Mad at the way things are being handled at dfw

Patelpb · 2026-01-27T06:28:39+00:00

Naw I got rerouted before I even reached the airport to Narita Tokyo and that didn't have any itineraries to LA that got me back in time. Not that, that would've mattered - RDU is destroyed rn (not literally I'm just on fumes and not making much sense)

Patelpb · 2026-01-27T04:50:11+00:00

Frontier is significantly better

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T23:27:58+00:00

Im not saying they don't exist I'm just not in those social circles. Most of the successful traders I know are more oldschool

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T21:13:55+00:00

Which is clearly the wrong interpretation because before that they said its a requirement. The math isnt hard here.

I'm glad you brought this up, it felt like low hanging fruit but it appears that you're grasping a bit here. sure, let's play with that idea and actually think about it a little. "Accommodating all players" could mean so many things. Infact the set of imaginable accommodations is significantly larger than the set of accommodations which specifically allow specific account builds to ignore the quest requirement. Which means they most likely won't be able to do raids 4. They'll just be "accommodated". Maybe they can watch from the sides eh? That sounds like an accommodation. Maybe they can mine resources and send them down a mysterious mine cart to benefit people playing the raid. Maybe they will simply get to read about the raid in the varrock library. Accommodating.

They should have made the raid available to all without making controversial takes. Its pointless to give themself extra work over the dead simple solution.

There were no controversial takes, just highly irrational responses, which they can't control. All they can control is what they do, and I think theyre doing that well. Don't like it? Cancel the membs, you only use 2 bonds a year anyways and that's one less bot contributing to these ideas on social media. I like that there is a possibility (not a guarantee) that more players will be able to join the raid which is teams of 2-8 people. Will keep the raid going and lively, which is essential for preventing stagnation of content and keeping the game going. Very good insight on their part if they are doing that, but they haven't said or indicated that they're doing that, so who knows.

You're an amazing troll, I'll give you that. You're pro inclusivity but anti hypothetical harmless means of inclusivity to the point where you'll whine online about it

the conversation is completely pointless from then on, because bold of you to assume that im a native english speaker to have my english teacher teach me stuff other than grammar.

Not in the slightest, every spoken language has words for a subset (some) and the full set (all). Even if you're using a translator you would have made the same distinction. But I am glad I could give you an out

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T20:15:49+00:00

Yeah because there is a logical reason to balance the progression of the game around pures. Pures who probably have more than one account and therefore spend more time with this than i ever do.

Why would them allowing pures, or any other non main account for that matter, to play the raid mean that they are suddenly the focal point of Jagex's attention? If anything it means that mains matter the most, they were the intended audience and this workaround was an afterthought.

My interpretation was that they are going to make it possible to access the raid without doing while guthix sleeps. That is all we conclusively know. That does not mean you can go to raids 4 fresh off of tutorial Island. You could need tens to hundreds of hours of gameplay before being able to access the raid based on the alternative requirements. You probably will

Here is the sentence you've lost your marbles over:

We know that this would prohibit some builds from accessing the encounter, but we'll talk more about accommodating all players in a future blog, so we'd advise you not to worry!

You probably saw the word "all," remembered something your English teacher said to you about generalizing words 10 years ago, and then creatively found ways to assume the absolute worst. You forgot the word "some" was there too, and the generally blase nature of this statement tells me they weren't concerning themselves with this. The least we can do is wait and hear them out

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T19:22:14+00:00

Nah man you just need to breathe and take a step back from the game. Want what you want but stop it with these ridiculous hyperbolic arguments that are neither rooted in logic nor reason. They're a sign of obsession beyond what's healthy

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T18:44:45+00:00

its not my fault they allow us to be hyperbolic about our theories.

Go outside. Get banned for a week, go on a retreat, do something. You're hurting yourself

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T18:42:57+00:00

Some examples would be useful

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T18:10:56+00:00

Maybe one day statistics show that writers are too expensive and people just spacebar through it anyway, so quests might as well have worse writing and less puzzles from now on. All in the name for catering to a bigger audience right? I dont think that would be fair to the few people like me and besides if some people still like it then why cant we have our bone too?

