Milestones

manofthem · Oct 23, 2014

Milestones Today - Oct 22, 2014

@15th Warlock passes 1,000,000

@Radical_Edward passes 4,500,000

Amazing Work Stoners!

Welcome @15th Warlock to the Millionaire's Club! reace:

Let's jump in the air due to the excitement!

And stangely inappropriate :confused:

[Ion] · Oct 23, 2014

Congrats on the million Warlock! You've been putting up awesome numbers :toast:

And good job Rad_Ed! So close to 5m!

thebluebumblebee · Oct 23, 2014

[Ion] said:
Congrats on the million Warlock! You've been putting up awesome numbers

And with those numbers, I feel like that seal.

15th Warlock · Oct 23, 2014

manofthem said:
Milestones Today - Oct 22, 2014

@15th Warlock passes 1,000,000

@Radical_Edward passes 4,500,000

Amazing Work Stoners!

Welcome @15th Warlock to the Millionaire's Club! reace:

Let's jump in the air due to the excitement!

And stangely inappropriate

[Ion] said:
Congrats on the million Warlock! You've been putting up awesome numbers

And good job Rad_Ed! So close to 5m!

Thank you guys, I can't believe I became a member of your exclusive club, but when I see how many members have contributed with tens of millions of points, I can't help but feel a lot of admiration to the dedication of our team members.

Here's to ten million more in a few years :toast:

manofthem · Oct 24, 2014

Milestones today - Oct 23, 2014

@Papahyooie passes 100,000
@ST.o.CH passes 100,000

Congrats to @ST.o.CH and @Papahyooie on earning their Cruncher Badges!

Challenge Ends with awesome Milestones!

We won and 2 crunches earn their badge! We all deserve a...

...Turkey burger!

[Ion] · Oct 24, 2014

.....bbbut a turkey burger is no good for us vegetarians :cry:

Congrats guys on earning your WCG Badges! :toast:

manofthem · Oct 24, 2014

[Ion] said:
.....bbbut a turkey burger is no good for us vegetarians

Congrats guys on earning your WCG Badges!

There ya go!

Norton · Oct 24, 2014

A new Millionaire yesterday and a pair of badges today.... AWESOME!!! :rockout:

Congrats!!! :respect:

Tallencor · Oct 24, 2014

That turkey burg looks awesome. Good job everyone.

Dicfylac · Oct 24, 2014

manofthem said:
Milestones today - Oct 23, 2014

@Papahyooie passes 100,000
@ST.o.CH passes 100,000

Congrats to @ST.o.CH and @Papahyooie on earning their Cruncher Badges!

Challenge Ends with awesome Milestones!

We won and 2 crunches earn their badge! We all deserve a...

...Turkey burger!

Congrats to the crunchers,
0,1 million is a good mark after all

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[Ion] · Oct 25, 2014

Our sole stoner tonight!

T-Bob passes 4,000,000

Congratulations, and thanks for giving us something to celebrate tonight! :toast:

EDIT: Ion forgot to include his picture :eek:

Stockholm, Sweden

manofthem · Oct 25, 2014

Challenge may have ended but the fun continues! :toast:

Great work @T-Bob

manofthem · Oct 26, 2014

Milestones Today - Oct 25, 2014

@15th Warlock passes 1,100,000

Great Work by Our Solo Stoner!

Today I had an all day LAN party, loads of fun til the wives arrived :cry:

VS

manofthem · Oct 27, 2014

Milestones Today - Oct 26, 2014

@nightriderjt passes 1,000
@Chevalr1c passes 700,000

New Stone Bye a New Member!

New stoner, make some neeeewwwws

(pic is link)

edit: Added Chev after the update; I got a little premature postation :laugh:

Almost as bad as this... http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:11767982

nightriderjt · Oct 27, 2014

manofthem said:
Milestones Today - Oct 26, 2014

@nightriderjt passes 1,000
@Chevalr1c passes 700,000

New Stone Bye a New Member!

New stoner, make some neeeewwwws

(pic is link)

edit: Added Chev after the update; I got a little premature postation

Almost as bad as this... http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:11767982

I am lil yet comparing to you all

[Ion] · Oct 27, 2014

nightriderjt said:
I am lil yet comparing to you all

We all start somewhere--I remember the excitement of passing 1,000 back when I was just running on a single Pentium M system. How times have changed :toast:

Tallencor · Oct 27, 2014

nightriderjt said:
I am lil yet comparing to you all

Should be in welcome thread but. Welcome @nightriderjt
Believe me when I say that as much as this feels like a competition we are all on the same team and you deserve just as much respect for your 1,000 milestone as the guys posting higher numbers. We have been at this for vastly different amounts of time and some members are using their only gaming rig to help out during challenges or when they can.
We all have better days then others with our ppd's and milestones are a celebration of you for the whole team to see so :toast:

This team is by far a fantastic example of how the community here at TPU blows the doors off of other forums. Glad to have you. And congrats on your Stone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rockout:

twilyth · Oct 27, 2014

There's a line from Desiderata that goes "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."

