HadrianX

I took 6 weeks of French in High School  before I transferred to German - mostly because I had to change English teachers. Weirdly enough, I remember everything I learned - including the alphabet and opening conversation.

But no, I don’t speak French.

First.. and I mean this not in a mean way but simply based on the phrasing of your question.. is that you focus on your grammar and your attention to detail.

Your ability to communicate with people about issues and project and your ability to read documentation and create it will take you much further than any math. I use math daily, but it’s not high-level stuff. Basic algebra is the most of it. What I really use very day is email and my perception. My ability to find problems and see the little things that are going to become big things - or caused them - and then take that info and present it to others in ways they understand or can use.

Now, let me tell you that I do not have a formal education. I didn’t go to college. I did attempt some diddly little correspondence school in the Marines, but honesty it doesn’t mean anything. But I was lucky enough to be able to lean on my time in the Marines as if it were college and a director had a soft spot for Marines since he was in the Army and gave me a chance. I also had a very low asking salary which sweetened the deal - and bam - I had the beginning of my career. I kept it up with certifications and very good letters of recommendation. I now make about as much as someone at my stage of career growth that went to college. Though I will be limited from managerial positions probably. So I will eventually need to get some kind of college. But instead of IT, I will be able to do something else that leads itself directly to leadership or change careers completely.

However, my path was very difficult and weighed heavily on my own ability to push myself, forego some luxuries, have very forgiving roommates, co-workers who would vouch for me,  and have bosses that were willing to mentor me. Throw in a few pounds of luck too.

If math bothers you - then you obviously need to go to school to get better at it. I was horrible at math too. I had high school report cards that were all As and a D in math. But I knew that limitation. I had teachers that would let me take a test after school with a calculator. I knew the formulas and I knew how to apply them - but I had problems with numbers and doing it in my head or on paper. I have suspected I have some kind of dyslexia - but its more likely I have some l level calclophobia. But I learned tricks in my head to help me, I learned to keep very good notes and apply them when I was faced with a problem. These helped me overcome issues when I was faced a math problem in my job. No boss will never judge you for using a calculator and showing them the result. They will fire you if you do the math in your head and get it wrong in a situation where accuracy was important.

I tell everyone to go to school. It’s an experience I wish I had. I loved my Marine Corps experience and it served me well - but college is an opportunity you likely won’t have again. I may get to go to school soon - but I will be excluded from things because of my age. Go while you are young and your peers are there. There is a halo of learning beyond math and english that will take you far - further than I can go with willpower and bullheadedness alone.

I was a PC gamer since I stopped playing Genesis in 1996 or so. I played all PC until about 2006 and had some very kick ass machines in that time.

Then I picked up a PS2 just so I could play Kingdom Hearts - then God of War - then I got a Xbox 360 for a number of other games - mostly for Bioshock.

In that time around late 2007, I got an iPhone. In about 3 months I also had an iMac, Macbook, Airport, and other goodies from Apple. I’ve been on them ever since.

One thing I exchanged for the better hardware of Mac - was the softer gaming support. I mean - very very awful gaming support. Sure some companies like Blizzard always release for Mac, but its over looked everywhere else. 

But the consoles run really good. Sure its not quite as sharp or detailed as a PC. Sure only really high end AAA games get ported to Mac years after they come out. But ya know what… I’m ok.

For a few years chasing down the latest alpha driver for an extra 3 frames a second or being able to crank trilinear filters and finding ways to squeeze out that mythical maximum draw distance was what kept me up till 3 am on a work night - but really - it just didn’t appeal to me any more. I just wanted to play the game. I wanted to get the story. I wanted to spend more time enjoying my game and less time configuring my rig for it.

Consoles afford me a guaranteed performance level. Even my Mac does. Sure its not top of the line - but thats not what drives me. I’ve been playing games since the VGA era with a PC speaker and when it took 12 disks to install Doom. It was never about the extra graphics for me.

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hadrianx:

I did start with “fuck me” :P

And there are many of my followers i’d love to trade fucks with.

i volunteer!!!

Back of the line, back of the line…

aww sad days

Fine, sharesies?

okay!!! :D :D

It’s settled then,

hadrianx

! Prepare for trouble!

and make it double

oh god what have I done?!

Yea.. sounds like you knocked it out of the park, buddy! The fact that it didn’t get weird and that he at least was open to the idea of doing it again is a good sign. You might have opened up to something he didn’t know about himself.

Oh absolutely! All kinds of bad stuff can happen in any situation.

And there is a tendency to assume that many heterosexual men will go into a rage of some kind when propositioned. But the truth is that most makes are passively bisexual, even without acting on it. While most men of this type won’t actively seek out contact with other men, if it is offered and they are isolated from exposure and risk, they will accept.

A man’s ability to play around is directly proportional to anyone else ability to find out about it, in most cases.

Right now I only have a PS4 and an PS Vita. My PSN name is HadrianMQ.

I’m pretty sure I still have an Xbox Live account as HadrianM, but I don’t have an Xbox anymore. Jury is still out on that Xbox One and if I want one. 

And that my friends. Is how you do it.

It’s a little exploitative. But really neither of you had anything of real value to gain or lose. 

But the real gem in this is having the balls to ask someone to play in unusual situations. Good for you!