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Regarding the DYK: Don't ALL of the summoning shops buy for 25 each? As well as on the GE? I missed the significance of this tip.
GE, they often don't sell, and max is 10k every 4 hours, so if you have a lot, they take a while.
Okay. That makes sense then. :)
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Regarding the DYK: Don't ALL of the summoning shops buy for 25 each? As well as on the GE? I missed the significance of this tip.
WOW.
Two well-written and well-edited articles. There's a few tiny things, yeah, but nothing that distracts from the content of the articles themselves. This is exactly what I'd like to see every Sunday. :thumbup: :thumbup: for the editing team and the writers.
Racheya called a meeting and chewed our butts out after last week. :P
She can be mean when she cracks her whip.
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Help and Advice, aisle 2. :smile:
It's difficult to say, because it depends on your attack level as well (how often you hit). You first have to figure out how much strength xp you average per hour. Then divide that number by the experience you have left to 99. That will tell you how many hours it will take.
Ex: Say you averaged 40k xp an hour in strength, and you had 6 million xp till 99 strength.
6 million / 40k = 150 hours
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I don't think anybody has said "betwixt" with a serious face in 300 years. Seriously, I can't even say it out loud without cracking a smile.
Other than that it read just as you described it: background information to what could've been a decent story. It's a shame you stopped here.
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As Paw pointed out, the meter and rhyme scheme do not fit a ballad form. I like the concept though, but it needs a good rewrite with particular attention to your meter.
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Every line is a worn-out cliche. The descriptions are so generic and vague that your reader will barely be able to understand what you are trying to communicate. (At least in "This is Halloween" we have some idea what the monster under the bed looks like: Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red.) The first two stanzas seem to contrast one another: light/dark, good/evil. At that point, I can find some pattern or relationship between the two. The third stanza loses me though. I don't know what you are describing, and I don't understand the relevance to the first two stanzas. The last stanza only appears to be a jumbling of the first two stanzas, but if there is a point to be summarized by doing this then I missed it. I do not know who "I" embodies in this poem. Is "I" the monster, the dove, the stranger, and the ghost? Another thing that makes it awkward for me is that the poem is directly addressed to me, as if it's answering questions I haven't asked yet. Because the "you" in the poem may not be able to personally relate to the experience, it may be more effective to address the poem to another character. Even the narrator itself would be a better candidate as long as you change the "I am" phrase repeated throughout.
The only features I could identify as far as structure were four lines to each stanza and the aa,bb... rhyme scheme (except for line 14). I'd recommend toying with more complex rhymes and poetic techniques, or at least find more interesting words to rhyme with besides words like "bed" and "head". The reason is because those rhymes are what's going to stick out the most in your poem. It's what your readers are most likely to remember, so you want to pay closest attention that your rhymes are not dull or sound forced.
After rereading it a few more times, the only theme I could come up with is death:
"Scary Death" - There's a monster under my bed and a ghost threatening to haunt me forever.
"Friendly Death" - A person I love (whoever that is), who isn't just a white dove, but the purest white dove, is whispering on the wind that I have nothing to fear.
"Death of People I Don't Know" - Random dead strangers are threatening to haunt me, too?
and a recap (I wouldn't really call it a refrain) in the final stanza.
As I said before though, all of these different characters is in fact the same character, presented as "I am" throughout the entire poem. The true riddle to discovering any meaning is figuring out who "I" really is then. In order to do that though, you must figure out the broadest subject that could personify all of these elements at once. The only thing I could come up with was death. Even if this is true then I still don't understand the purpose, or meaning of the poem. Is Death himself merely making an observation to "you" about the different things he could be?
There is a difference between leaving it open enough for your readers to draw their own conclusions, and making something so obscure and vague that it becomes senseless. Even when I dive this far into your poem to attempt to extract some sort of meaning from it, I keep doubting myself and am wondering if I'm simply trying to read too much into it. Of course, this is just my personal analysis. Here's an exercise: Hand your poem to ten people at random and ask them to describe to you what they think it's about. The fewer people who get it right means the more you may have to rework it.
