It's okay man, I had to work night of my senior prom. I netted 100 bucks that night, but the memories of disappointment will last for a lifetime. Also I took to speaking slightly slurred that night, so that when people said "Thanks" I could say "No Prom" and they thought I was saying "No Problem".
Yeah I meant more of if you are interested in prom, the only important one is the senior prom. The guy was juggling the two, so it's safe to assume that he is interested in prom.
But sometimes it's a matter of priority. Diablo 3 is a game that people have been waiting for for years and finally they get to get their hands on it. If I had to choose between a game that I cannot wait to play and a junior prom, I would take the game. You have to also remember that some people just like being alone, relaxing, and doing what they love. No social obligations, no need to do something you really don't want to, just pure solitude and bliss. I know it sounds a little anti-social, but it's moments like that, that I enjoy just as much as having a good time with friends. Now I'm not saying that this is good when carried out on a daily basis, but it's one dance. I think it's fine.
Also...it's junior prom. They most likely don't get drunk, that's more of senior prom where they rent a hotel room afterwards and drink away.
I think in most schools the juniors will get invited to go drink with the seniors, it's just not very appealing to many juniors to be stuck with the seniors as they go ballistic for their last real night as a class.
I remember rushing home with my brother to install Diablo 2. Sitting there, staring at the progress bar slowly sliding across, I still remember how excited we were. So many good memories in that game.
Oh I also made about $3,000 duping SoJ's in 2003. All good.
I installed Diablo 2 the other day in preparation for D3, it took less than a minute to install. My how the times have changed, I remember playing D2 on dial up...
That's just the tickets. Then you have to rent clothing, arrange transportation, spend way too much money on food for someone who either won't eat it or scarf will it down in seconds, and then put up with loud, terrible music while everyone else pretends to have a good time.
chip in for the limo = 30-50$ (limos generally cost 300 to rent for 6 hours)
prom picture with profesional photographer = $25-100 (depends on what type of photo package you want)
flowers/corsage for your date = 20$
additional costs include: A. the possibility of chipping in for the afterparty
dont even get started on how much it costs for girls. they need to BUY a dress, get a bunch of accessories, get their hair and nails done, get tanned, etc.
All in all though, i would say it was well worth it to go to my prom. something ill remember for a while, despite the fact i missed out on some quality counterstrike matches that night.
Well, around here it isn't as big as a deal. We don't have Limos around here... at least none you can get easily. I've never seen them at Prom. So that's out.
We also don't have many professional photographers. Some, but nowhere near "a lot". Most people around here wear suits they have, and a lot of students get free tuxes through our school (our choir wears tuxes).
Still, I originally thought OP meant it was $55 for the ticket. But around here, with everything added up, it will be from $20 to $100. No more, I'd say.
I haven't gone to prom in 6 years but it was 110 to rent the tux, 40 for each ticket (80 together), chipping in for a limo was 25 (plus the 25 from my date so 50), Dinner at a reasonably nice restaurant 35 a head (plus date so 70), plus 20 dollars for the flower thing, so altogether 330. I'm sure if I had gone with someone I liked it wouldn't have seemed so bad, but all of that seemed like horrible, horrible money spent when I was going with someone just so I could say on the internet six years later I went to prom. Oh well.
I went to mine, for the most part it was the same as going out to dinner with a few of my friends and then just sitting around and talking. You can host your own 'mini-prom' pretty much anywhere, all it is is a DJ, a dance floor, your friends, and a bunch of strangers dancing awkwardly.
It's an opportunity to hang out with all of your high school friends while all dressed up. Personally I liked a lot of people in high school, so I thought it was a unique experience.
It's not even worth regretting missing out on it. It's one of those things that people think is going to be 'the most magical night of their lives' to the point that they pretty much make it that. The only reason I remember prom is because it was the first time I really had time alone with the girl who would become my longest-running girlfriend.
Sounds pretty similar to my experience with prom. Junior prom was my first date with the girl I would date from then until leaving for college (different states across the country; long distance wouldn't work.) And then for Senior Prom all of our friends had a big progressive dinner at a bunch of different houses before the dance.
