Nerd or just plain bored?

[xplod33]

made 100 combat in 4 months, 123 in 12 months total game time. Active duty military, wife is a school teacher, have 4 kids, workout 6 days a week; it's all about time management.

 

 

 

I played 3 hours a night after wife and kids went to bed every night, killing trolls (70k exp per hour) so thats 200kish exp per 3 hours, 5 days is a million...see the logic? melee is easy, its the non combats that are time consuming.

 

 

 

NERD? :XD: not on your life, NO LIFE? :XD: nope, just know how to manage my time. UNfortunately I deployed for Iraq in Oct2006, and won't return until later this year. I can not play the game on government computers, since they have download blockers, but I can periodically access tipit.

 

 

 

..most of the people on my friends list are adults, and in the top 2000 in rank. Adults tend to have the time and desire to relax and play a game at night, sipping a cold one while the kids scamper around the house.

 

 

 

I never judge someone by their stats, level or age in RS. All of that is irrelevant as it is based on how you act (not your age) and how much or how long you have played (stats/levels), none of which makes you better or worse, cooler or geekier than any other player.

 

 

 

Looking forward to getting home, knocking the sand out of my boots, spending time with my family whom I miss dearly, and sneaking in a few hours on RS again when the time is right :-w

 

 

 

EDIT: can't wait to sit down to a steak dinner and glass of wine...mmmmm real food...sigh

 

 

 

This would have to be the best reply I could think of, actually I've decided not to read the rest of the topic.

 

 

 

+1

 

 

 

Though I do disagree with one thing, just because its possible for you to train 100k in the same time I train 30k doesn't make you more skillful. It just means you manage your time well and put all of your attention into what your doing. I could if I wanted do the same 100k/hour, just I don't because I could spend hours standing around talking to friends on RS. And typing slows down my skilling significantly.

[Mico]

Ok let me make my version:

 

 

 

55 combat in one year, 74 combat 2 years later, 75 achieved a week ago.

 

 

 

I workout daily, read books, play football or rugby, box or just sleep. And all the time I didn' t train combat, I walked around RuneScape, so now I know it really well, I kinda reflexlly know the path to Varrock.

 

 

 

Currently deployed at home, fixing my room. Painting, building (it really isn' t hard to put a brick in place) and sleeping. Yet I play about 5 hours daily, right now double because work is on pause till we get more supplies, everybody is on holidays and besides workout I have nothing to do. And yet my highest levels are mining, fishing cooking and woodcutting.

 

 

 

Oh and I hate Bush, he started a war because of oil. That is not acceptable, atleast admit that, not saying "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" they don' t even have alot of cars.

 

 

 

On topic, it really doesn' t matter if you play 3 or 13 hours a day, just don' t be a ZOMGXORXZ NOOBZZZ!!11 type.

[nightwolf06]

I think it's wrong to call someone a nolifer

 

 

 

obviously it can be an off-handed joke to a friend.

 

 

 

But someone could have been working towards that 99 for months/years.

 

 

 

Nolifer is when you're committing everything to runescape, including ignoring real life!

 

 

 

=;

[hatebringer]

I believe that you should be able to choose how much time you spend doing what. Playing 4-5 hours a day doesn't make you a "Nerd" It just means you want to play Runescape for 4-5 hours a day. I don't see why people are always freaking out about "no lifers" They have a life, just alot of it is spent on a computer.

 

 

 

I like that above quote, it tells the main problem with the whole "no-life" thing that is going around. Most of it is actually the thought of someone having something that takes alot of time and effort to get, like high levels, and the people who usually saw that a certain person is a "nerd" is simply their obliviousness to how they actually obtained it. A person could get a 99 in the least nerdy way, by training a level a week, or even a month, and still be called a "no-life" simply for having the skill, and not how they obtained it.

 

BAsically what i am saying, is that some people are just falling into a jealous state when they use the profanity that hurts the players who take their time to get skills, and then they feel they need to say something, because they don't have the patience, or mental skill to obtain something, or simply, don't want to.

 

 

 

This is one major reason in the decline of good, moral players. It is also the decline of Runescape. People think they can get whatever they want, just by complaining and begging, until either they get tired, or decide to quit, and work for it.

