Got got.

http://gents.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8997496

Last night I was ratting with some of the guys from Ascendant in L-A, I was late and rather then travel back to BYXF I logged off in space at a safe. Fast forward to today and I logged on, lo and behold, there were 2 Neutrals in local, but I had 5 or so safes spread across the system so I started bouncing between them waiting them out so I could make my way home. Fountaindef was reporting much activity from PNQY down to Hop, I should have just logged then, but no I had to dick around hoping they would leave. About 10 minutes of this and being chased by some scan probes from a Buzzard and the inevitable happened, I landed on grid at a safe and oh look, a Buzzard was there! He quickly locked and pointed me, my raven was obviously to slow to hope to get away and my cruise missiles would have done nothing to the Buzzard. Then his friend in a Sleipnir and 2 drakes arrived and that was pretty much all she wrote.

In retrospect, I shouldn’t have loitered at any safes for any amount of time and really I should have just logged as soon as I saw the reds in local and read all the activity on Fountaindef. As for the fight, maybe if I had sicced my hobgoblins and target painter on the Buzzard I might have been able to kill it, but I doubt it. What would you guys have done?

Didn't really want that Raven anyway.

What a Night in New Eden.

So last night, I was quite bored, it was 11:30 and I was about to go to sleep when a Ping went out on Jabber (our alliance-wide chat client) that some Russians were in need of a most ungentlemanly exit from our space. I quickly logged in and got onto voice, there were only a few guys in voice, none of whom I recognized, but that’s ok, our alliance isn’t that small. I get my Bugswatter Hurricane (my new favorite ship) out and go rally up on the PNQY-Q gate in RP2, our scout was reporting 2 red Canes and a Drake, there were 11 of us in battlecruisers, we totally had this. After a few minutes one of our players says he is done for the night and jumps through to PNQY to dock up at the station, a few seconds later our scout gives up a warp in point, said player, for whatever reason promptly LEEEEEERRRROOOYYYYY’s into the red gate camp. Well our hand was forced, we scramble and jump through and warp to save him. We land on grid with 2 red Canes and a Drake wreck… WTF happened to the Drake? No matter, we lock up the reds, get points and webs on them and start turning their shield bars inside out.

The first Cane Kill:

http://gents.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8986621

The Second Cane Kill:

http://gents.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8986622

And his pod, squished by yours truly:

http://gents.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8986620

Here’s the Battle Summary:

http://gents.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=8986620

We celebrate, high five and make merry, while the FC drives us back to BYXF (our home system) where we are stood down, after maybe five minutes of station spinning and killmail hating we get a message a neutral Mastodon is coming up the pipe from Hophib. A grey Mastodon, in GENTS space, it’s more likely than you think! We quickly undock and hustle to the P5- gate and set up for the uncloak, our scout reports a red gate activation (meaning the target is coming though) and a few seconds later a Buzzard uncloaks, not even my Bugswatter had a fast enough lock speed to catch him so he gets away. The FC in his wisdom orders us to jump and see if the reported Mastodon is lurking on the other side of the gate , turns out his predatory instincts were correct, however the ‘don makes it through the gate and we all hurry fat ass battlecruisers after him. How fortunate then that one of our fast tacklers was already there and had him pointed and webbed as soon as he uncloaked, giving us enough time to jump back and explode him.

The Mastodon:

http://gents.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8986641

Sadly he was empty but such is life, now this is where the story takes a turn for the surreal, after we wacked this guy, he convos our FC, now this isn’t all that strange but the contents of said convo were quite odd.

Here are some of the chat logs, Daniel is our FC, Skuyou is the victim and my commentary is in bold.

LOCAL - immediately after mastodon died.

[ 2011.02.24 08:42:01 ] Skuyou > what would yall charge to haul soem stuff out of your area? jump freighter
[ 2011.02.24 08:42:24 ] Daniel Essig > i'll do it for free
[ 2011.02.24 08:42:31 ] Daniel Essig > we're gentlemen
[ 2011.02.24 08:42:48 ] Skuyou > lol why dont I believe that
[ 2011.02.24 08:45:31 ] Morolen1 > I say my good man, are you implying we are anything other honorable fellows

At this point I presumed it was just smacking in local, you know, like you do, but it seems as if the rabbit hole goes deeper than that. The following is the private chat between him and Daniel, I will fill in what the rest of us doing as the chat goes along. Sorry about the poor spelling but I think you can get the general idea.

[ 2011.02.24 08:43:47 ] Skuyou > yo

[ 2011.02.24 08:43:51 ] Daniel Essig > what do you need moved?

