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I've completed the first draft of a rather long piece of Chrono Trigger fanfiction -- with significant motivational help from the Less Wrong Study Hall and Beeminder. It still needs polishing, but it's generally excellent to see it done. [Edit: I didn't emphasize that enough. It is awesome to see it done. Like finishing a marathon and looking back down the trail.]

It has no particular rationalist bent. If anyone here is interested in seeing it anyway, you can find the HTML version here, and the PDF version here. It's about 35k words and would probably take a couple hours to read beginning to end. It may be intelligible even to non-players, I'm not sure. (but I would be interested to find out)

If you're interested in helping me get it ready for release, please flip a coin to choose the version (so I catch any version-specific problems) and send feedback to error@feymarch.net.

amcknight10y00

Links are dead. Is there anywhere I can find your story now?

2Baughn11y

Consider putting it in a Google Docs document with comments turned on, it'll make feedback much easier to provide. Admittedly there are practical size limits to that, but I'm pretty sure 35k is still below that.

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13 January Monthly Bragging Thread

by diegocaleiro

6th Jan 2014

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As in Joshua Blaine's original description (below), but may be used to brag about things you've accomplished either this month (January) or the previous one (December), assuming that you haven't brought it up in any earlier Monthly Bragging Thread.

In an attempt to encourage more people to actually do awesome things (a la instrumental rationality), I am proposing a new monthly thread (can be changed to bi-weekly, should that be demanded). Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to comment on this thread explaining the most awesome thing you've done this month. You may be as blatantly proud of yourself as you feel. You may unabashedly consider yourself the coolest freaking person ever because of that awesome thing you're dying to tell everyone about. This is the place to do just that.

Remember, however, that this isn't any kind of progress thread. Nor is it any kind of proposal thread. This thread is solely for people to talk about the awesomest thing they've done all month. not will do. not are working on. have already done. This is to cultivate an environment of object level productivity rather than meta-productivity methods.

So, what's the coolest thing you've done this month?

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[-]Gunnar_Zarncke11y600

OK. I already mentioned that I'm preparing a longer post about it, but I didn't brag about it:

Despite being left by my wife for a younger guy after 15 years and 4 children I have acted sensible, rational you might say, and bought a house, negotiated a fair marriage contract (separation of property), completed a much overdue freelance project and cared for the children a lot. I didn't break. I didn't hate. I didn't run away. I think I succeeded in saving my sanity (salvaging instead of destroying emotions from the relationship), providing a dependable, caring and safe environment for the children now and in the future (the house is on the other side of the street). And get along well with my future ex-wife and her new partner and avoid alienation of her by family and friends.

Actually all of that didn't happen in December but it is effectively done now. The children moved into the new house on Jan, 1st and all paperwork and such is done.

[-]EvelynM11y80

That is a hard thing you've done well. For all the people who will never thank you for this, I thank you.

[-]Gunnar_Zarncke11y50

Thanks. I did get quite a lot positive feedback from family and relatives. Even those who had wished that I had thrown her out and that she see consequences of her decision in the end agreed that this is the better solution esp. in the long term and for the children.

[-]Omid11y310

I've practiced the virtue of silence. I can't say much more than that without breaking the virtue.

[-]Locaha11y30

You said too much!

[-]Gunnar_Zarncke11y00

Interesting. Obviously a generalization of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism (cannot say more on what is ignored).

[-]diegocaleiro11y220

Some cool things I did this month. Lost 11 pounds in 15 days. Participated in invitees only party in Rio's new years eve, by invitation of a billionaire. Caught up to philosophizing about existence with my best friend who lives in Brasilia now. Finished subscribing to all those snazzy PHD programs that can provide me a Visa and income at the place I want to live. Learned to deal with the other side of polyamory by feeling all those stupid, pointless, ridiculous feelings one feels when one's partner finds happiness with someone else and our savannah minds take over - and did not give up, poly for the win! Finished a writing sample with commentary from Chalmers, Bostrom, Yetter-Chappel and others. Did more than 35 pomodoros in a row, twice. Had a good chat with Nick Beckstead and Nevin Freeman over skype, lovely decent smart gentleman working for the good of mankind, my favourite. Filled in more forms than ever before, and I'm as good at filling out forms as you are good at fishing with a spear. Oh, and I gave a friend advice he considered life saving, in the sense that he would have become a self he didn't wish to be, had he not stuck with me to the end of my explanation. Oh, and I got 114/120 in the TOEFL test, which is better than 96 out of 100 test takers aprox.

[-]Gunnar_Zarncke11y20

I wonder whether you lost your 15 pounds because of

feeling all those stupid, pointless, ridiculous feelings one feels when one's partner finds happiness with someone else

[-]diegocaleiro11y20

Nah, correlation and causation problems here... but most of the info came during the diet, so you could try and force feed that argument (pun intended). I mean, she found happiness with other people for a few nights, but we still find happiness together, maybe I made it look like I was left too, which was not the case, kudos on dealing with your thing though!

[-]Gunnar_Zarncke11y10

I guessed so because I lost 6kg in the critical 6 weeks.

stupid, pointless, ridiculous feelings.

I didn't consider my feelings stupid or ridiculous.

Hate would have been stupid because it would have destroyed too much for no comparable reason. Excessive jealousy would have been ridiculous but the jealousy I felt was appropriate. I considered polyamory. I didn't rule it out on moral grounds. But my feelings of jealousy about their behavior didn't allow it. I don't know whether it had been different if she had loved us both equally. Most astounding was the feeling when I gave up my love for her; when I realized that in truth she didn't love me. I could feel it leaving me in a few days. Strange.