Assume Nothing

I'd like to apologize to the Tip.It Editorial Panel for such a late entry - it was put together at the very last minute. Some thoughts were rushed, and I acknowledge that it's a bit repetitive. Kudos to Croce for helping me on the article. Whilst I understand that the topic at hand has been quite frankly 'overdiscussed', I felt I had to have a say about bots myself. Question of curiousity; What would you guys like to read about? Hoping to piece together another article ready for next month, or perhaps this month

Last minute stress - I'm watching the clock and hoping my brain would snap into action but it's simply not happening. This happens every time I have exams too :(

I hope you guys don't mind another bots article as I'll be writing one - it will be more about how they work (insight on reflection mainly as that's the main method nowadays, given that they're a little harder to catch than BCEL/Injection), and a solution against the 'problem' in general. On topic: I do like Croce's article, I hope he's on tonight...

Racists. People who constantly talk about trivial things. People who whine about not achieving, yet they don't even try to achieve.

I wouldn't consider merchanting/flipping 'dead', it's just less effective per flip. Bare in mind that 'back in the day' flipping required waiting for 4 hours between buying and selling, whereas you can do another flip instantly after selling these days. I would point out that flipping becomes more risky with freetrade, and typos are very deadly (if the demand isn't sustainable). Hmm

friday! friday! gotta get down on friday!! (: i luv you're posts btw

You do realise that rwters have some of the highest charge-back rates, right?

It's a bit old, but I still like it.

I'd agree about Milton Keynes, even though it's not that close. It's approximately 50 miles from London Euston, but it takes approximately 35-40 minutes to go there via Virgin Trains (£14 return, 1/3 off of that with a railcard).

The urban dictionary describes 'chavs' quite well. "Picture this a young lad about 12 years of age and 4 ½ feet high baseball cap at ninety degrees in a imitation addidas tracksuit, with trouser legs tucked into his socks (of course, is definitely the height of fashion). This lad is strutting around, [bleep] in one hand jewellery al over the over, outside McDonalds acting as if he is 8 foot tall and built like a rugby player, when some poor unsuspecting adult (about 17/18) walks round the corner wanting to go to mcdonalds for his dinner glances at the young lad, the young lad jumps up in complete disgust and says Whats your problem? Wanna make sommin of it? Bling Bling when the adult starts to walk towards the young lad, the young lad pisses himself and runs off to either his pregnant 14-year-old girlfriend or his brother in the army crying his eyes out."

4/10

I would upload my mind into the AI and play the real life Matrix.

The feeling you get when you're bloodshot, mentally exhausted and yawning like crazy - but still unable to fall asleep.

You didn't appear to address the problem in your opening statement. It appeared as though you made an analogy between attending RuneFest being exclusive to British people (which isn't very accurate, by the way) to purchasing GameStop RuneScape membership card being exclusive to Americans. The analogy is weak because you're comparing two very different things - RuneFest was a real life activity, a convention, so it's obvious that there would be location constraints, whereas a RuneScape membership card is merely a card that would give an account membership, which should have no location constraints thus should be purchasable anywhere. I do understand why you made the comparison, but it's a flawed reason. Even if they were similar things, what would that change? It doesn't justify the fact that JaGex is being discriminatory, albeit little 'unfair' advantage has yet to be given. The reason people are annoyed about Vanity items is not because it provides some sort of unfair advantage, but it's because of the hypocritical stance that JaGex appears to have, contradicting their own principles in the process. It's a worrying trend that may actually prove to be game-changing in the future, and people are annoyed at how JaGex appears to shifting towards permitting micro-transactions whilst enforcing the no real world trading rule. We acknowledge that JaGex is a firm that operates on profit, but to operate successfully, they shouldn't alienate their player-base. If the community rejects the change in attitude of JaGex, then it would be irrational for them to not revise their views. Addressing the last point you made - I don't think you really got the point. The point was - The change in attitude of JaGex, which seems hypocritical at best, coupled with the fact that the trend may prove to be more damaging in the future, is what appears to anger players. Although there are other serious issues, it doesn't necessarily mean that they should ignore less significant issues like these, as over time, it may become far worse than it already is.

I feel the second article lacks a point - it seems to be the RS rules just paraphrased with a short introduction. Mind you, it's still good to shed some light on the rules as I plan to release an article about it in a few weeks. I liked the first article - but the title could be a little better. It does help raise awareness about JaGex's activities, as they are showing a trend to be more lenient against bots and RWTing, to the point where they are essentially doing so themselves. As I never read fictionals - I'm unable to comment for the third article. Average week, I'd say.

Could someone post the article where the 10 year old boy did the same to a girl? If the story is indeed true, then I would definitely think there is a pro-female bias in society, and that definitely has to stop.

This thread will be useful for my Economics course. Thanks sees! On Topic: Hmm, I was never aware of the issue before. How significant is the problem as a percentage of Chinese properties?

Which one is it; a confession, a secret, or a regret?

Please realise that you're not perceived to be witty, nor clever by announcing that you're unable to 'lose' the game.

People who elaborate far too much. It's actually more difficult for the reader to understand your point if you rant for pages on end.

Bloodshot, tired, and unable to sleep.

Crud, this thread needs a kickstart. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f-6jygRJk

I hope TET becomes a little more like OTG.

I can't post that here...

For those who would like an idea of converting between metric and imperial units: 1 stone = 14 pounds 1 kilo = 2.2 pounds 1 feet = 12 inches 1 inch = 2.54 cm