I didn't believe it but it's true...

[avevale_intelligencer]

People are selling EVE Online money on Ebay.

You send them real money--I've seen up to a hundred quid quoted--and in return they send you Monopoly money (in vast quantities, true, but a hundred million nothings is still nothing).

James Branch Cabell was right, and Nyronds are truly redundant.

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[armb.livejournal.com]

You can buy muscle by taking steroids instead of training for years. You can buy better oxygen capacity by paying someone to extract some of your blood and reinject it immediately before a competition instead of training at altitude for years.
(Sports like F1 racing allow/require you to spend money on performance in different ways, but not as a shortcut for doing things the legal way.)