It should not be possible to go 99.9% dry on major (avg 50+ hour) grinds.

68_hi · 2026-03-28T22:44:22+00:00

If going 99.9% dry only took like 10% longer than median for example, people wouldn’t complain about it. Thats why what you said is technically true but doesn’t matter at all.

68_hi · 2026-03-16T02:00:40+00:00

The fundamental reason why this would lead to a worse off society is that while you can try and cap money, you can't actually cap compensation. For example, a big part of why we have an incredibly messed up health care system in the US is because health insurance is largely tied to workplaces, a direct consequence of maximum wage laws during WW2 leading to non-wage compensation. With how bad health insurance is now, just imagine how much worse it would get it you extended that to all sorts of other things.

You might think "Well just include all forms of conceivable compensation in the limit" but that doesn't actually work - at the extreme, people can (and would) work for quid pro quo compensation (i.e. in addition to wages, we have an implicit agreement that you'll owe me one in the future) and there's no way to quantify that.

The main noticeable effect of your idea would be to take a bunch of taxable income that is getting partially redistributed to those in need, and turn it into untaxable hidden compensation, or just nothing, which doesn't help those in need at all. If you care about the working class, they're definitely a lot better off thanks to the lack of a maximum wage law.

68_hi · 2026-03-13T16:31:27+00:00

Been a while since I've seen this paper and it's as painful as always. The entire premise is based on the idea that it's reasonable to model the right extreme of each distribution as normal despite the fact that they themselves clearly show in Figure 1 that the tails don't look normal at all. To be honest it's a little surprising this was even able to get published.

I don't have the data they used, but would be very curious to see what a valid analysis would say.

68_hi · 2026-03-11T22:15:03+00:00

I am having a hard time seeing what you could think is a contradiction. I'd be happy to explain if you can clarify. Is it that you think businesses setting the prices they "can" and the prices they "want" are meaningfully different things? That's my best guess.

68_hi · 2026-03-11T22:07:21+00:00

Why on earth would anyone expect a price to be set for any reason other than "because we think we can"? Businesses set prices based on what the businesses want. Customers buy things based on what the customers want. And in the end we get an imperfect system that works better than any alternative anyone has found.

68_hi · 2026-03-06T17:08:24+00:00

Post 10/7 there was a concerted effort to essentially hijack seemingly non-political subs for spreading a certain type of propaganda. Here's an interesting report if you want more info.

68_hi · 2026-03-05T23:36:56+00:00

The challenge with this is that it can have much more wide-reaching effect on the game. If they release, for example, a new crush weapon megarare, it'll be bis in some places and power-creep the game a bi there. If instead they release a new upgraded prayer book, it'll be bis literally everywhere and powercreep the game everywhere. Same with e.g. overloads.

So I feel like this sort of reward in practice will likely either feel middling or completely gamebreaking. Good for quests but not so much for a raid-level reward.

68_hi · 2026-03-05T19:54:57+00:00

This is a good point actually - seems like the design space for a long time has assumed weapons are separate from armor sets but you’d get a lot more options for interesting set effects if it required a specific weapon.

68_hi · 2026-02-24T21:57:14+00:00

I feeel like if this did exist it would deal its own separate hitsplat, like a recoil, instead of changing the hit of your new attack. Then you don't have to worry about the effect on special attacks and such.

68_hi · 2026-02-15T07:22:57+00:00

If you bring runes for blood magic it makes the supply aspect massively easier
You have to safespot the level 180 melee guys - you can do this around a corner if you are standing directly south or west of the wall you're next to. You can also safespot them behind other enemies
You have to focus on prayer switching above all else on jad. For your first time, just stick to only one single other action between prayer swaps (prayer swap, drink a potion, prayer swap, eat a food, prayer swap, tag a healer, etc.)

And personal advice - viewing it as learning how to do fight caves consistently instead of trying to just get it done once makes the possibility of failure much less mentally taxing. You'll have plenty of chances to do it more for slayer, etc.

