[Dungeoneering: Skill or Minigame?]

It's in the skill-tab so it must be a skill.

That's good enough for me :rolleyes:

[Some people... (Dungeoneering)]

First off, we don't have minigames in Runescape.

 

Can you explain that please?

[12-Apr-2010 - Dungeoneering Skill!]

Already lvl 5 :thumbsup:

Although I have the feeling that they just made a skill out of a minigame.

[Music to my ears!]

For all the people that never listen to rs music I have this to say:

 

Sea Shanty 2!!!

This song really blows your mind out.

[Wayne's gone, who will take over mainstream rap?]

My answer: I hope nobody

[Hardcore]

im tryin to download some DJ Ravine right now :thumbup:

 

what are some other good Happy Hardcore artists

 

Nice to see another HHC lover. I can give you a long list of HHC DJ's not knowing what to listen first. Instead you should look up "Bonkers". Not the lame overhyped song from Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden. Bonkers is also a serie of HHC albums, they already have like 18 albums, 3-4 cd's per album.

 

 

Back to hardcore, are there any Frenchcore listeners here?

[South Park]

I really like south park, but I don't like the latest episode.

I give it a 5.5/10

[What is bad music?]

I would say for each artist, you need to judge them according to their genre, and with that, according to what they're trying to acheive, e.g. pop artists would generally be trying to acheive a catchy melody and a demonstration of vocal talent, just to generalise. Bad music would be something that doesn't acheive its goals suitably in the mind of the listener. That said, I don't think there is any such thing as universally bad music.

 

Ever heard of the genre 'extratone'?

 

 

But anyway, I disagree about the achievement thing. E.g. I really hate commercial pop stuff things. When I listen to it I don't care about what the artist wants to achieve, I care about how I feel about the music. Micheal jackson might be the biggest pop-icon in the world, his songs mean nothing to me because I don't like them.

 

I just think bad music is music you don't like, it's as simple as that.

[My Smithing & Magic Goals]

Good luck on getting smithing and magic 99!

 

btw: I love the ashes in your bank :thumbsup:

[Merchants ruin the economy.]

*inserts two cents*

 

People are misusing the word inflation.

 

Inflation is a decrease in the value of a currency whose value is based off of an outside limited resource. For example, in the United States our paper dollar bills were at one point in our history (a long time ago) were backed up by 1$ worth of gold. Inflation is when you have 1$ worth of gold and you print two paper dollar bills. Each "dollar" bill is now really only worth 50 cents.

 

So inflation in the literal sense of the word is impossible in RS because each gp is backed up by itself. In the real world example provided, rs would be like using the gold itself as currency instead of the dollar bill backed up by the gold. After that everything is a "simple" supply and demand curve (price manipulators aside).

You obviously don't know what inflation is. Inflation has to do with price levels or purchasing power when comparing two points in time. Price levels have risen over the last year or so, and likewise purchasing power has fallen (they always change together and in opposite directions because they measure the same thing). Runescape has experienced inflation. 120m a year ago could get you two AGSes (about), and now you can only get one with the same amount of gp.

 

Also when the US dollar was backed by gold, the US government could not just print another dollar. They had to get another ounce of gold or whatever to stick in Fort Knox. And you can still have inflation if your real-life currency is backed by gold.

 

You are both right. Higher prices or 'lower purchasing power' can also be seen as a valuedrop of money. Basically money is worth less.

The most important question is IMO: are merchanting clans the cause of (hyper)inflation? I believe they are.

The 2 most important cause of inflation are:

1) increase of the total amount of money

2) increase of demand, and/or decrease of supply

 

1) I don't think that's it the increase of money. Yes, millions and millions of GP are 'created' everyday and pumped into the economy, but it always has. Not to forget moneysinks like construction or summoning. This arguement is still debatable since nobody can really know how much money is being created everyday.

 

2) For all the people who don't think prices can be manipulated, well they can be. In fact some companies try to manipulate prices in the real world (although it's illegal).

This is were merchanting clans come in. If it's a big clan, with lots of money, then they are powerfull enough to manipulate supply and demand. I won't go into the details since everybody knows how it works.

 

Feel free to debate with me, I love this subject.