World Record Held by Runescape Player

[death666bl00ms]

Okay, you are right, it can depend on the lifestyle, but even then, I think in any lifestyle 9h a day AVERAGE is just pure addiction and should be treated.

 

 

We all have our own personal limits, and thus, our own personal definition of "addiction". Personally, 4 hours a day would be addiction for me. However, I shouldn't shake my finger at you, since you play 4.5 hours a day.

 

 

 

I just want to be clear about something: I don't agree with that amount of hours. I could never play that much, I would think it would be unhealthy for me to play that much. Nevertheless, that's not to say that it is unhealthy for the person next to me. Until you can actually see it negatively affecting this person's life, you (tip.it, not just you) have no real business claiming it is unhealthy.

 

 

Arguably, even when you see it is "unhealthy", you still don't have any business.

[Carl]

Okay, you are right, it can depend on the lifestyle, but even then, I think in any lifestyle 9h a day AVERAGE is just pure addiction and should be treated.

 

How can you possibly treat what people enjoy? It's not harming you, or anyone else in the whole world, at all! Unless that person's being paid to care for you and just plays RuneScape thus neglecting you. You cannot possibly say that 9 hours is a massive problem and must be treated. Some watch television for 9 hours a day, what the hell is the difference? So what if they may choose not to go out on a weeks binge like an above poster said, it's their choice, not yours, and is certainly not your problem.

 

What death666bl00ms said couldn't possibly be anymore correct. There's no set guideline which one must live by. No, you must do this for X amount of hours per day before you can do this and until you can do this. Things don't work like that. What someone enjoys, what they love to do, shouldn't in any way bother anyone on here. I've no idea why we're discussing it this far. People don't have to work for 50 hours a week, sleep 50 hours a week, commute 7 hours a week - they just don't. Their week can consist of whatever they like. Hell, they can have 1 hour sleep a day if that's possible. And you'll just have to accept that and get over it. They are not you, they are not your shadow.

[bedman]

I think people who watch 9 hours of television a day should be treated too. There is a fine line between enjoying and addiction. Why should, according to you, people with alcohol addiction be treated, and people with a gaming addiction not? Both are bad for your health. I think my average over 5 years is like 3 hours a day, and I admit that at times I was really addicted, thinking about this game when I went to bed etc. Now imagine if I played 9 hours. I kind of agree people should be able to do whatever they want, but then you should let people with alcohol and drug addiction alone too, otherwise you'd be a hypocrite.

[Mike_Ike111]

Okay, you are right, it can depend on the lifestyle, but even then, I think in any lifestyle 9h a day AVERAGE is just pure addiction and should be treated.

 

 

We all have our own personal limits, and thus, our own personal definition of "addiction". Personally, 4 hours a day would be addiction for me. However, I shouldn't shake my finger at you, since you play 4.5 hours a day.

 

 

 

I just want to be clear about something: I don't agree with that amount of hours. I could never play that much, I would think it would be unhealthy for me to play that much. Nevertheless, that's not to say that it is unhealthy for the person next to me. Until you can actually see it negatively affecting this person's life, you (tip.it, not just you) have no real business claiming it is unhealthy.

 

 

Arguably, even when you see it is "unhealthy", you still don't have any business.

 

Well in that case, I consider 10 beers, throwing up, getting completely wasted and waking up the next morning in someone's front yard, then doing it again the next day completely normal and an average lifestyle. That is not an addiction to alcohol. However, I can only assume someone else out there disagrees.

 

The point is, everyone can have their opinion, however there is always a line between unhealthy and healthy. There is always a line of equilibrium, between what people averagely say is normal and not. In a criminals mind stealing and robbing is the lifestyle they choose and is the way life has always been, however in the eyes of a hard-working adult, the criminal is completely out of sync between the norm of society. The medium of people, in mathematical terms, believe the criminal is wrong. The same could be said for gamers who spend 10 hours a day in front of a monitor.

[SuperS]

Just read the first few pages off this, Qeltar is spot on with 95% off what he says, some mods could learn a lot from him.

