Into the rabbit hole

Three months later and Easter has arrived on Runescape... though, again, I shouldn't really say "Runescape"; rather: "A 5 foot area of space south of Falador."

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To begin, talk to Charlie the squirrel, then enter the rabbit hole. At once you will grow bunny ears, a tail, bend into the form of a rabbit, and shrink away into the earth. When you reappear in the den, you are met with a mess of factory appliances and boxes filled with, if I recall correctly, "nothing but chocolate and peanuts". Enter into the adjacent room and you will meet Easter Bunny. A pink, giant... Easter bunny.

Task 1: He tells you to talk to an impling manager by a big stove. You find the fellow, and he inquires that you clean some stove parts in some water. So you do it. End of the first mission.

Return to the pink cottontail please.

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Task 2: Now he asks you to talk to another manager impling who needs you to make egg glazes of various colors, then hands you a color wheel, a bowl, and vials of red, blue, and yellow glaze. Once he tells you which colors to create, you mix into bowl the proper glazes and hand him your bowl. And that's the end of the second mission.

Back to the rabbit.

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Task 3: Talk to Big Ben, he needs you to dispose of anything that crosses his conveyor belt that isn't chocolate or nuts, using a device that I believe was made using MS Paint.

Revisit the Easter Bunny.

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Task 4: "Go to the Easter bird and convince him to get to work", says Jr. Bunny, basically. So you do, and you scroll through windows of dialog and random remarks to say to him in the hopes of the whole thing to just end already.

What I told told him was that all of Runescape would love him if he starts working again. Stefan told him to just get to it. So I think it's random for each player.

Go again to E.B..

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Task 5: "Manage the factory now!" So you proceed by hiring workers, then making 7 fruit cakes, 7 nuter... chocolate somethings, and 7 tangy egg... breads, I think. I don't feel up to explaining this process. We felt the urge to call it quits on this one due to stress and boredom.

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Task 6: The bunny wants you to deliver stuff to couriers scattered all over the map. Through the use of our teleports, we did this in about 5 minutes, and before returning, we were enlightened about the meaning of Easter in Runescape...

Wow, how sweet... and completely Pagan.

So with that complete, you return to the bunny and recieve your prize.

Squirrel Ears (Hardly visible on your player), and a Squirrel juggle emote. You can also summon Charlie and Fluffy (can't remeber who that is right now.) every 30 minutes!

Yay?

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After the hour or so spent on this gruesome event we headed to Varrock and once again made our own holiday colored clothing. Next, we headed to a $126M drop party including a red H'ween mask, and 25m coins.

We got nothing at all. :)

- Joey

Christmas on Runescape... Where?

Well this is our first Runescape Christmas event we have attended. And was it disappointing?... I'll get to that. But first I have to get there.

The greatest criticism against the event is one so incredibly insulting I have to say it first. Jagex, (the creators of Runescape) DID NOT DECORATE anywhere outside of the event. Nothing! Not one tree! Not one trace of Christmas to be seen. Still the same old dull, dark, green, rather ugly Runescape. Now they did decorate the event somewhat, but not anywhere near the way they should have. But I'll tell you all about it in a sec....

Again, you have to find where the event portal thingy is. Which is a magic wardrobe. Unrelated to Christmas, I know. You go through it and are met with snow, which is perfect to do, yet the snowflakes look odd. Christmasy fences, other Christmasy decor I can't really seem to find the words to title, and.... well that's it. Oh, and hundreds of friggin' little blue imps everywhere.... EVERYWHERE! Which is perfectly ridiculous and totally confusing. They often, hell, way too often cover up a person you are looking for, and just stand there. The whole area was really unthought-out looking. A fence everywhere you go, a dead end, a "you can't go there" type message, an imp, an imp, ANOTHER IMP! To be honest, it all just seemed, miss-placed, unorganised, uncategorized, and seemingly randomly placed. And that's just the first thing you'll notice.

Go a little ways and you run into two large "feasting" tables. Which is fine I guess, but wouldn't that fit Thanksgiving more? Hell, much more. Well, we started doing the quest. And I'll sum it up very fast. To the best of my memory.

You get an imp.
You talk to people.
You find out someone stole Santa. And Christmas. Or something. :\
You find out that someone was "Ebeneezer Scourge".
You go to his house.
In the house you find Santa in a cage. Now, I know Santa is supposed to be big, but damn... not BIG. He looks like a giant. What the heck is up with that?
You talk to Scourge's invisible self in a living room.
You later find out he is afraid of ghosts.
You need to look around his house to find some stuff to make a ghost outfit.
And then we noticed something... This is turning out to be like the '09 Halloween event... and the house therein... THIS IS THE HOUSE! Well, not exactly, but it's the same walls just colored different. Which is just plain lazy of them.
So you search around, find the stuff, make the suit, and go upstairs to the embodied version of Scourge.
You try to scare him a time or two. After random, ignorant, jabbering.
That don't work and it makes him mad.
He puts Christmas fire around the people at the feasting table.
You gotta help of-course.
You put 'em out with buckets of icy water.
You go back with Tiny Thom, who is "seflish". - You'll see why that is misspelled later.
He tells scourge he's mean and want his Christmas presents.

