Kimberly

It's not as taxing on the videocard as it is the CPU. A person without a gfx card and instead an integrated video can still play minecraft comfortably on medium to medium-low settings. Depending on how good your CPU is, you might experience a bit of trouble. But a dual core 2.2 ghz with 4gb ram can play minecraft.

My opinion is that just because there are multiple injustices in the world doesn't mean we should only address the worst. Yet you have to start somewhere, attempting to fix everything at once is a recipe for disaster. (ZING RUNESCAPE QUEST NAME)

Forgive me if I haven't followed the argument properly--I'm sure someone will correct me XD--but isn't that what's being argued? The people who are getting assistance are, in some cases, not using it properly or wisely. And the government doesn't have the means to control such programs. Meanwhile they are not dedicating the resources needed to make aid-based programs as a help to get self-sufficient, mainly because they can't. Considering most corporations/private sectors dictate such things while trying to do more with less domestic labor, it deprives people of the opportunity to get self-sufficient. Which leaves us in a never-ending cycle that can't really be improved without making things dramatically worse elsewhere. IDKMYBFFJILL.

There's no need to bump old topics. Normally so long as users post relevant information it is not an issue, but the whole premise of this topic is from a 2007-era rather than what we're facing now, and most of this topic is largely outdated and irrelevant. Locked, PM if you disagree.

I doubt your sister's common sense. It was like 100 out today.

Then the good news is that's where I live right now.

Both.

>mfw you realize my post before yours was actually my reaction at looking briefly into my future and seeing your post

Log in/log out? Is it like that for your main? Are you in the middle of doing tasks that you've got to do when you first start, or something silly like that?

Original post In this thread I think it's common knowledge that there are ways to prevent cyberbullying from happening. The people who can take advantage of this are those who are knowledgeable of the product they're using, be it an online game, social media, instant messaging. The parents of children using these applications must be equally if not better versed in the product they're using so they can set it up for their child. Even then that's not foolproof, because children can make mistakes and parents can't watch them 24-7. If it was, this wouldn't be happening, would it? So saying that protections are out there is great but there is still more to be done, especially from the parent's perspective. And that, by no means, gives anyone the right to belittle the fact that it still happens. It's sort of like mocking someone for getting AIDS, even though it's a highly preventable disease. (Obviously this is a bit of an extreme example, but I chose this example specifically so the relationship was clear to someone who might not understand my viewpoint.) EDIT: Lol 7k posts.

Yeah...in all honesty, probably a poor example, but it's the most recent suicide that I'm aware of that involved cyberbullying specifically. By 2010 the media already realized what a cash cow such topics were and milked it thoroughly, but nonetheless it's still a tragedy that it happened. I don't think anyone agrees with someone taking their own life as a means to solve their problems. But there is a difference between that and what you're doing, which is belittling the tragedy. That is the sort of apathy that allows these things to continue, why people shut up and bottle it in instead of talking about it, why people don't get the help they need. Because of attitudes like yours. Because of the 'tough it up' mentality. It boxes people in and makes them feel trapped with their problems...and it's unfortunately a very common occurrence these days. Surely you can see why that is wrong, and how it's honestly appalling.

It's good to know because you were able to escape it, everyone else who can't do the same is automatically inferior and doesn't deserve sympathetic regard.

For kicks I played it and made it through the month with 113$ to spare. A lot of the 'sacrifices' are things my family does on a daily basis to get by. I guess for some people they would be inconvenient but honestly I've done it so long that it seems normal to me--except skipping out on the doctor to save money. My family has extensive health problems and right now I'm the only one in the house with decent medical government (thanks to the state), but not everyone in my family has been so lucky in putting off medical issues. There have been some drastic issues due to that.

You can't use that as a platform to make blanket snide remarks at those who have hurt themselves or worse due to extreme harassment, be it online or in real life. When going through such severe stress at a young age you're not properly equipped to deal with it. Yes, we're told to be open and honest to heal from a very young age, but words are wind. In every other young person's life, they see example after example of people bottling it up inside, of shutting themselves in and cutting themselves off. They might not even fully understand why, but then people who are around this type of behavior start mimicking it, maybe without even realizing it. And worst of all, negative behavior is almost romanticized in youth culture to be brooding, self-loathing, self-inflicing pain and other torments. So unless there's a strong influence to do otherwise (ie strong rolemodels, responsible parents, strong social structure that someone can trust) they honestly might not know any better. Things can go awry. 'Cyberbullying' doesn't typically happen with older adults, who know where to seek help and the consequences that will follow if they don't. The younger crowds who most typically get caught up in it don't. They still are in a phase in their life where they're struggling with acceptance, self-reliance, discipline, and their own identity. And any sort of harassment left unchecked, left to fester in someone's heart can lead to a tragic accident that ends everything--suicide. Like a teenage girl who was caught one day with self-inflicted cuts on her arms due to the harassment she received on a daily basis when she ran out of long-sleeved tshirts to hide them. If someone is sitting and mocking people who have gone through this, I have to wonder if they haven't had it happen to themselves or someone close to them. Or perhaps they simply think it's just an isolated incident of someone going, "Hey idiot lol ur fat" every now and then and the victims overreact. There are hundreds of people who receive such minute things and don't go to themselves and say well I guess it's time to kill myself! The media does like to put its jaws into anything exploitable, especially things that offends sensibilities, to bolster ratings. And I'm sure like any other sensible person, these overblown wack-jobs are ignored. But there are real cases, of real people affected by things like this. There is no way that you can't see the difference between such a mild example and say Alexis Pilkington.

