The Back Room

[The_Mather1]

Meh, less than one day until the mute is over anyways, it might be related to that e-mail JaGEx sent me about my account being subject to a 3rd party hacker, though I thought that was because I accidentally spammed the report button.

[Nexaduro]

... o.O

 

Holy [cabbage], guess this is what Trip was talking about aye Ross?

 

I'm assuming you followed the links from that email, Mather?

[The_Mather1]

I did, it only sent me to account management.

 

What was Trip talking about?

[Nexaduro]

This...

 

#-o

[The_Mather1]

That exact e-mail. #-o

But I guess they were pretty dissapointed when they hacked me, my levels are worth 100 times more than my stuff. I'm a lazy little bastard.

Though they took some odd stuff: My cash, my dragon equipment (axe, med helm, plateskirt, dagger p++, spear p++, longsword, battleaxe, boots), my toktz-ket-xil, one of my two rune pickaxes (seriously, wtf?), my teacher wand, my amulet of glory and all but one of my air and law runes. Yet they left my granite body, my mystic lava staff and my full white mystic robes, and they didn't even bother checking manage thy kinkdom (that saved 400k).

Though JaGEx has something to answer for, since obviously the hackers gained access to their e-mail list.

[Seraphi]

Remember, Jagex will never email you about things like that.

[Nexaduro]

Heh. I'm in no danger of that particular scam, the entire EMAIL I used for my RS account got hacked. >:3

[The_Mather1]

Ross, yes they will, though if they would ever find out if you were hacked, that's another question. It was disguised as a warning, not a request.

 

On the bright side I'm on a 1,5 mill surplus.

[jasignhagj]

While we're on the topic of account security, NEVER use the same password for your email as any other site. Most sites encrypt your password, but some don't, making it easy to steal. There are also some sites out there that exist just to steal your password, relying on the fact that that most people use one password, and keep all of the verification emails they get from all of the other sites on the internet.

 

Proof that people are slow, here are the 20 most popular passwords (From IBM)

 

1. 123456

2. 12345

3. 123456789

4. Password

5. iloveyou

6. princess

7. rockyou

8. 1234567

9. 12345678

10. abc123

11. Nicole

12. Daniel

13. babygirl

14. monkey

15. Jessica

16. Lovely

17. michael

18. Ashley

19. 654321

20. Qwerty

[The_Mather1]

my favourite pasword is probably somewhere near the 9,999,999,999th most used.

[Alg]

Might have something to do with whether or not your Tip.It email is private as well. I can click on your profile and see your email address.

Have always had mine hidden, and have never seen any of those scam emails.

[Nero]

Mather's password is Norway1

 

Lol.

[The_Mather1]

That girl hasn't been mentioned for half a year, and I prefer it that way, as the random depressions I get when I think about my future are bad enough.

 

And my favourite password is way different, way harder yet way simpler and only makes sence if you're Scandinavian even though it doesn't contain a single proper word or special letter.

[Resistance]

That girl hasn't been mentioned for half a year, and I prefer it that way.

What is so bad about this?

 

I am too tired to post or anything but might come back sometime later today.

[jasignhagj]

[bleep], my perfectly legal copy of HTTT won't update to 4.1, and even amazon doesn't sell it. Credit cards aren't a valid option, as my mom is paranoid about putting her number online.

[The_Mather1]

Resistance, 13 years of infatuation, she annouces herself a lesbian, 4 month's of depression,

[Resistance]

Resistance, 13 years of infatuation, she annouces herself a lesbian, 4 month's of depression,

That can't be real thats just the ultimate '[bleep] You' from life! I was in love but my respect for them diminished after the way she treated her friends.

 

Due to hearing how terrible Google is I have further decided to use DuckDuckGo instead of Google.

[The_Mather1]

My thoughts exactly.

And boy do I wish it wasn't true.

[Resistance]

Are you even sure that it is true? Not one of those 'lesbian stages' which hollywood films use so frequency?

 

I wouldn't hold on to the thought, its like trying to love a dead person; they won't love you back. I wish you luck repairing relations and such.

 

 

 

[Nero]

[bleep], my perfectly legal copy of HTTT won't update to 4.1, and even amazon doesn't sell it. Credit cards aren't a valid option, as my mom is paranoid about putting her number online.

I don't see why it wouldn't.

 

You got EU3 Complete...Patch that...install HTTT...patch manually w/4.1b

[jasignhagj]

[bleep], my perfectly legal copy of HTTT won't update to 4.1, and even amazon doesn't sell it. Credit cards aren't a valid option, as my mom is paranoid about putting her number online.

I don't see why it wouldn't.

 

You got EU3 Complete...Patch that...install HTTT...patch manually w/4.1b

 

Nex, ICwatUdidThere

 

My copy of EU3 is from amazon, and I just got another $5 amazon card from Swagbucks, but they don't sell the expansion pack.

