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What The Fuck is this shit?

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Exhibit B

What kind of idiot do they think will buy and fit a more expensive, less effective, top named T1 module over the more readily available and effective T2 part if the skill prerequisites are the same? Srsly, wtf?

Some interesting goings on in Facebook land today. My wife is telling me that an ongoing semi humorous, semi serious conversation about whether animals have souls or not; that was taking place on a friends wall, has all but been deleted. It’s all a little to suspicious to be a random (and ongoing) technical glitch, that specifically affected a post with religious overtones.

Of course everyone piled on the wall in question to make comments on any potential censorship, and those comments have disappeared as well.

Naturally I told my wife to post on her wall wondering when the SS were going to come round her up for her dissident thinking. I am nothing if not vitriolic and predictable.

Do they like all the negative media attention over there? I just have to wonder when all the fuck ups will stop. I’ll write more later if there is anything more to tell.

Don’t you love Jet Can tippers? I know I do. They always have shiny expensive ships and nothing better to do then waste everyone’s time. I had a run in with one today. He warped in on the belt I mining in, and proceeded to approach me. I immediately filled my Retriever’s hold, and docked with the station I was aligned on.

Upon coming back to the same spot in my hauler, my can had been replaced by his, and he was sitting there in a Nano Curse, orbiting the can at 8KM.

After waiting him out for 10 minutes, I decided that if he pops my hauler I don’t care, I want my fucking ore back. So I found an asteroid on a straight line drawn from a station, and his can. I approached that rock and when ready, aligned to station to “keep the motor running” as it were. As soon as I hit 1500 meters from the can, I opened it, took the ore (and his place holder he used to create said can, more on this in a bit), immediately selected the aligned station, and mashed the dock button.

I was instantly at warp and safely away before he could activate webs on me.

I did feel bad about stealing his place holder, so I did up a contract so that he could get it back…

Lol, I’m such a stubborn dick.

I like to think I am a pretty decent driver. I don’t run into stuff, I don’t kill people, and I mind other people using the road along with me. That said, I can be an angry, angry driver. Mostly this is because a large number of other drivers in this city embody none of the things I just mentioned.

Case in point there was a younger guy in an orange Pontiac G6 (this should almost be enough commentary on the quality of driver) on the way to work this morning. While his driving was acceptable, he gets negative 3 hojillion in the “Not a Douche Bag Fuck Face” category. This is due to his insistence that the world, is in fact, his fucking ashtray. Yes, god forbid you sully your Pontiac G-fucking-6 with your filthy habit.

On to the ranty bit, guess what Mr. Bag did with his ashes and butt? Flicked them out the window of course… Where they impacted the hood and windshield of my newly washed 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS. After the 3rd full cigarette butt hit my windshield, I dropped the car into 4 and pulled along side, rolled my window down, and let him know that:

HEY! Bitch tits! If I see you throw one more of those fucking things out your window, you’re DONE.

Not having anything intelligent to say to defend himself (or in general for that matter), he wisely said nothing, rolled up his window, and slid back in traffic.

Don’t want butts and ash in your car? Here is an idea; DON’T SMOKE IN IT THEN! Nobody else wants to deal with your habit.

So I got my reply to my petition I posted about earlier. Looks like they unbanned me in good order, citing that my account was banned because it “had been accessed by a foreign IP that was solely used to hack into multiple accounts”.

Foreign to where? North America? Iceland? Anyway, I’ll paste the email transcript here. Nothing  incriminating, except the window into the support reps mind. You get the feeling that the guy has to deal with the GoonFleet crew a lot…

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So I used to rant about the MMO communities’ favourite whipping boy, EVE Online quite often. Fact is the shenanigans of the publisher of EVE Online, CCP, made it so the rants practically wrote themselves at one point.

Years later, and with the perspective that piss poor memory gives me, I thought I was just bored enough to suck on some rocks again. As hurting as CCP is for subscribers you’d think they’d make that easy. They certainly like to give away free months here and there to old players, as my inbox will attest to.

Which is why it surprised me that they had banned my account. While it was inactive. I’d like to think it was revenge for all the mean shit I said about them, but I don’t kid myself into thinking anyone reads my site. So I petitioned it, and promise to crai some moar when I find out what their malfunction is.

I can say if it becomes a hassle, I’ll just go buy Red Faction: Guerrilla instead. I’m not cruiser mining enough trit to buy a battle-cruiser again. I’m not that fucking bored.

I just had an epiphany when reading this thread over at Ars, Linux is the OS MMO! Think about it:

• Mindless grinding, check!
• Late nights, check!
• Girls = No, check!
• 5 minutes of glory, goto 1, check!

Seriously, you can spend hours or days running down something that should be simple. For example, getting an audio driver to work reliably so that you can surf to your favorite tunes, only to spend the whole evening at the command line trying to figure out why the bastard won't compile in. Bonus points if you have to search forums filled with snide unhelpful social outcasts to find out where to get the correct kernel source package because your distro came with the wrong one! (woops! lawl!)

Lets compare the above list to a popular MMO, World of Warcraft:

• Mindless grinding to get to level 60 (70 now, woops wait, make that 80), so that you can play the real game.
• Stay up past your bedtime so that your team can take down the raid that should have taken 2 hours… 8 hours ago…
• lol
• finally level up or get that purple, feels kinda nice right? So does a hit of heroine. But you can score that in 30 minutes. See you tomorrow night! We have to help XYZ get their purple bauble now!

In summation, the only real difference I can see between the WoWs and Linux, is that at least WoW is a game that is sort of fun. Perhaps some people that are your friends are there as well. Linux is well… let''s just say it belongs in the server room with enterprise support, and reinstall XP. That's it champ, now go meet some girls.

No, I meant real girls jackass. That Night Elf is probably a dude.

So my previous petition got answered. The result of which is produced here for your admittedly minimal enjoyment:

Hi, Our apologies for the late reply. I am sorry about your loss, unfortunatly it falls outside our compensation policy. It would be impossible for the Customer Support to compensate all the skill training time losses that occured during server crashes or unexpected prolonged downtimes. I can only express you my most sincere regrets for the training time you lost and hope you will recover from it. And to answer your question: no. Best regards, GM Tokaji EVE Online Customer Support

Touche GM Takaji, you take this round. But next time, I WILL REVENGER YOU IN DA FACE!!!

Lol, cheeky bugger…

CCP CMO Magnus Bergsson goes on record about the BoB vs. GoonSwarm war. Declares BoB victorious.

If this is what passes for news over at TenTonHammer, no wonder I have never heard of that site. IGN Vault is also syndicating the interview if that gives you any further insight into the validity of the news. The interviewer, Micajah, basically hands an easy sound bite to Bergsson on a silver fucking plater, and big surprise he knocks it out of the park, while declaring CCP basically above all reproach:

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