Scourge don't care.

You try one last time.

You show him his future. The grave.

He is struck with horror.

He lets go of Santa.

You go back to the feast table which is filled with four different types of food.

You talk to giant Santa. He says thanks, go to the tree, there is a present for you and your imp under it.

Your imp gets a scarf. Unimportant I know. You get two old emotes, and one new one. And a cool candy-cane to hold and flip around... but it's not worth a coin.

Christmas over.

Yeah, a lot I know. But if you play it just do what we did and skip through the novel sized dialogue intervals. Trust us, you won't miss a thing.

Oh, and you can get snow balls from a mound of snow located here and there to throw at people. Which honestly is the best thing this event has going for it.

So with all that said and done. Here is something we have been planning to do for a good while. Because we knew this event would turn out this way...

Here are some pictures of some of the stuff we have been talking about...

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- What I was talking about earlier. Their laziness shows up in their spelling of selfish. I guess Jagex doesn't have spell check. If so, they're too lazy to use it.

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- They didn't show any tales whatsoever. This shows the random, useless, confusing, parts of dialogue and fillers that are so common in that event. It's like they wanted to try and make the event seem bigger than it really was. Well, it didn't work. We saw right through it. It's scrawny.

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- That's the best they could do when making a Christmas tree?!... It looks like a five year old made it over night... with play-dough. Oh and by the way, that's the only Christmas tree in the game. Yeah, they are that boring.

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- Here is a picture of our drop. So you can look at it with more clarity than the video. :]

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So that was Christmas on Runescape... Well, sort of. Thanks Jagex, but no thanks.

- Stefan and Joey

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

It's been quite a long time since we've done a review, I believe. And that has mostly been because there honestly has not been any movie or game recently worth a crap. Well, I think I may feel up to doing a review on this game. So here it goes...

CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 / for the X-box 360

We had bought and played the first Call of Duty: Modern warfare when it came out... But was ultimately unsatisfied with it for reasons that would take to long to get into. Therefore, we ended up giving it away to our young cousin for Christmas. Without regret I might add. This was quite some time before we got X-box live so there really was no reason to play it any longer. I'm not saying we would have kept it if we had X-box live, because the sequel is almost the same... Ok, I'm getting ahead of myself. I'll just talk about the new game.

Alrighty... First off we played the campaign. Solo of-course. (and I'll level the first criticism on the game right off) You can't play the campaign co-operative! Yeah, with me and Joey that is unexceptable. Especially since you couldn't in the first COD: MW. So, unfortunately, we had to trade off controllers now and then and complete it that way. The game was impressive at first, as you might expect, but eventually our excitement wore off and we realized the game really is nothing new. We beat it in I think six hours. This allowed us to play Spec-Ops and were finally able to play together. I'll go ahead and say that Spec-Ops is the best part of the game... but that's only because the rest is so regular.

We took a break for an hour or so, and moved on to online. This we found pretty fun but just so chaotic. There are quite a few game modes but blank out the titles and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. They are all brainless. We would have loved to have seen a more campaign-like online, and challenging game modes that test your brain along with the rest. We played online, off and on, for a couple of weeks. We unlocked most of the weapons, perks, and challenges we cared for until it just got useless to do it any longer. It just becomes "same old, same old". We haven't played online for probably a week now. And don't intend to pick it back up any time soon. It's just not worth our time.

So I'll summarize. And cover a few things I haven't discussed yet.

Solo only campaign, no split-screen co-op, no online co-op.

Spec-Ops is good for two player co-op. But once you beat most of all of the missions, you don't want to play them much anymore. Also, you have to have and invite a friend to play it online with anyone.

Online is semi-fun, but repetitive and no brain power required. Which we despise.

Oh, and here is the worst criticism of all... You can't cut off the constantly playing music. Which we loathe in any game indescribably.

Oh well. It's still a pretty good game. Just not great.

Ruling: 7.0 out of 10
Replay Value: Decent

- Stefan

Filthy Poor

I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. I've got to get this out of me.

It's about the Falador drop party... and people, poor or ignorant people, that put in junk items into the chest, and then complain when they get junk instead of a valuable item. And then, as hard as this is to believe... they drop it on the floor, to be picked up by another, and put back into the drop. Or they put it back themselves! Is that not the stupidest thing or what?

If me or joey get something valueless, or near to it... we just drop it somewhere hidden. A place where it can sit there for a while, unseen, and then disappear from Runescape forever. Which is exactly what needs to happen with all that junk. So no one can ever put that crap into a drop party again.

What I'm trying to say is this: Don't put anything in the chest that you wouldn't want to get back. Not only is that called courtesy, it's called common sense.

I mean look at all that garbage they put in there...

Come-on people, are you really that desperate to disappoint somebody else who gets that filth? If not, then I can think of two other reasons why you would such a thing... You're just immature, or ignorant... which really all three are the same thing.

- Stefan