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We have a new GOAT on smooth segues. Also, you doing herblore on this ironman and hating it so much kinda inspired me. I love the whole one thing feeds into another gameplay. Thieving -> Farming->Herblore->Combat->Prayer + resources and gp that can be used for other things. I'm making a new character, it's time for me to start an ironman adventure, I've been putting it off for far too long.
I'm pretty sure meta is a backronym. Where meta was originally referring to the metagame, the strategies used by players. Then that got shortened to just meta. Then someone came along and made the "Most Effective Tactics Available" acronym from a term that was already adopted by the community
Was gonna say this as well, while there are words that originated as acronyms (laser, scuba, etc) it is very rare and it's much more common that it's a false etymology that's been retroactively applied, which makes some sense since it's much more common for people to intentionally design acronyms to be real words as it makes them more memorable, and then over time through a game of telephone that causal link gets flipped Not relevant here but it's especially unlikely if the word is more than about 100 years old as acronyms in general are very rare until around the start of ww2, so for example fuck derives from englishes Germanic roots not 'fornication under consent of the king', and the word rap dates back to the 16th century and is as a musical genre evolved from being slang for speaking frankly, not an acronym for 'random acts of poetry' (I do like that one though)
We have METAphysics, METAmorphosis. Beyond physics, beyond the form, METAgame, beyond the game. The wiki is "meta". This video is "meta". They are extrapolations and derivatives of said game. THE "meta" simply refers to discussions on how the game should be played. Another example, card games. Only the rules and cards exist in its space. If you are thinking about your opponents deck as what you see in front of you, that is the game. If you are thinking about what your opponent COULD bring, that's the "meta". There are no "good" or "bad" YuGiOh decks, the rules don't specify that. The community surrounding the game, and the decks it plays, defines the "meta".
Thanks for saying this! As soon as I heard that I had a raised eyebrow and started looking stuff up, since I assumed it was short for metagame. Backronym is a new word for me!
Meta this, meta that....Have you ever met-a girl before? Love to see you this weekend! (I would add several clay golem emotes but thanks dont let me add channel emotes strangely enough)
@@Anemeethious the place he's collecting mort myre fungus is the optimal spot to do it until you finish a taste of hope. Walking there from varrock, however, isn't exactly the route.
@@w00ty32 I don't understand why has doesn't use the Canifis bank. I know we love our teleporting, but it certainly feels weird given that spot's location.
so meta is what's known as a backronym, where the word meta was used first and then people thought it was an acronym (even though it isn't) and came up with what it stands for afterwards.
@HackersRUs I am 99% sure 'metagame' is derived from 'meta' (which means "transcending something" eg 'metaphysics' = transcending physics) and not the other way round
META is not a backronym. People tried telling me the same thing. What they don’t understand is: if we say it, it’s the truth. We’ve never been wrong, and can’t be wrong even if we tried.
Jimmy do you know what the video is where you cast Ice Barrage at the screen is? It's like for people not being ok with creators taking sponsors Or maybe it was idyl, no shade but i get you confused sometimes now
Ugh this has to be one of my favorite series ever on youtube. It just reminds me of when i was a little kid playing rs2 not knowing anything and having to figure shit out with my sister.
9:39 - this is what playing runescape used to be like when you were clueless and unguided you'd simply spot people doing something, and do that too to see what it was that they were doing
That's literally how I started playing RuneScape back in the day. Went to the library to do a school assignment and saw some kids playing it and kept just watching them without saying anything just memorized by it 😂😂 then went over to a computer and signed up and started playing. Ah the good ol days 😂
One of my favorite things to do with Unguided, is whenever AF makes a claim or assumption (like Obor having a Limpwurt drop), to go look up on the wiki to see how accurate he was. My face at 24:40 when you flicked to your invent and I saw that empty amulet slot
Still my favourite series on YT atm. I understand that the recent grinds have been... painful, to say the least, but you ought to know you're absolutely killing it and I'm loving every second.
You’ve inspired me to start an Ironman. I had the same issues as you. If it wasn’t the most efficient method I’d feel bad and just not do it. I’m now having a blast on my Ironman. Every little win feels amazing.
