Exactly!

Actually, those who are intimidated by college-level critical thinking wouldn't be SKU fans!

It all works out.

Gaia was the coolest thing ever...when I was 14.  I'm always amused when 4chan raids the place but the fact that Gaia does a good job of trolling themselves now makes it even more pathetic.  On a completely unrelated note, I think I just typed the greatest run-on sentence I've ever.

Sometimes I go onto the Dream Avatar Creator just for fun though.

The Dream Avatar Creator? That's always worth an hour or so of fun on a rainy day. I use it to create fictional identities for most of my writing. Saves the time and labour of actually drawing the characters out.

Yeah, I'm a lazy bastard.

Razara wrote:

My biggest problem with Gaia was that there were tons of times when the people there left me feeling pissed off. I hate how you need to be an asshole to be well respected, I hate how anyone who says that they were raped or that someone in their family died is just making it up, and I hate how fucking stupid the people there are in general.

I found someone who thought that Rome and Greece fell just because a lot of the citizens back then were gay, and that America will fall for the same reason if we allow it. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Not to mention how often people encourage suicide on there.

Yes, exactly. Actually.. that's the main problem I had with Gaia. The malice.

I remember in GD, when flamers were the most popular. The "prommies". They were worshipped for insulting confused, dumb newbies. Because, you know, insulting people that are less smart than you clearly makes you intelligent. I'd like to see how some of them would fair in ED. \:

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satyreyes wrote:

SleepDebtFairy wrote:

Yes, exactly. Actually.. that's the main problem I had with Gaia. The maliciousness.

MALICE!!! 

/english-teachz0r

OH FINE.

I knew I got that word wrong.

Out of the thousands of members of Gaia, I wonder how many of them actually pay attention to the storyline for the story itself and not quest items. It's like the Cinemas theatrical trailers. Nobody pays any attention aside from quest items. It's really sad.

Case in point: about a week ago, I decided to accept the quest trilogy for the new movie they made based on the old Nancy Drew novels. (Does anybody remember those? I never read them, but...) When I found the official guild dedicated to the movie, most of the posts were locked because people were whining and griping about not being able to finish the quests properly. Anything that wasn't directly related to the movie (and the guild welcome screen said otherwise, as far as I could see) was locked almost immediately.

(The secret to solving the quests? Leave the Cinema window for a quest open until you're completely done with that quest. THEN close the Cinema window out.)

But it's terrible when nobody pays attention to the storyline because there are items on the line. It's like there's no real plot to the holiday celebrations, it's just an item free for all. Very, deeply, depressingly sad indeed...

EDIT: If you're curious, yes, I am a bit of a spelling and grammar Nazi, EXCEPT I fume silently. I won't harass somebody because they use overly relaxed spelling and grammar. It's the freaking Internet, why else did they invent chat speak and l33t? This is coming, though, from a person who cannot spell "manoeuvre" in American to save his life...and he's a natural American!

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Razara wrote:

I hated my avatar, so there was no point in posting.

I started getting tired of my avatar, too. Then I realised that maybe I should get up and do something about it. So I used the Dream Avatar Creator to simulate a new form for me. I marked the names of the necessary items (thankfully, many of them were recent items, the killer was my shirt, at over 30k gold...in the shops!) and threw together my alter ego on Gaia -- the "Son of Sun." Even wrote a backstory for the avatar and posted the results in Arena. Of course, I didn't win anything, but I got a useful tip that scored me another item for Son of Sun. I rarely dress as him, unless there's something formal going on or I just want to impress people.


This is the Son of Sun in full godly avatar regalia. Not quite a god, closer to an Incarnation of Immortality. But he's still pretty powerful in his element.

It seems the more you care about your avatar, the more you care about Gaia and having to deal with all the shit you get from it. I happen to like your avatar, Razara. I think it's in very good taste, and being cute while you're at it is a plus.

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I hadn't heard of Gaia in time for the whole Grunny debacle, but I do have a friend who's in the second stage of Grunnyfication. Admittedly, like almost everybody else on my friendslist, she doesn't do Gaia anymore, but she did show me her, err...advanced stage...

As for being fully Grunnyfied, I congratulate you, Razara. Not many people I know can lay a true claim to having a cute red eyed green zombie parasite bunny thing on their head. And I have a vial of antidote that serves no other purpose in inventory other than to look cool.

*thinks aloud* Hmmm...Grunnies...Zurg...I'm going to have to see what Son of Sun looks like as a Zurg. I'll post a picture when I've completed the transition. (Don't worry, I don't plan on staying Zurg for long. Terran power, all the way! This I learned from many battles against the evil Alien Scourge in X-COM...but that's another thread and another story...)

Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket! (My favourite use of the Lord's name in vain. ) That's a hell of an inventory Kealdrea's got there! I'm glad the gift credit system exists, in that case!

I just bought a new outfit for my character that I swear I bought before one time...then again, with the high prices they charge, maybe not...Now, I AM THE SECTOID HUNTER.

In other news, I do indeed have a Zurgified version of Son of Sun. Here it is (reminding you all I did this with the fancy new Sig Lab and not Tektek...)



Not as cool as the human version, in my opinion. I don't think aliens were meant to be gods in Gaia...

A commission running, Persephone? Like in the Arena? If you have an avatar saved for the Arena, you can change it back to what it was before. It simply takes a snapshot of your current avatar and posts it during the voting session.

But commission? You might wanna explain that, because I probably don't know much about what you're saying...

And I'd like to see your house. I like my house, too.

BioKraze wrote:

A commission running, Persephone? Like in the Arena? If you have an avatar saved for the Arena, you can change it back to what it was before. It simply takes a snapshot of your current avatar and posts it during the voting session.

But commission? You might wanna explain that, because I probably don't know much about what you're saying...

And I'd like to see your house. I like my house, too.

An avatar art commission, someone draws your avie. I do still enjoy that, I felt too lazy to upload the link onto my own server, so I just gave her the gaia link to my avie,
which changes whenever you change it.

I'm so lazy, I don't wanna take a pic of my house and upload it.
You can always check it out on gaia.
It's in 9 Barton 001970

I started a guild for gaia boob lovers, and a few months later, I turned the admin responsibilities to another member.
Guys are relentless.
I am now a part-time admin fro the Official Björk guild.

Actually, Pandora, you're quite close to the mark. Gaia is now essentially Neopets without the Neopets themselves. Or so I've now convinced myself. But we'll all respect your decision to stay away.

Funny, it seems almost like becoming a Gaian is getting a LiveJournal or Myspace account...