[death666bl00ms]

I think people who watch 9 hours of television a day should be treated too. There is a fine line between enjoying and addiction. Why should, according to you, people with alcohol addiction be treated, and people with a gaming addiction not? Both are bad for your health. I think my average over 5 years is like 3 hours a day, and I admit that at times I was really addicted, thinking about this game when I went to bed etc. Now imagine if I played 9 hours. I kind of agree people should be able to do whatever they want, but then you should let people with alcohol and drug addiction alone too, otherwise you'd be a hypocrite.

 

The point is not "who should be treated", rather, it is at what point they should be treated. You are setting an arbitrary number at which someone should be treated for addiction, which simply is not reasonable. There are gaming addiction clinics, just like their are drugs and alcohol clinics. The difference is the people who are being admitted are either A) Admitting they have a problem or B) Have family/friends who have identified the problem.

 

Now, unless you can identify that this person has a problem (Sick, missing work, dehydrated, etc), you cannot possibly say he/she needs help. The equivalent would be me saying that you need to be treated since you play a *gasp* 3 hours a day.

[bedman]

I think people who watch 9 hours of television a day should be treated too. There is a fine line between enjoying and addiction. Why should, according to you, people with alcohol addiction be treated, and people with a gaming addiction not? Both are bad for your health. I think my average over 5 years is like 3 hours a day, and I admit that at times I was really addicted, thinking about this game when I went to bed etc. Now imagine if I played 9 hours. I kind of agree people should be able to do whatever they want, but then you should let people with alcohol and drug addiction alone too, otherwise you'd be a hypocrite.

 

The point is not "who should be treated", rather, it is at what point they should be treated. You are setting an arbitrary number at which someone should be treated for addiction, which simply is not reasonable. There are gaming addiction clinics, just like their are drugs and alcohol clinics. The difference is the people who are being admitted are either A) Admitting they have a problem or B) Have family/friends who have identified the problem.

 

Now, unless you can identify that this person has a problem (Sick, missing work, dehydrated, etc), you cannot possibly say he/she needs help. The equivalent would be me saying that you need to be treated since you play a *gasp* 3 hours a day.

 

I wouldn't have minded if someone would have stopped me from playing this game 5 years ago. Would have left me with a lot of time to do other stuff, allthough it would probably be some useless thing too (tv, another game, books, ... ).

[death666bl00ms]

Okay, you are right, it can depend on the lifestyle, but even then, I think in any lifestyle 9h a day AVERAGE is just pure addiction and should be treated.

 

 

We all have our own personal limits, and thus, our own personal definition of "addiction". Personally, 4 hours a day would be addiction for me. However, I shouldn't shake my finger at you, since you play 4.5 hours a day.

 

 

 

I just want to be clear about something: I don't agree with that amount of hours. I could never play that much, I would think it would be unhealthy for me to play that much. Nevertheless, that's not to say that it is unhealthy for the person next to me. Until you can actually see it negatively affecting this person's life, you (tip.it, not just you) have no real business claiming it is unhealthy.

 

 

Arguably, even when you see it is "unhealthy", you still don't have any business.

 

Well in that case, I consider 10 beers, throwing up, getting completely wasted and waking up the next morning in someone's front yard, then doing it again the next day completely normal and an average lifestyle. That is not an addiction to alcohol. However, I can only assume someone else out there disagrees.

 

The point is, everyone can have their opinion, however there is always a line between unhealthy and healthy. There is always a line of equilibrium, between what people averagely say is normal and not. In a criminals mind stealing and robbing is the lifestyle they choose and is the way life has always been, however in the eyes of a hard-working adult, the criminal is completely out of sync between the norm of society. The medium of people, in mathematical terms, believe the criminal is wrong. The same could be said for gamers who spend 10 hours a day in front of a monitor.

 

 

"However there is always a line between unhealthy and healthy".

 

ABSOLUTELY! I could not agree more. However, before we go sharpen our pitchforks, answer a question for me: How is this affecting this person's life?

