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so the animated items turn avatars into flash elements. Guess what I've got blocked to save on loading times? razz

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/politics/Miami_Budget_Crisis_Miami.html

Crap.

And is this a freaking joke



LA is close to becoming the second largest city to go bankrupt. neutral

Bah, I feel old. And I'm gonna become older very soon. ._.;

And why do I keep buying Pokemon cards? I like to collect them, but so what? It's expensive and ultimately pointless. Bleh.

It's profitable, but not deserving of money. I didn't even know it was time limited at the time, but that is even worse. 4 frames of animation = $10?

And yeah, while I was referring mostly to the RIG, you can straight up buy gaia gold with cash. So the gambling still applies to the casinos. It's not direct, but it is the sort of under the table cash exchange idea that a lot of shady gambling places use.

And lol, Jury Duty. I can't even imagine anyone trying to get me as a juror.

I haven't gotten any of the RIGs in a while, but I do remember with one that I purchased it turned into a card that could be sold in the shops for like 100k - which might be what Wolffy's talking about.

I don't know, I feel if they wanted to test the animated items they would do so in private - I mean, back with the beta testing stuff they did ages ago, there was a separate test Gaia where we could test out buying things and such...what they're probably really testing is how much people will be willing to spend on animated items. And by making it so that the animation expires, later on if they introduce an animated item that doesn't expire for $20, people will think they're getting a good deal. *shrug*

They've done something slightly similar to this before, too - anyone else remember when the UFO was released as a donation item and they made it so you could fly in towns for a month with it?

I remember that, but I never went in towns or used the UFO, since I don't own much green. Did it look any different than it does now in the flash environments? There seems to be quite a few items with a bit of animation when you walk around.

And it may have been limited, but it's not really the same. With the UFO, the movement was a perk - you still got the handful of poses you expected from an MC at the time. With these new animated items, the main feature is what is getting disabled. Lame.

There are items that move in Towns. I have the spaceship one but I never use it. I can try but there are so many poses. Most likely it'll just look like your avy's walking than flying.

I do remember bear pjs and how they were just a normal pose until they made it a multi-pose item by inflating it and deflating it some time after it was released (I know those weren't sold well. Remember how June 04 letters were down to 2-3k when the minimum use to be 5k and up? Then June 04 became horns and they skyrocketed.) But I can only remember the pjs. I thought that was the first multi-pose item on the site.

Aldo: I'm trying to think of what else is flash besides the games but I can't think of any. I think the store is run on javascript and the housing is flash. But I can see why it's annoying to upload so much flash. The only one that gave me problems were aquariums and that's disabled for me so I don't have any problems now.

Actually, housing is shockwave. They might make it compatible with the rest of the site in the next twenty years. confused

Edit: Goddamn. It's been so long since I organized my inventory, I hardly know where to start. Should I put RIG items all together or organize them like "shirts, pants, shoes." Agh... so many items have multiple poses now, I don't know what would make more sense!