RV name: Rory
Post count: 6,789 (+67)
Message: At the time of this post, it's 12:36am and you have just finished a good shift at work. You are set to go part-time next week which you felt was long overdue, but you'll take it all the same. You go to the gym 3 times a week, play basketball twice a week (Wheelchair and mixed) and are striving to be better than the week before, even in minor ways. How are your skills now?
Current stats:
135kg DL
130kg Squat
75kg Bench

WB Personal best: 12 pts
Mixed Personal best: 4 pts

You had a job interview about 2 weeks ago in which you have yet to hear an answer. Any luck on that front?
If not, were you able to gain a spot in retail leaders?
If not, did you find another job?

PetrifiedParrot
Post count as of this post: 910
RS total level: 2297
I hope you're employed at a decent job now. How is it like to finally finish school? I also hope that you still play RS, and that there are updates that made you want to. How's your relationships? Did you finally go to do that thing you wanted to do?
P.S. Never eat raspberries.

RV name: Eadwulf
Post count: 4547
Message: If you still have no fear for the setting sun, good work on retaining your sanity. However if you're still not bothering to maintain impetus for what few things you have to count as ventures, I will assuredly come from the past to make your life a living hell. Most likely in the form of overwhelming anxiety. Tends to be a right bitch that way.

RV name: Jaron
Post count: 18,572
Message:

Don't be alarmed! It's me, your younger self! I've come from the past to allow you to finish this ref--

How are things? I'm sitting here at home on a weekend free from class, running my teapot simulator so I can finish this research paper thing hopefully within the coming weeks. Just finished getting every achievement in Papers Please, and tomorrow I intend to start catching up on Critical Role. I'm like 7 episodes behind!

How has work been over the past year? By now you've launched the first project I'm currently working on and have likely moved on to one or two other ones. Did it turn out awesome? It crazy to think that the code I'm writing every day has the chance to impact 1 in 7 people on the planet. So crazy. Gain any new team members? Lose any old ones (hopefully not)? How many badges you got? I've got 28.

Life is pretty stable at the moment, so what else do we usually talk about? Video games? I've got a bunch I'm going to start playing soon that have been in my backlog for ages. Legacy of the Void also comes out in a couple days, so that's neat. Bloodstained is supposed to come out in early 2017 or something and I don't remember when Obduction is due. Project Diva X, etc. etc.

I'm not going to ask about DnD. This is me not asking!

I am going to ask about your voice acting classes, though! How have they gone lately? Have you taken any private lessons or made a demo? If not, then are you soon? I'm really excited to hear how you've improved in a year. I ordered a new license plate two days ago and I hope the acronym on it is as true for you as it is for me.

Oh, I also want to know how your Imgur scratch-offs game went! Right now there are 33 people getting tagged to play every day, haha. Did you end up buying more cards? Did you ever reach a wider audience?

I think that's all I've got for ya! I'm pretty sure I'll still be sitting right there in the same place next year with no big lifestyle changes. Keep on doing what you're doing, and I hope things have turned out well as a result! Take care.

RV name: mrpoop47
Post count: 21

How's your welding skills coming along?
Is your Hypothyroidism better, the same or worse?
Are you still playing MineCraft?
So far you have gone 1 year 2 months and 20 days without drinking. How's that going?
Have you done any woodworking projects?
Am I still married? (The wife came up with that question)
We just visted Carthage Texas. What other cities in Texas have you visited?

RV Name: Market Man6
Post Count: 4913 (+308 from 12 months ago)‎
RS Skill Total: 1994‎
RS Display Name: Market Man6, Ares Dawn‎
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You better be over 5K posts! 4913 puts me at 84th highest post count on RV

