Kaida23

She used to be quite attractive. Less so now. Happens to everyone as they get older. Except me of course, I am ageless like a work of fine art. :P

I don't want to see pictures of Nicki Minaj. <_<

Since Dax brought up Saints Row 2, this is my favourite track from SR4 Who knew SR4 even had radio stations? You never drive anywhere unless forced to by the story. I didn't even know this song was there until I noticed it on the ending credits, at which point I was all like "What? I could have been listening to this all along?".

Good to see you're back D.V. 21831

Welcome! Always good to see another pure F2P blog start up. :D Unfortunately wilderness kills on free servers don't count towards the Wildstalker helmet, but feel free to hit me up in-game if you want to trade Duellist cap kills.

Ah good old mining bots, the bane of my RS existence. May they all be drowned in lava. :lol:

I dunno, I think I prefer the "game is dying" theory to the "we're old and out of touch" one. :P Both sides have merit though. RuneScape has been around for 15 years, so it's only natural that players who have been around for years would eventually leave. Old players leave and take with them the thought that you have to go to fansite forums to get info. After all, that was really the only place to get proper info on the game. Now in comes a new wave of players, some of whom probably weren't even born when the game started, who know only that wiki's are the best place to get information (and when it's often the first search result, how would they know otherwise) so what reason would they have to come to a fansite forum? The game itself seems to still have legs (despite "dying" for last decade) otherwise Jagex would not be spending effort and resources on regular updates or major graphical overhauls like NXT. Perhaps what we need is some way of letting people know we're still here. I mean, we're still an officially approved fansite ([qfc]254-255-304-65216439[/qfc]) maybe there's something we can do to remind people of that.

Just bought season 6 of Archer. Been laughing my ass off. :lol:

Good for you Bonez. My dad was a volunteer firefighter where I grew up, so I know it's a tough gig. Much respect. :thumbup:

BBQ ribs and beers at my best friend's place while the kids run about on the lawn. Spring's officially here. :)

Dan doesn't play as much as he used to, but how many of us do? Life is a harsh mistress. But TFS is still surprisingly active, if not quite as chatty as I remember. Still, get the right starter going and a spirited conversation will quickly follow. |^_^| Okay, I've been promising proper updates since I came back but after finally transferring everything to my laptop and realizing that there's a metric ton of screenshots to go through I have decided to break it all up into (relatively) smaller updates rather than bombard you with a massive one all at once. So without further ado, I give you... Kaida's 4 month 3 year update part 3!: The Battle of Lumbridge part 1, or: I've been gone too damn long! :twss: When we last left off I was working on Smithing, Crafing and Fishing. The Battle of Lumbridge kind of put Smithing on the back burner for the duration, but before it got into full swing I got these: [spoiler='Crafting 71] [spoiler=Crafting 72] Long absent mighty gods Saradomin and Zamorak descended upon the once (relatively) peaceful land of Gielinor with some kind of bug up their collective butts over who was better, stronger, faster and the Battle of Lumbridge was underway as we mere mortals took up arms to fight for our chosen deity. Or to simply get cool rewards. Which ever. :P Personally I sided with Zamorak at first, gaining all the armour pieces except the cape (don't remember why any more, maybe I figured I didn't have enough time to get absolutely everything on both sides) then defected to Saradomin and kept fighting for him for the remainder of the Battle. As regular readers of this blog with know, I'm a long time supporter of Saradomin and it was always my plan to finish the BoL on his side with as many rewards as possible. Once on the battlefield I powered though some fishing to finally get to level 90: [spoiler=Fishing 89] [spoiler=Fishing 90] And somewhere in there I also got 95 Magic (possibly from xp lamps as I can't see myself stopping to train it during the BoL) and apparently Divination was released around this time so I got it to level 5. [spoiler=Magic 95] [spoiler=Divination 5] Now that my Fishing goal had been achieved and Divination was out of the way, I shifted my focus on the battlefield to mining and boy oh boy did that ever pay off! :thumbsup: Mining battlefield tears was fast, easy and best of all semi-afk! F2P really, really needs something like that. I did it for the rest of the event, occasionally jumping worlds to mine sacred metal fragments (we had a hunt chat set up and everything) or killing NPC's for Icyenic weapon overrides...but I'm getting ahead of myself again. I made ridiculous Mining gains during the BoL. Here's where I started: And here's where I finished: :shock: Just over 5M Mining xp in, what, three maybe three and a half months? In F2P? With all the world hopping and chatting and running about doing other stuff to collect as many rewards as I could in between? That's absolutely insane. I'm sure I was hoping to make to an even 20M, but I can't imagine I was anything less than happy with this. Now I'm sure you all noticed that I made other level gains during that time, and I also gained many many rewards for my dedicated service to Saradomin, plus there was even a new quest thrown in there...but this entry has gotten long enough so I think I'm going to leave it here for now. Tune in next time for more thrilling skilling, killing and BoL chilling in part 4 of my mega epic, ultra late update series: "The Battle of Lumbridge part 2" or "Always leave them wanting more" ;)

Coincidentally this very subject came up in my cc last night and it turns out a lot of them are in their 20's as well.

