Will H

Probably the symbol for one of the desert gods, afterall we do have Itchalrin(sp?) god of the dead and Amascut was the goddess of rebirth til she went all mad and evil. The later in particular would fit with resurrecting old enemies. Plus it puts me in mind of Scarabas head; the zammy symbol type part would match the headress/horns roughly, then the angular bull-ish face and the bit scarab jaws: And resurectting foes would also kinda fit with scarabites increased mental powers (figuring out how to make the tower etc) and their increased physicality via training there. Could also perhaps explain slight green-ish hue in concept art if its down in that swampy corner. I really don't think that ornate temples is Scabaras' style though, they seek to hide away underground to live very spartan lifestyles, and practically do nothing other than meditate when Amascut isn't riling them up. I would expect a temple of Scabaras to be extremely simple, and underground. If it's not Zamorakian, maybe it's a temple for a demon of some kind?

A single person hopping from world to world at the GE would be absurdly effective. I'd seriously try this out if I was a P-Mod and got permission. EDIT: Hooray! A thread that's positive! I'd love to hear more ideas for realistically dealing with this.

To tell you the truth, by far the best thing you could get by far would be a Celestial Surgebox with Surge runes and just train RC to 70. Between laws and cosmics though, laws would be better if you C1 your lower floors with other people, and cosmics would be better if you solo them.

As an Admin of a growing 70-man clan with a citadel soon to get into Tier 5, I can say with confidence that this isn't true. Citadels are really quite fun for socially-minded clan. I don't think that this idea is very good. To paraphrase Yahtzee, the difference between a good long lived game and a game that gets boring quickly is that the former is a responsible parent and makes you work for your creations, and that's what makes it all the more enjoyable. I think that the biggest improvement for the least amount of work would be to make the Woodcutting patches more interesting and a bit faster. Perhaps using agility to move from root to root quicker would be more interesting.

I agree. As much as we're all subject to our own little biases, such as the human tendency of people to be more likely to be friends with or date people of similar (racial) backgrounds, there is absolutely no justifiable cause to stop people who don't wish to follow that.

How odd. I suppose I'll never really understand patriotism.

These Canadian Conservatives strike me as being, well, not very good Conservatives. The idea is to reduce unnecessary legislation. I don't understand why people actually care about flags. They should be subject to the same laws as a blank piece of cloth of the same material and size.

It's really rare, but not unheard of. Single effigy drops aren't that uncommon in the grand scheme of things, especially when fighting bigger monsters like metallic dragons, so the chance of a back-to-back drop isn't trivial. This happens much more often than someone winning the lottery, put it that way. Congratulations, though, enjoy the free xp. :P

:wall: #-o -.- :-| :???: :eek: :shock: Nothing else can express how I feel after reading that. Sure, the KB can derp on stat values and game data, but this? Seriously? So the stone of jas in WGS was a different one? The stone of jas emitted power that somehow formed glacors (that magically were not there when the stone of jas was there) or the stone of jas atracted them? It's pretty obvious that the guy who wrote that article hasn't been keeping track of the events of the quests. 'Laying there for centuries' sounds cool, but the fact is that the Stone was only there for storage for a relatively short time. We know that Lucien either created or summoned a glacor during the battle. There weren't any glacors in the cave before the battle, and there were loads of them afterwards. The Glacors are also derived from the power of the Stone. You could then say that: 1. The Stone naturally warped the ice around it into monsters. Lucien was powerful enough to keep them away from the Stone and actually bring one up to the surface. However, you would expect a similar effect in the temple of Guthix, where the Stone was hidden for much longer, and the Balance Elemental isn't really the same thing. Which leads to my theory: 2. Lucien created the Glacor using the Stone during or shortly before the ritual. The Stone reacted by pumping out the same spell over and over again, or perhaps unintentionally imbued the surrounding area with the required magic to form Glacors. It's important to note that Lucien knew nothing about how the Stone works. I'm kinda surprised that he didn't go Melzar the Mad insane, to be honest.

I thought Glacors were one of Lucien's creations, which subsequently went out of control and got repeated over and over by the Stone of Jas. Them being modified icefiends seems likely. I'd say they were the exact opposite of ancient.

When a tau hits your eye like a subatomic pie, that's neutrino... I'm skeptical, but really really hopeful that it's true. It's about time we had a proper shakeup of the known scientific model, Einstein's been the last word for too long.

Hah, if only. It's very difficult to make a mechanism that will stay in its primed state for more than a few hundred years and cause someone injury. Rats and insects and gusts of air will pretty much set off anything, given enough time.