It's amusing that I got 6 levels in RS in the last 12 months
I didn't go snowboarding as much as I wanted to. Maybe this winter i'll go a few more times.
Banff friends are good! Another child has arrived.
I did not end up going through Tough Mudder a second time. I remember it being very fun. But I don't have anyone to go with. I also don't have any plans for going in 2016.
Yeah, and I was never called back to do elevations on the tank bases after they were full. And the 2015 summer was filled with odds and ends. No large projects. I did spend a bit of time on pad 104, and it's A/R.
That was a nice Turner Valley job. One of those photos made it to the wall collage.
Nope! No sleds. And I really doubt i'll get any this year.
Carron drives!! Yay! And she still works at the nursing home. Yay.
No hellcat ram tear. But I do have a roll pan for my truck! Now it needs to be painted and put on. That better be done by 2016. And maybe a chip and exhaust. Did you go with borla?
Roys things are ok, I guess. I really hope they improve over the next while. He's lost 0.5 so now he has 33.2. I've also tried to buy a few things on my own. Hopefully that exploration group really takes off!! that would be extremely exciting.
Surprisingly, the basement isnt quite done yet. I have to install the new toilet, and taps. Then finish cleaning.
The Classic is wicked. But annoying at the same time. It's great to have a such a well functioning keyboard, but too few applications utilize the track pad. And there are a some inconsistencies throughout the OS that could be fixed. Maybe 10.3.3 or 10.4 will correct this. 10.3.3 is supposed to be out in March.‎
Are you still rocking the classic?
The deck wasn't a go this year. Things were fairly slow at work, so I decided not to spend a bunch of cash on the yard. But on the plus side, Reid will probably be able to stamp my design so maybe i'll get to work on it in the summer of 2016.
Was the Pike plant a go? I hope you're getting tons of hours there! How about your own truck?‎
Have you beat all the challenges in SSB4?
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Name: Kikori
Post count: 11,309 after completion
Message: Well, as of writing this, it's turning to 2013 all over again. But let's not give into despair; according to what you told LA, that's pretty much the worst thing around. So!

Life in general: It shouldn't need much reminding, but this message is being written at a time when the work schedule is changing to a mandatory 5:30 am to 4:00 pm Monday to Saturday stretch lasting until... oh, the end of the first week of December or so. No clue if it'll stick, because Apple. Ah, well. You've survived worse, this only hits hard because of losing DnD and probably confusing both yours and Misty's sleep schedules a fair bit. But, let's see what else is working out.
Natsu's life is kinda stretched thin right now with a one-room apartment and college life. Rosie's is thinner with gearing up (mostly mentally) for a big move for university that she's not for totally secured into. LA's physical condition has gone from severe diabetes to adding growing blindness to the list. Hopefully that hasn't utterly destroyed her. Jon's art has hit a serious mode stretch right about now, though the results are probably worth it. Kitty's, however, seems to be stalling. Probably understandable there. PR seemed interested in friendship, which is nice, and Archie's been hopping back and forth across state lines. Both toilets have a little leak, but aside from that nothing about the home life looks horrid. At least not now that the ivy in the garden has been well attacked.

Games: Courtesy of Misty, Animal Crossing's made a really, really big presence. It's easy to see why Jon described it as the kind of game that can consume your life; there's always this one little thing to do here or there that seems valuable to do, but really. It's all just a game, man. Let's see...
DnD, of course. At this point I still haven't started either a sketch of Ember or a journal posting (though without any official topic on the forum, little reason for it there). Hopefully this month long potential break from it doesn't ruin things, since the team as a whole looks fun despite dysfunction.
FFXII is still in the PS2, and is still quite the story to tell... but let's be honest, by now a PS3 or PS4 should be a thing. Or maybe a Wii U.
Did you ever try Undertale? Even the demo? Have you played a single live Dota 2 game? Any progress on MvM with the crew? Finally finish Skyrim's story? Finally clear your no-early-power-armor genocidal run of Fallout 2? Kick MM6's ass in Smash like he wants? (Finally learned to kick James' like Brawl days?)

Home and Family: Well, as described earlier, you just learned that the master bath's toilet has a small leak. Nowhere near as bad as the guest's, but a leak is still bad. The washer was just freshly repaired (darn broken plastic pieces), and the garden's ivy problem has been largely weeded out. But the rose bush hasn't been moved, rocks remain, trees remain, roof hasn't been replaced, and the mortgage is on its fourth place to pay to. Progress report better be good!
The family's largely still healthy. Last time the parents were visited, there was a fresh coat of paint and new curtains in the to-be office room, though anything else wasn't set in stone. They seemed really excited to have space and so on... did they ever admit to having that alcohol for a party? Adam's still running himself ragged for money for legalities, hopefully that's improved. Joshua... well, failed everyone's hopes pretty hard. I'm sure Thanksgiving will be an event worth writing down and saving to load and copy-paste into the response post when it comes up, heh. How'd Nico's series of trials go? He's really bright, it's just a matter of effort and stability. I don't even have to ask about Misty; really, it's only if you've gotten better at showing you care. (Look at me, trying to shift it to blaming my future self instead of recognizing that it's me here and now that's at the most fault. Har.)

