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  1. man, this is a great forum. i love being able to come here and get advice from other players, here in the "Help & Advice" forum. oh, wait, this isn't the "Help & Advice" forum? that's right, this is the "Rant" forum! where you "Blow off steam by venting your game frustrations," i.e., you Rant! so i guess that when people post here, they're just trying to get things off their chest. they aren't asking for forty people to tell them why they're wrong, what they can do better, or that if they don't like it they shouldn't play Runescape. maybe they like Runescape enough to keep playing in spite of some inconveniences, but just want to vent about them a little bit. maybe they actually have the limited cognitive ability realize that it's just part of the game, and the don't need several dozen smart-[wagon] telling them so. maybe every jerkwad sitting behind their computer screen waiting to find someone they can criticize so they can feel superior for a fleeting instant and actually get it up should troll the "Help and Advice" or "Bugs and Suggestions" forums. whoo. that feels better. but in all seriousness, the purpose of the rant forum - indeed, of rants in general - is an emotional release, not a logical request. 10$ says that the next post is something along the lines of "well, if you don't like people criticizing your rants, don't post in the Rants forum."
  2. ha! answered my own question (the one pertaining to the windows 95 background, not what happened to arcades or why NL is still in business). this guy actually posted standard backgrounds for pretty much every version of Windows since 95 - http://home.mchsi.com/~khadzic/MyWebsite/files/category-5.html although the file is fairly low res - was it always that small? part of me is suspicious of another cadbury-esque conspiracy. well now my desktop is all old-school. gives me a hankerin for some Quake 2...
  3. you know, it seems that consumer technology is being progressively dumbed down. i remember several times taking apart my old sony walkman tapeplayer (ahh - magnetic recordings...back in the day...) and tinker around in it. probably why it ended breaking permanantly... i will say this for the ipod - it's generally well-made and sturdy, but i think that they got too many graphic design majors involved in the ergonomics of the thing. for example - when i want to turn up my volume, i want to turn a dial, or push a button, something where there is a mechanical system available to verify that my actions have been recorded - the dial turns, or the button clicks. i don't want to just rub my finger on something. other times i would be going through menus, and i would scroll my finger too fast and go back a few menus. a minor inconvenience, but i still prefer the old digital system - exactly one click means exactly one action, not "rotate your finger a little bit more - oops to far, go back" yeah, it's an innovative feature, but doesn't improve my music experience at all, and i suspect that the trackpad addition also brings the price up a little bit. i mean, if you think about it, it is kind of a novel practice for technology to be as simple, fun, and user-friendly as it has become. i mean, compare working on a windows xp system to just windows 3.1 - just a decade apart! however, it seems that as user-friendliness increases, your technological autonomy falls out. yeah, the iPod is cool and fun and easy to use, but when it stops working, then you have to have sombody else to fix it, and it ends up just being easier to buy a new one. whereas with my old walkman, i could just pull out a screwdriver and go to work. i think that's why i would prefer to go to a non-apple mp3 player - i tend to have a distrust of anything that's just a little too user-friendly. i want to know that if i have to go down into the guts (even if it's a very bad idea, or if i don't know what i'm doing) i still have that option.
  4. about as random as it gets, but does anybody know where i can get a picture file of the Windows 95 setup background? you know, where they had the mouse and the keyboard and other computer equipment in a blue lithograph, and it looked really cool? i'd really like that as my desktop background. i seem to have hit something of a 90's nostalgia period (and no, i haven't had cable for about a year now, so please don't blame this on any VH1-esque trip) - first i'm going through my old music and finding stuff like boss tones and soundgarden, then I'm looking up websites on old awesome shows like Pete and Pete, or power rangers. man - all of the old nickelodeon shows were awesome - GUTS, You Can't Do That On Television, Clarrissa, All That (although I hated the skit where that kid spent the whole time screaming), that one about the Lost Temple or something, and there was video-game based gameshow. and the good old fashioned Nicktoons - Doug, Ren and Stimpy, Rugrats, Rocko...I'll admit though that I started to lose interest somewhere around the Angry Beavers. and do you remember when arcades were cool? my dad worked at the university and sometimes my brother and I would go meet him after school and we'd take quaters and go play video games in the student union, or when we'd go to the mall my parents and sisters would go shopping while my brother and me (not nostalgic for that one - even as a junior high (junior high? yeah, i think that's right) kid i knew the acting was juvenile) would spend all of our money on Street Fighter, XMen, Police trainer, Soul Edge, Ninja Turtles (we weren't allowed to play the games like Mortal Kombat or Area 51. not that we didn't, we just had to watch our backs and time it right.) nowadays they don't have arcades anywhere, and the ones that are still around have decade-old games because nobody plays them anymore - everyone's stuck on consoles. speaking of random - right now i'm looking at an advertisement for a National Lampoon movie featuring a young naked coed. is it just me, or has NL bleed the vein of party/college comedies absolutely dry? i mean seriously - why don't they just name them "National Lampoon's Animal House XXVI - This time, National Lampoon goes direct-to-video so fast, we're not even done filming it!" i mean, without the magazine, why do they still exist? i think that life will be a lot better when they finally have to declare bankruptcy. sooo.....yeah, if anybody knows where i can get that Win95 wallpaper that'd be great.
