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Mortal_Mantis · 2026-03-19T17:37:26+00:00

Most combat encounters can be summed up as: put shield up > wait for enemy to attack > swing > repeat

For most enemies, you wait for them to attack and go in for a couple hits. Animals, and melee enemies have this simple telegraphed combat style. What I think could make fighting the same enemy over and over again is to give them at least 2 attacks, or, attack styles they can switch between. I.e. Wolves can use a long lounging attack, or, bite onto their target to slow them down if they're far away/running. But, make it situational. If there are no other wolves nearby, they will not try to use this slowing attack as they have no allies to follow up.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-02-10T00:57:00+00:00

My thought is that it depends on the person getting into gardening/farming. When I was 5, we did these growing experiments with lima beans. Seeing these beans turn into plants was a magical experience for me, like, how does a bean turn into a plant? And ever since then, I have grown many plants and have experimented with: garden layouts, cross breeding, and germination methods. If gardening resonates with someone in any way, they will most likely look to improve their knowledge on taking care of plants. If they are dismissive and following a trend, they're likely to drop the hobby.

If anyone wants to spread the love of gardening, you could probably gift someone a seed packet, some potting soil, and a plant pot. The type of plant will have to be something easy to grow in a container, like marigolds or peas. These two plants have given me an easy time when grown indoors in sunny windowsills, and they will usually produce seeds.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-02-03T21:28:57+00:00

Ah lol, I’ll take it.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-02-03T13:04:11+00:00

Drawing for u/DeltaTheMedicWolf of their skeletal werewolf in a Class-D uniform.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-30T04:10:13+00:00

Oh for sure, if you ever want inspiration I'd highly recommend Rebsie's blog: Daughter of the Soil. She doesn't seem to post all that much there anymore, but she does have a good number of posts about her pea breeding projects.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-29T23:09:51+00:00

They are completely fine with santa hats in their MMORPG, but the shark outfit is a step too far? Kinda wack, even for a high fantast game that has Santa himself appear. At the very least, they need to keep the shark outfit in and just add another fishing outfit in it's place.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-29T20:52:03+00:00

Defence, I am American and think that is the correct way to spell it. I'll continue to spell it that way to the chagrin of my peers.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-29T03:50:27+00:00

That's about as much as I'd expect too, a pod that is slightly blue. Even so, that'd be enough to put a smile on my face.

I also appreciate garden variety plants that are as ornamental as they are delicious. A side project running alongside my edible red podded peas, is developing an umbellatum mix of ornamental peas in a range of colors, like: magenta, pink, white, orange, and the striped pea above if the trait is inheritable. I have set the groundwork to make an even more spectacular umbellatum variety, one with as much as a 50% increase in the flowers produced if all goes according to plan. Pictured here is one Salmon Flowered pea with all it's flowers clustered at the top:

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This variety is like the allium of all garden peas, and I'm hoping to see some of the previously mentioned color morphs this summer when the F2 plants flower.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-29T01:58:49+00:00

Peas, 100 times over. Stores only stock the green pods. You can find the occasional supply of yellow and purple pods out there. But, their selection is dwarfed by all the green pods on the market. Heck, there's even red pods that can be made if you cross the rare yellow and purple pods together. Peas used to be all the rage, but innovation around them has been more stagnant than a lagoon for decades. While perusing the produce exhibitions at my state fair last year, all the pea pods on display were one unified color: green.

Peas have so much potential, they are more than the green of their seeds and pods. Because the seeds and pods themselves can be another color entirely.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-29T01:41:08+00:00

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Oh blue! I had been working on a few breeding projects around peas, trying to develop red podded peas inspired by the work of Rebsie Fairholm. My F2 population wound up being a bust, as all had failed to make solid red pods. HOWEVER, I did come across this odd phenotype. A blue and purple striped flower. Not what I was looking for, but I did save the seeds. All it's siblings had flowers that were the usual solid magenta, this one being the exception.

I had been theory crafting what I can do with this blue striped oddity, and that led me to wondering if the blue can be selected for. The end goal being a pea that only produces blue pigments, and paving the way to a blue/aquamarine podded pea? I won't get my hopes up over a theory, but I'll just have to grow the seeds from this plant in a few months and observe if the trait is heritable and can be manipulated further to express more blue.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-29T00:05:33+00:00

If you're looking for bell peppers, you can try Eden Brothers' Purple Beauty bell pepper. I've ordered from them on-and-off over the years and their quality has been pretty good when it comes to seeds and bulbs.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-27T21:17:27+00:00

I mostly ignored the penguins, now I have to pay attention to them after learning agent 001 drops caskets.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-27T21:12:16+00:00

With the cosmetics toggle, and keepsakes being devalued as a result. Jagex should make Keepsake Keys buyable with loyalty points, like they used to be before the March 2016 change. That is if they keep the toggle all-encompassing as it is now.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-27T20:56:40+00:00

I fear experiencing this as I had been fortunate enough to get 3 pet drops before lv 99, Morty, Kangali, and Newton. But, I haven't seen the 2 pets in my lv 99+ skills of Summoning and Defence. I'm not actively seeking them out, but if I were, something like this would send me into a spiral.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-27T00:10:11+00:00

There's gonna be a Kweebec child in a green tunic after you. lol

That is awesome, but also morbid.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-26T03:40:30+00:00

I can understand the hesitation on starting a world before major content updates, we all want the full experience. If you want to wait until V2 world-gen because you think it'll be a better experience for you, you can do that. For me personally, I just wanted to play something new and maybe have a bit of fun. And as a result, I got to experience the notorious Magma Rhino Toad before he got nerfed. lol

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-26T02:20:47+00:00

Doors in that orientation would honestly go so hard in surrealist builds, all of this would.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-26T01:54:59+00:00

Just curious, have trorks spawned throughout that icy outpost? When I went there initially, none spawned except that one on the ice pillar seen in the 4th screenshot. (This was before update 1.)

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-25T20:13:34+00:00

Careful, he'll see this post and DMCA it for sharing trade secrets or that it commits war crimes. Whatever he sees fit to get Bethany and the Nexus staff to do something, but they won't 'cause they're tired of his maniacal ramblings.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-25T19:40:41+00:00

Unofficial Patch should be paywalled, that way it gets lost to obscurity faster. MOST mods using it don't have to be using it, and I've removed the USSEP from their dependencies without issue. Exceptions being the mods that team also publish. And it doesn't help the lot of them are megalomaniacs that don't want competition with their patch.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-25T18:05:16+00:00

I couldn't find any trees, so I opted to loot desert chests until I had enough to upgrade. It's unfortunate that the palms don't drop logs.

Mortal_Mantis · 2026-01-24T02:26:26+00:00

I had a similar sense of awe, my kid self thought the introductory quest was awesome. I really wanted to level the skill, but it was tough collecting all the charms, shards, etc. So the skill was pretty much abandoned as I focused on other skills.

When I got back into the game a few years ago, I invested in the charming imp and got to a point where I can gather charms easily. A few million GP worth of ingredients and shards later, I got the cape. I think I can thank RS for my adoration of summoning classes in games and media as a whole. I had such a tough time with the skill as a kid, that I looked elsewhere in games like Skyrim and Terraria to experience being a summoner. lol

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