Ginger_Warrior

I know, in the past, it has made me happy. And when people have cheated on me, I know that didn't make me happy. As far as personal reflection goes, it's almost as simple as it gets: Situation - I was in a relationship. Significance - I liked being in a relationship. Alternative - Would I have liked to be a relationship with another person at that same time, or to have had a third person enter the relationship? Conclusion - No. The relationship was a unique and healthy connection between me the one person I shared it with, and I'd like to preserve that. I do not feel that could have been attained had someone else entered the relationship. When people have cheated on me, it harmed the emotional connection I had with that person (even if we only adolescents, the principles aren't too dissimilar for comparison). Reflection - In the future, I want to keep relationships of which I am a part of monogamous. Now, please drop it. I've chosen my way, Kim's chosen hers, you've chosen yours. The methods we've taken are largely irrelevant, not least since you're dealing with a topic where a lot of people seldom act with rational thought which is accountable to a logical model of reasoning.

Why aren't we talking about what they actually stand for? We're talking about moderators and politeness when, actually, there's some real and very serious issues at hand. Isn't that a bit pretentious?

I was going to wait for him to sober up and ask him if he still thought his plan was a good idea, but Saq appears to have made that decision already.

No, you're missing the point and if I'm being slightly cynical, I think you're missing it on purpose. It doesn't matter how emotionally mature you are. Stuff happens. People hurt. People close to people who are hurting, also hurt. You can't accept that polyamorous relationships are inherently hurtful, and cover that with 'emotional maturity'. Being emotionally mature is accepting that it does hurt, and responding to it responsibly. It's not blindly refusing to accept that that fact matters.

Polyamory can make people more happy on a personal level, but it's also incredibly destructive and hurtful to people who enter polyamorous relationships thinking that's what they want, and discovering otherwise, and also to their friends and families. Not just of those who have to pick up the pieces, but also friends and families of people who are quite happy in polyamorous relationships, but who themselves find it a bit strange or out-of-character. The main flaw I have with this mentality is this: All relationships, and all people, can only exist within the context of those around them. Following a pattern of sexual behaviour which causes so much grief to the people close to those who get themselves involved in this, doesn't lend itself to a harmonious environment for all concerned. When shit hits the fan, like it does in all relationships at times, there isn't the support network there to work through it. Therefore, any serious, long-term relationship stemming from that basis is hopelessly flawed to begin with.

I think the significance of the polls is being overplayed. On election day, some people threatening to abstain or vote the other way always come back to whoever's been governing for the previous term. Romney needs to be ahead a couple of points in the polls, not just about even in a few of the states he must win in order to have any real chance of winning. From an outside perspective, it's staggering that despite running possibly the most poorly run election campaign that I have ever seen, Romney actually still has a chance of doing this. If Obama does win, and the economy's in the shape it's in... this election was there for Romney's taking.

"Snorky... talk... man."

Awww. Well it's nice that you feel as though his point was moot, but basic logical reasoning says it was, regardless of your emotions. Comparing players' trust issues with Jagex to third-world poverty is plainly ludicrous--it's chalk and cheese. He's even said himself he meant to say something different, and I agree with what he meant to say. "Just a game" is still something people pay for and something Jagex want people to continue paying for. They have every right to get wound up, if they so please, even if it probably won't be the difference between life and death.

With the greatest respect, none of this has any relevance to the matter at hand. You could say "It doesn't matter within the context of the game because there's bigger issues in RuneScape itself", but saying "It doesn't matter because an African kid somewhere is starving to death" has no logical connection to what we're discussing. Perhaps what you tried to say was "If you don't like it, it'd be more productive finding something else you do like." Apart from that I'm really confused about the point your post was trying to make. There's always someone worse off than you, that much is true*, but that doesn't disenfranchise you from being allowed to dislike something. * = That said, I'm studying full-time on low income so I'm not in a great position myself, relative to the society I live in. Poverty is relative--if you don't understand what that means then you shouldn't really be commenting on it at all.

Homosexuality will lead to enslavement by ducks, warns homeschooled teen I'm not really annoyed by this, truth be told. It was quite funny.

How is online dating unnatural?

