Randox

I don't suppose you want to clarify this? I'm going to go with some sort of heart attack for now so I'm glad your better (and alive). I pulled an all nighter last night, which made class less than fun today. I had a nap, and I got up a lot sooner that I thought I would. I might even make it back to bed close to my normal time tonight.

The Burthrope slayer master still exists. They will be easiest to find if you open up the world map and have it highlight the slayer icons for you, but I believe they are now located on the east side of the river either to the south in taverly, or around the halfway mark between taverly and burthrope. Fungal Magi can be found in the Polypore Dungeon And if you have done smoking kills, using the burthrope master to get a new task will reset your task count and force you to go through the 5 no point tasks again. If you have not yet done smoking kills, and have the levels, then I would highly recommend it, since it will allow you at the very least to cancel tasks you don't like like, and block a number of tasks based on your quest points to that they are never assigned. It also gives you access to a new slayer master who is between Chaeldar and Duradel.

Also fair points (I'm back...for now). I think I might just go back to my original view, where everyone sits someplace between optimist and pessimist, and realist was a term made up as justification for pessimisim :^_^: It's very hard to actually categorize people, unless you want to invent a couple hundred new words and the words needed to define them (since english lacks words [and concepts] to accurately define a personality in full).

Before I run off to do other things... Part of the problem is that a lot of people who I'm quite certain are actually pesemists call themselves realists, when in fact its their own pessimism that makes them think they have a realistic outlook. They believe so wholeheartedly that everyone performs at a sub par level that to them, that is being realistic. So maybe that is coloring my view, and realism is the true middle ground. Something for me to think about as I carry on with my day.

I had them the same originally, but I like the symmetry more if I separate them, otherwise realist ends up in the neutral spot (and its not neutral in my experience), so I would have had to add another blank spot. To be fair, I consider optimism and idealism to be roughly the same thing as well. So I could do it as: defeatist/pessimist - realist - [un-realist] - optimist/idealist I like this more. Defeatist and idealist are just greater extremes, and didn't need their own category. The other way I thought about it is: defeatist/pessimist - realist - [neutral] - optimist - idealist. And yes, I have too much time right now.

I'd rank them accordingly: defeatist - pessimist - realist - (neutral ground/unrealist?) - optimist - idealist We need a name for people who are between realist and optimist.

Some of the performance issues are being cleared up now. Resizeable has gotten a very tiny boost to the frame rate, but its a lot more resiliant to movement now (as in, moving isn't causing it to drop). Also, fullscreen is once again functioning. After the Burthrope tutorial, fullscreen would pause and then halve my fps when I tried to move, now its back to running a higher frame rate than resizeable (which makes sense because it actually shows a bit less of the world), and its not giving an inch when moving. All in all, the game feels much smoother now. Not sure about it being done yesterday, wasn't on.

I'm not sure where I stand on the recoloring the barrows. On the one hand, it looks nice and makes them more ominus, but on the other, they sort of had a colour all to their own that made them look a bit rotten and old. Now they look like their all fresh of the press from Bad Guy Armour Supply Inc. Also, since Jagex has to prove they are still entirely incapable of pallet matching (default clothes are all unique and don't match armor, at least one dragon weapon isn't the same colour as normal dragon, etc.), the black of the new barrows gloves isn't right. They are darker than the armor is, though it might only be noticeable from the equip screen. They could also fix the cuff, because beige on black looks really stupid, especially with anything that isn't barrows. Overall though, they did an excellent job making the new barrows resemble the core of what they used to be. The interim sets were like someone looked at the old barrows, then burned all the pictures and made up their own. Anyone else feel like the flasks should have been a side update for something else? Maybe I'm just getting spoiled, but I read that and then I'm like "okay, but wheres the update?". They could have at least tried to tweak the release schedule so they could package the rest of the new armors in with this, so we could have a small update package deal.

I'm not even sure what I would consider a true realist. Something between a pessimist and an optimist I suppose. Someone who recognizes the good people are capable of, but isn't constantly expecting our best.

