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By Bahamut.Ragnell 2009-04-24 12:18:19
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Antipika said:
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Maats cap doesnt take that much work to get, grind jobs to 66 and get one, owning a shitton of relics would be more relistic to the "no life" statement


Not really, relic can be all IGE'd as long as you have a dynamis LS ready to get you rare/ex items needed. Wait even these can be bought. Enter with any random LS, offer a couple of million, rare/ex GET. And when not IGE'd, all you need is a very successful endgame LS making a lot of business with everything they can. (being leader or sack helps).

Sure you can pay for powerleveling also, but it's way easier to just buy gils. (and no I'm not selling all relic owner are gils buyers :d).


Yea You could buy gil to make it easier or pay Linkshells, but ***for the same amount you paid that LS you coulda did it yourself, and buying gil for relics? Really? Paying Real money for fake money I never *** understood, but to each their own I guess
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By Garuda.Antipika 2009-04-24 12:33:08
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Ragnell said:

Yea You could buy gil to make it easier or pay Linkshells, but ***for the same amount you paid that LS you coulda did it yourself, and buying gil for relics? Really? Paying Real money for fake money I never *** understood, but to each their own I guess


Well for some people $5,000 is just like $0.50 for us :] Pocket money. We've seen people buying WoW account for $10K+, so why not a relic after all :/
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By Diabolos.Aphy 2009-04-24 12:35:31
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I wish I was one of those ppl where 5k was .50. D:
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By Odin.Gaea 2009-04-24 12:52:27
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If I worked full time I'd have my mythic by now. I'd totally have me some chinese RMT funding my Alexandrite.

But really, this thread sucks.
 
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By Caitsith.Eurydice 2009-04-24 13:46:50
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*K, edited format from a block to paragraphs [/smile] woot*

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I'm going to add my ramblings here: Yeah, I also hate it when people repeat the "It's just a game" mantra to excuse douchebag behavior like being way under-geared in a party or monopolizing NMs or just generally being a ***.

On the other side of it, though, I myself have reminded people, for completely different reasons, that it's "just a game."

People can get all ridiculous and pathetic and show that they clearly get their only sense of pride and self-worth from their character(s) in this game, and act like giant a-holes because of it. If they keep to themselves, that's fine (as sad as it is). However, when they try to "get" me personally with that crap, I have to respond with ridicule.

I love this game, and I take it seriously enough that I get all mad, just like anyone else, when I lose exp, or my favorite upper-60s FoV camp of Very Toughs is crowded with players to whom the mobs can't possibly check harder than EP, or I accept a party invite and it ends up being a total waste of my time because they're insanely unprepared, or someone takes an NM from under me, or any of the myriad other things there are to get mad at in this game.

So yeah, I take the game seriously. However, I don't mistake my character's accomplishments for anything genuinely important in life. Sure, I loved getting Rank 10 in two nations before I was level 60, and sure I drool over crazy-awesome gear, and of course, sure, I love that I can solo some pretty damned difficult mobs. I love my gardening knowledge and that I raised a sweet li'l red chocobo. I love that I got myself back into skilling up my cooking and it's finally getting to a respectable level. I love that I recently got back to spending more time leveling my RDM and she should be 75 in less time than it took me to take her to 50 once I started playing last year. (I'm no power-leveler, that's fo' sho'.)

But my loving the game and wanting to get things done in it doesn't translate into my being selfish or a *** to other players. If you've met me in-game and you think I AM a ***, then I guarantee you did something totally and completely dickish to see that side of me. I'm hard to anger, and I don't play selfishly. If I want to farm materials from mobs that lower-level players are trying to level on, I move on. If I decide to camp an NM for some R/E gear I won't even use soon but someone with a job that can use it now shows up, I go do something else, or I might even stay and help them get it. I mean seriously, come on.

