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Straightforward question: Where will you be in 10 years?

Haha for some reason this answer really made me laugh :D

Well, it is true.

Image that best describes me in 10 years:

In a hole, frying bacon, reading fanfiction educational literature.  EDIT: Hopefully getting into college, maybe with a gf or bf by then...

well if things go the way I want to...

Kieser university trying to,major in culinary

Dead from eating to much bacon.

In ten years, I'd like to be in 8th grade give or take a few grades. I wonder how many people don't understand what that means.

Am about to finish my master's degree, so I don't even know where I'll be in a year, let alone in ten... Also, thanks for giving me existential anxiety late at night.

In my body. (Well, I hope)

Edit: And hopefully I'll have a published story on this site.

In college. 

Hopefully I'd be financially secure. Oh, and in a nice house by then just to answer the question in a more literal way as well.

I feel like answering this question with anything naively hopeful would be jinxing the shit out of myself, so LOL, in all honesty, probably dead.

Hopefully I'll be living a happy life with a nice job and perhaps maybe a boyfriend (HA!). Hopefully, I'll be a good person in 10 years time, someone who I can respect and admire, and hopefully I'll have matured.

Living a dingy apartment trying to pay off gambling debts while dealing with shitty roommates whilst trying to survive through ebook publications through shitfest amazon.

See, I like this. A man with realistic expectations.

Now if you exceed them you'll get to be pleasantly surprised.
 

Getting passed around in a prison shower block, after a failed Beta Uprising. 

Coked out in the back alley of a McDonald's.

Bragging about how, even though my dick didn't work for most of my teenhood, and I spent the next 2 years after that abstaining due to moral and existential qualms, I still managed to get laid sooner than all the other fuckers in the room with me. And then the bronies would have to have me forcibly removed from their convention, presumably with all the ones who've gone and fucked actual horses sniggering at me, because they lost their virginity at 12 or 13.

And then presumably drowning the insecurities necessary to actually need to go and do that to an army of strangers for self-assurement in the nearest dive with a plastic bottle of Vodka next to the dingiest jukebox that only plays Johnny Cash.

.....that's, uh, different.

*choke*

Is that cringe or depression?

In a desolate place, trying not to get killed by the zombies infected with Toxoplasma Gondii and Cordyceps. it's real and it's coming! (the zombie apocalypse)

I have the odd feeling that you only learned about those on some sort of NatGeo BS hypothetical show that probably aired last week.

Toxoplasmosis is nasty, don't get me wrong, but T. Gondii has a weird-ass reproductive cycle that requires cat intestines, so it probably isn't the best candidate for cause of zombie apocalypse.

Cordyceps, as far as I know, has a long way to go before it can hijack mammalian brains.

#TheLastOfUs

And Cordyceps will probably never get that far, because not only will it require several freak mutations to survive for generations and require extremely specific circumstances, but Evolution works sheerly because the person who has the most babies wins, and so long as they continue to be able to turn bugs into mushroom popcorn efficiently, they'll never make man-zombies.

This TLOU shit is getting annoying. I almost miss the days when all the kids' bullshit came from animes like Corey in the House. At least that was better source material.

Well, that's what we have biologists for, fucking with the genomes of things that have the potential to destroy us ten times over.

I'm tired of zombies in general...

Maybe (?) publishing my first storygame.

I'm going to go with... dead.

That's a shame.

Meh, not really.

but all the things you could do.......*sigh*

Nah, life only goes downhill after your twenties.

B.S! that's not good thinkin! you need to go outside,go for a run and get some SUN! you'll see what life offers if you just have a good mentality.

Hmm... that's the shittiest advice I've ever heard. The same kind of sentimental nonsense put on a hallmark card.

woah, dude! we...that's it we can't be friends anymore...I can't be your friend, sorry........

We're... did you think we were friends before this? I'm pretty sure our only other interaction was me making a satire reference that went over your head.

I thought everyone was friends here at CYS. we're....you know.....like a big family right?..............right?

... no. Your optimism is painful.

Steve, please, do stop being rude. You're hurting little Timmy.

Timmy? my names Read4Ever!

