Sumpta

My head disappears when I wear a Pirate's Hat with eyepatch. The hat just wobbles around in thin air. Kinda creepy :ohnoes:. My arms turn into plasticine stretchable sausages when I wear my pirate's hook. Very funny to do emotes with. Just look around in your bank for less typical objects and clothes. Fun!! I might post the pics later tonight.

I'm trying to gather my wits after an awful and emotional weekend. I'm looking to buy a house and Saturday, I visited the bazillionth house in a month's time or so. And contrary to all the other crap houses I've seen, I loved it. So I called my mother to ask if she wanted to come and have a look. Contacted the owners, told them I was really interested and scheduled an appointment for the next day. So, Sunday, we go and have a look. Fifteen minutes into the tour of the house, my mother feels ill and collapses. She is unconscious, I panic, ask for a doctor, try to wake her, keep talking to her to keep her eyes open, cardiac ambulance comes, we're off to the hospital. To my great relief, it wasn't as bad as it looked, but I spent the whole day in the hospital waiting for news. My mother is still there for a full check-up. Apparently, she wasn't feeling too great when getting up that morning but as I was so keen on the house, she hadn't wanted to stay home. The housing market is a bit crazy in the town where I live, that's why. Yesterday evening I called the owners, feeling all guilty about putting them through such an experience... In the mean time, their house was as good as sold. Somebody had taken an option even before I scheduled the second visit. But it's a "sales tactic" not to mention this as long as you don't bid, the owner told me. "As you get more experience with the house market, you'll learn this." I mean, what the hell? If they had simply told me, I wouldn't have needed to rush for a second visit. And how dare they talk to me like I'm an unexperienced kid that need lessons, even if it were true, after my mother was rolled through their house, unconscious with an oxygen mask? Ugh. I wouldn't want the house now, even if they offered it to me with money on top.

Ehh similar reaction here to Goddess: what the? Eww. That's just... :shock:. For the life of me, I can't figure out what possessed her. Maybe she was just completely thrown that you were so nice to her and she forgot all about the circumstances and just felt so gratified that she, emm, kissed you? How did you react after the kiss? How did she react? Hello, akwardness? In any case, Goddess is right, you better sit down and talk this through. I mean, you can begin by discussing the kiss and then moving on to why with the puke and all.

Huh? What?? So the Germans were Capital Evil and the Allied troops were Capital Good? That's way too simplistic and, dare I say, dangerous. The world isn't a Tolkien novel... I don't think we have an inbuilt, intrinsic morality. However, we are a group animal, which means we have cooperating strategies to survive and to attain win-win situations. Physically, we are a pretty weak animal and our offspring takes awfully long to grow up, so we need care systems within the group. I would think that that's where morality stems from. I believe that we are genetically programmed to follow the rules made by the societies we live in. So it would be society that makes the morals, on the basis of what's best for the group.

Whatever floats your boat. I've played for 2,5 years and I have 151M experience. I also have a full time job, a social life, I'm looking to buy a house and I have hobbies like organising a theatre festival and playing theatre myself. Not to mention a book and dvd addiction. So how did I do that? When I play, I'm goal-driven... I usually play an hour or two before going to bed, to unwind from the day. I always have a goal in mind for the day/month or week and I try to stick with it. I like the simplicity of sticking to that goal and attaining it. It's so much easier than the complexity of daily life... RS makes a nice change from my sometimes too intellectual, complex and busy life. Other people like to hang around with friends, play the minigames,... If that's what you like in RS, there's no need to feel bad about it. Just like the high levels shouldn't have to keep on explaining that they do have a life.

Gosh. I doubt if anyone is interested in my talents. Nobody cares about the talents of another person, we're by nature more interested in each other's flaws, but I'll give it a shot. - Languages: I have a good ear for sounds. I have an almost flawless accent in both English and French (so I've been told). I also write well without too much effort. And I love to read. - Related to that, I'm a good listener and a very good observer. I read people pretty easily, it's just a question of paying attention really. - I'm a good organiser. I like taking the lead, I like working on projects and when I have a goal in mind, I will get it, and fast. - I have a very strong sense of morality and ethics. I need my work to contribute to society, I need to feel I'm changing things, if only a little. That doesn't make me a softie though. Try to cross me, and you'll regret it. I will tear people to pieces if they try to mess with me in a dishonest way. It simply enrages me. Bit of a vulcanolike character...