So anyway, my point is that there are two completely different sets of reasons that people say "It's just a game." Some say it to excuse their own douchbag behavior, but some of us say it to other people in an attempt to get THEM to stop acting like a ***.
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By Shiva.Artemicion 2009-04-24 13:54:40
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Paragraphing goes a long way.
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By Ramuh.Haseyo 2009-04-24 13:57:24
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Eurydice said:
I'm going to add my ramblings here: Yeah, I also hate it when people repeat the "It's just a game" mantra to excuse douchebag behavior like being way under-geared in a party or monopolizing NMs or just generally being a ***. On the other side of it, though, I myself have reminded people, for completely different reasons, that it's "just a game." People can get all ridiculous and pathetic and show that they clearly get their only sense of pride and self-worth from their character(s) in this game, and act like giant a-holes because of it. If they keep to themselves, that's fine (as sad as it is). However, when they try to "get" me personally with that crap, I have to respond with ridicule. I love this game, and I take it seriously enough that I get all mad, just like anyone else, when I lose exp, or my favorite upper-60s FoV camp of Very Toughs is crowded with players to whom the mobs can't possibly check harder than EP, or I accept a party invite and it ends up being a total waste of my time because they're insanely unprepared, or someone takes an NM from under me, or any of the myriad other things there are to get mad at in this game. So yeah, I take the game seriously. However, I don't mistake my character's accomplishments for anything genuinely important in life. Sure, I loved getting Rank 10 in two nations before I was level 60, and sure I drool over crazy-awesome gear, and of course, sure, I love that I can solo some pretty damned difficult mobs. I love my gardening knowledge and that I raised a sweet li'l red chocobo. I love that I got myself back into skilling up my cooking and it's finally getting to a respectable level. I love that I recently got back to spending more time leveling my RDM and she should be 75 in less time than it took me to take her to 50 once I started playing last year. (I'm no power-leveler, that's fo' sho'.) But my loving the game and wanting to get things done in it doesn't translate into my being selfish or a *** to other players. If you've met me in-game and you think I AM a ***, then I guarantee you did something totally and completely dickish to see that side of me. I'm hard to anger, and I don't play selfishly. If I want to farm materials from mobs that lower-level players are trying to level on, I move on. If I decide to camp an NM for some R/E gear I won't even use soon but someone with a job that can use it now shows up, I go do something else, or I might even stay and help them get it. I mean seriously, come on. So anyway, my point is that there are two completely different sets of reasons that people say "It's just a game." Some say it to excuse their own douchbag behavior, but some of us say it to other people in an attempt to get THEM to stop acting like a ***.


DAMN!
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By Ifrit.Durai 2009-04-24 13:58:11
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o.o;

it is very difficult to read a wall of text.
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By Fairy.Tbest 2009-04-24 14:01:17
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Artemicion said:
Paragraphing goes a long way.


And so does not being an ***. :P At least they used decent spelling/grammar.

It's just a forum!
Sheesh!
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By Caitsith.Eurydice 2009-04-24 14:02:18
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Hehe... I know... sorry *blush* -- Luckily, I don't post often! [/smile]

Durai said:
o.o;

it is very difficult to read a wall of text.
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By Shiva.Artemicion 2009-04-24 14:02:23
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I'm not being an ***, I'm being honest. Got anything else to add troll?
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By Ramuh.Haseyo 2009-04-24 14:07:15
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Tbest said:
Artemicion said:
Paragraphing goes a long way.


And so does not being an ***. :P At least they used decent spelling/grammar.

It's just a forum!
Sheesh!


But it comes down to...
Why bother posting if will just hurt all of our eyes trying. ; ;
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By Fairy.Tbest 2009-04-24 14:08:21
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Artemicion said:
I'm not being an ***, I'm being honest. Got anything else to add troll?


Yeah, you were. No one was forcing you to read it.

Do I hear the pot calling the kettle black?

Haseyo said:
But it comes down to...
Why bother posting if will just hurt all of our eyes trying. ; ;


It didn't hurt my eyes. I enjoyed her post.
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By Caitsith.Eurydice 2009-04-24 14:11:49
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Sorry; didn't mean to injure anyone. I read quite a bit online and off-, and it doesn't bother me when it's solid text. If I wanna read it, I do; if I don't wanna read it, I don't. Anyway... I edited the original post to add paragraphs so no one else gets their eyes hurt. I don't like harming people.

Haseyo said:
Tbest said:
Artemicion said:
Paragraphing goes a long way.


And so does not being an ***. :P At least they used decent spelling/grammar.

It's just a forum!
Sheesh!


But it comes down to...
Why bother posting if will just hurt all of our eyes trying. ; ;
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By Caitsith.Eurydice 2009-04-24 14:12:46
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Thank you, Tbest! *hugs*
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By Shiva.Artemicion 2009-04-24 14:15:22
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Tbest said:
Artemicion said:
I'm not being an ***, I'm being honest. Got anything else to add troll?


Yeah, you were. No one was forcing you to read it.

Do I hear the pot calling the kettle black?