[Kenshinjapan]

I'm glad the thread finally turned around from the pathway of flames that it was going.

 

Congratulations to her for making it into the records books, truly an impressive feat.

[Sir_Kurity]

Wow, wish i had that much free time o.O

 

Cursed school!

[death666bl00ms]

I think people who watch 9 hours of television a day should be treated too. There is a fine line between enjoying and addiction. Why should, according to you, people with alcohol addiction be treated, and people with a gaming addiction not? Both are bad for your health. I think my average over 5 years is like 3 hours a day, and I admit that at times I was really addicted, thinking about this game when I went to bed etc. Now imagine if I played 9 hours. I kind of agree people should be able to do whatever they want, but then you should let people with alcohol and drug addiction alone too, otherwise you'd be a hypocrite.

 

The point is not "who should be treated", rather, it is at what point they should be treated. You are setting an arbitrary number at which someone should be treated for addiction, which simply is not reasonable. There are gaming addiction clinics, just like their are drugs and alcohol clinics. The difference is the people who are being admitted are either A) Admitting they have a problem or B) Have family/friends who have identified the problem.

 

Now, unless you can identify that this person has a problem (Sick, missing work, dehydrated, etc), you cannot possibly say he/she needs help. The equivalent would be me saying that you need to be treated since you play a *gasp* 3 hours a day.

 

I wouldn't have minded if someone would have stopped me from playing this game 5 years ago. Would have left me with a lot of time to do other stuff, allthough it would probably be some useless thing too (tv, another game, books, ... ).

 

 

Strawman argument. You have already agreed that people's lifestyles are different.

[Sir_Kurity]

It may seem a bit much at 9 hours a day, but seriously, if you were bedridden for 4 years what would you do?

 

Id play runescape, or another PC game...

[qeltar]

Look at the facts - you've played runescape at least once, you're posting on a forum about runescape, and yet you're still telling us how this person has less of a life than you?

That makes about as much sense as saying the guy who has two beers while watching NFL every Sunday is the same as the wino sleeping on the sidewalk.

 

How can you possibly treat what people enjoy?

Have you ever talked to an addict, be it drugs, smoking, alcohol, gambling or whatever? They ALL say they "enjoy it" and it's not a problem and whatever.

 

Maybe they enjoy being addicted. But they are still addicts.

It's not harming you, or anyone else in the whole world, at all!

I personally don't care if this person wants to waste 9 hours of Runescape a day forever. Her choice (as long as it isn't affecting others directly). I just don't think she should be rewarded for an "achievement" that is no more of an accomplishment than spending 5 straight years high on a couch all day, or winning the award for eating the most Cheetos while watching TV.

 

There shouldn't be a record for this any more than there should be a record for, as someone else put it, most heroin shots.

[stonewall337]

I'm pretty sure you''d get fired for playing Runescape at work, unless you worked in China maybe..

 

I do it. We have "not stated internet policy". We have a check list of exact things to do at exact times, but sometimes there are hours without anything to do. Nothing wrong with it.

 

For the record, I have an excellent, well paying job. But I work 2nd shift, and later on in the evening, things die down considerably.

 

[hide=]

I'm pretty sure you''d get fired for playing Runescape at work, unless you worked in China maybe..

 

Then you obviously have no idea what kind of jobs there are in the world and how there are many laid back bosses. If you're doing what your job specification requires, then that's all there is to it. What you do while doing that job (If reasonable) generally is okay.

 

Laid back to me does not mean letting your employees waste time playing an online game for 9 hours a day. I'd get disciplined at work for even logging onto facebook, which I think is fair. Honestly if you have time to play a game when you're at work then you should look at getting a more challenging and perhaps a better paying job.

 

Well there's no point in me continuing what I'm trying to say as it's quite obvious not one of you seem to be actually getting the point but rather nit-picking.

 

No one understands AVERAGES either, which I tried to stress earlier.