 

 

 

This doesn't happen in Runescape.

 

 

 

A player can start off at lv 3, not know anything really, and when they see a high level, they usually take whatever they say, and base their own morals on it. They want free stuff, and if they don't get it, they may leave, but usually don't. Before getting to off-topic, i want to say how this interacts with the whole "no-life" comment. When that "fresh from tutorial island" player joins the higher ranked players, he may see rich, players his level, and think "why is he my level, and have better stuff?"

 

This branches the begging players, but also the discriminate players who feel they have been riped off by the game, and its creators, and feel the need to lash out at the more "well-off" amongst us. This usually doesn't usually start, until asking the better player how he did it, or how he made money, and some patient players may even achieve it, and feel proud at what they did, but those who want it "here and now" suffer, and take their anger out at the players who had the patience to put in lots of hours for a single goal. And thus the saying of "no-life" spawns... and it basically circles from there. most of the sayings just die off, and the better players just look down at them, and think they could have had it too if they worked at it.

 

 

 

And there you have it.

 

Most other things apply to the quote, it is never "no-life" etc. etc. but you have a life, just a majority of it is spent in front of a computer. a "life" as people call it, is living, breathing, thinking etc. A "social life" is different, but playing RS, you get to talk to people, so i can't really say what those people base their thoughts on. It shall remain a mystery.

[highlanders]

"no-lifing" a skill is basically ignoring everything else going on in life to play runescape. Obviously the problem is that everyone sees someone with a skillcape and doesn't see how much effort they put in so they just assume that the person ignored their life just to play runescape. It is annoying when people have a hard time believing that it's possible to play runescape and lead a ballanced life.

 

 

 

As for if it's "nerd" or "determination"? Well that depends on the definition of nerd. If nerd means enthusiastic in something then yes it would be, but that's too vague because everyone has some kind of a passion in life.

 

 

 

Imo, nobody would choose Rs 'experiences' over irl life experiences, so we must assume there is circonstances such as not many friends, fatness, lack of irl activities, thus the 'nerdness'. Furthermore, 'addiction' to mmorpgs are caused because the person lacks something important in his or her life, and substitutes with Runescape.

 

 

 

I would hardly quality hardcore skilling as 'determination' that's ridiculous, it's boredom-resistance to repetiveness, nothing more.

 

 

 

And I would like the stretch the point; who would choose Rs 'experiences' over irl life experiences? Rs is swallow, it's a waste of time, irl experiences are so much powerful, who the hell would rather prefer Rs? Nerds; people with problems in the real world. No dont tell me your special and have a healthy lifestyle. The Runescape playing, that waste of countless hours and hours of your life, is the unhealthy part.

[nightwolf06]

Imo, nobody would choose Rs 'experiences' over irl life experiences, so we must assume there is circonstances such as not many friends, fatness, lack of irl activities, thus the 'nerdness'. Furthermore, 'addiction' to mmorpgs are caused because the person lacks something important in his or her life, and substitutes with Runescape.

 

 

 

I would hardly quality hardcore skilling as 'determination' that's ridiculous, it's boredom-resistance to repetiveness, nothing more.

 

 

 

And I would like the stretch the point; who would choose Rs 'experiences' over irl life experiences? Rs is swallow, it's a waste of time, irl experiences are so much powerful, who the hell would rather prefer Rs? Nerds; people with problems in the real world. No dont tell me your special and have a healthy lifestyle. The Runescape playing, that waste of countless hours and hours of your life, is the unhealthy part.

 

 

 

So compared to what sitting around drinking myself to death because my friends want to go clubbing, or sitting around eating myself to a bigger waistline?

 

 

 

All because I want to play a game? Couldn't I just say the same about anyone who even THINKS about touching na xbox/ps2/wii console?

 

 

 

To anyone who goes out for a drink with their mates. Considering you're saying this is a healthy lifestyle, last time I checked consuming alcohol wasn't good for you.

 

 

 

As it is if I wish to spend 4-5hours on the computer playing a game, I will do so, just like if you wish to spend 4-5hours drinking you're free to do so.

