Harakiri

The movie had it's moments, but I wish I had went to see something better.

If anybody I sent job applications to hires me, I'll save my working money and my christmas money to get a PS3 with both Uncharted games and MGS4

Yes, what I was getting at is that Runescape Machinima by random people like Tehnoobshow was great because it was only the Runescape players who would watch these. When Machinima.com came in and started posting RS machinima, the WoW players started spamming every video they could laughing at us for being poor children. It doesn't help that console "elitists" who have never played RS also laugh at it because it has nothing to do with Halo

That is not how we use this forum. Post the full story here and don't bump when it is only the fourth topic to the top. I would post the full story here because most users of the VL don't play RS or don't play it anymore.

Folks, you might have sat down at your computer one day to go on Youtube and look up Runescape Machinima or something Runescape related. Most Runescapers who are also daily searching the 'tube might have discovered Bob, Runescape: Gods Exposed, and the Runescape Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto Music Video. These videos gained a lot of popularity, and would soon lead to Machinima buying into the most popular, Tehnoobshow's, show and take it over. This is where I noticed the steady decline of the Runescape Machinima, and it's not because Bob IRL was was a lame attempt to create a rip-off of Arby N' The Chief, it's because WoW players found that Machinima quit using WoW as a means to create videos, and instead Machinima cashed in on the Bob craze. The videos were fine, but the comments suddenly became a means to laugh at people who played Runescape. We are either premature children who have not grown pubes, or overweight people who can't afford to play WoW or just plain [wagon]es. Yes people, it seems we are all fat kids who come from poor families and can't get past first grade because we are so stupid. But of course, WoW players don't realize that while the twelve year old stereotype has been around for a while and I have heard multiple people call me a child for continuing my play of RS, that WoW has stereotypes as well. And we can't mention those though. Those are instantly wrong and the people who play WoW are all twenty-somethings who make millions of dollars a year. And why do people look down on RS? So what if it's graphics suck and it costs five dollars a month to play? I especially love the whole argument about the story of WoW being so awesome and RS having no story. I started to play WoW, but was turned off by the sheer fact that you spent most of your time killing animals on quests and you never felt like you achieved anything. Your name wasn't in the lore, it was always someone else. Sure WoW has a lot of story that they threw on their website and make you read in over-priced paperbacks written by authors with minimal talent, but it is not integrated as much into the game. Runescape has a progressive story, and while it is never that awe-inspiring, it is much more exciting to do a quest where you use a magic sword of lore to kill a demon then be told at level fifteen to run to the Caves of Evil and fight Fetid Rats twelve times in a row. So, long story short, Runescape Machinima has exposed more people to Runescape and now I see a lot more people bashing it then ever before. I blame Machinima more then anything else for allowing people to post their times for parties instead of actual Runescape Machinimas, because it just gives haters more to laugh at when people are using Machinima as a means to advertise their 99 cooking party. So does anybody else feel that Runescape Machinima is helping bring in a new group of haters who never put their opinion out there? Because I get annoyed when I tell someone that Runescape has players that are much older then 12 and I get ten replies telling me to quit doing something with my parents or being a [developmentally delayed], or being poor. I know it's just like everything else on the internet, but I think it's stupid that WoW players fight when their game has just as many problems as Runescape.