Idle Curiosities: Did Meg ever show up again? Laura finally find some stability? Temptation for more than fighting Phoenix in FFXIV ever return? How's Jackstick's presence in the RV skype group going? Did Chris ever man up and say a word? Seriously, with how well our life is at this point, it's not like we're even worried about what's owed. Have you FINALLY replaced any part of your desktop? Even that mouse? Speaking of computers, I just got done pulsing and got us up to 60,659,396 keystrokes and 9,906,005 clicks. What are we at now? (Seriously, Simon, how hard DO you have to try? :V) Adam and Misty ever get to meet in more than just text via Skype? Still haven't got that tooth looked at, have you? How far along in house and car payments are you? Any improvements to work process? We still have that sequence change and cart idea to really streamline things, after all... Pay for Performance still hasn't hit, will it? The realistic expectation for me is early 2017, heh.
Well, sleep time. ... Already. ... Bleh. Good luck in the future!

RV name: Magicana Drofulcus
Post Count: 6712
RS Total: 2595 (795,219,505 xp)

How are you doing in life? Still TFWNOGF? Job hunt gone slightly better than this year?

RV name: the123king
Post count: 5076ish (finally sorcering it after 9 years)
Message:

Another year older, another year drunker.

Yes, i still work in that godawful pub. It's quiz season so stop being miserable. Hours are hours at this time of year.

And yes, i had a decent job in computers, until i got given "redundancy" because the guy couldn't make enough money :/ maybe next season. Either way, i'll keep drumming him up business

known knowns and known unknowns and unknown unknowns are all unknown to me atm, probably due to the beers. And no, we have none, so tough . You had enough earlier so why complain? And , you're a barman, pour your own next time you're working!

Either waqy. Today is my birthday, much like it was this time last year. More beers and less moaning next year

RV name: SparkyAMS
Post count: 199
Message:

Past SparkyAMS [PSA] began trolling SparkyAMS [SA] - -

PSA: If I don't hit 200 by next year, assume I died.
SA: What a dumb thing to post what was I thinking...

RV name: Applequest
Post count: 12,194
Message: How is Elizabeth doing? Right now the most exciting thing she does is smile.

RV name: Thr
Post count: 373
Message:

So, did you ever manage to put together a decent art portfolio? (You better have you sneaky procrastinator you)

How did that possibly moving to Arizona turn out? If you did move you probably just recently got there. You should meet up with some friends you met at basic.

What job do you have now?

Meet anyone interesting in the span of a year?

Is Tom Clancy's The Division any good?

RV Name: Spirographed
Post Count: 1747
Message: Did you take care of that $10,000....orrrrrr...not. :/

RV Name: Topsummoner
Post Count: 7048
Message:

So here we are again, it's always such a pleasure.

At the time of writing, you're quite seriously depressed, thirsty as all , working at Kelsey's, and waiting.

You're waiting for next summer when it looks like you're finally going to get to Toronto. So I hope with every fiber of my being that when you read this, it'll be from there.

Your mom had a heart attack in August. How's she doing now? She seemed well on the road to recovery. I hope you're still in touch with Grandpa. Leaving both of them behind is one of your major holdups about leaving town.

I really hope things are better for you.

PS:
>TY DOON
>Like Harrison Ford in the Sahara Desert
>I can turn it off
>Greedy, to eat all that. You'll wind up with your teeth all gray
>THE MEADOWLARK, AND THE CHIM-CHOO-REE, AND THE SPAAAAAAAAROOOOOOW

RV Name: Muscular Ape
Post Count: 8735
Message:

Like everything else, you're rushing things because you left it to the last minute.

Gaming: You feel like you're pretty much done with RS, but you've heard that one before! Your ironman ended up on 1983 total (Rank 83 still somehow) and you had a lot of fun on the account, but GW2 called. Speaking of which, you're close to making the new Legendary Staff Nevermore, which you'll complete as soon as Anet fix the collection bugs... I wonder if that will take long. You're enjoying the expansion a lot, still in the no-lifing phase one month on (whoops). You've racked up a total 5129 hours (with 20,095 AP, 11 level 80s, WvW Rank 854 and sPvP rank 47) on Gw2 and I suspect you will still be playing in one year's time as it really is your favourite mmorpg you've played. Perhaps not as much though? Wait, you said that last year! Damn.

Real world: I'll keep this short and sweet. Do you still live at home? Do you have a job/career path? Have you travelled at all like you keep saying you are going to? Have you made any progress on some of your issues that are weighing you down? Are you happy?

