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ncommander

@ncommander@restless.systems

An endless seeker who tries to do what I can to make things just a little better in the world.

Created Mixer's FTL, founded SoylentNews, and likes cursed computing!

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ncommander, to osrs
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So, this is an idea I've had for a bit, and maybe see how far I get. I watch a fair bit of OldSchol RuneScape content on YouTube, and for the next several days, I have nothing but time on my hands.

I'm curious on how hard as an entirely new player on F2P it would be to successfully earn enough to buy membership in game (about 7M gold). I've never really gotten into MMOs before, but I've got RuneLite setup, and well, guess I'm ready to dig in.

ncommander,
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Well I got a quest to find buried treasure. I guess this is as good of a place to start ...

ncommander,
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Found the bank, where I could store items, now I need to go find a spade for this quest. Progress, I guess ...

ncommander,
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So now I have this weird orb that I need to follow ...

ncommander,
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Well that's the first quest done I suppose. I'm still not sure what I should start working on next. I do have this beginner clue scroll though, but as the old joke goes, 99 woodcutting won't chop itself :)

ncommander,
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Well, I found the adventure paths, and if I'm going to get loot, this seems like a good place to start working on. The open ended nature of games like this always make it a bit harder to dive in.

ncommander,
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Well the first combat levels, earned by fighting goblins and chickens. Need to go plug in my laptop, but you know, watching YTers play this, and trying to fiddle figure it out myself is a world of difference.

ncommander,
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Attack Level 5. I did do a bit of exploring, and I'm still trying to figure out how things. Plus I need to find where the flour is for a quest ...

ncommander,
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Oops - first death >.>

ncommander,
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Well I grabbed a full(ish) inventory for chicken. I have a task to get a cooked pike, and there doesn't seem to be any for sale in the GE so cooking will be needed.

ncommander,
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Well, the cook got his cake, and I got some cooking levels!

ncommander,
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Well, I got a few cooking levels down, but I'm def. struggling to figure out how to do anything efficiently, and on free to play worlds, there isn't a whole lot I seem to be able to craft as an early money maker ...

ncommander,
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Well, decided to do a bit more before bed. @taxorubio made a decent point of just tackling quests, so might as well start there.

Here is what is in the tracker, so I think I'm going to head to Rimmington for that magic XP.

ncommander,
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Seems easy enough, although I might also do some leveling in Rimmington towards mining. Wish I had access to teleports though >.<;

ncommander,
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Well, here's everything I need to make a potion that lets me get in touch with my "darker side" ...

ncommander,
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Like the eww, forgot to cook the rats meat though

ncommander,
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Well another easy quest done.

ncommander,
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Well, another easy quest done. A farmer also dropped the Earth Talisman, which is a 1/64 drop, which is nice. Combat training seems rather slow though ...

ncommander,
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So, new problem. I don't have a great place to set a mouse up, and my wrist is killing me :/. I did try playing with just the trackpad but its really awkward. Think that's as far as I'm getting tonight ...

ncommander,
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Well, new day, and decided to grind out the combat levels for the diary, while also collecting raw beef to cook. I need 20 cooking for a clue scroll (although I should probably just drop it and get another one ...)

ncommander,
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Actually, I just figured out where I can small net fish, so let me grab a few levels here quickly. I also think I can sell these on the GE for some gold

eniko, to random
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I have successfully made coffee flavored ice cream. Turns out you wanna go pretty light on the coffee if you're gonna make some of that

ncommander,
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@eniko Was this 1.5 strong? Want to get an idea, since your first post said to go light, and I might try this at some point.

ncommander, to random
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I went and watched the sun go down over the Pacific the other night. Being out west again has been rather nostalgic. Just wish I could be a bit less listless though...

ncommander,
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I've been struggling to find any motivation to make content or well, do much of anything. I did do one livestream while I've been out west although to some degree I am feeling like I have been phoning it in.

Same problem is following me with making content and videos in general. To some extent, its a combination of both burnout, and well, struggling to find meaning in doing anything which is a double whammy ...

ncommander, to random
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Well, I bit the bullet, and getting ready for the first stream on my laptop: https://youtube.com/live/9G6vN4qW3yw

Hopefully everything works well, and I figured trying the unofficial ARM64 port of illumos while streaming off a M2 MacBook Pro will be interesting

nixCraft, to random
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Explain to me like I'm 5. Why does counting start at zero in programming?

ncommander,
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@nixCraft Actually some programming languages do start at 1, like Pascal and Ada.

I'm actually now curious if there are any one indexed processors. I've seen some extremely weird shit out of early mainframes, so it won't surprise me if such a thing existed, or didn't treat 0 as a valid memory location.

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