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Life in a Wormhole: Should have Just Stayed Home #eveonline

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

One of the really interesting EvE-related youtube posters that I enjoy is a guy named Kil2, especially when he posts

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Life in a Wormhole: Overheat All the Things #eveonline

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

Iteron down! Iteron down! Oh, nevermind, that’s someone else’s Iteron hauler, using our system as a route out to known

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Life in a Wormhole: Lose Some, Win Some #eveonline

2012-01-31 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

Bre logs in and reports that the 850 million isk wormhole… is now occupied. So entrenched have the locals become

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Life in a Wormhole: Fish or Cut Bait #eveonline

2012-01-28 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

Bre would very much like to sell the wormhole she’s been sitting in for several days and come home, but

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Life in a Wormhole: Stormy Weather #eveonline

2012-01-27 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

“Bid for this wormhole is up to 300 million.” “Bored yet?” “You have no idea.” Ty’s on his way home,

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Life in a Wormhole: Fire the Wave Motion Gun #eveonline

2012-01-27 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

Sure enough, Ichi is chortling when I log back into the home system the next day. Apparently, he happened to

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Life in a Wormhole: If You Open a Door, Something May Walk Through #eveonline

2012-01-27 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Cabbage reports that we have an additional wormhole in our system, beyond the two that we always have. Entrance number

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Life in a Wormhole: What if they Gave a War and Nobody Came? #eveonline

2012-01-24 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

Hurrah, we’ve had war declared on us again. Contrary to the ominous tone of this announcement, the mood within the

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Eve Online: My Year in Review

2012-01-24 doycet Links & Resources

This is going to be one of those posts that isn’t time-delayed, due to the subject matter. I just noticed

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Life in a Wormhole: A Few Days of Normal #eveonline

2012-01-23 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 5 comments

One of the upsides of losing your salvaging ship is that you have a legitimate excuse when it comes time

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Thankfully, She is Willing to Kiss a Wookie

2012-01-23 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

I like to tell people that I met my wife on an MMO, but that isn’t entirely accurate. Technically, she

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Life in a Wormhole: Not So Smart #eveonline

2012-01-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 8 comments

“Cha-ching.” Bre is chortling to herself, as she’s just closed the deal on a second wormhole sale in less than

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Life in a Wormhole: One of the Little Days, One of the Big Days #eveonline

2012-01-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

It’s been a quiet couple of days in the home system. People have been in and out, but I keep

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SOPA and PIPA Damage This Site

2012-01-18 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

Random Average will be back tomorrow. Today, may I suggest you ponder how much of the internet that you use

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Life in a Wormhole: Like a Weekend Camp-out #eveonline

2012-01-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

In our early days of wormhole living, CB drew a comparison between that activity and weekend camping trips where you

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Life in a Wormhole: Holiday Spirit #eveonline

2012-01-16 doycet Actual Play One comment

This is one of those times when it’s quite obvious I time-delay my posts. It’s coming up on the holiday

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Life in a Wormhole: Sneaking Out to Play #eveonline

2012-01-16 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It looks like another quiet weekend in the hole during the crazy holiday season, and my play time is still

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Life in a Wormhole: Background Checks #eveonline

2012-01-11 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

“One of your damned dirty fan-monkeys is clogging up our application inbox.” Em’s voice is loud and accusatory — probably

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Life in a Wormhole: A Taste of the Good Life #eveonline

2012-01-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 5 comments

It’s been well ove 24 hours since the fleecing of our neighboring class-two system, but the wormhole connection is still

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Life in a Wormhole: Just Being Neighborly #eveonline

2012-01-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

Two customs offices remain in our system, but we only have one replacement structure, so we leave the less-frequently-used planet

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Life in a Wormhole: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. #eveonline

2012-01-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

Ty’s gotten it into his head to pick up a Proteus-class strategic cruiser. Though the ship is pricey, his reasoning

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Life in a Wormhole: In Which I Hate Low-sec #eveonline

2012-01-04 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 8 comments

I log into a new notification that some alliance is declaring War on us. Again. Again? Do I mean “we’re

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Life in a Wormhole: In which we Multiply and Subtract #eveonline

2012-01-03 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

CB is beside himself! Technically, he’s beside himself three or four times, as he’s out in the Rens system, making

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Life in a Wormhole: Agency #eveonline

2011-12-14 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Musing 2 comments

Strange kind of a day. There’s a bit of a snafu when we get online, simply because a few of

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Life in a Wormhole: Preparing for Change #eveonline

2011-12-12 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 7 comments

There’s a lot of interesting stuff happening in EvE, and in anticipation of some of the changes, most of he

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Life in a Wormhole: Blowing Up Properly #eveonline

2011-12-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

The home system has been quiet this week (which is why I’ve been writing a few more guide-like things than

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Life in a Wormhole: Clone Jumper #eveonline

2011-12-08 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 8 comments

Jay asks: Hey man, I am a little confused about all this cloning stuff, how and why would I want

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Life in a Wormhole: How Soon Can I Start? #eveonline

2011-12-07 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 14 comments

In the past, I’ve written a fair bit about what you need to bring when you decide to move into

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Life in a Wormhole: Musing on the Crucible #eveonline

2011-12-06 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 5 comments

[This first two paragraphs are split off from yesterday’s post, so bear with me for the repetition — I soon

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Life in a Wormhole: Roaming Around with Red versus Blue #eveonline

2011-12-05 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

[[Note: This post is trying SO HARD to be three posts, rolled into one. I’m fighting it as well as

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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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