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Where are you now?
Apr 4 2025, 9:24 pm
By: dumbducky  

Apr 4 2025, 9:24 pm dumbducky Post #1



[01:35 pm] Oh_Man -- dumbducky yep nothing out of the ordinary
[01:22 pm] NudeRaider -- dumbducky go ahead, put it up, that's what Null is for :)
[12:38 pm] Dem0n -- my shoutbox color
[12:33 pm] dumbducky -- Wife and baby are doing well?
[12:33 pm] dumbducky -- Would be interesting to poll the audience and see how may parents are out there. I have two kids now.
[09:56 am] Oh_Man -- Might not be long till you hear similar news from another senner
[09:56 am] Oh_Man -- Well everyone today is the day my daughter was born - the most Zerg thing I've ever witnessed. Shoutout to my SEN bros


Congratulations to Oh_Man on his baby girl.

I myself have been married for 5 years now and have a son and a daughter. The little guy had his first t-ball game last week and was the clear ringer on his team. I may brown bag it to tomorrow's game if it doesn't get rained out.

I promoted to the grade of mjor this week, and will be transitioning to the Air Force Reserves at the end of the year. My goal is to find stable employment in North Carolina. If you're hiring in tech or cybersecurity, let me know. Otherwise, share your life story since you stopped playing a video game from the '90s.



tits

Apr 5 2025, 1:58 am Excalibur Post #2

The sword and the faith

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Otherwise, share your life story since you stopped playing a video game from the '90s.

Exactly who said I stopped? :bleh:

Right now, at least for the moment, I manage a support team for a high end salon software / SaaS company. It has its good and bad days. I'd like to find something new after learning staying anywhere more than a few years is a mistake and only leads to less money and more headaches.

I spend most of my spare time, and so far almost $25000, into a DayZ Stalker RP project called Isolation, where I am the Lead Designer.




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Apr 6 2025, 11:18 am Ahli Post #3

I do stuff and thingies... Try widening and reducing the number of small nooks and crannies to correct the problem.

Oh, cool, Excalibur! I'm quite surprised how many people ended up in professional game development. I hope your project will end up being a great success!

Congratulations to your family, dumbducky! Sounds lovely! I wish you best of luck finding the good, stable job you seek and I hope you will keep having a wonderful time with your loved ones despite the turbulences Trump/Musk are creating!

I haven't posted here in a long time. A lot has happened in my life:

I'm engaged.

I'm developing software in cloud backend of a heating system manufacturer. I'm in one of the highest paid jobs that one can reach in Germany in a German company as a software engineer. Previously, I was in IT consulting for 6-7 years working in different industries with varying technologies until a customer had a strong desire to keep me around.

I've helped the SC2 balance council a bit with some SC2 patches in the last few years via providing open source bug fixes.

I'm fighting off people that project their personal problems onto me/my fiancé. Insurances for legal things are really worth it (in Germany)!

I've cut myself lose from toxic relationships within my family.

I hope my life will become nicely calm and uneventful again. Then we will probably look into long vacation trips, family planning and buying a house!

TLDR: I'm living my life as I want to live it and fight for my right do so!




Apr 7 2025, 2:26 am da real donwano Post #4



Aye glad to see a post like this & glad to see some old faces. I often times wonder how my friends from like 2 decades ago are doing.

Some stuff was here.

Stuff was here too.

My TLDR: Drugs are bad mmkay & go to school so you don't have to work maniacal hours.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 24 2025, 8:13 pm by da real donwano.



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Apr 7 2025, 4:17 am Excalibur Post #5

The sword and the faith

@Ahli
Professional is a stretch. Its a team of dedicated modders and I am most of the time a wallet with a mouth. :P I joke a bit but really its our scripters, our mappers, and our importers who are truly skilled. I simply set up all the game systems that make the world go. It's all data entry at it's core. But I'm very proud of my work, my team, and our community. I wish I could get more SENners interested in what we're doing, because it would help a lot. The niche we operate in is plagued by a lot of bad actors and bad behavior and we are slowly changing the status quo through our actions and those of a few close partner teams.

@Donwano
I'm sorry the roads been rough but I am glad you are in a good place. Make sure to keep up with us in SEN discord for those times where you open up SC. We're still here, and will be until Blizzard turns the lights out.




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The sword and the faith.

:ex:
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My stream, live PC building and tech discussion.

