Whats your unrealistic goal

[Aerozord]

Now I dont mean something you wish would happen like win the lottery or flat out impossible. Something that you'd like to do, but recognize there is very little chance of it happening.

For me, I want to see a celestial body up close with my own eyes. Settle for the moon but something further would be preferred. Yea you can see pictures and video and stuff. But you just cant really grasp the scale of it all like that. How large it is, how distant Earth is, to really understand that you have to be there yourself.

Though unless in the next few decades space travel gets dirt cheap I wont live long enough to get the chance.

[Flarecobra]

To have a robot body that I can transform at will.

Oh, wait, reasonable.


To not have to walk around with a limp for the rest of my life.

[Amake]

I'd like to explore the inner galaxy, and get a girlfriend. Not sure which is more realistic honestly.

A more reasonable aspiration I have is to make a habit out of updating my ongoing web serial. (Below.) Some days I write five or ten pages, some weeks I write nothing at all, and I'm afraid if I try to stagger updates I'll look ridiculous when I underestimate my writer's block and run out of buffer. I just need to make a more consistent habit of writing. Some readers would be nice too but can't have everything.

[MSperoni]

I'd like to make a living doing The Dreadful.

[McTahr]

Be a doctor doctor. So I can give people the news.

Medical Science Training Programs (Ph. D./MD) entrance requirements hurt my face. (But I'm still applying.)

[Overcast]

I want to go to school for and become a distinctive part of increased studies into biological engineering, so I can help proceed the idea of Transhumanism I got in my head.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

To become the next big game dev. Take the industry by storm with a stream of solid releases for decades before retiring and spending my days sing "Viva la vida" By Cold Play while my grand kids question rather or not I'm still cool to visit While playing D-Resonate XXI: How is this franchise still going Final Mix+ Perfect Edition on their Quantum Gaming Laptops that I bought them for Christmas that 1 year.

And then I watch from a far in horror while my newly elected replacement CEO of "Kyanbu Studios" runs D-Resonate and all of my franchises into the ground for the sake of being hip new and cool with the future kids.

[Solid Snake]

I'd like to simultaneously freely give and receive relational affection from someone who truly likes me for who I am. Even as I've toyed around relentlessly with dating and experienced varying degrees of 'success' meeting new people, I haven't ever reached a point where I could honestly and truthfully tell someone I loved them and hear "I love you too" back. That'd be nice, is all I'm saying.

I'm well aware, however, that the nature of the equation suggests that I'm the problem -- as the singular constant in all of my attempts at relationships, it's clear I'm doing something horribly wrong and I'm apparently incapable of adequately addressing what's always going wrong. So, yeah, it's unrealistic.

I'd also like to travel around the world to a list of about forty places I'd like to visit before I die.
Finally, I'd like to reach a point of self-sufficiency where I can reasonably purchase, provide for and take care of a dog.

[Kim]

Road trip to visit everyone I fool around with online. The main barrier to this is time, not wanting to leave my primary partners, and cash. Still, it'd be nice.

[RickZarber]

I want to do a thing like Drunk History but with me going through explaining the whole Silmarillion. I mean, there's nothing stopping me from recording some rants, but the pie-in-the-sky bit would be having actors and scenes to match to the voice-over.

Even if I did do it the simple way, I'd need to finish some other damn projects first; I have too many I neglect as it is.

[synkr0nized]

to be able to approach Internet message boards with the naiveté and enthusiasm I had in, oh, ~2001

[phil_]

I want to do a thing like Drunk History but with me going through explaining the whole Silmarillion. I mean, there's nothing stopping me from recording some rants, but the pie-in-the-sky bit would be having actors and scenes to match to the voice-over.

Even if I did do it the simple way, I'd need to finish some other damn projects first; I have too many I neglect as it is.Dress up cats and have them vaguely act it out. This also makes the scale of some of those dragons more approachable.

[Solid Snake]

to be able to approach Internet message boards with the naiveté and enthusiasm I had in, oh, ~2001

It suddenly occurs to me that we'll soon be reaching a point in my existence where I will have spent half, and then even more than half, of my life on Nuklear Power's forums.
That's a frightening thought.

[mauve]

Dress up cats and have them vaguely act it out. This also makes the scale of some of those dragons more approachable.

Other ideas to make up for lack of actors: Puppets. Paper cut-outs on sticks. Toys/action figures. Drawings.

[Bard The 5th LW]

To have a pyramid all to myself.

[phil_]

Paper cut-outs on sticks.I like this idea. The drawings don't have to be great because you're using them as puppets, and you're also not held to high puppeting standards because "They're just cut-outs on sticks." It's like a Flash cartoon, but even easier. You can even use the same stage for everything (with maybe a relevant scenery puppet).

It occurs to me I haven't shared an unrealistic goal. I want to be free from having goals.

