Ginger_Warrior

Yeah. The problems when you rely heavily on intuition when trying to work out other people, and not so much on what they're actually doing or saying. Very hard to remove a first impression once it's stuck there.

Since the Horse Update on Monday, Minecraft's been running real slow. Only running around 8-15 FPS when it was much more beforehand. I gather from Google that it's due to the new launcher having problems with integrated graphics. I have Intel HD Graphics 4000, 6GB RAM and an i5 core. Not the greatest by any stretch of the imagination, but it's enough. Far more intense games run fine on this laptop. So I'm really just hoping for a fix, because I honestly don't believe there's a small number of people suffering this problem, given how many people own laptops rather than desktops.

There's two sides to every coin. I'm sure plenty of other people would talk about you in the Things That Make You Smile thread, if they knew this forum existed at all. :) But then if they did, I wouldn't be posting here as openly as I do. :P

Fair point, you can't see the mini profiles on some mobile versions.

Not necessarily when training those skills essentially boils down to a cost / rate of experience gain equation. Meaning even more emphasis is placed on acquiring gold, meaning even more emphasis is placed on the most profitable money making methods in the game. Which in RuneScape's case is PvM. To be fair, Jagex are designing with one arm tied behind their back in regards to controlling power creep. The game purposefully minimises the influence of player skill--the number of bots in profitable and viable money making activities, and perpetually weak PvP scene is testament to that--meaning you can't really control power creep along that dimension, and as Myr explained, the design of RuneScape means you can't control it by introducing incomparables either. On the other hand, you have a constantly growing pressure from player expectations to release new (and not irrelevant) content. One of the very few options Jagex have is to introduce ever more powerful armours and weapons into the game to match that expectation, but this just about the worst thing you can do from a power creep perspective because it makes previous tiers of the equipment comparatively useless, and therefore unprofitable to 'farm', and also makes "skills" even more redundant than they were previously. It's really impossible to separate "the rest of RuneScape" from PvM combat. The economics of the game are so intrinsically linked to its PvM model that it's just not realistic outside of a very few niche (and most likely 'inefficient') activities, such as those performed by DIY accounts.

... :? I'm pretty sure he meant that guys go to him asking for advice as another guy, lol

To be fair, just because a girl sleeps with you doesn't mean she's looking for anything more than that.

You say that, but LoL doesn't seem to have that problem. Well... it does, they just manage it far better. Jagex aren't faultless when it comes to power creep. They've catered to it at almost every available opportunity, and the consequence is them having to rebalance the game month after month after month.

Everyone below the age of 12 giggled. Congratulations.

July is the big summer month for gaming. It's bang in the middle of Q3, and it's when people generally have most free time which isn't being occupied by a holiday somewhere without Internet access. I understand that a "bad project released on time will always be bad, while a delayed project will be good eventually", but not releasing RS3 this month is a missed opportunity. Yes, August still counts as summer and people have free time then too, but surely you want the two months, not just the weaker one which leads straight into the start of the academic year.

Oh you... so witty.

I'd go survival over creative mode, myself.

If you take a chance on those, be careful going over bumps. ;)

"If you build it, they will come" Three people have said "Yes" so long as it works this time. Go from there. If those three don't turn up, drop it. If they do and more come, success.

Can someone tell me what happened to the old one? I don't feel like looking for the backstory by trawling through the best part of 3,000 posts... :P

Hugging, especially in our generation, is an extremely common greeting, especially when the relationship between two people is already quite intimate. I'm the type of person that has few, deeper friendships, mostly with females, so when I go back to university this week, the first thing I'll do when I see them is offer a hug. Doesn't necessarily mean I'm looking for sex, though, nor does it mean that they'd be wanting it if I tried, of course. Hugging is a very safe way of breaking the "physical contact" barrier with someone new, although it doesn't provide much of an opportunity to show your intentions. Are you just wanting to be friendly, or you do see something more? Hugging doesn't really help answer that question, unless it's followed by something else. It's therefore not something I'd read into all that much, unless there was something auspiciously sexual about the hugging; where his hands touched you, for example. As far as girls asking guys out... people do have these attitudes about gender roles, probably because we live in a patriarchal society (anyone who denies this latter fact is doing so in blatant and horrible ignorance, in my opinion). The basics are the same for guys and girls. Flirting: Start sooner rather than later, but not too strong up front. Get the other person talking about their interests, try to link them back to you, pay compliments to show interest and so on. If he flirts back, raise the level. It will become very obvious what his answer would be if you asked him on a date. Guys would normally want to choose time and location, so perhaps leave that power with him after asking. It really depends on personal preference though; if you're the type who wants to swept off their feet, that isn't going to happen if you ask. You'll need to wait for him to do it, and just show an interest in the meantime.

I'd be interested in the idea of one. I've got both versions of Minecraft, but I've only ever played the Xbox 360 version on multiplayer, so I've got no knowledge about mods or good etiquette.

