billy Horrorshow Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Sure, a lot of us survived horrible life-threatening situations because of that magic meatball in our head but that aside, if we were to live our lives along the path that it was going years ago, where would we be? What the hell would you be doing as one of the Nodeless?Me? I'd probably still be living on campus doing a crappy cable-access show and living off student loans, but that's just me. I sure as hell wouldn't be as "successful" and by successful I mean happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Shooting at people with nodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakinyan Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Dead of alcohol poisoning or on my way to a failed liver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Dead, brain-damaged or enduring the world's biggest arsehole of a husband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 in a high-stress job building computers in Tokyo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeno Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 The Others would be operating independently in their assigned roles (treating the mildly mentally ill or being treated as such), or dead from fire.Present popular speculation holds that I, as a free-existing being, would not exist.It has yet to be determined if the extant reality is more favorable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 We'd pretty much all be dead now wouldn't we you undead thing. We all, well, most of us, erupted because some awful fucking shit went down and we popped brain chubbie. Without the brain chubby we'd be tits up.I'd have frozen to fucking death instead of becoming the asskicking master cocksman that is here today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edison Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Nowhere different.Yay look at me, I'm exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakinyan Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Lemmy Chillmeister: We'd pretty much all be dead now wouldn't we you undead thing. We all, well, most of us, erupted because some awful fucking shit went down and we popped brain chubbie.You are right most of us not all. Even us Non-Quantum Accidents didnt have to have a NDE in order to get the lump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted January 13, 2005 Author Share Posted January 13, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Lemmy Chillmeister:We'd pretty much all be dead now wouldn't we you undead thing.Thrill kill. I can say, I know, but bah. So to paraphrase my question: ASIDE from potentially being dead, where would you be in your life? Bah:Quote:Originally posted by billy Horrorshow:Sure, a lot of us survived horrible life-threatening situations because of that magic meatball in our head but that ASIDE...On a random note, asking this question is always a fun way of proving to people that for 9 out of 10 people, getting a node is really, REALLY like winning the lottery. But for 1 out of 10 or so it's generally a whole bucket of suck. :shrug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 As I can't really remember being node-less ... I can't really answer that question.(I'll still give it a shot, though) Factoring normal variables of education and societal status, I would have probably ended up a paramedic, health care worker, or (hopefully) working for some world relief agency. Those have been my general passions. I would have liked to have been a doctor, but doubt I could have gotten the grades or financing for medical school, thus a technical program of some type would have been my fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Designing computer chips or atomic bombs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Probably stuck in some boring office somewhere doing some pointless repetative task and then blowing all my cash on drugs and booze at the weekend.Having a lot less fun anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramone Gemeos Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I would still be riding along with my brother, acting as his normal-sized assistant.If he hadn't errupted, I would be dead. If that whole accident had been skipped over, we would still be living together in a single bedroom rented house, doing construction work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted January 13, 2005 Author Share Posted January 13, 2005 I just remembered what else I'd be doing if I didn't have a node:Playing far too much with goofy shaped dice and "searching for treasure".:sigh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Rose Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I'd probably still be running the company with Liz, though I can't say we'd be doing near as well if either of us hadn't errupted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Painting, drawing and in all other ways searching for the proof of the existence and nature of the human soul as well as the ultimately beneficient nature of the universe. Erupting gave me the keys to all of those but lucky for me those goals turned out to be starting points instead of destinations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kestrel404 Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Doing occasionally meaningful research at Triton's labs.And a question to everyone out there. Since gaining a node, how have your opinions changed?I know that what I thought was a meaningful life then would be dull and meaningless to me now. I know that I am much more open to things I do not understand. And I wish I knew all the ways I've changed as a person, but I don't think that I ever will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I really can't say how I'd feel about it. I wouldn't know any different way, and at this point I really don't know how I fealt about it back then either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apep Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 This is a difficult question for me to consider. A well adjusted productive member of baseline society living blissfully in my ignorance. Maybe I would have studied dance or ancient history at a university. Perhaps there I would have found a husband and later moved to suburbia...That really does sound absurd doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eris Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Doing what I currently do but with a lot less style and flair! