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Lol I graduated from KU. Guess we can't be friends :P

Getting random texts from old friends whom I haven't talked to in a while

Was referring to dangerous PvP and PK'ing. It was very easy to quickly detect which opponents actually knew how to fight and which ones didn't based on their decision-making whilst in combat. Bad PK'ers... -depended on rushing, tagging, and PJing for kills -got killed by rushers, taggers, and PJers -would choose to safe instead of spec if both fighters are low hp (doesn't apply for tanks) -wouldn't use terrain to their advantage (using trees and wilderness signs as safespots for kiting or healing without taking additional damage) -didn't hybrid/tribrid (different armor styles counts as hybridding) -didn't know phoenix necklaces, pizzas, tuna taters, and brews exist I'd also argue that PK'ing with less than 45 defense after 2006 is another sign that they don't know what they're doing but there were still a few low def pures kicking ass around that time. It's just that by then, the only people who 1 def pures could consistently kill were other 1 def pures or extremely unskilled people w/ defense. After armor got atrength bonuses and natural selection weeded out the people who would wander into the wild skulled with their bank and everyone hopped on the 1 def bandwagon, 1 def pures quickly became obsolete

Old combat was simple to learn, difficult to master. New combat is difficult to learn, difficult to master.

If you get a free on-campus gym membership like I had when I was in college, then just go to the gym while you're already on campus. My friend and I would always work out together on campus even though we had completely different schedules. We'd just compare schedules and look for an opening between our classes to go lift for an hour. When you're on campus, your brain's already in work/study/productive mode so it's easier to go to the gym while you're already in that state. Once you go home and start relaxing it's harder to get back into productivity-mode. This is why I would also study and do homework at the library after my classes were over before I went home too. For exercise, don't worry about your physical appearance. Just focus on becoming stronger/healthier. I'm skinny like you are, and I never cared about reaching certain measurements or a certain bodyweight. I only cared about strength-- and strength is very easy to measure. If you can bench press 100lbs one week, then your goal for next week should be to bench press 105 lbs. Or if you can do 6 reps of 135 lbs, then next week try 6 reps of 140 lbs or 7+ reps of 135 lbs. As long as you're better than you were last time. Your body will start to look jacked on its own as a side-effect of focusing on your strength instead of your appearance. In your first two weeks of heavy lifting, don't expect any immediate results. Then after those two weeks, expect insane consistent results for the next few months. Running's easy too but I've never really been a fan of it because I'm weird. Just run as far as you can. Then next time you run, either run the same distance in a quicker time; or run farther than you did last time. You're skinny like me so you don't really have to worry about a special diet or anything. Just as long as you eat a lot. When I was in my physical prime, my diet consisted of pizza rolls and poptarts lol. Went to the doctor to get my cholesterol and everything tested and they said I was healthy :P I'd also recommend buying a small dry-erase whiteboard and put it in your room. You write your big long-term goal that you'd like to achieve within the next 1-5 years such as "I can run a marathon." Then below it, you list/track all the sub-goals to get closer to that goal. For example, if you want to run a marathon, you draw a small little thermometer and have 26 miles on one end, 0 miles on the other end. Each time you set a new personal distance record, you fill in more of the thermometer until you run a marathon and fill up the thermometer at the 26th mile. This gives you a nice visual representation of your progress, and you get to stare at it every time you're in your room so you'll light a fire under your own ass :D Your friends will also ask about it. And more importantly, your close friends will grill you about it if they see that your thermometer hasn't changed at all since the last time they saw you :P But yeah, besides that big goal, you'd have other goals like "Run X miles today/this week/this month" and try to fill up those thermometers by your deadlines too. Your brain makes you feel good whenever you successfully complete a task. I'd recommend getting addicted to that feeling of success rather than the feeling of drugs and TV watching :P

Seriousy? At least the genie plays up to a larger portion of the game environment.Yes, but not one with breasts. That's what the community wants, it seems...The majority of the community is simple minded and prepubescent. Most of them have issues just trying to simply appreciate game lore, let alone the concept of "fantasy." Yeah dude boobs are pretty sweet

If seasonal depression is something "normal" for you, you could look into buying a "light box" (google it) for treatment. I think they're kind of expensive though. Anyways, lack of sunlight's linked to depression; you just stare into a box of light for like 20 minutes and you get enough "light" as you would in any other season. A friend of mine bought one last year and recommended it. You're a pretty hardcore extravert iirc. You should be spending a lot more time with your friends than you are now or else you're going to start feeling weird. Even as a hardcore introvert I need to spend at least a couple days/week with my friends or else I'll start feeling less happy. Skyping/calling your friends on the phone and talking to them for an hour or two works too. Start going to the gym 3-5 times/week. If you can't go that often, at the very least, go for like a 20-30 minute walk on the days where you're not going to the gym. Even if the weather sucks. It's good for happiness. If I had to guess, though, I'd say the biggest reason why you're feeling shitty right now is because you're not doing anything with your life. You're doing stuff that you "enjoy," but it only brings you short-term happiness. And at the end of the day, you realize you haven't actually accomplished anything. This is why you feel guilty about "not deserving" a night out or anything. You need to go set some goals for yourself to give your life meaning. For example, set a very specific fitness goal to work towards whenever you're at the gym. Then after you work out, you'll keep thinking about working out because you'll want to hit your fitness goal and the thought of getting closer to your goal every day will pump you up and make you feel happier. You'll be less inclined to watch TV and stuff when you know that watching TV isn't going to bring you any closer to your goals. The good news is, in the business world (and in the online dating world :D), January 2nd through May 31st is called "go time." There's no major holidays during this time and the weather is shitty, so it's very easy to schedule appointments with people and have them assist you with your goals. So if dating is a priority/goal for you, this is the best time to do that. Same applies if you have a career in sales. Anyways, I'd strongly recommend sitting down, figuring out exactly what you want out of life, and then developing a reviewable, revisable plan to get there. Otherwise you're just going to continue feel like your life is pretty meaningless. This is the book I read that taught me how to set goals. You could also probably just search youtube for "brain tracy goal setting" and see what pops up.

