Sy_Accursed

Im not restricting it to american and british I'm talking about american and anyone they were in a war with. Also yes ww2 in itself was balanced. The point you are missing is the reputation is based on CURRENT MODERN warfare, with CURRENT technology and CURRENT combative styles. In this respect ww2 is not relevant as the warfare style, technology and everything is far inferior; plus with it not being MODERN WARFARE it doesn't have bearing upon the MODERN WARFARE reputation. I never made comment on historic warfare, only current. They are separate issues. You're trying to argue (in part atleast) American reputation and statistics for friendly fire in MODERN warfare is not justified comapred to other countries in MODERN WARFARE because is a non-modern war America "scored" less than Britain. But this is getting very off-topic now and boring; best let it be.

I know its exaggerated by memes and such, but in the numbers american's do come off worse than like any other nation for incidents of friendly fire caused by them. I cant be assed to trawl em up but I read some interesting statical stuff on it like a year ago. I think a good example of the fact it is true to an extent is covered by this article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article422701.ece If american's don't have an issue with it why do they need special training introduced specifically to reduce cases of it. edit to below: I didn;t "throw out" anything from WW2, the point of CURRENT reputation etc and as such to go back to a war that had significantly different circumstances and technology to doesn't really relate to the case. Equally I never said other armies DIDN'T do it. Also we drew out in 2009? Like years after the full on war ended. And of all the examples I posted only maybe 2 are post uk pull out in iraq.

no evidence aside from the fact there's more instances of American forces using friendly fire than other nations you mean? Cause I'd say thts pretty strong evidence. Also Britain hasn't withdrawn from Iraq or Afghanistan, they still there just same as US. But w/e this is getting off topic, all I know is America has a widespread reputation for being really bad with friendly fire and its often skated over in certain American news outlets Also theres a good heap of internet meme's and art about it: [hide] Banksy's "Friendly fire" [/hide]

I was sticking to modern warfare as its a given trench warfare was cramped and "encouraged" to friendly fire. Plus it had worse technology which also adds to friendly fire. And in ww2 especially its hardly a balanced example given how late american joined. Hence I used conflicts which are modern warfare; where all the armies were in it for about the same time. It doesn't prove anything about my comment since I specifically stated when giving my examples I was NOT going back to ww2 etc and there obviously my comments were on the modern wars from which I listed incidents.

