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Magic needs PVM ability and to be slightly better against ranged (a la tank ranged vs. melee). Ranged needs better arrows for the traditional bows and a general overhaul of thrown weaponry. Melee needs jack [cabbage]. Ranged is NOT underpowered - it is exactly where it belongs against melee, as any decent tank ranger can demonstrate, and is pretty damn useful on most boss monsters.

The "Vanity Fair" article was both completely unoriginal and unintentionally hilarious. Especially when a comparison was drawn between "useless items" and "useful items" - in other words, "items that are only used to pointlessly show off" versus "items that are only used to raise levels which then are used to pointlessly show off." Are people really trying to bring a sense of real value into a game that in essence is nothing more than a giant pixelized [bleep]-measuring contest?

Actually, they have a limit because of the alcohol. Though it does look like serving alcohol was a somewhat clever way of excluding younger scapers without being completely obvious.

You can't really blame them, the last thing Jagex wants at its first IRL meet is to have its old reputation as a kid's game, the reputation that they're fighting so hard to lose, come back and scare off all older players from returning for "Runefest 2011".

oh lordy. I can't come, I have to do my hair.

The only complaint I have with dungeoneering is that they released it half finished. I mean literally. They put all this work into designing prestige so the xp rate neatly increases along with your dungeoneering level, but leave the skill incomplete, ending at level 69 with absolutely NO benefit in any remote way for training above that, other than earning tokens. For the first skill that can be trained to 120, that's a major disappointment. Sure, they're almost certainly going to add new levels to Daemonheim or maybe a new dungeon somewhere, but that's [cabbage]ty practice, especially considering how players are already in the 70s. The xp rate doesn't increase in the slightest in the levels between 69 and 120.

in the real world, I'm introverted but assertive. in MMOs, I'm quiet but active.

actually, there's no proof that it has anything to do with genetics. My guess is it's one of those extremely hard to change early life traits that people are born with, that develops almost automatically, but still includes some element of decision, along with every other part of our personalities. Born with a tendency towards a certain trait, but not pidgeonholed into it. Because once you state homosexuality is 100% genetic, you disregard any chance for someone "born a certain way" to take advantage of their human adaptiveness. A serial killer? Born that way. Pedo? in his genes. Slurps his coffee? Just a born slob. After all, serial killers start showing sociopathic tendencies early in life towards animals and in social relations, but boiled down, a serial killer is nothing more than an extreme version of a number of normal human traits - and while he may have had some genetic push that lead him that way, he still made some of the decisions on his own; there's a reason most serial killers share a lot of background similarities like a disfunctional relationship with their mother. Not saying there's anything wrong with gays, I don't even see things in right or wrong terms, but saying they have no choice in the matter is just a copout.

If your definition of right or wrong does not have any bearing on what "matters", how is it a definition of right or wrong?

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that was awesome. :thumbsup:

I've heard that explanation, but it leaves out too many details. First, the only part about the radioactivity that was added later was the radioactivity found at the site, and that was learned through the Soviet government's own files. Second, radioactive clothing was referenced at the very early on, as it was first reported. The trauma does't point to an avalanche, either. An avalanche is not a bunch of soft fluffy snow; it's ice shards, rocks, trees, dirt, and a whole bunch of nasty sharp stuff. There's no way they would have been caught in an avalanche without doing at least minor damage to their skin, but there was NOTHING. And none of this explains what scared them out of the tent in the middle of the night, scared them so badly they didn't bother to grab a coat. Definitely wasn't an avalanche, because the campsite was intact. I'm not saying an avalanche is the absolute answer, but I have a hard time believing that aliens attacked them (then left with no trace) just for S&G's. I don't think it was aliens either, as you can see by the last paragraph I wrote. (I don't even believe in aliens). I really don't have an explanation.

