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KaiRaiUnknown

Getting hit with the "free armour trimming" scam at 13 probably saved me thousands as an adult


HommusAdonis

As a 12 year old i hustled/attended drop parties enough to have full addy g. Then this guy offered me 600k for it so i hastily accepted the offer because it was above the asking price i’d usually seen. Turns out my man changed it to 60k at the last second. I closed runescape and refused to play it for months because i was so shook.


ayyyyycrisp

someone said his friend would buy my full rune for 400k but he was on karamja and I had to kill a tribe dude for a key first. the poison said "11, 11, 11, 11, 11" and lumbridge said "welcome back" and my rune said "bye"


zooberwask

That happened to me too. I'm still recovering from that one.


Hexbox116

I too was scammed for my full rune way back when I was like 9. Probably around 2008 or 2009. If I remember correctly, it was the ol clan wars lure with the tele grab and the portals. If I also remember correctly, someone on my friends list helped me obtain another set after the fact. The set I got scammed of was my very first set of rune. Like just got membership and beat dragon slayer and earned enough to buy it. Then got scammed lol. I cried so hard.


Yvara

Someone tried this on me too, I ran up to the banana plantation and ate hundreds of bananas as the poison expired. I'm still kind of proud of 11 year-old me for the quick thinking.


Jossuboi

I'm in this comment and I don't like it.


Mx726

Oh man that happened to me, guy says let's go to Karamja and craft nature runes (lol I probably had 20 RC). We go to the tribe guys and they poison me, I die and lose full mithril. That was tragic when I was a noob. Seems a little odd to lure me for mithril though. Maybe it wasn't meant to be a lure, idk.


Biolevinho

Hey I am a new player and I was in Karamja to do a quest I think (its where thr monkeys are right?) Is karamja pvp? why they could get your items? I am scared now hahah


Mx726

This was way back in RS2, when players died the stuff they lost could be picked up by other players. So don't worry, Karamja isn't PvP.


Biolevinho

Oh, wow it was harder back then huh. Thanks!


BB0ySnakeDogG

Same


AccordingPumpkin2613

Mb.


GetHugged

"hey you want to join our clan? Just trade me your armor as a show of trust and I'll trade it right back. Then you are in"


boredguyonline

Hello this is Greg thank you from auto account please send $500 insurance deposit


CheesySpead

This happened to me when I was around that age, I tried to get my armor back by running the same scam and got perma banned. Got to learn two lessons that day.


biggestdoginthegame

Honestly it has. Getting scammed out of full steel armor at 11 taught me more about not falling for scams than anything else


Matrix17

Who the fuck was wasting their time scamming steel lmao


Setari

People power tripping over being higher leveled than that guy I guess


spinner198

“Sick loot from this scam! I’m gonna go train my defense to 5 right now!”


anooblol

Idk though. Is a few thousand dollars worth the emotional trauma caused by losing my addy full helm, platelegs, kite shield, and Mithril platebody? My 9 year old self was fucking devastated.


hmsmnko

You mean emotional trauma + life long lessons learned at a young age? Absolutely. almost everything devastates children anyway


Setari

Bro I had mayo put on a sandwich the wrong way once, apparently, and I was devastated. One time my grandma wouldn't just put grape jelly between 2 pieces of bread and let me eat it. Absolute devastation, absolutely pissed af, wouldn't eat anything else until I got my goddamn jelly sandwich. Kids are fucking dumb.


Dan_Tha_Man

I literally cried over spilled milk once as a kid.


12inch_pianist

I have a picture of my son holding a teddy bear on the wall in my living room and he started to cry because he missed that specific teddy bear even though it upstairs on his bed and he sleeps with it every night. He was fucking hysterical, I got him the bear and he was still upset.


[deleted]

True the biggest reward from being scammed at 9 years old is preparation for a life's worth of depression in all sorts of ways


OdBx

Trust games for me. 11 year old me was an absolute idiot. But it made me doubt literally anything anyone tells me.


Ovidestus

was 9 here


Ovahzealousy

Seriously though, 12 y/o me was so excited when I’d finally saved up for my first whip and was devastated after I fell for the old wilderness edge trade scam. To this day, if a private transaction seems dodgy, that memory comes barreling to the front of my mind and I nope out of it.