Or if you can't find one, you can use the giftcard to buy a Membership Card at your local superstore.

I'd imagine the only thing that would change the price of it would be changes in training methods or a decrease in bots. And any anti-botting measures would not be a pre-announced sort of thing, so it's impossible to use that as an indicator. Training methods, there have been none announced. RuneFest might change that, but it's unlikely considering the Urn update not too long ago. If things stay the same, they'll probably stop and level off soon, but that's a risky investment nonetheless. IDKMYBFFJILL.

Kids are easily provoked and don't always have knowledge of sophisticated privacy controls. So saying that none of them get used is all well and good, but it doesn't always help people being harassed, especially if the child is silent on the matter. It's not like a parent sees their child coming home with a black eye when someone calls them nasty things online repeatedly over time. It's a completely different scenario, which parents are ill equipped to handle. Restricting a kid's access to certain websites on the computer itself is a hard task for the average person, and everyone knows that "Billy, don't go to that <site>!" isn't sufficient. You can't just blow off the issue by saying, "lol well they exist, its their fault". The problem is more complicated than that. And it's hard to educate the unwilling, which most people are until it happens to their child.

Some people in burstinglobs will let you lootshare their charms for a price, but be prepared to pay steep amounts.

You'll want to do the following quests to unlock the most potential of your kingdom, and collect every 10 days. Tip.it's general MTK guide to read up on: http://www.tip.it/runescape/index.php?page=manage_thy_kingdom.htm (There might be better player-made guides in the Archive of Wisdom. I didn't check.)

You used to get PK'd during RC'ing a LOT more when glories were 120k ea. I will adopt the Old-Guy persona and say: you kids have it easy. It's frustrating and I feel for you as someone who RC'd a lot for her money a while ago. I got killed and threw my fits and did my trek to the abyss to reclaim what I lost. And if knowing that things in RS have been changed so that being rc pked isn't so bad doesn't help alleviate the frustration, then I'm sorry. Sometimes you just have to let it out. At least you did it here and not in-game! XD

I can agree with that, but what else would you call it? "Ameripoor?" "Afripoor"? It might be a gray term but anyone with a few ounces of sense that the good Lord gave 'em can see the difference. And if they can see the difference they can see where the issue lies. But the government can't spend times in shades-of-gray so they have words like these to define quality of life. I don't see the issue so much with the word but their enforcement of these policies that are abused and broken, then patchwork'd up so much that true people who need it even briefly can't get it. EDIT: Fixed my post around, I re-read it and realized I didn't like the negative feel it had to it, that wasn't what I was going for. XD I hope this is better.

I think this is a much more eloquent way of putting what I was getting at. Concise, is the word you're looking for. Doing a disservice, though? I'm pretty sure people don't care what they're called when they need assistance. 'Poor' is just a term they use to pinch out dollars and cents and look at the bare minimum to dole out money to. If it so offends your moral sensibilities that someone who needs assistance in America is classed as 'poor' by the government or by their community's own standards of living, then you truly need to grow thicker skin. This argument doesn't serve to put anything into perspective, which is what I think was the original goal, it's just quibbling over semantics.

The TWR board is archived frequently. And archiving isn't exactly necessary in most of the forum because posts aren't deleted after x period of time. As for the rest of your clan suggestion I can't comment on, I'll leave it to clan staff/clan community members to give their opinions :P BTW as a clan official (You said you were a recruiter?) you can apply for Clan Official status and get access to The Conclave, where other clan-related suggestions and involvement would be welcome I'm sure

If poverty meant that we 'lacked nutritious food' then everyone who is addicted to their fast food fixes are poverty-stricken, onoes. It's another story of welfare babies and state-freeriders. Just hashed up again to form different words to explain the same situation. And saying, "Hey at least we're not like those children we see on tv" might be a nice motivator but it doesn't exactly help you when your house is foreclosed on and you've got no other choice but to invoke squatter's rights until you're removed from the premises. On a side note, the heritage foundation gave me a free pocket-sized constitution booklet but now I keep getting 'letters' from Sean Hannity and stupid drum beating pamphlets about how Obama is killing the nation.