Adam007

Thanks for that info. What do you have to say about regular protein drinks?

It seems like you guys have lucid dreams most often right before you wake up because the majority of the time you only remember the last dream you had once you wake up. That happens with me too, but during a night's sleep the average person has a lot more dreams than he/she can remember, much of which are probably lucid.

You can find all kinds of deadly things in nature. Just because something is natural does not mean its safe. This is even true of chemicals found in the human body. Heh, like DMT. It's found naturally in your brain but it's one of the most illegal drugs in the US. Wakka, I wouldn't worry about any adverse side effects. If there are any, nobody would know yet for a long time - that's how all supplements work, and that's the assumed risk. Just don't overdo it and you shouldn't have to worry about anything.

I often have lucid dreams - just rarely during the school year since I don't get much sleep. I really love having them though. I've done tons of reading on them, and have tried the reality check methods, but I really can't train myself to do those in my dreams. You really need to ingrain it in yourself to be able to automatically check whether you're in a dream or not, while dreaming. My number one tip for 'aspiring lucid dreamers' is to keep a dream journal (which the site actual covers on 3.2.1 ). One piece of paper to start is good enough. Just have it right by your bed, and as soon as you wake up make it a habit to write down as quickly as you can a quick summation of what your dream was about. Otherwise it fades away within seconds most of the time. This helps strengthen your retention of memories, and looking back on your journal is really fun to do, because you don't otherwise have any reason to recall your dreams, and they just get lost in memory. The piece of paper is like a dream photo album. Memories just rush back at you by reading it.

That's happened to three or four schools in my area in the past month, and they all got closed down for the day too. Kids let the air out of the tires though, they didn't slash them.

Where are you going with this? Seriously, you took a few isolated examples and used it as evidence that jagex is "dying"? By the way, I love the terminology. No - going into a crafting guild and seeing people talk about jagex "dying" isn't any evidence of anything. And neither is weird polls. I can't understand why so many people just love thinking up irrational conspiracy theories.

They get shut down a lot because debate on a forum is focused around logic. Religion in a sense defies logic, and is based on faith. Therefore it's hard to back it up on a forum, and easy to attack it.

Then wouldn't you agree that nicotine (cigarettes) should also be illegal? Alcohol as well? Why is the line drawn at that point?

How would you rate its lastability? I'm considering buying it and love Wario Ware games, but I might just rent it if you can go through it in a few hours. I know it's good to have as a multiplayer game, but wii sports works fine for playing with friends.

Half of his comments were sarcastic, humourous jokes which were quite spammy in their nature. So is Bubsa, but we all love him. True though, Lead was a bit eccentric but every forum needs someone like that, a friendly figure with thousands of posts who spends hours on the forum posting everywhere and everyone knows him : Sonsie was a lot like that too. He definitely goes down as one of my favorite posters during sb's time.

mind elaborating on what you think is better? I realize it depends on the child and the situation. Ideally, the parents don't have to discipline their children at all. That's what's happened with my family. My brother and I both have always had an understanding of things and kind of an equilibrium with our parents in terms of discipline. They never really punished us because we never really 'acted out' or anything, so they never had a need for any of that because we always behaved. If we knew we were doing something wrong, we just didn't do it. Not because we wanted to act all nice - we just never really had urges to overly misbehave. Back on topic though, I think that's the ideal situation. It's just a rarity I guess. I think spanking just causes an awkardness (from my perspective) between parents and the child, setting the parent up as the law and the child as the person who has to avoid the law catching him/her. Without that mentality, at least in my case, kids just don't really see a need to misbehave. I'm not saying I never misbehaved, just that they didn't really punish me. They'd yell or tell me to stop doing whatever I was doing, but that's really the extent of it. I know a lot of people think kids who have parents that let them do whatever they want end up bad, but the thing is my parents let us do what we want only because we always knew ourselves what is and isn't out of limits.

Still aren't able to check our character age or switch our name's display, both which were somewhat promised.

I'm not a fan of physical discipline, but I'm not against spanking - but that's the farthest I'd be ok with. I don't think spanking is the best way to discipline a child though. I mean physical discipline does work - I just think there are more effective ways.

I miss a lot of the old regulars and the whole DW mafia thing. The closeness those guys had together strengthened the whole board's closeness. And a year ago it seemed we had a lot more intelligent posters, whereas now it seems we have posters who post with more emotion than intelligence. It feels like this board in general is younger - that or I'm just getting older. Don't take this as me saying things are going downhill in anyway. They're not. We just have different kinds of members now. I do think the OT community used to be closer though. Not significantly, but I think there's a difference. (edit: I think when we're referring to "the old OT," we're all using different time periods. Some people call the old OT community consisting of way different people than I was thinking of, but I've been around awhile.)

Well we're in the third dimension, and there are four dimensions total that could theoretically physically exist according to you. Who's to say he doesn't exist in one of the other three?

He said, as close as he could get to, what people wanted to hear. Wouldn't surprise me if his approval rating went up from it.

For some people it's a "first lifestyle," not even secondary. I'll read those "how many hours a day do you play rs?" threads and people devote every waking hour they can get to it. They eat, sleep, do mandatory things like school that they're required by law, and play runescape. When out of school, their first life is runescape, followed by necessities required to sustain life basically. It's disgusting but some people have no self control and just get too engrossed.

