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Top Ten Things You Want to Accomplish Before You Die

Discussion in 'Flash and Spam Games' started by kalantha, Sep 3, 2009.

  1. Grubdubdub

    Grubdubdub Supreme Mugwump

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    If they're allowed to believe in an all powerful, all reaching, all omnipotent thing, I should be allowed to believe that this is possible.

    But really, how hard could it be? [Crazy adventures ensues]
     
  2. Trojan Knight

    Trojan Knight Third Year

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    Being realistic and putting aside fantasies that would probably never happen,

    1. To finish my Engineering as a top scorer in University.
    2. If possible do MS or MBA.
    3. Do something or anything, that my forefathers not even dreamed.
    4. Earn good enough to keep my parents happy.
    5. Take over my father's business.
    6. Help to feed and educate two or three kids(from orphanage) every year.
    7. Travel the world.
    8. Fall in love and marry a nice girl(not necessarily be very pretty or hot).
    9. Raising kids as good my parents did.
    10. Live a life that is worth telling my Grandchildren.
     
  3. Pieman

    Pieman Seventh Year

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    I started to write a list, but then got stuck after "Watch more anime."
    So now 1-9 are now just different wordings for crying myself to sleep, and 10 is figuring out the best way to commit suicide.
     
  4. Sorrows

    Sorrows Queen of the Flamingos Moderator

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    Remember Pieman, its down the road not across the tracks.
     
  5. Bittersweet

    Bittersweet Groundskeeper

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    1. Graduate.
    2. Play a full year of football without getting an injury that leaves me bedridden for a week.
    3. Watch a Federer v Nadal game live.
    4. Visit Anfield.
    5. Earn a fuckton of money.
    6. Waste a shitton (slightly less than a fuckton :p ) on totally useless but awesome things (like flying in space or buying my favorite restaurant).
    7. Spend the rest on making making some schools in rural areas to complement Teach for India (a brand new offshoot of Teach for America)
    8. The obligatory fuck a famous chick (preferably a younger version of Kate Beckinsale)
    9. Get married and raise two decent kids.
    10. Shoot Arjun Singh
     
  6. Mog

    Mog DA Member

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    1. Graduate.
    2. Have a interspecies sex with a extra-terrestrial.
    3. Rid the Cambodian Government of Incompetent, Corrupt officials.
    4. Establish an effective mass-transport system for Cambodia.
    5. Get rid of the mine fields in Cambodia.
    6. See the day that scientist can develop the cure to AIDS.
    7. Feed at the very least, 20 families.
    8. Visit France, because France seems so fucking awesome and I have relatives there.
    9. I want to have French citizenship.
    10. I want to be Bi-TriLingual? Know 3 human languages, 2 fictional languages, and Japanese because they have no souls.
     
  7. Trulle

    Trulle Second Year DLP Supporter

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    1. freeclimb "the nose"
    2. climb the eiger north face (not necessarily free)
    3. climb a 5.14c or higher (collides with 1., but hey,... 2 in 1 is still 2)
    4. climb a V12 or higher (Gecko assis would be the perfect problem :) )
    5. become at least 50
    6. spend my life after 50 in Italy, trying to relax (won't work, but living in Arco promises superb rock climbing possibilities)
    7. give french a second try (not the food, but the language!) If it fails, learn italian.
    8. get a good job, so that I can spend enough time to succeed in the upper
    9. Give something back. Not the money, but something.
    10. Die knowing that my life kicked ass :)
     
  8. Xiph0

    Xiph0 Yoda Admin

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    Oh god. So much this.
     
  9. Giovanni

    Giovanni God of Scotch

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    Kinky Lyndon, very kinky.
     
  10. Nuhuh

    Nuhuh Dastardly Shadow Admin Retired Staff

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    1. Learn to dive. I can swim, never learned to dive though.
    2. Run a triathlon/ironman competition.
    3. Learn to play the piano and guitar well enough to woo a lady fair. Or just rock the fuck out.
    4. Exhibit my fine art and have it be appreciated by family and friends, fuck critical acclaim.
    5. Write original fiction that doesn't make my family look at me like I'm a weirdo. Trust me, been there already.
    6. Learn Salsa
    7. Give my baby sis an awesome childhood.
    8. Find a place I'd like to call home.
    9. See the northern lights.
    10. Learn to cook Chinese food.
    11. Go on a bike tour of Australia. Meet Emily Scott.
    12. In the same vein travel on a motorbike for an extended time.
    13. Visit friends in England, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Ireland...Texas.

