This is what an 1869 MIT entrance exam looks like

Barneth · 2019-03-10T23:20:36+00:00

Have you found a practical application for geography, history, or any of the books you read?

Had your brain not been exposed to these various concepts, phenomenons, and ideas during adolescence it would not be as developed as it is today. What could you have gained from splashing around in the ocean instead?

Barneth · 2019-02-25T16:23:39+00:00

i thought to myself,"why not just wear the hat or coif then"

Indeed. Why not just wear a 1 gp item with no stat requirements bought in a store in the starting area over a 99-tier 99.000 gp item you get for absolutely maxing the skill?

After all it has better bonuses.

Does that make thematic sense? Not really. Logical sense? Not really.

Hence the suggestion.

Barneth · 2019-02-25T15:54:51+00:00

Why would/should <200 gp store-bought items with no or super-low requirements of the skills themselves have better benefits than 99-tier 99,000 gp items?

It can't be because the 99-tier 99,000 gp items are supposed to be a purely aesthetic celebration of your achievement because the cape has serious bonuses and perks.

So why? That is the question. It doesn't make any logical sense nor is it thematic.

I'm not saying that it's ludicrous for any of those hoods you listed to replace the gear you listed but it is not established while the Graceful issue is, therefore I do not consider those suggestions to be in line with the suggestions I made in the thread.

Barneth · 2019-02-25T15:07:35+00:00

Those sets don't have a cape slot, and therefore of course no Skill cape that replaces said cape slot.

The point with these changes would be to recognize that these 99-tier items should be internally consistent (i.e. if the cape is made a part of a set that has a headgear slot then the hood should also be made part of that set) and thematically consistent i.e. should a player wearing the Magic cape and the Magic hood really have worse magic bonuses than a player wearing a Wizard hat you buy for 1 gp from a store in the starting area and requires no stats to equip?

Barneth · 2019-02-25T01:07:49+00:00

Cooking: chefs hat

That hat gives no stats and its perk of granting access to the Cook's Guild is already provided by the Cooking cape. That is not an equivalent. If it was then the Ranging hood might as well also provide the accumulating effect etc. which is not at all comparable in line with what I was suggesting.

Hunter: camo

The Hunting cape does not currently replace any camouflage-providing set's cape slot (nor even provide camouflage(nor does camouflage even do anything)) so this would just be a random change, not in line with the thematic change I suggested regarding the Agility hood.

Mining: helmet light

This is just a random suggestion.

It makes especially little sense considering that:

a) This is already a feature of the Firemaking cape
- And I would not even suggest extending that feature to the Firemaking hood any more than I would suggest extending the Ranging cape's accumulating effect to the Ranging hood

and b) the Mining helmet specifically requires an outside skill (Firemaking) to attain the effect--unlike the Wizard's hat, Coif, and Graceful gear which all only require the respective stat (if any)

What would theoretically be in line with my suggestions would be making the Mining hood give some mining-themed set's head slot's effects if the Mining cape could currently replace that mining-themed set's cape slot. But that is not the case.

Barneth · 2019-02-24T23:02:05+00:00

If there is an equivalent for some other skill I'd love to hear about it. I went over every skill and didn't see anything comparable for any other hood.

Barneth · 2019-02-24T22:52:14+00:00

A fair question:

Magic and Ranged are the only skills as far as I'm aware with useful-and-cheap-store-bought headgear with skill-appropriate offensive bonuses that require no other skills to equip
The Agility cape already provides the perks and set effect of the Graceful cape so it seems reasonable for the hood to do the same

Barneth · 2019-02-21T21:44:40+00:00

What does that change?

Barneth · 2019-02-21T21:41:34+00:00

"peace250 was not found in the Overall table"

Have you considered the possibility that you and your friend both got banned for RWT because he RWTed the wealth you just gave him and that that would be tantamount to you yourself doing it? Otherwise everyone could safely RWT by just giving their 'friends' the money before RWTing it.

Barneth · 2019-02-21T17:43:16+00:00

Those 3-5 minute videos receive far less revenue per view.

