Ginger_Warrior

To value and treasure the person that means most to you in your life, and to let them know how much you care about them. I didn't do that... I've probably payed the price.

Look, slushee, I can't for one moment even begin to have any sympathy for the way you have acted about this. As far as I'm concerned, you not only rejected help from your doctor (thinking you knew best), but you created a danger to other children, and perhaps most horrifically, you abused your trust with your girl best friend. This is made doubley worse considering you knew she'd been in rehabilitation twice, and that she was weak-minded enough to take them. Having said that, clearly you and this girl are cut from the same stone, and I understand how hard it can be for people with ADHD to socialise with people, simply because of their prejudism. She also clearly needs a solid person to take care of her in her life. From the sounds of things, she lacks that person. Like I said, you need to see your doctor about your illness. As said before, they often make mistakes - Medicine isn't an exact science and the body is perhaps more complex than anything known to man. As far as the judge goes, you have to accept what he says. He's a well-balanced and well-minded person who knows what's best for both you and society in general. Serve your time, get up, dust yourself down and get on with you life. But can you promise yourself one thing? I don't really care if you fulfill this or not - it doesn't effect me. Can you promise to yourself to take care of this girl? You both clearly need someone else to turn to for support, and you seem to give each other that support. A trusting and understanding friendship such as that is hard to come by... don't abuse that fact. That's all I have to say.

I think I speak for many of us when I tell you to shut up, quit whining, and pick something else to fix . I'm 5'7 and I'm 17. At the rate I'm going, I'll probably stop short of 6', hit it if I'm insanely lucky (late bloomer). Like, 1 in a 100 chance lucky. You're 5'7" at 13 dude, you've got a ways to go -.- . I'm 17 and I'm 5'0". Seriously, both of you think you have problems! :)

Going on holiday. Preparing for the upcoming university UCAS applications. Decide whether I can be arsed with seven years of a Medicine course, or a shorter Pharmacy one. Maybe do some work experience with the NHS. Trying to make up with my ex GF/best mate after we fell out bad last week. Apart from that... I really have no idea. Will that fill six weeks? Most likely not. Why can't they make the other holidays bigger instead of a massive one with no purpose and nothing to do?

I don't really fnd RS addictive... LeafGreen

You dealed out drugs not only to other students, but you gave them to your best mate that I would have hoped you'd have cared a bit more for. I would never get my best mate to do that for me. What should you do now? Talk with your doctor about your illness... apart from that, you tell me.

There's a nice line for 27 willow logs to burnt in succession at the south of Draynor... you have to find it. Hint: You'll need to start behind a tree.

Physical: I wish my hair could be a LOT better. And get rid of these danged spots! Mental: I wish I could just let go of things that are hurting me. I can never just walk away... I'm intelligent so I don't need to ask for things like that.

few weeks? You must be mistaken... I wasn't calling people noobs and I was very polite; but it took me FIVE years before I became one. Very good, and congratulations, but that doesn't prove Jagex was watching you for five years does it? The fact is, if mods only got selected after five years of playing, there'd be very few mods out there, which eveidently isn't true.

Star Fox Command is a great game to play online... I'm just not sure how many people actually go on it these days.

The only Pok̮̩̉̉mon I'm scared of in that line-up is Empoleon (Piplup's evolved form) because of its Steel attribute. But that's it. My Vaporeon and Gardevoir would slaughter you... BTW, I also have played every Pok̮̩̉̉mon game from the beginning, and know the mechanisms of breeding pretty darn well.

I only have a very limited knowledge of American History, but my worst would have to be either George Bush Jr. (not just because he's there now, but just because I think he's done tremendously bad), or possible Dwight Eisenhower. Both seem to me obsessed over foreign affairs and the spread of democracy when they really had no right to, and to a life-long Socialist such as myself, I don't really get appealed by this kind of attitude. The best one... possibly Truman. I know what you're going to say - he issued the Truman Doctrine - but the inspirational thing about Truman is that he came from a traditionally racist background and still saw the need to provide equal opportunities for blacks. I think that's something perhaps a few politicians need to reflect on.

IQ tets measure only intelligence, not cleverness. Remember that. Just because Einstein had an IQ of however high didn't make him clever - his actions did. I took a Tickle Test and I got something like 130ish anyway.

I disagree with the experience point. A player should have some experience of the game at least. If they're constantly going off and coming back again like you stated, then the chances are they have a very sketchy picture of the game anyway, and in my opinion, this doesn't make them suitable to be a moderator. Also, about the behaviour point. Of course, there is nothing wrong with selecting people by behaviour, but can Jagex really justify watching a couple of weeks' worth of behaviour, and then make a rational decision as to whether that person is a good person for the job?

