Old School RuneScape punishes innovation, prevents player from using their own severed toe to skirt anti-botting rules
Botting, generally, is frowned upon in MMOs. Using any kind of tool to automate your play and amass experience and resources is against the rules in pretty much every major multiplayer game I can think of, but one Old School RuneScape (OSRS) player thought they'd found a loophole. As spotted by GamesRadar, they asked OSRS developer Jagex if it really counts as using a third-party automation tool if the tool in question is their literal amputated toe.
In a post that will animate university philosophy departments for decades to come, an OSRS player called planting_shade has taken to the OSRS subreddit to ask the devs if it's okay to use their «amputated toe for the Duke mining method». The situation is almost exactly what you think it is. Planting_shade wants a verdict on whether it truly counts as botting if all you're doing is weighing down a key on your keyboard with a weight that was, after all, once part of yourself. Understanding that their query was a matter of import not just for the RuneScape community but for the entire field of moral science, planting_shade appended their question with the tag "[serious]".
The «Duke mining method» that planting_shade refers to is a relatively recent development in OSRS, and to be honest, the term «method» might be a bit grand. It refers to a tactic players have been using in the game's Duke mining area, whereby all you have to do is hold down the spacebar in order to continually accrue Mining experience until the game logs you out automatically. All planting_shade wants to do is hold down their spacebar using their formerly-attached toe instead of their currently-attached finger. What's the difference, I ask you.
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