Ugh, why does Youtube keep doing this?Motivational blog game--?????? · 11:58pm Sep 1st, 2013
Trixie welcomes you to the Sunday game. What? Expecting Celestia, spike or something? Ha, funny. Obviously I saved the best for last.
By now, some of you may of wondered why Trixie calls these 'Motivational' blog games. When for the most part they are simple little exercises with no real reward or focus on the players mood. That's because it was a setup for this game. Too vague? Well then, the Great and Powerful Trixie can take a few minutes to explain exactly what today's game is and the purpose of the week long exercise.
Today's game is an ego game, focusing on your confidence. After all, being more like Trixie is obviously the road to personal perfection. Now, let's consider what you've proven through these exercises.
On Monday during Rainbow Dash's game, you proved your ability to assert yourself to improve your day to day life.
On Tuesday during Twilight Sparkle's game, you proved your ability to educate yourself and apply that information in a number of contexts, practically, socially and for fun.
On Wednesday during Fluttershy's game, you proved your ability to use introverted skills and analyze your own life in a new perspective.
On Thursday during Rarity's game, you proved your ability to improve the lives of those around you, strengthening your community.
On Friday during Applejack's game, you showed the ability to use advanced thinking to analyze life and society then sum up your perspective into a quote that can be used to motivate yourself and others in their time of need.
On Saturday during Pinkie Pie's game, you showed your capability to strengthen your bonds with your friends though your skills at extroversion.
By completing these six simple exercises you have proven your ability to motivate and apply yourself towards whatever it is you want to do with life, and that you have the ability to use good will gained from your ability to strengthen your friendships and unite your community through generosity.
Awesome isn't it? Of course it is.
The first stage of today's game is to think about where you are in life now, and where you want to be in life. Where you will be, because you've shown you have the ability to do what it takes to pursue your goals with the support of your friends and community. Don't have many friends? Get some then! Random acts of Generosity, bring up trivia, learning new fields through Twilight's game, all of that can bring you new friends for you to bond with and support each other in your respective paths through life. Trixie will wait while you do that.
Done? Good, I was almost out of smoothie.
Think up the goals you'll need to meet to get where you want in life, assuming you aren't there already--in which case, it's a good time to look at helping friends out--then take that first goal, and break it up into stages. Small, easy to accomplish chunks. Do the same with the rest of the steps.
Feel free to work at your own pace for this. After all, life in general should be interesting and fun. Stuff will happen that you can't stop, or that you didn't want, from time to time. But that's what your inspirational quote is for, what your friends and community is for. What your own research skills to lower the chances of it happening again is for.
Ya just need to think like Trixie, if you are faced with impossible odds... Beat the crap out of it with your awesome martial arts and super powers!
Trixie could take you down forty two times in three seconds. Just look at me! Hiyaa!
What? Okay, fine, you can handle it how you like, I guess.
... My idea is still better though.
Anyway, now that you are done with that... get started on it! Just do something towards your plan today, your speed doesn't matter nearly as much as learning to make it a habit you can keep up.
And with that, you have graduated Trixie's motivational game.
What? Nope, no passing this time around. Do all six exercises unless you feel confident you don't need specific ones, or even all of them. You can talk about your plan here, ask for help, whatever you like. Instead of passing, you can just walk away with the knowledge that you are awesome.
Oh, and feel free to tell Trixie if you liked the games, Trixie may make a second set if there's a demand for them.
In conclusion... Trixie has the best butt!* Mwahahahahahaa!
*Assuming Four and Cosmicow are excluded from the competition.
Don't have to tell me twice.
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You sure about that?
My current goal is to become your friend, it's why I'm even getting my computer shipped in the first place. Team Fortress 2 Buddies.
Victory shall be mine.
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Indeed, I'll pocket medic your ass all day. <3
The goal I currently have is to become truly one with myself, to be calm-minded and...
Oh, who am I kidding?
My goal is to be a god at Magic: the Gathering. xD
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I love that game, good luck.
