Sy_Accursed

Sliske and all the mahjaratt do things in devious ways. Why can't of he taught her the obvious guthixian stuff she'd of heard about to make it convincing? And as I said before no solid evidence or reason why she couldn't of already known some stuff. And both ways: Without her knowing some basic ritual stuff how could she hope to do an advance one to awaken nex?

A possible explaination: Ashuelot Reis was a guthixian of some kind and knew many of the basic teachings and rituals etc. If she didn't how could she hope to perform the advanced stuff needed to awaken Nex? The supposed priest aka Sliske taught her the rite to re-awaken Nex, a supposed servant of guthix, she went she did. She died, she realised her error and took the steps to become a nature spirit. Plothole closed with nothing thats too far fetched or directly contradictory to things explicitly told to us. More likely/obvious: Absolutely zero grounding to Zarosians would not know Guthix. It is completely unclear when any of the gods arrived in relation to Guthix in the lore AND just because he was in slumber doesn't meant they wouldnt know about him. All the inhabitants certainly would and could of mentioned it and would of had temples etc. Only god we have definite appearance of info is Zamorak. Plus factor in all these mahjraat like Sliske have been in hiding since Zaros demise, which was pre-godwars, its perfectl feasible in all thoose thousands of years he could of learnt stuff. Same as Lucien learnt about the staff of armadyl and stone of jas.

All your examples are night or heavily clouded so they are obviously much darker lighting conditions and cloud colours. Lens flare meh personal taste, near impossible to get them shots of a low daytime sun without lens flare. And all you're examples I'd say look "over-sharpened" in places, the clouds generally don't but solid cloud cover in darker conditions has no edges to be sharp. All the landscapes, tractors, windows and neon signs look just as sharp if not sharper than my details and of course white edges in bright light can look quite harsh cause white naturally glares, ever tried looking at people in white shirts in bright summer sun? Hurts ya eyes and becames a mass of "empty space" of sheer white. They ain't brilliant HDR subjects or the best photos ever I just fail to see any issue with the stuff you picked out as its standard parts of the HDR-look and natural lighting effects; even more so with your examples as they have the same "over-sharpness" on edges if not more and the lighting and cloud type/form is utterly different so I don't see the relevance in comparing them. It'd be like saying my sky don't look right colouring and posting examples of HDR sunset/sunrise where its orange/red; of course it don't look the same cause its not similar conditons.

orly? Doesn't match any of the current meirdytch at all. At best I'd say the big heaxagon shape we can see on west of minimap is the other side of tht heaxagonal-ish building we can jsut see on east edge at bottom or current area.

I think this is a much more eloquent way of putting what I was getting at.

I smell someone back-pedalling given that you are now agreeing with some of my arguments about the state poor/poverty people actually live in; despite them being utterly contradictory to agreeing with: "The overwhelming majority of the poor have air conditioning, cable TV, and a host of other modern amenities. They are well housed, have an adequate and reasonably steady supply of food, and have met their other basic needs, including medical care. Some poor Americans do experience significant hardships, including temporary food shortages or inadequate housing, but these individuals are a minority within the overall poverty population." As things that poor/poverty have. Also obviously archaic TVs like that aren't a "modern amenity" because they are so dated and below par of the normal consumer standard; but even so the fact you can afford to spend even $10 on a tv shows you have some disposable income so aren't exactly in poverty even if you are poor. And that doesn't even address the issue of paying for cable tv.

modern amenities = tv, dishwasher, wahsing machine, dryer, car, computer, cell phones, games consoles etc.. Last I checked government supplied housing isn't "good housing" and if you do have "good housing" and are so poor, downgrade there's more money in ur pocket right there. Food stamps may supply food but from what I've heard it's far from adequate. Money may be relative, but that doesn't mean just because your country is rich you can class people living a pretty comfortable life with enough to have some unnecessary goods/services as poverty.

In my opinion, if you can afford cable tv, you should not be considered "poor". But you know, maybe I'm just out of touch with the rest of the world. Yes, yes you are. Although you're more than out of touch, you are extremely privileged and refuse to acknowledge it. You cannot realistically class as poor or in poverty people who have air conditioning, cable tv all the modern amenities, good housing, adequate steady food supply and all other basic needs met including healthcare. That just artificially inflates poverty numbers. Poverty is when you unsanitary or no housing and inadequate intermittent food supply at best. And have no modern amenities as they had to be sold for like food n stuff.

I reckon next myreque we get into an inner ring of the city where the citizens aren't vampires yet but they are ones drained enough to be on the turn; sort of pre-juvenile state. I'm partially basing this on the decor as well, it doesn't seem quite ruined enough to be the slums we been to before.

