armourdilo

Urban Terror Pretty good open source first person shooter. It has that crazy quake 3 jumpy stuff, a strong sense of realism (apparently), always people playing, a wide variety of game styles, a nice selection of guns; should keep you quite entertained for a while. It does the trick for me.

Wow, just wow. I came to the library by chance and by looking at what I've just read. I want to come back. You're amazing!

'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.

I haven't used them yet myself, they seem like an alright Idea, but they're just not full enough for the kind of mining I like to do. I might use them on ftp, just so there's less... disturbances, but on ptp, I'll be sticking with good ol' 99. I wouldn't mind seeing a 2000+ world either. Just for the coolness of it's presence factor.

That's a tough one. I can say way more than one has influenced me, for certain. Perhaps Age Of Empires did it best. Obsessed falls short of how one could describe I liked that game. But same goes for Super Mario (some freeware clone on the pc, remarkably true to the real games) and Mechwarrior 2. Those three games must be the three biggest influences, as they were among the first games I had played. They were the ones to get me hooked, there's no real reasons. They just beat going outside to play. Video games are crippling to your fitness for the rest of your life when you're three.

1: Mining Going for it right now, and it's taking ages 2: Fletching For the opposite effect of mining 3: Sailing Whatever the new skill is, I'm doing it next. 4: Woodcutting Yews. 5: Cooking Use the money from the yews to get resources for cooking 6: Attack 7: Strength 8: Hitpoints 9: Defence 10: Ranged 11: Slayer ... Maybe. 12: Magic Cross between alchemy and superheat ore 13: Smithing Super heat ores and eventually adamant plate bodies 14: Firemaking Because I realise I don't yet have it 15: Runecrafting 16: Prayer 17: Summoning Rune crafting gets a bit of extra money, I use it on prayer and summoning 18: Farming 19: Herblore Use the herbs from farming to make potions, get enough for the overload potions and stuff, use it in wildy 20: Fishing 21: Construction Spend the spoils from my lame attempts at pking and fishing here 22: Agility 23: Thieving 24: Crafting 25: Hunter My least favourite skill

Xkcd and Super Effective. Super effective is alright, but it doesn't update often :( I WANT MOAR OUTDATED POKEMON JOKES!

Mining

[hide][/hide] A bomb came from the other side of the island and turned the arrow around. I'll come up with something creativer later

Innocent [hide=clear your mind]I lost it under the desk.[/hide]

I agree, ftp mages have it hard. A higher maximum hit isn't going to hurt anyone (except the warriors). The wave spells aren't much of an incentive to go members anymore now anyway, thanks to the new surge spells. In fact, if anyone were going members for those spells, I'd say there's something wrong with them, what with the many other BETTER spells available to members, ones that will never become free.

My god that is good!

I have pushing up daisy's and a daisy emblem, for the sake of being silly.

The most recent simpleton definitely had a total of over 1000. I'm afraid to say, level isn't going to change a thing. (Actually, I've noticed lower leveled players are nicer)

I guess, I didn't represent myself properly. I meant in relation to "romance". I too have some good friends from runescape and we've exchanged emails and in some cases, we tend to refer to each other by our real given names. Friends are good :)

I agree, expressing feelings should be allowed, within reason. Though, on the other hand, forming relationships with people in the game, whom you may never meet is rather abnormal, and I doubt many of them will end well. That's one reason why the rule is in place.

Wearing a trimmed mining skill cape. My friends and I brandishing our weapons at the far end of the clan wars arena, ready for the onslaught to come. I wonder if it'll come true...

that's the one. That's a funny way to look at it. You've made my day. :)

Every once in a while someone sees my user name and uses it as excuse to give me some trouble. When I first started playing everyone called me Dilo (nicknames are weird) so, naturally I decided to use that name (in need of something better). It was a good month or two playing before I'd learnt the connotation with the name. By then I was happy with my progression and I wasn't about to start again. Between the 4 or 5 years from now to then I had received a lot of nonsense from other players about my name, forcing me to leave clan chats, training spots and using my ignore list. I shouldn't have to do this or defend my username. Today, was the nail in the coffin, I had to vent. So here I am venting. The guy came up to me and asked me my mining level. I obliged after I confirmed it was a question open to everyone and not just the other miner. The response? Crap about my user name. He even shouted about it to players around me, nor would he accept me saying that it was not the intention of my name to be offensive. I probably will change my user name some time. Not now though, I'm a free player, (maybe I'll get a name where some letters aren't filtered as well) until then, I really wish people would stop being so immature as to make a song and dance about my user name.

understand my Enron joke when they ask "wassup?" or want to know about it

Thee and ay (except when referring to nouns starting with vowels!)

Aye, intend to get a job of my own very soon.

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!!

If you thought people referring to you by your level was bad... I misquote: The guy meant can I have YOUR black armor

Thanks :)