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It's nice to know that Gaia lets me get a lot of use out of adblock by adding little annoying bouncing things in the header that leads to a place to spend money on crap I don't want.

I've got all the ones except for the "depend on other people to get" types like Sausage Festival, Clambake, and that one for going to a convention. Those just seem like more of a hassle than anything else.

You know that thing where you have a pain in your ribcage (ladies, this will be under your boob), and it turns into a sharp oh my god pain if you take a deep breath? Or really anything other than a shallow breath? I've had one of those for 2 hours now. I would heave a sigh of exasperation, but that would hurt too much.

Well, they didn't ban all of the Aquarium "elite" who basically caused the recent ridiculous inflation by actively and purposely abusing a gold-making glitch, so I think you're safe as long as you throw enough money at them.

I mean, really. How are you going to say it was an "accident" when you have 17 dead mermaids in your tank, you are online every day to tell the GA you are glowing at least five times, but never once visit your aquarium to feed or care for them so that you don't get the death message and they can continue making you ******** of gold? /rant

Yeah. Dead fish don't glow, anymore. But it probably took them a good year to fix it, and they never penalized the people who abused the system. :/

They could have posted stickies or something in GA and given people a month to stop doing it. If they were still abusing after being told outright, then I don't have much sympathy for them. I wouldn't have much sympathy for them if they weren't told, seeing as it was a blatantly obvious abuse of a glitch for their benefit and that is covered in the ToS. As it is, they ignored the problem for a year and look at the economy. I mean, if they can shut down sites like dolphinmania for making glowing tanks easier to find, you think they could do something about causes of inflation ON THEIR OWN SITE.

I think I have all of the elements for an awesome redux of a Saya cosplay together. Muramasa is love. Now I just need to decide whether to go with the 4th amigo tie again, even though it is striped, or the magical girl tie, even though it has the golden brooch. I don't suppose anyone knows a red item that would cover the magical girl brooch? Because that would be peeeeeeeeeerfect. Watch the case of pietro actually evolve this week - that would be just my luck.

Was stupid yesterday. Hit my knee hard enough on a table in the college cafe that I pried up my knee cap enough and bruised underneath it.
Still hurts after 18 hours. It hurt more after driving back home from school last night. Been keeping it freshly iced.
Woke up at 5:50 in pain. Had folded my leg enough in my sleep.
Its going to be a fun weekend healing my knee. #fml gonk

Yeah, I knew there was a new CEO.

And there are a lot of things causing inflation, but most of them can be linked back to Aquariums. Fish giving too much gold, users abusing glitches to make those fish live longer, sites that use code to make glowing easy to find when Gaia intended you to have to search for tanks, etc. It's a giant ********. And since Gaia so brilliantly released Aquariums as a cash-only feature with no real testing as to how it would impact the economy, any time they try to fix it it is met with baw.