View Full Version : Happy New Year!
Geminex
12-31-2009, 09:55 AM
Well, we Australians are all crazy, and thanks to the wonderful time difference I have the privilege of creating the first New Year's thread. We had a German Party and watched the Australian government waste thousands of dollars on things that go "Bang" very prettily. The new decade is currently two hours old, and I'm feeling very contented.
Though I'm apprehensive at the fact that this is likely to be the only sober post in this thread...
A Zarkin' Frood
12-31-2009, 10:04 AM
I'm always sober. I just don't act like it all the time.
See you in 8 or so hours, when the new year starts for me.
Amake
12-31-2009, 10:25 AM
Now it's eight hours for me too. And I'm going to be sober. Though I might get high on caffeine and dugar.
Question: Do the party begin before midnight or at midnight, or does it "take off" at midnight, as the kids say?
greed
12-31-2009, 11:12 AM
Just hit midnight here in GMT+8. So Happy New Year NPF.
Azisien
12-31-2009, 12:16 PM
I booked the day off on the 1st so we'll see where I am at midnight!
Edit: And I'll try to remember to show up at some point. Throw a rock and you hit 4 laptops these days.
CABAL49
12-31-2009, 12:59 PM
11 hours for me. Considering I am on prescribed painkillers, it would probably be a good idea for me to stay sober.
Magic_Marker
12-31-2009, 01:08 PM
11 hours for me. Considering I am on prescribed painkillers, it would probably be a good idea for me to stay sober.
That's quitter talk!
Twelve hours to go time for me. Partying will begin in seven hours and last through 'til morning.
Bells
12-31-2009, 01:27 PM
as of the writing of this post it's 16:30 over here and i'm set for the beach at midnight where we get to see the fireworks of 3 cities at the same time!
Also Cod Salad and Turkey for diner and Cake for dessert!
Michie
12-31-2009, 01:27 PM
10 1/2 hours and I'll be spending the evening with the good Captain. :D
krogothwolf
12-31-2009, 01:42 PM
I'm going to be spending time with the Pregnant Wife! So no partying for me! She could pop at any moment. Maybe we'll get the first baby of the New Year in Calgary.
I'm going to be spending time with the Pregnant Wife! So no partying for me! She could pop at any moment. Maybe we'll get the first baby of the New Year in Calgary.More reason to party it up. Then one day you could be like "Son, your mom and I were living the high life at an epic New Years party and then you came along. A mad dash to the hospital in the wake of a fifteen car pile-up later you were born under the rarest of lunar events....the second full moon of the month. Some call it a 'Blue Moon' and from it you shall draw your power. A heroic destiny awaits you child! Go forth and be awesome!" And he'll look up at you and be all "Dad, you're crazy, I'm going to watch some 'toons."
Loyal
12-31-2009, 02:01 PM
Eight and a half hours. Won't be able to do much in the way of festivities due to work, but hey.
The Argent Lord
12-31-2009, 03:39 PM
Eight and a half here, and I'll probably just be doing what I do every night because my friends are a) drinking, which I'm too young and too Lawful to do, b) hanging out with my ex, who just no, or c) doing family shit. So fuck them.
CelesJessa
12-31-2009, 03:53 PM
I'll be going to a co-ed sleepover. Hurhurhur.
Going to play some Rock Band and L4D2 and Killer Bunnies, and such. It will be good times. Not planning on drinking though.
Nightshine
12-31-2009, 03:55 PM
I guarantee everyone here that 2010 is going to suck.
Regardless, for new years, I'm sitting here in my apartment. Alone. Again.
I guarantee everyone here that 2010 is going to suck.I have it on good authority that 2010 is, in fact, going to rock the socks off 2009.
Amake
12-31-2009, 04:04 PM
More reason to party it up. Then one day you could be like "Son, your mom and I were living the high life at an epic New Years party and then you came along. A mad dash to the hospital in the wake of a fifteen car pile-up later you were born under the rarest of lunar events....the second full moon of the month. Some call it a 'Blue Moon' and from it you shall draw your power. A heroic destiny awaits you child! Go forth and be awesome!" And he'll look up at you and be all "Dad, you're crazy, I'm going to watch some 'toons." That's like the best birth ever. Will you be my dad?
