“It's not this post that disappoints me, its the blatant racist and 'edgy' comments left by people that have no idea what it must be like to live in a situation were your economy is collapsing,” wrote a moderator, who locked the thread five days ago. But the wave of anger cresting in the Runescape community this week isn’t at the gold farmers, it’s at the people killing them (in the game). Yes, farming gold is obnoxious, against the game’s rules and will get someone banned. Now this week, someone posted a guide on the old-school Runescape subreddit that effectively made anyone from the nation a target in the game, whether or not they were gold farming. So many people in Venezuela have turned to gold farming in old-school Runescape that a newspaper there published an article on how to do it about three weeks ago. The government seems less interested in solving those problems than it is in cracking down on the dissent that has boiled over in the past six months. The cost of food and medicine has skyrocketed under the nation’s runaway inflation.
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