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On-Topic, Zerker rings now increase the max crit of melee, mage, and range by 3%

The Supreme champion helm is cosmetic, at least according to the official wiki. http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/The_Crucible#Supreme_Champions

I'm fairly certain fire giants already use different attack styles based on the weapons they're carrying. I can't find the exact dialogue, but I recall one of the higher slayer masters saying that you should act according to the different weapons that the giants are carrying and change your style (Though that might say more about their defensive differences than their offensive differences).

Isn't piety better on wtf's since the turmoil boost is dependent on the target's att/str levels?

Apparently there will be a free item shop... I would assume potions and food will be all that you can obtain. I would like to think that players who have obtained other things like armor and weapons in the real game would know them best than if they supplied to the whole masses with free armor/weapons and asked for their opinion of each items change and play in combat. Maybe you would get free bronze-rune, but thats all i see coming as freebie test buys. That is mostly me trying to think how a jagex staff member might respond to the question. We may actually have the lose on death mechanic turned off for our accounts like jagex had for their mod accounts so they might be a more honest and thorough play feedback response. [qfc]296-297-313-63795427[/qfc] Free Torva and Chaotic Mauls pl0x (At least for our beta characters). At least that will allow people to test new strategies in this new system with no risk of loss.

I know I was playing and a member then, but I have no personal memories of this event.

Pretty accurate description of the SoF tbh.

Everybody knows that's how it is. More skin equals more attractive bits that mustn't be touched! Think of it as a charisma bonus to armour :D. From this we also conclude that all female (humanoid) monsters must be gay (or at least bisexual). Not sure what that makes non-humans, especially cave slimes... I am getting some serious slave Princess Leia from the new look of the tassets.

I'm sure, just feeling a bit sad. Plus it sounds like these abilities need to be activated in combat, and I liked that the EE could be activated wherever (Unlike the SGS).

Hopefully that means my 10k spec rest pots might be used up faster than they have been. Shame about the enhanced excalibur though, that was my favorite training weapon if I was skilling and could take damage; and I'll be looking to find the best time to sell my d claws, might be a good time to get a bgs too considering the price is low.

Only disappointed that they're still neglecting quests somewhat, but oh well I'm getting into the beta straight away so I can't really complain.

I'm a noob because I'm maxed combat and have basically every skill needed to boss for money, but I've never bossed for money and I'm constantly poor.

Kind of disappointed by the lore just a generic Cinderella replicate. Also has some issues how are the pots stacked with a brush on top and used to cook in when this house is underwater? (Judging by the comments of not using their legs for years) Also why must every single Mermaid be tied into this 1 family? Couldn't we of had a Mermaid society or at least a different family. Personally I'm glad they connected the two quests and fleshed out the three mermaids from Deadliest Catch, their sudden appearance in that quest was such a red herring at the time. Though I would be interested in more exploration of this new race, I thought this lore was sort of neat.

Last one was 99 FM, got it a few days ago no-lifing in Jadinko Lair. Mostly did it for a cape to match my golden mining outfit better than my attack cape lol.

Pretty much my take on it, though I'm reading a book now called Fast and Slow Thinking which may change my position.

I'll try and make this my one post. I like to say that I'm technically agnostic, but functionally atheist. Sure, there may be a god, why not? It's an unfalsifiable hypothesis and the existence of a more powerful force doesn't really have any implications in and of themselves. Now, do I believe in any of the gods worshiped here and now, or even before? No, I've found that there are enough holes in pretty much any religious belief to make it impossible to fully believe that any religion has the "one true grasp on the greater power." Could some parts of some religions be true, maybe, but that doesn't really matter. Religions are inductive by Nature, and without a demonstrably true beginning premise I just see no reason to accept why something should be true when there are also various other explanations that hold the same amount of evidence behind them (Aka, none).

That's something to be set right. The definition of free market includes that everybody has all information, can buy anything and sell anything at any time to anyone etc. It doesn't take much to see that we can't manage that even if it's only because geography determines the speed at which you buy and sell. In a perfect free market, any individual can make more money than the market allows by not providing the information: false year reports showing greater profits to lure investors, for example, or cartels providing wrong information about production costs (of course cartels would be undercut in a perfect free market, but that takes time). You need an institution to make sure people actually stick to the rules, that's what goverment is for. The rules apply to the market as well - rules are restrictions, so the goverment must restrict the market for it to work well. Communism has much the same flaws, that everyone is supposed to work as they are able and take what they need. Any individual can increase their benefit by working less and taking more. Of course in small groups where everyone knows everyone, social pressure works instead of an institution like a goverment. In a way, you could say the goverment is social pressure formalized. And even with all that in mind there is no such thing as a "true" free market in the sense that you can buy ANYTHING. For instance, I highly doubt that it's legal for any private citizen in the US to buy a fully functional nuclear silo complete with warheads and rockets ready to launch, and I also doubt that anyone wants to see that fantasy come to fruition either.