America is renowned for shooting is allies and its own troops because despite having vastly more numbers than most other armies the training quality is absolutely useless compared to other countries. In this day and age there's no reason for so much friendly fire, most of which happened outside of battle situations. It can be attributed to trigger-happiness which derives from stupidity. And the choice to go for quantity over quality in troops, which is again quite stupid. Cite your sources that show that American troops are more prone to friendly fire. Right now you sound like a fool. The numerous news articles from Iraq and Afghanistan where Americans shot their allies and each other, compared to the fact Britain didn't. It crops up in WW2 and WW1 literature and about Vietnam about the Us troops being the worst for friendly fire as well. In terms of examples, sticking to strictly modern wars rather than trawling bk to ww2 and earlier [hide] Korean War * On July 3, 1950, eight F-51s of No. 77 Squadron RAAF strafed and destroyed a train carrying thousands of American and South Korean soldiers who were mistaken for a North Korean convoy in the main highway between Suwon and P'yongtaek, resulting more than 700-1000 casualties, killed or wounded. Before the attack, the Australian pilots had been assured by the United States 5th Air Force Tactical Control Centre that the area under attack was in North Korean hands.[51] * On September 23, 1950, Hill 282 was attacked by 1st Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, part of the British 27th Infantry Brigade in the United Nations force. Having captured it and facing strong North Korean counter-attacks, the Argylls, devoid of artillery support, called in an allied air-strike. A group of F-51 Mustangs of U.S. Air Force's 18th Fighter Bomber Wing circled the hill. The Argylls had laid down yellow air-recognition panels correctly in accordance with that day's planning, but the North Koreans imitated similar panels on their own positions in white. The Mustangs, confused by the panels, mistakenly napalm-bombed and strafed the Argylls’ hill-top positions. Despite a desperate counter-attack by the Argylls to regain the hill, for which Major Kenneth Muir was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross, the Argylls, much reduced in numbers, were forced to relinquish the position. Over 60 of the Argylls’ casualties were caused by the friendly air-strike. Vietnam War 8,000 such incidents have been estimated for the Vietnam War;[52][53][54] one was the inspiration for the book and film Friendly Fire. * The USCGC Point Welcome was attacked by USAF aircraft, resulting in two deaths. * A U.S. F4 Phantom aircraft dropped a 500 lb (230 kg) bomb on the command post of the 2nd Battalion (Airborne) 503d Infantry, 173d Airborne Brigade while they were in heavy contact with a numerically superior NVA force on 19 November 1967. At least 45 paratroopers were killed and another 45 wounded. Also killed was the Battalion Chaplain Major Charles J. Watters, who was subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor. * On 11 May 1969, during the Battle of Hamburger Hill, Lt. Col. Weldon Honeycutt directed helicopter gunships, from an Aerial Rocket Artillery (ARA) battery, to support an infantry assault. In the heavy jungle, the helicopters mistook the command post of the 3/187th battalion for a Vietnamese unit and attacked, killing two and wounding thirty-five, including Honeycutt. This incident disrupted battalion command and control and forced 3/187th to withdraw into night defensive positions. First Gulf War * During the Battle of Khafji, 11 American Marines were killed in two major incidents when their light armored vehicles (LAV's) were hit by American missiles fired by a USAF A-10. * An American AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter fired upon US Army Bradley Fighting Vehicles during night operations, killing several US Army soldiers. * An American A-10 during Operation Desert Storm attacked British Warrior MICVs resulting in nine British dead and numerous casualties. * During the Battle of Phase Line Bullet, American M1 Abrams tanks in the rear fired in support of American troops facing dug-in Iraqi troops. American Infantry Fighting Vehicles were hit by fire from the tanks, resulting in two casualties. * Several friendly fire incidents took place during the Battle of 73 Easting, wounding 57 American soldiers, but causing no fatalities. * In the 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, two U.S. Air Force F-15Cs involved with Operation Provide Comfort shot down two U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawks over northern Iraq, killing 29 military and civilian personnel. War in Afghanistan * In the Tarnak Farm incident of April 18, 2002, four Canadian soldiers were killed and eight others injured when U.S. Air National Guard Major Harry Schmidt, dropped a laser-guided 500 lb (230 kg) bomb from his F-16 jet fighter on the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry regiment which was conducting a night firing exercise near Kandahar. Schmidt was charged with negligent manslaughter, aggravated assault, and dereliction of duty. He was found guilty of the latter charge. During testimony Schmidt blamed the incident on his use of "go pills" (authorized mild stimulants), combined with the 'fog of war'.