Omali
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Sometimes it is convenient to go to a certain hole in the wilderness because that slayer monster is closer. Even if that shortcut is there, it's a really underhanded trick. It's like bringing a knife to a fist fight. But I expect this sort of thing whenever I jump the wall.
PKers in RuneScape have been underhanded since pvp first entered the game. For every player who fights with that unwritten and ever changing rule of "honor," there are plenty more willing to fight dirty.
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Gets banned, must lurk.
Just to clarify, I am in no way related to the user W48 Burthope Unit, although my name is obviously inspired by that user.
And I guess this thread is dead until the next ban wave of high levels, which I can guarantee will happen, mark my words :)
Jen, is that you?
Godo? :razz: .
Also, having multiple accounts on TIF isn't against the rules, but posting on another one when one is banned is.
Hah, not godo, nice try though.
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Botwatch was ready etc.
(that's g0d again btw)
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next is perm
all were perm bans.
It's like receiving multiple death sentences.
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How come falsely banned players get access to Jagex's support email 24/7 when the rest of us only get customer support 24/never?
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I really hope that they are just neglecting the live client because of RuneScape 3's release, the number of bugs is getting [bleep]ing ridiculous. My client has a constantly flipping FPS which remains constant with everything enabled and everything disabled, when it worked fine just about a month ago. I'm seeing constant graphical bugs with the home teleports, teleporting somewhere and, oh look, there's a marker placed on your world map now. Load a new section? The map tears and my pathfinding is all screwed up, thanks Jagex I love doing the [bleep]ing choc-ice delivery part twenty frickin times because although my computer can play any other game on max settings, somehow RuneScape manages 5 fps on the lowest settings and transitioning between areas manages to cause the client to nearly crash. Oh and the sound just randomly stops working for short periods of time.
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Complete a dungeon on complexity 6 despite the update inevitably breaking dungeoneering and causing servers to crash.
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I did regicide last night finally, on my current account.
Near the end, an elf pops out and you learn that the kind of Ardougne as well as the elf from the elf lands are actually working on bringing Zamorak back to this world. Jagex dun goof'd, no? Aren't we believing that Zamorak is on floor 61? It also contradicts the edicts of Guthix...
As of The World Wakes, pretty much every quest is considered historical (meaning in the context of the game world, you are essentially looking into a flash back) and the game assumes it already happened. All of those events are taking place in the fifth age, when the context fit.
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Again that could partially be blamed on the low numbers of people testing it, perhaps in a few weeks once they're both properly out we'll see the real improvements.
It has more to do with the fact that Jagex are continuing weekly updates for RuneScape and then shoehorning them into the new client. Jagex's problem is that they develop stuff like RuneScape 3, Evolution of Combat, new skills, etc, over one or two years, which would be fine if RuneScape was one of those MMOs that gets a few small updates here and there but the real meaty content really comes in the annual or biennial expansion packs because it gives a mostly static work environment. Jagex, on the other hand, develops massive systems while also maintaining weekly updates.
So it's really not the content team's fault because the people at the helm are screwing this game over with the release scheduling. It's like being tasked with putting together a ten thousand piece puzzle, but every hour on the hour someone comes in and scrambles up the pieces. Or they might redesign a section of the puzzle, or add another thousand pieces, or remove some of the pieces, or change their placement around, or break one of your wrists, or throw a dead animal on the pile, and whenever they make a change they demand you stop doing what you're doing and focus on whatever was altered.
It worked when RuneScape was just a ten thousand piece puzzle and the game wasn't big enough to really mess up, but Jagex have grown it into a ten billion piece puzzle and the whole thing is falling apart at the seams. It isn't just a case of content being popular, it is the game being rendered unplayable because the infrastructure is burning to the ground around us.
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And this is going to launch in less than a week. It's heartwarming to see that although Jagex has become a heartless business, they still have all the programming skills of Andrew Gower back when he first started writing RuneScape Classic.
Edit: I found a great post on the forums explaining how Jagex added in the gravestones not because they wanted to make the game easier but because the servers are made of cardboard and the game overall is poorly coded, so they needed a failsafe for people getting disconnected and servers crashing.
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Maybe Jagex will finally fix the problem with certain ATI graphics cards crashing, which has been a problem since at least last August.
Maybe. I'm not holding my breath.
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The good thing is, judging by the nis beta, the rs3 java engine is much improved so even if you can't benefit from html5 you ought to run better than now in java.
