D. V. Devnull

Since we're bent out on the note of it, guess what I got when I used the starting phrase "Hot RuneScape"... ... which left me wondering, "Did Google's server get hot under its' collar?", seeing as I haven't been doing any searching that would result in this. I wonder if it got affected by the wedding in the UK... :-k ~D. V. "Damnit, Google, you blew it again!!!" Devnull (p.s.: Studio17, you might find the "Crop" feature on your photo software useful...)

Alright, first generic question for you... Have you got all the dust out of your laptop? If it's overheating, it will slow down to prevent a total burnout. ~D. V. "Dust... the bane of computers anywhere..." Devnull

THE FUNNY SHORT PHRASE GAME! (Last Updated: May 5th, 2011 - Overly long lengths changed down to suitable levels.) Introduction: So, it finally came to be up to me to launch off a forum game. It took me a few, going through strange and bizarre possibilities, trying to figure out what would work. Then it finally hit me as I was plastering myself with pun after pun, "Why not base a game on a 'key word' that people have to use? And how about making it into a short phrase?", which I found very quickly that I liked, and thought the rest of you might like as well... Honestly, I'm hoping this game will be self-sustaining, even when I'm away. So, up next are the rather simple rules of what I hope will turn out to be a fine game for everyone here on the forums... Rules: For every 5 2 pages (in other words, 100 40 posts, in-case you're not using the "20 per page" setting) of this thread, there will be a "key word" that you must use as part of a short phrase that you'll then think up and post. When you post your short phrase with its' included "key word", your choice of words MUST be family-friendly, and also must be within the limits of Tip.It Forum Rules. (Failure to follow this rule WILL result in a report and a moderator's edit. I am greatly encouraging reports to the Tip.It Forum Admins in the event that someone wants to get dirty with their word choices. This is to be kept a CLEAN forum game, so foul words are off-limits!!!) Failure to use the "key word" in your short phrase will result in being open to being utterly stomped in some weird manner by someone else in the thread, who will do that in the same post that they get to think up their short phrase on. Short phrases that are posted must have enough space around them to make them fully visible to everyone else, as to avoid confusion during posting to the thread. At the end of every 5th 2nd page (100th 40th post), a new word is to be picked by the person posting at that time, which will then be used for the next 5 2 pages (100 40 posts)... Each new word that is chosen MUST be family-friendly, and also must be within the limits of Tip.It Forum Rules. (Failure to follow this rule WILL result in a report and a moderator's edit. I am greatly encouraging reports to the Tip.It Forum Admins in the event that someone wants to get dirty with their word choices. This is to be kept a CLEAN forum game, so foul words are off-limits!!!) Should a person posting at a 5th 2nd page (100th 40th post) end line fail to pick a next word to continue the game with, they are also open to being utterly stomped, and it is up to the person stomping them to pick the next word. (Obviously, failing to stomp someone and then pick the next word will result in your own being open to getting stomped, so don't forget to pick that next word!) No user's chosen posted phrase may be the same exact phrase as a previous user's chosen phrase, for any given single "Key word"... (Should any post be found to use the same chosen phrase, thereby repeating one that has already been used, the person who duplicated the previous poster's phrase is open to being stomped. Again, stomp them, post your phrase, and move on!) Now, our first word for this thread is going to be... "Knot" ...since it is what I was thinking of at the time I thought of this game... :P Examples(which, obviously, you may not use yourself because I'm using them up right now) ... "Knot funny!" "Oh no, Knot again!" (Yes, HitchHiker's Guide pun there...) "One Knot, or another..." And that's it, folks! With eight simple rules, I leave it to you now to bring hilarity to this thread! :lol: ~D. V. "I have the feeling this thread is going to end up taking on a taste of 'Monty Python' in where it goes..." Devnull

Alright, nevermind everyone... It unstuck after clearing the cache. Perplexing, however, because my "re-check on every page load" setting on this browser should have caused a reload of the image already. :-k I also noticed after the image loaded that it actually came directly from the forums. I thought all of these had been moved to the CDN? Ah well, must have been the internet preventing me from originally getting the image before and so my browser got stuck due to it. :( ~D. V. "Lock this thread, I apparently hit a bump in the internet pipe..." Devnull (p.s.: I've requested a thread lock...)