No. Just no. No hitting objects either. You end up breaking something you like. Your favourite glass, your hand,..

This is really strange. Must be something cultural rather than genetical, though, because I experience things differently. The intellectuals I know who are religious, are almost always men. Women seem to be more detached from religion, except the oldest generations (70+). I figure it has a lot to do with the completely outdated opinions of the church on women. For example, I remember going to a funeral a few months ago. The group I went with, consisted of four men and four women. The men all participated in the communion, the women all remained seated. It's just an example, but it did confirm my suspicions. Edit: BTW, this was not peer pressure... we were all a bit amazed at each other, and talked about the reasons why we wish to remain seated afterwards.

Please, let go of the IQ thing. Having a high IQ does NOT necessarily make you part of the intellectual elite. I think it goes both ways. People who thrive on gaining knowledge, usually do delve into the question of religion. They are bound to make an opinion, but it can go either way. I think you'll find both the most convinced atheists and the most convinced 'believers' among that elite, because both groups constructed and researched their stance. There are plenty of deeply religious intellectuals, just look at the impact of catholicism on (higher) education in Europe, both in the past and the present.

Penicillin, like Wereta. Not a particularly fun allergy to have. Grass, trees,... I have hay fever. Sometimes I have allergic reactions to god knows what. Once, I had a completely swollen head. The doctor was mystified. Or large red dots which travelled all over my body (Catherine wheel). Again the doctors were mystified. In the mean time, I've figured out that I have allergic reactions to stuff that happens in my life: when I'm seriously stressed out, or very worried. Yeah :?.

[Response to squiggly321's dilemma] Don't. Just don't. There's just no winning this one. Try to visualise the event... before, during, but especially after. I'm talking about taking your socks off and putting them on again and all. No kidding, try to picture it all. Sex, even if it's just for the sake of it, is very intimate. Does it feel right? Speaking from my own experience, if you do have sex with her: - and it's mind-boggling: you'll be akward together, because of the questions popping up even as you're both still gasping for breath... should it become more, yes or no? And if you do end up together, you'll always be stuck with that akward start to your relationship. - it's okay, just okay: your friendship will be akward, one way or another. You will have had sex without the feelings, or one-sided feelings and that's just... well... akward. - it's bad: akward, akward, akward. You see, in the end, it will wind up being all the same. I need not repeat the key word, methinks. There's this song by a Belgian group called "Sex verandert alles": sex changes everything. It's true. Do it if you like dealing with consequences after rather than before, don't if you'd like a future with this girl, be it as a friend or a boyfriend.

I vaguely remember Chernobyl, or rather, my mother's reaction to the news. Seeing her so shocked and afraid really scared me. I also remember she wouldn't let me play outside for a week or so, when the fall-out cloud passed over half of Europe. Most of our crops were ruined that summer, and we live in Belgium. I thought the world was going to end. It was a horrible tragedy for all the people involved. Even today, there are huge problems with the Chernobyl site, which had been locked of with concrete. There are holes in that concrete the size of cars, so they'll have to build a new kind of 'shield'. However, I agree that this tragedy cannot be a reason to drop nuclear energy just like that. Nuclear waste is indeed a pain, but nuclear energy is a lot less polluting than the other tradition methods of gaining energy. As said above, the amount of waste is quite minimal. Still, I'd rather get my energy from a sun panel or a wind generator... The waste may be minimal, but it's still highly toxic and difficult to get rid of. And no matter how low the risk may be, why take the risk when there are alternatives in the wind, the sun, the earth. It's merely a question of investing enough in nuclear power while we sophisticate the other methods.

I don't have your lovely excuse, but I share the addiction. Chocolate! Chocolate! Lovely Chocolate! As I've stated before, one of the reasons why I would never wish to leave Belgium is our chocolate. Seriously. I'm also addicted to my mailbox. If a day goes by without a decent e-mail, I feel completely forgotten. Not being able to check my mail daily makes me nervous.

Exactly. Many of the high-leveled players have been playing for years and they stem from a time when the community was a lot different. It goes without saying that they knew each other better... and that they still form communities on their own. They pushed each other up in the high-scores, just like players race between themselves now. They're often the players that were the first to do everything. We (meaning, me, RS2 product) only walk the paths they've already cleared. But to call that an elitist community? I think lower leveled players who date from RSC are involved in such communities as well. So elitist would not refer to their total or levels.

