PLAYER STUPIDITIES IN RUNESCAPE
It has come to my attention... Well, not just now it hasn't come to the fore. It's no epiphany, but more of a creeping suspicion, that 'Scapers are not always the brightest stars in the Universe. More like one day some of us have most of our marbles, and other gamers, er... slackers are either watching the Three Stooges and doing something dangerous at the same time. Such as playing MW3 while they're slaying black dragons, or "chatting" with their other friends, while trying to survive in God Wars Dungeon. It's also possible to ruin some pretty good and valuable items, while trying to high-alch items into gold. These items, in my case are usually a bunch of crap dropped by monsters that I am slaying. Most of the time, I have no room for this junk in my bank so I high alch the items. I was babbling along with a friend, which make the time, pass ever so quickly. Time came to a screeching halt:
O rly? I am so glad that bank thingy is hiding my face
Yes, I finally did what a friend of mine did 4 years ago. I have teased him mercilessly ever since. I high-alched my whip. I turned the whip into 72k gold pieces; a whip that had cost me either 1.2 mil gp about 4 years ago, or the one I bought recently for 382k. Oh yes, I got 65+ mage xp for this monumental pin-headedness. What a deal! Yay! I still have a whip, but this was beyond numb-skulled.
A quick aside; I am now running Windows *Vista "Professional." "Professional" what is never designated, although I suspect it is "Professional" Yenta or Nanny; The later versions of Windows nag and carp and lie. I especially LOVE THE FUCKING UAC!!!! Don't... get me started, sigh. I like it better than XP which won't run on my AMD Athlon anyway, but damn, I miss the Windows 3.1 days. I digress. One of the things I missed the most on Vista was the Screen Capture function. In response to the impending user-fomented insurrection, Microshi... er, Microsoft came out with the Snipping Tool. It's pretty neat and I am getting semi-mediocre at using this tool.
*Vista haters, please don't write me and tell me how much better, Linux, Win 7, RedHat, Mac O/S, and/or Sux v2.0 is. They all suck. :D
At least I am better at that, then I am at using HyperCam, the Unregistered Whats-is that we used on Runescape back in the day, when we wanted to "vid" our wars and duels. You could download this thing from YouTube. It was buggy, and froze up systems, but by God, that never stopped me. I have tons of very good friends who are whizzes at this type of video thing. I however, am not. I told my friend MidnightWolf, who I was "duelling" at the time, that I would film an action-packed 4-minute epic (the Hyper-thing would quit for good on my system at 4 minutes.) What I got was a 4-minute video of our feet shuffling around. Unfortunately, this epic has been lost to the ages. It's a shame; I understand Michael Bay wanted to include it in his next epic.
This leads me to our next stupidi... er, adventure. This occurrence is still talked about, usually in hushed tones and while looking side to side. Bullshit. It's referred to as the "Shantay Pass Incident." Sounds kinda cool, like Star Treks from the '60s: "The Corbomite Maneuver." Very grave. Heh. Not so. A few years back, Wolf decided we needed to train Agility. This has to be one of the most boring-ass skills to train, and it helps to do it with buddies. We headed out of Shantay Pass into the desert. This game does try to provide verisimilitude in terms of you can die of cold in the mountains, die of thirst, get killed by monsters, or other players if you're brain-dead enough to hop over "The Ditch of Stupidity" get hit with a whip or gored by some player's claws... and blah, blah.
So, we put on our desert robes and headed south through the Pass. I had forgotten my waterskins. I should have just been able to click on the lintel of the Pass, but it didn't work; I home-teled. When this happened, I didn't take pictures. I'm no more than 15 minutes in front of, or behind my latest stupidity, so, this was just typical Viola. My friend, MidnightWolf generously agreed to help me "re-enact" this episode in a Day in the Life:
Getting our robes. Feel free to go to the Lobby for snacks; we haven't gotten to the good part, yet
The excitement builds? Can you feel it?...
Yeah... Neither can I
I had to do this twice in the "re-enactment." Can you say "I'm a Zombie?" Yeah, I'm so there...
Bows all around, Bollywood is calling...
(Credits Roll)
(Lionheart) Viola Fury... Verbena Dimbulb
(Sir) SpZ Wolf... Dr. Dudley Doolittle
Creative-type Stuff... No One
I walked back from Lumbridge, because obviously, you can't walk NORTH through the stupid Pass. Only you can. I misclicked on the lintel support, said "the Hell with it," and home-teleported back to Lumbridge, and then walked back SOUTH. Bought another Shantay Pass, got my stupid waterskins and went off to train Agility. Wolf is STILL laughing about this, FOUR YEARS LATER! No need to train the Stupidity skill, I have a 99 Cape in that, along with my Dying 99 Cape.