Killerred, browser versions shouldn't matter in this situation. And I really don't think the CDN is being picky about browser versions either. This is a matter of just one image failing to come down the internet pipe while all the others are loading from the CDN servers. <.< As for me, I'm going to try exiting my browser and clearing the cache, as well as flushing my TCP/IP DNS Stack. If it doesn't unstick after that, then I'm going to be reasonably sure the problem is either in the CDN or the TIF Server. ~D. V. "I've narrowed out a bunch already..." Devnull

Hello, Tip.It Staff... It looks like another odd problem has knocked on the door of this forum. :( While browsing the Tip.It Forums today, I've been constantly noticing that the button background(s) for "Watch Topic", "Start New Topic", "Add Reply", and "Manage Topic Poll" have all been missing. Further, I've been receiving the following error back from FireFox any time I attempt to directly access the image... File not found Firefox can't find the file at http://forum.tip.it/public/style_images/runetips3/topic_button.png. * Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors. * Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted. ...which, given the that I think all of these requests are supposed to be getting redirected to forum.public.cdn.tip.it, would mean that a redirect at the Tip.It Forums Server is currently failing. As I mentioned in the title description, I'm currently using the "Tip.It Theme", and have been since the switchover from PhpBB3 to IPB. Not having those four button backgrounds right now is making the forums much harder to use than usual, so could an admin please get this fixed reasonably fast if/when they are able to? :huh: ~D. V. "Such hard to see text! HELP!!!" Devnull

Hmph... as far as I'm concerned, the "HYT!" ain't dead until the last Tip.It'er who knows about it is. So, who's with me for reviving the "HYT!" as a living and growing trend? Who here wants our community's ever-famous greeting to live on? Well, COME ON ALREADY! I'll see you on Worlds 7, 73, 113, 152-155, and a few random others! :thumbsup: ~D. V. "The 'HYT!' ain't dying while this wandering Tip.It'er is around!" Devnull (p.s.: I think I'm haunting World 154 currently... LOL)

Hi, all... I went digging, and found out something rather nasty. Look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770416.aspx and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732503%28WS.10%29.aspx, and you'll notice in the 1st page's info and the 2nd page's comments at the bottom that Microsoft limited the "/t" switch to 600 seconds. That's a short 10 freaking minutes, way too little! Also, as Stragomagus said, you'll need double-quotes around the text comment that you wish to have displayed back at yourself. :geek: So, the best you can do is... shutdown /s /f /t 600 /c "Windows will shutdown in 10 minutes!" ...or... shutdown /s /force /t 600 /c "Windows will shutdown in 10 minutes!" ...which sucks, in my opinion, a lot. Have fun, if you don't find yourself ripping your hair out first. :( ~D. V. "Bloody command-line switches and syntax..." Devnull

*facewall* :wall: ... Not cool to troll, dude. :shame: Are you calling me a troll? Only about acting like you needed directions to Edgeville when you already knew. :P ... I know the rest of this thread is not a troll, so no need to get worked up over that. You might say I was having a little fun trying to joke back, although I'll admit my jokes sometimes need work. ;) ~D. V. "Yes, I got your joke... LOL" Devnull (p.s.: You might want to start a new RuneScape account unless you have one-too-many already, so you can check out a lot of the low-level changes that have happened to the game. Heck, you might find it has a refreshing feel to it.)

(Sorry, needed to reformat to save space...) I always thought that thing maxed out around Wilderness Level 255! Holy [bleep], that takes the possible limits to a whole new maximum! Can anyone else here say "Wilderness Level 2.1 Billion"??? Now I know it's no wonder we had the Falador Massacre, and other various Wilderness-related bugs! :blink: ~D. V. "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkk!!!" Devnull (p.s.: No trolling was involved in the typing of this post, and it still isn't even as you're reading it. I'm very honestly in shock from seeing the quoted person's post.)

