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Fast Food? RuneScape is clearly set in an era equivalent to the 1100's (or previous), and retsaurants didn't exist until the mid 1600's when the first one was founded in Paris. Even then, the restaurant only sold soup ('restoratives,' hence 'restaurant'), so fast food would be an odd thing to see for quite a while. but hese ares upposed to be absurd ideas, so I consider it a smashing success! Here's an absurd idea: back when the giant tsunami hit, they sent a helicopter out to check on this small tribe of natives in the Pacific whom they feared might have been wiped out by the tsunami. Lo and behold, as the helicopter passed over, the natives started throwing spears and shooting arrows at it!!! Hahaha!! I wan to see a minigame where I get to throw spears and shoot arrows at a helicopter. Why? Because THINK OF THE COMBAT EXPERIENCE!!! And the drops? Man! what if you could salvage a chaingun from the wreckage? Rockets wouldn't be of any use (You would need about 250 strength in order to carry and somehow fire an AH-64's rocket pod), but a chaingun?! That would make the fight against the TzTok-Jad last about fifteen seconds and consist mainly of converting it to paste and laughing hysterically. And the gnomes!! You know how the gnomes are, they could possibly salvage the helicopter itself!! I may not ahve billions of GP, but man if I had a personal helicopter, I could rule over RuneScape with a steely fist! "Behold, the emperor approaches in his sky chariot!" "Why's he spinning like that?" "Er.. I don't think yelling at the controls works too well..." "And doesn't that need some sort of feul to stay up?" *CRASH!* "I call dibs on his stuff!"

If Novalyfe (I don't care about it being spelled with nmbers) wants No. 1, he'll get it. He has chosen, rather than writing, composing, or doing something else worthwhile, he simply *has* to be the 'best' player in RuneScape. I realized not too long ago that 'lyfe' is what 'life' becomes when all of its worth is thrown away in a petty and entirely meaningless race to spend massive amounts of time and effort in achieveing a rank which, despite being unthinkably difficult to obtain, will not really contribute to his life or anybody else's. Here's to a long and glorious lyfe to all who take up the challenge!

Mining is such horrible drudgery. Add me as well, I'm game for a chat.

Get to 85 as fast as you can, we know youc an do it! Here you are/Rock us like a hurricane! Or something. GO MAT!

As to the word Aryan, it's spelled with a 'Y,' not an 'I.' Although 'Aryan' has somehow come to mean the race of people favored by Nazism, the term 'Aryan' actually refers to the peoples from the region of India and Pakistan. True 'nough. It does make sense that they would block Aryan and Arian due to its unfortunate modern meaning. But if you were an ACTUAL Aryan, wouldn't you be rather put off at that? And as for the person who says that Jagex makes RuneScape for us, you apparently don't fully understand how a business works. edit by the author: As it turns out, the forum also blocks this entirely innocent title of an entire Middle-Eastern nationality. But apparently 'Nazism' is okay.

'Net speak' (or 'leet') was invented so that a small group of people could communicate using the ASCII characters, but not the letters. This was done to present a completely superficial sense of esoteric superiority. However, since it is merely a corruption of the characters and is visually very similar to the original, rather than bing an actual cryptogram (I have seen people communicate in enigma code, that's incredible), the smug, self-righteouss founders of the pseudolanguage saw that the plan had backfired quickly as it was easily figured out by anybody with half a brain and began to propagate using the Internet. the original leet used absolutely no actual Roman letters (A, B, C...) but instead replicated every character with other ASCII character. Since the founders considered themselves the intellectual elite, the language was quickly called 'elite,' rendered '3|_173' in the language itself. however, after the mass propagation, the language became a bit looer, using a mixture of letters and non-letter characters. 'Elite' became, phonetically bastardized, '1337,' or 'l33t,' or another variation. The original elite language is very cumbersome, and is quite confusing since writings with lots of syntax and punctuatiuon are often misconstrued, with the message's recipient often mistaking punctuation for an incomplete letter or vice-versa. Thus, the novelty of any form of elite (modernly called 'super leet') or leet has since passed and both forms have been relegated to in-jokes, mockery, and small usage by those who still think it shows off in some way. That's where 'net speak' came from. Period. And if you ever so boldly state that it is beneficial, superior, or useful in any way, or that its origin arose out of any good intention or as anything at all besides a small-minded and, frankly, unoriginal method of mocking anyone not in a specific clique, I will come to your house, tear your chest cavity open, and feast on your innards as you watch this awful scene unfold imminently before you die and rot in hell for your completely injustifiable crimes against all writers, speakers, actors, or decent human beings. On a different note, have you noticed that many of those who say they support a move towards a more perfect usage of the English language have themselves voiced their support using very poor grammar? I can't help but think if they misunderstood.

