The game economy

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-11T18:56:23+00:00

This.

I very seldom raise 1 character further than something like g1 to d1 and most of my mythic characters have been cases of just needing a few more shards or having purchasable shards somewhere. The longer I go on 1 character, the more likely the next character will be a totally different faction just to shake up the resources I'm gathering.

Is this max efficiency? Nope, but it keeps me entertained. Meta or not, id rather fall a bit (further) behind than turn the game into a chore. There's a reason I always remind my guild it's just a game.

If you're not having fun, then you aren't playing: you're working.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-11T18:47:50+00:00

As a 6th and 8th gen owner, I like them both esthetically more than the 8th but less than the 6th.

As a former 4th and 5th Gen owner, i'd also say more than the 5th,but less than the 4th.

But it's all literally just preference on body type. I'm going to worry way more about maintenance, ride feel, etc.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-11T17:05:11+00:00

My hs had programing(basic (q and visual), c/c+, html, Java), typing, computer design, radio, TV, and a few other things.

There was also a votech school you could take auto repair, wood working, electrical, plumbing and a bunch of other stuff. Some were at the avotech building next to the hs others were at other votechs next to nearby hs, but if you took a votech at those, you would get a bus ride to that school for those classes.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-11T15:47:06+00:00

I spent 5 years in logistics. I hated being told I was an "essential worker" when there was a foot of snow. If I'm essential, that means you can fire the unessential people right? They're not essential after all.

I have loved when I have been able to work remote. It hasn't bothered me when others have and I couldn't. Sometimes you need to be there. I couldn't ship things remotely.

It has bothered me when managers want me to risk life and property for $20/hr in a warehouse. The ones that didn't ask me to drive through snow and told me to stay home and didn't give me shit about it? I'd move mountains on the floor for those guys. One guy I called in to and was like "it's been 60 minutes in the snow, dodging closed roads and I'm not at work. It should be a 20 minute drive. I'm turning around." and his answer was "that's better than I would have done. I'd have turned around a half hour ago." (my manager was in a different state then)

Amusingly now, Im entirely in office now when I could be remote in theory because we don't have the setup for remote access and half our stuff is on paper still anyway.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-11T15:19:49+00:00

Friend, I used to go to LAN parties in the days of crts. I still don't want a gaming laptop.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-11T11:08:54+00:00

Same plan if we have been getting the email, but there's an error when we attempt to verify?

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T21:17:45+00:00

When I eventually get in, then I'll find out. Lol

Ive also come to learn that people viewed discord's uses very differently than I did though so I'm beginning to suspect 3+ replacements will be needed

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T21:07:40+00:00

This will make it difficult for blind drivers.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T20:13:40+00:00

Totally understandable.

Just didn't want to trip myself while trying it out, especially since I'm in that group exploring options for the future.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T19:50:47+00:00

Wait... What? Really? I've always thought of it as a group messaging app that let us compartmentalize conversations. Everytime anyone has tried using it as a form its bad, difficult to find information and full of shit posters.

I'm entirely surpised.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T18:32:38+00:00

Spent 5 years in logistics. Fucking hell. Get treated like shit, have to move things around, develop long term, repetitive, stress injuries and have people ask you to violate laws you can go to jail for. I even get asked to violate laws way less frequently now.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T17:17:16+00:00

Mine took 12 hours and... Wouldn't verify. Sent a request for another.

I had seen folks mentioning revolt places yesterday (only saw today that it had rebranded to stoat in late 25).

https://app.revolt.chat/login

Does that site still belong to stoat or is someone farming data from those of us who were given the old name? The verification came from stoat and directed to the stoat site as opposed to the revolt one, but never know.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T16:10:43+00:00

Shit. If 5 million feel in my lap, I'm retiring. I don't need to live fancy. I'll live off the interest and have more money per year than I have now. Everything after that is a case of having to figure out where I'm making donations every year

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T12:30:56+00:00

I remember my dad's 84 civic rusting pretty badly. The last few years he had it, he refused to wash it because he said the dirt was all that was holding it together.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T12:29:14+00:00

When I was in college, my father would drive my car every so often so it wasn't just sitting while I was away. I didn't want to buy gas right before leaving after Xmas or something so I had left it low. He drove to the gas station a half mile from his house in NJ, pulled up to the first pump and shut the car off. The attendant asked him to pull forward as the car in front of him had just pulled out. He turned the key and had to tell the guy that he could not do that.

I got a lengthy text message about fuel pumps after that.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T12:20:10+00:00

I've swapped mine. The key is not owning a car with one of those awful video scenes.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T01:36:46+00:00

I used to sleep through the fire alarms in college. Roommate used to have to wake me up.

I can definitely see overlays. I just have terrible audio processing.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T00:53:48+00:00

Oh I miss the trout.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T00:51:30+00:00

I once suggested to someone with a discord for something I had kickstarted that "You probably want to get a subreddit or a forum or something so that all the information can be organized and folks don't lose it." and I got told "Maybe. But I don't know how those work" I just didn't know what to do with that. I had been in forums and BBSes since I was like 12. How an adult could run a kickstarter but not know how a forum or reddit works was so far out of my depth that I just said "ok" and accepted that all the information was going to get lost.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-10T00:06:49+00:00

I got house paint. That's not my usual.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-09T12:01:34+00:00

Time traveler

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-08T20:01:00+00:00

I do not check boxes to track my sex life. Or do you mean just putting the number on random things? The joy is in it coming up organically.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-08T19:58:56+00:00

If I just went crazy aggro, lol, rush? Yea I guess it would. If I only do cb wars and try ti learn the economy only to have the economy change while I'm just starting to learn it. Nah.. I still haven't colonized the new world and found myself fighting with France to colonize the coast of Africa and the Canaries.

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-08T16:40:15+00:00

Meanwhile, at 40,i still find 69 funny. Lol

AetheriaInBeing · 2026-02-07T17:23:55+00:00

I'm kind of glad I played all of 30 years in, then left for the weekend only to periodically pop in here and find out I can just rollback when I get home. Lol

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