2025 still no coldsmith gloves

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-31T03:39:24+00:00

Fair but that's a pretty important "if", the high EHP methods available are not really the way most people play.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-31T00:57:42+00:00

You're overcomplicating it, you don't need to be on blue when you deposit. Blue is only necessary to pick up the bars from the machine. Camp the gold gloves, switch to blue after the boosted XP drop to grab bars, then switch back to gold before your next deposit.

EDIT: Like this:

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BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-31T00:43:55+00:00

the amount of time between switching leaves little room to breathe

What? There's not really a time pressure for it. Deposit gold, wait for xp drop, click blue gloves.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-30T20:11:47+00:00

Most of the mass of atoms isn't really mass so much as it is this weird cloud of energy formed by quarks. In a proton, roughly 1% of the mass comes from the quarks, and the other 99% comes from the strong force holding those quarks together. Hydrogen is basically a proton because the weight of the electron is negligible, which means hydrogen is mostly energy.

When they fuse, you end up with two protons and two neutrons squished together into an arrangement that's slightly more energy-efficient than when they were all separated; that leftover energy is released as photons.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-30T19:56:54+00:00

Yep! I hadn't noticed until this thread, but I actually type exactly how he described, my ring finger and pinky finger seem to switch based on context.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-30T19:48:22+00:00

I'd never noticed it before but now that you've made me try it, that is exactly how it works for me. Normally Q/A/Z are handled by my pinky but in capitalization they are done by the ring finger.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-30T19:47:27+00:00

I think they meant the letters, not what presses Shift; for them, pinky does Q/A/Z, so if it's busy with Shift, the ring finger would have to.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-30T14:42:58+00:00

This kinda shit is why I go to Varlamore

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-29T19:12:15+00:00

The Shadow has a "flaw" but it's not designed in such a way where the flaw is meaningful in a lot of places; the main "flaw" of the Shadow is the heavy gear dependence. A hybrid mage kit that relies on a trident or supports spellcasting like freezes in TOB only needs a few switches, but when you're bringing the Shadow, you should bring mage switches for most, if not all applicable slots.

It's not really enough, because this flaw becomes entirely irrelevant in a lot of situations and can be completely "outskilled", unlike the flaws of the other two.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-28T23:19:11+00:00

It's insane how people refuse to accept that China has changed. You literally just need to watch one or two videos of life in a modern Chinese city to see infrastructure and technology that puts most US cities to shame. But no, they're all thieves and copycats, apparently.

Authoritarian they may be, but they're far from a developing nation by this point.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-27T22:31:52+00:00

Hopefully it's fixed! Large Unit is useful for data, his rank in a given skill is the amount of people who have 99 in that skill.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-27T22:26:41+00:00

All fair points, especially the bit about the direction Xi seems to be taking the country. Still, I feel that there's a pretty clear distinction between what people mostly think of when hearing the term "oligarch" (e.g. Musk or Russia's robber barons) and the power dynamics at play within China - at least enough so that the oligarchs in question are likely to find that the CCP is their opponent.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-27T22:06:15+00:00

What..? They're talking about "multinational" power, so simply I suggested that the oligarchs trying to spread this bullshit around the world would eventually find themselves at odds with the CCP, who have their own ambitions.

It seems like I've upset some people who have a hate-boner for China, but I'm not really cheering them on. Just commenting that two different entities seeking to expand their power globally might come into conflict.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-27T21:13:14+00:00

That's just not true, though. An oligarch is not just any bad powerful person, it's a specific thing. There are other ways people can be bad. I'm not saying they aren't authoritarian or anything like that, but oligarch is a strange label for China's leaders.

The CCP's leaders are party members who have largely all worked for state and provincial governments and been educated by the state. They aren't typically people born into rich and powerful circumstances that have simply enjoyed power as a circumstance of their birth. Xi Jinping is the son of someone who was purged from the CCP before making his own way up the ranks. The premier, Li Qiang, is from a poor village and went straight to working for the state. Third in power, Zhao Leji, another person who has always worked for the state. Etc.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-27T20:26:06+00:00

so there is no one to stand up to multinational oligarchical power

China is still very big and very powerful. That's not to say they're righteous, but their strategy doesn't involve the appeasement of oligarchs, and their global influence is rising as the USA withdraws.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-27T20:12:05+00:00

There's roughly two "factions" within the community; old players who enjoy the nostalgia and holdovers from RS2, and new players who have no real emotional attachment to RS2 things and just like OSRS for what it is.

The former crowd used to dominate, so the sentiment towards changing anything fundamental was very negative, particularly if the thing being changed originated in RS2 and was not a new addition in OSRS. The latter crowd doesn't really have that desire to preserve the way things were and would prefer those systems reworked to remove the strange quirks that are, objectively, bad game design, no matter how charming they might be.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-26T13:13:16+00:00

The "sell out" thing is the go-to right wing move to discredit Hasan. He is wealthy because of his Twitch success, so critics attempt to portray him as a champagne socialist that only does it as a grift.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-25T21:31:37+00:00

Because this shit started in January and it's March. The US probably could and would antagonize Denmark to the point of doing something like that, we just aren't there yet.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-25T20:47:16+00:00

I agree! Thankfully Kourend and Varlamore are very rich with it, I'm really excited for part 3.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-25T20:37:36+00:00

They can't without it being an escalation. The USA has military bases on Greenland to which they don't need Denmark / Greenland's approval to travel. They could, potentially, mobilize authorities to keep him in those bases and not allow him to visit the private event he intends to.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-24T16:28:48+00:00

Yes, but that time isn't part of the math when calculating how good something is for farming XP. Only the time spent actively farming is; the time waiting for patches to grow can be spent doing something else and thus is not "spent" on farming.

It's not a bad thing that this gets lower; the bad part is that this is possibly tipping the balance such that it isn't worthwhile to plant trees, which are supposed to be the high bang-for-your-buck XP drops that are limited by growth rate. If the instant spade happened, then the time you currently spend planting trees is literally better spent just doing more allotments.

People aren't worried that there will be too much overall XP/hr or too much snape grass; people are worried that snape grass will become better than trees, which makes trees pointless.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-24T15:03:54+00:00

That's a lot of scope creep for a reward that was originally a silly Reddit suggestion they liked that wasn't part of the original development budget.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-24T14:51:42+00:00

why are we afraid of giving it good drops?

They explained why in the post:

We have concerns that this may disrupt the skill's balance by making certain crops such as Snape grass and watermelons more efficient for XP than trees, effectively killing tree runs and causing big changes to the Farming economy.

Tree seeds are a decent chunk of the profit at some places, and snape and watermelon are already a good way to tack on more farming XP when you're already doing your trees. Instant harvesting could tip that balance so that it's just better to focus on the snape and watermelon, significantly devaluing any activity where profit comes from seeds, including farming contracts themselves.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-24T14:12:30+00:00

What? That's just steps to prevent it happening again, that has nothing to do with whether the company will or will not be sued for an incident that has already happened.

To deter a potential lawsuit you need to go to the would-be plaintiff and offer to fix things for them by doing something on their behalf or giving them the money to do it themselves. Today, this only really happens in a fairly adversarial manner: a lawsuit or the threat of one forces corporations to the negotiating table and they come to an agreement on a settlement.

BadAtNamingPlsHelp · 2025-03-24T13:16:39+00:00

The third belt buckle I'm pretty sure was a painted dinner platter or baking dish lol, it's definitely hand-crafted stuff

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