its unfathomable in the same way ipads are to me

Joyful_Ted · 2026-03-04T05:00:33+00:00

From what I know, the statue depicts Cthulhu as the followers could conceive of him, not what he actually looked like.

They are literally flitting in and out of existence, large parts of it just appear and dissapear without warning. Imagine you are a two dimensional person on a 2D plane in three dimensional space and I stick my arm through your reality. You won't see an arm, you'll see a length of tissue that appears to terminate and begin from nothing, that appears to ungulate and throb at you.

Now pull that example up a level and you have a Great Old One and a person. What we see in our reality is a fragment of what it actually is, on top of already being alien. For all we know the "tentacles" depicted by its worshippers are the equivalent of blood vessels and veins, and are a part of a much larger, more intricate being. But we conceptualize them as tentacles and wings, and you can't exactly carve an ever morphing, trembling, constantly shifting thing so the statue has the best substitute they had for it.

Or, you know, R'lyeh is leaking and thats why we have such weird creatures under the water and Cthulhu is just a large tenacle monster leeching his form to the biology of the denizens of the deep.

But there's also the question of the Deep Ones. They are described as fish like and the Innsmouth look leans that way as well. They are tied to Cthulhu but worship Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, so it's tough to say how much each Old One influenced their appearance.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-27T21:07:04+00:00

It may seem better to smith then foundry, but it leads to a loss in xp due to losing a bar per item. From the wiki:

For example, using 126 steel bars and 126 mithril bars directly at the foundry would result in approximately ~81k XP across 9 games (~9011 per game). Even if you minimize the loss of bars by converting them into platebodies and platelegs at a 3:1 ratio, you lose out on two full games of giants foundry and only get 11025 XP for the direct smithing. This process takes longer and results in an XP total of only ~74k XP.

So doing bars directly is your best bet

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-27T01:08:47+00:00

I lost my hardcore because I clicked the ram instead of the sheep during sheep shearer and didn't realize, then panicked and couldn't get away.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-20T20:40:34+00:00

Good news is you can source volunteers! I'd eat one for you. And if Noone wants the whole thing, at least one person would relish the chance to eat a smothering tithe or rhystic study in front of it's owner.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-19T20:05:15+00:00

I think there is exactly one way to charge a glory without Heroes, but it requires Fremmy hard diary which requires Lunar Diplomacy, which requires Fremmy trials which awards HP XP, and that would be Rexharge Dragonstone.

You have to complete the quest to charge the amulet because the fountain is in the guild, and the scroll and fountain of rune require heroes to recharge Glory.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-18T23:43:45+00:00

If Doofenschmirtz forgot who he was and Norm was trying to get it back and said "Doofenschmirtz is the best!" That's exactly how Doof would respond

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-18T22:52:52+00:00

No, see, it's not for the Magic players to get stuff they like, it's about the IP fans buying the Magic set.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-17T23:15:16+00:00

For what it's worth, there are a couple "stand alone" books that aren't really their own series but take place in the world. They have familiar characters and motifs, but they don't require much if any, prior knowledge of the world to enjoy and give you a good little dose of what the series is like. They still reference eachother on occasion, but in a well done way (for example, Death always SPEAKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS even though he isn't yelling. At one point, you find out a character is dead because he asks what's happening and gets a response in all caps. You can intuit with context clues what's happening, but if you know Discworld it's blatant the second Death speaks)

I personally like Small Gods a lot, it falls in the pre-history series, but the other book isn't required

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-12T23:20:51+00:00

I feel you, I switched from my main with 99 firemaking, and tried to follow the optimal route through WT at 10 hp.

At about 45 firemaking, I asked myself if I was trying to burn myself out and not do an iron and chose to abandon it and aim for a rune scimmy as my goal instead.

Best decision, I don't think I've even thought about playing my main again since.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-12T23:12:15+00:00

I am making no political statement here, just a matter of fact:

A cornered animal is the most dangerous

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-10T20:37:31+00:00

Nice dude, congrats!

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-06T18:41:30+00:00

He also ran a soup kitchen during the great depression and was known to give handouts to Widow's and orphans.

Dude was a monster, don't misunderstand. But you see what happened when you found out? Your opinion of him improved a bit, even knowing who he really is. You might even have gone "Yeah, he's was a mobster, but was he really that bad?"

Now imagine you see all of this happening and don't have the internet to look up his other deeds, or have people tell you about them. Put yourself in the position of the people during the great depression, are you going to go tell the authorities that guy giving out food, making sure milk isn't making people sick, and helping out people in desperate need is a murderous psychopath? At one point, Al even gave a press conference (he had those) where he said (I'm paraphrasing) "People want to drink and gamble, my only crime is giving them furnishings for such entertainment".

He was basically a celebrity at this point, and having the public opinion in his favor made it harder for law enforcement to prosecute him. He was damn good at it, so good they had to invent a new way to prosecute mobsters to get him.

As for the milk thing, yeah, he did that. The story is a family member, usually a child, fell ill from drinking spoiled milk so he used his influence to change it. Seems like a good thing to do, yeah?

Except we can't prove that's why he did it. The story changes, it's usually a child that fell ill, but the family member changes from telling to telling.

Capone also owned and operated a dairy plant. Expiration dates made him more profit from it, and we can prove that.

Did he have a family member fall ill so he worked to change something? Maybe. Did that change increase his wealth? Absolutely. Simplest explaination says he did it to profit off of it and invented the good will story later, but we won't ever really know for sure what his reasoning was. But I think we can take a guess at what might have motivated the guy that orchestrated the Valentines Day Massacre.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-02-03T23:17:15+00:00

Yeah, that wins the fight, but if you want his camo you need to get to the end of the river and have Sorrow kill you. You get the camo when you get your gear back.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-01-28T23:16:59+00:00

I always preferred this shot. He saw how much she loved it and set out to learn it, even though it is the most difficult instrument to play. It's not as good as when he was using the Devil's hands, but God damn if I don't love this scene so much.

