My Halloween Drop

This is a video of what I got at an over one million drop party on Halloween Day... on the MMORPG game "Runescape". For those that don't know how this feature works, I'll explain quickly. It is held in a building in Falador. Players put whatever they want in a chest and pull a lever. The items drop shortly there after in balloons and players pop them as they fall and see what's inside to pick up as their own. And occasionally someone (or some people) put in rare items, or a lot of coins which adds up to millions... This is advertised throughout Runescape by bankers on that specific world/server, and players flock to it to try their luck at getting an expensive item, money, or whatever. This one happened on Halloween day where players, well most players (including Me and Joey), were dressed up. So I wanted to document this unique experience. Enjoy.




- Stefan

The Indolent

Runescape is an "MMORPG"- massively multi-player online role playing game. It's a rather fun and challenging game in which players level-up various skills, earn gold pieces, collect things, barter with others what you have earned, or whatever. There are quite a good amount of skills to try and increase in order to become more efficient at whatever is it they do, and most importantly, make a profit. There is a Mining Skill, Cooking, Smithing, Runecrafting, Fishing, and more; though us free users are restricted to only about a 4th of them.
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Anyway, this post is a kind of rant on players who sit at the side-lines of the game's hard-workers and beg for whatever it is the others are earning. It's so annoying and confusing. I'll explain why..
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Example: Let's say I was fishing at a pier in "Kamarja". Or rather, I was harpooning swordfish and tuna! I had been there for a while, and along came a player. He walked over, stood beside me (and other workers) and said this--

"Takin free lobs or swordies" (lobsters and swordfish). To which I replied: "And I'm taking them right out of the water." He replied with the most expected and worn out excuse. He didn't have a lobster cage, or Harpoon. I told him I'm using my only harpoon and that was the end of it.
Okay, so my point is this. Why on earth, or Runescape, do you just stand there and beg for something that is right in front of your nose? It's not just fish they want. They beg for coins, armor, weapons, everything! Ugh, the stuff is all around you guys!
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Stefan and I have worked our way into millions of dollars, and with tons of other goodies just sitting in our banks. The beggars plead for something as small as 3000 coins while all the time they could be getting 35 times that amount in a couple of hours; which flies by as you play that game, just like most other fun activities.
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My mining level as of now is 71 out of 99. That's my main money-making skill. Stefan's kind of a chef, with a cooking skill of 57. Among other foods, he makes anchovy pizzas and sells them for more than a grand a pop!
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Now don't think I'm all selfish on that game. I usually give to whoever asks, and even some that don't ask. I regularly donate them 5k at a time and befriend them. I even have 66 rubies waiting in my bank to hand out to people. It's just when the items are right beside you and you ask others to hand their loads to you, it's a little dumb. Just go buy a 20 dollar fishing rod and some bait, or a 10 dollar bronze pick-axe and start getting all the free stuff your little helpless heart desires.
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I think I'm satisfied now.
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- Joey

Automatic Weapons Take Skill To Use In WW2 Video Games?... We Don't Think So.

We have been playing World War 2 games for probably around a decade, so we know our way around them. We've bought and played many, many of them over the years and one thing we have grown to love about playing them is to challenge ourselves, always, and use bolt-action rifles as much as possible. But one thing we really don't like to do is use machine-guns on them, especially online.

Why?
Glad you asked...

We strongly believe (along with years of experience to back that belief up) that you need hardly ANY skill to use automatic weapons and be good with them.

How?
I'll tell you...

What weapon would you choose if you had hardly ever played a "shooter" game before?... It would be the easiest one you could find to use, right? That would be a machine-gun. One pull of the trigger and you send round after round out of the barrel; with what... ONE finger movement? That's all you have to do. Barley any aiming necessary. Spray and pray. At least one bullet is going to hit the target whether you were aiming or not. And if it doesn't, just reload and spray some more.

And it angers us, so badly, when players think, and say they are skilled yet they use automatic weapons! That doesn't require skill! Obviously. Machine-guns are beginner's weapons! Prove yourself and face me with a rifle! Now that takes skill. Which is why me and Joey use them. Preferably the German KAR 98k bolt-action rifle with no optics attached (scopes, etc...). We love to use that gun. And it requires tons of skill, and patience, to use right.

Which leads me to...

Why bolt-action rifles?
Here's why...

You only have five shots in the weapon, (10 shots of you use the british Enfield rifle) as opposed to twenty, or thirty, or even over seventy! You have to aim, and aim well... and once the sights are lined up, squeeze the trigger. BANG! One shot rings out! Alright, if you missed, or you didn't kill them (which happens way to often) let your character actuate the bolt, sending the used cartridge out of the chamber and pushing in a fresh one. Aim again, line the sights up again, squeeze... BANG! Okay, two shots! And if that didn't do it the process starts again.

See, pretty challenging, huh? And very fair.

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So with that said, I'll just sum this up like this...

Machine-guns = An unskilled player's, or beginner's easy way out to play a WW2 shooter game and do good.

Bolt-action Rifles = A truly skilled, challenging player's way to play WW2 shooters if they can handle it.

- Stefan

Something cool we noticed

Stefan and I just found this picture of Heath Ledger as the Joker dressed as a cop, and it kind of struck us of how similar it was to the first comic with the Joker. Take a look.

That comparison just goes to prove that Heath Ledger's Joker is the closest to the original Joker by far. (As talked about 2 posts down.)

- JandS