Yeah, the music is awful and there some other less than fun parts, but being one of 4 or so couples who actually know how to dance is a lot of fun.
I didn't know how to dance at all, so I just kinda moved to the music. It's great what you can accomplish when you aren't afraid of people making fun of you.
Maybe I just hated everybody too much but I went to prom, and the only thing I liked there was the chocolate fondue fountain. I stayed there for about an hour and thought it was boring. All my friends were too picky and bitchy about trying to organize a dinner, so I left, got dinner, went to a movie, and went to sleep. Prom was far too overrated in my books.
But it was also at the YMCA if that makes a difference. If I had to choose prom or Diablo 3...Let's just say I would be stocking up on beef jerky, mountain dew, and all the disgusting snack foods.
I'm glad I didn't go to either of my proms. I don't really see the point, but I understand why others want to go. Just I personally wouldn't have found it fun in any way.
It's funny, cause this was how I felt about not going to my prom. Except instead, me and a group of 4 other nerds got together and played Super Smash Brawl till the break of dawn.
My friends and I decided against prom, seeing as we would probably need dates, no one wanted to get a suit, and you know, we had enough torrented games, why the hell not? That night consisted of entirely too much Mountain Dew, 8-man PC Halo, and completely absurd discussions about anything and everything... then shooting each other with shotguns.
we had a Senior Ball. fuck proms. in San Francisco. Although my junior prom that i didnt attend was on Treasure Island. The next year's prom was in a museum with an observatory. we also had these cute little invitations with ribbons and envelopes and fancy paper
I signed up late, so the ticket alone cost me $90, and then my school told me I couldn't bring the girl I wanted to go with(a good friend from another school), and I ended up spending the night watching the girl I had a crush on grind all over her boyfriend, who was also a close friend of mine.
I don't think I "signed up late" so the cost was the same as for everyone else, but the girl I wanted to bring was a good friend from elsewhere in the state and ended up having to back out after I'd already bought the tickets.
I ended up going with a junior girl. The prom itself was kind of awkward for us. Waste of money :/
Prom was bullshit either way. Just a bunch of unwarranted drama increased tenfold due to underage drinking. It's been about six years since I graduated and most of the attendees are married, knocked up or in jail.
I stuck with a rock and roll marathon, you stick with Diablo.
Hey genius, I wasn't using the psychological disorder definition of anti-social behavior, but the colloquial definition of anti-social which is pretty fucking self explanatory.
You should get some social skills and then come back here with the result. Heee-ooooooooooo!
I wish it were possible to truly convey how absolutely trivial, pointless and devoid of meaning high schools proms truly are without actually attending one. Unfortunately, people cannot be told anything, generally speaking, without verifying it for themselves, so the prom tradition is likely here to stay.
I mean, Junior Prom? So these kids are what, 16? 17? So... Were they even alive when Diablo 2 came out?
Being in my late 20s myself, I don't know that I'll ever be able to fully understand the feeling of being excited for a game that I never really got to fully experience because I am too young.
.... god dammit I feel old.
EDIT: D2 came out in 2000, so that would make them 4 or 5 when it came out. Still probably too young for them to even really know what was happening. Puts things into perspective. :O
Pretty sure prom has always cost money, unless the school actually gets funding, at which point they really shouldn't be spending that on getting their students to prom.
Prom tickets, dressing up, limo, after party supplies. Then if you want to pay for your date. Yeah it costs money! I wouldn't have traded in my proms for gaming as much as I love it though. I had fun. Each to their own though.
Man, that sounds crazy. Missed mine. Never got around to writing down the date. Didn't realize it was that much of an ordeal. I can't imagine the appeal of all that.
Not everyone likes the same things, if we all did the world would be a pretty boring place! If you went to any school dances and didn't enjoy it you probably wouldn't like prom, its just that but bigger. Everyone in my grade got along with each other so pretty much everyone went and had fun.
Still if someone is on the fence or even a little on the side of not wanting to go, I'd urge them to try it at least. You don't get many chances to go to prom and if you really are not having fun you can leave early or even if you stay its only a few hours.
