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- The biggest update ever: when item banks came out, the wildy was born, and you couldn't pk anyhwhere - The time back in '02 when I changed my password to "f-16fighter" in RS not knowing you couldn't type hyphens so unknowingly it became "f16fighter". I couldn't lof on for 6 monthes, then I made a guy called f-22 and I noticed I couldn't say his name in RS... When I logged back on trapical I almost cried, I was re-united with my long lost friend :wink: - My first party hat, a white one. I saved up for monthes to get the 600k and I wore it 24/7 for weeks

Because an MMORPG does not have to be either-or when it comes to real life? Depending on the game, casual play is very possible, in some cases encouraged (For example, I believe WoW has a system that awards you bonus experience gains for time spent logged off at certain in-game locations). You know what the average MMORPG user cuts back on when he/she/it starts playing? TV time. How much TV do you watch per week? MMORPG's, in their current incarnation, may not be for everyone, but they're for a lot more people than you think. In all seriousness everyweekday I watch "World News Tonight" at 5:30 pm for 30 minites. Then one movie either friday, Saturday, or Sunday night. Thats it. The news for 30 min 5 times a week ;) I do see your point though, I did go a little extreme on my post.

The article neglects one important variable. Yes the numbers of people playing is increasing dramatically, but it doesn't take into effect the number of potential users, It assumes the entire world will eventually want to play, that is not true. Do you think the hottest cheerleaders and the head of the basketball team in your school will want to spend countless hours alone in their house playing a computer game? Why would they? Their normal life is great, why would they want to trade in their lifestyle? I'm not trying to say everyone here is a loser, but statistically speaking the average RS user isn't very sociable in RL. In fact, that's one of the reasons I temporarily quit RS. I came back to school after an awesome summer of RS. How can I say this next part without sounding arrogant? Anyway, I was fairly popular on Scapeboard, people recognized me in RS; and I was co-heading a massive intelligence organization with clans, I had 15 or so people under me that I would give orders to on a daily basis. I was living it up :) Anyway, school started and in previously in school I was doing alright when it came to friends. I was friends with just about everyone and went out to football games, etc. About two weeks into the year I was talking to my gf and two total nerds passed me talking about rune plates. I stopped them and got into a long discussion (Hey you play to? Cool, what level are you, etc) anyway my gf got annoyed and left to talk to her friends. At lunch I sat with these dweebs and talked about clans and phats, I noticed the gazes of some of my friends so I decided to go sit with them, they were like "You talked to those guys? They never leave their house dude... lol. Anyway what are you doing friday night, Vanessa's got a party" I had just made arrangements to meet the two nerds in Falador on Friday, well to say to least those plans got changed. That's when I stopped and realized that RS want for me. RS is great for people who are somewhat shy and prefer gaming to socializing. I was doing great in RS but I decided that it wasn't for me... so I quit. :/ Wow, that was a long tangent. Anyway, back to MMORPGs in general. In a Newsweek I read that the land of Everquest meets the criteria to be a country, lets call that country EQ. Apparently as of 2003, due to people buying goods from the country of EQ via Ebay, EQ has a higher GDP (has a better economy) then over 1/3 of the world's countries. Thats insane.

Here's a fun extra thing to do if you have 2 people. Pick a level (i usually take Grevious's one) but instead of picking a character you and another person closes their eyes and pushed up and left a bunch then "ok" a few times until you hear the star wars music. Open your eyes, load the level and hit grevious once so he runs away. Now you and the 2nd player duke it out with whoever you have. Once a person dies you take a time out and who ever died switches to character one to the right (or left if you prefer, but keep it the same thoughout the match). Each person has five lives, aka five random characters to try and kill your opponants five random characters :) It sounds silly but its extremly fun getting killed by ObiWan and not knowing if you'll last life will be someone like Darth Vader or someone like CP30. Oh and yes, I have beaten up on the Chancellor as Yoda, and many a pk driod was slaughtered by Mace Windu ;) its all chance, and its endless fun.