It's a little late for that don't you think?
synkr0nized
12-31-2009, 04:08 PM
I am going to have to juggle my time at two different places. I think it will work.
Happy New Year to those who've already crossed into it, and those of you still waiting have it pre-emptively.
Mirai Gen
12-31-2009, 04:11 PM
Gonna be working till 11. It's gonna be busy cause we have a parking lot right next to where the fireworks are going off. On the plus side once I get off I can come home have a couple glasses of wine and chat with the ladyfriend.
A Zarkin' Frood
12-31-2009, 04:19 PM
I have it on good authority that 2010 is, in fact, going to rock the socks off 2009.
This isn't particularly hard,
2010 is still going to suck big time.
The next good year will be 2012. Cause. hahaha. Y2K all over again.
Amake
12-31-2009, 04:19 PM
It's a little late for that don't you think? Do you believe in time travel?
Do you believe in time travel?I'm not going back in time to knock up your mother.
This isn't particularly hard,
2010 is still going to suck big time.
The next good year will be 2012. Cause. hahaha. Y2K all over again. I’m just looking forward to the Mayan Apocalypse.
Amake
12-31-2009, 04:40 PM
Admittedly, I didn't think this through very far. I don't even know where you'd find my mother actually. Well, you better knock up someone, that speech you were going to give the kid shouldn't go unused.
Meanwhile, who's up for making some Donnie Darko thing happen so we can celebrate new year's in a time loop? Or maybe just watch Donnie Darko in simulta-vision. Well, I'm gonna watch it, I haven't seen it all year.
Continuing into further tangents, is it just me or did the director's cut of that movie suck? I'm usually a fan of more is more, but it's like they swapped things around just to dumb it down and reduce the number of possible explanations. And then added a commentary giving away everything so no one would have to think anything out for themselves. I prefer to think that the original Donnie Darko is a separate movie, still full of mystery.
Funny story: I once watched it simultaneously with a friend while talking on IRC, and you know that part where Frank, the giant bunny rabbit, tells Donnie Why don't you take off that stupid man suit? (Great line too.) We both typed within one second of each other, Why don't you take off that stupid time suit?
Well, it's funny if you've read the Invisibles.
By the way, the 2012 apocalypse is apparently just the most pessimistic (or optimistic depending on your perspective) interpretation of the dates. It could take until 2017, or 2025. It's even possible that the timewave collapse, as Terrence McKenna termed it, will twist and stretch time the closer to it we get which itself makes the exact date irrelevant. We may experience a chronal acceleration approaching infinity, but never quite getting there, until time itself explodes an instant before the end of the calendar or something. This right here may be how the end of the world looks to those of us living in it.
If one believes such things.
PS. Didn't NPF used to have an IRC channel? I'm in the mood for taking this party into instant messaging.
Extra PS. I hope the posts per minute drop is because everyone got busy and not because I'm chattering too much. . .well, happy new year from Sweden.
Melfice
12-31-2009, 06:38 PM
Well, 'appy New Year, you tossers!
'Ere's to a better one, innit?
Speaking of which: I nearly got set on fire, not ten minutes ago, by fireworks.
I'm going to go with a good omen, like... I dunno... a blessing from a fire-god, or something, 'cause I've had enough of bad stuff for a while.
A Zarkin' Frood
12-31-2009, 07:34 PM
A happy new year to you all.
I'm not going to tell you how I spent it though, 'cause that would be very very gross.
I'm not going to tell you how I spent it though, 'cause that would be very very gross.You went back in time to knock up IQ's mom?
Amake
12-31-2009, 07:56 PM
Not if my childhood memories are to be trusted. (Sigh.) For a moment there, I really hoped I could get a retroactively happy childhood. And by happy I mean awesome. Yes, I'd trade all the things that have made my life interesting and be a regular, mortal, pink humanoid just so I could hear the words "your mom and I were living the high life at an epic New Years party and then you came along. A mad dash to the hospital in the wake of a fifteen car pile-up later you were born under the rarest of lunar events....the second full moon of the month. Some call it a 'Blue Moon' and from it you shall draw your power. A heroic destiny awaits you child! Go forth and be awesome!"
