Lurker > MrMallard

I'm trying to max my smithing at the moment, it's the hardest skill to outright train because its companion skill of Mining overtakes it so fast. I'm on level 88 mining and level 82 smithing.

The plan is to smelt gold bars with an item called the Goldsmith Gauntlets, which more than doubles the experience rate per piece of gold. A full inventory of 28 gold ore grants about 1,500 smithing experience, and to hit 99 I need roughly 180,000 pieces of gold ore.

I tend to use the Motherlode Mine with the Prospector Kit, which is helping my mining level come along, and it also provides a steady stream of both coal and ore. I'm building up a collection of gold ore, and I'm putting up any profits I get from armor sets to buy more gold on the Grand Exchange. But to get 180,000 gold ore, I'll need to fork out over 50 million gold pieces - I have 14 million in savings, and it's not worth cutting into it at this stage.

The good news is that by crafting armor sets, I'm training my smithing level further, which means that when the time does come to enter the smelting phase of this whole scheme, I'll probably need less than 180,000 pieces of gold ore. But it will almost certainly still be over 100,000, which alone is worth between 26 - 30 million depending on how the price fluctuates on the Grand Exchange.

MabusIncarnate posted...

I saw a $25 pack that adds more characters, is it worth it for what you get? I can see this being something I play with the kids a lot.

The pack gives you like 12-14 more characters, starting with Joker/Piranha Plant and ending with Sora. By the time you have every character in the game, you're gonna have like 70 to choose from.

So I don't have the means to watch the show, I've seen most of the first season and I hear it gets really bad later on, but that's beside the point. Because I don't have a way of watching the show, I occasionally read up on the latest plot twists and stuff to keep updated.

I recently read the TV Tropes character page for Raymond Reddington, and something caught me totally off guard. It said that at the end of season 8, it's strongly implied that the person claiming to be Raymond Reddington is actually a post-op transman who was previously Elizabeth Keen's mother.

I also read that Raymond Reddington's bones are in a duffel bag as of season 6, and that James Spader's character has strongly hinted to be portraying Reddington rather than actually being him. And the original Raymond Reddington was Elizabeth Keen's father. So we've got a person who was Elizabeth Keen's mother pretending to be the person who was Elizabeth Keen's father, who killed a body double of their previous identity and got gender reassignment surgery as a means of pursuing the world's most dangerous criminals.

Does any of this ring true, or did I burn out a synapse reading about whatever the fuck the Blacklist turned into over its 9 season run and blur a bunch of wild plot hooks and personal theories together into a chewed up wad of jellybeans?

I'm not asking for judgement on any of this, just a confirmation, denial or elaboration on what the situation is.

A law saying that if a woman is made pregnant by rape or incest, she must still have the baby because to punish an innocent child for the crimes of its father is evil and tantamount to murder. Also because a woman's reproductive system will shut down in the event of a "legitimate rape", meaning that if she got pregnant she mustn't have been raped.

Republicans have already said all this shit in the past, so with a couple more Trumps getting elected and sending them further off the deep end, we might get a group of fuckwit conservatives so brazenly evil that they would try to pass this into law.

Damn, I didn't know Princess Peach was my mom.

I said this in another topic, but Metal Gear Solid where 5 is Peace Walker and 6 is Ground Zeroes/Phantom Pain.

Edit: huh, okay

An app would cost more than it would bring in. The best you could hope for on a budget is a browser window that can only access GameFAQs, and who would use that when a mobile browser works just as well? The site works well enough on its own, it's formatted well enough for phones.

GameFAQs works better as a site where you google what you need to know and click onto the site to get that information in a relatively straightforward and well-presented way - a freedom which an app would limit, adding the extra step of searching for both the game and the issue you're having as opposed to just googling it and getting your result handed to you straight up. As far as community and game information goes, an app would be useless and redundant, short of jacking up the amount of ads app users have to look at.

You're better off pulling a TV Tropes and starting a crowdfunding campaign, or pulling a Tumblr and charging a fee to turn off ads.

...on a TV channel app in Australia. They've got about 75 episodes dubbed into English, I have no idea how many of the original Japanese series episodes were dubbed but there's nearly 300 of them.

I fucking LOVE the original Iron Chef. The dub voices are great, the cooking is fantastic, the commentary is really entertaining and I feel like they preserve the class and frenetic nature of the original show while bringing an enjoyable cheesiness to the whole thing.

Iron Chef is the most enjoyable cooking show to watch, to this day. Nothing touches this show.

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

My friend is gonna get the piss beaten out of him. I just spent a lot of time talking to this married woman that he's lost his marbles on and she got Borderlands 2.

