Staff Profiles - Muscular Ape!Staff profiles is back! I think we missed a month while I did another article . . . but now were back to stay! I'll be doing one profile this month, and two every month for the rest of the summer. So, if your staff and interested in being interviewed, drop a pm to sherbros. RV Name: Muscular Ape Real Life Name: Jacob Position: Village elder Staff since: Err..  August 2005 sometime, ask an elder chat mod, they should know when the new chat mods were made. XDDate Joined: July 29, 2003 Country: Australia City: Belfast Birthday: April 23rd Age: 14, 15 in a month Gender: Male Time for Favorites! I will say something, and Ape will say his favorite thing of that! Food: Burritos  Pizza topping: Erm, meatlovers I s'pose <3 Dessert: Strawberry ice cream with jelly  Ice Cream Flavor: Strawberry ice cream Car: Suburu WRX, simple yet stylish Messenger: MSN Vacation place: Surfers paradise Font color: Have a guess... Smiley:  or or Forum: Used to be Fantasy & Reality... now I like... A staff forum Non Staff Forum: Hiker's Campfire Sport: Soccer ftw (football to some people) Subject in school: Art... PE, out of core subjects - math. Rs Skill: Cooking plox. Runescape Questions! When did you first start playing Runescape? Not too sure... Unfortunately for my earliest account, (which I recently recovered... 743 days since last log in) the password recovery questions last set has been changed to the automatic February 03 (or was it 02?)... Muscular Ape, my 5th acc, was started in August 2003... but I believe my earliest acc was sometime in Mid 2002 - Late 2002... ^_^ How did you hear about it? You mean who do I blame... ? A friend in real life who I used to live next door told my other friend (best friend) across the road who I saw playing one time and asked about it and got me hooked onto it.. He stopped playing a year or two ago  How often do you play Runescape? Too much... a good amount of hours a day sometimes  Why did you decide to get 99 cooking? Well I've been a cooker and fisher since RSC... I believe I was 68 fishing and 75 cooking when I moved to RS2 after a month of it's release... At first I just went for like 81 fishing and 85 cooking, and then I decided to go for a massive goal right to 99 as the final stretch of my favourite skill... I must admit though, I was a little upset when cook-x had come out... I made it to 97 without the use of it, and then it became really easy to 99 (I went from 97 - 99 in about 3 days ).. Cook-x really inspired me to cook after 99 Do you have any current goals? Alot actually, I have a goal thread atm... Make sure you post on it! If so, what are they? Currently getting 80 attack and then onto some totalling... Although, we can see another major goal coming in the future (it's already on my goal thread) Did you hear about Runescape or Runevillage first? Runescape by far (in terms of joining)... but I visited RV for a long time before I joined it (all I can remember) as my friend showed me RV about 2 days after I joined rs. So, if I had signed up earlier, I would have been an even earlier member! I will make one comment though, I still, and always will, enjoy Runevillage more than runescape.Whats your favorite and least favorite part of Runescape? Quests or combat, even though it's in my goals, I still hate it (combat). Quests just bore me to sleep... Runevillage questions! When did you become a chat mod at Runevillage? Ooo eeeerm.... August 2005? Earlier? No idea XD... Ask frank, he remembers... All I remember is it was in the later half of last year.  What was the best/worst part of being a chat mod? Best - secret forums, working with friends (Frank mainly <3), being able to kick and ban and of course mod talk Worst - the hours I did Why did you quit? Few reasons... one of the main ones is that I was the only mod for a good 8 - 10 hours due to my timezone, and doing that every night began to drive me away from the chat and lose interest. Chat mod was also very frustrating... I loved the chat and it was the place to relax... for me, that changed after a small period of heavy modding... it wasn't my place to relax anymore... The arguments and such weren't fun either... I would maybe consider going back one day, if they'd accept me back. When did you get forum mod? Few weeks ago, What category(s) do you mod? I mod the PvP category and the market stalls Both extremely different places to mod  Whats the best/worst part of being a forum mod? Best - I've wanted to be one for so long, so I love it all... I like being able to lock topics >;D, help RV, etc. I'm not any good with writing, editing, or with computers so it's great to have a way which I can do to help RV... Worst - having to ban/warn friends most definitly, also some of the arguments... but I had to recently ban a friend of mine - not a great feeling.. Now that you've been both, whats better, forum or chat mod? It's really hard to say... Forum mod is a little easier, the 100% attention while you're on isn't needed like the chat...I guess I can't really make a decision as when I was a chat mod, there was practically no one else in my timezone which made it alot less fun... had I been a mod while all these newer guys were promoted, I would probably still be a chat mod now and it would make this decision harder... but considering it's been my RV dream to be a forum mod for so long, I'll have to go with that. Chat mod is a hell of alot more fun though! Whats your favorite part of Runevillage? Again, it's hard to choose... I really got driven away from the chat... so nowadays I'll have to say the forums. I mainly spend time in the PvP category, hidden forums, Fantasy & reality, General pictures/chat/discussion, Hikers Campfire, Lumbridge Lounge & the Runescape forums... Chat is a good place to relax though Favorite private usergroup? Not active in any anymore... Runevillage Army & Highscores is fun to watch though. Favorite meepbot quote? In Arkansas, if you divorce your wife is she still your sister? [Bladetip] VIRUZ, SURROUND MY PICTURE ON YOUR DESKTOP IN LOVE HEARTS OR SURRENDER UR SOX [Seifer439] Look look frank I finally got a quote! [Frank] What is it, seifer Eh?? [Seifer439] !quote me [Meepbot] Quote not found! [Frank] Yes, that's nice Seifer. Eh? Just some off the top of my head, they aren't precise either... but the idea is given. Few extra ones... How long have you been at RV for? 2 years and 10 months Has RV ever upset you in anyway? I will always be a little upset that I was never promoted to a Village legend, I really wanted that rank - even more than forum mod to be perfectly honest... It's a shame I missed out, oh well... not much I can do about it. Why do you post in Blue & Bold? Well... to some of the oldies, I use to post in red and bold... back in my real active days. One day I was posting away and Dr McMurder (legend) PMed me saying how I should change my colour, as my posts were good but people like him weren't able to read them as much as he'd like to considering the shocking colour... so I moved onto blue.. If you search my posts, I believe there is one red bold one remaining. Any Villagers you look up to or admire? Yeah plenty, to name a few: Orangequest - Great RS Totaller... great guy, great mod. Applequest - a nub defianately, but a great asset to RV... so much respect floating around him. Doing a good job as an admin. Tweedy - Super Mod. Mustangnut - Wasn't the least suprised this guy got assistant site admin, he's the admin to talk to people! Son Of Hades - I can't believe you've hung around so long, I admire you for your ability to keep visiting everyday and being a great RVer with hardly anything to show for the contribution - which is your normal day on RV. The Thing 6 - great mod. Was Muscular Ape your original name or did you have a previous one? Well,  . The original name I signed up with was "Mejacobyeah"... I was a 12 year irl nub ^_^, named Jacob of course. Wasn't that long before I got it changed.. I also had a name change to Monkey Corpse for Halloween last year. Anything else you'd like to say about Runevillage? Runevillage has possibly been one of the best things that has happened to me. It's my home away from home, and I will never leave it no matter how many times I'll try. Great community... great time waster.  Thanks for your time~ Written By: Sherbros Edited By: J@nr0k Coded By: J@nr0k Special thanks to Muscular Ape |