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If they have good reason to suspect you as a terrorist I'd let them do a lot more than tap your phone. The only reason you should be scared is if you think they'll make a mistake, and the only reason I could see that happening is if your acting like a terrorist. So simple solution, don't act like a terrorist.
Also about Republicans criticizing Obama about this, if they do I'd clock them. Also haven't heard anything about this outside of here. And finally just so everyone knows I've been described as a "far right-wing nutcase" or something akin to that.
They technically don't even need to prove you're a terrorist. Under this kind of authority, the executive branch can pull you out of bed in the middle of the night and detain you while indefinitely suspending your usual rights. The idea that "well, as long as you're doing the right thing then you have nothing to hide" is a naive way of looking at it. This gives the executive branch the authority to circumvent the checks and balances built into your government for the sake of cutting through bureaucratic red tape. It grants one office of power the potential to abuse their authority. I'm disappointed in Obama, and I'm a left-wing Democrat.
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I played HD up till a couple of months ago, then my comp quit handling it smoothly. I downgraded to SD mode and it runs just fine.
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Thanks for shoving four different discussion about four different updates into one beast of a thread!
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So, the choice is yours. Do you sacrifice your money now to gain a multiple advantage on your coin to boost yourself to new heights? Or do you take heavy advantage of the money flow and get more now, so that later if the market collapses under the weight of the influx, you will have more purchasing power then?
You may decide to gain the immediate training time advantage and hope your investment pays off, or fail and end up paying for your gambit later. On the other hand, if you take the long bet and decide to go for profit entirely, you could end up on top in the end. At the same time, you might find that your time was worth more to you than the gold.
Or hell, you can just ignore it all and remove yourself from the economic rush entirely with unrelated training. Then again, maybe you can combine that with the profit angle (avoid the drug you deal in, so to speak) and make some scratch on the side. That might not be as profitable as devoting your time to one goal, though.
This isn't a horrible event. People keep acting like every darn thing that happens to them will ruin the game. It'll take much more than that to throw off years of stubborn resistance to reality. Runescape plows ahead with nary a thought to the consequences. Won't get anywhere refusing to deal with it.
You've got a decision to make. What will it be?
This may be my favorite post of the internet. lol
It sums up Runescape and us so well.
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the clan community has never relied on tip.it it's always been centered around runescape community. That battle was lost before it began.
there has been no golden era in runescape. There has been a golden era of tip.it, which is what i claimed.
I don't think you're the one to decide anyway, this happens to be a discussion under the "feedback" part of the tip.it forums.
sadly, with these new boards, nothing older than 2006 exists in the general discussions board. Otherwise, i'd tell you to read the forums of the past.
why aren't the tip.it forums as successful as it was in the past, today then? If you can't provide an alternative explanation, i suggest you re-examine my theory.
please get some facts from the past if you wish to argue further.
So I'm the only one who is required to provide facts in this discussion.
1) I don't even know what it is that you are asking ME to prove. This isn't about me, or you for that matter.
2) You are the one making claims that tip.it is worse today than ever, and that things need to change. Where are your facts?
3) You might want to do a little fact-checking on your own last post.
I don't appreciate being talked down to either, as if I'm a child who hasn't been here long enough to know what he's talking about. But you know what? You enjoy your little discussion on your own then.
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You mean that great era where a handful of Tip.It mods managed to drive almost the entire clan community away? I think that was a time that perfectly sums up my point.
When it comes to the players, there was no golden era in Runescape. There are too many people who have it in their head that things were so much better "back in the old days", but of course those old days are usually relative to when they first started playing. I won't abandon my principles so we can create your ideologic vision of what Tip.It used to be.
