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Im here on campus scared to death of finals.
Then i realised, I know everything about 40k then i do about school(despite the fact i have 3.5)
I know the STR, Range AP of nealy every weapon off the top of my head. I know the price of nearly every unit both point wise and cash wise.
I also know more about painting then i do math.
I can remember everything about this game, But nothing aabout dividing of radical expressions.
Anyone else feel like this?

It's natural. Things you're interested in nest themselves firmly into your mind. I had a friend that could tell you exactly what car was coming down the road by the shape of the headlights.

I often feel like you do though, I wish I could have found the same interest for Physics as I have painting these toys. It would make me more employable in the real world.

For example; I have 5000 words to write by tomorrow morning and I'm on Dakka.

Consider this: How many hours a day of how many days of the week are you painting, playing, building, or posting 40k and wargaming related things? You enjoy it, so you do it a lot. Schoolwork is less fun, so you don't spend as much time with it if you can avoid it. That's the long and the short of it. Even so, when I'm at work I'm thinking about gaming, posting online, or coming up with paintschemes whenever things slow down. When I was in college I was scribbling out army lists and cartoons during classes that weren't holding my interest. It's what people do; they focus on hobbies and things they like instead of what they have to do.

Well i suppose my grades are proof i dont let it overtake my life.

I felt the same way just the other day when I was wondering if I just wasn't smart enough for school...
Then I realized I've memorized a few codexs and half the rule book haha
Grimdark Futures are just a bit more interesting than school haha

I've been lucky in that I find all my pursuits equally difficult to remember the details of.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Im here on campus scared to death of finals.
Then i realised, I know everything about 40k then i do about school(despite the fact i have 3.5)
I know the STR, Range AP of nealy every weapon off the top of my head. I know the price of nearly every unit both point wise and cash wise.
I also know more about painting then i do math.
I can remember everything about this game, But nothing aabout dividing of radical expressions.
Anyone else feel like this?

Not really. I like to think that I'm far better as a functioning adult than I am as an encyclopedia for wargaming.

I was probably that way in college and law school.

Now that I work full time, I game less and, well, work more.

I might actually know more about social security disability law than I do about 40k...

I cannot take the OP seriously

You're in college. Change your sig/avatar. Please. I beg of you.

Auxellion wrote:I cannot take the OP seriously

You're in college. Change your sig/avatar. Please. I beg of you.

thanks for sharing

as for the OP, I know the feeling man :3 I have a history exam in just over a month and I could tell you very little about trade unions but just about every other stat in any of my codexs

Auxellion wrote:I cannot take the OP seriously

You're in college. Change your sig/avatar. Please. I beg of you.

Brony's are here to stay. Maybe you should learn to tolerate people who are different from you?
I don't dig on ponys, but I certainly wouldn't judge. Especially since I play with plastic toys.
Hypocritical much?

hotsauceman1 wrote:Im here on campus scared to death of finals.
Then i realised, I know everything about 40k then i do about school(despite the fact i have 3.5)
I know the STR, Range AP of nealy every weapon off the top of my head. I know the price of nearly every unit both point wise and cash wise.
I also know more about painting then i do math.
I can remember everything about this game, But nothing aabout dividing of radical expressions.
Anyone else feel like this?

Or grammar for that matter.

The correct word is THAN.

I can emphathize, OP. Though, to a certain extent. I could just as easily lecture someone about the Soviet Union, or the American Civil War, and talk about just as much about those topics than I could say about 40K. Though, it doesn't help that I'm on Dakka instead of writing my research paper due in a few days.

Auxellion wrote:I cannot take the OP seriously

You're in college. Change your sig/avatar. Please. I beg of you.

... Thank you for your much-valued, most-excellent opinion! /sarcasm

Everybody has the right to announce their love of cartoon ponies to the world.

Likewise, people have the right to think what they will about what you choose to announce.

Davylove21 wrote: I wish I could have found the same interest for Physics as I have painting these toys. It would make me more employable in the real world.

Theres not exactly a huge job market for theoretical physicists...

It's because you like it. For example, I taught myself all the basics of guitar in a month but I can't for the life of me teach myself a proper Spanish accent para escuela to save my life If only rolling your r's were as easy as scales...

Bah, not worth it.

DarkCorsair wrote:It's because you like it. For example, I taught myself all the basics of guitar in a month but I can't for the life of me teach myself a proper Spanish accent para escuela to save my life If only rolling your r's were as easy as scales...

It'd probably be more beneficial to listen to native Spanish speakers in order to form said accent. I've been hearing Spanish my entire life - *points at location* - and have been told that I have a very natural accent, yet can't speak it fluently. I do agree that double r's are insane.


I haven't had the issues you're describing OP. I'm currently studying IT, and have found it very helpful that I'm turning the hobby I've had for nearly my entire life into my career to be one of the best decisions I've done. Then again, not everyone has a hobby that can be easily turned into a career.

Kaldor wrote:

Davylove21 wrote: I wish I could have found the same interest for Physics as I have painting these toys. It would make me more employable in the real world.

Theres not exactly a huge job market for theoretical physicists...

