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       〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 The single most important link you can have: The Official Goonscape Discord, Where everybody knows your shitposts ***NOTE: New discord members must be manually approved by a discord admin, which generally happens rather quickly, but will happen even more quickly if you drop a post in this thread, letting us know that you are a goon and not a bot.*** 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 What is Runescape? Runescape is one of the longest-running MMORPGs in existence. Originally released in 2001, it has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest and most-updated free MMORPG with over 200 million accounts created. Set in the land of Gielinor, you are the lowly shitfarmer protagonist set out to right wrongs and wrong rights on your way to fame, fortune, and a good time. Originally a browser-based Java behemoth, Runescape is now a client-based game with Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android versions, in addition to being available through Steam. You can now mine rocks for fish from the comfort of your own phone or tablet while ignoring your real-world responsibilities 24/7. Here, have a video to increase your foundational interaction with the game like a good zoomer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb19KRIlfLQ Why should I play some 20-year-old game with 30-year-old graphics? Runescape's largest claim-to-fame is, and has always been, its Pavlovian exploitation of your dopamine reactions to get you to grind xp to fill up your nerd bars for its now impressive array of 27 individual skills over up to 120 levels each (and beyond). To do so, you'll need to repetitively click, click, click your way through and endless series of tasks to generate that sweet, sweet XP that your body will be trained to crave. Wait, so this is like Cookie Clicker? In a way, yes. This game fulfills a lot of the same psychological functions as an incremental clicker game, so much so that there is a literal incremental clicker game based off of the skills and items present in-game. However, it's not as direct an analogue, as the game breaks down into a series of sequential tasks to perform for each skill that are often intermingled with other skills. For instance, you could click a rock to mine some ore, and you'll have the option of (a) clicking once and waiting for your inventory to slowly fill, (b) clicking a new rock about every 30-40 seconds to fill your inventory much faster, or (c) clicking rocks every 2.5 seconds to get a small increase in mining rate over Option B. Once you've filled up your bag with ore, you need to run them back to your ore storage in town (either a bank or a furnace), and once you've collected a satisfactory number of ore, you can swap over to crafting the ore into bars at a furnace, and then the bars into items at an anvil, each step having its own variable trade-off of speed vs. interactivity. It's all about personal pacing, and what you want out of the game. The only thing that is critical to min-max in the game is your shitposting skills, as that is the only way to command the respect and admiration of your fellow goons, who after 2 decades of clicking rocks, have nothing else left to live for. Also, cosmetic microtransactions out the loving wazoo: https://i.imgur.com/OTW4BUg.gifv  So, what sort of content does it offer beyond repetitive clicking? Well, with 20 years of development, Runescape also offers all of the following delightful, and enjoyable activities to distract you from the hollow ennui that threatens to overwhelm your life:
Additionally, and this cannot be stressed enough, this game has been under active development for TWENTY GODDAMN YEARS. New skills get released, new quests, new dungeons, new raids, and they even make an effort to go back and polish and/or completely overhaul old content to free the game of the cruft of a lifetime of tacking new poo poo on. Uh huh. So what does membership get me? Honestly, everything. The game's almost unplayable without some sort of subscription (membership). You can grab a free account, log in, do all the tutorial stuff, but 99% of the interesting bits of the game are locked behind a subscription. Now, you might be scrunching up your nose at dropping  a month to play an MMO in TYOOL 2020, and if so, that's cool too, because you rapidly get to the point where you can purchase play-time with in-game money on the regular, to at least keep yourself active, although it requires a bit of daily play to do so.This poo poo is way too fancy. Where is the Runescape of my youth? So, many years ago, Runescape followed the path of asexual reproduction, and split itself into 2 versions of itself, the current Runescape (also known as Runescape 3), and the 2007-era version of Runescape, currently marketed as Old-School Runescape. Both versions are entirely separate from each other, save that a single membership entitles you to all of the membership benefits in both versions. Goons have solid representation in both games, and they both appeal to different types of players, so feel free to give both a try. Notably, both are under active development with their own independent dev teams and receive entirely different (although sometimes similar) content. Ok, suppose I'm the sort of sucker that wants to waste the remains of my miserable life in pursuit of this game, ignoring my pending worldly responsibilities, what do I need to know? The single most important link you can have: The Official Goonscape Discord, Where everybody knows your shitposts ***NOTE: New discord members must be manually approved by a discord admin, which generally happens rather quickly, but will happen even more quickly if you drop a post in this thread, letting us know that you are a goon and not a bot.*** Additionally, to join the clan in-game (for RS3), do the following:
First and foremost, you'll want to get the client: RS3
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The official wikis (do not use, link to, or otherwise access the Fandom-based wikis, they are ad-encrusted pieces of poo poo): 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 If you've read this far, and surely nobody of good character or upbringing would, here's some other info about the game that may appeal to you: Skills: Skills are the meat of this game. Almost everything revolves around training them to their maximum level of 99 (or 120 for new/updated skills) and beyond, and below are quick and brief descriptions about each of them below (Members-only skills, that are capped at level 5 for non-members are designated with Ⓜ):
Distractions and Diversions:
Personalized content: All of the following are your personal player-owned locations that you can customize and upgrade as you see fit:
〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Historical: Thread 7 can be found here. Thread 6 can be found here. Thread 5 can be found here. Thread 4 can be found here. Thread 3 can be found here. Thread 2 can be found here. Thread 1 can be found here. I credit and/or thank absolutely no-one for their words that I have shamelessly stolen. I didn't even want to have to write this OP. Toshimo fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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Attack
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🔜 This space reserved for: One of the OSRS nerds to give me a bunch of OSRS content
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🔜 A cool and good piece of advice for returning goons about which quests to prioritize for ~gameplay~ purposes: quote:I'd say the most important milestones to hit, for every player are to (a) get access to Menaphos via Jack of Spades, which I think is really a goal for people with level ~20-30 in most skills, and (b) get access Prifidinas via Plague's End which has a ton of level ~75 requirements. The other Big drat Deal thing, to a certain extent, is to complete the megaquest Recipe for Disaster, which ahas a poo poo ton of rewards. IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT YOU SHOULD ALL BE LISTENING TO THIS SICK BEAT: https://soundcloud.com/runescapesou...for-nourishment  This space reserved for: GOON SHITPOST CONTENT - Send me your best chat logs, gifs, and other assorted Runescape Media. Toshimo fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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I like to click things and watch numbers go up and I hope you will too
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posting itt for an invite for Ya0ifangurl tia in advance
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Already in the clan however i promise thejanitor#3614 is not a discord bot
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I, a nerd, joined the nerd discord as roarr.