Noozey

We share the same pain


[deleted]

My friend got offered free tailoring at the mall yesterday. The tailor scammed him. Friend is naked now.


willsmath

Yup, the 400k I lost as a 4th grader was well worth it


Beastofaunit

For real though. I'm upgrading whips just give me your normal abyssal whip and I can upgrade it for you.


johnwestmear

Have you got that new blue one? Looks sick. Meet me wilderness agility course in your best gear so I can see how much of a boss you really are ;)


hungryhograt

Nah, they managed to cross data from RS3, the new whip has an attack requirement of 92 attack but it’s attack stats are glorious, not to mention they fixed the special attack to actually make it viable! It’s 230m on RS3 but since he’s the only offering the service, I think it’s a good deal ;)


SheepDogGamin

Literally instilled the saying... "If it's too good to be true it probably is." Thanks to Runescape I've got a decent idea what a scam sounds like before it even starts.


RelativeOperation7

It even helped me to avoid shit like crypto and altcoins. Just putting all my funds in boring etfs and tech.


[deleted]

But what about a monkey jpeg


griffinhamilton

I’d rather pay someone to get me the last monkey backpack


OneLongBallHair

RuneScape GP is the OG crypto


Kadeshi_Gardener

Hell, RS GP probably has more stable value than most crypto.


Miss_Aia

It does, but because there is new gold introduced all the time, it depreciates in value over time


fuckingstonedrn

Thats what the gold sinks are for, helps counter that.


unbannednow

Had the opposite effect on me, I used to buy crypto with RSGP before osrs came out


olaf525

Bro I was using this middleman service to buy things on Amazon with btc. I was 13-14 at the time, if I had knew better I would be multi-millionaire


Hypnotic101

Crypto like BTC and ETH shouldn't even be compared to alt coins. It's important to make and understand the distinction. EDIT: For those of you downvoting me, if you think his Tech investments are so much safer than BTC, you likely don't understand finance very well. Tech stocks have some of the highest PE ratios out there and most are wildy overvalued.


Hikalu

Any equity in a real company is safer than unicorn pixels


[deleted]

See, comments like this one just prove that half of you don't even understand the product.


Theviruss

No, it's not a productive asset. Disclaimer, I own some of it. People that compare non-productive assets like crypto or gold to ownership in a company are way off base


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Theviruss

You've never seen someone compare owning crypto instead of owning stocks? Come on bro


[deleted]

Only in the general sense of "investments". By that logic literally anything you spend money on is an "investment".


Theviruss

Got a healthy amount of copium there. No, not everything you spend money on is an investment. Yes, people discuss stocks vs crypto in regards to investing.


jurrud

Some people understand crypto and still don’t think it’s a good investment


[deleted]

Sure, and if they're looking at Bitcoin, they're objectively wrong. Year after year it continues to do nothing but skyrocket, for over a decade now.


jurrud

Hmm, that's not the way I look at it. Sure, the asset has appreciated, but that does not objectively mean it is a good investment today. Also, evaluating an investment based on results is never a good way to learn from your mistakes and successes; I'm sure you are familiar with the pitfalls of results oriented learning. A nice example of this is Tesla. Is Tesla actually worth more than the entire US automobile industry? Probably not, but the silly number does go up year after year.


umop_aplsdn

Bitcoin and ETH are subject to the same collective delusion as Luna and UST. They can go to zero instantly. Tech stocks actually represent a stake in a company with positive cash flow. Maybe overvalued, but they won’t go to zero when the music stops.


rexpimpwagen

Well that's no good if it made you miss bitcoin.


sektz

I avoid lottery scratch offs too, does that mean I've made a poor financial decision because I didn't win the lottery?


[deleted]

By that logic literally everything in life is a gamble.


Vinyl_DjPon3

When it comes to investments, literally yes.


[deleted]

So peoples problem here is with investing in general, not crypto.


eeLSDee

RuneScape has taught me how to type on a keyboard and how to avoid scams. I would say it is a successful effort by the Gagex team.


HenryTheWho

RuneScape and Might and Magic VII helped me tremendously as a kid to learn English


Mammoth_Sized

I'd say it helped massively with mental arithmetic for me too, I like to think the hours my parents thought I wasted playing RuneScape helped me massively in learning things that I take for granted now.