What color(s) do you go for?
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I have a 90 card black/red deck that I love using. It's pretty powerful. But I have 2 deck builder's toolkits and a few booster packs of cards. About 2 decks per color, except black and red. I think I'm set for most any normal game. EDH, though, I'm not good at.
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So far I like the soldier, but I'll put some practice rounds as each against the pc.
You know, see what I'm good at.
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I see.
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Soldier is a really nice starting class. Especially since with the right loadout you have great mobility, damage, sustain, support, and sheer awesomeness.
Any class that lets you rocket jump into the air then mid air duel another soldier with a katana is a-okay in my books.
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I have a Whit Blue deck, but it's only a starter.
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Really? Sounds like FUN!
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Cool.
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Indeed. Soldier can do rediculously awesome stuff like rocket jumping into a wall, then rocket jumping up the wall to bypass a snipers nest defenses.
... Then pull out a katana or pickaxe and start beating people down.
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I used to play a green elf deck focusing on swarming and massive self-heal.
But now I'm mostly just interested in blue/black decks.
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I like blue for its ability to control, mill, and cancel. (I killed my friend using his own 10/10 one time. xD) Black for resurrection, red for its quick damage and ability to end a game early, provided you draw lands at the right time. I have a white card that gives me a soldier token per turn, and I can stop attacks and heal with those decks. Green is just... not really my style. Question: Do you prefer the actual physical CCG or the video game one? Personally, I like the freedom if actually making a custom deck, even though it's got a kinda high cost. But a champ can easily beat someone with the worst deck ever. It's not the quality of the cards, it's how you use them.
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It sounds like something I'll enjoy.
I'm also considering the Engineer.
This whole post reminds me of this:
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But in all seriousness, I'm glad. I'm glad I did these, even though I didn't really want to. I want to be a writer, so I guess I'd better get writing.
Many thanks for all this, Trixie!
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I have around $500 worth of boosters, unfortunately.
I prefer online counterparts, since some have literally every card, and it's surprisingly difficult to find people to play with when I live out here in the middle of nowhere.
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Engineer is fun, it does however, require a lot of thinking to do properly. On the flipside, you can be a cyborg with a laser rifle.
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Don't thank me. You're the one who went through with it anyway when you had no reason to. After all, it's just a motivational game, not a teaching game.
1322566 But without prompting, I'd never otherwise have done it.
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Thinking is one of my strong suits.
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Wow. I think I've not even spent 100 dollars on cards. And I hear ya, nobody near me likes the game. If only I had money, I might buy one of the Steam games and I might try to play against you if you had them. Unless there's an F2P multiplayer one you know of.
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There's F2P, no download versions online.
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You should be an effective engineer then.
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Oh you~
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... Do continue~
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I will fake it until I make, or die trying.
Wow. Wow! You're really something, you know that? I am truly awed and—for lack of a better word—motivated right now. You are really something else.
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I've died a couple times, it's alot less final then you would be led to believe as in optimal conditions you get around a five minute grace period to get your heart going again.
1322628 Really? You've been clinically dead!? That's fascinating!! Can you elaborate, or is it too personal? (Totally fine if you don't want to talk about it, I'm just curious.) Send me a PM if want to talk about it, I have so many questions!
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I see you like being medic.
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Hm? What makes you say that?
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I was looking at your records, and it said that you put the most time in as medic.
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Which time exactly? I can tell you what my biking accident was like. I'm not sure if I died there, but I know I was unconscious for around 45 minutes while bleeding on the pavement.
The other times generally involved me being too not-conscious to tell you much, outside of the fact I hate IV's.
1322659 Which time? All of them, preferably. What caused the "deaths," how long you were "dead," anything you remember, etc.
1322421If you want you can
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Myes?
1322628 Whataya know! I've died a lot too! I'd actually like to hear about what you did before now, what you've done in 'other lives'. As for your game, I'm sorry, but I don't really have any goals. I've done a lot in my life, more than anyone should ever have to do, and now I just want to relax and enjoy life. I might think of something in a few years, but for now I'm going to relax.
