Eh. It'll come soon enough.Originally Posted by fulis
Eh. It'll come soon enough.
@HilmarVeigar Hilmar Veigar
@deanasfreddie wow, that's impressive! @ArnarHrafn do we need to take a look at some CONCORD AI upgrades to curb the ganking?
[I]spherical monkey fears and envies[/I]
A 77 year old, missioning? Shouldn't he be out in the garden with his wife, you know, enjoying life?
IIRC a maximum bricked hulk can have up to 43k or so EHP and a cruiser-sized sig radius using 1x DC II, 1x Bulkheads II, 1x MSE II, 3x Invuln II overheated, 2x medium field extenders (T1)... also watch for offgrid booster tengus and stuff like that.
Kills time in between trips to the basement.
Quoting to emphasize this. I quit pretty much every other MMO I've tried since I've heard about what could happen in EVE. BoB's internal issues and someone running off with their money (I think that's how the story went), spais, elite warfare, subterfuge, etc etc are all things that I relish. In fact, since I've started EVE up again, I can't play any other MMO. I've tried, they're all boring.
To put it in perspective, I've told a RL friend about the current state of affairs regarding the bloo ice stranglehold, showed him the original post, and explained how the game works, etc. He has never played a videogame past Pac-Man/Galaga, and he wants to sign up and give this game a whirl. That says something, I'd think.
like so many others, he will be horribly disappointed.
Make this happen by the time I get home, tia. I'm trying to join the fun, but alone and paying :fuckgoons: prices is hard.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Goonswarm Shrugged.
Atlas Shrugged.
Ayn Rand
Objectivism
Egoism of the Individual
The Mittani
"It pains me to say it but you are a good poster." - Vonq
Implants?
Although, on the plus side, if the last game he played was Pac-man, he will be familiar with the graphics style...
But Ayn Rand hated Communism with a passion, while Mittens thinks he is the space reincarnation of Mao Zedong.
If you kill enough of them they stop fighting - Gen. Curtis Lemay
Fear the KKM
Arnar Hrafn Gylfason
@HilmarVeigar @deanasfreddie I believe we need to look at it, yes
She went back on everything she said when she got cancer and realized paying for the meds would be fucking expensive.
So she used Medicare under her husbands name. For a person that preached hardcore Libertarianism and leave everybody to die if they dont have the cash. She then using the social safety net she hated all her life to save her is ironic indeed. Selfish bitch cunt if you ask me.
by the time it gets nerfed the mining guy will be dead
Well she certainly set the standard of selfish hypocrisy that her followers have been more than happy to live up to ever since.
Make hay while the sun shines...
You mean, she treated the game of life as :srs business: after years of saying it wasn't :srs business:...
"It pains me to say it but you are a good poster." - Vonq
Oh hey you guys are setting up a Letter of Marquee system for non-members? Suddenly I am interested in getting an account going, grabbing an Orca and waging a war on morons. How does one go about arranging the acquisition of said letters? If it is minimumI will be most pleased. Mail a link to a bunch of KMs to someone? Hand off an API? Suck a little dick?
/notroll, I will log on to yarr around hisec in a fucking Orca, bringing doom unto miners. Something about the idea of ganking for pay really gets me hard.
can't say i'm particularly worried about ccp's quick reaction times
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Lemme know if you wanna team up Aeon, double Brutix smash?
There's nothing worse than having a good idea for a post not being good enough to pull it off :negative:
Shit yeah, let's do dis! I'll have to scam together the cash, but if you already have an orca I've already got a skilled out Gal ganker for the job.
Ditto here, is reinbursment available for non-goonies? I've got 4x Mack and 1x Retriever kills now.
I want Michael Bolton III to tell me more about U-Boat Proteus
"It pains me to say it but you are a good poster." - Vonq
I would also like to hear him talk more about Iceland and how much of a fun time he had in Iceland. EDIT. Fucking top damage with a torp raven, I'm still waiting for him to form up the TEST all caldari whelp fleet.
So should we have our stuff in empire for ganking or delve? I'm kinda torn 50/50
I know what I must do. I must create a ten hour hero with the same name as that huge titted chick from Dragon Age 2, and pretend to be a woman who wants to mine. What could go wrong?
How the fuck did she flip around with those gigantic tits? Wouldn't they topple her ass over or rip off her body? Anyway she kills shit and makes me lol with ambient dialog, so <3 <3 <3.
He who lives by the sword will die by the sword.
I really just like watching explosions in this game. They're really beautiful. Being able to loot wrecks is a nice bonus. I'm guessing you're druidrider?
The original plan was for me to put my alt in goonswarm and have my main drop so I'd be neutral. This had a slight delay because my alt is named Vinata's Alt and that looks suspiciously like an awoxer account. That got dealed with, and now I just worry about goons ganking my neutral orca while I'm investigating shit for other goons. It has almost happened.
e: The gankers were really, really happy in local when they killed me, but I later got a convo from one of them asking what the fuck was up because my orca was basically empty.
?"eve's a bad mmo, really bad, it's only saving grace is the people playing it, which i guess doesn't say great things about the people playing other MMOs"
This whole thing amuses me greatly and I almost want to join in. One of the last fun things I did in EVE was to hit up hisec and tour around Verge Vendor with a friend flipping cans. There were plenty of unresponsive bots but a surprising amount of genuine miners (wtf) who were totally ignorant of the mechanic at work. Lame loot, priceless tears.
