Serpent Eye

Sitting down at Subway eating my sandwich... overhear two of the employees (a guy in his 20s and a woman in her mid 30s) talking. The guy says something like, "Remember the Alamo..." and the woman asks, "Was that anything like the Titanic?" :-/ Also, this sandwich is delicious.

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Hello noobs and nooblets. <3: Updated image location for an Elite compass clue; it's in the guide labeled as "Morytania Slayer Tower (near Crawling Hands)": or Of course I don't have a screenshot showing the "X-marks-the-spot" image in my inventory, but I'd like to think I'm trustworthy. <3: Thanks for all the hard work, - Serp

Finished Nocturnal. Surprisingly, having loved Scott Sigler's last three novels, I wouldn't recommend Nocturnal to anyone. Don't ever plan on reading it again. Started reading The Magicians by Lev Grossman. There are only a few points that are annoying me so far, but hopefully those just take place in the beginning and won't persist throughout the book. :thumbup:

Awesome! :D Yeah, at the Tamora Pierce signing I went to a couple of years ago, the people at the bookstore gave everyone a stickie note, and we all had to write our name out on it and stick it to a certain page, that way Tamora could just breeze through them as she went along. (Although to be fair... I did have her sign 7 books of mine. But I did 4, and then waited in line again for another hour to have her do the last 3.)

@Geed: I personally find it's a lot better for me to play some terribly sad music, cry the entire time, and get it out of my system. I'll still be upset after, but it helps tone it down a bit. If I'm that sad or depressed, listening to happy music doesn't do squat to make me feel better.

Feel better buddy <3: Sorry for being rude when you entered the fc today D: It's okay. <3:

I hope you're taking this as well as you're making it seem you are. My god I don't know how I could handle something like that. We're here for you if you need anything. Really, you should also thank scientists for how much work they've been putting in to making HIV into something that is much more manageable and, hopefully very soon, curable! I'm taking it... as best as I can to be honest. Today is a little bit better than yesterday, but I'm still shaken up and I really can't get my mind off of it. Been a bit depressed since I found out yesterday morning. Earlier this year my friend from high school committed suicide, and when that happened I could hardly eat or sleep for about a week and I was pretty much crying constantly... this HIV thing isn't obviously to that point since thankfully my friend is still alive... it's still just really overwhelming. Since I'm such a musical person, I've just been drowning myself in melancholy songs. Of course I made the smart decision to listen to the soundtrack from the movie-musical Rent, which is just about everyone sitting around dying from HIV/AIDS. That wasn't the SMARTEST move on my part yesterday, but I think I got the biggest waterworks over with for now. And yeah, that's what I've been saying to myself, and to my friend as well. When the AIDS epidemic first broke out in the United States, it was pretty much a guaranteed death-sentence - you knew you had this disease and while you might be alive today, you could very well die tomorrow. Science has made leaps and bounds with medications, and it's perfectly manageable now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okMdC9-YqrE :thumbup:

I did 80 -> 99 WC purely from large Sawmill jobs and 2 evil trees (yew or better) daily. :thumbup:

Too bad it's like six-million pages. Best of luck getting through it; I bought it forever ago but haven't made myself read it. :-P Edit: @Tripsis: How'd the book signing go? :-D

Thanks everyone. <3:

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's... really overwhelming. He's one of my best friends like I said, but he's also one of my employees... and due to my being his supervisor at work, we aren't exactly supposed to "fraternize" outside of work; ie, if my boss ever found out about us being friends/hanging out outside of work, I would get fired immediately. So it kind of has put a strain on our friendship because he and I are both always eager to hang out, but I'm not always willing to hangout as often as he'd like. I don't mind hanging out at all, he's someone I can really trust, I just get worried sometimes and like to "lay low," if you will. At any rate, it's all just basically made me feel like shit about myself. I realize that just because he might have HIV, he isn't going to instantly die, but I'm just thinking to myself, Everything is so trivial compared to what he's going to go through. I don't know if I can quite describe it... I just feel like I've been a terrible friend for not wanting to hang out more; I feel weird for not being as open with him as I could have been. Like, we've been good friends for many years, but today was honestly the first time I told him (we were texting, since I was working, and he was at home) that I loved him like I would a brother, and that even though I'm lazy and make excuses to not hang out with him, he really does mean a lot to me. I'm also really ticked off because he was just a few months away from (forgive my lack of understanding the terminology) starting Navy bootcamp or school or whatever, because he joined to become a Navy Corpsman. But obviously now, if his second test comes back HIV positive, he won't be able to do that. Even if his test comes back as "indeterminate" again (ie, the doctors can't say with 100% certainty that he's HIV positive or negative), I guess he'll be disqualified from joining the Navy obviously. This is the second time he's worked on joining the Navy - the first time he moved to go to a naval academy, but had to be discharged due to complications with his knee. I was doing my best to comfort him in my own way... I'm not sure if it helped or not. The way I told him was, everything in life happens for a reason. Even if he's HIV positive, he can life a long and happy life. Maybe this is a sign (after two failed attempts?) that he wasn't meant to join the Navy... who knows, maybe his first day of active duty, he would have died or something, and that being diagnosed HIV positive might actually being the universe's way of prolonging his life - like I said... maybe that wasn't very comforting, I guess I was just trying to justify it. Edit: And I guess for anyone who might be curious. He disclosed his full "history" to his doctor, ie he probably told him how many girl's he's had sex with, if he's ever done drugs, etc... the doctor told him that based off of that, he was very low risk for contracting the disease, so it honestly might just be some freak accident that you would honestly never expect to happen. He isn't very promiscuous, and he definitively has never done any drugs that involved sharing needles. So... none of us really know how the [bleep] this happened. Edit Edit: And I certainly hope none of this sounds selfish, I guess. I'm not meaning to say that it's about *MY* life and how *I* haven't been a good friend, and how *I* feel bad... obviously I'm sick to my stomach thinking about things from his perspective... sick to my stomach thinking about what his family, his mom dad and little brother, are going through... what the rest of his life is going to be like... these (paragraphs above concerning my point of view) are just small things in comparison to everything else that I'm feeling. Anyway, time to sleep this horrible day off. Sorry for rambling...

