NekoAli

*appears in an explosion, coughing and waving a paw in front of her face*

Good morning all. I appear to be mostly better, or at least not 3/4 dead like yesterday. What's for breakfast?

Zomg! it's a Psi! Hi there!

Well, a little better now. Headache pills have finally kicked in and I've got a little food in me. I just wish I didn't have to go to the store today. But this is really the only day I can go this week until Friday, and I'm pretty much out of a bunch of stuff as it is.

Trust me, it would be easier and more merciful to just shoot me.

*crawls in, horribly sick and collapses*

Someone shoot me please.

And here I am without my plasmids...

Very cool, Rooky. I saw the Volpin Props pages where the suit and syringe were being made, it's nice to see them in action.

I disagree that a DLC is like RMT. DLCs add new content to the game, while RMT allows you to spend money instead of time for in game resources. It's like saying paying rent and buying food are the same thing just because you use money for both. Similar in some respects, not the same though.

I also disagree that having the game producers get into selling RMT themselves would fix things. This will work, if it exists from the beginning of the game. A lot of free to play games offer cash store options, and they still get people trying to run around the creators and make their own money.

Trying to add official RMT to a game that has been existing is the proverbial closing the door after the cow's got out. The secondary market for RMT is already there, and profitable for the sellers, so they aren't going to give up their money just because there is an official venue. Instead they'll just try to undercut the official people, which will probably lead to more people's accounts being stolen and stripped. It's a lot easier to lie and cheat and steal for that inf or gold or what have you than it is to pay people or set up bots to farm it up.

Which is the real problem with RMT. It's not that Bob Gamer is tricking out his character by spending excess cash instead of farming for 40 hours, but that the people behind unofficial RMT are for the most part sleazes who disrupt people's play time with their advertisements, cause hostility towards some groups and in general do whatever it takes to make sure they make a profit at someone else's expense. After all, if they're already breaking the rules by running their own RMT racket, why stop there? Cheat and steal all you like, it's not like your rule breaking clients are likely to report you.

*gets out a lasso and ropes up Gold, pulling them back. Then calls into work for them*

I'm sorry, Gold won't be able to make it into work today... they're a bit tied up at the moment.

*crawls in and squirms in between Rook and Detra, getting comfy and warm*

Is cold here today and I'm not feeling well. Can someone get me some juice, please?

Unfortunately, while it's nice that there are stores around Atlanta, it's a bit far for me without a car. I'm really really starting to regret a lack of a car right now, but I sure can't afford one.

Yes, that's one thing I really liked about being near a Trader Joe's. They had a good, if somewhat limited selection of cheeses. Certainly better than the 23 varieties of processed american cheese that passes as most store's selection...

I thank you all for your kind words of support today.

November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance, where we honor those who have passed on in the past year as a result of violence or discrimination against Transgendered people. I put a post up about it in the Pride social group.

*walks in wearing a black armband and settles down between the two pugs*

Ah, warm. Morning Rooky, and everyone else who comes in. I can has a chocolate please?

Soul has the mutant power of FUNK!

eeeyah! Shecky's finally turned into a booger!

*watches the morning donut get Fedor today instead of the other way around as usual*

Oooh, watch out for that... Ah, to late. That looks painful there. Hope you picked up some regeneration too, Fed.

Eh, I just blame the tentacles and such on the GOO ancestry in my family tree. Good old Uncle Narly is always good for a chuckle.

*comes slithering out on a new set of tentacle-feet, sniffing around with multiple noses. Making her/it's way over to the counter, a psuedopod flips on the chef-bots. Tiny little wings lift her/it up to the counter where a morning chocolate donut is prepared. She/it then sets out a few boxes of Mutie-O's and some fresh milk*

Come and get it while it's still fresh and wriggling!

Agreed with Spartan here. Compared to certain *ahem* other NCsoft games, gold farming/selling in this game is nothing. Compared to most other online games, it's absolutely tiny. Inf just isn't worth that much in the game, and it's way to easy to get on your own in any amounts you might need it in. Plus, if they're using AE to farm, you barely even have to see them. In any case, it's usually not the farmers that are the problem, it's the annoying sellers, which you can report, and should.

Also generally considered somewhat offensive slang.

I'll never surrender, Fedor!

*throws a handful of donut holes at the sackboy and activates her collar helicopter, flying away and cackling*

*bounces over the rooftops while munching on a donut, trying to stay ahead of Secret Agent Sackboy*

*sneaks in through the air vents and lowers herself on a line, carefully checking the glass dome over the donut for alarms. Using a glass cutter, she makes a hole in the dome and carefully extracts the donut, leaving a note behind reading 'Good Morning Everyone' and then retreating into the air vents again*