So far, you're all just young'uns. I'm 38, and I know there are many others older than me who still play. I've no idea what kind of age range my clan mates are, but I'm not entirely sure it matters. Having grown up with video games, I've never really considered them "just for kids". Now get off my lawn dagnabbit, I'm trying to nap! :P

Today while working on a pump a full-sized F250 quad cab powerstroke diesel pulled up to the other side and out jumped the tiniest, most petite blonde you ever saw and in the softest, sweetest voice you ever heard proceeded to curse a blue streak that would make a sailor blush when she saw the pump wasn't working. I...I think I'm in love.

Yeah, I remember how upset everyone was about that when it was announced they'd be for members only ("all players" my ass <_<). Oh well, at least I have them now. Today I have a new instalment of a mini-series I had hoped to never update again. That's right, it's time for episode two of: Kaida's safety tips through example! (where I help everyone be safe through my own painful experiences) If you don't remember, ep.1 was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back here on page 2 and was about me nearly filleting my thumb with a paring knife. Fortunately today's lesson has less blood, but was no less painful. Last night I was PM'd by a member of my clan asking if I could loan him some gp to max out a flip he was doing. Yes, yes, I know some of you are already shouting at your monitors but let me finish. Now, this was not some recent johnny-come-lately, this was a long standing member who we all know and respect so I agreed and went to meet him at the GE. Once there he told me to trade with CornFedz, his flipping alt (stop yelling at me! I can't hear you through the computer :P). So I go to trade with him and instead of the 20M I intended I accidentally pressed an extra 0 and didn't notice until afterwards. :wall: At which point he teleported out and that was it. My money was gone. Poof. 200M right out the window. As soon as he disappeared, another member of my clan came up in the chat to warn us someone was impersonating the person I thought I was talking to. Litterally as soon as I finished the trade the warning came up. Needless to say the person being impersonated was just as shocked as the rest of us. This led to both condolences from my clan mates and a huge discussion as to how it happened in the first place. It turned out that the scammer was using a Roman numeral 1 in place of a lower case L. I don't know how, but another member showed us the difference and until I saw them side by side I couldn't tell the difference. Even seeing them side by side it was difficult to tell. (Newb took this. Notice the difference between the L in "logged in" and the one in "Lil Dan Def") Apparently I was gone too damn long and had forgotten all the warning signs of a scam. :wall: I'm not completely screwed though, I have all the gear I'll ever need and still have 44M cash left over so I can still fund training Smithing, but loosing nearly all my money hurt like you wouldn't believe. So there it is, my warning to all of you. Watch out for friends or clan mates suddenly messaging you and asking for money. 200M lost :wall:, lesson learned and life moves on. Now, this story isn't all bad. After telling everyone about what happened one of my clan mates messaged me to meet him in the GE again. Wait, wait, wait. Put the pitchforks and rotten tomatoes down, I made sure it was him before going this time. And it was him, no alts or anything. He then gave me a bond so I could get back a little of what I'd lost, and a Fish Mask because it was hilarious and made us both laugh. I sold the bond for 11M so I'm back up to 54M, and I'm still wearing the mask because it's ridiculous. :lol: So a shout out and huge, huge thank you to Bambe09 for his extreme generosity in my time of adversity. :thumbsup: =D> Oh, and because I promised Zammypker here's an adorable animal pic to end things with. :^_^:

Yes, everyone join us in off-topic...then remind everyone there that general discussion is still here. ;)

Bows! Good to see you still pop your head in from time to time.

Unless there's been an update I'm not aware of (it's entirely likely, I was gone a long time :P), then no. I looked around but couldn't find anything that said otherwise so I'm assuming that's still the case. You don't necessarily have to sell your items though, on free servers F2P and members items are tracked separately in your bank so you can leave them there and it won't take up bank space you could otherwise be using. Despite never having been a member, I have 6 members items in my bank (left over from events and the like). They don't take up space I'd otherwise be using, so I just leave them there as curiosities that only I get to enjoy. ;)

Blasphemy! And since we're losing, it appears there are more sinners than saints here. ...oh wait, this is off-topic. There definitely are. :P

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Welcome to Tip.It! :)

Update on yesterday's server load issues: link

Hooray it's here! Emma. <3:

Sorry about that. Should be good now.