Great video! This brought back some memories that I repressed from my childhood. 🫠 PS: It isn't lava. It is magma inside the earth. The best way to remember the difference is that you can fall into lava, but you can't fall into magma... unless you are a dwarf that dug too deep.
I got my rune pick scammed in a way. Dude was selling it for just 10k and I hopped on that like no other. He kept "misclicking" to cancel the trade and 2 other people were trying to buy it to get me panicking. He tossed an iron pick in, I panic-accepted and he walked off as I followed him begging for my money back.
Man I still remember the day that my parents let me buy a membership for $5. I started fletching and made bows till the point that I could afford full adamant trimmed. I was the happiest kid on the planet, till the day I came home and my little brother told me that he lost it to a scammer in a trade 😂 amazing video Jim, really enjoyed it!
It's incredibly nice to have a content creator for this game that doesn't tunnel vision efficiency. Sometimes I just wanna hear some dumb shit that I haven't thought about in over a decade
What I meant was, sometimes I want to reminisce on how the game was mid 2000s, when a lot of us were pre-teens or teenagers. J1mmy is the dude for this, for sure. Watching people play the game in unique and restricted ways can be fun, but it's all boiled down to them wanting to complete things as quickly as they can. You know, efficiency..
When I was 10 some guy came up to me at GE. He needed help fighting some wolves in the wilderness for a quest and also I needed to bring my entire cash stack for some reason. Doofus accidentally killed me when we were in the wilderness. I hope he managed to beat that wolf quest, never saw him again
Cedric is that you? I am still mad about that!! 😂 lol jk that wasn’t me. But this comment was funny. Reminded me when I wanted to start a power leveling service for the people I know who played RuneScape. It wasn’t many.
13:40 This one hurts man. I'll never forget my friend of 8 years who I met in the Runescape Help Chat. I helped progress in the game, many adventures, had deep convos. It was 2014, and he broke my trust overnight, took everything. 500m cash. Went as far as alching my skillcapes. He apologized years later and said he'd rebuild to get it back to me. But that was bs.
My dad still tells the story of the day I got lured when I was like 10. I came crying to him and he felt so bad for me cuz some assholes on the internet took all my stuff lmao. Well I have never once been scammed or tricked like that since, so thank you RuneScape, you taught me well.
Took me 3 weeks but finally got around to watching this video. These were some brutal real lessons I learned. I lost my abby whip from a pk scam as a 13 y/o and didn't come back to the game for 14 years. Your video was stellar, J1mmy. Take my like.
I think this is my favourite video from you. Everything was a trip down memory lane and the "psychology" behind being a scammer and being okay with ruining someone's day/month/year/life over money is very interesting to me. I'm sorry for your loss with the p-hat set, probably still stings quite a bit even though it is such a long time ago.
@@0KiwiStyles0 Please tell me how you know no lives were ruined by scams. I think it's fair to say that putting your friendship on the line to scam someone could be seen as ruining someone's life. And then I'm not even talking about the MLM and crypto scams that literally make people bankrupt which can ruin someone's life too
There was also this one dude in world 87, a guy in a black robe with a frog hat. Always gave advice and help to those who randomly see him in world. He even tells you where other players are and sometimes help when you're in trouble, like getting new players the shoes in that underground barbarian place. Good times lol
Within 30 minutes of playing I followed a guy to lvl 20 or so wildy and got killed for the starting items from tutorial island. He said he would lead me to the next town lol. Prob did me a favor teaching me that lesson so early on.
Bro same lol. I was even asking like hey what’s the skull over your head? Hey why does it give me an option to attack you now? Hey why are you attacking me? All for noob level 10 items lol
Holy fuck, I did something like that once to someone new when I was 14. Guy was just looking for cherries for that one quest. I just did it to be a dick.
I remember going to the zamorak church north of falador and being told to take the wine. Which ofcourse led to getting attacked by the zamorak monks who killed you because the scammers kept closing the door. Made me make a new account because I didn't know how to get the tutorial island items back 😂 Jagex later made an update to doors because of people abusing them like that.
I was a victim of the zammy wine, on the edge of the wilderness. Near ice mountain, they kept slamming the door on me while they convinced me the wine was a rare spawn and they'd "Watch the door" my 8 year old self was so sad hahahah
Man, I remember I needed a cut gem. But instead of being a smart kid and increasing crafting a couple levels I asked people to cut my uncut gem. Man the amount of uncut gems that were "destroyed during crafting" was unimaginable xD
I, too, lost full mithril armor in the third grade. I spent weeks mining rune essence and selling it to shops (didn't know trade worlds were a thing). Felt great to finally wear it... Then lost it about five minutes later thinking I'd be op in wildy. I legitimately cried and told my parents about it.
Back in the day before G/E. I would spend hours mining tin and copper in lumbridhe swamp, smelt it in bronze and sell it to the general store. Not even noticing the price change per bar I sold them. 😢
RIP my first acount. Player####. Some dude told me there was an insivible gate that would open up into a cool area if I typed in my password. My 6 year old brain had NO clue what was coming.
@@DFW2017 I did this for a bit too, ngl. That and iron ore in the east varrock mine, and later on gold ore in the desert. Man, back in those days mining was dope. I feel like we all just saw it as an infinite money glitch, whereas now it's just brain numbing and tedious
@@Meowthix huge ripperoni 😪😪😪 if it's any consolation, I /almost/ fell for the "hey, did you guys know jagex hides your password in chat? Watch: **********" trick. Lucky for 8 year old me, there was a kind bystander who told us not to do it
Damn that story about your "friend" taking your phats really struck a chord with me. I had the exact same experience as a 13 y/o with two of my "friends" I had known a played with for over a year. Only I was lucky enough to just lose a dragon platebody. It was only 10m at the time but that was 90% of my bank, and it really meant a lot to me. Made it even worse that the two decided to screw me over for something so small :/ It was a positive lesson in the end, and definitely made me more intentional with deciding who to spend my time with.
Lmao, this is so true. I remember when I was 10, my super duper char got stolen by a dude who promised to upgrade me to member. I will never forget this lesson.
I lost my first account when someone offered to buy it for 2k and a staff of air. I was so blinded by how much money that was that I traded him, gave him my password, and only after I couldn't log back in did it really sink that the guy gave an account 2k, got the account, and got the money back. We were all dumbass kids once.
Had my whole account taken when i was 9. My mother tried to get it back but back then the support team was 6 dudes in an empty office. So we forgot about it. 10 years later we realized she was still paying for the member fee. I got the account back and it was quite literally untouched. The dude who hacked me didn't realize I was poor as heck.
To the person who came outa nowhere and dclaw speced the guy who lured me out to the wildly in 2012, thank you. I never had to undergo the trauma of being successfully lured because of you.
If it was a few guys fronting to be ur friend it could of been me and my online 10 year old gang. We would get someone ok the pk wildly line and ask Wana team up? Lure em out and kill them
I always compared real life to RS in these ways too and it helped me a lot, especially as a kid. I knew things that were hard for me I just needed more experience points in. So many skills and quests irl... Great vid j1m!!! :D
This game helped me get my life on track by teaching me the value in setting goals and following through with completing them. I went from being unemployed to getting a job in a career I'm passionate about. Also chasing gym gainz. 🙏 Thanks RuneScape.
Lesson 2. When i was a baby scaper (2 years ago) someone traded me 50m worth of random items ive never seen and said he would sell it to me for 30m which was my entire cash stack. I knew it was too good to be true so i declined and logged off. many weeks later i learned they were all random clue items and the prices were waaaaay inflated 4x more than any of them should of been
Someone got me once with the menaphite remedy with inflated price but it was only like 40k so oh well. Honestly that one is partially on the game for being so bad at displaying accurate prices lol (i.e not taking into account when overpriced items aren't selling)
Am currently going through the IRL rebuild and this video helped put a lot of knowledge and lessons and experience that I learned from this game into a greater perspective. Hell of a fucking video and message, J1mbo. Thank you.
