XD I've seen people complain during events that it was too hard to get sets because they didn't manage to get the ten sets they try to get every event.

Insane, I try and get one for myself, one for my charity. MAYBE one extra.....and then I just try to get sets for those that missed the event.....like perhaps suona this event.

Those muffins look delicious cora <3

I try to get a few. I tend to like having four or so. I've been less of a hoarder lately though. Only gotten one CI set of the last few months.

...speaking of which, I'm almost positive I'm missing a month. Let me check.

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Yeah, I don't have a June set.

I dont think I have an extra june but let me see.

Ooh. I like the avi, Keyori.
Very unique and pretty. :]

nope no extra junes on any of my accounts.

Thanks for checking. <3

I didn't notice I was missing it until earlier this month. I was trying to find that storm wig, I think. And then I realized I didn't have it.

Ugh, I gave up trying to get so many event sets. I have no patience to sit on them and turn them around later. I still have leftover event items I can't offload, even at desperate prices. So I just aim for one set, and spend the rest on drool-worthy commons x)

Suona: Thanks! ^_^

Event sets don't really go up much in price anyway, so no reason to have all that many.

they dont go up in price because people have so many o.0

and your welcome, sorry I wasn't much help o.0

Cami, I would rather they tried to be cool, but either way its lame.

Key has it right. Spend all the extra currency buying commons to save you some gold <3

So I hope you all don't think badly of me for this, but working at a convenience store/gas station, you handle a lot of cigarettes all day long. all. day. long. Anyways, I've been having dreams about smoking since I started working there, so today I decided that I was going to squash this thing and just try it and have it out of my system so that I could move on. Basically, I was curious about what the big hype was over them and why people like them so much. So back on track, I bought a pack of Camel Crush, because they were on sale, and I figured they're like two different types in one because they have a menthol bead in the filter that changes it from a light to a menthol (and it supposedly helps cool the burn that your throat feels when you inhale or whatever). So I tried one. The first taste was terrible. Terrible terrible terrible. Like, utterly gross. And it did burn. So I decided I would see if the bead did anything to make it more manageable. It helped, but it was still pretty nasty. I guess my end result is that they were nasty, and since I never had any interest in smoking before because my parents used to be smokers and I grew up with it, I feel content now having the experience, but it won't happen again. Just too gross. I'll be giving them to a friend that's a smoker. He'll appreciate it, and I'll get a free coffee and cookie in return. It's like a win-win! : D

btw, good morning everyone! Yay for weekends (that start on a Sunday!) xD

I really don't understand how people get into smoking, or how it became popular to begin with. Nobody seems to like it the first time they try it.

Yeah, it's terrible. I've brushed my teeth three times since I got home and I still have a horrible taste in my mouth : (

I had one when a friend of mine turned 18. She wanted to buy cigarettes because she now could. Completely disgusting. Couldn't get through an entire cigarette.

I couldn't either. I put it out and threw it in the trash.

For the record, people are stupid.

I'm reading about Timbuktu, and how they were the center of trade in Africa with the smartest scholars and all this great stuff, and some nation comes in, sacks the city, steals the wealth, and burns all of the libraries. Why?

You basically have to TRY to get addicted. Even the flavored cigarettes (which are illegal here now, except menthols) are nasty.

Shisha is completely different though. I'm not addicted to it (jeez, I haven't smoked in... 2 months?), but it tastes MUCH better and there's zero burning. Basically, it tastes however the molasses is flavored. I love mixing chocolate and mint :drool: I'm not trying to convert any of you--the hookahs required to smoke it can be pretty expensive, for one--but it really is vastly different from smoking cigarettes or cigars. Oh, and the tar and nicotine levels are insanely lower than cigs.

I will smoke an occasional cigarette if I can bum a Djarum black off of someone, but it's usually when I'm in a bar and need something to do other than fidget (I don't drink anymore so usually I'm there as a designated driver). Usually I don't breathe it all the way in because the burning is so awful, and I just let the smoke sit in my mouth instead.

I'm going to continue to bring up random things that I'm reading about.

Here's something weird. For a really long time, the Christian bible was in Latin and Christian masses were done in Latin even though almost no Christians actually knew Latin. In fact, people were executed for translating the bible into languages people could understand. It wasn't allowed. And then when people could read the bible, they became upset because things in the bible contradicted with what religious officials told them.

Meanwhile, the spread of Islam was closely associated with the spread of Arabic because all Muslims were required to learn Arabic so that they could read the Qu'ran in the language that it was originally written in.

But on smoking, I'm not particularly interested in trying too much of anything that I could get addicted to. I kind of think I have too addictive of a personality for that to be a good idea.