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It'll be crazy for a couple of weeks, but as far as LONG term effects there will be little impact. Short term it degrades the value of xp, and of course ties an already weak trade system into further knots. The length of this event won't be long enough to do major damage though. The worst of it will be players expecting this to become a routine event, and if Jagex does decide that then I might have to seriously consider retiring for good from Runescape. I don't like the idea of the event, but I don't think it'll affect gameplay in the long run.
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I'd love to go, but I don't think I'm allowed back in England ever since the "incident." -.-
Did you pee in their tea?
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you have no right to anthing, be you 99 slayer, 200m hunter xp, or whatever. Jagex gives you the right to participate in its content. that is something to be humble about.
I was agreeing with you up to this point, then I shook my head. Paying customers do not bow down and act grateful for the privilege of giving them money to play the game no matter what. If members aren't happy and get tired of it, then they stop being members.
you pay for a service, you get what you pay for. I shake my head right back at you, paying customers in no company directly decide what company strategy is. That is a privalige reserved for shareholders. Paying customers, be they happy that something is on sale, or that their favorite shoe now comes in their favorite color, whatever, they have no influence on the company, and can only be happy that the company has chosen to do something they like. Maybe humble the right word or phrase. *plays English is my second language card* Jagex may refuse the right, as any other establisment, to serve any customer for any reason, that is their right. Jagex develops the game, not you, they choose and decide, you recieve new content and play. heck, they could stop giving out new content and demand the same membership price for membership features if they like, not that they should, will, or it is morally acceptable - they could and you could do NOTHING about it.
They can and then I don't have to pay.
A company doesn't have the right to take your money AND THEN refuse you service. I agree that Jagex holds all the cards and makes all the decisions. After all, they have a lot more to lose in this venture than I do. If I as a customer am on happy, then I can simply walk away and select from the thousands of other internet games on the market. If all the customers walk away from Jagex, however, no more Runescape. In that respect, it is in their best interest to listen to some of the feedback.
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-yes, content-less praise is spam.
My comparisons were with the extremities of free speech, as it is there the boundries are neutrally descernable. I personally believe the boundries of publication lie where there is a utilitarian purpose for a post, other than "using my right". This logic emnates partially from the existance of moral boundries more absolute, thus my comparisons function as a basis for further presicion in where the boundries lie (in my opinion at least). They were not intended as direct comparsions, and as an intelligent reader, i think you understood that.
yes, there are real responsibilities that come with free speech. Especially so, when concerning publication: you have an ethical and moral responsibility to ensure that the content of what you publish has meaning for others. If everyone were to excersise their right of free speech every time they had a strong opinion on something, the asides of monologue would stifle all dialogue. Each and every one of us has a responsibility to excersise our right when it is important, and has effect.
Now every publication has editors. The editors have a responsibility to ensure that their publication serves a purpose. Thus, our editors, the moderators, are responsible for moderating the forums such that posts are useful to other people. Yes, this is at the discretion of tip.it, but there are arguably some standards that are universal. There are arguably posts that are spam, many of these only posting an opinion, with no attempt at dialogue.
It is the responsibility of the moderators to ensure that the forums serve a purpose, and cater to a constructive community.
The boundaries of free speech are far more liberal than where you would choose to impose them. Inappropriate and meaningless are not synonymous, which means it still doesn't justify your argument. Who is going to decide what has meaning? You? We decide for ourselves what has meaning and what doesn't. Even what you consider pointless bemoaning can be meaningful data. It represents an individual's point-of-view.
Mass communication is in a slightly different category from casual conversation, and in this context I'd place the message boards in the latter. Even still, a publication decides what their individual purpose is: to inform, to entertain, to instruct, etc. The individual publication decides for themselves what's important, and it usually boils down to who their target audience is.
The Tip.It forums is a different entity. It's a place for the Runescape community to congregate and express themselves as individuals. The level of moderating is superior to what you would find at the RSOF. Sometimes, I feel the mods here go a bit too far. How far are you expecting them to go? When censorship goes too far, then you have no dialogue.
