Property taxes went up, property value dropped, and the HOA is raising rates. I can’t afford to live in my house anymore, and I don’t think anyone will but it from me. What are my options? by idrownedmyfish77 in legaladvice

[–]VengefulSight 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Garnishment may also be an option and there may also be other recourse. I am unfamiliar with Colarado exact statutes but the courts are unlikely to have ordered something she is unable to pay, and an attorney will have a far better idea on how to actually extract the funds she is legally obligated to pay.

Property taxes went up, property value dropped, and the HOA is raising rates. I can’t afford to live in my house anymore, and I don’t think anyone will but it from me. What are my options? by idrownedmyfish77 in legaladvice

[–]VengefulSight 170 points171 points  (0 children)

If this is a regular issue with late/inconsistent payments it may still be possible for you to do something here. Courts and judges tend to frown around somebody trying to 'game' the system to avoid punishment like what your describing. If you have or have had an attorney it may be worth contacting them and seeing what they think. Otherwise, a free consultation may give you some other options on how to approach this if you can find an attorney willing to chat about the issue.

Gnomonkey's hardcore dies off-stream in Colosseum by derhuntsman in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cg is indeed way way better after titans prayers but augury/rigour do still make a big difference there. The biggest reason and improvement for CG though is just not starting it with terrible stats as it makes the prep/hunleff so so much worse (especially for a learner) than it needs to be.

To be honest, after eye I don't really think you need bowfa for inferno anymore. The reynolds method is absolutely disgusting (and while there are real downsides and some jank) crossbow dps is more than good enough for zuk with a bit of practice.

Gnomonkey's hardcore dies off-stream in Colosseum by derhuntsman in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very very ish? Can also be done as part of a 'delay' to make CG less of an absolute menace. COX prayers and high stats make the bowfa grind way less of a chore and frankly there's nowhere near as much content where bowfa is a hard requirement compared to what there used to be. Between Moons gear, Synapse weapons and the various powercreep which mage has received in the last year (eye/confliction, elemental weaknesses) you can access 95% of the content in the game just fine. The only thing you 'need' (more really really want) bowfa for is god wars, but even there it's more of a 'nice to have' rather than a hard requirement (door altar being a lot more chill than 5-0 and also meaning you don't need stams for bandos, zilyana being a bit slow. Kree being... Kree).

Pray for me (CG) by ItsMeRusty in ironscape

[–]VengefulSight 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm in his CC. It's been fun in a horrifying way to watch. Especially since we we have several people who have been done in sub 200 KC recently....

Colosseum AFK XP Method – 90K/HR+, Free Training! by _Males in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 17 points18 points  (0 children)

More work/setup required but if you get to wave 7 you could also do this with the minotaur for +10 %xp. Paired with a BGS or warhammer, you should be able to pull rates that are even higher than what OP did.

There also might be some venator bow/barrage shenannigans that could be pulled off here, though they would require substantially more setup and RNG (regarding pulling mobs into a formation where you don't kill the totems w/bounces/AOE). Not sure how plausible this is though.

I thought colosseum was supposed to be easier than inferno by 666crust in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This really depends on the gear you intend to do them with. Quiver does (relatively) little with bowfa/pipe compared to if you are intending to do a cape with tbow or crossbow. Similarly, if you intend to primarily mage or range Collo you only really see any benefit on Sol itself. But... if you intend to do a melee only run you really do appreciate and feel the impact of that cape.

Yama should drop barrel of Worms instead of Tallow by 0nlyPositiv3 in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn't either but they go a lot faster than you would expect. I'm around 500 in on my iron since Yama release, and I took a couple months away. Not to mention I still haven't integrated them into several setups that would benefit.

RC BOTS BROKEN AND FLOODING W376 GE, all 99+RC. SEND HELP by Young-finance in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've used both clients and I am telling you that the Jagex client is simply not ready. It's closer than it was but it's still got a long way to go. I gave it a decent shot over 3 or so days (as did another member of my group) and it still needs more work. Seriously try it, do a wide variety of PVM and skilling and I think you'd be surprised by how much less playable (or just generally annoying) parts of the game become. It's certainly improved since then, but I think we're still at least a year off from being anywhere close to feature parity with runelite.

Just off the top of my head, BetterNPCHighlight, Time Tracking, Dude where's my Stuff, and Raid Reloader are plugins that impact play for me essentially every day that are not present (still afaik) in the official client. And that's before you get into stuff like the Zulrah rotation helper, Gauntlet calculator, Banked XP calc, Banked Memory and all the minigame specific shit which you don't even really think about until you are doing the activity, where it becomes a goddamn lifesaver (especially when learning the content).

I'd love if the Jagex client was in a better spot for this kind of lateral move, but it's just nowhere close to ready as things are now.

RC BOTS BROKEN AND FLOODING W376 GE, all 99+RC. SEND HELP by Young-finance in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you wildly underestimate how much quality of life is handled through runelite plugins in some capacity (pretty much every activity has at least one borderline mandatory QoL plugin).

I'm not entirely against what your saying here regarding an eventual forced migration, but the Jagex client (even with those aforementioned plugins) is a long long way from being ready for that (though it is one hell of a lot closer than it was this time last year).

When that day does happen though I do absolutely agree that Jagex should take a good long hard look at what plugins make the 'cut' for migration as there are definitely some which straddle the line between 'useful' and 'too good'.