I've heard that explanation, but it leaves out too many details. First, the only part about the radioactivity that was added later was the radioactivity found at the site, and that was learned through the Soviet government's own files. Second, radioactive clothing was referenced as it was first reported, before the rumor mill even had a chance to get started. The trauma does't point to an avalanche, either. An avalanche is not a bunch of soft fluffy snow; it's ice shards, rocks, trees, dirt, and a whole bunch of nasty sharp stuff. There's no way they would have been caught in an avalanche without doing at least minor damage to their skin, but there was NOTHING. And none of this explains what scared them out of the tent in the middle of the night, scared them so badly they didn't bother to grab a coat. Definitely wasn't an avalanche, because the campsite was intact. Edit: Oh, and it's wrong. The first 5 bodies were found almost immediately. The last 4 weren't found for almost 3 months, but because of the temperature they were almost completely preserved.

go back to the zombie thread.

if he can hit as hard as a car without making a single footprint, as well as scare away 7 healthy guys singlehandedly, I'd sure hate to meet him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1562/the_dyatlov_pass_incident.html The Dyatlov Pass Incident Facts; 1) 9 Russian university students and one 37 year old (friend of one of the leader's friends) go on a skiing trip in the Ural mountains in February of 1959. 2) One student goes home early due to illness, the only survivor of the incident. 3) The students don't return on time, and after a week, a search team is sent to find out what happened. 4) The tent is found torn open from the inside, the skiier's possessions still inside. The doors are not unzipped. 5) A chain of footprints were found leading towards the forest, but vanished after 500 meters. Two bodies and the remains of a fire were found at the edge of the forest, dressed only in their underwear. Three more bodies were found between the forest and the camp, in poses that made it look like they were headed back to the camp. They were found 300, 480 and 630 meters from the fire and the other two bodies. They were also wearing minimal clothing. 6) Medical examination showed no tissue damage or other cause of death in the 5 bodies, and it was ruled death by hypothermia. One of the students did have a minor skull fracture, but there was no surface damage and it was not considered the cause of his death. 7) The following May, the remaining four bodies were found. One had died from hypothermia. The other three were found with massive skeletal trauma, but no damage to the surface tissues. The first victim had a crushed skull. The other two were found with massive chest trauma, and one had no tongue. Some of the victims were found wearing bits of clothing that appeared to have been torn or cut from the bodies of others that had died earlier. one of the tents Now, the less objective part of the story. a. The investigators covering the case found signs at the camp of flash blindness. This would help explain the tearing open of the tents, but there is obviously no known cause. b. High levels of radiation was found on the clothing, and later upon the release of the official Soviet files in the 1990s it was revealed that radiation was found all over the site, but no known source of contamination was located. c. Dr Boris Vozrozh-denny, the medical examiner that worked on the bodies, said that he didn't believe the deaths were the result of human violence. The level of damage to the three killed victims was approximately the same as a car collision, yet there was absolutely no damage to the soft surface tissues of the chest and head. d. The victims had died 6 to 8 hours after their last meal. e. Footprints showed that ALL the students had left the camp on their own accord, including the ones found injured. No signs of intruders or attackers were found at the camp. f. Relatives later reported that the bodies of the skiiers had completely grey hair, and the skin had shown extremely dark tan or even orange color. g. Some people had reported sightings of glowing orange spheres in the skies in the area. h. Scrap metal was found in the area, implying secret military testing, but the location made traditional atomic testing extremely unlikely due to unpredictability of the fallout. i. Four watches were found on the victims, one man wearing two. One watch had stopped at 0531. The two watches worn by Thibeaux-Brignolle had stopped at 0814 and 0839. The remaining watch had also stopped at 0839. j. Interestingly, the mountain's name, Kholat Syakhl, means "Mountain of the Dead" in the native Mansi language, and Otorten, the skiier's destination, means “Don't Go There” in Mansi. some of the skiiers Despite being conducted by Communist Soviet officials (who were notorious for rejecting the supernatural), the investigation's official conclusion was that the skiiers had died as the result of an "unknown compelling force". Lev Ivanov, the police officer that lead the 1959 investigation, said he had received direct orders from high ranking regional officers to dismiss the inquest and keep the information secret. The files regarding the investigation were classified as top secret and hidden in a secret government archive until 1990, when they were released in censored form to the public. To this day the files have not been completely disclosed, and a number of parts of the file, including several pages and a mysterious envelope, are being held by the Soviet government. Personally? I don't know what to make of it. When I read this story over, several things stood out; one being that the skiiers that were found wearing their dead friends' clothing were ready to steal from corpses and wear minimal clothing in -22 degree weather rather than return to their tent for gear, another that the footprints showed nothing in the area but the skiiers. The minor skull fracture on one of the hypothermia victims is also interesting, almost as if it was something caused by being near something, something he escaped but not his other friend. An avalanche is extremely unlikely, since the tents were intact, meaning an avalanche could not have been what scared the skiiers. Whatever it was, it frightened them too badly to grab even a coat in 54 degree below freezing weather, and did so without leaving a trace at the camp. An avalanche would also have caused lascerations and surface damage to the victims, thanks to the heavy weight and numerous ice shards. Nuclear testing is also unlikely, because the location made fallout unpredicatable and the site was far too intact. Obviously, UFOs are a popular explanation. Another is some form of entity or ghost. My natural guess is some kind of military testing, largely because of the scrap metal. What sort of weapon, I have no idea - a sonic weapon might be believable if they had all suffered from similar injuries, but the wounds were inconsistent enough to make that a stretch. (Plus there was no damage to the inner ears of the victims). UFOs are also unlikely, because it simply doesn't add up, if they have the technology and the ability to travel across space, they wouldn't have had a problem killing the skiiers. The inconsistant injuries also hurt this theory, as it makes some futuristic weapon just as unlikely for the aliens as it was for the Soviet government. And neither military testing or aliens explain what scared the skiiers, in either case they would probably have all been killed without waking, rather than leaving in a panic. So what does Tip.it think?