(I'm joking. But it's a really funny line. Probably not in the morning with the caffeine withdrawal but who needs mornings?)
A Zarkin' Frood
12-31-2009, 08:09 PM
You went back in time to knock up IQ's mom?
I thought that was you're job?
No, what I did is something people tend to not talk about because they think it's totally not okay to talk about it, but the truth is I spent my new year's shittin'.
Besides that, I wouldn't mind time traveling sex. It's something every guy should do once.
Amake
12-31-2009, 08:23 PM
You have not lived until you've had sex with yourself through Portal gun portals. Well, time travel clone sex is pretty fun too I guess.
Wait, there were no clones involved. You were talking about traveling through time to have sex with a random person? That's weird. >_>
Wigmund
01-01-2010, 12:57 AM
Happy sorta-early New Year from the Central Time Zone of the US.
Here's to next year actually being an improvement over the last.
Kyanbu The Legend
01-01-2010, 01:14 AM
Happy New Year, NPF.
2009's reign of terror is finally over.
Archbio
01-01-2010, 01:24 AM
Yay, even numbered year!
Regulus Tera
01-01-2010, 02:07 AM
Good-bye, sucky year.
Hell-OH, sucky year too!
phil_
01-01-2010, 02:20 AM
My last beer run of the year was an actual run. Through some manner of fate, I finally understand FPS like I understand other games, and I look forward to playing my friend who was paid to play Counter Strike in high school next time I see him. Less than a block from where I was partying, I was offered a ride home by _mike's friend who had just stepped into his car, saving me from a thirty minute walk.
The year of the tiger is off to a good start for me.
Kyanbu The Legend
01-01-2010, 02:34 AM
Here's to a new year that may not suck as bad as 2009 did.
DarkDrgon
01-01-2010, 02:46 AM
is it the future yet? we are in twentyten now.
Kyanbu The Legend
01-01-2010, 02:50 AM
is it the future yet? we are in twentyten now.
technically yes. It is now 2010.
Mirai Gen
01-01-2010, 03:33 AM
And now, with that, we can start calling it "Twenty-ten."
Doc ock rokc
01-01-2010, 03:50 AM
Yep Welcome to Twenty ten Fuck you two thousand ten
The Argent Lord
01-01-2010, 04:02 AM
Oh, wow, my new year's off to a great start. A friend of mine has a crush on me, for the second time, and I spent the last few hours trying to convince her why we wouldn't work together. This would have been a lot more effective if she wasn't very drunk and very stubborn.
Eltargrim
01-01-2010, 04:10 AM
To each any every one of you a happy new year! I am quite inebriated at me moment; hurrah for Mozilla spellcheck; my Argent Lord, if you do not feel comfortable answering, do not, but why would you not work together? I felt the same way for many a year, and at present I foresee a long and plentiful future with the same woman that I felt such about. If you truly believe that such a partnership would end in ruin, dissuade her, but otherwise, live and let love. 'tis better to spend ten days in love than ten years in regret. I feel that oftentimes, in this day and age, we are too careful; love is love, and while it may not bear fruit, 'tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Forgive the drunken ramblings of this man; I have been in a similar situation, and taken the other path, and I am very happy this day. I would be loath to see someone miss this opportunity if it presented itself. If I am too forward, I apologize, but please consider my words; things may work themselves out for the best.
May 2010 bring you many happy returns; I know that I have great plans for this year.
Doc ock rokc
01-01-2010, 04:24 AM
My new year is off to a great start too.
My mother (who broke her leg trying to stand on a flowerpot holder to give me a cable i didn't need when I was putting up xmas lights) can't move from her chair with out considerable effort. So she and My step dad can't go to the Annual NYE blow out in town so he is down in the dumps and she is tired of him being depressed. I am run ragged doing all the chores around the house and didn't get to have my almost traditional End of year pizza (mom hates pizza). The dogs are scared of the poppers that my step dad bought to entertain my mom on new years and ran away (so i had to chase them down) then after getting her into bed I finaly have a free momment and slip on a peace of ice that is on the ground and nearly gave my self a concussion if i didn't catch myself...YAY!
