Yes, those of us who play RS have to be a masochist is someway. The entire game is a grind that requires thousands of hours to succeed. However, for many longtime players Runescape is more than just a game. It is many of ours first experience with online gaming, The first place where people who struggled socially were able to find acceptance. The nostalgia of our youth encapsulated in a game. In middle/start of high school Runescape probably saved my life. I had very little friends in real life, I struggled to make friends. However, on Runescape i had 100s of friends. We talked regularly, vented about life, etc it was an escape from the things i could not control, and dampened my depression. Runescape is not just a game to us.

This issue is almost entirely caused by the relationship that Jagex has with its player base. In 2012 Jagex released a rolled back version of the game to 2007 as many were unhappy with some of the updates that had been implemented over the past several years. One of the primary components of OSRS(the rolled back version of the game) was that every update put into the game had to pass a community poll with 75% approval or more, otherwise it would not be implemented in the main game. As the games age began to show, a series of third-party clients that could run the game began to emerge. Many of these clients provided funcitonality that the main game client could not support, but drastically improved the users game experience. WIth this Jagex was forced to begin co-operating with third party clients or risk their game dying completely. In the last year the company has been running into issues where it is hard to distinguish between a third-party-client and a bot script. Leading the company to rethink their relationship with third party clients. To respond to this they have begun re-writing their entire game client in order to support the features the users want, so that they can eventually stop support of the clients. However, the game community has become used to being able to write their own plugins, and tools to make their game life easier,that the company has stated multiple times that they were NOT GOING TO IMPLEMENT. Now they have realized that they want to do these things, and are saying to hell with everyone who has devoted their own time and effort into improving the game that they love so much. Yes, Runescape is owned by Jagex, and everything in the game is subject to their rules regarding their intellectual property. However, They have had every opportunity to shut this project down for the last few years, and said nothing until 48 hours before the release. By doing this they have shot themselves in the foot and have to decide which is more important. Their users, or what they would like to do to their game.

Long time RS player here. A vast majority of players are upset about this issue. Since 2015 the community has pushed for Jagex to create an HD Frontend for the game. In 2018, when the topic was brought up again the company in a stream to its viewers announced that there was absolutely NO CHANCE that they were going to put in the work for an HD Client. At this point is when the work on the Fans project started, He communicated his intentions, as well as regularly posted updates about his project on all community boards. Since 2018 he has put in thousands of hours on the project, and literally within 48 hours of release Jagex sent him a Cease and Desist as they were now looking into writing their own HD Client. This is a complete 180 on what they said. Also the Runescape community is unlike any game community i have ever seen. The players are extremely passionate, and have voted on 90% of updates that have come to OSRS in the last 8 years. The Rs player base has grown accustomed to being listened to by the devs and their opinions taken seriously, if Jagex continues their current path, it will most certainly affect their bottom line. I have several friends that I routinely game with and they have canceled their re-occuring memberships to stand in solidarity with the developer.

I haven't read the bill, but couldn't Facebook effectively un-ban politicians, but simply refuse them the ability to post? Seems like a pretty neat loophole.

Studies seem to suggest that only about 8% of people who try "Hard Drugs" become severely addicted, and the same seems to hold true for almost anything. Junk food? About 8% of people will over indulge. Television? About 8% of people will watch too much of it. Heroin is an interesting one because of the difference between smoking it and shooting. I have never personally tried Heroin, but have known several who will smoke Heroin on the weekends as they would smoke pot, or drink a beer and have little to no problems. However, shooting Heroin is a completely different game, I had a close friend who used to smoke Heroin occasionally and never had any noticeable problems with addiction. That completely changed the time he tried the needle, he told me during a complete breakdown that his life as he knew it completely stopped to exist the second the needle hit his vein. It took over his life, and since then he has probably spent 3 of the last 5 years incarcerated. He is from a poor family who cant afford to get him professional help and I feel for him, he desperately wants to get clean but has no resources to help him do so. If the government began treating it as an illness rather than a crime he may actually finally be able to get help. - I am still on the fence about legalizing all drugs, I am all for there being support programs for those in need of help, but I also am strongly against someone being able to freely buy Heroin or other hard drugs. The only thing I do know for sure is that the current "War on Drugs" has failed, and only managed to make criminal organizations incredibly powerful.