funny but also sad but also nice to look back at the first page of this diary in 2023 being all about how depressed i was a few years ago and how i got addicted to this game to cope, then concluding that i probably can't play it anymore, and now it's five pages later. funny because haha idiot you really thought, sad because ah man i'm still playing it, but nice because a lot of my problems stemmed from not being able to have a healthy relationship with the game, which i feel a lot better about now. the trick is to start writing a diary so you trick yourself into thinking you're getting something worthwhile out of it

that and to detach from the montony every once in a while. by which i mean checking out new monotony. my tour of Varlamore continues in the form of taking self-invited tours around absent rich people's homes. always hated having to train thieving because i enjoy not having repetitive strain injury [my eyes dart towards the wrist rest thing i bought because of Path of Exile] so i'm glad there's now a good way to do so that doesn't involve constant clicking, even if it devalues my physical pain

it is weird now that i think about the fact thieving has never really involved being stealthy in any capacity, but then i remember how awful stealth segments have been in this awful laggy game's quests. it's good i can just endlessly click on the same guy i'm standing right in front of to keep stealing from him without him noticing. i'm such a good thief i can't break into a home without breaking my key in the door literally every single time. i mean whatever the game is littered with funny video game logic things this is just my first time seeing this one. the other day i was digging up a tree stump (3-second process), it grew back before i could finish and it said in the chat "too late! tree back"

there's a Hunter Guild now. they recently added the occasional event while woodcutting where i'll have to save a fox from poachers' traps. feeling good about my heroic deeds i then head on over to my fur and leather-clad friends at the hunting guild and agree to murder one hundred innocent animals via extremely painful traps, for fun. it's fine though because the means are justified by my ends (unlocking a whistle i can use to call my big bird (who is enslaved))

i can't believe this though: there's a pity system for my kill contracts. after a certain amount of small rabbit blood on my hands i am guaranteed the drop i need. this game actually acknowledges the concept. so why the HELL can't i have my doublefish barrel already YES i'm still regularly playing rounds of Tempoross i don't want to talk about it. it's really nothing compared to other grinds in this game but in the middle of my Trying New Things Quest i have negative tolerance for it

i've been working to maximize my herb runs. just following orders from the hunter guild allowed me to teleport close to a new patch in Varlamore, and next up was completing the hard-tier Lumbridge/Draynor achievements so i can turn into a cabbage as often as i want instead of only three times a day (i won't be elaborating for non-runescape players). this involved unlocking the Bones to Peaches spell from the Mage Training Arena which i was horrified to learn i had not done already. i suppose i will elaborate for non-runescape players. this is one of the worst activities in a game full of worst activities

final task involved waiting for a farm crop to grow, so in the meantime the next step to becoming herb rich was Making Friends with My Arm, funny little troll quest that allows me to teleport to two more patches. one of these days i gotta knock out a bunch of newer quests because they're a good time. someone was watching me play the other day so i chose a random one to do to get across that the game is not boring as sin 100% of the time. quest was about the British Museum, and they weren't british and i am so i made sure my character was doing the "disapproving head shake" emote whenever i could

how beautiful it is for two souls clearly animated fourteen years apart to come together in holy matrimony

a bunch of mining later and i now have two more portals in my house leading to herb patches in Weiss and Trollheim, but to make better use of the latter i needed to go from 72 to 73 agility. this took two hours of clicking. while playing this lately i've been visualizing it as a scale in my head, one side labeled "yeah runescape is pretty cool :)" and the other "oh wait this game is actually for insane people". it's a tough balancing act sometimes

what have i been up to. well a lot of bouncing around as always, further solidifying that you could not pay me to play an ultimate ironman, as i hear i would really have to commit to single grinds for potentially weeks at a time. my ever-changing agenda.txt file included completing the hard Ardougne diary for extra farming teleports, on my quest to increase my daily herbage. for this i need a dragon shield half, which i am most likely to get from these freaks for very funny reasons

i found a post online explaining the deal with these guys but to sum up, it's usually a 1 in whatever-a-lot-of-thousand chance to get the shielf half, on a special rare drop table shared by many monsters in the game. but because of spaghetticode reasons this rare drop table becomes their regular drop table, and i can't access the regular regular drop table unless i kill them in the middle of, playing with my pet cat. anyway the new drop rate for the shield half is 1/244 and i didn't get it after killing many more than that so i stopped and did other things

went through (most of) Barbarian Training, trying completing the hard Kandarin diary for increased herb yield. thought i just had to do that get 70 smithing then i'd be good. i did not notice the 70 prayer requirement. it's my lowest level skill and i don't know how i could even find the patience to get it that high. i recently got access to Tears of Guthix to give me a chunk of XP in my babyest skill every week so maybe i'll just let that carry me through for the next couple years

this got announced today lol. i guess i can talk about it here instead of its own diary since i doubt i'll get the chance to play it before they shut it down. it doesn't matter if it has RuneScape in the name, if it isn't actual literal RuneScape itself or an old school version of it then it will not last long in Jagex's hands. people who've played it already are saying it's Valheim. looked up Valheim because i've never seen it and why does that look way more like RuneScape than this does. whatever maybe it'll be fun. but who will ever know

i got it finally....last night a friend was talking to me about recent hardships over a call and i erupted into hooting and hollering in the middle of it. i explained i got a sweet barrel with a picture of a fish on it in this game and she understood. i was also pretty drunk which either that or being high is slowly becoming a prerequisite for me logging on. i will likely not be doing any difficult combat activities soon but that's fine. anyway

alright well i was gonna get a pic of me sailing all the way over to the Tempoross rewards guy aiming at him with a cannon but i didn't realize the alpha for sailing ended already. i had this cannon-less screenshot if this works. i'm going to throw those 1,999,998 nails at him instead

ok look i was real stoned the other day and i fell for some stupid steam phishing page, they got into my runescape account through it and took my freakin bottomless compost bucket. i am quite mad about this as the hacker did not even have the decency to get me killed. just adding onto this page to say as farming is all i've been logging on to do and not having my big rare bucket makes it too big a chore, i am thus declaring this a Burnout Point