Please feel free to join my Friend Chat - HYT - any time you want. :thumbsup: My RuneScape name is "Serpent Eye" so just type that in for the Friend Chat. It's a relaxed chat to hang out, talk about RuneScape and/or real life, get advice and just enjoy each other's company. :) Hope to see you around! Most of us use a combination of worlds 99 or 119 to play on, so there's a good chance you'll see a lot of us running around on those two worlds in particular. :P

One of my best friends found out today that there's a 96 to 98% chance that he contracted HIV. I can't even fathom what he's feeling, seeing as I myself am kind of devastated. I was stuck at work for eight hours today when he came to tell me... so I got to spend my entire shift running around doing my normal duties while crying my eyes out in front of all my employees and customers. Have had a terrible headache all day and generally just feel like shit and want to die. :thumbup:

Added 111 of my books to my Goodreads account... not even close to being a quarter of the way done. <_< I have gained a new respect for librarians.

Is Goodreads free to use? :D I very well may sign up for it. Edit: Nvm. :P Answered my own question.

A site I used (haven't in a while) is Librarything. (I've never used Goodreads, so I'm not sure how comparable either of them are.) You can catalog up to 200 books with a free account; it's only $10 for a 1 Year membership, and $25 for a Lifetime membership. There are discussion boards, you can browse other people's collections, etc. You also get "awards" for contributing information about books (think of it sort of like a Wiki for each individual book. If something is missing, like the publisher or cover of that edition, you can add that information.) The awesome thing I liked about Librarything was that they sell a "CueCat" USB scanner, which I bought. So instead of manually entering the ISBN number for all of your books, or searching for them, you can just scan the barcode on the back of each book you own and it will automatically enter it into your catalog. :thumbup:

Thanks. <3:

Thanks! :mrgreen:

The only books that I own that I think would compare to Fifty Shades is the Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice (writing as A. N. Roquelaure). The books in order are The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, and Beauty's Release. They're pretty graphic, so like you said, it's probably best to not describe them on TIF. It's the classic story (only not really) of Sleeping Beauty, but rather than kissing her to wake her up, Prince Charming has to do some other things, and then she becomes his sex slave. It's all updownhill from there. If you're into that kind of fiction, you should give it a glance. :P I vote that you abandon reading Fifty Shades if you're that disturbed by it. Your OCD will thank you later!

Yeah, it would be nice if the guide mentioned that you need to catch the God Jadinkos in order to get the mask. Went around catching all non-god Jadinkos thinking I could get the mask. :unsure:

Thanks @_@! Been a bit stressed out as I had to take a huge test and have been waiting for my results for the past week+

Head cook at Mcdonalds? :lol: Nope. :) Senior Assistant Manager - I'm still the boss of all 50 of my employees, and now I'm also the boss of the 7 other managers. ;) One position away from being in charge of and running my own building. Also took on the position of Theatre Technology Assistant (in charge of all computers, registers, IT/troubleshooting issues), I'm still the head of our multi-million dollar projection booth, and I'm in charge of the Human Resources department (hiring, firing, giving performance appraisals and raises for all 50 employees, employee relations, etc.) Finally get Paid Time off and a yearly vacation, health benefits (dental, medical and life insurance) and I just signed up for a 401(k) plan. Just a step above head cook. :mrgreen:

Oh that's horrible. -.- I haven't read the book, but I've heard a lot about it. Sounds more like borderline slavery than BDSM. Isn't it meant to be consensual anyway? But I guess she could still be consenting, despite not wanting to go through the painful bits. :P APPARENTLY IT'S CHANGING MARRIAGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY so perhaps people aren't getting the "horrible" part of the message it sends, lol. :P Edit: @Lord Paul: It's a book series, the first book is called Fifty Shades of Grey. Basically (from what I understand) it started off as a spinoff fanfiction from the Twilight universe, involving two characters that the author (of the fanfic, not Stephanie Meyer) created. It gained such popularity online that she took the fanfics down and turned it into a trilogy of novels. Middle-aged women (and Tripsis :P) across the country are going ape-shit over it.