Well, whatever you do don't TOUCH it, you have no idea where it's been. God knows that hygiene and health care can't be too great in a fantasy/medieval setting. Knowing you, (and I don't) you'd probably EAT afterwards, without even washing your hands in the Lum River, which might be a bad idea anyway since the river is entirely contaminated with ash and rotting corpses from the southern wilderness, as well as human waste from Varrock, Lumbridge, and Edgeville. The further south you go, the worse the stench is. Perhaps touching the glowy thing isn't so bad after all.

I think we have stumbled onto something much more vast and important than Runescape. ("FOUL! There's no such thing!") Shut up! When someone appreciates their rights only so that they may abuse them, it kills that much more of America. Or wherever the **** you're from. But that's an argument for a later date. As an articulate, verbiose, opinionated and outspoken person I really must say that anyone that purposely butchers a language so grand as to have seen such great works as Shakespeare's plays, Byron's poetry, the oration of Lincoln, the Magna Charta, and our beloved and vaunted Constitution (as well as perhaps Benjamin Franklin's clever justification of his love for prostitutes) written in her sparkling form should be beaten with long metal rods and be forced to listen to a constant barrage of earsplitting J-pop slowed down to 12 beats per minute, just to see what the agony of hearing them speak is like. If you purposely and repeatedly abuse your right to Free Speech so graciously granted to you (It's really less of a right and more of a privilege), you devalue the virtue it stands for and only end up harming yourself because you destroy the likelihood that anything you say will actually be listened to or mean anything, thus obliterating any reason you might have had to require the right in the first place. Then again, I always like to present both sides just for the sake of argument. In response to reading an official document in which sentences were ended with prepositions and dangling participles, Winston Churchill wrote in the margin, "This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put." This, most ironically, is the sort of clever and deep wordplay which the English language is meant to produce.

I was once mining and said somehting to the tune of "Pretty funny, eh?" It turns out you can't say ", eh?" I have no clue why comma, space, E, H, question mark would be blocked. I have realized that some word components are not blocked in certain situations. You can say 'barbarians,' but if you say 'blarblarians,' the latter half of the word is blocked despite being the same as it was in 'barbarians,' which is not blocked in any way.

I can't really say that I would have done the same thing. It's not scamming because you're not tricking anybody. Their lack of knowledge is their own liability, not something you maliciously set out to **** them with. he made the offer, after all. That said, I think it took major restraint on your part to not give in to a very understandable temptation. enjoy your profit, and pat yourself on the back.

Making money eludes me. About 340k,

Well, I'll tell you something about me and Triumvir: Despite knowing full well what our titles mean, I can almost guarantee that there is neither an empire in our control or anyone else fulfiling any sort of leadership in them. Which begs the question once again, what the **** was I thinking at the time?

Crafting without doubt. Curse you, jagex!! I'll give you anything to have a gem rock area in the mining guild or somthing! Well, anyhting except my money or my model ship. :roll:

I have never and most likely never will see another character whose name is a variation of 'Duumvir.' Heck, most anybody I ask has never heard the word before. (It's from ancient Rome, when the empire split into east and west, with one emperor over either side, a government called a duumvirate. Either leader of a duumvirate is a duumvir.)

Two hundred, thirty-two people. They 'can't be wrong?' Simple-minded crowd cohesion like that is why cults form. Jim Jones had a wholelot of people following him, a lot more than 232. just something to ponder. There is a definite discrepancy here. A task being difficult and a task being needlessly inconvenient thorugh poor design are very different things. It sounds to me that a few people who think that a task they find difficult should be changed so that they can get their money for nothing and thir chicks for free. By the same logic they are using, their should be twice as many lessers in Karamja Dungeon so I won't have to deal with mages, rangers, and people with fast weapons getting the kill, or that there should be Greater Demons outside the wilderness so that pkers won't bother me. Pathetic. The server population/ore genesis time relation goes a long way to eliminate too much unfairness form a few high-level players, especially for coal in the mining guild. When I first got in the mining guild, it was like I had died and gone to heaven, except I kept my stuff and there were sweaty teamsters there. Or something. I was greateful for the opportunity and I haven't had a problem with coal ever since. This is just a case of a few people with a false sense of entitlement looking for a handout and raising Cain. There are two hundred, thirty-two people who can kiss my So, that's difficulty. What's inconvenience? If it weren't for that **** tree, I could get seven mithril each cycle rather than five on Crandor. Bugger!

