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I still got my coin from getting this pearl.

I have some pretty significant reservations about this title. To put it frankly, I've been burned by Korean MMO's too many times to take this at face value and I'm immune to the 'pretty-face' syndrome of the graphics because I know that without proper optimization you'll never be able to load everything and everyone you need up anyway regardless of how powerful your box at home is. ((See: Aion, GW2 - WvW on launch Oh God)) The hilarious $100 pre-order is also not helping. Yes, I see the $30 one but it's also worth noting that this game is free to play in other areas of the world. With a price tag of $100 I'd expect a figurine or an art book or....something. But nah, all digital content as far as I can tell from their website. Also the gender locked class thing is pretty damn lame. Was lame in Diablo 3 even though they had precedence and it's lame here. I'm excited for the housing though I'm wondering what that will be like. This might be a really fun game to RP in while the gameplay falls flat. Gonna install and play around with chargen. Maybe I'll like it enough to play. Not sure. /humbleopinion

did you buy half baked on its own or did it come with the naked 1 palette? Curious as in if it's worth it to just get it by itself or not.. And bare mineral was how I started lol I remember when I got the face combo of the mineral powders and the little brushes they come with (i think i still have it altho I was like 5 something years ago) loll I go back to it some times cause I got a backup of the original mineral foundation a couple month ago but I do like liquid foundations cause I can just use my hands sometimes and it offers more coverage for me ) And on the last note, yeah, I feel you. I constantly find my lip products in bags that I haven't used for weeks, under my car seat, in my glove compartment, once I've found it in the drawer of my old places where I put cleaning supplies (sponges, etc) and I have no idea how it got there.:dodgy: I'd buy half baked in the palette or in the single. It's seriously that good but I have a fair complexion so your mileage may vary. It's good for everything from evenings to work at the office. I actually have pretty sensitive skin and medicate for rosacea. I take care of it and have a good dermatologist so my skin is clear and smooth but I would never cake liquid foundation on it cause of the sensitivity.

"We seek only to spare the people of Ul'dah unnecessary disquiet." It's odd to me that she'd be so conservative about her appearance if they'd been around for a decade. This has been asked in the thread for the upcoming live letter though and I'm hoping they touch on it. :thumbsup:

I'm actually petty picky about my cosmetics now that I think about it. If it's not Bare Minerals it doesn't go on my face. Liquid foundation scares me and mineral foundation just looks more natural to me. I like Urban Decay eyeshadows. Half Baked is seriously one of the best neutral shades ever created. My face primer, eye primer, eyeliner and Mascara are currently Benefit. Perfume is Chanel Chance. I am not picky about lip glosses at all because I always lose the damn things and find them a year later in a car compartment/sofa/coat pocket etc. And...this is all my cosmetics.

Very much this. It's foggy so I'll be asking. Thanks guys.

Wanna see if I can get feedback on this before asking it because someone might know: What is the current 'overwhelming' Ishgardian attitude towards other races? Lala/Miqo but Au Ra specifically. I've found it difficult to find a solid answer to this.

Is what it is on both our parts. I see comments in various linkshells and whatnot complaining about 'RPC celeb whining' and I typically roll my eyes at it until I see it happening myself. I think there are definitely those that feel a little more....entitled to feel like they lord over the community and I think there are some that are just doing the best with what they've got. I know a few people who have come to the RPC with hooks, characters and ideas and just get royally ripped apart. I'm one of the most stuck in the mud (lore, etiquette) RPers I know and if I can give these folks a nod then I really don't see what anyone elses issue is. It's at the point now where if a person comes to me with an idea or character I try to hook them up via my own knowledge and connections rather than refer them to the RPC as a source for connections or friends. ESPECIALLY if it's their first rodeo because the last thing I want is to have them come here and get hit in the face with...well. The RPC. There is some elitism I notice. A sincere lack of effort from longstanding members of the community to venture outside their bubbles and established friend circles. An eagerness to comment, judge and correct and a disinterest in actually assisting or welcoming a new player. And no, padding your FC active player numbers doesn't count. I can only really condemn this so much though. If it's not broke then why fix it? If you've got a good thing going with your group then why go out of your way to introduce a foreign element? Maybe there just isn't enough time to hit up the posts and ideas. I get it, I really do. Just don't be surprised when 'RPC celeb whining' is how people end up feeling.

Relax and enjoy your RP. Extraordinarily long post times aside, if someone is actually that impatient that they can't give you time or respect to do so then they're the tart, not you IMHO.

If I ever did it would be because I personally felt it was time for them. For one of them, her death is completely and totally off the table. One of them I feel like if I was going to do it her time sorta came and went but it's still on the table. People tell me all the time "Omg she's such a great character I can't believe you have the balls to be evil." But she's such a goddamn pain to play that....bleh. The other is just budding so too early to kill her. With the folk I RP with, character death is really at the player's discretion. Everyone's been pretty awesome about it and before any kind of significant loss/kidnapping or things like that warning usually goes out to players who have characters close to them and I think it goes a long way to prevent any kind of hullabaloo and just allows things to play out. Works for us, anyway. Injury is 100% totally on the table as is just about anything else. If I know the players involved and discuss it with them there is very little I won't touch or at least give a shot at. Even things I limit out, if I KNOW you and it's something you wanna go at then I'll probably be on board but would reserve the right to halt the process if it felt too icky.

Does anyone actually RP this at all? I need to know them.

I will do an Alucard/Integra style relationship someday. I will do it. Not necessarily the powers/vampire aspects - mostly the way they interact with each other amuses me to no end. Haven't done it because this setting hasn't really inspired me in such a way that makes me feel the drive to pull it off. It'd feel forced to me.

I've thought about doing something like this for a while. Sounds interesting! Good luck!

This is pretty much me 100%.

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Bumping for an awesome RPer.

Well. Did you murder them irl? I go crazy a lot and push people away, I can't rely deny that. I just try to do the best I can with my mental baggage. It'd not so much a fear as something I know I do. Maybe someday I'll get my shit together. No. Hence the insecurity. Was it my character? Was it my OOC personality? Was it the RP? Past RP, or where it was going? That I'll never know doesn't help. And even my friends are calling me a worrywart and the like, which makes me worry more that I'm driving them off, too. When will the next shoe drop? I feel like this happens to everyone at some point. Lemmie know if you wanna RP ever at all! I think maybe some players and character combinations just click better than others. It's possible to get on a roll or string of people that don't quite seem to mesh. I'm bad at this too, really. Sometimes I think I'm massively doing something wrong when I have a night/week of a character not being received well.

If no one's told you (doubtful) then allow me to echo that you've created something pretty damn awesome. That being said, yeah I can really only imagine the stress it could cause. If I were you I think my greatest concern would be it devouring Warren as a character.

This is something that I worry about all the time in dealings with other people. Am I being unfair? Is it just the character who is such a jerk? The IC world needs jerks for it to feel immersive, it also needs outright bad guys: but is that bad guy doing it to explore a different angle and enrich the community itself or is he another sociopath? Is it worth the risk of getting to know him better to find out? We should be thankful for those that do, but it can be so hard to tell. It is helpful sometimes to get that OOC whisper: "I know I am being a jerk but that's just my character". But sometimes you are left never knowing, and in those cases why would you seek that character out for future RP? One of the unfairnesses of life I suppose. This was a lesson I begrudgingly learned over time. I thought it was a little silly but turned out to be necessary because....well. The honest truth is no one likes their character to get treated negatively/like an annoyance/brushed off etc. That just is what it is. Again here, you never see the happy/good characters having to go "Apologies, that's just how she acts!" but...

I have a character that started out as chaotic neutral and made the alignment shift into lawful evil and she's just...god she's a fucking challenge. People literally feel different about me as a person when I'm on her. Consistently. Guildies, strangers, anybody. I get consistently treated more positively as a person on my other characters. It honestly makes her a downer to be on not to mention that you have to be so careful on them and I find myself squelching certain actions I know she would take as to not rock the boat too hard depending on the situation. That and it frustrates the hell out of me when people suddenly demand like a list of bad things she has done in her time as to somehow justify the title. No one ever asks my good characters for a list of the nice things they do to justify it. That and evil characters have weaknesses, bad moments and sadness like anyone else. It's very often like everyone wants to pretend like all villains except chaotic evil doesn't exist and that pisses me off. Maybe people are just all brainwashed off these tropey Disney-esque villains. "Oh, you must not be that bad if you feel lonely." Wtf.

Echoing Crofte. It seems to be a very popular thing to do but is never really something I've felt was...natural, persay? Sort of akin to the blonde woman who runs around with the chihuahua in her purse. You do you though.

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I think some folk are cautious after a few events in the past that have gone belly up at public gatherings. That being said im fairly sure Merak has or is speaking to the event organizers and has willing participants so nothing under the radar here.

My miqote would probably treat another that did this like a weirdo. Or at the very least like 'Hey, could you not further the sterotype? Thanks.' She also hates being called 'kitten' and 'cat' ergo compairing her to a household feline. She views them as racial slurs. I think people oocly think it's cute so it tends to get glossed over. This is my opinion.

Echoing interest.