Ambitions you have that might sound silly to others

kerr9000 wrote:
Have you ever tried that Namawrimo write a book in a month thing that people do?

nah not tried that, doubt i could get the time to write one in a month. never know though.

I’d like to learn to code so I can build a 10-minute game for phones based on the Frank Turner song ‘Balthazar Impresario’ which functions like a musical JRPG where each level is a different line from the song and you have to fight ATB battles against inner demons and anxiety. I would sell it for £2 and all proceeds would go to charity.

Finish the washing.

Probably won't surprise anyone but I'd really like to design an achievement list, or even just one achievement. Preferably for my own game, but even just helping with someone else's would be amazing. I think I'd be really good at it.

Learn to code.
Record a song with vocals. Release an EP.
Get married maybe.

Squinty wrote:Learn to code.
Record a song with vocals. Release an EP.
Get married maybe.

You need to send me some stuff!

Victor Mildew wrote:
Squinty wrote:Learn to code.
Record a song with vocals. Release an EP.
Get married maybe.

You need to send me some stuff!

Can I be the Bez in this band?

Ever since I read Aldous Huxley's The Doors Of Perception, I've wanted to take mescaline.

Moggy wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:
Squinty wrote:Learn to code.
Record a song with vocals. Release an EP.
Get married maybe.

You need to send me some stuff!

Can I be the Bez in this band?

We can be called the "Happy Fridays!"

Victor Mildew wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:
Squinty wrote:Learn to code.
Record a song with vocals. Release an EP.
Get married maybe.

You need to send me some stuff!

Can I be the Bez in this band?

We can be called the "Happy Fridays!"

Happy Days and the Minions

The lead singer dresses as the Fonz, everyone else as a Minion.

I'm not a very ambitious or driven person.

I occasionally write short stories and I think it would be cool to write something a bit longer one day. (It's all just for fun though. I wouldn't want to publish even if it were possible.)

I would also like to visit Japan! It would be expensive, and it's difficult to arrange extended trips away around work and so on, but hopefully it will happen one day.

I think it's interesting that the "silly ambitions" thread is filled with people wanting to make something creative and/or go experience a different culture. There's nothing remotely silly about either of those things, but I can definitely sympathise with the worry that you're wasting time or being frivolous.

Good luck to everyone on their ambitions. A few people have mentioned making a simple game for their own amusement -- you should start threads, I'm sure you'll get loads of support. Programming a simple game is very achievable nowadays with frameworks you can use that lay the foundations for you.

Dowbocop wrote:Finish the washing.

site23 wrote:Good luck to everyone on their ambitions. A few people have mentioned making a simple game for their own amusement -- you should start threads, I'm sure you'll get loads of support. Programming a simple game is very achievable nowadays with frameworks you can use that lay the foundations for you.

I just want to echo this, a couple of years ago I expressed some desires on making a game on this forum and Karl and a couple of others gave me some advice. It's taken a little while, but I've now got a project which is maybe a couple of months away, and I'm extremely excited about it.

That's very exciting, congratulations mhtl! Looking forward to seeing what you've been working on!

One further ambition i do have is to one day visit New York, never been, and have never been able to afford to do it (not to mention the logistics involved is an issue for me as i've never flown so wouldn't know what the hell i was doing in the airports).

site23 wrote:I think it's interesting that the "silly ambitions" thread is filled with people wanting to make something creative and/or go experience a different culture. There's nothing remotely silly about either of those things, but I can definitely sympathise with the worry that you're wasting time or being frivolous.

Maybe it's just the circles I move within, but it seems adult life is 'supposed' to just be:

Work
Watch tv
Buy gooseberry fool
Mobile phones
Kids
A holiday if you're lucky.

Anything that falls outside of that is 'a waste of time'. Ive tried talking about my music with people and generally people just don't give a gooseberry fool, not even remotely interested. If someone told me they had a load of stuff that theyd made, be it music or games, or writing, I'd be all over asking to see it. Even those that play games as a big part of my hobby scoff at me for SIM racing (just buy a car!!!!!).

I struggle to think of many concrete ambitions. Not that I don't want to achieve things in my life, I definitely feel that desire to achieve stuff, but I just don't know what.

I have some immediate "ambitions" in the sense that there are things I want to achieve with home improvements, and doing things for my family, but they all feel a bit too material and kind of like the normal things people would want as their life progresses to be considered ambitions. They're certainly not lofty or creative.

A while back, I realised that a lot of my goals or aims in life were often in the past tense. Like, I would want to be someone who was well read, rather than be someone who reads a lot, or I would want to be someone who is proficient at a creative skill, rather than want to learn that skill. I wanted to have done stuff, rather than want to do stuff. Would I like to be a musician? Hell yeah! Do I want to learn music? Ew, no. It's honestly a very immature mindset if I think about it.

It's very cliche to say that "it's all about the journey, not the destination" but it's true. The issue I have is, I'm obsessed over destinations, and struggle to identify what kind of "journey" I would even want.

For the last several years I've held a strong ambition to win the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize since going to one of the winning exhibitions in 2017.

It's probably silly in the sense that photography prizes are starting to be seen as a bit grubby, in how subjects are sometimes exploited because misery plays better with industry judges but I'm pulled by the idea of having a big creative achievement I guess.

Cuttooth wrote:For the last several years I've held a strong ambition to win the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize since going to one of the winning exhibitions in 2017.

It's probably silly in the sense that photography prizes are starting to be seen as a bit grubby, in how subjects are sometimes exploited because misery plays better with industry judges but I'm pulled by the idea of having a big creative achievement I guess.

If misery is a winning formula then feel free to use me as a model, you'll win every prize going!

I've always wanted to write something, but can never find the motivation to sit down and actually start writing, which is a bit problematic. However, I do have a fun idea for a story to write for my wife for our 1 year anniversary about one of our cats and his adventures before we adopted him, I'm hoping the fact it is specifically for someone and has a deadline (6 months!) means that I actually sit down and get it done.

I spent a couple of hours messing around with Unity once and like many here would like to create a simple game, but again it's finding the time to do so.

Travel-wise New York and Japan are on our list of places to go, and we're hoping to do Japan within the next year or two so hopefully that goes ahead as planned!

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