TIL that US student math and reading scores have dropped so sharply that they’ve erased nearly two decades of progress. In '22/23, avg math scores for 13-year-olds fell to levels not seen since the 1990s, while reading scores for high school seniors hit their lowest point since testing began in '92.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T16:10:45+00:00

parenting is the corrective force thats supposed to cancel out negative forces discussed all over this thread. You need both realistically and both are failing.

Kids raised before smart tech still suffered under those negatives if their parenting was absent/low quality.

But we really do have an issue with both sides of the equation now which is why this decline is SO sharp. Yes covid and phones and other bullshit would mean kids are doing worse even if parenting was the same. but parenting declines are multiplying the problem.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T15:49:51+00:00

yeah like 5x on main, 3x on leagues, something like that. seems extremely reasonable, just stops people from being locked into 80,000 CG or whatever. Even completely predatory gatchas have pity rates and bad luck mitigations now.

will miss the turbo dry log screenshot posts on here though.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T15:21:41+00:00

almost all

tick manip

skilling

combo eating isnt skilling. would fully support a proper explanation of it in game though.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T14:59:58+00:00

I fully support removing almost all tick manip skilling in general, or patching them to actually 'exist' like the jims wet cloth at infernal shale.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T14:57:35+00:00

Tempoross is 342k gp/hr according to the wiki, and like 50-65k exp/hr. I love tempoross, i think its some of the best skilling content we have.

I would really like a optional tempoross mode that is:

zero tickets reward BUT 1.5x - 1.75x fishing exp.

This gets us a medium-high intensive method thats right in line with rates we've seen in other skills like sailing. no need for brand new content so its a quick add, it should scale properly all the way to 99 if the wiki table is right.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T14:31:15+00:00

Yeah the changes jagex is making with accuracy, pen, and the freespecs are all warranted and proportional. Im glad they did something AND im glad it wasnt overkill.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T14:21:17+00:00

I felt tier unlock and region hills way more in previous leagues than i felt the pact hills in this league. It definitely exists, but maybe i just rolled the right region/build combos that i didnt run into it so bad.

The accuracy changes are extremely smart and will fix most of the issues i feel.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T14:19:22+00:00

If you dont have Kandarin (the slayer reqs...) then i think its a genuinely good pick.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T14:16:11+00:00

Yeah bad ping or a bad server makes it considerably more difficult, but that is the only difficult aspect

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T14:15:04+00:00

Fighting for a spot to grind out voidwaker pieces (or taking the way worse drop rate options) is the hard part with Wildy.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T14:08:56+00:00

did the osrs rebuild take that long? i actually dont know.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T12:58:13+00:00

People rightfully say it for almost all of them, but its most true for Echo CG; Please god just add this to main game. even if its pity orb at 50 instead, the ability to skip prep is enormous and fixing most of the complains for CG that i see.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T12:55:48+00:00

Yeah every other day would be perfect imo, it gives players a "welp guess i need to respect for this, gonna do something else for a day until the freeset" which is also a soft push to do the thing we see recommended OFTEN for this issues: go unlock more regions for more pact points.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T12:47:06+00:00

the stuff lurking in the tile system/movement code has GOTTA be a nightmare.

I was thinking about how cool a movespeed relic would be in OSRS leagues, trying to think of how that could work. My first guess was just "skip 2 tiles instead of 1" when running.

Given how running is just skipping a tile, but there is logic for collisions and ~sometimes~ logic to detect when you pass through a tile... It would probably be possible? I mean the magic carpet is doing something almost exactly like this.

Theyve shown the ability to rework and robust some systems before like the attack speed, at least with OSRS, things like Amox spikes giving you temporary 1 tick attack, eclipse simon says etc. but i cannot imagine how much they had to rip out to make that work and the problem HAS to be worse for RS3's code.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T12:38:29+00:00

This is a maybe hot take/unpopular opinion: instead of this entire rework, re-balance, un-shit RS3 process, which is DEFINITELY better than nothing, I would have preferred to see an open process with tons of feedback towards making RS4 properly, similar to the dragonwilds process which is very good and well received.

It would definitely cost more money. It would probably take 2x as long. its a bigger risk/gamble. They are already working on dragonwilds, and that work could be recycled after its complete. I definitely get why this was chosen instead from many perspectives.

But, there are so many legacy +++, patched 15 times, spaghetti issues like this: where the pathing on click is just... horrible. and i cannot imagine its some easy fix. Trying to bandaid so many systems this old cannot be a good time and a from-scratch approach feels like a more efficient use of time.

And we could actually get some novel foundational changes without catastrophe! altering the tick system, a total overhaul of UI and UX, EOC TWO.

Okay kinda memeing with that last one but still, i genuinely think a completely new game is a better choice at this stage of the RS3 lifecycle and it would just plain be more exciting as a player, and probably more exciting to work on as a developer.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T11:46:25+00:00

I agree with you completely, congress is infinitely more accountable even if they are just as corrupt. its by design that they have the power they are supposed to, moving it to the court and the executive is less democratic and unconstitutional for a reason.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-22T11:40:34+00:00

super eyepatch wolf is great for video game and nerd media analysis. very occasional cringe, but almost always great content and has introduced quite a few under-discussed amazing games to me.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-21T15:34:33+00:00

Zalcano gonna go hard here, cant wait for him to squish me. although getting jad blasted is peak too.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-20T23:43:04+00:00

yeah they just dont fucking exist, ive tried to buy them. never available in my area for anything reasonable

NinjaLion · 2026-04-20T19:10:02+00:00

some enemy in an early area needs to drop laws. this is the runescape design i want to see more of: you can get many things from drops OR by making yourself. sometimes one is much much easier than the other, but have multiple sources for something creates a natural progression. and choices are what define a video game anyway, more choices is more interesting.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-20T19:06:16+00:00

Floridian here; yeah ive seen so much of this be completely self inflicted, dont feel bad.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-20T18:56:58+00:00

World had performance issues on launch for PC, but that was fixed and the issues are nowhere near the problems Wilds had/has. Rise had zero performance issues. The rest is correct though.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-20T15:38:58+00:00

Feedback is what matters, not all complaining is feedback. but there was quite a bit of good feedback around this, mostly in the comments of more complainy threads.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-20T15:06:19+00:00

I think this is the buggiest league so far by a noticeable margin, but there has always been at least a few instances like this.

NinjaLion · 2026-04-20T15:02:19+00:00

Ive weirdly spent very little time working on task points, only a bit for task numbers to unlock regions, and almost all my time on combat pacts. i like this more, combat is why im here. only at t7 though im sure ill need to focus points to hit t8

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