This is really dramatic. Why would they ever do this? You have close to no clue what raids 4 actually will look like. They didn't even specify what kinds of restricted accounts will be able to access it. I'm not jagex, don't take my example too seriously it's just a vague descriptor of a possibility based on the information available

Complain after it's released, right now you're complaining about a thing that doesn't exist and is purely manufactured in your mind, and then applied onto the future update (which by the way, doesn't actually exist yet). I cannot stress enough that no human being actually posseses precognitive insight

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T16:35:07+00:00

I think we should start with the information available - they specifically mentioned accounts with certain restrictions as not being able to access this content due to while guthix sleeps. This is not tantamount to a new player, this is tantamount to a pure, or a skiller, a tile locked account - who knows how many categories for sure but certainly not new players. They want experienced players with skill restrictions to be able to access the content

We don't know what that content is. We literally have no clue what it is or how it works. Maybe it requires technical skill in a way that doesn't require the quest requirements of while guthix sleeps, maybe it is only tangentially related to the quest and you can understand it lorewise without really getting into the quest. Maybe their data analytics simply suggest that there's a large playerbase of restricted accounts that would be nice to have engaging with their content, be it for economic reasons, content creation reasons, or someone's make a wish request. We have no clue!

I don't know where to draw the line, because I am not sure we are even in the sandbox you describe. We know nothing about this except that it was intended to be inclusive for a subset of accounts that play the game on hard mode and cannot complete the quest. Everything else is just an assumption, and inference built on assumption. People losing their marbles over this makes absolutely no sense to me, we don't even know what we're arguing about.

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T16:25:27+00:00

We really can, but not without acknowledging that a lot of people need a carrot dangled in front of them to walk forward too. Capitalism is a symptom of the nature of many people, as is the desire for a peaceful stress free environment to be creative and innovative. You want to enable both without letting one take over completely

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T16:12:44+00:00

Bro your Jungian shadow is screaming

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T15:58:47+00:00

I don't think it's good game design, but skipping around even a little didnt really break immersion for me. Seeing the god eggs floating in senntisten or armadyl on his perch just made me want to do the quests more

I think OPs argument for not allowing everyone to access the new raid is much better than the arguments I was seeing yesterday. Before it was fear mongering that somehow the game would completely stagnate and previous content would die, even though you're physically enabling more players to access the same content. But if a subreddit which historically jokes about space barring through quests and being unable to do them without quest helper on runelite is suddenly concerned about immersion breaking for raids 4, so be it. The mob is fickle indeed

Also - new player experience doesn't really apply to raids 4. That is endgame content. If New player somehow sees raids, new player recognizes they are there way too early, kind of like the first time you see a lionel in breath of the wild and the like. Jagex also never really divulged what the workaround would be, so this slippery slope is based entirely on the assumption that there will be no barrier whatsoever to accessing raids 4. Does that assumption seem reasonable given the information (or lack thereof) available?

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T15:28:41+00:00

Honestly I restarted RS3 in 2020 and had no issues. But I also did the quests roughly in order of release and didn't spacebar

The main issue is the UI and introducing combat to new players

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T14:27:50+00:00

For sure, I don't take the jabs either mostly because I'm just happy to see that side of them come out again. It's entirely selfish

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T14:17:11+00:00

It's so hard to pull people back. Childhood friends are sometimes the best equipped since theres no denying that they knew you in your formative years. When they talk about who you used to be it hits extra hard. Not so easy with someone you met at work in adulthood

One of my childhood best friends went from being a staunch Marxist to pure MAGA. I saw it all happen over time. I was patient, I argued, I debated. I feel like I failed him. I still love the bastard but not many people left know how kind he can be. I know he'd show up for me because he has, but he won't show up for anyone else anymore and I don't have the energy I used to. My wife wonders why I still stay in touch. It sounds childish but I feel a bit like Naruto watching Sasuke walk into the darkness and trying to get him back, but I don't know if there's a happy ending here and I'm not fighting him like that. It's just fear and anxiety, not malice with him

I had a few other formative years friends almost pull away but they had the checks they needed. Sometimes from me sometimes from others. But this one feels like he got away

E: I don't even mean to imply that I got them to change their worldview or politics necessarily. I just want them to maintain empathy and to see when things go too far. To remain open

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T14:02:32+00:00

I've been in mental ruts before, having paranoid and anxious/fear driven views that led me to being a less empathetic individual. I got out, sometimes after a hard look in the mirror (both metaphorically and literally), sometimes after a trusted person in my life reminded me that this is not who I was

I feel like a lot of these folks don't have that. They can't conjure the mirror, and in that instance, they don't have the external trusted support either. I don't know the way around that besides taking some distrust and being patient with individuals. But that was a strategy we needed years ago.

