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Do you have any proof that occult works on all targets? I asked on the forums when it first came out and everybody said it's single-target Oh whoops-- was chenw using extremes in the guide? lol I've got a bunch of other data from back when I got 99 ranged way back in actual 2007. I'll share it here later too. idk how to upload stuff to google docs. i mightj ust have to copy and paste the cell formulas for you instead or something

He's not a troll. He's just new to Tipit and doesn't have maxed stats, unlike 99% of TIFers these days :P

Yeah that's kind of what I'm leaning towards. I'll probably go visit him for 2-4 weeks instead. If I enjoy it there then maybe I'll consider doing a full year after that.

Just finished reading The Millionaire Fastlane. 10/10, should be required reading for every human being. Notes/summary here. PDF here.

here's a pic of the chinning/bursting section of my spreadsheet. Note that the figures change depending on what I input. The rates will change if I put in 99 range instead of 77, for example. The costs also change depending on the prices i input. Most of the formulas were taken from this old guide. As far as maging goes, occult necklace gives +10% whereas salve gives +20%. Salve gives +1 more prayer than occult, but 12 less magic attack. But magic attack isn't that important anyways. Then again, neither is magic damage since when it comes to multi-target attacks, the only the target you're focusing gets bonus damage; not all 10 targets. I'm 60 attack so I can't use the staff of the dead, though I'd use it over ancient staff if given the option. I'm probably going to be using a smoke staff and smoke barraging once I get the required mage level. If I had the time/willpower to do another test run I'd see what the difference is between 15% magic prayer and no magic prayer. But given the possibility of disconnecting and losing all of my shit, I'm not really interested in prolonging trip times more than necessary :P

Well so far the only info I have for ice burst was at 79 magic at ape atoll... 153 xp per ice burst 157.4k xp/hr 15% magic prayer mystic robes, fury, imbued seers, infinity boots, god cape, god mitre, barrows gloves, ancient staff, zammy book Around 6gp/xp imbued salve (e) would probably boost things slightly.

I'm planning on bursting/barraging to 99 mage first since it's more useful and I imagine chins will drop back down to a realistic price eventually, either via bots or via a repolling of black chin grieving. Sold all my chins for runes >_> I've got a bunch of math and info/calculations on my osrs spreadsheet, i'll have to copy and paste some of it here later

One of my closest friends is planning on going to teach English in Korea for a year in August. He wants me to come with him though I'm on the fence about it. I'm not particularly fond of abandoning all of my goals for a full year, though I've always wanted to go abroad and explore >_> Hmm..........

Perhaps I'm just a weirdo in the sense that I only genuinely desire things which I know for sure are realistically obtainable if I just work at it enough. Knowing that an option is unavailable to me (or just unrealistic) is enough to make me lose interest in that option... kind of like how I have no interest in super hot girls if they're dating my friends :P They're not an option for me and therefore are not worth thinking about. My disbelief in marriage makes me indifferent to the idea of getting married even if the laws surrounding it were completely fair and rational. So perhaps that's not the best example to use for discussion :P Though, if I did want to get married under the condition that the laws were changed, my attitude right now would basically be, "If the laws change, cool, I'll get married. But I'm going to assume that will not be happening and plan my life around that assumption accordingly." In other words, I'd base my decisions (and happiness) off what I know is possible already. I wouldn't expect or depend on an unlikely change for happiness.