 

 

 

 

 

I do computing in college so I should know exactly what a ''nerd'' is and for the most part out of the three computing classes not one person is over-weight, and I'm talking about guys that sit at their computers for nearly 16+ hours a day.

 

 

 

Alot of people are addicted to runescape and I hope that they are able to seek help. But a majority of people just play the game through boredem or for something to do, alot of people do have ''healthy lifes'' that DOES include runescape.

 

 

 

I don't believe that someone subsitutes anything for runescape. I for one have a perfectly normal life and am content yet I still play runescape, I still sit at my game consoles, I still read...is that also subsituting for irl?

 

 

 

I know families, single people, teenagers, preteens who play this game for FUN

 

 

 

that is the one thing that is lacking in the argument, it may not be nerdiness, it may be purely because the person finds the game fun.

 

 

 

I love runescape and I play it for fun, nothing more

[highlanders]

Imo, nobody would choose Rs 'experiences' over irl life experiences, so we must assume there is circonstances such as not many friends, fatness, lack of irl activities, thus the 'nerdness'. Furthermore, 'addiction' to mmorpgs are caused because the person lacks something important in his or her life, and substitutes with Runescape.

 

 

 

I would hardly quality hardcore skilling as 'determination' that's ridiculous, it's boredom-resistance to repetiveness, nothing more.

 

 

 

And I would like the stretch the point; who would choose Rs 'experiences' over irl life experiences? Rs is swallow, it's a waste of time, irl experiences are so much powerful, who the hell would rather prefer Rs? Nerds; people with problems in the real world. No dont tell me your special and have a healthy lifestyle. The Runescape playing, that waste of countless hours and hours of your life, is the unhealthy part.

 

 

 

So compared to what sitting around drinking myself to death because my friends want to go clubbing, or sitting around eating myself to a bigger waistline?

 

 

 

All because I want to play a game? Couldn't I just say the same about anyone who even THINKS about touching na xbox/ps2/wii console?

 

 

 

To anyone who goes out for a drink with their mates. Considering you're saying this is a healthy lifestyle, last time I checked consuming alcohol wasn't good for you.

 

 

 

As it is if I wish to spend 4-5hours on the computer playing a game, I will do so, just like if you wish to spend 4-5hours drinking you're free to do so.

 

 

 

 

 

I do computing in college so I should know exactly what a ''nerd'' is and for the most part out of the three computing classes not one person is over-weight, and I'm talking about guys that sit at their computers for nearly 16+ hours a day.

 

 

 

Alot of people are addicted to runescape and I hope that they are able to seek help. But a majority of people just play the game through boredem or for something to do, alot of people do have ''healthy lifes'' that DOES include runescape.

 

 

 

I don't believe that someone subsitutes anything for runescape. I for one have a perfectly normal life and am content yet I still play runescape, I still sit at my game consoles, I still read...is that also subsituting for irl?

 

 

 

I know families, single people, teenagers, preteens who play this game for FUN

 

 

 

that is the one thing that is lacking in the argument, it may not be nerdiness, it may be purely because the person finds the game fun.

 

 

 

I love runescape and I play it for fun, nothing more

 

Lol, 'drinking' is not an irl experience, it's an irl stupidity. Is drinking the only thing you are capable of doing in the real world? :lol: Go oUtSiDe, play sports, take a walk, learn to dance, learn to paint, go read a book, do something. And sorry but I won't believe you play "just for fun", you simply didn't do enough introspection to understand what is pushing you to play this game. This is not fun, it is an addiction. Sitting on your butt all day, clicking on things continuously, for hours and hours? That's 'fun' for you? Either you are a sadomaso, or just no. It's a waste of your life, I won't laugh at you for it, but just accept it, accept it's a waste of your life. You'll never learn anything worthwhile, important, or useful hardly, in playing Runescape. As you said, all you will gain is fat, my my the ladys love that don't they?

[Mico]

Duude, fat hobos with beer in their hands are killer for laides :wink:

 

 

 

Naw really, being addiected to anything is bad. Take for example my ex schoolmate. He is addicted to studying. He thinks he' s the new Bill Gates. Outside the house girls play soccer better than him, 7 year olds pack a better punch and quite frankly, he' s still afraid of girls and think' s they' re yucki .

