Conversation Between 22sa and Chairman Kaga
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  1. 22sa
    November 28th, 2011 10:28 PM
    22sa
    Sup, when's the last time you entered the Pokecommunity chat?
  2. 22sa
    November 27th, 2011 11:21 PM
    22sa
    I suck at buying figurines. I've bought 2 but am not vey satisfied with either. Wondering if I should buy the recent Totori one. I don't even know her lol.

    How many figurines do you have.
  3. 22sa
    November 26th, 2011 11:54 PM
    22sa
    I hate disease. When that happens to you, tell me how you can go on wanting to live with those conditions X_X

    Ya? I'm different I guess... I don't have much need for money beyond my bills. A fancy real estate is great but not quite worth the pain of working for it to me.

    You definitely picked the wrong major for money though... how's the prospect for going back to school for a second major?

    Gaming and television are good! Virtual reality has its own qualities. People who denounce them as nerdy or reality-evading are overconfident imo. They don't like us but it's not like everybody likes them either so what's that prove.

    Oh you're right... fun days at the start of internet exploration before big social networks take up all your time haha. That's okay though - we go to them because they do a professional job.

    Nostalgia is a weakness? How so! you should be proud of your memories!

    Speaking of talking about yourself, have you heard from Kylie-chan this year?
  4. Chairman Kaga
    November 26th, 2011 11:31 PM
    Chairman Kaga
    I've been looking for a job for over a year so once I finally get one, I worry that I'll be too scared to ever change jobs just because I don't want to go through this gain, heh.

    My mom was in pretty good health until summer of last year when she was diagnosed with colon and liver cancer. It's at the terminal stage, but she's beating the doctors' expectations on survivability and the treatment seems to be keeping it at bay for the time being. Of course, I had to put off any plans I had for myself to stay near her and be able to help her, which is no real sacrifice compared to helping my mother in her time of need. The heart issue had apparently been building over a number of years and would have happened regardless of her other illnesses. Sadly, it's genetic in our family and I'm pretty much doomed to diabetes and heart issues when I'm older.

    I've resigned myself to believing that pursuing your dreams is something reserved for people born before our generation. They won't hand over the torch and see us as expendable. We'll all be too old to enjoy our lives before we have the chance to pursue our dreams in fields of employment. I've been wanting for money very badly and I'd just like to meet this immediate concern.

    I too have no real trade to boast of, hence some of my issues finding employment. I took an academic route going into university and aspired to become a history professor. That's just not going to happen, and I really have to cram a lot of gaming and television into my brain each day to distract myself from the feeling that I wasted four years of my life that I'll never get back and have nothing to show for it. Dwelling on this too much will inflict madness upon me, and so in an unpleasant turn of events I am protecting myself through a sloth that will eventually destroy me as well.

    Ideas, ideas...I am an idealist, but how to innovate on the practical eludes me. As we reach the limits of science, we can only improve on what exists, not create entirely new things altogether. The stars are an infinite frontier where people will one day be able to reinvent themselves, but we'll be dust. In our own time, the internet is the current frontier of success and self-realization, but I fear it is contracting instead of expanding. A few sites monopolize most e-commerce, and people no longer explore the internet thanks to social networking occupying their time with the mundane. I miss the sense of exploration. I miss the wonder. I miss the days when the majority of sites were for the delight and fascination of visitors and didn't see them merely as cattle to be monetized. But enough of this tangent, I suppose. Nostalgia is a weakness, but I'm beyond weak. I suppose there's still plenty of time for an idea that I can call my own to dawn upon me.

    As for you, too little to talk about is generally better than too much when it comes to our lives. When things happen, you end up like me running off at the mouth to anyone who will lend them an ear, heh.
  5. 22sa
    November 26th, 2011 10:51 PM
    22sa
    Ugh unlucky... I hate looking for a job haha.

    Cancer + surgery? Has she always been this unhealthy?

    Work isn't very fun when it's not connected to your dreams ... I don't know what career to go for and I'm 24 already lolz.

    If the point of work is just to find something missing in the world, then produce that something to make money.... I have no practical ideas -_-. I've thought of stuff like colonizing other planets / expanding beyond planet earth, or invention, but I don't see how I can be of any help in those two fields haha. -_-; What ideas have you come up with?

    How's me? I've no real complaints about my current single life I shuppose.
  6. Chairman Kaga
    November 26th, 2011 10:40 PM
    Chairman Kaga
    Hey, you caught me on my first day here in nearly a month! Good timing.

    Autumn was uneventful, honestly. I still don't have employment, partially because I was strung along for admission to a bank job and then suddenly the staffing person for the bank decided to stop returning any of my calls. So much for that.

    My mother almost died the other week. I had to call an ambulance for the first time in my life as she started suffering excruciating pain in her chest and arms and began babbling incoherently. As it turns out, it was unrelated to her cancer, but rather she had a 95% blockage in an artery leading to her heart and had to have emergency heart surgery. She seems to be much better now, though I've had to keep a close eye on her as of late.

    I've mostly just been whiling away the time doing things to keep my mind off of my troubles, I suppose. My family tells me I'm wasting time that I could be using to enrich myself, and I don't disagree, but the past year or so has utterly killed any desire for personal academic advancement. I'm going to need some more time to come out of that. I may begin making preparations to move and seek work in a more urban environment by springtime, and I seem to have received my family's blessing on that, so I suppose there's hope to eventually have a more structured and normal life.

    How are you? I hope things have been well.
  7. 22sa
    November 26th, 2011 10:22 PM
    22sa
    Sup, how was your Autumn?
  8. 22sa
    September 16th, 2011 4:46 PM
    22sa
    Meh, 10 days is nothing, PC's activities don't justify constant attention

    Oh... you could try to move one at a time though. Oh well, I don't care much about earning money myself so I can't give much advice.

