to get into muchdetail but our fathers got into a fight and since October I didn't speak to her much besides wishing her a happy b-day and plus we had a recent fight.. But our relationship sealed this hole..

But in this year I made a bigger bond with my father and noticed many things wrong with me nad somethings I don't need to change

I am looking forward to becoming 14..

Well my year hasn't been so up and down as others fortunatly, but I had a really low time which the entire asian populance of my school decided I should be made to pay for one of their friend's suspensions.

Threats, actual fights (I refused to fight back, it never solves anything) and being cornered left me with severe paranoia for a few months after it had been 'dealt' with by the teachers who are blind to any sort of confrontation.

Also my friendship with a friend that I met outside of school has grown and for one of the first times in my life call a true friend. I'm not homosexual, I just really do appreciate it when I find a good friend.

This year has been a good laugh, and I've come out knowing more and more cynical, which I seem to become as each year passes by.

errr i really have to disagree with part of that Pope. I do agree that fighting genrally does not solve anything. But all persons (at least in the US) have a right to defend them self. I refuse to take a beating with out giving one. That dont mean I go looking for trouble, but when it finds me, i never run. If someone is man enough to put their hands on me, their man enough to take whats comming back. Fair is Fair.

Beating someone's ass right proper tends to make then not want to mess with ya anymore. Im not talking about punch em in the face and knock em down.. You have to send a message. Break something.. like a rib or their nose. Ive had my nose broke.. twice.. (first time i was a kid.. it was an accident, second time it was no accident...). Let be tell you brother.. your nose gets busted it whole new world of pain. Cracked ribs, and hyper extended joints hurt something pretty fearce too.

You want to be left alone by "bullies" then you get tougher. stand your ground and flaten the bigest badest one there is. Take out the big guy and rest will usually take off with out their "big gun". Now that don't always work.. so you gotta go from tough, and firm.. to absolutly psycopathic. They still messin with ya, bite one of their fucking ears off. stick your thumb in one of their eyes. Make em bleed, and make em suffer. The more pain, the harder the message hits that you are not to be fucked with.

Story:
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Lesson here?.. Smart people do not fuck with crazy people. The buttier they think you are.. the less likely they are to mess with ya. Youb send a message like you'll eat half of their face.. they are not gonna mess around with ya. I know i wouldn't want to fight a guy that might try to eat me. That would hurt. And suck.

Look this is just my advice.. i know its extream, but sometimes circumstances call for extream measures. People jumping you, Groups of people sometimes... Take no shit.. Show em that they are not master of everything that lives and breathes. and kick their ego in the gut a few times.. they will learn.
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On topic, I have taken the time to get my self some PhP education as I plan to do for the next year. My goal is to build a totally dynamicly generated website like BTP is. And I will fulfill that goal. Thankfully Poi is also learning this very thing and looks like I'll have some one to exchange code with.
Todays lesson.. :::::: arrays....

Uh.. I think this a thread about what your year has been like.
Not a full on disscusion keeper.

Even though the first paragraph you say is kinda true.

errr "discussion forums"?

anyway yeah i went way off topic there, only because i can't stand to see that kinda crap. No one deserves to be treated like that, and it makes my blood boil. Though Pope sorted out his problem through a different channel, i feel the problem would have been solved much more quicly and effectively my way. Then again, i'm the same guy that's had his nose broke, and been to jail so.. heh maybe im not the greatest source of info on that kinda stuff. But I will say that i dont get "picked on."
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Like I said 2004 has been a year of wormy wonders. After finialy ditching my pirated copy of W:A and getting a legit version i discovered the great thing called WN. Too bad it's usually dead now.

It has also been a year of exploring. Iv'e discovered many new things about the things I enjoy. And Im learning at an amazing speed. I've gotten into wood working, and plan on selling small homemade crafts possably on ebay. (remember that hand crafted stuff is worth more )

Ive decided to take many of the things I like to another level. Advancing, and becoming better at these things. Web Design being one of them. Animating another.

Unfortinatly one of my good friends had to face his mother dying his father and his father in-law bothing having a heart attack with in the same week. And His wife had cancer in a ... sensitive area..

Being a good friend Ive pretty much watched everything go down. So I also spend a good portion of my time trying to help him and his wife in anyway I can.

We are both hoping that this year will be a turn around. Things were already at rock bottom. Now hopefully they'll only get better. I figure that as long as we keep a positive additude and stay focused on our goal that all of us will accomplish what we set out to do.

Woah, that made me laugh