I mean I run near enough min settings on live java and get like 15 fps if I'm lucky; NIS servers i have running on max settings at a smooth 25+fps
Good. Hopefully RS3 will end the era of RuneScape having periods where it just plain barely works on people's computers. I'm sick of having one or two months at a time where the client is constantly at low FPS level across graphical settings, or just crashes randomly.
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I don't know what made you get that impression, but no, that is not what I mean. This is not a justification, it is an explanation of linguistics. I do not act as if it's some crazy coincidence, the person indeed chose that word, whatever reason they chose it for. The reason they chose it, however, does not matter, as the person made sure to remove the typical meaning of the word and use it as what is most likely an empty insult.
It absolutely does matter, because you are trying to fix a new definition on an old world while at the same time acting all surprised and offended that people might find your choice of base word offensive.. I'll let Clerks 2 explain why that doesn't work:
https://www.youtube....h?v=b0R3OjMcOqg (very strong language)
The point, for people at work: "It can't be saved, Randal. The sole purpose for its creation, the only reason it exists in the first place is to disparage and entire race. And even if it could be saved, you can't save it.
The word may have been cherry-picked because it was deemed offensive by the masses, but as I said that does not matter. You can call someone a blanket and make up an offensive definition for it, it's entirely possible if the circle agrees on it. You are again just assuming a certain word couldn't possibly be offensive just as you are assuming that a certain word couldn't possibly NOT be offensive. This is not as if they are making up a definition and telling every one to use it, they made a definition and proposed it to their circle (likely subconsciously) and by the look of how some clan chats are, they have agreed (likely subconsciously, again) on that definition. There really is nothing more to it.It doesn't "not matter" just because you say it doesn't. Also, I didn't say blanket couldn't be offensive, I said that this circle you talk about never chooses that word. They choose the one that disparages homosexuals, or the one that disparages [insert minority]. It is never an innocuous word turned offensive, it is always a racist/hateful word turned into another hateful word. And you are telling everyone to use it, because you say "no you aren't allowed to be offended because this is our definition and if you don't accept that you are incorrect."
George Carlin said it best: "A lot of people will say that a word's meaning changes because a lot of people are using it that way. Yea well I say a lot of people are really [bleep]ing stupid."
That's fine, if they do not agree with it and it is their property, then so be it. But if they do agree, then so be it; a clan chat is the property of it's owner and those with authority over it.It's hard to use a clan chat when you're muted/banned from the game.
While they do technically have every right to censor us, since it's their property, they also equally have the right to deal with the backlash of doing such things. One such backlash possibly ending in them losing tons and tons of money. They have the right to lose that money, and that is what will happen should they enforce such things (I'm not saying they are right now, by the way.) No one is forcing their definition on Jagex (Well, maybe except those moms), Jagex is forcing that definition on us.Not even close to "tons and tons." The number of people who would quit because Jagex won't allow them to use racist/homophobic phrases in any context or definition on their servers is slim, and frankly their departure will do nothing but good for the community.
This is untrue. Facebook just had to pay a fine of 250 000 euros for censoring accounts that were from news reporters reporting about homosexual sex behaviour.
They can only mute things that are reasonable; independent of whether they own or not own the medium. (Otherwise radio/television/internet at all broadcasts could also be censored as someone owns the ether & the antennas).
Facebook and Jagex are two separate entities with completely different rules and regulations.
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The homophobic F-word isn't acceptable not only because is it offensive, but most importantly because it's also directed against a specific group of people, not for any beliefs or values they have, but simply because they happen to be male and gay. The use of the term presumes the statement that: Homosexual men have a derogatory term used to describe them as a community, whereas heterosexual men do not. It also devalues the diversity within that community by removing the right to define one's own identity, and attempts to reduce everyone to the lowest common denominator: their sexuality.
You are quite a staunch prescriptivist. As Yoko Kurama stated, words mean different things in different context, and with different intention. Language is descriptive, not prescriptive; that is to say, if a cricle (in this case, his clan chat) agrees that a certain word (in this case the "homophobic F-word") means something that is not offensive, or is even meaningless, then it is fine. The circle has agreed on a definition for this word. You are merely forcing your definition of the word onto them, as Joe would be doing if he stubbornly chose to be offended. No, it does not matter what meaning the majority of society has put onto this word, whether it has history or not. The fact is, in this circle (the clan), it does not mean what you believe (and want) it to mean, so there is no problem. Old (kind of) convo, I know, but I just felt like getting that out there.
