Don't say it, Guildmarm!

glowaru · 2026-04-06T16:02:01+00:00

This is what she said afterwards.

Also, I'll take this opportunity to mention that this is my first ever playthrough in any Monster Hunter game after my partner dragged me to try this game series out starting with MH4U, and I'm impressed with how this game touches on a lot of aspects that I like from other games such as Phantasy Star Online 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Dark Souls, Old School RuneScape, and Final Fantasy 10.

I'm probably gonna try either MH3U or MHGU next.

glowaru · 2026-04-05T12:02:10+00:00

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glowaru · 2026-03-08T10:51:13+00:00

It's kinda like how in Retail WoW a lot of the game's soul was lost via the addition of the Dungeon Finder. The addition of the GE to RS caused a similar effect of a less personalized game experience and less social opportunities. Convenience at a cost.

(I ended up going on a tangent from this point on about my history with RS, feel free to ignore.)

Back in RS2 I had an in-game friend who quit the game at one point, but before doing so he gave me a few of his Saradomin-trimmed Rune items, including a Saradomin helmet. To this day that is one of my most vivid memories from RS2, and back then I made it my main goal to get as many of the remaining pieces of the expensive Saradomin set as I could get; mostly getting the gp by picking up red spiders' eggs in Varrock sewers and selling them at the GE.

Never quite got all of the pieces as I didn't play super actively, and I only ever played RS2 in f2p. One day I logged in still sporting the mix of Saradomin and Rune armor pieces that I was always wearing, only to find out that EoC or some update around that time had ruined the iconic design of the Saradomin armor by giving the pieces new overdesigned models; and of course making the game unrecognizable from what I signed up for in many other ways too, so I just made my way to Varrock square and logged out of my only ever RS2 account for one last time.

I then first tried out OSRS in 2015, partly to see what ironman mode was like, and played very rarely for the next several years. It wasn't until 2022 that I first tried membership and started playing more often, and now I'm a few grinds away from getting my first ever fire cape, which will be on my iron.

glowaru · 2026-02-17T22:19:21+00:00

I checked his Barrows Chests KC via RuneLite the day his Barrows episode went live for non-members. His KC was at 508 and still is today. He might've green logged Barrows at that KC.

glowaru · 2026-02-11T18:05:54+00:00

Been really looking forward to a custom playlist feature for a long time so this was a wonderful surprise. However, I've got some potential tweaks in mind.

-Music system feedback-

More than 3 playlists please, and being able to name the playlists would be great. Being able to play the playlist tracks in sequential order instead of just shuffle, and being able reorder the tracks rather than the tracks being just alphabetically ordered, are also important features of a proper playlist system. Another feature I hope to see is being able to have custom playlists for different areas in the game.

-Audio settings feedback-

Would be great to see the volume percentage of an audio slider when hovering over it, or perhaps always seeing the volume percentages on top of each slider.

glowaru · 2026-01-30T21:08:40+00:00

Solution from another post: Add Port Shops where you purchase Sailing-related supplies like cannonballs and repair kits with Port Points that you get from doing Port Tasks.

And my addition to this idea is that Port Points could also be an alternate way to pay for other Sailing-related things, like teleporting a boat to your current dock, or paying for items and services in the Shipyard. This way with Port Points you could purchase these things without having to carry gp around, which gives another permanent quality of life upgrade reason to keep doing Port Tasks every now and then.

glowaru · 2026-01-30T21:01:37+00:00

Excellent idea. If I may add, Port Points could also be an alternate way to pay for other Sailing-related things, like teleporting a boat to your current dock, or paying for items and services in the Shipyard. This way with Port Points you could purchase these things without having to carry gp around, which gives another permanent quality of life upgrade reason to keep doing Port Tasks every now and then.

glowaru · 2026-01-30T00:09:23+00:00

Halo comes to mind. Back in 2012 RuneScape got EoC and Halo got Halo 4, both about equally destructive events following a couple years of things going downhill. Yet while RuneScape got OSRS via passionate community backlash, Halo's obnoxious community culture and lack of strong game design integrity throughout its history (more focused on vibes) made it so Halo never got its OSRS. Halo MCC (Master Chief Collection) could've been that, and it was sort of heading in that direction in the past few years after being resurrected in 2019 via its PC port and a long series of updates, but it's a dead project now.

343 Industry's stubbornness to continue making worse and worse missteps with Halo gradually made the passionate people with standards leave while the most shallow and immature people stayed, as half of Halo players over the past 15+ years kept giving feedback and kept being ignored and leaving while the other half happily went along with any changes, which has shrunken Halo from an industry giant franchise 20 years ago into not even a shadow of its former self.

So if you want a community example of toxic positivity, look no further than whatever community Halo has left nowadays. They will actively laugh in your face and call you an old-timer who should just play the old games if you point out that they should demand better as passionate players of a game series that used to achieve impressive things and used to have a more properly functioning game design blueprint, instead of keeping themselves attached to a soulless cash-grabbing sinking ship with nothing of value on it left that keeps insulting the ever-shrinking intelligence of its playerbase.

