People buying gold for real life money has literally always been happening behind the scenes (yes in 2007 as well), so again I have no issues with this. With membership bonds it even removes gold from an inflated economy. It seems to me though that you want a version of the game exactly how it was in 2007, in which case you’re SoL

I don’t understand your last paragraph unless there’s some weird regional pricing going on. It’s $13.99 USD for a month of Runescape membership vs $14.99 USD for a month of WoW membership

The only microtransaction in OSRS is the ability to buy membership with in game gold. As someone who is normally staunchly against all MTX it’s a very reasonable tradeoff

In addition to what the other commenter said, it’s more likely as someone newer and thus engaging in lower level activities to encounter bots since it takes less time to set them up and get going than mid to late game content. I find it rare to encounter an obvious bot as someone doing high level pvm/skilling

People can be hung too, but uh… it has a different meaning

Archive link: https://archive.is/l5oba

Yep, they lean heavily into persecution claims and this sort of experience fuels it. Ironic too because they were persecuted in Nazi Germany, but they turn around and continue that persecution against LGBTQ+ individuals (who were in the same boat).

Source: grew up JW, left after some… realizations

Lightbulbs and knives?? Why

I had a cherimoya in Spain and I LOVED it. Impossible to find here in NA though :(

He’s got beef brain

…It’s entirely possible for straight people to be homophobic. In fact it’s shown time and time again

Because Google doesn’t have root access to your phone. You can install the pixel camera but give it no network permissions. It’s just another camera app at that point

Definitely agree with this. I’ll try to ask this in order to connect with their culture (such as with traditional cooking), but I can see why someone would have their guard up when asked. It’s all about intentions

You can install the pixel camera on graphene and it functions exactly the same as the stock OS

I wanted the Sony, but they only give 2 years of security updates which is abysmal. That killed it for me

Your third link actually discredits your point. The Play store is the “main”/1st party app store for Android devices and the article says how it’s the biggest distributer of malware over 3rd party app stores

People tend to get more conservative as they gain wealth and have something to conserve, hence that trend not continuing for millennials as of yet

You are the majority though. Every time stats on free to play products are released it’s revealed that 90% of people spend no money and the vast majority of revenue is from whales that spend absurd amounts

This might just be the best solution to keep things slightly more honest online though. With SEO targeting THE single search engine, it’ll forever get gamed by irrelevant/ad based results. If everyone uses different search engines then SEO starts to fall apart

I used Google back then and started using Kagi recently. The results I get remind me of how Google used to be.

The only downside is it’s a paid service, but it’s worth it for me personally