Helm_Lardar

I voted yes, and I'm happy with what I got. Am I alone in not regretting this? I got to help and be helped by friends, got to PK in the wilderness, got to buy items really easily, and even got to have a go at dice games, most of which are legitimate. Good fun, nothing wrong with it. Sure there's a few more bots, but in the long run that's helping me too. I don't rely on resource skills for money anymore, so all I do now is things like barrows or clue scrolls for money. On the flip side, bots are making monkfish, herbs, and logs much cheaper, which is something I appreaciate. So there you go, my honest opinion on the matter. I haven't been scammed yet: I know what the basic scams are, and as a result I'm just generally careful.

People actually buy those t-shirts? I wouldn't enter this competition simply because I couldn't care less if the Jagex store has a discount. Kudos to them for working on their marketing though. We need new players in the game if it's to ever stay frresh, and new players are increasingly hard to find.

Barrows. I think of them as boss monsters when appropriated to my level, in the same way that TDs are for some people. Of course, I'd need to get a few extra levels before then.

People seem to be acting like it gives low levels a real advantage. News flash!: it won't. And if you were a defence pure, you'd be able to raise your attack level without gaining a combat level so long as you were careful, giving you far, far more options.

I wouldn't actually mind if they added microtransactions for useless cosmetic items in game. But just claiming it's a promotional thing that is only possible to be used in Gamestop stores in the US? That just pisses me off.

I honestly think they should have a raffle for free tickets. I wouldn't go as I'm not of age, but I think it would be a very nice gesture. Hopefully they'll market it better than they did last year and avoid the 'fiasco' that led to them refunding the tickets.

I've never really understood why some people get annoyed when people pray. It's part of my combat triangle, it's part of how I fight, it's part of the reason I am able to take on people at my combat level. To not pray would be to weaken myself deliberately, just because another person doesn't have the same advantage as me!

If claws looked like this, I would wear them a hell of a lot more often. Please change them jagex, please. If you throw in a pair of duel-wielded nunchuks for £2 on my credit card...no way I won't buy.

Look, I don't know about you but I want a Katana! I'd be willing to pay an extra pound fifty for one month. What I'm not willing to do is go to a shop and have an awkward conversation with the guy on the checkout after failing to find RS cards for 30 minutes, asking if they sell them. Grrrrr...

I might buy such an item at a higher level with my debit card. But going to a store and buying a runescape card? Ehhhh no, that feels really awkward. Like I imagine buying condoms could be.

Y'know, I've always thought magical orbs would be a lot better than staves. Have the character hold, say, the orb of fire, for an increased defence against the opposite element (water) and infinite fire runes. That would circumvent the attack req completely. Staff of light? Just make a really funk kind of orb with a metal frame. You could clobber someone with it, but that wouldn't be very effective when it's clearly brimming with Icyene magic.

Wow. I wonder if I can get some nice experience at my stats?

Probably just a glitch-I'd report it using the forum thread/from thingy.

The only time I felt evil was when I nicked that dwarf's toy dragon ;-; totally regret that now :( .

Congratulations! :)

I always go for the costume points and or emote first, and then the experience.

One of my friends here on TIF (who I now know IRL, and attends the University of Washington in Seattle) has been complaining non-stop this quarter about how he is lucky to get 10 hours of sleep per week, because of incompetent professors assigning reports at incredibly late hours, and the oversized workload. For the same reason, he's barely been able to play Runescape, or in fact, do anything else besides work. I assure you - he is not alone. Not to mention, he doesn't work yet - plenty of students have part-time jobs, compounding this problem. And students in Taiwan within the past few decades WERE beaten into submission if they misbehaved. It was expected of the teachers that they were proper disciplinarians. Even elementary and middle school students were punished this way (although they weren't beaten as badly). Wow...err...umm...well....there we go then... :blink: . I'm scared of university now.

Ahh, but here we have the problem, sleep deprivation is a longer-term way of wearing someone down. Unlike the ways you describe, this can be continued for a long, long time...whereas someone having daggers stuck into them won't live the day out. College students aren't forced to have no sleep for a week. They aren't beaten into submission if they don't attend lectures. These people are.

@Those who say 'don't feed the troll': this is turning into an interesting discussion. Don't invoke some form of "Goldwin's Law" and ruin it. Yes, I shouldn't have rambled. But I wanted to get the response out there and get feedback and...yeah, I was lazy. I would be condemning other countries if I knew about them. The thread is specifically about China however. I'll have a look at AmIn's website tomorrow once I've done my Physics exam and see what they have to say. You seem to be underestimating the way the video games become a method of torturing someone. Sleep deprivation is truly a terrible thing, which you seem to think is actually just another way of executing justice. Forgive me if I'm getting the wrong end of the stick. I know you are comparing it to physical labour, but...phsycological torture also results in pain, even if it isn't as visible. Yes, and I'm not happy that Islamic countries don't accept the UN's human rights. I should have thought that would be mandatory to the organisation, since they aren't exactly...shall we say...incredibly and terrifically ground-breaking or difficult? It is another issue.

STOP USING AD HOMINEMS. Some thoughts: Which is worse: a tortured existence of pain against pain until you die, or a normal existence until you die. (That's for someone with a long sentence). Runescape money-->Amnesty money: There's a difference between sacrificial ethics and just being ethical as you go about your business normally. For example, buying fairtrade coffee is the latter while donating to the people running the plantation is the former. Put it this way: most people care enough to be ethical while doing things but don't care enough to go all out for it. That doesn't mean they don't care. Sleep deprivation is a form of phsycological torture. I wouldn't call that the least of punishments to prisoners. I think it would be good if a scheme could be arranged to open everyone's punishment system to scrutiny, however China's is particularly relevant as the west uses it for any cheap products etc...it's particularly related to the countries we live in in a way that, say, bolivia isn't. China is part of the UN and should therefore subscribe to the UN decleration of human rights. Sleep deprivation through video games is, as I've said before, torture. You can't see the effects with blood and bruises, but the effects are there. Think before you act like they are just half-awake, gently cutting down yew trees (or the wow equivalent). I'm sorry if that sounded awfully rambly, but those were my thoughts. Make of them what you will. Oh, and yes, I do think you make good points. What annoyed me was when you acted like this was some evening jolly for the prisoners.

Okay, let's use you as a real-life example. You've been out all day cycling, then instead of bed you are told to spend 12 hours at the concentrated coal rocks in the LRC. 3 toilet breaks, and you've got to be as efficient as possible to reach a specific quota. You play until you can barely see. Exhausted, you slump onto the screen. You are smacked round the back of the head with a drainpipe, and told to carry on. You do, but not so well. You get beaten for 10 minutes afterwards with plastic pipes until you collapse on the floor. You remain exhausted. Video games are not pleasant in this situation. Indeed it would be illegal here in the west to do anything similair-it constitutes a 'cruel and unusual punishment'. Removal of human rights etc. Sadly, this is china, where it's not just your liberty that's taken from you in a camp.

If you die in there without having done the quest, I've heard you spawn in the jail. A shame, it removes a nice risk from the game :( .

Gee, I never thought of it like that before. I guess loafing in minigames is fair enough-after all, in something like CastleWars there is no limit on the amount of players so as long as you join the stronger team you're helping balance things out.

At a gues, I'd say low because it doesn't interrupt woodcutting, teaks for woodcutting xp, and LRC for living rock caverns.

1. I wish the rerquirements were lower and the King of the Dwarves thing was altered so you already knew about the lava flow mine before starting the quest. That would make more sense. 2. The golden outfit might not be amazing for xp, but DAMN that looks cool!