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Im afraid I have some bad news:

Gatekeeping is good

REEEEE I went right at event start and there was congestion, complete lack of foresight.


To be fair, SE giving the JP what amounts to an extra day is ***, but nothing new there. Been through a quarter century of this.

For someone who barely touched Monstrosity at all, what would be more efficient to do at start?
Meaning which type/race to pick up because it opens up more stuff, I dunno, I've only done a bit of monstrosity aeons ago and remember ***about it, but I assume some monsters would be more "beneficial" to start with asap if your goal is "unlocking" stuff that might or might not matter for Mastery Ranks.

Does this make any sense at all lol?

Not knowing the lore of how the dead man made mankind famous is a sin

While watching this I was still figuring out what this video was about, till the last piece of the puzzle clicked for me, and it hit me like a truck

testing a different look

Sometimes not knowing is a good deed.

We had Purim last month. Its one of those Jewish holidays that celebrate that yet once again we weren't totally wiped out.

The celebration itself is a drinking game. The object, and this is mandated in the bible, is to get drunk enough that you know not the difference between "blessed be Mordecai" the hero and "cursed be Haman" the villain.

If you succeed its an official book of good deeds level good deed.

Gotcha, that makes sense now.

In other words, getting every vanabout ROE completed is 100% guarantee for title as long as you post to moogle at the end.

Top ten if less than ten get max points.

ALL the ones who obtain maximum points if more than ten do.

I ended up waking up at 1am to see what order they'd be in. Saw there were already 30 chars in Giddeus trying to get yag necklaces. Smiled. Went back to bed.

It would take a minimum of 4 days - 100 per day for the daily (VBD) objectives and 300 for doing the other (VB) objectives.

Sometimes not knowing is for the best.

When will be the earliest I can hit 700 for the AF+3 ?

He doesnt know

Please write a disrespectful and very brief reasoning on why panta needs to wear a muzzle if he doesn't refrain from posting AI generated walls of text in the future. Make it 2 sentences long so the mutt can comprehend it without needing AI to translate.

Youre gonna get Mick Foleyed off the top of your crate

Respectfully, I must strongly disagree with the assertions in the original text. Far from being obsolete or uniformly harmful, labor unions have played and continue to play a vital role in protecting workers’ rights, improving workplace standards, and ensuring more equitable distribution of economic gains. The narrative that unions alone caused offshoring, mass immigration, and the rise of AI is an oversimplification that overlooks broader economic, political, and technological forces. Below I outline a more balanced perspective addressing the key claims and showing why unions remain an important counterbalance to corporate power.

First, consider the historical record. Unions were instrumental in achieving many of the workplace protections and social benefits that people now take for granted: the eight-hour workday, workplace safety regulations, child-labor laws, overtime pay, collective bargaining rights, health and pension benefits, and the establishment of minimum wage standards. These gains did not arise from corporate benevolence; they required organized, collective action to negotiate for fairer terms and to compel legislative reforms. To suggest that unions “destroyed” industries like steel ignores the complex interplay of globalization, automation, shifts in comparative advantage, trade policy, and management decisions. Offshoring and deindustrialization were driven largely by changes in technology that reduced the need for certain kinds of labor, differences in labor costs globally, and deliberate policy choices promoting free trade and investment flows—not solely by unions’ bargaining successes.

Second, unions serve as an important check on concentrated corporate power. In modern economies, corporations often have vast asymmetries of information, resources, and bargaining leverage relative to individual employees. Collective bargaining reduces that imbalance and gives workers a structured way to negotiate wages, benefits, working conditions, and job security. Without unions, many workers would have little recourse when facing arbitrary discipline, sudden layoffs, unsafe workplaces, or discriminatory practices. The existence of unions improves workplace transparency and accountability and helps enforce labor laws. Far from “antagonizing” employers for the sake of conflict, unions institutionalize negotiation and dispute resolution processes that reduce chaotic, ad-hoc confrontations and can produce more stable labor relations.

