purpose.

let's get some things straight... (skip this if you haven't actually read any posts yet. if you're bored or offended, come back here.)

• my blog's basically a loong personal rant.
• i don't see the point of posting area guides or skill guides because i frankly don't have the patience and don't think people deserve to be spoonfed info like that. in any case, tipit, sal's and runehq are good fan sites.
• i don't really post accomplishments because the pixels don't actually matter very much to me. it's just pixels...
• i don't post screenshots because i haven't yet got the hang of it, do not want to run the risk of anyone finding out i play, and don't rightly have any thing worth taking a screenshot of.
• i may sound cynical, but that's just me. don't take it personally.
• you have permission to hate me. i won't be seeking your permission before i try to turn you around.
• that said, i will not change my opinion for you unless i realise there actually is something flawed or immoral in my logic, or in the opinion expressed per se.

conclusion: i am bitchy, pushy, selfish, irritating and irritable. i know. especially on blogs. i know. i'm trying to change that, really i am. consider this an attempt.

frequently answered questions.

it's intrinsically annoying, those questions that i get near every time i log on and actually speak on rs. i do hope i haven't attracted any stalkers, because that'll blow my cover as an intrinsically unoriginal person.

anyway. here's my list of frequently answered questions. some of the answers i've heard spoken/suggested and promptly stole(muwahahaha). those i won't be posting. but those are seriously the best.

disclaimer: yes, i am a hypocrite, and two-faced. but i honestly can't say what i think. i'd like to call it self control. in the meantime, YES. i am working on my inner niceness.

plus. THESE ARE NOT OFFICIAL ANSWERS. these are just the answers i'd have given you, had you come up to me and asked. please don't go around saying "this mod said this on her blog and so there."

1. i need money.
(okay, so maybe i shouldn't label these questions but demands...)

me: don't we all.
then i'll say something about training smithing or wcing. and maybe give away a mith axe to those genuinely needing help. (strangely enough i've only had to give away, what, 5 axes?)

to the unpersuaded: i've never even had 600k before, y'know :) that isn't a lie, either. donate to me pl0x? where did that whole stereotype of mods being rich come from? total credit right now = 439k. bleh.

2. n00b.
is what usually follows... w00t! such a fun one. stolen responses here! :)

3. are you a member?
nope, never been. f2p ftw!

4. how do i become a mod?
when this follows after persistant flooding of public and private chat with things like "my friend told me you'd give me full sara and 100k", the unspoken response would be something along the lines of: seeing as you've been nothing but inhumanly obnoxious, unreasonable and immature so far why d'you think you have a chance higher than an ice cube in hell of becoming one?

i really need to get my people skills down...

what i do say: i could answer that, but the town crier'll have one up on me :) basically though, it's about *insert compacted points and personal anecdotes, if applicable*. for more info, perhaps you'd like to approach your friendly neighbourhood town crier...

5. do mods get free stuff?
what i'd like to say: do you get money for giving up your seat in a crowded bus? no, no and NO! for the last time already. mercenary (brat). GO AND READ THE KB.

what i do say: i wish :) or of course not!

6. so you're saying there isn't any point being a mod/being a mod is boring.
-.-' multiplied multiple times.

personal satisfaction in a job well done is one ;) and that's true, thankfully. it's more intangible, really. things don't need to be quantified all the time...

7. is 17k a fair price for full mith?
do i have price guide stamped in front of my name? i don't buy armour, i don't use melee weapons. for stuff like this, google it yourself. g-o-o-g-l-e.

i've no idea really. i don't deal in armour/weps... the price usually's entirely dependent on the seller though? of course, haggling's always an option :P

8. i need help with a quest.
*gives relevant help* but only if it's one of those amazingly obvious things. or things that actually warrant help like where do i find garlic? otherwise *gives hints* for things like pirate's treasure. *walks through an explanation* for things like dragon slayer.

i was, after all, under the impression that when you're spoonfed info about a quest, it does lose any bit of fun it had in the doing, to begin with.

for p2p quests: nice you're a member. i'm afraid i've never been one. sorry, i wouldn't know :)

9. what's the meaning of life?
another favourite one. except i don't get asked that too often, usually follows after i say something inane like don't worry about it. i like questions :D

that's a tough one. i could tell you, or i could make you figure it out yourself, which would take roughly 7.5 million years, or i could ignore you, because i might subscribe to the theory that if something as inexplicable as life and the meaning of the universe was explained, then it'll disappear and be replaced by something even more unexplainable... if that hasn't happened already, that is...

and that answer i got from wikipedia. by googling it the first time i was asked that :P

so here ends the first installment of frequently answered questions! do remember to tune in for more inanity and insanity as brought to you by yours truly.

arbitrage.

arbitage: a fancy way of saying merchanting.

merchanting: a shorter way of saying buy cheap and sell high.

people make ridiculous amounts of money merchanting, and almost every good moneymaking guide i've come across mentions this, and mentions it as the best way to make money.

i don't dispute that, but frankly i just don't like it.

the macros're already destroying the yews, nats, deaths, chaos (chaoses? chaos?) etc markets. the way i see it, merchants simply buy from the bots and sell to players who tolerate their high prices simply because they want to do their part in buying from legitimate players, and legitimate players alone.

besides the bit that they're propelling that whole enterprise, there's also the issue of it being plain mercenary.

