Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
You can't keep Kruul down. He just keeps on getting clones revived and can't help but kidnap damsels. It's a good argument for genetics. It's lucky that I worked out he only calls for help from elite mercenaries when directly attacked, relying only on his rather less ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
I am thinking more seriously about finding a corporation to join in EVE Online, if only to get out of the insipid default corp channel, which can make general channels in other games look like works of Milton.
I haven't found a corporation yet partly because of the sheer quantity of ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Coming out of dock from Perimeter station I hear sounds of a firefight. This isn't as uncommon as I would have expected in high-sec space, but it is still a little concerning when powerful ships decide to battle it out in front of a heavily populated space station. ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Whilst helping to stab orcs in Hellfire Peninsula, Knifey bumped in to someone called Epicstupity.
I didn't stop to ask if it was an intentionally ironic name, just in case it wasn't.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Mission running for the Caldari Navy has my standing increasing steadily, and with it I am able to move up in quality of agents. From the negative quality level two agents I have proved myself capable or working for a level two agent of quality 16. This gives ...
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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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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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