[ 2011.02.24 08:44:05 ] Skuyou > we have a wh thats a few systems over

[ 2011.02.24 08:44:13 ] Skuyou > c2 with a nice lil pos.

[ 2011.02.24 08:44:28 ] Daniel Essig > k

[ 2011.02.24 08:44:44 ] Skuyou > we have been getting hammered every day in that damd thing and havent seen a hs ent in about a month

[ 2011.02.24 08:45:15 ] Skuyou > today we decided that we would try to get back to hs with it so we collapsed it about 9 times and this is the closest that we have gotten

[ 2011.02.24 08:45:29 ] Daniel Essig > k

[ 2011.02.24 08:46:10 ] Daniel Essig > so... what do you need?

[ 2011.02.24 08:46:14 ] Skuyou > in all honesty. I want the tower. I dont really give a shit about the rest at this point

[ 2011.02.24 08:46:38 ] Daniel Essig > small tower?

[ 2011.02.24 08:46:49 ] Skuyou > large min

[ 2011.02.24 08:47:38 ] Daniel Essig > what do you want from us?

[ 2011.02.24 08:48:20 ] Daniel Essig > you want to bring it out and have us bring it to highsec for you?

[ 2011.02.24 08:48:23 ] Skuyou > most corps in null hiave a jump freighter that runs once every week or every other

[ 2011.02.24 08:48:32 ] Skuyou > yeah

[ 2011.02.24 08:48:47 ] Daniel Essig > what sys is this wormhole in?

[ 2011.02.24 08:49:05 ] Skuyou > this one

[ 2011.02.24 08:49:10 ] Daniel Essig > by?

[ 2011.02.24 08:49:13 ] Daniel Essig > byxf?

[ 2011.02.24 08:49:17 ] Skuyou > baa

[ 2011.02.24 08:49:20 ] Skuyou > cc99z

[ 2011.02.24 08:51:09 ] Daniel Essig > hmm ok

[ 2011.02.24 08:52:09 ] Skuyou > in all reality you just killed our transport ship

[ 2011.02.24 08:52:42 ] Daniel Essig > why did you bring it in here with no cargo?

[ 2011.02.24 08:53:05 ] Skuyou > we were heading up from hs

[ 2011.02.24 08:53:07 ] Daniel Essig > you were probably bringing it back from Lowsec

[ 2011.02.24 08:53:11 ] Daniel Essig > yeah

[ 2011.02.24 08:53:27 ] Daniel Essig > so you need us to grab it

[ 2011.02.24 08:53:56 ] Skuyou > well I can haul the junk to the nearest station with bestowers

[ 2011.02.24 08:54:26 ] Skuyou > after that figure 100m? to freighter it on your next run?

This is where Dan told the rest of us that this was really happening, or at least that the trap attempt was an elaborate one. We were still fairly certain it was a cunning trap on the part of Skuyou and his corp, because, well, come on.

[ 2011.02.24 08:54:46 ] Daniel Essig > sounds fair, tho we will pick it up for you from your wormhole

[ 2011.02.24 08:54:52 ] Daniel Essig > i was looking to see if i could fit it

[ 2011.02.24 08:55:02 ] Daniel Essig > safer even in our own space to do it in a cloaky

[ 2011.02.24 08:55:57 ] Skuyou > yeah

[ 2011.02.24 08:56:18 ] Daniel Essig > so i'm going to invite you to a fleet, can you put my cloaky on your WH to go into 0.0?

[ 2011.02.24 08:56:19 ] Skuyou > its a relitively fresh wh 5 frigs through it

[ 2011.02.24 08:57:13 ] Skuyou > my cloaky on your wh???

[ 2011.02.24 08:57:33 ] Daniel Essig > i want you to give me the BM on our side

[ 2011.02.24 08:57:41 ] Daniel Essig > then go to ur pos, is it ready for me to scoop?

[ 2011.02.24 08:57:43 ] Skuyou > o ok

[ 2011.02.24 08:58:56 ] Skuyou > ok I am out of the fleet

[ 2011.02.24 08:59:13 ] Daniel Essig > is the tower unanchored and ready for me to scoop?

[ 2011.02.24 08:59:21 ] Skuyou > nope

[ 2011.02.24 08:59:37 ] Daniel Essig > unanchor it

[ 2011.02.24 08:59:37 ] Skuyou > I was leaving the defences online till all the easy shit was done

[ 2011.02.24 09:00:22 ] Daniel Essig > you can unanchor it now

[ 2011.02.24 09:00:26 ] Daniel Essig > we're ready to grab it

[ 2011.02.24 09:03:34 ] Skuyou > this is going to be a bitch to do

[ 2011.02.24 09:03:56 ] Daniel Essig > how is that?

