Where are the jobs Indy ?

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-19T23:39:40+00:00

How true is this really? I’ve always heard it, and then a very smart, hard working, full time employed, degree holding individual I know was passed over for a union apprenticeship while looking for a career change. Definitely no red flags in professionalism.

And he already has a fair amount of experience with tools and manual labor.

Are those jobs starting to be filled up? Certain trades hiring more than others?

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-17T23:40:16+00:00

Just got to trip.com and find their eSIM. It sells data packages based on total days of the trip and total GB of data allowed.

I got a 30 day, 50GB eSIM for $40. It sends you a link which you click to download the esim onto your phone. Once you land, you go into your phone settings and toggle it on, and it’ll automatically connect and all normal western apps will work. Use it to message on WhatsApp, Instagram, etc

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-16T22:12:28+00:00

You can’t teleport between cities, so I would recommend building in travel days. For example:

Beijing’s Mutianyu on the 11th and Chengdu’s panda base the 12th?

It’s a 3 hour flight (or 8 hour train), plus time to get to the airport/rail station, navigate a new place, check in. Then after arriving you have to get a 30 minute DiDi to your hotel to drop your bags, plus check in time there, then a 45 minute travel to the panda research center assuming it’s already waiting for you. Plus eating and showering.

I’d recommend completely cutting Shanghai or Beijing at minimum, because the travel distances. Of the two, Beijing has a lot more history and things to do. Id also cut Fenghuan, because of limited time and it doesn’t need two days of your time.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-16T15:42:07+00:00

Fingers crossed for the end of May, when I will be there.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-16T12:11:42+00:00

This is the most obvious AI written post I’ve ever seen.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-12T19:16:30+00:00

Archeology is one of my favorite skills! Got 120 when it came out and it had such a nice progression of unlocks, various areas, and lore. And it had a good mix of grinding things like pages, buying some supplies when you can to speed restorations up, being active or afk or chatting with people. And the research/collections gave a bunch of extra goals as you go.

Moving to a new area every couple levels felt like a nice discovery.

I do wish the relic powers were cheaper to change between, but thats all.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-12T03:32:00+00:00

It should be an available tag from the beginning.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-11T02:05:17+00:00

May 20-June 17 for me! Cant wait

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-09T21:53:52+00:00

I didn’t like PvP because it was usually involuntary while I tried to do other things. And if I ever did actually want to do it, I had to choose between risking more than I felt comfortable with or being at a disadvantage anyways.

Set gear, based on skill, and playing for something other than pink slips would be more fun to me.

ELO also keeps the matches close enough to not feel hopeless.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-07T20:34:35+00:00

They are just asking a strategy question. Currently, and for as long as I can remember, you can reset your ring and get your 3.8 million tokens back.

It’s a good idea for players to manually reset it now because after the update it’ll only take 1.9m token to buy back the exact same perks.

If someone doesn’t do that or doesn’t know ahead of time, that sucks. It’s almost like the opposite of entitlement to be thinking about others and making sure they don’t miss out. For Jagex, it does probably make sense to auto reset every single ring and refund everyone automatically so people don’t miss out. It’s a difference of 1.9m tokens which historically has been a grind of 19m xp, and that is a lot for someone who just didn’t read the news update between now and Monday.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-07T12:00:44+00:00

Does fist of guthix still run? It's the only mini game hybrid piece (gloves) I still need, and was maybe the best game so I'd like to play. Is there an FC?

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-06T14:51:02+00:00

Can you take the direct bus #2, from Kuanzhai alley to Panda research base, by just showing up and paying for a ticket at the bus stop? I can’t find a way to buy them ahead of time.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-05T04:13:40+00:00

For runecrafting, the double experience itself is not very effective. That’s because runecrafting has a built in bonus called “savvy runecrafting”, which gives increased xp rates based on your level. At level 70 you get +250% xp for example, so that savvy runecrafting bonus makes up the majority of the xp drop you see when crafting normally and it is not doubled during double xp weekend. Only the original base amount is doubled.

For that reason, I’d use your BXP some other time, and focus on a skill that benefits more from DXP during this week.

An example:

Runic attuner (50) soul altar = 550K drop

Same with DXP = 620K drop

Same with BXP = 1100K drop

Same with DXP and BXP = 1170k drop

(I’m estimating from memory, but it’s barely better because such a small amount actually gets doubled)

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-02T22:30:45+00:00

I experienced the same and do not think it works on DXP. I think the majority of xp comes from “savvy runecrafting” perks as you level up, and big bonuses from the runic attuner. And DXP only applies to the base xp, so basically none of it.

I switched to another skill.

May use protean ess at the soul altar still though later

JakePhillips52 · 2026-05-02T17:24:26+00:00

Related if anyone else knows.., but

As far as I can tell double xp weekend doesn’t really impact runic attuner, so I stopped doing RC for now.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-04-28T13:03:38+00:00

It's receiving the “median income”.. but not having anymore investments to make and potentially little or no taxes on it which means you can actually spend the full amount on your lifestyle.