Man, I don't even [bleep]ing play this game anymore, and it's painfully obvious what needs to be done. 1) Create a +25% damage, tradeable, level 70ish magic potion to bridge the gap between the average pker and the 94 herblore pker. 2) Create a minioverload by combining a regular superset at 76ish herblore, to save inventory for non-skilling pkers. 3) Create a superranged potion that fills the gap between regular range and extreme range. 4) Re-enable extreme potions in at the least minigames, possibly PVP. The biggest difference between extreme and super wasn't extra damage from the melee potions (or even the ranged potion, though it was a bit bigger), it was the extra magic damage and the saved inventory/sara brew drain immunity from the overload. Bridge that gap with midlevel potions that allow regular pkers to stand a chance and the crying will die down eventually.

overpopulation.

For the cost of our semi-stable ecosystem? What is the worst that could happen? You honestly think a small bomb will mess up the moon's rotation? The moon has been hit asteroids(or w/e) with much more force than the bomb will create. Yet the bomb is the first thing to actually explode there, you just said one could survive sitting on a hangrenade that is about to go of because one had previously been hit by a car that had an impact greater than the force of the explotion. Thing is, NASA's entire existance is through government budgeting. If they [bleep] up the moon, the public is going to be out for blood, and NASA gets caught between the crosshairs of an angry public and a damage controlling government. While I'm not too trusting a person, NASA has no ulterior motive to blow up the moon, and since they stand to gain little and can lose a LOT, it's unlikely they're doing this if there's any element of risk.

You need to stop watching so many spy flicks. They either don't have tech at that level, or it's locked up inactive at some top secret military warehouse waiting until WW3 forces them to reveal it. Using technology of that level makes its discovery by other governments inevitable, with increasing tensions between the US and China, world war is a good possibility, and honestly, a president's life isn't worth outing their military secrets. Nothing to do with perverts, just military secrecy.

Took the IPIP NEO, basically recapped everything I already know. I'm arrogant, deceptive, unsympathetic, and objective. yay.

first gotta wait until you're several hundred years old so you can use the pedophiliac implications to season up the story.

Eysenck started the criticism on the "type" kind of personality study iirc, and studies done backed up his idea that "types" are not valid ways of measuring personality. The IPIP NEO just measures the Big Five separately and doesn't attempt to link them together or anything like that. I also like that the IPIP NEO uses the Lickert scale (scale of 1 - 5, 1 being strongly agree, 5 vice versa) as opposed to just T or F. Not to mention the IPIP NEO specifically measures the big five, which have been tested every 10 years for the past 150 years successfully. IIRC, there is no statistical evidence to support the types theory, so it's done using traits now (Which have been organized into the Big Five). I mean, you can do the Myers Briggs and believe it if you want, but if you want a more accurate test try out the IPIP NEO. Type theory is faulty when you approach it as a set list of possibilities for human personality. The MBTI and other tests like it simply measure different, scientifically proven parts of a person's behavior and through induction and studying people with similar results, creating a semi-defined archtype that most people that see the world in that way act. It does nothing more than take the Big Five test that you believe so strongly in and expand on it using statistical trends. This isn't a Facebook "which marvel superhero are you?" quiz.

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I think it's fully agreed then, vampires are mother[bleep]ing [kitties].