More DLC than the average game?

anyway I've done pretty good tonight. Went to the bar for a while, haven't had any booze. Thought some drinking buddies would be drowning their sorrows about Shane Warne, they're not here so I've been sinking ginger beer and playing the slots.

About to get some McDonald's and go home.

Kanye West is an asshole and an egomaniac who's done a lot of shitty things and who's reaping the repercussions of his irregular actions.

He's also an unwell man who's arguably going through some of the darkest moments of his life, whose life experiences and peculiarities make me feel voyeuristic and kind of dirty to witness. I feel sorry for him, and I hope that he can balance his GOAT status and career as a musician with his mental health issues lest everything goes wrong in his life and he's put in danger.

Imagine if one video used the correct formula and got the answer wrong, and the other video used the wrong formula and got the answer right.

Jeez dude, that's fucked up. I'm sorry for you and your family's loss, and I hope her family are gonna be okay.

There's also Alan Shore and Denny Crane's incredible friendship. It's no wonder they get married in the series finale:

https://youtu.be/CaQYWaAA7dc

https://youtu.be/wISDKSs5Efo

There have been a lot of high quality clips showing up on YouTube these past couple years.

Heineken14 posted...

It's crazy. Someone posted an old topic on 261 from I believe 2016 and caution was talking shit on Donnie. Like..... What fucking Kool aid happened in those last couple years to turn him to the way he is now.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/1/AAbh80AAClIx.jpg
It's genuinely bizarre how far off the deep end he went after his weird fucked up discord server got exposed. Like someone went "hey your server has a person using slurs and supporting eugenics and saying that black people are less intelligent than other races and deserve less human rights", and he doubled down on "free speech" and like openly went mask-off to the degree that we see today. And he's only been getting worse over the years, too.

Heartomaton posted...

He could have avoided this outcome if had just posted with more caution.

dude should have been Caution1000

AltyMcAltface posted...

it was Doom_Art in the kitchen with the soup ladle

Your story is full of holes, his father is the soup chef. I believe you're trying to frame Doom_Art with his father's soup!

That reminds me, I stopped my Rocky marathon at 3 ages ago. I need to get back into the habit of watching them.

I wonder if the recent Russia thing will affect my enjoyment of the movie. If he dies, he dies, indeed.

Hey guys, I found this really level-headed and reasonable political poster on one of the GameFAQs social media pages. He makes these topics with really nuanced and thought-provoking titles, and it makes me think that his efforts to dispute what he alleges is uninformed, bad faith criticism from a slanted political viewpoint are both genuine and well-founded.

You want to read what he has to say? Sure, here's one of his headlines:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/5/6/AAbh80AAC_kQ.jpg

I see that you too are of the arcane persuasion.

I have a question about the transmogrification potential of moonlight on elixir ingredients. I've been told by my pansexual satanist witchcraft coven that the transformative power of moonlight is most effective at imbuing a completed elixir with the effects that the mixer requires, while other more fundamentalist witches swear by pure ingredient exposure to the light of a full moon before the mixing occurs on either a blood moon or a blue moon for maximum potency.

As I'm certain that your evil knowledge extends to the arcane, may I trouble you to weigh in on the debate and state your preference for the most potent arcane elixirs?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/1/AAbh80AAClIx.jpg

Caution999 posted...

https://youtu.be/RPZtX9rDzGY

Didn't see this topic, sorry.

Yeah what the fuck. Especially since that other cricket legend from the 70's had died the day before. This is shocking and bizarre to me.

I don't want to be glib or otherwise disrespectful, but I wonder if the two are related somehow. Maybe the first one to go was a hero and idol of Shane Warne, and the news of his passing sent Warne into some sort of spiral. He was found in his villa, and no cause of death has been reported - we just don't know.

But yeah. I said in the topic I made that I'm not a cricket guy, but he's Shane Warne you know. He's a celebrity over here. I'm honestly pretty shocked.

This won't appeal to most of this America-centric forum - I mean, I'm not a big cricket guy myself. But Shane Warne was a huge celebrity when I was growing up. He was playing in the prime of his career when I was a kid, and he was later characterised by a Sheenian love of parties, infidelity and drugs. Again, I'm not a cricket guy - Shane Warne was that much of a celebrity here in Australia.

The worst part is that this is the second big cricketing death in as many days. A classic player from the 70's died yesterday, he was playing an all-stars game for charity when he had a heart attack on the field. He got to the hospital, but he didn't make it.

That guy was 74, passed away playing cricket for charity - a legend of the game, baggy greens running in his blood. Shane Warne was 52, discovered unresponsive in his villa with no cause of death determined.

It's a really sad state of affairs. Like I'd just heard about this classic player passing away, didn't know who he was but it was a big enough deal that it was being reported in in my podunk fuckin shithole town. For Shane Warne to go a day later, a celebrity and a legend of the game in his own right, is shocking beyond belief.

lol, I was just curious about how people addressed their black-out selves. I felt like my black-out self was a third party - clearly I was responsible for my actions whether I remembered them or not, but it didn't feel like me. I wondered whether other people added a degree of seperation for their emotional wellbeing or if they fully faced up to it from the get-go.

I think when it first starts happening, everyone is in the second camp, but once it becomes a regular habit people slip into the first one. Though that's influenced by my own perspective.

And yeah, apologies for not posting here much lately. I actually quit drinking 3 weeks ago because blacking out was taking a serious toll on my mental wellbeing. I'm not expecting to stay sober forever, but for the time being I'm dryer than Robin Williams' bones.

DespondentDeity posted...

I think reconciling that those were MY actions and that losing control like that and engaging in disgusting and inappropriate expressions of my pain was something that I was wholly responsible for despite being so deeply under the influence ended up being absolutely necessary to establish motivation for attaining sobriety. I dont necessarily want to go into great detail, but I think a large part of my behavior while drinking was me attempting to prove the point that I really am an awful person so that I could justify killing myself and portray it as doing the world a favor.

Now it feels like Im on bonus time, and Im free to do as I want, and I think what I want most is to prove I deserve another chance. Id like to condition myself to really be responsible for my own feelings and behaviors, and use my time to spread some positivity.

My behavior while drinking has led to a lot of regrets, but in the end Im grateful because it was only when I was at the very, very bottom that I could even see the way forward. Starting the journey from such a low point is also very humbling, and I think humility is beneficial to ones perspective.

I can definitely relate. I think I moved on from "I'm a bad person and somebody should kill me" after I began to lose the respect of some people in my life I didn't want to let down, with it morphing into "I don't want to be myself, I should drink and let that take over for a while", which became a self-sustaining feedback loop where I'd drink more to lose more control until I'd black out and not know where I am and what I'm doing.

That moment of there being a light at the end of the tunnel is pretty good. Like I'm not gonna be like this forever, and it's because I do have a future after all, not because I'm gonna die. That's not to say I'll always feel this way, but while it lasts and while I'm making an effort, it's a good feeling.

Though I will say that I'm not living for second chances, I've cut a lot of people out of my life for better or worse and I plan to keep it that way. I'm fighting for a fresh start right now in a new town. This plan has been at least 10 years in the making, and I'm in a position to act on it as early as October - though I'll probably stay here for longer, do another course to update my qualifications and make as much money as I can to make this move as long as possible.

DespondentDeity posted...

think about you outside of this place occasionally MrMallard, and I sincerely hope that you find a way to generate positive outcomes for the things that are troubling you. I know that you are a capable person, so once you get out of your way, Im sure that you will really flourish.

And thank you for the kind comment. Honestly, I gave up drinking a few weeks ago because blacking out was fucking with my mind and my emotions too much. And like I said, I'm making plans to move in the next year or two, and make it stick for at least as long as my savings last. Still getting counselling, feeling very up and down (who knew the best cure for binge-drinking is excessive amounts of junk food?), and I don't expect to be sober forever. But I'm doing a lot better.

TheoryzC posted...

Nah that's not me

Some other guy took over my meat suit

This is how I feel too. Like I know that it was me acting on my own prerogative and I just don't remember it, but when your inhibitions are released to that point and you're so far gone that you don't remember what you did, it legitimately feels like another person took over while your "self" was locked away. Especially when you're blacked out but sober up, so it feels like you're jumping back into the pilot's seat despite not remberin the past few hours.

Had a moment like that in an unfamiliar city last May, last thing I remember was being mad at a cab driver for trying to rip me off (he thought I was asleep so he was circling the block to rack up my fare). Came to my senses at 5.30 in the morning, walking along a powered rail track to get back to my motel room. I'm certain it's because I knew the rail wasn't operational between midnight and 6am, so walking home on those rails was my best option because otherwise I'd be walking directly on the road, which is absolutely a bad idea when you're lost and drunk in an unfamiliar city.

Of course, you realise that whatever happened while you were blacked out was perpetuated by yourself. But the actions feel like they were under the power of a third party, and you're witnessing the aftermath of someone else's actions - whether they did something nice but messy, like get you home at the end of the night, or did something fucked up, like broke something or injured you. You know it was you, but it doesn't feel like it was.
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This is the best way to handle it, and I'm glad this period of your life was short-lived. And yeah, even admitting that I saw my blacked out self as another person to help cope with the trauma of blacking out, I always seek out anyone I might have affected the previous night to apologize. The most important thing is staying accountable and trying to move forward in a healthy and proactive way, rather than shedding all blame and refusing to tak responsibility.

Solar_Crimson posted...

It really should have been a two-parter, though.

Another point of comparison: the Arthur finale would have been better as a two parter, whereas Supernatural would have been better if they just didn't make the final episode.

I'd tell you to "change my mind", but it's a fucking fact

I'd like to get Hammerhead involved. I only know him from Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro.

He's a 1950's era mobster with a steel plate in his head, so he attacks people by headbutting them. At least, that's what I got from the video game.

The movie can be Hammerhead vs Kingpin, with Hammerhead headbuttin' and tommy gunnin' his way through NYC to try and usurp Kingpin as the... well, kingpin of organised crime. Maybe he can be cryogenically frozen, so he's actually a violent 1950's cigar-chomping mobster on top of his perchant of bashing into everything he sees with his metal-plated skull.

https://youtu.be/z3CRht2DZ-4

I wonder why we don't do the pojr thing more often in dealing with trolls. It's a silly communal trend, and it can be used to show that a userbase isn't going to deal with bad faith bullshit. No idea what started the trend in regards to pojr, but I've seen it used elsewhere in response to trolls to clown on them and drown them out.

Like on Tumblr there was a guy who said he'd have a human pet if it was legal among other stuff, and the communal response was to create reblog chains consisting of the phrase "Kung pow penis" letter by letter, pojr style, in response to his weird asinine bullshit.

Folks are always like "ugh joenumbers, don't like that user", but as soon as he posts again somebody feels the need to feed the guy. Why not make a mockery of the conversation instead of trying to get one up on some dumb-ass troll shit?

It was up on a tv channel streaming service and I watched the whole show. It wasn't in one sitting, but it was only on that streaming service for so long so I had to cram out the last couple of seasons.

This clip is from an episode where James Spader's character works with Candace Bergen's character to defend a homeless man being tried for cannibalism. Mind the sleaze at the start, the core of the clip past that opening scene is ridiculously good:

https://youtu.be/Fsmn4hzZDeU

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Put your phone away, gawd

Like let's say you blacked out one night and don't remember shit.

When you think of that person whose actions and motives are as unknown and alien to you as the surface of Mars due to your memory loss, do you consider them to be like an alter ego acting on their own prerogative because of that disconnect? Or do you own everything attached to that blackout and refer to your blacked out self in the first person?

Like obviously it's still you, and anything you did while blacked out is your responsibility. This question is moreso about how you cope with the process of blacking out, and how you consider yourself as a multitude of things and experiences which isn't always wholly in control over itself. Do you remove yourself from the situation and judge the actions of your blacked out self as an external critic looking in, or do you accept that part of yourself for all its flaws and potential trauma and take the immediate onus of responsibility onto your shoulders?

Seasons of Becker

Smashingpmkns posted...

how the story played out was just kinda meh. Also could have been like 30-45 minutes shorter.

I'm assuming this isn't in the "Joker" sense. If it is, let me know - pretty much the only issue I have with that movie is that it's bloated with chaff, if they'd slimmed down on like 30 minutes of the pointlessly quirky scenes Joker would have been perfect.

Honestly, I've been jaded about DC movies for years, so I wasn't gonna pay this much mind short of glowing reviews. This opinion is more or less the push I need to avoid this movie, at least until a future point where I either read plot spoilers to sate my curiosity or get roped into seeing it with a friend or something.

I agree on a personal level, but I don't think it's appropriate for a politician to state this on an official channel as a member of Congress.

Metal Gear Solid, through which:

• Peace Walker is 5 and GZ/PP is 6, or
• GZ/PP is 5, and Metal Gear Survive is 6

Which is heresy of the highest order since MGS1 fucks hard

Jeez, that's fucked up. I'm sorry your country is going through this political shitshow too, DEKMS.

Over here, far-right protesters infiltrated an indigenous protest group. While the indigenous people were protesting outside Old Parliament House, the right wing shitheads set fire to the doorway.

It's a scary fucking world we're living in right now. I hope everything gets back under control soon.

Smackems posted...

Can we criminalize the use of the term "sex work"

God damn it's the most unsexy thing ever

I mean that's kind of the point. You're paying somebody for sex, of which it is their job to provide given that you pass their checks and are amenable to their terms and conditions. It normalises and demystifies sex work, and it drives the point home that it is a profession with rules of engagement that you are consenting to at the discretion of the sex worker you're seeing.

If it loses that naughty edge, so be it. The people who are amenable to the terms and conditions that come with regulated sex work will engage with the service, and it'll likely be safer for both workers and seekers with less people turning up for the naughty edge of it.

Props to DEKMS for doing the legwork itt, though I had a similar issue where I skimmed over Kloe's link because I thought it was their signature.

It wasn't my intention to misrepresent facts about human trafficking. My thought is that in a country where sex workers are protected by the law, it's easier for independent sex workers to support and protect themselves via improved vetting and the use of brothels as federally regulated places of employment, which ideally attracts more internal and external scrutiny on the sex industry to make sure as much of it as possible is above board and safe for workers. At least, I'd like to believe that's the case where I live, where sex work is legal, decriminalized and regulated.

But perhaps it's an ignorant and privileged point of view to think that less sex trafficking happens where I live than in other countries because I perceive our legalisation and regulation of sex work as particularly solid. Of course that POV isn't meant to gloss over the reality that sex trafficking happens everywhere, and attention should be focused heavily inwards as well as outwards to where human trafficking is particularly prevalent. Legalisation and regulation doesn't eliminate human trafficking - rather, my point of view is that it empowers sex workers offering their services freely to better protect themselves, and frees up law enforcement to further concentrate their efforts on freeing people who don't offer their services freely due to sexual slavery born from human trafficking.

My intention in stating my actual opinion on sex work wasn't to open a can of worms, more to clarify that while my dumb-ass stolen joke about liking sex and hating work is a goofy play on words, there are greater consequences at play and my intention is not to overshadow or make light of the unfortunate plight of sex workers, whether willing participants penalized by a legal system that sends them further into violence and risk or enslaved participants whose participation in sex work is forced by an external power. Rather, I'm on the side of sex workers who choose to engage in sex work and a world in which their labor is legitimized and regulated for their safety and profit, with the understanding that the idealized world I'm talking about does not include the slavery and rape that is caused by human trafficking. That reality, under all circumstances, should be combated on all fronts by all agencies available to do so.

I speak so candidly about this subject because I know women who've engaged in sex work, and I won't throw them under the bus for a grand, sweeping platitude that the world would be a better place for women if sex work didn't exist and was rightfully stomped out of our society. Because it wouldn't. Whether it be to pay the bills or because sex work appeals to somebody as a profession, people - mostly women - are going to turn to it. A world hostile to sex work would be a world hostile to those women, and a world in which they are protected under the law and able to protect themselves financially, legally and openly is one in which they are more empowered.

That does not conflict with an anti-trafficking mindset, because in this idealized world born of regulation, women should not be forced into sex work and those who are should be freed, with their captors facing some of the harshest punishments known to man. It isn't an issue where one side is all-in on puritan law-making to make sex work an untenable and significantly less survivable prospect for all parties involved as a deterrent, and the other side wants as many outlets for sex available at all times of the day regardless of where that sex is coming from. To subscribe wholly to one "side" or the other is to boil a nuanced and complicated conversation down to the most toxic and insincere elements of both.

With that out of the way:

The provided link is from 2014 and scanty on details. This is a 2019 link from Human Rights Watch based on research from China, Tanzania, Cambodia, the United States and South Africa, explaining their position on why sex work should be decriminalized.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/why-sex-work-should-be-decriminalized

This is a British paper from 2019 that purports itself as "An Examination of Myths That Stigmatize Sex-Work and Hinder Access to Care":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424363/

And as far back as 2015, Amnesty International outlined a model policy to protect the human rights of sex workers, including means to reduce human trafficking and protect those affected by it. In their own words:

The consultation included sex worker groups, groups representing survivors of prostitution, abolitionist organizations, feminist and other women's rights representatives, LGBTI activists, anti- trafficking agencies and HIV/AIDS organizations.

https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/global-movement-votes-to-adopt-policy-to-protect-human-rights-of-sex-workers/

David Bowie looks down at the ice cream he just bought, only to see melting ice cream bleeding through a crack in the cone.

He looks back in anger.

I love sex, but I hate work!

jokes aside, decriminalize sex work so that sex workers have more rights and protections under the law and so that the bulk of disciplinary action can instead be focused towards human traffickers, rapists and other sex criminals as it should be

delelelelele WOOP

https://youtu.be/IYOzlOg3bdA

Long answer is that heaven doesn't exist and when we die all we experience is the total cessation of life and the complete and total loss of situational awareness forever.

Short answer is that there are plenty of awesome tasting salads.

Okay, I'll give you this one. Good topic, vegy.