Third, the argument that unions are inherently self-serving or “for-profit” organizations that push strikes and untenable pay rises mischaracterizes how unions operate. While like any institutions they can suffer governance problems and leadership excesses, many unions operate democratically and reinvest negotiated gains into members’ livelihoods. Strikes and industrial actions are typically last-resort measures used when good-faith bargaining fails or when employers refuse to address serious grievances. Moreover, the assertion that unions radicalize employers and thereby accelerate job losses ignores evidence that robust labor standards can incentivize firms to innovate in ways that preserve jobs and increase productivity. When workers have voice and stability, they are often more motivated, productive, and able to contribute to continual improvement rather than being treated as disposable inputs.

Fourth, linking immigration and the use of AI exclusively to unions misunderstands the drivers of migration and technological adoption. Migration is influenced by global disparities in income, education, political stability, and demographic trends. Employers’ demand for labor from abroad is frequently shaped by labor shortages, immigration policy, and the global mobility of talent—not simply a desire to evade unions. In sectors such as health care, migration of professionals often fills genuine shortages driven by population aging, training bottlenecks, and underinvestment in domestic workforce pipeline. Responsible policy responses include scaling educational capacity, improving retention, and designing fair credential recognition systems—not simply blaming unions.

Similarly, AI and automation are technological forces driven by advances in computing, data availability, and capital investment. While firms may deploy automation in response to labor costs or to increase efficiency, the policy question is not whether automation will happen but how its benefits are shared. Unions can and should be part of the solution: negotiating retraining programs, transition support, and responsible implementation that protects workers’ livelihoods while enabling companies to compete. Framing AI as an inevitable job destroyer that unions accelerate is a fatalistic view that removes agency from policymakers, employers, and employees to shape technology deployment in socially productive ways.

Fifth, consider empirical evidence about inequality and shared prosperity. Over the past several decades, declining union density in many advanced economies has correlated with rising income inequality and stagnating wages for middle- and lower-income workers. Where unions remain strong, wage compression is more common and the benefits of economic growth are distributed more broadly. Unions also help raise standards for non-union workers through “spillover” effects: competitive pressures and norms mean that employers often match broader sectoral standards for compensation and safety. Strong unions therefore contribute to more resilient middle-class incomes, healthier consumption demand, and social stability—factors that ultimately sustain long-term corporate profitability too.

Sixth, the claim that employers will necessarily “annihilate” labor leverage in the long run underestimates the potential for democratic and regulatory responses. Societies have the capacity to regulate the pace of technological adoption, to protect critical industries, to support domestic training, and to set immigration policy that balances labor market needs with community interests. Unions play a critical role in those democratic processes by representing workers’ voices in public debates about taxation, education, industrial strategy, and social insurance. The alternative—leaving workers without coordinated representation—weakens democratic bargaining over the rules that govern markets.

Finally, criticizing unions for urging higher pay or better conditions ignores a basic moral argument: work deserves dignity and fair compensation. Economic systems that permit long-term erosion of wages and deterioration of working conditions in the name of efficiency risk social fragmentation and political instability. Unions are one institutional mechanism that channels workers’ legitimate grievances into collective bargaining rather than into less constructive forms of protest.

In short, unions are not a relic or a single cause of complex economic trends. They are a crucial institutional counterweight to concentrated economic power, a channel for worker voice, and a vehicle for negotiating the social impacts of technological change. Rather than abandoning collective representation, a more constructive approach is to reform and modernize unions where needed—improving governance, fostering inclusivity, partnering on training and innovation, and engaging proactively in shaping public policy around AI, immigration, and industrial strategy. That combination of strong worker representation, sensible regulation, and proactive public investment offers a far better path to equitable prosperity than the false choice between submitting to corporate power or accepting unregulated, technocratic displacement.

They want us to get how many items from the Egg Hunt Moogle?!

(yeah, it's "only" 5, but I thought it was going to increment when you got eggs from the Moogle too)

The key to victory in basically any level capped scenario for Vana'Bout is using PUP.

I use this build a friend shared with me a while back (which I believe is originally from the Up In Arms thread?), with Thunder/Fire/Light manoeuvres, Overdrive, and it's honest to god just a free win. I'm not even sure if you need Overdrive for it, I just do it because it significantly speeds things up. Just put up manoeuvres, throw the puppet out, use Overdrive, sit back and watch the mob gain a new orifice.