Mine was the "drop all ur items and press alt+f4 to dupe them" when I was little, happened between varrock and fally between gertrude's house and barb bridge. The sheer anxiety of my little self to realize what tf happened while trying to type in rs, and log in before it showed, I don't even think I remembered the world I was in I was so stressed. The fact I remember that makes me realize this video triggered tf out of me, damn you Jimmy
ya know Jimmy, for my first comment in idk how long I just wanted to say that you're the ONLY person who has actually had me thinking about buying raycons. You deserve every dollar you were given for that sponsor because you nailed it lol. It wasn't the typical raycon sponsor review, it was colored in and I loved it. Keep up the amazing content Jimbo
Not only did this video bring back age long repressed memories of losing my full Mithril as well to a trimmer.... But it's an amazing learning lesson. I'm going to show this to my kids, they want to start playing Runescape and I hope this helps prepare them. Thank you!
Old school RuneScape is one of the top communities/societies in the world! All of us 90s babies playing a game together and interacting globally, think about it. Honestly we should form the osrs society. Bunch of people hanging out for 20 years online together and then we meet irl to work on world issues. What a powerful movement it would be!?
Jim you said 10 years ago when you were a freshman on highschool and then had that "oh God I'm getting old" feeling made me feel old. I graduated 15 years ago. I started playing in 05, have taken breaks but always come back. Thanks for making me feel old
Lmao, the whole second lesson about the merch clans is criminally underrated. Especially with the NFT Link, so funny that we learned to ignore or how to game such things by playing a browser based rpg
Those final words: So fucking relatable. I played since the MSPaint version. Runescape and vanilla WoW taught me so much that I didn't know until I became an adult. Like worldfirst racing in vanilla WoW as a 15 year old in a guild where you need 40 people to raid, just taught me so much about work-life that when I got into it - all the nuances of interviews/interviewing people (which I got bumped up to start doing very quickly) and generally everything in the "work-meta" (that is basically guild management) just was already there for me.
The story about almost scamming someone as a gambling host brought back such a vivid memory of myself doing the same thing around the exact same timeframe, 2011-2012ish. Except I wasn't as noble to the point of giving away my items, because since I was also just a 14 year old, I covered up my attempted scam with a lie that I got disconnected and gave the guy his money. But I also quit after that until OSRS dropped so I guess the life lesson is gambling always ends with a similar feeling of guilt.
It's so funny I use the GE and Merch Clans as a perfect example every time someone starts yapping to me about buying into some crypto thing or stocks. The GE is literally just a stock exchange with every item being a stock and the number of those items being the number of shares. Of course I didn't understand that until much later, but it all clicked when I was about 18, 19 hearing of the latest bubble or trendy thing.
I went from being scammed as a kid to being a good trade scammer once I was in highschool. I'm a 30 year old returning player, currently playing hardcore ironman mode. Man...time flies. Learned a lot about adulting from this game, no joke.
I was 10 years old, and finally got a beautiful set of Adamant armor. Saw a guy alching in level 2 wilderness by that bar north of varrock. Being a nice person, I walked up to him and said “hey, it’s kinda dangerous to alch here.” 2 seconds later, 2 guys ice barrage me. I was lured. Pain. I lose my armor, and start crying in real life. My mom asks what’s wrong, and then grounds me for playing runescape on a school night. Childhood, I miss ya.
I'd like to point out the life lesson around 11:00. You were a kid and had a ton of virtual money and realized the wrongs of your doings because of your moral compass and how you were brought up. Lets think now about all the IRL rich kids who have these experiences in real life, but don't have that same moral compass. These are the people making our laws and lobbying our tax money.
I remember the more obscure and specific scams back in the day like the Wine of Zamorak scam with the door. I remember I didn't know the monks would attack and a guy told me to pick up the wine, then the monks started attacking, I tried to rush out the temple but the guy was spamming the door so that it opened and closed endlessly, preventing me to exit the temple, I watched how the monks slowly killed me and I lost all my stuff that he later picked up. The game was full of these glitch/trick type of scam opportunities, I was afraid of simple mechanics of the game since then.
My biggest memory was from a RSPS, because I didn’t have money for membership when I was young and they restarted the economy. I was freaking watching these guys sell super rare items for 10k instead of almost to a bill. I was asking one guy why the mods weren’t doing something about it and he said to me”lol dude *we*, are the economy.” And then everything clicked, basic economics all just made sense
biggest life lesson I ever learned was when I decided to join a private server with maxed out everything stats. Then I quickly realized that the game isn't fun when you get everything handed to you. I learned that the game, similar to life, is about the journey to that final destination and not the destination itself that brings value.
The thing also about this, is as you mentioned, most players are kids. They aren't taught this is bad, or explicitly told. They discover it, perfect it, and continue these bad habits until they are young adults. Parents have no clue this is doing on, and devs at the time had low visibility on the situation other than reports from other players. So then you have a population of young kids being groomed into con-artists, using any type of social engineering they learned, discovered, or innovated on just to get that dopamine hit of getting cash in Runescape. And then let's not get started once they discover what RWT is... Or are the ones to create it for the game.
IDK, I don't feel like it grooms people. It's a good place for people to learn lessons early. If people are okay scamming others, even in a game then they probably were already heading down that path.
@@AdamantLightLP In terms of the tradition definition of grooming, that's what it is. It's promoting and enabling a certain type of behavior to prime someone for a certain role or person. And in that sense, scamming and gambling. And to say "kids would be going down that road anyways" is an ignorant statement. Some kids are born with temperament that makes them feel more insecure the less things they have, which is why some babies can be jealous or cry when they aren't given attention but something else is (like a sibling or pet). However, there are situations where a child may NOT be going down that path, and get conditioned to do so, especially with a stressful/traumatic experience. This is anecdotal, but I never scammed while playing runescape until I got scammed. I never thought someone could be so cruel, heartless, selfish, and inconsiderate to manipulate me into falling for their scams. But the lesson I learned is either you're a chump, or the one benefitting off the chumps. Began scamming in Runescape, CS:GO, TF2... Nobody taught me this in my family, friends, or schools. I learned this from the game experience, and it was from the dread I experienced being tricked into losing all my hard earned items because I put my trust in a stranger. And in order for me to get that stuff back, I thought I had to do the same thing. I got scammed hard years later out of a Karambit Fade to play with a pro player, and since then, I looked back at all the people I scammed and how many I've hurt along that path. That pain, I didnt like, and didnt want to feel again, so I stopped scamming since I brought that pain to others. But I lacked that maturity when I was a kid playing runescape, so at the time I felt justified. It's only a good environment to learn lessons IF they can draw mature and healthy conclusions to those bad experiences. But if nobody is around to guide kids or people who lack that maturity, they'll go down that path. They didnt have to go down that path, and most likely werent until that experience happened. Dont just assume and throw out possibilities that trauma can turn good people into bad people.
The first skit!! literally just talked about this exact scenario like 2 days ago, once i realized they usually double the first mil I turned my losing streak around HAHAHA
My brother got me into the game and we would play together. He was into ranged and I was into melee, and I liked grinding my skills and he wanted to pk. We both just played for fun so neither of us were very good at what we did lol. The first set of rune armor I bought when I first got 40 def and attack, I went pking because I was like there’s no one that can beat this armor. I got merked and I think cried. Life lessons come quick in this game
God, hearing Smoking Mils was a throwback for me. I remember putting up 400m gold deposit to get a rank to be a dicing host of the lowest rank (5m max bets). Never ended up hosting enough to make my money back, and never cashed out my deposit.
