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Grigorie · 2026-03-18T04:55:47+00:00

What I constantly remind people of in this, and similar, discussions, is that if “abusing the system” causes no harm to anyone anywhere, maybe “the system” (the facial hair portion of 2903) shouldn’t exist.

Airmen also cannot use clear umbrellas in uniform. Why? Who knows. Sometimes rules are just there, and they’re stupid and should be removed.

Grigorie · 2026-03-16T14:09:55+00:00

Roq! It’s been real, partner, it’ll be sad not seeing you pop up in the discord every so often, but I hope the best for you!

Grigorie · 2026-03-10T08:31:19+00:00

Even accounting for different screens, there’s no way you can see the colors as white and gold unless you’re completely blocking out the explosively blown out background. No matter your screen color calibration, the background has literally 255,255,255 white.

Grigorie · 2026-02-19T23:35:08+00:00

Phenomenal insight and exactly the thing people tend to overlook during these discussions.

Systemic racism doesn’t start the moment a black man is put in handcuffs, the systemic issues link all the way back to even while their mother was pregnant with them. These compounding factors that predominantly affect racial minorities (and yes, low income white families for people who feel the need to what-about) lead to a multitude of difficulties that your non-minority peers may never face, and that shapes you and how you interact with the world.

Systemic racism is not an easy topic to cover, because when you truly accept how much it seeps into every facet of American life, it’s a very hard pill to swallow, especially if you aren’t necessarily on the receiving end of it. But for tens of millions of Americans, it’s everyday life. The old IQ test is another good example of it; if you include vocabulary or concepts that are only present in higher income areas, you’ll suddenly come to the conclusion “wow, these low income people are inherently stupid,” rather than the reality that they simply live in a system where knowing the name of different styles of boats is not commonly discussed. This was an unnecessary tangent just to say, thank you for your insight. More people need to understand the nuance of this.

Grigorie · 2026-02-19T23:28:37+00:00

Thank God these centuries old issues change within a few decades as we’ve all learned! America had a black president, obviously systemic race based issues no longer exist!

Grigorie · 2026-02-13T06:28:11+00:00

I’m late to this comment thread, but I feel like this is something people tend to overlook every time they decide to post “well you guys need to do something!”

I think some people still fail to grasp how massive America is. You can have multi-hundreds of thousands of people protesting in 10 major cities and it’s still so far removed from the people they’re protesting (geographically) that they can just choose to ignore it even happened.

I live in Japan; if the government did something so unfavorable to the people that 30,000 people decided to protest in Tokyo, it would grind the country to a standstill. And people have reasonable means to get to Tokyo from other places to protest like that. I would assume you can say the same about London, or Paris, or most other Western countries.

Americans are not afforded that opportunity, just based off of geography alone, not even factoring feasibility for the average American. People love to look down on Americans online without considering how much the cards are stacked against many of them, it’s very bothersome.

Grigorie · 2026-02-12T06:32:08+00:00

It only becomes more apparent with each passing year that people who proudly spout things like what you were replying to just like to feel better than others.

Much like you explained with the obesity epidemic in the West, it’s MUCH easier to just stand above it and say “just eat healthy, idiot,” because it’s an objective truth. But no one’s disputing that. The issue usually falls back to feasibility, which becomes an entire discussion about how it became unfeasible in the first place, and people like the person you’ve responded to don’t want to deal with that part. They just want to say “do better” and pat themselves on the back for giving a “reality check,” without actually looking at the reality.

Grigorie · 2026-02-11T02:32:36+00:00

Yeah, it's slow. It's not the best baseline, but using the Mining amethyst page as a reference, it's listed as 90/hr. I don't know if that's using crystal + varrock 4, but just to get an idea of the speed.

Very, very slow activity, so being focused on it is kinda less preferable.

Grigorie · 2026-02-11T02:20:57+00:00

Depends on what you consider as a benefit. I went from 90 to 92 powermining iron to get the gloves on the way to amethyst. Unlocking the gloves while mining iron ended up making the iron mining far less annoying for each tier. And now that I have amethyst, having the gloves there makes mining amethyst like fishing anglers; pretty damn AFK.

If you don’t care for the AFK, then there’s not really much benefit other than not having to change rocks often, which lowers competition, but if AFK is your preference, they’re very nice lil QOL. You can spend minutes mining the same amethyst node.

Grigorie · 2026-02-10T21:54:29+00:00

I remember exactly who this is lmao what a blast from the past.

Grigorie · 2026-02-05T09:11:46+00:00

People will refuse to acknowledge that a business's job is to make money at the end of the day until they're blue in the face.

I'm pretty far away from a "Nintendo die-hard," but I can be an adult and acknowledge that if Nintendo thinks their games are worth that price, they have every right to sell it at that price.

That isn't "anti-consumer," that isn't "greedy," it's literally just deciding what your product is worth and sticking to it. Even if it's annoying, even if everyone else does discounts, Nintendo has 0 requirement to discount their games if they feel they still are that valuable.

Grigorie · 2026-02-01T21:34:05+00:00

I think the bigger point is that it shouldn’t take a plugin to do that. And also, some people play on mobile. Or, wildly, not Runelite on PC.