[ 2011.02.24 09:04:09 ] Skuyou > unloading guns in a bestower

[ 2011.02.24 09:04:51 ] Daniel Essig > rofl

[ 2011.02.24 09:04:53 ] Skuyou > shield pass is 123

[ 2011.02.24 09:04:54 ] Daniel Essig > thats slow...

[ 2011.02.24 09:05:22 ] Daniel Essig > come get us the WH bookmark again i'll invite you to fleet now

[ 2011.02.24 09:07:52 ] Daniel Essig > k when i see you in local i'll warp to you

[ 2011.02.24 09:07:55 ] Daniel Essig > on my alt

[ 2011.02.24 09:07:59 ] Skuyou > ok

[ 2011.02.24 09:08:28 ] Skuyou > just hope yall are trust worthy

Yea, about that, now Dan was saying he was in a wormhole with this guy and warping to his POS, we were expecting smart bombing battleships or something along those lines. It hadn’t really occurred to us that it might really be happening, it was simply too absurd to consider that a stranger was giving us the keys to the kingdom.

[ 2011.02.24 09:15:14 ] Daniel Essig > is it ready yet?

[ 2011.02.24 09:15:19 ] Daniel Essig > i dropped as they told you

[ 2011.02.24 09:15:51 ] Skuyou > I didnt know if you had warped in yet so I just stayed put

[ 2011.02.24 09:16:06 ] Daniel Essig > thanks

[ 2011.02.24 09:16:36 ] Skuyou > i offlined everything so its safe to aproach it

[ 2011.02.24 09:18:27 ] Daniel Essig > you at it now?

[ 2011.02.24 09:18:36 ] Skuyou > yeah

[ 2011.02.24 09:20:18 ] Skuyou > so I am wondering.. should I be trusting you?

[ 2011.02.24 09:20:34 ] Daniel Essig > as i said

[ 2011.02.24 09:20:45 ] Skuyou > ok coo

[ 2011.02.24 09:21:13 ] Daniel Essig > i see you ahve alot of ships empty

[ 2011.02.24 09:21:30 ] Skuyou > we have been jumping this wh all day long

[ 2011.02.24 09:21:46 ] Daniel Essig > you need my guys to move those ships for you?

[ 2011.02.24 09:22:38 ] Skuyou > I can fly the drake and the exhumers

[ 2011.02.24 09:22:44 ] Skuyou > bestower

[ 2011.02.24 09:23:11 ] Skuyou > if I could get the noctis flown it would be great

Of course we could fly that, we are gentlemen after all, and about all the OTHER ships he had at his POS, well, we wouldn’t want it to be too much of a hassle on this poor fellow. We quickly go and leave our ships at a friendly POS in the system the wormhole entrance was in and we all warp to Daniel. I’ll be damned, the POS password worked and we were in. I quickly got in a Covetor and fled the scene. I was expecting at any moment for the guy to wise up and it all to break down or a stealth freighter to come and trap us all in the wormhole.

[ 2011.02.24 09:23:50 ] Daniel Essig > ok

[ 2011.02.24 09:24:20 ] Skuyou > not sure what to do about that prowler

[ 2011.02.24 09:24:48 ] Daniel Essig > i got it

[ 2011.02.24 09:25:06 ] Daniel Essig > my alt is here in a prowler atm... i'll go drop it off and pod over

[ 2011.02.24 09:26:03 ] Skuyou > if yall have a galint pilot tell him he can have the myrm

[ 2011.02.24 09:36:03 ] Daniel Essig > grabbin what we can

[ 2011.02.24 09:37:28 ] Skuyou > when do you think your freight run will be?

[ 2011.02.24 09:37:35 ] Daniel Essig > we do them pretty much ever day

[ 2011.02.24 09:37:38 ] Daniel Essig > so probly tomorrow

[ 2011.02.24 09:37:47 ] Skuyou > sweet

[ 2011.02.24 09:37:52 ] Daniel Essig > these chinese things on scan

[ 2011.02.24 09:37:54 ] Daniel Essig > orca and shit

[ 2011.02.24 09:37:55 ] Daniel Essig > that you?

[ 2011.02.24 09:38:19 ] Skuyou > orca and shit?

[ 2011.02.24 09:38:33 ] Skuyou > no.. I wish

[ 2011.02.24 09:38:41 ] Daniel Essig > yeah we have orca on scan in this system

[ 2011.02.24 09:39:18 ] Skuyou > its just me and zeeg up here now

[ 2011.02.24 09:39:26 ] Skuyou > and I am boxing him

[ 2011.02.24 09:39:35 ] Daniel Essig > you want us to move that hulk for you?