I didn't read it for the previously stated reason. You make less and less sense every time you post my friend.
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By Ramuh.Haseyo 2009-04-24 14:16:18
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It's just forum ediqi...
Ededk...
Edi...
Fancyness.
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By Fairy.Xxnumbertwoxx 2009-04-24 14:16:49
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Haseyo said:
It's just forum ediqi...
Ededk...
Edi...
Fancyness.


FANCYPANTS!
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By Ramuh.Haseyo 2009-04-24 14:18:36
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Atleast I have pants!
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By Garuda.Seraka 2009-04-24 14:20:00
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The whole "It's just a game." is just a bunch of bull.

Technically, baseball, football, soccer, bowling and basketball are all "just games" but people have turned them into "sports".

Sports where they pay people to play.

I know there are professional gaming tournaments out there.

If people are competing playing some "game" for money and titles, then how come it's not a sport?

If your logic says it's not physically active enough or doesn't require enough natural skill or ect, then why the hell is poker on ESPN?

Who knows, maybe video games are the next category in sports.
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By Carbuncle.Ranbu 2009-04-24 14:20:27
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"it's just a fukin mmorpg game man -_-"
yes, last few days i've written it a bunch of times.
But not gameplay-wise (or gear-related lol) .. Drama-wise.
My Ls is like a *** Daily Soap (i think all LS with <8 members are lol)
it's so annoying.. "YOU DON'T WANT HELP ME WITH AF XY BUT U HELPED XY WITH XY!"
"YOU WRITE BEHIND MY BACK WITH XY ABOUT XYXY"
These guys need a reality check ...-_-
These Dramaqueens/kings need a RL where they can argue aaall day long. I would love to hear only gameplay-related stuff in my LS.. meh
Hope you get my point, sry for mah raped english.
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By Ramuh.Haseyo 2009-04-24 14:21:41
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Seraka said:


Who knows, maybe video games are the next category in sports.


BOOM.

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By Garuda.Seraka 2009-04-24 14:22:52
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Ranbu said:
"YOU DON'T WANT HELP ME WITH AF XY BUT U HELPED XY WITH XY!"
"YOU WRITE BEHIND MY BACK WITH XY ABOUT XYXY"


I find this amusing because there's a girl on my server that is my friend and linkshellmate, named Xylyndra, we call her Xy for short.
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By Fairy.Tbest 2009-04-24 15:04:41
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Artemicion said:
Tbest said:
Artemicion said:
I'm not being an ***, I'm being honest. Got anything else to add troll?


Yeah, you were. No one was forcing you to read it.

Do I hear the pot calling the kettle black?


I didn't read it for the previously stated reason. You make less and less sense every time you post my friend.


Exactly. Thanks for proving my point. If you don't want to read something, don't. Instead, you feel the need to make a smart-*** comment about it instead. You're such a nice guy. Are you 'trying' to deter people from posting here?

And don't even 'try' to call me a friend. It's just wishful thinking on your part.
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By Shiva.Artemicion 2009-04-24 15:05:46
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Troll much Tbest? I stated the reason why I didn't read it, as others made similar comments the poster thereby corrected their post for our viewing pleasure. It's not even your post and you're here to whine about it? Yeesh.
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By Fairy.Tbest 2009-04-24 15:10:37
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lol... Read much? I wasn't saying anything bad about her post. I was simply stating if you didn't like it, you didn't have to read it. And you sure didn't have to comment about it to get her to put breaks in it.

As for the trolling part... *Looks at his post count, then looks at Artemicion's.* You were saying?
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By Shiva.Artemicion 2009-04-24 15:12:05
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Tbest said:
lol... Read much? I wasn't saying anything bad about her post. I was simply stating if you didn't like it, you didn't have to read it. And you sure didn't have to comment about it to get her to put breaks in it.

As for the trolling part... *Looks at his post count, then looks at Artemicion's.* You were saying?


User submitted image

{Can I have it?}

Edit: You keep failing to realize that I was merely suggesting paragraphing their wall-o-text so we can read it easier. I wasn't interested until they did and upon their edit found it to be a good statement. Instead you somehow managed to Q_Q about it and turn in into an argument.
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By Ramuh.Haseyo 2009-04-24 15:21:33
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This is the real reason we type correctly: To avoid derailing threads with arguements about trolling about grammar and punctuation.
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By Fairy.Xxnumbertwoxx 2009-04-24 15:23:02
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Haseyo said:
This is the real reason we type correctly: To avoid derailing threads with arguements about trolling about grammar and punctuation.


And, because it's just the right thing to do!

Proper formatting and grammar for the win! ^^
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