Saw the writing on the wall for bt yesterday. Lets just say that my internet traffic has immediately jumped up in an effort to provide myself with a buffer. It's a shame (for me), I think they were the best torrent site. Can't say I blame them though. And once again, I am awake to late because I forgot to take the sleeping pills. Should have me out like a light (or at least crawling for bed) in an hour though. Will be an even earlier day. And don't become a realist either Tim, that's almost as bad (or maybe worse because its the same thing with a label trying to justify itself). There are so few of what I would consider true realists at least.

Serial monogamy is only an option for me if the other person ends it. Another facet of the self guilting, it makes it very difficult for me to call things off, at least in a timely manner. But I don't think I would enjoy that. It takes me a very long time to really open up to someone (long enough that its never happened once yet). I don't think I would care to go through that multiple times. But since pretty much all of the pleasure I get out of being with someone is derived from physical proximity and talking, I don't think it will ever be an issue on my end. My sex drive doesn't have the capacity to make me miserable. I feel my body might even recognize that there are issues with my genetic code, and they make it hesitant to produce offspring. It's recognized that it is not optimal for the continuation of the species, and has lowerd my sex drive as far as it will go without making me asexual. Or my mind knows that there are problems, and suppresses my sex drive for me.

Wow, a lot of replies while I was thinking about what to say. Interesting about the dolphins. I also feel like they are on the list of species that commit rape along with humans, probably some chimps, and some geese (or was it ducks). Tripsis is right in that I am not at all an intimate person. I take a long time to warm up to people, and I never go as far as most people do. I also have a sex drive that's set to 'I could take it or leave it'. I almost just prefer to cuddle, or at least be close to the person I love. When I see someone who is incredibly attractive, my reaction is a desire to get to know them. That's the way my mind goes about this sort of thing. For this reason, I am not suited to open relationships because I have no desire to bed someone I don't know. I am also poorly suited to cheating, since I have some serious self guilting issues (on the plus side, they mean I can either be a nice person, or a miserable person), and I suspect cheating would probably be enough to obliterate every last trace of self esteem I had for a few years at least. Much less serious things have been able to do this for days, and left me with regrets I might never get rid of. I have a very introverted personality, and while the approval of others can boost my self esteem if I am already feeling good, the base comes entirely from within. If I don't do right by me, then I have nothing. My point is that while open relationships might be grand for a lot of people, it will never work for me, because my personality doesn't lend itself to flings, and my own moral code will make sure I am faithful or I will put myself through self imposed hell on earth.

I hate the day or two when you know your getting a cold almost more than the cold itself. I normally get a sore throat first (suggesting that the infection starts at the back of my mouth and then moves up), which can last up to 4 days depending on how well my body does fighting it. Once or twice I think I've even won without actually getting a cold, but normally its too late. As an added joy, when I do defeat the cold, it normally plays in full reverse which means as soon as the congestion clears up, I get a sore throat again for at least a day. Whenever I feel the tiniest hint of a cold coming on, I make sure I get a lot of extra sleep, since I only get them when I am overtired for an extended period of time. Right now I have minor congestion every morning when I wake up, and I don't really know what to make of it. The discharge is neither yellow or green though (which would be cold and possibly sinusitis respectively), so I'm not to worried. It clears up the second I stand up anyway, so it might just be my body complaining about being horizontal. Today was pretty good, even though I didn't get nearly enough sleep. Tonight I'm going to take the meletonin a bit early to make sure I'm sleepy at the right time whether I want to be or not.