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you have no right to anthing, be you 99 slayer, 200m hunter xp, or whatever. Jagex gives you the right to participate in its content. that is something to be humble about.
I was agreeing with you up to this point, then I shook my head. Paying customers do not bow down and act grateful for the privilege of giving them money to play the game no matter what. If members aren't happy and get tired of it, then they stop being members.
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You know, the staff could go all nazi-mod and delete anything and everything, but then people leave. The internet is about freedom of speech, freedom of information, and as long as someone isn't being offensive, who has the right to control what they say?
hi y-guy!
ot: having the right to say something doesn't mean you should, and it certainly doesn't mean a community should be obliged to endure your bemoanings. Even with a right to free speech, this right must be executed with reason, respect and humility. A national right to free speech does not guarantee a right to publication, which is what posting on open boards on the internet consists of. Because I can moan and groan freely in private, does not entitle me to anything on public forums.
I can guarantee you that the tip.it community will not regain the sophistication, activity, vibrance and friendly community since its foundation through 2004 without more rigorous moderation.
defending free speech as a right is good, that does not mean the public should endure the destructive use of it. Because you have a right to burn flags, make hateful religious cartoons or bemoan every update does not mean tip.it should publish those views or endorse those actions.
the right to free speech must be used selectively, and foums mods are obligated to make a selection that promotes constructive contributions thus constructive development of this community.
If the destructive moaners leave, the rest of the community is better off, and new users are more likely to stay.
By that same logic, we should censor any posts that praise an update or display their excitement for a future update. Why only attack negative comments?
How can you legitimately associate a poster on Tip.It who complains about a recent update to offensive speech. Does it put you under that much duress to read it? Are these posters looking to incite a crime? These are the REAL responsibilities that come with free speech, and you are overreaching in your comparisons.
Oh, and that right to free speech does extend to publications...since that's all part of the free speech thing ya know (Journalism 1101). Where it ends here though is at the discretion of the owners of Tip.It.
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Remember the door-spammers? Bored kids with nothing better to do than irritate those around them. God, at least they got rid of them.
Yeah I tried doing this to an AFKer for the lulz and it didn't work. Slowed him down a bit though, he kept running all the way round the furnace.
lol, yay bots.
I was talking about people like the ones who would camp out at say Castlewars and keep shutting the door on anybody who tried to open it for their own amusement.
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It's a wonderful surprise to see the Seers' Journal back up! Keep it up!
In response to Dynamic Filtering:
I was honestly surprised to see that much fuss kicked up over the Fire Cape requirement. If a player has 93 Slayer, then I'd suspect they have the skills needed to beat Jad. All of the excuses I heard about human and computer limitations preventing them from beating Jad was garbage, and I personally believe that would represent a negligible amount of players. Okay, so they "fixed" the Strykewyrm requirements, but that wouldn't solve their real problem would it? Jagex apparently still has this huge mini-game that's inaccessible to so many high-level players. Shouldn't they work on that now? Maybe it needs to be nerfed. Seriously, I don't believe it makes much difference with or without the fire cape requirements.
Even so, Jagex was in a damned if you do/damned if you don't situation. When they don't respond, then players get angry and yell that Jagex is out of touch and doesn't listen to its fans. When they do respond, Jagex is blamed for "caving in" on the pressure from fans.
I would argue that Jagex has changed their policies though, and in some instances quite dramatically. Just a few years ago Jagex was looked upon as an ever-silent figure who never responded to any criticism. What you almost seem to be suggesting is that Jagex should return to that role. They did at one time remove the Rants forum completely, only to apologetically give it back. They've already removed other options of contacting the company. It would appear that Jagex is intentionally trying to funnel players to the forums to communicate.