[66] The Canadian dead received US medals for "bravery", but no apology. * Pat Tillman, a former famous American football player, was shot and killed by American fire in April 22, 2004. An Army Special Operations Command investigation was conducted by Brigadier General Jones and the U.S. Department of Defense concluded that Pat Tillman's death was due to friendly fire aggravated by the intensity of the firefight. A more thorough investigation concluded that no hostile forces were involved in the firefight and that two allied groups fired on each other in confusion after a nearby explosive device was detonated. * Operation Medusa (2006): 1 - Two U.S. A-10 Thunderbolts accidentally strafed NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, killing Canadian Private Mark Anthony Graham. * On 5 December 2006, an F/A-18C on a Close Air Support mission in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, mistakenly attacked a trench where British Royal Marines were dug-in during a 10-hour battle with Taliban fighters, killing one Royal Marine.[71] * Of two helicopters called in to support operations by the British Grenadier Guards and Afghan National Army forces in Helmand, the British Westland WAH-64 Apache engaged enemy forces, while the accompanying American AH-64D Apache opened fire on the Grenadiers and Afghan troops.[75] * August 23, 2007: A USAF F-15 called in to support British ground forces in Afghanistan dropped a bomb on those forces. Three privates of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment, were killed and two others were severely injured. It was later revealed that the British forward air controller who called in the strike had not been issued a noise-cancelling headset, and while he supplied the correct target co-ordinates, in the confusion and stress of the battle incorrectly confirmed one wrong digit mistakenly repeated by the pilot, and the bomb landed on the British position 1000 metres away from the enemy.[76] The coroner at the soldiers' inquest stated that the incident was due to "flawed application of procedures" rather than individual errors or "recklessness".[77] * A statement issued jointly by the American and the Afghan military commands said a contingent of Afghan police officers fired on United States forces on 10 December 2008 after the Americans had successfully overrun the hide-out, killing the suspected Taliban commander and detaining another man. The US forces after securing the hideout came under heavy small arms fire and explosive grenades from the Afghan Police forces. "Multiple attempts to deter the engagement were unsuccessful," and the US forces returned fire. Afghan police have stated that they came under fire first and that the initial firing on the US forces came from the building next to the police station. This has led the US forces to conclude that the Iraq War * In the Battle of Nasiriyah, an American force of Aerial Assault Vehicles and infantry were misidentified as an Iraqi armored column by two U.S. Air Force A-10s who carried out bombing and strafing runs on them. One U.S. Marine was killed and 17 were wounded as a result. * A U.S. Patriot missile shot down a British Panavia Tornado GR.4A of No. 13 Squadron RAF, killing the pilot and navigator. Investigations showed that the Tornado's Identification friend or foe indicator had malfunctioned and hence it was not identified as a friendly aircraft. It was ruled that the faulty maintenance and equipment failure caused it.[90] * 190th Fighter Squadron/Blues and Royals friendly fire incident - March 28, 2003. A pair of American A-10s from the 190th attacked four British armoured reconnaissance vehicles of the Blues and Royals, killing one and injuring five. * British Royal Marine Christopher Maddison was killed when his river patrol boat was hit by missiles after being wrongly identified as an enemy vessel approaching a Royal Engineers checkpoint on the Al-Faw Peninsula, Iraq.[95] * Two U.S. Patriot missile shot down a F/A-18C Hornet 50 mi (80 km) from Karbala, Iraq, killing U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Nathan Dennis White of VFA-195, Carrier Air Wing Five. This was the result of the missile design flaw in identifying hostile aircraft.[96] * American aircraft attacked a friendly Kurdish & U.S. Special Forces convoy, killing 15. BBC translator Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed was killed and BBC reporter Tom Giles and World Affairs Editor John Simpson were injured. The incident was filmed.[97] * Fusilier Kelan Turrington, of the 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was killed by machine-gun fire mounted from a British tank.[98] * American soldier Mario Lozano killed an Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari and is suspected of wounding Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena in Baghdad. Sgrena had been kidnapped and subsequently rescued by Calipari; however, it is claimed that the car they were escaping in failed to stop at an American checkpoint, and U.S. soldiers opened fire. This claim has been later denied by video proof that the car was respecting speed limits and proceeding with front lights turned on. The shooting commenced well before 50 meters, in contrast with what Lozano and other marines testified.[99] * An American airstrike killed eight Kurdish Iraqi soldiers. Kurdish officials advised US helicopters hit the men who were guarding a branch of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Mosul. The US military said the attack was launched after soldiers identified armed men in a bunker near a building reportedly used for bomb-making, and that American troops called for the men to put down their weapons in Arabic and Kurdish before launching the strike.[102] [/hide] Thats just the american ones. Which are at least double if not tripled the ones I removed as they were by british or other nationalities. Worth noting though the most of the non-american ones were much lower death/injury tolls

