Synopsis:

An object in the sky spreads radiation over North America. Fearing terrorism, U.S. Homeland Security agents are dispatched to investigate and contain the damage. What they discover will have implications for the entire world.

Since it can be uncomfortable to use peer-to-peer on some networks, I mirrored the episode on megaupload (merge using lxsplit or hjsplit):

• 720p version (6 files, total 1.09 GiB):
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PTR5AVE6
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VAEG8PA7
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EHNFBSG9
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0JAM4QPI
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MXGNRZPW
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZW40K0XR
• 624×352 version (4 files, total 350 MiB):
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B09KXLYT
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EJSJ7OU0
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LABMZ6QT
  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9R583IJ0

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If you want to try your luck, link follows: http://www.eteknix.com/news/competitions/win-an-amd-athlon-ii-x2-255-cpu-processor/

More details on the Athlon 2 X2 255:
- TDP: 65W
- Clocked at 3.1GHz (15.5 x 200MHz)
- 1 MiB L2 cache per core (2 MiB total cache)
- Has been overclocked to 4.8GHz with a Mach 1 phase cooler
I also dug up some benchmarks there, comparing it to fellow Athlons and Phenoms 2.

The reasons most often given is that contrary to other MMORPGs, there is no need to install anything to play it, you can play it simply with a browser with Java on, and the system requirements are rather low. This makes it attractive compared to other free-to-play since its low system requirements make it technically cheaper, and its free-to-play contents are decent. At $5.95 (or €5.95 in Eurozone / £3.50 in UK) per month, the pay-to-play version is also cheaper than other pay-to-play MMORPGs like WoW ($12.99 to $14.99 per month (source)) or Age of Conan ($12.99 to $14.99 or €12.64 to €14.94 or £8.84 to £10.34 per month (source)).
So, cheap and easy. This makes a good start.

Another very strong point is the versatility of your character: in most if not all MMORPGs and RPGs, at some point you’ll need to specialize your character in some fields, and let it weak in others. For instance you’ll have to choose between making a melee warrior, a mage, a healer, a ranger, etc. So if you want to experience the whole panel of skills, you’ll need to create and train several (and more precisely, quite a lot) characters. And actually, it’s rather an impossible thing to do unless you spend your whole life on it. In Runescape on the contrary, a single character can train all skills to their maximum. So you can be almost at the same time (you just need to swap your gear) a strong warrior, a powerful mage and an elite sharp-shooter. This, combined with the other point I’ll develop next, is in my opinion the most overwhelming strength of Runescape, virtually able to balance almost all the criticisms I’ll make later on.
The other very strong point is the consistency of monsters regardless of the player’s advancement: in most if not all MMORPGs, when the player’s level gets higher, lower level monsters become less rewarding, up to a point where absolutely no reward (XP, items) is given for slaying them. Seriously, this sucks. In most modern RPGs like Oblivion or Fallout 3, when the player’s level gets higher, the monsters become stronger. Seriously, this is retarded: this totally defeats the point of leveling up your character, thus is in absolute contradiction with the principle of RPG. In Runescape, on the contrary, leveling up provides none of these drawbacks, thus killing low-level monsters becomes easier and easier, and remains as rewarding whether your combat level is 5 or 120 (although proportionally to the corresponding wealth and XP, this is of course not as interesting), making it technically possible to level up to max level by killing only very low level monsters (source).

The two key points developed in the previous paragraph are in my opinion the top reasons for Runescape’s success. And when adding the low cost aspect, I guess you understand how hard it would be to make this game fail. Jagex did try quite hard to ruin their game, though:

• They censor the chat probably worse than what’s being done in China or other dictatorship.
• More globally, since the majority of players are children, they treat all players as if they were babies. They notably “educate” the player to censorship and delation, consider them stupid by stating (and repeating over and over) obvious security tips like “don’t give your password”, and globally use a sweety mushy care-bears-landish tone that should make anyone with an age and IQ over 12 throw-up sick.
• They removed free trading from the game, and instated a totally over-regulated “grand exchange” instead, which forces players to trade at a sometimes inappropriate price
• They remain purposefully ambiguous about the law, letting players believe that real-world trading is illegal (sources: 1, 2) even though they implicitly admit it’s not (sources: 1, 2). They also try to scare people away from real-world trading sites (source).

Thus, globally, they’re a bunch of brainwashers promoting dumbness and censorship, who don’t hesitate to take away players’ freedom (free trade…) to save their profits (RWT was “hurting their benefits”, which in 2006 were a whopping pre-tax profit margin of 61% (source)). But on the other side, their game is unique.
So, now you can choose between taking the blue pill and play this good MMORPG, or taking the red pill and refuse to financially support an organization that jeopardize the future of freedom by teaching millions of kids to STFU and to follow King Jagex like the nice little Chinese follow Mao. Your great great great grand parents bought your freedom with their lives, will you buy the captivity of your children for 5 bucks a month?

So, we have some nice skills don’t we? some skills that are fun or useful to use, right? But, my fellow players…why do we NOT have a babymaking skill? Maybe ‘babymaking’ is not a good name. Reproduction is a better choice for a skill name. So, why do we not have it? I mean, we have boring skills like Farming, and pointless skills like Summoning. And then we have Firemaking. How the hell does that help us at all?

A Reproduction skill is great in any sense. It would be a fun skill to train. Players can also produce either more human NPC’s or make a clone of a dead player. Reproduction could also be a great way to drain some money out of the economy, but that is not an important aspect. Training the Reproduction skill with another player could also add interesting temporary effects of other stats. Hitpoints could be fully restored, with a boost of 10 Hitpoints. Although in addition to this bonus, energy would be halved.

So that’s all. Please leave your thoughts and comments.

Result: the post was removed around 15 minutes later, the topic locked, and the poster banned from the forums… Here is the post by Mod Tron:

True Light X,

I have been forced to remove your posting privileges and lock this thread as it is completely inappropriate for the RuneScape Forums.

Rule 1 of the Forum Code of Conduct forbids players from posting anything which others may find offensive or inappropriate. Please remember that RuneScape is enjoyed by players of a wide range of ages and cultures.

The best advice I can give you is to have a good read of the Forum Code of Conduct. If you do this, you will be fully aware of what is (and what is not) allowed on the RuneScape Forums.

Many thanks,

T R O N

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