<story><title>Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)</title><url>https://sites.psu.edu/ist110pursel/2022/09/04/15154/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ditto664</author><text>I wonder what the Venn diagram looks like between Hacker News readers and Runescape players. I loved playing the Ironman game mode.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>RuneScape fascinated me as a kid but going back as an adult, it got really boring once I got past level ~60 in anything as the content did not change quickly enough to keep me engaged. Never seemed fun to grind something for hours just to get another level.&lt;p&gt;I thought about getting into custom botting as a fun challenge but it’s still kinda pointless - even if I had a ton of gp and max levels there would not be much to do except all the quests. PvP in the contemporary scene seems way too complicated and difficult due to the reliance on quirks of the game engine.&lt;p&gt;Definitely an interesting and quirky game but can’t fathom spending days of RL time grinding levels to chop a different color tree.</text></comment>
<story><title>Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)</title><url>https://sites.psu.edu/ist110pursel/2022/09/04/15154/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ditto664</author><text>I wonder what the Venn diagram looks like between Hacker News readers and Runescape players. I loved playing the Ironman game mode.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>I played RuneScape compulsively[1] from about 2005 to about 2013, but haven&amp;#x27;t really played it since (besides trying OSRS a bit). It&amp;#x27;s probably the original reason I was interested in programming (I fondly remember poking the client&amp;#x27;s memory in a debugger to make my local GP seem higher than it actually was).&lt;p&gt;[1]: I mean this literally: RuneScape is an addicting game, in a way that makes me a little sad.</text></comment>