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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet Musing

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet Musing

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet Musing

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet Musing

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet Musing

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet Musing

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet Musing

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet Musing

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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Mass Effect, Tolkien, and Your Bullshit Artistic Process

2012-03-26 doycet Links & Resources, Musing

It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. …

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2012-03-21 doycet Musing, Scheduling 3 comments

So. Yeah. Here’s a post. Apologies to those waiting on posts. Triple apologies to the guys in EvE, whom I

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Life in a Wormhole: No so much with the Pinatas, Actually #eveonline

2012-03-13 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

So the deal with POS Pinata Day is that EvE is implementing a change to the way that player-owned towers

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Life in a Wormhole: Day(s) of Rest #eveonline

2012-03-12 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

Following the marathon efforts of the past few days, our pilots are ready for a bit of downtime. Once the

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Life in a Wormhole: The Final Push #eveonline

2012-03-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 11 comments

“I’m going to kill him.” “Is the hole dead?” “I’m going to kill him, then buy him a new ship

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Life in a Wormhole: The (Surround)Sound of Stupid #eveonline

2012-03-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 8 comments

I finally force myself to take a break a few hours later, leaving Pax, Em, and Shan watching things while

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Life in a Wormhole: The Race, Part Two #eveonline

2012-03-07 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

So here’s a thing about wormholes: they are persnickety fucking things. As a general of thumb, a wormhole can take

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Life in a Wormhole: The Race, Part One #eveonline

2012-03-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 5 comments

Summary of Events Following a system assault conducted by members of our alliance, some of the corps involved in defending

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Life in a Wormhole: Three-way, and not the Fun Kind #eveonline

2012-03-05 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Apparently it’s been a long while since Bre lost a clone — the last time was apparently (and predictably) when

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Life in a Wormhole: Too Speedy for Your Own Good #eveonline

2012-03-02 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

We’ve seen no sign of the enemy cruisers lurking in our system during the entire tengu/noctis mugging, which Bre takes

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Life in a Wormhole: Speedy #eveonline

2012-02-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 8 comments

“There’s a tengu in-system,” says Em. This seems like old news to me, except he’s not talking about the tengu

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Life in a Wormhole: The Talk #eveonline

2012-02-27 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 9 comments

This post doesn’t have any spaceship explosions going on — it’s something I’ve debated writing up, because it’s nothing but

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Life in a Wormhole: Late Night Jam Session #eveonline

2012-02-23 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 5 comments

It’s getting late, and the end of my evening isn’t in sight. We’ve got hostiles in the system who, at

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Life in a Wormhole: A Lack of Communication #eveonline

2012-02-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

Note: The events I’ll be covering in the next few blog posts are written from the point of view of

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Life in a Wormhole: Ship Swapping #eveonline

2012-02-21 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

There’s some chatter in my Alliance evemail box when I log in; something about the system assault that happened over

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Life in a Wormhole: Scouting, Scouting, and Scouting #eveonline

2012-02-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Today’s schedule is a bit odd, as I have quite a bit of free time to poke around the lost

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Life in a Wormhole: Wait for Backup #eveonline

2012-02-16 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this Dolby guy.” Trust Em to know what I’m thinking even when he doesn’t

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Life in a Wormhole: Gadabout #eveonline

2012-02-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

My comms are full of annoying distractions when I log in, and they’re proving unusually difficult to tune out. First

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Life in a Wormhole: Two Exits, No Joy #eveonline

2012-02-14 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 10 comments

I’ve been told by some of my more opinionated … readers? Hmm. They say they don’t read the blog, actually,

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Life in a Wormhole: How Can You Miss Me if I Never Leave? #eveonline

2012-02-13 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

First, a quick behind-the-scenes update: CCP contacted me and told me they’d changed their minds about the whole media account

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Life in a Wormhole: Winning at Eve Blogging #eveonline

2012-02-08 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

When I first started playing EvE about a year ago, it was an investigative role on behalf of MMO Reporter,

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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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