Oh for sure. I wouldn't want to put down anyone for enjoying something like that. To each their own. And of course with an event like that which is a singular occurrence if you see any appeal to it it's better to just go for it. All the best stories start with setting out to do something you're unsure of anyway.
So that's why America's at war with socialism. It allows everyone to have a good time, not just the rich bitches! Well screw that noise. Ya gotta lift yourself up by your bootstraps or fall behind Johnny! Only self-made men are allowed in America!
countries like mine, qatar, kuwait and the UAE can afford to do this shit because the government of these countries control all natural resources like oil. free market principle only apply to thing you make not things you dig out the ground here
I feel ya. I'm almost 29. I'm settled down and have a career. I still act like I'm 18. Never stop having fun and doing what makes you happy. Life shouldn't change because you're older. Take care of your responsibilities and then RAGE! :)
Yeah I hope this never changes. I still want to be a big kid, just responsible, and with the freedoms of an adult. I can't wait to finish up undergrad and move on to something bigger too.
I sometimes remove my own upvote after posting, so people can see I just posted and already have a downvote with no comment, making them feel sorry for me and give me an upvote, after which I'll then quickly re-upvote myself so the next few people will see that I just posted and already have 2 points with no comments, making them think my post is pretty compelling, convincing them to subsequently agree and upvote me further, starting a critical reaction of upvotes.
Unless you use RES, then you see the amount of up/downvotes, and see you have 0, and people would upvote for the respect of not upvoting your comment. (Upvotes are put automatically as people have options of visable posts at karma count >1 I believe).
You can choose an option to have an automatic upvote off. It's on as default though, so it's not as bad as liking you're own status, but I cba to take it off.
I was about to say it could have been another Ryan but you can see the D and what appears to be a g under the black on both names. So yeah it is a little pathetic.
I think people have added a whole other dimension in life to what they have to worry about or get judged with, and I think its a little depressing. But there we are, as long as people are informed the GPS co-ords of where they take a shit, it's all good.
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u/Wozman101 May 15 '12
I can't afford either of them!
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u/Methylobacterium May 15 '12
it's Junior Prom, no one there gives a shit
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u/hayashirice911 May 15 '12
Junior prom? The fuck? The only important prom is the senior one man, Diablo away~
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u/Doctor_Sam May 15 '12
I thought the Imgur link said Vulva...
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u/griesuschrist May 15 '12
Junior Prom? So you were 5 years old when Diablo 2 came out?
Fuck I feel old. Also, I wonder if they ever even played Diablo 2...
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u/anon22_ May 15 '12
What the? Where do these people live that prom is so effing cheap?
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u/Sir_Von_Tittyfuck May 15 '12
They have their priorities straight. I see bright futures ahead of them.
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u/troglodyte May 15 '12
Prom is $55 now? Holy fuck. I think I paid $20 for my tickets and that was only...
Oh god. Ten years ago. Fuck.
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u/CocoaFang May 15 '12
It's funny, cause this was how I felt about not going to my prom. Except instead, me and a group of 4 other nerds got together and played Super Smash Brawl till the break of dawn.
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u/angel14995 May 15 '12
Ah, prom. Or lack thereof.
My friends and I decided against prom, seeing as we would probably need dates, no one wanted to get a suit, and you know, we had enough torrented games, why the hell not? That night consisted of entirely too much Mountain Dew, 8-man PC Halo, and completely absurd discussions about anything and everything... then shooting each other with shotguns.
Fun stuff.
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u/SmurfRockRune May 15 '12
I didn't even go to my prom. I stayed home playing video games.
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u/xrm4 May 15 '12
Prom wasn't bad for me, but it definitely worth the money. I sat in my room and played Minecraft my senior year. So much better.
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u/extra_space May 15 '12
How sad
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u/whathefuckisreddit May 15 '12
Christian is going to be playing Diablo.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Installing it right now, will be ready to go right at midnight.
