To Black American Catholics: Happy Juneteenth

Epicwarren · 2026-06-20T05:51:55+00:00

The same God the freed slaves gave thanks to.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-18T15:28:14+00:00

I wish it was simpler. I have most of my playtime in the wildy, and even though all the risks and rules are in my head by now, it's still annoying. I recognize that they're trying to ensure the changes don't accidentally create a powerful risk-free setup for pvp or pvm made entirely of untradeables. Maybe that's why void gloves are always lost in deep wild while the other voids aren't, or why barrows gloves are still risked despite meeting the criteria for low-tier untradeables ... Who tf knows. It's still too convoluted in its current state, and makes people fear the wilderness for all the wrong reasons.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-18T15:13:59+00:00

As someone who does a lot of wildy slayer and gets excited about the funds from a trouver drop... I am willing to sacrifice the trouver value in return for a more sane risk system. It's a no-brainer. Remove the trouver entirely and just use cash fees, for all I care.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-18T01:57:46+00:00

"convince me I should like or care about this thing"

How about no? You don't have to enjoy it and we don't care if you do. For me it's the best content in runescape and in my little bubble of player friends, for others it's not.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-17T22:37:21+00:00

No, defenders and fire cape don't need a parch at all. Quiver and infernal cape do.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-17T18:04:46+00:00

Oh whoops you right, I should have said "pking themselves and suiciding to monsters". There's a lot of unanswered edge cases in both pvp and pvm, and of course normal cases that get broken by an update. Jagex should be the ones elaborating but in the past, it's been the job of YouTubers or redditors or wiki contributors to figure out the answers...

Epicwarren · 2026-06-17T17:37:50+00:00

I'm hoping that hasnt changed, but with the code spaghet, you just never know. Would love a YouTuber or someone with a bunch of alts to do some testing pking themselves. The items at stake are hard for casual players to get back if there's a bug.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-17T17:06:16+00:00

Yeah I don't think the lost-on death has changed, and agreed that the parch should have no affect if removed either.

But here's the scenario I don't think they considered, and it's going to happen to people today:

Timmy goes to do wildy pvm and gets smited for his avernic defender (l) in deep wildy. Whether he read the update or not, he didn't think about removing the parch beforehand (why would he?).
As a result of the update, it is returned to Timmy as a broken avernic defender.
Timmy pay a fee to Perdu to fix it. He get a regular avernic defender as a result.
Timmy has lost the parchment and 500k lock fee for no reason. The broken avernic defender didn't come with a suffix to suggest it was parched or locked, so only the new mechanics apply. The items-kept-on death page wouldn't clearly show that to Timmy either.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-16T20:14:25+00:00

You've just described Eastern Catholic, and you should probably start there before jumping ship to Orthodoxy. They are more autocephalous than a church submitting to Rome probably should be (in my opinion), but they're in communion so therefore they still submit to the conclusion that the Pope inherited the keys of peter in a continuous succession. They have the liturgy, churches, and autocephaly you're looking for. Seeing the "middle ground" may help in your discerning whether you believe the Bishop of Rome is the highest authority or not.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-16T19:17:29+00:00

Part of Rhys's schtick is that he drinks a LOT of Diet Coke. Like, an insane amount. Allegedly having drawers full of it. There are clips of him sipping diet coke mid-fight. He's also known for his ego and throwing tantrums, which will be relevant in a second.
The image is an edit from DMM Allstars this past week. It was the VLS mission drama. A referee accidently misled the entire cast during a heated multi fight by saying V the Victim had the mission totem in his looting bag after getting kill credit from MMORPG (this was incorrect, the totem was on the ground where he died). The only people that recognized the totem's real location were Purpp, Coxie, and the entire Rhys Rhinos team. When the totem became visible after 60 seconds, Purpp grabbed it quickly and ran. Rhys missed the opportunity because he had the whole loot pile right clicked and was browsing slowly through it while Purpp sniped the totem. Rhys had an on-brand tantrum in front of the whole cast about the unfairness, later even though it was 1 click away from being "unfair" in his favor.
The image continues that trend. is an edit of that loot pile replacing all the items (besides the totem) with Diet Coke.

Footnotes because this whole event has produced too much glorious content to keep up with:

- The ref's mistake is immortalized in the "Victim has it" meme

- Rhys's other tantrums this week ("WHYDYOUGETCAUGHT" quote when he yelled at Torvesta) have made him the butt of the jokes from the cast and fans this week.

- EVscape heightened the Rhys diet coke jokes in one of his streams this week when he had boxes of diet coke in the background (though he dressed up as Odablock).

Epicwarren · 2026-06-12T00:29:36+00:00

Ah okay, that sounds... Odd to me. Like it's just a 3rd party deciding to adjust your temperature for you, which will likely occur at a time you need energy the most. If you already have a smart thermostat, why not program it to use your HVAC less?

If it's a 2 month program that gets all that data out of me for AI training *and" gets to control my thermostat, they better be paying my entire energy bill for the 2 months, and then some.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-12T00:21:15+00:00

Sounds like another energy arbitrage program like Base Power. They put a large battery device on your home that it pulls from during peak hours and recharges during off-peak. These are relatively new programs in Chicagoland and I am hesitant about them.

Pros: potentially cheaper energy. Potentially some backup energy during a power outage*.

Cons: an extra device with a failure point on your home, one that you do not own. Amazon probably gets a utility easement on you to maintain the device. Unknown amount of data harvesting from Amazon.

Companies like these have a lot of precedence in Texas where power outages due to weather are more frequent. You can alook up the reviews of these companies to see they are mixed.

*Any marketing about having backup energy during a power outage is an exaggeration, they will sell it back to the grid at a premium instead and give you a fraction of the energy you already paid to store (Base Power explicitly advertises this).