America is renowned for shooting is allies and its own troops because despite having vastly more numbers than most other armies the training quality is absolutely useless compared to other countries. In this day and age there's no reason for so much friendly fire, most of which happened outside of battle situations. It can be attributed to trigger-happiness which derives from stupidity. And the choice to go for quantity over quality in troops, which is again quite stupid.

Didn't they do that? That was supposed to be one of the updates, to make it so solo'ing and group dg'ing were equally efficient. Yeah if you read over the list properly loads of them were specifically for soloing eg making certain bosses lower leveled in solos etc etc and even the bits that weren't still heavily help soloing

[cabbage], that's completely untrue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#International_response Lol talk about helping the case of American's not being stupid. Yes the world did send funds to help when Katrina hit, they sent a hell of a lot as rocco's link covered nicely. If you didn't know that your either really ignorant of world news or you only watch the dodgy american news channels that dole out the lovely cover ups and twisted truths. Like the ones that (going bk a few years now) reported how an American helicoptor was shot down in iraq killing the soliders on board; and neglected the part where it was another American helicopter shot it down by accident when they weren't even fighting. Or like how it didn't make it over to state side how in the first year of the iraw war like 1/3 or more of British soldier deaths and injuries were the result of American's idiots shooting the wrong people.

America does have its very own subculture of idiots though. Most other places you get the religious nutjobs and a few thickos America you get people who are jsut sort of average joes yet still have these bafflingly stupid ideas (which help add to the whole "americans r fat n stupid" thing) Plus in America there's more instances of whole communities and church groups that lean heavily into the religious nut job camp. Aside from the heartless tone of these posts I love the sheer level of stupidity exhibited. "Karma for Pearl Harbour" you mean the attack that was avenged by nuking Japan TWICE and killing far more than died at Pearl Harbour; yeah Karma in that little thing would be tsnumaining America more so than Japan. I think the highlights of the collection however go to "Marty Mann" for his wonderful history knowledge about how Japan started world war two with pearl harbour and "Jack Simmering" for the wonderful historic accuracy of Japan nuking Pearl Harbour

When will jagex realize these colored messages are hard to see? Go settings > resizavle. TADA readable.

I don;t see why it wouldn't be DIY. Sure you won't completely do it yourself (same as heroes). But you CANNOT do it yourself you HAVE to use a second person. The second player used in arrav and heroes is like the equivalent of a tree to wc, its something you have to use.

Yeah from what I heard with handconnon right up to lvl 98 you still keep a pretty high fail rate like 1 in 5 or so. But then you hit 99 and it sharply drops to like 1 in 100 or sumat.

See now that is proof that is still going up. 1 timed run with no other reference wasn't. I guess the max time no longer rising thing was a myth or tears just became worth less time the once to keep max time in check. (I do strongly recollect tears being worth 1 sec each once upon a time)

"Vials of stench can be used to fence recently shoplifted goods, for example, buying or selling from the baker in Ardougne just after stealing from the cake stall. You must first take the Vial of stench you used in the third subquest back to Robin for enchanting, however. Afterward, you'll be able to make your own." Clearly says in the tip.it guide take it back to robin before you can use it.

Its not a Myth that needs busting. At this current time it is true; but after a few more quests come out it'll be 0.5 seconds per qp (at around 370qp) I think its gone up by a few seconds perhaps, but it was around the 185 seconds mark years ago when I stopped really going up. If it had of kept at the same old rate we would be in there for over 300 seconds now, as it was 1 second per qp very early on. Sy, it's 1 tick per qp, not 1 sec per qp. You have no proof unlike the above poster, I'll time (With my qp cape) next time tears are open. My proof is the masses of forum posts a few years ago when people noticed guthix tears time stopped increasing and ranted and questioned and investigated. And the fact tht it used to be about 1 second per qp, but now is clearly down to 0.6 seconds per qp. Also all the poster above proved was he went in there for 189 seconds, that does not conclusively prove max time is still increasing. It only proves that currently with 315 qp u get 189 seconds.

Its not a Myth that needs busting. At this current time it is true; but after a few more quests come out it'll be 0.5 seconds per qp (at around 370qp) I think its gone up by a few seconds perhaps, but it was around the 185 seconds mark years ago when I stopped really going up. If it had of kept at the same old rate we would be in there for over 300 seconds now, as it was 1 second per qp very early on.