I'm glad they've decided to use the GC controller as an optional way of palying the game. SSB just wouldn't be the same without the button-bashing of the A-button :

Too many legandaries there... my Gardevoir and Dragonite would tear that team apart really. Also, don't use too many 'ubers'. People don't like them, and many on a forum I go on, called PMC, clearly say in their battle offers they don't allow ubers, and some don't even like legendaries. Also, legendaries have a weakness in that you can't breed egg moves into them, making them very linear and predictable. That's my only advice to you, apart from to train a female Pikachu, and then a male Pikachu with all the moves you want it to learn, and breed a Pichu. It should know all the moves you want, meaning you could technically have a Level 2 Raichu with all those moves. Dunno if that works though, since Pichu doesn't learn that many moves...

I was always told Pearl Habour was an act of desperation by the Japanese, it wasn't a mistake for them. They knew they couldn't sustain a war effort, so they tried to hodl the Americans to ransom, but because they lack so many raw materials, this was hopeless. Some would argue that America's decision to not supply oil to the Japanese caused Pearl Habour. The biggest mistake of WWII was unquestionably Hitler's decision to invade Russia. They had already signed the Nazi-Sovet Pact some two years before, so they were under no real threat. Indeed, Stalin was said to be amazed by the Nazis' decision to invade them - they had supplied them with raw materials the day before they declared war! He should have finished us off first, and we were gone. France had fallen in six weeks thanks to some naÃÆÃâÃâïve hope regarding the Maginot Line, and Britain's Home Front was exhausted. We were set to make peace when they invaded Russia and forced them into a war on two fronts.

I believe my team is in my sig : As for strategies, you may notice all of them have high Attack or Special Attack base stats. I've promoted this in my EV training. I love the attack much more than defence, I find these stupid Sandstorm/Toxic/[bleep]es combinations with Tyranitar horribly boring. Electivire also knows Rain Dance, which in a Double Battle, promotes Vaporeon's attacks as well as gaurenteeing Thunder will act home. Charizard knows Sunny Day, shich as well is boosting its own moves, allows Torterra to use its Solarbeam instantly, and this allows me to swtich between Special Attack and normal attacks, since I manged to breed the move Seed Bomb into my Torterra. Rhyperior is great against Electric Pok̮̩̉̉mon thanks to its LightningRod ability, and its Hammer Arm OHKOs any Defence-ubered Blissey. Gardevoir is just amazing. Fast, high Special Attack, with Shadow Ball as an alternative move. It also has Hypnosis and Dream Eater to give her longevity. A real threat to most Pok̮̩̉̉mon. So that's my team. I'm currently working on a Drapion with Ice Fang and Toxic to deal with nasty Ground, Psychic and Fighting Pok̮̩̉̉mon... :-$

I'll divide this post into two main parts. The first about the racism claims, the second about the actions on macroing. Firstly, I feel that Jagex were pretty irresponsible in saying that Chinese sweatshops were the main problem. If they'd have had any sense about them, they'd have just said "foreign", to avoid that kind of controversy. And while there are places in China that employ people to earn RS gold and sell it for real money, such places exist all over the world where RS can be played. On an additional note, if most (in fact, nearly all) of RS's players are non-Asian, then does that make it a Chinese-exclusive issue? No. According to basic economics of supply and demand, someone has to buy the product in order for that market to exist, and therefore need a supply. Therefore, it would make more sense to me to point the finger not at those which provide an illegal service to players, but to those who actually use that service and, in doing so, fuel its need and growth. So, yes, Jagex were pretty judgemental (I don't know about racist as such) regarding this issue. Also, they made it quite clear that most shops were in China. Now if that's true, then fine I'll accept that statement, but it does imply that they understand this is not an Asia-exclusive problem. Secondly, I think the whole policy of "Getting rid of macroers" is incredibly dillusional. Macroing is seen by many as a form of cheating - a way to get from A to B using a quick, easy way, albeit unintentional by the game's designers. Cheating has existed ever since the dawn of time in all walks of life, just more prominently so in gaming. What Jagex is effectively asking for is to remove the culture of cheating in gaming. Now, I don't condone cheating, but I find this deeply misguided. There will always be people who want to beat the game in an easier way to the normal way, just as there are people who would rather cheat their way to the top in their careers in real life. While that (arguably natural) human desire exists, there will always be a market to supply ways to fulfill that desire, and hence, there will always be people who code and locate possible cheats/hacks/glitches. Therefore, when Jagex goes around saying "We're going to get rid of macroers from this game", I think they're being quite stupid actually, and it's clear they've not actually thought of the problem, or at least the causation of the problem, in any detail. Has Jagex done enough? Hmm... I would be quick to say they should have dealt with this in the bud at RSC, but that would be like saying you didn't support the Iraq War, yet don't have any solutions to solve the current problem - it's a pointless view. 8,000 accounts sounds all very good, but how do we know they're just calling our bluff here? When you think about it, that's one account in just over a minute. That seems like a very high rate of accounts being disabled, and it almost leads me to believe that it's too high, and they're lying. Jagex needs to provide its own in-game updates to reduce players' dependacies on Gold shops before it can even hope of solving this. Take away the market, you stop the trade. As for people saying they need to close the shops... well... how can they? They can ban the people playing the game, I'll agree, but they can't physically tell them to close down the shop for it. They're under their own laws, and just because Jagex doesn't like a shop for promoting what it sees as unethical ways of playing its game, doesn't mean they can demand the shop's closure. If they did have that power, Tip.It would have been closed a loooong time ago...

