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Found it a rather disappointing event, to be honest. Found this earlier today, although it might be a bit harsh, it kind of sums up some of the thoughts i had: It's hard to imagine that the Brits would outdo the Canadians for "worst opening ceremony in memory," but they found a way to do it. Slow, boring, disjointed, everyone at my viewing party was left yawning and we eventually were forced into a game of Wits and Wagers to keep from falling asleep. The Opening Ceremony began with 10 minutes of a lovely pastoral scene from How Green Was My Valley. If only Water Pidgeon had shown up. Shots of the quiet, boring scene were spliced inexplicably with random shots of rugby. Then we got to watch the clean-up crew remove the pastoral scene for the next 10 minutes. They tried to distract us with weird dance moves by Abraham Lincoln. I was marginally entertained counting all of the black people in the ceremony, when there were probably about six Africans in all of England during the time being depicted. When the "Industrial Revolution" set was finally revealed, one person in the room asked honestly, "Is it supposed to be a joke?” At a price tag of over $40 million, maybe. Next up was a dream sequence with 10 minutes of spinning beds and a giant blow-up sex doll we were told was the "Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland." Okay. It's funny that so much of the ceremony featured beds, because it was putting me to sleep. When we were told in the next set piece that we were watching a love story for the digital age, it felt like a parade that was going nowhere. Instead of a thousand dancers moving in unison, we saw little vignettes here and there across the stage. There was no greatness, no power to the pieces. And if they were going with some quaint charm, it was certainly lost on me. By the way, if we were watching a love story for the digital age, complete with cell phones and text messages, why was most of it set in the 1960s? Bi-zarre. The grand finale, the moment I was waiting for most, was the revealing of the lighter of the flame. So many great options were floated out there...and they chose one more boring and more forced than any other I'd heard: Seven no-name young athletes. I'm sorry, you've got to earn that honor. You've got to achieve greatness before you get to light the Olympic flame. You've got to inspire a nation. Instead, the event producers decided to hand the honor to a bunch of kids. Snooooooooooooooooze. There were some good moments, to be sure. I dug the bit with the Queen and "James Bond" (though Daniel Craig really should do these things shirtless). And the raising of the Olympic rings was a very nice moment. But by and large...maybe we should just have the Chinese produce all of the Opening Ceremonies going forward. Maybe Paul McCartney got laryngitis the day before the ceremony. Maybe he stuffed a half-dozen marbles in his mouth before he performed. I don't know. But it was a fitting end to a deeply disappointing four hours of my life that I'll never get back. By the way, is it me or does McCartney look like his "Girl Is Mine" cohort Michael Jackson with all that plastic surgery? Near the end, Bob Costas said, "Wow might be an understatement." I agree that "Wow" doesn't sum it up, but "understatement" might be the biggest overstatement of the night. As my friends left (actually, they left before McCartney performed; They just couldn't take it anymore), one of them turned to me and said, "Wow, that was terribly boring." Thank heavens the competitions start Saturday.