[ 2011.02.24 09:39:38 ] Skuyou > everyone els is dead from trying to jump the systems

[ 2011.02.24 09:39:40 ] Daniel Essig > or anything else in ship maint?

[ 2011.02.24 09:40:07 ] Skuyou > that was everything out of the ship maint

[ 2011.02.24 09:40:18 ] Daniel Essig > ok

[ 2011.02.24 09:40:24 ] Daniel Essig > ur hulk?

[ 2011.02.24 09:41:11 ] Skuyou > if you want to

[ 2011.02.24 09:41:27 ] Daniel Essig > sure

[ 2011.02.24 09:41:30 ] Daniel Essig > eject

Much to our surprise, he actually ejected from his hulk and one of our guy hopped in and flew it off. This was about the point we were going crazy on mumble since it really seemed this was really happening and there was no real trap.

[ 2011.02.24 09:41:33 ] Skuyou > otherwise I can fly it out

[ 2011.02.24 09:42:55 ] Skuyou > the only thing I really need is that buzz so I can get this clone back

[ 2011.02.24 09:43:11 ] Daniel Essig > we'll escort your bestower

[ 2011.02.24 09:43:18 ] Daniel Essig > we already moved the buzz

[ 2011.02.24 09:44:04 ] Skuyou > its ok

[ 2011.02.24 09:44:11 ] Daniel Essig > 0.0 is dangerous

[ 2011.02.24 09:44:20 ] Skuyou > believe me I know

[ 2011.02.24 09:44:30 ] Skuyou > I spent a good amount of time out here

[ 2011.02.24 09:44:48 ] Skuyou > I was based out of venal

[ 2011.02.24 09:45:00 ] Daniel Essig > ah ok

[ 2011.02.24 09:45:07 ] Skuyou > I left null due to the nc pl war in our back yard...

[ 2011.02.24 09:45:14 ] Skuyou > screw that crap

[ 2011.02.24 09:45:18 ] Daniel Essig > ah

[ 2011.02.24 09:45:46 ] Skuyou > I am going to throw down a bunch of cans for ya

[ 2011.02.24 09:46:23 ] Daniel Essig > ok

[ 2011.02.24 09:46:35 ] Daniel Essig > we're bringing in some transports

We had all scrambled back to BYXF and got what Industrial ships we could, much to our collective amusement none of us could fly his Bestowers, however about 4 jumps from us someone was selling a Amarr Industrial skillbook. One of our guys hopped over and started training it.

[ 2011.02.24 09:47:18 ] Daniel Essig > i'll haul shit in your hoarder

[ 2011.02.24 09:47:23 ] Daniel Essig > go ahead and jet can w/e

[ 2011.02.24 09:50:03 ] Skuyou > yall mine?

[ 2011.02.24 09:50:15 ] Daniel Essig > mmhm

[ 2011.02.24 09:50:33 ] Skuyou > ok yall can have the bits of unporcessed junk we have

[ 2011.02.24 09:50:47 ] Skuyou > its going to take yall a while to haul it

[ 2011.02.24 09:51:01 ] Daniel Essig > how much is a while?

[ 2011.02.24 09:51:55 ] Skuyou > 60k worth?

[ 2011.02.24 09:52:03 ] Daniel Essig > m3?

[ 2011.02.24 09:52:08 ] Daniel Essig > 60km3?

[ 2011.02.24 09:52:08 ] Skuyou > yeah

[ 2011.02.24 09:52:25 ] Skuyou > so 3 runs in a bestower

[ 2011.02.24 09:53:09 ] Daniel Essig > ok

[ 2011.02.24 09:53:35 ] Skuyou > good rocks are heavy as hell

[ 2011.02.24 09:53:41 ] Daniel Essig > yah

[ 2011.02.24 09:54:02 ] Skuyou > and that damd intense thing takes 3 hours no matter how much you put in it

[ 2011.02.24 09:54:46 ] Daniel Essig > yah

[ 2011.02.24 09:54:50 ] Daniel Essig > good turn out tho

[ 2011.02.24 09:59:58 ] Skuyou > hmm

[ 2011.02.24 10:02:47 ] Daniel Essig > sup?

[ 2011.02.24 10:02:51 ] Daniel Essig > anything else?

[ 2011.02.24 10:03:00 ] Skuyou > cans that I have dropped

[ 2011.02.24 10:03:13 ] Daniel Essig > workin on those

[ 2011.02.24 10:03:17 ] Daniel Essig > anything other than those?

