Assume Nothing

It depends what your tastes are like. I personally enjoyed chicken & bacon pasta as a 'cold' dish, but your mileage may vary.

Curious question aimed at bilinguists: what language do you think in? - if you were providing a translation, would it be both? EDIT - oh, and for speakers of the more exotic languages: would you guys be okay recording a vocaroo in your language? It would be great to hear you guys.

They could be deemed respectable for their efforts in creating an enjoyable game. - it almost sounds as though I'm describing them 5 years ago. I'd guess it's a respect I once had, not have.

I'm glad it's a useful find. Here's some more if you need it (with better clarity): http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b836/Student_Services/career_centre/skills_students.pdf

Banned for being so obedient ;D

Banned because you haven't read my post on the 'Today...' thread, yet.

It's a bit like a TIL post, but today I've discovered the utility of language. EDIT - this might be useful for you, Lokie.

Banned because ;D

Debt's a [bleep]. Let's just hope things get better. Couldn't you get a loan instead of credit-card debt though, surely it's less expensive?

I'm curious as to know - were you born into a Mandarin speaking background at all? I know from personal experience that whilst I do not have as good vocabulary in Mandarin/Chinese as I do in English, I manage to have a basic conversation fine in it - most of the time. *was born and raised into a Cantonese speaking background in the UK, whilst also interacting with Beijing foreign students who worked at the family business. wut*

Banned for having bad breath.

If they're so obvious, why are you not doing anything about it? I see you posting on this subforum about things perfectly within your control all the time, like not being invited out. If you're too forgiving, that means you're not assertive enough - i.e. you have low self-confidence. I'm pretty sure there's something about that within the inner-game posts from those links. If not, find something here: Oh, and you probably do have bad breath - everyone does with a dry mouth. Don't believe me? Lick your wrist with your whole tongue, and let it dry. Sniff it, then report back to us how fragrant your breath is. It also taints the flavour of food/drinks too, especially water that isn't cold.

... its format should be 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= '. If it has 'player embedded' in the url, you're doing something wrong. If it's the shortened url version of youtube with the youtu.be - you're also doing something wrong. Here's what it should have looked like:

Explaining why you're not being invited out. The importance of projecting an aura of happiness. Why neediness is bad. Giving value without dependency. Addressing the horrid taste in the mouth. It's not a problem you can't fix. Start fixing it.

It doesn't beg the question at all. It raises the question.

Banned for losing the opportunity to assert that there is a cap on level 99 skills - that's called the number of skills (which is 25 at current).

I'd be okay with the last one, if it's a branching philosophy in the way that you put it. I was under the impression that it meant either only having friends with benefits, or having multiple partners all the time.

... it's the closest term I could think of to 'monogamy with occasional exceptions'.

... I haven't really read through the back-and-forth between you, so I'm not sure how appropriate this is: does being monogamish change things at all?

As said early in this thread, this is not a yes-no answer. If you're going to pose such a question: identify what respect is, and who JaGex is. Are we talking about the founders, their spokespersons, their employees, its entity as a whole, or its corporate leaders? I may hold some respect for the founders with genuinely positive intentions, and their employees - but definitely not their corporate leaders. I may have little respect for those naive enough to put into place policies which clearly won't work, those who act inconsistently with their principles, and those who simply have little interest in the game trying to capitalize at our expense. Perhaps the question should be 'do you still respect them' - as it's implied that we used to. I'm sure it's one of the reasons why we had joined the game in the first place; we're mainly unhappy about the changes that has occurred over the past weeks/months/years. Or perhaps, the question could be 'should we still respect JaGex?' - now that would be a discussion.

In effect, we're simply gambling differently. Your style is more risk-free, but lacks the intimacy of monogamy (effectively everyone is a sex-buddy). Monogamy may be more rewarding, but more risky - and difficult to leave due to this social thing we call commitment (thus by extension, tolerance/compromise). In the long-run when people settle down, polyamorous relationships no longer work - especially if you consider marriage/children (which is one of our ultimate goals in the end). Sex with anyone is pleasurable - sure, but I don't believe the affection is on the same scale. If we really want long-term happiness, we must be non-reliant on women to be happy in the first place - testified by the recent posts on the 'Today...' thread. Only time shall tell.

You've pretty much missed the point entirely. These articles are focused on the community as a whole, it's very rare that we're talking about specific individuals.

It sounds like an interesting lifestyle, but the non-commitment thing seems to make it rather... unrewarding to me. It seems that you'd only make your penis happy, rather than being happy as a person - but I can't really tell since I've never been in polyamorous relationships before. I'd say it's definitely not suited for everyone.

I'm sure it does exist in polyamorous relationships... but since we're here to argue: how come?

Here's the fundamental disagreement: we may not value sex > love. If you do, then great! - but how many women do you know are willing to actually join your decision in going with polyamory, and what are you going to do when the drama is exponentially increased?