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I can understand this second situation because the security of the users was at risk. But for the Gizmodo journalist, that was just ridiculous. When I read that, I was thoroughly convinced that the American police force was now under control of corporations.

Not sure where to begin.......... epic?

I think the people bashing the church are no better than the anti-gay crusaders they are protesting so heavily against. The church isn't obliged to adjust age-old beliefs simply because society has done so. At the same time, does this mean I, as a Catholic, am going to walk outside tomorrow and join a "god hates [bad word for gay people]" picket line? Of course not, because that would be going against everything the church believes in. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" from the gospel according to John. Those kinds of protesters are incredible hypocrites. As for that letter against ENDA by U.S. Bishops, the bishops did make it clear that they did not do it because they want permission to beat up gay people and fire them from their jobs. They feared a much bigger consequence that would create a society in which the church had absolutely no moral influence upon. Which is exactly why the church does not tolerate divorce except in situations of abuse and other serious matters. "The love was gone" is not an excuse, and I think that is as detrimental to a child as one who is persecuted for having gay parents. Of course it's not the kid's (or the parents') fault that he's being persecuted, but tell that to the two-faced society. It's funny, society members outside of religion are either completely supportive of gay rights or they are the ones beating up gay kids and publicly persecuting homosexuals. And then there are the religious fanatics who make those anti-gay crusades (like Westboro Baptist Church). Yet it's CATHOLICISM that's being attacked as the ultimate persecutor? How do you think we feel knowing that society hates us because we hold our beliefs when it's the outsiders who are doing the persecution? Actually, scratch that. We (or at least I) don't give a damn. I'm holding my beliefs to my death, and while society conforms, I trust that the church won't. And please, before I get quoted/flamed, don't try to respond by posting a news post of some isolated incident where a few Catholic kids got involved against some gay kids. In terms of the church as a whole, I don't recall anyone saying we desire to openly attack gay people for being gay. In fact, i believe that article against the bishops even mentions a catechism quote that says homosexuals must be treated with sensitivity.

That was THE FUNNIEST and most INSANE rushing video I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. To unspam, an old pic I found of a failed ascii and a failed combo break.

Rare is on there? Didn't microsoft buy them out? (Diddy kong racing memories... oh the fun). But anyway, why is it a surprise that Jagex is on the nominees again? World's largest free-play game... that's a little tough for any respected award organization to overlook. And I swear, if Farmville wins its category, I am going to become a serial killer.

Man day huh? Better strip down to boxers and roam the city.

I really don't like large rushes, especially if you prefer to open all doors instead of leaving some that are off the main path. When you leave so many monsters behind, it makes a pain in the ass to run back and forth to doors after finding their respective keys or getting their required tools. The monsters start chomping away at whatever food supplies you had stored up, and lag can be lethal. If a teammate gets left behind and has to get through several monster-filled rooms to meet the group, he's done for... I'm ok with small rushes, and med rushes if my team is high level, but for large I really prefer just clearing them. As for a tip of mine, I don't have much experience in professional dung teams, but I have found it useful to make food piles at the base. Have a player on your team make gatestones and clear most of his inv, and go around grabbing all the food he can. Then he tele's to the base, drops the food in one place, and teles back with the gatestone to continue. This way, valuable food isn't wasted in corners of the dungeons, and players can be a little more efficient in killing knowing that their food is no longer as limited.

Hah, i have to admit that was very well done. Perhaps a good idea if you ever want to impress an internet-loving girlfriend. If those exist, of course.

I'm a litle confused, you're comparing the CLS with rapier by comparing each of them to their own standard equivalents...? Wouldn't it be better to compare the two directly, or am I missing something big here? Right now, I can't be bothered to get either chaotic weapon. I'm saving up about 120k tokens or so in order to get bone crusher, stream necklace, and book of frost. I think getting a way to slay with magic is better for me than slightly more efficient melee slaying. Don't even start with "oh, but melee is way faster than mage for slayer". I'm aware of that. My goal is to train mage with a method that won't bore me (stun training and bursting lobs are what I consider boring). And when I do melee tasks, I'm going to stick with a whip and rune defender for now and screw the chaotics. They don't seem too special to me, just slightly better damage. EDIT: I might need to clarify, from my perspective of a whip slayer who is looking at these two weapons. How does the comparison you made help me if I wanted to change my weapon? You said rapier is better than whip, sure. But how does it compare to the CLS? I only know that it's equivalent to Vesta without a spec. That doesn't tell me if its worth slaying with over the whip and the CLS.

sounds horrible, but primal plate doesnt exist, and only about 1 in 20 people have a blood necklace so althought i doubt many people had and lost that if someone did actualy have one that would realy realy reayly suck Umm, I'm not sure if it was the same one, but I too was a victim of a w117 crash two nights ago. But I kept my bound items. I don't know whats going on or why only one of the crashes caused loss of items.. I doubt it's related to the smuggling though.

