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Grey wool flannel pants of this sort? If, long-term considerations aside, budget is an issue, I might be able to find some other pairs but I don't know about shipping to NZ. That being said, avoiding something because it's trendy is the same thing as getting something because it's trendy. In the end your choices are determined by the same thing.

I haven't been following this story too closely (I don't know how you guys do it), but if it's the first time she's completed this cycle it's not fair to assume she'll always do this. Seems like the best of both worlds to me, actually. It does take a lot of commitment not to make a commitment though, as paradoxical as it may sound.

Ultimately it's up to you, Nox; we can't really make a prognosis. Either you trust her or you don't want to risk it. I'd probably "fall for it".

This album is influenced by Blood Meridian. Not sure how, since I haven't read it and considering it's all instrumental, but I figured I'd let you know.

Thanks, that's helpful. :thumbup:

I just read The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed by Andrew Heath and Joseph Potter. It's about countercultures and why they're useless and generally exacerbate the problems they denounce (some of which are not problems at all). Very interesting. I just started Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche and I have not a single clue what he's going on about, save for the basics; I'll probably try to find one of his works that isn't all metaphors. My friend is lending me Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky.

Yes, and it's a good idea to help people when their happiness is threatened. But in some cases (as with this one), you can't do anything about it, even if you managed to pass a bill that would remove trolling once and for all. People are ultimately responsible for their own happiness; you can't be happy for them. You can show them how to be happy (how to deal with insults), but that's about it. I may or may not finish translating this text later today. You can give Google translate a shot, I haven't. There's a good explanation of it (in French ofc) here.[hide=Rough translation: Alain on happiness] It is not difficult to be unhappy or dissatisfied; all one needs to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused; this gaze which [...] weighs happiness as though it were a commodity colors all things with boredom; which is not to say it is without majesty, because there is a kind of power in refusing [...]; but within it I also see impatience and anger towards those ingenious workers who make happiness with little as children do with gardens. I flee. Experience has taught me we can't entertain those who bore their own selves. On the other hand, happiness is beautiful to witness; it is the most beautiful spectacle. Is there anything more beautiful than a child? then again he gives his all to play; he does not wait for someone to play in his stead. It is true that a sulking child shows us another face of himself, which refuses joy; but fortunately children forget quickly; but we have all known big kids who never stopped sulking. That their reasons are great, I know it; it is always difficult to be happy; it is a fight against many men and many events; one may be defeated; undoubtedly there are insuperable events and woes stronger than the stoic's apprentice; but it is perhaps the most clear duty not to give up without having fought with all one's might. Et surtout, ce qui me paraît évident, c'est qu'il est impossible que l'on soit heureux si l'on ne veut pas l'être ; il faut donc vouloir son bonheur et le faire. Ce que l'on n'a point assez dit, c'est que c'est un devoir aussi envers les autres que d'être heureux. On dit bien qu'il n'y a d'aimé que celui qui est heureux ; mais on oublie que cette récompense est juste et méritée ; car le malheur, l'ennui et le désespoir sont dans l'air que nous respirons tous ; aussi nous devons reconnaissance et couronne d'athlète à ceux qui digèrent les miasmes, et purifient en quelque sorte la commune vie par leur énergique exemple. Aussi n'y a-t-il rien de plus profond dans l'amour que le serment d'être heureux. Quoi de plus difficile à surmonter que l'ennui, la tristesse ou le malheur de ceux que l'on aime ? Tout homme et toute femme devraient penser continuellement à ceci que le bonheur, j'entends celui que l'on conquiert pour soi, est l'offrande la plus belle et la plus généreuse. J'irais même jusqu'à proposer quelque couronne civique pour récompenser les hommes qui auraient pris le parti d'être heureux. Car, selon mon opinion, tous ces cadavres, et toutes ces ruines, et ces folles dépenses, et ces offensives de précaution, sont l'uvre d'hommes qui n'ont jamais su être heureux et qui ne peuvent supporter ceux qui essaient de l'être. Quand j'étais enfant, j'appar­tenais à l'espèce des poids lourds, difficiles à vaincre, difficiles à remuer, lents à s'émouvoir. Aussi il arrivait souvent que quelque poids léger, maigre de tristesse et d'ennui, s'amusait à me tirer les cheveux, à me pincer, et avec cela se moquant, jusqu'à un coup de poing sans mesure qu'il recevait et qui terminait tout. Maintenant, quand je reconnais quelque gnome qui annonce les guerres et les prépare, je n'examine jamais ses raisons, étant assez instruit sur ces malfaisants génies qui ne peuvent supporter que l'on soit tranquille. Ainsi la tranquille France, comme la tranquille Allemagne, sont à mes yeux des enfants robustes, tourmentés et mis enfin hors d'eux-mêmes par une poignée de méchants gamins.[/hide]

I think the difference between this update and other ones mentioned ITT is that players really feel like it's going to chuck the game into the garbage, and that Jagex is on a slippery slope at this point. If anything, the consequences is that people are going to quit out of boredom, not as some kind of statement. The competitive aspect of the game is actually really important. Will Jagex respond to the criticism? Will they actually do something? No, or at least not in the near future. Feedback is necessary to them about things they're not sure about, and you can bet that if they went against their own policy they thought about it long and hard; they're not going to mess their own game up unless they think it's beyond saving and they want to milk as much out of it as possible (legitimate, I think. They're a business). They know more about the coming updates than we do. If the game doesn't turn into a parody of itself because of endorsed RWT, things will be okay, people will come back, etc. If it does, bored players are going to quit for good, and they're not going to throw a tantrum while doing it.

