muggiwhplar

It's more fun to do things yourself than to do things efficiently sometimes. (Yes, I know that fun and efficiency aren't mutually exclusive. But the most efficient method isn't always the most fun). I only "resort" to the most efficient method if all other methods are tedious/boring. Pretty much like Omar said-- when a game's community has become so obsessed with efficiency over everything else, it sort of implies that the game itself isn't very fun. For one, I find it fun to first hear about new / faster methods of training, investigate it myself, and then realise that I myself am capable of training a skill in this "more efficient" method. Don't you get a kick out of trying out a new recipe, and then discovering that not only do you enjoy it, but you also get much better results than you expected? Let's be honest, the journey (grind) to a desired skill level is usually long or tedious, and trying out faster methods does give you some sort of kick. Botting an account is an entirely different issue, on the other hand. I agree with what you're saying, but like you said yourself-- getting from point A to point B in RuneScape isn't a fun journey like in other video games. It's a grind. When I think of this upcoming update to runecrafting, for example, I don't give a shit about how awesome the XP rates are or what the rewards are-- if it's gonna be like Livid Farm or Mobilising Armies or any of those other shitty minigames, I'm gonna avoid it like the plague because it's a huge waste of my time. A lot of people think their hard work will "pay off" once they achieve their goal after all the grinding... but a lot of the time the reward isn't worth the amount of work they had to put in to get it.

What if he's asking how much it'll cost in cannonballs, not USD? lol

After you get 99 in a skill, you still get xp popups but the progress meter disappears. When you get 200m xp in a skill, do the xp popups disappear as well?

You can already get a week-long 10% boost via refer-a-friend

I enjoyed it a lot for the most part. However, certain factors definitely influenced the fun factor: + Having a maxed blisterwood weapon: no need to pick up corpses; fun to breeze through juvinate and vyrewatch events + Training the easy/medium followers: they level up quickly and help fight +/- Summoning level: talon beasts events are "better" when you need their charms; at 99 summoning the event is kind of a "waste," though you no longer have to pick up anything - Training the hard followers: they don't attack and level slowly; boring + Watching movies/TV shows while trekking: makes the boring/tedious aspects a lot more tolerable (much like the majority of RS activities)

I think you'll keep better hatchets/pickaxes permanently once you find them

The only people who would consider him a RWT'er for accepting donations are, well, stupid.

Isn't narrowing the gap between the elitists and the "noobs" a good thing?

I don't see why people are flaming suomi. If people want to donate money to support him, what's wrong with that?

That'd be funny if Runespan was even more tedious and less fun than traditional runecrafting

Wonder if they'll nerf C2 fishing experience rates... stackable raw fish is pretty awesome Also wonder if they'll ever add drop-X to the "overworld" to make skilling easier.

Joined:10-May 05 He's not new. He plays how he wants. Yes, I know. He was active back when I was known as the fight caves guy around here. My point was that he's from the time back when we didn't pay much attention to the concept of "time is money."

It's extremely obvious that you haven't been around for the past couple of years :P

Let's ban everyone that joined after 2004 >_>

not sure why you kept trying to entangle him

Last night I went out with a girl whom I hadn't been with in a while. She told me that she thinks I've gotten a lot more attractive since the last time I saw her (January). The funny thing is, nothing's changed about me as far as looks go. My physical appearance hasn't changed at all-- the only thing that's really changed about me is my "vibe"-- and that's cuz it's something I'm always working on. It's pretty easy for guys to deduce why they find girls attractive-- it's usually based on the girl's physical appearance. But a lot of the time girls can't seem to put their finger on why they find certain men attractive. My friend told me herself that she didn't know why she found me more attractive now. I did a search for it on one of the sites I study and this popped right up! http://www.personalpowermeditation.com/forum/social-dynamics/women-do-not-actually-know-why-they-find-you-attractive/ Makes a lot of sense to me. Do you guys agree or disagree with that post?

Just enjoy being single for a while.

Sweeeet @muggi not to take away from the sentiment, but that sounds like the biggest load of crap ever. I just channeled the pain I felt into motivation for physical efforts, and my job and felt 1000x better about myself. Just accomplish stuff for yourself that you can be proud of and take your mind off it to focus on better things. If you gave it a shot, perhaps you wouldn't still be complaining about your ex on here >_> Takes less than a month to get over a girl via meditation, as opposed to months/years through the traditional path of time+other girls.

