It is my impression that the gold content of eProps has been, to some degree, debased since the new year began. Not so brilliant as before are those freshly minted goodwill coins. And they seem to tarnish, too, even before the end of a day's span.

This, of course, is not without precedent. When the Romans were unable to plunder the wealth of others or to raise sufficient revenues from taxation to support the enormous costs of the bureaucracy needed for world domination, they resorted to debasing their money supply. From Severus (222) through Claudius Victorinus (268), the percentage of silver in Roman coins dropped from 35 % to 0.02 %, a yearly inflation of 15%!

So what gives here with our treasured eProps-now seemingly only golden in color (O, curse of the Sacagawea dollar!) and so now apparently desecrated? Are the Xangods hording golden content to prop up their own sputtering financial malaise? Has the price of gold dramatically risen? No. no-checked that, that's not the case…. Have eProps grown so rare that even with debasement we Xangites still yearn for more, and more, and more-and still so much and needingly care?

Oh damn!

*looks closely at monitor*

It seems…well, let me put it this way: Does anyone have a screen wipe they can lend?