Ironmen suffer the same issue if you spend too much time planning out your progression. There are guides written to get your ironmen into raids-level gear asap or guides written to max asap. Just step by step "do this task for 100 hours" and if you follow the steps you will eventually max or get full BIS gear. If you hang around on OSRS discords or reddit then people always to push you towards specific things like I see ironmen green log perilous moons and comments are like "thats a waste of time you can get better gear doing this instead" and eventually ends up referencing some 100 page linear guide for ironmen progression Basically stay away from social media, do whatever you enjoy, and the whole idea of efficiency is irrelevant. Ironman doesn't change that fact. You think it does because you're not really researching ironman specific strategies. If you play a main without researching main specific strategies then you won't feel bothered by efficiency either
What a grind for Snapdragons! Looks like its because they go into high demand potions that they deliberately kept them from being too common. Still, what a cracked rng you got. At least you got the herblore for essence potions, since you clearly know what its for from your editing comment. Was stoked to see this pop up on my Saturday morning.
Congrats AlienFood!!! I'd love a clip in the next episode of your thoughts after learning about the Brimhaven agility course. I saw your comment on the Brimhaven Locked chunkman video lol.
Man I can’t tell you how much I love your intro, seriously. It’s like a Pavlov’s reflex for me at this point and I feel great every time I hear it because I know good content is coming.
Alien Food. First off I LOVE your content. Secondly the way you're playing Rs reminds me of playing Rs classic In the early days of the game. Such a nostalgic series and I'm glad that I'm here for It.
Been absolutely loving watching you mostly fumble your way through OSRS, such an enjoyable watch, most of the time 😂 Great work man, learning a lot from these, good luck with the rest of your adventures
The real nostalgia for me is watching you have to manually plan out things outside the game. I didn't use excel mind you, but having to write personal notes is something that's so rarely necessary anymore. Love the series.
@@omegahaxors9-11 Also, it's just flat-out wrong. When people call something the meta, that doesn't mean it's the most effective thing. It means it's the thing most players are doing. Most players try to do the most effective things, but that's not always how it works out. TF2 for example, MVM Two Cities tours. The meta is 1 scout, 1 soldier, 1 demo, 1 medic, 1 engineer, and 1 heavy. Is this the most effective thing? No, sniper is better than Demo in the vast majority of situations and players know this, yet demo is still the meta just because way more people play demo than sniper in MvM.
This series inspired me to dive into OSRS for the first time. Just did Elemental Workshop as part of trying to do all the easy Achievement Diaries and, good lord I really hope you have a good memory from when you did that previously. That thing would be a nightmare without guides.
i was playing runescape just now. killing some fever spiders as a task and was thinking damn an alien food vid would be nice now, and what do you know a new vid waiting for me. HELL YEAH!!!!!
I genuinely don't know how he'll reach 70 for that quest. Herblore is brutal on an iron even if you know the optimal strategy - which involves constantly farming herbs throughout the account process which he is NOT doing. I suppose 70 is doable with his methods though - hopefully they don't release a quest with 80 herb requirememt like RS3 has
Totally agree with the intro, I recently started a new account with my own made up rules to force myself to do more content instead of just buying the optimal tools from the GE and it's so much more fun.
That's the ironman experience. I play it with the wiki and googling - While I will do optimal methods if it's not too much trouble, part of the ironman experience is figuring out how do stuff with limited resources. For example, don't need antivenoms for vorkath. Or don't want to spend 1k prayer potions at barrows? Learn face tanking strats (or the better alternative).
Bro that moment at the tangleroot when you saw the leaves drop and was like “woah what is that? I’ve never seen that drop before” that is a feeling I wish I could have again
You technically went META for Barrows, but only because you had the brains to look up the info on the enemy with the Lunar Book and prepare for it. Good job!