 

It is precisely that average that makes some of us criticise that "record". Averaging 9 hours of play in the span of 2-3 months is not that bad... it's when you have that kinda huge average over a long period of time that gets unhealthy. Just think about spring break... lots of drinkage over the span of a week then it's back to reality and a more healthy behavior. If you "average" that behavior over the span of 5 years, you get tagged an alcoholic. Once again, our "perfect" community will scare away one of its best posters, Qeltar.

[/hide]

 

 

Who cares? If he wants to leave, that is his prerogative. No one can be dubbed the "best poster" unless you are being a toady for him. This thread is Q vs everyone else. Geez. ONE PERSON spends a lot of time on a game because she is bedridden, and people have to B***h about it.

 

Sorry for double post. Can a mod merge?

 

And to be far, mc, Queltar isn't claiming to be a god or anything. He is a good guy. We just disagree. Nothing wrong with that.

Edited January 8, 2010 by laura0077
Make sure to use hide tags when using a quote that spans several people. Merged double post.

[mikeg0477]

I'm pretty sure you''d get fired for playing Runescape at work, unless you worked in China maybe..

 

Then you obviously have no idea what kind of jobs there are in the world and how there are many laid back bosses. If you're doing what your job specification requires, then that's all there is to it. What you do while doing that job (If reasonable) generally is okay.

 

Laid back to me does not mean letting your employees waste time playing an online game for 9 hours a day. I'd get disciplined at work for even logging onto facebook, which I think is fair. Honestly if you have time to play a game when you're at work then you should look at getting a more challenging and perhaps a better paying job.

I have a friend who is a fireman. When he's not out on a call, he and the other firemen read, watch TV, and sometimes he plays RS. What "more challenging" job should he go for?

[Carl]

I think people who watch 9 hours of television a day should be treated too. There is a fine line between enjoying and addiction. Why should, according to you, people with alcohol addiction be treated, and people with a gaming addiction not? Both are bad for your health. I think my average over 5 years is like 3 hours a day, and I admit that at times I was really addicted, thinking about this game when I went to bed etc. Now imagine if I played 9 hours. I kind of agree people should be able to do whatever they want, but then you should let people with alcohol and drug addiction alone too, otherwise you'd be a hypocrite.

 

You actually can't compare an addiction which will leave you with no state of mind, completely unaware of life, with an addiction to playing RuneScape. That's just madness. Her playing RuneScape 9 hours a day won't kill her - if someone was on drugs for 5 years, that might leave them with nothing in life. Do you see?

 

How can you possibly treat what people enjoy?

Have you ever talked to an addict, be it drugs, smoking, alcohol, gambling or whatever? They ALL say they "enjoy it" and it's not a problem and whatever.

 

Maybe they enjoy being addicted. But they are still addicts.

It's not harming you, or anyone else in the whole world, at all!

I personally don't care if this person wants to waste 9 hours of Runescape a day forever. Her choice (as long as it isn't affecting others directly). I just don't think she should be rewarded for an "achievement" that is no more of an accomplishment than spending 5 straight years high on a couch all day, or winning the award for eating the most Cheetos while watching TV.

 

There shouldn't be a record for this any more than there should be a record for, as someone else put it, most heroin shots.

 

Yes, I have actually worked with people with drug and alcohol addictions. They don't particularly "enjoy" it, at all. But it's something they can't live without. If this persons internet went out, I'm sure they could live without RuneScape and won't go to any extremes. You can't compare drug or alcohol addiction with RuneScape, you can agree that they are "addictions", but being addicted to RuneScape will not kill you, unless you're depriving yourself of the basics which one actually needs to survive. You won't end up 5 years later not being able to construct a sentence - or doing basic things in life.

 

There are crazy records, you and I both know that. But there's noteable ones which people actually care about, just like this one. If we didn't care, we wouldn't be posting. If people didn't care for the most hours playing an MMO, they wouldn't have released it, or any the "Gamers edition" of the Guinness Records.

[rangeor]

This thread is stupid. People - Queltar is right, you're wrong. We're all nerds, Diamant is just a bigger nerd. Is how she plays healthy? No. But who are you to judge?

