Moriarty

I am not in total agreement.

... because no offense or anything but people with macs just really know close to nothing about computers and I wouldn't want to be labeled as one of those clueless rich starbucks kids lol.

Damn straight. This overgeneralization is so true it hurts. RMDCA means nothing to me. Neither does BIOS. "RAM" is a verb. I wouldn't know what to do with the command line if someone gave me the internet as a manual. I call my PC friends when I need to recover lost files. I don't know any keyboard shortcuts. Your logic is mindblowing.

*nix FTW.

Top half or bottom half?

Oh baby.

I'm trialling out Abrosia—it's pretty damn great—but I'm being cautious. So far: only when I'm at or near my computer, only when awake and conscious, setting a low profit margin. I like to ease into things. Kind of funny seeing how large the dark side of Neopets is. Should've gotten here sooner.

(I appreciate being sig'd. Clearly more shenanigans are necessary.)

Legit RSing is fun.
More fun with a faster connection.

Same can be said of Abrosia.
I seem to be making the same amount of money either way, but now I can take catnaps.

I'd like to say intellectual curiosity. Started researching autobuyers with no intention of going back to Neopets 'cause I wanted to hack the code apart. But now I'm lazy and the lab ray has inflated commensurate with the waistlines of the American people. I just want to zap things at 12:01 NST. We cool.

Katrinas got it. That's how it looked on my side of the fence. I'd like to make gratuitously unhelpful additional commentary to this topic and note that cheating requires a modicum of technological savvy. When I was legit and active I didn't know the meaning of: torrent, 4chan, Lisp, bash scripting. I didn't Google things for myself. I don't realize how much of a geek mindset this is (researching your own questions! the hell?) until I have to deal with some of my blood relations. So if you're not technologically savvy you kinda get the concept of cheating, and maybe you've wanted to try an autobuyer, but where do you start? No clue. All your neofriends are legit and you can't neomail them things like "Can you help me start out with score sending? Because I know that's what you're doing, you serial freezing victim."

I'd like to say most of the userbase is legal, but the kids on the Neoboards (the most visible ones) are cheating. You don't get uptight about status and prestige and avatars and high scores and painted pets until you hit the AC/BD/Pound Chat. But I'm pretty sure most of the writers and poets and art kids are legit. I was one of them and I still know a lot of 'em (dorkily earnest). That might be the best get-rich-quick method on Neopets if you're going straight and legal. Talent (the kind that TNT look for) is dead cheap.

Like your mom.