Totally agree with the whole researching the meta and doing it but losing interest and logging off. That is literally me with tis game. I love it when I log in and do a clue or just kill time doing something random like castle wars or a barrows run. Once I have to start getting serious and find an efficient way to do something it feels like I have to do it, like I have to work my job in real life. Love the series as always
It’s such a struggle to see a new Unguided video pop up. It’s the only series I watch (tv shows included). I kind of want to watch it the second it pops up, but then I know I’ll have to wait like 3 weeks for the next one… Anyway, of course I watched the second I saw it pop up. Enjoyed it a great ton!
The scrying ball for the Theatre of Blood reminds me of gnomecopters back in the day- it was really cool to get a glimpse of endgame areas as a new player, so maybe that's part of the motivation for adding it, as a way to indicate what players can possibly expect if they stick with the game.
I will admit I like the way you play resonates with me. I tend to log in decide on something, get bored, do something else for a bit and just keep jumping around. I'm currently making enchanted emerald amulets almost from scratch (bought uncut emeralds of the GE). I look at the wiki to make sure I won't be losing gp or to keep myself engaged if I am stuck (because I do not have the perseverance to keep going past a big block, runescape is my relax game) but I don't look to the wiki for efficiency. Also meta generally means knowing how something works its hard to explain but for example Metaknowledge is knowing how we know stuff, how we learn and remember. I always saw the term metagame and thus game meta as using knowledge of how the game works rather than just what it presents you on the surface.
Using magic essence potions is a stand-in for magic potions to cast spells above my level when mind bombs weren't enough because they're so much cheaper and more enjoyable to make than the magic and super magic potions were. I love those things.
You really have a point with what you've said in the intro. I also lost my fun to the game on my "main" account quite a while ago for the same reasons as you mentioned. Then I started fresh from the beginning with an iron man account and even after a few years now I enjoy every second of it. Restrictions are the key to have a good time in this game (my opinion).
For me I get bored if I don’t have something to do. I like knowing where i need to go and what I need to do. I like making progress and that’s how I have the most fun playing the game, not necessarily peak efficiency, but just as fast as I can go.
I totally respect your non-meta playstyle, because I feel the same most of the time. As an ironman I ”have to do my farm runs” and I ”have to do my bird house runs” otherwise I’m not *efficient*! That feeling alone has made me bank stand and log out. The best way for me has been to just accept that I enjoy more slow-paced grinds that I can sort of come up with on the spot. Not thinking about the meta has changed my feeling about the game.
Meta isn't an acronym, you were right initially that it is just a word. "Most Effective Tactics Available" is a "backronym", something that was invented long after the word had entered common usage, and isn't actually the source of the word. "Meta" is just a Greek word that has come to mean "about itself" in English, and is used as a prefix to indicate anything that is somewhat self-referential. For example, metadata is data that describes other bits of data. The use in gaming comes from a shortening of "metagaming", which would be a game about playing a game. Instead of the gameplay loop being about killing things or clicking accurately or any other traditional expression of skill, a metagame arises when you're spending time coming up with the best methods and strategies for playing the game rather than just improving mechanical skill. This then gets contracted back down to "[the] meta", to describe the methods and strategies that are assessed to be superior in the metagame.
This is how I played my first time. I was walking across the entire map to use certain NPCs. I didn’t realize I had a home teleport for 90 hours. Trying to out farm the copper/iron bots and getting tilted. Being given rune plate gear to realize I’ve completed 3 quests. Truly magical experience 😂
I think meta comes from the concept of "metagaming" in role playing games, which refers to using information from outside of the game that your character wouldn't have access to in order to gain an advantage in game. But given this series is about not using outside information it's still very fitting to say you're playing without it.
I looked up abigailia she is not new content she has apparently been in the game since 2018, when theater of blood was added. She just lets u scry onto the theater of blood and spectate people doing it nothing else. It does not describe why you cant have any items in your inven or your body though. I imagine it was to prevent some kind of exploit
you used to be able to actually teleport to the area you scryed to and that led to the portal nexus scry mode to be disabled for a bit a few years ago so i assume it’s something like that
There is so much stuff i do inefficiently. I play Runescape to relax, last thing i wanna do is make it a job. Ive tried most methods in the game, and its been awesome!