 

 

 

Do you want to be :boohoo: or 8-) ?.

[nightwolf06]

Lol, 'drinking' is not an irl experience, it's an irl stupidity. Is drinking the only thing you are capable of doing in the real world? :lol: Go oUtSiDe, play sports, take a walk, learn to dance, learn to paint, go read a book, do something. And sorry but I won't believe you play "just for fun", you simply didn't do enough introspection to understand what is pushing you to play this game. This is not fun, it is an addiction. Sitting on your butt all day, clicking on things continuously, for hours and hours? That's 'fun' for you? Either you are a sadomaso, or just no. It's a waste of your life, I won't laugh at you for it, but just accept it, accept it's a waste of your life. You'll never learn anything worthwhile, important, or useful hardly, in playing Runescape. As you said, all you will gain is fat, my my the ladys love that don't they?

 

 

 

Reading, isn't that sitting on my butt flicking page after page until I get bored or finish with it? Walk? Continously moving my legs until I get bored and go home, painting trying to move my brush until I've finished, which can also be sat on my butt all day.

 

 

 

I don't subsitute runescape, I read, I write, I talk to people, I go for walks. I do exactly what you have just mentioned AND runescape, how is that so hard to believe, isn't it the same as me just sitting at these forums, how long each day do you sit at your computer mico? whether it's runescape, creating word documents, making ''pretty'' things on paint programmes.

 

 

 

Computing is a growing part of the world and people have to face that sometimes entertainment doesn't come from that box that has sky on it, it comes from here the keyboard. (psst, or your mouse :P)

 

 

 

As it is I'll go do something gaming on my xbox, considering that's meant to be irl, because it's away from this laptop :o

 

 

 

:XD:

[Mico]

Since I have nothing to do...bout 7 hours a day :oops:

 

 

 

Anyway, I' m going on some holidays now, really don' t know why, but I won' t see a computer for a week.

 

 

 

Mmmm, soccer all day :D

[nightwolf06]

I do not critise you for sitting at that long each day at a computer.

 

 

 

Today I sat nearly all day reading, gave me a nice chance to take a breather.

 

 

 

There's no harm in playing a game for a long period of time, it only harms when the person is addicted.

 

 

 

Have a nice holiday by the way

[Ashlyn_Hart]

I play for a few hours every night. I don't consider myself a "nolifer" or addicted.

 

 

 

I play because it is a way for me to release all the tension from work and a way to relax doing something I think is fun. I certainly don't avoid all other aspects of my life to play though.

 

 

 

I do have a social life, but since I pay my own way through this world, I can't really afford much of one, so the only thing I really can seem to afford lately is the measly $5/month membership to this game.

 

Why not use it to it's fullest?

 

 

 

My child is in martial arts and I take her to practice three times a week. I go out every weekend to visit friends, take in a sunset, etc., but on weeknights when my child goes to bed, I make the choice to either rot my brain with television or stimulate it with puzzles, conversations, and strategies.

 

 

 

Yes, I am a nerd, was a band geek, and also was a theater person. But I can still enjoy the game and still be connected with the real world.

 

 

 

It's all in how you see it.

[m4tty]

a nolifer is someone who picks rs over rl.

[archangel]

its ridiculous how "noobs" think of high level players as a 20 year old who dropped out of high school to play rs or a 300 pound teen with pimples everywhere and hates sports and such. But as many other tip.iters said, its all about whether or not your addicted to the game. I play alot during HOTTT summer afternoons, lazy days, rainy days, or whenever theres nothing to do or nothing humanly possible to do...alot of my friends constantly make fun of me that i play this " idiotic and stupid game" but i definately have a better time than they do on rainy days, etc... i honestly think no nerds or "no-lifers" exist well...except some, not to name any ;] but its the ignorance, envy and hatred that exist in people. Tbh i think its what we dont have that others do that cause us to think of them as no-lifers and nerds

 

 

 

and to quote a movie (batman begins 2005 or 2006)

 

" It is not who i am or what i am but its what i do that defines me."

