Does/Has Runescape Affected Anything In Your Life?

[tylersk8shop]

Yeah... Just a few things:

 

 

 

1) Sitting down to study and seeing the computer..... "Well I'm sure a few minutes wont hurt... *5 Hours Later* :ohnoes: I GOT A TEST!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) Sitting down to do homework and seeing the computer....... "Once again, A few minutes wont hurt anyone....."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But it has definetaly helped my typing.... :thumbsup:

[Holy_Monk]

Runescape itself has made me smarter and more mature, May sound lame but i always encounter alot of immature people in rs and learning to be polite to them (some times rude :-w ) helps me deal with immature people in rl alot easier. its also become an addiction to me...beats drugs anyday! \

[player_72985]

it gave me some stuff in common with some other people i knew, which led to a real life freindship

[Giordano]

Increased my typing speed, gave me something to do, and introduced me to the great website we know as Tip.It :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the negative side it's given me some headaches here and there...

[Giordano]

Increased my typing speed, gave me something to do, and introduced me to the great website we know as Tip.It :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the negative side it's given me some headaches here and there...

[justin_m23]

hmmm. kind of reduces my social side, even though i dont play constantly. doesnt effect school atm cause school has finished for the year :thumbsup:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but my right wrist does hurt abit. is that normal?

[Red_Dog_47]

No Not Really.. Well.... Except 1 time i was fighting in the wilderness and i sneezed and pooed my pants (sneeze came with an extra surprise :lol: ) Other from that nothing..

[Markup]

Yes it seems it has changed me....well i'm not to sure but when I first started playing runescape which was when I was 11, my attiude was realy bad. I cna type much faster and my grammar has greatly improved, check out my first ever posts and compare them with my more recent ones. Also check out how much your grammar has improved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am much kinder now, and I am not so shy, although I am still @"!$ scared of reading in front on the class...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and last of all, i'm 13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAK

[Zodiak12]

No Not Really.. Well.... Except 1 time i was fighting in the wilderness and i sneezed and pooed my pants (sneeze came with an extra surprise :lol: ) Other from that nothing..

 

 

 

That made me lol IRL.

 

 

 

I've learnt better problem solving skills from some quests and time management having to divide it up between RS, A-levels and a social life.

 

 

 

My typing hasn't greatly improved but my typing was already good from IM's.

[B_50_2]

Nothing,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i control my playing time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Girls > Family > Runescape

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:D

[JIMMIE]

My grades went right down. I was off my A in chemistry, which is the most important thing to me.

 

 

 

I quit like 6 months ago and now im back on track, i refuse to play anything over 1 hour now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Jimmie

[chris28]

Ive noticed that i spent too much time on the computer :ohnoes: but also ive become better at english due to reading huge essay style replies on this forum and other things, and i find it easier to understand new concepts in maths and stuff (not quite sure why that is #-o ) also im alot faster at typing obviously. However playing runescape over 3 hours EVERY day ive found has made me think about runescape non stop which is annoying, now i play an hour on weedays and about 4 hours on weekends.

[redserpent4]

yer, one time i saw a guy on the street with a nice pair of shoes, i thought "i want them" so i ran up and beat the crap out of him. I got the kill message later when i watched the local news but it didn't say "you have defeated ....." it said i was a dangerous individual. i was like omgwdf so i tried to report the glitch to the mods but they arrested me on suspicion of murder and i was like omg .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

no, runescape has not affected my real life much. other than improved typing and stuff

[chris28]

yer, one time i saw a guy on the street with a nice pair of shoes, i thought "i want them" so i ran up and beat the crap out of him. I got the kill message later when i watched the local news but it didn't say "you have defeated ....." it said i was a dangerous individual. i was like omgwdf so i tried to report the glitch to the mods but they arrested me on suspicion of murder and i was like omg .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

no, runescape has not affected my real life much. other than improved typing and stuff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROFL! I hope your not serious about that :uhh:

[redserpent4]

 

yer, one time i saw a guy on the street with a nice pair of shoes, i thought "i want them" so i ran up and beat the crap out of him. I got the kill message later when i watched the local news but it didn't say "you have defeated ....." it said i was a dangerous individual. i was like omgwdf so i tried to report the glitch to the mods but they arrested me on suspicion of murder and i was like omg .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROFL! I hope your not serious about that :uhh:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yeh, i dont carry teles so when i got piled by some noobs in blue, i couldnt escape :(

[Cashguy1]

timewise nothing if i werent playing rs it would be something else

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i say thanks and sorry more

 

 

 

my typing skills are far superior than they used to be

 

 

 

i learned not to any1 on blind faith

 

 

 

after i firgured out i was playing to much i started runing more and practicing sports- i can now run 2-3 6minute miles in a row and can sprint faster than any1 i know

[blouinator]

i saw a story on rs forums once well heres what the sotry was about:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it was about a kid who got rich making money off consturction like bying logs and maoing planks then selling when constructiin was released.

