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I'm not an "O.G." by any means, but I'm as old school as it comes for RS2. I started during the beta. I don't use many new ways to train, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

I definitely agree with this. It's France, they can do as they please.

Because clearly the answer is to do the same thing in reverse. It's not about getting in some sort of pissing contest over who is right or wrong, it's about adapting to the cultural norms when you are in another country. And now the norms have developed into law.

I've seen plenty of video clips where American women were forced to wear these when in an Islamic country. Now it's the other way around for them, deal with it. When in Rome....

I can play on the highest graphics setting now! :thumbsup:

Portnoy has been playing the same fill since '91 and DT should have cashed in the chips long ago. My sister, who is the biggest DT fan I have ever met, walked out of their show last spring. As far as I'm concerned, Portnoy could never touch a kit again and I wouldn't care at all.

Looks like the Tip.it Times' DYK section made it onto the loading screen.

Guns are disgusting creations. I can never understand how people believe that we need a militia in the 21st century. The only other reason to carry a gun is testosterone, and that's pretty lame.

I watched The Trial today. Awesome Orson Welles film.

They are most definitely heroes, don't get me wrong, but it's sad that it's being done as a slight publicity stunt.

Great thread title :-| Maybe you should use a more accurate one. Communism didn't fail, CUBA did.

Not sure why everyone is posting their all-time lists when it says "artists that you're currently in love with", but here's my 5: Roy Harper (specifically Stormcock) Van Morrison (specifically Veedon Fleece) A Tribe Called Quest Miles Davis HUM

It is a way of giving the individual player a reward for their hard work. The fact that immature players have turned it into a popularity contest is something COMPLETELY different.

Sounds to me like some people ate a whole bunch of sour grapes....

They most definitely would have, at least the Aztecs (Nahua) would have. I'm not too keen on my Incan history at the moment. Those cultures believe that if you are defeated by another group of people, their god(s) must be amazingly powerful and that you need to believe in their gods as a result. Now the tricky part is that they didn't stop believing in their own gods when the Spanish conquered them. Take for instance the Virgin of Guadalupe, often she is depicted standing on snakes. This can be interpreted as either a Spanish effort to show that Christianity is crushing the old gods (as the snake is a central figure in much of ancient Mexican civilization) or a way of appeasing the native people by adding a little bit of their old religion into Christianity...you decide. There is much more behind the colonization of the Americas than people like to believe. It's in the details, folks ;)

I think you guys misinterpreted my post. I was trying to say civilization is a very ambiguous term. What defines what is a civilization and where is the cutoff point? And please, do not copy paste Wikipedia's definition of civilization just to be a jerk. I am not putting down any native people. I'm sorry if it came off that way. On another point, (directed at Shadowfax) it would be very foolish to assume that all native tribes of the Americas were peaceful and simply slaughtered by brutal Europeans. Yes, there are plenty of examples of peaceful groups, but many of the groups of people (like the Nahua I mentioned in my first post who were conquered by Cortez, along with many other similar groups throughout the Americas) are in a constant state of warfare. Their entire lives are based off an ancient tradition of warfare. Their rise to power in the area was fueled by warfare and their demise will always be through military conquest. These people have been doing this for thousands of years before the arrival of ANY Europeans. Am I saying that it was right for Cortez to destroy the Nahua society? No, but there are two sides to each coin.

The Native Americans and every other native people of North America and South America NEVER invented a wheel. Even though wheels have been found on children's toys, not one wheel was used whatsoever for transportation. The native people, in some cases, were very advanced for their time (the Nahua come to mind), but many of these groups of people had been stagnant in developing technology for hundreds of years. The idea of "don't fix what isn't broken" seems to be a common theme among the indigenous people of the Americas. These people *most likely* would have made slight improvements without European intervention, but as I said before, they could not even implement the use of a wheel which leads one to wonder how advanced these civilizations (if you even want to call them that) would have become.

Watched The Prestige for the first time since I saw it twice in theaters. I was sadly mistaken when I initially said this movie was good.

I can drum with good technique and rhythm. Sadly, that is very unique.

Yes, indirectly, skill capes could be cited as the demise of skilling for enjoyment, but without the release of those massive money makers like GWD, DKs, and TDs, skill capes would not have had the effect you claim they have had on skilling.

I don't buy this at all. I don't think you're implying that people didn't grind before skill capes came out because that would be silly statement to make, but I also don't agree that they've ruined any part of RuneScape. If anything, it has given players a pretty cool reward for working hard at a certain skill, which makes the game more enjoyable. Also, the first article is the first article I've thoroughly enjoyed from the Times in awhile. Perhaps because it was some actual journalism instead of someone's day dreams about RuneScape's past conjured up while they were afk-ing a skill. Good job Ts.

I'd say three true friends, four if we can include dogs.

It's one of the movies that got me closest (but not quite there) to crying, there are one or two sadder movies though. It's Japan. I would never watch that. You really should get over that. That's a really unfair thing to say. I can't stand 90% of the films/art that come out of Japan/China/Korea but I know loads of people who eat it right up. It's all about taste, don't be hatin'.

This show is unbearable. My roommates watched it last year non-stop.