Anyone else ever play the awesome game known as Lego Star Wars? On the surface it's a "kid's game". But there's more to it then that. Maybe it's just the fact that I grew up with Lego's and I am a moderate Star Wars fan. In any case this game is one of the best I ever played. I got it 3 monthes ago from a friend who bought it but his graphic card wasn't good enough to play it. My computer was 2 years old so I took it and installed it... no luck. Apparently you need "pixel shading" :( 2 weeks ago I bought my new laptop (Dell Inspiron 6000), I made sure to buy the best video card they offered, a 128 MB RADEON X300 . THe day after I got it i installed the game and to my delight it worked :D. Yay! The game was more then I expected. First off the graphics are awesome, yet simple (I mean there lego guys, how many pixels do you need :P) the game is able to have 30+ guys on the screen all fighting without even getting remotely choppy. The game play is great, it uses so few buttons but you can do so much. The cut scenes are humerous, and immensely enjoyable. Also, whoever you come across in the game you can play as in free mode. This means you can a group as diverse as Darth Maul, Vader, Yoda, and Greivious to save Qween Amadala (sp?). Also one of the best features in the Co-op you can have. You can play the game by yourself for as long as you want but at any given time a 2nd player can hop in, and just as easily as he came that 2nd player can leave without interrupting game play. The game is so simple its immensely awesome. Anyway, that was a long ramble. Does anyone else play this game? I was shocked to find a measly 1 walkthough on game faqs and not a single fan site :cry:. I like to talk with others about games, or at least get their opinion on stuff like coolest/best characters, funniest scene, best level, etc. Hence my post here. :wink:

Aquamenti? When's he use that? Sounds water related (obviously) Incendimenti is clearly the fire spell, i mean incinerate[/u]. Thats almost too easy

*does a double take upon reading f2p is gone from my beloved RSC* On the inside I know that decision makes sence, and now the macro-ers are kinda screwed... but still... :cry:

I know, plethora is getting used more and more everyday :cry: err, actually I'm not sure if thats a sad thought or a happy one, its cool that its getting popular but I always considered it to be like 'my' word. Hmm, quite a conundrum :?

If we had it, we wouldn't want it, as it's already ours... what a genius... Way to take an Aristotelian philosophy at face value :roll:. This isn't the place to get into the discussion of such things but the best I can do to make it more clear in only a few lines is to give an example. Everyone wants an iPod, people literally dream of getting one; they save up and beg their parents and finally pull out 400 bucks and buy one; they can't wait for it to arrive, they count down the days and imagine how their life will change once they get it. A month later their iPod sits on his shelf, it gets used once a week or so but the owner doesn't really crave it anymore... now he's obsessed with getting a PSP. People spend countless amounts of money trying to get happy, thinking that once they get this item life will be so much more awesome. Those people couldn't be more wrong. - - - - Anyway, just so I'm not simply spamming OT here, personally if anything I'd go with the Revolution. I have a GC and a whooping 4 games... the same 4 I had ~3 years ago :?. When it comes to consols I prefer handhelds, that way I can kill time on an airplane/car ride

Me and my High School friend used to sit around in class and have conversations about normal things but the game was every sentance needed a word people never/rarely hear. We started out using stuff like "hence" "ergo" and "quid-pro-quo" stuff that most people know. However as the year progressed we found/used bigger and rarer words. Here are my all time 3 favorite Plethora (pleth-a-rah) - A superabundance; an excess. "Oh my, notes on pages 312-340 due tomorrow? Thats a lot of homework... I say that may even be a plethora of work" Detritus (deh-tri-tus) - Loose rock (lol). "Hmm, it appears I must have walked on a gravel road, for I have much detritus stuck to my shoe" Steatopygia (s-tea-at-a-pit-i-ah) - An extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks (aka, a plethora sized butt) :P. "Dude, check it out, that chick totally has Steatopygia" otherwise known as a plethora of fat. So yea, there fun to use. Anyone know any other spiffy words?

You only want what you don't have. Never forget that.