Effectively having fun, effectiveness has 2 edges, one is the best option avaible, 2nd is best option avaible depending what does the work, ye many forget the human factor, or fun factor sometimes.
The process you described at the beginning of this video explains why a lot of people quit playing. that's why I did, that's why a number of old friends played. spend more time in the wiki thinking about how to play the game, rather than just playing.
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Shame it doesn't ship to the UK otherwise I would be on it
We have a new GOAT on smooth segues. Also, you doing herblore on this ironman and hating it so much kinda inspired me. I love the whole one thing feeds into another gameplay.
Thieving -> Farming->Herblore->Combat->Prayer + resources and gp that can be used for other things.
I'm making a new character, it's time for me to start an ironman adventure, I've been putting it off for far too long.
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I'm pretty sure meta is a backronym. Where meta was originally referring to the metagame, the strategies used by players. Then that got shortened to just meta. Then someone came along and made the "Most Effective Tactics Available" acronym from a term that was already adopted by the community
This phenomenon bothers me a lot. Acronyms are way too compelling.
Was gonna say this as well, while there are words that originated as acronyms (laser, scuba, etc) it is very rare and it's much more common that it's a false etymology that's been retroactively applied, which makes some sense since it's much more common for people to intentionally design acronyms to be real words as it makes them more memorable, and then over time through a game of telephone that causal link gets flipped
Not relevant here but it's especially unlikely if the word is more than about 100 years old as acronyms in general are very rare until around the start of ww2, so for example fuck derives from englishes Germanic roots not 'fornication under consent of the king', and the word rap dates back to the 16th century and is as a musical genre evolved from being slang for speaking frankly, not an acronym for 'random acts of poetry' (I do like that one though)
We have METAphysics, METAmorphosis. Beyond physics, beyond the form, METAgame, beyond the game.
The wiki is "meta". This video is "meta". They are extrapolations and derivatives of said game. THE "meta" simply refers to discussions on how the game should be played.
Another example, card games. Only the rules and cards exist in its space. If you are thinking about your opponents deck as what you see in front of you, that is the game. If you are thinking about what your opponent COULD bring, that's the "meta". There are no "good" or "bad" YuGiOh decks, the rules don't specify that. The community surrounding the game, and the decks it plays, defines the "meta".
Correct! I would also like to add that I don't think anyone calls it an acronym outside of RS.
Thanks for saying this! As soon as I heard that I had a raised eyebrow and started looking stuff up, since I assumed it was short for metagame. Backronym is a new word for me!
Meta this, meta that....Have you ever met-a girl before?
Love to see you this weekend! (I would add several clay golem emotes but thanks dont let me add channel emotes strangely enough)
Lmao nice one 😂
You ever tried to Put a girl on?
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@@AlienFoodage
0:18 Before you comment, know this: half the comment section already explained the word meta and backronyms.
You actually saved me, my ass was already opening the comments to be like "YOU HAVE BEEN DUPED, SIR"
I bet he explained that fake acronym because he guessed people would correct him, producing comments and feeding the algorithm. Now THAT is meta!
@@exantiuse497most effective tactic available
I dont see any comments not explaining it.
thanks for the tip. i was about to write mister food a very strongly worded comment explaining how WRONG he is.
the realization of you forgetting the ghostspeak amulet is too real lmao had me dying
He actually found an optimal secondary farming method. He found it by observing bots, but he found it
Wut? 🤔
Kinda curious what method it is
@@Anemeethious the place he's collecting mort myre fungus is the optimal spot to do it until you finish a taste of hope. Walking there from varrock, however, isn't exactly the route.
@@w00ty32 I don't understand why has doesn't use the Canifis bank. I know we love our teleporting, but it certainly feels weird given that spot's location.
@@w00ty32 Lul yeah. Bro has desert treasure done, and he's still being a pleb and not just frickin teleporting to canifis. 🤣
so meta is what's known as a backronym, where the word meta was used first and then people thought it was an acronym (even though it isn't) and came up with what it stands for afterwards.