All you need to know about my personal stance is that the idea of me personally having sex with someone I do not know exceptionally well, is...well, its not going to happen. It is difficult for me to engage in intimacy even with people I do know well, and I don't think I could ever want something enough to get past that so quickly. I'd say this is a case of nature for me, since my sibling is almost the polar opposite of me in this regard. Either way, I don't think flings will ever be in the cards. I will either be monogamous, or I will some day have a full blown affair and hate myself until the day I die. But the concept of what is natural intrigues me, so here are my thoughts for anyone who cares to read them, based on what I know, and my conclusions which are hopefully well grounded in logic. I made a huge ass post, which no one was ever going to read, so some paraphrasing. Considering how vulnerable our young are, and how long they take to stop being so helpless, I believe that it would have been to our species advantage for a male to only take on a single female and child at a time. While there would be certain benefit to having the dominants inseminate as many choice females as possible, I think this would be too much for a single hunter to support (and keep in mind, our diet used to be upwards of 90% meat). Also, since humans are a species that commits rape, and seeing that or genetic forberers who are still around on this planet show similar behavior in that regard, this has probably been a problem for a long time. It would be easier to defend only a single female at a time. And open relationship would have served no purpose, since without contraception, we would be either responsible for the offspring, or we would have abandoned them, which goes against our more basic nature (our young are so helpless that were we predisposed to abandonment, we would be extinct). Accepting that the premise of the article was true in that males are naturally inclined to seeking sexual encounters with other females as the years go on, I would have to say that serial monogamy probably was the most natural form of relationship for us. This would allow us to father two or three children before we died hunting, by different mothers to get a bit of extra diversity. If you want to look at what might be natural since we developed things like speech, you would need to find a species that is also capable of love, and communication, the more sophisticated the better. Love is pretty tricky to define in another species, but there is one species in particular that naturally has an exceptional complex communication system, as well as exhibiting the very human behavior of playing (at all ages rather than just the species' children): Dolphins. I figure they are probably one of the best matches for our intimate social lives that you are going to find in another species (chimps are probably a good shot too, with lots of human like behaviors, though their communication is more primitive)

Long story short, I got far too much sleep last night, and now I'm not sure going to sleep tonight is a good idea. I'll regret it in the morning, but if I can stay awake long enough (which might be a big if), I can call it an early day tomorrow. But knowing me, I'll cave before super time and wake up at the crack of dawn, and that just wont work with my possible plans for Tuesday night (I love this planning ahead thing. Its a new thing for me, but I like it) where I might need to be able to stay awake till midnight. So I should probably stop typing this and get my butt in bed, and then kick myself in the morning until I get up, since I am also looking at a much earlier morning on Wednesday. Planning my sleep scheduale is like planning a battle -.- As the one in the house responsible for making garbage goes out to be collected, I was very surprised to find out that someone already moved the full bin to the curb when I came down and added my garbage, making a second full bin. But I waited until after midnight to get around to it, and the old dishwasher needed to go out, so I discovered that it is neither to big or or heavy for me to lift myself (this one is actually quite light, its just bigger than me). I think that was my exercise for the day.

For me the lack of distinction people make is annoying, because every time someone complains about it asking for help, everyone has to first try and establish which definition of lag they are using before any kind of help can be offered. I also don't think 'low fps' or 'game stutters' or 'game freezes' are that much harder to type out, so I see it as people being lazy. Also, those three descriptions refer to three different problems. Technical accuracy is very important if you want timely help with a technical matter. If you make people guess, they will either waste time guessing at what your problem is, or they'll just ignore you because if you can't be bothered to describe your problem properly, they can't be bothered to help you.

I hope to never date a lunatic. My current seems to be pretty grounded in reality. The topic of religion finally got around tonight, and it turns out that while neither of us are very religious, we both belong to the same faith. Bonus points :thumbsup: I don't even know how I brought that up, I just know I did a damn fine job of it. Score another one for instinct and poor memory. Night.

If not for the tofu, that might be appetizing to me. Are you a vegetarian or do you just by chance like tofu? And parties never do seem to go your way. Keep trying though, no giving up Tim :) Good night/date. Finally got around to seeing ferris bueller's day off. Very funny movie. One of those movies that everyone has to see sooner or later. Other than that, I've been fairly unproductive today, just the way I like it. I would like to get up a bit earlier tomorrow though, since I don't like how fast late afternoon gets to you when your taking your morning shower when most people eat lunch. I also don't like waking up that hungry.

I might be late, but I expect to make an appearance today.

This is great news indeed. Plastics are one of the least degradable materials we have ever created, right up there with concrete. A way to get rid of the stuff is great, though I do hope its not transforming it into something too terrible, since there is no shortage of the stuff to transform. And another victory for Nature. If it subsists purely on a specific type of plastic, it must be a fairly recently developed life form, since polyurethane does not occur naturally (unless I'm really missing something?). Very cool.

