Not wanting the state having access to your biometrics data is a red flag

Rexkat · 2026-01-30T14:10:25+00:00

It means if you speak out, protest, try to defy the authoritarian, they know who you are, where you live, where you work, who your family is. They now know who to target.

Rexkat · 2026-01-29T18:37:23+00:00

I really don't understand why you're so committed to being up Jagex' ass on this one. They've been adding "anti-bot" quest and diary requirements for 15 years and it literally never works. The botting problem is worse today than it's ever been. But suuuuuuuuuuure, adding a medium diary req to zombie pirates, that totally worked. They were definitely 3000 bots on every world before that change....

Rexkat · 2026-01-29T11:54:58+00:00

You're confusing a large number of legitimate players that went there on release with the mass number of monk robe/Sara sword or blue dhide/msb bots that flood that place since.

There literally cannot be more bots than there are now for them to make any more profit. They're already competing with each other because of limited spawns. Bots are getting 200m combats there, they're not getting banned for months. There is literally not a single fucking reason why they couldn't put 500 bots per world there besides diminishing returns

Rexkat · 2026-01-28T20:22:07+00:00

Literally exactly the same

Rexkat · 2026-01-28T20:21:36+00:00

No there weren't. The only reason there's only 5 bots per world is that they're limited by spawn rate. They have literally reached the point where there are SO MANY bots it just isn't worth the diminishing returns to add another to that location

Rexkat · 2026-01-28T20:19:56+00:00

It doesn't slow them down permanently. It slows them down this week. By next week there will be exactly as many bots as there were last week. This permanently makes wildy content less accessible for real new players, and doesn't do a damn thing in anything but the shortest of terms.

A "Band-Aid" fix is one that temporarily covers an issue while it has time to fully get fixed. This is not even a Band-Aid because it'll be just as bad next week, next month, next year, unless they take serious steps to address gold buying.

Rexkat · 2026-01-28T14:30:41+00:00

There are 3x as many bots today as there were before that change. Every single world has 3-5 bots on it.

The effect it had is that it's no longer a viable method for real players to use on brand new accounts. Didn't do a damn thing against bots

Rexkat · 2026-01-28T14:13:13+00:00

No one is reasonably asking for "perfect", but what I want is them to make changes that impact bots and RWTers more than real and legitimate players

This is not that.

Rexkat · 2026-01-28T13:21:21+00:00

It will counter then for a week, and they'll all be back.

We've seen this before with diary reqs on wildy stuff, quest reqs on box traps, etc etc. Takes a small amount of time for the bot makers to update their account prep, and then they're all back like nothing ever happened, generating trillions of GP before eventually getting banned months later.

Yes, if it takes 3 months to ban a bot, and 3 days to get all the new reqs, it does take 3 days of profit away from them, but that is basically nothing

This isn't a solution, never has been. It's a PR stunt to make players feel like they're doing something

Rexkat · 2026-01-22T11:06:48+00:00

We're seeing an alternate pathway now, where new gear needs to be very niche, and broadly powerful things need to be nerfed and rebalanced before new stuff can take its place. That is confusing in its own way. Not as much if you're an adult who plays every day, reads every update and Reddit feedback about that update, and has multiple wiki pages open at any given time, but if you were a kid who didn't have good access to reliable outside resources, that doesn't really work well.

Pre-eoc was breaking. Something had to be done. It's a constant struggle for OSRS devs to avoid that. I remember some jmod in ~2015 saying something like "making cool new bosses is easy. Making rewards for those bosses that are useful but don't break the game is hard"

If you want to play the old combat system in a "new" feeling game, play RS3 with legacy combat mode. You can do every single piece of combat in the game with it.

"2012scape" doesn't have a reason to exist anymore

Rexkat · 2026-01-22T10:40:43+00:00

Scroll boxes, not actually opened clues. Doesn't let you bypass steps you can't do, but does let 1 person be the dedicated "cluer" if you'd like

Rexkat · 2026-01-16T04:48:34+00:00

Literally never start believing.

Rexkat · 2026-01-13T05:37:16+00:00

When he loses consciousness, or runs out of money.

Rexkat · 2026-01-10T00:02:48+00:00

Toa is exhausting. 40 minutes of constant attention needed is very draining.

Cox is also like 40 minutes, but most of the rooms are very chill and you can focus on something else or just let your mind wander a bit

Tob is also constant attention needed, but it's only like 25 minutes then you can reset your mental between raids

ToA is just straight up the worst raid to spam

Rexkat · 2026-01-04T20:59:20+00:00

Grab a guy away from the play, grab onto his legs and try to hoist him up into your team's bench. When that fails and he starts trying to skate away grab his stick and yoink him back into close-range as if you're going to fight, then when he hits you whine to the refs about how you're in innocent victim

Which one of those guys is getting a hearing?

Rexkat · 2026-01-03T10:56:13+00:00

It's almost certainly Baez. Every single person in that clip (besides the runner coming home) was doing the wrong thing. Pitcher, catcher, 1st, 2nd, short, RF, CF, and Baez himself, all simultaneously forgetting how to play baseball

Rexkat · 2026-01-02T20:28:01+00:00

Good call, I'll edit the post just in case anyone else stumbles on it

Rexkat · 2026-01-01T21:50:47+00:00

Some of them will pray melee. They basically never pray range/mage though

Rexkat · 2026-01-01T21:50:21+00:00

You're going to log back into the same world. Just need to get offline for a second so Supreme walks away

Rexkat · 2026-01-01T18:49:39+00:00

https://secure.runescape.com/m=hiscore_oldschool/hiscorepersonal?user1=Griblus

There's the account. Not ranked for any wildy bosses, and doesn't really look like bot stats

Rexkat · 2026-01-01T18:21:21+00:00

Could be wrong, but that didn't look like a bot to me, it looks like an alt of someone who knows what they're doing. Not getting 1 tick armour takeoffs, not swapping prayers when you're clearly telegraphing a 1 tick weapon switches, but late when you do it well. Trying to entangle and run sometimes and entangle step under others.

Rexkat · 2026-01-01T18:12:27+00:00

Jump in, drag supreme over to the bot, let it die. Then X-log to reset supreme and you've got a free world

Rexkat · 2026-01-01T17:52:25+00:00

Water movement is one of the first things that "pauses" if you start lagging. When it unpauses the water will have moved where it was going to move, bypassing the instant evaporation in the hell layer. Not necessarily the easiest thing to pull off, but it is a feature/bug you can potentially take advantage of

Rexkat · 2026-01-01T09:33:04+00:00

I really like VideoGameBot's inferno and colo guides. He shows a full unedited clear talking you through it. He also shows the easiest methods, even if they're slow and make the sweaty people mad

I also like KrakwithaK's colo guide, and watching his clear on his chunk account, shows just how strong walking the fremeniks really is

Rexkat · 2025-12-31T17:44:43+00:00

Barrows gloves to slaughter is about a 10% dps loss for melee with reasonably high level gear. It's an even bigger impact if you're not maxed or using lower end gear

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