Well yeah we're having actual conversations, at least. I think i should just stop listening to my friends altogether because everything they have told me, i've had to do the opposite to actually get the outcome i was hoping for. They have a lot more experience with girls that i do. Heck, one of them could get any girl in the world if he felt like it (i know anyone can, but he actually has the confidence and personality to pull it off). But still, he plays a much different game than i do. I like taking things fairly slow. I don't jump into bed with a girl after 2 or 3 dates (or on the first night like he sometimes tries to push me to do). I need to do things my own way, for some reason. And they have a hard time understanding that. Sex plays a very small roll in a relationship for me. Of course i enjoy it (who doesn't), but we were talking about it the other day and he told me that sex was probably 60% of the relationship for him, personality and looks making up the other 40%. For me personality plays a huge part. And conversation-ability. I need to be able to have a 10 hour conversation with a girl without either of us getting bored at any time before i'd really think about getting more physical with her. That's something they find really hard to understand, especially for someone my age. At 21 it should all be about sex, in their opinions. I'm not going to waste my time with someone that offers great sex but is totally lost in a conversation. Which actually brings me to the girl i met last night. She was very touchy-feely. When i was talking to her she would touch my arm, leg or chest every now and then. When i said bye to her i gave her a hug, and i could see she expected a kiss. I'm not okay with girls that kind of throw themselves at you like that. In all honesty, it scares me a bit. I like a bit of a challenge, i guess. The friend that was with me asked me why i didn't invite her over to the house for a drink or something after we left, and when i told him that i did not feel like waking up next to her tomorrow morning he was in utter shock. There's just something that keeps me from doing it. But i guess it was still nice knowing that i could take that leap, and go talk to her. It was actually quite weird/funny/awkward. They were sitting at the bar looking at us every now and then. I told my friend to go over there and talk to her, for a long time. Eventually i told him that if he didn't, i would. So like i said before, i went over there and talked to her. She was with a friend, so i guess that always makes it a bit more challenging (which is why guys usually use a wingman i suppose). So anyway, the two of them were sitting there and i walk over to them. There was an empty chair next to them, so i went and turned it facing them, sat down on it and my exact words were "Hey, what's up?" The one i actually wanted to talked to smiled and said hi, i introduced myself to them both, asked them how they were doing, etc, etc. It all happened so naturally. It felt amazing, liberating almost. We started talking a bit about where i was from, when i'm doing here (i love being South African now, it's a really good conversation topic). Suddenly things got quiet (them awkward silences) which is when i said "So this is one of those awkward silences they always talk about, right?" She laughed and the conversation got back on track. I feel like i have a lot more self confidence the last 2 weeks. I have no idea what has gotten into me, but it feels good being able to just go up to a random girl and talk to her without worrying about getting rejected. A lot of it is thanks to what some of you guys have said. Anyway i'm really just rambling on a bit now.

My friends are putting a lot of pessure on me it seems. They told me that 57 texts a day borders on stalker, they're the ones that keep putting doubt in my mind about a lot of things that i have asked thus far. I should just stop listening to them at all and start following my instincts.

Well.... i didn't exactly ever say it. But today i got curious and looked at how many texts we actually send each other each day.... This might come off as a bit crazy, but between the two of us today alone 57 texts were sent. I feel like that's not completely normal. I must admit i was pretty....shocked. I don't know if that means anything?

So we went out tonight, me and my friends. Went to the usual place. I basically had no intention to try and pull, which i think gave me a lot more confidence. We saw these two girls looking over at us the whole time, one of which was really cute. So we tried convincing my friend for about 30 minutes to go over and talk to her. I told him at one stage that i'll give him 2 more minutes, if he doesnt go, im going over there and ill talk to her. He didn't go, so i decided to man up and do it myself, like i said i would. I did. Long story short, she gave me her number :D Now i think i might try doing this "seeing more than one girl at once" thing, but i already feel guilty just for getting her number haha. Halp!?

Well, i always try to be myself no matter what. I'm okay with who i am, but sometimes i doubt myself a lot (which is why i said what i said above). I'm an awkward person, usually. I do whatever i can to make people around me have a good time, even if it means making fun of myself. I'm brutally honest, which is the thing i like about myself the most. But still, there's always some doubt in my mind. I think i might just be having a bad run. Vero Beach is a very small place, with very little to do. My flying is keeping me extremely busy, which means i don't go out as often as i want to. I finally meet a girl that seems really normal, and she's playing a game that i've never really played before. It's kind of overwhelming when i take all the other things i have on my plate into account (which is partly why i try to stick to one girl [and since Vero is such a small place, chances of running into someone that knows the other girl whilst im out with another girl are so high it's not worth the risk at all]). This place makes things really hard. I actually did think about expanding my options a bit, earlier this week, but it just doesn't seem like worth the risk. I guess i'll see how Sunday goes then make up my mind on whether or not i want to take things further.

