The Indolent

Runescape is an "MMORPG"- massively multi-player online role playing game. It's a rather fun and challenging game in which players level-up various skills, earn gold pieces, collect things, barter with others what you have earned, or whatever. There are quite a good amount of skills to try and increase in order to become more efficient at whatever is it they do, and most importantly, make a profit. There is a Mining Skill, Cooking, Smithing, Runecrafting, Fishing, and more; though us free users are restricted to only about a 4th of them.
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Anyway, this post is a kind of rant on players who sit at the side-lines of the game's hard-workers and beg for whatever it is the others are earning. It's so annoying and confusing. I'll explain why..
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Example: Let's say I was fishing at a pier in "Kamarja". Or rather, I was harpooning swordfish and tuna! I had been there for a while, and along came a player. He walked over, stood beside me (and other workers) and said this--

"Takin free lobs or swordies" (lobsters and swordfish). To which I replied: "And I'm taking them right out of the water." He replied with the most expected and worn out excuse. He didn't have a lobster cage, or Harpoon. I told him I'm using my only harpoon and that was the end of it.
Okay, so my point is this. Why on earth, or Runescape, do you just stand there and beg for something that is right in front of your nose? It's not just fish they want. They beg for coins, armor, weapons, everything! Ugh, the stuff is all around you guys!
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Stefan and I have worked our way into millions of dollars, and with tons of other goodies just sitting in our banks. The beggars plead for something as small as 3000 coins while all the time they could be getting 35 times that amount in a couple of hours; which flies by as you play that game, just like most other fun activities.
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My mining level as of now is 71 out of 99. That's my main money-making skill. Stefan's kind of a chef, with a cooking skill of 57. Among other foods, he makes anchovy pizzas and sells them for more than a grand a pop!
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Now don't think I'm all selfish on that game. I usually give to whoever asks, and even some that don't ask. I regularly donate them 5k at a time and befriend them. I even have 66 rubies waiting in my bank to hand out to people. It's just when the items are right beside you and you ask others to hand their loads to you, it's a little dumb. Just go buy a 20 dollar fishing rod and some bait, or a 10 dollar bronze pick-axe and start getting all the free stuff your little helpless heart desires.
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I think I'm satisfied now.
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- Joey