Well the words are practically latin. So my guess is it's simular to the game Eternal Darkness. Thoughout the game you get runes, some are verbs, some are nouns. A basic spell is 3 runes: the element, the verb, and the noun. You find scrolls that tell you what combinations form what spells, but before you usually have the runes before you find the scroll, therefore if you experiment you can get spells early. Example: "protect" and "area" makes a force field around you. 'Protect' + 'Self' makes a shield that follows you, "project" + "area" shoots out a wave in all directions. My point is, the spells in HP must work the same way. I imagine if you had a wand but no knowledge of spells you would discover a few just by chance. "Hmm, i need light... lets see here... light is lumin in latin...let's try "lumino!" no, that didnt work... "Lumins!" no, that failed... "Luminos!", Aha! It worked!" :wink:

around here is a kid thats allergic to the sun :shock: its kinda weird because he has to wear what looks like a thin space suit everytime he goes outside. I saw a kid like that once. As for allergic to water? I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Any animal can't live unless his/her/its cells go though cellular respiration (the 'burning' of surgar within the cells to create energy), and a product of cellular respiration is water... so yea... You'd die instantly if you were allergic to water. (not to mention the humidty in the air, lol)

Oh man, don't even get me started on law suits. You think that's silly, try being a doctor. The following situation happens daily: Characters: > The Surgeon - A man who spent 12 years of his life doing intense schooling and studing, he devoted his life to saving the lives of others and graduated top of his class at John Hopkins. > Mrs. Amerikan - A single mom who works a factory job, smokes 2 packs a day, and only really cares about herself and her 15 year old daughter (who goes out and drinks everynight and the mom doesnt care at all) The Plot: *Amerikan rushes to the hospital* Amerikan: OMG! My daughter got in a massive car crash, she was on her way back from a party where she got totally wasted. She ran a red light and killed a pedestrian before hitting a brick wall. She needs medical attention!!!! *the Surgeon looks at the girl* Surgeon: Holy... Get her to the ER0 IMMEDIATELY!!! Prepare the OR, summon the staff, get me the Doctor on call. *hours pass, the Surgeon returns to the waiting room covered in sweat and looks exhausted* Surgeon: Miss, I have some bad news... We (the staff of 20 or so) worked and stopped the bleeding, fixed her skull fracture and then I decided it would be best if we gave her 50mL Resparatondan to put her in an induced sleep so we could pump the alcohol out of her stomach and mend her rib cage. Unfortunately, apparently she recently did PCP and the Resparatondan mixed with the chemicals already in her blood... her heart stopped and it couldn't be healed. She's dead. I'm sorry. Amerikan: WHAT?!?!?! OM MY GAWD YOU KILLED MY GIRL!!!! I'M GOING TO SUE YOU FOR ALL YOU GOT AND THEN MORE!!!! The case goes to trial and the Doctor tries to explain that Amerikan didn't tell her the girl did PCP, and that he did his best. The judge disagrees and sides with the mom. The doctor is stripped of his medical licence and forced to pay 85 million dollars. :roll: :x - - - - - My dad's a psychiatrist. That's a true story.

I didn't, but on that topic, what do you guys think about Neville killing Voldy? The prophecy said it could be either and everyone dismissed the Neville option without even thinking about it :? I would love it it Neville kills Voldy right in front of Harry since Harry's always so "I have to do this myself" :wink:

There are 6 -The diary -The ring -The locket -The Hugglepuff cup -The snake -Something unknown Of the six, two, arguably 3, are destroyed

Yea, maybe you were. Let me restate the first line of the first post on this thread: "I'm a banquet server for a Hiltion in my town". I don't work at a casino, I work in a restaurant. The hotel itself has a Ball Room that we have banquets in, but it's summer and there were like 500 people, so the booker (TOP DECK casinos), decided to have it's dinner outside. Once again, it was not a poker night, it was a formal dinner for the stockholders, before the dinner they had a meeting and went over some stuff (or so I assume, I just saw people carrying projectors and brief cases a few hours before the dinner began). But anyway, thats all besides the point.