Again, a huge THANK YOU to a very kind, and kind-hearted SpZ Wolf. Not to release too much, but he and his family participate in "animal fostering," for little furbabies when their mamas are not able to care for them. God Bless you and your lovely family, Wolf!
GOOD TIMES, GOOD TIMES
I was scratching around in my dusty picture file, trying to find some old pictures of the Clan and interactions with other people. It's hard to do sometimes, but this isn't "THE LIFE AND BOREDOM OF VIOLA AND HER LOYAL READER(S)," Well, I ran across this gem, which is just so random and bizarre. Of course, I will keep it forever and ever, or until my system crashes. Oh wait, I did back up my precious files. So, take a gander at my (ahem) colleagues, both brilliant, brave and very dear to me:
Words fail me... ROFLLMAO!!! <<<333
I wasn't even in the same world (not literally, but figuratively, although you could argue for the former) but caught this on the fly. This conversation exemplifies these two individuals and the nonsense that goes on continually. I wouldn't miss this random bullshit, and it's even more important for someone who, er, doesn't get out much, now.
LOVE, DEATH AND WTF?? IN THE G.E.
There is something like a shopping mall in Runescape. It is called the General Exchange, or GE and it is every bit as annoying and stupid as a real shopping mall. This place, in any RS world, at any time, is full of over-dressed people, in cliques, jabbering away in whatever lingo, patois, wolf-ticket, hip-hop dialect that has existed in the last 6,000 years. I swear to God, I heard people from Ur in there once:
grt?
ohlohop
qytr?
MPWERL:D!!!
ROFL
Maybe it was Urdu-Esperanto?
To add to the crazed atmosphere, there are people speaking actual foreign languages, not made-up bullshit, although there is plenty of that. My very first and oldest Runescape friend is a guy named RSchmitt. I believe I've mentioned him, in my first post. Anyway, he had just gotten to the level of Pray where he could invoke a gravestone if he died. He came up with the brilliant idea of eating rock cakes and killing himself in the GE while I carried on, just so he could see his gravestone. I had a friend ask me once, "don't any of you have jobs?" Yes, we do, but we all work from home, or are shut-ins. We usually run two systems side by side and play between phone calls at the "virtual office." I say, save time and be both a worker and a shut-in. One can see why; we're not exactly fit to be out in public. I jest. But this is what EPIC looks like:
Meh... Behar99 liked the shroud (the only black thing on anyone's pate as headgear) on my head. That blocky thing in front of me is Schmitty's grave. Don't ya feel like you're right there, experiencing the anguish?
Me neither
So, these are today's ravings from Nebraska Avenue. Now, I have to get off my ass and do some S.I.F.O.T.S. In a continuation from Theodore and Junior, wild horses (well, horse) stampede Sidewalk .00048 Acres. Don't miss it!
Love to all.
A quick aside; I am now running Windows *Vista "Professional." "Professional" what is never designated, although I suspect it is "Professional" Yenta or Nanny; The later versions of Windows nag and carp and lie. I especially LOVE THE FUCKING UAC!!!! Don't... get me started, sigh. I like it better than XP which won't run on my AMD Athlon anyway, but damn, I miss the Windows 3.1 days. I digress. One of the things I missed the most on Vista was the Screen Capture function. In response to the impending user-fomented insurrection, Microshi... er, Microsoft came out with the Snipping Tool. It's pretty neat and I am getting semi-mediocre at using this tool.
*Vista haters, please don't write me and tell me how much better, Linux, Win 7, RedHat, Mac O/S, and/or Sux v2.0 is. They all suck. :D
At least I am better at that, then I am at using HyperCam, the Unregistered Whats-is that we used on Runescape back in the day, when we wanted to "vid" our wars and duels. You could download this thing from YouTube. It was buggy, and froze up systems, but by God, that never stopped me. I have tons of very good friends who are whizzes at this type of video thing. I however, am not. I told my friend MidnightWolf, who I was "duelling" at the time, that I would film an action-packed 4-minute epic (the Hyper-thing would quit for good on my system at 4 minutes.) What I got was a 4-minute video of our feet shuffling around. Unfortunately, this epic has been lost to the ages. It's a shame; I understand Michael Bay wanted to include it in his next epic.
This leads me to our next stupidi... er, adventure. This occurrence is still talked about, usually in hushed tones and while looking side to side. Bullshit. It's referred to as the "Shantay Pass Incident." Sounds kinda cool, like Star Treks from the '60s: "The Corbomite Maneuver." Very grave. Heh. Not so. A few years back, Wolf decided we needed to train Agility. This has to be one of the most boring-ass skills to train, and it helps to do it with buddies. We headed out of Shantay Pass into the desert. This game does try to provide verisimilitude in terms of you can die of cold in the mountains, die of thirst, get killed by monsters, or other players if you're brain-dead enough to hop over "The Ditch of Stupidity" get hit with a whip or gored by some player's claws... and blah, blah.