I like this video because J1mmy seems to enjoy talking about it. He's a great commentator with interesting opinions. Sometimes when he posts videos of him playing, I almost detect a mild resentment in his voice. Out of the blue, I'd like him to do a series on his favourite quests in runescape. Something where he can just talk about it. ByRelease is just synopsis at this point more than commentary
Alright I'll say it you have absolutely become my favorite osrs UA-camr. Started watching at the beginning of the by release series and I've watched every video you posted since. Pure comedy gold
Definitely had life lessons in 3 of those locations lol. GE, Varrock West obviously scamming, gambling/GOC, and Lumbridge I got lured onto a pvp world and pk'd in that room west of the castle as you leave the walls.
honestly jim this might be one of the best osrs videos i've ever seen. love the videos and keep coming back anyway but something about this hits different. thanks and keep it up
My chronic distrust and disdain for humans comes solely from the variety of scams I experienced as a kid on Runescape. Especially when I got scammed by that one guy I knew on the game for 3 years who I thought was my great friend.
"Ten years ago, when I was a freshman in high school--" My son is named Fletcher. He's 15. I had 99 woodcutting and fletching. I'm 32. Runescape was my life so much that I named my first kid after it.
We had money doublers, gambling, and nfts IRL, but what im learning from this video is that the IRL market of luring hasnt been capitalized on yet. Thanks for the idea Jim! Ill be sure to credit you!
I lost my innocence in the library at age 11. Me and my friends went there after school, they took me to the wilderness telling me there was mythril armor there we could get. Got deep enough and they pked me. That day started my supervillain arc. 😢
I wish i had a runescape friend scam me back in the day. Couple years back it happened to me in real life. Did 200h of labor on my friends construction site. Payment had been agreed upon, but I trusted him and was dumb so we didn't specify the payment amount in the employment contract. He payed me 20% of what we agreed upon. Effectively stealing 2000€ from me. And there was nothing I could do legally because of the bad contract. I had known the guy for years, since middle school, through highschool, and even worked the same jobs for a couple years prior. He was part of my core social circle. People like money more than they like you.
I was born in a small mexican town in 97. Runescape taught me to speak english (perfectly), taught me about work (do a grind get something in return), about supply and demand, about people (some arent good) and many things. I will MAKE my kids play runescape as homework, i think its the best (safest) school out there
Chessy and smokinmils lol I remember that. I called NFTs on day 1 of hearing them. Coworkers were like “naw man they’re the next evolution in the fine art world” I tried to think of a way to say “I learned this lesson 15 years ago on a computer game” but I couldn’t do that in a way they would understand. Btw the fine art world is a scam and mostly full of money laundering and illicit trade, but a lot of people don’t want to hear that too.
I'm not sure if it counts as a lure but it happened when they added in PVP worlds after removing the wilderness. I was one of those kids who would 1 item and I would use a G Maul which was most of my money at the time. I was attacked by a guy with Ancients and he ran me through the Lumbridge graveyard into the swamp where his friend was waiting. The guy with ancients had Smite on and would keep freezing me while his friend kept healing me with Lunars. I lost my G Maul that day.
Thank you for this video and for all your other video's. I have played RuneScape a lot when I was a kid about 20 years ago. Not being able to be a member because my parents wouldn't let me subscribe to this online game and paying for it. Witnessing the Halloween event with the Halloween masks that were selling for 100k back then. I was never able to afford them back at the time, unfortunately. I really loved the green Halloween Masks. Tiara's being introduced, and me farming if I remember correctly: silver? To craft them and sell them for a quick profit. Being lured to the wildy to be killed by someone else. Everyone had the key to the Varrock's bank vault and knew someone how to get in, which never happened (as far as I know that gate is still shut) and mages using magic to get the gold bars or coins from behind the gate. Endlessly going out for lobster fishing and then cooking them only for half to be burned, selling those lobsters manually with flashing text bubbles behind Varrock's bank because there was not a grand exchange back then. Money that I made buying flashy gear like; Black Gold Armor (or something? I'm doing this by memory) and Black Silver Armor, Zamorak armor? They really stood out because not a lot of players had these kinds of gear. And yes, even me *scamming* players in to buying *burned bones* and told people it was really special and turned in to a ludicrous business (found in the wildy way up north back then). Oh man... You bring memories back. Thanks again. p.s. My parent's bought 2 months of member subscription at the end and I was having an absolute blast.
RuneScape taught me I wasn't meant for a life of crime. When a lvl 6 new member told me their PW, i quickly changed the PW. And sat there.... A good 3 minutes later I changed it back, didn't take anything, and told him not to share his PW again. I don't remember how old I was but I was definitely in elementary school.
i remember when i was a kid a guy asked me if i wanted to duplicate my earth battle staff. he took me to a remote place told me to drop it and to press "F13" and it would dupe my battle staff. it never worked, he just waited for it to show up to him and took it.. my heart broke that day.
I actually did get what felt to me at the time as a pretty big handout when I was 10, somewhat ignorant, and playing Runescape. I went to the dueling arena and just challenged some people there, constantly losing because I was literally just walking around in steel. I kept fighting one girl over and over and said her adamant armour seemed really cool, and when she left she gave me a full set of mithril armour and a poisoned mithril dagger, which basically was my go to gear all the way up until after I completed Dragon Slayer, discovered fletching, and managed to afford Rune.
I just got lured 2 months ago for 1.6b. I had no idea that someone can walk away from you while in trade screen and when you hit accept, you will run after them. This was a telegrab lure. I'm pretty sure it was one of the people that asked me to buy them feathers and wanted to add me to do it again. Stay safe out there.
My first lesson in investing was when I was in my teens. The grand exchange was fairly new and I wanted to invest in something as I wasn't playing as much anymore. I decided to drop my entire bank into anchovies because they had been dropping in price for a while and we're historically pretty cheap. So I waited for them to go back up in price. Weeks passed. Then months. They kept going down. I lost a lot of RuneScape money on that investment.
I remember back in the day I for the life of me couldn't figure out where cadaver berries were for Romeo and Juliet. And fell for the old "If you give me your password I can complete it for you!" trick. And then of course the Old " You cant type your password backwards in chat" trick....
it happened all the time it was very common to take a break from merching to go to lumby and give out low lvl gear, food, and or gp I loved giving lvl 3's black or steel armor and sending them off to skill till they could wear it some times they'd even come back to show you when they achieved the the lvl to use the gear you gave them. when I got my first membership and was gearing up with a friend to do the quest to unlock zanaris and a player gave us both poisoned dragon daggers that we'd be able to weild after the quest and said good luck. best was giving ppl rune platebodies and sending them off on dragonslayer to wear it.
I still remember you, RangerPk1. You were my friend… or so I thought. We were cool for months so I thought nothing of it when you offered to pay 100k for 2k clay but wanted it up front. And then ghosted me. I’ve held onto that betrayed for 12 years and by God I’ll hold onto it for 100 years more
My life lesson came when I had decided that I was going to make some money trading charged Glory amulets for uncharged ones, for a small convenience fee of course. Most of my business came from people training runecrafting at the abyss, so of course Edgeville was THE hot spot. I get a whisper from someone telling me that he'll pay me extra if I meet him at the monastery with all the level 5 monks. Seems a little weird but hey it's right there, it's easy money, why not. Obviously as I turn the corner and dip into low level wilderness for just a split second I get frozen and all my amulets pocketed. That day I learned that if someone is asking you to do something that seems off, ask yourself why they're asking you to do that.
i cant believe i once fell for wildy lure. i had 6 mil gear on with abyssal whip and i saw some expensive drops on the ground in the wilderness. Just when i started clicking on those items to pick them up, i was skulled and a random person popped up and pked me. i learnt a valuable lesson and i was glad that i had enough gp to buy the same gear again.
Had a guy "try on" my guthans, never saw him again. I didn't expect him to scam me when we had known each other several weeks by that point and I'm a helpful guy, so he blended right in with hundreds of other similar friends. Then had another friend buy me a full set of torags when I was about ready to quit over that devastating loss. Hope he's doing alright, the absolute legend.