Sir, if I came back from a leave of three years... I wouldn't have members or a glory, I remember where Edgeville is, but I realised for effect it would seem cooler. Don't be the person I once was. Trust me! *facewall* :wall: ... Not cool to troll, dude. :shame: ~D. V. "Ugh..." Devnull

Oh, that's simple! If you're using Ancient Magics, just press your Home Teleport. If you're using Modern Magics, Teleport to Varrock, then head West until you reach Barbarian Village (a.k.a. Gunnarsgrunn) and head North from there until you see those familiar Edgeville buildings. If you're a Lunar Mage with FTP2-CaQ done, you can use the Fairy Ring Network rather easily and put yourself just East of Edgeville, right across the river with the bridge just North of you. |^_^| If you're not a mage, or just don't use it, I don't know what to tell you. :mellow: ~D. V. "Just ask someone for directions!" Devnull

Or maybe I'm just posting how I happen to feel regarding this? You read too much into my hand-signed thoughts. :P Would be a bad place to die, though. Good thing it didn't happen to me. ;) Win :thumbup: I second that. But with two thumbs up! :thumbsup: ~D. V. "No summary/side-thoughts this time... Too many items replied to..." Devnull

I'm going to have to 2nd the idea to have a Sub-Forum within Rants and/or General Discussion about this. Just for starters, a mere sticky would develop too much cross-traffic. Further, it would totally miss both its' initial purpose as well as its' far-reaching purpose, and would die ultimately due to being useless to everyone. Also, it would be nice to be able to converse with others, work out interesting and diverse strategies, and ultimately squish a ton of the bots that are messing up the game for everyone. Heck, it would even be interesting to have some meta-discussion that tries to figure out just how many bot families are currently still alive and/or active out there, as well as the scope of how vulnerable they are to some methods. ;) ~D. V. "Personally, I'm sick of the bots too! Sub-Forum PLEASE!" Devnull (p.s.: BTW, my apologies about how squished together this post is. I was thinking on the fly and was trying to get it up quickly.)

This is definitely a crazy bug. As far as I know however, due to that segment being instanced, it shouldn't be possible for there to be multiple people in the same room area. So anyone that's there won't be able to see if anyone's attackable. But, logging out and back in should put an instant end to that Wilderness Status Indicator, which would put their character back to being safe. ;) ~D. V. "That's just wack, man!" Devnull

I normally hate to play "Devil's Advocate", but she's nailed it on the head. Seriously, there's way too much room for abuse on this one, sorry. :( ~D. V. "Sorry, your idea was dead before it began..." Devnull

Okay everyone, I've read through this whole thread and read that other topic in the above quote, and I'm still puzzled as to two things. Is that info all still current, and where the heck is the convergence point for F2P? :huh: ~D. V. "Still confused..." Devnull

Hi all... I know about the "HYT" phrase. What I don't know about, however, is what happened to the F2P world for Tip.It'ers. Also, what again is the team cape number for Tip.It'ers? :huh: ~D. V. "A few things needing to be pulled out of the sands of time, huh?" Devnull