 

Also, if she really was addicted, she/someone close to her would have noticed by now and attempted to get help.

[death666bl00ms]

This thread is stupid. People - Queltar is right, you're wrong. We're all nerds, Diamant is just a bigger nerd. Is how she plays healthy? No. But who are you to judge?

 

Also, if she really was addicted, she/someone close to her would have noticed by now and attempted to get help.

 

 

*rolls eyes*

 

You do realize you contradict yourself, right?

[sees_all1]

Qeltar, I hate to attack you personally, but you're being a bit of a hypocrite. You're telling us that this individual has a problem because they're addicted to runescape, but I look at your signature and I can't help but notice

 

"Qeltar, aka Charles Kozierok

Webmaster, RuneScoop - Premium RuneScape Information for Expert Players

Featuring the best guide to making money on RuneScape, with over 450 methods and variations fully explained!"

 

[sarcasm]

How much time and effort did you put into that? You seriously need to get help... you're spending too much time with runescape. 200m total xp in runescape is just too much, running a premium website that supplies the best information takes too much time. You need a social life, not one with runescape. I bet you're jealous because you've logged in for 500 days, and you know you'll never ever ever catch up. You have no excuse for any of that. GF nerd.

[/sarcasm]

 

I don't know you at all, just like you don't know this person at all. So quit judging them, and I'll quit judging you.

[Blutters]

I think we can all agree that it's an accomplishment if she's able to play RuneScape 9 hours a day (on average), keep herself healthy, maintain personal relationships, and hold down a good-paying job.

No, really. I would feel good about myself to go from work to the movies to the gym to home to RuneScape and then to sleep. Life would feel full.

 

By the way, GWD and GTA while running on the treadmill is tricky but do-able. :arrow: I thought that had some merit to this discussion.

[Yomyth105]

i agree with qeltar 100%. Not much of an achievement... just another video game addict... this is probably taking a toll in her life because it isn't "normal" to spend that much time at a computer...

[Cross]

Wow. I think that's all that can be said.

[Vulxai]

I've seen multiple people say that she was bed-ridden. I don't really know if she was or not, but if she was, why are you making such a big deal of it? What else is she going to do? Lie there and watch tv? At least playing runescape you get some interaction and can talk to people. I'd rather play RS than watch tv most of the time, but I'm usually doing other things. Why are you people seriously criticizing her? This thread makes absolutely no sense to me, and I've only read one page, I'm scared to go back through some other pages.

[death666bl00ms]

I think people who watch 9 hours of television a day should be treated too. There is a fine line between enjoying and addiction. Why should, according to you, people with alcohol addiction be treated, and people with a gaming addiction not? Both are bad for your health. I think my average over 5 years is like 3 hours a day, and I admit that at times I was really addicted, thinking about this game when I went to bed etc. Now imagine if I played 9 hours. I kind of agree people should be able to do whatever they want, but then you should let people with alcohol and drug addiction alone too, otherwise you'd be a hypocrite.

 

You actually can't compare an addiction which will leave you with no state of mind, completely unaware of life, with an addiction to playing RuneScape. That's just madness. Her playing RuneScape 9 hours a day won't kill her - if someone was on drugs for 5 years, that might leave them with nothing in life. Do you see?

 

How can you possibly treat what people enjoy?

Have you ever talked to an addict, be it drugs, smoking, alcohol, gambling or whatever? They ALL say they "enjoy it" and it's not a problem and whatever.

 

Maybe they enjoy being addicted. But they are still addicts.

It's not harming you, or anyone else in the whole world, at all!

I personally don't care if this person wants to waste 9 hours of Runescape a day forever. Her choice (as long as it isn't affecting others directly). I just don't think she should be rewarded for an "achievement" that is no more of an accomplishment than spending 5 straight years high on a couch all day, or winning the award for eating the most Cheetos while watching TV.

 

There shouldn't be a record for this any more than there should be a record for, as someone else put it, most heroin shots.

