Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
My agent asks me to mine some Green Arisite, a variant of the Gneiss mineral, for a new research project. There a catch in that the ore can only generally be found in low-sec systems. I ponder this for a minute, as going in to a low-sec system ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Continuing her questing in Hellfire Peninsula in the Outlands Sapphire finds out just how starving some Hellboars are when even the merest sniff of meat sends a dozen of them hurtling in her direction at once. It is a little irritating, because it means a path has to be ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
I'm having a difficult time trying to find a place for myself in New Eden. I had applied to one corporation but the time zone difference has meant that I have yet to be on-line at the same time as the recruiting officer, and I really don't feel like ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
The content patch for World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King expansion is being released early next week, with the expansion itself due in a month. With ten more character levels added there will be appropriate new equipment to be found and crafted, where crafting will require different ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
'You want me to blow up someone's ship in a huge fireball that ensures no survivors, and pay me handsomely for doing so? Sir, do you have a newsletter, because I am intrigued by your ideas and want to subscribe to it.'
Agents don't buy people's silence through bribery, they ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
After gaining a couple of levels last week I knew I wouldn't be entering the Outlands quite as soon as the quick progression would suggest, if only because my prepaid time had run out on the account. My new time card was going to take a few days to ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
All the skill training I've been doing in EVE Online has been pushing the limits of my fragile brain. Well, okay, maybe not my brain but certainly that of my clone, and I am quite fond of my clone, she's like a sister to me. It is time ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
There have been many times where I have wanted to stay away from Jita because of the problems caused by the sheer number of ships in the system. But however much I am able to stay away from the system there is the occasional reason to visit the busiest ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
A relatively short session in World of Warcraft last night saw my warrior, Sapphire, reach 57th level, putting me just one more level away from having another character running around the Outlands. And it's not just having the Dark Portal open for a character that makes 58th level more ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
In other gaming news, I've taken the step of applying to a proper EVE Online corporation. I created my own corporation a little while back as a way to get out of the default corporation and its inane chat channel, and I only created it because I could not ...
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