I can see why there would be other 'Wakkas' around (There are about 1 million 'Sephiroths'), but unless I am mistaken I don't think Lodev is as famous a name. Interesting.

It is admirable that you would do that; I wouldn't have, unless it was one of my friends who had perished. but i agree with the others; publicizing this event serves only to cheapen it and negates any altruism you might have had at the time. The Bible speaks about this at length, mainly in the New Testament.

I have watced this thread with a slight sense of amusement, a large sense of disappointment, and a growing sense of confoundation. I have replied twice, and this is the third and final reply for many reasons. I really have to say that I knew right off, judging from my experience with the forum and past forums, that this topic was a hornets' nest. And it is being waled upon. The topic is also a horse, and it is being beaten beyond death and even the hooves are beginning to powderize. The core of the debate is whether or not girls are nicer than guys. A serious subquestion that has arisen is whether or not girls are more mature than guys. So far, I have yet to see proof for either statement. Both of which I do find rather bigoted in the first place, but it only gets worse. The females continuously rally in favor of their own side, claiming that the female contingency is nicer and more mature than the opposition, with the few token exceptions. This is done usually to scant retort and small support, and general acceptance. What shameful hypsocrisy. Any time a male has ventured the sugestion that the males are nicer, more mature, or both, it is generally cut off at the knees by no follow-up support and an acidic chorus of females, usually repeat offenders, playing the gender card and calling 'sexist.' This comes as a shock to me, since, although I strongly suggested that both sides had equal capacity for productivity and equality of worth and maturity, nigh on all of the blatant bigotry in this debate seems to come from the female side, despite there being less females in the argument! Nonetheless, I maintain my former argument that there is indeed equalization for the sexes, and I would encourage you to adopt such a stance if you do not hold it already. I am disappointed because you, the posters, have failed to handle this issue, albeit an understandably touchy one, in an immature and unsophisticated manner. I am further let down because I thought a small, infractive, and most importantly obvious amount of sarcasm was within reasonable limits and could be handled by a hopefully appreciative and mature audience. Obviously I have been found to be mistaken in this surmisal. I am, even after everything said, not entirely unamused; the atrocious irony is that in a debate where each side admits that there is a small number of folk within their own ranks that are stupid, unsavory, or just plain annoying, all possible examples of this supposedly small minority have reared their scaly heads from both battallions and undone any argument either side might have had with shameful, malicious, and entirely dumbfounding self-denegrating behavior! It is to laugh! In other shocking matters: playing outside ones race is a moderately acceptable yet rarely embarked-upon mission, but playing as a different gender is an infraction of epic quality. You, a genuine Maxwell Q. Klinger of RuneScape, should be entirely ashamed and seek immediate professional help. This is dirty and ruinous business. All of it. I request that it be locked by the staff and hastily forgotten by all those who partook. No merit can or ever shall come of this, and you would do well to quickly turn and walk away rather than being drawn into this fallacy. Just something to ponder.

*removed* The bracketed section does not express the views of any rational, thinking person. Or me. Nah, I don't have any sort of problem with gender, although I do think that saying sexism should not exist period is tantamount to saying that there are no differences between the sexes. I think that Runescape has many, many people who are simply not any fun to be around, deliberately, but it is most cetainly not gender related and if you think so you are a SEXIST!!OMG!!11 There are quite few female players, and if you see one being a serious pain in the neck, the instance might stick out more in your mind whether or not you realize it. [mod edit - there's no need to write that stuff here - Phil]

I think you have all missed the point of firemaking. You see, it's a really singular task before you, but when you finally get good enough so that you know absolutely everything there is to know about burning things (lvl 85+), you can set out to fulfill the greatest contribution a firemaker can make: Burning down the rainforest. Hey! Don't leave, I can explain myself! You see, the rainforest is home to hundreds of thousands of creatures, which would all die as a direct result of your actions. This would lead to some un-freaking-believable combat experience. In addition, once the rainforest is burnt down, there will be a profusion of new areas that used to be impassable. Can you say 'ultimate coal mine?' It's really all the rainforst is anyway! Also, many, many more mines with bountiful, untapped resources would open up, along with the discovery of old dungeons and temples, built by cults and forgotten civilizations. Hence, awesome new quests, monsters, and area-specific items. Such an appalling show of sheer wanton destructiveness would probably also anger at least two of the three main gods (although making Zamorak quite happy, I guess) and thus cause some sort of divine interaction with the world which would no doubt lead to even more quests, and a lot of priests and such setting up shop out there. And when that happens, new towns are never very far behind. It will be very challenging, nearly impossible, but one day I will burn down the rainforest and become a hero.