My biggest and greatest and most impossible wish is to live longer than anyone has ever lived before, by my own power and knowledge. Or in whatever way I can. And of course live it, it would make no sense not to.
The wish I'm in the process of achieving is to know as much as I can about everything. Everything. I'm first taking the path of the engineering, then I will go with medicine, philosophy, psychology, history, combat, be the best friend you could ever make ever,
to be there in the development of the equation of existence thanks to the finding of the higgs particle, or lack thereof,
and then profit.
The profit would be the achievement of all I wished to ever do.
Making from there on out my existence meaningless.
So from there I would find a school to be a teacher before I go mad.
Yes, I have thought about this.
Those are the oddest pictures of Fleur I've ever seen. She went and got a dye job, and didn't even consult me first? The nerve...
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Is Fleur a code name for Belletrix, because you are a little confused there fine sir.
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...
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Is belletrix a code name for Bellatrix?
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Yuuuuuuuup.
I do actually have some plans in motion. Plans that are going to take me 8 or 9 months to fulfill. The first part of it is going to take three months itself. Both of them are massive savings goals which mean I'm actually saving 80-90% of my money all the time right now.
I'm working on some other things too. Generally though I'm not too good with really long term plans. I prefer to just think of a lot of small term plans and not focus on the long term. If I focus on the long term I tend to become despondent that it's not happened yet.
I must say though I really have loved all of these motivational games and individually they were all worth doing. I didn't even realise there was a grand point to them all.
Well, I WAS going to move to Arizona and start the next phase of my life, but that blew up in the worst ways imaginable. Things have been okay enough, but the depression I've been feeling the last few weeks have taken a toll on me.
No more, though! Starting this week, I'm going to move on and get back on my feet. I can't stand feeling like I currently feel, but I also can't help but feel this way. Therefore, I'm doing something different.
I'm going back to school.
Backstory: I have a nuclear engineering background thanks to the navy. I can work in any energy plant in the United States, nuclear plants especially. I don't want to though. Has nothing to do with radiation, as I'm not afraid of it at all. I'm more afraid of electricity than radiation (and all of you should be as well!), but that's not the point. The point is, the environment is counter-productive to my goals, which include being there for my family and friends.
Unfortunately, the Navy doesn't offer college degrees, only college credit. So I have all this education, but it means nothing without a degree. And because of all that, I'm going back to school!
NOT as a nuclear engineer though.
I'm going to a trade school to get HVAC certified. For those who don't know, that's Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. It's a quite lucrative field that pays well. I'm also interested in it because It's something cool and new and I love to learn new things, especially if I get hands-on work.
The best part of this is it's an accelerated course. It'll only take about a year to finish, as opposed to the 3 years it'd normally take.
I'm already working on getting enrolled. I sent in an inquiry to the campus, and tomorrow I'll talk to them over the phone (Labor Day means school's closed). Then, later this week, I'll be going to the campus and fill out all the paperwork, as well as meeting with the VA coordinator to fill out paperwork for my Post 9/11 GI Bill and a copy of my transcripts and see which credits apply to the HVAC course route.
While I go to school, the extra money I get from the Post 9/11 GI Bill, I'll be saving up. Get myself a security buffer for unforeseen circumstances down the line.
Once I get the degree next year, I'll be able to land a job with a HVAC service company, which can net me up to 4500 a month. From there, I'll be helping around the house by making significant improvements (new carpets, new tile, new stove-top oven, junk removal, new fence, new coat of paint, etc), as well as occasional aid in the mortgage payments. Once that's done, I'll consider buying a new house for myself.
I have a lot of plans in the works. I'm still feeling depressed, but the HVAC school is giving me a renewed drive to do something with myself.
...Sorry for the textwall. Apparently I had a lot to say here.
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It's fine, this blog is made for that.