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I JUST LIKE THE STARCRAFT REFERENCE. surprised

The future of Gaia is based off of those.
From items to new users to the whole layout to avatar changes to new features. >_>

The nice thing about Gaia plots is that if you don't like them, you can readily ignore them.

This is a Halloween event. Halloween. A holiday based (in a modern sense) on cheap, transparent, consensual fright, often accompanied by cheesiness and borrowed references from other sources. As Gaia attempts to be a light-hearted, fun sort of site, as opposed to a more serious one, this sort of parody is exactly the sort of thing I'd expect. As I like Gaia's original idea more than the actual execution, I like this storyline. Also, it's a rather good parody of something that simply can't be mocked enough - Tom Cruise and Scientology.

If you attend an opera looking for rock 'n' roll, you're probably going to be disappointed. If you go to a Mongolian BBQ and expect to be served filet mignon, you're leaving hungry. It's just common sense. So why do you go to a brightly colored anime-themed site aimed at all ages and expect them to throw in an original, dramatic, mature plot on the house? It makes sense that, if such a site offers a plot in the first place, it's going to be simple, cheesy, and probably derivitive. That's part of the charm of the whole thing.

When critiquing music, you can't let your dislike of its genre interfere with your judgement of how well it fulfills its intended purpose. A movie critic who doesn't like romantic comedy should judge a romantic comedy based on how it would satisfy fans of the genre, not his own personal distaste. You all are reading a freely distributed "all ages" manga and expecting it to be quality mature literature. And I think that's sad.

That's alright, I think I'll have a sufficient amount of fun during the events, if nothing else because it will break the monotony of the Gaia experience. And hey, aliens!

It's a good thing they don't have deep, involved plots anyway. That'd make it hard for new users to understand the storyline.

That said, the Ron Bruise thing is pretty retarded, at least. 19 octave vocal range? XD

Wasn't the guy who created Scientology quoted as saying, "The best way to get rich quickly is to create a religion"?

1. It doesn't take a professional writer to write incredibly zany stuff. I'm not talking about full-fledged novel ideas here.

2. Keyword: "easy route"

3. I don't respect some of the methods used, but I do respect Scientology as a whole for being able to MARKET a religion. Anyone who can charm and persuade a man to give all his money and life to a religion so absurd it makes Forest Gump go "FTW?D=" then that person isn't exactly moral in my opinion, but he accomplished something that most people would laugh their asses off at. The sheer absurdity and the reasoning makes it funny. And that's why I half-respect it. It's more of a con-artist then a serial killing theif. Scientology stopped it's plans of "dealing" with non beleivers years ago.

Maybe they should get a new creative team.

i miss the zombie thing. that was a halloween event, right? even though that was some chaotic s**t, but it was kinda fun for a minute and had the zombie avs and the coats and stuff.

i suppose this event is eh, but i'm not really on here enough to care. i think i missed the one last year entirely. actually, i don't really have an opinion on it right now because i didn't bother with reading any of it. perhaps i'll go do so now.