[ 2011.02.24 10:03:25 ] Skuyou > guns and the tower

[ 2011.02.24 10:03:28 ] Daniel Essig > k

[ 2011.02.24 10:04:25 ] Skuyou > just looking at downtime comin going o yeah hope we get this done

[ 2011.02.24 10:04:33 ] Daniel Essig > we'll be on after DT

YOU ARE DAMN RIGHT WE WILL BE ON AFTER DOWNTIME, HOW ELSE ARE WE GOING TO STEAL ALL YOUR SHIT BRO!

[ 2011.02.24 10:04:57 ] Daniel Essig > its only like 30 min

[ 2011.02.24 10:05:29 ] Skuyou > yeah

[ 2011.02.24 10:05:45 ] Skuyou > I know... but once dt hits I know I should have been asleep hours ago

[ 2011.02.24 10:05:54 ] Daniel Essig > hmm

[ 2011.02.24 10:06:09 ] Daniel Essig > well we're here after if you're willin to hang up

[ 2011.02.24 10:06:13 ] Daniel Essig > hang ot \

[ 2011.02.24 10:06:16 ] Skuyou > I dont really care that much... just a wake up call... what time is it

[ 2011.02.24 10:06:49 ] Skuyou > I am us west

[ 2011.02.24 10:07:00 ] Skuyou > its 2am

[ 2011.02.24 10:07:13 ] Daniel Essig > im AZ - its 3aM

[ 2011.02.24 10:59:16 ] Daniel Essig > Lesson learned?

[ 2011.02.24 10:59:27 ] Skuyou > honestly

[ 2011.02.24 10:59:33 ] Skuyou > I just didnt want it on a kill mail

So the story ends, with us getting a full Minmatar POS setup and a slew of POS modules and all kinda of other stuff, the cherry on the cake is, mere seconds before downtime, we pop him and his alt, using ships we stole from him.

http://gents.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8987271

Yes that was Skuyou’s Harby on the km, poetic I think.

http://gents.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8987176

And the photo of all the stuff we stole.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v503/morolen/20110224121045.jpg

I am fairly certain this was the best EVE adventure I have participated in ever.

Damn you Caitlin!

How do you know EVE is a complex game? After playing for over a year I still don’t know about over half of the major game mechanics and am still finding new utility in the UI. On Sunday my roommate and I took a “class” on Planetary Interaction, done by the Goons PI guru. Like the song says “I’ve got the magic in me” at least once my skills train that is. It was remarkably well done with videos and almost 5 hours of lecture, needless to say I am quite excite about starting PI for myself. In other news I got my Bugswatter Hurricane put together and took it out for a spin, the fleet was hunting a stealth bomber, I set up on the gate, turned my sensor boosters and tracking computer on and waited with my guns armed. The red jumped through the gate, uncloaked and in under a second was exploded but yours truly. The rest of the fleet didn’t even get to lock the red up, they were displeased, I suppose drinks are on me. Other than that our little region of Fountain has been quiet, though I keep seeing Pandemic Legion scouts flying around, looking for a juicy hotdrop target I suspect. There has been talk of getting our mining ships out and grinding some rocks up, might be worth it to get my hulk jumped down here so I can get a little use out of those damn skills I trained for.

Paintball on Saturday was a good time, stormed the Alamo with a team mate of mine, always intense that. Got to use a CCM S6 again, I want one like real bad, though I am somewhat torn as to the colors, Gloss Purple and White maybe. There were quite a lot of people out at the field, more then we have had all year, though considering it was almost 65 degrees that’s hardly a surprise, summer cannot, in fact, come soon enough. I do need to shoot more video and take more photos though, I think on Friday one of the teammates and I are going to be storyboarding for a new PB video, now here’s to hoping the semi-lucid ideas I have in my head can be turned into something that I can actually film and remain coherent. I also think I am going to go out to the field sometime this week to shoot some stock footage without people or my mask getting in the way.

Work was awful this week, due to tear gas, WTF you might be thinking, well allow me to illustrate the situation for you. When someone is in their home and the police decide it’s time for the tear gas to come out, they don’t just shoot one or two round of it into a home, oh no, they have to get it everywhere, since they obviously don’t know exactly where the suspect is in a house. To do this they shoot the canisters through the windows, all of them. Eventually these windows need to be replaced and this is where I come in. The tear gas seems to be, rather than a gas as one might imagine, very fine particulates, that stick to, and get behind, everything. So every time we had to rip the window frame from the wall, SUDDENLY, TEAR GAS IN THE FACE. There were 12 windows in this house, I felt like I was in Cairo (Not Tripoli, because Gaddafi just shoots his protesters with war planes), so by extension I got tear gassed 12 times this week. Though other then feeling a bit like I was at the Battle of the Somme, it wasn’t too bad, comparatively, sort of. I was strongly considering trying to take some of this residue with me to fuck with my friends, but trying to get it off the wall and into a Ziploc bag was far too hard.