I think my biggest problem is that i question myself too much. I always think that whatever i do might be taken the wrong way or that it might not be good enough. I fear that my conversation is not captivating enough, or that im not attractive enough. I'm scared to really just break out and say [bleep] this im gonna be me now.

I don't know. I guess i'm old fashioned. I know we're not "exclusive" but i still believe that seeing other women behind her back would be a bit disrespectful, and i know if i tell her i'm "seeing other girls" she's not going to look at me in the same light. Also that reminds me. We're going out again on Sunday, but i have no idea what to do/where to go. I want to do something "special", without making it seem like im trying too hard. Anyone have any ideas?

It's pretty hard to make a guide on staking, as a lot of it comes down to mere luck. I took the 50m i had, 3 days ago, and started staking pretty much using what you mention in the guide. I only switched between Attack and Defense and NEVER used kick. I also utilized the Martingale "technique". Glad to say it's taken my bank up to 1.5b. Not sure if that was just extreme luck, or if your method actually does make the difference.

Well basically, i got the kind of answer i expected. Not sure if it's good or bad, but i think i'm happy with it. She told me that we've only hung out a few times now, and yes we do talk a lot, but you really only get to know someone for who they really are when you're face-to-face. I understand that 100%. She told me we should hang out a bit more and take it from there. I guess i can't argue with what she said. I'm kinda happy about what she said. Made me feel like she had some things going on in her head too. I was fearing the "I really like texting you. You're a good friend to text" kind of reply :P

So a few weeks ago i gave my bank away to a friend, because i didn't exactly use anything i had. I did some skilling and bank standing for 2 or 3 weeks and then that got really boring again. I decided to ask my friend if i could have some of the money back that i gave him, he gave me 50m. And so my journey started. This was 3 days ago. Fulled a few very late nights, probably shit myself on 7 or 8 different occasions, and even got close to blacking out from nerves. But it was all worth it in the end: Everything i've pretty much wanted for a long time now. Divine can wait now. Duel Arena wont see me for a while. 2 of me favorite wins. First and second time i've ever won rares:

Basically, your account has a lot of potential assuming you did things right up until now. For Ranged PKing you generally want 1Def, 40 - 45 Def, or 90+ Def. Since you're at 45 Def i'll talk about that instead. Now first off i'm going to assume that the 45 Def is all from questing, and that you have both Lunars and Berserker Helm unlocked. Venge plays a big part in PKing at higher levels as you'll often encounter people using Claws/AGS to spec, or people hitting high with Dragon Bolts (e). But for this you're going to need to work on 94 Magic. Secondly, you're going to want to get 90+ Ranged. It's almost not even worth PKing without it. On my Pure account, i tried PKing when i was in the high 80's, and it was terrible. At 70 - 80 Conbat just about everyone i was facing had 90+ Ranged, which meant getting kills were hard. You can also consider getting 85 - 90 Str, which means you'll be able to use Claws for you spec weapon, which will help out a lot. If you don't want to raise you Str, D Bow is your friend. It's gotten me a lot of kills in the past. I'd also suggest getting 52 Prayer for Smite. This is really the only way a Ranged PKer makes any decent money. You'll often run into people asking to turn it off, but i found more often than not, they just turn it on themselves.

Well... I asked her. I phoned her earlier and it kind of just...came out. Not a bad answer I guess. In class now so it's hard to really elaborate, but I'll edit this later.

It does get kind of....repetitive. But even still, it's nice. I know what i want, to be honest. I feel like i want to be with this girl. She's nice. She's real (by that i mean she's not the fake girl i've seen oh so many times around here). She's quiet. She doesn't like to get too wild. She's exactly what i'm looking for. My problem is that i really want to ask her "where this is going" but i don't want her to get the feeling that i'm clingy/pushy/needy. But at the same time i hate being in this limbo where it looks and feels like we're together, but we're not.

