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Yeah, well, we all know that there *are* ways to play while one sleeps. I have no idea if this person did it or not, and I won't accuse her of doing so, but plenty of people rack up tons of hours on RS in that manner. One more reason that glorifying the mere accumulation of hours in a video game is ridiculous.

And which jobs would those be, exactly?

I highly doubt this person is bedridden. And being bedridden is not an excuse for being a video game addict, IMO.

Of the 168 hours in a week, the average person has to spend roughly 50 of those on sleep, and 50 of them on work/school plus incidental time related to work (travel time, dealing with the car, shopping, projects, homework, the odd late night, etc.) Tha leaves 68 or so hours for everything else. That includes: personal care, all forms of entertainment, cooking, cleaning, spending time with friends, helping out family, exercise -- and a lot more. Anyone who is spending 63 of those remaining 68 hours of that time on a video game has life balance issues. Same applies to anyone who is skimping on either sleep or work/school in order to fit in ridiculous numbers of hours on a video game.

Try Veracs too. I haven't done any formal tests yet, but my guess is that it will work well.

You could try -- but you won't get very far. First of all, notoriety and accomplishment are not equivalent, nor is one required for the other. Mark David Chapman is notorious, but would any sane person consider him "accomplished"? On the flip side, there are millions of excellent people all around the world racking up valuable accomplishments without getting much recognition for them. So you could call this record notorious, but what really has been accomplished? Second, this record isn't really "outside the community" anyway -- it's in a special "gamer's edition" of the Guinness records. Maybe some people missed that. It's a separate book that Guinness publishes. Finally, do you REALLY think that non-gamers will be impressed with this so-called "record"? Good luck with that! I feel pretty confident that it will be viewed in about the same way as people view the record for world's fattest man -- with a combination of contempt and pity. I doubt you'd find more than 1% of non-gamers, or even participants in other games, who think this is an "accomplishment" -- and you'd probably find WELL more than half who feel quite negatively about it. I looked through the comments in the thread referenced at the start of this thread, and if I reposted them here they'd be deleted. There was not one positive comment about this so-called "record". It is wrong to deify someone over an "accomplishment" that is basically equivalent to spending 9 hours a day, every day, for five years, watching television. I bear no personal ill will towards this individual -- I just think she is a very BAD role model. It sends the wrong message to a community largely composed of impressionable children and teens to have this person be considered some sort of a hero when she is not. Addiction is not something to be glorified, nor should young people be encouraged to go after "records" that involve simply wasting thousands of hours of time on meaninglessness. Guinness has in the past removed categories of records from their books because they encouraged destructive behavior. This one is pretty close to being deserving of the same fate, IMO.

It depends entirely on what you want to fish, and that in turn depends on how much attention you want to pay while playing, and how much money you want to earn doing it.

Can you add the secondary herb to make an extreme potion to the lesser one when it's in (4) or must it be a (3)? Must be (3)s'. Is the Overload only 1 dose, or is it a standard 1-4 dose potion? They are standard except for being untradeable. So you make them as (3)s and can decant them into (4)s (or have the GE dude do it). If the latter is true for the above question, must you have the ingredients that are potions at the same dosage (e.g they all have to be 3 or 4)? Yes. Lastly, when making overloads, can you just use 1 potion with another (or the torstol) and it automatically makes an overload, or do you have to add each potion in to an overload (unf) or something like that? Just one action -- click the torstol, then click one of the potions, and it figures it out. But because of all the ingredients, you can only make 4 at a time.

There *are* legitimate accomplishments even within Runescape. Like the guys who figure out how to solo "unsoloable" monsters... or people who find very efficient ways of doing things. Or people who set up and run large clans, find smart ways to make money, and so forth. But this person is being "honored" for nothing more than spending gobs of time online. And that's *not* an accomplishment, any more than spending 16,000 hours at the mall is, or spending 16,000 hours drinking cherry coke.

Ya got me! I'm jealous because I can't spend five years sitting on my [wagon] playing a video game full time. LOL I'm also insanely jealous of Ken Edwards. What an achievement!

Child abuse is everyone's business. Too many people in the world are too self-absorbed to get involved when there's an obvious problem. And a parent who plays Runescape 15 hours a day every day is a problem. Yes, actually, we were. That's what the thread is about, and what the post was that I replied to. I already said that I didn't think there was anything wrong with the occasional binge of Runescape (or anything else). The problem is addicts who go overboard. Perhaps you should re-read the thread. Actually, I didn't insult you at all. Again, I suggest you re-read the thread and point out specifically where I "threw insults" -- you won't find any. Most RS players are not adults with children. And they don't understand very much about parenting. If you actually do have children, well, that's even worse. I was actually trying to give you the benefit of the doubt.