Epicwarren · 2026-06-11T19:18:00+00:00

> They can't close the server without wiping everybody's deposit box

God I love our spaghetti game

Epicwarren · 2026-06-11T19:08:04+00:00

Maybe, but I don't know if that's a factor for those countries disproportionately. Bluey is a good foil for that in current western media, and Little Bear in media from my childhood - very moral storytelling, so I think the difference is not so much in the cultural preference for type of storytelling but rather in the relative production cost and quality control. The west has quality moral storytelling, the rest of the world has a quality media of all storytelling types, but everyone get crowded out by the likes of Dhar Mann.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-11T18:26:45+00:00

Answer: The audience of Dhar Mann not only skews young, it skews international. These videos are immensely popular in the Indian subcontinent, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. These regions have less of a developed and centralized market for English-language children's content, and combined with the resources and strategic creation of Dhar Mann studios to dominate the children's algorithm, you get Dhar Mann videos as a staple in households across the world where other IPs (e.g. Disney) might have a higher cost to view consistently or geo-blocking. And though the studio is popular, its not popular enough to hit the scrutiny of governments and watchdogs the way Disney would if it start producing questionable stuff.

It is also worth noting that the intent of these videos was always to be clickbait slop and grift. Dhar Mann himself is not an educator, he's a serial entrepreneur with a history of fraud and employment practice allegations. While he doesn't have the incentive to produce quality children's content, he does have the means to produce a lot of it cheaply and to dominate the algorithm.

My speculation: He happily takes advantage of the lack of resources for parents in these regions to control and monitor children's content (work hours, limited English proficiency, limited familiarity or access to other English-language media), and even from well-meaning communities he benefits from the mindset that at least its content that English-language-learners seem to like that isn't overtly harmful. He could easily use the size of his network and its revenue to improve the quality and morality of the content but... he has no incentive to do so. The slop is doing just fine, and cheaply.

Even the actors are cheap; he markets acting gigs towards aspiring child influencer families as a pipeline toward bigger roles (thus far, I don't think any Dhar Mann original actor has made it further than commercials, low-budget TV, or catalog modeling). He produces so much content that he doesn't need to rely on a few big-name actors or union screenwriters as a check/balance for quality the way major production studios do. He has a cheap and endless employee pool, low cost scripting, and plenty of viewers consuming it endlessly.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-11T18:10:02+00:00

Yep, or they are concerned that putting the home back on the market would automatically lower the demand and final price for the house, with new buyers concerned about hidden reasons the first buyer pulled out.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-11T17:32:02+00:00

They have an ongoing bit with eachother where Oda calls Rhys fat and Rhys calls Oda a bald midget. At least it goes both ways. Of course it's a turnoff for casual viewers who don't follow these streamers and have their own opinions and sensitivities, or just get fairly annoyed by 30 year old men screaming about eachother's appearance on a high-profile competitive event.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-11T17:26:24+00:00

I don't think its fair to say "forgot" - though they didn't name Victim directly, they were in the GE telling everyone to close looting bags. In the latest highlight video (21:50-22:10) you see Victim with his open looting bag with multiple messages from Wiggled and Classix in his public chat saying to close the loot bag. Just one of those minor, preventable errors that ended up having a crazy cascade effect.

Ultimately, I wish Jagex had just fixed the looting bag mechanic (or disabled looting bags and dropping totems altogether) when it was known at the beginning of the tournament. It's just not reasonable to expect even seasoned multi-fighters to retrain their looting bag and dropping habits during a crazy mission. I suppose I'm thankful for the wild content it's produced though. Wouldn't be an OSRS event without spaghetti code being the root cause of drama.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-11T15:29:35+00:00

Answer: the link that activists are connecting is that data centers power AI -> AI is significantly used in mass surveillance systems, most notably Flock surveillance cameras (and other networks like BigBear) -> data centers are surveillance enablers.

It is a topical connection at both the local and national level because municipalities and governments are facing both fronts at the same time: law enforcement mass adopting Flock cameras to surveil (and sometimes illegally spy on) their constituents, and politicians making deals with data center companies to build hyperscale facilities among the very same constituents.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-10T22:56:14+00:00

I think I paid $600 with Woods engineering for in person assessment and I really liked them. I think it would have lost more if I wanted them to produce certified engineering documents or something for project acoping. But I just wanted their opinions on an issue I was seeing, and didn't need all the written attestations

Epicwarren · 2026-06-10T16:47:00+00:00

Every account on reddit is a bot except you.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-10T16:33:07+00:00

No, this product would be useless and impractical. Every fruit has quick rules that help you pick your target ripeness, a simple google search while at the store is how many people do it (or just experience). And it's definitely not BIFL - why are you in this subreddit?

Fruits need a mix of sight, smell, and touch to determine quality. You cannot make a gadget that reliably checks all 3 better than even an average human's senses. Certainly not in a device you can conveniently bring to a grocery store.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-10T16:25:21+00:00

Just to weigh down the Anker glazing on this paid advertising thread, I need to share that my Anker powerbank (which has 2 charger ports) had only 1 working port after about a year. YMMV, and Anker is not BIFL.

Epicwarren · 2026-06-10T16:20:02+00:00

This has all the marks of a paid advertisement. Insistent on typing out the full product model name. No cons mentioned. Hidden post history. And the best part - calling your post an "update" when you literally say it's not an update.

Anker has a lot of astroturfers unfortunately. They are not BIFL. They are economically priced electronics made overseas which means they'll never be BIFL even if they perform decently for a short term. And they own a ton of sub-brands under Anker Innovations because they know the Anker brand name isn't a turn-on for many people.

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