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See, now I've only lost time once, and that was due as much to fatigue as it was to inebriation. My memory is pretty rock solid from the party right through the trip home and a few minutes after I got back to my room. Apparenlty, sometime between getting home and calling it a night, I thought it would be fun to push myself around my room in my computer chair for a bit, which I guess was fairly easy for the other housemate who was home to hear through his ceiling, yet not disturbing enough for him to bother doing anything about it (he was probably just playing a game).

Talking about honest prices... The ones that get me are when people have sales in the 60-80% range (60 is normally the highest I see, but Cleaves Sporting Goods isn't afraid to go 80). What this tells me, is that for a store like Cleaves when they do their 80% off sale, that everything they have on sale is normally being sold at more than 500% markup. Now, they do these huge sales a couple times a year I find, at least one of which they will rent out an arena becuase they can't fit enough of the sale merchandise in the store and still be able to stock fast enough, so I am guessing they still make pretty good money at 1/5th the normal price. What this tells me is that the actual markup is probably bouncing around between 600-800%, and there are probably a few gems in the store that are over 1000%. Needless to say, I wont even step foot in their store unless they are practically giving things away (that's how I got my new sneakers. Buy one pair [on sale] and get another pair free because we're still pretty much robbing you blind). My point being, the bigger the sale, the more I feel like they are rubbing in their usual wallet snatching prices in my face.

He told his friend he was gay (unless 'came out' means something else in other parts of the world). So Kudos to you Sentry Wolf, I can't imagine that was an easy thing to do, though judging by your apparent good mood I'm guessing it went over pretty well :) @ fastortoise Classic. Just classic. It's not the best 'when I was drunk' story I've ever heard, but that's a pretty good one none the less. Also, style points for living in a 'The Hangover' knockoff. Let us know how it pans out, and relay any stories you discover (if their appropriate of course) that you manage to dig up would you?

Jagex changes from using special cards to specific dates to hand out vanity items, thus allowing them to bypass regional problems. Jagex keeps imposing regional restrictions. Saw that coming :wall: I'm sorry, but that kind of approach (and leaving the regional restrictions out of your news post) is like cartoon logic.

It's also not the beta tester item, since I am in the beta, and I don't have one.

The one best method is always an interesting one, because for any definition of prime criteria, there will always be one set best method to do something in a game (not always so in real life, because the real world is less predictable and consistent). I guess the real trick is creating different means to an end that fit different likely criteria for the best method to accomplish something, with various tradeoff's between say xp rates and social interaction (or social isolation for some people). For the guilds, what I would like to see is rather than try to just incorporate them into the training, I would rather see them totally revamped into a service for the true elite (if not for people with 99 in that skill, then for people in say the 80's or 90's). I cant say I have any ideas right now on what they should provide (but that's okay because they aren't paying me. That's Jagex's job), but I think it would be awesome if the guilds offer something that makes them worth while, and gain at least a semblance of exclusivity with much higher requirements. Now, that wont happen (at least not the raising of the reqs), but I can dream. As for the second article, I like social training when I can get it. I was really enjoying the runespan when it first came out, because of all the talking, though its gone a bit quiet now I think. Talking is also the difference between fishing instilling homicidal anger out of boredom, and homicidal anger because other people are stupid (I jest. Every once in a while you can actually strike gold). The only thing standing between me and 99 fishing is a supply of people I want to talk to, who have nearly unlimited availability to amuse me :mrgreen:

In case anyone is wondering where the armor and dual weilding threads went, I've decided to merge them into this thread. Until the beta is released, the one release at a time they are doing (and I think they are out of releases now until the beta itself) should all fit nicely in this thread :)

I'm actually considering getting one for that reason :P Nice to see they're adding cosmetic items to that offer that are actually worth getting though sort of wish they wouldn't, since I can't bring myself to pay...about 60% more for like 3 months just to get an item (having the actual original rate when I pay by cc), no matter how cool it is. I might want the item super bad, but I wont cave. I know that if I actually went to a store and tried to buy the card, the logical part of my mind would take over, hand the card over, make me say 'actually, I've changed my mind. Have a nice day." and walk me back to my car. I have the same problem if I try to gamble or buy lottery tickets, having done exactly this before.