Agreed. I feel like you would have to prove that you aren't driving around by treating the gas pedal as an on-off switch for this sort of thing to fly. Unless cars have a super detailed black box, I don't see how you could prove that you were driving the car in a reasonable manner. That said, maybe this will encourage companies to try and produce more realisitic mpg figures, since quite frankly, their all fantasy anyway and the best you can hope for is that they all off by the same amount so the comparisons are still valid.

As good a place as any for this since you somehow brought the memory up... If you are on a bike trail, moving at speed, and there is a tree on either side of it, and they look a little close together, perhaps they are at the end of a mild turn at the bottom of a 10 ft hill, you can't fit between them. I thought 'going over the handlebars' was a figure of speech until I met two such trees. In fairness to the trees, tjhere was enough space, but with the speed, and the turn, I guess I was 2 inches to far to the right (not a whole lot of wiggle room), and the effect was pretty much the same. The bike stopped. I didn't. Since the trees were at the bottom of a tiny hill though, and the bike was still pointing down when it came to a most sudden stop, it was kind enough to lift me a bit so that I cleared the handlebars completely, and I was fortunate enough to get far enough ahead that the bike didn't land on me. Then there was the time, when I was much younger, and I took my bike off a jump at not inconsiderable speed. After gaining at least my own height at the time in air, I promptly separated from the bike (it kind of bounced me off the seat and rather than be pulled into a head dive, I let go). Somehow I contrived to land first, directly under the bike, where by some good fortune it didn't touch me at all, just pinned me to the dirt. It was close though. I told it was quite spectacular.

Glad to hear your making plans to get away from your family Tim. There doesn't seem to be any love lost between you and them, and from your posts here, I expect you'll be a much happier person once your free of them. Good luck.

Hmm, perhaps I hadn't thought it through fully. I'd still say though, that on the average, its probably easier to commit rape if your male (I phrased that wrong last time), because of strength distribution, and because of an anatomical advantage. Obviously with enough planning, then it doesn't matter. I was thinking more of spur of the moment cases where one person says no and the other person says doesn't matter. On a happier note, I think I had an excellent day today. I'll find out for sure sometime between tomorrow and mid next week, but I think that certain endeavors have gone a lot better than I thought they would, and for not the first time in my life, real world events have conspired to make certain things in my life much easier (which seems fair since its done its fair share of throwing me curve balls too). And aside form the part where I still take about a full hour to fall asleep every night, even with the aid of sleeping pills, it seems I am starting to get over at least some of the fatigue that has been plaguing me for weeks now. I realised today that while it is looking like I might never actually feel like getting out of bed in the morning ever again, no matter what duration of sleep I have, anything past maybe 7 hours doesn't seem to have any impact on how awake I am during the day (if anything, less is more). Now, if only I could somehow make all the flat surfaces in my room (floor included) become electrified if I try to lay down on them for the first 30 minutes after my alarm goes off.

Royally messed up my laundry. I started running it through late, so not its after midnight and the drying is still going. I'd let it finish and get it in the morning, but I have the second load sitting in the washing machine <_< Also, I'm not sure who thought it would be a good idea to get me anything that needs a cold wash and can't go through the dryer. Their nice sweaters, but I hate high maintenance. Had to comander the bed sheet and towel load as a delicate wash to get the sweaters through -.- On the plus side, I've started watching Babylon 5, and I have to say I'm really enjoying it. Aside from the part where I have it in interlaced format ([bleep]ing hate interlaced) which can be a tad annoying when you happen to notice it. It's also the first show in space to acknowledge something I've been noticing for a while. Their ships don't fly around with their engines on all the time, which wouldn't make any sense. With almost nothing in the way of friction to slow you down, the only reason you could possibly have to keep the engines running (unless you are accelerating) is if you are piloting a ship the size of our moon at a star (solar wind). Nice to see a show actually figured out that a space ship isn't a car on the highway. Time to watch one more show and pray the dryer finishes, or I'm going to get creative (convert the radiator into a clothesline).