Hello, Dire_Wolf... There is something that Jagex needs to do before they do anything more with RuneScape. In my opinion, that would be to: REVIVE FUNORB.COM!!! (Yes, there's an infernal amount that Jagex left undone/unhandled/out-of-sorts over there, and IMO it is really past time that they fixed that. If they ever do away with that nice site, I'll be extremely angry.) Now, on the side of stuff for RuneScape, I'm about to get rant-grade due to all I've spotted since RSHD first came out. So, here is a list of some technical things that really need (read as "are beyond overdue for") fixing there: Unlink File I/O and Graphics Rendering (Seriously, this was stupid to let happen in the first place. Who didn't check their boundaries in RAM and such?) Restore proper older DirectX 9 support (They don't have to render all the awesome on older cards, just allow the mode to work but not render what's outside a graphics card's capability.) Restore proper older OpenGL support (Again, they don't have to render all the awesome on older cards, just allow the mode to work but not render what's outside a graphics card's capability.) Better File Closes and Garbage Collection on exit of the RuneScape Java Applet (I know this is possible without crashing everything, because they used to be able to do it before on older systems!) Enable and allow user-chosen configuration of Function Keys with the RuneScape Java Applet (This one's been a long time overdue, seeing as we've lost a lot of quick functions in-game that were very helpful, such as being able to hit something like "F8" to talk with Friends quickly...) Restore functionality to the Middle Mouse Button! (Really, Jagex should never have removed how the Middle Mouse Button duplicated the functionality of the Left Mouse Button in the RuneScape Java Applet. However, since they have, I think they're long overdue with restoring and expanding that lost functionality with additional options.) Enable and allow more control over chatbox's transparency in Resizeable/FullScreen modes (Seriously, that gradient is nothing but a major annoyance in a number of places. Jagex really should have provided more options with the chatbox already, such as solid transparency, in order to handle such.) Enable and allow more control over color settings on the chatbox (Again, another major annoyance here. Put simply, "lack of transparency control + annoying locked blue normal chat color + lack of reasonable color options due to Jagex' assumptions = hard to read chat + severe headache to users", and is yet another situation that didn't have enough forethought put in. I'm really wishing Jagex would think ahead completely when they release features like these.) Now, I'm not asking for the Sun, Moon, and Stars here. In the case of the Graphically-linked matters, I'm only listing these because I'm asking Jagex to at least allow what can work on older video cards and older systems to do so, and just not render the rest on those systems. I really don't mind if they want to have cool/awesome stuff for the newer systems and graphics cards, as long as it doesn't completely block/exclude older systems from being able to use the hardware-accelerated modes to a lesser extent. I'm not going to ask (or make, for that matter) them bend over backwards for older users, but I would at least like to see them have the competency as a company to not just dump users with older PCs off the back end of the Jagex bandwagon. In the case of the other things in this section, they're beyond long-overdue or were something that shouldn't have been eliminated/messed-up, and they really need to be worked on and completed now as well. :geek: On the not-so-technical side, here are a list of some in-game elements that could use (or possibly just flat need) some adjustment and/or re-thinking... A few more Imps to kill (My apologies to Imp-Lovers, but there really just aren't enough of them in F2P to sound like the big annoyance they're touted to be. So a few more of them placed here and there would be very helpful in maintaining continuity in F2P's areas.) Ability to replay old Quests (I know, there's all kinds of wacky issues that could happen here. Jagex is obviously going to have to take time to develop checks to prevent certain Quest-Related Things from happening before they're supposed to. The problem is, unless Jagex allows this, they're not really going to be able to properly show off their changes to Quests to those F2P/P2P who have already long since done them.) Allow Auto-casting Options for Mages to be flipped to requiring a right-click (For some, being able to activate it immediately with a left-click is nice. However, for some such as myself, it is a mere hindrance. Why, you ask? We have a way of changing up spells we're using on the fly and/or interjecting other auto-castable spells in our stream of any single given auto-casted spell.) Ability for Stiles to only note just the fish we want him to (Yes, I'm talking about that fish-note guy sitting South of the volcano at 'Musa Point, Karamja'... I've had a couple spots where I had a few uncooked Swordfish sitting alongside a large batch of cooked ones, and I really shouldn't have to resort to dropping stuff on the ground for a moment and/or wasting time unnecessarily to cook the rest before speaking with them.) Ability to make more Ceremonial Swords ("The Knight's Sword" Quest) after the quest is over (This would be nice just for the purposes of costumes and decorative things, and IMO would be easy to do. Yeah, maybe have a check or two to stop annoying the Squire with, but beyond that shouldn't need too much extra.) OPTIONAL: Restore the Lumby NPC Jobs (These seemed rather useful in the past, and really could use being given another chance in RuneScape.) OPTIONAL: Allow F2P access to the Chaos RC Altar (Okay, I'm NOT going to be pushy with this one. However, us F2P'ers don't mind having to take the long road in, just as long as we can craft some of these for our chaos-rune-based spells. Yes, this would mean allowing Normal Rune Essence to work with this altar, but I really think that's a small price to allow F2P Mage to start becoming balanced against F2P Range/Melee. Heck, at least you wouldn't be giving F2P that shortcut for P2P!) OPTIONAL: Re-think the positioning of the Al-Kharid side's starting area guards down by the boat to Daemonheim, and/or change the fog from the Lumby Swamp area to not cover the boat's location It just seems to me like something got mixed there that shouldn't have. Further, Daemonheim's distance to the wilderness really makes that area more dangerous than it seems. So, I think it would be useful to put an extra layer of protection between newbie RuneScape players and entry to Daemonheim, even if the hint was rather subtle.) OPTIONAL: Ability to replay old Holiday Events (Like Quests, I know there would be a number of issues involved. So I think limiting this one ONLY to people that did the Event would be suitable here.) Augh... sooo many things! This list goes on, but right now there are too many for me to recall all in one burst. I'll be sure to come back and post more once I trip over them. Until then, pardon me and my dizzy brain... :wacko: ~D. V. "You will have to read through the whole long-text-wall post, I can't do a 'tl;dr' version for you this time..." Devnull (p.s.: Dire_Wolf, you might want to fix your signature to point at this thread...)