It's also a general rule of thumb that you will read more complaints than compliments, because the ones who are satisfied are too busy playing the game to write on the rants forum. Sure, there is plenty of nonsense posts, but reading through a few well-written ones gives context that you would lose from just polling the community. It ain't always pretty, but I appreciate that I still have the option to voice my opinion freely if I choose to. The dynamic filtering approach means that some people just don't deserve an opinion. It may be easier to deal with some of the feedback, but wouldn't it make the company appear aloof and out of touch? (Click on 'Request' and humbly request an audience with her majesty....What?...Denied?) Would the end results be any better?
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The new skill will allow you to play as a player who plays Runescape. Similar to World of World of Warcraft.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play
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The first article encouraged me to log on to f2p and throw some major insults (the ones that people are really sensitive about - racial, gender and age related) at random people. Nice work, Forsakenmage, I thought, you made me remember it's possible to kill people without leaving a trace.
However, it was a total disappointment. Either RS players don't know english nowadays or all of them play with public chat off. Noone even noticed major insults thrown straight in their face.
And basically that means the article was written without looking at the current situation. We have roughly a 50/50 situation, where 50% are the occasional RS players who always played RS because of it's strong (much better than in other MMOs) solo gameplay element. In solo games, if someone tells you something along the lines "**** *******? ****** ******* ********* ****** ****!", you don't really care about that. Hence such people don't take EVERY word, that a random PC (player controlled character in this context) says, personally. Even if that's said directly at them.
However, the other 50% love teamplay (the aspect in which RuneScape is severely weak up to this very day), also like player interaction, chatting, making friends on-line, etc. They seem to CARE about what others say ALWAYS, even when they SHOULDN'T. Honestly, I don't give a [censored by author] about them, because it's better if a game teaches them not to listen to everything random strangers say (think insults, scamming, false accusations etc).
Setting aside the made-up statistics fail, you have a rather immature and irresponsible outlook on things. In fact, I think you got the point of the entire article backwards. It wasn't aimed at those who might take comments too seriously in the game. It was aimed at those who don't think or care about what they say to others.
The internet gives people a degree of anonymity, and some people are believing they can say or do whatever they want without consequence. I believe most people, though, fail to keep in mind they are interacting with real people. I've been yelled at in Runescape the same way an angry video game nerd might yell at his television screen when a game doesn't do what he wants. I know how to handle myself, but out of context the situation can look like someone losing his self-control and going off the deep end. What's worse is can't just be unintentional; somebody frustrated for a moment. No, they have to think about what they say, then type it out, and THEN they still have to press enter to pass their message along.
I know what I can do in that situation, but the player yelling at me doesn't know that. That's the real point I believe Forsakenmage was trying to make. Player-controlled characters don't speak in Runescape. Players do. And you're not speaking to an avatar in the game. You are speaking to another player. The fact that they are strangers, that you don't know who they are or what state of mind they could be in should make you a little more conscious of what you say. I have a ten year old cousin who plays the game, and I know there are even younger children who play. I'd rather they not be the target of racial and sexist comments. I know of several players (some ranked very high) who have severe physical handicaps. Even leaving their homes can be very difficult, and so Runescape becomes an outlet to the world, their community. We don't know the mental state of some players, whether they are fighting depression, agoraphobia, anxiety, etc. We don't what kind of day they've been through in the real world. They could've been fired from their job, kicked out of school, broke up with their partner, just got home from their parent's funeral...
And yes, there are those who are oversensitive, who will dramatize every statement made and take it way over the top. Should we give them some respect? Yes, if we want to have any respect for ourselves in the game. Unfortunately, the tolerance of many veteran players grows over time, and we learn to ignore most of what is happening around us. The message was simple: Have enough respect for yourself to respect those around you. They have a right to enjoy the game as much as you do.
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lol. I got thirty seconds into the video and was bombarded with misinformation and, from the best I could tell, made-up facts. I do agree that our current monetary policy is dysfunctional, but returning to the gold standard would be economic suicide for our government.
Tip.it Times 14 March 2010
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You can't train strength with a whip, so it never really replaced the scimmy.