I remember at like age 12 I fell for a player pretending to be a Jagex mod and ended up giving them my password. I eventually got it back through the old recovery system but I learned two valuable lessons that day: 1.) Don't trust everything everybody tells you. 2.) There will be some problems in life that my parents have zero ability to help me with.
My interpretation of 'the world is your oyster' was that you yourself are supposed to be the pearl, and it was supposed to be a confidence booster like people saying 'you're the protagonist of your own story'.
The greatest runescape experience that turned into a life lesson for me was market manipulation when the GE first came out. Being part of a large clan, we found out the leadership would use us to buy and sell stuff at the GE at prices that benefitted us. Surely, there are things in place to prevent such things happening in the real world : ^ )
I learned about deflation. Around when construction released, I had made my perceived fortune by runecrafting. Worked my ass off getting enough for a dragon chain cause it was badass. Spent 20 mil for it. The next month construction released. A huge percentage of circulating gold disappeared from the economy cause everybody had to make planks. A month after, dragon chains were worth 10 mil. Second lesson, I posted on the forums I was looking to sell cannon. I got a post telling me he doesnt have cash, but he has a santa hat he would trade me. At the time, a santa hat was roughly the same value as a cannon. But i told him no. I wanted cash. Cash is worthless, get your hands on appreciable assets IRL.
I remember mining enough coal to be able to afford either a santa hat or rune guthix armor. I went for the guthix so i could flex while training as a nonmember. One night while fighting lesser demons on karumja during a thunderstorm the power went out. When i came back online I was dead and someone had swooped up my armor. I was crushed when i returned to the area and saw the guy with my shit
i've learned before; you're not always going to be strong enough... In this case, allies and plans make all the difference, especially if you can prepare for your battles. when i was barely starting out, playing the regular RuneScape, i came across a guy fighting goblins at high levels... he was losing. so... i did the good thing and aided them. in the end, i took the shield in an accident, that he was fighting for. i could not trade the shield. i also learned not to just click anywhere that night.
I learned alot about the real world simulating it in runescape, I also learned the feeling of being the scammer for my first time in that game. Even though I had been the victim of scams more times than I can possibly count, the feeling still haunts me to this day all these years later of the only time i ever logged out with someones items and how bad i feel. It was for about $5-10 usd worth of gold and would happily give the man a fat stack if there was any way i could ever track em down. Its unfathomable to me that this is all people do when they log in.
My cousin "sold" me a house when I first started my account, just took my money and said "she's all yours" and I was so silly I thought I owned that house lmao
Another lesson I think runescape teaches very well is how time is money and money is time. The most efficient way to train a buyable skill depends on how much you can earn per hour in whatever you do to make money, but this kind of thinking also applies to the real world (sometimes it's worth hiring someone else to do something rather than DIY).
Lol, I too got a lot of value in life from RS experiences. Was deep in the pure clan scene for years and I know there’s valueable things I’ve subconciouslly picked up and use in my social life in terms of leadership and teamwork.
Back in middle school my “friend” in real life let me play on his high level alt character that he also mostly used for mining. He convinced me that I should only mine on the account and save up and then I could transfer the money to my main account. This way he got the mining experience and I got the money. Then one day the account got “hacked” by him and he took all the ores and gold I saved up. This actually happened twice before I realized it was him hacking the account. I got him back though when I found out it was him I changed the password and security questions so I ended up stealing the account from him.
I just went p2p as a mid ranked f2p pure. Was super honest i have no clue how to play the game, no idea fhe quests, etc... between 4 people they gave me like 2.5M in gold and another 1.5M worth of food, potions, arrows, teleports. So kind
I have a similar story with the trimming but it's somehow more and less pathetic, I think. I didn't know how shops worked, but i knew how smithing worked, and I grinded hard to be able to build myself a full iron set, when someone came and said the exact same thing. I'm leveling crafting, do you want me to trim your iron armour. I of course said yes, even though I had never seen a trimmed iron set because this was like 2005 and bronze/iron trims weren't in . While I was CAPABLE of going and building another iron set, I stood at the varrock bank right where I traded him for like 3 hours because I thought maybe he had to walk really far away to trim it, or he had forgotten about me and might remember soon it was only the next day that i realised i was lied to, not that he had forgotten
I got phished by an email in 2006 for a vote for dragon pick. Logged in a few days later and found my account upstairs in Juliet’s house in Varrock with all my gold bars gone and full rune gone. From that day I never click a link in an email or text and my passwords all became unique and a completely random string of letters and numbers.
Another ‘life’ lesson may of us learned through RS is one that probably isn’t applicable to just as many people. I learned English through the game! As a non-native speaker my first ever experience with English was through Runescape. However, when I got English in highschool and wrote down: “I’m GONNA get” my teacher did not approve :( And another minor one: typing on a keyboard. One had to keep up with the colorful wiggle text at the Varrock Bank
1:00 I spent a week running Law runes to save up for a whip, probably back in 2006 I got the money, went to seer's village bank and got scammed. I was so heartbroken I quit for a year, only came back because of the GE, the removal of free trade and the PvP-less Wilderness I'm glad this happened to me though, sorta. It made me cautious about any and all transactions, though I'm super skeptical about people now
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Nice NFT & Digital Currency PSA 👍
Nice try, Jim. That's a link you made to steal the 13K and Addy pick in my bank.
Great video! This brought back some memories that I repressed from my childhood. 🫠
PS: It isn't lava. It is magma inside the earth. The best way to remember the difference is that you can fall into lava, but you can't fall into magma... unless you are a dwarf that dug too deep.
@@hadensnodgrass3472 what if you're inside a volcano?
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I'm sorry Jim I couldn't finish this video. The trauma from when I lost my rune pickaxe at age 11 is too great.
The granite maul.... how could they
Same bro. Got lured in the legit dumbest way possible in probably the history of the game.
@@Didyousayweast enjoy your rock hammer noob
I scammed a rune pick in varrock square 10 years ago, I am sorry if it was you
I got my rune pick scammed in a way. Dude was selling it for just 10k and I hopped on that like no other. He kept "misclicking" to cancel the trade and 2 other people were trying to buy it to get me panicking. He tossed an iron pick in, I panic-accepted and he walked off as I followed him begging for my money back.
Man I still remember the day that my parents let me buy a membership for $5. I started fletching and made bows till the point that I could afford full adamant trimmed. I was the happiest kid on the planet, till the day I came home and my little brother told me that he lost it to a scammer in a trade 😂 amazing video Jim, really enjoyed it!
My first day of membership so so soooo long ago I ran to castlewars off gate and got smacked around. Lol. I was dying to try no risk pvp
@@thewearyexile9000 haha them good old days! A game you can plan for years and still don't know how to play it properly
I miss $5 membership 😒
Bro addy trimmed was the shit 👍
@wearehiddenservices5573 So in other words, don't support the company that you enjoy.
It's incredibly nice to have a content creator for this game that doesn't tunnel vision efficiency. Sometimes I just wanna hear some dumb shit that I haven't thought about in over a decade
Theres also Hanannie :)
Idyl is also a good one for this. very underrated atm i think
I think you need to watch pretty much any content creator. Very, and i mean VERY few of them are "tunnel vision efficiency".
What I meant was, sometimes I want to reminisce on how the game was mid 2000s, when a lot of us were pre-teens or teenagers. J1mmy is the dude for this, for sure. Watching people play the game in unique and restricted ways can be fun, but it's all boiled down to them wanting to complete things as quickly as they can. You know, efficiency..
idyl and hannanie are effing annoying id maybe think their content was funny if i was 5 years old but they aint it for me
When I was 10 some guy came up to me at GE. He needed help fighting some wolves in the wilderness for a quest and also I needed to bring my entire cash stack for some reason.