Well the thing is, like i said, we already talk as often as most people that are in a relationship do. For example today. I slept till really late and when i looked at my phone when i woke up she had sent me 3 messages. The usual morning, etc, etc. Then something like her day is taking forever to start, and she asked me if i was at school. Then another asking me where i am, shes not heard from me all say. Im not sure if that means anything, you guys will have to help me out there. My initial plan was to wait for her to ask where it's going. I really don't want to ask that. I don't want to mess thins up right now, or get an answer i don't like. I know if she asks me, it's going to be because she might want to to actually go somewhere. But the problem is, like i said, she's a "go with the flow" person, so she might not really be all that worried where it goes.

Soooo it's been about 2 weeks since i met this girl. Not going to lie, but things are very different than what i'm used to. Kind of feels like a relationship that isn't a relationship. I'll explain why. So since the day i met her, we've pretty much been talking/texting constantly. And i do mean constantly. Several texts a day with the odd phone call every other day, or whatever. We'd text basically from the moment we're both up till the moment one of us goes to bed (kind of obvious i would imagine). It's also not like just me or just her is always the first to text. Usually whoever is up first sends the first text, and since i wake up around 11 am, she's pretty much usually the first one to send me a text (unless she tells me the previous night to text her when i wake up). Anyway, i'm getting off track. So we've been talking a lot. A LOT. We've made plans to go on a 3rd date this weekend. It would have been tomorrow, but i already had plans with the bros (watching the Dark Knight with them). I wanted to drop them and go out with her, but i really don't want to be her lapdog already. That was a good move right? I guess now what i need is just some advice on how to take things from here on out. My friends (whom all have a lot more experience when it comes to girls than i do) keep joking around saying me and this girl are practically in a relationship already. If you look at how often we text/talk, you can't really blame them though. But anyway, ffs i keep getting sidetracked. I think i might like this girl. She's really fun to talk to. We can talk about just about anything for hours. She's fun to be around (even though i've only been out with her 3 times [the night i met her and 2 dates]). She's sweet, she's cute, etc. etc. She keeps on hinting that she wants to go out every now and then too, so it's not like i'm the only one asking her to do something. My problem though, i'm not exactly a "go with the flow" kind of guy and usually i want to know where i am, when i am, what i am, etc. So how do i change that? How do i stop myself from asking her what we're doing? I'm pretty sure that from a lot of my previous posts i've made it clear that i'm not a "lets just fool around" kind of guy and i usually tend to pick girls that are the same as me (for obvious reasons). Sorry for the post being all over the place. Just to make it clear once again, help me stay cool and not lose it by asking/saying stupid stuff. Also, opinions on what you guys think she's trying to get at.

lady luck was on your side ;) @Sarg https:// is for secure servers. Thats not youtube being stupid, that's youtube protecting your given information ;) WINKY FACCESS ALL UP IN MAH POSTS I just think i'm one of those people that do better under pressure. The place was pretty packed, i was there with the girl. So a lot of eyes.

Went bowling. Scored a 201 in one of the rounds. I was stoked. My previous best was 143. I dont even know how i did it. But i had a strike on the 9th and 2 in a row on the 10th. First ever time i get a turkey too. Oh and then we started drinking. I went from 201 to... well really low. I somehow managed to take half the skin on my angle off with a bowling ball. It got really messy really fast. But it was a blaaaaaaast.

It's been said before, but yeah its more than doable. I oh-so-nearly managed it with a 20 Def pure (got to the boss several times). You should have no problem. Wear Gano, and take some Karil/Arma if you have. Your Ranged level is a bit low to really make it effective, but on the waves where the ranged crystal is to be used you should have no problem at all even with low Ranged. I'd suggest you use Blood Barrage because you don't have access to a Uni nor Soul Split. It's also going to save you some time when it comes to the waves 21 - 24 or something like that, when there's a lot of melee monsters and yu can easily hit 3 or more at a time.