It's a massively marketable skillset when compared to knowing what shoulder pad squad markings go on!

I'm approaching 24 hours on my final day procrastination! Yaay! 2000 words to go. EPIC PROCRASTINATION!

hotsauceman1 wrote:Im here on campus scared to death of finals.
Then i realised, I know everything about 40k then i do about school(despite the fact i have 3.5)
I know the STR, Range AP of nealy every weapon off the top of my head. I know the price of nearly every unit both point wise and cash wise.
I also know more about painting then i do math.
I can remember everything about this game, But nothing aabout dividing of radical expressions.
Anyone else feel like this?

I think you really need to get out more.

Kaldor wrote:

Davylove21 wrote: I wish I could have found the same interest for Physics as I have painting these toys. It would make me more employable in the real world.

Theres not exactly a huge job market for theoretical physicists...

Yeah...don't think anyones dared apply for that since the 90's...

Auxellion wrote:I cannot take the OP seriously

You're in college. Change your sig/avatar. Please. I beg of you.

Let's not degenerate into another brony hate thread.

Anyway, OP, I wouldn't worry about it. I graduated from a four year college with a 3.9 and, like you, I had memorized pretty much everything about 40k and fantasy.

Polonius wrote:Likewise, people have the right to think what they will about what you choose to announce.

Even if it's technically off-topic spam? lol

Kaldor wrote:

Davylove21 wrote: I wish I could have found the same interest for Physics as I have painting these toys. It would make me more employable in the real world.

Theres not exactly a huge job market for theoretical physicists...

*waves* Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? Particle and Quantum Physicist(or soon to be) reporting in. I have a friend who's one o' them dirty "Experimental physicists", or as they're known around the department, "engineers who got out of their cage" Not all of us spend our time sat in front of a chalkboard musing and making unprovable claims that border on philosophy rather than science, we spend our time sat in front of a computer on the internet when we should be running simulations

AresX8 wrote:

DarkCorsair wrote:It's because you like it. For example, I taught myself all the basics of guitar in a month but I can't for the life of me teach myself a proper Spanish accent para escuela to save my life If only rolling your r's were as easy as scales...

It'd probably be more beneficial to listen to native Spanish speakers in order to form said accent. I've been hearing Spanish my entire life - *points at location* - and have been told that I have a very natural accent, yet can't speak it fluently. I do agree that double r's are insane.


I haven't had the issues you're describing OP. I'm currently studying IT, and have found it very helpful that I'm turning the hobby I've had for nearly my entire life into my career to be one of the best decisions I've done. Then again, not everyone has a hobby that can be easily turned into a career.

Well if I had listened to native Spanish speakers on youtube instead of listening to guitar players on youtube, I didn't learn the accent and instead learned guitar because I had an interest in it so I spent more free time on it.

I feel the same way. On dakka right now in between finals. Power System Protection in about 25 minutes. I'm not trembling with nerves, I swear. Honestly...

Auxellion wrote:I cannot take the OP seriously

You're in college. Change your sig/avatar. Please. I beg of you.

And you have an avatar of someone flexing muscles. Just as childish.
Also i got into ponies because if my love of gender studies in how gender forms and bronies make for an interesting case in the breakdown of gender norms and how people react to those breakdowns.
As OT: It just that, I feel as if i have no marketable skill in life. Horrible at school except in sociology and not everyone think me majoring in that is a good idea.
And my ability to paint is good but not enough to land me a job.

hotsauceman1 wrote:As OT: It just that, I feel as if i have no marketable skill in life. Horrible at school except in sociology and not everyone think me majoring in that is a good idea.
And my ability to paint is good but not enough to land me a job.

That's pretty much the situation for 95% of the human race. You've got to get your priorities in order. Find what you want out of life, then work towards that. It's not all going to work, and nothing's ever going to be perfect, but that's life. It's up to you to make the best of it. You don't have to be some kind of specialist or virtuoso in order to enjoy yours.

deathholydeath wrote:

Auxellion wrote:I cannot take the OP seriously

You're in college. Change your sig/avatar. Please. I beg of you.

Let's not degenerate into another brony hate thread.

Anyway, OP, I wouldn't worry about it. I graduated from a four year college with a 3.9 and, like you, I had memorized pretty much everything about 40k and fantasy.

Peope hate bronies? I love 'em, that quiz on OP's sig landed me a Rainbow Dash....woot! I think haters've been on the high side of those scales since 4chan cave and added /mlp. Srsly Aux, tolerance.

On Topic - I don't think it's out of the ordinary that you feel that way Hotsauceman1, after all everyone likes the fun stuff. But (I'm hoping) you're not doing things like deciding to trip over to the gamestore instead of going to class or other things like that. Just because you remember fun things more often doesn't mean you're not retaining the important stuff for when you need it most.

Bottom line ... "Ah if only 40K paid six figures."

I suppose you're still one step ahead of me.

When I was younger I was obsessed with paleontology and to a degree I still am. That would have been my dream job if the three years of human biology didn't kill it for me. My first word was stegosaurus. Says a lot.

And my first Warhammer army was Lizardmen.

Oh my.

Simply put - you enjoy it so you know it.