Doofus accidentally killed me when we were in the wilderness. I hope he managed to beat that wolf quest, never saw him again
Lmfao
That gosh-dang doofus. Lol
An older kid bullied me into training his defence level to 30. I emptied his bank and spent about 3 years terrified of bumping into him irl lmao
XD
LOOL
Lmao that's funny
Cedric is that you? I am still mad about that!! 😂 lol jk that wasn’t me. But this comment was funny. Reminded me when I wanted to start a power leveling service for the people I know who played RuneScape. It wasn’t many.
This is such an alpha move 😂
13:40 This one hurts man. I'll never forget my friend of 8 years who I met in the Runescape Help Chat. I helped progress in the game, many adventures, had deep convos. It was 2014, and he broke my trust overnight, took everything. 500m cash. Went as far as alching my skillcapes. He apologized years later and said he'd rebuild to get it back to me. But that was bs.
Shit, that's so fucked up.
How did he do it never share password
My dad still tells the story of the day I got lured when I was like 10. I came crying to him and he felt so bad for me cuz some assholes on the internet took all my stuff lmao. Well I have never once been scammed or tricked like that since, so thank you RuneScape, you taught me well.
Now that's a wholesome story. My dad never gave a shit. He hates games
Took me 3 weeks but finally got around to watching this video.
These were some brutal real lessons I learned. I lost my abby whip from a pk scam as a 13 y/o and didn't come back to the game for 14 years.
Your video was stellar, J1mmy. Take my like.
I misread the last sentence as "take my life" for a moment.
@@0iasame
I think this is my favourite video from you. Everything was a trip down memory lane and the "psychology" behind being a scammer and being okay with ruining someone's day/month/year/life over money is very interesting to me.
I'm sorry for your loss with the p-hat set, probably still stings quite a bit even though it is such a long time ago.
Agreed, best video he's ever done
As a kid I scammed a lot of people with oak logs, back when noted oaks looked identical to noted yews. Got my ass banned for it too.
It wasn't ruining lives. It was so prolific it was part of the RuneScape experience. It was simply one of the ways in the past to 'enjoy' the game.
@@0KiwiStyles0 You’re part of the problem.
@@0KiwiStyles0 Please tell me how you know no lives were ruined by scams.
I think it's fair to say that putting your friendship on the line to scam someone could be seen as ruining someone's life.
And then I'm not even talking about the MLM and crypto scams that literally make people bankrupt which can ruin someone's life too
There was also this one dude in world 87, a guy in a black robe with a frog hat. Always gave advice and help to those who randomly see him in world. He even tells you where other players are and sometimes help when you're in trouble, like getting new players the shoes in that underground barbarian place.
Good times lol
I remember that guy
That's me, I'm the frog guy lol glad to have help
Within 30 minutes of playing I followed a guy to lvl 20 or so wildy and got killed for the starting items from tutorial island. He said he would lead me to the next town lol. Prob did me a favor teaching me that lesson so early on.
Happened to me, too. 11 year old me just quit and went to WoW lol
@Not PC Naw man. Dude's a menace. He enjoyed seeing you succeed which is what made the betrayel so sweet.
Bro same lol. I was even asking like hey what’s the skull over your head? Hey why does it give me an option to attack you now? Hey why are you attacking me?
All for noob level 10 items lol
Holy fuck, I did something like that once to someone new when I was 14. Guy was just looking for cherries for that one quest. I just did it to be a dick.
I remember going to the zamorak church north of falador and being told to take the wine. Which ofcourse led to getting attacked by the zamorak monks who killed you because the scammers kept closing the door. Made me make a new account because I didn't know how to get the tutorial island items back 😂 Jagex later made an update to doors because of people abusing them like that.
I was a victim of the zammy wine, on the edge of the wilderness. Near ice mountain, they kept slamming the door on me while they convinced me the wine was a rare spawn and they'd "Watch the door" my 8 year old self was so sad hahahah
That got me too! I remember it to this day. Fool me once kind of thing
I credit my childhood RuneScape experience for my current day internet awareness. Also J1mmy is the best osrs creator.
Man, I remember I needed a cut gem. But instead of being a smart kid and increasing crafting a couple levels I asked people to cut my uncut gem. Man the amount of uncut gems that were "destroyed during crafting" was unimaginable xD
I, too, lost full mithril armor in the third grade. I spent weeks mining rune essence and selling it to shops (didn't know trade worlds were a thing).
Felt great to finally wear it... Then lost it about five minutes later thinking I'd be op in wildy. I legitimately cried and told my parents about it.
*emotional daaaamage*
Back in the day before G/E. I would spend hours mining tin and copper in lumbridhe swamp, smelt it in bronze and sell it to the general store. Not even noticing the price change per bar I sold them. 😢
RIP my first acount. Player####. Some dude told me there was an insivible gate that would open up into a cool area if I typed in my password. My 6 year old brain had NO clue what was coming.
@@DFW2017 I did this for a bit too, ngl. That and iron ore in the east varrock mine, and later on gold ore in the desert.
Man, back in those days mining was dope. I feel like we all just saw it as an infinite money glitch, whereas now it's just brain numbing and tedious
@@Meowthix huge ripperoni 😪😪😪 if it's any consolation, I /almost/ fell for the "hey, did you guys know jagex hides your password in chat? Watch: **********" trick. Lucky for 8 year old me, there was a kind bystander who told us not to do it
Damn that story about your "friend" taking your phats really struck a chord with me. I had the exact same experience as a 13 y/o with two of my "friends" I had known a played with for over a year. Only I was lucky enough to just lose a dragon platebody. It was only 10m at the time but that was 90% of my bank, and it really meant a lot to me. Made it even worse that the two decided to screw me over for something so small :/ It was a positive lesson in the end, and definitely made me more intentional with deciding who to spend my time with.
Bro, J1mmy, that has got to be the best intro you've ever had to a video. That smile at the end? Just golden.
One might say, dazzling 😁
Lmao, this is so true. I remember when I was 10, my super duper char got stolen by a dude who promised to upgrade me to member. I will never forget this lesson.
holy shit the same thing happened to me but they made me train the account before they changed the password
@@TyhoonRay That's evil, lol.
I lost my first account when someone offered to buy it for 2k and a staff of air. I was so blinded by how much money that was that I traded him, gave him my password, and only after I couldn't log back in did it really sink that the guy gave an account 2k, got the account, and got the money back. We were all dumbass kids once.
my grandpa gave me his account to play on, and someone promised to help me finish a quest and took the account 😭
Lmao one got me with the "if you say your password this'll pop up ***".
Had my whole account taken when i was 9. My mother tried to get it back but back then the support team was 6 dudes in an empty office. So we forgot about it. 10 years later we realized she was still paying for the member fee. I got the account back and it was quite literally untouched. The dude who hacked me didn't realize I was poor as heck.
To the person who came outa nowhere and dclaw speced the guy who lured me out to the wildly in 2012, thank you. I never had to undergo the trauma of being successfully lured because of you.
np i got your back bro
If it was a few guys fronting to be ur friend it could of been me and my online 10 year old gang. We would get someone ok the pk wildly line and ask Wana team up? Lure em out and kill them
I always compared real life to RS in these ways too and it helped me a lot, especially as a kid. I knew things that were hard for me I just needed more experience points in. So many skills and quests irl... Great vid j1m!!! :D
This game helped me get my life on track by teaching me the value in setting goals and following through with completing them. I went from being unemployed to getting a job in a career I'm passionate about. Also chasing gym gainz. 🙏 Thanks RuneScape.