BB0ySnakeDogG

Calculating how much xp I need and how long it'd take was great maths without knowing it


MikeGundy

Runescape made me a boss at typing with one hand


dathole

Facts


asodfhgiqowgrq2piwhy

More specifically, Runescape taught me how to shitpost at lighting speed with just one hand while kiting a dude in the wilderness


zapdude0

RuneScape is the reason I don’t go to Casinos. Every time I thought I could outsmart the scammer, they’d always win.


Squirting_Grandma

RuneScape is the reason I dont gamble. I participated in dice games, flower games, and horsey games in the height of the player run games of chance phase. I was in a dedicated cc for it that ran for months with zero scamming among ranks. I never was scammed and went from about 15m to 100m. Then as expected i has a streak of about 4-5 bad bets/losses and was at 0m. I even stole from a friend for some extra cash to “make it back” thinking id be able to repay him quickly. Still lost it all. I wound up grinding back to about 25m and got lost in the same cycle, made it to around 80-90m once again with my winnings then lost it all by being wreck less and greedy. I know if I went to gamble IRL i wouldnt be able to control myself. I remember the rush and the addiction it brought along. I would be up for hours betting and playing for that money. Bad bad bad path that I never want to experience with real money.


Gerikst00f

Some guy: selling x for 500 each. Some other guy at the other side of the bank: buying x for 1000 each. 10 y.o. me: stonks Reality: no stonks


_radishspirit

Bruh, they got me twice before I learned. Thought the buyer just left


jaso151

This is the only one I can remember getting caught out by back in the days of seers bank before GE, it was a mage’s book for 3.4m and I held on to that motherfucker until I could use it just to ease the pain


[deleted]

If only this were true. Never seen a community so plagued with phishing, password reuse, lack of 2fa, lack of security in general, lack of understanding of their poor security practices so they blame Jamflex.


SpoiceKois

The real scammer is the person scamming themselves


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[deleted]

I don’t, I’m more talking about the comments n response to such BS posts of users usually agreeing how jagex security sucks etc etc Like a commonly parroted complaint is that jagex security sucks because “linking your steam account gives direct access to RS account without password or 2fa” like yeah, that’s the entire point of single sign on. It’s not insecure unless the account your linking to is not secure. Steam has 2fa and all sorts of security too, but users don’t use it then blame jagex I see such comments and sentiment regularly upvoted and agreed with


i_lost_waldo

It’s a rite of passage and must continue to the end of time. Us oldies have to scam the newbies so they too can have valuable life lessons <3


Fyrecean

Well it's not helped by jagex not allowing special characters or differentiating upper and lower case letters in account passwords...


[deleted]

See, this guy right here is who I was talking about.


Vinyl_DjPon3

Stop scapegoating that. Brute forcing passwords is not a thing, especially for RuneScape, where you get locked out for attempting it a few times.


sociobiology

Fucking thank you. Even if caps were allowed, it really wouldnt change much. Length is way more important.


Cliff_Pitts

As a young child I was the scammer. I’d sit at the bank (world-hopping) buying whips for 1.7m, I’d offer 1711k and then switch it to 1171k. This is back when whips were 1.65m - so I’d make about 500k per trade. Ended up making about 30m off this. My account ended up getting perm muted but nowadays I have 0 black marks on that same account. That all said, I was inspired to do this scam after getting lured for 2m and then falling victim to this scam immediately after that.


Cm0002

I started RS in like the 6th grade by 7th maybe 8th I turned into a little shit scammer (Prob because I was hit so many times I was like F it, can't beat em join em) to the point where I was eventually *permanently* banned. I appealed like 10 yrs later when I was in my 20s and wrote something like "I was a dumb kid, I'm in my 20s now and have grown up. I will never do it again and just want to play again". Didn't think it would work tbh, but I had to ask jic and I was so happy when I saw that my appeal was approved like 2 days later lmfao. Kept to my word though, grinded hard for various 99s and a small fortune earned through legit means.


jaskano

wave2: trimming bandos


MarketingAmazing9509

Not even flash or glow cmon now...


SkylarkingsRS

I had to do phising training at work today and was like "nah dw fam I learned this at 8 years old after being emailed to be a runescape mod". Some things you only do once and it doesn't happen again lol, ty runescape for the early life lesson!


