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Sarah12313 Report | 06/07/2011 2:25 pm

I am Sarah the great and almighty! in which you have not talked to for a very long time >:0

castigat ridendo mores Report | 07/06/2010 1:58 pm

I'm sorry it took so long to reply! I was gone for a week from the 29th to today for personal reasons, and now I'm back.
I don't mind helping you. I don't know why people should treat you indifferently, anyways. Warmth is good. (:

Lynne-Dethklok Report | 06/29/2010 6:03 pm

Hah! I am now one of the many that has contributed to the comments on your profile! Bwaahahahahahaha.

Onyx Bolster Jr Report | 06/29/2010 8:42 am

when i said i didn't come across many people with a fair amount of knowledge, I was referring to the people on gaia

Tolza Report | 06/29/2010 8:32 am

Knowledge is obtainable through experience, education applies mental progression to mimic action-experience through mental consolidation. So, there is a great possibility that more knowledgeable people are out there, roaming about. As for myself, I am but a simple-mind given the chance for casual progression. I have much experience, and able to apply that -gained- knowledge to just about whatever I wish. So, I suppose that the implication could be shown as if you are one that also has much experience? I suppose that would be the normal question for someone who claims to see few intelligent people around. You know, they say that in order to spot something you have to be similar in some form or another.

Onyx Bolster Jr Report | 06/29/2010 8:28 am

its not often I come across someone that seems to have fair amount of knowledge

Onyx Bolster Jr Report | 06/29/2010 8:22 am

interesting

castigat ridendo mores Report | 06/27/2010 12:25 pm

I like friendly arguments myself. I just don't enjoy when they get out of hand (*coughs, points a finger at a certain someone from two days ago*). I prefer lurking to posting in the Extended Discussion unless I have something conducive to say, because if I don't know what I'm talking about, then I'll look like even more of an ignorant idiot.

If you were overjoyed by Extended Discussion, then don't leave there. I understand posting and such for the sake of entertainment, but if you want some intelligence, staying there is the ticket. The Extended Discussion (ED), the Gaia Community Discussion (GCD, though most of them are elitists), and very few in Barton Town hold some intelligence other than the Extended Discussion, so if you look anywhere else, those are the places to look.
It seems that over the years, as more and more people joined, it became a rarity to find a person of real intelligence that wasn't hiding out in a guild or the ED. People will probably deny this, but there are a lot of idiots on Gaia - and if you were to say that to anyone - including myself - they would agree with you but assure you that they weren't one of those people. Whether that's a kiss-a** maneuver, denial, or truth is beyond me.

You earn gold on this website by doing basically anything. Playing games, posting, going through the marketplace, surfing the site, etc. They make it very easy to make gold nowadays. You'll be likely to find some butthurt 'oldbies' in the GCD someday that remember the 'old days' and wish it wasn't so easy for the newer people to get gold. They constantly complain that all they got when they started was one article of clothing and they had to earn everything else (granted, a Halo was like, 10k back then) - and that the newer people get a full set of clothes and plenty of missions to do to get more gold than they would have gotten in say, a week. It's easier but the economy of Gaia is shitty, so everything's sort of expensive anyways.

To make gold, the most common and effective ways I've seen are to spam the Chatterbox (which I hate doing; it gets boring), to play the Marketplace effectively by buying for less and selling for more (someday I'll learn that myself; unfortunately I can't help you there), and playing around with the aquariums. You make one, customize it as you can, place it in your signature, then go to the Aquarium subforum (part of the GCD, if I remember correctly) and post around there, looking around the aquariums in people's signatures until you find one that says 'Booty Grab.' You click it, and you get to play a game where you collect gold that can range from 100 - 1500 or more, depending upon how much crap is in their aquarium, how good your connection is, and how good you are at the game.
Those are the most effective I've seen, anyways. Some people make quest threads or hang around charities. There's plenty of ways to make gold and run rampant around the marketplace or shops looking for ways to snazz your avatar. As for me, I don't do any of that, so collecting gold is a slow process for me. Most of the crap I wear I collect over time. I'm not a wealthy member, even if people from 2004 tend to be the ones with the most expensive things (and the biggest egos).

castigat ridendo mores Report | 06/25/2010 9:58 pm

Ah, so she would be worried about any punishment even though she egged people on...but why would a person fabricate a whole quote tree just to get another in trouble? At least she was a little afraid.
...I was almost tempted to ask her if she thought she was better than everyone because she and her boyfriend were in the military, but I refrained because I figured that would make me as low as her.

It would be much better to be complimented than insulted by you. I'm sure that if we got into a heated argument, I would probably lose. At least I would know when to quit.
I could help you get used to Gaia if you want. I've been around off and on and on multiple accounts since November 2004. ): I could probably help.

Oh, and tektek.org would be very useful for any profile themes.

castigat ridendo mores Report | 06/25/2010 8:14 pm

I got my post deleted too. I do hope that she gets some sort of punishment for this, since it would be justified (and karma, in this case). It's just one post when she sent a slew back personally attacking us (yes, us, since when I joined in I was apparently placed on the list of "retards" wink , so I'm not really worried about anything. How she can get her way is beyond me when she's been banned for trolling before, however.

I'm feeling a bit sick and fatigued, but I brought that upon myself.
I don't even remember what my profile looks like. o_o; Thanks for complimenting it, at least.