In a fascinating use of free will, Old School RuneScape player spent 4,304 hours catching 275,196 shrimp and 257,064 anchovies to max out his fishing skill in the worst way possible

Across the ages, theorists and theologians have wrestled with an irreconcilable question: Is free will an inherent capacity of the human soul, or a misapprehension of things predetermined and divine? Is it a unique function of the human animal, or an illusory quirk of cognition bound by circumstance and necessity?

If free will is indeed a figment of our moral imagination, how then do we account for the rare and heroic few who—by wielding their own agency—ascend to heights that shame those of us left toiling in mundanity and mediocrity? How do we answer for the likes of Old School RuneScape player Bosby, who this week entered the annals of...