Apr 9 2025, 1:07 am da real donwano Post #6



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@Ahli

@Donwano
I'm sorry the roads been rough but I am glad you are in a good place. Make sure to keep up with us in SEN discord for those times where you open up SC. We're still here, and will be until Blizzard turns the lights out.

Please don't feel sorry for me. It was all decisions I made myself, nobody held a gun to my head & made me do it. I like to think I'm a better person now than I was all them years ago & but this was just the atypical path I took to get there. I'll check out the discord one of these times for sure.



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Apr 9 2025, 3:05 pm KrayZee Post #7



A lot has happened because of COVID, and I went back to college and am now double majoring in Film, Television & Electronic Media and Cinema Production. I like my new job as an English tutor, and I'm currently a producer for one film and director of photography for another.



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Apr 13 2025, 10:17 am nuclearrabbit Post #8



Not at liberty to disclose.
You could guess though if Якби ти знав ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Still chillin, killin.
I've been everywhere mane.




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Apr 13 2025, 4:43 pm ClansAreForGays Post #9



Made a bunch of money in cybersecurity, but it's pretty joyless. I made it my life and got really good at it, but lost a lot of my creative spark/drive.
Currently trying to just funnel said $ into making up for my lack of time/drive. (as you can tell by my posts)
Sounds like Ex figured out how to make this work, so hopefully I will soon too.




Apr 14 2025, 6:16 pm dumbducky Post #10



Are you hiring? I have background in cybersecurity. Will vulnerability scan for money.



tits

Apr 16 2025, 5:49 pm Ultraviolet Post #11

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Are you hiring? I have background in cybersecurity. Will vulnerability scan for money.





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Apr 20 2025, 7:22 pm KrayZee Post #12



I'm currently in the middle of a film production, and it is turning out really well.



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Apr 24 2025, 3:26 am MasterJohnny Post #13



I am an adjunct professor of computer science. I am desperate for a remote job. Please hire me.



I am a Mathematician Computer Scientist Logic user

Apr 24 2025, 2:18 pm dumbducky Post #14



Can you shoehorn citations of my paper into any future publications? I have an ego to stroke.



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[06:24 pm]
Oh_Man -- https://youtu.be/pPZafFJOi48 crazy good
[09:51 am]
NimoStar -- And Pathfinding in SC1 was not *that* bad, the problem is that it was designed as a flat 2D game like WC1 (and it was in the alpha) and then switched to isometric without changing the base code. So its actually a flat game pretending to be isometric. With the custom competitive maps that use larger ramps and elevation, pathfinding is quite fixed.
[09:47 am]
NimoStar -- The unlocking and map choice was fine, but mostly in WoL - In HoTS the worst of all units are irrelevant because Kerrigan has infinite summon and stuff. And even in WoL the spaceship instakill map powers are better than units. If I could RTS in my RTS that'd be great.
[2026-3-05. : 8:45 pm]
NudeRaider -- Nekron
Nekron shouted: NudeRaider not that the og sc1 campaigns are particularly good mechanically but cmon, SC2 map mechanics are the opposite of fun
There's many parts to it. I think the raw rts gameplay of sc1 is unsurpassed to this day. And I too never liked that sc2 missions always rush you in some way or another, because I like to take my time. However I still have to admit that they way they did it often was always pretty cool. Like lava rising and receding, a huge-ass mothership destroying bases, undead coming at night, just to name a few, those are definitely creative, so I'm sure there's people that liked it. But that's not even what I meant. It's the unlocking of new features and upgrades and choice which map to play next that made it so much more motivating for me.
[2026-3-05. : 6:49 pm]
Nekron -- like the train maps, enemies just kind of come at you (I'm not sure if there is a real enemy base, there might be one just on a technicality - you are to never interact with its production) and then you gotta chase trains for lulz
[2026-3-05. : 6:48 pm]
Nekron -- and even in WoL imo everything ends up feeling like you're just getting a lot of hidden timers that kind of force you into awkward resource management between main objective and defending your base against enemies from beyond this world
[2026-3-05. : 6:47 pm]
Nekron -- some ideas were okay in WoL but the further you go the worse it gets
[2026-3-05. : 6:46 pm]
Nekron -- NudeRaider
NudeRaider shouted: also the sc2 campaign mechanics were way more fun and involving
not that the og sc1 campaigns are particularly good mechanically but cmon, SC2 map mechanics are the opposite of fun
[2026-3-03. : 9:33 pm]
Ultraviolet -- boo sacrilege, get outta here
[2026-3-03. : 8:47 am]
NudeRaider -- also the sc2 campaign mechanics were way more fun and involving
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