[Fenris]

It suddenly occurs to me that we'll soon be reaching a point in my existence where I will have spent half, and then even more than half, of my life on Nuklear Power's forums.
That's a frightening thought.

yup

I'd like to live an adult life that isn't totally filled with jaded cynicism. College was fantastic and fulfilling, and now I'm in what I thought was my dream career (that I worked tirelessly towards for several years), complete with all of the sucky things that nobody tells you about.

[RickZarber]

My new unrealistic goal is to make my unrealistic goals more unrealistic in the future so that my friends can't find ways to make my laziness inexcusable.

[phil_]

My new unrealistic goal is to make my unrealistic goals more unrealistic in the future so that my friends can't find ways to make my laziness inexcusable.Well, you still have to make the Silmarillion narrative into something palatable for an audience that doesn't have the book in their hands and thus can't flip back and forth to figure out who's cousin's oath we're dealing with at a given moment. That's gonna be pretty hard; Jackson went with The Legolas Hobbit rather than following up LotR with the true elf-stravaganza presumably for similar reasons.

[RickZarber]

Well, it's more that the Tolkien estate never sold (and likely will never sell) the film rights. 'Cause you know if there was more money to make with more films they'd be all over that. Your point stands though, especially considering how many characters were cut from the LotR movies...

But I glommed on to this idea after it basically happened anyway. Last week one of my buddies came over with a bunch of specialty beers and we were sitting around drinking and talking from about 10 PM to 8 AM. At one point I was showing him my character designs and going over the story for the potential comic, and to illustrate a point I made a Tolkien reference that he didn't get. So by way of explaining it I ended up telling a "brief", super condensed version of the Silmarillion story, which still worked out to me talking away for like an hour and half... (I'm very grateful he tolerates me.)

[pochercoaster]

My unrealistic goal is to dedicate myself to art full-time and create a body of work that is large and polished enough to sell and exhibit at various shows. Unfortunately painting doesn't pay the bills very well.

A bunch of other things popped into my mind, but I realized they weren't unrealistic, I'm just lazy as hell. Hmm.

[Sithdarth]

I want to run this race. (http://www.spartathlon.gr/home.html) Preferably in barefoot sandals and in under 30 hrs. I'm just barely over 6 miles right now and I might decide after doing a marathon or half-marathon that running for multiple hours sucks. Totally my end goal in like 4-5 years if I can stick with this whole running thing (which coincidentally started basically when the forums went down).

[Terex4]

Surprisingly, most of my goals right now are pretty damned reasonable considering I never would have thought they'd be possible. A good relationship and obtaining my surgery would have to be top of the not-happenin'-anytime-soon list.

[Revising Ocelot]

A decent circle of friends I know in person, who will actually endeavour to speak to me/involve me in stuff rather than me trying to shove my way in. Selfish of me, but I'm tried of getting to know people and only speaking to them when I'm the instigator.
The ability to not sabotage most of what I do, and thus thwart all the self-fulfilling prophecies I create.
To not hate myself.
Relationship would be nice too, to be able to have that kind of intimate support and, more importantly, to be able to reciprocate. It's no good finding the right person for me, I have to be the right person for someone else.

To be a normal person, instead of a wreck, a shell of some fool who somehow has managed to live this long. Totally unrealistic goals.

[Kim]

oh wait does getting a vagina count as an unreasonable goal thats another one of mine

[Terex4]

I prefer to think of it as short-term unreasonable

[Bum Bill Bee]

I want to make comics and make a legitimate living off the afroementioned making of comics.

And I want to get away with lettering by hand, and not ever learning to digitally color stuff decently.

Is that one unrealistic enough? :)

[Aerozord]

This forum is more angsty than I would have guessed. Not sure why that shocks me, I mean I go here.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I have just returned from a trip to Rhodes, where I have pretty much completed my only lifelong goal of visiting the sites of all 7 wonders of the ancient world, ending with the Colossus. I say very nearly, because I have now done 6 of the 7, the last one being the Hanging Gardens, in Babylon, aka Iraq, which I don't think I'm likely to be visiting any time soon, or possibly ever.

Also nobodies exactly sure where the site for them was anyway, so it's a pretty unreasonable goal to ever go there.

[phil_]

I guess it's time to set an unrealistic goal of "get a time machine," Hawk. Either go back to when the gardens were actually a thing or go forward to when Iraq is at peace.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Why stop there then? If I go back in time I'll go and do all 7 again and watch them being built. Maybe put together an awesome time lapse video of the whole lot.

Now if only I could remember when I left my time machine...

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Unrealistic goal: wreck hawk's time machine.

[pochercoaster]

Just thought of another one. I would like to have a professional kitchen and the time and money to cook elaborate meals every single day. Damn you, retail hours and obscure ingredients.

[Aerozord]

Why stop there then? If I go back in time I'll go and do all 7 again and watch them being built. Maybe put together an awesome time lapse video of the whole lot.

Now if only I could remember when I left my time machine...

How I see this going (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NY4jLgvAorI#t=233)