Dam video rlly got you pumped 😂
That’s so true
I remember in high school doing a design technology exam and one of the questions was to name 5 different types of wood. Thank you rs ❤
One of your answer better not have been ‘Magic Logs’ 😂
Lesson 2. When i was a baby scaper (2 years ago) someone traded me 50m worth of random items ive never seen and said he would sell it to me for 30m which was my entire cash stack. I knew it was too good to be true so i declined and logged off. many weeks later i learned they were all random clue items and the prices were waaaaay inflated 4x more than any of them should of been
Someone got me once with the menaphite remedy with inflated price but it was only like 40k so oh well. Honestly that one is partially on the game for being so bad at displaying accurate prices lol (i.e not taking into account when overpriced items aren't selling)
Am currently going through the IRL rebuild and this video helped put a lot of knowledge and lessons and experience that I learned from this game into a greater perspective.
Hell of a fucking video and message, J1mbo. Thank you.
actually laughed so hard at how you transitioned to the ad, well played sir I watched the entire sponsored ad
Mine was the "drop all ur items and press alt+f4 to dupe them" when I was little, happened between varrock and fally between gertrude's house and barb bridge. The sheer anxiety of my little self to realize what tf happened while trying to type in rs, and log in before it showed, I don't even think I remembered the world I was in I was so stressed.
The fact I remember that makes me realize this video triggered tf out of me, damn you Jimmy
ya know Jimmy, for my first comment in idk how long I just wanted to say that you're the ONLY person who has actually had me thinking about buying raycons. You deserve every dollar you were given for that sponsor because you nailed it lol. It wasn't the typical raycon sponsor review, it was colored in and I loved it. Keep up the amazing content Jimbo
Not only did this video bring back age long repressed memories of losing my full Mithril as well to a trimmer.... But it's an amazing learning lesson. I'm going to show this to my kids, they want to start playing Runescape and I hope this helps prepare them. Thank you!
Don’t warn them. They gotta learn the hard way 😮
Old school RuneScape is one of the top communities/societies in the world! All of us 90s babies playing a game together and interacting globally, think about it. Honestly we should form the osrs society. Bunch of people hanging out for 20 years online together and then we meet irl to work on world issues. What a powerful movement it would be!?
We can all be depressed together 😂
Wher varoc
Jim you said 10 years ago when you were a freshman on highschool and then had that "oh God I'm getting old" feeling made me feel old. I graduated 15 years ago. I started playing in 05, have taken breaks but always come back. Thanks for making me feel old
Lmao, the whole second lesson about the merch clans is criminally underrated. Especially with the NFT Link, so funny that we learned to ignore or how to game such things by playing a browser based rpg
Those final words: So fucking relatable.
I played since the MSPaint version.
Runescape and vanilla WoW taught me so much that I didn't know until I became an adult.
Like worldfirst racing in vanilla WoW as a 15 year old in a guild where you need 40 people to raid, just taught me so much about
work-life that when I got into it - all the nuances of interviews/interviewing people (which I got bumped up to start doing very quickly) and generally everything in the "work-meta" (that is basically guild management) just was already there for me.
The story about almost scamming someone as a gambling host brought back such a vivid memory of myself doing the same thing around the exact same timeframe, 2011-2012ish. Except I wasn't as noble to the point of giving away my items, because since I was also just a 14 year old, I covered up my attempted scam with a lie that I got disconnected and gave the guy his money. But I also quit after that until OSRS dropped so I guess the life lesson is gambling always ends with a similar feeling of guilt.
It's so funny I use the GE and Merch Clans as a perfect example every time someone starts yapping to me about buying into some crypto thing or stocks. The GE is literally just a stock exchange with every item being a stock and the number of those items being the number of shares. Of course I didn't understand that until much later, but it all clicked when I was about 18, 19 hearing of the latest bubble or trendy thing.
I went from being scammed as a kid to being a good trade scammer once I was in highschool. I'm a 30 year old returning player, currently playing hardcore ironman mode. Man...time flies. Learned a lot about adulting from this game, no joke.
Same lol
I was 10 years old, and finally got a beautiful set of Adamant armor. Saw a guy alching in level 2 wilderness by that bar north of varrock.
Being a nice person, I walked up to him and said “hey, it’s kinda dangerous to alch here.” 2 seconds later, 2 guys ice barrage me. I was lured. Pain. I lose my armor, and start crying in real life. My mom asks what’s wrong, and then grounds me for playing runescape on a school night.
Childhood, I miss ya.
I'd like to point out the life lesson around 11:00. You were a kid and had a ton of virtual money and realized the wrongs of your doings because of your moral compass and how you were brought up. Lets think now about all the IRL rich kids who have these experiences in real life, but don't have that same moral compass. These are the people making our laws and lobbying our tax money.
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I remember getting scammed for my full black armor my sister had gotten me, underneath Draynor, back around 2008
I was devestated.
I remember the more obscure and specific scams back in the day like the Wine of Zamorak scam with the door. I remember I didn't know the monks would attack and a guy told me to pick up the wine, then the monks started attacking, I tried to rush out the temple but the guy was spamming the door so that it opened and closed endlessly, preventing me to exit the temple, I watched how the monks slowly killed me and I lost all my stuff that he later picked up. The game was full of these glitch/trick type of scam opportunities, I was afraid of simple mechanics of the game since then.
Man, i don't even play OSRS anymore and I still enjoy watching your videos everyday. You know how to make unique content please dont stop creating!
You'll start back up eventually 😂
@@drunkenmmamaster419 man we're just afk, no one can actually leave the game 🤪
My biggest memory was from a RSPS, because I didn’t have money for membership when I was young and they restarted the economy. I was freaking watching these guys sell super rare items for 10k instead of almost to a bill. I was asking one guy why the mods weren’t doing something about it and he said to me”lol dude *we*, are the economy.” And then everything clicked, basic economics all just made sense
Bro the emotion you fealt when you were little was described so fkn well. This game is crazy
This game molded us into men at a young age
biggest life lesson I ever learned was when I decided to join a private server with maxed out everything stats. Then I quickly realized that the game isn't fun when you get everything handed to you. I learned that the game, similar to life, is about the journey to that final destination and not the destination itself that brings value.
That cheeky ass smile after reporting the scammer 😅😂
The thing also about this, is as you mentioned, most players are kids. They aren't taught this is bad, or explicitly told. They discover it, perfect it, and continue these bad habits until they are young adults. Parents have no clue this is doing on, and devs at the time had low visibility on the situation other than reports from other players. So then you have a population of young kids being groomed into con-artists, using any type of social engineering they learned, discovered, or innovated on just to get that dopamine hit of getting cash in Runescape. And then let's not get started once they discover what RWT is... Or are the ones to create it for the game.
IDK, I don't feel like it grooms people. It's a good place for people to learn lessons early. If people are okay scamming others, even in a game then they probably were already heading down that path.
@@AdamantLightLP In terms of the tradition definition of grooming, that's what it is. It's promoting and enabling a certain type of behavior to prime someone for a certain role or person. And in that sense, scamming and gambling. And to say "kids would be going down that road anyways" is an ignorant statement. Some kids are born with temperament that makes them feel more insecure the less things they have, which is why some babies can be jealous or cry when they aren't given attention but something else is (like a sibling or pet). However, there are situations where a child may NOT be going down that path, and get conditioned to do so, especially with a stressful/traumatic experience.
This is anecdotal, but I never scammed while playing runescape until I got scammed. I never thought someone could be so cruel, heartless, selfish, and inconsiderate to manipulate me into falling for their scams. But the lesson I learned is either you're a chump, or the one benefitting off the chumps. Began scamming in Runescape, CS:GO, TF2... Nobody taught me this in my family, friends, or schools. I learned this from the game experience, and it was from the dread I experienced being tricked into losing all my hard earned items because I put my trust in a stranger. And in order for me to get that stuff back, I thought I had to do the same thing.
I got scammed hard years later out of a Karambit Fade to play with a pro player, and since then, I looked back at all the people I scammed and how many I've hurt along that path. That pain, I didnt like, and didnt want to feel again, so I stopped scamming since I brought that pain to others. But I lacked that maturity when I was a kid playing runescape, so at the time I felt justified.
