Sly_Wizard

Why is it odd? I find that that viewpoint is very conscientious and well thought out. Obfuscator beat me to it. It's neither a conscientious nor well thought out argument. If you can use the "personally-opposed-to-but-legal-for-others-to-engage-in" line of reasoning for abortion, then why not apply it equally to things such as rape, murder, theft, beating your wife or even owning a slave? That is, you argue that while they all might be and probably are moral wrongs, they should be a choice allowed for people to freely engage in if they so choose. After all, that would be valuing "choice" and, by extension, liberty. Of course, such an argument wouldn't be deemed valid, but why not? Why would the "personally opposed to" argument not work for the aforementioned issues but be considered valid in regards to abortion? When, where and under what circumstances can that argument be invoked and when can it not be? BTW> Just before it's inevitably mentions, "Because the law says it's legal!" is not a valid justification, as I don't care what the law says, as the law does not dictate what is right and wrong and what should or shouldn't be allowed, rather just what is and isn't allowed or what one can and cannot do.

Celestial Troupe Divine Spirit of Language Everlasting Fight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxH5zaTQHzk All in all, Motoi Sakuraba is a genius who, unfortunately, doesn't get the rest he deserves :thumbdown:

Just because I saw sexism mentioned earlier, did you know that-- in the U.S., at least-- where gender differences in abortion attitudes are found, it's typically that men are more approving of abortion than are women, and White men more approving of abortion than any other group. Don't believe me? Go to the GSS website and construct a chart. Where it says row, paste 'ABHLTH ABRAPE ABDEFECT ABPOOR ABSINGLE ABNOMORE ABANY'; where it says column type in 'RACE' and where it says control type in 'SEX'. And now you know (and knowing is half the battle). Anyway, I've always found the "I'm personally against abortion but I'd never stop you from obtaining one!" chain of logic rather odd. Just how far do said people who use that argument extend it?

"Jagex, I disagree with your decision to make the hiscores P@P because <x>."-- Okay. "Jagex, you mentally deficient troglodytes. You can suck my balls!"-- Not okay. So the above is a bit of hyperbole but, I read a couple of Ken's posts and he's just being a whiney [cabbage]. His posts are closer to the latter than the former. I'm pretty sure he didn't get modded for disagreeing with the fact that Jagex is choosing to make hiscores P2P, but rather for the complete lack of tact he displayed in voicing his opinion. Surely, he can't be all that surprised he got demodded? I've been banned for less, numerous times.

Hmmm... I totally forgot I had a picture in this thread. It has to be, like, 3 or 4 years old.

What happened to Deathknell?

I'm not so sure what people's problem with dicing was.

Slow and steady with whomever. I don't care about rushing or doing a dungeon as fast as humanly possible, since I'm not trying to maximize experience gain, but rather just playing to relax.

It ends tomorrow, right? If so (and I hope I read that right), then I suppose I'll get my one dung level and then just do barrows for the rest of the time.

I haven't done dung in months. Guess I'll be doing that this weekend.

Guaranteed if Jagex decides to take the grind out of Runescape that much of Runescape's core base will quit.

My a-log pic (which I'm too lazy to upload as you can just go look at it).

Sounds more like a "I-couldn't-find-a-work-around-so-instead-admit-that-I'll-claim-I-had-a-change-of-heart" type post.

It's only a day, but I want my membership credit!

Praise Jesus, I finally got in!

So can I get a refund for lost membership time? :mrgreen:

I'm mad. Jagex converted W98 into a f2p server. <_< Why? F2p doesn't need any more worlds.

Random combat level requirement. Wonder why Jagex did that?

Wtf? Now, unless blue partyhats have taken a complete dive I'm unaware of, that guy got ripped off.

Is it over already? If not, I might do it. Then again, probably not.

Because with penguins/effigies/whatever you have to actively do something, whereas your idea would mean you could literally stand in a bank and get free experience for it.

Bots botting is not an indicator that something is wrong with the game, but rather that the botter wants to get to the end/attain high level gear without putting in the manual time required to get there. This is true of any MMO.

If you look at the population graph for the 25th, you'll see that that members counted for the majority of the drop in players online. I found that a bit shocking, actually. At least that means that Jagex is serious about getting rid of bots, even if it's costing them money in membership to do so. And, no, Runescape isn't a dead game. At least not yet anyway. Edit: Also, from my understanding, some people are still having trouble logging in/connecting to the login server. I'd wait for maybe a week before trying to gauge the actual number of players versus bots. That is assuming the bots don't come back.

Yeah, I have to say. I'm (pleasantly) surprised that there are only ~53K people online right now. When was the last time that happened?

I don't think it's that many during the day. I believe it's usually about 130 - 140K'ish people online during the day.