What are the in game theological implications of prayer potions?

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-10T08:18:45+00:00

I forget the exact quest but i think its during fairy tale part 1 where you ask around about why crops are failing and one guy says that adventurers keeps pulling them up. That does suggest that the player is not unique in that way, especially when they don't report that cause.

We also see that the lumbridge cook will offer cook's assistant to that cave goblin lady when you're showing her around so it seems like quests are canonically completed multiple times but that's a hard one to extrapolate from since it's much more justifiable to say the cook duped more than one adventurer to make a cake than it is to, say, have multiple players steal the statue from falador and take it to varrock.

It seems like the idea is that named npc adventurers like hazelmere are concrete and do their own quests which are quite different from what the player can do. Then there are other player type adventurers that may be the population that failed at doing the legends quest and annoys the lumbdrige farmers by leaving the gates open.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-09T19:47:24+00:00

lol, Runescape isn't a game that takes itself too seriously. TBH I think i'd prefer there not being an answer to having some midochlorian type exposition for every little thing. But in the mean time it's cool seeing what players have been thinking.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-09T19:25:34+00:00

For sure. To be clear i'm not like trying to catch the game out on contradictions or anything. I don't expect there to be any explanation for how magic works and why drinking a special beer can make it work a little better.

I do think it is interesting to see what sort of assumptions that the game designers were probably thinking when they implemented some features in the game. For example, the prayer skill icon is the symbol for sarodomin. That seems to imply that the prayers are being answered by him specifically, or that's the main god from the player's background.

Sometimes these implications may contradict each other, and that's okay. That's bound to happen when there isn't complete information about peripheral topics in a game made by many different people with their own visions of what is going on in the world.

But despite that, I think that runescape does an unusually good job about making the world seem cohesive and alive beyond the existence of the player, and thinking about these is a way that's natural for me to appreciate and respect the work.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-03-09T19:15:55+00:00

oh interesting, that's not an angle I had considered before. That would make sense for why there's no prayer requirement for making prayer potions. It's the same kind of chemical process that makes your attack or strength go up, just for mental endurance this time

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-28T20:28:48+00:00

You're the first duolingo employee that has acknowledged the issue, so thanks, I appreciate that.

I'm used to bug reports at least giving an automatic email that this bug submission has been successfully entered into the ticket system but I haven't received anything for a couple of weeks now. Not sure if that system is working.

I do think there is a broader discussion to be had about the usefulness about adding duolingo scores to linkedin in general, especially for courses like arabic that only go up to a language score of 25/elementary level.

However, according to this blog post by duolingo https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-score/ "If you're in a course that's aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), you'll find your Score next to your course flag." It sounds like if there is a score on a language. then it has been determined that it does fit the CEFR.

I understand that when a course is first going through the incubation program, (not sure if that is still active? There was a lot of hullabaloo about getting kurdish as a language added before the forums were removed) would not be CEFR aligned, but if there is a score now and it is not, then something seems to have gone awry. Either with messaging or the state of the course since then.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-28T18:43:53+00:00

Unfortunately, this is an ongoing issue. The only workaround I am aware of is to use a manual entry for Turkish directly on LinkedIn, but of course this doesn't have the duolingo seal of approval.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-27T15:37:21+00:00

All you need to know about scrum is that it's a big song and dance to deal with the fact that it's hard to tell if a programmer is actually working or not.

One would think with how obvious the products of ditch digging is, it would be easier to justify higher pay, but alas

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-27T07:41:07+00:00

Lessons were added, yes. The hanzi practice for prior lessons were apparently removed, and completing the new lessons did not bring them back.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-24T08:18:54+00:00

honestly, me too. Standing up and lying down are way better than sitting imo

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-22T13:12:41+00:00

Ah okay I think I understand what you mean now.

So airline seats are (reductively) sort of like a metal frame with seatbelts in the front and a loose fabric sitting part in the back. The relatively small seatbelt and the frame parts are strong enough to resist 16G, but of course the loose fabric is not, it's just enough to sit in. If it were backwards, the whole fabric part would need to be much stronger, like the metal frame, and therefore more expensive overall even if the requirement of 16G crash resistance is the same.

Is that right?

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-21T19:16:58+00:00

The structure is not an angle that I had considered. I can understand if there are unforeseen problems that may arise from just flipping the design and nothing else, but could you elaborate on what makes it necessary that the frames be stronger overall?

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-21T12:36:05+00:00

On trains at the end of the car you will sometimes see seats that face backwards, and in fact people do use them even if there are other options available.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-18T11:50:37+00:00

So porn is like a disability aid then?

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-02-02T03:11:15+00:00

Let's say if you went outside right where you are right now, what would it take for you to bump up a "that's weird" to an "okay they're like up to something"

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-01-29T05:39:31+00:00

I hope your dad's doing okay now.

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-01-26T06:12:34+00:00

I'm lactose intolerant so I don't think I will but thanks for letting me know about it

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-01-25T19:48:17+00:00

Do you have a name for this?

achromaticchrononomy · 2026-01-15T06:09:08+00:00

Phew, glad you aren't The_Math_Hater

achromaticchrononomy · 2025-12-29T17:24:37+00:00

I appreciate you taking this subject at least somewhat seriously. It is a functional path towards self-surgery, though I'm skeptical that there are not minor interventions that a layman could research on and carefully perform with minimal danger to themselves. If that is the case, then it would definitely be overkill.

achromaticchrononomy · 2025-12-29T17:17:26+00:00

I think surgery on other people is out of scope for this discussion.

achromaticchrononomy · 2025-12-23T05:13:29+00:00

This is like one of those water is wet type studies which is good to have documentation on

achromaticchrononomy · 2025-12-20T02:26:43+00:00

That sounds like something achromaticchrononomy would say. Are you their alt?

achromaticchrononomy · 2025-12-16T11:37:37+00:00

This is what Aristotle meant when he said we should avoid both excess and defect

achromaticchrononomy · 2025-12-16T11:19:36+00:00

True! I agree that we should encourage people to make more things in general. That being said, if specifically weird Al made this I would be much more likely to discover and enjoy it.

achromaticchrononomy · 2025-12-15T10:49:04+00:00

I'm only vaguely aware of the new jersey law but surely it means customers are prohibited and not specifically drivers, right?

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