 

it is relevant to this topic....

[unkn0wnwarrior]

and to quote a movie (batman begins 2005 or 2006)

 

" It is not who i am or what i am but its what i do that defines me."

 

it is relevant to this topic....

"But it's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you."

 

And it is 2005.

[warren211]

Players seem to think that anyone who has accomplished something on runescape means they are a no lifer. I think no lifing just means you ignore everything in your life to play rs. playing out of boredom is certainly not no lifing in my opinion.

[WildxYak]

In my opinion, no-lifing is ignoring everything to achieve something, whereas bordom and determination are getting those goals whilst still living your life. By that I mean school, work, 'going out', playing sports, whatever, RS is something like sport is you play in your free time to try and stop getting bored lol.

 

No-lifing and addiction to RS I would say are different things to. I would personally say I'm addicted but I don't no-life. I play almost every day when I'm not doing other things. I usually get a few hours play a day but I won't not do things to play, yesterday I went out for dinner and cinema in the evening, played most of the day apart from dropping brother off at a mates and visiting family breifly.

[SomeWelshGuy]

Imo, if you "no-life" really badly, like don't bother with your friends, family, and do badly in your schoolwork/work because you are thinking about RuneScape, that's my opinion of "nerd".

 

 

 

As long as you know that the real world is more important, there is nothing to worry about \

[mrmyk]

Imo, if you "no-life" really badly, like don't bother with your friends, family, and do badly in your schoolwork/work because you are thinking about RuneScape, that's my opinion of "nerd".

 

 

 

As long as you know that the real world is more important, there is nothing to worry about \

 

 

 

Yeah, as long as you don't for example cancel a chance to see your friends or call in sick for work to play runescape then you can't really be called a no-lifer although i agree that if you spend time playing Runescape into the early hours of the morning then you have some serious issues.

[HellsBells]

People use that term way to much. No-lifing is 15-24 hours a day. 4 to 5 hours a day is how much most RuneScape players play. But if you put RuneScape before real life, then you're automatically no-lifing. I.E: Putting off friends and school because of RuneScape.

[SnWRifleman]

Screw them, if they think that they are just jealous. I've seen you on this forums plenty of times, and I don't think you deserved to be called a "no-lifer". So the next time someone calls you a nerd ask them, do they have a girlfriend, probably not. And in my opinion I don't think no lifing would be playing this for however long. I think if you put aside, say church or something important everyday to play something would be no lifing.I play a good more amount than a lot of people sometimes and I still have a life. I have friends and I attend church weekly. I don't waste my hours of my life every single day to play runescape.

[REDACTED]

Sorry if some of the stuff i say has already been mentioned, but i don't have time to read every reply.

 

 

 

Now me, I have a hard time being what people call "normal" in life. I never go out, Get bullied, and i spend most of my time on the computer. I warez alot, and i make graphics and stuff. I do this because i am skilled at it, i play games because i enjoy them, like runescape.

 

 

 

Now to you people, would i be classed as a no-life person? I do not see why people have to be turned down just because they do something they enjoy/are good at.

 

 

 

I play RS perhaps 2-3 hours a day, when i get bored (Yes, I HAVE GOTTEN BORED OF BEING ON THE COMPUTER) I go read.

 

 

 

I think the thing is, is that everyone in life is different. Whats "normal" to me, won't be "normal" to everyone else. However a handful of people decide to turn those down who are different than them. I don't know, it's life i guess -.-

[Mico]

I think the thing is, is that everyone in life is different. Whats "normal" to me, won't be "normal" to everyone else. However a handful of people decide to turn those down who are different than them. I don't know, it's life i guess -.-

 

 

 

No, it' s not life, it' s stupid. Actually there are no nerds, just outsiders and insiders.

[REDACTED]

Yeah i was being sarcastic when i said it's life. Your absolutely right, it is stupid, but it wont stop, thats the problem...

[Master_Smither]

Very Few people "no life" that is living and dreaming Runescape.

 

 

 

But It's determination and skill that gets you that 99 not because your a stupid no lifing nerd.

 

 

 

They are just jealous idiots :)