RV name: Jaron
Post count: 18,572
Message:

Don't be alarmed! It's me, your younger self! I've come from the past to allow you to finish this ref--

How are things? I'm sitting here at home on a weekend free from class, running my teapot simulator so I can finish this research paper thing hopefully within the coming weeks. Just finished getting every achievement in Papers Please, and tomorrow I intend to start catching up on Critical Role. I'm like 7 episodes behind!

How has work been over the past year? By now you've launched the first project I'm currently working on and have likely moved on to one or two other ones. Did it turn out awesome? It crazy to think that the code I'm writing every day has the chance to impact 1 in 7 people on the planet. So crazy. Gain any new team members? Lose any old ones (hopefully not)? How many badges you got? I've got 28.

Life is pretty stable at the moment, so what else do we usually talk about? Video games? I've got a bunch I'm going to start playing soon that have been in my backlog for ages. Legacy of the Void also comes out in a couple days, so that's neat. Bloodstained is supposed to come out in early 2017 or something and I don't remember when Obduction is due. Project Diva X, etc. etc.

I'm not going to ask about DnD. This is me not asking!

I am going to ask about your voice acting classes, though! How have they gone lately? Have you taken any private lessons or made a demo? If not, then are you soon? I'm really excited to hear how you've improved in a year. I ordered a new license plate two days ago and I hope the acronym on it is as true for you as it is for me.

Oh, I also want to know how your Imgur scratch-offs game went! Right now there are 33 people getting tagged to play every day, haha. Did you end up buying more cards? Did you ever reach a wider audience?

I think that's all I've got for ya! I'm pretty sure I'll still be sitting right there in the same place next year with no big lifestyle changes. Keep on doing what you're doing, and I hope things have turned out well as a result! Take care.

PetrifiedParrot
Post count as of this post: 910
RS total level: 2297
I hope you're employed at a decent job now. How is it like to finally finish school? I also hope that you still play RS, and that there are updates that made you want to. How's your relationships? Did you finally go to do that thing you wanted to do?
P.S. Never eat raspberries.

RV Name: Muscular Ape
Post Count: 8735

Gaming: You feel like you're pretty much done with RS, but you've heard that one before! Your ironman ended up on 1983 total (Rank 83 still somehow) and you had a lot of fun on the account, but GW2 called.

Speaking of which, you're close to making the new Legendary Staff Nevermore, which you'll complete as soon as Anet fix the collection bugs... I wonder if that will take long. You're enjoying the expansion a lot, still in the no-lifing phase one month on (whoops).

You've racked up a total 5129 hours (with 20,095 AP, 11 level 80s, WvW Rank 854 and sPvP rank 47) on Gw2 and I suspect you will still be playing in one year's time as it really is your favourite mmorpg you've played. Perhaps not as much though? Wait, you said that last year! Damn.

Real world: I'll keep this short and sweet. Do you still live at home? Do you have a job/career path? Have you travelled at all like you keep saying you are going to? Have you made any progress on some of your issues that are weighing you down? Are you happy?

RV name: Eadwulf
Post count: 4547
Message: If you still have no fear for the setting sun, good work on retaining your sanity. However if you're still not bothering to maintain impetus for what few things you have to count as ventures, I will assuredly come from the past to make your life a living hell. Most likely in the form of overwhelming anxiety. Tends to be a right bitch that way.

RV Name: Topsummoner
Post Count: 7048

Message:

So here we are again, it's always such a pleasure.

At the time of writing, you're quite seriously depressed, thirsty as all , working at Kelsey's, and waiting.

You're waiting for next summer when it looks like you're finally going to get to Toronto. So I hope with every fiber of my being that when you read this, it'll be from there.

Your mom had a heart attack in August. How's she doing now? She seemed well on the road to recovery. I hope you're still in touch with Grandpa. Leaving both of them behind is one of your major holdups about leaving town.

I really hope things are better for you.

PS:
>TY DOON
>Like Harrison Ford in the Sahara Desert
>I can turn it off
>Greedy, to eat all that. You'll wind up with your teeth all gray
>THE MEADOWLARK, AND THE CHIM-CHOO-REE, AND THE SPAAAAAAAAROOOOOOW

Name: Kikori
Post count: 11,309 after completion
Message: Well, as of writing this, it's turning to 2013 all over again. But let's not give into despair; according to what you told LA, that's pretty much the worst thing around. So!