    Haha... it looks so cute. If it's region protected... well I might try the ROM instead then. Haven't bothered with NDS much lately, not sure if I will explore Project Mirai.

    Yes PC isn't like the old days where everybody was under 15 and it was possible to know everyone, Member Fan clubs would really be useful for older members and different social groups that exist today. I assume the older staff members have other places such as the staff forums therefore they care less, but every other old member, there's not much breathing space =/. I want the forum back up.

    What can I say... Not enough people to talk to :cool: had to try to light a fire on select inactive members' bums.

    Well... you're right. Something happened haha. My youtube account was deleted because some of my videos had music from Sony and Upfront so I've been building a new channel from scratch. xD Oh well.
  9. Chairman Kaga
    September 16th, 2011 1:36 PM
    Chairman Kaga
    So....uhh....I up and disappeared for ten days XD Sorry, I didn't mean to cut our conversation off so soon.

    Basically, I just don't have the money to bring my entire family with me. I'm sacrificing right now, but I'd never be able to forgive myself later in life if I didn't.

    You see about Project Mirai for 3DS? It basically looks like chibi Project Diva, though 3DSes aren't region free so it would be a pretty damned expensive Miku game to play.

    Still missing member clubs, I kind of wish that VMs were more like a thread within a member profile and that people could interact with each other instead of just with the person they're sending the VM to. Member clubs were all sorts of crazy fun, it was like having multiple DCCs to post in each day.

    And yeah, you were the first person I received a friend request from. It was gratifying to know that at least someone remembered me years after I left, considering that all of these new profile doodads seem relatively newly-integrated. Haven't searched my name on PC yet, though, because somehow I don't think I'd find that much from before I disappeared :p

    What are you up to? A lot can happen in ten days.
  10. 22sa
    September 4th, 2011 8:49 PM
    22sa
    You can't take your mother with you?

    Haha yes. Oh I'm all superficial. I would have never played Project Diva if super cute Miku wasn't so well-drawn in it.

    Exactly! 200 lurkers and no posters! Lol

    Yes that's true. VMs are fun, but I don't like how it made conversations closed to other people who could have joined in and added to the company, which is what happened in the old days.

    Yes eh? Those fast threads, one could feel the life rushing through their soul cruising those threads. :cool: Who needed to go the a bar when they can get online and post on PC?

    I hate how the concept of group conversations / member fan clubs died here. :\

    Depths of the internet huh? Well if you weren't here I'd be suffocating right now. I really tried and can't find enough to do here.

    When you first arrived you had a friend request from me right? I sent that a long long time ago. It's because I'd get bored and dig up old profiles and pretend they're coming back =D heee

    Oh have you searched your username on PC's forums btw?
  11. Chairman Kaga
    September 4th, 2011 8:37 PM
    Chairman Kaga
    I'm hesitant to move as I have few liquid assets at the moment, but I do realize that I'm just going to be stuck in a cycle of needing to move to find a job but needing a job to be able to move. I'd feel bad moving far from my mother right now, but it will likely have to come to that sooner or later.

    Project Diva? Big Miku fan? Admittedly I like Vocaloid characters in only the most shallow and superficial sense (read: fanart), but I hear good things about the game.

    The forum does feel curiously dead for how large it is, though I partially attribute that to changes like member clubs being replaced with VMs. More than anything I miss the days when the DCC was so active that it was impossible to keep up, but there just doesn't seem to be the gathering of charismatic personalities these days that would spur us to greater heights of conversation in the past. Then again, Facebook and Twitter didn't have their tentacles wrapped around the internet in 2004-5. I don't know quite exactly what I'd be blaming on them, but there's been a general inverse correlation between their rise to ubiquity and my enjoyment of the internet, so there's got to be something there.

    I have enough people willing to talk to me here to get by and keep coming back, though I always wish for more, heh. Do stick around! More vets are always a better thing. Too many old friends lost forever in the depths of the internet.
  12. 22sa
    September 4th, 2011 8:19 PM
    22sa
    'Small town...?' Shouldn't you move to where the work is?

    Oh well, try to get a job it's pretty rewarding to know you're taking care of your own expenses and of course buying what you need.

    Just project diva, youtube video editing, and driving on my end. I don't work much, but enough to pay bills. No career ambition XD

    Ya eh? As adults now.... well if you ask me I think the forum is just very dead. If I click a random profile on the online list, it's usually a dead one with no content. =D

    Just one or two active friends and I'm sure you'll fit in everywhere lol... although I guess this is too much to ask today.
  13. Chairman Kaga
    September 4th, 2011 8:02 PM
    Chairman Kaga
    I mostly took American History courses as those would be most helpful if I ever needed to lower my sights from being a college professor to a high school teacher (and it's looking that way), but I also have experience in some niche subjects like European colonialism, Greco-Roman military and political history, and World War II.

    Sadly, none of this is paying the bills yet. I've been unemployed since my graduation in May '10, and I've had a rough year on top of that because my mother is terminally ill, but I'm holding up alright. Trying to keep my mind sharp but it's hard sometimes in this small town when each day continues to blend seamlessly into the next without change. I finally awoke to an understanding of the foolishness of my actions here five years ago and returned to make amends. As an adult I don't fit in well here anymore, but I post where I can.

    How are things with you?
  14. 22sa
    September 4th, 2011 4:28 PM
    22sa
    I visited your I'm back thread, so you studied History? What kind of history did you focus on? What's life like these days?
  15. Chairman Kaga
    September 4th, 2011 3:55 PM
    Chairman Kaga
    I should be saying the same thing! :p This is the first I've seen of you since I returned. It's certainly been a while, hah.