For those of you who need to get over a girl (Noxxx, RPG, etc.), you should give this a read: [spoiler=Oneitis-- by Kraftmann]Damned! Never thought, this might happen to me again. But it did, I have Oneitis. Before you barf on your keyboard, I will promise, my post will spare you from selfpitty and whining. The number of cheesy mails on this topic is legion, and there has been given lots of advice about it. I got dumped recently and the sudden impact of Oneitis hit me like thunder. This sudden turmoil of emotions paralyzed me with pain. Advice like GFTOW and go sarging are common knowledge, but the thing was, there was adamant inner resistance to any action like this. My inner condition was not suitable for sarging. The anchors connected with this relationship fired of a lot of memories, which caused pain. I felt like an infant, helpless like a [bleep]ing nursling! Since I read here on this board already quite a long time, I’m pretty familiar with the Oneitis-advice here on the board. But I cannot remember any tool or strategy to handle this sudden strike of pain and agony. It seems like there is a missing link in the Oneitis-processing, which this post might fill. And even more: Maybe it is possible to make Oneitis into something that perpetuates your personal development, an experience that makes you a more mature and independent person. Confronted with Oneitis my first question was, why there is all this anguish and pain. Here I am a 47 years experienced, educated, person with PU knowledge, why do I feel like someone is stabing me with daggers direct into my heart? I have a decent life, have hobbies, friends, why does it hit me so hard? Shinzen Young, a Buddhist monk, described suffering as: suffering= pain *resistance. When you are fighting against the pain, the memories connected with the former LTR, the feeling of missing her etc, this will multiply your suffering 10 times. The more you try to surpress, the harder the suffering will be! Take away the resistance and you will only experience the pain, which still is no fun, but bearable, after you remove the drama of your inner resistance. In some way it is like with an addiction: You have to surrender to this unpleasant state in order to integrate it successfully. And you must surrender in a specific way, not on the surface, but deep within yourself. You have to create awareness for the energetic side of the painful emotions. Emotional pain, though it is created in your mind, is somewhere located in your body. Track it there and feel it, to heal it. You can make this with a kind of meditation: Introduction Sit down, close your eyes, relax and become aware of your body. Your breathing should be continuously and deep. Relax the muscles in your head. Concentrate until you are able to feel your whole head at once. Then go on and relax the muscles in your breast and stomach until you can feel your whole breast and stomach. After that concentrate on your shoulders and arms until you can fell them as a whole. Finally become aware of your legs until you can feel both of them totally. After that, try to feel your whole body at once. Stay in that sate of felt wholeness for as long as you wish. Integration Now comes the essential part. In order to integrate the Oneitis, you must become aware of its emotional signature. Our common reaction to emotional pain is to back off, to run away or to remain in agony. Instead it is necessary to learn how to feel it. “It is not about feeling better, but about getting better at feeling”. (props. Michael Brown). This is where inner growth sets in. Concentrate now on the pain that goes along with the Oneitis. Do this until your body starts to react. Maybe you will feel an aura of pain in the stomach, or some painful thoughts will arise. Try to find out, where the pain is situated in your body. After you located the pain, concentrate on the quality of the pain: Is it weak or strong? What sensation is it? Is it numb, burning etc.? How big is the area the pain covers? Is it stable or shifting? Is it pulsating? Do not concentrate on the verbal information of the pain, it will only mess up your state.. Whenever there are painful thoughts entering your awareness say loud or for yourself: “thought”, and try to locate their place in the body. Watch all your bodily sensations that go along with the pain, do it with unconditional love. No judgment about the pain itself, be with it without condition (props: Michael Brown). In the process of this meditation the quality of the pain will change, it will no longer be pain, it will become floating or pulsation energy, let it wander in your body or stay in one position. When it is pulsation you can feel how the energy is massaging your body. When it moves on, let it move. Do this meditation at least twice a day, early in the morning after you got up and in the evening before you go to bed. Do it for at least 15-20 Minutes. Whenever you experience Oneitis during the day do only locate its situation in the body and stay with it. Any dwelling with the verbal information will harm you. Very soon after I started with this meditation, the Oneitis changed. Before I felt like a cowboy confronted with a panicking herd of buffaloes. Now it’s more like being the prairie itself. It is nice to see the bulls running through the grass. It’s a sign of flourishing live. Only after you finished this integration will you be able to go out sarging smoothly and successfully. Different than many opinions on the forum, I do not belief that sarging and GTFTOW has a healing effect. For me it always was fiddling with the effects, not real integration. And we all know that sarging only will be successful, when we are in proper state. So for me it seems natural to fix the inner issue first and then go out in the field again. This integration process will not only align your Oneitis. Oneitis triggers the helplessness of you as a small child. The pain, agony and desperation you feel is not caused by some HBBullshit. The HB only triggers some old issues that are buried in your soul. Stay with them, give them your unconditional awareness and love and take care of them like you would of a little child, and you will see, that Oneitis will become a chance for inner growth. For me, this process has worked pretty well. To do it, you might need some knowledge of meditation. You can find some pretty good stuff in the audiobooks and the website of Shinzen Young: http://www.shinzen.org/ Look under “Dharma Talks”. Furthermore I recommend reading Michael Browns “Presence Process”. He describes the connection between present drama and past undigested experience very well. I gladly welcome suggestions and discussion of the topic! Regards Kraftmann

Mage beats everything-- including ranged. Easily. Common misconception, probably caused by the total ownage barragers can bring down when they have several targets and Soul Split. Otherwise, hardly. Storm of Armadyl is more than enough to bring down rangers with optimum gear. Just ask Latin :P Then there's miasmics...

Mage beats everything-- including ranged. Easily.

Tripsis took the words right out of my mouth :P You should try and follow your friend's advice without having to lie... meaning, go absorb yourself 100% into some hobby/project to take your mind off her for a while and actually be happy without her. Never ever lie!

What's the wc/fletching xp/profit/hour on these?

93-94 herblore 81-82 crafting 91-92 fletching 85-86 fishing 87-92 firemaking

one of the reasons why you're shy/antisocial is because that's what you believe you are. quit thinking like that and start considering yourself the most outgoing and social person. your brain will believe you eventually also, if you have any friends that are incredibly outgoing, try to spend as much time as possible w/ them. when your brain sees your friend being rewarded for their social behavior, it will give you even more of a reason to develop that mindset.