Except stereotypes don't always apply to race.

And there is quite possibly the most racist and ignorant statement ever uttered on the boards of Tip it: Minorities don't succeed because they don't care. Granted that's a broad generalization, but a lot of the time it is because of their environment and what is put in their head. Which is why I support AA for economic factors - just not race. And could you address the latest reply I made to you Chris? Chris, could you reply to the argument I just made? Gimme time, Adam. Despite the skills I'm getting from sparring with you that i'm going to use in writing my papers this semester, real life and love of ESPN.com interferes. I'll write out an answer after i'm done grocery shopping tonight. And seriously. "I'm not racist because I'm best friends with someone who's black?" Haha...I typed asking for you to respond, got distracted by something, and retyped it, forgetting I just did, making me look all hyperactive/impatient. :oops:

And there is quite possibly the most racist and ignorant statement ever uttered on the boards of Tip it: Minorities don't succeed because they don't care. Granted that's a broad generalization, but a lot of the time it is because of their environment and what is put in their head. Which is why I support AA for economic factors - just not race. And could you address the latest reply I made to you Chris?

Here's a question for you. Are you assuming it's human nature to be racist to minorities? I live near Detroit, and my dad works in Detroit where the majority of his co-workers are black. Because he is white, should he have received special employment privileges because he's a minority and it would be assumed his employers would have a natural ingrained sense of racism towards him? Or are only white people racist? From my experiences going to an extremely diverse school, I see everyone being at an equal opportunity. I don't know what position you think you're in to play the "you don't know how bad it is for people" on me when you don't know my upbringing, but I've been brought up in a really diverse environment. I suppose my schooling system could be an exception, and it's possible that minorities at other schools truly have a disadvantage, but that just doesn't occur at my school. I just don't see any acts of racism. Any unlevelling of the playing field is brought upon oneself because of the self fulfilling prophecy of people thinking "since the world is racist, I can't get anywhere in life." IF we ever want to get above racism, reverse racism isn't the right path. Bite the bullet now with what has to be dealt with to eliminate race programs as a whole for future generations. I really believe the only problems with perceived racism is due to self victimization. If someone is wronged and blame it on racism mentally, they're only hurting themselves. Even if it really was rooted on racism, escalating a situation only makes it worse. Call me delusional, but I really believe we're on a path to getting rid of racism. Inevitably with the level of globalization we're having the whole world will be one color. Granted this would take a few centuries, but my point is that we're on that path. And racial assimilation, although I'm against assimilation, is good for countering racism. Explain how the constitution is built on enslavement? I'm not a history buff, but the whole deal about all men being equal always was emphasized. I doubt most of the founders supported the idealogy of owning another human being, and slavery didn't become rampant until later. I'm sure some founders could have owned slaves, but the words I read are what have value. Not whether or not someone back then was tempted into owning a slave. Let me wrap up by once again saying I'm not opposed to all forms of affirmative action. Economic factors are fine to base things on - they really show an upbringing a child faced. Race, on the other hand, is a terrible way of handing out freebies in life. You just can't classify someone by a few strings of genetic code. People are more than that. And if people really need these handouts and can't get anywhere in life without them, it's because of their own failures. They formed distorted expectations of themselves, and stopped believing in what they could do. Even if someone has one hurdle of racism, that's a hurdle they should be able to get over. To take a minority's hurdle and place it in front of a majority's is just reverse racism. I know it's a overused word in this setting, but it just makes no sense to take a majority's position at a university away from him/her when he/she is more qualified for it in favor of giving it to someone who has a skin color that happens to be more rare, under the assumption that people with rarer skin colors need really nonexistent hurdles removed from them(and in turn just placed in someone else).

It's our problem free philosophy. :)

By instilling AA they're recognizing there being a problem. AA itself is no solution. If we can, as a society, rise above this whole racial inequality deal, we won't need AA. But as long as there are people who want AA, they're acknowledging that racism will always exist. This self victimization only makes racism worse. Ignore races and stop classifying people by a race, and racism will slowly fade away. AA only encourages racism. In your eyes it might be a partial solution, but it only pulls us further back socially in the scheme of things. The nation is mostly healed from racism and 'oppression.' The whole slavery deal is a sad excuse for under performing, and until people lose that mentality, racism will continue to exist because people will believe they're bound to a race - which just isn't true. As generations come and go, and assimilation continues, racism will gradually lessen. Programs like AA only get in the way of this. AA in terms of economic factors is fine, but nobody should be defined by the color of their skin. That system is disgustingly archaic and I'm glad it's out of Michigan.

Live life to the fullest. Be informed and passionate about things. Never settle for less than what you know is attainable, and fight indifference. If you have an interesting idea, follow through and investigate it. Don't give up if you get frustrated. Don't waste time worrying, getting upset, or getting offended - things sort themselves out, and it's just a waste of time being in a negative/down mindset. Be purposeful and efficient in what you do - live actively. Set your own intelligent moral values. Don't ever allow yourself to be controlled. Just a few things I go by.

Rares haven't been declining. They've just been stagnant. Jagex has been adding new things to the game to continuously lower the demand for them, ranging from the money sink of construction to the pseudo-rares of 3rd age items so people have other places to put their money into. Combine that with the steep prices they're at and the fact that they're so unreachable to the masses, and you get the current non-moving prices we have right now.