koolasamoose

Windows XP/Pro - no point in upgrading to Vista without buying newer hardware to take advantage of all of it - and I hate being first (or early)

Ancient Magic in wild below level 10

With neither 99 fishing nor cooking (80s right now), I would just as soon get my own food and cook it. Someday, after I hit 99 in them, I will think about buying it. But I am only 2 levels away from all 80+, so it will be a while before I go for one of these in 99.

It fascinates me when people use the term, but do not understand its meaning. This is a wonderful article. Personally, I do not get any satisfaction out of PKing; therefore, I do not do it. Those of you who do, power to you - we are all here to have fun. But as far as Honor is concerned, you have to live by some form of code that allows you to claim you are honorable before you can talk of honor. And you can not hold people who do not live by the code to the standards of the code. So someone saying "you are dishonorable" or "you have no honor" is clearly not familiar with the historical precedents available to them that define the context of honor. A very short web search for "warrior code" takes you to many, many entries (some are for progarmming tools - lol - oh well). But high up there is the wikipedia entry about "warrior codes". Quickly, they cite (with links) codes such as "Dharma", "Chivalry", "Bushido", and "Xia" (leaving out the diacritical in the last one for simplicity). Any person or group that wants to claim that They Have Honor must be able to demonstrate that they live by a code of some sort (most western civilizations have some history lessons involving Chivalry and Knights). And for them to claim someone else has or does not have honor, they must be able to demonstrate that the other person does claim to live by a code AND that they failed to adhere to the code.

Be careful - do you know where this is most famous? Read about Mr. Stew Leonard and why that is carved in granit outside his stores. Customers are always right, but they still tend to yell and rant at people who did not create the problem in the first place. I watched a person who was horribly rude and mean to an airline ticketing agent while demanding that he get a first class seat for which he had not paid. He ranted at her about how he flew the airline all the time and he was owed a first class seat. She told him there was not way she could help him. I stepped up and also was a very frequent flier. I got the upgrade because I was nice to the person - they actually told me that. So, remember, honey works better than vinegar - be nice and objective and you will get much more accomplished.

As a person in the software industry who has built business systems and implemented business and clinical systems, I can tell you that customer support for any company with a rapid growth in users is always very difficult. Users are the people who end up "knowing the most collectively" and the "problems" that the initial "knowledge base" are populated with are rapidly outgrown by real problems being reported. As a person who has been on the receiving end, I have grown - only last week I observed a manager and his team delivering excellent customer service. I called him over and complimented him and his team in front of the two people who directly served me. Kudos for pointing out that "problems" are always reported dramatically more often than "successes". That does not make real problems any less frustrating to the person who encountered them - but this, along with Jagex's recent comment about responsible game play are important to everyone to keep in mind. Most important part of play is relax, have fun, it IS ONLY A GAME.