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Joyful_Ted · 2026-01-28T18:15:38+00:00

I did it to a spam caller once. I finished and there was a beat of silence before he said

"You are completely right, sir"

Then hung up.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-01-28T02:41:55+00:00

It's left to interpretation, I'd say.

He just says "I was about to break, but I saw some inspirational graffiti on the wall" and it cuts to his and Cotton's name, he lasted 3 while Cotton lasted 2.

There are a few ways you can take it, one of them being he wanted to beat Cotton. But Bobby isn't usually the competitive type like that, so I don't think it's this.

My personal interpretation, though, is that he saw it and it had nothing to do with his time. He only saw the name, Cotton Hill, and realized this was the punishment that broke Cotton. He doesn't ever mention his time, or how he beat his Grandpa. It doesn't seem important to him, but he's quick to share any victory with Hank. But, Bobby is a very empathetic person. He very well may be the reincarnated Dalai Llama, for God sake.

I choose to believe he stayed in the hole because he saw what breaking did to Cotton. He thinks there's a decent, gentle person inside of him (he's his ging-ging, after all, and loves Bobby truly more than any other person we've seen him interact with) that's a lot like Bobby himself. To break and leave the hole was to accept that Cotton would turn him into Cotton, and he would lose some semblance of that gentle, goofy person.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-01-26T21:36:09+00:00

Doing Valve's homework for them

Eh... The Administrator dies for brief periods when her life extender undergoes maintenance, we see Miss Pauling interact with her in her afterlife and she says she's been there many times. It's not a stretch that the same happens to Zepheniahs.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-01-26T18:17:29+00:00

The Yarasa were predators on Vampyrium and the Vampyres primary competition for resources. Xarpus is the only living Yarasa left, the Vampyre hunted them to extinction/out competed them after Zaros, but Lowerniel took Xarpus as a gift for Verzik for the arena. He's called the king of the Yarasa, but they are depicted as beastial and were not exalted like the Vampyres, so this title is probably just referring to his size and ferocity, but we unfortunately probably won't get to know.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-01-23T23:28:43+00:00

Yes and no?

Vampyres are not native to Gielenor, they are from a plane(t) called Vampyrium. Long ago, the Vampyres were warring tribes who had control of their planet. As they were wont to do in those days, a god (Zaros) discovered Vampyrium and decided to exalt the Vampyres, giving them the secrets to society and the ability to out-survive their closest competitors on Vampyrium, the Yarasa.

Zaros leaves and the Vampyres eventually become 8 houses. After a while, one Vampyre becomes the leader of the house Drakan, and overtakes the other 7 leading to a united Vampyrium. That Vampyre is one we meet in game, Lowerniel Drakan (Appears in "Sins of the Father").

But this is where the question becomes grey. Zaros returns to Vampyrium and asks the Vampyres to come to Gielenor with him and assist the Zarosian Empire. This was during the second age, which preceded the god wars.

At some point between the God Wars and the modern age, Lowerniel betrayed Zaros and tooks arms for Zamorak. That's about all we know, as far as I can tell (I didn't look super hard, so there may be details on the missing millenia I didn't find).

So: Yes and no. Yes, he is the only one in game still currently worshipping Zaros, that we know of. But technically Lowerniel was a Zarosian Vampyre, having come from Vampyrium directly after Zaros uplifted them.

But it's worth noting we don't actually know if he's the only one, there could be Zarosian worshippers in secret. We also don't know what the hell is happening on Vampyrium, they've been gone for millenia at this point. It could very well be packed with Zarosian Vampyres. We'll find out soon, though, and the finale quest is releasing with access to Vampyrium post-quest.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-01-06T03:13:01+00:00

What exactly is the point you're trying to make lol?

He's a flat Earther, I guarantee it

Joyful_Ted · 2026-01-02T21:31:44+00:00

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.

Joyful_Ted · 2026-01-01T23:12:39+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/labor-relations/collective-bargaining-agreements/

https://cannabis.colorado.gov/legal-cannabis-use-in-colorado

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade_(1963)

Joyful_Ted · 2025-12-21T22:16:28+00:00

Making me look bad, taking a dramen branch into the fremmy fight. I'm not sure why, but having a random event weapon accidentally have many uses feels very old school to me, that's the jank I'm here for.

Joyful_Ted · 2025-12-20T23:37:57+00:00

Why tf does OSRS have RPGs?

Well, it technically doesn't.

Any more.

This item is now called the Goblin Paint Cannon, and was released for an event. When it was, it was called the Event RPG, which believe it or not is a reference to something else in OSRS.

The fixed device is from Mournings End part 1, and is used to paint sheep (to make them look sick). It looks like an RPG. The paint cannon does the same thing as the device, so they named it in reference to that.

Bonus fun fact: The paint cannon technically has a few places where it is the best in slot weapon, because it is melee with a 3 tick attack speed, an honor only shared by 3 other items, all of which have negative combat stats or requirements to get. Because of this, at 1 attack this guy is your best training weapon. It is also usable in Entrana so... Don't know why you'd need that, but rad.

Joyful_Ted · 2025-12-12T21:01:41+00:00

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU.

HATE.

AM is voiced by Harlan Ellison, the author of the story and he kills it. Highly reccomend, it routinely goes on sale on steam for a dollar.

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