So, we put on our desert robes and headed south through the Pass. I had forgotten my waterskins. I should have just been able to click on the lintel of the Pass, but it didn't work; I home-teled. When this happened, I didn't take pictures. I'm no more than 15 minutes in front of, or behind my latest stupidity, so, this was just typical Viola. My friend, MidnightWolf generously agreed to help me "re-enact" this episode in a Day in the Life:
Getting our robes. Feel free to go to the Lobby for snacks; we haven't gotten to the good part, yet
The excitement builds? Can you feel it?...
Yeah... Neither can I
I had to do this twice in the "re-enactment." Can you say "I'm a Zombie?" Yeah, I'm so there...
Bows all around, Bollywood is calling...
(Credits Roll)
(Lionheart) Viola Fury... Verbena Dimbulb
(Sir) SpZ Wolf... Dr. Dudley Doolittle
Creative-type Stuff... No One
I walked back from Lumbridge, because obviously, you can't walk NORTH through the stupid Pass. Only you can. I misclicked on the lintel support, said "the Hell with it," and home-teleported back to Lumbridge, and then walked back SOUTH. Bought another Shantay Pass, got my stupid waterskins and went off to train Agility. Wolf is STILL laughing about this, FOUR YEARS LATER! No need to train the Stupidity skill, I have a 99 Cape in that, along with my Dying 99 Cape.
Again, a huge THANK YOU to a very kind, and kind-hearted SpZ Wolf. Not to release too much, but he and his family participate in "animal fostering," for little furbabies when their mamas are not able to care for them. God Bless you and your lovely family, Wolf!
GOOD TIMES, GOOD TIMES
I was scratching around in my dusty picture file, trying to find some old pictures of the Clan and interactions with other people. It's hard to do sometimes, but this isn't "THE LIFE AND BOREDOM OF VIOLA AND HER LOYAL READER(S)," Well, I ran across this gem, which is just so random and bizarre. Of course, I will keep it forever and ever, or until my system crashes. Oh wait, I did back up my precious files. So, take a gander at my (ahem) colleagues, both brilliant, brave and very dear to me:
Words fail me... ROFLLMAO!!! <<<333
I wasn't even in the same world (not literally, but figuratively, although you could argue for the former) but caught this on the fly. This conversation exemplifies these two individuals and the nonsense that goes on continually. I wouldn't miss this random bullshit, and it's even more important for someone who, er, doesn't get out much, now.
LOVE, DEATH AND WTF?? IN THE G.E.
There is something like a shopping mall in Runescape. It is called the General Exchange, or GE and it is every bit as annoying and stupid as a real shopping mall. This place, in any RS world, at any time, is full of over-dressed people, in cliques, jabbering away in whatever lingo, patois, wolf-ticket, hip-hop dialect that has existed in the last 6,000 years. I swear to God, I heard people from Ur in there once:
grt?
ohlohop
qytr?
MPWERL:D!!!
ROFL
Maybe it was Urdu-Esperanto?
To add to the crazed atmosphere, there are people speaking actual foreign languages, not made-up bullshit, although there is plenty of that. My very first and oldest Runescape friend is a guy named RSchmitt. I believe I've mentioned him, in my first post. Anyway, he had just gotten to the level of Pray where he could invoke a gravestone if he died. He came up with the brilliant idea of eating rock cakes and killing himself in the GE while I carried on, just so he could see his gravestone. I had a friend ask me once, "don't any of you have jobs?" Yes, we do, but we all work from home, or are shut-ins. We usually run two systems side by side and play between phone calls at the "virtual office." I say, save time and be both a worker and a shut-in. One can see why; we're not exactly fit to be out in public. I jest. But this is what EPIC looks like:
Meh... Behar99 liked the shroud (the only black thing on anyone's pate as headgear) on my head. That blocky thing in front of me is Schmitty's grave. Don't ya feel like you're right there, experiencing the anguish?
Me neither
So, these are today's ravings from Nebraska Avenue. Now, I have to get off my ass and do some S.I.F.O.T.S. In a continuation from Theodore and Junior, wild horses (well, horse) stampede Sidewalk .00048 Acres. Don't miss it!
Love to all.
How long did it take you to create the reenactment, Mary? From the looks of things, it might have taken a while.. only assuming, of course. :P
ReplyDeleteBrings back so many memories! You have a great collection of screenies! I can't even remember that conversation with Salty, but it's hilarious! Then (obviously), and still now. :)
Keep up the good work, Ms. Mary-Moo! <33333
Great post :). Oh, and Ace, it didn't take very long lol.
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