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Life in EvE: “I’m not a Pirate.”

2012-12-18 doycet Actual Play, Game Design, MMO & Computers

A few nights ago, members of the militia had banded together to work on retaking an Amarr-held system in the

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Life in Eve: Too Busy to Write about Being Busy

2012-12-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

“There’s really nothing quite like someone’s wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.” The remarkable thing

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Life in Eve: Many Judgements

2012-12-07 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

“So are we still locked out of the war?” CB asked, his voice slightly tinny. I rubbed my eyes. This

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Life in Eve: Quote of the Day

2012-12-05 doycet MMO & Computers

“I find mining to be an incredibly relaxing thing to do after work. It’s like fishing without waking up early.

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Life in Eve: Got a joke for you…

2012-12-05 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

How does a “roleplay-oriented, pro-Minmatar, faction warfare alliance” that has been dealing with the game’s alliance mechanics for EIGHT YEARS

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Life in Eve: Getting Ready for Retribution

2012-12-04 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the Eugidi constellation, but after we recaptured Floseswin, we called a few

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Life in Eve: BOUSes? I don’t believe they exist…

2012-11-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Woo-hoo! November insanity coming to a close! Our little faction warfare corp has joined an established FW alliance! I seem

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Life in Eve: Revised Minmatar/Amarr Warzone Map

2012-11-25 doycet MMO & Computers
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Life in Eve: Getting a Bad Feeling

2012-11-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Musing

So this is just a short post and, worse, it won’t make much sense or difference to anyone unless you

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Home a-Roam 4

2012-11-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The next few evenings are spent battening down the hatches for the upcoming November privations, resetting Planetary Interaction timers, and

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Life in Eve: Home a-Roam 3

2012-10-31 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I’d intended to just pop in and check a few bits of to-do, but a quick greeting in comms leads

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Life in Eve: Home a-Roam 2

2012-10-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Friday’s a strangely quiet night in the war zone, so I spent some time working out some new fittings for

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Life in Eve: Home a-Roam

2012-10-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

These days, we hardly need to go anywhere to find a fight. Immediately next door, we have a long-established I.LAW

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Life in Eve: Shake Shake Shake

2012-10-24 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It will surprise no one when I say that I’m not happy with the way some of the features in

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Life in Eve: Notebook

2012-10-19 doycet Links & Resources

My notes from last night, unadorned: Roam with CB, Em, and Shan. CB in a slicer doing most of the

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Life in Eve: For the Tears?

2012-10-18 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 2 comments

Forgive me, Gor, but this one was too good to leave in e-mail. Wait… so choosing be smart in Eve

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Life in Eve: Education

2012-10-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Last night, our little two-man faction warfare corporation tripled in size, and I led a small roam/introductory tour into the

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Life in Eve: Prep

2012-10-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

“Alright, Fel, if you feel like you understand the risks, and you’re still interested, I’m glad to have you.” I

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Life in Eve: the Pants-on-Head Offensive #eveonline

2012-10-10 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

While I’ve been playing just as much as ever, and writing about the new stuff coming in the expansion, I

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Life in Eve: A Tour of the Bringing Solo Back Interview with CCP Fozzie #eveonline

2012-10-03 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing

I’m often on voice comms while playing Eve, and a lot of the discussion lately has been about the changes

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Life in Eve: Retribution is Coming #eveonline

2012-10-02 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers 4 comments

So last night, I actually found myself online at the same time as Em, and we had time to talk

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Life in Eve: Quick Post on the Hurricane Nerf #eveonline

2012-10-01 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers One comment

Quoting CCP Fozzie: Since we plan to reduce the powergrid needs of all medium artillery by 10% across the board,

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Life in Eve: How to Kill Joy-sucking Faction Warfare Farmers #eveonline

2012-09-28 doycet Links & Resources, MMO & Computers 4 comments

So one of the more annoying (albeit small) problems with Faction Warfare that I mentioned yesterday is the fact that

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Life in EvE: How to Stop Sucking the Joy out of Faction Warfare, You Piece of Crap #eveonline

2012-09-26 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

So when I started out in Faction Warfare, these were my impressions: Good place to get some small gang or

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Life in Eve: Quick Update on Recent Gameplay

2012-09-25 doycet MMO & Computers
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Butterfly Effect

2012-09-12 doycet MMO & Computers

The Mittani news site reports that one of the four people killed in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya was

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Let’s play a Game

2012-09-05 doycet Musing 10 comments

Just because (a) I’m super busy right now and (b) this little quiz (via Reddit) has been running around in

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Life in Eve: Faction Warfare Tools

2012-08-29 doycet MMO & Computers

Following a conversation with a fellow Eve player after one of my readings last week, I realized I’ve dug up

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My Reddit “Ask Me Anything” is Today!

2012-08-23 doycet Links & Resources

Like the title says, today (well, at 7pm central) I will be on Reddit answering All The Things during an

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Hidden Things Release Week News

2012-08-20 doycet Links & Resources

Things are going to be very crazy around Casa Testerman this week, and rather than just going radio silent, I

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Session 09 of our co-op playthrough of Ironsworn: Starforged.

We pause long enough to trade supplies with an old and deeply unsettling acquaintance: Anora Talin, a razor-sharp trader with too much insight and no hesitation about using it. What starts as a resupply stop turns into one of the biggest lore sessions of the campaign so far.

In this episode:

- the precursor map/tablet reveals more strange behavior
- Cole’s importance becomes clearer
- secrets about the Balefire and Cobalt Reach emerge
- a new faction concept appears: The Tethered
- Tinker risks deeper contact with the symbiote
- navigation experiments go very, very wrong
- we end with one of our favorite cliffhangers yet

Thanks for watching/listening along with our little corner of space.

2026 04 14
Sometimes, the story tells you it wants to be something else.
Timefoolery finds us once again.

2026 03 10
See the thing is, I called episode six "Crystal Snails", and then I got Vulfmon's Disco Snails stuck in my head, and then this happened. I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry if you've never heard of Disco Snails.
I'm sorry if you HAVE heard of Disco Snails.
Mostly, I'm sorry to Vulfmon.

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

There's bodies in the airlock, for the snails are on the loose
Watch your step, they're only one inch tall and they crawl right at you
They've synthesize deadly toxins up in their buggy bodies
This downright funkadelic bunch have come to start the party (P-p-p-party)

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Their location? In your station
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.
(With apologies to Vulfmon.)

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system fail
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They're not ill-willer, they're just killers...

2026 03 03
Tinker and Quin engage in a time-honored spacer tradition (drinking and conspiracy theories) followed by another time-honored ironsworn tradition (fighting for your life).

2026 02 24 timebolted
We meet Quintin's daughter, and then head out on our main mission. Both of these go exactly as we expected, as usual.

2026 02 17

Music by Kevin MacLeod. Intro by kleber-kgf.
This game, man... this game....

A few notes: the audio is still uneven. I tried a few things, but I need to try a few more. Stay with us and I'll get it sorted, I promise.

2026 02 13
Kiri's symbiote saves him... from something, or for something?
Quinn pulls on the strings trailing from everyone on Providence Station.

2026 02 03
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