Myself, ideologically I've stated before that I'm an anarchist and would prefer a stateless society. This is my ethos. This is mocked a lot of times as being unthinkable or unworkable. The funny thing is, we always think that what we have is what will always be...until that stops being the case. Many people are very dedicated to the idea that this globalizing liberal capitalism is, while not a perfect system, the best possible system, and one that is here to stay. The existence of this trope is, in its own way, self-troubling: why do so many people who claim to be so confident in the state of the liberal democratic capitalist system spend so much time announcing that confidence? The repetition of these ideas itself suggests a profound unspoken dissonance. Those who are genuinely confident generally have little cause to say so. You can accuse me of a psychoanalytic reading here, and it's a fair criticism, but I tend to find these arguments pregnant with anxiety. I'm not going to articulate an argument for the mechanism by which capitalism will be replaced. I won't articulate what I think the next order will be. I'm only going to offer a weak inductive claim: human systems of political and economic organization are temporary. One of the human psyche's first underlying ideas is that the future will always resemble the past. Our brains are hard-wired to assume so. Critically, we know that not to be the case if we take the argument apart, but it's the best system we know of that approximates the flow of cause and effect that we can perceive and understand. We are not blessed with foresight or absolute understanding of anyone else we live with, so we have to make do. If you don't buy into the idea of it being hard-wired, you could say that it's a similar thing to the scientific process that humans invented. There is no absolute truth in science, only the most supported hypothesis. A theory can be supported by evidence after evidence, and eventually we treat it exactly the same as we would an 'absolute truth', even if it isn't. Basically, our perceptions of how things work are always approximations of what is actually true, and sometimes they're really rough. But they're the best thing that we've come up with. If you think what we have is temporary, that may be right, but you'll never come up with an answer while you're still a human being or live in a time before anything significant has changed. Dwelling on it is a waste of your time. Another part of the human psyche's ideas is that we say what we think to other people. If you're going to start saying that I'm secretly dissonant of liberal democratic capitalism, I'm not going to be able to convince you otherwise because you aren't me. Equally, though, you could say that I'm not a person at all, that I'm an illusion or something. Solipsism takes hold, and we get nowhere. It's a waste of time.

I reckon it's probably better if you tried to get through the first 30 levels or so on lamps and Tears of Guthix and penguins. The rate that you get Dungeoneering xp very much relies on your Dungeoneering level, so although it gets really fast at high levels, it also means that it's really slow at low levels. You don't need a team, but it does make it faster and more enjoyable when you get competent people. Don't be afraid to solo a bit where you're at right now, teams become more important at levels over 70 or so. Also, teams tend to be much more fun if you do them in clans. :) Thirdly, you will have the tokens for Rigour at level 77 if you don't spend any, but most people hang on and go for a Chaotic Rapier, but it entirely depends on what you need as a player. At higher levels, getting more tokens gets faster and faster.

In the case of conflicts and arguments, I always side with whoever I believe is right, family or not. I love my family, but I try my best not to let that get in the way of my true opinions on anything. Call me cold hearted, but the best way I could describe it is that I have an irrational (?) fear of knowingly taking the wrong side. As for sacrificing, I don't really know. I don't know anyone I'd sacrifice myself to to save only their life, but I'd probably do it to save more than one. I'd hurt someone badly to protect my family though. Kill them? No idea.

See, I can understand a thread on this subject, on the day, at a 10 year anniversary. But, we've seen 'news' reports and debates and dialogues about it for about a week constantly beforehand. Now it actually is September 11, we've already heard every single discussion we can reasonably have about it already. The media has killed off any intelligent discussion we could have had on this, and that's hugely disappointing.

tml, and anyone else doing the same, I'd appreciate it if you either didn't post so many videos or at least put them in hide tags if you post a lot of them. I'm trying not to enforce things until necessary, it's just that it's more convenient for everyone if debates were said with words and only punctuated with media when appropriate instead of the other way around. Also, Crocefisso is not being heartless, please don't say that. He's entitled to his opinion, as are you. There are the small minority of legitimate supporters of Gaddafi in Libya and elsewhere, in thought and action. Then there's the majority of people who were forced to show support Gaddafi when his regime was in power, and were in fact apathetic or anti-Gaddafi in thought. Finally, there are the tiny minority of the hardline rebels who did not show support for him on principle, on threat of imprisonment or worse. We all know this, it's the only rational explanation for why we saw huge pro-Gaddafi rallies shortly followed by equally huge anti-Gaddafi rallies when the rebels took over.

