Adam007

Who are you to decide that? I'm not going to call homosexuality "right," because it's obviously not the norm. That doesn't make it wrong though. You have no control over who you find attractive. I laugh at how people say that you can choose which sex you find attractive. As a heterosexual male I know I could under no circumstances choose to find males sexually attractive. It's such a shame homosexuals have to deal with all the discrimination and insults they do just because of religion. Give it enough time though, and this social movement hopefully will take it's course and they won't be discriminated against anymore.

Tanner, I gotta say, your self drawn in paint picture posting spree is not as funny as you think. Even against all the other bland spam in threads like this.

I'll be a freshman at the University of Michigan and I'm moving in August 29th. It's definitely bittersweet. I'm so excited but there's so much about home I'll miss.

It doesn't have to be intellectual, it just doesn't have to be idiotic and disgusting[/i] I have to agree with this, the two chats I've been in so far weren't very appropriate, its not making this enjoyable at all, and it seemed I wasn't the only one who thought that during them. Same here. Nobody was really talking about anything. The whole room was making dumb jabs as if it was the first time they discovered sexual innuendo. Everyone was acting like every double meaning that came up was the funniest thing ever produced within a chatroom.

Can we get a "post your dreams here" sticky?

I'm in love with some of the work you've done. Sure you see psychedelic looking pictures here and there but yours are like out of this world awesome. Do you have any specific link where to download Apophysis 2.06a, if it's free, or know of any guides on how to make things similar to what you've made? edit: I downloaded 2.06c beta and the extra thing you also used. Unfortunately my computer crashed, my harddrive started making crunching noises, and when I rebooted my computer said it couldn't find an operating system. I restarted again and was fine, but unfortunately I don't think I'll be trying it again because I don't want to fry my harddrive or anything. I have to say though, I was having fun for the few minutes I tried that program out for. :)

Great looking panoramics. Definitely try out taking some HDR photos, they're really fun once you finish the job. You can download photomatix to make them (they have a free trial version with a watermark you can easily edit out), or I'm pretty sure CS3 also has the ability for HDR's which you can search for. Definitely try some out though.

The extra time you're wasting getting such slow xp you could make double the cash it would have cost to use real arrows.

I was at Harvard, Yale, and MIT this summer. Which of those schools do you want to get into? (Oh, and check the University of Michigan out. Great school. :P )

People who are guided by strong, well thought-out ethical principles generally don't get emotional about situations like this. They do what they feel is right, because it is right. Your interesting article notwithstanding, there are countless examples of poor people finding wallets with thousands of dollars in them and returning them to their rightful owners without hesitation. ~q While I agree that there are some people that wouldn't get emotional over this, the majority of players do get excited over such an event. I disagree on your wallet example though. In the heat of the moment, if you see a wallet or money lying on the ground, you'll want to get to it before anyone else even though it's not yours. Granted, anyone who has held onto the wallet for a long enough time to emotionally cool down will often return the money. But for someone who spots a wallet on the ground and knows it's not his/hers, they'll try to grab it before someone else if two people both see it, even knowing it's not theirs.

I was there yesterday. I wanted to try out the Maverick this year but the line was ridiculous. As for vacations, I went to New York, Boston, and Cape Cod this summer.

But that's precisely why it is important to think about it in advance. I would give him the potion without hesitation. Of course, if he died, I'd also grab his stuff and meet him to return it. Being a decent person is far more important than getting "phr33 st00f". ~q Once people get into it, once their heart rate jumps up, once they realize what's on the line, whatever they thought about it in advance makes no difference. People don't think rationally in emotional situations. They act against all of their beliefs and preconceived notions. I looked up and found the article, here it is.

Everyone misses as well as overglorifies their time spent in the beginning of this game. That's nostalgia for ya.

Rather than asking is making a pure a sign of boredness, ask if playing runescape is. Everything we do in our free time is to avoid boredom.

