One of my best friends from RS is someone I talk to on AIM, even when he or I is taking a break from the game. We've talked about everything under the sun, including music. He introduced me to a lot of music and one of his favorite bands is Anberlin, now one of my favorite bands I had never heard of them before him. If you're like me, you know good music can really change your life/make it better/happier. I had a few minutes between classes recently so I was playing some RS in the computer lab, one of the guys from my basketball team saw me and was excited to see my character since he plays too. Since then we've gotten closer, hang out more often and stuff like that. Before finding RS in common, we were friends, but not nearly as close. Recently after an away game, we got to our cars in the parking lot around 12am. Normally he would leave, but we were chit chatting and found out my keys were stuck in my car. 1 hour later we got the doors unlocked after he drove me with his car to my house for my extra set. Essentially, I would have had to walk around 10 miles in 20 degree temperature if it wasn't for RS and the connection I made because of it. There are lots more examples if I really thought about them - but in the end, if this game died tonight, I wouldn't perish with it, but at the same time, it does have residual effects on almost everyone...