Anger's kind of a tricky thing to nail down so I'll just throw a bunch of stuff at you and see what sticks :D A lot of anger is simply taking things too seriously and not being carefree enough... so when something undesirable happens to you, you get more pissed off than the average joe because you take it more seriously than the average joe. Read this and it'll resolve your "seriousness" issues. Probably my favorite book of all time. It'll make you carefree as [bleep] lol. but more importantly, that book will teach you how to quit worrying and how to quit making mountains out of molehills (in other words; how to not get road rage). http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671035975 Also regarding seriousness, if you watch any TV or movies, watch as much comedy as possible. Spend as much time with your more carefree, funny friends as possible. When something "bad" happens to me, my first response is usually to laugh. I just imagine myself being on a sitcom, because if something bad happens to someone on a sitcom, it's funny or ironic. The reason why it's funny is because there's no ego involved. Quit taking yourself so seriously, detach yourself from the ego, and just laugh when bullshit happens in your life. if someone cuts me off in traffic, I usually just chuckle, shake my head, and I'm like, "man what an [wagon] lol." and then 2 seconds later I never think about it ever again. You probably don't have a whole lot of excitement/meaning in your life right now, so instead of "good excitement" (taking risks, doing new things), you're getting "bad excitement" via anger/drama. Similarly, you probably don't have any strong, specific, long-term goals in your life right now. You don't have any "bigger fish to fry" so it's easy for you to get pissed off over trivial shit. I just wrote a post about this to RPG here. You're in the cycle of getting stressed out, so you're more quick to anger and do stupid shit, which you'll then become more stressed about, etc. GO DEVELOP LONG-TERM GOALS. If you're tired of having arguments with your girlfriend... then stop having arguments with your girlfriend. Though based on the tone of your post, I have a suspicion that you're the one starting the arguments. You seem to have an extremely strong desire to be heard and to be in control. Considering it's nearly impossible to be heard by everyone (even the people whom you care the most about), and it's impossible to control everyone (trying to control other people will usually just result in the opposite happening), you should replace this desire with a desire for happiness instead. That means quit giving a shit about how other people behave. If other people disrespect you, then don't spend time with those people anymore. If a stranger disrespects you, why the [bleep] do you care so much about what a stranger thinks??? It's that simple. Raising your voice and making a scene in an attempt to be heard or control someone is only going to piss you off and stress you out further because you can't control your emotions. So yeah. Read that book and read the post I wrote to RPG and go get your life some meaning :thumbup:

Have you ever considered not caring so much about being alone? Just because you're alone doesn't mean you're lonely. Just because you're single doesn't mean you're a loser. Just because you don't hook up with different girls every weekend doesn't mean there's something wrong with you. I don't think anyone should commit to a relationship before they can be okay with being alone. You're going to put way too much pressure on the other person, and on the relationship, and it's going to be a ticking time bomb from the start. And casual sex would be out of the question too, because it won't be casual. If you can't be okay with being alone, then you're going to fall in love with every girl you sleep with, and you're going to be depressed every time they don't text back or pick up the phone. Good post. Saqs won't read it but hopefully the lurkers will :P

You like her, she likes you. Don't make this any more complicated.

They should've used the new treasure hunter "mascot" instead of yelps in the first place. Nothing culls rage like big boobs.

my flappy bird high score is 83. i play it when i poop.

dumb question: is there a date for bxpw yet

Will they ever learn? :wall: If they ever really learned, we wouldn't be having a bonus weekend. Again what's the point of this? So in September Jagex can come back and say they have magically realized how worthless skills are, how devalued accomplishments have become, and then have another poll on prestige or some prestige-like system? Here's an idea: don't devalue skills/accomplishments in the first place, and then you won't have a messed up economy, community, and a need to make some sort of late fix! Ehh the bigger problem is giving skills such a large impact on the game in the first place. Regardless of how slow XP is, on a long enough timeline, enough people are going to be maxed out to cause unfixable balance problems for the game.

I own a Mustang too! We should be friends and do Mustang stuff!