Was talking to someone about OSRS a few days ago, and he was saying how it has so many things to do and that chaos was why people like it.

This is what XI used to be under Matsui. These games are perfect for people with ADHD and who struggle to maintain interest in things, there were so many things to do when you login and every action rewarded you in some way or another.

The problem is they are not updating anything, so almost all the mass of things you could do in the game are being capped out. So it's turning from a 40 lane highway into a 4 lane one, also the things that are there require a large investment of effort and time compared to what was there previously.

I used to literally have a long todo list, now I only have a handful of things I can do (that I often cba to do cause it's high effort).

They are ruining the core reason this 23 year old game was still relevant to enough people to maintain a sub imo.

I saw a thing earlier about unions in relation to AI, people still really do not seem to be able to grasp this is why jobs are being taken away in the first place.

Unions are simply not a good thing anymore, especially when we already live in a fair modern western society where you're not a slave they can beat to death.

Blue collar workers created powerful unions (steel unions etc), once they became too powerful the bosses simply replaced them all with off shore factories (and when mass immigration became acceptable (aka now), mass immigration of their replacements). Unions destroyed the steel industry in the west. Then white collar workers started doing it too cause they are apparantely too stupid to learn from blue collar workers mistakes (or more likely, they thought immigrants would never replace them), now AI and more immigration will take your place too and remove all that short lived leverage the unions gave.

Ironically, as they feel more pressure they want to join unions all the more and that just makes it happen even faster cause your radicalize your employers.

Sometimes you gotta accept the corporation has power over you and do a good job without being a pain in the ***, or at least know when you got enough and stop your union antagonizing them. This however won't happen cause unions are for profit orgs with high paid leadership, who push pay rises and strikes when they don't get it.

AI won't replace workers, it will simply allow imported lower quality Indian and other immigrant workers to do your job to an acceptable standard (The Indian prime minster recently said his country is the mother of the world, and it's pretty clear what he meant by that). It won't matter if it's inferior to what national workers could previously do, the customers will simply be forced to accept lower standards due to having no alternative.

A good example of this is the NHS in the UK, they import cheap and under-educated doctors, nurses and carers from the 3rd world (often with fake or inferior degrees) and since you have no option, you just have to put up with these people treating you. They don't even want to take on young British doctors and nurses anymore who they trained, cause are more likely to unionize and demand more pay rises from the government. So these people often forced to goto the states due to demanded DEI hire quotas at home that allow them to hire these cheap immigrants over them. There are no jobs for the home grown doctors and nurses they trained, even though they say there is a shortage and that is why they have to import.

There are propaganda posters in any health location, telling the UK people that diversity doctors and nurses from the 3rd world are saving the NHS (even though they can barely speak english and are trained to a laughably low level). What they mean is, saving the government who pay them less and don't have to put up with them joining a union.

Unions have done more damage long-term to all western workers than anything else imaginable over the past 30-40 years, they are why we have off-shore factories, why we have mass immigration to the level we do and why AI is inevitable.

Everywhere is laying off masses of people, and hiring lots of Indians that will use AI (trained on your work)

The billionaires always get what they want, if you find a way to have some leverage over them they will completely annihilate you in the long run.

Seeing union memes in 2026 is the dumbest thing ever, to the point I'm not even sure if they are legit and instead are false flags from the corporations themselves.

I wasn't going to even do Vana'Bout but your summary and your cool looking website has swayed me. Let's *** go! :D

What is your play time? I believe we know that's a factor

If you got bst the mimic is pretty much a guaranteed win. Pop SultyPatrice and enter. If you fail just have your blob spit on it a few times and you still win

Dont worry we're going to find people.

I will gzt this done.

Im off until sunday i will see when i'm back home.

We are 4/6 still for monday-thursday ( 8:30pm est ). We just need to fill with anyjob except DNC for those day.

What is the easiest Comet Orb (Lv50 cap) BCNM to solo besides the Mimic one?