As far as Ayn Rand goes: she was all sorts of fucked up irrespective of her batshit-bonkers pseudo-philosophy. The weird thing is that there are many people around here (IN/IL/KY tri-state) that genuinely believe in her individualism/objectivism nonsense... and they're usually lower-middle class working people. I can at least understand why some successful/rich people would like Rand's hooey, because it's really ego-inflating and narcissistic and it often takes a big, proud, somewhat maverick personality to be successful/rich. But why do wage-slaves believe shit that runs so starkly counter to their own circumstances? I suppose some of it may be the embarrassment factor — many people genuinely dislike being on the dole — but I think there's something deeper at work.
*shrug*
Back to your regularly-scheduled ice cream-truck murdering.
The deeper thing at work is that the American dream teaches you that you are not poor or broke, you are just between millions or some shit. Any day now you will pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, that's what honest, decent people do. You are honest and decent, are you not?
for my last birthday i asked that in lieu of presents my friends burn a copy of atlas shrugged.
Did you youtube yourself peeing on it first?
Even if not, what an awesome bday present.
No, I sell people internet on the phone while I post on the internet about scamming. I am definitely not honest and decent, unless you think it is honest and decent to upsell people on contracts just because you want a bigger bonus (ie legal scammin irl, car salesman style). And I am definitely broke at times! Such as when I spend a ton of money getting really hammered. What, in NYC you can run out of cash so fast.
You're right... I guess charity-aversion is simple human pride and ego, and it just gets exacerbated by American culture. The American Dream itself seems really individualistic; surely that's why Rand resonates even with people who don't have any bootstraps to tug on. This weird belief system is often hypocritical as well as self-defeating, though — e.g. poor to middle class people are often avidly opposed to "socialism" like universal healthcare yet rabidly defensive of, say, medicare. Swirling cauldron of logical inconsistency, ignorance, and defeatism brought on by naive hope.
Clearly we must destroy all hope.
... and all mackinaws.
Hahaha. She is a lunaticAt one point, a sliver of near-rationality breaks through the fog of Rand's delusions: "I am afraid that I idealize Hickman and that he might not be this at all. In fact, he probably isn't." Her moment of lucidity is short-lived. "But it does not make any difference. If he isn't, he could be, and that's enough." Yes, facts are stubborn things, so it's best to ignore them and live in a land of make-believe. Let's not allow truculent reality to interfere with our dizzying and intoxicating fantasy life.
Punctuating the point, Rand writes, "There is a lot that is purposely, senselessly horrible about him. But that does not interest me..." No indeed. Why should it? It's only reality.
By the appraisal of any normal mind, there can be little doubt that William Edward Hickman was a vicious psychopath of the worst order. That Ayn Rand saw something heroic, brilliant, and romantic in this despicable creature is perhaps the single worst indictment of her that I have come across. It is enough to make me question not only her judgment, but her sanity.
At this point in my life, I did not think it was possible to significantly lower my estimate of Ayn Rand, or to regard her as even more of a psychological and moral mess than I had already taken her to be.
I stand corrected.
It's great that by saying "I hate Rand" I can easily encapsulate my loathing for two shit works of fiction. Atlas Shrugged and the Wheel of Bad series.
Pull your hair more, Randfags.
Ayn Rand was a stupid cunt and wrote shitty books.
Now on to more amusing things:
Bolded the best part.
It's funny, I've never read her fiction stuff, but I've read some essays criticizing the growth of lazy man's relativism in academia and I thought they were absolutely excellent. I know enough about atlas shrugged etc to know I will never bother reading them, but I've always found it amusing that it was the same author.
I can't begin to express how hard I am raging right now that I cannot rep this post. That was beautiful.
I can
Edit: No I cant
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Aeon221 again.
Poor aim.
WTF?
What have you guys been doing for the last 2 years? All of hisec hath forgotten who Goons are.
Good thing you are back to reminding them.
Buddy Account created. Alt cooking as we speak. If I don't get in on this, I'm sure their will be other opportunities to use him in the future.
I agree, I stand in awe of that post.
Also you'd have to be a dumb nigger to rep me once, let alone twice or three times.
A good chuckle indeed. +rep
Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home. RIP Vile Rat.
Weaselior, Kazanir and I actually kicked this idea around 3 or 4 days ago to pay bounties to neutrals for ganking macks and hulks. After making some inquiries of our IT guru, the honouourable SoloDrakban, he said it would be relatively easy to set up a portal where non-GSF people could upload their killLog API, then generate reports for my reimbursement team and I to make bounty payments to.Oh hey you guys are setting up a Letter of Marquee system for non-members? Suddenly I am interested in getting an account going, grabbing an Orca and waging a war on morons. How does one go about arranging the acquisition of said letters? If it is minimum
/notroll, I will log on to yarr around hisec in a fucking Orca, bringing doom unto miners. Something about the idea of ganking for pay really gets me hard.
It was one of several options we kicked around and it's something we will likely do in the near future, but we decided to let our guys pad their stats for awhile before opening it up to the masses.
I hope we can do this. Having Goons fuck up miners is funny but paying pubbies to turn on each other is a whole new level.
/Tempted to run around in a cs boosted hulk collecting loot
The majority of remaining miners in belts have decent tanks at this point, so few goons do not have ship scanners. That said, goons are not known for their discretion, so you'd probably still nab a few.
Something tells me the risk/reward ratio there sucks donkey balls
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