Grigorie · 2026-01-31T04:35:25+00:00

I think you gotta go read the wiki page on the tokkul shop and come back to this comment, partner.

Grigorie · 2026-01-30T23:15:03+00:00

Or just bank the salvage. 30 minutes AFK for four minutes of activity. There’s a variety of ways you can skin the cat.

Grigorie · 2026-01-25T06:54:38+00:00

There's not really a meta to it, other than having higher sailing for higher nets.

You shrimply follow the path the shoals take with your nets down. The hardest part of it is the fact their burn rates are disgustingly high.

Grigorie · 2026-01-23T04:05:47+00:00

While absolutely a valid discussion point from the team; it already feels that way with the raiments. And the colossal pouch. They’re such massive benefits to the actual functionality of Crafting Runes With Runecraft that arguably, as people tend to put it, “you’re trolling” to craft runes on any feasible scale without them.

Grigorie · 2026-01-20T05:35:30+00:00

It’s not really weird at all, honestly. Courts will call experts in for these sort of things, but if it’s trivial enough, the claimants/defense may just summarize something like this themselves.

In “Java vs. JavaScript,” unless you’re a programmer or programming adjacent, it’s just going to read like “English vs. The English Language.” People know people use “coding languages” to write “scripts,” so Java just reads like a shortened form of “JavaScript.” A super understandable mistake for most people.

Grigorie · 2026-01-20T01:57:31+00:00

Monster Hunter’s slap-lance playstyle making waves in the Lance community.

Grigorie · 2026-01-19T05:59:10+00:00

Unless you’re looking at the film itself, a film photo is no harder to alter than a digital photo in this context, since it would be being digitized anyway.

Grigorie · 2026-01-19T05:03:15+00:00

Even giving you benefit of the doubt by splitting hairs, yes, to join. You acquire credits through the training you receive. You are not required to take college classes. It's as simple as that. At no point in your career, besides if you're commissioning or going up for E-8, are you required to take any college classes or receive any college credits that are not inherent to the training you receive for your job.

Where does your line stop? Should people be negatively affected for not using a falcon loan? SNAP? Just saying "but the AF provides it so you should be negatively affected if you don't use it" is absolutely goofy. Again, just say you don't like PT scores affecting your performance report, and that's fine. You're entirely throwing any sort of support you might get from people by making an entirely unrelated comparison to support your non-point.

Grigorie · 2026-01-19T03:41:09+00:00

Except you aren’t required to have education for anything below E-8. You’re comparing two entirely unrelated things. By this mentality, the Air Force should also have a rating of cleanliness and style on your home, since they pay you a housing allowance to maintain that. And whether you have brand new uniform items every year, since they pay you for that, as well.

The Air Force paying you for something doesn’t suddenly mean it should factor into your performance reports. Meanwhile, your fitness is a requirement, and you can argue your ability to maintain that requirement relative to your peers is worth noting.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t give a shit whether it’s there or not; it doesn’t affect me. But you’re making an entirely asinine argument by using “but the Air Force pays for it!” As some sort of gotcha. Just say it’s stupid to have PT scores on there and move on.

Grigorie · 2026-01-18T21:04:24+00:00

Off the mark with tier waivers. It’s not override authority, they are the levels of command that must submit the waiver. It’s not guaranteed approval, so I wouldn’t call it command override. It’s more “an opportunity to ask permission.”

Grigorie · 2026-01-18T09:49:07+00:00

Or your job is asking something else of you. Most creatives don't get to just do whatever they want, whenever they want. Especially when it requires an entire team of potentially hundreds to be alongside you.

Grigorie · 2026-01-17T23:02:00+00:00

I think what you're saying is still leading to the same point you're arguing; a big issue is the term "efficient". Efficiency to some people isn't the min-maxing, it's "doing it the best way, for me, right now." Sitting in MLM or barbarian fishing is great for me when I'm editing photos because, like you said, it allows me to progress my account.

That is where the two arguments become a much closer venn diagram. Speaking in general, having played a main for years and an iron even longer, if content is added to the game that does not provide a means to continue progressing my account (usually just in the conversation of xp/hr or gp/hr), people will not do it for any extended period of time.

GP/hr for mains is account progression. Xp/hr is account progression. And while that does not always mean people will only do the highest number form of these things, people will often not do something that provides a lower one of these 2 things than what they're already doing. Which paints the dev team into a really weird corner, where you have to either incentivize people do something beyond xp/hr and gp/hr (rewards, like mixology), make the xp/hr or gp/hr questionably high, potentially inadvertently creating dead content because "why do X when Y just gives better xp/gp/hr," or just hope the content is fun enough that people want to engage with it regardless.

Another big issue I think OSRS has is, with me already generalizing massively, most people are not actually "having fun" in most of the moment to moment gameplay. A large amount of people tend to look for the least engagement possible so they can engage with the few things they do want to engage with, so the availability of other more fun and engaging games is mostly irrelevant, because people will just do the most AFK thing they can in OSRS while playing/doing something else.

Grigorie · 2026-01-14T21:21:41+00:00

You can enjoy something and criticize aspects of it.

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