about the forums. call THIS my personal rant(s).

no, i haven't magically acquired a membership since last i've blogged. still. the forums are open to whomever it pleases to partake of (for the most part) adolescent inability to use proper english, or contain emotions into comprehensible words. (i'm partial to a lack of capitalisation. most words don't hardly seem to deserve it. and no, not poor grasp of the language. lack of situational awareness. sloth. as you might call said lack of capitalisation. i'm still trying to decide.)


jagex is a company. jagex is liable. jagex can be sued. officially.

officially, they forbid under-13s to play the game. but. regardless. the knowledge base's parent-friendly. the censor's kid-friendly. the whole game's structured, or has been restructured to meet the needs (or demands, if you're that conscious of how you name your spades) of a progressively younger player base.

a younger player base of which a substantial proportion lack the emotional maturity or moral direction to even interact socially without incident. factor in the adults who use this combination to their advantage with that (culturally-induced. i know, alright? my irritations aren't irrational) awfully pragmatic mindset of monetary gain, it gets...faintly sickening.

but enough of that. on to the point of this post.

i do believe jagex tries too hard to keep players cossetted and mollycoddled like some sort of warped online dictatorship of a intended-utopian dystopia.

only threads i frequent are those housed in the rants forum.

ignore what i said in that earlier post. the macro problem's beyond ridiculous. and jagex creates a stickie banning rants on that precise thing. although it gets faintly sickening listening (even to an outsider like me) to people repeat the same thing over and over again, the same rants about macros, covering your ears isn't going to help any. it's still there.

catering to a lazier player base lacking in drive isn't the answer either. home teleport my foot. popular rant topic, and not without cause. grating as it is to read though the posts of unreasonable, petty, spoiled ... people, the rants've more than their fair share of gems. well-thought out posts, not so much rants as justifiable questions. and question they should. home teleport nullifies the effect of the mom teleporting bots some place ruddy lousy software can't get those pixels out of. i would've been disgraced, ashamed to have to use home tele to find my way out of a mess. now it's just a matter of convenience my choob shouldn't have.

disproption. not jagex's fault. the compliments forum's full of people professing their love for "mods! forum mods, game mods, jagex mods, dual mods..." there's more than enough of that around, flattery isn't going to get you a thing, not from me, and not from any other self-respecting person mature enough to have been appointed fairly into that position. it just makes people nervours, and annoyed, because it's as if fishing for compliments, and when there's nothing commendable about the flatterer, it's hard to show more sincerity than was received to begin with. i can't quite put my finger on it, but that isn't the face of sincere gratitude. i don't like the idea of false flattery. so sue me.

whereras the rants forum. threads about the ineffectiveness of mods, or the system, simply aren't as well entertained or received. can't elaborate more here, it's just, that. dispropotionate.

and what're the forums without forum mods. to tell the truth, (as a game mod myself) i respect forum mods much more than the typical game mod. it takes so much more courage to act the way you should when all that's immortalised (fine, i'm exaggerating, but you get the picture) in words that remain even when you aren't around to take them back, or explain them. and when you talk, you're speaking to so many more people than can bear imagining at that moment of discourse, and it's so much more difficult to stand firm and defend your opinions, or be able to rightly justify them in an intelligent manner when you're being flamed.

then the life of it's so public. frankly i'm glad there isn't a list of game mods around like there is one on the forum mods. i'd be piss scared of being hacked. worse still, of people pming me ingame or something. it's a life almost less private than zezima's, and that's saying alot, and that's true, because the guy who maxed out the hiscores for a time appeals to the imagination, fufils a need for some sort of larger than life hero. while mods people don't mind so much treating like dirt because it's not like any claim was made of being that much better, if at all. which is also true.

and things suck, as things do. but more's the time i lose sight of how the things that suck don't outnumber (not by far) the things that don't. i haven't, right now. i do suppose that's what rants do.

keep ranting people. we'll all be waiting.