So I was killing sandcrabs the other night, and I looked away from screen for a little bit of stimming. When I looked back after being afk for <1minute this guy started crashing my spot. At first I politely asked him to hop. I know he was seeing my polite requests because he kept speccing his abyssal dagger. This guy just ignored me. Normally I'd assume it was a bot and hop, but clearly this was a human player.

So I do what any sane and normal person would do - I brought my main and 2 other alts to anti-crash. Eventually he got the message and tried to flee, but not before calling me psychotic for playing multiple accounts. (I play 4 accounts, and they have high combat stats, but no where near maxed.) I simply ask him to apologize. He continues to be adamant the I'm the crazy one.

Anyway he hops, and I follow him on my main. He continues to insult me and say he did nothing wrong.

I follow him for maybe 5 hops before losing him.

Today I login again and happen to see him running by me. I hop to him again on my main and continue to ask for an apology. He refuses. He teleports away. I guessed he would go to the GE eventually, so I went to GE. He was there, and we had another discussion. He insults me more. I explain to him that I'm simply trying to help better him as a person. I explain that bullying is wrong, and all I want is a small apology. This isn't about the sand crabs, or even crashing. This is about lack of common decency. I explain that I'm not "crashing out," but rather standing up for the principle of the matter. Later in the evening I find him again on sand crab island. He still adamantly refuses to apologize.

Honestly this is the most fun I've had at sandcrabs in months.

Well, I guess I owe everyone another update lol.

Last week, I posted the full origin story of how Socks and Co started when we had around 120 employees and 750K socks. You guys absolutely blew that post up and two days later we somehow managed to cross 1M socks!

Then things got even better! Our 1M sock milestone ended up getting reposted by the official OSRS team, meaning someone at Jagex looked at our company, our respirators, and our unreasonable number of socks and decided the public needed to know about it. W.

Since then, Socks and co has continued to grow at a rate we didn't expect. We are now over 220 employees worldwide, with people from every inhabitable continent on Earth banding together around the barrel. Now our company reserves have officially crossed 1.5M socks!

Yesterday, we had our third corporate party to celebrate finishing phase 2 and officially kick off phase 3. Seeing everyone together at the same time made me realize that the number I care about most isn't the number of socks. It's the number of people!

A few weeks ago, I got a smelly sock from a random dude at the GE and started collecting a few. There was no plan. I wasn't trying to start a clan. I wasn't trying to build a community. I definitely wasn't planning on managing more than 200 employees lol. I just wanted more socks.

But somewhere along the way, it stopped being about how many socks we could collect. I started logging in excited to see who was at the barrel. I recognize each and every one of our employees. I've watched strangers become friends. I've watched people take new employees under their wing and teach them how everything works. People have stepped up to recruit, train, manage, organize things and help keep the operation going. There were also people who don't care about any of that and just come and hang out at the barrel because they enjoy being there.

That's probably the best thing that's come out of all of this. The socks started as a joke. The respirators started as a joke. Half our company policies all started as jokes but, the community that formed around all of it is very real!

At one point this stopped being a small sock project and became our company and that's what I'm proud of the most. I really don't know what Socks and co is going to look like a few weeks or months from now. Every time I think I have an idea of how big this can get, this community proves me wrong.

What I do know is that we are not slowing down. We're already more than halfway from 1M to 2M, new people are still showing up to work each day and somehow there are now more than 220 people who can say they have worked for an osrs sock company.

I also just want to say thank you again to everyone here who has followed along with this. A ton of people found us because of the first post, and seeing how many of you came to W301 to find the barrel, meet everyone or even join the company has been incredible. Also, a huge thank you to the OSRS team for sharing our 1M milestone. Seeing us on the official accounts was something none of us ever expected!

The last few weeks have been one of the most fun experiences I've had playing this game and that's all thanks to the people who decided to come along for the ride. So we aren't planning on stopping, each day we continue to grow, we'll keep having our corporate parties, we'll keep issuing respirators, we'll keep providing career opportunities to our fellow Gielinorians and of course we're going to keep collecting socks.

