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.