@coolboymew @picandor there was an animal crossing forum I went to a lot and would visit other people's towns and trade town tunes. Met a girl on there that was awesome and screwed it up royally, still regret that to this day

OSRS was a lot of fun too, I would spend hours on that with my friends and my grandpa actually played with us from time to time too hahaha! That was the only game I ever begged my parents to spend money on, for that $5 Runescape membership.

@beardalaxy @picandor Was it Animal Crossing Community perhaps? That site was a hell of a good resource

Never was into runescape either, I barely knew it existed at the time

@coolboymew @picandor yup! Good place, it's actually still around too and my account still works hahaha

@coolboymew @picandor osrs was super popular in my school because it was a free game we could all play together, and it was right after the time DSL started to become popular so we didn't have to hog the phone line

@beardalaxy @coolboymew @picandor If you ever feel like trying Runescape again, check out Vidyascape. It's a free private server that's been running for almost a decade now.

@moth_ball @picandor @coolboymew what's the difference?

@beardalaxy @picandor @coolboymew
From the site:
>Vidyascape (or /v/scape for short) is a fully featured remake.

>2.25x experience rate
>A little less grind allows you to progress slightly faster, but nothing here is free.

>All the content you remember
>Vidyascape has every original quest, skill and everything from God Wars Dungeon to Barbarian Assault to Achievement Diaries to Temple Trekking. Experience virtually every piece of content as if it were October of 2007 again.

>You'll feel the nostalgia like no other server.

>Active development
>Vidyascape launched in March of 2014 and has had nearly perfect uptime since. With a history as long as ours, you won't see us going anywhere anytime soon.

>No donation benefits
>It's entirely free forever. Only your in game wealth matters, nothing real world earns you anything.

@moth_ball @picandor @coolboymew is the membership content just free then? I wonder how jagex feels about that? I guess if newer content takes longer to implement or something then that can be a reason why they don't care.

The exp boost is super nice. That's one problem I always have when I want to play some osrs. It takes way too long to grind stuff, it gets boring pretty quick and it's no wonder people bot so much.

@beardalaxy @picandor @coolboymew There's nothing Jagex could do aside from bringing more attention to the server.

But yeah, everything's free. And there's none of that ESG bullshit that took over the corpo version a while back.

@berkberkman @beardalaxy @picandor He was my fav