It's only a good environment to learn lessons IF they can draw mature and healthy conclusions to those bad experiences. But if nobody is around to guide kids or people who lack that maturity, they'll go down that path. They didnt have to go down that path, and most likely werent until that experience happened. Dont just assume and throw out possibilities that trauma can turn good people into bad people.
The first skit!! literally just talked about this exact scenario like 2 days ago, once i realized they usually double the first mil I turned my losing streak around HAHAHA
A fun game I like to play with friends is “double or nothing” you hand them 1 gp, they hand you 2gp, you hand them 4gp, etc” winner takes all.
My brother got me into the game and we would play together. He was into ranged and I was into melee, and I liked grinding my skills and he wanted to pk. We both just played for fun so neither of us were very good at what we did lol. The first set of rune armor I bought when I first got 40 def and attack, I went pking because I was like there’s no one that can beat this armor. I got merked and I think cried. Life lessons come quick in this game
Love your videos man! You got me back into the game after like 10 years. It's a blast from the past.
God, hearing Smoking Mils was a throwback for me. I remember putting up 400m gold deposit to get a rank to be a dicing host of the lowest rank (5m max bets). Never ended up hosting enough to make my money back, and never cashed out my deposit.
That first skit had my ribs hurting! Haha
I like this video because J1mmy seems to enjoy talking about it. He's a great commentator with interesting opinions. Sometimes when he posts videos of him playing, I almost detect a mild resentment in his voice. Out of the blue, I'd like him to do a series on his favourite quests in runescape. Something where he can just talk about it. ByRelease is just synopsis at this point more than commentary
Alright I'll say it you have absolutely become my favorite osrs UA-camr. Started watching at the beginning of the by release series and I've watched every video you posted since. Pure comedy gold
Definitely had life lessons in 3 of those locations lol. GE, Varrock West obviously scamming, gambling/GOC, and Lumbridge I got lured onto a pvp world and pk'd in that room west of the castle as you leave the walls.
honestly jim this might be one of the best osrs videos i've ever seen. love the videos and keep coming back anyway but something about this hits different. thanks and keep it up
My chronic distrust and disdain for humans comes solely from the variety of scams I experienced as a kid on Runescape. Especially when I got scammed by that one guy I knew on the game for 3 years who I thought was my great friend.
I feel guilty for what I did to a friend. Rik Is Er, if you're reading this..
You are a human, be careful, but don't have disdain for your fellow man without any reason.
Man I remember losing my Dragon Spear to a scam in the Varrock bank when I was 8 years old. Cried the rest of the day, never been scammed since.
Where most other content creators are engineers, you are a historian and philosopher mr J1m. Great video.
What a masters degree in english does to an mf
"Ten years ago, when I was a freshman in high school--"
My son is named Fletcher. He's 15. I had 99 woodcutting and fletching. I'm 32. Runescape was my life so much that I named my first kid after it.
Honestly, if you grew up playing runescape you are probably doing pretty well for yourself right now
We had money doublers, gambling, and nfts IRL, but what im learning from this video is that the IRL market of luring hasnt been capitalized on yet. Thanks for the idea Jim! Ill be sure to credit you!
I lost my innocence in the library at age 11. Me and my friends went there after school, they took me to the wilderness telling me there was mythril armor there we could get. Got deep enough and they pked me. That day started my supervillain arc. 😢
Your friends killing you is not the same.
I wish i had a runescape friend scam me back in the day. Couple years back it happened to me in real life. Did 200h of labor on my friends construction site. Payment had been agreed upon, but I trusted him and was dumb so we didn't specify the payment amount in the employment contract.
He payed me 20% of what we agreed upon. Effectively stealing 2000€ from me. And there was nothing I could do legally because of the bad contract.
I had known the guy for years, since middle school, through highschool, and even worked the same jobs for a couple years prior. He was part of my core social circle.
People like money more than they like you.
I love your story telling. Very inspiring =-)
I was born in a small mexican town in 97. Runescape taught me to speak english (perfectly), taught me about work (do a grind get something in return), about supply and demand, about people (some arent good) and many things.
I will MAKE my kids play runescape as homework, i think its the best (safest) school out there
Chessy and smokinmils lol I remember that.
I called NFTs on day 1 of hearing them. Coworkers were like “naw man they’re the next evolution in the fine art world”
I tried to think of a way to say “I learned this lesson 15 years ago on a computer game” but I couldn’t do that in a way they would understand.
Btw the fine art world is a scam and mostly full of money laundering and illicit trade, but a lot of people don’t want to hear that too.
I'm not sure if it counts as a lure but it happened when they added in PVP worlds after removing the wilderness. I was one of those kids who would 1 item and I would use a G Maul which was most of my money at the time. I was attacked by a guy with Ancients and he ran me through the Lumbridge graveyard into the swamp where his friend was waiting. The guy with ancients had Smite on and would keep freezing me while his friend kept healing me with Lunars. I lost my G Maul that day.
The lesson we didn't deserve, but needed.
Thank you for this video and for all your other video's. I have played RuneScape a lot when I was a kid about 20 years ago. Not being able to be a member because my parents wouldn't let me subscribe to this online game and paying for it. Witnessing the Halloween event with the Halloween masks that were selling for 100k back then. I was never able to afford them back at the time, unfortunately. I really loved the green Halloween Masks. Tiara's being introduced, and me farming if I remember correctly: silver? To craft them and sell them for a quick profit. Being lured to the wildy to be killed by someone else. Everyone had the key to the Varrock's bank vault and knew someone how to get in, which never happened (as far as I know that gate is still shut) and mages using magic to get the gold bars or coins from behind the gate. Endlessly going out for lobster fishing and then cooking them only for half to be burned, selling those lobsters manually with flashing text bubbles behind Varrock's bank because there was not a grand exchange back then. Money that I made buying flashy gear like; Black Gold Armor (or something? I'm doing this by memory) and Black Silver Armor, Zamorak armor? They really stood out because not a lot of players had these kinds of gear. And yes, even me *scamming* players in to buying *burned bones* and told people it was really special and turned in to a ludicrous business (found in the wildy way up north back then). Oh man... You bring memories back.
Thanks again.
p.s. My parent's bought 2 months of member subscription at the end and I was having an absolute blast.
RuneScape taught me I wasn't meant for a life of crime.
When a lvl 6 new member told me their PW, i quickly changed the PW. And sat there.... A good 3 minutes later I changed it back, didn't take anything, and told him not to share his PW again. I don't remember how old I was but I was definitely in elementary school.
i remember when i was a kid a guy asked me if i wanted to duplicate my earth battle staff. he took me to a remote place told me to drop it and to press "F13" and it would dupe my battle staff. it never worked, he just waited for it to show up to him and took it.. my heart broke that day.
I actually did get what felt to me at the time as a pretty big handout when I was 10, somewhat ignorant, and playing Runescape.
I went to the dueling arena and just challenged some people there, constantly losing because I was literally just walking around in steel. I kept fighting one girl over and over and said her adamant armour seemed really cool, and when she left she gave me a full set of mithril armour and a poisoned mithril dagger, which basically was my go to gear all the way up until after I completed Dragon Slayer, discovered fletching, and managed to afford Rune.
Your sense of comedy and pacing is both unique and familiar at the same time. Never change dude
I just got lured 2 months ago for 1.6b. I had no idea that someone can walk away from you while in trade screen and when you hit accept, you will run after them. This was a telegrab lure. I'm pretty sure it was one of the people that asked me to buy them feathers and wanted to add me to do it again. Stay safe out there.