Worked on a new IPA recipe last night, hopefully a little less insane then our last one, though we did manage to forget to do pretty much everything while brewing, I blame the tear gas affecting my already poor mental faculties. I finally got to taste our red beer that we fucked up by not carbonating it, I think that one is soon destined to go down the sink, but it was a learning experience… been having a lot of those recently.

Speaking of mental Faculties, as I was on the way home from brewing, I was hailed by a rather attractive girl hitchhiking. The retarded part of the story is after I took her to wherever she wanted me to drop her off, I failed to ask for her number, or even last name. At the time, in my quite sleepy state, my thoughts were “She has already had quite an unpleasant night and getting hit on by some goober that drove her 10 blocks would be in poor taste.” This morning I feel that was the wrong choice and alas it is too late (and would be too stalkerish) to try and rectify it now, but what would you all have done? Yes I know my man card may be revoked and all and generally speaking I think white-knighting is laughable at best so get the mocking out of the way.

Another, unrelated question, would you guys ever use a Facebook connect feature to log into a forum? Or are you like me and you want your online stuff and AFK stuff to never really intersect?

Also here are some of the tunes I have been rocking at full force recently, just felt like sharing I guess.

Kraddy – Steppin Razor

and

The Glitch Mob – Fortune Days

Ok, off to work out I think.

A little long in the making...

Well, where to start, much has happened since my last post so I suppose I can start where I left off…

WTF was that shit?

*Ahem*

Well, I got a new job, one that can work around my other job, for optimal employment time. I am now an official paintball gremlin, with a user name and everything. This mostly consists of replying to emails slowly, writing product reviews slowly, live chatting with customers slowly (slower in Brazil, but we love you Brazilians!), packing boxes slowly and just generally doing what everyone else does, just not as fast. While I’m sure I will get faster it’s a little discouraging at times since these people are my friends and I don’t want to be a shitty worker and make it harder on them. Of course working with friends makes the days go by much faster and after almost 5 years of construction, I can barely believe people get paid for shit this easy. :D I am also working on my healthy contempt of people, something everyone gets once they work in retail for any amount of time.

Our first batch of beer got finished on Monday, I was firmly expecting it to be awful but we seemed to do it quite well, good color, good head (hur hur), good flavor, about what we were going for. It was slightly fruity but that has since gone away after a few days once the yeast was shut down by the cold. In other news pulled pork sandwiches are delicious even when they exhibit glue-like properties. It snowed like a motherfucker Monday night, our next little slice of snowpocalypse. The next day I went in for my first semi-work day at the paintball store, I must say it’s pretty awesome to work with your friends and cruise the internet to good effect all day, getting paid is a bonus on top of that.

Snowed more today, not too bad but such is life I guess, unless of course you drive a v8 rear wheel drive automatic…yea… about that. I got stuck in traffic on a hill, fortunately a nice gentleman in a SUV pushed my Crown Vic up the hill and got me going again, +1 Internets for you good sir. Needless to say I made Ethan drive the next day, his Subaru is a pretty cool guy, it drives up hills (as long as Ethan doesn’t turn off the traction control) and doesn’t afraid of anything. On Friday with quite the full house we did more beer shenanigans, firstly we went about bottling our red beer, it was going along swimmingly until about the last 25% was bottled this was about the time we realized that… we forgot to put in the priming sugar. That is important since without it the beer will not be carbonated, some scrambling later and semi-clever last minutes fixes and we will…probably have fucked it all up, but I suppose we shall see. We should have taken that as a sign but instead we went on to make our first recipe, an IPA, which I composed essentially by the seat of my pants and now in retrospect I feel I likely over did it a little, time will tell.

Saturday is played some EVE with my roommate and Looch, killed some rats, made some money etc. Then our GLORIOUS LEADER Lake sent out a ping to GET YOUR ASS TO MARS err… to the rally point, in a frigate, for something awesome in Delve. This had potential for epic written all over it so I hop in my INVINCIBLE CROW and rally up. Sadly no one really came out to play other than a bunch of sissies who ran from our Frigates in their Battlecruisers, it was a moral victory if nothing else.