 

It plays fine before the patch, but after I upgrade it just says "eu3game.exe has stopped working"

[archimage_a]

Hmmm, mine did that when the display settings went screwy.

I restarted and it was fine, but I would check 3D cards and what not, if I were you.

[Resistance]

Alrighty, I started the short story for Creative Writing. I wanted to do something dramatic. What do ya'll think of this as a dramatic opening:

 

Prolouge

A portal opened in the Worldstone Chamber. The two girls hugged each other as the room shook.

Shadow, you go through the portal. The room will collapse at any minute. Go.

Emerald, no! Im not leaving you behind! We came this far!

Shadow, if we both go, we wont make it! GO!

Emerald! I dont want to leave you!

Youll have to! Emerald pushed Shadow towards the portal.

Shadow looked into Emeralds green eyes. Both girls were close to crying.

Shadow! Take this! Emerald threw her amulet. Its my amulet of bravery! You have earned it! Remember me with this!

Shadow nodded as the tears ran down her bloody cheek. Chunks of the giant ceiling fell down.

Goodbye Shadow. Emerald said as a giant chunk crushed her.

Shadow cried as the force of the giant chunk sent Shadow falling backwards into the portal, knocking her into a new world unconscious.

 

 

 

A couple of things that I would change

 

1.) To much use of names. In real life do you adress somebody by there first name when they're having a conversation? When your panicking because a building is collapsing and your friend is going to die do you waste time saying names? By adding the names you have sllowed down the entire paragraph. I would rework the speech, removing the names in an attempt to speed it up.

 

2.) If I opened a book and read this what would I think? If you want to make it appear like a gripping story try adding some metaphors, similies, adjectives and some heavy description. At the moment "A portal opened in the Worldstone Chamber. The two girls hugged each other as the room shook." does the job but it doesn't make it fun to read, its a very utalitarian statement.

 

3.) Names are a bit stupid, Emerald and Shadow? There not even names. Try and draw attention to a character through there action, by having ridiculous names the story crys CLICHE!. Also don't focus on the eyes ever. Just say eyes, never put description into eyes ever its just something you shouldn't do. In real life people don't pay attention to eyes they pay attention to the face as a whole.

[Nexaduro]

Didn't do that one, Spork. :blink:

[Earth]

Alrighty, I started the short story for Creative Writing. I wanted to do something dramatic. What do ya'll think of this as a dramatic opening:

 

Prolouge

A portal opened in the Worldstone Chamber. The two girls hugged each other as the room shook.

Shadow, you go through the portal. The room will collapse at any minute. Go.

Emerald, no! Im not leaving you behind! We came this far!

Shadow, if we both go, we wont make it! GO!

Emerald! I dont want to leave you!

Youll have to! Emerald pushed Shadow towards the portal.

Shadow looked into Emeralds green eyes. Both girls were close to crying.

Shadow! Take this! Emerald threw her amulet. Its my amulet of bravery! You have earned it! Remember me with this!

Shadow nodded as the tears ran down her bloody cheek. Chunks of the giant ceiling fell down.

Goodbye Shadow. Emerald said as a giant chunk crushed her.

Shadow cried as the force of the giant chunk sent Shadow falling backwards into the portal, knocking her into a new world unconscious.

 

 

 

A couple of things that I would change

 

1.) To much use of names. In real life do you adress somebody by there first name when they're having a conversation? When your panicking because a building is collapsing and your friend is going to die do you waste time saying names? By adding the names you have sllowed down the entire paragraph. I would rework the speech, removing the names in an attempt to speed it up.

 

2.) If I opened a book and read this what would I think? If you want to make it appear like a gripping story try adding some metaphors, similies, adjectives and some heavy description. At the moment "A portal opened in the Worldstone Chamber. The two girls hugged each other as the room shook." does the job but it doesn't make it fun to read, its a very utalitarian statement.

 

3.) Names are a bit stupid, Emerald and Shadow? There not even names. Try and draw attention to a character through there action, by having ridiculous names the story crys CLICHE!. Also don't focus on the eyes ever. Just say eyes, never put description into eyes ever its just something you shouldn't do. In real life people don't pay attention to eyes they pay attention to the face as a whole.

My responses to Resitences suggesestions:

1. When do you not use someones name in a situation? Any situation? I've had several problems with just calling someone 'dude' and calling the entirely wrong person over. So, the Names are quite fine IMO.

2. True, many times I find descriptive imagry usefull in order to keep me with the stories flow, but theres a fine line between good use of those writers essentials and absolute obesity of them.

3. Again, the names are quite fine. This is a sect of some sort, using magic, and absed off of D&D and Dungeoneering. And the names aren't Cliche, they may lack a little originality, but they aren't so widely used to be a cliche. The eyes are actually great, because studying someones eyes is a good way to know their intentions, and to 'pass a message' which may or may not corispond with words. Focusing on the eyes is perfectly acceptable so lon gas it isn't 'eyes eyes eyes eyes everywhere'.