Inherent human inadequacies abound in multitudes and are perceptible in any activity that one puts forth even the slightest of inquiries. And to even the greatest believer and ardent supporter of the positive nature of humans, this cold reality can easily lead to utter disappointment and a misguided blanket judgment on even those not guilty of the particularly applicable misdeed or digression.

How does any of this possibly relate to RuneScape? Well, as is most certainly one of the desired goals of the online adventure game, the virtual world RuneScape shares several characteristics with our very own world of blood, dirt and greed. This is of course obvious. Players live, die, need money, need health, interact with others, etc, etc. But, to me, this hardly begins to scratch the surface of what ties together the worlds of the solar system’s 3rd planet and that which resides within the 1’s and 0’s of your computer. To me its all about human nature; and unfortunately, as a natural cynic I often times find myself assuming the worst as a rule and anything better than that as an exception.

I must again inquire: How does any of this relate to RuneScape? What I’m saying is that in this real world of ours the historic injustices and systematic inequalities have steamed from such a large and long tide, that it’s as unlikely that any truly good news in the way of humanity is as fictional as a rabbit that misplaces eggs to celebrate the resurrection of some guy from Nazareth. But, here we have an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, to start all over again, but do it right this time. We have a virtual world that in fact even comes equipped with rules in order to maintain the societal fairness that we all publicly pronounce as important to us in the real world. Great. What could possible go wrong. What? Human nature--that’s what.

It would be impossible to move through the world of RuneScape for even a minuscule amount of time without gaining full appreciation for how many RuneScape hacks there are out there. The hacks are out there to cheat their way into better, undeserved stats and to cheat you out of yours. They want to make real world money, by hacking into the system and changing stats. And all of this unavoidably creates an unfair and unjust experience for the multitudes that do not engage in RuneScape hacking. Sound familiar? It should, its art imitating life…or, maybe more like, life using art to further engage in the disgusting characteristics of life.