Personally, I don't like the language about greater and lesser persons because we all have our own unique strengths and abilities, but this was written in the 1920's and so one has to take it in the spirit it was intended. The point is that if your motivation for crunching is to make a contribution to solving some important problems like clean energy, cancer and aids or to contribute to basic research that will probably have some important real world benefits like with UGM, then there's no point in looking at what anyone else is doing. The contribution IS the reward.

However another aspect of this can the be the competitive aspect. That's encouraged because it helps to build the team and gets people to contribute as much as they're able to. But speaking from my own experience, it can become a bit addictive, so you have to know where to draw the line. That's really important.

I know that I spent at least $5k on my last building spree when I put together 4 servers from used Xeon chips and mostly new parts for the other components. And over the years, it wouldn't surprise me if I've spent at least a couple times that more. But with each new level you achieve, there's always more you can do and for some of us, the temptation to go beyond what we're really comfortable with can be significant. I mostly keep it in check but periodically do lose my shit and go on ridiculous buying binges.

So if it's the competitive aspect that motivates you more, that's cool. That probably applies to most of us to some degree. Just try to remember it's not what's really important. What's important is the mere fact that you have a desire to help and are contributing whatever you are comfortable with. It may not seem that way sometimes given how much we talk about points and work units and hours of cpu time, but in the end, it really is all that matters.

xvi · Oct 27, 2014

nightriderjt said:
I am lil yet comparing to you all

..but not unimportant. Always glad to have more on the team! :toast:

..and don't worry. You'll get the crunching bug soon enough! :laugh:

Norton · Oct 27, 2014

nightriderjt said:
I am lil yet comparing to you all

Every result is important, the key to that next major breakthough may sitting in your PC at this very moment just waiting to be crunched!

Ditto on everything that @Tallencor, @[Ion], @xvi, and @twilyth said! :toast:

Tallencor · Oct 27, 2014

twilyth said:
There's a line from Desiderata that goes "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."

Personally, I don't like the language about greater and lesser persons because we all have our own unique strengths and abilities, but this was written in the 1920's and so one has to take it in the spirit it was intended. The point is that if your motivation for crunching is to make a contribution to solving some important problems like clean energy, cancer and aids or to contribute to basic research that will probably have some important real world benefits like with UGM, then there's no point in looking at what anyone else is doing. The contribution IS the reward.

However another aspect of this can the be the competitive aspect. That's encouraged because it helps to build the team and gets people to contribute as much as they're able to. But speaking from my own experience, it can become a bit addictive, so you have to know where to draw the line. That's really important.

I know that I spent at least $5k on my last building spree when I put together 4 servers from used Xeon chips and mostly new parts for the other components. And over the years, it wouldn't surprise me if I've spent at least a couple times that more. But with each new level you achieve, there's always more you can do and for some of us, the temptation to go beyond what we're really comfortable with can be significant. I mostly keep it in check but periodically do lose my shit and go on ridiculous buying binges.

So if it's the competitive aspect that motivates you more, that's cool. That probably applies to most of us to some degree. Just try to remember it's not what's really important. What's important is the mere fact that you have a desire to help and are contributing whatever you are comfortable with. It may not seem that way sometimes given how much we talk about points and work units and hours of cpu time, but in the end, it really is all that matters.

Very well said Twilyth.

Dicfylac · Oct 27, 2014

twilyth said:
There's a line from Desiderata that goes "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."

Personally, I don't like the language about greater and lesser persons because we all have our own unique strengths and abilities, but this was written in the 1920's and so one has to take it in the spirit it was intended. The point is that if your motivation for crunching is to make a contribution to solving some important problems like clean energy, cancer and aids or to contribute to basic research that will probably have some important real world benefits like with UGM, then there's no point in looking at what anyone else is doing. The contribution IS the reward.

However another aspect of this can the be the competitive aspect. That's encouraged because it helps to build the team and gets people to contribute as much as they're able to. But speaking from my own experience, it can become a bit addictive, so you have to know where to draw the line. That's really important.

I know that I spent at least $5k on my last building spree when I put together 4 servers from used Xeon chips and mostly new parts for the other components. And over the years, it wouldn't surprise me if I've spent at least a couple times that more. But with each new level you achieve, there's always more you can do and for some of us, the temptation to go beyond what we're really comfortable with can be significant. I mostly keep it in check but periodically do lose my shit and go on ridiculous buying binges.

So if it's the competitive aspect that motivates you more, that's cool. That probably applies to most of us to some degree. Just try to remember it's not what's really important. What's important is the mere fact that you have a desire to help and are contributing whatever you are comfortable with. It may not seem that way sometimes given how much we talk about points and work units and hours of cpu time, but in the end, it really is all that matters.

Those wise words are most welcome.
Thanks @twilyth :toast:

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manofthem · Oct 28, 2014

Milestones Today - Oct 27, 2014

@nightriderjt passes 5,000
@Tallencor passes 400,000
@dhoshaw passes 7,500,000

More and More Stones!

Terrific!

And this because it's cute

And this because i LOL'd :laugh:

[Ion] · Oct 28, 2014

Well done guys! :respect:

xvi · Oct 28, 2014

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Milestones

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

WCG Team Assistant

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

WCG Team Assistant

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

TPU's First Patreon

WCG Team Assistant

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

WCG Team Assistant

TPU's First Patreon

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

TPU's First Patreon

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

WCG Team Assistant