 

Yes, I have actually worked with people with drug and alcohol addictions. They don't particularly "enjoy" it, at all. But it's something they can't live without. If this persons internet went out, I'm sure they could live without RuneScape and won't go to any extremes. You can't compare drug or alcohol addiction with RuneScape, you can agree that they are "addictions", but being addicted to RuneScape will not kill you, unless you're depriving yourself of the basics which one actually needs to survive. You won't end up 5 years later not being able to construct a sentence - or doing basic things in life.

 

There are crazy records, you and I both know that. But there's noteable ones which people actually care about, just like this one. If we didn't care, we wouldn't be posting. If people didn't care for the most hours playing an MMO, they wouldn't have released it, or any the "Gamers edition" of the Guinness Records.

 

If shes spending 9+ hours a day on Runescape she probably doesnt get much excercise and probably doesnt have too strong of relationships with people outside the game.

 

She probably neglects her family (or whoever takes care of her...) doing the math its near impossible for her to play runescape as much as she does, get a healthy ammount of sleep AND hold a job. And if she does this then theres no way she has time for excersise talking with family or even EATING or going to bathroom.

 

The more likely case is that she IS addicted to Runescape like a heroin addict. And contrary to what you say 5 years of inactivity and over eating CAN kill you. Granted its not runescape doing the damage its her lifestyle BUT Runescape is the reason for her inactivity so it is the cause.

 

She probably doesnt have a healthy heart, is over weight, and who knows might have a range of health problems because of it.

 

 

 

My example is Vandrilla, Runescape IS NOT the reason she was sick, but if you look at her thread for Ellebreyals, when she finally quit her legs were so weak from lack of use she got hurt from walking down the block.

 

tl;dr Runescape CAN be as bad as heroin as this lady needs help. Hate me for saying it but i find this acheivement to be disgusting, its like congraduating a Heroin adict or someone that abuses vicoden for 5 years straight

 

 

Holy [cabbage]....I don't know why I keep trying.

 

People: JUST BECAUSE YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE ONE WAY DOES NOT MEAN EVERYONE LIVES THEIR LIVES THAT SAME WAY.

 

 

For instance: This person is a construction worker, in a family run business. He/she is 18 y/o. Construction (if any of you have actually worked it) pays extremely well. It is entirely possible to live working construction, working less then 30 hours a week.

 

In this case, you have someone who A) Exercises daily, B ) Works with their family, and C) Make enough money to live, while still having a lot of free time to play RS.

 

 

Once again, you guys should really stfu about other people. You know nothing about their lifestyle. I have already done the math earlier in the thread showing that it is plausible for me to be averaging over 10 hours a day, while still holding a job. Conversely, I could average 7 hours a day, while holding a job and "having a life".

[death666bl00ms]

I think people who watch 9 hours of television a day should be treated too. There is a fine line between enjoying and addiction. Why should, according to you, people with alcohol addiction be treated, and people with a gaming addiction not? Both are bad for your health. I think my average over 5 years is like 3 hours a day, and I admit that at times I was really addicted, thinking about this game when I went to bed etc. Now imagine if I played 9 hours. I kind of agree people should be able to do whatever they want, but then you should let people with alcohol and drug addiction alone too, otherwise you'd be a hypocrite.

 

You actually can't compare an addiction which will leave you with no state of mind, completely unaware of life, with an addiction to playing RuneScape. That's just madness. Her playing RuneScape 9 hours a day won't kill her - if someone was on drugs for 5 years, that might leave them with nothing in life. Do you see?

 

How can you possibly treat what people enjoy?

Have you ever talked to an addict, be it drugs, smoking, alcohol, gambling or whatever? They ALL say they "enjoy it" and it's not a problem and whatever.

 

Maybe they enjoy being addicted. But they are still addicts.

It's not harming you, or anyone else in the whole world, at all!

I personally don't care if this person wants to waste 9 hours of Runescape a day forever. Her choice (as long as it isn't affecting others directly). I just don't think she should be rewarded for an "achievement" that is no more of an accomplishment than spending 5 straight years high on a couch all day, or winning the award for eating the most Cheetos while watching TV.

