It's become pretty apparent that I'm an starfish. I've figured I needed to post something.
It's gotten to the point where I'm such an starfish I don't realize that I'm trying to be an starfish. Sometimes I'm just being serious in a very uncomfortable way, possibly to the point of being offensive. Other times, I'm poking at people's soft spots to make them squirm. And then there's the times where I go out of my way to piss people off in pure sport. It's important to know that I do not hate. In order to get me to hate you, you need to piss me off to an extent which is almost incomprehensible. People like Trader, Ronin, and others who have broken my heart are not my 'enemies', they are merely people who dislike myself, not the other way around.
Today it became very apparent that I was an starfish. My friend and I do exploits on occasion, for fun. We do stupid stuff to get stupid stuff. Apparently he had just gotten his grimy hands on a large forum database with nothing but usernames, MD5s, and Emails. Using this, he gained access to a Neopets account that had existed (and been played on) for years. It was loaded with millions of Neopoints and had extravagant Neopets on it. I want to make it clear that I do not play neopets. I sometimes do dailies and check on my stocks, but that's the extent of my play there.
This account had been the pride and joy of some sophisticate. She had a well typed note on his page explaining that she was on vacation. She put so much time into a pretty good-bye note it really made me realize how much she loved her Neopets account. However, I saw it on her page: A Mutant Draik. For those who aren't Neocigarettes like myself, a Draik can cost 7,000,000NP to get. A mutant one would cost millions more. This is at LEAST a year of hard work for most people. However, I wanted it.
I told my friend that I desired the Draik. He refused at first, he actually knew the person who was being stripped of value. He said that she was a nice person and really didn't deserve it. These were the lines that I told him.
Him says:
I know her
Him says:
shes really nice
Me says:
Bad things happen to good people.
Me says:
There's no god, there is no karma.
Me says:
Everything happens systematically.
Me says:
And, as far as systems go
Me says:
We find accounts
Me says:
We get into them
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We rob them.
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Or, in this case, you.
Now, I did this knowing full well that there was a vast amount of time spent to accumulate this wealth. And she wasn't the first. We have had access to a multitude of other people, the best being scored by myself. It was a 30 year old webmaster who had over 10million in pure Neopoints and millions more in items and very nice pets.
I once justified my actions to that of a real life character; The house-hold burglar. Most people who bulgar are really down on their luck and need money for food and cocaine. However, I realize now that that's bullstuff in comparison to me. I don't need Neopets. I don't even play it. I just do this for fun. Kicks and giggles. The only thing that could make this better for me now is to see their reactions when they get on their accounts and see that everything that they've worked for in the last 8 years is suddenly gone.
That, my friends, is why I am an starfish.