How are you, EMC?

Discussion in 'Community Discussion' started by AlexC__, Apr 7, 2014.

  1. With all that's gone on this weekend, I think it's time for some good old, chatty discussion.

    Let's tighten the community even further: Know something about someone's problem? Great at giving girl advice? Help them out. :)

    So, how are you? What's going on in your life right now? What have you been working on in Minecraft? Share anything that's on your mind.
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  2. You and Jack? D: Trust me though, once it's over you feel pretty great :)
  3. I finished 18200 museum actually :) Quite happy with it! Just looking for some more very rare items though :D I should open it soon, I believe, although I am not too sure on a date/time!
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  4. My internet has been really crappy :( I've had much less time to spend in EMC. Can you contact my ISP and sort it out for me please? :D
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  5. Well, I've not really been able to do much on the EMC servers recently, because of a project of my own.

    I am a member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, a liberal internationalist political party seeking to address the issues of sectarianism between the British Protestant communities and Irish Catholic communities.

    I live here, over on the west side of the country. Politics here is dominated by Sinn Fein (pronounced 'shin fain', Irish for 'Ourselves Alone'), dominant in Strabane town, and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), dominant in the rural areas surrounding Strabane. Sinn Fein supports a united Irish republic, where Northern Ireland leaves the UK and joins the Republic of Ireland, and the DUP supports a continued union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

    However, the main issue in Northern Ireland is not what country we should belong to, it is the bitter divisions caused by this vicious debate, which sparked a 30 year civil conflict between 1969 and 1998 known as 'the Troubles'. All shootings and most bombings have stopped. 'most' is emphasized because there was a bomb found in an alleyway a week or so ago, and let me tell you, I pass that alleyway on the way to school.

    Ignoring the dissident threat, there are the issues of
    • rioting over flags and parades
    • territorial markings such as flags on lampposts and painted kerbstones blighting our villages and towns, which reduces tourism, trade and investment
    • there are two main types of school; Protestant schools, and Catholic schools. 95% of pupils are taught in these schools, with the remaining 5% taught in integrated schools, with both Protestant and Catholic children, as well as those from ethnic minorities
    • towns and villages are usually 99% Protestant or 99% Catholic, except Belfast, where all the Protestants are on one side of the city and all the Catholics are on the other
    • in Belfast, Derry and a few other places, physical 'peace' walls have to be put between a few neighbourhoods to stop Protestants and Catholics from rioting against each other
    • people spray slogans and murals supporting paramilitaries on public walls
    The DUP and Sinn Fein really don't care about these issues, all they want is their precious UK or Ireland defended. Two thirds of our young people intend to leave Northern Ireland. Sectarianism and segregation costs the Northern Ireland government £1.5 billion every year, and our economy much more. This is a pretty damn huge problem.
    Unbelievably, as I said, these parties dominate politics in Northern Ireland, and Strabane.
    I want to change this.
    In May, there will be two elections; one to decide three representatives for Northern Ireland in the European Parliament, and one to elect Councillors to eleven new district councils in Northern Ireland (formerly 26, the reform will be complete next year). I believe this will be a PERFECT opportunity to garner some real Alliance support in Strabane, and I have a plan.
    I have gotten myself a website. On this website, I shall put my plan for a new Strabane. I will advocate that we invest heavily in STEM industries to turn the economy around, promote a more shared Strabane, free of sectarianism and segregation, along with some other stuff. Once I have it done, imma let y'all know.
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  6. Living day by day a crappy life that I want to stop. Do you think you can stop it for me? :c
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  7. Well it'll be testweek for me too...

    I've been grinding some endermen today, and in the weekend I had a running match, it was a 5k and I did, as one of the only of my team, really well! I finished it in 17:37! :D Although it was a kind of match with the best people from the Netherlands, the first finished in 14:58 XD
  8. If it's done I would just open it, the sooner the better :D
    Nice :)
    This sucks :( I get really frustrated and always demand they fix it or I switch provider (or I don't, and use up all my data :p)
    Impressive :)
    I'm sure things will pick up :)
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  9. I intended to have some kind of special opening for it, but not really sure :rolleyes: Could possibly do a giveaway, even if it was just a prize such as the Cupid's Bow.. I still am quite stuck on how I want to open it and when, but yes, sooner would be better :D
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  10. Finally got a job, all I needed was somebody to give me a chance, and I eventually found that place! A small family run gift shop about 20 mins from my house. Worked almost 20 hours in the last two days :) But sadly during this time I have neglected EMC D: Just hopping on the website from my phone to keep voting.

    Now I will be needing to juggle work and catching up in school (again..) and try to keep myself off of MC for the most part (like that will happen! Not addicted, I swear!). Other than that, nothing too special I have only 30 days of school until I am done for good. And it can't come fast enough!

    Now that I wrote a short memoir here, I will hop on to the servers now to procrastinate some more
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  11. I've basically stopped playing minecraft. All I do is like posts on the forums lol
  12. go out somewhere with keithy ^-^
  13. Dude I've been all sorts of happy, I got married again; Sorry Alex's voice but his is better. I've been happier and a lot healthier, I've taken up new hobbies and gotten used to not being in school. I unno mang Lifes been good
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  14. well.

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  15. this like sums up my life in a nut shell
  16. Alex how are you? We never hear from you, its your turn! ;) What have you been doing lately? How's life?
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  17. I am shooting my computer :D
  18. Life outside of minecraft have been bumpy, on minecraft, empire mainly, we're dealing with a shift in leadership with the outpost I'm in, so it's fun dealing with a new person as a 2nd co-leader. I'm also finishing up my mall, got some people to ask me about my prices and they said I was cheap (And I loved it)
  19. MC life: my dad hates MC, can't play till weekend.
    Real life: going to a shooting competition with my cousin, having some real brain problems that are killing me! And buying 2 mice for a project :D.
    Future: Is coming with good and bad things.
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