Opening an email won't get you a virus unless you open the attachment. This is true. I am not aware of any possible way that an virus can infect your computer simply by opening an email, given that you're using a reasonably up to date email program/browser and OS. It's the attachments and downloads that you need to be worried about.

Just edited the topic title a bit so it doesn't look so much like an official news post and confuse people. If Wessan would prefer it changed to something else, please feel free to PM me. :) Will_H -Tip.It Trainee Moderator

It is not a question of good or lame, but the update is insignificant. An easy filler update to keep their promise. I do agree with you however, instead of these freguent tiny updates they should make less frequent, bigger updates. Er, they're making both. The most hotly anticipated Runescape quest ever is releasing this month. I don't see why you think that's a system that needs fixing. Jagex does a good job when it comes to regular content, like it or not.

The technical difficulty of reworking the prayer system actually makes this a pretty big deal as far as development time goes, to be fair. Would you rather they didn't do anything this week at all?

I make sure to watch every episode of the following shows when they come out, some of them ironically, some of them seriously. Which is which is up to you: Doctor Who Torchwood Sherlock MLP:FIM Takeshi's Castle (with Craig Charles!) QI University Challenge Star Trek: Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and The Next Generation Top Gear Russel Howard's Good News South Park Sanctuary Mythbusters CSI (any of them) NCIS Robot Chicken Futurama Merlin I'm also big into nostalgic cartoons which I grew up with, and sometimes watch them again (they're pretty much all 90's cartoons), including: Teen Titans Dragonball (and Z and GT) Xiaolin Showdown Digimon (specifically the first one and Data Squad, may watch the others online if I get round to it) Pinky and the Brain Pokemon Jackie Chan Adventures Ed, Edd and Eddy Megas XLR Various Hanna Barbera stuff such as Wacky Races, the Flintstones and Yogi Bear Animaniacs Yes, most of it's either childish or geeky, but I don't care.

I largely agree, though I did hear one particularly ironic statement from an NTC official along the lines of 'We will give Gaddafi a fair trial, and then he will be killed by firing squad'. On the issue of the CIA/MI6, it goes much deeper than being the 'lesser of two evils'. Our intelligence agencies encouraged Gaddafi to torture because it was useful to us, and then we scorn him for it (admittedly, he did it long before and would have done it anyway, but it becomes contradictory after our encouragement of such acts). I think there is a difference between exchanging intelligence and whatnot and using Libyan prisons as a sort of Guantánamo Bay in Africa. MI6 and the CIA need to face up to this, apologise, and move on. @Dizzle: not to mention the situation in Bani Walid, Sabha and a few other desert towns. Heh, they're already making gaffes. Anyway, in retrospect, I am oversimplifying the whole CIA/MI6/Gaddafi thing, but that's something that a full investigation needs to deal with. I'm just saying that we shouldn't be shocked that some amount of cooperation occurred. If what you're saying about torture is right, though, then that needs to be dealt with immediately. That's generalising it, a bit, isn't it? The American military isn't some kind of single entity that can be held 'responsible' for small-scale actions like that. Blame the minority of bad eggs that make those decisions instead of tarnishing them all with the same brush. Also, no need to give people you disagree with an image of someone who uses bad spelling and grammar.

I'm starting my second year, going for a MEng in Chemical Engineering with placement (also amusingly known as a sandwich course), but I have no idea what I'm going to do with it. I think where I end up for placement will give me more of an idea of what I want to take for a career, but if not, you can use science or IT degrees like that for loads of things, even if they're not directly related to the specific course. I think the OP would probably be best off looking at Computer Sciences. I've got many good friends in that sector and I hear it's an enjoyable course.

Saw it on a show I was watching and I was like... :wall: I think they're a good thing. It makes it a lot easier to work out who you shouldn't be hanging out with. I don't often use memes, but when I do, I make sure to put them in an appropriate place. Fandom, on the other hand, is a great thing to express on a t-shirt. On a similar note, I've got a particularly elegant MLP wallpaper on my phone to share, nabbed off EqD, which I resized to android's weird wallpaper aspect ratio. I just like the style of it. Also, to anyone who isn't in the know, it just looks like some artsy background when it's covered in widgets and icons. [hide=Warning - Huge Picture!][/hide] At least someone agrees with me here... (I think?) Anyways, that is an awesome picture. Whoever made that did a good job compiling all 6 of those images together. Wear it with pride.