Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 21st, 2008
I worked out that what I had thought was a graphical glitch in EVE Online is in fact a useful feature of the tactical overlay. When I had the tactical overlay displayed and was activating various modules I was getting some changes in intensity of the overlay, and didn't ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
I was a little concerned when I bought my new computer a few months back. It was an expensive purchase and was replacing what was essentially a World of Warcraft arcade machine. As I had been burning out on a regular basis I wasn't sure I could fully ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
I made what must be a noob mistake in EVE Online. When I first became a capsuleer I trained in the learning skill, remember others mentioning its importance, as it reduces training times for all other skills. My training in the Caldari military had also given me a ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Over at Killed in a Smiling Accident Zoso posited a theory about on-line gaming and how players flit from game-to-game after their first experience with the genre. That got me thinking about how I like both platform and racing games as genres and will seek out new games of ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
I mentioned yesterday about heading in to the Lonetrek region to find a new agent. Space in EVE Online is split up in to large regions, within which there are constellations, and the constellations are made from individual solar systems. All of the stars of these systems can ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
I boarded my brand new Caracal cruiser last night, christening it Tiger Lily. It has comfy seats, an iPod connector for the stereo, and what a capacitor! No three-pronged effort here, but a Catherine Wheel of brightly lit energy, teasing me to try to drain all that power. ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
It's a good thing that the wrecks of spaceships are generally tougher than the spaceships themselves. For example, they can take a missile blast from close range without disintegrating.
In perhaps related news, I need to remember which button in the cockpit activates the launchers and which activates the salvager ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
It could really have been just an ordinary evening spent in EVE Online last night. I flew a few missions, salvaged some modules, made some ISK. There doesn't seem to be too much to report on. The most interesting event of the evening seemed to occur during ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
I didn't sleep terribly well this weekend. I had two nightmares Saturday night, both waking me up and one causing me to try to scream in my sleep, which wasn't pleasant. This left me feeling a bit tired on Sunday, although it was mostly a pleasantly relaxing day. ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
I previously mentioned in passing seeing a trailer for Kung Fu Panda, and in finding out the anthropomorphic tiger in the film is in fact a tigress that I had to see the film. The trailer looked jolly enough, although the film didn't look to be much more than ...
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