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Any reason why I would want to use the new prayers when slaying? I haven't done the quest yet and I wonder if one of those new prayers could be used for some heavy slaying. I see some of them boost your stats well, but I wonder if the drain rate won't make me lose a lot of money on prayer potions...

Jagex Twitter is great :thumbup: I like the hints and bits of information they give.

No, I don't want this.

Me like. Even more like.

Runescape isn't the problem. You are. You don't have enough responsibility and maturity to know when it's time to put down the keyboard, and despite your visions of lollipop dreams, there is no magical land that Runescape pulls you away from, you'll find that life outside of Runescape isn't much different than life inside of it, because it is a video game. You know how you have a problem with Runescape? When you create a thread on a fansite where you whine about how your life would be better without it, acknowledging that you're too lazy to do something about it, saying far more about your character and integrity than your plainly laid description of yourself. If you think Runescape is such a detriment to you, put down they keyboard. Everyone has their little habits, be grateful yours isn't heroin or cocaine. This.

Well it made me curious. Hope they release it before the end of the year.

Very smart. They make a bunch of people enter RSC, then lock those to one server. Next time they'll probably assign world 3 for the new people. It keeps the servers free from bots as new people can't ever enter the server that was previously opened. Individual botters that to slip in can simply be kicked whenever they're caught.

Does caynogenMod work on the Pulse? Thought it only worked on the Dream and the Magic?

People think crippling themselves gives them extra respect. Usually, those level 3 skillers only have easy 99s. I reckon they quit after they get 99 cooking, since it's a ridiculous way to train skills. Some people claim they like the challenge that being level 3 brings. Though that always makes me wonder why they haven't gotten all skills at 99 and beyond on their main.

Wow, that's a surprise.

Nothing really useful for me... Though I wonder, if you're between 91 and 99 runecrafting, do you have the chance to get 3 natures per essence? Or doesn't it work like that?

It's your own responsibility that you decide to not train skills. Don't expect Jagex to feel sorry for you not being able to enter that world when you personally decide you want to cripple yourself.

Translation: Isn't there a better way to put this in English? It basically means "if you cause a fuss, you're most likely to face even more aggressive responses". Something like that. The wind and whirlwind are a metaphor.

Cause 3 hitting is for winners! My answer is I never lost access. Woop woop :thumbsup: 3 hitting isn't that great for someone who would just run if being pk'ed :P

Although I've been playing RS pretty much from the start, I wouldn't ever want to go back. It's just an extremely outdated version of the game. I don't know why I'd want worse graphics, less content and less handy features.

Was a nice read. I think it's interesting to see how Runescape players perceive Jagex HQ and see what's going on there. Hope they invite more players (I'm right here Jagex).

Wonder if this means we'll get another huge graphic update somewhere in the future. Would be nice.

Tried it, just for a bit of nostalgia. Got bored after 5 minutes. Although it's nice to see the old game setting again, the game itself has nothing to offer for me.

And liposuction. I want to look like an anorexic girl, pl0x.

99 fletch as last, that's just epic. :thumbup: I don't go to parties, but congratulations in advance, and seeya at the high level forum.

I'm a medical biologist. I did a bit of research which resembles the article that is discussed in this thread.

That doesn't mean there were no slaves involved. You fail to mention that, although your sources even state that there were probably slaves involved. One of them even states that there were "undoubtedly" slaves involved. Keep reading, yeah.

Normal citizens.. which were used as slaves. The workers that had to built the inside of the pyramid and knew the layout of the pyramid were actually trapped inside, so that they couldn't ever tell anyone else about the way the pyramid was layed out inside. Just to give an example. It wasn't exactly a normal work environment. As for the topic start, I wish people would stop making up stories. Religion is bad enough as it is. We don't need more fairy tales.

Yes, exactly. It's not like this is new. Yes, HIV is not often used (adenoviruses and the semliki-forest virus are often candidates), but the whole procedure has been used for a long time. However, what is interesting here is that they actually pulled it off to make stem cells migrate to the brain and differentiate into some sort of oligodendrocytes (so I have to correct you here, a myelin-forming cell is no stem cell anymore. The article is just plain wrong). Also, your links stated that the viruses were transformed into basic lentiviral vectors which were originally derived from HIV. Lentiviral factors are actually quite common. So basically it's not that exciting although the HIV derived part is new. HIV is actually a quite logical virus to make into a vector. HIV can infect lymphocytes which are derived from the blood. So they're probably prone to infect the blood stem cells (hematopoietic stem cells) in the bone marrow. Oh and "stem cell" might just not be the correct term. The cells that were selected are CD34+ cells. A marker which is expressed on hematopoietic stem cells, but it is not exclusive for these HSCs. What I'm still wondering about is if they did something to direct the blood cells to the brain.. some sort of chemoattractant or cause disruption of the blood brain barrier. I wonder how they made the transduced cells actually go to the place where they are needed. The article states only 15% of the cells produced the right protein, though the neurological symptoms already declined. Maybe if they were to optimize it by selectively sending the cells to the brain, this would be an even bigger success. Secondly, I don't get why they only sorted the cells for the CD34+ marker. Other markers for HSCs are known and could be used to create a more pure culture of HSCs. Interesting.

Is that what you say to schizophrenic people?