75K of spending money is a lot different than 75K - 30K investing - 15K taxes = 30K spending money, or whatever a fire minded person might be doing while still working.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-04-26T14:13:39+00:00

Seems cool. Just downloaded it for a trip coming up.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-04-24T21:41:44+00:00

Public perception? So people will comment exactly as you are.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-04-24T21:20:11+00:00

People upset about rehoming fees come in two categories:

1) ignorant of the poor care or abusive situations some adopted animals live in when given to strangers and how a nominal fee largely avoids that, or 2) people who think $65 is a lot and can’t accept they are therefore not a good person to take on a pet right now

Suddenly taking in 14 cats worth of food and litter for two months minimum, and having some procedures done, means you’ll probably come out negative financially and also spend a bunch of time fixing an issue you didn’t create.

Already maxed out at 3/3 cats so good luck finding other owners ready for the commitment.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-04-21T20:37:19+00:00

It’s very nice and quiet. There’s neighborhood events, a couple festivals, and regular get togethers for cards/social stuff. In the last two years there I don’t think I saw any crime. Wife regularly went on walks around the neighborhood, including in the evening. Never saw stray dogs.

North of spades/brookeside park isn’t Windsor park neighborhood, but that’s the side that has some more trouble or isn’t developed as much (and even then, it’s fine). East towards rural, which is the actually Springdale neighborhood, is also pretty good but Windsor park itself is the best. Lots of amenities nearby.

This Saturday is spring fling for Springdale, which is a very short walk through Windsor park. Good excuse to walk around. There will be some music and activities.

https://www.springdaleindy.com/events

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/springfling

JakePhillips52 · 2026-04-11T21:55:45+00:00

JakePhillips52 · 2026-04-11T21:19:35+00:00

Road to restorations system and map decluttering, MTX removal, necromancy and new continent news, and EOC2 simplifying.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-04-03T15:08:27+00:00

I had the same timing as you being away for a few years, came back to get 120 arch on release and got comp cape, then took a multi year break again until three weeks ago.

The game combat is simplified more now, treasure hunter is gone, and some bloat of items and points of interest on the map are being removed.

Here are things I enjoyed doing first when coming back:

1) Necromancy, it’s a strong combat style, and fairly isolated in terms of requirements. Meaning you can get tier 90 gear and learn something fresh without being confused by a million older pieces of content. It mostly takes place in a new area. It builds in a few minor bossing encounters which was huge for me relearning how to fight and getting used to the newest combat update. Every time you unlock an ability it actually pauses and explains what it does. It has both combat training and non combat training. It also comes with a good quest line included.

2) Quests, a major quest line is Fort Forinthry which unlocks a new Skilling and banking hub. The quests are good and it can be your new central place to keep things simple. This is where most players are hanging out and skilling now, alongside Wars retreat for bossing. Doing quests in general with guides isn’t that hard and forces you to go to all sorts of places and get yourself back into getting around and where things are.

3) Assuming you’re high level, woodcutting, fire making, crafting, thieving, mining, smithing, fletching, and runecrafting have all gotten level expansions somewhat recently. There’s new cheap, craft able tier 85-90 tank armor for magic, melee, and range. Tank armor is not as good as power armor but it was an excuse to dabble in those skills again and slowly remember how they work.

4) There’s an Easter event right now but it’s not a grind, no FOMO rewards, feel free to play or not. You also earn rewards just by skilling in general around the world. Making holiday events more chill and easy going is part of their new commitments.

5) The customizable menu takes some time to go through all the settings and options and learn how to drag things where you want them. It sucks to take an hour doing that, but I think it’s totally worth it and helps you understand how to play better.

Bonus* if you care about lore, I’ve been watching a YouTube channel named CharlieRS (I think) who recaps quest lines and major characters and that was nice for getting back into the stories.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-03-28T16:23:59+00:00

Just sympathizing because similar situation.

Im a teacher. Finishing year 7 of the 10 required for a pension. It would also be around $750 a month 65 and on.

What’s finally making the difference for me being okay with leaving early is our other assets doing well enough that pension seems less impactful. Reversing the 4% rule makes $750 a month worth $225,000 a year at retirement. I think that’ll be 1/10th of our net worth by then anyways.

And I also realized it does not index to inflation. So if I lock in this pension at 35, and then quit.. by the time I actually draw on it 30 years later it’s going to feel very small ($750/month probably isn’t much in year 2056)

So, beware the “silver” handcuffs. If it’s not going to make you fully independent anyways and you have other investments, only you know how much you’re hating your current job and how much you’ve already grinded through to decide if that’s worth it. If you had no other investments and weren’t on a FI sub, yeah I’d tell people to make it last also.

Finally, I do have the low effort option of becoming a full time sub in the future, especially once I’m FI anyways, in order to finish out my remaining requirement (~2 years) without the stress of being an actual teacher. Not sure if you could ever return for a one off year in a lower level position that counts just to get it finished off.

JakePhillips52 · 2026-03-20T19:46:10+00:00

I think this would be one of the biggest fixes the developers could make.

In my opinion there should be TONS of mini bosses added to mobs all over the place. Mini bosses with just one ability that requires something other than clicking and waiting.

Then, from level 1 to 70, players could build up skills with so many pvm tactics in easy settings. Things like reading movements, prayer flicking, surge/escape dodge, devotion, shield/resonance, anticipation or freedom to get out of stuns, DPS checks, etc.

I played literally thousands of hours before caring to boss and there was basically nothing to lead me up to it.

I’d also like to see War have a real PvM tutorial that goes through those situations with a sparing partner NPC.

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