My first lesson in investing was when I was in my teens. The grand exchange was fairly new and I wanted to invest in something as I wasn't playing as much anymore. I decided to drop my entire bank into anchovies because they had been dropping in price for a while and we're historically pretty cheap. So I waited for them to go back up in price. Weeks passed. Then months. They kept going down. I lost a lot of RuneScape money on that investment.
I remember back in the day I for the life of me couldn't figure out where cadaver berries were for Romeo and Juliet. And fell for the old "If you give me your password I can complete it for you!" trick.
And then of course the Old " You cant type your password backwards in chat" trick....
it happened all the time it was very common to take a break from merching to go to lumby and give out low lvl gear, food, and or gp I loved giving lvl 3's black or steel armor and sending them off to skill till they could wear it some times they'd even come back to show you when they achieved the the lvl to use the gear you gave them. when I got my first membership and was gearing up with a friend to do the quest to unlock zanaris and a player gave us both poisoned dragon daggers that we'd be able to weild after the quest and said good luck. best was giving ppl rune platebodies and sending them off on dragonslayer to wear it.
I still remember you, RangerPk1. You were my friend… or so I thought. We were cool for months so I thought nothing of it when you offered to pay 100k for 2k clay but wanted it up front. And then ghosted me. I’ve held onto that betrayed for 12 years and by God I’ll hold onto it for 100 years more
My life lesson came when I had decided that I was going to make some money trading charged Glory amulets for uncharged ones, for a small convenience fee of course. Most of my business came from people training runecrafting at the abyss, so of course Edgeville was THE hot spot. I get a whisper from someone telling me that he'll pay me extra if I meet him at the monastery with all the level 5 monks. Seems a little weird but hey it's right there, it's easy money, why not. Obviously as I turn the corner and dip into low level wilderness for just a split second I get frozen and all my amulets pocketed.
That day I learned that if someone is asking you to do something that seems off, ask yourself why they're asking you to do that.
i cant believe i once fell for wildy lure. i had 6 mil gear on with abyssal whip and i saw some expensive drops on the ground in the wilderness. Just when i started clicking on those items to pick them up, i was skulled and a random person popped up and pked me. i learnt a valuable lesson and i was glad that i had enough gp to buy the same gear again.
Had a guy "try on" my guthans, never saw him again. I didn't expect him to scam me when we had known each other several weeks by that point and I'm a helpful guy, so he blended right in with hundreds of other similar friends. Then had another friend buy me a full set of torags when I was about ready to quit over that devastating loss. Hope he's doing alright, the absolute legend.
I remember at like age 12 I fell for a player pretending to be a Jagex mod and ended up giving them my password. I eventually got it back through the old recovery system but I learned two valuable lessons that day: 1.) Don't trust everything everybody tells you. 2.) There will be some problems in life that my parents have zero ability to help me with.
My interpretation of 'the world is your oyster' was that you yourself are supposed to be the pearl, and it was supposed to be a confidence booster like people saying 'you're the protagonist of your own story'.
The greatest runescape experience that turned into a life lesson for me was market manipulation when the GE first came out. Being part of a large clan, we found out the leadership would use us to buy and sell stuff at the GE at prices that benefitted us. Surely, there are things in place to prevent such things happening in the real world : ^ )
I learned about deflation. Around when construction released, I had made my perceived fortune by runecrafting. Worked my ass off getting enough for a dragon chain cause it was badass. Spent 20 mil for it. The next month construction released. A huge percentage of circulating gold disappeared from the economy cause everybody had to make planks. A month after, dragon chains were worth 10 mil.
Second lesson, I posted on the forums I was looking to sell cannon. I got a post telling me he doesnt have cash, but he has a santa hat he would trade me. At the time, a santa hat was roughly the same value as a cannon. But i told him no. I wanted cash. Cash is worthless, get your hands on appreciable assets IRL.
I remember mining enough coal to be able to afford either a santa hat or rune guthix armor. I went for the guthix so i could flex while training as a nonmember. One night while fighting lesser demons on karumja during a thunderstorm the power went out. When i came back online I was dead and someone had swooped up my armor. I was crushed when i returned to the area and saw the guy with my shit
i've learned before;
you're not always going to be strong enough... In this case, allies and plans make all the difference, especially if you can prepare for your battles.
when i was barely starting out, playing the regular RuneScape, i came across a guy fighting goblins at high levels... he was losing. so... i did the good thing and aided them. in the end, i took the shield in an accident, that he was fighting for. i could not trade the shield. i also learned not to just click anywhere that night.
we took turns fighting the goblin general or whatever, only for me to take something i shouldn't have.
I learned alot about the real world simulating it in runescape, I also learned the feeling of being the scammer for my first time in that game. Even though I had been the victim of scams more times than I can possibly count, the feeling still haunts me to this day all these years later of the only time i ever logged out with someones items and how bad i feel. It was for about $5-10 usd worth of gold and would happily give the man a fat stack if there was any way i could ever track em down. Its unfathomable to me that this is all people do when they log in.
i still remmeber losing my first set of trimmed rune armor years back. Haven't lost anything after that, so it was a good lesson.
My cousin "sold" me a house when I first started my account, just took my money and said "she's all yours" and I was so silly I thought I owned that house lmao
Another lesson I think runescape teaches very well is how time is money and money is time. The most efficient way to train a buyable skill depends on how much you can earn per hour in whatever you do to make money, but this kind of thinking also applies to the real world (sometimes it's worth hiring someone else to do something rather than DIY).
Lol, I too got a lot of value in life from RS experiences. Was deep in the pure clan scene for years and I know there’s valueable things I’ve subconciouslly picked up and use in my social life in terms of leadership and teamwork.
Back in middle school my “friend” in real life let me play on his high level alt character that he also mostly used for mining. He convinced me that I should only mine on the account and save up and then I could transfer the money to my main account. This way he got the mining experience and I got the money. Then one day the account got “hacked” by him and he took all the ores and gold I saved up. This actually happened twice before I realized it was him hacking the account. I got him back though when I found out it was him I changed the password and security questions so I ended up stealing the account from him.
I just went p2p as a mid ranked f2p pure. Was super honest i have no clue how to play the game, no idea fhe quests, etc... between 4 people they gave me like 2.5M in gold and another 1.5M worth of food, potions, arrows, teleports.
So kind
I have a similar story with the trimming but it's somehow more and less pathetic, I think. I didn't know how shops worked, but i knew how smithing worked, and I grinded hard to be able to build myself a full iron set, when someone came and said the exact same thing. I'm leveling crafting, do you want me to trim your iron armour.
I of course said yes, even though I had never seen a trimmed iron set because this was like 2005 and bronze/iron trims weren't in .
While I was CAPABLE of going and building another iron set, I stood at the varrock bank right where I traded him for like 3 hours because I thought maybe he had to walk really far away to trim it, or he had forgotten about me and might remember soon
it was only the next day that i realised i was lied to, not that he had forgotten
I got phished by an email in 2006 for a vote for dragon pick.
Logged in a few days later and found my account upstairs in Juliet’s house in Varrock with all my gold bars gone and full rune gone.
From that day I never click a link in an email or text and my passwords all became unique and a completely random string of letters and numbers.
I hate ads, but I’m still watching and giggling at this one. Excited for the new video, much love man
Another ‘life’ lesson may of us learned through RS is one that probably isn’t applicable to just as many people. I learned English through the game! As a non-native speaker my first ever experience with English was through Runescape. However, when I got English in highschool and wrote down: “I’m GONNA get” my teacher did not approve :(
And another minor one: typing on a keyboard. One had to keep up with the colorful wiggle text at the Varrock Bank
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I spent a week running Law runes to save up for a whip, probably back in 2006
I got the money, went to seer's village bank and got scammed. I was so heartbroken I quit for a year, only came back because of the GE, the removal of free trade and the PvP-less Wilderness
I'm glad this happened to me though, sorta. It made me cautious about any and all transactions, though I'm super skeptical about people now