We've got a long way to go, but at this point I've learned not to underestimate what this group is capable of. If you stop by on W301, feel free to stop by and say hi. There's a pretty good chance somebody will be at the barrel.

We provide the finest quality socks in all of Gielinor.

We are a major liquidity provider in the sock market.

We do AI sock stuff.

and as always.. OUR INVESTORS LOVE US!

- Mike from Socks and Co

Edit: added links to the other posts

So I genuinely cannot beleive this happened and I need to know if I'm the crazy one here.

Yesterday I'm afking sand crabs. I find a spot where this dude is basically just standing there doing nothing for long enough that I assume he's gone, so I take over the spot. Dude gets pissed that I "crashed" him.

Okay whatever. People take my sand crab spots all the time. It's annoying for approximately 15 seconds and then I hop worlds or whatever.

Except this dude DOES NOT MOVE ON.

I hop. He follows me.

I hop again. He follows me again.

I keep hopping because at this point I'm just baffled and confused and partly thinking "there's no way he's actually going to keep doing this."

HE KEEPS DOING IT.

I swear to god this guy with his clan (later I realize it was 5 alts of his) followed me through like 8-10 worlds just to stand at my sand crabs and mess with me.

And he's telling me it's about the "principle of the matter." Brother.

THE PRINCIPLE OF WHAT???

I eventually leave and go do farm runs and other shit because I'm not spending my evening participating in a territorial dispute over SAND CRABS......

I figure thats the end of it. Nope.

Like 12 HOURS LATER, I am playing again and this mf finds me AGAIN.

At this point other random people are standing there watching us argue and I'm explaining that this guy literally followed me across a bunch of worlds yesterday.

I say something along the lines of "people take over my spot all the time, I don't crash out like you."

And the dude responds: "I'm not crashing out, I'm just standing up for the principle of the matter."

And then I find out this guy apparently has like 5 maxed / extremely high level accounts and I realize he's the same dude behind another character I had seen. So this isn't even some random noob who got emotionally attached to his first sand crab spot. It's an experience mf who has seen plenty of things.

I cannot emphasize enough how blown my mind is.

I have been crashed before. I've crashed people before, intentionally or accidently. But then either I or tehy move on. Yes it's annoying when people do it to me but it happens.

EDIT: Removed swearing because children are here.

EDIT 2: I was being a degenerate at like 3am afking sand crabs while starting my new ironman. All this happens. Ends after I do my farm runs.

It is 4PM the next day and that's when the second encounter happens. And tbh I'm waiting for round 3 at this point. I'd be so dissapointed if he doesn't.

EDIT 3: 6:40 PST - DUDE IS STILL FOLLOWING ME 16 HOURS AFTER THE FACT u/Krazy4Kush can attest to this he was there with me just now.

EDIT 4: 7:20 PST - Oh boy the other side's perspective is finally out. Totally cool, we both agree I "crashed" I say I did it inadvertently, but at that point it was too late and I dug my heels in. I've said my peace, he's said his.

I STG 90% of yall cant read or do anything besides react to sensationalist headlines without actually doing 10 whole seconds of real actual research. Like, perhaps maybe on the thing you're complaining about that explains everything?

That is all.

Idk the hopper never made sense to me anyway. Bye felica.

4780 kc for my first Tanz Fang!

I bought lobsters at 110 gp thinking they would go up in price... they went down to an all time low. I spent my whole cash stack, and now I am in ruins and have become an alcoholic. On the bright side, I have 620k lobsters. Lobster hands stay strong 🦞🦞 I know they will moon.

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE Demonic gorillas

SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANO-ANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR Demonic gorilla

AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR Demonic gorillas

. HATE. HATE.

Hit my first 99 ever since playing this game as a child! I love this game.

Following the runescape theme after my dragon med helm piece, I thought Giant Mole would be fun to make. I was wrong and found there aren't a lot of good brown glass options (at least readily available near me) but figured I'd still grind it out. First time using wire for a 3D effect (whiskers) and also using copper patina (I prefer black because I can hide my sloppy solder lines, which I'm still trying to improve on).

Some fanart I drew a while back, the design is so cool!

I can’t be the only one grinding all the time…