It comes from metagame
@HackersRUs I am 99% sure 'metagame' is derived from 'meta' (which means "transcending something" eg 'metaphysics' = transcending physics) and not the other way round
@@exantiuse497 What he means is people shortened 'metagame' to just 'meta'. This is despite 'meta' already being a greek prefix like you described.
META is not a backronym. People tried telling me the same thing. What they don’t understand is: if we say it, it’s the truth. We’ve never been wrong, and can’t be wrong even if we tried.
hi j1mmy
Jimmy do you know what the video is where you cast Ice Barrage at the screen is? It's like for people not being ok with creators taking sponsors
Or maybe it was idyl, no shade but i get you confused sometimes now
i hate you can i have my family back please
Wow I just realized I've never been wrong in my life. Thanks, J1mmy.
It’s crazy how this is the only comment I’ve had on this video that mentions backronyms. It continues to be the truth.
Ugh this has to be one of my favorite series ever on youtube. It just reminds me of when i was a little kid playing rs2 not knowing anything and having to figure shit out with my sister.
Can I figure stuff out with ur sister too
25:51 “and I’m in the drink” took me back to my childhood watching takeshi’s castle. fucking brilliant
Loved that show and Craig Charles brought it to another level.
Kenny Blankenship is the star of that show.
Back when tv was good
a beverage of sorts?
I believe they're making another takeshis castle show
this whole journey JUST to get fairy rings for Barrows has been such a wild grind, I love it.
The ironman experience is to One Small Favour yourself until you max
Tbf it's massively helpful for multiple facets of the game
9:39 - this is what playing runescape used to be like when you were clueless and unguided
you'd simply spot people doing something, and do that too to see what it was that they were doing
That's literally how I started playing RuneScape back in the day. Went to the library to do a school assignment and saw some kids playing it and kept just watching them without saying anything just memorized by it 😂😂 then went over to a computer and signed up and started playing. Ah the good ol days 😂
Mining Rune essence to buy rune scim for 40k
@@unrealmagic6519fishing lobbies on karamja was a favorite
I am so glad J1mmy shouted you out, I love this series x)
One of my favorite things to do with Unguided, is whenever AF makes a claim or assumption (like Obor having a Limpwurt drop), to go look up on the wiki to see how accurate he was.
My face at 24:40 when you flicked to your invent and I saw that empty amulet slot
Still my favourite series on YT atm. I understand that the recent grinds have been... painful, to say the least, but you ought to know you're absolutely killing it and I'm loving every second.
Clicked this video ASAP, love the series man!
I just said to myself “why is there no alien food video” and literally the second I thought it the notification popped up ❤️
You should use your newfound powers for evil
Could you say it to yourself of it like twice a day? Thanks!
Hey guys you might not believe it, but I think 'meta' is a backronym!
Never had an intro to a RuneScape vid resonate so hard with how I felt playing runescape for a while, amazing video as always!
the typing and shaking screen never ceases to make me laugh, great videos probably one i look foward to most. thank u! KEEM EM COMING
Thanks!
Nvm found it! Keep up the good work lad. Make more vids por favor
No thank you! Thanks so much for the incredibly kind donation ❤️ it’s massively appreciated
I love the now missing statue because of Garden of Tranquillity ruining the balance of your shot.
You’ve inspired me to start an Ironman. I had the same issues as you. If it wasn’t the most efficient method I’d feel bad and just not do it. I’m now having a blast on my Ironman. Every little win feels amazing.
Ironmen suffer the same issue if you spend too much time planning out your progression. There are guides written to get your ironmen into raids-level gear asap or guides written to max asap. Just step by step "do this task for 100 hours" and if you follow the steps you will eventually max or get full BIS gear. If you hang around on OSRS discords or reddit then people always to push you towards specific things like I see ironmen green log perilous moons and comments are like "thats a waste of time you can get better gear doing this instead" and eventually ends up referencing some 100 page linear guide for ironmen progression
Basically stay away from social media, do whatever you enjoy, and the whole idea of efficiency is irrelevant. Ironman doesn't change that fact. You think it does because you're not really researching ironman specific strategies. If you play a main without researching main specific strategies then you won't feel bothered by efficiency either
What a grind for Snapdragons! Looks like its because they go into high demand potions that they deliberately kept them from being too common. Still, what a cracked rng you got. At least you got the herblore for essence potions, since you clearly know what its for from your editing comment.
