EleCambria

Laptop on the kitchen table, headphones on and blaring, and below my browser screen I keep an open notepad document for writing down various notes to myself -- funny things people say, things I learn about my friends (because I'm never going to remember whose pures are whose, or first names or stuff like that otherwise lol,) notes for the fantasy trilogy I'm writing that I read in my clanchat to friends, and other things like that.

If we're talking a matter of respect, I'm far more likely to respect a kind, considerate, polite player with a low total level than someone who has multiple 99s and a high total level but is a jerk to other players.

The whole "anyone who gets a 99 just for the cape is a noob" ideology is idiotic. By that same logic, beating Jad for a fire cape, beating Legends for that cape, doing the circus stuff for ringmaster outfits, spending hours upon hours for cash to buy third age armor, or anything else that certain people consider to be unworthy of their time simply because there are "better" items, is also "nooby". I don't have the patience for any 99s, personally. But I did take the time to earn the cash for and buy all three godrobes+ capes/blessed dhide sets. Not because their highly esteemed, but because I like how they look, and I enjoy wearing them. That's the main reason several of my friends have gotten their capes -- for the look, and the pride that comes from setting a goal and achieving it. In my opinion, anyone who sets a goal, and achieves it, is to be congratulated, not spat upon in derision. Just because their goals are not your goals does not lessen their achievement.