I suppose it depends on the guy, but generally I've found that guys text less than girls. Same goes for IM and Facebook Chat too. Wanna conversation with me? Come and talk to my face. I like body language. Positive sign, although friends hug too. Overdressing isn't possible. What matters more is whether the clothes are appropriate for the situation. A few young men I've met like going around in suit jackets and black trousers, even on a blisteringly hot summer's day in the park--they're also the type of blokes with long, scruffy, greasy hair and tour tee-shirts of rock bands who were playing before they were even born. Aside from ruining the jacket, that's clearly not appropriate and gives them the appearance of trying to be purposefully strange or rebellious against accepted 'norms' (not a trait which genuinely attracts many people). However, it would be suitable for, say, a job interview. If you came in a party dress which was simply fancier than everyone else's, I'd say there's no issue there; it's a party after all. It also suggests that he knows you feel the way you do about him, and that you wouldn't have minded him holding you. You like him. He likes you. So long as you're not literally sticking two fingers up at this girl, then "that's life" and she should accept that. As an aside: You need to care less about what other people think or feel about you--for the most part, we tend to stereotype everyone we meet based on prior experiences anyway (as explained a couple of days ago in this thread), and so people's expectations of you are largely set in their own minds before you've even met them. This is completely out of your control and not something you should worry about. By all means, accept positives, reflect on negatives, because that's how you pick out your strengths as a person and identify parts of yourself you might want to apply some polish to. But only accept things which people actually say to you. If he's not texted back, he might be bored, he might be busy, his phone's battery might have died. There are a thousand and one rational explanations other than "He doesn't like talking to me." Likewise with the clothes you wore: If you made an effort to make yourself look attractive, then so long as it wasn't disproportionate (see: tangerine-orange tans), there's much more chance of people being impressed than there is them thinking you looked awful or were trying too hard. If you assumed the latter, then the inverse statement would be: "If I dress down, wear dirty clothes and make myself look trashy, guys will find me attractive," which is a clearly ridiculous statement.

The Stones playing Glasto. "Unprecedented" crowds outside the Pyramid Stage. My BBC live stream keeps breaking apart; cannot begin to imagine how many people are downloading it.

I've never written a cover sheet. Ever. Perhaps it's just the sector I work in, but I've simply never been required to.

I'm not sure what "we" means, but in the past few days the US Supreme Court essentially endorsed marriage equality for same-sex couples in the (soon to be) 13 states which permit same-sex marriages. There was a law (Defence of Marriage Act) which had prevented same-sex married couples from obtaining the same federal benefits as heterosexual married couples; this was struck down by the Supreme Court, although was not totally invalidated.

Relevant: What's an odie?

I heard that rocks in Estonia are 53% more likely to contain diamonds than the US, and that buildings made from Estonian building-grade stone are 67% more durable in an earthquake. Apparently there's like a mysterious element in Estonian soil that gives you magic powers if you eat beef from cows that graze on it, simply because it's in Estonia.

Not sure entirely what you mean in the first part. Self-fulfilling prophecy is the concept that if person A treats person B differently due to their expectations of person B, then the person being stereotyped will mimic behaviour which is consistent to the stereotype. In this example, it would be that the stereotype of voluntary celibacy in the over-50s would cause over-50s themselves to engage in less sex-seeking behaviour. The stereotype is reinforcing the stereotype, even if the original stereotype holds no validity otherwise. I wasn't referring to the stereotyped person's behaviour being excusable; that's an ethical debate, not a sociological one. I was suggesting that you find stereotyping ubiquitously excusable, even when those stereotypes are proven to be the inverse of reality, as iBe had with sexuality in the over-50s. See my point on self-fulfilling prophecy. If society labels people who are sexually active with multiple partners 'trashy', is it really so hard to understand why a person labelled in that manner would, indeed, act more 'trashy'? We all gravitate towards society's expectations on how we behave; negative associations are no exception to that. Essentially, you've confused the causal relationship between a woman being perceived as 'trashy' and that woman being more sexually active. Just because "society chooses it" (however you define that specifically) does not necessarily mean the stereotype has much validity, if any at all. Society once stipulated that "N-words" had smaller brains and were therefore incapable of equal intellectual capacity with their white counterparts. Society once also stipulated that gay men and women were gay due to mental illness. Society once claimed women were incapable of doing any of the jobs men traditionally did. Did any of these stereotypes hold any validity? Perhaps the last one holds very little validity given very exceptional circumstances (mixed gender physical sport, for instance), but none at all otherwise.

Let's assume that they are true. Doesn't that ignore why stereotypes which act as self-fulfilling prophecies may be flawed? Listen, we all stereotype because it helps us to save time in understanding the world around us, but you seem to be accepting them as inherently true, or at the least 'excusable', which is... puzzling.