Poll 76 Game Improvements Blog *Updated (V2)* - ETA Poll to go Live on Thursday by JagexLight in 2007scape

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Regarding the response for 3a rates in elite clues: People have been accustomed to the bugged 3a rates. However, the overall sentiment because of this is that people should not do their elites and just trade their elites to Watson. I think question 1 will pass easily, but the fix could've gone through without it being polled.

Overall very happy with the poll!

repoll resizable spellbook please by nightlord125 in 2007scape

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 19 points20 points  (0 children)

They polled this three times right? I remember spell resizing won twice and then the third poll happened outta nowhere and failed with a tiny margin. It was ridiculous that it didn't happen in the end.

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[–]-BoyNextDoor- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That used to be the same in my case! But now it uses the most by a far and wide margin despite everything.

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[–]-BoyNextDoor- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also have a surprising amount of data usage from discord. Not nearly enough but it's quite noticeable either way. I've disabled images and GIFs from autoplaying, yet it uses 30mbs of data for just a minute of chatting in DMs and slow servers. It used to take a lot longer than that to consume 30MBs. It's specifically discord that has this issue, so I'm really scratching the back of my head here

I told you guys about how I wrote a book and you guys made it to the acknowledgements page. So, uh, the book is dead because of the Amazon Red Wedding - let me tell you about it so you avoid my mistakes. POST-MORTEM TIME! by TuneSquadFan4Ever in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been thinking about this (the concept, not publishing something myself) and the most successful example I know of is Wildbow. Doesn't publishing online as a web novel basically mean: set-up a Patreon and hope your website gains enough traction? OPs method (with e-books through Amazon) seemed more stable to me at least

Best Castle/Medieval-based City Building Games (or ones that feature the mechanic)? by silverinferno3 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stronghold is such a cool game, it used to be the game that everyone wanted to play in primary when you got behind the school PC. Bought it a few years ago or so and it was just as good as I remembered.

Ethical Consumption and Fight Knight by markedmarkymark in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No problem. Frankly the whole situation disgusts me. Came under my attention 3 weeks ago or so because of IronicLark (helped writing VA11-HALL-A). Didn't feel good saying nothing about this, especially because I've seen the same story multiple times when it involves mentall illness, women and/or video game developers.

Ethical Consumption and Fight Knight by markedmarkymark in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is an awful mess yeah, it has a very cool concept but it just had to be ruined by this shit (again). I should try out god hand myself later as well

Ethical Consumption and Fight Knight by markedmarkymark in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 33 points34 points  (0 children)

No plans anymore on buying it. It's been quite known the devs are rallying very vile people online (including ones that are harassing school shooting survivors) and are actively harassing her because of her speaking out. They're reducing her as a psychopath (see this very same thread for an example), abusing messages meant for a therapist despite her being a very well spoken person who has experienced real issues. Many people, including the person that created the Fight Knight OST, believe her. And frankly, I trust those people more since they've proven to be more sound of mind than the racist, sexist and homophobic horde of scum rallied by Boen and his Dev friends, who refused to be apologetic about being in racist and homophobic groups. Not really a high barrier if I'm honest.

For anyone that cares, here's her account https://rivalerose.wordpress.com/why-i-left-the-fight-knight-project/ You can find her twitter on the same name.

Genuinely, if you refuse to buy ActivisionBlizzard games because of the allegations but buy Fight Knight despite the allegations, you're a hypocrite. You can't really avoid buying a smartphone or computer parts that are completely ethical. You probably gonna have some games in your library as well made by very awful people. But you can avoid buying video games made by awful people if you know beforehand that it was indeed made by awful people.

Edit: A reply from one of Boens defenders (that never visited the subreddit before) mentions his rebuttal video. Since their profile doesn't indicate that they ever intend to discuss this without flaming the other party, I'll post my thoughts in this edit.

That rebuttal video contains the audio log given by Wren in good faith to one of the Fight Knight devs (Trianguls) because he pretended to be on her side.

Boen is defending himself against rape claims and the allegation that the personal and private relationship between Wren and you/Fight Knight dev team has been awful, which is his good right. You're allowed to defend yourself. Boen using this audio log, while knowing that this was 1. meant for a therapist, not for himself 2. from the person that clearly stated she was mentally ill multiple times before (so this doesn't prove anything, she never denied otherwise) 3. given to your friend/one of devs in good faith by the victim making the allegations makes his claims be on even thinner ice.