On Sunday…I noticed the new season of Top Gear started…4 weeks ago, I fired up the internet and quickly geeked out on the Boys from Britain, mostly I learned that the BMW 325i is the best car ever and you should go buy one (or two, or three) right now. Later in the week my boss and I got carbon monoxide poisoning from the job site we were working at, no bueno. The next day we had to go to a house where the past tenant had been tear gassed by the police and someone had to replace the windows where the gas canisters were shot through them. So yea… got tear gassed the day after I got carbon monoxide poisoning, I think I need a raise.

State of the Goonion

Since it was requested and I mentioned it with such glowing reviews, here is the megaupload for the State of the Goonion speech made by The Mittani, our alliance leader.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QBYAA2R2

PEEVEEPEE

One of the fellows from my paintball team has decided that he wants to give EVE a try. This has potential for much awesome, after sending him a buddy invite and conversating about the trials and tribulations most new capsuleers face he gets logged in and starts doing some tutorials. Fast forward to the next night and I happen to be back in empire space picking up some blueprints when I see him log on. I direct him to our corps old vent server, which is still working somehow. We start discussing EVE careers, pvp, null sec the awful UI and why the overview is your best friend and you should cuddle with it and pour its wine. Eventually I settle on doing a quick low sec roam around Sinq Laison, now keep in mind I know nothing about this region and I find the Gallente to be a bunch of surrender monkeys with little sense of spaceship ascetic, barring their cap ships, those are handsome devils. So armed with a dotlan map of Sinq I look for the closest low sec to Dodixie, only about 3 jumps away, perfect. We fleet up and I give him a crash course in aggression mechanics, transversal, FC commands and various forms of traps we might find. I tell him to hold on the high sec side, while I jump through in my AWESOME RIFTER OF AWESOME, just to see if the gate is camped. Turns out it isn’t, however, there is an Iteron mk3 on the other side, I curse the gate guns and watch it jump away.

Looch (my friend) jumps on through and we proceed to sit on the game for a few minutes while I rant about, well, something or other, eventually we decide that this is getting us nowhere. I open up dotlan to check what the surrounding systems look like only to find we are in a 2 system island surrounded by empire. Well shit, I guess gate camping it is then! After a few more boring minutes of orbiting the Balle gate a rifter shows up on grid, all by his lonesome. A lone rifter, in low sec, its more likely then you think! He flys over and plays orbiting games with us, our two group giving each other (and the gate guns) the stare down, see if noobishness will strike the other one first. He warps off and back a few more times and I eventually get the idea he wants us to follow him, to the top belt, THIS ISNT A TRAP OR ANYTHING, but whatever, I promised Looch some combat and explosions and by Jove I’ll deliver.

A short warp later, Mr. Rifter is sitting there, looking all innocent and lonely and I’m getting excited just to see what the trap is, he breaks the ice with his point and we start exchanging ammo in a most ungentlemanly fashion. Looch and I are doing a fine job of breaking his tank when a new person appears in local, I tell Looch to align to a planet because it’s about to be on like Donkey Kong in a man thing playing ping pong. The new guy lands on grid in, wait for it… an ISHKUR, I was expecting a Hurricane or something at least, though it isn’t as if it matters since it is going to crush me in any case. I tell Looch to GTFO and I wait for the inevitable evemail, a few moments later and the Ishkur delivered said EVEmail. I warp my pod off, gf’s are exchanged in local and our worthy foes congratulated Looch on his first pvp experience.

I think if I am going to do this again soon, a MANthrasher is in order mostly for the amusement factor, but also because I’m a Python Cartel fanboy. Looch was quite amused by this whole situation and hopefully tomorrow we can get his ass out to PNQY and null sec to participate in blobs, erotic harry potter fanfics and other gentlemanly behavior courtesy of the Clusterfuck in general and GENTS in specific, until next time, fly dangerous!

My Snowpocalypse 2011 tale

So last night at around 6:30 I get a text message reply from my friend who was moving out here from Kansas.

He had been in an accident with an 18 wheeler due to the awful driving conditions on I-70. After I find that he hasn’t been hurt I come to realize that I need to go help him, in Limon, about 120 miles from me. Now to put into perspective why this was so daunting I think a list of things my car doesn’t do is in order.

Wipers: These work, just not right in front of the driver, they work fine everywhere else on the windshield.

Wiper Fluid: Might work but there is a hole in the fluid reservoir and thus it leaks out as fast as I can pour more in.

Heater: This works, after the car has been on for long then 2 hours, don’t know why, but that’s the rule.

Rear Passenger-side Window: Is stuck about 5/6^th of the way up, makes for a cold ride on that side of the car, the front seat is fine though.

Of course at the time I considered none of this since my bro was in need, so the plan pretty much consisted of this picture.

Needless to say the drive was quite hair raising, since I couldn’t see most of the time due to the filthy spray off the road slowly covering my windshield. However 5 and a half hours later we returned with Neil and powered down some pizza and vodka in celebration of his coming back to the thin air of Colorado. Welcome back man, I hope this wasn’t a bad omen or anything.

Interceptoring

So how is everyone’s Snowpocalypse going? It’s snowing here again and like everyone else I am getting quite fed up with this, particularly for Colorado, it’s just plain undignified, I want my 300+ sunny days back already. My car also doesn’t seem to approve of the foul weather, starting it is getting harder and harder. Though our volume of snow isn’t particularly high, the brutal cold is making me hunker down at home more than usual. The cold has also been interfering with my workout routine badly since my machine is out in the greenhouse, though I have started to develop a taste for Grape Nuts, those are healthy right? I have also been on a Glitch Mob kick recently, don’t know why but, in any case, go rock this track, it’s likely to be the next song I try and fit into a paintball video sometime. Apologies’ for the lack of updates in the last few days, but as you might have guessed not a lot has been going on.

I have been recruited by Hustle Paintball, a local store and good friends of mine, to act as a Community Manager for the moment. This mostly consists of forum warrioring and putting a good face on, if you happen to be interested, go on over to http://a5og.net/ and see what’s up, it’s a forum mostly for owners of the Tippmann a-5 marker. I have CM’d before, though not gotten compensated for it, so this is both new and familiar to me. It’s a perfect job for me right now since I can play EVE and post at the same time. I also need to go down to Hustle soon to perhaps get in on some of their videos and just generally be useful, but we shall see how my car feels about that plan.

Some things in New Eden, finished training for interceptors recently, which means it time to start losing interceptors! On Tuesday night, got into my first inty, a Crow in case you were wondering, got it all fitted as our alliance prefers and undocked from the PNQY station. After flying Maelstroms, Ravens and Hurricanes, the Crow was…nimble… to say the least, I immediately warp off to a planet to dick around and start getting a feel for just how fast it can warp, and change direction, quite satisfying. I might seriously consider being the fast tackle guy at this point in my inty career, of course around a planet you have no real sense of speed other then the number on the overview, so I warp to an alliance POS. Oh boy, that changes things, going 4km/sec feels almost like cheating, particularly considering the… stately pace most things in EVE proceed at. I was starting to harken back to my FPS playing days when suddenly… a call comes out on the alliance comms, one of our pilots is tackled on the RP2 gate by a hostile Dramiel. “I FUCKING GOT THIS” I said aloud, as I started warping to the tackled pilot, famous last words, other alliance members say they are also in warp to assist.

I land on grid about 30km away from the quickly forming furball just as a red Hurricane and Harbinger jump though the gate to assist the red Dramiel. I quickly decide the ‘Cane is a better target and move over to it, point it and get my orbit and pussy little rocket launchers cooking. The ‘Cane impudently ignores me other then sicing its Valk II drones on me, they are only barely effective, and we both burn in the general direction of our poor beleaguered blue pilot. This was the point I should have started getting worried, but FUCK THAT SHIT I’M IN A INTY I CAN DO ANYTHING! Yea, about that, you see the weakness of intys is energy warfare, aka energy neutralizers, because without the power to run your microwarp drive, and inty goes from “threat” to “expensive tech 1 frigate”. About ¾ of the way to my ally, the ‘Cane driver must have had enough of my antics because I see my capacitor disappear in a lump, Shit, before I could flee outside the range of his neut, my ship explodes in a decidedly less glorious fashion then I had hoped. I quickly warp my pod away, still somewhat in shock and post fight adrenal high. Lesson learned I suppose, stay out of neut range, it’s not just something those crusty old bittervets say. This all happened within about 10 minutes of getting into an Inty for the first time, a fitting start to a fast tackle career I think.

Started seriously looking into training for carriers soon, but damn if that isn’t a fairly serious time and money investment, to be a semi competent Chimera driver, will, according to EVEmon, take me about 160 days. Who knows how much ISK it will cost, obviously I need to rat harder, or get our systems upgraded faster, because I sure could use a complex or ten to fund this. To say nothing of the stack of interceptors I am going to be losing in the coming days.

Well I’m off to see how my car feels about working today, enjoy the snow everyone.

Update- My car works! It must have gotten warm enough for the battery to decide it wanted to play ball, so atleast im not trapped at home.