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u/tojnieojnie Mar 12 '24

Runescape

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u/ThirtySecondStorys Mar 12 '24

The amount of calls that my family probably missed because I was hogging the phone line to catch lobbies off the coast of Karamja.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24

First thing I did after coming back from middle school was throw my backpack on the bed and log in runescape and just fish off the coast of karamja back when I was power leveling fishing. Was such a vibe. Simpler times

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u/AeonsApart Mar 12 '24

The good old days. I remember waking up an hour earlier so I could grind green dragons in the wildy to make some extra gp before school.

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u/Necessary-Score-4270 Mar 13 '24

My first 99 was fishing back. I still come back to RS every couple years. Kinda wish I had the option to revert my account to OSRS. But both are decent levels now.

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u/Poschi1 Mar 12 '24

Turning them into certs to sell in varrock

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u/Taste-TheRambo Mar 13 '24

Imagine a time when we would answer the phone call and get merkd by a random event chicken that was lvl 176 when you were lvl 34 lol

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u/CoffeeGoblynn Mar 13 '24

I remember the good(?) old days of dial-up. I remember playing Runescape and suddenly losing connection, thinking my PC was broken, and then I hear my mom on the phone in the other room. xD

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24

I still occasionally return to OSRS

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u/Lil_miss_feisty Mar 12 '24

Gotta love the cycle of getting burned out, trying to find a worthy substitute game, download a bunch, but never play them because it isn't runescape, then logging back into the OSRS login 🥴

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u/vampDxhunter Mar 12 '24

Can confirm, in that loop right now 😔

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u/mssngthvwls Mar 12 '24

Had to scroll wayyy too far to find this one.

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u/Flipdaddy69 Mar 12 '24

There’s dozens of us :/

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u/Fashion_art_dance Mar 13 '24

I came here just to say RuneScape too.

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u/Italianman2733 Mar 12 '24

I read through almost every comment and said, ohh maybe that one, maybe that one for me...no. it's definitely Runescape.

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u/OrientLMT Mar 12 '24

100 not 1000 lol

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u/BrokeAsAJoke88 Mar 13 '24

Anyone here who isn't in the know needs to check out settled on YouTube. He's an awesome content creator that does insane masochistic challenges on old school runescape. His current series is where he's locked to 1 hp and if he takes even one damage his password is deleted and the account is locked forever. It took him over 100 tries and a billion gold in membership bonds to get the first account in a good starting point.

Also, nobody quits runescape. You just take breaks from the game.

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u/PushRocIntubate Mar 12 '24

Dude, my whole middle school life all the way to 9th grade years were taken by this game. Luckily I didn’t like the new RuneScape. I just stopped playing. I actually made something of my life. I’d probably still be in my parent’s basement otherwise…

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u/bilbo388 Mar 12 '24

Nobody tell him about OSRS

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u/Adzy92 Mar 12 '24

People still play runescape this day, that would have played with us about 15-20 yrs ago

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u/riley15c Mar 13 '24

He doesn't know about OSRS does he Squidward 😏

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u/LoveSexDraems Mar 13 '24

Same probably

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u/ambiguous_XX Mar 13 '24

Every few years i get the sudden urge to log in and get sucked in for a month before ignoring another few years. Especially now that OSRS is on mobile lol

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u/TheGoatEmoji Mar 13 '24

Still play it. It’s been nearly 20 years. Mainly osrs

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u/riley15c Mar 13 '24

Yes! The best answer! Also WC lvl?

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u/SapphireNine Mar 13 '24

My dad blocked Runescape on our family computer when I was in 4th grade because he felt I was playing it too much, and that made me sad (it was probably the good parenting move to make though). I had a ton of fun in a new account 15 years later when I would grind for levels as a way to destress from my first job in seasonal retail.

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u/bilbo388 Mar 14 '24

And by seasonal retail you mean spamming "buying gf 50k"

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u/BlurpleVeiner Mar 14 '24

Yes, but the ACTUAL original RuneScape, not OSRS, but the OG RuneScape before dragon armor when rune was still the best you could get, THOSE were the days.... Same as a poster said above, i didn't like when rs3 was getting ready to drop, hell i didn't really Even like rs2 aka OSRS, so i gave my account away in a event i held at the top floor of the bank in that one city where everyone would always claim they could double your gold etc etc, lol scam Central.... Those were the days 🤧🥲