Re:Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)
by LeftHandPath on Friday April 28, 2023 @05:54PM
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I played RuneScape daily from 2005 - 2009 (I started playing with a friend after school every day when I was in 2nd grade).
Definitely gave me a leg up on things like spelling, social interaction, learning not to trust strangers who promise to guard you through the wilderness, etc. Arguably guided, subconsciously, some much later intuitions I had about psychology / economics / game theory. And it was probably also responsible in getting me interested in computers.
I could see it being part of a funnel that makes people more likely to wind up on HN.
Re:Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)
by LazyMans on Saturday April 29, 2023 @04:31PM
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It exposed me to scripting early on (13), when I started trying to figure out how to bot making bow strings or whatever. Computer club was lit in middle school…
Definitely gave me a leg up on things like spelling, social interaction, learning not to trust strangers who promise to guard you through the wilderness, etc. Arguably guided, subconsciously, some much later intuitions I had about psychology / economics / game theory. And it was probably also responsible in getting me interested in computers.
I could see it being part of a funnel that makes people more likely to wind up on HN.