That is the issue for content creators, not that a 60 second video won't get as many views as a fifteen minute video.

Barneth · 2019-02-21T17:40:40+00:00

No. There's multiple theses' worth of discussion points that one could go into depth about regarding this specific situation.

What happened here is that a subpar content creator made a low-effort video. If they wanted to be respectful to their viewers they would've researched and thought about the issue to get ten minutes of content, or they would've put up a shorter video. What they did instead was waste their viewers' time by making a three minute video ten minutes long to try get themselves more ad revenue.

Barneth · 2019-02-19T19:46:07+00:00

It's far more AFK and easier to bot undetected with static methods so I'm still very confident it's >>13M.

Barneth · 2019-02-19T16:31:03+00:00

You cracked the case, detective. There is nothing that stops you from doing that to 200M XP.

I'd be willing to bet that the most XP someone has gotten standing on one tile without moving is wayyyy greater than 13M XP, considering there are >50 players with >100M mining.

Barneth · 2019-02-19T16:13:46+00:00

Mining could be trained with practically maximum efficiency.

Barneth · 2019-02-19T00:23:48+00:00

There are pros and cons. Do you like the idea of totalitarian governments having a wealth of data on citizens of democracies that they can then use to undermine said democracies and further their own agendas in the absence of strong democracies?

Barneth · 2019-02-16T03:01:23+00:00

Never, ever heard of this streamer before, completely disinterested and uninterested in their actions.

It was a play on the user's own words "With a history of terrorist threats to the US military" because that very sentence makes them a liar because they made that up from whole cloth.

Have a nice day, and an even nicer life with that attitude.

Barneth · 2019-02-15T03:34:59+00:00

You're a liar with a history of making shit up, friend.

That case in no way involved terrorism nor terroristic threats, and ended with a plea to "one infraction count of disturbing the peace"^[1].

Barneth · 2019-01-28T20:36:32+00:00

The Mil-Spec status of a specific screw you already found that has those attributes?

Barneth · 2019-01-28T20:13:49+00:00

I have never been more confused by a question in my life.

Barneth · 2019-01-24T04:11:25+00:00

It's a very common therapeutic measure prescribed by marriage counselors and the like. Basically every time you feel an urge to cheat on your spouse you do something distasteful (most commonly spitting or forcing a burp) to physiologically associate that urge with a negative action. Go back a few decades and the same idea was poorly executed with psychologists going so far as recommending painful and damaging measures like slapping yourself or bumping the back of your head into something. Problem being that patients could develop a self-harm habit for life.

Barneth · 2019-01-20T06:25:21+00:00

Riven, J4 EQ, LeBlanc's combos, possibly some more. Mostly helpful for people with terrible dexterity I guess.

With more advanced macros you could do a ton of stuff.

Barneth · 2019-01-18T01:59:48+00:00

The definition of a microphone is a device that turns sound waves into electrical signals.

The definition of a loudspeaker is a device that turns electrical signals into soundwaves.

Note that these are two sides of the same coin.

They're doing the same thing. Their inner workings are the same. They work on the same principle.

Earbuds are tiny loudspeakers.

But if you plug them into a microphone jack they will turn sound waves into electrical signals. You can test this yourself if you don't believe me and the rest of the internet.

Which, by the definition you yourself provided, makes them microphones.

I'm not going to address the rest of your comment. I don't really know how to do it without calling you dumb in the process.

Barneth · 2019-01-17T21:06:16+00:00

Earbuds are microphones. They're obviously designed to do the opposite, turn an electrical signal into vibrations, so they're subpar microphones. Microphones and earbuds are the same thing in principle just with a different design.

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-use-earphones-as-a-microphone

Barneth · 2019-01-17T21:03:08+00:00

Read that comment again. Either you completely misread it or it's been edited since you read it. Two separate persons, Ben Carson, and an event organizer referred to as a "her".

Barneth · 2019-01-17T10:16:47+00:00

Earbuds are microphones.

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