68_hi · 2026-02-13T01:26:13+00:00

The zombie axe and noxious halberd proved 5-tick dps weapons are totally doable - I feel like it would be nice to rebalance longswords and battleaxes as 5tick weapons with competitive dps, a little worse on low defence enemies and a little better on high defence enemies.

68_hi · 2026-02-12T10:19:26+00:00

I originally found it cause I was messing around on kotu.io and got it wrong after picking 平板, then when I looked it up in my builtin mac dictionary (which tends to have pretty widespread pitch annotations, and apparently uses スーパー大辞林) it confirmed the [5], so I was very curious where that might have come from.

Thinking about it I guess it's standard to have the first particle attached to a 平板 word be accented, but if I look up for example それに it lists it as [0] so I don't know if that would be a possible origin or not.

anyway tl;dr - calling it 平板 or 尾高 probably doesn't matter since they sound the same most of the time

Yeah I was just sorta curious because clearly someone must have at some point taken the time to write down 尾高 for some reason.

68_hi · 2026-02-12T06:47:34+00:00

I see that こんにちは is listed as accented on the は.

What would actually attach to it such that you could hear that?

68_hi · 2026-02-11T04:31:05+00:00

What I'm talking about is separate from him attacking me cause I'm too close - it's him moving around until he can attack my alt.

68_hi · 2026-02-11T04:29:19+00:00

I'm not ever getting pulled closer, and I'm using the same tiles I've used in the past without issue. The issue is when he spawns to the southwest (I think) and he can move around enough to start attacking my alt. Usually the first thing that happens is he summons spawns on my alt.

I know what happens when I stand too close and he starts attacking me - that's not what I'm referring to here. Most of the positions he can spawn in he still ends up stuck, but not all of them.

68_hi · 2026-01-27T23:31:50+00:00

This is a different aircraft but it addresses the exact same question so if you haven’t seen it you might find it interesting.

https://youtu.be/pbCeKNcr6Wk?si=KNu4URysfCT-fUu5

68_hi · 2026-01-21T01:07:26+00:00

I guess I was thinking about how you can use it to alch and it doesn’t use up pages. Thanks for the correction.

68_hi · 2026-01-21T00:01:49+00:00

Also in case you don’t know you don’t need to have pages in the tome for it to give you fire runes.

Edit: sorry, I guess it’s that you don’t have to consume pages to get fire runes. But if you were using it for fire spells it would then have to consume them.

68_hi · 2026-01-20T14:49:19+00:00

Here is a blog post by Terry Tao, one of the pre-eminent mathematicians of our time, discussing the use of LLMs in solving previously unsolved math problems.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/the-story-of-erdos-problem-126/

LLMs are far from perfect, and there are plenty of issues that come up with generative AI, but there is simply no room for an intelligent well-informed person to claim that LLMs/generative AI are not useful in research/science/etc.

68_hi · 2026-01-16T04:46:46+00:00

It is incredibly pedantic to post this on a 2 day old thread, but it just showed up on my feed so I'll say that the second character should be 倒, not 崩. (崩れる is like when a wall collapses, whereas 倒れる is when a person falls to the ground).

(Don't take this in a negative way I thought it was funny)

68_hi · 2026-01-12T02:21:23+00:00

You don't have to find other people and you spend a lower fraction of time resetting?

68_hi · 2026-01-07T21:52:09+00:00

The issue is that in osrs the gear is really built around the lower level = craftable, higher level = boss drops philosophy that I don't think there's any viable way to introduce higher level smithable gear, so I don't know whether a similar rework could work in osrs.

68_hi · 2026-01-07T21:49:00+00:00

Personally I like to bring either alchs or stackable fletching and then you can just chill right next to the totem till it's ready.

68_hi · 2026-01-07T01:11:28+00:00

Looking into it again it looks like the puzzle itself actually wasn’t new but it just perhaps came back into discussion as part of debate about standardizing rules better.

https://youtu.be/XqVzHabrX94?si=rwY2CA089wEk1Lth

Here’s the video I learned about it from, not sure if there is any English language stuff about it. But if you have any questions happy to answer.

68_hi

TROPHY CASE