 

 

 

well he got enough to by full dragon. well one day he met another rs player and they got to talking and he found out this kid was terminaly ill. i guess they got each others mailing and sent letters back and forth well the terminaly ill kid dream on rs was to own full dragon,but probaly never get the chance well one day the terminaly ill kid said this would be his last time on rs ever becuse he was getting worse so the kid wit the full dragon said meet me somewere and well when they met the kid with the full dragon gave the terminal ill kid his full dragon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few weeks laster the kid that previoulsy owned the full dragon got a letter. it was from a nurse saying that the terminally ill kid had passed away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

now in the story this rs player wrote he wrote when i clicked accept to give my freind(terminally ill kid) the full dragon i was glad to put one smile on my freind(termianlly ill kid) face

[jayc3399]

Lemme see I now type over 200 wpm (not joking) I gained a little weight and I'm more social, overall not bad \

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I find that extraordinarly hard to believe as i know news paper collumnists and writes that only hit 160-180 wpm

[Screechingmu]

Typing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Met some interesting people..... lol..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually helped me concentrate on studying and grades, as I coulden't play until I had done my homework...

[speedofsound]

When I started runescape I would have to look at my keyboard and slowly hit each key when I wanted to type, now I type much faster and do not have to look at the keyboard. But I has also took a lot of my time, but I don't mind :D I don't do it exclusively.

[x_bow80]

Yea a little. The last few weeks iv been playing alot to try and get my mask. So my grades started to slip, i had all A's but then i got 2 A's and 2 B's :wall: And if i do that again my parents might never pay for RS again :cry: :ohnoes:

[Stilev]

all it has done is improved my typing like everyone else

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i doubt it really changed my life really at all, i'd either be just hanging with friends some where, or watching tv or playing an fps now instead of watching tv and playing fps i play rs and do something

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

no it hasn't affected my school work becasue well, im just one of the lucky ones i guess, i slack off, never care if i do my work, and still gets all A's and B's in classes like AP His, calc, chem, etc so w\e

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i wouldn't really say that im addicted to even though i play it alot, the only really attachment to rs is my friends which i know most in rl and or aim, so i wouldn't mind lossing it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so i guess beyond the typing, i guess rs really hasn't affected me excpet for some friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i do like to over explain, been a habit of mine for awhile

[tripsis]

Runescape hasn't really changed anything in my life. I've always been on the computer a lot, even before Runescape. Not always playing games but doing digital art, editing photos, writing poems/stories, browsing websites, talking to friends, etc..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So Runescape really only added another thing to the list. As for school, I've always been a minimalist in school. I study for tests the day of, in other classes, do my homework during lunch/other classes so I don't have to do it at home, etc.. So my grades have remained all As and Bs, with the occasional C that I always manage to bring up at the last minute before report cards are sent home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for friends and "outside" activities.. I gave up soccer, my only after school sport, after Middle School, just because high school soccer just isn't fun. Instead of focusing on the enjoyment of the sport, it turns much more serious, which I don't like. I'll admit that I never had many "real life friends" after middle school either, for various reasons. So Runescape hasn't exactly prevented me from hanging out with friends, seeing as how I probably wouldn't hang out with people often even if I didn't play Runescape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All and all, I wouldn't say that it has a very large impact on my life. Being on the computer is always something that I've enjoyed :P Other than that, I don't do a whole lot other than watching movies, going for daily walks (yay for 20 minute exercises), talking to my boyfriend endlessly and a few other things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah I realize that I practically just wrote an essay, but whatever :oops:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT:

no it hasn't affected my school work becasue well, im just one of the lucky ones i guess, i slack off, never care if i do my work, and still gets all A's and B's in classes like AP His, calc, chem, etc so w\e

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same here :oops: I do the least work possibly, barely study for tests, yet easily have the highest grades in a fair few of my classes. Quite fortunate, really.

[oreocookie987]

Its pretty much given me something to do really. Before Runescape I used to play Red Alert 2 a lot, but that got boring after a while. I went through a few other games before I found Runescape, and I liked it right away. Its given me a pastime and something to set goals in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used to play lacrosse in 8th grade, but this was before I discovered Runescape. I found the game February of my freshman year. My highschool doesn't have a lacrosse team, so I haven't done a school sport since 8th grade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've never much cared for school anyways, although Runescape doesn't really affect my schoolwork. I've always gotten B's mostly, even today I manage to do "reasonably" well in Chemistry and US History. I also, am not one who does their homework at home. I usually do the bulk of my homework during classes, since once I get home from school and the gym (I go everyday after school for about an hour and a half) I simply don't care to do homework.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the most part Runescape has had an impact on my life, and I'm glad that it has. \

[jiggeryqua]

 

Lemme see I now type over 200 wpm (not joking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What does that mean? lol, i hear people talking about wpm's and stuff and i have no idea what it means :shock:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All questions to Help & Advice Board please :lol: It mean 'words per minute', ie, the speed at which you type.