Life in general: It shouldn't need much reminding, but this message is being written at a time when the work schedule is changing to a mandatory 5:30 am to 4:00 pm Monday to Saturday stretch lasting until... oh, the end of the first week of December or so. No clue if it'll stick, because Apple. Ah, well. You've survived worse, this only hits hard because of losing DnD and probably confusing both yours and Misty's sleep schedules a fair bit. But, let's see what else is working out.
Natsu's life is kinda stretched thin right now with a one-room apartment and college life. Rosie's is thinner with gearing up (mostly mentally) for a big move for university that she's not for totally secured into. LA's physical condition has gone from severe diabetes to adding growing blindness to the list. Hopefully that hasn't utterly destroyed her. Jon's art has hit a serious mode stretch right about now, though the results are probably worth it. Kitty's, however, seems to be stalling. Probably understandable there. PR seemed interested in friendship, which is nice, and Archie's been hopping back and forth across state lines. Both toilets have a little leak, but aside from that nothing about the home life looks horrid. At least not now that the ivy in the garden has been well attacked.

Games: Courtesy of Misty, Animal Crossing's made a really, really big presence. It's easy to see why Jon described it as the kind of game that can consume your life; there's always this one little thing to do here or there that seems valuable to do, but really. It's all just a game, man. Let's see...
DnD, of course. At this point I still haven't started either a sketch of Ember or a journal posting (though without any official topic on the forum, little reason for it there). Hopefully this month long potential break from it doesn't ruin things, since the team as a whole looks fun despite dysfunction.
FFXII is still in the PS2, and is still quite the story to tell... but let's be honest, by now a PS3 or PS4 should be a thing. Or maybe a Wii U.
Did you ever try Undertale? Even the demo? Have you played a single live Dota 2 game? Any progress on MvM with the crew? Finally finish Skyrim's story? Finally clear your no-early-power-armor genocidal run of Fallout 2? Kick MM6's ass in Smash like he wants? (Finally learned to kick James' like Brawl days?)

Home and Family: Well, as described earlier, you just learned that the master bath's toilet has a small leak. Nowhere near as bad as the guest's, but a leak is still bad. The washer was just freshly repaired (darn broken plastic pieces), and the garden's ivy problem has been largely weeded out. But the rose bush hasn't been moved, rocks remain, trees remain, roof hasn't been replaced, and the mortgage is on its fourth place to pay to. Progress report better be good!
The family's largely still healthy. Last time the parents were visited, there was a fresh coat of paint and new curtains in the to-be office room, though anything else wasn't set in stone. They seemed really excited to have space and so on... did they ever admit to having that alcohol for a party? Adam's still running himself ragged for money for legalities, hopefully that's improved. Joshua... well, failed everyone's hopes pretty hard. I'm sure Thanksgiving will be an event worth writing down and saving to load and copy-paste into the response post when it comes up, heh. How'd Nico's series of trials go? He's really bright, it's just a matter of effort and stability. I don't even have to ask about Misty; really, it's only if you've gotten better at showing you care. (Look at me, trying to shift it to blaming my future self instead of recognizing that it's me here and now that's at the most fault. Har.)

Idle Curiosities: Did Meg ever show up again? Laura finally find some stability? Temptation for more than fighting Phoenix in FFXIV ever return? How's Jackstick's presence in the RV skype group going? Did Chris ever man up and say a word? Seriously, with how well our life is at this point, it's not like we're even worried about what's owed. Have you FINALLY replaced any part of your desktop? Even that mouse? Speaking of computers, I just got done pulsing and got us up to 60,659,396 keystrokes and 9,906,005 clicks. What are we at now? (Seriously, Simon, how hard DO you have to try? :V) Adam and Misty ever get to meet in more than just text via Skype? Still haven't got that tooth looked at, have you? How far along in house and car payments are you? Any improvements to work process? We still have that sequence change and cart idea to really streamline things, after all... Pay for Performance still hasn't hit, will it? The realistic expectation for me is early 2017, heh.
Well, sleep time. ... Already. ... Bleh. Good luck in the future!

It was pretty depressing to leave school. What many people online stated was true: a loss of identity, but months after i got out of school, i did get a decent job that pays well and isn't too tough. Things are less worse. Yes, i do still play RS a little, but not many updates interest me. And yes, i did do that thing i wanted to do!
2381 skill total. Invention's 25 levels was a big boost. 180 more posts since last time.
Finally a time capsule response that was good.
I also still get that Hey Arnold reference.

Is there a reason why the time capsule tradition is ending?