About as impressive as setting a record for most consecutive days lying around high on the couch. Does Guinness have a category for that? ;) If I knew about it, it *would* be my business. You might be okay with a child remaining with an unfit parent, but I would not. (Of course you're probably not even an adult anyway, so I don't really expect you to understand.)

You should never do Firemaking at the GE. Why? You can't use a familiar there. You should always have a foraging familiar out if you aren't using something else for a particular purpose -- it can potentially earn you enough in foraged items each hour to pay for the logs you burn and then some.

At that level, Barbarian mixes are the best way to get decent (not fast) XP at a low cost, or even turning a profit. But they have no "Make X" so keep that in mind. Try prayer mixes, and just pay attention to the prices you pay for components and what you sell the output for. Another "on the cheap" option is Serum 207.

I have a lot of drop logs for a couple hundred monsters that used to be on the Beastopedia on my old site. I am slowly republishing the Beastopedia on RuneScoop, but right now it is a members' only feature. If you need information for a specific monster or two, send me a PM and I'll see what I can do. Bear in mind that these logs only show typical results for about 1 to 5 hours of combat -- if you are looking for proof of the drop rates of rare items, you're going to need to aggregate hundreds of hours' worth of drops from different players (and even then, it may not be reliable).

Believe it or not.. the best money monster right now (for consistent earning, as you requested) is... Snakes on Mos'le Harmless.

No, they cannot. Are you a parent? I highly doubt it. If I knew any parent who played video games for 15 to 16 hours a day on a consistent basis, I would call the authorities without hesitation. Spending 16,000 hours over five years playing a video game is a pretty strong sign that the person is an addict. LOL. Really. And how exactly is that "possible"? Yes, it is. It's a huge waste of their time. There's nothing wrong with time-wasters -- as long as you engage in them in a way that is *balanced*. When you are spending 60+ hours a week wasting time, it's a pretty sure sign that your life needs rebalancing. Tell me -- if someone in your life spent 9 or 15 or 18 hours every day drinking and then lying around passed out on the couch, would you be concerned for them?

Do you think playing 65 hours of Runescape a week for five solid years is not extreme? So "negative light" means anything other than gushing over them? Reasonable people understand that there's a difference between mindless name calling and valid observations that playing thousands of hours of a video game a year is not normal.

This person has deliberately made themselves a public figure of sorts. He or she should understand that putting yourself in the limelight means you are going to be worshipped by some, and criticized by others. If he or she couldn't deal with that, then this was not the right sort of decision to make. The efforts to discourage or even censor any critique of this individual remind me of someone who tries to get into the Guinness Book of Records for having the longest fingernails, and then complains when people think she looks like a freak. If you want to go to extremes, then deal with the reactions that extremism provokes.

This kind of silly adulation is the reason that it is not only acceptable but important for people to point out that blowing thousands of hours on a videogame is not an achievement of any sort.

But I'm not poking fun at her, nor making any judgments about her mental condition. I simply said that, IMO, anyone who spends that much time on a video game does not have a well-balanced life. Maybe there's a valid reason for the imbalance, but usually there isn't. You have read more into what I said than I actually wrote. I never said it was okay to call anyone names or whatever. I said that judging people based on their actions is an essential part of the human condition. Everyone assesses everyone. It's perfectly normal and the people who say "you shouldn't judge" people are mostly being dishonest with themselves. Now there are better and worse ways to make judgments. I certainly wouldn't say I know everything about the person. But especially when extremes of behavior are involved, it is entirely reasonable for people to think there's something rather odd about the behavior. Yes. And how on earth is that in any way comparable to this situation?

I think I was pretty clear in what I said. Anyone who spends 65 hours a week playing an online game for five years is seriously lacking balance in his/her life. That person has every right to choose to do that, if they wish. And everyone else has every right to assess what they think about that choice. That's the way the world works. Apparently you remembered that I wrote an article about the girl who killed herself, but didn't remember any of the details of what happened. The two situations are totally, completely different.

Once got four black masks from a cave horrors task.

Everyone judges everything. That's human nature. Some are just more honest about it than others. And when things go to extremes, they get judged even more. Sure, there could be extenuating circumstances that make averaging that number of hours per day of gameplay reasonable. But in most cases, it indicates a serious lack of balance in an individual's life.

Deliberately working to manufacture junk is like refusing a salary raise because you don't want to pay more taxes. In both cases, the person is really missing the point.