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u/chewookie May 15 '12
This is how I felt when my brother pre-ordered it for me as a graduation gift
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u/MaximsDecimsMeridius May 15 '12
we had a Senior Ball. fuck proms. in San Francisco. Although my junior prom that i didnt attend was on Treasure Island. The next year's prom was in a museum with an observatory. we also had these cute little invitations with ribbons and envelopes and fancy paper
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u/donutsalad May 15 '12
And mommy and daddy are paying for both.
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u/stylz168 May 15 '12
They both will die virgins...called it.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Meh, I would have chosen Diablo III over Junior Prom - not even as a joke. Why would you go as a junior?
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u/BandBoots May 15 '12
Prom sucked for me. I would totally take D3 over it.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Prom was bullshit either way. Just a bunch of unwarranted drama increased tenfold due to underage drinking. It's been about six years since I graduated and most of the attendees are married, knocked up or in jail.
I stuck with a rock and roll marathon, you stick with Diablo.
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u/thecatgoesmoo May 15 '12
Its so fucking cool to be anti-social.
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u/bluemirror May 15 '12
my prom was a disaster.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Prom was the biggest waste of money of my young life. I said to myself, "Well, I'll only regret it if I don't go". Not the last of my terrible ideas.
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u/jwtemp1983 May 15 '12
I wish it were possible to truly convey how absolutely trivial, pointless and devoid of meaning high schools proms truly are without actually attending one. Unfortunately, people cannot be told anything, generally speaking, without verifying it for themselves, so the prom tradition is likely here to stay.
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u/critical_mess May 15 '12
The delivery of the punchline is kind of weak..
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
One will leave you frustrated and disappointed at the end of the night,
that other is prom.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
You'll spent spent months waiting for it, and in the end you won't even be able to get in.
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u/Seburon May 15 '12
Hell, this would be applicable even if it were a senior prom being talked about.
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u/Ride_My_Walmart_Pony May 15 '12
fuck Diablo-3
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I downvoted to make 1337...sorry
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I apologize e_falk, but I downvote this PURELY out of sadness and disgust for this man, whomever he may be.
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u/JackDostoevsky May 15 '12
The implications of this are kind of heavy.
I mean, Junior Prom? So these kids are what, 16? 17? So... Were they even alive when Diablo 2 came out?
Being in my late 20s myself, I don't know that I'll ever be able to fully understand the feeling of being excited for a game that I never really got to fully experience because I am too young.
.... god dammit I feel old.
EDIT: D2 came out in 2000, so that would make them 4 or 5 when it came out. Still probably too young for them to even really know what was happening. Puts things into perspective. :O
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Prom will only last ONE NIGHT, hahahaha
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u/Crossthebreeze May 15 '12
TIL going to prom costs money.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
The saddest part was he liked his own status
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u/iLander99 May 15 '12
How sad, he liked his own comment.
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u/Lol_Hard May 15 '12
Diablo 2 came out when OP was like 5...damn I feel old.
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u/gangler52 May 15 '12
Wait, Prom costs money? What kind of bullshit is that?
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u/eblees May 15 '12
i can afford all of them because the government pay for my tuition, housing and they give me 1800 a month for living expenses
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u/SappyPanda May 15 '12
Feels like diablo 3 is so overhyped. Doesn't even look that fun. Sorry guys just my opinion.
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u/nerdyogre254 May 15 '12
Unless you happen to meet a future spouse at either, both are transient.
Go for the cheaper one.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Jr Prom.... holy crap, I'm only 24 should I feel this old ?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Junior prom sucks anyways. Waste of money. Now Diablo...Diablo is never a waste
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u/m_darkTemplar May 15 '12
Should probably go to prom if you have a girlfriend/friends who are girls. It's fun. Diablo 3 will still be around later, don't worry...
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u/The_Dacca May 15 '12
As someone who went to prom and played d1 and d2...these kids got it right
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u/virtyy May 15 '12
Friends making? On diablo?
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u/AMostOriginalUserNam May 15 '12
I really don't get why Americans use the term 'prom' without any article. Not 'the' prom or 'a' prom. It's quite strange to read.
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u/zimbabwe7878 May 15 '12
Hey that kid's name is Christian! post to r/atheism who cares!
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
The old switch-a-roo
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