Amake
01-01-2010, 05:32 AM
You English-speaking geeks are so lucky, we call it twenty-hundred-ten. That's like two and a half extraneous syllables. Of course the more internationalized freaks around here will probably call it twenty-ten. When shopping, it's like no salesmen can be bothered to pronounce the word "hundred" anymore, or maybe they think that makes things sound too expensive. Twelve fifty nine for an Xbox?That's the price of a loaf of bread! Oh, you meant one thousand two hundred and sixty. And seriously, how long do you think people will fall for that trick where all prices end in nine? I just round up, and if the shops did it too they'd a) save a lot of small change and b) be more honest.
Wow, I'm still rambling. Happy new year Nuklear Power!
Mirai Gen
01-01-2010, 06:35 AM
Drank some wine and played Wolverine Origins for the 360, then surfed for some gravure idol photosets.
Not a bad year so far. Gonna keep this up.
The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk
01-01-2010, 07:31 AM
*Looks up*
Oh, it's the new year? I must've missed it.
*Goes back to playing Uncharted 2*
*Yeah so it turns out none of my "friends" decided to get in touch with me at all so I got stuck at home alone on new years. Welcome to 2010 fuckers!
Loyal
01-01-2010, 10:38 AM
Happy New Year!
Now get off my lawn!
Bob The Mercenary
01-01-2010, 11:55 AM
Happy New Year!
Didn't get as inebriated as I would have liked to since I had to drive home in snow and freezing rain at 3AM.
Is anyone else as annoyed as me at how everyone's saying last night was "the end of the decade"? I might just be picky about this, but isn't 2011 the official start of the next decade?
Amake
01-01-2010, 12:05 PM
Didn't we cover that the other day? The zerozeroes are over, this is the tens.
Corel
01-01-2010, 12:24 PM
Didn't we cover that the other day? The zerozeroes are over, this is the tens.
So do we have to call this the Tennies then? I thought calling this decade the Noughties was silly enough.
synkr0nized
01-01-2010, 12:35 PM
Is anyone else as annoyed as me at how everyone's saying last night was "the end of the decade"? I might just be picky about this, but isn't 2011 the official start of the next decade?
Technically speaking, it'd depend on if the calendar started with the year 0 or 1. With the Gregorian Calendar (and Julian), it starts on a 1. This should make it 1-10 as a decade, 11-20, 21-30, etc. So the current decade is 2001-2010.
Practically speaking, I think it's based on how we often refer to decades. For example, you call the eighties 1980-1989, the nineties 1990-1999, and so on. I've rarely come across folks who'd say that the eighties was 1981-1990, for example. In that light, most probably consider the first decade of the two-thousands to be 2000 - 2009.
Amake
01-01-2010, 12:40 PM
Yep. The silly names for the current age is what we get for coming up with names for decades no sooner than 1920 or so I guess. And the decades themselves don't even fit in with actual chronology, which as we've all heard a hundred times since 1999 puts the beginning of the century and the millennium at 2001.
It's this lack of foresight that gave us the Y2K problem you know. Be happy it's nothing more dangerous than linguistic aesthetics at risk.
01d55
01-01-2010, 12:41 PM
And seriously, how long do you think people will fall for that trick where all prices end in nine? I just round up, and if the shops did it too they'd a) save a lot of small change and b) be more honest.
Basically forever. It's been studied and that last dollar out of every ten does in fact make a bigger difference in sales than any of the previous nine.
That said, if it was me I'd calibrate prices so sales tax would round 'em off.
Azisien
01-01-2010, 01:47 PM
Uuuuugggghhhh why is my jaw clicking?
Amake
01-01-2010, 02:04 PM
Did you maybe work in a matchstick factory (http://www.cracked.com/article/89_the-6-most-horrific-bosses-all-time/) in London in Jack the Ripper's day?
Donomni
01-01-2010, 02:49 PM
Happy 2X10, people!
Saw Dick Clark unthawed for a few minutes, and got into the new year by finishing MGS4(Spare christmas funds and all).
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