Think your right about the scent thing, but most birds are actually pretty stupid, and will gladly care for other chicks that show up in their nest. There are a few birds that exclusively lreplace the eggs of other birds with their own, and dupe those birds into feeding it (also might be something about the invader then eating the other chicks once its grown a bit). Might not work on say a raven (because they are really bright, not only for birds but animals in general), but I could totally see it working on a pigeon or robin or something.

I guess that would do it. I was having visions of you tearing through a corner or something :lol: What I hate are high capacity single axle trailers, because they bounce when their unloaded. Boat trailers for medium large boats are pretty big offenders, when the boat is just small enough to not have that second axle.

A couple points. I too would like to join in on the emphasis of not delaying work. One of the things you also need to account for is that (a) you are going to get plenty of routine assignments that were absolutely not designed to be done in one go, and you will have a very harsh awakening when you first discover this. You also need to account for all the work that hasn't been assigned yet. Once you get a feeling for it, you should be able to guess at the mystery workload that will be coming your way during the week though. I know for my physics and chem first year, they pretty much gave us the schedule for homework, and all you had to figure out was the workload. For Calculus, it was 3 classes a week, and every one of them would assigns work due at the tutorial of the next class, which was the hour before. You started those assignments the day you got them, so that you didn't end up trying to do them all in one day, or because doing homework on saturday sucks almost as much as sunday. Trying to work on them on due day, even though it was an afternoon class, was not really an option, though people did keep giving it a try for a while. But even more important than not procrastinating is GO TO CLASS!. You will find that as soon as you decide one day your tired and you would rather sleep than go to your break of dawn lecture, that your brain will imeediatly learn that classes are now optional, and it becomes increasingly easier to skip them. You can do it once or twice, but if you do it too much, too often, one day you will wake up and realize you haven't gone to a lecture in a class or three in 2 weeks, and you are now royally butt[bleeped]. I've watched many people make this mistake, and skipping a class is the start of a one way street to becoming a Christmas graduate. You colledge life will just go so much better if you decide that CLASSES ARE NOT OPTIONAL and you never sway from this, unless you are legitimately sick.

Three now (well, aside from the dude part). But I can (possibly) one up you by being able to honestly say that I don't view it either (and I'm not asexual). No objections, but honestly, I have other things I'd rather spend my time on.

As annoying as that may be, this does raise the question of just how exactly what were you doing that you even managed to get a trailer to fishtail in the first place?

I'm trying to remember exactly how things worked out, but off the top of my head, of my 99's to date, I have always had a 'party' in so far as a gather to cheer me on as I get 99, and then a short after party in my POH for whoever has extra time. I think I have recieved gifts twice, both times in the form of 99k gold to cover the cost of the cape. Of these two, I am up only 99k total because I returned the favor to one friend when he got his first 99 after buying me my cape (so it was only fair I should return the favor), and if the other friend ever gets another 99, the gift will be given to them as well. In my circle, its just a way of saying that since your such a great friend, I would like to contribute to your awesome progress by buying you your first cape. Some people do have drop parties I suppose (none of them being people I know), but I don't think its really expected.

