Ginger_Warrior

I'm not sure if it would be appropriate to show full body nudity or acts of a sexual nature in a TV slot where very young people may be watching, because there's a real issue there about how well they can comprehend what they're seeing. Then again, the same could be said for scenes of a violent nature, especially war. I wouldn't expect a ten- or eleven-year-old to understand these things because they lack the knowledge to place things into context. However, I think that sex itself shouldn't be as much of an issue as it is, especially amongst young men. When we talk about sexuality, we talk almost exclusively about women. One of the best selling books of the year was Fifty Shades of Grey; I can't imagine a similar book written for a male audience would achieve anywhere near the same level of popularity, because society in general would think there's something 'weird' about a man reading that sort of stuff. Given that situation, is it any wonder so many young men, and even some women, turn to pornography as a way of exploring the sexuality that society denies them the right to discuss in public? We like to laugh at European countries for their nude beaches and laissez-faire attitude, but for goodness sake, at least sex is there for people to see as a perfectly normal and safe thing to do. We talk to our friends, colleagues, people we've only just met about eating, sleeping, partying, energy prices and the price of clothes, all of which are also necessary to everyday life; well, sexual expression is also necessary, but we have this big hang up about it, and it makes no sense. Violence on the other hand definitely is not a safe feature of daily living, but we seem to be more "Okay" with showing that all the time.

Meh... change your thread title. False advertising.

Post about all the drops you didn't get. This blog is way more exciting than Facebook!

-1/10. I want my five mins back.

Never been to a college dance so, I'm not gonna be helpful I'm afraid. Re: Previous page. Allow me to clarify, because me and Muggi essentially agree with each other. In human relationships, we like to reduce people down to behaviour which we find predictable and repetitive. We like to know that our coworker watched the football last night, we like to know that during the weekend, our next door neighbour washes their car at a certain time on Saturday, we like to know our other half has a favourite place to eat if we're going for a meal, and so on. We use this information to organise social contact around them; you might watch the game yourself and use it as an anchor to start a conversation, or you might start washing your car around about the same time. When I was at medical school, I knew a couple of people who started watching Scrubs just before the year started so it would help them "fit in" with the typical medical student who, in their eyes, probably liked watching Scrubs. Plenty more people do it for massively popular shows such as reality TV, even if they don't particularly like the show themselves. In the context of sexual relationships, especially teenaged ones, this phenomenon is known as the "friendzone", but really it's a much larger concept as I've described and it's also not a 'final' point, which is another assumption. The friendzone has two parts: Firstly, if you act like a friend to a girl, they will treat you as one; secondly, once you're in the friendzone, you can't come "out" of there. The first part is definitely true, as I've just described, and in Saq's case, the more he spends time talking to this girl online like two BFFs would, the more this girl will treat him like a BFF, because that's the assumption she's drawing from his behaviour. There's no reasonable basis to suggest Saq wants anything else, from the way he's acting. The second part is more contentious. Imagine that coworker didn't watch the football game last night, or your other half wanted to eat somewhere else. That causes problems. We desperately search for another topic to discuss to keep the conversation flowing, or frantically brainstorm other restaurants we could go to in the hope she might approve. In complete and total ignorance, we hope next time they will watch the game and they will want to go to that same restaurant. The assumptions we place on people are incredibly strong because we depend on them so much, and if that assumption has to change, we often find it very difficult to process that change, and it takes time. Not only that, but those assumptions become more rigid the more we use them; imagine your neighbour has washed their car at the same time for ten years and suddenly stops. That's much more dramatic than if they'd only been doing it for six months, and we might read into the motivations differently in that case. Which is why when people do find themselves "friendzoned", most people find it very difficult to create any other impression on that girl (although it is possible and does frequently happen, which is why I don't totally subscribe to the whole idea). A lot of people act with despair, give up and assume (there's that word again) that they'll only ever be friends--because that's what the "friendzone" says--so they carry on acting like friends, which only makes the situation worse from their perspective, while at the same time pining away and desperately hoping that one day, they won't just be friends. Of course, that day won't arrive unless you make it. tl;dr: Saq needs to decide: Make a move now when it's relatively straight-forward and easy; or carry on with the IM chats and the quest to become everyone's best friend, or he'll face a much harder task later.

