Psycho_Robot

Done

Just put the YouTube hash (the garglemesh after the =) between the youtube tags, like this: [yt]22C8u9wteMM[/yt] makes [yt]22C8u9wteMM[/yt]

Quotes halo's post so everyone can see that he posted in the wrong thread, even if he goes back and edits it

Banned for LENS FLARE

Opens up a huge can of tl;dr on Silver Wits' post and starts rambling on about something completely unrelated. Something involving dinosaurs, laser beams, machine guns that shoot knives, and knives with machine guns along the blade.

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Floccinaucinihilipilificator

I hate you for making it difficult for me to breath. I also hate you for trying to coerce me into denouncing my hotness, if I indeed posses such a quality.

Rick Astley himself shows up to challenge you however. He's none too happy about the Rick Rolling phenomenon that makes a laughingstock out of him and his work, something which you have supported with your haphazard posting. He beats you senseless with his guitar and gives me the cheese because I've never Rick Rolled anyone.

10!

Unfortunately that's extremely flammable.

UbyExPu8BRY YouTube has for one of my favorite videos:

^ pwnd < pwning v pwnee

Reminded me of:

Pro: Quieter than firearms Con: A brutally painful way to kill someone Come to think of it, brutality

No because I have good hygiene practices and therefore have a mild body odor at best. QWERTY or DVORAK?

Nope, I never stood anyone up. Have you?

Its been six months since the initial manipulation started, and it shows no signs of stopping, either on its own or with help from Jagex. With the release of the 180 day price graphs, I'm able to see just how bad things are: [hide=Prices] [/hide] Jagex has shown no interest in doing something to combat this obvious manipulation of prices. In fact, in the "Merchanting Clans - Discussion" thread on the RSOF (QFC:74-75-963-59124148), after 50 pages of posts supporting the dissolution and even banning of price manipulation clans, Mod John H posted this: [hide=Mod John H's post]Hey everyone, I promised to stop back in and post again. Been super-busy here (as always ;)) but at last, here I am. :) This is obviously something that a lot of you feel super-strongly about. I'd like to clarify a few things. I know some people think that Jagex is ignorant and/or under-informed about this situation. Not true. We've had eyes on this issue from the very top of the company downwards. The info in the "Merchanting clans and you" thread was all vetted and approved by Mod Mark, who is our Senior Game Designer. We also have a lot of back-end visibility on exactly what's happening in the Grand Exchange. Basically, Grand Exchange price manipulation is not as serious a problem as some people think it is. Most people probably don't even notice it's happening, and all effects are temporary. It doesn't have any harmful effects on the overall economy, because it doesn't cause any wealth to be created or destroyed - only redistributed. We know there will be players who aren't involved in any kind of merchanting/price manipulation at all. They want to buy a particular item (for a quest etc) on the GE, but when they get there, they find that it's much more expensive than they were expecting because it's been manipulated upwards by a price manipulation/merchanting clan. The player then has a choice to make. They can either choose to pay the market price, or they can choose not to. Remember that no-one is obliged to buy anything, ever. All items can either be made by the player or obtained from drops. Obviously this requires a certain amount of prior time investment in production or combat skills, respectively. The ability to buy items is convenient for players who have not yet invested, or don't wish to invest, that time. If a player does want to buy something, they are still not obliged to purchase at prices they don't want to pay. If they want something badly enough right now, then it's their choice if they pay a price higher than the one they'd like. What goes up must come down, and artificially inflated prices will crash. The crash usually takes prices down to a point below where they started, too. But you don't often see people complaining that the item they wanted to buy was too cheap. ;) And of course, one of the beauties of RuneScape is its open-endedness. The player is free to do something else. So if people do end up waiting a week or so for the inevitable crash, then it's not like their entire progress through the game is halted in the mean time. Moreover, out of all the thousands and thousands of items in the game, only certain ones are even possible to manipulate. It's a sort of "perfect storm" of factors, including the price range, quantity in circulation and so on. The vast majority of items are not manipulable, and of the few hundred that are, it's only practical for the clans to have any measurable effect on a dozen or two at a time. So for any given item at any given time, the likelihood that it is currently being manipulated is very low. It would probably be possible to change the game mechanics so that price manipulation just wouldn't work. But we'd have to be incredibly careful, because we would risk breaking every other trade that currently goes through the GE with no problems at all. Essentially, it would take a non-trivial amount of work to address something that is not a major problem. That's all game-mechanics stuff. There are still some other related issues. A lot of these merchanting clans promise to help their members make huge profits, when really the leaders have no intention of helping anyone. They just want to get rich themselves, and they've worked out that if they can get enough people to push prices up, they can then cream profits off the top. The leaders make money, everyone else in the clan loses money. Some people view this as a definite scam, and that's understandable. These clan leaders are lying to their members, after all. But although that's true in principle, there are obvious difficulties in trying to make this a punishable scamming offence. There would be such a massive time delay between the false promise and the lossy outcome - at least days, probably weeks - that it would be next-to-impossible to link them together. Again, for any individual case, we could probably make these links with enough effort - but it would be incredibly time-consuming, which would take our resources away from other, frankly more important areas of player support. And in any case, all trades are entirely voluntary. No-one has to buy anything, even if someone else is telling them to. That's why the informational sticky makes it so clear that you should never risk anything you aren't prepared to lose. There's also the problem that everyone knows the clan leaders will dump before they say they will. The disreputable clan leaders are telling their members "we'll let you into the inner circle and tell you when the real dump date is, if you will advertise the name of our clan in-game for a certain amount of time" (usually non-stop for many hours). Gullible, greedy players then end up using autotypers (which is against the rules, as everyone knows) and spamming the screen, causing inconvenience for everyone around. In practice, of course, the leaders don't really have any way to know who's spamming their clan details, or how much, and they certainly don't have any intention of letting the spammers into the inner circle. All they want is to get their clan name out there so that there'll be a steady stream of new blood, ready to lose their money so the clan leaders can profit. In short, as we've said many times before, if you join a merchanting clan you are much more likely to lose money than to make a profit. It's your own responsibility, but you've been warned. Cheers, -JH[/hide] The thread is currently nearing 80 pages and no further replies have been made. I've underlined the most frustrating, and quite frankly, insulting passage. It shows just how little Jagex has been paying attention to this whole mess. If Jagex feels like this now, chances are they aren't ever going to change their stance. Because of this abysmal reaction to what is obviously a large crisis, my frustration with Jagex has reached its zenith. I have canceled my subscription and have retired from RuneScape, probably forever, although if Jagex gets their act together, I might come back. I hope they do, I still want that crafting cape.

The gods are forbidden from interfering with living things directly. They can still interfere though. That's why Bandos was able to get away with the whole pendent/chosen commander thing. As long as it's not them in person. According to a few quests Guthix is sort of pushing you in the right direction anyway. I still have doubts as to whether that really was Bandos or not

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banned for having good tastes

Intercepts the water balloon and wings it back at Silver after injecting it with Hydrochloric Acid

Well-versed

I hate you for spreading the filthy, libelous rumor that I'm a girl.

Pro: Keeps life interesting Con: Keeps life dangerous The tiny bat that I happen to have sitting next to me at this point in time.