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  1. armourdilo

    People Misconceptions

    By armourdilo,

    'Twas my last day of school for the year. So now I have 6 weeks of just relaxing (and some holiday homework in most of my subjects). Today, I'd have to say was one of the most interesting days too. For only one reason, it took just two minutes to happen, but it did.
     
    During our weekly spare session, the coordinators (teachers given the task of managing the students) like to take advantage of our spare time. My friend and I were called out to Ms. D, also one of the visual arts teachers. Anyway, she called us out to go down to the library to take some old newspapers and magazines to the art rooms. We had a nice trolley and plenty of papers to take. So we went down to the arts room with two arms full and a trolley full of papers. The art room was locked. After some wandering we found a teacher and she opened it up for us. Somehow in the process, we'd rendered the trolley unusable (the breaks wouldn't unlock >.<). So we had to carry the rest in the plastic crates. There were about twelve more to take down. We took six each. Damn they were heavy. But this is where it gets weird. As I, probably the weakest male (I'm probably weaker than most of the females my size, too.) in the school struggled to carry it, let alone get the darn crate off the ground, one of the jocks of the school, one of which I have a strong resentment towards (he's a bit of an *ahem*) actually helped me carry the crate. No problems. After we'd gotten it to the art room, my friend and I thanked him and unpacked the mags.
     
    The moment made me think twice about what I knew about him. I didn't think he was capable of willingly helping a person or showing decency, even to myself, especially since I had displayed a noticeable resentment to him in the past weeks. I was caught off-guard by that moment, but for now, I have renewed faith in the human spirit, even in the most trivial way. It almost seems too good to be true. Today was good.
     

     
    In Runescape News:
     
    I've been getting bored with mining. I'm at a loss of what to do and it's cutting into my interest in the game again. It happens faster every time. At this rate it seems unlikely that I will ever reach level 99 in the stat.
     
    So I need help, Or do I? What can I do to remedy this boredom? Train another skill? Make another [crappy] RSMV? Refuse to tell anyone the link to my [crappy] RSMV? Play another game? Get members? Move on with my life? Some well thought out advice would be welcomed. Thanks in advance.
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    Doing Wrong

    By armourdilo,

    My mother got another job today. About a year since her last, doing something similar to the one she had. She's essentially delivering advertising material to people's houses. I don't mean to be nasty, but it seems like that's all she'll ever be worth to the workforce. It's not an easy job, though. She has to assemble the papers into neat sets and then deliver them. What gets to me is how she quietly expects us, the children to help. I'm the only one not willing to help. Why? I have things I'd rather do, and besides, it's her job. My father wouldn't expect me to sit at his computer and do some programming while he's out getting some McDonalds (he doesn't like the stuff, but that's beside the point). That's not the end of it though. If I don't help, my mother and brother, who has offered to help start complaining that I never help and start verbally bashing me, forcing my retreat to my bedroom.
     
    It got me thinking, about how many people I upset, annoy, disgrace with my methods and choice of actions. I started by reflecting on my day. How many people had I done wrong with my actions? There was my mother and my brother, for reasons stated above. Then, my sister, for not playing in the backyard with her, a couple truants, for attending school today, my friend for not listening to his music and myself, for not being brave enough to face my music teacher, look he square in the eyes and ask, "What the hell am I supposed to be doing?". So, in total, seven people. That's not many when you think of it as a number, but as a number of people whom you've annoyed, upset or disgraced, it's a lot.
     
    I then asked myself, where else can I apply this? The first thing that snapped into my mind (proving, once again that my priorities are horribly off target) was RuneScape. Particularly, mining. When I go to mine, I'm there for one thing. Experience. So are other people. They're also quick to display their displeasure at my actions, and I can't blame them. Who am I to get in the way? They want to get to their desired level and it's not fair that I stop them
     
    I also looked towards one particular person - my mother. I wanted to see how much I could displease someone. I do that a lot with her. When I don't do homework, when I don't practice singing, when I try to talk to her, when I make noises, when I spontaneously start singing, when I get along with my sister, when I don't get along with my sister, when I correct her spelling, when I don't help her spell a word, when I... Ok, she's not easy to please. Maybe that's just a reflection on me, or maybe I've genuinely found an "all the time" unhappy person.
     
    If it is something I can change, maybe I could do something - I thought further. I looked at the alternatives for the letdowns in my day. I could have helped my brother and mother, and played with my sister - they'd both be happy (mum wouldn't she'd complain that I didn't have a shower when I got home or that I didn't do my homework), I could have listened to my friend's song, he'd be happy. I could have asked my teacher sooner, sparing me from an immense amount of stress. And I could have skipped school, after all, it is only a Monday before a public holiday and the school was mostly empty, what difference could all that make, other than a positive?
     
    Actually, it couldn't. If I did help mum and play with my sister, I'd be short on homework, displeasing my mother and my teacher's expectations. If I had listened to the music I'd be distracted, and I would only welcome more music I don't like into my ears. If I had skipped school, I'd displease the principal, teachers and friends. What of mining? If I didn't mine I'd let down friends, my rival, my mentor and most importantly, myself (two years is too long for it to never happen!) So it appears, mostly it's a lose-lose situation.
     
    The old philosophy is true. You can't please everyone. I know there are people that don't please me, and it sucks. It means we'll always be compared with someone else whom sacrifices a third party's pleasure to please the observer, whom doesn't care about the third party as a whiner with tennis elbow to the second coming. From this thought trial, my decision is made, trying to please everyone is impossible so I'll focus on doing what I feel is right. If I please someone else, then that's good, though it does, and always will burn me up when someone expresses their displeasure and compare me to another whom ironically, was compared with someone better.
     
