Ginger_Warrior

It was a facetious point, but legit gambling could hardly be defined as a skill. At least bookmakers in real life have to quantify the risks and the chances of something happening, which requires lots of experience and knowledge to predict. In RuneScape gambling, the odds don't change. It's more of an exercise in self-promotion than risk/reward calcuations.

OK then, since you asked. I usually drink a full glass of water before sleeping after a night out... even if I don't feel like it, that helps a ton with the dehydration. Sugar is found in gargantuan amounts in most takeaway foods. For minerals I usually have a cup of tea in the morning and an apple for breakfast, works fine.

Not sure if Liverpool were really good, or Wigan were just awful and lazy at defending. Probably both. Why... why you heff to be mad? We're only 29 points ahead of them in the league.

Pfft... hangover. Weaklings.

Today I was reflecting on some things in my life I'm not entirely comfortable with, and I actually thought long and hard about my gaming interests, so I thought I'd share some of it here in case anyone else might relate to it in some way. In the end of it, I came to some pretty stark realisations about video gaming and how relatively useless it is towards self-development. We all have different reasons for gaming; I know mine and you probably know yours too. But today I realised that while I might play a video game after coming back home from work, other people do other things. Perhaps they go to the gym, or play an instrument in a band, or go to the pictures and see a film or whatever. I'm 23 this month; I've reached that age where what I do in the long-term in regards to things like friends and family is more important to me than the short-term thrills of being young, healthy and (relatively) debtless. I go to work, and for the most part I lie about my personal life. I figure it doesn't hold much interest to the kind of people I work with (the clients are mostly elderly, the staff are mostly middle-aged and female), so I just don't mention gaming. If they ask "You get up to anything last night?", I shrug and say, "No, nothing much". I know myself that if someone responded that way to my attempts at getting to know them, I'd lose interest in them quite quickly, so why should it be any different if the boot's on the other side? In reality, I'd probably achieved lots of XP in RuneScape or had a great game of Halo the night before, which means a lot to me, but that's not something anyone outside of RuneScape or Halo could really appreciate. Everyone desires to be fitter/healthier though, so you could more easily relate to someone who goes to the gym. I think that leads me to being alienated because outside of work, gaming or gaming-related interests take up the majority of my time. If I can't talk about it, that affects my self-confidence and that's counter productive to my personal self-development. I wouldn't say I have bad social skills necessarily, but it is an area I need to develop. Of course, that's a personal observation, but I'd say if you're the kind of person that feels other people will judge you for gaming (and I feel plenty of people still hold those stereotypes about gamers), you're clearly not going to feel comfortable talking about it to other people and that will affect your confidence negatively.

A friend on my Facebook just posted "<F-word> everyone". I'm worried she's being too blindly cynical. :unsure:

I can't see how cross-game trading creates a level playing field at all, but it's impossible to police, and rules are only as good as they are possible to enforce.

You really can't appreciate the relationship between poor socioeconomic status and reduced employment opportunities? I mean, really though? This is pretty basic stuff.

From eBay description: ...It's very pink but otherwise there's nothing "adult" about the product itself, only the ceremony that takes place around it. :P

Did I say they were completely unable to fight injustice? No, I said they were less able for reasons relating to socioeconomic deprivation which I would have thought would be obvious. Poorer education leading to less access to opportunities to escape deprivation, less jobs available for the population, poorer health (etc.).[2] No one's suggesting that people who are experiencing social inequality should be given a job, and that isn't what affirmative action is there to accomplish. What affirmative action is, or at least the principles behind affirmative action, is a recognition of the fact that while we all have to work in order to get jobs and succeed in life, those who are black, women, disabled (etc.) have to work harder, and that is systematically unfair. Whether you agree on whether it works or not is another matter, but if a society knows inequality exists and chooses to do nothing about it, then it doesn't say much about the values of my society, nor does it say much about how the laws of my society protect those who are weakest and least empowered to improve their position.

I can't take that post seriously while your signature contains a link titled "assist others with your knowledge". More like "[bleep] off and do it yourself".

Affirmative action on its own doesn't work, agreed. You also have to look at wider socialeconomic and geopolitical reasons for why ethnic minorities are so under-represented in the workforce. It's undoubtedly part of the solution, though. Furthermore, my support for AA isn't triggered by "white guilt". I'm white, I had no part in the slave trade or racism in times gone by--I have nothing to feel guilty for. What I see is social inequality, and that makes me feel that a serious miscarriage of justice continues to operate in our society against those who are least able to fight that injustice. That isn't guilt.

