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Life in a Wormhole: The Fine Art of Scanning #eveonline

2011-07-26 doycet MMO & Computers

As I’ve already mentioned, the use of scanning probes to tri-, quad-, or quintangulate on various cosmic phenomena is a

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Life in a Wormhole: Don’t Shoot the Good Guys #eveonline

2011-07-24 doycet Links & Resources

The formidable weaponry of our fully armed and operational battle station has been brought to bear on a hapless intruder

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Life in a Wormhole: If you’re going to be a Criminal, be a Smart Criminal #eveonline

2011-07-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Over emails the next day, CB points out that instead of a floating tower in space with guns, e-warfare modules,

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Life in a Wormhole: The Moving-day Hangover

2011-07-21 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s one of those days you remember from college; everyone’s moving a bit slowly, trying to make as little noise

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Life in a Wormhole: … if it is possible to avoid hitting. #eveonline

2011-07-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

I drafted my evemail, aiming for a mix of “we’re all just trying to get along” and “we have no

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Life in a Wormhole: What do you mean, “Neighbors?”

2011-07-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

There was a moment of stunned disbelief following CB’s question. I hit d-scan several times on several characters and got

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Life in a Wormhole: Time to Get Lost

2011-07-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Gor has advocated for starting the trip further into the evening, so as to avoid the prime hours of activity

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Life in a Wormhole: The Adventure Begins… with shopping.

2011-07-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

A flurry of communications followed my initial email about the empty wormhole. Questions. Queries. Calculations. A whoooole lot of calculations.

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“My name is John Crichton…”

2011-07-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

I haven’t been compelled to write about the sorts of things going on with my time in-game with EVE up

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EVE Online: Crafting. In. Spaaaaaace.

2011-04-15 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

“A million and a half? Are you joking?” Wyl glanced over his shoulder at his corpmate, who sat across the room,

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PLEX for Good: EVE Players Donate In-game Funds to Real-world Disaster Relief

2011-03-15 doycet MMO & Computers

The economy of EVE Online is a strange one — possibly unique, in that the value of the game’s currency

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Actual Play of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple — “Swallowed Whole”

2011-03-11 doycet Actual Play, Diceless, Table Top 2 comments

Despite crazy schedules and a newborn to deal with, Chris and Tim and I managed to get together last night

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Eve Online: The Mystery and Allure of the Alt

2011-03-08 doycet MMO & Computers

I experienced a bit of serendipity last night on the EVE Online website. I had reset my settings for Aura

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Sci-fi MMO Vendetta Online coming to Android Tablet PCs (and phones?)

2011-03-04 doycet MMO & Computers

Independent game developer Guild Software Inc has launched an Android version of Vendetta Online, giving early adopters and Android fanbois the chance

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Doctor Who MMO? FanTAStic!

2011-02-25 doycet MMO & Computers

I’m a relative latecomer to Doctor Who fandom (joining the throng during the Eccelston reboot of the franchise), but that

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EVE Online: Missions, Agents, and earning Faction Love

2011-02-23 doycet Links & Resources

The most striking thing about EVE Online is the way in which the game is not like its digital brethren.

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Parallel Kingdom: How Did I Not Know About This?

2011-02-21 doycet MMO & Computers

“I found a cool little game for the phone,” I told my wife on Friday. “Yeah?” She replied. She’s a

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Four Years Later: A Newbie’s Return to EVE Online

2011-02-07 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

A few months ago, a couple of my kinmates on Lord of the Rings Online – one of them, our

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Dude, stop calling it “Wife Aggro”.

2011-01-19 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing

“Hang on a sec, guys,” I read in the group chat window, “I’ve got Wife Aggro.” I’ve read this phrase

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Burning Wheel, in Review

2011-01-07 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top One comment

With holiday schedules, an incoming bearcub, and all the other insanity that seems to surround the end of the year

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Are Virtual Worlds Part of the Cause of our Real-world Recessions?

2010-12-20 doycet Musing

That’s the question asked in a recent article on Terra Nova, which offers some (very solid) arguments for the idea

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International "Change Your Account Password" Day

2010-12-14 doycet Musing

Two days ago, hackers gained access to the servers at Gawker Media and, with it, access to the account information

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The Play’s the Thing: A New Holiday Acting Event for LotRO Thespians

2010-12-12 doycet MMO & Computers

Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online has popped to the top of MMO news many times, most recently due to

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A long time coming.

2010-11-04 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Table Top One comment

Back in 2006, I wrote this short post: You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to make up

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The Library of Worlds, Part One

2010-10-26 doycet Actual Play, Table Top One comment

[Full disclosure: about 80% of this was designed by Alexander Newman for 10.10.10.  He was a great helped while I

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Burning Wheel (finally)

2010-10-21 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top One comment

I got a copy of The Burning Wheel… hmm. My first mention of it on the blog was early 2004,

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Finding the fun in Star Wars again

2010-10-19 doycet Musing

Jeffs Gameblog: Episode IV: What we know, what we don’t know. Some good thinking on the original Star Wars movie.

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“Is it a ‘supers or ‘comics’ game?”

2010-10-15 doycet Musing One comment

Gerald (@Linnaeus on Twitter) put together a really good post on the differences between the different games out there that

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Wasting time playing DnD

2010-09-23 doycet Game Design, Musing, Table Top 3 comments

No, I’m not saying that playing DnD is a waste of my time, settle down. Breathe. I ran into a

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Brain Damage

2010-09-02 doycet Musing, Scheduling, Table Top 2 comments

Randy’s running this low-powered supers-in-Gotham thing. Interesting background. Interesting atmosphere. Running it with Mutants and Masterminds, which is a 3.x

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"Let's try out the combat system," they said.
"What could go wrong?" they said...


2026 05 26
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
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