So, I’ve come back to Runescape after many a year. Funny enough, I had been playing Guild Wars before this and after two days, I’d had my limit. I wanted to come back and play Runescape again. Being part of RSBANDB and not playing RS had really distanced me from the community and, well, I wanted back in! So I figured that I would go F2P for a time and if I managed to level my Mining to 70 I’d start a P2P subscription.

WILDY IS GONE! BAWWW.

That was one of my complaints when Jagex changed the way PVP works in Runescape. Now that I think about my experiences with the Wilderness back when I was a mere level 60, I’ve come to realise that I actually fucking hated it. I’d be going about my walk to the abyssal-whatever and some jerk would PK me on the way and I’d lose all my pouches. How fair is that? I think the removal of it will probably make a better gaming experience ultimately.

THE PLAYERS ARE SO IMMATURE

This is undeniably true. I was talking to Brad yesterday and he said it best, “The game has changed significantly, but the players are still the same”. Immature kids still play Runescape and everyone else has to deal with it. I deal with it by turning off public chat.

RUNESCAPE IS JUST CLICKING

Using the internet is just clicking. That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything fun to do on it. Okay, lame comparison. I don’t mind it. I find it relaxing to watch TV and mindlessly chink away at an iron rock.

So, yes. I’m back. I’m going to probably make more Runescape Postcards like  this and this. Any suggestions as to what I should make it about?

Before I begin my rant on iTunes, I have to mention this. I like my iPod. Sure, there are a few things that annoy me from time to time. Seeking through an eight hour audiobook minute-by-minute is a definite negative. Or when my iPod randomly reassigns my album artwork so that Avenged Sevenfold albums covers are on my Beatles ones. But all in all, my iPod has saved me from countless boring situations ranging from long waits at the doctor’s office to sitting on the bus for forty minutes.

Despite the good times we’ve had, I’m ready to hand it off in place of a Zune. I opened my Music folder after installing iTunes on my new computer only to find this. Before you ask, no, I did not set the install path to my Music folder. I set it to install in the typical c:\Program Files folder. What the hell is this garbage? I don’t want my nice, neat, organised folders to be cluttered with garbage files from iTunes. I don’t care how necessary they are. It may seem like I’m complaining about a trifle issue, but the astounding volume of problems that iTunes on Windows has just isn’t acceptable. It’s slow, buggy, and just..fugly. I’d much rather drag and drop music and videos onto my mp3 player through Windows Explorer than have to see the ugly combination of grey, blue, and light yellow. I thought things from Apple were supposed to be pretty, minimalistic, and intuitive.

I’ve tried to manage my iPod through third party applications, but nearly all of them had one or more things that made the program harder to use than iTunes. I hate being stuck with such a badly-designed piece of software. What I’m saying isn’t new or special, I know. Many people have voiced their unhappiness with iTunes, but what has Apple done about it? Oh, that’s right. They just added another shitty sidebar to iTunes and called it the Genius sidebar.

Thanks, jerks.

I’ve neglected writing mostly because I can’t think of thigns to write about that would substantiate a meaty many-paragraph post. If you need evidence of that, you can look at my last..10 posts. But rest assured, I have a few things to say.

• The Star Trek film is going to be awful. Creepy actually informed me of this long before I wanted to believe it. I’m seeing the film on Friday and, yes, I’m so afraid. What worries me is that J.J Abrams is going to make a beloved series into a mainstream digital-this-and-that film full of pretty boys, needless action scenes, needless sex scenes, hard-to-believe relationships, and bad attempts at quippy dialogue. We’ll see. I really hope I’m proven wrong.
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin is a splendid book. I don’t normally care for stories about political intrigue amongst royalty in some fantasy world, but I was pleasantly surprised at the end. Best of all, I still have three more books in the series to read.
• Art. I want to cry because I haven’t seen this guy’s art sooner. It’s that good. Please take a look. I rarel ever post tons of links to random garbage on my blog (hehe).

Okay, Shane, I wrote!

Women don’t think it’s sexy.

GENUFLECT. NOW.

“So I Was Minding My Own Business when…” is arguably the only effective way to begin a personal anecdote. If you do not begin such a story with this introductory sentence, your retelling of an event is hereby deemed futile and boring. Why is this? It’s simple: uninteresting things happen to people who don’t mind their own business. In fact, even if you are a nosy person you should use this phrase so as not to draw attention to this flaw.

If you’re ever sitting alone in front of your computer on a Friday night and you wish you be entertained by the antics of perfect strangers, just Google this phrase. Here are some of the things you’ll come up with:

So, I was minding my own business [. . .] when all of a sudden I hear a banging at my door. Alright, no big deal…who could it be? Well, I answered the door and of course.. it was the babies daddy. Wonderful, now I have to put up with his stupid drama!