It was with great remorse that I killed my parents, and with greater remorse that I killed my mentor, who took me under his wing to teach me as much as he could of the way of the sword. I was young, possibly stupid, possibly in my teenage "rebel" years. Or maybe it was with great happiness that I took down the greatest house of the elves, killing my loved ones and then burning the whole damned place to the ground. Of course, this led to the rise of the dark elves, who then hid in the forest, under the shade of the trees and plotted their defeat of the elf races that were in control of the "sun region" as they liked to call the land. The crucifixtion of my brother still haunts my dreams. It can appear subtly, like in a dream where I am with the girl I loved and my brother appears as the pentacle around her neck, or it appears rather in my face, usually involving myself being crucified beside him. The damned humans can all die. They created mutlitudes of religions, created a multitude of ruling families. They strive on the being, the personality, the personal opinions. They want options. Elves are born as either rulers, commanders, or foot soldiers. Even the women. We all praise the same god, Duradle, we all have the same rulers. We are more organized than the humans could ever be. We are a race that could easily destroy the humans. But after that fateful day, they would want nothing better then to destroy me with them. ~Chapter 1: Burning Down the House~ He had woken up after a horrible nightmare, one in which he thought he would never wake from. His mother, the great Mother of the elves was torturing him after he had murdered his mentor, taking his fingers and toes off one at a time and laughing wickedly as she did so. He could do nothing but scream and watch as blood poured out of him like a river. His screams were short lived though, because a big, brawny man, one of the commanders of the royal army, then shoved a kerchief into his mouth to bite down on as the next extension of his body was cut. The commander would then pull the kerchief from his mouth and laugh along with the Mother at the screams and cries of the young elf. He had woken up just after all ten of his fingers and toes had been severed along with his tongue. They were heading for his lower region when his eyes finally broke free from whatever was keeping them from opening all the other times he tried. He threw his legs over the side of his bed and started gasping. Sweat ran down him like raindrops. His thoughts were jumbled, what could have prompted such a nightmare? Sometimes his dreams could predict the future. Was that his future? His quiet thinking was suddenly postponed by screams in the hall outside of his bedroom. He sprinted to the door, paying no heed to the fact he wore nothing but a pair of leather shorts. When he opened the door, he found a young elf, nearly half his size, crying. He bent down to see what was wrong with the elf. "Bragt...they are going to kill him, he was caught in bed with a human female. They are taking him into a human town to kill him as a public display." "What about the girl Bragt was with?" "Her arms and legs were chopped into pieces and then they fed every part of her to the dogs." "Damn. What human town did you speak of?" "It is north of here. It is the one with the large tower." The taller elf stood up and told the child to get back to sleep. "Tonight is going to be a long night and if you sleep through it, it will be shorter." The little boy sniffled, but his eyes twinkled now. "Thank you Crow." Crow nodded and ran into his room. He pulled on some light leather clothing and he strapped his broad sword to his belt. He then bounded out of the house, and ran to the town, paying no heed to the warnings of the guards, whom told him of the dangers of resisting the Mothers decrees. The humans church was to some sort of profit who had been nailed to wood. The Mother found that as a fitting punishment for her son, who had been caught with a human [bleep]. She wished him dead, he had disgraced the family by even touching the human, let alone putting his seed in here. Just think of the mockery that would be her house! The foot soldiers would laugh uncontrollably when a human woman appeared in the elven lands with a half human, half elf baby. How disgusting could her son be to do that to her? Humans were merely training dolls that the great god Duradle created for the elves to train their swordmanship and bowsmanship on. Why would her son, an accomplished fighter who had killed countless humans in his own right, wish to bed one of the training dummies? She sat in one of the pews, and