I've read this over a few times, and I'm still not convinced you are using this weak-ass justification seriously. The whole "oh I took this offensive word and made up my own definition" is crap because out of the one hundred seventy one thousand words in the English language (as per the 2nd edition of the Oxford Dictionary), you picked this one. You act like it's just some crazy coincidence, like the roulette wheel of language just happened to fall on that word by happenstance, a .000005% odds of happening, and I call BS on the whole thing. That word was cherry-picked because of its established meaning, because its simple use implies a blanket inferiority for whoever the person is talking about to fill just about any conversation. That's why you aren't calling someone a "blanket" and saying "no, I changed the definition, it's totally hateful now." You can claim all you want that your group has created a new definition, and you will be arguing through a screen door as everyone can see through it.
Your new definition is like a plant that was fertilized with the manure of the old definition, a manure that was hand-picked because it is so powerful. And no one (who isn't nosy) cares if you use it in the confines of your group, however you're going to get kicked off of someone's private property if they don't feel like tolerating your inside references, and everything about RuneScape from the servers to your account is Jagex's private property. When you are on their property, I'll have to ask you follow your own rule and not force your definition of a word on them.
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Permed for dungeoneering bot. Cancelled subscription as I figure it's probs not worth appealing. Was hoping they could just reset a lot of my skills if they were mad.
Don't let the door hit you where the dog should have bit you.
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I really wish they confirmed Divination for this month... Anyways content looks cool... New ports update's are always good too.
Prediction for the latter stages of the month:
Barrows Brothers Dulux, Grouping System, Upgraded Tool Belt and Updated Loyalty Rewards.
Those things could perhaps be easily sorted by Jagex, a lot easier than making a new Skill etc.
I'm sure they don't want to because god forbid it has to be delayed due to last second issues, the army of programming experts who created a flash intro at one point and therefore know how an MMO is programmed will short circuit the servers with their tears of rage.
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I hate these types of mini-games, it's always a bunch of people running around giving orders and no one knows what the hell they're talking about.
"Omali stop we need order in this one."
*two seconds later*
"Omali wtf r u doing dis 1 neds chaos"
*two seconds later*
"Omali stop it I already said order."
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Can't say I am really excited about having a pseudoscience - divination, as the basis of a new skill.
Divination isn't pseudoscience in the context of RuneScape's world. The gods are verifiably real, we've interacted with several of them personally, and we know that there are people who can read the future.
Hell, in RuneScape, divination is about as real of a science as archaeology.
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Ture i spose the dumb research free journalist factor plays in to it, but still the way he phrased it really sounds nothing at all like the rs model.
Anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZAA_9mQGg
The trailer is official atleast.
It's always hilarious how badly out of context Jagex uses the home teleport spells. Someone who has never played would be like "holy crap, that demon just popped out of the ground and that guy just jumped on his shoulders, HOLY CRAP HELICOPTERS," only to get in and find out it's actually an animation in a cash shop.
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Not that i'm trying to diss, but RS is moving further and further away from the game i've once loved and seeing what they're planning to do i'm considering quitting it for good.
That's they glory of MMOs. They either die before their time or they live long enough to become something you didn't sign up for.
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Has anyone else realized that the weapons (at least the lvl 40 and lvl 60 starfury weapons) are inferior to their counterparts? Ivl 60 starfury sword for example has 1296 attack and 1041 accuracy, but the D2H, which has the same attack requirement ans is also a 2h sword, has 1341 attack and 1147 accuracy. Is this just a ploy to make people who don't use places like the wiki spend tons of money? FOr me it just is an excuse to mine for 2 weeks for extra mining and smithing xp
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What they use and what they want to use are two completely different things.
We use what is avaible, such as the F keys to switch back and forth.
But do we want to use F keys? Some do, I don't, I prefer to have those keys remapped to something that isn't that far up the keyboard.
Agreed. I'd like to open things like inventory with I/B, quests with Q or J, etc, like 99% of every single other MMO or RPG on the planet. That of course should be possible since the F key update was done when the chat window was activated 100% of the time and Jagex couldn't map it. Now they can.
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I still hate the new camera.
The fact that it trails behind the avatar? I hate that too.
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Maybe I missed the announcement, but it looks like Jagex is converting pets from items that you drop into an interface ability (like they did with the Solomon Shop pets). The ability interface has a tab for Pets which is currently unavailable.
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I must be missing something here. RuneScape has been localised in French, German, and Brazilian Portugese, which should make Latin American Spanish the fourth localization, not the fifth. Unless they count either English or that there is a version of the website (not game) in Dutch.
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Buenas nachos!
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Behind The Scenes - August 2013
in General Discussion
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Because ignorant people can't talk on merits and facts, so they need to SPEAK LOUDER to make sure that no one can ignore them.