It's extremely unlikely that you'd get addicted just by trying it. Not telling you to try it or anything. Just that it's not something you'll experience withdrawal from by having just a few puffs. It's not meth or anything. Not that I've done meth.

Just sayin'.


Ugh, it seems there's no way to talk about this without sounding like a total jerk. At least, I think I sound like a jerk. I don't mean to be a jerk though. :(

Sigh. I'm gonna go sit over there.

I can't possibly see how you're sounding like a jerk. XD

Oh, well that's good then xD

I just don't want to sound like "YOU SHOULD TRY SMOKING IT IS GOOD HAR HAR HAR KILL YOUR LUNGS"

I'm just trying to relate my own experiences, as someone who has smoked but never had to go through "quitting."

u__u; I can see it with someone like Seito:, who seriously goes hard-core during events and probably does not eat, sleep or pee. xD But there's no reason the average user should earn that many. Ever. xD

Trying my best to get it at a ratio that is good for Menewsha as a whole. It is a delicate system. You can't have it too easy, or there are too many sets in the system and then they're worthless/virtually worthless and hard to get rid of. But you can't make it too difficult either or it discourages people. Especially those with low patience and high volume.

We're going to keep trying different things all the time and hopefully we'll figure out something good. You really never know how a slight variation on an idea will work out in practice due to time of year or one user with the bright idea to "try something out" and find an exploit or glitch that most people would never even think to try. And then they tell their friends. And screw things up for everyone...

Stopping rant-rambling nao.

Gross. xD

Can't say that I think less of you, because that would be silly. It's the same sort of thing that makes me pick up Twizzlers or Slim Jims from time to time just to see if maybe my tastebuds have changed their minds. Or drink almond milk even when I know for certain it's going to make my tummy very, very unhappy.

I, myself, have never been tempted to take up smoking. Mostly because being around the smoke makes me ill. (Cigar smoke isn't as bad, at least. But cigarettes are the worst.)

And I've kissed guys who smoked only 'every once in awhile'. The one who used a hookah and the boy who smoked cigs both tasted differently in their kisses, but both were ugh tastes. Every once in awhile my brain spits up a memory of the taste (I suppose whenever I walk into a smell matrix and it recalls that memory) and I'm always like. D<

As a total random addition to my rambling, I have a character who really wants to smoke. She's intrigued and entranced by the sort of image of a smoker. And the sort of bitchy-cool image really suits her as a character too. (Just the image of her taking a long drag while looking disapprovingly down her nose at someone and blowing the smoke away before she answers succinctly brings a little bit of joy to my and her evil hearts.) But she refuses because she doesn't like the health risks or the thought of her fingertips and teeth yellowing from it. Or smelling of stale cigarettes. Or any of the other negatives. So she and I mourn that an excellent prop is unavailable to her.

Yeah, happened more places than just that. But you knew that.

Why? Easy enough. Many reasons too, mostly combined.
Fear born from ignorance/superstition, for one. What sort of crazy magics does this other culture have? I'll make sure they can't use them by destroying them.
Fear of superiority in general. I'll make sure that they can't use their technology against me.
Symbolic dominance. I'll bring you lower than I am by making sure your culture's achievements can't be reproduced and are forgotten./I'm so strong I don't even need to build on your achievements.
Creation of fear/psychological warfare. <-- mostly modern age there. The horrible nature of sackings of great libraries and other stores of knowledge and culture is ingrained in the culture of the world by now. So when people do it in the modern age, it's to evoke that fear that's in the Human Unconscious. See also: Hitler and the book burnings, I'm sure.

I started to ramble about the rise of the middle class in the middle ages as a result of this but then couldn't remember enough of it to do it properly and I've already tl;dr'd this post anyway. :p

*has been summoned by the all powerful CK* xDD

I've been trying to tone it down!! *doesn't try that hard to get 10 sets... >> << >>* And surprisingly I do manage to eat sleep and pee (along with finishing homework and going to school ) too. xD I promise at the very maximum the only thing I give up is an extra hour of sleep. *is a shameless addict*

I just turn up the amount of chatting, use a timer and spent every scrap of free time I have? I mean I have no social life outside of mene (friends don't want/have time to meet) so instead of spending the week playing something like Bejeweled I probably spend the time making an effort to chat instead? Ahahaha. >> Seito is a hardcore addict.

I got 10 sets in one event... I think it was Halloween. Or Winter Nights. Since Valentine's Day, though, I haven't tried.

Well, I did have 13 sets of easter eggs though. I don't think they count though >_>

I've had trouble GIVING those away. People act like I should be paying them to take 'em off my hands.

I did have a friend who was grateful for a set though, but only because she joined after the event and had zero items yet.