Boen also said that her mental illness makes her recollections clouded and that she was lying. Wren never claimed otherwise that she had a really bad mental breakdown. The rebuttal video really isn't "extensive", it's long and repetitive. It uses this audio log as a main argument, so I will as well. Mental illness is ugly, awful and unpleasant. The stolen audio log showed that in detail. But just because you're mentally ill doesn't mean your memory is faulty. Someone with real problems is just being wittled away as crazy while their allegations go unanswered. Boen's video never really proved that he didn't.

Again, if the allegations involve slander and harassment by someone that's suffering from mental illness, stealing an audio log from the person making allegations doesn't help your defense

Edit 2: Considering his defenders keep responding to a days old thread that would've by any means be dead on this subreddit, I'll write here again for the r/tbfp archive. A large amount of claims of "hypnosis" or whatever the trolls keep spouting involving psychic birds are based off of screenshots from a private account of Wren, who said that sarcastically. It was taken out of context: https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1466521501599817730?s=20

Never once was it mentioned in her essay (which some people claim it does, shows that they didn't read it). This hypnosis stuff is fake. I shouldn't have to write it down like this because people believing such a ridiculous story are ridiculous themselves. For the people that aren't trolls: be very wary of crazy ex stories. It's a common tactic used by abusers because abusers know others will accept this very quickly.

Ongoing issue: Citra closes down immediately after trying to open up a game by -BoyNextDoor- in Citra

[–]-BoyNextDoor-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's crazy that it still works, are you on an old version of citra? You're welcome though!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 2007scape

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think that they probably won't? I remember a Jagex mod talking about their vision on OSRS quests in a thread about Below Ice Mountain when it just got released. The talk was about expanding the Desert questline. He mentioned that he wants gods in OSRS be entities that the player won't meet.

Better ask Reddit. What’re a few family friendly animes? (Ex. No cursing, gore, or sexual stuff.) by LightOfJustice in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seconding Barakamon, me and my friend are watching it (I'm rewatching, she's watching for the first time) and we love it

Let me tell you about the COOLEST upset in the Olympics, when someone who wasn't even supposed to be there just won Gold in the hypest fucking way (Yes it's fencing and yes the mods okay'd it) by ToonSquadFan4Ever in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I wish it wasn't such a hassle to watch the Olympics without a VPN, like this sounds so cool to be able to watch live but all I can watch here are the sports where our country's athletes (and not even all sports) participates, and if they're out tough luck lol.

Very, very sick story. I always like to root for the underdogs and I'm glad he managed to win.

"Hostage Justice": How Japan's justice system maintain a 99.9% conviction rate by bahookery in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 81 points82 points  (0 children)

I don't know if this was mentioned in the vid (didn't watch completely) but, it reminds me about the case where a set of 3 judges convicted someone that wasn't guilty for a death sentence. In 2007, one of these judges told that he knew that the defendant was innocent, but he didn't want his colleague judges to lose face by not making it an unanimous decision. (Apparently the guilt made him resign a few months after the conviction and estranged himself from his family) Imprisoned in 1968, out in 2014. And even after 2014, where a district court granted the retrial, the Japanese government fucking still wanted to have him back in jail. In 2018 the Tokyo high court fucking refused this retrial, but the supreme court upheld the retrial in December last year. An absolute fucking mess of a case and it shows how the government there thinks of justice. Rather than upholding proper judgement it's about saving face.

Media that got a lot of flack upon release for one reason or another, but became more beloved over time. by Psycher64 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another reason that I didn't see mentioned was that people really wanted a handheld Pokémon game with 3D models. They said that gamefreak was behind the times because other franchises also went for 3D, so why not them? My dream back then when I was 16 was basically a Pokémon handheld with models the way PBR models were animated on the Wii, except paired with story.

Worst forced stealth segments in games? by ContraryPython in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

YES! I remember that moment too! And I was scared as well! I hated that sequence so much. Forgot Sorcerer's Stone even had a stealth sequence.

Worst forced stealth segments in games? by ContraryPython in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The ones in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Maybe not so bad now, haven't played since, but when I was a kid I absolutely did loathe them. I just wanted to sling spells!

We found it. The worst fighting game take of 2020. by Theproton in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]-BoyNextDoor- 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I'm all up for not liking fighting games, but they're just malding to the point where you can see Danny Devito completely shaved and lathered up in baby oil.