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Life (in a Wormhole) Goes on… #eveonline

2011-09-26 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 7 comments

So I’m still playing Eve. I’m still enjoying playing Eve, more importantly. But I think I’m going to slow down

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LotRO: Rise of Isengard Patch Notes – My thoughts.

2011-09-26 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

My first thought: as a player with a lifetime subscription, the fact that the latest expansion abbreviates to “ROI” is

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Life in a Wormhole: “How do I shot teh Sleepers?” #eveonline

2011-09-23 doycet Links & Resources, MMO & Computers 8 comments

Those of you who don’t really play EVE and just read this stuff to see what I got blown up

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Life in a Wormhole: “The Drake is Always Bait” #eveonline

2011-09-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 5 comments

It’s morning in the home system (at least for me — some folks are already into their evenings), and Bre

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Life in a Wormhole: Attitude Adjustments for “Fun” and “Profit” #eveonline

2011-09-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

I log in the next morning and am told to proceed immediately to our “staging tower” in the system and

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Life in a Wormhole: Really, Truly, Doing it Wrong #eveonline

2011-09-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I’ve mentioned the alliance’s pending group operation a couple times, alluding to the fact that the corporation that they’ve targeted

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Life in a Wormhole: Silence Broken Only by Soothing Gunfire #eveonline

2011-09-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Our constellation of wormhole systems is far simpler today than it was yesterday, for which I’m grateful. A short bit

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Life in a Wormhole: Treasure Mapping #eveonline

2011-09-16 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

The day dawns with me suspiciously free from other commitments, so I start off the morning with some scanning. It’s

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Life in a Wormhole: Overwatch #eveonline

2011-09-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I log in to find Gor staring fixedly at a point in space. Not any random point in space, mind

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Life in a Wormhole: Working Out #eveonline

2011-09-14 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

“I think you guys are working out,” Cabbage takes the time to tell me in private. “You just fit right

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Life in a Wormhole: If yah don’t kill ‘im, he won’t larn nuthin’. #eveonline

2011-09-13 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

A new day dawns in Home System Mk 2, but rather than stay at home and shoot sleepers, I’d rather

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Life in a Wormhole: “We Work Before We Play” #eveonline

2011-09-12 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

(+10 internets if you identify the quote.) We’ve taken about five days, in total, moving out of the old system

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Life in a Wormhole: The Unpackening II – Son of Unpackening #eveonline

2011-09-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

An Orca flying on autopilot is so slow that by the time Berke has gotten the Monolith back to our

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Life in a Wormhole: The Unpackening #eveonline

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

So the next couple days in our new wormhole pretty much go exactly like this: Okay, not really, but who

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Life in a Wormhole: Packing boxes for the new home #eveonline

2011-09-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

I never did get around to fixing the issues I had with my designated wormhole PvP ships, and since I

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Life in a Wormhole: A Brief Retrospective #eveonline

2011-09-07 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Musing 4 comments

There’s very little left to do after our marathon system take-down yesterday, which is really good news for me, since

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Life in a Wormhole: “Last one out…” #eveonline

2011-09-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

It’s later on the same day as the short-lived stealth bomber vs. industrial hauler death match, and I’m ready to

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Life in a Wormhole: Two Pods Escape #eveonline

2011-09-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

There are wrecks in the home system when I log in, indicating violence in which I sadly had no part,

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Life in a Wormhole: “Less than Useful” #eveonline

2011-09-02 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I’m messing around with a couple armor-tanked builds for our PvP ships, due to some issues I have with shield-tanked

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Life in a Wormhole: Deadly Correspondence #eveonline

2011-09-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

“Regardless of whatever we decide to do with that wormhole alliance,” I say to Gor as he logs in, “we

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Life in a Wormhole: The Great Debate #eveonline

2011-08-31 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

The next couple of days feel like one very long debate about the merits of joining a new alliance. I’m

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Life in a Wormhole: Sifting through the White Noise #eveonline

2011-08-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

My evemail box is brimming with messages when I log in, and for a few seconds I get excited; after

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Life in a Wormhole: “We’re like Keystone Kops out here.” #eveonline

2011-08-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I get online later than normal and it takes CB and me awhile to get organized — usually, I’ve scanned

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What to play, what to play…

2011-08-29 doycet Links & Resources, Musing

De’s providing all my material lately. This weekend, she writes me and says: get to start GMing here shortly. What indie

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“What do you Get out of it?” #eveonline

2011-08-27 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing One comment

So last weekend, De asked me what it is that I get out of EVE; what the payoff is for

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Life in a Wormhole: Missed Opportunity #eveonline

2011-08-26 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s early in the morning — very early, thanks to the tiny copilot half-asleep on my lap — and the

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Life in a Wormhole: The Lulling Sounds of Laser fire #eveonline

2011-08-25 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

The home system continues to recover, new sleeper sites popping up like dandelions, and while the tasty radar anomaly beckons,

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Life in a Wormhole: Still Doing it Wrong #eveonline

2011-08-23 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 7 comments

We’ve spent the last couple nights chasing after looters out of high-sec without being able to actually catch them —

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Life in a Wormhole: Kicking the Anthill #eveonline

2011-08-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

It’s an early Saturday morning, and the cupboard (by which I mean “our home system”) is bare. The random number

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Life in a Wormhole: What are the Odds? #eveonline

2011-08-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s been a few days since the Rattlesnake/Orca Debacle of Aught-leven, and things have been quiet around the home system

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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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