Author Topic: Fastest 5 years ever. (Read 6316 times)

Setekh · **on:** January 07, 2006, 05:59:25 am

Can you believe it? At least here in Sydney, today is January 7, which makes it HLP's 5th birthday. Yikes.

As an exercise: post what you were doing/like 5 years ago, and what you hope to be doing/like by the end of the next 5 years.

5 years ago, I was... bumming around the internet with a British guy I'd just met named "R128Thunder"... hmmm. And I was still in the middle of high school.

In 5 years time, I at least should be graduated and married. I hope to have won my wife over to playing video games.

an0n · **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2006, 06:16:00 am

I was being kicked out of school, I think.

And in 5 years I'll probably be dead.

Sandwich · **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2006, 06:21:17 am

HBD, HLP!

5 years ago, I was still enjoying my recent (6 months prior) release from the army. I think that at the time, I was working at a radio station here in Jerusalem. Unfortunately, 5 years ago was smack dab in the middle of the 1-year period between having lost my old digital camera and having gotten a new one, so I don't have any pictures to refer to.

Skippy · **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2006, 06:36:18 am

Happy Birthday HLP, and HBD Announcements

5 years ago I was in the end of high school (or at least I think, 5 years is too far to remember

)
Edit: Oh, I was also starting to work for MT

In 5 years I hope I'll at last have a decent job

Singh · **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2006, 06:47:16 am

Happy Birthday, HLP!

Five years ago, eh? *does magic math* ermm...hmm.....that'd be 2000.

Lets see, 2000 I was still at Droidarena, still writing for them i think. Back then i was about to head to Junior College (my first year) and was generally wary of going into a social environment (still am)

In five years time, i'll be 25 years old. If i can somehow get rid of this lethargicness their are a lot of things that could happen. I'd have a 25% chance of having developed the storyline for a game then, a 5% chance of having participated in the WCG (assuming DoTA becomes one of the games and I decide to play it and practice), a 20% chance that i'd have committed suicide, a 20% chance that i'd be in college doing my degree in India, a 20% chance that i'd be doing it in the US instead, and finally a 10% chance i'd be on the street begging for my last few ruppees before I go find somewhere to kill myself quitely.

Yup, a rosy outlook indeed! (no sarcasm)

Fineus · **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2006, 07:02:07 am

Christ... time flies.

And of course five years ago I was bumming around the internet with a guy named Setekh (who managed not to change his nick, ever...despite everyone else giving him a few variations!). I haven't the foggiest what else I was doing mind you...

Martinus · **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2006, 07:51:27 am

Hmmm, 5 years ago I was just finishing an Electronic Engineering diploma.
Now I'm doing Biomedical engineering as a degree.
5 years from now? Who knows.

TrashMan · **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2006, 07:52:23 am

5 years ago....heh...just started coulege and had no modding experience whatsoever..a year later I discovered HLP and here I am still modding FS2 (and about 20 or so other games so far)

In 5 years? I'll hope I get a decent job.

anyway, Happy Birthday HLP!

Black Wolf · **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2006, 07:52:33 am

Five years? Criminey.

Five years ago, I was... hmm. I'd just finished year 10, ending one of the best years I'd had as far as friends and suchlike went at high school, plus I got out of my 3 year stint in Catholic school. I think I was also just about to start some work experience at the local museum, which was cool.

Five years from now... hmm... I'll be 25, probably be finishing up my first contract as an underground geo up north somewhere, hopefully preparing to go travelling. If I'm extremely lucky though, I'll be writing for a living by then... though TBH I doubt it.

Kosh · **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2006, 09:07:19 am

5 years ago I was still a little child in high school. I had some ideas of what I wanted, but at the time moving to the otherside of the world and starting a new life wasn't one of them.

5 years from now, I honestly don't know. If I can make most of these things work out as I hope it does, then I will still be in this country. What can I say? I like living here.

Prophet · **Reply #10 on:** January 07, 2006, 09:23:29 am

5 years ago I was doping nothing noticeable... I think I was studying back then.
I imagine 5 years from now I will still be doing nothing noteforthy. Can you imagine have stressful it is to be naturally lazy? I fact, thanks a bunch for making me think about my future! Now I feel completely miserable.

Flipside · **Reply #11 on:** January 07, 2006, 09:29:30 am

5 Years ago I was 28 years old and working in a warehouse loading clothes onto lorries for a living. I'm currently unemployed and looking for training in C++ programming.

How the world turns...

Happy Birthday HLP

Charismatic · **Reply #12 on:** January 07, 2006, 10:00:13 am

Sorry i was not around all these 5 years, but iv been here for like 3.

5 years ago i was in 8th grade, Middleschool i beleive, as im a senior in HighScholl now. Ah the Freespace2 Mulitplayer years... i arrived just as PXO was dying, the near end of it. Shame shame..

Anyways, in 5 years from now.. hmm
Im hopeing to have many friends (as i dont realy have any now), hopeing to have a Girl Friend finally.
My Brother will have been married and i would finally see him for the first time. I hope to be in a good Band, as i am a Guitar player (in a crapy band atm). I hope to have a good job and working car and all happy ****.
EDIT: Lastly, HAPY BDAY HLP!

Dark RevenantX · **Reply #13 on:** January 07, 2006, 10:06:34 am

Five years ago I didn't know what sex was...

Charismatic · **Reply #14 on:** January 07, 2006, 10:23:17 am

and most of all:

Hahahah!

Mental Menace · **Reply #15 on:** January 07, 2006, 11:37:19 am

Wow time has gone fast indeed! I'm not sure what I was doing at that time, but if the Volition BB was still up I probably was making my silly contribution to Tell A Story(anyone remember that?

) . In RL : just turned 16 and so the Era Of Experimenting reached it's peak, resulting in a strange but fascinating life at the cost of record low grades at highschool. Luckily, this was followed by maturity started to reveal itself(on some occasions).
Five years from now: with some luck, I'm in MedSchool after finally having conquered my lack of discipline. Doubt that I've settled down but you'll never now.

And after winning the Jackpot I have bought the FS3 rights, given them to V and now everyone is enjoying FS3. In return there is a cheat that unlocks an insanely overpowered Hercules fighter after typing my name, I couldn't wish for a greater act of gratitude than that

Nuclear1 · **Reply #16 on:** January 07, 2006, 11:49:33 am

Five years ago... let's see, I would be about 12, which made me an ultra-n00b online, as my posts at the VBB showed. I plagued HLP for a few months with said n00bness, announcing a new campaign every other week, I think.

Still, HBD HLP!

Taristin · **Reply #17 on:** January 07, 2006, 12:02:14 pm

5 years ago... I was on the VWBB, having been banned from the VBB for warez (

) and thinking to myself:

"We already have a freespace forum here... this new 'HLP' will probably fail... everyone comes here to the VWBB, why do we need two?"

But... yeah, i eventually reg'd... as Snipes...

5 years from now...? No idea. None of my plans seem to go as... err.. planned.

Polpolion · **Reply #18 on:** January 07, 2006, 12:14:28 pm

5 years ago I was in 3rd grade

Styxx · **Reply #19 on:** January 07, 2006, 12:14:56 pm

Hm, I was starting work on MT. Awesome.

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