Aww :( I liked that ancient magics had their own elements.. Same. This might be the first thing about what I have heard so far that I really dislike. To me, a huge part of ancients was that it was Zaros' magic, and it operated completly differently to anything else we knew about. Also, the old names simply had more cool factor, and shadow in particular had an awesome animation that I really hope doesn't look anything like the current earth one now (I detest the current earth animation and will go out of my way to avoid using it). The one thing I never got about ancient magics though was why ice beat blood. A human has potential to survive a flash freeze. It will do damage, but its not garunteed to be fatal. Having the blood leaving your body forcefully through your skin (which is what the blood spells do) on the other hand would cause massive blood loss, and inflict massive wounds to huge portions of your skin and muscle tissue, as well as likely trauma to your internal organs. You would not survive this for very long, and you certainly wouldn't be fighting back after that. You probably wouldn't even be able to writhe around in pain. For the sheer grusume factor, in addition to being clearly more lethal (to me), I always felt blood should be on top. However, I think they also had an excellent reason for this. Weaknesses are going to matter now, and weaknesses line up with the four traditional elements. For ancients to continue being effective, they need to line up as well, and its less confusing to change them over to a new set of names than it is to assign them each an (arbitrary) element and hope we remember them. Also, it seems like this means miasma is no longer part of the set (with there being 4 elements and all), unless miasma now counts as whichever element your enemy is weak to (which would actually be kind of neat).

I didn't think you could drive an F1 on streets. At least, not fast enough to be interesting (keeping in mind that I don't care enough to follow or watch racing). If you guys have roads that forumula cars can have fun on, I want to move there :thumbsup:

You live at a race track? I didn't think they put those things near houses.

I do, at least for every event Scott Adams has made a strip for. Though I have a tendency to use a lot of older strips because I'm more familiar with them (as in, the ones I have in my book collection that I have read at least 5 times each). Excavator clearing out a lot across from us, guess someone is finally developing that land (there are still a few empty lots on our road). And now my bedroom smells like a barbecue lighter, because the exhaust is drifting in through my window <_< It's also managing to smell like fire, but I'm not sure how that works since last time I checked, it wasn't running on wood. Someone must be having a bonfire.

High Five! Have some cake:

Sucks about the orientation. That was one of the things my Uni pulled off really well I thought. Aside from the lectures, we had stuff I guess I would hall spirit building, but we also had games (like 7 side CTF played out over half the campus), and we also had some other nighttime entertainment. Our university has a fairly substantial bar, so they had us in there one night (naturally not servering anything alchoholic that night), and we also had a hypnotist show. The bar/dance was the hardest one for me because that was night one, and so I hand't really gotten to know people yet, and dealing with 400 other people isn't really in the cards for me. But after a bit I managed. And I hear you on the sitting with random people at tables. If you like, the easiest solution is to get to meals really early, and wait for other people to sit with you. Still though, I like to think of it as day 1 at a day camp in the summer (if you ever did anything like that). You just meet people. At least, I always manage too, even if I'm never quite sure how I did it. And yeah, if you stop living on campus, you'd probably looking at an apartment or house with a group of friends. Generally not cheeper than residence though, unless you move into a real shithole. Here, residence runs at about the same cost as tuition though once you include food (and you have to have a meal plan). And a final note, don't be afraid to go to parties. I am not much of a party person, but I do regret not doing more of that when I had a golden opourtunity to do so with the first group of people I lived with. I stopped doing that because its not really fun for me, but in retrospect, its a skill I might have preferred to aquire. Part of it is certainly exposure. Even if you never get excited about interacting with 20 people you've never met before, its nice to be able to do so without getting anxious and what not.

That was just the graph they used. You actually can't use the visible spectrum unless you have a direct line of sight. Same for much of the IR and UV spectrums. You also can't use UV/X-Ray/Gamma because that's dangerous. So all wireless technology is relegated to the Radio and Microwave segments of the spectrum. While you can theoretically make the wavelength as large as you like (if you can build the antenna), as wavelength goes up, the frequency drops, and frequency has a direct impact on how fast you can move the data. Also, at some point it becomes a 1 way transmission since the sending antenna needs to be a certain size in relation to the wavelength, or else you get very destructive energy spikes as the internal signals run into each other. Anything bellow a GHz is pretty much useless for 2 way communication (both because the waves get too big, and becasue the transmission speed is too low for most applications, except radios).