We need to archive this thread. Or at least burn it into all our memories, right up there with the Testicular torsion thread, and that one on ass hair.

You've gotta be careful dude, the ink from the report cart will leak off and into the water system. You've just killed every fish in your local lake. I hope you're happy.

I was thinking the exact same thing. There is no deaf culture as far as I'm concerned. Not to be offensive of course if someone takes it that way. But what is deaf culture? A way for a group of people to deal with inability to hear? So wouldn't this new implant be exactly what deaf culture wants? And as a side note, how the flipping hell did we bring Nazis and house robberies into this? Only on tipit :-?

Ok, my heart skipped a beat when i saw my page up there. Well played.

Nor will we know how the baby involved in the terminated pregnancy feels because it never got a chance to voice its opinion. Its only voice is in the pro-life movement, so it's necessary for us to speak about the rights and obligations of its mother to defend the voiceless fetus. Is pregnancy easy? Hell no. I respect all mothers who are able to go through that kind of pain, because it is required if we want humanity to go on. But once the baby is conceived, is it an obligation for the mother to make this sacrifice to respect the baby's rights? That's where we have to speak up.

Although I am a devout Catholic, I'm going to attempt to express my opinion in a non-religious way here (because I've learned that preaching in a debate does little to further the argument). When a baby is conceived, it is now a human with its own set of natural rights. Is that unreasonable? We defend so wholeheartedly the right of every person to speak their opinion freely, and I don't think an unborn child is any different (don't worry, I'll defend this proposal in a minute). And I think one of these fundamental rights is the right to be alive for as long as it doesn't intrude on another's right to live. Just because it's not a functioning human at conception, does that mean it's right to live is nothing? Many will respond "it never had the right to live because it never got the chance to live". I'm going to try to respond using an analogy that some of you may dismiss as irrelevant but I think has some truth in it. Let's pretend the whole world supports the 1st and 2nd amendments for civilians under the US constitution. If a person is not physically capable of holding a gun, does that mean their right to bear arms is dismissed? Or how about if someone is incapable of expressing their opinions on a certain issue (let's say they're very ill or something), do they now lose the right to free speech just because they cannot immediately use it? In that light, should someone lose their right to live just because they don't have the ability to live outside the uterus yet? Now, this argument rests on two proposals: 1) A person has the right to live above all other natural rights. 2)A human is in fact living at the moment at conception, and therefore has rights like everyone else. To defend these assumptions, I'd like to ask yet more questions. Why is it that when a mother kills a baby in the womb for no good reason (even once it begins to take human shape) people would gladly defend the mother's right to a legal abortion, yet once the baby is outside the womb it is now illegal to kill it and the mother would be looked upon as a twisted freak and a criminal if she murdered the child? I think the law should be consistent in defending a person's right to live from the start of conception. In a difference of a few months of gestation, the killing of a baby changes from a legal abortion to a crime. Where do we draw the line for this? Is there a certain point in a fetus's gestation period where it changes from nonhuman to human? And then comes the obvious question: if it's not a human yet, what is it? The final argument for the mother would be "her body, her decision". But if that body is now carrying another body with its own rights, is it really her decision? Cases of rape and threats to the mother's life are completely different (I'm not sure where I stand on rape situations just yet), but when the mother simply kills the baby because it's not wanted, I find that a downright crime because that baby IS a human and it has it's right to live just like everyone else does. And just because it can't defend these crucial traits, that doesn't mean they don't exist.

For several years after Joe took over Blues Clues, I thought Steve seriously went to college... i held this belief until a good 5 years later when he appeared on CNN talking about his pursuit of a music career after Blues Clues. I felt betrayed.

obviously there has to be enough of an xp penalty to prevent people from kamikaze dungeoneering as a more efficient method of getting xp than using time to get supplies. I'm sure people will find ways/calculations to make that possible. But I agree, 14% for occasional deaths that are bound to occur seem like tremendous slashes to xp rates. Unless that was jagex's intention: to make it so that the best xp only comes if you get a rare but remarkable 0 deaths on high floors.