I still can't see the difference between "rescuing" and "empowering" >_> If I say that I'm weak and I need to be empowered, I'm basically asking for someone to rescue me lol Think of it as extrinsic verse intrinsic motivation. Empowerment comes from within, Rescuing is a reliance on others Was looking for a particular post in a previous page on this thread and saw your response here. Whoops. My late response to this post is: Yes I'd agree with that-- empowerment comes from within whereas rescuing depends on someone else. In this case we're talking about people on an individual level. What if we expand this principle to the collective level? Does the principle still hold up? I think it does, and I have a feeling that almost everybody else does too. However I draw different conclusions from this principle than other people do... You know my philosophy: if you as an individual are capable of doing something, then the collective is irrelevant. The smarter/tougher individuals will empower themselves and become happy/successful regardless of the woes of the society that surrounds them. The dumber/weaker individuals will beg to be rescued by everybody else and will probably remain unhappy/unsuccessful because they don't know how to get things done on their own. So, back to this principle with regards to women and equality, if I was a woman in the modern age then there's no denying that I'd experience certain things differently than if I were a man. Let's take the pay gap issue. People will say women earn 75 cents for the same job that a man gets paid 100 cents for. Let's pretend that literally means my coworkers who hold the exact same position as me at work earn 33% more money than me for doing the exact same thing. My first financial goal would be to earn $75k/yr. This is because most studies suggest that past $75k/yr, more money won't make you significantly happier. Unless there's some sort of serious condition affecting you, it's well within anybody's power to earn $75k/yr in the modern western world-- regardless of their upbringing, their ethnicity, their gender, their sexual orientation, etc. The difference between these groups is the difficulty in achieving that goal. Is it possible for everyone to hit a goal like that? Definitely. Is it even probable? Yes. Is it easy? It depends. If you're born a woman, or if you're born black, or if you're born gay, there is no denying that life is going to be harder for you than if you were born a straight white male. Given these facts, you have two choices: 1. Choose to work harder than your contemporaries in order to get what you want out of life. 2. Complain about how unfair it is that you have to work harder than your contemporaries, and then cross your fingers and hope that everybody else will change the system so it can benefit you. On the individual level, option #1 will get you to where you want to go. Option #2 will most likely just leave you unhappy and unsuccessful. On the collective level, if you tell everybody that the answer is option #1, they're just going to get pissed off at you and call you names before they retreat to each other for reassurance. Option #2 makes everyone feel more important and it's a lot easier than option #1. I think most peoples' life problems break down into three core groups: relationships, health, and money. Generally speaking (obviously there are exceptions), for the vast majority of people, it is totally possible (and probable if they're serious about it) to be successful in any of those three areas. However, the simple fact that it's going to be harder for them to be successful than their good-looking, rich, white straight male neighbor is enough to make them think that it's impossible to be successful. Whenever I try to emphasize how important responsibility and accountability are to happiness, I worry that people are going to misunderstand me as being callous and unsympathetic towards those who have to work harder than normal to be successful. That's sort of true, in a glass-is-half-empty sort of sense. The (optimistic) way I see it is: every human being has a lot of untapped potential. They've just been raised to believe that any attempts to nurture that potential are futile so long as there are other people out there who can be more successful with less work. So back to my original point (holy shit this turned out longer than I was expecting): whenever I see some sort of political movement such as feminism or the men's rights movement or the wealth gap, I just think about things on the individual level. Do I care about how much money some corrupt banker is making if I'm making enough money to make me happy? No, not at all. I couldn't care less. Do I care about men who are getting screwed in divorce courts and losing everything? No, because I do not plan on getting married and making the same mistakes as those guys. Do I care about women earning less money than men? No, because I know that they are capable of earning enough money to make themselves happy if they work hard enough. TL;DR: Just take any issue that affects you and ask yourself how you as an individual can overcome it. You'll be a lot happier and more confident for doing so.

The defense rests, your honor :D

You just proved my point >_> Ask yourself: why did people choose to donate to Suomi, of all people? Why did people donate to Suomi and not you? What's the difference between you two? I want respect when i finally achieve 200m all. not controversy like suomi has caused. Not sure if you're dodging my question intentionally or not, but the answer is because AFAIK Suomi was the most reliable candidate for 200M all, not you. At the very least, he is/was more reliable than you. There's easier ways to get people to respect you than getting 200M all skills w/o donations on a video game BTW :P The #1 easiest way to get people to like and respect you is: [hide]to like and respect other people in return (big surprise, huh? :P)[/hide] I remember the month when I was a celebrity on RS with my fire cape world record. I had strangers PM'ing me and stopping me on the (RS) streets to talk to me. But I didn't really care about their admiration because I didn't know them and they didn't know anything about me other than my achievement. The only people whose respect I cared about was the respect from my closest friends-- and I already had their respect regardless of my achievements. So in other words, if you get 200M all skills without donations, then cool. Just keep in mind-- the strangers who blindly adore you don't know anything about you besides your achievements, so they're not getting the full picture of you. The only people who get the full picture of you are going to be your closest friends, and if they are indeed your friends, then they'll respect you regardless of what your total XP is and regardless of how many donations you accepted and regardless of how much RL money you spent on your account. If you're making things harder on yourself because you're afraid that your friends will lose respect for you, then that means they aren't really your friends. Just my two cents :D

You just proved my point >_> Ask yourself: why did people choose to donate to Suomi, of all people? Why did people donate to Suomi and not you? What's the difference between you two?