watched as her son was hoisted to the wall by two soldiers. One of the soldiers then produced some rusty nails and nailed the palms of Bragt's hands. Bragt screamed loudly. His thoughts became jumbled, washed away by the sheer, hot pain that hit him. Then his feet were nailed. Then daggers were produced by the elven soldiers, taking the crucifixion a step further. His hands were out to his sides as far as they could go, and his legs pointed down toward the ground. His elbows were then attached to the wall by daggers. More screams erupted, both from Bragt, and from a crowd of onlookers standing on the other side of the church, held back by elven soldiers. The humans were disgusted by the display, and wished it to end. The Mother only continued watching and laughing at the helpless screams of her waste of a son. As her son quit breathing, she walked up to him and whispered in his ear. "How did she get in?" Bragt spat blood into the Mothers face and died. The Mother wiped the blood from her face and looked at the humans, just then noticing a familiar face. "Crow?" She asked as her other son ran up to the body of his brother. Tears streamed across his face. He turned to the Mother and screamed, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" The Mother looked taken aback and slapped her son across the face. He produced his sword and shoved it right in between her ribs, and laughed. "YOU [bleep]! HE DID NOTHING WRONG! PERHAPS SHAME UNTO THIS FAMILY WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE PRODUCED A LESSON FOR YOU!" Crows eyes started to turn red. The Mother screamed out one last thing before she died. "THE DEMON HAS TAKEN HIM! KILL HIM!" Crow kicked his mother off the sword and then spun to deflect the blow of one of the soldiers. He then rolled to the side as another soldier tried to decapitate him. Crow kicked the left foot from under the first soldier and as the elf fell forward, Crow shoved his sword into the soldiers neck. He then swiped sideways and the head fell to the other side of the sword, hanging loosely by a thin strip of flesh. Crow parried the blow of the second soldier and then grabbed the elf's sword hand and twisted it until his sword clattered to the floor. Crow then decapitated the soldier. "ANYONE ELSE?" Crow's voice was becoming hollow, and his skin was turning dark. Nobody dared stand up against the monster. Crow laughed maniacally. "MY BROTHER HAS DIED! AND I WILL AVENGE HIM! I WILL DESTROY THE HOUSE! I WILL BURN HOUSE WRAIK!" Crow Wraik ran through the throng of humans who stood with their mouths agape. He then ran toward his house. "Would you like to see?" "Yes." Kam wheeled the Fathers wheelchair to the balcony of the great house. The forest surrounding the house was littered with dead bodies. "The demon?" Kam nodded at the Father. "Will you protect me?" Kam nodded again. "He was your favorite student." Kam's eyes went to the floor. "And my biggest disappointment." "It is not your fault. It is my damn wife's. The prophet came by and told her that Duradle wanted Crow to be the baby that held the demon that had been trapped in the Darkstone for the past twelve thousand years. She didn't know that the prophet wanted her to be dethroned and killed by the demon. She had no idea that prophets were actually worshipers of that devil." "Is the Mother really so stupid?" "Yes. How she made it to the throne I will never know." Twenty minutes later, in the confines of his fathers bedroom, Crow faced his mentor, his teacher, and his best friend. "KAM YOU BASTARD! YOU SHOULD HAVE KILLED ME WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE! YOU KNEW I WAS FESTERING INSIDE OF THIS LITTLE BODY, WAITING FOR HIS WEAKEST MOMENT TO TAKE OVER!" Kam nodded. "AND FOR THAT, I MUST KILL YOU!" Crow ran and shoved his sword through his mentor's heart. "YOU ARE TOO EASY KAM." "You will now burn as you should continue to in the Blackstone." Crows father stood behind Kam and muttered "Duradle save me." Kam and the Father exploded. Not just a small little explosion of blood and gore, but like a napalm bomb gone off. The whole house exploded. Crow was knocked out instantly, and lit on fire. Twenty years later it is. I don't remember killing my family or burning the house, but the elves blamed me, so I ran. I ran for nineteen years, until one day, standing on a pirate ship with a group of humans, we stumbled upon an island containing a stone that held a monster that acted as if it knew who I was. It told me I had a demon in me. That was the day I learned of my powers and the person living inside of me. That too, was the day I joined the dark elves. To be continued...

