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Any particular reason?

*peeks my head in. Being very sheepish* He-hello? I'm a horrible person for leaving you all alone in here. I have been working hard and killing time and just generally procrastinating. I wish that I had more interest in the Gaia Community but it's so hard for things to keep my attention now.

I'm currently trying to get a better gaming computer. I'm currently at a Volunteer place that lets you work for 24 hours to get your own computer and with the stats on my current rig, anything would be better. razz I hope that I will be around more often, but knowing my track record, that's not too likely. *hugs you all... especially Jaft*

Guys. Guys, I have sad news. I just spent two hours making what would have been a delicious honey cheesecake. And then I had to throw it out because my spring pan is worn out, and the butter started leaking out. It smoked up my house, made the alarms go off, and I had to open the oven and turn it off to air everything out. Everyone knows that you cannot open the oven or in anyway interrupt the baking process of a cheesecake. Also, I was really worried that it was going to start a fire, so.

BUT GUYS. Delicious cheesecake that will never be. All of the time, all of the ingredients...wasted. I am so sad.

I recently ate cheesecakes without my butt being destroyed. It was nice. biggrin

@Tae: Just... at almost everything they do. D:< AHARGASDHAD

Jafty... have you had the problem with your butt being destroyed when eating cheesecake for long? o_O

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All worthy reasons.

If it weren't for guilds, I don't think I'd still be on the site.

That said, there are still a few pockets of sanity in the main forums. Gaia International is great, although a bit slow moving. Heaven isn't bad, either. The food & drink forum and healthy living forum are fine, too.

I'm on the fence about the money thing. It does feel like every new feature is rolled out primarily as a cash grab, and it's too bad they can't be more choosy about their sponsors. A lot of them are ******** tacky.
Still, in order for the site to run, they need money. Servers and the staff to support them are expensive, and paying for the developers and artists probably costs a small fortune. I'm pretty doubtful that they make much of a profit, and would guess that the site as a whole barely manages to break even.

My biggest hate-on right now is probably alchemy. The whole alchemy system is a sick joke. I've played the marketplace some, and it can be profitable, but I've never been as dedicated as the hardcore exchangers. I don't have the time or inclination to watch the MP like a hawk for hours. Those guys have more gold than Gambino. So when the vast majority of them say that alchemy is ridiculous, you know that for like 99% of the users on the site, it might as well be impossible.

The main forums are full of trash, but I don't feel that that's a Gaia issue. It is pretty sad, though. The same stuff is pretty prevalent almost everywhere online. You've got the dumbasses who barely have a passing acquaintance with the English language, and then you have the cynical, sneering jackasses (often trolls) with a terrible attitude. It's like it's cool to be a misanthropic a*****e or something.

*continues rambling*
There was this time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville... I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Wahahaha. Supposedly. I like that. I recognize that name, Torchwood, but the show I've been glued to is Awake, which, from what I hear, is getting canceled.

... D:



I remember a time when they were running ads for tampons or some other kind of womanly sanitary product.

Oh well....

It's a constant bummer that we can't use gold donated to the guild for anything interesting.

For some reason I feel like fishing here. I remember working that basic rod like a boss. surprised