Huh, been a year since my last update, has it? This journal is pretty irrelevant since I started updated my ell-jay.
I really don't like Gaia anymore. I don't know why I keep coming here. I'm 26, I have a full time job, a boyfriend, pets, books, music, games, and friends. I don't need this place. Hell, half the time I post in any of the remotely interesting forums, I just get ignored. All that's really left is to play games in the Music forum and snipe morons in the Ragnarok subforum.
But, I think I got sick of things when the cash shop came along. I can understand why the cash shop went in... Improvements to the site are coming faster and getting better, no doubt due to more $ being available, etc. etc. But still, paying good money for something that's theoretically not worth a goddamn cent?
And perhaps I don't understand economics, but things have really risen in general price since the cash shop came up. I remember when the average monthly collectible was 10k or so on the 16th. Now its 20k, at least. I suppose its because people can almost literally trade real cash for Gaia gold, making the amount of gold that can pour into the economy nigh-infinite.
It seems one can have prosperity on Gaia in one of two ways.
- Buy a s**t ton of cash shop items
- Spend every waking hour on the site making gold (posting,games,etc.)
- Offer some sort of profitable service.
Its not like I can't afford to buy Gaia cash... I make enough money to pay all of my bills with some cash left over. But I don't want to spend it on Gaia. I don't think I would even if my salary were double what it is. Seriously, ******** it. I don't even like spending money on food.
I don't really have the free time to play games endlessly. And most of the gaia games can't keep me busy for longer than 15 minutes or so. I'm not even gonna go near zOmg.
Profitable services? Pfft.
So why do I keep coming to Gaia? Is it the avatars? Do I like to play dressup? I didn't play with dolls as a little kid, my own wardrobe consists of one pair of sneakers, 6 pairs of jeans and 20something baby-doll t-shirts, I hate all manner of girlie accessories. Is it the avatars? I honestly don't know. And if I refuse to pay for cash shop items, doesn't that beg the question of "well, do you even care about avatars?" Ugh, that was a terribly written paragraph.
So why I am still butthurt about it? I don't know. Perhaps because I'm a sad, strange little person. Or maybe I've just co-opted the NERD RAGE stewing in me over RO getting outrageous s**t like Lucky Boxes in its cash shop.
SHITTY s**t s**t BURN YOUR BRAS BOMB THE CASH SHOP FASCIST ******** BARBARA STRIESAND TITTYSPRINKLES SHITTY s**t ********.
Music:
Syd Barrett - Gigolo Aunt
Tris_Skyshadow Community Member 
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