Been there, done that... Started this thread because of both the annoyance, and because I was thinking of everyone else on the forums. (Jokingly put, I'm not too dim of a lightbulb!) ;) Now that one, I'll admit didn't totally dawn on me because I'm at 1024x768, and I forgot about those still at 800x600... :wall: I know I'm probably going to have to wait for Peter to show up at this discussion thread, but I'll leave my next question up in the air for all to see anyway. Are there any other suitable places that a link to the page could be easily placed at, which would also fit properly within the forum's current layout? Further, if there aren't any easy places available, are there any that could still be worked with? :idea: ~D. V. "In that case, what are the alternative places at option?" Devnull

I don't get it... Nikoliai reminded OP to back up the files on the laptop, and you're being somewhat hypocritical by scolding those who do not offer such advice (even though he did), and then not offering the advice yourself. Either I didn't notice Nikolai say it, or it wasn't there before. As for myself, if you go back and look at my post carefully, you'll notice I actually did offer that advice in the form of a question. Just for your reference, I'll quote it here... ...so you can see that I did. 'Nuff said... <_< ~D. V. "Surprised you didn't notice..." Devnull

That's the wrong tunnel, GoldTatze... Seriously, we really don't want the entry to the TzHaar City. We're talking about the wall that's a distance away from there to the West, just North of some of the "Lesser Demon (Level 82)" that inhabit the volcano's underground. ;) ~D. V. "Not the tunnel you're thinking of, dude!" Devnull

Rainy, I really don't think it's that pointless at all. Would you rather spend (and lose) time having to manually steer to 20-50+ profiles? Or, would you rather that you could save time because all the recent updates from your friends were all in one page to view quickly? :?: ~D. V. "Pardon my bluntness... This can't be a hard choice, can it?" Devnull

Probably the same secret passage the above 3 posters mentioned. Just a guess. ragrag, you hit it on the head. ;) thecrowdlm, do you remember that stone wall I mentioned? That is indeed the one with the secret passage built into it. I guess I could still use a little more work on detail... lol :lol: ~D. V. "I hope this helps piece it together for you?" Devnull

Heh... It could do any one of a number of things, including frying the hardware and/or undervoltaging it. None of them are easy to recover from. Sometimes however, you can get back up just by replacing the PSU. Why? Because there was simply not enough power being supplied, and therefore the motherboard and/or peripherals weren't hit by what was going on. ;) ~D. V. "Yeah, I know... It's crazy stuff..." Devnull