it's too businesslike for me, too calculating. i'm not too great at the whole marketing thing, and while i respect that merchants have their own skill (or at the very least, patience to spend equally ridiculous amounts of time on the game), i cannot bring myself to buy from a player knowing the price isn't a fair one, and that i will be playing on his ignorance of the market.

of course, if it's an experienced player just trying to get rid of stuff in a hurry, i've got nothing to say to that.

a while back, i read a post (in the rants forum, if i'm not wrong) about how runescape's economy's going to collapse just as rsc's did (or would have, i'm not too sure about the facts). it being early enough in the morning that i'd only have 4 hours of sleep before heading off to school, i just skimmed through the post. it seemed quite logical, really, and basically his argument was that there's too much money flooding the game, and to stop that, some solutions were to stop alching stuff, among the more prominent ones, and of course, to stop merchanting.

i'm trying to reconstruct the argument right now, kudos to the player who came up with this, i'll try to source for your name and the actual thread later.

with the influx of too much money, there's the risk of devaluing it. inflation, i believe it's termed. when money's worth decreases. the way it did during the war, when the foreign, military government simply printed their money as and when they needed it. prices more than doubled, for some products prices even increased a thousandfold.

just realised. it's off topic.

anyway. you could try arbitrage if you're looking to make quick money (quick in the sense that you won't be leveling any virtual skills) and if dealing so much with people doesn't bother you in the slightest.

i don't encourage it, but what the hell. i'm now fully convinced that persuading people to change their minds just isn't my thing.

edit: okay. i've been persuaded. TURN IT ALL AROUND. merchants sell their time. it's their time they're selling, so it's worth paying them. and they help the economy, like retailers do. and the RS ECONOMY IS NOT GOING TO CRASH. i'll post more some other time. it's all other people's points, and i'm all in agreement with them.

not again...

whoopiededoo.

"there are currently 0 people playing!"

what i'm most afraid of is that it's something big. like that time there was an earthquake not quite that near here, i was all, why am i lagging so much? and felt so bad after, because it was the earthquake. the undersea cables'd been ... broken (i know that's not the right word) and all i could worry about was the slow internet connection. of all things. i was ashamed. i am ashamed.

in any case, i'm taking this as a sign that i should forget rs altogether and start work.

byebye.

july updates.

three cheers and all that.

yes. finally the end's in sight. that whole "i was in the dungeon of a poh and got expelled and died outside and lost my phat and 10 mil" thing. i know it's true, most times, but there isn't anything i can do. if i do ever earn enough for a rare, i wouldn't splurge on that. it's kind of a waste. one small glitch like that and everything's gone...

so. programme that out and you'll have my thanks.

the door spammers. i can't say stop cos that just gives them the attention they want. i can't rightly do anything that'll work, really. always wondered why that was allowed.

kebabs. lol! hardly like the kebabs we get here, but that one's amusing enough... almost as much so as mod ash and the construction messages o.O talk about plain weird...

just a note.

please stop asking me questions.

if they're meant to antagonise, i don't have the heart to humour you right now. you've hounded me out of playing on any character but my skiller for a weekend. i don't want to give in and put my private chat on friends, so please. piss off. or i'll just ignore you. see it as a test of patience, and you're the trial.

if they're game-related, search the knowledge base. if they're quest-related, google it. if you're self-confessedly too lazy to do any of that, you might want to consider getting off the game before you wear out your clicking finger.

if you've been hacked, or if your friend's been hacked, or if your mains been banned, or muted, or permanently muted; if you've, in short, been punished for things you say you didn't do, go. and. lodge. an. appeal. i don't know what happened, i don't know if you're guilty or not (notice i even have that little note of doubt there, because i'd like to suscribe to the innocent until proven guilty thing. fyi, it is not a good idea to push me out of that.) i do. not. know what happened. if you're guilty (which 97% of the time you would be) face up to it. if it's just a little misunderstanding, learn.

i'll be glad to help, but being an acessory to actions morally wrong isn't my thing.

if you need free stuff, go mining, wcing, fishing, air running. i can get 10k on my level 3 ch00b in 15 minutes air running. 15 minutes tops. more's the time i do not give handouts to beggars. i'm only that generous if you need or deserve it. i don't profess to judge you, either. i'd just like to motivate.

if the question's rule-related, and the knowledge base failed, by all means. ask away.

if you just need someone to talk to, why didn't you approach me on my skiller? why didn't you catch a random level 3?

if all you want, really, is a decent conversation, i'll usually be able to fake a mood acceptable, and really get into that by the time we're done. i don't mind just talking, but please don't start with inane questions.

thank you, so very much.

why.

sometimes i wonder why i play runescape. then again, it's usually not so much me not knowing as me playing for such a long while without needing to know that i lose sight of it.

like this whole day, for example.

i've played for a good three hours, in toto. on my skiller, because it's fun just to talk without the weight of that hanging over (besides your head), your every word. (the wrecking the stereotype that all level 3s are macros and n00bs doesn't aid much in the get-off-this-account-and-rs-already! hype.) the fact that it's a rare monday public holiday also factors.

and after a while, it gets boring. sure. it gets pointless (though i dissuade myself with the justification for creating that account in the first place). and that's what i mean by losing sight.

then wham everything comes together.

i play rs for the same reason some people fantasise, or read books. it's a satisfactory enough escape from some things real. when i talk people can't see the anger seething just below the surface of each word, can't see the tears.

when i type happy, people think i'm happy, and then i become happy too.

or at the very least, calm.

i don't play rs for fun very much, anymore.