This story is AMAZING. I don’t often get to read about squawkings of unwed teenage American mothers who have run-ins with men they should’ve thought twice about before mating with, so this one truly astounds me. If you don’t wish to completely read through it, let me summarise. This woman’s ex-whatever comes to demand the return of some rubbish college ring and jacket that he supposedly lent her. She says she hasn’t got it and he loses his temper, resulting in her fetching her gun to drive him away. All whilst preggerz and teenaged!!

Don’t Use This Phrase If Your Story Sucks

BEWARE. Googling this phrase can yield one of two things: dumbasses and anime nerds.

Example!

So, I was minding my own business doing the porn site reviews I’ve been doing most of this week and everything was routine, everything was ordinary and somewhat mundane. I had a slight headache since I had a few hundred beers last night because a good friend of mine just came back to Panama after a year-and-a-half hiatus so I was in good spirits either way but things were going slow for a Friday when national hero [name omitted] sends me a message via Google Talk. ~

People review porno sites? Wasn’t pornography made to be looked at? A FEW HUNDRED BEERS? And I thought men lied about how many women they’ve been with. It all gets vastly uninteresting as a hideously long IM log is pasted with some back-and-forth in Spanish and English about Snakes on a Plane. Wow. I have to tell you all.. even though this is my blog and I can write about whatever strikes mah fancy, I feel some semblance of committment to posting something that is at least half-interesting to read. Well, at least ONE-FOURTH interesting to read. Which gives me an idea. I should make a list of things people should never write blog entries about.

Another day, another day.

Thesis: The predominance of the phrase “So I Was Minding My Own Business When…” is most rampant amongst the socially-impaired (henceforth referred to as “losers”) in effort to concoct a situation in which it appears that they have business to mind, when they really do not. After all, one cannot have “business” to attend to if they bask in the glow of the monitor memorising the dialogue to undubbed episodes of Naruto.

Tidbits to support said claim:

ok so i was minding my own business watching attack of the show on G4tv, and i was hit with joy when i heard the news ive been waiting for. …

Loser. G4 eats its young. Tech TV 4evs.

Okay so I was minding my own business when my friend starts telling me to read this manga that has similar tones as Death Note. …

Evidence number two.

So, I was minding my own business, checking out some of the tourist beauty-spots in Second Life and generally keeping a customised eye out for a dishonest …

Lolol, admit it, people used to go on Second Life until they realised it’s just a haven for people with Furry fetishes.

So i was minding my own business doing dailies on the sunwell island, I killed a sunfury elf on one of the ships and i get this: …

Sunwell Island? Rofl. This guy doesn’t even succeed at being a WoW loser.

… So I was minding my own business then Sasuke dragged me into the guys locker room with him and Kankuro locked us in. …

This excerpt is from a Naruto fanfiction. All I can say is: disturbing and grammatically incomprehensive.

So, I was minding my own business when… I saw a strange Anime called Dead Leaves. It was a preview I found in the third disc of Ghost in …

Agh!

Okay, that’s enough.

My dad came back from South Africa today and he bought me a lovely silk shawl that makes me feel like I’m a fancy lady, but more importantly? He brought a stone sculpture of none other than an AMAZING HIPPO. As well as some other creepy sculptures of African heads. I’m kind of scared of them, tbh. They look like props you see in adventure films that contain voodoo spirits within them and stuff.

If you’re clicking this, it’s probably because of one of three things:

1. You notice that I’m Dragon-ranked.

2. You notice the title of this blog post from my RSS sig.

3. You read the description in my RSS sig and are as in love with hippos as I am.

Frankly, I just don’t have the time for RSBANDB anymore in the capacities of moderating. The community is great, but my interest in the game itself has dwindled considerably now that I’m busy with other things. No, it’s not a “chore” to come to the forums. I just rather be your peer than your moderator. It’s a better fit with my schedule. So, I’m leaving the moderator rank but staying as a member.

It was an awesome two and a half years.

If you were kidnapped and forced to listen to one of these following songs on loop for 36 hours in a windowless cell, which would you choose?

Is it just me, or does “Dschingis Khan” look like a homosexual version of V from V for Vendetta? I just thought I’d note this.. ever since I first saw this video a few years ago, that guy periodically appears in my nightmares in the form of a soul-devouring gay court jester. Seriously, no human male should be able to bust dance moves like that.

*Inserts gun into mouth* This video makes Europeans look like a bunch of dumbfucks. Yes, I just insulted myself. On a slightly funnier note, the singer of this song has Tourette Syndrome. (Btw, this video speaks the truth. The only way you would ever get three attractive women to watch you play WC3 custom maps would be if you hired paid actresses to sit beside you looking interested. Hell, I’m sure I could manage it–if the price were right.)

You know. I don’t have much to say about this other than this: If I hadn’t read this singer’s Wikipedia entry, I would have assumed that she went on to acquire her future income by starring as Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Or at least in Labirynth as Jareth.

It would be awesome if I could write a post that was so bad ass that you could play Requiem for a Dream to it.

That is all.