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Toshimo I haven't played in a while but this is a good OP and your favorite vegan bird roleplayer sends love. If you haven't played RS3 it is a legit good MMO with a legit great story and yes, I'm just as mad about that as you are. edit: Simsmagic posted:I like to click things and watch numbers go up and I hope you will too I'm glad we can't escape more Zanik being thrust unwillingly into our lives even when we don't play atm Sab Sabbington fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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I am not currently playing this game because I'm neck deep in other timesinks, but RS is fun and cool and good.
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Sab Sabbington posted:If you haven't played RS3 it is a legit good MMO with a legit great story and yes, I'm just as mad about that as you are. oh also the bird god is a legit radical antifascist who's here to gently caress poo poo UP in the name of JUSTICE and if you don't think that's the raddest poo poo you can get out of my face RS3 also got rid of a bunch of the racism if that matters to you (it should)
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Sab Sabbington posted:oh also the bird god is a legit radical antifascist who's here to gently caress poo poo UP in the name of JUSTICE and if you don't think that's the raddest poo poo you can get out of my face He's a radical antifascist and gay af We stan one (1) sick rear end bird god.
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Sab Sabbington posted:oh also the bird god is a legit radical antifascist who's here to gently caress poo poo UP in the name of JUSTICE and if you don't think that's the raddest poo poo you can get out of my face They finally got rid of Xuan and his horrible 'Asian' voice acting?
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Themata posted:They finally got rid of Xuan and his horrible 'Asian' voice acting? Oh, nah, just the Al-Kharid and gross jungle-related stuff.
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Simsmagic posted:I like to click things and watch numbers go up and I hope you will too
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I love my idiot incel god Zaros and you will too
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where the gently caress is the slayer tag for the thread
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I currently don't have access to my large pile of old RS trash for the shitposting part of the OP, but here's some of the stuff I could find: Look up your username on this youtube channel. Ex-Jmod on the development of Desert Treasure    
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I'm here for the jorts. Comrade Marx#0914 / HajjPodge ingame
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It's really important to me that everybody reads this one.
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Run, Escape!
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Eox posted:It's really important to me that everybody reads this one. allah allah ackbar zamorak 
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Lmao that a runescape intern went to Frontier. Makes sense.
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That mod saying miscellania was overbalanced into uselessness is ironman erasure
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no ones cares about ironman except the nerds that do it why would the devs be different
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I downloaded RS3 on steam and played for about 15 minutes, then went afk for probably 20 came back with an image burnt into my monitor from the login screen. It went away after several hours, but it's very cool that a videogame can potentially cause permanent damage to hardware.
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For some reason I decided to play OSRS again and now I'm hopelessly sucked down the rabbit hole of this stupid game. Numbers go up. Hooplah posted:That mod saying miscellania was overbalanced into uselessness is ironman erasure Playing ironman will lead you to appreciate many aspects of the game that could be ignored if you just spent a handful of gold at the GE I spent like 3 hours temple trekking just to get watermelon seeds Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Dec 2, 2020 |
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I, for one, appreciate our new zanik overlords
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Huh, new thread. May as well bookmark it. Game is... sometimes good. They need to go back to doing more quests. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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PriNGLeS posted:I downloaded RS3 on steam and played for about 15 minutes, then went afk for probably 20 came back with an image burnt into my monitor from the login screen. You should probably upgrade from an early 2000s plasma tv as your computer monitor. Lmao.
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how the gently caress do you get screen burn after 20 minutes
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Goast posted:how the gently caress do you get screen burn after 20 minutes Basically this, but with your plasma TV: 
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thank god runescape itself doesn't involve looking at the same thing for upwards of 20 minutes
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Fashionscape is alive and well.
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Eox posted:thank god runescape itself doesn't involve looking at the same thing for upwards of 20 minutes just run the Anachronia agility route until you hit 200m exp then quit the game. No screen burn AND you get to feel empty when everyone reflexively congratulates you on your achievement.
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These screenshots are confusing me. Wasn't Runescape the Richard Garriot RPG that looked like Dink Smallwood?
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That's a heck of a good banner ad. So many of them on SA nowadays, it's really nice.
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Carly Rae Jetson (ZordonRamsay) reporting for Discord duty
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