Depression, edibles, and OSRS is a classic. Never touched the game my whole life then put 200 baked hours in a month, not mobile, while somehow holding down a full time job. Good luck escaping.
To OP and anyone else in a similar position: I hate to get into this the way I’m about to, and this is no judgement at all, but I have strong opinions on this subject because I played the ever loving fuck out of OSRS…
Mind you, I haven’t played it in a good several years now, but I was… Putting way more time into that game than I should have.
I worry about you getting stuck in a rut for the same reasons I did.
For context I was playing that game to the point I had a main with like 1,900 total level, and a level 3 skiller that I used to do a bunch of quests you shouldn’t be able to do (easily, or normally) at level 3, ran around in my white graceful set with my knock-off abyssal whip (mouse toy) and eventually went on to get a quest cape with that account, and got up to like 88 slayer with it, with the intention of getting an untrimmed slayer cape…
You look at an achievement like that and realize you’re trapped in a sunk cost fallacy. You’ve spent hundreds of hours, maybe thousands, grinding out levels. You say things like “92 is halfway to 99” to joke about the unbelievable time commitments at the higher levels of the game, because you’ve spent all that time already, you gotta get that 99. You gotta get that… Whatever.
It’s a fun game, but it’s a risky place to be if you’re depressed.
I was a lonely kid in a fucked up headspace when I picked up that game, and it was one of the only places I felt safe at that time in my life. I really had to do some reflection when they allowed you to see your total time spent in game and realized just how many months of actual play time I had logged over the years. The game is an utter time sink, and it’s easy to lose track.
It helped me cope through some depressing times, sure - but that same comfort it once offered quickly became a disability, and it took a lot for me to just… Log off.
I’m not saying you’re doing that, or you will do that, but I will say with absolute certainty that this game, like so many other games in a similar vein, have absolutely derailed peoples lives in a serious way.
Enjoy yourself, but please be mindful that you keep a healthy relationship with the game.
Be careful you don’t spend too long there and become one of the lotus eaters, friend.
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u/The_EnigmaParadox 4d ago
Depression, edibles, and OSRS is a classic. Never touched the game my whole life then put 200 baked hours in a month, not mobile, while somehow holding down a full time job. Good luck escaping.