I remember the wild strikes and I remember one thing about them, they didn't do anything but mute quite a few people. Going on an ingame strike has always seemed like a lame way to get to Jagex. As stated, strikes are never the answer and are just time wasters you could be spending getting your herblore level up.

That's what I thought. The old forum had a much better feel to it, a much more welcoming, cozy feel and now it does look sterile and generic. I guess it's a step forward from the old forum, but it will take a long time for me to adjust just because that old forum was my little internet home where I built my straw hut and traveled from the land of Google and back, as well as other far off lands. I'm going to play around for a little while to find something a bit more comfortable for me, but I can say I do think it's appearance is a step down but it's features are a step up.

Blogs. On TIF? My thoughts have been a bit scattered after seeing the new boards. I don't like the new boards as much as the old ones, the old ones just felt more cozy, and I guess it's also because I spent two years with them. But I can say that the TIF team should pat themselves on the back for creating so many new options for TIFers. Blogging on Tip It would never have occurred to me a year or so ago, and now I am able to give you my thoughts without creating a whole topic over it. I like the lay out, it seems kind of odd though. It's just different, and I must say that I will miss the old forum and will set red roses at it's grave every year. October 4th 2009 is officially the death of TIF, and October 5th is when it reincarnated into something with more potential. I think it'll take a while for most veteran TIFer's to get used to it, but it was still a worthy endeavor and the product came out with more possibilities then anything I could ever have thought up. Good job TIF team!

That is the stupidest [bleep]ing assumption. Once again, where did I and a lot of my friends learn about Runescape? Miniclip. I am sure Miniclip was not the reason the game went "downhill" since from what I take, you still had RWTers, spammers, scammers, and every other jackass that ruined the game. Get a clue dude, because you don't know what your talking about and you and your little group blame Miniclip for everything because it is the only "logical" explanation. Apparently the lure of a free online MMORPG wasn't the reason people were joining. I know people who learned about it from google.

That is the stupidest [bleep]ing assumption. Once again, where did I and a lot of my friends learn about Runescape? Miniclip. I am sure Miniclip was not the reason the game went "downhill" since from what I take, you still had RWTers, spammers, scammers, and every other jackass that ruined the game. Get a clue dude, because you don't know what your talking about and you and your little group blame Miniclip for everything because it is the only "logical" explanation. Apparently the lure of a free online MMORPG wasn't the reason people were joining. I know people who learned about it from google.

Says the idiot that wrote this. In Runescape, we consider that being PWNED

Says the idiot that wrote this. In Runescape, we consider that being PWNED

I fish a lot of swordies too, but I never really encounter this problem that much, I cook my tuna and then throw them out. I don't think it's really worth fighting over because it is luck.

I bought Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires. WARNING: It sucks.

^^^No the big and froggy thing.

I played Sonic Heroes forever ago...all I remember is the [developmentally delayed]ed froggy thing.

If you can't homing attack properly in Sonic Heroes, you might as well stop playing that game, because you suck. Hell, when you can't even do a simple attack like that properly, you should just stop playing Sonic games altogether, because you're just not suited for those type of games. Also, "sand that can consume unsuspecting hedgehogs" = quicksand. You don't know? A whole desert of the stuff? I only played that little segment but found it too [developmentally delayed]ed. And no, the homing attack was quite erratic, and everybody I know always dies because of it. Shadow the Hedgehog was where it could be seen quite clearly, but the other GC games, it was apparent.

I had a thread a couple years back about the stupid things scammers try to sell. All I really remember were spinach rolls. And that really wasn't creative...

If you want to talk actual gameplay I find that everyone of the games when you use the homing jump on enemies, it always ends in Sonic falling off a cliff and killing himself? Is this because he realizes that he is in a crappy game, or is it because of crappy design, or is it both? I have no clue about the gameplay of Sonic Unleashed because I barely played three minutes of it without getting bored to death. I only played a part of sonic 06 where you walked around a town and then drove some hovercraft over sand...because apparently sand can consume unsuspecting hedgehogs.

And what's the difference if the thread dies or not? This is a thread that has brought up a whole lot of discussion. Seriously dude, by adding that comment there, you helped knock it up two threads...