I used to do all my clues, but when you get serious about slaying, it's really hard to keep up with doing all your clues. Slayer earns you so little experience/hour as it is, without running all over RS every task. So I switched to one clue/day, which quickly became one clue/week. My last clue has been in my bank from before the update. Just can't be bothered. I keep telling myself that I'll revisit clues once I have 99 slayer and slay just for the rewards.

And why exactly do you not change the passes?

My ex and I used to know each other's passwords. It's not like we exchanged them officially, but it just happened. He's at the computer, you're still in bed and want to know if you've got e-mail, so you make him check it and vice versa. It only became a nuisance when we had split up and I discovered that he was still checking and reading my e-mails even six months, a year after the break-up (it was rather traumatising, we were practically engaged). It was a web-based mailaccount (university address) that kept track of your last login time... The awful thing is, I didn't change my password when I found out. I got some very odd satisfaction out of the fact that he still cared enough to check up on me. I never confronted him or told him I knew either. Awful, or what. The account doesn't exist anymore, thank god.

Because they don't want you to know the answer, and they may have a great deal of possible reasons. You'll have to be more specific, I'm afraid :. :oops: Sorry. I should of explained it better. We would be talking about this or that and I would ask her a question(e.g Do you still play guitar)- ones that she would know the answer to - but she either stops talking to me or gives me an answer nothing to do with the question. (BTW we would be texting) Hmm. Well, there are a lot of variables here. First of all, there's the texting, which, just like emails, makes it oh so easy to avoid to answer or forget to answer. It's impersonal... it's so much harder to avoid a question when it's asked in person. Second of all, there are questions and there are questions. Not answering if you play the guitar is probably quite innocent. She forgot to answer, or thought of something else she wanted to send. But there are other questions as well, such as "can I see you tonight?". No answer to such a question *might* mean more. Third, there's your relationship. Is she a close friend or an acquantaince, what's her character, your character,...? Has something already been going on, or not? Since you're posting this on this thread, I'm guessing you're interested in her. Now, instead of trying to analyse her texts and focus too much on every word she writes, better just enjoy the contact with her and get to know her. The distance is a problem... it'll be hard getting straight answers through texts.

Because they don't want you to know the answer, and they may have a great deal of possible reasons. You'll have to be more specific, I'm afraid :.

We don't have Wendy's where I live. The way you guys are talking about it, makes me wonder if they put some mild addictives into their food, or something. I honestly suspect Coca Cola does. I seriously don't like the stuff, but I find that once I've drunk it a few times too often in a short period of time, I can't help but order it all the time.

Go to a doctor. You sound like you might be on the verge of a burn-out. Sometimes "stuff" just becomes too much and you need to step on the brake to get things back to normal. Do you have a summer break coming up? If you do, use that time to really take a break from everything and spend all that time on yourself, if possible, take a holiday somewhere-that-is-not-where-you-are-right-now. Maybe the doctor could prescribe you a very mild sleeping pill that will help you restore your depleted energy levels...

True, but that's going through cannon balls at a rate I'm not willing to pay :. Like I said, they're good tasks, but just a little bit more variation would be welcome.

Slay! Yes, it'll take a long time, but just think of all the experience you'll get on the way and that year won't seem so bad. And you'll be rewarded with a shiny cape at the end of the road. Arguably the best cape in the game. Then again, I'm prejudiced, 840k experience away from 99 slayer :.

Great, another rant about a rant, turning into a rant. One day, I'm seriously going to rant about those rants. Anyway. He was a bit silly to claim his 25, it's not like you were falsely claiming it. But he's probably just an insecure kid who wants to be at least 130 cb to lord over the world, which is why he uses PC. And since you openly refused to affirm his needs, he called you a noob. Had you been kind, you might have congratulated him and maybe had a semi-decent conversation during that most boring minigame of all. You were unkind, so you got it thrown back to you. What did you expect him to do? To see reason and mature magically in the bat of an eyelid? Don't diss it out, if you can't laugh it off.

Anybody who is serious about slaying has to get the helmet. There's just no discussion possible... you'll get the points anyway, and it'd be stupid not to use them. And the point system is obviously aimed at the professional slayer. I'm loving the helmet and the new teleports. As for blocking first, or getting the points: I just went about it the practical way. When I got a task that I really detest and takes too long, I blocked it before getting the helmet. I figured that, in the end, I'd get to the mask quicker than when having to do a hated task over and over again. I've done 51 tasks now, got the helmet, the ring (loving it) and 2 tasks blocked.