I don’t see why people get some stumped by these: You start with 3 letter words as they have a few obvious options: you the and one JHF NTRR WXXE PH OLTWM CX UTIX SQOOQMXY, UHFL HWTHWY QWE 3 SHN BTEXY So we try JHF as y o u: You NTRR WXXE P-o OLTWM CX UTIX SQOOQMXY, U-ou-L o-WT-o-WY QWE 3 S-o-N BTEXY P-o is likely to be to and give context U-ou-L is likely to be four, plus if it is four the wording following it must be plural (so Y=s) and QWE must be and to grammatical make sense: You NTRR n-XX-d to O-r-T-n-M CX f-TIX S-a-OO-a-MX-s, four on-T-ons and 3 S-o-N BT-d-X-s So now on-T-ons can only be onions, n-XX-d must be need: You N-i-RR need to O-rin-M C-e fi-I-e S-a-OO-a-M-es, four onions and 3 S-o-N B-ides So O-rin-M is looking likely to be bring and C-e can only really be me: You N-i-RR need to bring me fi-I-e S-abbages, four onions and 3 S-o-N B-ides At this point safe to guess Fi-I-e is five and S-abbages must be cabbages: You N-i-RR need to bring me five cabbages, four onions and 3 co-N B-ides Then at this stage co-N must be cow which implies B-ides must be hides: You wi-RR need to bring me five cabbages, four onions and 3 cow hides And the rest is kinda obvious RR must be ll: You will need to bring me five cabbages, four onions and 3 cow hides Obviously some guess work used, but further threw you get the easier it is to spot mistakes as words become obviously wrong like if u get to: cebbegds you can hmm looks like cabbages. Lets swap my e's for a and my d's for e The route through may vary depend on how you guess/where you start. Two letter words can be a good starting point to, but there's more of them. And to speed it up pick your starting word for letters that appear a lot (not that it really does much here) Double letters can help too, thought sometimes misleading (like in cabbage) as often double end letter = L and double letter in the middle, especially in 4 letter words will be EE or OO Also looking for repeating end letters across many words can help as they are likely if paired to be ED or singular to be S But any way you go its rather obvious early on whether words are appearing or not. Oh and since its rs cryptic cluefest of items to bring its also kinda obvious to look out for words that are numbers and F2P easily obtained runescape items Oh and cryptograms don't need a cipher unless they are complicated. Basic substitution cryptograms never have a cipher unless aimed at like 5 yr olds

I didn't even think to look for timer, good tip. Anyway 1 just did not work from RAW file, colours went utterly mental. Other 2 are definitely improved, though sky colour has issues in both. Oh and yesturday I got stuck inside with rain so 3 random shots from around the house I kinda like even if they aren't anything too amazing. All higher res on DA: http://sy-accursed.deviantart.com/

Last one looks more like vampire citizens but sort meiyerditch-like, so at a guess I'd say new area deeper into the city area in new quest. Myreque is a bit overdue.

Depends how good you are at puzzles, but the items and person puzzles were always on par.

Set it, forget it. Go bk once a week with 525k in your inventory. Get grimy's spreadsheet up. Get favour up; go to throne room. If best choices have changed select "manage" and move workers around while depositing money then pick collect. If best hasn't changed select collect then deposit money after. It takes like 10 seconds more with no extra effort for a lot of extra profit over time. Also bear in mind its not even a minor difference. Mtk each worker "spends" 5k. 223% return on herbs = 11,500gp 315% return on flax = 15,750gp So take off the initial 5k 6,500gp per worker on herbs vs 10,750gp per worker on flax. Assuming you collect once a week and have 5 workers on the secondary resource it becomes quite a large [rooster] up: 227,500gp for profit herbs vs 376,250gp for flax. I'm fairly sure the whole of like 10 seconds extra effort to shift workers is worth 148,750gp extra profit. Even 1% difference can add up, sure it's only 50gp per worker but it's still 1,750 for 5 workers per week; which in a year would add up to nearly 100k. But they rarely go so close normally its at least 10% difference, which would be 17,500gp a week or nearly 1mil in a year, and even that is rare; mostly its closer to the 30 - 50% difference between the closet neighbours. So closer to 50k - 100k a week u doing urself out of or 3m - 5m a year

Most, if not all, HDR photograph I ever seen has that "over-sharpened" look as you put it since the whole point is getting the whole image in sharp exposure so I fail to see what you're getting at there. And I did take them with my camera's auto-bracketing; but it doesn't auto take the three shots you have to press 3 times and it flips the exposure between shots; the speed is only limited but your pressing time (thought if u mash it three times it does sort of "que" the shots if shutter is slow) and shutter speed and in all 3 of these cases can't of been more than 1 second time lapses between first n third photo. I'm gonna try and get round to playing with the RAW files today, see if I can't get some better final outcomes.