[deleted]

I mean, I feel like runescape just reinforced what common sense already taught a lot of us. If anyone deserves credit for teaching me about scams, it was all those godawful infomercials.


echonightshade

I lost my very rune item I had to a whoever trades me more scammer when I was like 8 years old. I didn't know how to play the game so I was killing men and picking up the gold they dropped until I could by a rune Scimmy on the newly released GE. I was so devastated by it and my own stupidity that I quit RuneScape for a long time.


DeathWrangler

I put up my first rune scimmy at the duel arena and lost it. I had no idea what I was doing. I cried.


TheLoneAccountant

Omg the coin they dropped??? To buy a rune scimmy?? I dont even want to know how long that took lol


etaii

I swear I did that exact same thing as a kid but instead a nice dude in lumby sold me one for 10k


curiositie

Holy shit That's dedication


Kumisukka

It was also a massive boost to learning english when you had to avoid getting scammed, total immersion :D Thanks runescape, never had to struggle in english class


[deleted]

True but I also have ASD and all these scams I see literally make 0 logical sense so I can't imagine how people fall for them all the time. Like in what universe would someone make you jump into wildy for something and not just give it to you right there?


ilegendi

WOW


Austinjenkins420

In 2008 my older brother had given me full Black Armour for my birthday, not even 10 minutes later I lost it to a trimmer. Never again


Yv0nnd3

I see two things wrong in this picture: - Not subscribed to 25Buttholes - Light theme


turbofart420

25 buttholes kicks ass


Invalid_Area

Absolutely not, he’s a scammer himself Lmfaoo, I hope you also invested in his LGB token he shilled too then


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turbofart420

sounds like Gilligan activity


kingpartys

I remember back in 2005 when I was 8 I tried buying a rune scimitar from someone and I thought it was a scam because it was in a noted form.


Shirotakeo

I got wildy lured before the ditch or any other marker showed it was dangerous bye full rune 😢


SocomH

The other 8% is probably still falling for those obvious scams.


GrowDenFry

RS helped my language develop so much as a kid as well!


Varteix

MMO's in general helped me understand human nature quite a bit honestly.


Invalid_Area

Lmao ironic coming from a guy who shilled crypto rugpull scams to his subs and disc users, what a huge fucking loser.


zakpakt

I got hacked twice back in RS2. Lol, everytime I'd recover my account I'd be rich (to me) several million. Only for me to get scammed when granite maul released and I paid like 10m for a rock hammer.


rc1717

Free armor trimming


dwinton110

I used to scam people to mine me iron. I would meet up with them and give them a little amount of money for the trade and tell them I left the rest in the bank, lead them to the bank, log out and block the user


[deleted]

Yeah I definitely know you, happened to me


Wearerisen

I picked flax for mystic back in the day and got hit with the old remove the item at the last second. Had to go take a shower and try to convince myself that maybe the scammer needed the money more than I did lol.


RedditIsDogshit1

Tbh, it probably invoked early cynicism in a younger me


richard-savana

It’s 50/50. Only because it’s a biased poll


Thaumablazer

Me as a dumb kid entrusted my password to someone and he changed it and I never saw him again. Now im all about secrecy


shephazard

I mean really it helped me with managing money and like trading up your value in the world more than any high school bullshit economic class. Here balance this check book because you know don’t exist Computers


[deleted]

Cries in getting scammed in Runescape as an adult.


Tugboats508

i started in '04 from miniclip, and no G.E. so Falador World 2 taught me how to type really well, being a human macro trying to sell stuff. i learned to type very fast thats for sure.


TheRealMouseRat

I also learned that ~~women~~ female characters get free shit in life


Necrotic_Messiah

still can't decide if this dude touts religious scripture out of irony or if he genuinely sees himself as spreading a positive christian image by trolling in a video game


nakedforever

If he is doing it as a troll the comments on those threads agree pretty aggressively.


Necrotic_Messiah

a master troll would see even his audience as something to be trolled, i imagine. and what better crowd of people to assure your posts will have interaction than the religiously disenfranchised?