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastian Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 By now ... I would probably be dead. Between the real possability of drug addiction and the hazards of my profession, so few of us see twenty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted January 14, 2005 Author Share Posted January 14, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Alchemist:And a question to everyone out there. Since gaining a node, how have your opinions changed?When I met my first gathering of Novas I learned pretty quickly that we're not Gods, and some of us are only borderline special. When I first erupted I was all types of romanticizing.I fell hard. Fast.I'd say more but then I'd be churning out a special brand of intellectual psycho-babble that isn't that special because we're all types of familiar with it here on the forum.Been there, done that. Wear the T-shirt to paint my garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Eris, Shouldn't that be amended to ...a lot less style, flair and accidents Alchemist, To answer your question in sensible terms avoiding the kind of stuff which the starter of this topic dislikes; I can talk to animals and plants, I can see the brightests stars and planets during day light, my sense of intuition leads me to think in terms of the future pulling the present towards it as much as the past causing the present and I've seen Novas do and talk about even weirder stuff. All those things have changed my opinion about myself and the world at large.Billy God-damn it, intellectual psycho-babble is my favourite thing after cheap-shot jokes, how dare you not take my ego masturbation seriously!!! I'll deal with YOU latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Alchemist; not sure but its only been a few months. Give it a little more time and we'll talk about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conduit Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 With the exception of being electrocuted and then crushed by a building, I'd have my apprentice training done. I'd probably be working for some company wiring new land developments.Regarding my opinion? Well, I found that life was short. Even nova life doesn't last forever. I was just an average joe, a building collapsed on me. I should have died, but I was given some sweet powers. So who knows what will happen tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Via Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Well, let's just say the first thing I would be doing if I didn't have a node,is not talking about hte fact I didn't have a node.I think I would be working on a book, and reading way to much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timeslip Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 If all else proceeded in accordance with this timestream, I would be dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slattern Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by billy Horrorshow: What the hell would you be doing as one of the Nodeless?I would be very, very unhappy my toothy little sex-monkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 Probably wasting my life. Using and abusing our planet instead of saving it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 Oh, come on Cull. Don't be so down on yourself. Weren't you running around, blowing stuff up, and killing people to save the planet before all this?The life you were wasting wasn't yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 ACtually no. I was not working for the good of the planet before I was chosen. I'm very ashamed of that. I'm trying to make up for my past errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preston Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Assuming I didn't die in the fire, I would either be with Project Utopia, or still with the Boston PD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I would be dead. Impaled on construction material.It's embarassing I erupted in a schoolyard brawl gone out of hand, but, at least erupting saved my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Ew!Glad you didn't die but... Ew! Didn't any of you erupt from something other than life and death situations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violette 'V' D'Aronique Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Guilty, Tarot.I wasn't in a life or death situation. Pretty stressful one, but not life or death.If I hadn't erupted, I'd probably have gone to college, graduated, and then held down a job before getting married and starting a family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamer Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Life or Death? Not me. Not even stressful. It was rather dream like. It was peaceful and full of joy. It was the best and worst day of my life. but the eruption had nothing to do with the bad parts. Or at least directly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Whitechapel Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I erupted in the middle of a full blown Elite operation....Wait, maybe that doesn't quite count.Anyways.If I han't erupted than property values in a certain area of New York City would probably be a little higher, and barring serious and permanent injury, I would probably still be at boarding school and attenting the occasional diplomatic function.Wow, that's not really all that different from what I do now. Hmm...Odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Tarot: Ew!Glad you didn't die but... Ew! Didn't any of you erupt from something other than life and death situations? Sorry dude, but well, it is how most of us pop.And y'know something? The folks I've met that didn't erupt from danger....they kinda drift towards the weird side of things. Meh, least that's how I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Preston Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Hey, what about me?My eruption was brought about by a mass gathering of novas in peaceful memorial for the late Vile Bill. The outpouring of quantum ignited my latency and I erupted on the way back home.I don't see myself drifting toward the weird side ... compared to the Race as a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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