Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
It is possible to Cmd-tab out of EVE Online's Mac client to the desktop, using the key combination's normal function to change application focus. I have found that occasionally the Cmd key seems not to be recognised when doing this and instead the client only collapses all open informational ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
World of Warcraft has entered in to the Spirit of Competition, and commoners all over the world are talking about the battlegrounds of Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, and Alterac Valley. There may even be chatter about the Eye of the Storm and the gladiator arenas, but Sapphire, my warrior, ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
It would be easier to leave Jita if it were possible to enter the system in the first place. Having found some asteroids in a deadspace mission pocket I thought I'd take the opportunity to mine some ore with less chance of being
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
With Kung Fu Panda the best film of the year so far, and my being a bit of a furry with a penchant for cats, I was quite excited to see that there is a stuffed Tigress toy available for sale! I was less excited to find out that ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Imagine you learnt to wrap otters in carpets solely by playing against a carpet-wrapping computer. The computer plays quite well, but you learn by playing him often, and get bored of playing such a predictable opponent. You decide to go to some place where other people wrap otters in carpets, ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Over at kiasa, Zoso is pondering computer games that feature unbalanced boss or end-of-game fights. The only boss fight that immediately springs to mind when reading his post is the walrus from the N64's Diddy Kong Racing, who would throw the most annoying slowing obstacles in your path to ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
If you're Kruul, it's likely I'm going to blow up your ship
Kruul got himself a back-up clone alive and kicking after our last encounter and was up to his old tricks. He had again kidnapped some damsel and was holding her at his pleasure den for his own amusement. ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
I've managed to pick up some bargains on DVD recently. First, an internet shop had some series of Mission: Impossible on sale, and then I found the complete Columbo collected in to a single box set also on sale, making it as cheap as two individual series box sets. ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
It's time to reveal a few more minor functional details that I have discovered recently in EVE Online.
The tactical overlay extends a line from your ship to your current selected target. If this target is outside of targeting range the overlay will draw a cross on the surface of ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
My agent sends me on an important mission, asking me to recon some deadspace complexes to see if they are safe for transit for a convoy, or if pirates or mercenaries would hinder operations. With him offering a huge 476,000 ISK mission reward I throw myself out of dock barely ...
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