1. Stubbornness is not a factor here. I am not stubborn for believing Sonic is dead, it is my own thought due to the excessive amount of crappy Sonic games out there. 2. Apparently you didn't read my whole rant. I said it was crap, but I pointed out why, but you were too busy being enraged that someone would would make fun of Sonic. 3. Same thing here, why make fun of someones opposite opinion? Have you ever joined a (somewhat) mature forum like this? We all talk about stuff and state why we dislike or like it, it's not like we can't...that's kind of the fun of talking over a forum is getting the opinions of others. 4. We should hate somewhere else? Lol, this is why I hate fanboys, because at the tiniest sign of oppresiveness, they take it to a higher degree then it should be, state about "Well that's your opinion" while simultaneously bashing my opinion, complaining because I bashed your opinion, and then act like a mad seven year old who didn't get M and M's at the candy store. 5. This wasn't a flame war until you turned it into one. You can't throw out the opinion thing because you are bashing my opinion, so quit [cabbage]ting and get over the fact that Sonic games are no good. It's a universal fact that the latest Sonic games have sucked. Even people I know who have enjoyed newer games will say that they are still full of problems. A game is not good if it's bugged, broken, or anything like that. Sonic games have consistently had these problems, had continuity problems, had problems with too many characters, had problems with the stupid things in each one. I would love to see Sonic return to his former status, I am a big fan of Sonic, but does that mean I am not allowed to say that I believe that a childhood favorite and one of my favorite characters of all time has been slowly dying due to the idiotic attempts by Sonic Team to resurrect him with some new perk?

It's annoying when a newer forum member does things like this. I hate when people post one sentence with no back up for it. Why did you prefer the old wild? It's annoying to me when people do this, I don't know about anyone else but I feel when ranting, we can't put out generalized statements, we have to support that statement. Maybe that's just my critic side talking...

Caught up with Bleach and started watching Bebop. Questions to Bebop fans: 1. Is Venture Bros opening an homage to Bebops opening 2. Is the Mom in episode 4 the basis of Mom in Futurama? Love the anime though. The action scenes are really nicely done.

Well that is different :lol: And your a basher bashing my bashes. So what? Why do I have to get off this thread for have an opposing opinion to you oh great one? And I am a critic by nature, I review stuff, I dedicate everything I do on the SGP blog and any other blog to reviewing either old stuff or new stuff depending on my mood. And I have found that the Last two generations of console Sonic games have blown. They keep adding stupid useless characters, keep emphasizing a story that gets more and more convoluted as it goes to the point it is harder to understand what order the games take place. Sonic Team needs to give real Sonic fans a game, not seven year olds who enjoy the characters and don't understand what a good and a bad game are. Because that is the market for these games, and I would know as a person who wears a Sonic T-shirt every once in a while. Everyone who is older then ten says "Lame" and every time I walk by the elementary school on my way home there is a kid wondering where they can get a Sonic T-shirt. Most of these kids don't even know about the older ones, the better ones. I remember getting all the older ones on a computer disk (along with the dreadful (but not at the time, I was young) Sonic R and Sonic Fighting game). Sonic could be a great series if it could quit trying to be the next great thing. It needs to work with the formula that made the originals great, speed. Not slowing down to destroy robots, not terrible cutscenes with terrible dialogue with terrible reasons to add another stupid thing to the game. Take Sonic Adventure 2 Battle on the GC. Part of the game you got to play as Tails in a slow [wagon] walker robot. That's not what the series is about. It's not about [developmentally delayed]ed cats going after his "froggy". It's about speed. But the games are losing that for "God of War for kids" Werehog sequences and whatever else. Hell, take a look at the mediocre Riders series. It's stupid, Sonic is so fast that he needs to use a hover board in a race? And when he gets off the hoverboard he can't run for some reason and has to huff and puff until he gets back on? What the hell? At least the equally crappy Sonic R got the racing right. I don't know. Sonic Chronicles on the DS was great, but then we see it isn't exactly a Sonic Team game and we can see why. Catch my drift? Sonic cannot survive in the long term if it keeps adding silly things in instead of focusing on the sole component everyone knows it for. Mario survives because it follows the same formula (basically) it always has, and that formula has worked. Add different ideas to the mix such as Space instead of a castle, or Snowy mountains, and it works. Zelda is the same thing. Most Nintendo games can all be distinguished for something and each game in that series you can distinguish that thing easily. Sonic is turning into a jumbled, sloppy mess, which is what I personally think distinguishes it from all the other Nintendo games. My friend is a huge Sonic fan and enjoys the newer ones a bit, and I might eventually go over to his house to collaborate on a "Where Sonic went Wrong" video, which is what I have been wanting to do forever, but we finally got the technology to do it. I'll post it if you really want my complete look at the failures of the series.