  5. ... *commences the throwing of rotten vegetables* ok... so a priest and a rabbi walk into a bar. the bartender looks at them and says, "what is this, some kind of joke?"
  6. This is a choose your own adventure game set in Runescape (Gielinor). You are given several options, you choose one and write a section of the story based on it, then set up several options (about 3-4 is good, but that's up to you) for the next author. After your training on Tutorial Island, your boat arrives in Lumbridge. You step off, stretch your legs and look around. You are surprised at not only how many people are in the vicinity, but the blatant violence in a town that was described as generally peaceful - only just across the river hordes of goblins are being slaughtered as they apparently rise out of the ground. You don't have long to look around before you are approached by a rather rough-looking fellow carrying a weather-worn knapsack. "Excuse me," he says, "but I need a partner in a .... a rather profitiable venture. If you would accompany me to the castle cellar we could speak more...openly." A. Follow him to the cellar B. Demand that he tell you his plan out here at the crossroads. C. Leave him and pursue your own fortune.
  7. the unbreakable scanner spontaneously combusts and re-kills all pokemon, and is replaced by a completely unbreakable scanner the next guy somehow breaks the completely unbreakable scanner, replacing it with a pokemon-friendly super, duper, uber, absolutely unbreakable scanner. the forum begins to fill with a debate mainly consisting of "you can't do that's", "uh-huh's" and "nuh-uh's", followed by a compelling point by person A claiming person B to be glue whilst he is constituted of rubber, and the resulting interaction of statements due to their relative compositions... after this has gone on much longer than it ever should have, the normal, everyday magical scanner is reinstated. presses "8" scans Quizno's gift card
  8. due to Germany's early defeat, the war casualties are much lower, thus WWI does not earn the title "the war to end all wars." the allied nations don't hold nearly as great of a grudge against Germany, leading to much easier terms in the treaty of Versaisse, allowing germany and the rest of Europe to rebuild after the war, as well as hurting the German pride a little less. all of this means that Hitler does not have necesarry support to rise to power, and is soon committed after his downward descent into mental breakdown after both his artistic and political failures. thus, WWII never happens, but this allows to Russia to rise in power much faster and seek to expand its empire, while the U.S. does not have the military/industrial jumpstart to its economy and remains in the Great Depression. Russia quickly capitalizes on the opportunity and conquers the US. Dos Vidanya Comrade!! *goes back to 1840 and kills Karl Marx before he writes the Communist Manifesto
  9. he didn't - he wrote a bunch of poetry so vague that you could reinterpret it to mean whatever you want. notice that nostradamus'es predictions are always found out after the fact; for example, people didn't read nostradamus and predict 9/11, but after the towers fell, some people looked back and reinterpreted what the verses said to match what they saw. when someone can read nostradamus and tell me what is going to happen, then it happens, i'll start listening suppose that you don't vote one day, how much effect does that really have on an election?
  10. unlike russian roulette, which only involves blind luck, stock car racing does involve some amount atheletic skill - especially quick reflexes, a sense of timing, and a certain amount of physical endurance. why is it necesarry for every anime show to have some diabetically cute character that adds nothing to the plot or viewing experience?
  11. the keypad has had it with the effing pokemon, and kills itself. also, all of the pokemon across the world die and there was much rejoicing [replacement keypad is brought in] presses alpha button, slides omega card
  12. granted. he then sues you for breaking his own fingers, takes all of your money, and lives out the rest of his days with wine, women and song. you on the other hand spend your days trying to trade food stamps for crack. i wish that anyone with an RS name that involves "Death" "deadly" PKer" "deathberger" "deathXor" or any derivative thereof would recieve a severe electrical shock at next login
  13. original - 9/10 hybrid theory remix - 6/10 jay-z remix - 2/10 burden in my hand, by soundgarden
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