Those poll results, and even the replies here are completely misaligned with what people actually do in the heat of the moment. When that blast of opportunity hits people, emotion/greed overrides your normal logical stance of "Oh, of course I'm a nice person, I'd give him a potion," and a lot more people would just wait around for the person to die. There have been studies on this, it's hot vs. cold mentality. To answer your question, I'd give him the potion. But then again, we're not in the heat of the moment so my response along with everyone else's is pretty much invalid.

But surely that's hypocritical in its own logic, since we'd have to be gullible enough to believe his/her way of seeing things, which would never happen because we'd already have been gullible enough to believe the ways of either science or religion in the first place. It makes no sense whatsoever, and this is why I didn't do philosophy... I think most people are thinking, "who would believe this?" But they still imagine some people do believe it. Based on that idea, for those who read it, their view that people need to seek out the truth for themselves should be strengthened. By asking "who would believe this?", you should distance yourself from what you already believe, and approach it with the same skepticism you do that article. Analyze what seems to have been so deeply ingrained in you and take that step back to view it with objectivity without believing it just because someone told you it's true.

I played with levels and coloration, blurred and overlayed a duplicate.

He could be making a point that everyone is so gullible in believing things, that since some readers he may have actually convinced both science and religion aren't the truth, and his version of the truth is, that basically everyone is stupid and should find their own truths without being spoon fed them or being persuaded one way or another. That, or he's just crazy. If it's the latter, you know what they say. "The most dangerous people on the planet are those who are convinced they know the truth."

Another point, it's generally agreed that tip it isn't the best place for advice on a lot of things. But since it isn't against the rules, that means off topic is completely welcome for all sorts of advice topics, which users take full advantage of. Whether or not we think the board is a good place for advice doesn't matter. People still use it for advice. My point is that since so many people do use it for advice we should make a subforum for it to clean up the off topic board from all that. Or, just make off-topic help/advice topics against the rules since nobody's really qualified to give real advice.

What really do you expect out of a pmod? Granted we have perceptions and expectations on how they should act, but when jagex uses quantity of successful reports sent in as a primary way of judging, you're not necessarily always getting pmods with the most mature judgment.

I still think this is an issue, so I'd like to bring it back up because of the state off topic is in now. Merc holds the opinion most replies do in opposition to this, being I'm annoyed by them all too. None of us like seeing them. But adding this subforum will quarantine them all away. It wouldn't be added to encourage people to ask for advice. While it may appear that way, we could easily have a sticky explaining to never take the advice given here in place of a professional, all that precautionary stuff that has to be done. It will give all those people who constantly ask for advice about stuff a place to do so, while off topic regulars don't have to be bothered by it, which I think is something we'd both agree on Merc. I'm bringing this point back up again because as of now there are a lot of these types of dumb threads. I'll list what's on the front page right now: "WTF!," "having the next three days no sleep......," "Im learning the Piano (again) O.o," "House Deck ques.," "Help, I'm going into middle school," "Ok if I'm going into middel school, What caculater DO I need," etc. Off topic regulars would pretty much all agree that these are annoying topics that we could easily make a subforum for so people who enjoy giving advice about that stuff can talk with people who think they can get good advice from.

We're getting so many dumb threads like these lately. I'd really love to see a general advice subforum made just because these advice needing threads are so stupid and there are so many of them.

I'd go 2-3 days without talking so he can cool down after it, then if it comes up again approach him like it was a stupid little thing that happened in the past and just laugh about it and move on.

Obviously your family should have chosen a different kind of vacation. Cruises are what you make of them. I was never bored on mine. There's always something to do, always people to meet, always some type of entertainment going on. Reading's a waste of time unless you're enjoying some sun. You have arcades at home. Actively search out fun stuff to do, because I know cruises, and I know it's out there. As much as I also dislike them, go to those teen groups and make some friends there if you have nothing else to do.

When people do that, they haven't really quit. The thread creator I'm assuming is referring to when people willingly stop playing after gradually losing interest. When people decide to suddenly go cold turkey and 'quit,' as if they're flicking off a switch, they haven't really quit and will always come back. For the vast majority of people, the only real way to 'quit' is to gradually lose interest, in which case there is no personal hooplah over attention because it happened over a period of time.