    Think that's longer than ten. But oh well, lots more. Interesting exercise. Never realized I wanted to do so much ,lol. Low expectation of life and all that.

    Edit, okay definitely longer than ten.
     
    Last edited: Jan 4, 2010
  11. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    Fixed? I hope so anyway. D:
     
  12. enembee

    enembee The Nicromancer DLP Supporter

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    Crash a concord into a mountainside.

    I hope nobody else came out with a witty response like this already.
     
  13. Schrodinger

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    I thought concords went out of service a while ago. And flying a faster-than-sound aircraft into a mountain doesn't sound survivable to me.
    Anyways,
    1. Blow up a building.
    2. Get married, and force my wife (probably wife) to have the kids.
    3. Work for Kink.com at least in some way.
    4. Burn a copy of Twilight.
    5. Meet Stephenie Meyer and slap her.
    6. Meet JK Rowling and tell her Ginny is a slut.
    7. Invent something.
    8. Have a house built into a mountain.
    9. Live on a different planet. (maybe)
    10. Start a cult. :)
     
  14. BadVoodoo

    BadVoodoo Sixth Year

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    1) Run a 10k (I'm fat, but 100 lbs less fat than last year)
    2) Spend a month tooling about Western Europe without worries
    3) Have my wife and I both make it to our 75th wedding anniversary (will require me to live to my late 90's)
    4) Get my BS
    5) Build a prototype of something I invented and patent it
    6) Move somewhere outside of Utah that has a beach and is warm
    7) Go to space or take a parabolic flight (stolen from Perspicacity)
    8) Direct a movie (even a shitty indie film or a porno)
    9) See the human race discover proof we aren't the only intelligent life in the galaxy
    10) Publish a comic book
     
  15. Oneiros

    Oneiros Groundskeeper

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    Wait....you want to crash a grape into a mountainside?


    1. Have sex with Evanna Lynch before she turns 36
    2. Give number 1 another go.
    3. See number 2.
    4. Visit Paris, London, and Rome.
    5. Convince religious people and atheists to quit trying to talk to me about God. I have better things to do with my life (see number 1)
    6. Get my Ph.D.
    7. Ride on a nuclear submarine
    8. Watch the government of Iran fall.
    9. Make a fully functional TARDIS
    10. Use said TARDIS to travel through time and space visiting some of the most beautiful places in the universe...and do stuff when I get there.
     
  16. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    Evanna Lynch will never sleep with you. Good luck with the time machine though.
     
  17. MattSilver

    MattSilver The Traveller

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    1. Teach a penguin the joy of dancing.
    2. Learn the joy of dancing so I can better teach the aforementioned penguin.
    3. Survive long enough to see Joss Whedon die alone, because after killing/breaking-up all those couples, he may just appreciate the irony.
    4. Live to see a new colour M&M actually come in the mainstream bags (Oh man, I remember when blue became a new colour - it was awesome.)
    5. Write and have published a sustained piece of original fiction.
    6. If 5 fails, try to get into the TV-writing business as a fallback.
    7. If 6 fails, just go out and write anything that can have my name attached to it.
    8. I guess that finding my actual passion for something in some field would be something I would want to accomplish.
    9. Join a cult.
    10. Come back a few years down the track and actually have a few life goals I would want to accomplish before I die, instead of posting 9 random things with only an inkling of truth to a few of them, and using number 10 to explain my life is just fine enough as is that I couldn't care less about accomplishing anything for the future and before I die, but there'll be no doubt that I can actually have something to drive towards in the future, even if those goals seem lofty today.
    11. Start writing shorter, non-run-on sentences.
     
  18. Schrodinger

    Schrodinger Muggle ~ Prestige ~

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    You gonna join mah cult, Matt? I'll be glad to have you.
     
  19. MattSilver

    MattSilver The Traveller

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    I'm in. All hail the Cult of Schrodinger.
     
  20. Portus

    Portus Heir

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    I misread Cult there, the first time through... :awesome