Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Running missions for production agents unsurprisingly turns up the occasional challenge to mine some rocks floating in space. I take my Retriever out to the deadspace complex, and my corporation colleague comes along in a, uh, okay.
A certain someone may be in denial about losing her Hulk. I ...
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
There is a scene in Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's Second World War survival flick, where a Nazi soldier is threatened with being beaten to death by a notorious Nazi killer wielding a baseball bat, unless he reveals the position of other soldiers. The tension of the soldier's fate is ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
I am convinced that I need Damnation. Well, a Damnation, the Amarr command ship, for wormhole engineers fleet operations. Apparently, the bonuses it gives would be quite suited to our current fleet options, but I am swayed when I see its crow-like black-on-black hull. The Damnation is ...
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
It is inevitable that I will be a rock god one day, even if it means slumming it on the drums instead of playing a proper instrument. You will still all end up bowing before me, as my progress at hard difficulty drumming in Guitar Hero: World Tour continues, ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
I have seen the video trailer for DUST 514, the forthcoming first-person shooter (FPS) based on the EVE Online MMORPG. I'm not terribly impressed. My first impression is that it is, indeed, a first-person shooter. But, oh my, look at those huge spaceships shooting powerful weapons at ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
All is ready! Caldari starship engineering skill training reaches level IV and the other engineering disciplines are also at level IV. My Lai Dai R&D agent has accumulated quite a few datacores for me, whilst I have spent a few weeks in w-space, which I happily collect on ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
There is no denying that w-space is dangerous. If it's not pirates snaring us in warp bubbles, it's Sleepers scrambling our warp drives. And if it's not Sleepers scrambling our warp drives it's pirates ambushing our mining operation. And if it's not pirates ambushing our mining operation, ...
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
As another mining expedition in w-space comes to an end, with more than a few jet-cans full of exotic ores transported back to the corporation's tower, a lone capsuleer appears on the local communication channel. In w-space, no one appears in the local channel until they openly broadcast, which ...
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Julian, over at Kill Ten Rats, muses on our backwards virtual worlds, pointing out a handful of curious anomalies between virtual worlds and reality. I don't much agree with him.
- In reality, we’ve moved from expensive metal armors to lighter, cheaper durable fabrics for protection.
- In virtual worlds the ...
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
I really like the Crane. I borrow Kename Fin's when she's not looking, and when she's around pretend I couldn't possibly borrow it in a reverse-psychology manoeuvre that naturally ends up with me zooming across the galaxy at hugely impressive warp speeds. It warps faster than a shuttle, ...
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