Huh. That got dark quickly. Don't crush Read's optimism Steve, it's strange to meet an optimistic person on the Internet (except me of course) :D But yeah, given how much I smoke I don't realistically expect to live beyond my fifties or sixties unless I can find a beautiful and loving wife whose lungs I can steal while she's sleeping... don't ask how :D

Oh Lord, Will the Lung Theif.  0_9

Wat.

No, Steve, she's actually right on this one. We are a family.

Of course, family is just a group of people who feel that they are entitled to your life and can persistently fuck you over with impunity.

I think that he got the idea from the fact that this site is relatively small. 

I would say, acquantinces more or less.

Dear God, I'd never insult you folks like that. 

In all fairness, though, anyone who's been consistently watching the things I've said here (and carefully straining out the obvious bits of roleplaying) knows more about me than practically anybody in my family.

Nah, there's a family heah. Jus becuz you ain't patta da Family don't mean there ain't one.

There is Family, and it runs CYS, if ya catch what I'm sayin'. Now, if ya want, you go over there to the guy with the bat. His name's Fat Fuckin' Tony. He'll tell ya everythin' you gotta know about bein' in da Family.

Penguin I can see you as one of the badass midgets in the Boston Mafia.

WOAH WOAH WOAH *Flicks out switchblade* You be tonin' it down with that M word, ya heah me?

We ain't a Mafia. We're da Family. Now you better clarify yourself or ya might not be able to form the "M" sound anymoah, if ye dig my shit.

Oi! Sent! Whatddaya think you're doin, you fokin dago?

He's under Our protection, so you best back up now, yeah? Don't want things to get bloody now, wot?

Ya don' want tings to get ugly do ya!

Oi dennao whoi wae seddenry tahned fram the Bustan mub inna tha Cockey mob, bat if thet's the case, oi'm leavin' boffavya fer the Australian coke runnas!

Hopefully attending university and studying for a health sciences degree.

wonderful, I hope it comes true.

;-; <--- in ten years will be in college majoring in Literature

awesome!

10 years, huh?

Provided nothing horrific happens to me, I expect I'll have a kid. Maybe two-three, but at least one. I'll be done with Magick Academy (woo! xD) and hopefully the rest of my current projects. Maybe I'll finish actually publish a novel like I keep telling myself I will one day, as proof that I haven't given up on all of my childhood dreams in favor of practicality. I'd also like to at least finish one voice acting project, because aside from writing and singing, I always thought acting would be a fun pursuit. 

Wait, you sing, Kiel?

Do you sing Blues?

>///> Yeah, I do. Not a lot in public anymore, mostly a rare lullaby to my younger patients (or youngest sister) and occasionally around my spouse now. (There was a brief stint with a band, and a few years of choir. The director gushed about me quite a bit, so ... allegedly I was pretty good... ^^;;)  

Well, I... can? It's not exactly my favorite style of music.

Really? That's a good skill, you know. Can get you to a lot of places.

So not only are you a writer, medical professional, and mod on a CYOS forum, but you're also a singer who was in choir and... A BAND?!

What was the band name?

... that last part was a joke, beeteedubs. Because your avatar... wasn't that good of a joke, in hindsight. Kinda vague.

*shrug* At one point, maybe it could've. I doubt it now, though.

xD I have a lot of interests. I'm a huge nerd which explains the love of literature, science, and gaming, but I also like music.

Lol, sadly, it didn't have a name--but it honestly didn't need one. Small community performances, that's all.

xD I wondered after the fact if that's what you meant, but at first I thought you just really liked Blues music.

Well, music is always nice to have around. Unless, you know, you're in a library or something.

What kind of music do you normally sing, then?

It was a bad joke. I apologize for the confusion. XD

Definitely. Always a good mood booster, imo.

Haha, well ... again, I have a lot of interests. Pop (multiple sub genres,) Rock (multiple sub genres, I really liked punk rock at one point) Country, (I am from Texas, after all) Alternative, (I can do Rap, but don't count on ever catching me) some Metal, exc.

Boy, do you sound like a fun guy! Do you have a favorite?

Mmm... out of the usual genres (as opposed to sub-genres) I'd have to say Rock, mainly because I've enjoyed it more consistently than the rest.  

Old school rock or millennial rock?

Both. I'm pretty open minded as long as I like how something sounds--hence me being cool with both country and rap, lol.