Law has to reflect what the society that law covers ordaines. If the majority of people in Louisiana see this as indecent exposure, then that's within their right to do so. I live in Preston, the law doesn't really bother me. Having said that, more girls wear jeans that are too tight and show their underwear than wear saggy trousers... so I can't see how this bill would really work. It's a very pedantic law which holds no weight in the real world.

Thank you... this thread has really helped me with my problem right now. see, me and my girlfriend split up on Sunday. She said it because she didn't have any feelings for me anymore, but that's a different topic. Ever since then, it's been really, really tense. I've been kinda clingy. We were going out for over a year. Since I'm only 17, that's a very long time. I guess it came kinda natural for me to spend lots of time with her, because we spent almost all our time with each other, so that's how it's been so hard for me to accept that I can't really do that anymore. But I've also been troubled because me and her were very close friends. Ever since we met after she had comforted me over a relationship that broke up between me and another girl two and a half years ago, we've had a very special and unique bond. We share everything with each other - our emotions, everything. But obviously, in the past week, that has been tested to its upmost durability, and I've been wondering whether it was gonna break up. Without her, I don't know what I'd do. She really is the thing that keeps me ticking everyday. I don't just say that because I still love her (and yes, I would say it's real love), but because I mean it. I'm renouned for being quite a cocky, arrogant and elf-confident individual, but one of the weird things about me is that I'm also incredibly self-conscious and insecure. She's the one who removes that fear from me, so I really can't live without her. Anyways, your post made a lot of sense regarding my current situation. At the moment, we're stuck in limbo. I see it as a standdown from being a relationship, so now we're just close mates. She's having a much more difficult time with me, she keeps asking for time to herself, and I think it might be for this reason. The fact is, it was weird that me and her got together in the first place, since, as your post shows, I should only ever have been a best friend to her, but we developed sexual feelings for each other. Now that she doesn't have those feelings for whatever reason, she's struggling to pinpoint where exactly our friendship lies, and I'm being made upset because her own inability to do that makes me insecure and puts me in a difficult decision where I have no idea how to act around her. Am I still someone she wants to hug when she's stressed, or someone she only wants to talk to on MSN? The fact it, I have no idea. I'm purng my heart out here, and I don't believe you can have an emotional relationship on the internet. I've tried a long-distance relationshiop (as did she once)... it didn't work. The fact is, you can't see the other person face-to-face, and that leaves a big hole in terms of trust between the two individuals. How dyu know they're not slagging you off behind their back, for example? But thanks for this post, and I hope that me and her can still have a close friendship, maybe in the future, even a relationship again. I realise now that she's struggling to make that decision, and my actions are only antagonising her. I need to let her be now. Thanks

There is something called Rainbow Juice where I live... I shan't go into it as it's pretty engrossing. Aside from the there's Adam's Ale (which is actually water). Dunno if that counts or not, but that's my wierdest drink. I don't drink, nor do I go out to bars and clubs, so I don't really know the names of alcoholic drinks, let alone what they contain.

I think one of the big problems with analysing the mods is that we don't actually know a lot about them, or how they are selected. Therefore, I find it very difficult putting an opinion on moderators, not least because there are so many of them, and it would be wrong to make such a rash generalisation. As far as Player Mods go, the concept just eludes me. How can you give such a significant number of the game's community extra powers is beyond me. It creates jealousy, due the fact it just creates a heirachy within a heirachy. This leads to hostility, and the problem isn't helped by Jagex's lack of clarification regarding this issue.

Let's be clear about Liverpool fans. There was no trouble at the AC Milan end of the ground. None. Yet we see scenes like that with Liverpool fans? They also practicaly admitted they were poorly behaved. I saw dozens of fans going over there saying they would buy tickets off the black market, some saying they would actually steal tickets from other fans. We have a psychology in the North... you don't steal from your own. The club has said they received only 17,000 tickets, so it's UEFA's fault. Well, that's hypocritical quite frankly. A third of their tickets went to corporate sponsers, that's why there were so few tickets made avaliable to fans. Frankl,y if I was a Liverpool fan, I'd feel cheated by the club! Again, I stress that AC Milan worked under the same conditions, yet got on fine. I'm sorry, this isn't a case of UEFA picking on UK fans. A small minority of Liverpool fans have got to learn to abide by the rules, and have ruined the club's reputation. That's not UEFA's fault - in fact it's actually the club's responsiblity to look after fans. So if you want to blame the behaviour of Liverpool fans on anyone, look at the club. Once again, British Media refuses to accept other places in Europe are better than the UK...

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