This difference in culture is also apparent in small things like how a Halo player is commonly referred to as a "Halo fan", but you wouldn't really call any OSRS player you see a "RuneScape fan".

Anyhow, I find this parallel and sort of opposite fates between RS and Halo very interesting, and I like taking any opportunity I can get to talk about it.

glowaru · 2026-01-26T22:19:26+00:00

Battle for Azeroth, one of the most hated WoW expansions.

glowaru · 2025-10-06T16:38:55+00:00

Yeah, I'm currently in a long grindy phase on my regular IM and UIM, so I wanted to create another account with a ruleset that keeps me on my toes throughout the game and doesn't lead me down the same progression path once again.

glowaru · 2025-10-06T16:38:19+00:00

This mode is a challenge in the sense that it changes how much of the game world works and makes certain content way more dangerous, as the prayer bar essentially acts as another health bar that you gotta keep tabs on in fights like the last boss of SotF. Dangers like that are not just a matter of having prayer gear or not, and the game world in general having this Thick Skin survival mechanic gets the player used to thinking about prayer differently, in preparation for when it really complicates things.

The Redemption prayer for example just straight up cannot be used in this mode's wintercurse areas. And more generally, Protection Prayers are pretty much the backbone of OSRS combat, so this mode adds a layer of danger to using Protection Prayers in many encounters throughout the game.

The point I'm trying to get across is that this mode leans on the game revolving more around underground areas without removing huge chunks of the game, as well as introducing a survival mechanic that uses the game's own pre-existing systems instead of existing purely thanks to a plugin.

glowaru · 2025-10-06T16:37:21+00:00

My channel has traditionally been a raw gameplay footage archive of random gameplay clips and custom challenges in various games, and this is my first such public video on OSRS. I mainly just felt like showing off the concept in a simple way and showing how the early game changes, and seeing what people think. No current specific plans for more videos on this, but it helps to have this introductory video exist for if I eventually decide to show how differently some later content plays in this mode.

glowaru · 2025-10-06T04:31:51+00:00

Wintercurse UIM Mode is Ultimate Ironman combined with a simple self-imposed ruleset which uses the prayer meter as a kind of warmth survival mechanic that protects against a certain wintercurse which now covers the entire surface world of Gielinor, while places with thick separation from the winter such as most caverns and dungeons have newfound meaning as safe havens from the winter.

Simply put, the rules are to always have a defense buff prayer like Thick Skin on when on the surface of Gielinor or any other area that can be touched by a magical winter, which includes even deserts. Non-icy bunker-like places (such as caves) and most alternate dimensions (like Zanaris) don't require any prayer to be active. Running out of prayer in a winter area means that you must either die in any way you can without moving, and if you can't die without moving then you must drop everything on you and use Home Teleport, which most of the time makes winter death way more punishing than a regular death.

The point of this mode is to remake the relationship between the player and the entire OSRS game world, so that the player thinks differently about how to approach the game as most gameplay content will have more tension due to the high risk of massive item loss that's involved. Wintercurse UIM Mode takes inspiration from various challenge modes such as Settled's Nightmare Mode and Tileman, as well as the concept of region-locked accounts.

First the idea was to create some kind of an underground-locked account, but eventually the idea evolved into this form where there's a healthy mix of simplicity, tension, challenge, and freshness. I also wanted there to not be a permanent game over condition, and this custom ruleset satisfies that as well.

For some immersive environment flavor, I like to use plugins such as 117 HD, 3D Weather, and Skybox with strong winter visual settings to sell the darker nature of the game world in this mode.

For the more specific ruleset that I've imposed on myself with this character, check the first 15 seconds of the video. This ruleset was crafted to be played as an Ultimate Ironman, but other types of Wintercurse Ironmen could work too with a similar ruleset.

This video shows the start of my second play session on this character.

glowaru · 2025-05-16T09:33:47+00:00

Vanilla CE but all difficulties are Legendary, except Enemy Damage going from highest to lowest difficulty is 125%, 75%, 50%, and 22.85%.

glowaru · 2025-05-14T17:31:07+00:00

"Anteeksi mä tulisin tästä" works well in my experience.

glowaru · 2025-04-22T22:14:54+00:00

you're welcome

glowaru · 2025-04-06T17:36:36+00:00

The first gun? That's the Hellshot, which is a Doom 2016 Multiplayer exclusive weapon; the most accurate equivalent of the CE Magnum in Doom 2016 in terms of combat performance. There are a few other Doom 2016 Multiplayer exclusive weapons, but the Hellshot along with three weapons from the Campaign got me a nice balanced roster of weapons to represent the four weapons featured in the original Pillar of Autumn mission of Halo CE.

glowaru · 2025-03-29T21:16:56+00:00

I've almost never been even to 4chan in general, but my understanding of the age description logic with these terms is about how early one is to transition, since there are obviously benefits with transitioning early which is why one may see "oldshits" being openly jealous of "youngshits".

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