Oh, ok, Mr. ImHipWith Everything, what is your favorite rock song?

._. Favorite? Out of all of them?

xD But... but...

I'm too indecisive for that. I can tell you a recent favorite? ^^;

Go ahead! Give me SOMETHING! C'mon!

I've listened to this one while writing more than once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMSkC2PGyTs

Yeah, that's a good one. Breaking Benjamin always has good content.

Gotta say, though, I'm more into the Vietnam-Era Rock. Not to say that hard-rock isn't good, but GTA IV Lost and Damned got to me first.

Ah? What's your favorite song from that era, then? (Or, if you have my indecision issues, just show me one you really like. xD)

Edit: Oh, hey, "Dead or Alive" is in that game, right? Love that one.

Yup, that's a good one. Recently, I've been listening to "Renegade" by Styx.

Though, I've been playing a lot of "Highway Star" lately...

Was not expecting that, the opening somehow gave me chills there for a second. (I blame the concept of calling out to a loved one at the moment of impending death by execution and a good imagination.) Both good songs, I must admit.  

Wait, you've never heard "Renegade" before? Yeah, the opening reminds me of Bohemian Rhapsody. (God, I hope I spelled that right.)

That's the weird thing. I know I've heard the song before because the rest of it sounds familiar, but somehow I've never heard the first part of it.

(You did.)

There's also "Fortunate Son", "Have you ever seen the rain", "China Grove", etc.

No need to worry about him. It's always been my theory that the guy who's about to be hanged in Renegade meets an illusive accomplice and escapes the jail in Thunderstruck.

Me? In ten years? Honestly, with all the crime and not-good- things that have happened around and to me, I don't expect to live past 5 years from now!

If I DO live 10 years from now? At this exact moment? Probably at the receiving end of a gun. Or multiple guns. Maybe handguns.

Hopefully I'll have my own indie business going for my magic. I'll do a mix between paid gigs and street performances. 

Actually it's not all that straightforward. It depends if you mean physically where or where in your life/career/relationship status, that sort of thing.

Hopefully I'll have enough money by then to put a deposit on a house or something. I'll probably be back home in Britain, although I will be gone to Japan for a few years.

I'll be thirty, so I intend to be married and have a couple of children. I'd like to have expanded my family real estate holdings significantly by then. I could be getting into politics if the world happens to align with me ideologically in 2026.

Sitting in my mansion, counting my money, playing video games.

Ego has shot through the roof, and I care not.

:)

Realistically:

I'll be in the future.

Ditto on the mansion thing.

I shall corporate climb, and/or be a supervillain.

Realistically: I'll get my comic done, make a smol amount of fame off of it, and maybe get hired by one of the game designing teams I've sent my application to. Or, if my dreams crash and burn, I can get a degree in telecommunications, or end up in a military branch.

Hopefully in the military, but by that I time I will probably be in a body bag.

I hope to be a singer/actress or a vet.

I really hope my indie game studio is making enough money by then that I'll have quit my job and be doing that full-time. I'll probably also either have kids or be planning to have kids in the immediate future. And maybe I'll have left the US for the UK or somewhere, but I'm not sure yet whether I really want to do that.

In ten years? ... Probably finishing the remake of Innocence Lost. 

As in she finished all of them and now is giving them all remaster.

As in I'm currently giving the first game a re-master and I still haven't finished it after 2 years. (But perhaps in another 10) 

.....Hopefully.

Should be just as cool as it already is!

Good luck with that!

reminds me i should probably try to make a story game

Hopefully getting admitted into a nice college, with a love life and online life. I hope to have a top rated storygame on here by then.

http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6649773/clever-answer-to-where-will-you-be-in-10-years

Hm. Hopefully, I'll be in college or working already. I'd like to do something with writing and/or art. Something like, story boarding, character design, animation, comic artist, illustrator, voice acting, or even an author.

Six feet under, hopefully.

Fucking hell, I'm a week too late.

EDIT: Truth be told, I really don't know. I definitely won't be able to get into a college, that's for sure, but I'll probably find some sort of job, maybe as a freelance writer or something else along those lines.

Or I could be a hardboiled loose cannon P.I. who got kicked off the force because he wouldn't PLAY BY THE RULES.

Or I could be a freelance writer, that sounds more safe.