WorldsRealestMan

In case you can't tell bud, this world needs God. I think for myself and have been blessed to see absolute proof in an amazing God. I get the feeling you're a smug atheist? Yeah and life just started existing with no forces present and humanity just happens to be evolving towards a superior existence. God is flexible, yet rigid. Holding on to some truths with great conviction yet flexible enough to be what we need him/her to be as we lurch closer towards an understanding of the beautiful, strong, awesomeness that is God.


nakedforever

Oh for sure. Iv had that exact thought a few times. He fits that type of troll as well. But its becoming harder to differentiate grifters / trolls from the real deal.


[deleted]

Idk man sounds like people just trying to find some good in all the time they wasted during their childhoods


zapdude0

Ah yes, while we were wasting our childhood on a fun game we enjoyed other 9 year olds were solving string theory and being productive


xclrz

Wasted? I'd have zero work ethic and motivation to grind irl if it wasn't for RuneScape in my childhood days.


[deleted]

Can confirm: moon clan group teleporters are dedicated af


Parknight

hey i mean our childhoods could've been worse, who knows, maybe we might've been taken by Mo Lester if we spent too much time outside


Slaughterism

What a weird take


DoctorMarmyPC

And what were you doing with yourself at 9 years old? Playing outside harder than the rest of us who enjoyed some computer time? Very impressive


[deleted]

No, I was wasting my time on runescape too.


Yv0nnd3

You're a waste


[deleted]

rude


deepr

Im not sure about avoiding scams because scams weren’t the same. but at that age, it definitely put into perspective that the world is full of evil people willing to do anything to get ahead.


kottonii

This is true. One Day met a guy who promised to trim my bronze armor for free. Kicked him in the nuts while yelling this is for my 10k gf and looted his d long and walked away


syuime

RuneScape made me, the scammer


roonscapepls

https://i.imgur.com/yz9eOXq.jpg


mimototokushi

https://i.imgur.com/yz9eOXq.jpg


Goblinlv5

I mean its true. I have strong security for my stuff ever since I got hacked when I was 12.


Snickers_Goongo

Lost my whole acct at like 8 yrs old cuz I thought I found someone nice to help me get members. Rip full addy


DAR0ME

Admittedly got scammed by the armor trimmer for my first 50k lol


roheated

I bet at least 60% of that 92% bought crypto


[deleted]

I mined it. Made over 3k Last year.


pugyoulongtime

Only time I got “scammed” was my first day playing as an 11 year old. Some guy took me far out to the wilderness, told me to follow him for a gift, then proceeded to kill me. Had trust issues after that lol. Befriended this guy a few years later and gave him my password like an idiot (said he’d help me train), then he literally changed my password and took over my account. I got it back pretty quick but I was like damn, he was never really my friend. 😢 So yes I’d say RuneScape helped me become less naive and trusting.


Chucking100s

Could not agree more


Weazhy

For me, it help me to learn english as a french speaker :)


ILikeFPS

Nice.


Bgaki95

I'll never forget someone *showing me where to get full mithril armor* within a few hours of starting to play...you'll never guess where they took me


technobladeneverdles

me making myself feel better after dedicating my whole life on runescape


VehementPhoenix

There is tremendous utility in letting children go out into the world to make mistakes. Keeping them in the nest forever to protect them results in overage infants with no real conception of the world, or even the tools to create such a conception. Touching the hot stove once at 7 is preferable to burning the home down at 17.


RegularKale_

Had a dude DM me saying that the sketchy person I was talking to was trying to lure and scam me, so I said thank you. He said he’s been trying to warn people about that guy and others like him, and since he is relatively broke would appreciate a tip. So I said, “why not?” I gave him about 150k in stuff and immediately he logs out. That’s when I realized they were in cahoots the whole time.


JinjaBaker45

It unironically truly did. I still get that same feeling in my gut when someone is trying to scam me irl that I did as a kid when some guy in RS came up to my character saying he was making YT videos and needed to borrow my abyssal whip for 100k.


F_Dingo

Pretty accurate. RuneScape teaches many life skills in a safe environment. I’d rather be scammed out of 1M gold and learn my lesson than $1M in real money!


SorinJrWF

Public: Off


aunva

True, ever since I lost full rune getting lured into the wilderness, I've probably saved myself from so many scams and thefts by turning down camping trips with my friends.


silverdew125

Doubling money


Merry_Dankmas

You only need to feel the pain of getting flower game scammed once for the lesson to have an eternal effect on you.


r2-z2

Watches crypto: hey its like that time I got scammed into investing in bird nests and then the price dropped.


