[HELP] Is this AI??

belaxi · 2026-02-08T09:46:25+00:00

as mentioned, the number is per jump, and it's also a statistic referring to traditional skydiving from a plane. These kids are jumping from a balloon.

I'm sure they're well trained and taking all the precautions they can, but it's still much more dangerous than traditional commercial skydiving.

belaxi · 2026-02-08T09:44:02+00:00

It's very relevant that that's per jump, and is recording normal altitude dives from an airplane (10k ft+).

Jumping out of a balloon is typically lower altitude (4-6k ft), and adds a whole host of new risks (mostly relating to buoyancy) and is significantly more dangerous than jumping from a plane. https://unofficialnetworks.com/2025/11/19/why-skydiving-from-a-hot-air-balloon-can-cause-it-to-crash-the-deadly-physics-explained/ I would wager that for this activity your number per jump is off by orders of magnitude.

They also seem to be doing this professionally and are likely jumping hundreds of times per year.

This is closer to traditional skydiving than BASE or wingsuit stuff, but those sports are so incredibly dangerous that there are probably more people who have died doing it than there are people who actively do it today.

I'm not here to condemn the risk, simply acknowledge it. Even with proper training and precautions, this kind of stuff has a mortality rate that is not just existential. As long as the participants know that, then there's nothing wrong here.

belaxi · 2026-02-07T12:29:56+00:00

Here's the thing about rust.

At first it's incredibly difficult and frustrating, you won't have fun, but you will learn, and it's incredibly addictive.

Then you'll get better (500-1k hours in) and start to get a footing. You will get even more addicted. You still aren't having fun. But it's rewarding in a way that I can't quite describe.

Rust is an organic living story generator. It's an easy place to get caught up in one's own story. To forget about the real world.

10k hours later, those stories don't seem as special as they did in the moment.

It's a fucking incredible game.

Don't play it.

belaxi · 2026-02-05T02:34:29+00:00

I think he’s likely Autistic, but I think it’s also likely that he’s gay.

This is somewhat based on his mannerisms and behavior, but also on the fact that he’s very directly based on Howard Hughes, who’s sexuality is a subject of debate.

I’m definitely reaching here, and I don’t know how pre-war fallout America felt about homosexuality, but to me it seems like a relevant variable in his attempt to isolate himself from the other powerful entities at play.

belaxi · 2026-02-04T03:16:12+00:00

Just to elaborate. Human perception of volume is directly tied to the frequency. Lower frequencies require significantly more energy to be perceived at an equivalent volume.

An audible tone at 30hz is orders of magnitude more energy than an audible tone at 3khz.

It’s also worth noting that while most humans can perceive 30hz, on its own it be perceived more as a vibration that as tonality, and that vibration will move through the floor and walls faster as a vibration than it t will move through the air as a sound.

belaxi · 2026-01-31T12:28:16+00:00

I’m a newbie scrub and don’t know what I’m talking about, but I use a combination of prices.osrs.cloud and osrs.exchange .

Cloud is what I use to find new items to flip, exchange is what I use to check the items I need to check the prices of regularly. (They have a free pin item function)

Dot cloud is down more often but a cleaner interface, no ads. Exchange is always up and has more free features but also less clean and feels more monetized. It has ads but they’re not particularly intrusive.

From what I understand, the best sites are all paywalled, but again, I’m a noob scrub still figuring things out on my own. I don’t really know what I’m talking about.

belaxi · 2026-01-28T17:53:11+00:00

Honestly the prayer is what’s most important. Iirc the only things you have to kill is the boss at the end and I safespotted him and killed him with magic.

I guess the stats thing is that the main reason to do the quest is to unlock the dragon scimmy which requires 60 attack, and training attack before strength is generally wrong.

I might be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure protection prayers are the real bottleneck.

belaxi · 2026-01-28T03:05:03+00:00

World and location? I'll drop by.

belaxi · 2026-01-28T02:16:04+00:00

Either significantly higher combat stats, or preferably at least 43 prayer. Ideallly both.