We went on our second date tonight. We went bowling. It was good. Before the night was even over she asked me what i was doing tomorrow. We're going to the beach tomorrow. She's so cute. We kissed :)

Back in the day i remember playing an average of 9 or 10 hours a day for about 6 or 7 months straight. I had those days where i'd even go 15 or 16 hours of RS. Yep. I think even now if i take my game-time and the date i made my account it comes out at something like an average of 6 hours a day (and i've been away from RS for a total of 12 months maybe 13, on and off since account creation)

If you're maxed you should not need more than 2 Super Prayer flasks (assuming you use the Restoration crystals when on low prayer [probably even without them]). So why not substitute one of them for a Max/Rhino cape? Would that even be worth it?

Pretty much this. But lately something that's been topping my playlist is an Afrikaans South African band named Fokofpolisiekar. If i had to choose something that most people might know it comes to a 3-way tie: Beneath the Sky, The Hives, and 36 Crazyfists.

I think that my main problem is i find myself a lot more boring than i really am. I don't give myself a lot of credit at all. For god's sake. I did in 6 months what most people do in 2 years (referring to my aviation school). And this is what's causing me a lot of trouble when it comes to a new relationship or dating. I fear so much that i bore the people around me. But i know that i'm actually the funny guy. I know it. I'm the one always cracking the jokes, making the people around me laugh. I'm the one that makes a fool of myself so other's can have a good time. I think i should probably start giving myself credit for this. Now the reason i say this is because i spent a lot of today talking to the girl. She sent me a text around 2pm (when i woke up) and we took things from there. We had all kinds of weird conversations and she laughed a lot. And i LOVED it. She seemed so into what i was telling her, and she kept on asking and asking and asking questions. This is one thing i did not think about at all. I have a HUGE upper hand here, over the average guy. I'm foreign. I've been places and seen places she never has. My up bringing is a lot different from hers, and what she's used to. And that already makes me a tiny bit more interesting than the average guy around here (not trying to put them down, the same thing would happen if they were to visit South Africa). So i actually started using that to my advantage today. Making myself seem a lot more interesting than i think i am, just by being honest. Oh and she told me she wanted to go out tomorrow, me and my friends could meet up with her and her friends somewhere. And then just now she told me she's not in the mood really to go out, so maybe the two of us could just go do something together? Score? :D

Tut tut tut. Why you drunkvising people? On a different note. I had my date tonight. I have no idea what to feel about it. I'm going to be honest. it's the first time in a VERY VERY VERY VERY long time that i've been out on a "first date". What's even worse is that it's the first time in a VERY VERY VERY VERY long time that i've actually been out on a "real date". The stuff with the French girl i saw from school was a lot different because we saw each other pretty much every day, we spoke face to face every day. It made things a lot different. It made the situation a lot easier to read. And whenever i went out with her it never REALLY felt like well...an actual date. It's weird. I don't think we ever really had a "first date" (maybe the time we went to West Palm, but again that felt very different). I already pretty much knew her before we started "dating". Anyway to get back on topic. I went on a date with this girl tonight. I met her last week Friday. We've been texting/talking a lot during the week, so i thought things would go pretty well. We got to the restaurant at around 7pm. We went in separate cars because she went there directly after work. Anyway. So we had dinner, we talked and talked and talked for what seemed like ages. When we decided to leave i walked her to her car. We stood by her car and talked for a minute or two. She asked me what i was doing this weekend. I told her probably not much. She said we should try and make some plans to go out. Okay so that all sounds good right? Here's when my heart stopped. As i walked to my car i look at my phone and i notice it's 9:15-ish. That mean's we only spent about 2 hours and 15 minutes there. And that's when my mind started overclocking. I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or a good thing. 2 hours seems kinda....short. Now she did ask me (and texted me earlier) if i wanted to hang out again. But still, something in the back of my mind is telling me that 2 hours is not a good thing.....