I don't even like the sentiment. As with any sort of censorship, the premise behind this law is that people are incapable of dealing with certain speech. Let people say what they want. And if people can't deal with being insulted, are they not responsible for their own unhappiness?

Gotcha, thanks.

@End of last page: not trying to make an argument as I hardly understand how this game works anymore, but why would you need money if you don't trade? @Quyneax: I'm not entirely sure gaining XP is that much fun; I've often found reaching a goal in RS was a bittersweet mix of "I did it!" and "Why did I do this?". That being said, I was a shit in everything. At any rate, it's hard to make a universal statement linking XP and fun. Here's a post which illustrates the mindset I was speaking of earlier: This question shouldn't really need to be asked, no?

If crafting onyx bracelets was significantly more enjoyable than making amulets, there could be.

Yeah, try to run some kind of frosted glass effect to disperse the color blocks in the background. A blur might not work (no shades between shades), but a dither certainly will make things look smooth.

For one, I find it fun to first hear about new / faster methods of training, investigate it myself, and then realise that I myself am capable of training a skill in this "more efficient" method. Don't you get a kick out of trying out a new recipe, and then discovering that not only do you enjoy it, but you also get much better results than you expected? Let's be honest, the journey (grind) to a desired skill level is usually long or tedious, and trying out faster methods does give you some sort of kick. Botting an account is an entirely different issue, on the other hand. My question was directed to Dangarous. Training efficiently so you can save money which you will then spend on further training makes little sense to me.

I don't know who I should be replying to anymore. My point was that in many cases, if you're searching for efficiency in order to "skip" or "fast-forward" part of a game (best example: botting, AFK playing), you're missing whatever point there is to the game. The difference between work and play (as I meant them, at least) is that the first activity is a means to an end (stat, item), one which is not enjoyable, and therefore one we would like to shorten, whereas the latter is an end in and of itself. This doesn't mean anyone who is training efficiently is working. It means anyone who's not enjoying his training is working. That doesn't make it bad either; some work is necessary in order to PK, for example, and if PKing is the only thing you enjoy in the game, then you'll have to work to get to it. If when your goal is reached, however, you don't take pleasure in what you got, something's wrong. Efficiency is fine, but systematic efficiency is odd to say the least. It's like trying to listen to sped-up music to save time. I wrote this because as a non-player, the amount of threads I see in the forum index asking for the most efficient way to do X and the logic behind the OP baffle me. What are you playing Runescape for? Is it the road towards the achievement which entertains you, or the achievement itself? Both?

The difference in the personality of the two fonts makes this ambiguous. Is it gritty? Is it sleek? Is it stern? Is it forward-thinking? It looks like an Apple commercial did the naughty with an action video game commercial, nahmeans? Seriously, the font you use says about as much as the words you write in graphic design.

At your age, even getting rejected by the hot girl gains respect for trying. Hell, that gets even truer as you age. Anybody gives you crap on getting shot down you can always say you tried. You can also tell them their mockery is a projection of their own fear and self-loathing, if you want to cut deep.

If your approach to Runescape is to find the fastest method, you're working, not playing...

Yes, but only if the scale chosen is atrocious to begin with. Possibly but not necessarily related: consequentialism and deontology are answers to two different questions, I think. Respectively, "What should be/have been done?" and "How, if at all, should we judge this action?".

I think trying to establish some kind of universal truth about morality is probably far more efficient methodologically speaking than discussing specific issues. The way I see it, there can be no such thing as absolute morals if there is no point of reference beyond humanity to define what is right and what is wrong. There is no such thing as a true sin. Morality is simply a way to establish trust amongst individuals of a society who have a common will (no murder because we all want to live, no lying because we all want to know with at least some certainty what is real and what is not, etc.). Much of the process behind this is ideological, which isn't a good thing at all: it prohibits the understanding of morality as a rational and efficient tool and its constant redefinition as social, technological, and economic conditions (and therefore the common desires at the root of morality) change.

Yes and yes.

Yeah, his first answer is super weird. But at any rate, you got it out there, managed to speak up, that's probably the most important part. Props!

Because the more you reveal about what your thinking/how your feeling, the more your putting yourself out there, and the more you fear your going to mess things up/scare them off. The more your together, the more comftorable you become revealing things about yourself, and the less games you end up playing. But do you really want to have to play games for someone to get to know the real you? Its funny because at the end of the day that person doesnt even get to know the real you, but the you you had to become for them to get to know you. Does that makes sense? Who says im not comfortable revealing who i am from the get-go? Id much rather put it all out there from day one and have them know exactly who or what they are dealing with instead of hiding certain things and have the other person find out about them somewhere down the line "when the time is right" and end up getting hurt more then than i would have been hurt had i chosen not to play these games inthe first place. Sorry if what im saying comes out a but confusing. Pulling it all out there from day one is not possible. You can't just give a Powerpoint presentation. People learn who you are through your actions. That takes at least a modicum of time...

Kind of convenient for you to be here, Kalphite. :P ez, had he not posted, I would probably have had a hard time replying, but as Kalphite's example shows, you can't allow yourself to use your condition to justify your lack of social skills, because you're only doomed to a life of suspiciously long showers if you do. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. That being said, I don't think asking her out straight away is a good idea.

It's at least partly attitude. Many of us ITT have been where you are, and just making a mental effort can have significant consequences.