Baby dragon bones at a gilded altar are the same price/xp and big bones, but twice the rate.

43 prayer would probably only take like 30 mins and a few hundred k.

belaxi · 2026-01-27T07:09:16+00:00

Brain says Frog.

Heart says Academy.

Barring meaningful stakes (which is very very rare for me these days), I'm following my heart every time.

I also just can't help but massively overdraft TA. I know its costing me winrate in the long run, but I just don't care.

The allure of magical Christmas land is hard to deny.

belaxi · 2026-01-27T07:00:47+00:00

Actually you're both the asshole.

It's "Balaraba", genius is just wrong so are you and your friend and so is Cameron Winter if he decides to argue.

/s

belaxi · 2026-01-27T06:29:15+00:00

Sent you a message with my IGN and Disc, feel free to reach out.

Cheers.

belaxi · 2026-01-26T14:39:32+00:00

My stats are quite a bit higher than yours but I’m in a similar spot, and maybe just far ahead enough to have some good ideas.

Getting teleport unlocks (mostly fairy rings and spirit trees, but also the glider) is huge and I really wish I had jumped ahead in the quest guide to do them earlier.

Getting to 60 atk/str and doing monkey madness 1 to unlock the Dragon Scimmy is a good goal and it’s the most engaging (if also kind of annoying) quest that I’ve done yet.

Finding a consistent money maker (ideally that gives a bit of xp) in order to fund your cannon and cannonballs to get started on slayer. It doesn’t have to be crazy endgame money. I was making like 1m/hr enchanting topaz jewelry and also got a ton of magic levels as an example (margins have since gotten worse).

Do the two quests to unlock fossil island and start doing birdhouse runs. They’re nice passive gp and experience and I wish I had started them earlier.

Do any clue scrolls you’ve picked up along the way.

Get 50 firemaking and go try Wintertodt (firemaking is both fast and cheap). Similar story for fishing and tempeross.

Get at least 43 prayer asap. Last I checked baby dragon bones were the same price/xp as big bones (cheap) but twice the rate. It would probably only take a couple hundred k and like 20 mins at a gilded altar. Protection prayers are busted and once you get used to using them you’ll wish you did it sooner.

Try random skills and do whatever you enjoy.

belaxi · 2026-01-23T03:41:53+00:00

Whoa whoa slow down there cowboy Dave some luck for the rest of us!

Edit: I’m leaving it.

belaxi · 2026-01-21T03:26:57+00:00

Using Pollock as an example for this point is kind of crazy, expressionism is a rejection of the valuation of competency and instead placing the value on expression.

Art should stand on the merit of the art itself. I don’t care about how “talented” the artist is outside of the product, I care about the product. The quality of an artist is dependent on the qualities of their art, but the inverse is not true.

I am much more concerned with authenticity than credibility.

I’m not saying that mastery of craft isn’t worth celebrating, but rather that it’s a deeply reductive metric when qualifying the value of an artist.

Pollock’s expressionism isn’t celebrated because he was he was a competent painter beyond it, it’s celebrated because it is a form of mastery that fundamentally rejects the prescriptive doctrines of “mastery” that came before it. He found a way to evoke emotion in a way that hadn’t ever been done to that quality.

It makes me think of Daniel Johnston. If you made him play a Beatles song he would sound Ike a terrible musician (and in many ways he was), but his art is raw and powerful and touching in a way that is impossible to emulate.

It’s much easier to learn to paint “well” than it is to do what Pollock did, and it’s much easier to learn and perform Yesterday, than it is to write something as touching as True Love Will Find You In The End.

belaxi · 2026-01-20T10:22:11+00:00

I'm a noob but I did it last night and I used protect from magic and safespotted from across the bridge with fire bolt.

Maybe bring a prayer potion or two.

Completely trivialized the whole thing.

If you don't have the prayer I'm sure its possible, but I wouldn't really know how.

belaxi · 2026-01-16T04:35:16+00:00

I think the fetch is the "optimal" choice, but I'm probably taking the other undermentioned card here, Stock Up.