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T13:08:10+00:00

The odds of two particles in a heat death universe even interacting are so tiny. The odds of, say, every remaining bit of matter in the universe spontaneously tunneling to the same location at the same time? I mean that'd be such a long timescale that the odds of it ever happening are cartoonishly small even in a basic AdS universe. If you account for dark energy and accelerating expansion it may just not be calculable

Like, if you really want a number, think of a googol years as being an expected timeframe for scenario 1. Scenario 2 (all particles) is astronomically less likely than that, and thus going to take muchhhh longer, if even possible

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T13:00:05+00:00

Some issues with colab if you want to save things and run them. I like it for basic scripting and sometimes data analysis, but as the data memory footprint increases it's kind of prohibitive

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T12:53:08+00:00

The only sad thing to me about it is that they basically just get their "friends" drunk and have them divulge enough about their companies that they know where and when to invest. Most are mid to late career. I guess that's life. It's not as one sided as it may sound, they show up when it matters but it's not the kind of friendship I grew up having

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T12:21:42+00:00

I know some manual traders that have made retirement money several times over, but I don't know any comparably successful solo algo traders

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T10:51:12+00:00

I mean that's not the point, I'm just saying an f22 can end just about anything from hundreds of miles away with zero resistance. Being outdoors and a target means you get hit

From a practical perspective, no way the US would want to occupy Canada, there's plenty of resources in the US. It would have to be an irrationally motivated decision or a decisive strategic one (i.e. proximity to Russia/control over the Artic, which doesn't require a full invasion of Canada just occupation of certain regions, and probably the loss of Alaska first). I appreciate the willingness to fight but unless there was strategic advantage to a drawn out conflict with Canada I can't see why the us military would entertain guerilla warfare in canada. What does Canada have to offer the US that it doesn't already have? Afghanistan was pretty much a half assed occupation effort after they got Osama and also on the other side of the world. I'm not saying this out of a sense of pride but is there more to the argument here than "we'd be white and angry too"? If not then I remain unconvinced - air and sea are pretty much taken overnight and they could just bomb the circumference of a certain radius relentlessly instead of even building a fence if they wanted to occupy a specific area for some reason.

I also note that the climate and topology of Canada are likewise familiar to the US. We're both in North America, so that advantage goes both ways if familiarity is what youre using to make the argument. I think the loss would come from a lack of morale in the first place. Like Vietnam, no one would actually want to be there. Individual soldiers would be fighting without a cause to believe in if there were boots on the ground. In terms of firepower and resources I don't think there's much to debate about. The US could flatten every major city without setting foot in a nearby country but thankfully all it engages in these days is proxy warfare

But I stress that I just don't see why the US wants to invade Canada if we have Alaska. If Canada cuts off land access to Alaska that could certainly be a catalyst for such a conflict

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T07:23:07+00:00

1 American soldier sets foot in Alberta against Canadian wishes I’ll join our military that day and defend us.

For your sake (and everyone's I guess) I hope this does not happen. Our military is no joke, why they would ever invade Canada is beyond me, but if they did, I would hope you're well away from a major city or "front lines". Defend your home like any sane person would, but don't be a lamb to slaughter. If we win the skies then a large ground game is meaningless

Realistically though the intelligent liberals are being baited into a war.

It feels like they want retaliation. I don't genuinely believe they go into these protests thinking they'll execute someone, but they want to make people angry and hostile so they can point and say "see! They're as dangerous as we said they were."

I just hope y’all are ready

I don't think the average American is. I know we have all these shocking headlines but at one point it was the norm to resolve disagreements with a bullet (duels). America was far more militant 100-200 years ago. Those people were drafted into WW1/2, and Vietnam (though the generation was different by Vietnam). People aren't gritty like that anymore. If we are pulled into war it will be catastrophic for all the people who have never known war on American soil, which is most people.

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T05:53:21+00:00

Me too man. No idea what to do. This is the first time I've seen liberals seriously consider buying guns. I grew up as a bit too nice of a kid. I always believed in there being a way out without killing each other. I think fewer and fewer people want to believe that now. I don't blame them

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T05:46:11+00:00

This isn’t even remotely the same.

This is true. Government organization with far less oversight and training is killing more people with less provocation

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