And you think downsizing any other part of the government wouldn't come with either loss of jobs or loss of resources that could make people more vulnerable? It was a rhetorical situation at most, I realize that as hegemon downsizing our military at the moment is a precarious situation at best (Especially with all the North Korea nonsense of late). I was mostly trying to point out the differences between Taiwan/Hong Kong and the US.

If you're referring to the policy of positive non-internention, it's important to remember that he government was still important in creating and maintaining physical and regulatory infrastructure in order to strengthen healthy decision-making, which is absent in the truly lassiez-fairre future that I imagine you're dreaming of. And once again, that's a city-state less than half the size of Rhode Island and the population of Virginia with little to no military concerns, these two examples where "small" government works is unsurprisingly in small countries. And you know what's one of the first things we could cut from the government to become more like the countries you listed? The military.

That's fine. Except you're ignoring how an area with a GNP of $170/person, with no natural resources to speak of, grew into a country with a GNP of about $37,000/person in about 50 years. Socialism didn't get them there, free markets did. And it had nothing to do with massive amounts of US aid sent in by the US to counter Mainland communist influence, the massive influx of intellectuals escaping the Great Leap Forward, or the fact that the Taiwanese government did massive amounts of planning and greatly supported universal education to shift the workforce away from agriculture and towards technology.

Except, you know, the millions of previously uninsured children that his health plan covers. Oh no, those damn freeloading 6 year-olds :rolleyes: No. 6yr olds could easily get coverage in the previous system - it's called Medicaid or Children's Special Health. For people whose employers don't offer insurance or those who don't make enough. I know because I was on it for a span of about three months where my family didn't have health insurance because my dad had just switched jobs and the new insurance didn't kick in for 90 days. Having a pre-existing condition (type 1 diabetes) I desperately needed coverage - 3 mo of supplies are easily over 10k, although we paid 1k for my insurance for a year - that I don't get. I will probably vote for Ron Paul unless it seems like the Rep nominee has a good likely hood of winning. There is no way in hell I want to see Obama reelected. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the looks of things the Children's Special Health program only covered children with recognized pre-existing conditions. While that does cover a lot, if something happened to an uninsured child like, say, a broken bone that doesn't qualify for CSH then the family is shit-out-of-luck. Croce's point was that big government couldn't effectively deal with failing banks. What he didn't mention is that big government caused the problem in the first place, which is why I brought it up. I could bring up dozens of more examples of big government failing in a spectacular way, but that isn't the point of this thread. If you still need an example of why small government is better than big government (which there are very few examples of), look at Taiwan. You know what, if our country was only slightly larger than Maryland, with 2/3rds the population of California, produced less than 1/15th of our total GDP, and was under the boot of a vast global power that forced us to severely limit the possibilities that the government can do I'd agree with you. But you know what, America isn't in a similar situation to Taiwan, at all. Oh, and if you knew anything about Taiwan's politics then you'd know that they have been supporting more progressive governments over the past 30 years, so if you actually were in a government similar to Taiwan's I'm sure you would be raging about how the country is turning socialist.

Key word. First, that's two words. Second, there wasn't a chance in hell jeb Bush was running this year, any candidate who has an actual shot is waiting for 2016 since the American people re-elect a first term president ~75% of the time. Third, Jeb Bush supports Romney fully so I doubt voting for one would be any different from the other. Fourth, why in the hell would we want another Bush in the office? We've already had two and the second one was disastrous.

You know, unless something impossible happens like you get very sick or lose access to health insurance. Nothing like that ever happens, it's not like medical emergencies are the #1 reason people go bankrupt in this country.

Except, you know, the millions of previously uninsured children that his health plan covers. Oh no, those damn freeloading 6 year-olds :rolleyes:

Obama all the way, Romney's just riding the social-conservative wave right now that I despise even more than I disagree with fiscal-conservative policies.