Ginger_Warrior

My old account, which I hadn't played for two years, was banned for account sharing/selling. I'd never shared my account or used anyone else's in my entire life, so the only logical explanation I can think of is someone hacked my account. When I recovered the account, and discovered it was perma-banned, I appealed to Jagex but they gave the standard reply of "clear evidence you were in control of the account" blah blah blah. This was over three years ago, but it didn't go well for me. That probably doesn't make you feel better, but that's the truth. I was filled with incandescent rage at the time, but I started a new account and surprised myself with how much faster I could train it, since I knew much better training methods than I'd used when training my old account.

I'd like to think, as someone who cares for older people on a daily basis, that by the time I reach that age, physical attractiveness wouldn't mean anything as much to me as it does now. My experience of people in that age group is that they're looking for something different. All people except very young babies have a need to express sexuality, including the elderly, but the extent to which they do that and the way they do that differs depending on age.

> 11 per seed, even counting SoL is an above average return isn't it?

Have you been able to repeat that error? One swallow doesn't make a summer...

PvP has been on the slide for years now, a drop which pre-dates EoC by quite some distance. How can you justify that EoC is the sole cause of that slump?

My very first day of placement today. I'm so excited I didn't get a single minute's sleep last night. It's 4:45am and my shift starts at 7:00am and runs through 'til 3:00pm. So by the time I come off my shift I'll be awake 30 hours on the bounce. I am so [bleep]ed it's not even funny. I'm just hoping a combination of being on my feet all day and adrenaline will see me through this.

[hide=Brace yourselves, HYTers are coming][/hide] Goals are best when they're specific and measurable. So if it's "meeting new people", say "make five new friends in the next fortnight." You're far more likely to achieve it if you hold yourself to some objective standard.

OK, no problem and I respect that, but it's very hard to pick out what you mean with words like "purpose", "meaning" and "goals". There's enough psycho-babble business-talk out there on the Internet including those words that they could mean a whole plethora of things. I think I know what you mean, but you can appreciate the difficulty of translating advice in that form to one's own experience of life.

If you don't mind me asking, what purpose does your life have?

I believe that's already been answered with 'no'.

Yeah, Happy 18th! I know performing music live is an incredibly exhilarating feeling, so last night must have been pretty special with it being your birthday on top.

They've never won the Premier League. I can remember the last time Liverpool won the old football league, because I was born in Liverpool only two months before; I'll be 23 in March. :D

Just about anyone who's buying POP armour is either planning to flip them or keepsake them for looks. I don't believe that anyone is insane enough to use them for combat purposes at the current prices. Fashionscape is another matter, but flipping inherently involves finding people who have no sense and selling them stuff at an inflated price. It essentially abuses their laziness. So I see no difference there. :P How about people buying pvp armour that last 20/60 minutes. Think its same fashion. There's a need to have the best armour in PvP. There isn't that same need for PvM. It's overkill when even most level 70 armours are good enough, maybe Nex armours at a push.

You're not Jesus. The power of The Crate gives all HYTers an innate ability to levitate. Plenty of other things too which you haven't discovered. Worship The Crate!

At least we can deduce that, much like in reality, there are some people in RuneScape with far more money than sense. 50m for a fully degrading item with a ten-hour lifespan? Lunacy.

I got rejected by my first choice. I've fallen in love with my second choice, though. Don't be disheartened.

Of course. The term "honeymoon period", usually applied in the context of sport, has some validity behind it. But that's only natural; not only have you just declared one of the biggest commitments you'll ever make in life, both emotionally and financially, but somebody else has reciprocated that commitment to you. It stands to reason that whatever feelings you have at that moment in time are very much heightened and exaggerated in response to what's happening.

http://playground.last.fm/demo/instant Thought I'd alert anyone who still frequents this thread and Last.fm about this playground feature, which takes music already in your library and associates it with a certain tag or a certain song, so that the music list generated better represents your own musical tastes as well as the mood you're in. It doesn't provide any suggestions for songs not already in your library, so don't expect to find a new band using it, but the radio/scrobbler fulfills that purpose quite well instead. The lists themselves only offer previews of the songs, but there's nothing stopping you from just copying it onto Spotify. ;) Fantastic for those people who, like me, listen to music to reflect how they're feeling. My experience of Last.fm and music in general has become much more enjoyable and exhilarating for using this feature.

That's an opinion as subjective as whatever your definition of love is. Different people seek different things.

EDIT: Oh, nevermind. Confused myself thinking philia and storge were two different things. Didn't read the bracket in the bullet point list. >_<

Ooo, a convict in the port! (Speaking of Liverpool...) [hide=lol][/hide]

I think so, but wouldn't that be more Platonic? Love which is inherently non-sexual? (although sex does happen between people who are 'just friends' too, it's generally accepted as a no-go area)

You've clearly never played Pokemon competitively. :P

As far as timing is concerned, I think a lot of guys lack that ruthlessness; the ability to sense that there will never be a better time to ask her out than now, and so now is the time to act, not procrastinate and therefore let the golden opportunity pass by. If you take the ruthless approach and get rejected, you can still have full confidence knowing that you did the best you had to offer at the time. Cowardice, on the other hand, eats away at you because you know it's a poor choice and it's fundamentally regressive towards getting over that fear. Of course, the vast majority of girls are no better; even now the concept of a girl asking a guy out is wrongly accepted as being strange. On being friends after being "friendzoned"/dumped, again I'll take a swipe at my male brethren. Girls have a much better idea of what they want and what to expect from human relationships and can more easily recognise that being in a 'relationship' with someone and being friends with someone are two entirely different things. I personally know a lot of guys who think that: female acquaintance -> friends -> girlfriend. NO. Relationships can be based on a whole range of things, sex being just one of them. It is entirely seemly for a relationship to based on sex, and yet both members of that relationship despise pretty much everything else about each other. It is also entirely seemly for a relationship to be more based on the same values that friendships are based on: trust, co-operation, mutual respect, a deep sense of caring for one another, as well as other things which define the relationship apart from being two friends. That doesn't make them the same thing, and it doesn't make a girlfriend just a female friend you also find sexually attractive. Simply put, if you want there to be a friendship after attempting to pursue a relationship or having just left a relationship with that person, you need to put all of the things about that relationship away first and leave only the bits that friends think and feel about each other, because if you don't, I will bet my bacon the other person has (or else they'd still be in that relationship with you in the first place), and pretending like they might not have moved on is only going to cause you a lot of pain. Of course, if you have put all those feelings behind you, then please, go for it. But not before that point.

His parents made a fortune by investing into boutique hotels. [bleep] knows why they settled in Swansea, then.