 

There shouldn't be a record for this any more than there should be a record for, as someone else put it, most heroin shots.

 

Yes, I have actually worked with people with drug and alcohol addictions. They don't particularly "enjoy" it, at all. But it's something they can't live without. If this persons internet went out, I'm sure they could live without RuneScape and won't go to any extremes. You can't compare drug or alcohol addiction with RuneScape, you can agree that they are "addictions", but being addicted to RuneScape will not kill you, unless you're depriving yourself of the basics which one actually needs to survive. You won't end up 5 years later not being able to construct a sentence - or doing basic things in life.

 

There are crazy records, you and I both know that. But there's noteable ones which people actually care about, just like this one. If we didn't care, we wouldn't be posting. If people didn't care for the most hours playing an MMO, they wouldn't have released it, or any the "Gamers edition" of the Guinness Records.

 

If shes spending 9+ hours a day on Runescape she probably doesnt get much excercise and probably doesnt have too strong of relationships with people outside the game.

 

She probably neglects her family (or whoever takes care of her...) doing the math its near impossible for her to play runescape as much as she does, get a healthy ammount of sleep AND hold a job. And if she does this then theres no way she has time for excersise talking with family or even EATING or going to bathroom.

 

The more likely case is that she IS addicted to Runescape like a heroin addict. And contrary to what you say 5 years of inactivity and over eating CAN kill you. Granted its not runescape doing the damage its her lifestyle BUT Runescape is the reason for her inactivity so it is the cause.

 

She probably doesnt have a healthy heart, is over weight, and who knows might have a range of health problems because of it.

 

 

 

My example is Vandrilla, Runescape IS NOT the reason she was sick, but if you look at her thread for Ellebreyals, when she finally quit her legs were so weak from lack of use she got hurt from walking down the block.

 

tl;dr Runescape CAN be as bad as heroin as this lady needs help. Hate me for saying it but i find this acheivement to be disgusting, its like congraduating a Heroin adict or someone that abuses vicoden for 5 years straight

 

 

Holy [cabbage]....I don't know why I keep trying.

 

People: JUST BECAUSE YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE ONE WAY DOES NOT MEAN EVERYONE LIVES THEIR LIVES THAT SAME WAY.

 

 

For instance: This person is a construction worker, in a family run business. He/she is 18 y/o. Construction (if any of you have actually worked it) pays extremely well. It is entirely possible to live working construction, working less then 30 hours a week.

 

In this case, you have someone who A) Exercises daily, B ) Works with their family, and C) Make enough money to live, while still having a lot of free time to play RS.

 

 

Once again, you guys should really stfu about other people. You know nothing about their lifestyle. I have already done the math earlier in the thread showing that it is plausible for me to be averaging over 10 hours a day, while still holding a job. Conversely, I could average 7 hours a day, while holding a job and "having a life".

 

Its possible but unlikely. You CAN average 7 hours a day but DO you average 7 hours a day EVERYDAY for 5 years. Thats not even the same as 9+ hours a day EVERYDAY for years. Other websites have said her daily average is closer to 9 and a half hours a day.

 

i doubt you COULD do this. if you did it would eat away at your life. I guarantee it. This isnt about lifestyles this is about whether such an unhealthy amount of time spent on an online game is considered an achievement.

 

You say yes and i say its like celebrating a drug addict. Lets agree to disagree because clearly were not going to change eachothers opinions

 

 

Even better, let's agree to not put words into each others mouth's. I NEVER said that it is an achievement. I am simply saying that until you know this person, you can't say it is ruining his/her life.

 

From 5th grade until about 12th grade, I rode dirt bikes about 5 hours every day after school, and rode the entire weekend. One could make a pretty strong argument that I was "addicted". However, I was still able to balance the rest of my life.

 

Until you have met this person, and seen him/her not be able to balance his/her life, you have no basis to say that this is "eating away at his/her life".