Was stoked to see this pop up on my Saturday morning.
I think they are actually uncommon because they came out later than the rest of the herbs.
@@ivxx699 yeah I looked at that, but other herbs that came out in that update were added to the tables
Yeah, turned out to be an insane grind! Thanks so much for the kind donation and continued support on the channel ❤ it means so much
Wow you're really spruced up the formatting and editing! Keep up the good work this series is a gem
The in game sheep bleet you use for censoring yourself makes me crack a smile every time. Love it 😂
I literally put these videos on with headphones before bed every night . Most of the time I’m not watching .. your voice is so soothing .
Congrats AlienFood!!! I'd love a clip in the next episode of your thoughts after learning about the Brimhaven agility course. I saw your comment on the Brimhaven Locked chunkman video lol.
Man I can’t tell you how much I love your intro, seriously. It’s like a Pavlov’s reflex for me at this point and I feel great every time I hear it because I know good content is coming.
The best OSRS series returns 🫡
Alien Food. First off I LOVE your content. Secondly the way you're playing Rs reminds me of playing Rs classic In the early days of the game. Such a nostalgic series and I'm glad that I'm here for It.
Been absolutely loving watching you mostly fumble your way through OSRS, such an enjoyable watch, most of the time 😂 Great work man, learning a lot from these, good luck with the rest of your adventures
Just found your channel and I'm loving it, got a super cozy vibe! Keep up the good work
The real nostalgia for me is watching you have to manually plan out things outside the game. I didn't use excel mind you, but having to write personal notes is something that's so rarely necessary anymore. Love the series.
Hey man, you should do… exactly what you been doing because your series is S tier.
Meta is kinda a backronym. People used it as a word (game within a game) and then people came up with an acronym.
The word they used for T is kind of a hard tell that it's a backronym. Tactic feels so forced in.
@@omegahaxors9-11 Also, it's just flat-out wrong. When people call something the meta, that doesn't mean it's the most effective thing. It means it's the thing most players are doing. Most players try to do the most effective things, but that's not always how it works out.
TF2 for example, MVM Two Cities tours. The meta is 1 scout, 1 soldier, 1 demo, 1 medic, 1 engineer, and 1 heavy. Is this the most effective thing? No, sniper is better than Demo in the vast majority of situations and players know this, yet demo is still the meta just because way more people play demo than sniper in MvM.
It comes from "metagame" which is all the discussions/etc. about the game that aren't part of actually playing the game.
This series inspired me to dive into OSRS for the first time. Just did Elemental Workshop as part of trying to do all the easy Achievement Diaries and, good lord I really hope you have a good memory from when you did that previously. That thing would be a nightmare without guides.
This is my favorite series on YT right now
i was playing runescape just now. killing some fever spiders as a task and was thinking damn an alien food vid would be nice now, and what do you know a new vid waiting for me. HELL YEAH!!!!!
You've become my favourite OSRS youtuber, great content!
I haven't checked the wiki for limpworts, and my first thought was "hill giants!", followed by "oh right, you can farm them. Nice"
I love this series more and more with every video
What a cracking start to the weekend, we love to see a new Alien Food drop
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. First video ive seen by you, subbed and liked well earned sir. :) keep up the great work!
For some reason I was expecting a next episode preview after the channel members like it's some sort of anime episode
love the content as always
"I'm sure it will get higher in the future, I'll probably need it for another quest"
*Laughs in SotE*
I genuinely don't know how he'll reach 70 for that quest. Herblore is brutal on an iron even if you know the optimal strategy - which involves constantly farming herbs throughout the account process which he is NOT doing. I suppose 70 is doable with his methods though - hopefully they don't release a quest with 80 herb requirememt like RS3 has
@@exantiuse497 Hopefully he'll have discovered a certain newly added herblore training method by then that's far easier for irons
I get more excited for these videos than anything else I’m subscribed to
Totally agree with the intro, I recently started a new account with my own made up rules to force myself to do more content instead of just buying the optimal tools from the GE and it's so much more fun.