It really just boils down to the player's motives and values. If they value esteem, prestige, recognition, envy, etc. then they will refuse donations and handicap themselves by training less efficiently. If they value accomplishing a goal or being the best, then they will choose the smartest, best options to do so, without having to worry about how others may perceive them. Regardless of which choice they choose, they will be flamed for not choosing the other path by the people who chose differently. I still don't really understand why accepting donations means you lose prestige/recognition/respect/etc, but meh. A lot of people these days (in both RS and RL) believe that if you have a lot of money, then you're evil, greedy, selfish, lucky, etc. It's just how a lot of people in the modern western world think. They see wealth as an "event" and not a process. In RL, if someone creates a company and then sells it for millions of dollars, everyone thinks about how lucky that person is. They don't take into account the years and years of ups and downs and failures that led up to that moment. In RS, if someone makes a Youtube/Twitch channel or something and starts getting millions of GP in donations, nobody takes into account the time/effort that it took for that person to market and create a brand for themselves. Instead, all they see is the end result of that hard work, and they get pissed off because they think that those results just came from nowhere, and they're angry that those results are happening to other people and not them. They don't realize that the reason why some people are making more money with a lot less work is because some people understand how money works better than they do, and consequently they make better financial choices and reap the benefits for doing so. It's also a lot easier to complain about people who are more successful than you, than it is to change your behaviors so that you can be successful yourself. :P

It really just boils down to the player's motives and values. If they value esteem, prestige, recognition, envy, etc. then they will refuse donations and handicap themselves by training less efficiently. If they value accomplishing a goal or being the best, then they will choose the smartest, best options to do so, without having to worry about how others may perceive them. Regardless of which choice they choose, they will be flamed for not choosing the other path by the people who chose differently.

Why are donations relevant to 200m agility >_>

I think he should keep dating while still improving himself. I have a feeling that the reason he's taking a break to focus on self-improvement without any dating at all is because he's still afraid of dating and rejection, and is looking to rationalize his way out of that discomfort. But then again maybe the glass is just half empty with me haha

old man yells at crowd IIRC

I feel like he was on the right track but then suddenly it all went out the window lol

It's sad that an attitude like that is extremely common

i had a similar problem a few years ago, but found this handy guide that solved the issue permanently: http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account Lol the trends are just one of the small prices I have to pay in order to have a simple and free way of keeping in touch with my old friends. :P

Ya it shows up in the upper-right for me, just below Birthdays. Though it also looks like the top trends are shown in a random order.

It's "yesallwomen" not "yesallgirls." In a nutshell, a male virgin around our age went on a shooting spree as "revenge" against all the women who rejected him. And of course, instead of investigating the sexually-repressed nature of our society or the prescription drugs he was on, or why most men don't know how to get laid, the media is instead focused on reminding us that we are not entitled to women's affection. Yeah, no shit, that's why he killed all of them! I generally try to minimize my time spent reading about all of these "issues" though because at the end of the day, they'll only put me in a bad mood. People are generally just having kneejerk reactions and making mountains out of molehills when it comes to this stuff. As I read this thread, it seems like Ginger's trying to convince us that we've still got women chained to our refrigerators, when in reality, I think most women are doing just fine. Yes there is still sexism and inequality. But it's to a "healthy" level these days and it's something that will never be solved completely until humanity's extinction. EDIT: Got on Facebook, #YesAllWomen is the the #2 "trend" on my newsfeed. What's #1? "EMMA WATSON GRADUATES FROM BROWN UNIVERSITY: Emma Watson considers her education an act of rebellion. So, here she is, sticking it to the man." The irony here is that she got a degree in English instead of something like Engineering so she's keeping that "pay gap" wide for all the men she's trying to rebel against. Wish I knew how to turn off my Facebook "trending" thing. Like I said-- its blatant lack of facts and rationality makes my blood boil :P

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