I shy away form calling people noobs. It's usually crowded and everyone in thge vicinity takes it rather personally. As a level 64, I can whip plenty of [wagon], but I keep in mind that there are tons of people who can crush me like a hundred grapes in a bathtub, so noobism is relative. One thing that does get on my nerves is when some low-level person constantly brags about how amazing their main is. It's like how people have bumper stickers that say "My other car is a ..." Even then, though, I usually forego the 'noob' remark and simply insult their parentage. It works.

Already I am influencing the proletariat to spread my will. I am unto a GOD.

In my experience, most females on RS function exactly like the males in terms of efficiency and interests. It is the few who sit in varrock square wearing a bronze full helm and nothing else yelling 'need a bf' for hours on end and beg for free stuff who really tarnish an otherwise good demographic. On the other hand, males are completely superior since we can VOTE and OWN PROPERTY. :roll:

You people are so stupid you kill a bit of yourslef when you speak. 'I want a d bax so i can kills peoples!' The SWAT Team would murder you. Probably your family too. "I want like all my moneys and i can spend it!" You can spend it like its infinite and then when its gone, what do you have? Nothing except stuff you can never complete the payments on, hence lifelong debt Willie Nelson style. "i want runes! i caould cast FIRE SPELLS!!!" once again, the SWAT Team would murder you and millions of people would start looking for runes on earth, which could have serious negative repurcussions on all world economies and religions. "I want a DARGON!!! RAWRZZ!!!" The SWAT Team would be EATEN and FRIED by your dragon, making you responsible for the death of seven innocent people, not including the murders that got them involved in the first place. The National Guard then kills your dragon with big guns and bombs. And you. And moist likely your family and non-draconic household pets as well. "I wanna teleport!" To where? Detroit? So what could possibly be useful in the real world from RuneScape? Gem rocks. YEAH BOY. I want a gem rock in my yard. NO! In my room! I can quit school and never have to get a job. I oculd just sit in my room with a chisel or a pick and wale on it, as it regenerates endlessly like all ore rocks in RS, and build up wicked upper-body strengh and an endless stockpile of precious and semiprecious stones, each one the size of my clenched fist. Small enough to not affect the economy, large enough to make me the richest man I know or have met. "But I wants mre a FIRE CAPE!!!" So you can show up at school and be known as the fruity nerd in the cape. Wow.

I believe that there is quite a bit more room for discussion as to whether or not it will be p2p only. I do not think that carpentry or construction will be completely or even more than slightly available to Free-to-Play persons (such as myself), but I would expect at least a middling amount of content would be handed out just to whet appetites. Jagex knows how money is made. F2P members do not pay (DUH), but about 99.9% of the P2P members were F2P'ers who were enticed into *ahem* 'paying the tithe.' By giving F2P an enjoyable yet mainly insubstantial look into the skills and allowing them to appreciate what the member's portion could contribute to their experience and their wallet, as they have done rather successfully with Runecrafting, they go a long way towards ensuring more converts from F2P to P2P. On the other hand, entirely members' skills serve only to reward those who are already paying without giving potential customers anything new or interesting to give them occassion to pay and become a full member. The skills like Crafting and Fishing and Magic which tantalize have made me more than once consider giving Jagex what paltry earnings I have to take a deeper look, not the skills like Fletching, Slayer, or Agility, which serve only to alienate. The largest argument against Carpentry/Construction being available in any form to F2P'ers is the fact that having houses would require, like Farming, certain areas set aside solely to satisfy such a purpose, and I would imagine that few areas like this could be finagled out of the Free World's limited real estate. Even with that in mind, though, Carpentry/Construction easily has more potential than almost any other skill or skills, and I am sure will include a plethora of content besides the construction of houses (or castles, or outhouses, or maybe even my very own bar *sigh*) that could easily integrate into and improve both the free and members worlds. Anyhting otherwise would result only from the lack of work ethic or imagination of the Jagex staff. I see such a lapse as a rare and unlikely thing.