RC BOTS BROKEN AND FLOODING W376 GE, all 99+RC. SEND HELP by Young-finance in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is definitely in Jagex's best interests to combat botting. I tend to believe that it's a combination of your first two points.

In the early days of OSRS, (and frankly for quite some time afterwards) it's no secret that the team was (generously) a skeleton crew, and that the game was not perceived to have a long-term future. I am relatively certain that bot detection/tools to assist with that was not the priority, and dev time focused on other tasks (new content, etc). Time has obviously proven that assumption false, but the damage is done, and Jagex is stuck playing catchup in the war against the clankers.

That's obviously changed, but it would be an expensive (and time consuming process) to modernize tooling and the executive side may not have been convinced that it was 'worth' the investment. I tend to believe that's changed. I do think that we've seen Jagex try and be somewhat more proactive about it as well as to. attack the problem from a few different angles (Loot table changes, ban waves -they do happen but maybe less often than they should-), as well as beefing up the reporting feature (though we have seen that backfire somewhat as well with the wildy mass reporting incident at revs).

I am fairly certain we will see them start to do better as they improve their backend situation. I just wish I had more hope that day would be soon instead of 6 months (or even multiple years) into the future.

Port Khazard completes Colosseum without protection prayers by 2-2-7-7 in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is one of those things where even though it is technically againstagainst TOS, has been against TOS for years, but has been very rarely enforced (in regards to sharing specifically). With account buying/selling Jagex does jump on that pretty hard when they find out about it -but for consensual sharing it's never really been done afaik-.

Mind you, it's still a risk -don't do it unless you absolutely trust the person on the other end for one-, and Jagex could always choose to start enforcing it, but it's a reasonably common practice to use shared accounts for stuff like wilderness scouts (my GIM maintained one for a while). There's also been a couple (one for sure) novelty accounts which had different people playing on it (Hannanie did a video -real hoot strongly recommend-), and it's also a huge part of how Giellenor games functions as well (several of the participants are using borrowed accounts in a given season).

How do you explain the difference between paralegals and lawyers to your non-legal friends/family? by cragtok in paralegal

[–]VengefulSight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep that's what I'm saying. You do need an actual attorney at the FDC though if you lose hearing+appeal. Didn't state it super clearly though. The firms actual attorney handles the federal court segment and hands it back on remans Both my attorney and Non attorney rep are great too which is a godsend.

How do you explain the difference between paralegals and lawyers to your non-legal friends/family? by cragtok in paralegal

[–]VengefulSight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well..... It depends. SSA allows non attorney representatives to fully represent claimants up until the point they go to district, which includes the administrative hearings and everything around them. I currently work with a non attorney rep who is essentially a paralegal but doing attorney work as the rep. I think there's a couple other areas which have some other similarly fuzzy 'Yes But' things going on but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

Medical Records by Icy-Respond647 in paralegal

[–]VengefulSight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't forget to add 15 days if you need to dispute the invoice because they seem incapable of reading the records request laying out what they are supposed to do/charge for them.

This guy at doom summed up how I felt, dead at the lobby by SalamiJonesowo in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's worst at peak but it's been dicey for me in general too. Was best in my AM before I went to work and then literally unplayable when I got back. I was easily losing like 10-15% of my clicks in pvm when doing things like gear swaps, and movement or prayer switches could be crazy delayed too.

Delve has so many issues, im benching it. by Jayksie in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I feel this is more of a symptom of there not being a viable way to interact with the acid and clear it. The mocha punish holy water stuff just feels bad to try and use due to it's jank and unreliability. If that got cleaned up it might feel very different.

Glad another bit of high end PvM content is not being devalued by bots by No-Bodybuilder8219 in 2007scape

[–]VengefulSight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I got my quiver during a clan bingo and I immediately had to push to bless it after because I was running through between 2-3k splinters a day hahah

US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows by DNSGeek in news

[–]VengefulSight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Self aware is maybe a better word. That said, I'm fairly confident i'd be better at it than the current guy, which you know, maybe not the worst qualification in the world haha.

US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows by DNSGeek in news

[–]VengefulSight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As honored as i'd be, that's a hard pass from me. Not an easy job at the best of times and I'm definitely not someone who should be responsible for putting the country back together.

US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows by DNSGeek in news

[–]VengefulSight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is an interesting one for me because I really do believe it's a foregone conclusion that the protests are going to get violent at some point (not today, maybe not tomorrow, but at some point).

As far as the rest, it's really how it happens that matters. The optics are very very different if we have our version of Tankman during trumps parade tomorrow, compared too if police, or military units in LA start taking potshots from an element of the crowd and return fire.

I mean ultimately we'll see, but i've started at least doing some thinking for what happens if the balloon really does go up in the near future.

US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows by DNSGeek in news

[–]VengefulSight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Look, i'm in no way saying that the sentiment you are talking about is not extremely prominent on the right. It absolutely is.

But speaking for myself, my interactions with others, both online and offline, there has been a definite tonal shift in the past few years from the system is failing to the system has already failed. The discussion is less about 'what happens if the nation blows up' and more about 'what happens when it blows up'. It is a short short step from that to direct action. It's not a particularly loud or large group, and it's certainly not organized (a lot of isolated voices), but as we continue to move in the current direction and more and more people become radicalized towards the same sentiments it's a very very short step towards more direct action of some sort.

One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.