I can't speak from any sort of experience when it comes to children (and neither can anyone in this thread AFAIK), but my point was, most people associate children with happiness: -before having children -immediately after having children -after successfully raising children But the point of those studies was that between having children and successfully raising them, they're probably going to make your life a living hell lol. When I mentioned societal programming, I was referring to the idea that the entire process will be sunshine and rainbows and you'll be a consistently happier person as a result of your children. This is not the case. It's like when I go home to visit my family for the holidays and we all gather around and my cousins bring their new children. Me and all the other family members are entertained and amused by their children's antics. But the parents just look exhausted, miserable, and hopeless because they've gotten past the stage where everything their child does is new and exciting. And just to be clear, I'm not telling people to not have kids because it'll make them unhappy, because that's not true. Of all the people I've spoken to whose children are now grown up, they all say that having kids was the best decision of their entire lives and that their children make them extremely happy and proud. But before reaching that point, their kids definitely made them unhappier. We've been through this before-- I've agreed with you that marriage can "work," but for 9 out of 10 people it won't. And when it does work, it's more of a case study than something that's consistently replicable and able to be taught to others. "After controlling for variables like age, sex, race, household income and education, they found that single people were 17 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with metastatic cancer, which had spread to other parts of the body, and were 53 per cent less likely to get the best treatment." -- Also keep in mind that most "single people" (like the ones likely sampled in the study) are probably unhappy (and therefore more susceptible to illnesses) for various reasons. If there's one thing that the relationships thread here has taught us, it's that most people are afraid of being single and are miserable until they can find security within a relationship; even if that "security" only turns out to be temporary or one-sided. If it was normal to be single and genuinely happy and comfortable, I wonder if the results would be much different. I've never doubted the effects of a "happy" marriage. The question is: how does one achieve a happy marriage in the first place? Is it possible for everybody? And if so, what steps can one take to practically guarantee eventual success? As far as I know, nobody has been able to develop a reliable system for others to follow. Whenever you read posts on the internet about "how to have a happy marriage," you wind up with airy fairy Disney BS that doesn't make any sense and doesn't actually work in reality... and they're often written by divorcees with zero credibility :\ And then there's the question of whether or not any of the partners in those studies have ever cheated, or if they still love and support each other but are no longer attracted to each other; which would further complicate things. Nice to have you back BTW. I've missed arguing with you. No homo.

that overwhelming feeling of joy is temporary

when you say "desire to reproduce," if you're referring to the desire to have sex then yes I'd agree. but if you're referring to a desire to raise children after having sex, IDK about that. depends on the person, their age, their gender, etc

Also keep in mind that the majority of people in this thread probably have little-to-no experience with dangerous PvP, which was also very demanding on one's reflexes and intuition.

OSRS is much more than combat. Yeah it's a place where people who mostly didn't get recognized on RS3 for their achievements go so they can be looked up to in eFyre for getting 99 rc running to the abyss. (not saying everyone is like that but let's be honest, most of the people in 07 think that they're better than eoc players, and hardly any of them are even top ranked in rs3), though it is interesting to have 2 games, I hope OSRS stays up aswell as it's something to do on the side Or maybe it's just a more entertaining version of the game. >_> Click and wait is certainly less entertaining than working out & using a good ability rotation. EoC is simply more clicking and less waiting. No thanks I'll pass.

OSRS is much more than combat. Yeah it's a place where people who mostly didn't get recognized on RS3 for their achievements go so they can be looked up to in eFyre for getting 99 rc running to the abyss. (not saying everyone is like that but let's be honest, most of the people in 07 think that they're better than eoc players, and hardly any of them are even top ranked in rs3), though it is interesting to have 2 games, I hope OSRS stays up aswell as it's something to do on the side Or maybe it's just a more entertaining version of the game. >_>

It seems that more people chose the latter than the former, which is unfortunate for Jagex and the players who chose to keep playing. Unlike pretty much every other change to rs in history this is the case it seems, this sort of sarcastic comment kind of falls flat now. I hate to say never, but with the game so vastly different from the one I loved, I don't ever see myself playing runescape again, real life quickly fills in the time gaps and it really would take a perfect game to get me to consider the time commitment playing takes. A lot of ex-players I stay in contact with feel the same way, I don't think pvp or staking is ever going to recover properly for example. I wasn't being sarcastic >_>

Or stay and complain until they change it back. Money talks

It seems that more people chose the latter than the former, which is unfortunate for Jagex and the players who chose to keep playing.

You can already do this. Just minimize the action bar. He wants it without having to minimize the action bar. :P On a much more serious note, I think this has come as "too little, too late". Jagex hurt themselves when they utterly trashed the usability of the new system right from the start, for example with errors like inability to complete the training tutorial and making the immediate use of some items in the account unlike their previous use cases, which destroyed the loadouts of some players for combat entirely. It was definitely enough to be the icing on the cake that stopped me playing any further, particularly after having to put up with multiple previous years of abuse of F2P'ers. :( Anywho, pardon me while I walk back off into a remote Forum Games corner... I only saw this thread because it was in the top five most recently started. -.- ~Mr. D. V. "It would take something insanely impossible happening for me to ignore principles." Devnull The good news is you'll be able to use your dragonfire shield again. :thumbup: