Who Up Scaping They Runes

[scapintheyrunes]

The idea of trying to learn hard runescape content when I am a worthless, irredeemable garbage player should not be as anxiety inducing and scary as it is. But seeing people who are actually good at the game struggle with Drakkan makes me not even want to attempt the quest and feel resigned to never see my quest cape again.

[scapintheyrunes]

It was nice of Universal Studios to intentionally ruin their brutalist hellscape children's park just so Kevin Defunctland and Jenny Nicholson could make funny videos about it in 6 months. They didn't have to do that for the theme park youtube community but they did.

[scapintheyrunes]

Tiktok Jad and it's just TzTok-Jad (Level 702) with a broccoli cut

[scapintheyrunes]

For as much as I loved the Destiny series, its death was completely deserved and karmic as it had become a Titanic level testament to the game industry's hubris and greed

[scapintheyrunes]

Would love for Jagex to reveal stats and content completion of the average active (non-bot) OSRS account. Because having played a lot of MMOs I think the vocal OSRS community vastly overestimates their average fellow player's ability. Would be shocked if even half the playerbase has a fire cape or quest cape much less farms shit like Yama or raids

[scapintheyrunes]

I feel like a lot of "dinosaurs in human captivity" media really overestimates how hard large dinosaurs would be to contain. Like you would never put them behind a fence, or put them in a situation where they could break containment in any way. You'd dig a 20 foot moat and let gravity keep them in. Most of the large herbivores would likely just be content to live in a large field with infinite food the way many modern large herbivores are just chill with human captivity if their basic needs are cared for.

Feeding them and anything involving administering veterinary and grooming care directly would be the hard part. But "the damn ankylosaur won't hold still long enough for our forklift team to remove the branch caught between the folds of its armour and the vet has no idea what to administer to the chaff site to prevent an infection" and "the moody teenage argentinosaurus won't come into the aircraft carrier sized barn during a thunderstorm where he is seriously at risk of being struck by lightning" aren't quite as cinematic as "the t-rex broke out of the ugly as, view ruining fence we built around it"

[scapintheyrunes]

Server/cashier at any restaurant I frequent: Shows any sign of recognizing me or knowing what my usual order is

Me: Avoids that place for months if not years in the hope they forget about me and don't perceive me so god damn much next time

The worst is if they still recognize me and ask why I haven't been around recently. Like just make the food please, you're literally never going to see me again after this

[scapintheyrunes]

Truly wild how many gamers have gaslit themselves into thinking "skill issue, get good" is not only not a condescending and rude thing to say to a random person asking for help at a hobby, but actually somehow advice (good advice even). Also wonder how many of these dudes were that special kind of white man who unironically said the sentence "Big Bang Theory is nerd blackface" unaware that "skill issue, get good" is like the most Sheldon coded response imaginable.

[scapintheyrunes]

Old School Runescape players terrify me some times. People who will call you a tiktok brained zoomer for suggesting agility shouldn't arbitrarily take 300 hours to train or will call 100+ hours spent getting a Bowfa a reasonable (short even) grind for a single video game upgrade

[couldtheywinsurvivor]

Could They Win Survivor?

Could a snake (IRL) Win Survivor?

Wins the game

Makes it to the Final Two/Three

Taken to the end as a sacrificial goat

Loses at fire-making/tie-breaker

Taken out post-merge for being a threat

Gimmicked out of the game (idoled out, swap screwed, etc.)

Taken out pre-merge

First out

Quits/Med-evaced

Results

Voting ended onJun 16

How to play Survivor:

Survivor is a Reality TV show in which the contestants are taken to a remote location (usually on a deserted island) for 30-40 days and compete to win a million dollars. Contestants are initially split into 'tribes' which compete in challenges against one another. The tribes typically live apart in a survival scenario. They are given very few supplies (typically a machete, a pot, and sometimes a bag of rice) and forced to battle the elements on their own. They must build a shelter with materials at their camp, hunt for food, and build their own fires (though they often win rewards at challenges to make these survival aspects easier).

There are a variety of challenges that appear in the game. Most are physical in some way, like obstacle courses or something that involves a lot of strength or balance. There are often a lot of puzzles as well.

At the end of each episode, the tribe who lost a recent challenge must vote off someone from their tribe, which is where the social aspect of the game comes up. The show typically starts with about 16-20 contestants, divided into 2-3 tribes. People get voted out of their tribes for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it can be because they're bad at challenges, they're annoying and lazy, or because they're perceived as a threat to someone else's position in the game. Physically weak people do not necessarily get voted out as long as they have alliances with other people in the tribe.

Once there are about 10 people left in the game, the tribes 'merge', meaning that all the remaining contestants live together at the same camp and compete in individual challenges instead of team challenges for advantages in the game.

After the tribes are merged, the 'jury' begins. Typically after the merge, when people get voted out, they don't go home. Instead, they get added to the jury. The jury will observe who gets voted off each episode but not interact with the contestants still in the game until the last episode. During the finale, the Final Two or Final Three contestants will explain to the jury why they feel like they should they should win the million dollars. The jury at this point can ask questions of the contestants to help them understand what happened over the season better. Afterwards, the jury votes on who will win the game and the million dollar cash prize.

There are many strategies involved in winning the game. If someone is physically very strong, they'll typically be very good in challenges, which will cause them to win a lot of challenges, and therefore advantages that can help get them to the end. Sometimes, people take notice that someone is good at challenges and target them because of this. Other contestants play a good social game, where they are friendly enough (or manipulative enough) with the other contestants to convince them that they shouldn't be voted out. Sometimes people are weary of people that play such a good social game or view them as disloyal because they have relationships with everyone.

To explain the voting options: Quits/Med-evaced: Contestants are not forced into these circumstances. It is a physically demanding game, and people are allowed to quit for any reason (though, this is discouraged). Sometimes people suffer from injuries and are taken out of the game by production for their safety. This option is people who are ejected from the game outside of Tribal Council.

First out: They are the first person voted out of their tribe. This can be due to a lot of reasons, though it is typically because they couldn't make friends with other people in their tribe, they did something viewed as untrustworthy, or they were really bad at challenges.

Taken out pre-merge: This is for the people who weren't the first out, but didn't make it far in the game. This is typically people who don't get along with others very well or do poorly at challenges, but it can also be people who are perceived as threats to do really well in individual challenges, meaning they'll be difficult to vote out later.

Gimmicked out of the game: the longer that Survivor is on, they add new advantages. This options is for all the unlucky people who go out for no fault of their own, they simply ended up in a bad situation and couldn't dig themselves out.

Taken out post-merge for being a threat: After the merge, typically people start planning for who they want to take to the end. To win the game, you need the jury to vote for you to win the game. To get to the end of the game, you typically need to lie and blindside and manipulate people to get ahead. This means that people that are liked by a majority of the jury typically get voted out at this point in the game because they would be very likely to win if they get to the end. Threats can also be people who are good at challenges, since if they keep winning, they can't be voted out.

Loses at fire-making/tie-breaker: once there are only a few people left in the game, if there is a tie on who got the most votes, the contestants who were voted enter a duel to decide who gets to stay. This is a fire-making challenge to see who can build a fire the fastest. In later seasons, the show always has two people at the Final Four compete in this challenge to decide who gets to earn their Final Three spot regardless of the wishes of the contestants.

Taken to the end as a sacrificial goat: A strategy many winners implement is bringing someone that is liked by no one to the end of the game as an easy vote-out. This person typically gets no votes at the end. They are the 'sacrificial goat' in that they are eliminated at the very end of the game to make the winner look better in comparison to the jury.

Makes it to the Final Two/Three: This is for people who are skilled enough to make it to the end, but just couldn't get enough people on the jury to vote for them. Maybe they upset a lot of people by lying to them about who they would vote for, or they didn't make a lot of friends over the game, or maybe they just aren't particularly good at speaking persuasively in their final speeches.

Wins the game: This is the option for people that have what it takes to win the game. They have a strong social game where they know what's going on with everyone in the game, are good at detecting when they're being lied to, and they were able to convince enough people on the jury to vote for them.

[gold1740]

This is why we quest

[scapintheyrunes]

You should be able to boil the rock first try if you try to interact with it and get this message

[scapintheyrunes]

Planet Zoo is the peak "don't waste your money and just watch streamers play it"

I swear streamers get a different version of the game with functional pathing system and water placement. Their version can produce art. My game is a taped together mess. Paths don't work. Water doesn't work. Everything looks shiny and plastic coated. It can produce slop. And that slop takes like 4+ hours with a building system where not enough items are grid based.

[reysdriver]

Survivor needs to start casting freaks and outcasts and weirdos with true hate in their hearts again

I'm tired of all these marketing analysts and lawyers

Jeff if you can hear me...

[scapintheyrunes]

There are five categories of Survivor challenge:

1. extreme jungle gym race

2: Jeff is a little hungover so we're going to sit quietly at our desks and do a word search

3. T h e C o n t r a p t i o n (sometimes you build it, sometimes you're strapped into it, sometimes it just sits there)

4. A flimsy excuse for violence

5. Consume what Jeff provides you

[scapintheyrunes]

Isekai but it's beloved pet cats getting reincarnated as their owner's palicos in Monster Hunter. Is that anything?

[scapintheyrunes]

Redditors are the funniest people alive because they'll go on some massive rant about how redditors suck and how everyone on the subreddit is bad at [insert hobby here] and it's all an echo chamber where you get downvoted if you don't spout the correct reddit hivemind opinion and then all the redditors will upvote him and tell him he's right and it will never occur to him that he is the redditor on the subreddit posting the reddit opinion to get the reddit upvotes

[scapintheyrunes]

You were so preoccupied on whether he'd still love you if you were a worm you never stopped to help him figure out what he'd tell your friends, family, and the police when they asked where you were following your unprecedented worm transformation. He was never the planning type and you knew it.