    Please discuss, share your thoughts. I need to be validated by your posts!!
  3. armourdilo

    94 mining

    By armourdilo,

    I missed the proper screenshot for it, so I had to settle for the certificate thingy. Ah well, for this reason, I'm recording 99.
     
    I also just reached this milestone

     
    a little more than 5 million experience to go, I'm near the final stretch. 98 is going to be a breeze, being that close must add some invisible feeling of momentum I can't wait to feel.
     
    Back to mining!
  4. armourdilo
    Yes, After I couldn't conquer the fight caves, I went back to mining. Almost 94 (I'll post it in another blog post to increase my blog post count - Cheapness!!) about 20k to go? Not much happened otherwise, I'll probably try to find some ways to entertain myself whilst mining and post them here.
     
    It's kind of obvious I'm dry up on ideas.. eh?
     
     
    Oh, hang on, breaking news! I just found that iron is now worth 182 coins!! What has inflation brought us to? This is madness... no sorry, I'm tired, it's kind of late at my time of posting this. I'll edit out this foolishness later.
  5. armourdilo

    Success!

    By armourdilo,

    It was time I threw my axe in the air...
     

    (yes, that's right. That horrible bug I suffered is fix'd, woohoo!)
     
    Because I leveled up (You'll see that pic a lot, methinks)
     

     
    So, where now? 96 I s'pose. 912k to go, that's 28.5 hours at peak efficiency, so if I even it out to an hour a day, that's a full February. Granted, I'm not efficient, so this may take a while.
     
    Until the next time!
  6. armourdilo

    Spaces fill quickly.

    By armourdilo,

    Today a friend of mine pushed the limit, for his own protection, he's off my friends list.
     
    I logged in to find him logged in on both of his accounts, same world, same time. It wasn't his first time. I warned him to log off one of them, for his sake. In the clan chat we were both in, he told me to "shh". Things looked bleak. I told him again to log off one.
     
    He asked, "Can I turn private chat off and leave the cc and stay on? I want to bot on this acc".
    He isn't staying on my friends list any more, I don't want to report a friend. Even though I do feel he deserves it. It goes against my moral fibre, so there. He's gone.
     
    In the end, I decided to continue mining, I've heard a theory that if you mine for long enough, it becomes routine, routine is pleasant, and the theory worked before. I'm going to continue.
     
    I made a new friend here too, for the two accounts deleted, his two accounts take the other guy's place, funny how things turn out. The guy seems to have a lot of anecdotes, so he's certainly good to chat with. Anyway, I hope to get 95 mining by Christmas, that'll go well with the other gifts :)
  7. armourdilo

    Into the Fight Caves

    By armourdilo,

    So I've made it this week's goal (and for the last 9 days of members (before I get back to good ol' attempt #065 (approximately) at 99 mining)) to get a(OH MY GOD MY BACK IS ON) fire cape. So far, I've made two attempts, both of which I've died embarrassingly. The first time I put on ranged prayer instead of mage prayer on the 360, I got hurt pretty baad to say the least and the other time, I did the same thing, survived, drank a brew and went on my merry way. Then, the next wave, I try to trap a level 180 behind the 360, get too close and it cuts through me like butter. Dang. Well, I've learnt not to get too close to big molten dogs, I thought the visits from the fire-fighters back in primary school would have taught me. Die and learn - On to take three! (...tomorrow)
     
    So after those blunders, I played a non-runescape game. Urban Terror (Counter Strike's step brother twice removed - it's a quake mod). I made some good progress, made a couple of people rage quit, that or it was the server lag, I feel better when I say it was me. After being alone on the server for a minute, I left too, as you do when you're alone on the server for a minute.
     
    [/uneventful entry]
  8. armourdilo
    For a first blog entry, I want to create a splash.
     
    So here it is.

     
    Ok, now that I've gotten that stupidity out of my system. I'm going to post my first serious post. EVER.
     
    Now, for my first post, my original idea was going to be about people not taking me seriously enough (a rant), and how to some extent it's my own fault, for being somewhat innapropriate - what with me being quiet when everyone else is loud and me being loud when everybody else is quiet. Simply, all opposites - that and I can't go for more than a minute without trying to be funny.
     
    But as I wrote this I found that it was hard to continue, I found myself pedantic about the tiny details, I didn't want to say the wrong thing. I never want to, I get this feeling of digging a deeper and deeper hole for myself all the time. It happens when I open up in the slightest (even when I try to be funny - I can't help but feel I'm making a mistake). I try to convince myself that all I need is desensitasation, but honestly, I feel so darn sure that that's not the case.
     
    The feeling even comes when I make a forum post detailing my opinions, I convey them wrong and I spend an hour editing and re-editing after it's been posted. I feel great remorse after longer, more meaningful posts (perhaps it explains my lower postcount). I even check back to see if anyone's responded to it. I pray no one has (or I would if I thought there were a "God"). I ask myself, is it fear of being shot down, mocked, ridiculed? Maybe I'm feeling the same feeling many people do before they perform a speech? Am I sounding like a cliched teenage girl from those drama novels (I hope not, I don't like my masculinity being challenged)?
     
    Even now, I'm forcing myself to post this entry, my first one. The hardest one. I know it's short, crude and probably not going to be read (hopefully). But by doing this, perhaps I can improve upon my voice as a writer. Be profound like all these amazing articles I've seen plastered all over the internet (Truthscape, All those Cracked Articles (well, the Not-NSFW ones to say the least), to name a few you may know), of course it's going to take a while, a long while. And become closer to this community (I've been meaning to do it for a while now).
     
    That sums it up, I think. Please check back in an hour after I've re-edited it several times.
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