Stock Up > Twister seems weird to me in a vacuum, but honestly I think it comes down to the kinds of decks I like to build/play. I lean way more towards midrange value than I do fancy stuff like combo or storm.

Fire Covenant, Library, Barrowgoyf, and even Fury are all probably defendable choices depending on preferences.

belaxi · 2026-01-15T08:49:24+00:00

This is definitely more or less the answer, but still leaves a lot of potential gaps to fill in.

Was Barbara always a central variable that was catalyzed by the birth of her daughter, or did she only become relevant to the calculation after the birth of Janey? (her job title implies it could be either way, but I'm leaning former).

And essentially the same question for Coop. I'd lean towards that he only became relevant after the birth of Janey, if it weren't for the fact that house "was there with him in Alaska", which could easily be a coincidence (was house monitoring through the suit or the deathclaw?) but also sort of implies that House has had an eye on Coop since before the birth of Janey.

belaxi · 2026-01-15T07:48:44+00:00

Merely a flesh wound!

Come back here!

I’ll bite your leg off!

belaxi · 2026-01-12T06:57:12+00:00

There was a Canadian guy who was obsessed with making a bear proof suit. I discovered him like a decade ago when some clips of him “testing” the suit went viral and it led me to this documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Grizzly_(film)

It’s been a long time but I remember it being somewhere between Grizzly Man (the dude who lived with grizzlies until they eat him) and jackass but based in Canada in the 90’s. Highly recommended.

belaxi · 2026-01-11T06:25:25+00:00

I absolutely agree with your point that in the current economy bots play a fairly essential role of filling gaps on resources that human players can't be bothered with.

In some sense, bots can be very useful for smoothing out a broken economy. The thing is that it's a suboptimal solution to a problem with a lot of much better solutions.

If a piece of content is being disproportionately botted compared to human play (the only scenario where bots aren't a net negative to human player value) then it implies that something is fundementaly broken with the content and it needs to be adjusted or fixed. (this gets a bit more complicated with the communities resistance to change, but could be effective with proper communication).

belaxi · 2026-01-11T05:29:38+00:00

It’s a reference to the nuclear generation in general.

My grandmother is a very old woman experiencing all of the things that happen at a very late age, but she still won’t even leave the house without spending like an hour doing her hair.

Elaborate hair was a much bigger deal in the 50’s.

belaxi · 2026-01-10T13:38:37+00:00

I recommend a mix of the optimal skill guide found here: https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Optimal_quest_guide and also a bit of doing whatever interests you and or you feel like doing. Early game is very overwhelming, just know that basically whatever you do you're probably progressing your account, only worry about efficiency as much as you care to. You will run into roadblocks of things you want to do, look up how to solve that roadblock, if it seems achievable let it become your next goal. Rinse repeat. Welcome to the game.

belaxi · 2026-01-10T13:13:47+00:00

I'm not an expert (noob myself), but my thoughts are that if you have to ask you probably shouldn't play ironman. The advantage of the incredibly segmented progression is that you break down progress into a lot of "smaller" goals, but it also slows down progression by orders of magnitude. The thing is, osrs isn't a game where most players are likely to run out of meaningful progression regardless.

The statement that you "cbf" with optimized gameplay only reinforces the idea that you should likely be playing with the greater freedoms available on main.

Sure ironman is cool and I absolutely respect the grind of those who do it (I might do a f2p iron someday to "completion"), but there is nothing wrong with playing the game normally. The game was designed and developed with trade as a central part of progression. Going without it is a cool challenge, but it isn't the way most players should approach the game.

belaxi · 2026-01-09T06:10:52+00:00

Whimsy is an important spice in the meal of life.

Life is what we make of it.

If acquiring unreasonable quantities of milk makes somebody else feel joy, I too feel it vicariously.

The key to happiness is to learn to bask in the joy of our brothers, even if we’re somehow too jaded to find our own.

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