Hope the clues are good this year with no mistakes in the. Seems they've all been posted and hidden so hopefully they have been thoroughly checked. Also hope their good since this one is just bringing items to Avalani, no person to figure out; so if they clues are only as hard as last 2 gonna be a bits pants cause 1/2 time was working out items then 1/2 was figuring person. Just items at same difficulty will half the puzzle goodness.

In terms of empty patches only the god jadinkos care. Eg if sara wants pond, red, orange, no bush it will only appear with that EXACT setup. All other jads only care about what IS there. Diseased only need boneyard and banana, you can plant any flower or bush you like and they will remain as long as you have the banana tree and boneyard. Same goes with Cannibal So you can have: Banana, Kalferberry, Green flower and just swap between boneyard and tall grass to trigger the type you want. Though cannibal required juju which will wear off from time to tiem. In fact it's how you do the basic 10 specie catches most efficiently when going for witch doctor. Plant green, kalfer, banana and boneyard - catch common, carrion and diseased. Add hunter juju catch cannibal Red flower and abandonned house get shadow pond, apple, potion get aquatic lerger, stones, potion get camo pit and potion get draconic blue flower and pond get amphibian vent and orange tree igneous 1 green, 1 red, 1 blue, 1 kalfer, 1 lerger, 1 banana, 1 apple, 1 orange seed used for all 10 jads and if ur quick it can be done on 1 juju dose too.

I heard HDR from 1 raw wasn't quite as high quality as fully bracketed HDR work? Though it is very true in this case the fast moving clouds etc would of worked much better from 1 RAW file to get rid of ghosting. I might have a play later, I have all 9 original RAW files

Added some shots I just took up top, first attempts at HDR. Fairly happy with them though they aren't perfect. Think 3rd one is the best of the bunch in terms of the HDR doing its magic but first is the most interesting shot.

Sorry to burst your bubble about swiftkit: I have swiftkit installed on my mac and use it play RS since for some reason rs on firefox on osx doesnt work lately. You can even go here: http://swiftkit.net/ And see very prominently a windows download button anbd a mac download button

I was thinking ND more from the angle of allowing longer exposure to capture more of cloud detail without the moon becoming blown out. Eg get the moon detail like in 3rd one, but with the cloud detail of the other 3. Though I suppose HDR would of worked as an alternative method if I'd of thought to spin the dial on my cam and get the triple shots. But ND should've helped intensify the colours a little bit too without getting that fake look I'd get from doing it in post production

The simplest thing to do it not to mess around with hotspot values but to just set a simple check, that can be toggled at the Doomsayer/House Opts/whatever : If you're removing an item that ONLY requires planks to make, remove the need for a warning screen. The bolded bit highlights why you response is a bit stupid. As I said I doubt they could remove it from 1 item in a hotspot but not others; meaning (for example) Throne hotspot is one item in the games eyes. Whatever throne you put in there or not its the same item just cosmetically altered, therefore it doubt they can make warning alterations to only 1 item within the hotspot. Which renders the idea of if it needs only planks flawed as it in no way addresses the issue of the entire hotspot being seen as 1 thing by the game.

Not 100% ideal coulda done with some ND filters I think, but still quite like the outcomes with their various eerie colourings and patternings. And got some decent sun to attempt some HDR work this afternoon, nothing too amazing subject wise really and some ghosting issues, but not to bad for first attempts me thinks: Took attempt 1 out since people don't seem to be able to comprehend they are redundant now. Post from further down page with few more randoms and HDR attempt 2: Anyway 1 just did not work from RAW file, colours went utterly mental. Other 2 are definitely improved, though sky colour has issues in both. Oh and yesturday I got stuck inside with rain so 3 random shots from around the house I kinda like even if they aren't anything too amazing. Higher res version are on deviant art: http://sy-accursed.deviantart.com/

I think this could be the beginning of the end for a few key reasons: 1) Despite thier best effort to offload the issue by ending the news of the world etc its not dying; if anything the scandal is growing 2) All 3 major political partys united to object the take-over bid. I can't recall of any other issue n my life time that has united all 3 of them. 3) It was big enough for a parliamentary inquiry to occur as well as legal proceedings, can't think of many things that got parliamentary inquiries let alone in issues that aren't direct linked to politics/politicians At the very least his empire is gonna implode a bit, I heard that advertisers, clients etc have started to pull out of other products within his empire.

the runefest bit aside seems lame. I mean really 500 points is a big deal? 1 month membership = 500 points, heck splash out and buy the next month too for another 3000