That's the ironman experience. I play it with the wiki and googling - While I will do optimal methods if it's not too much trouble, part of the ironman experience is figuring out how do stuff with limited resources.
For example, don't need antivenoms for vorkath.
Or don't want to spend 1k prayer potions at barrows? Learn face tanking strats (or the better alternative).
I made a hardcore character to play like this and I've LOVED it so much! Explored areas that meta guides never took me. Kourend is amazing btw
God i love this series.
Bro that moment at the tangleroot when you saw the leaves drop and was like “woah what is that? I’ve never seen that drop before” that is a feeling I wish I could have again
You technically went META for Barrows, but only because you had the brains to look up the info on the enemy with the Lunar Book and prepare for it. Good job!
Always a good day when I see you’ve made another video man, keep it up :)
Another work of art, keep up the quality videos man!
1:00 this is something I struggle with SOOOOOOOOOO much. I think it has something to do with burn out.
I have never been in so much pain watching one of your videos, I love it!
that opening hit too hard to home for nearly everything in life having a META. I did not expect and existential crisis here.
this is my favorite series rn
Totally agree with the whole researching the meta and doing it but losing interest and logging off. That is literally me with tis game. I love it when I log in and do a clue or just kill time doing something random like castle wars or a barrows run. Once I have to start getting serious and find an efficient way to do something it feels like I have to do it, like I have to work my job in real life.
Love the series as always
The camera pan and music on that intro was legendary
It’s such a struggle to see a new Unguided video pop up. It’s the only series I watch (tv shows included). I kind of want to watch it the second it pops up, but then I know I’ll have to wait like 3 weeks for the next one…
Anyway, of course I watched the second I saw it pop up. Enjoyed it a great ton!
This week has been really rough for me, and another episode of Unguided is exactly what I needed right now
I hope you’re doing well my friend, all the best
Absolutely love your vids awesomely put together. No way would I be able to figure all the stuff out no guides
The scrying ball for the Theatre of Blood reminds me of gnomecopters back in the day- it was really cool to get a glimpse of endgame areas as a new player, so maybe that's part of the motivation for adding it, as a way to indicate what players can possibly expect if they stick with the game.
The noise you made when you forgot the ghost speak amulet resonated with me. A noise I have made in this game many times.
this series is soo satisfying to watch
Honestly so hype, I was just creeping on the channel wondering when the next video will be posted lmao
Just when i'm about to leave the house and be productive my weekly video addiction is uploaded. Thanks friend!
Dear lord I finally caught up. Would binge 57 eps again, 10/10
I will admit I like the way you play resonates with me. I tend to log in decide on something, get bored, do something else for a bit and just keep jumping around. I'm currently making enchanted emerald amulets almost from scratch (bought uncut emeralds of the GE). I look at the wiki to make sure I won't be losing gp or to keep myself engaged if I am stuck (because I do not have the perseverance to keep going past a big block, runescape is my relax game) but I don't look to the wiki for efficiency.
Also meta generally means knowing how something works its hard to explain but for example Metaknowledge is knowing how we know stuff, how we learn and remember. I always saw the term metagame and thus game meta as using knowledge of how the game works rather than just what it presents you on the surface.
Using magic essence potions is a stand-in for magic potions to cast spells above my level when mind bombs weren't enough because they're so much cheaper and more enjoyable to make than the magic and super magic potions were. I love those things.
"Leaves? What's leaves?" Game: A pile of leaves.
7:35 - "Bloody Hell" "Bollocks" "Well" "By God" all at the same time.
Love the series! keep them coming!
Mysterious old man - ooohhh is this a maze? No it’s a spinach role…. Only in OSRS!
Every time i see you upload I get a dopamin spike even before I watch the video. Lovely
You really have a point with what you've said in the intro. I also lost my fun to the game on my "main" account quite a while ago for the same reasons as you mentioned.