The friendzone doesn't exist. What does exist is the phenomenon that a girl would never have wanted any romantic or sexual involvement with you in the first place, no matter how cool/suave/rich/handsome/charismatic you may (or may not) be. That does not logically connect to "This woman is friendly with me, she'll never see me in any other way apart from that."

If you got with her, then well played my friend.

So... go do it then. You don't need our permission. I'm not really sure what you want us to say here. I'm not sure why you're talking about "social hierarchy" either, as if this has anything to do with getting yourself into a healthy, sustainable relationship. If you're going for a girl who only wants a boyfriend 'coz its kewl' then fine, but we all know you're not because there's only one person you've talked about the last two months. If she likes you, she couldn't give two [bleep]s whether you're popular at parties or whether you're a hit with freshman girls. In fact, you mentioning it is probably a big turn off to her, if anything. Imagine she said to you, "Oh yeah, all the boys round here like me, even the really hot ones." How would you feel?

It's OK. Far too easy to spam gun towers though since they rip apart pretty much anything, even the faster stuff that supposedly has to be lasered and even the flying aliens

I don't think this is much of a reflection, to be honest. Reads more like a small story about his RS history with no substantial attempt to draw out any points from it, finishes with a little tantrum about people who rage over a poorly defined concept of "change". I'd have preferred if he'd explained what's kept him interested in a game for nine years, if there's certain 'milestone' in-game moments which have forced him to change the way he plays and how he interacts with the game. What work he'd like to see done with the game to improve his experience of the game, instead of just saying "It will work out in the end". Neither myself or Jagex would have been able to take anything useful from that article, was my lasting impression after reading it.

Hearing about what happened at the Chiefs yesterday really was sobering news when I woke up this morning. I can understand wanting to kill yourself (well, I don't actually because although there's been times in life I've felt very low, I've never felt that low) but the would-be single mother of your 3 month old baby too? I don't know whether to hate what he did or feel sorry for him, and if I feel that way sitting here in the UK, I can't imagine what the Chiefs' head coach and players must be going through. The game with the Panthers is still going ahead which is incredible, really. There's absolutely no way they can psychologically "shut out" what's happened and focus on the game.

Recently, I've been trying out the whole touching thing whenever I go on a night out. Because I'm fairly new to it, I think I'm a bit too assertive and not subtle enough, but without going into gory details, it really does work. One lesson I've already learned is that touching is definitely a two way process. Because I'm conscious about how to do it to girls, I'm more aware of when girls are trying it on me, whereas maybe in the past I just thought they were being clumsy or whatever. Of course some of them still are being clumsy, it's about seeing which is which. But yeah... as rapey as it sounds, touching does work when done subtly and appropriately. So that obviously depends on how good someone is at assessing the situation, and it also means no matter how good you are at it, no girl will appreciate you trying to feel them up from behind without even so much as making eye contact first...

Suggests all skills are needed for lore, instead of rewards.

OK, I can understand that. But isn't RuneScape already a game where you have to be good at everything in order to obtain high level content? For example, all the quest requirements needed to do Ritual of the Mahjarrat. What have any of them got to do with killing Glacors? Still need to do it. All the skill requirements needed to complete the Elite Seers Diary. Completely irrelevent to the EEE's now unique healing ability, but you still need to spend millions on herblore to get there. It's already very hard in RuneScape to focus on just the combat skills and the combat-related content with little consideration to anything else. I don't see PoP as a change from that; if anything it's a strong continuation of that trend by bringing skills like runecrafting into the fold.