I think the cracked is just me. Lately there have been a few articles I haven't really loved, but when I was lifegurding, I managed to get through pretty much every article I could fine, and I read almost all of the ones they publish daily. So not only is my brain a rolodex of dilbert cartoons, but its also a catologue of cracked articles. I quote some of John Cheeses stuff in particular because he wrote a number of really freaking good articles on overcoming addictions, on his own experience with relationships and other stuff in a similar vein. It's hard to come by quality work by people who have been through what he has, who then managed to get themselves out of the hole, so I've quoted him a few times here. And I would think the next piece of armour to get would be a helmet. My collection is a cuirass, helmet, and gauntlets. If not a helmet, then greaves I think.

I assume your college does some sort of orientation/frosh week (we aren't allowed to call it frosh week anymore here). This would probably be the single greatest opportunity to meet some new people you are going to get, especially if your not living on campus. If you are on campus (and I would recommend doing so for the first year at least for this reason if nothing else), then for the first week or so there should be a lot of socializing going on between the people in your residence, especially on whatever floor your on. This is another prime chance to get to know people and make new friendships, and people are an excellent way to meet even more people. Next in line for meeting people is going to be the meal hall. You have about two weeks where it is socially acceptable to sit down with people you don't know, before the groups start to form and solidify. Not really the most fun experience in the world for the more shy among us, but again, its a good way to meet people, even if you only end up seeing some of them during meals. Those are the big three chances you get when you first start out at university. The people you start with (orientation), the people you live with, and the people you eat with. Once classes start, there is also some ability to meet people in your classes, though as class size goes up (and first year classes tend to be big), I find it becomes harder to meet people. Might come down to how well you can get yourself to strike up a conversation with total strangers. Also look out for study groups, group projects, and possibly lab partners. And the fifth major place I would say to meet new people (on your own) is going to be any sort of club. It could be climbing, paddling, chess, starcraft, etc. Groups of people where you talk to each other. Boom. Friendships. Once you have your friends, even if your not super social, it opens up a lot of doors for meeting the friends of other people you know (including more girls), and for doing fun things like going to parties if that floats your boat.

Just to be clear, whether you trust your friends or not should be immaterial. Unless you suspect your friends are going to rape your girlfriend, you have no need to trust them. Just as with your ex, your girlfriend has a choice too. She would have to respond to their advances. As for how to get over trust issues, that's a tricky one. I've never had this kind of trust issue, so I have no experiance I can apply to it. I can say that trust is a learned ability, not an inatte skill. I do have a quote for you though: I don't know if that will be of any help to you or not, but there is something else I want to point out. Well, two things. First, whether you think you trust her is at this point also immaterial (though you either really don't, or you think your friends are out to rape her). All she is hearing from you on this matter is that you don't trust her. Second, she must be really into you to put up with telling you every time she hangs out with any group that involves a guy. I'd also imagine that your quite correct that this annoys her. Probably way more than you know. I'd also guess that if you don't deal with this soonish, she isn't going to stick around no matter how much she loves you. Simply put, your relationship can't have a (functional) future until you both trust each other. And for anyone interested, I pulled the quote from this article. I know its about marriage, but it actually servers as a really good yardstick for figuring out if your in a functional relationship, or just bullshitting yourself.

I think the best way I could put it would be that people see a long waiting/recovery period between a breakup and starting dating again to be proof that their ex meant a lot to them. The thinking being that if you get right back on your feet just shows you didn't care about the other person anyway. Now, all that can certainly be true, but some people simply put things behind them faster than others, and come to terms with what has happened (and accept it) sooner. On the other hand, you have people that are totally devastated by the endings of even the most minor relationships (or just a friend moving away). Long story short, some people will think your an unfeeling monster if you don't wait their arbitrary waiting period between relationships. Also, be cautious making a move on someone who went through a breakup. I think the socially acceptable mandatory waiting period is 2 weeks, unless they make a move first. Sooner and they have every right to get mad at you.