No update in 24 hours. He must have died. RIP Tans.

Aww... sorry, what's a state? My country is only 603 miles long, I don't understand. :P

No you don't, if anything the reverse is true. If you're asked to provide information on race or ethnicity when it's not directly relevant to the occupational requirements of the job, you reserve the right to not answer the question, since you are not legally obliged to do so. ACAS is very clear on the implications of the Equality Act 2010: Furthermore, just because you lived in London and noticed there were lots of ethnic minorities living there, does not mean you can translate it to the rest of the United Kingdom. Cambridge is where Jagex are based, it's a university town which holds one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world, so it attracts a lot of non-British White students to the area; in spite of this, around 82% of the Cambridge population define themselves as 'white'.[1]

The reward for "working hard" is completing ROTM and having access to Glacors. Isn't that reward enough? The video implies that there will be a cascade of rewards from the quest, with the best stuff going to those whose skills are higher. I see no problem in this. Why should I be denied from the lore of RuneScape because I don't want to train a certain skill? It's an RPG, after all.

It looks fantastic, the music score sounds fantastic. Hopefully this quest brings the player into a sense of immersion that happens only a precious few times in RuneScape. OMGGG POKEMANS IN RUNESCAPE!!! (Her Marill is the same size as her Charizard though... it clearly had one too many Rare Candies)

[/hide]Excuse me? Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't F2P as well as P2P get the new EOC update only how long ago? It used to be that F2Pers would only get the yearly updates, such as Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Halloween, as well as possibly once in a while a little tiny thing added here or there like the SOS, or something.. People always complained about how F2P got updates when it was a small one back then, and now you're saying that it's about time that F2P, which pays nothing to the people who give you the content, has deserved this update because they haven't had one for three months? Sorry if this comes off as arrogant, but F2P should only get major updates such as EOC, and such just because it IS a trial... The whole purpose of the Demo is so that you buy the full version, not that you eventually stick with it long enough and you have the full version. On a side note, be happy you have as much content today as you do, there was once a day where you didn't have anything but skills to train, and friends to be with. There were no activities, no anything hardly. She's P2P and you're talking down at her like she's a freeloader. That's the funny thing.

Lots of fine tweaking, nothing much more to say. Definitely more excited about the dual wield abilities. There isn't a sensible person alive that doesn't want dual wield to work in equity to two-handed weapons. My magic action bar actually needs another basic ability to make a full cycle, so that's useful.

The perception was more due to timing. In the first week of the poll, there was very little in the way of advertising, and precious little progress in the poll. It didn't look like it would make even 250K. Then suddenly a week later, they started their aggressive advertising on the website, through social media and through pop-ups in game, and if I remember correctly, the votes went up to 20K/4hr at one point. The criticism is not of advertising itself, but using it as a means to justify a position retrospectively, and specifically using it to endorse a poll which was initially laid out as an altruistic attempt to gauge public attitude towards a return of 2007scape.

I wouldn't have said that your perception of EoCscape as a "cesspit of negativity" is shared by myself or most of my own friends, but then I suppose this is a debate that largely centres around your own personal perspective. If that's what you and your friends feel, then more power to you and I hope you enjoy 07scape. I wouldn't feel so confident that you speak for most RuneScapers, though. Perhaps half at best, with a significant proportion of that half also playing EoCscape simultaneously to 07scape.

If you hear someone in Vegas shout "Hot/Cold x2 <name> legit"... run a mile, yeah?

What's wrong with gingers? [hide][/hide] Like, happy birthday and stuff Tans.

I thought about adding that, but I didn't want to give the impression that Jagex tried very hard to push this vote along (perish the thought!). I suppose that counts under "plaster adverts everywhere in support of it" anyway.

Well... we can all safely say that 750,000 RuneScape players wanted to play the 2007 version of the game! If you... give 250,000 votes for free; disregard the absence of another 50,000 votes; release the content early to get people excited; plaster adverts everywhere in support of it; give a free month's worth of access to anyone who votes 'yes'; change it from $15/mnth to a third of that; cascade down the reward scale to make the goals more achievable; make a news post every other day on it; promise a small development team and anti-bot technology for the 2007 version, postpone an update in the live version to give people time to play the 2007 version...