RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'
RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'
Makes the Moon landing look like a walk in the park.
I understand none of this.
Have you heard of Cookie Clicker? It's an idler game where you click a cookie to get points. You can spend those points on upgrades like automated clicking and more points per click. The goal is to get like a billion points or something but with the upgrades you're eventually getting millions of points a second without even clicking. Now imagine saying "I want to hit a billion points without buying a single upgrade. I'm literally just going to click the cookie a billion times." That's what this guy did, but with Old School Runescape.
There's been a trend of extreme OSRS players trying to one up each other in dedicating years of their life to doing a repetitive task for 18 hours a day, every day.
I played that game like 20 years ago. They put players in zone based house arrest? Wtf is that? But then you can somehow grind your way out of it?
Edit: oh it was self imposed.
I guess everyone needs a hobby but this one sounds less rewarding to me than others.
Just for reference, a year of full-time work is about 2000 hours. This dude did the equivalent of 5 years of working for this.
how much of that was automated?