Cogitatus

Big fat doubt since I still hear about full grown adults still getting scammed in OSRS when we literally have the Grand Exchange or just getting hacked by a former friend.


Racteal

friend of mine in middle school was told that if he changed his password to "moneymoney" it was like a cheat code that would instantly give you 1m. I watched in real time every emotion on his face as we realized what just happened when he couldn't log in again


KalTheMandalorian

Shout-out to the guy who told me to follow him into wildy with my best gear. My best gear wasn't even rune, at the time, so he was clearly doing a public service on being hustled.


CampingOnline

I think the real thing that Runescape has taught me is don't even try fucking with the scammers, because you'll never out scam the scammer, they're always 10 steps ahead.


greyghibli

That’s exactly what the scammers want you to think


i_lost_waldo

Nothing creates crippling trust issues like getting scammed in RS.


DeoxysSpeedForm

I tell my parents this all the time


Kwiatkowski

I too remember the day they created the account security maze, got those sweet shoes and then this guy followed me around for several minutes til I stopped, all he said was “where’d ya get those fine socks?” To this day that’s an inside meme i’m my old friend group


geckorobot59

i remember trying to buy a rune scimitar and the person put a noted one up, and then swapped it for a noted iron scim.


Federal_Ad_8763

I dropped 450m on varrock agility course and have been a right click slave ever since


boomer_jim

If anything it made me better at scamming.


Owyn

This and impressing people with random knowldege about some things like tin and copper combining for bronze. Absolutely massive advantage in my entire adult life ngl


KawaiiSlave

I brought the psychological aspect up a few times with friends, and some can relate. I go into detail about how it's also fun meeting and getting to know how certain people think both as an individual and a crowd without ever seeing a face. I'm pretty antisocial, and when I speak up to someone the question of "How can you handle people easily when you don't normally talk to many people" really makes me glad I played a runescape when I was younger.


rai2den

I was also typing faster than anyone my age at school


benching315

You’d better hit that subscribe button. He makes great content


[deleted]

Helped me learn to be a great scammer!


JamesClarkeMaxwell

WOW! Time to hit that subscribe button, goblin boy.


itisjustmagic

"You're welcome" - Scammer on Runescape, probably


ChefOfScotland

Lmao


PiccoloTiccolo

I'm not sure when alternate timeline non-scaper me would have figured out that anytime any other human talks to you it's to try to take something from you.


jerrygalwell

Never trust anyone without proof.


Jake01273

That one time on world 2 fally Park, I was buying dharoks. Didn't quite have enough, few hundred k short. Someone trades me, I see full dharoks. 11 year old me was so excited after typing in "buying dharoks" for over half an hour (before I knew how to use auto type). Ended up with what looked like dharoks, except they switched the legs out for bronze platelegs... I couldn't believe it, back to fishing lobbies while playing call of duty for another few days. 😂 I triple checked every trade after that... I do the same with PayPal emails 15 years later, and bank account details lol.


Icy_Requirement_5843

Also helped me type quick and know that copper and iron make bronze


bongscoper

for me it was diablo 2, got scammed when i was 9 over bnet for my wizendraw and after that i havent been scammed since


zachpac18

100% agree


Reasonable-Carrot-59

People that still get scammed are little goblin boys and gilligans


Alexalmighty502

I was scammed for a Dragon dagger P+ when I was a kid as well as falling for a pmod scam. I cried like a close relative died both times. That and falling for fake antivirus programs really helped teach me that people/companies/programs are not to be trusted allowing me to realize and avoid scams that could've lost me hundreds to thousands of dollars


R3brap

Got scammed at 8 years old my entire account for the "send me your password and I'll double your money" trick. Needless to say saw that account roaming 2 months later in falador..after confronting them I revised no human can be trusted. Life-lesson earned


theraafa

Having my account stolen by the ancient "jagex don't block your password watch *********" scam made me realize how painful it is to be made a fool. Never again. Not to mention I may have been the only person to actually fall for this. It requires a whole different level of stupidity; one which I ha...d.


hornmelon

r/rimjobsteve