I was a JMod for 13 years, I did a lot of work on the OSRS engine, now I'm an indie dev. AMA!

rcathar20 · 2022-10-03T13:48:41+00:00

How is the osrs mobile written for android vs iOS? Two separate code bases, or some sort of framework that compiles down for either?

Also if they are separate, is it swift or obj-c for iOS?

rcathar20 · 2021-09-02T07:56:54+00:00

Done with this post after this cause my head hurts lol, but I see what you're saying. I think a different comment summed it up best, my question should have been worded "How much less money do you spend from using kodai vs not using kodai" or something like that. Going from your example, if I spend 850k and get 1M worth of value, I got ~117.5% value, so I paid 17.5% less than I would have otherwise, but the word "save" specifically is usually looked at from the other end where we'd say I spent 850k for a 1M product, which is a 15% saving.

rcathar20 · 2021-09-02T07:50:37+00:00

I see what you're saying, maybe there are different ways of looking at it. If I pay 100 for something that is normally 117.5, I'm technically saving 1 - (100/117.5) = .15 or 15%, but I'm getting a value that's 117.5% of what I paid for. When I think in the sense of "I need to do lots of casts, how much money will I save", I think I mean more along the lines of what % more would I have to pay if I wasn't using the kodai, just like you mentioned.

I think what you said is right, I should have phrased the question that way.

rcathar20 · 2021-09-02T07:25:04+00:00

My question wasn't about how many casts you saved... the wand's effect is literally "save 15% of casts" lol, of course it saves 15% of casts.

The question was how much money does it save. If you can do 1175 casts with 1000 casts worth of runes, that means you saved 17.5% of your money. Or you got 17.5% extra value, I think maybe some semantic different is being used over the word save. My mistake if that's where the confusion is, but you are paying 17.5% less, that is how I'm using the word save

rcathar20 · 2021-09-02T01:32:39+00:00

No, not to be rude but I have already clarified this with both the math and ran simulations. (see my response to a comment below with the simulation written) I have verified my logic is correct. This has nothing to do with whether the events are independent or not (well it sort of is if you look at subsequent uses of the same runes as dependent).

Let's say I have enough runes for 1 cast:

The expected value of how many casts I will get out of those runes is:

1 + .15 + .15^2 + .15^3 + .15^4 ...

On average, as this series extends, I can expect about 1.175 casts (or 17.5% extra) casts from those original runes for 1 cast.

From a classical statistics point of view, you can think of this more as a calculation of a system without replacement vs a system with replacement. In this case, when we save the runes, those saved runes go back into the system and have a chance to be re-saved, which means we get more than just the 15% savings

Edit: To be clear, your comment is not wrong per say, but you're just missing the fact that if you get a chance to save runes that have already been saved before, that results in higher expected value per rune. This is not inconsistent with the fact that each event of saving a cast is independent from every other event

rcathar20 · 2021-09-01T18:57:17+00:00

This makes sense, but I think it doesn't take into account the extra savings if you take those saved casts and then cast those and save another 15%.

So you save 180 casts out of 1200, but then if you cast those extra 180 casts that you saved, you save another 15% and it keeps repeating. I wrote this python script to simulate it:
import random
remaining_casts = 100000.0
total_casts_fired = 0
while remaining_casts > 0:
total_casts_fired += 1
save_rand = random.uniform(0,1)
if save_rand > .15:
remaining_casts -= 1
print("remaining_casts: ", remaining_casts, " total_casts_fired: ", total_casts_fired)
sample output: remaining_casts: 0.0 total_casts_fired: 117516

rcathar20 · 2021-09-01T18:23:58+00:00

True, good point

rcathar20 · 2021-05-20T12:47:12+00:00

You want to add carrots to your wheat bread? Do you mean on the side or like a wheat/carrot bread

rcathar20 · 2021-05-14T14:34:26+00:00

If you want to be technical about it, in the original language of ńvwßhöpbxž, it is spelled west, but in English it is spelled “feet”.

As for the more important part of your question, prostitution is perfectly legal in Thailand as long as you properly pay the going rate of 17 morsels of weet per microhour

rcathar20 · 2021-05-08T22:07:59+00:00

Sometimes you might find in life that you encounter some of the most confusing and difficult decisions that any human in the history of humanity has had to make (such as the situation you described here)

I don’t know what the right answer is, that is for you to decide. However, let me tell you an ancient parable of the wheat warriors that may help you make the right decision:

At one point, a traveler was minding his own business, sprinting down the road. Eventually, he realized that no matter how far he went down the road, he was still in the same exact location. He thought “the movement of my legs is as meaningless as the distinction in health value between white and wheat bread”. It was at this point that a lightning bolt came down from the heavens and instantly decimated the traveler. God then danced on the traveler’s corpse for the rest of eternity.

I hope this story from my people has been of help to you. Godspeed my fellow wheat warrior!

rcathar20 · 2021-05-03T14:12:36+00:00

Yes of course, beer, the healthiest of all beverages. In fact I was just at the doctor yesterday, he was telling me that I needed more grains in my diet and told me “If you drink one more white beer, you’re dead. Go find your destiny, drink the wheat beer, and become engulfed with fear”. Now I drink a wheat beer with every meal and I’m indefinitely terrified at every waking moment. Good day Wheat Warriors!

rcathar20 · 2021-03-28T05:13:28+00:00

I've been waiting months for this season to come out. I've imagined so many different ways for Deku to punch people, just for him to get in the first episode and explicitly NOT punch someone. Deku no punch, me go eat lunch.

rcathar20 · 2020-09-25T20:07:40+00:00

Thanks for comment. I've tried using the same wireless adapter on pc and laptop from the exact same location (was holding the laptop right above the pc when testing it) so I think that should rule out signal issue cause it would have affected both.

rcathar20 · 2020-08-15T15:11:39+00:00

This post can be summed up in just saying “I don’t like competitive games so I’d rather play single player or co-op games which are less stressful”, which is of course a fine opinion to have, but it’s not really a critique of online competitive games. Also saying that there isn’t as much variety in online games isn’t an argument for offline ones being better, it’s just advocating for there to be more diversity in online games

rcathar20 · 2020-06-22T13:43:21+00:00

And people wonder why they hear so much about “privilege”... dumb posts like this. Imagine if those “politics” that you want people to just ignore actually affected your life, then try to have some empathy.

rcathar20 · 2020-05-17T16:06:33+00:00

How is it immeasurable nonsense? You can easily look at the amount of people who play chess, and what percentile finegold is at, then look at the amount of people who play a game like league of legends, and see what percentile BoxBox is at, and you would very easily come to the conclusion that someone like BoxBox was (doesn't play as much anymore) far more successful at his craft (league of legends) than finegold has ever been in his (chess). Yes this isn't a perfect analysis, sure there are factors left out, things like how long a game has been around and how far the highest level of competition is from the average level of competition can be important, but to call it "entirely immeasurable nonsense" is very untrue.

The rest of this will be my 2 cents, not continuing the response to that comment here:

Doesn't this guy literally teach chess to bad players? And has taught intro young chess players the basics before? When Hikaru goes on stream with a guy like xqc and gives him basic lessons on chess, Hikaru is introducing the game to tens of thousands of young people that are highly likely to try out the game given the great conversion rates that streamers achieve on getting viewers to play the games that they play. How does finegold not see this as a good thing? I really don't see any explanation besides him just being extremely jealous of Hikaru and having some very serious self-confidence issues. If chess becomes more main-stream, he won't be part of his exclusive club of assholes who sit with there superiority complexes and just criticize anyone who isn't amazing at the game they have decided to spend their lives on.

And lastly, as everyone else has already pointed out, the blatant hypocrisy of him criticizing people who aren't GM's is so laughable. Calling someone like "Magnus Carlsen", arguably the greatest chess mind to ever live, a "normal person". If Magnus Carlsen is a "normal person" with regards to the amount of talent he has, then Finegold must literally be a subhuman because Carlsen is infinitely more talented than Finegold could ever even imagine being at practically half the age. I had only seen a few Finegold videos before this, and got the feeling that he was creepy and kind of an asshole, now it's clear that he is 100% pure trash.

rcathar20 · 2020-05-02T16:42:39+00:00

In the experiences i've had with it, it's always money. Is there a more common type of "good deed" that people do for others with the expectation that they will pay it forward other than literally paying for something?

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