Its not on tif but it is epically useful. http://users.telenet.be/glodenox/Charms/CharmPattern.html amitos is spouting his usual badly formed advice. If you are going to go and GET charms in order to train summoning it is advisable to get only crims. However charms of all colours you ALREADY HAVE from slayer etc are perfectly viable for trianing with, as you already have them.

But is totally relivant to your issue. sure you may not have much on you or you may just be skilling. Doesn't change the fact your in the wilderness and therefore you are fair game to any pker. Besides its not like your gonna some epiphany like insight or tactic to avoid it, you do literally jsut have to learn to deal with it or don;t go widly to skill.

Most likely: A wire for the speaker was trapped and being pinched some how and in working to add/remove ram you shook it loose again. Or possible part of the ram configuration was shorting a route used by audio on the mobo slightly as it was a tiny bit loose or w/e and altering ram dealt with the minro installation error there. Bout all I could think of.

I don't think the tip.it guide is melee biased. The guide simply lists the BEST way to kill them. Its not tip.its fault most bosses are weak to melee or mage and that ranging in dg utterly sucks except for a couple of bosses (such as lexcius) and even so ranging without hexhunter is aweful, all the pro dgers out there say the same thing about ranged and tbh half the bosses you've claimed r weak to range I've tried with range at some point and found it utterly useless, while tip.it's suggested styles have never set me wrong. In fact most of what you posted is already in the tip.it beastiary entries that given much more in-depth detail to each boss. Good to see a bit more info emerging on the last few bosses though. Personal experience on some of your comments: Geomancer: Up until recently I range/melee hybrid him for when he bound me. Melee did far more damage than ranged, suggesting hes not weak to range as you suggest. Cursebearer: I've got nowhere with range on him, even on low lvl c1's. But melee has served me fine. Stomp is definitely by far weakest to melee. Tried range and mage on him, found mage more effective; with the bonus of being able to make him clear rocks etc from distance I prefer mage to melee. Nightgazer: tried ranging to be clever with the candle/lampy things. Got nowhere. Owned via melee I get the impression you have a hexhunter bow bound which yes does make ranged useful, but without it ranged is absolutely the worst choice; or at least did.

If memory serves I was lvl 24 rc when the abyss came out and did a few runes just to make med useful. At the very least I know I was no more than 30 rc because it wasn't until slayer came out I got all skills 30+ and I know I got slayer to 30 before rc. So I did 20 - 25 levels with just med and small and can't recall ever having med decay. Also with only the highest decaying I think its simply giant decays faster than large and dark mage repairs all pouches. So by repairing giant when it decays you never have large decay. But my large certainly decayed before I could use giant (that i had banked), rcing this weekend giant decayed but not large ever. In fact in all the usual places and the slightly obscure ones too I can only find rswikia citing anything at all about medium pouches decaying; but even they say only the largest pouch on you can decay. Strikes me as rather odd that the apparent occurrence of this was with a large pouch in use, when all evidence shows only the largest pouch in use will degrade and equally that no fansites mention it at all despite it being something that has been in-game what like 5+ years. Equally the fact the Runecrafting guild doesn't offer repairs for small or med kinda suggests they don't decay in my book too.

I thought only large and gaint could degrade. In all ym years i've never had a medium degrade

Guessing tht is Dad in his arena. The are alooks much nicer. God to see it being de-greyed a bit so it actually fits better with the surrounding areas instead of jsut being a mass of grey stone

Horns a tricky one. If doing agility annoys you more than doing BA (assuming both annoy you) its worth it. If you enjoy doing BA its worth it. If you like agility but BA annoys you its not particularly worth it.

Overheating or a short somewhere in the mobo. Obvious first step is to clean out the case of dust etc and check the fans are running. Second step would be to check temperature read outs to see if they are high. Third step would be run a good virus scan, jsut in case. There as some weird virus out there tht do such pointless things. Fourth would be to check BIOS, some editions have a temperature at which to auto-shutoff. If this has been accidentally lowered it culd be the cause. Fifth step would be guess the mobo's [bleep]ed and test it if you got the gear to, or get a pro to test it or jsut assume it msut be the case as theres not really any other option and repalce it.