I think you're calling dungeoneering's death a litlte early, considering an entire fraction of the skill still has yet to be released. Perhaps Jagex separated the skill into two parts for this reason: to judge player initial reactions and ensure that the skill was efficient and/or worthwhile once it was complete. If they simply gave us "more floors... more bosses... a few 'meh' rewards", then people will continue to quit at 80 after they get their hard-earned chaotics. There's no way Jagex is going to blow part 2 so badly that Part 1 was the entirety of the skill for most players.

Sure magic is more accurate now, but is still far from strong in F2P 1v1s. For a good 6 months when i took a break from mems i did nothing but f2p mage. In clans, I dominated, racking in kills and binds helped the team majorly. But in 1v1s? Hopeless. Only an idiot meleer, or one with an incredible amount of respect, is going to sit there and allow themselves to be binded every few seconds, rendering them useless. And even fewer are going to leave their armor on; most will simply take off the armor and become a pain in the [wagon] to hit. I don't think f2p mages will ever be truly balanced in PVP. And even if you do manage to ring in a meleer near death, good luck finishing him off with a max hit of 16. 2h switches are annoying because you have to turn off autocast to make them work, and if you're going to switch to a 2h you might as well be ranging or scimmying for more effective KO potential. At their current state mages are crucial to clans but a waste of time in 1v1s. If we mages become balanced in 1v1s, we will become insanity in clans. I highly doubt Jagex has a good compromise planned that balances the strength of mages in f2p, and maging will always be the "clan onky" pking option.

I think that's exactly the reason they keep the 40 second transfer time. Rune miners could make mad money if there was no transfer time, rune rocks would be constantly empty in every location because of the mass of miners, and rune armor (some of the most delicately balanced prices in runescape) would endure hell in price fluctuation. I'm sure there are other reasons, perhaps hopping worlds for magic trees would be more efficient than waiting for respawn. Or other individual monsters that need respawn time.

I guess i'm a sort of hybrid of pro and newbie by your definition. I wear full bandos and all the most expensive gear while slaying, but I intentionally choose rune defender over dfs. It's not like I can't afford a dfs (I have 80m in cash sitting in the bank doing nothing), but I choose the rune defender for its attack bonuses. I don't think the extra +2 str for dfs is worthwhile when I could instead get an accuracy bonus through a rune defender. Besides, I flash piety every task, and use super sets on a lot of them. So it;s not like i'm suffering with -2 str compared to all the "pro slayers". I think I have the best offensive of all types of slayers. I'm not afraid of cost, because piety flashing correctly costs you nothing, and super sets are usually made up easily in drops for the tasks. And frankly I don't think you should judge slayers as "newbie" because they choose different armor sets. If anything, they should be called "reduced budget" because that's exactly what they are. Hell, I'm sure a lot of them can afford a fury and bandos but intentionally choose not to because their money has better uses. Don't judge someone's runescape wealth by their gear during combat. Maybe if they're strolling around varrock in full 3rd age and a phat that's different, but for slayer everyone has their own preferences and minor deviations from your "archetypes".

If i could play runescape in 3d, i wouldn't play it for more than 20 minutes in one sitting. 3d is terrible for my eyes, i have trouble focusing after and i get headaches after extended periods of 3d. the only point of a true 3d runescape would be to wow your friends about 3d animation on the computer (that is, if your friends don't call you a loser for playing rs...)

Like everyone has said thus far, pure essence is already too far into the game system to be removed. I remember the day pure ess was released, the economy went absolutely insane. Lucky players who had stacks of thousands and thousands of rune ess found it to be converted to p ess, and over quadrupled in value for the first few weeks or so. I saw one guy who for someone reason sold his green mask for rune ess right before the update, and got loads of profits afterwards. Players without any banked ess found it impossible to rc efffectively for a good month or so because the p ess was impossible to buy, and when it did the profit was barely anything since the prices were all over the place. I don't think it's worth the chaos; the prices are fine as they are.

This is by far my favorite skill in runescape. what I like best is that it can appeal to all types of players. For the player who wants die-hard efficiency to level up fast, there are plenty of teams set up for just that. But I'm one of those guys who is here for the fun of it. I don't give much of a care for efficiency, i do low level floors just to be with a team and have some fun, regardless of the xp murder. I tried joining rush teams; i find that it takes all the fun out of the skill. It's hard to enjoy yourself when your teammates have the mentality of "kill only when necessary, don't bother with resources, and get through as fast as humanly possible". I'll be dungeoneering for a long time I think, it's just such a fun thing to be raiding a dungeon with a group of teammates.