Pretty funny, but I'm only 70ish agility so my x-ray came back clear! Only problem I found was although MM is the only requirement for the Ape Atoll agility course, Teleport to Ape Atoll isn't unlocked by MM, it's unlocked by completing Awowogei's section of RfD, which also requires MM to start. Also, the Fairy Ring network puts you directly onto the course, so it's better anyway.

Yeah... your body can flush out any excess of Vitamin C quite easily. There would be obvious risks in injecting yourself, especially if not using sterile equipment, and if I dealt with a patient injecting themselves with Vitamin C, I'd definitely be exploring why exactly they're doing that when there's much easier alternatives available, but there's not a huge amount of risk from the vitamin itself. That's a very specific perception of your condition, Tim. What makes you think you're suffering from iron deficiency? At the very least, keep a diary of your food intake and associated symptoms for about a week. The doctor can't tell if you have low iron blood content without running a full blood test anyway, and that will take time to process. Most healthy people don't tend to have much problem getting enough iron into the body though, except for women who bleed heavily during periods or people with Crohn's disease. We tend to eat an abundance of food containing iron in western society--most of the iron we ingest goes through the GI tract without getting absorbed at all.

I'm kind of sure this girl at one of the uni societies I joined likes me... but I won't see her for about month and a half, and I didn't catch her number. [bleep]. I know her full name but I'm not gonna FB stalk. Creeeeepy...

Of course 50k a day isn't gamebreaking, nor does it destroy achievements previously gained. I was arguing on the basis it was a blanket 50% boost to XP throughout the whole month, which on the information available at the time, including precedent of XP giveaways earlier this year (one million XP literally handed away in summer just for being a member), was a perfectly reasonable conclusion to jump to. It isn't that, so let's stop with the hyperbole, yes?

...what? Well that's a new one to me. EDIT: She could make some serious dough out of that. Apparently there are lots of men out there with pretty.... unusual tastes.

That moment you get when you have submit as assignment electronically, and your cursor hovers over the Submit button, and you know clicking it means relinquishing the power to change a potentially failing assignment to a passing one. You click on a computer screen hundreds of times a day almost by impulse reflex, but that one takes a good minute to think through first.

Pretty sure Augury is level 70 now and unlocked via the Camelot training room instead of DG now, filling the Piety role for mage instead.

Yes, I can't imagine why Jagex would want to stop you from using their facilities to post a load of stuff that criticises their senior management and calls the whole company incompetent and hopeless. Clearly it would be better for staff morale if they kept it on the RSOF. Maybe send a memo round, tell everyone go take a look at all the positive feedback. I'd have thought the reason your friend got banned would be amazingly obvious, and if he was genuinely surprised when he did get banned or confused about why, then that shows some real naivety on his part.

I thought the crap jokeathon had ended. Well... There's a lot at steak for the people who've applied to join the Crew, and I think they'd find the tangent this thread has taken udderly offensive. What's all this beef about anyway?

If you look on the Disney page, the CEO has 100% approval. Either that's BS or he somehow manages to make all sorts of unpopular decisions, as all CEOs have to, and manages to do it in a way that the pleases everyone all the time. Also, apart from the reviews for Disney and Electronic Arts, Jagex's scores are fairly average, certainly not what you could describe as 'poor'. It does seem like a website for lowly paid e-ragers who are sick to the teeth of their job and envious of those above them in the organisation, if the truth be told. Honestly, I'd be much more bothered about this if they were from people who were integral to the company's future. However, people in customer service posts, where they're constantly being exposed to (usually angry) public-facing situations, tend to report higher rates of dissatisfaction anyway, as do most relatively low paid jobs. If you think some of the criticism in here's bad, well, frankly... my personal experience is that I've heard and even said much worse about senior management than anything in here. Do these reviews a point? Yes. Is it a major issue, in context to other companies in similar circumstances? Probably not.

AoE 3... I would offer an online game but I've not played it in years and I fear I've left the CD at home.