From the sounds of things, I'm not sure you really need to make that distinction between "Just friends who like each other" and "Together". If she's coming up to you in front of everyone at your society, grabbing hold of your hand and not really caring what people make of it, I think she's already assumed that decision for you, hasn't she? Or at least, her behaviour is self-evident that she's already very comfortable with the idea of you two being an item. If so, then surely the date, as you say, would quite naturally turn into whatever it turns into, whatever direction feels comfortable for the both of you.

Really is inaccurate. Even for all night parties its not uncommon to stay awake for 36 hours. Which is quite physically active too. However for maybe more important things, im sure not all professions during emergencies just go to bed because 24 hours have past. Oh, you think? There are some exceptions about emergency services but this is generally agreed between employer and employee, averaged out over the next few days, only applied in extreme circumstances (London Bombings, 7th July 2005, for example) and in case of dispute, the employee's rights are favoured. So no, common sense rules on needing sleep, and the negative correlation between fatigue and performance, still apply.

I looked at one of those sites for Preston (my hometown, an economically poor student city in 'The North' of England with about 150K people) and I found literally dozens of pages of single mothers my age within a 5 mile radius. Then my friends wonder why I left... We all exaggerate our good sides and hide away our bad sides. If we were all completely honest and transparent to people we've only been talking to for a few minutes, none of us would get anywhere. It can backfire anyway, if the person you're talking to digs a little deeper and finds out that what you're saying is a half-truth or total BS. People aren't stupid.

I think if you're talking about the relative manners of each candidate, you're not talking about the talking points themselves, of which there were plenty in that debate. I'd hazard a guess that next month, most people will not be worrying about whether Biden is polite--they will care about what he and Obama are going to do differently to Ryan and Romney to create jobs.

Sees_all logic: The President was very polite to Romney during their debate--he did badly. The VP was very rude to Ryan during their debate--he did badly.

Now then, they wouldn't be very good bots if they were idle for more than two minutes, would they?

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Not sure where to put this since there's no thread for Resident Evil 6 on the Video Games board, and the YT sticky's been inactive since July. But anyway: [hide=Resident Evil 6 QTE song]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LrVou1Jo7w (Credit to Miracleofsound)[/hide]

I don't think we're talking about the same concept by the word 'arrogance' then, because to me, arrogance is a term for excessive pride. Pride itself literally meaning self-confidence. When people act confident, and they're really not, I'd say that's just "putting a brave face on".

Agreed, and just linking stonewall's point about WoW back to my original point--those players in RuneScape who are bad get found pretty quickly when they play minigames or start Dungeoneering. Because those activities require something more than skill levels and expensive equipment.

OK then... you want to get personal on this. Problem is, though, is that while you accuse me of thinking RuneScape players are somehow "lower" than me, I'm not sure I have said that, or even implied it, and if anyone else looks back over my posts, I'm not sure they would find me saying that either. What I actually said, was that I personally find RuneScape a poor game because of its general inability to differentiate players by their level of competitive skill, whereas FPS almost unequivocally are able to differentiate along the same criteria and frequently do so, thus making FPSs more of a challenge to play. If you take that comment as a personal attack (because you're a RuneScape player, and for no other reason apparently) then that's not really my problem, is it? Because I can't very well hold that same opinion and present it any other way to make it less offensive to you, can I? The point I'm making is that people on the outside, who lack sophisticated knowledge of RuneScape and who see it as a grind-fest, aren't far from the truth in my eyes. If you have a different opinion, then let's just agree to disagree. But stop pretending as though I'm attacking you personally--it's blatently obvious I'm not really doing that. There is absolutely no point in a thread asking why people who criticise RuneScape, criticise RuneScape, then jumping down their throats and falsely accusing them of pan-elitism. You may as well not bother asking the question in the first place.

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I wonder what's for Christmas...

If they think the economic damage caused by this will be mitigated by the BXPW's short term announcement (just over two weeks away)... they're surely being very naive. If anything the bottlenecks will be even more intense because there's even less time for people to prepare to take advantage. EDIT: They did say it was a "scary" treat to be fair. On this page's evidence, they haven't failed so far.