Here's what I did: I put the napkin back over the chips (didn't wan't some other customer to steal them) then turned to a fellow employee that I know well. "Dude, this guy just left like 3 grand's worth of chips on his table" He was surprised but didn't have a solution either :/ I few minutes later got a cell phone call from one of the workers at another banquet in a conferance center a few miles away, he told me to tell the chefs they needed more deserts and then asked me how my dinner was going, I said it was cool, they were playing poker and stuff. He cut me off: "That's odd, I thought you can't gamble in Wisconsin unless your on an Indian reservation" :shock: It hit me, no wonder these guys were playing sith sutch high amounts without even blinking when they lost $500--It was all play money! They got something like 20 grand in fake chips when they walked in and they played just for the fun of it. Lol. Did I feel like a putz. So I went over and pocketed the chips whilst I cleaned the table, after all, they were shiny :wink:

One additional problem that seperates this scenario from the "I found a wallet, do I return it?" scenario. Remember these are poker chips, there worthless until you cash them in. And the only people cashing them in are guests, I mean, the only way to get money off this is to involve someone else, like a guest, and split the profit 50/50... Do you risk asking someone you don't even know?

I'm a banquet server for a Hiltion in my town. Last night I serving at a dinner that was outside the building in a huge tent with about 500 guests and 20 servers. Some huge Casio hosted a party for its stock holders and inside this tent they had gambling and an open bar (bad combination). Anyway my job was to walk around and pick up plates when people finished eating. As I was doing this I walked past the blackjack and roulette tables that were in a corner. I noticed a sign "MIN $200, MAX $5000" :shock:. There tables were packed and everyone had handfuls of poker-like chips of several colors; from the looks of it not everyone was putting down the minimum bet :wink: As the night winds down people are dead drunk and they start to leave. I had a few minites until my shift ended and as I cleared a plate off a deserted table I picked up a napkin and found a handful of chips... I mean like 15 or more... they didnt have numbers on them that said how much they were worth but I knew at least half of them were worth more then 200 (the minimum bet) and at least 5 were worth a lot more then 200 :shock: Were talking an excess of $3,000 dollars here... at my table... and the owner left and went home dead drunk about half an hour ago. So, yea... what would you do?

I would have to say the 4th dimension to be time. I'll get to that in a second but first look at the lyrics of the Galaxy song: Just - re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour, It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, the sun that is the source of all our power. The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars, it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side, It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick, but out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide. We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point, we go round every 200 million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz, As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there's bugger all down here on Earth. Just look at some of those mind boggling facts. Our Galaxy has 100 billion suns, it would take 100,000 years of light speed traveling to go across it, and ~16,000 years to go through it. That's insane. To top it off the universe has over a trillion galaxies :shock: That's a lot of stars and a lot of things orbiting other things and moving apart from everything else. My point is, how do you describe the location of something in space? First off we will need its X coordinate (we have a point upon a line), then its y coordinate (now we have a plane), and then we need the z coordinate (now we have a point within a infinitely large cube, the universe). Still things are moving at insanely fast speeds, how can we accurate describe the location? Well, we use the 4th dimension: Time. Exact Location of George Bush: 1st dimension - 38.90 degrees North 2nd dimension - 77.03 degrees West 3rd dimension - 423.92 feet above sea level 4th dimension - @ 6:23.03 GMT, Wednesday the 27th of July, 2005 A.D.

I'll let yourself answer that... Yes you can get it with glitches but of course Nintendo didn't program it in so you can get Mew after 100 hours. You just said yourself they admitted they didnt do that. Oh and my apologies to Garr and Ianbur. I thought they were referring to the link I posted

Wow. Just wow. Thanks for even bothering to read the link I posted before bashing it and claming it doesn't work :roll: /sarcasm I'll post it again since ITS NOT THE "MOVE THE TRUCK" GLITCH, ths one is recently discovered and you probably never heard of it. http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/rbcatchmew.html And yes, it works, ask Korla who just tried it and posted that it works... Can I make this any clearer?

Also, Harry was suddenly relesed from the full body paralize... which like he said only happens if the caster is dead :/

:lol: I dont know what to belive but i think thats fake. How can someone mod a book? Its the "hot coffee" mod for harry potter :o Lol, it's clearly a joke. If that story didn't gve it away look at the links at the bottom: Hermoine dies due to getting hit by a truck, Potter arrested in Meth Lab, etc :wink: