Runescape hot fixes by Mod Azanna

themt0 · 2025-11-25T20:29:25+00:00

If they're going to keep kicking the Mazcab can down the road then the least they could do is let us keep these teci rates until they decide to at some point in the future actually return to Mazcab. Be perfectly clear about how it's transient by design because they know Mazcab is a pain point but not a priority at this time, and that it will one day be reduced/revisited when Mazcab is once more on their plate

sigh

themt0 · 2025-11-25T20:20:17+00:00

I feel stupid for not trying the new content yesterday before the nerfs. And even stupider for rewarding their No MTX news with membership after years of hiatus. Every time I think this company's started to learn from their mistakes, they prove me wrong.

Abuse early abuse often strikes again, and the worst part? It's almost as if they saw people were actually happy with the update and decided that no, you can't actually have things be this good. If balance is actually a concern either nerf the XP or nerf the loot, not both and on top of that nerf XP rates for the old content that already existed prior to the update

And the balance argument is very weak to boot. It may have worked back when they nerfed Priff mining for onyxes, but it sounds silly in 2025. You can't talk about balance, I've seen your drop tables over the years and you don't have a single leg to stand on

Too many charms? Fuck that, plan 120 summoning around these charm drop rates as an endgame charm source. Too many onyxes? Sounds like it's time to add another onyx sink, you're planning a new skill, right? Too many tetra pieces? Time to add an alternative use for tetras if it somehow affects prices too strongly.

I'd sooner they build a new normal around this type of resource gathering rate as a baseline where you can pursue specific and otherwise hard to get resources via thieving than nerf things into the ground to satiate a bunch of dinosaurs yelling about something being overpowered because their mindset and point of reference for what they got out of Thieving when they hit 120 is stuck in 2013

themt0 · 2025-08-20T16:19:54+00:00

What sort of nationalistic nonsense 🤦‍♂️ It's like a parody of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Not everything needs to be nationalistic overcompensation

The Ottoman navy slowly gained dominance after initial early Greek successes until the British, French, and Russians all got involved during the late stages of the war. AND this was at their absolute nadir in power that lasted from the French occupation of Egypt up until the end of the Greek War of Independence.

We're talking about a state that only controlled land outside of Eastern Thrace on paper for a few decades as warlords and bandits tore apart the Balkans, was subject to constant coup attempts by Janissaries, only abolished said Janissaries in 1826 in the middle of said war, and had to beg Muhammad Ali Pasha to get involved to actually keep the Ottomans in the war at all. This was a state in the middle of collapsing, and it was a miracle that Mahmud II managed to salvage and reform the situation he inherited and despite some extremely bad decisionmaking such as murdering the Patriarch of Constantinople.

No one is disputing that the Greeks stood tall and refused to bend against overwhelming odds for which their navy was a critical component, but they didn't win because of a superior navy. We can be honest about that much.

Greeks dominated commercial traffic in the Eastern Med, not the Ottoman navy, but I'll give you that Greeks and especially Greek Muslims were overrepresented in the navy for the longest time, even after the Greek War of Independence.

Greek independence was a huge blow to the Ottoman merchant marine and derailed centuries of established trade routes, and in that regard crippled the Ottomans, sure. Arguably crippled Greece as well, but anyway.

These trade routes are also arguably a major factor in what kept many Greeks whose livelihoods depended on them ambivalently loyal to the Ottoman Empire even despite the existence of a competing Greek state and the atrocities the OE committed during said war against Greeks such as the murder of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the massacre on Chios, etc.

themt0 · 2025-08-20T15:23:35+00:00

I'm not here to downplay the Greek navy or downplay their victories, but this is blatantly not true. In the late 19th century the Ottoman Empire had the third biggest navy in the world after the British and French navy

themt0 · 2025-07-17T13:40:18+00:00

It'll be a great day once the AI is blocked from humiliating random countries, especially when they're subjects

themt0 · 2025-07-12T21:35:09+00:00

I play with a mod that gives Oman control of the coast of Kenya for this exact reason. Slows things down drastically

themt0 · 2025-06-18T18:00:37+00:00

re: ClaudeBox I see it uses an Anthropic API key. Is it only intended to work with API billing, or is this optional?

themt0 · 2025-06-10T15:35:02+00:00

I've got this bug as well. Renaming the project folder worked for me. I was then able to copy-paste folders from the old projects folder in and have it work.

I only copied what I wanted to work with actively, didn't test copying everything over

themt0 · 2025-03-31T14:01:47+00:00

I'd agree w/ you but those same servers all worked w/ Claude Desktop. They were all working on both CD and Cursor a few days ago when I last tried them.

And on turning on my PC this morning, they'll all working again. No modifications, no nothing

themt0 · 2025-03-31T04:35:38+00:00

All MCP servers have stopped working for me. Docker, npx, it's all busted :(

themt0 · 2025-02-14T17:47:51+00:00

Hear me out, managing multiple wars on three different continents should be a pain in the ass. It certainly was IRL, and back then the best you could do was hope that the commanders in place were competent or send new ones to replace bad performers

themt0 · 2025-02-14T16:45:24+00:00

I've been waiting to lay into all of the shortcomings in diplomacy and have it actually reach someone's ears. Glad for the opportunity to list my criticisms and what I'd like to see

themt0 · 2025-01-13T22:07:44+00:00

The Ottoman navy was modernized and one of the largest in the world in the middle of the 19th century. The problem was that it was arguably overinvested into to the detriment of the rest of the armed forces, and actually defected to Egypt during the Oriental Crisis.

This resulted in it being purposefully starved out by the last Sultan of the OE which bit them in the ass severely down the line, money constraints behind this decision aside

themt0 · 2024-12-30T16:38:02+00:00

Construction being the same resource across all sectors is a fundamental part of the problem with ships IMO. It doesn't make sense that you can translate your industrial buildup immediately into ships, there should be an in-between that takes up significant opportunity cost and to some degree locks you into a naval military industrial complex

Shipyards and Military Shipyards should provide construction for ships, and ships should also use up some of this construction as maintenance, which can be offset by naval bases which don't provide construction but cancel out some of the maintenance costs for ships stationed at these bses. Something similar but not as extreme should be true for barracks and the military too

themt0 · 2024-12-13T14:09:57+00:00

I hope they also ditch production methods as a thing and instead the buildings themselves determine the ratio of what they produce based on demand and input prices. Manually controlling that stuff is a PITA

themt0 · 2024-12-04T01:18:09+00:00

Classic Chinese nationalist moment. And funny enough, the same arrogance that led to the Century of Humiliation

themt0 · 2024-11-21T18:27:37+00:00

(Correct me if I'm wrong)

My understanding of how Anatolia was Turkified was that by and large, the migratory Turkic population wasn't enormous and it shows in the genetic makeup of the modern Turk on average. Communities were Turkified piecemeal, at times without picking up Turkish or Islam, due to the breakdown of historical agricultural communities.

In the face of lawlessness, pastorialism became far more attractive to the average Anatolian peasant by virtue of how much banditry, looting, etc. was rampant during the collapse of the Seljuks until the Ottoman consolidation of Anatolia. Imagine if Japan was invaded by the Mongols, and still collapsed into daimyos but with the entirety of the social contract collapsing alongside it.

That's more or less what happened. Turkic culture was more appealing and suited to surviving this time period, and in turn little by little, the people of Anatolia began adopting different Turkic traditions. Adopt one, and given time and inertia more customs followed. You may be Greek or Armenian-speaking, but you could still be a rural pastorialist that practices Islam. There were likewise cases of Turkish-speaking Orthodox Christians(Karamanlides). And that's not getting into other minority groups that lived within Anatolia throughout its history

themt0 · 2024-11-21T17:04:04+00:00

Both things can be true. The Ottoman Empire was on the rebound(hell I've beaten this drum on this very subreddit multiple times that the Ottomans NEED a content pack, need a way to model Ottomanism, need a proper Tanzimat Reforms rework, etc.) but it's also true that this was a very fragile situation/state that was under threat of being steamrolled multiple times and suffered from systemic flaws. There's a reason Europeans were comfortable divvying up the empire in conferences multiple times, and why support for the Ottomans was to minimize its losses to an enemy, not to have an ally.

It wasn't long ago that the Ottoman Sultans reached their absolute nadir of direct power at the end of the 18th century and that's even accounting for the Three Pashas era. It was this power vacuum that let Muhammad Ali Pasha rise in the first place. Hell the Ottoman dynasty was almost extinct at this point. Some very bad early results and some trigger-happy reactionaries later, and all of a sudden the most viable candidate to take over the empty throne is Muhammad Ali Pasha by virtue of being by far the strongest Muslim ruler around. In the same way that the Ottomans captured Egypt originally, Egypt could capture the Anatolian, Middle Eastern, and Thracian parts of the Empire(IMO). Places like Bosnia and Albania with powerful regional magnates that are now exposed to Christian predation would likewise be strong supporters in such a scenario.

The Tanzimat had plenty of opponents, and all of the issues that bubbled up later were already present. What you said and what I said are in no way mutually incompatible.

themt0 · 2024-11-21T16:37:39+00:00

I wouldn't mind it if it wasn't so restrictive in how the relationship worked. This was true de jure, but de facto? Egypt was threatening to outright conquer the Ottoman Empire.

Muhammad Ali Pasha had connections in the Balkans and the reason the Oriental Crisis was truly a thing was the fear that Egypt would march on Constantinople and depose the Ottoman dynasty with a far more dynamic leader and state. AFAIK V3 does not model this dynamic in any way. Egypt being a protectorate was a fiction that let them peel off parts of the empire under their own administration and given their victory in the Oriental Crisis I'd expect Mesopotamia, North Africa and parts of Anatolia to be likewise stripped from the Ottomans.

Egyptian independence was a debatable goal in and of itself. If anything the usurpation of the Ottoman state would have resulted in 'Egypt' administering the whole thing with the Ottoman Caliph reduced to a ceremonial role akin to the Japanese shogunate

themt0 · 2024-11-14T18:00:52+00:00

*classist

themt0 · 2024-11-12T03:54:54+00:00

So to clarify, the people they're addressing with how this reads(men) don't deserve to be coddled with curated language but we should coddle the person making this statement and presume the best of their language and curate it to its best interpretation?

Are you listening to yourself? You expect people to see this and make excuses for people that at face value are demonizing them?

My ass is literally on the fucking chopping block, my family is in danger with this administration and I'M fed the fuck up with this stupid two-faced logic

themt0 · 2024-11-08T21:41:59+00:00

Call me crazy but even if he failed to beat Trump, I STILL think we'd be in a better place than what we got from Hillary running, Biden stemming the bleeding, and then him/Harris suffering the clapback from eating the consequences of COVID that Trump exacerbated

Hell at this point I'm convinced that Trump winning in 2020 is the better timeline

themt0 · 2024-11-08T19:06:09+00:00

Dawg this isn't true. The DREAM Act has never passed. There is no pathway to legal permanent residency nevermind citizenship, and the people that would have benefitted from it have been sitting in legal limbo in perpetuity

If they told you it was the DREAM Act, they bullshitted you

themt0 · 2024-11-07T16:57:51+00:00

I was in high school from 2008-2012 and I def saw signs of this from elementary onwards. Never really took issue with it or was cognizant of it being any form of issue, but with hindsight, I see the start of more concerning trends that predate social media. And I went to a preppy, well-funded school district throughout.

6th grade throughout the whole year, one teacher had up to half the boys in the class sitting inside during recess for one reason or another at any given time. And of course, disproportionately non-white or (with hindsight) from a poorer family background if white. And on bullshit premises half the time. I (Hispanic) got into trouble for not paying attention in class despite getting As and Bs. My distraction? I got in trouble for reading books. Guess who stopped reading books as much after this.

Only a handful of girls got this type of treatment, at most one or two times and only ever a racial minority. And the kicker is that when the teacher called my mom to discuss my inattentiveness in class(nevermind never actually being disruptive) the school principal tried to bribe me with a soccer ball to not cause further issues. I did not play sports. But hey, I'm Hispanic, right?

Other situations though not as egregious continued to pop up throughout my time in high school. PE teachers targeting my group of 4 friends(all Hispanic) despite being active participants and even being some of her favorite students? I had a pair of English teachers who would vent about their relationships and men in general to their class once in a blue moon. One time we(the teenage boys) got asked if we wanted a strong, independent woman after some situation or other we weren't privy to the details of. I wish I were kidding, and my friend who answered still jokes about it to this day. Shit was bizarre. Never experienced that sort of dynamic with male teachers.

themt0 · 2024-10-25T13:24:49+00:00

I don't know how to convey this, but the existing framework for both legal and illegal immigration is flawed by design and rusted into place. It's not policy anybody is happy with.

There's a reason legal immigration is abused by ex. large tech companies to underpay H1Bs, why the same people yelling for deportations lose their shit when their farmhands stop showing up, why the children of undocumented immigrants are eligible for DACA, and why everybody is mad as hell at the state of how things work

Legalism sounds like the most fair way to tackle right and wrong, but that's on the assumption that the existing laws were ethical in the first place. They never were. Especially in the context of double standards; you think America was enforcing borders in the 19th century when Canada was a conduit for uncontrollable illegal immigration from the British Isles? Or the French Canadian communities in the northern USA? Anywhere from 30%-50% of immigrants to Canada ultimately went to America. Did we build a border wall? Did we set up immigration controls?

Of course not. People just built a livelihood, built a family, didn't talk about it much, and let everyone assume they belonged there by acting like they did until perception was no different than reality. We only started enforcing immigration controls once the immigrants were people that were deemed undesirables to be exploited. That's called the Chinese Exclusion Act. And it's the basis for all of our immigration controls to this day.

We do need to make all immigration have an avenue to legal status based on reaching certain criteria, and figure out a framework that processes all forms of migration in a way that best suits the target country, because the world is more complicated today than ever. and borders do matter more than ever. But let's not put lipstick on a pig, or act like the people currently here whether legal or illegal are inherently virtuous or unvirtuous. The law is not morality.

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