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The Wall sucked. Watch "Live at Pompeii".

I haven't met one marijuana advocate that wouldn't agree with you. I have no problem with it taxed, regulated, or anything. I don't think kids should use marijuana, but I don't think the "smoking age" should be 21. 18 years old is fine.

Surely you aren't implying people who support the legalization of marijuana aren't capable of making informed voting decisions, are you :?:

Doctors prescribe what prescription drug companies tell them to prescribe. That's all I really have to say on that matter.

As long as the dispensaries offer the best bud for the best price, I don't see why anyone would want to go to their local "guy" for anything. If the demand on the street is down, large scale operations will likely cease to be profitable.

People are going to smoke pot no matter how illegal it is. The amount of money spent on destroying the black market for marijuana could easily be saved and applied elsewhere to more harmful "drugs". Legalize it baby. As if I needed another reason to move to Canada.

Well let's give it a go and if it doesn't work there's no harm in that, right? People so set in their ways. Change is good.

The French just want to be French in France.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsThBvMK8S8 Heard these guys on House...I guess the show is good for something. It's the drummer from Bon Iver, I'm not sure how I feel about how similar they are, but it's a good song.

Try more like 3 times a week. Damn near every blog post and dev update gets its own topic. I still think main updates should be able to keep their own topics. I rarely read any of the blogs or developer stuff because a good portion of the time those things don't come to fruition.

Finally finished my semester-long research project. I had to create a historically accurate character and make a biography of him based on real people and real events. Basically, every weekend this semester I have been sifting through primary sources from 14th century Spain in an effort to find information I could incorporate into my biography. The only thing standing between me and summer is two 8-10 page research papers and my Music Theory final. It is soooooooo close :thumbsup:

Eh, I like the news articles being posted weekly. It's not really any more cluttering than the weekly Times thread is.

It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

Here. This is where I come from.

Will Bryan Adams suffice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoWtY_h4xo

"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." - Abraham Lincoln

Yeah that was just a general comment, I should have separated those two statements by a line break.

What? They want a forum specifically for discussion of metagaming specifically because they want to avoid conflict. That comment was specifically about "promoting metagaming" attitude m and in relation sepcifically to h&A when it has been shown earlier in the thread some "promote" meta gaming by calling anything non meta-gaming archaic or outdated etc. And that tht attitude also does sort of imply the view of meta-gamers shuld be allowed to talk down non-meta gaming advice but people shouldnt be allowed to talk down meta-gaming. Well I don't think it "sort of implies" anything. I think these people are frustrated they have to deal with users that don't understand how the way they play works. Kill two birds with one stone--give them a forum. I don't think a sub-forum would be the best idea because there is a lot more that these players want to discuss than just giving help and advice to other users.

What? They want a forum specifically for discussion of metagaming specifically because they want to avoid conflict.

The problem, though, is spill-over from other boards and members. As far as I know, they're not trying to split up H&A, and there are a lot of attitudes that I just don't think are constructive for H&A. Also, a problem is picking who to moderate. There's really only one mod here who promotes RS metagaming. A lot of the mods here are fair but they don't really take sides, or are not as active both in game and on the forums as I would like. There are also a few mods that are completely out of touch and have made terrible judgment calls (like all of the recent bannings) that I want NOTHING to do with. I don't think admins would kick those mods out. Another thing is that tip it would never include a clause like "action will be taken against players who are deemed disruptive to the metagaming community". AFAIK the admins don't think that kind of clause is fair. I think it's totally vital for us to select the community that we want. If the administrators and moderators are willing to give the crowd that caused the most disruption on this forum that I have seen since I have been here a second chance, I think you should give them a second chance as well. Don't take this personally, but you're not exactly in the best position to be making demands for who should moderate these hypothetical forums.

I think it would be a good idea for meta-gamers to have their own forum on Tip.It. If things can remain under control and discussions civil, there isn't anything bad about it that I can see.

Once, long ago, I enjoyed nit-picking the Times from afar. I'm glad I joined, seeing what goes on behind the scenes is more eye-opening than you'd think.

So, so, so, so good. I want this to be the new Volta stuff.

I thought he looked a bit skinny in the GIF.

[spoiler=Soma quote] I think you might have hit the nail on the head here. A lot of people on TIF, myself included, are doing bigger and better things with their lives which don't invlove Runescape to the extent we used to play it. We're getting older and many of us have serious college educations to finish up--some of the older members have passed this phase and have been vaulted straight into a stressful workplace. That is not to say that people who choose to play Runescape more (or less) than I are idiots or are wasting their time or that we should play more to be "in-touch" with the players who choose to play at a highly efficient level. Everyone chooses to play Runescape in their own way. As simplistic as that statement may be, I think a lot of people have forgotten that on both sides of the aisle. I can see how the efficiency camp (god, I absolutely hate calling them that) feels they were wronged but I can also sympathize with the Admins and Moderators as well. In times of crisis, decisions need to be made immediately and it's easy for mistakes to be made--hindsight is not 20/20, but it's easy to point out where the mistakes were. I'm on board with your ideas of collaboration, Soma. The guides on the main site were extremely useful in their heyday, but a lot of them are out-dated. This isn't a reflection of the quality of the staff, but rather that the way in which Runescape is played is so rapidly changing that it is easy for a site like Tip.It to fall behind. Thank god for the AoW and its guides, I know I've used them many, many times. More to the point, I believe the efficiency camp and their intimate knowledge of this game needs to be a part of Tip.It if it wants to be a cutting edge resource for Runescapers. If it wants to remain focused on the community aspects that have been here for years and will most likely remain for quite awhile, then the banning of several members and depature of their associates will not be seen as that great of a loss. Personally, I'd like to see to see both sides come to their senses and work together to make this place better, but I was born of hippie parents and there's a big part of me that loves to see people getting along :shades: