Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Kate / Katelyn Forrest

@kateforrest.bsky.social

2.9K followers 500 following 11K posts

Reader. Writer. Doer of Things. 🏳️‍⚧️ Once Upon a Punk Show available July 15! https://katelynforrest.com/

katelynforrest.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · Jul 15

What happens when your new fling turns out to be a legit goddess? And her ex is trying to overdose humanity on old magic?

What to do, what to do.. 🤔

Once Upon a Punk Show. Sing together. Save the world together. Out now!

Full blurb and links below ⤵️

katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...

Once Upon a Punk Show

For Giulia Caesari, a small-time punk singer chasing a stage high, embracing the chaos of her life is a night in the mosh pit. Until she learns chaos is not an abstract thing. Chaos is a flesh and …

katelynforrest.com

7 28 45

Reposted by Kate / Katelyn Forrest

Aɴᴅʀᴇᴡ Lɪᴘᴛᴀᴋ @andrewliptak.com · 20h

October is packed with books: I've got another SF/F book list out to subscribers: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/sci-fi-fanta...

14 more sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books to check out this October

More books to add to your TBR this October

transfer-orbit.ghost.io

1 8 10

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 2h

I did first. I had to share the pain.

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 2h

Every Elder Millenial now has the theme song stuck in their heads.

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2h

Day #140: Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990)

1 3

Reposted by Kate / Katelyn Forrest

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 5h

“…The LGBTQ+ community has undoubtedly helped to elevate Knightley to national treasure status. It’s painful to discover that while she has been happy to take our money, even she has a price…”

metro.co.uk/2025/10/13/l...

I don't accept Keira Knightley's apology for working with JK Rowling

Being a trans ally and a Keira Knightley fan are – to my grave disappointment – now mutually exclusive.

metro.co.uk

3 6 46

Reposted by Kate / Katelyn Forrest

Hawklorddragon @cimerians.bsky.social · 2h

Red Sonja cover by Jae Lee
#ComicArt #RedSonja

1 3 27

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 2h

Irony is, that makes me want ti buy those Corsairs more and I would not have known about their existence without the chuds complaining.

CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 10h

Looks like the outrage tourists realised Eldar Corsairs aren't the heterosexual white Christian monogamous type, and that make them very upsetti spaghetti.

Also i suppose the new time limit for mid rolls is 8mn on youtube hey ?

Reposted by Kate / Katelyn Forrest

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 17h

It's a little funny that half of the 18 countries having "no kings" rallies are monarchies 👑

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 20h

This is amazing. Thank you, world!!!

#USDemocracy

4 17 64

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

Here's the full lore drop thread since it's not directly attached here 😁

bsky.app/profile/kate...

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 17h

Ok here's the lore drop. In reverse order based off how epic I personally think each fact is...

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

I'm sneaky. 🤪

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

So that is how I, as a bored NH gamer in college, destroyed the economy of a fictional game country and influenced the design of one of the best selling video games of all time.

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

I *guarantee* some of the WoW devs looked at this and went... oh fuck... that's not cool...

The tiered crafting system and the Auction House system were put into place to prevent exactly what me and my friends did for a solid 2 years.

1 1

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

By price fixing a core commodity... my guild caused inflation that would have made early 2000s Zimbabwe blush.

The kind of inflation that destroys actual countries and topples regimes.

1 2

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

He mined data from some of the EQ sites that tracked price fluctuations on different servers.

The one I remember had bar graphs charting prices. My server was Zebuxoruk. On the right.

Our prices were usually 15-20x higher for *everything*

1 1

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

At this time, there was an economist known in the EQ circles. He wrote a lot about the grey market economy where people would sell in game coin for real actual money.

The guy actually figured out an exchange rate and if EQ was a real country, it's economy would be 30ish in the world.

1 3

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

Materials that had cost 300 platinum, were running 2-3k now.

We never tagged our Bazaar Mules into the guild. So the six people selling all the spider silk.... no one had any idea we were price fixing the server.

1 3

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

We cornered the market on spider silks.

Not by farming them ourselves.

Noooo. We bought up everyone else.

Then jacked up the prices 5-10x.

1 2

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

All the best gear was player made. So that pyramid of cloth I mentioned? It's taking *hundreds* of bottom level spider silks to make one of these items.

And it's taking *thousands* yo get your crafting skills high enough to make them.

And until you skill up to max, no guarantee you succeed

1 3

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

Enter my guild....

The core was me in NH, a married couple out of Boston, a woman in Florida, and a military guy that moved a lot.

We hatched a scheme that would make Wall Street bros blush and get rock hard.

90% sure we showed up in an economist's doctoral thesis.

1 3

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

Most people got a Bazaar Mule. Some level 2 that you dumped your sellable inventory on.

So that's the scene in 02ish...

1 2

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

Originally, every server had a zone people just yelled in, but later they made a zone called the Bazaar. You'd put your character in AFK mode and basically make yourself into a clickable vendor.

1 3

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

Part two of this perfect storm... EverQuest did not run an Auction House like WoW does.

(Pretty sure my actions are partly why as well)

1 3

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

EverQuest used a pyramid crafting structure.

Spider silks dropped from mobs.

2 silk make a thread.

2 thread make a strip.

3 strips make a swatch.

4 swatches make a cloth.

4 cloths make a bolt.

It's been years so the numbers and names are prolly not exact, but you get the point.

1 3

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

Nice and neat, right?

This is FUNDEMENTALLY DIFFERENT than EverQuest.

1 4

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

World of Warcraft has a tier based crafting tree that matches with the tiers of corresponding gathering skills.

If you're a tier 1 blacksmith, you use tier 1 ores. When you skill up to tier 2 blacksmithing, you stop using the tier 1 materials and move to tier 2.

1 4

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 16h

The sentiment of the time is that the WoW devs were EverQuest players first and they *fixed* a lot of the annoying mechanics of EQ as part of their original build.

Things like flight paths and world travel were so much better in WoW

Here's where I come in.... crafting.

1 4