Then I started fresh from the beginning with an iron man account and even after a few years now I enjoy every second of it. Restrictions are the key to have a good time in this game (my opinion).
Sometimes efficiency can get the better of us!
For me I get bored if I don’t have something to do. I like knowing where i need to go and what I need to do. I like making progress and that’s how I have the most fun playing the game, not necessarily peak efficiency, but just as fast as I can go.
You should make a whole off meta series from scratch
I totally respect your non-meta playstyle, because I feel the same most of the time. As an ironman I ”have to do my farm runs” and I ”have to do my bird house runs” otherwise I’m not *efficient*! That feeling alone has made me bank stand and log out. The best way for me has been to just accept that I enjoy more slow-paced grinds that I can sort of come up with on the spot. Not thinking about the meta has changed my feeling about the game.
An Alien Food & Karadus video in the day. What a wonderful time to be alive 🎉
Yessss, best creator just uploaded 🎉🎉🎉
"Oh Hello, mysterios old man, is this a maze? no it's a spinach roll...." classic runescape lmao
Finally a new video, thanks alien food!!
@25:53 was that a subtle reference Takeshi’s Castle? If so, I didn’t realise you were a man of such esteemed culture. Cheers 🥂
Meta isn't an acronym, you were right initially that it is just a word. "Most Effective Tactics Available" is a "backronym", something that was invented long after the word had entered common usage, and isn't actually the source of the word. "Meta" is just a Greek word that has come to mean "about itself" in English, and is used as a prefix to indicate anything that is somewhat self-referential. For example, metadata is data that describes other bits of data.
The use in gaming comes from a shortening of "metagaming", which would be a game about playing a game. Instead of the gameplay loop being about killing things or clicking accurately or any other traditional expression of skill, a metagame arises when you're spending time coming up with the best methods and strategies for playing the game rather than just improving mechanical skill. This then gets contracted back down to "[the] meta", to describe the methods and strategies that are assessed to be superior in the metagame.
This is how I played my first time. I was walking across the entire map to use certain NPCs. I didn’t realize I had a home teleport for 90 hours. Trying to out farm the copper/iron bots and getting tilted. Being given rune plate gear to realize I’ve completed 3 quests. Truly magical experience 😂
I must have said "you poor bastard" at least 1000 times throughout this series
I think meta comes from the concept of "metagaming" in role playing games, which refers to using information from outside of the game that your character wouldn't have access to in order to gain an advantage in game. But given this series is about not using outside information it's still very fitting to say you're playing without it.
7:35 "Brah-loch-fuckenell" - Alien Food, 2024.
So poetic 😜😎
I looked up abigailia she is not new content she has apparently been in the game since 2018, when theater of blood was added. She just lets u scry onto the theater of blood and spectate people doing it nothing else. It does not describe why you cant have any items in your inven or your body though. I imagine it was to prevent some kind of exploit
you used to be able to actually teleport to the area you scryed to and that led to the portal nexus scry mode to be disabled for a bit a few years ago so i assume it’s something like that
yeah rendi has a few videos on scrying related bug abuse. That shit was broken as fuck
Solid effort! The herblore and farming progress will come in huge later down the line. 😄
god damn i love this series
I love farming on the iron! so satisfying to build a huge stack of herbs and then get a million herblore xp in a day
There is so much stuff i do inefficiently. I play Runescape to relax, last thing i wanna do is make it a job. Ive tried most methods in the game, and its been awesome!
Dude, I love your spreadsheets! That is playing runescape RIGHT
Effectively having fun, effectiveness has 2 edges, one is the best option avaible, 2nd is best option avaible depending what does the work, ye many forget the human factor, or fun factor sometimes.
when you forgot your ghostspeak amulet I felt that in my soul, we've all been theree
The process you described at the beginning of this video explains why a lot of people quit playing. that's why I did, that's why a number of old friends played. spend more time in the wiki thinking about how to play the game, rather than just playing.
Best 30 minutes of the day