Wednesday, July 18, 2007
IT HAPPENED!
I got scammed out of 35m today, equivalent to about 3 fitted Eris's. I wasn't paying enough attention and was being stupid. I TOLD YOU KARMA WAS COMING FOR ME! I TOLD YOU!!!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
It's so very cold down here in Hell.
I think my luck today is what caused the dramatic change in temperature. Yes, this is another Eve-related post. LET TEH ERIS PWNAGE BEGIN!
Yes, I said the Eris. Quite possibly the worst dictor in Eve. But it was the best I could get my hands on, I couldn't get to the system that had the Flycatchers, and fuck 35 mill for a Sabre. 8 mill Eris ftw.
T'was a good day for the ol' dictor. The first to fall victim to the pink demon was a poor sap in his Itty 4. Got caught in my bubble, got podded :)
Less than 5 minutes after, a Manticore shows up 100km away and attempts to get revenge for his fallen comrade. I start zooming towards him, and he fires off a volley at my corpmates Merlin, which in the end went kaboom. I popped and podded the Manti though. He either didn't see me coming or didn't react in time, but either way I dropped a bubble when I was close enough, pounded him to a pulp, podded and collected the loot. He dropped two Arbalest cruise's, a T2 BCU, and a T2 overdrive. The Gods of PvP love me it seems, I'm poor and needed loot just like that to help my wallet bounce back :D
Next up, we were chasing a poor little Sigil around. We finally got him cornered, but he cloaked. While we were trying to find him, what else but a Ferox would show up. Felt good popping that, but sadly we missed the hauler.
And last, I'm proud of this kill: another Eris :)
The story behind the Eris kill is simple. There was a big blob next door and the Eris was bait. Who else but me would bait the bait? He tried to get me to warp to the gate his blob was behind several times. Eventually he gave up and just started warping betwen these two gates. He wasn't too keen on engaging me 1 v 1, so I gave him no choice.
I warped to one gate at range, then warped back to the other at range again. I dropped a bubble, primed my weapons, and waited. Less than a minute later, he warps in, gets trapped in my bubble, and the fight is on. Though he sucked to be honest, barely got me to half shields. Maybe he didn't have any turrets? I dunno. Either way, he went kaboom and I, once again, squished the pod. Didn't have time to collect loot though, his buddies showed up quick.
Thats the last of my kills for today. Not done yet though :D
Later on another blob showed up. Same guys as before, just more of 'em. They didn't seem too happy.
I was sitting outside the station, merrily orbiting it at top speed. They had an Eris in their gang, and he seemed pretty cocky because he tried to take me on. Twice.
The first time I slowed down enough to allow him to get in to my weapons range. I ended up webbing him for fun and i dropped a bubble to hold him there. But alas, he escaped, informing me shortly after that he had a mere 8% structure remaining. God damn!
The second time, same routine but he was faster and had a web fitted this time. The n00b still had blasters fitted though. Once again I gave him a spanking, he took off before I could finish my handiwork. Moral of the story: Blaster Eris's don't work, Rail Eris's is where it's at ;)
Now watch, 10 bucks says I lose my dictor tomorrow to stupid circumstances. The Karma police are after me. Ooo... speaking of karma police... wheres my MP3 player, I like that song.
Thats all. Off ye stalkers go.
Yes, I said the Eris. Quite possibly the worst dictor in Eve. But it was the best I could get my hands on, I couldn't get to the system that had the Flycatchers, and fuck 35 mill for a Sabre. 8 mill Eris ftw.
T'was a good day for the ol' dictor. The first to fall victim to the pink demon was a poor sap in his Itty 4. Got caught in my bubble, got podded :)
Less than 5 minutes after, a Manticore shows up 100km away and attempts to get revenge for his fallen comrade. I start zooming towards him, and he fires off a volley at my corpmates Merlin, which in the end went kaboom. I popped and podded the Manti though. He either didn't see me coming or didn't react in time, but either way I dropped a bubble when I was close enough, pounded him to a pulp, podded and collected the loot. He dropped two Arbalest cruise's, a T2 BCU, and a T2 overdrive. The Gods of PvP love me it seems, I'm poor and needed loot just like that to help my wallet bounce back :D
Next up, we were chasing a poor little Sigil around. We finally got him cornered, but he cloaked. While we were trying to find him, what else but a Ferox would show up. Felt good popping that, but sadly we missed the hauler.
And last, I'm proud of this kill: another Eris :)
The story behind the Eris kill is simple. There was a big blob next door and the Eris was bait. Who else but me would bait the bait? He tried to get me to warp to the gate his blob was behind several times. Eventually he gave up and just started warping betwen these two gates. He wasn't too keen on engaging me 1 v 1, so I gave him no choice.
I warped to one gate at range, then warped back to the other at range again. I dropped a bubble, primed my weapons, and waited. Less than a minute later, he warps in, gets trapped in my bubble, and the fight is on. Though he sucked to be honest, barely got me to half shields. Maybe he didn't have any turrets? I dunno. Either way, he went kaboom and I, once again, squished the pod. Didn't have time to collect loot though, his buddies showed up quick.
Thats the last of my kills for today. Not done yet though :D
Later on another blob showed up. Same guys as before, just more of 'em. They didn't seem too happy.
I was sitting outside the station, merrily orbiting it at top speed. They had an Eris in their gang, and he seemed pretty cocky because he tried to take me on. Twice.
The first time I slowed down enough to allow him to get in to my weapons range. I ended up webbing him for fun and i dropped a bubble to hold him there. But alas, he escaped, informing me shortly after that he had a mere 8% structure remaining. God damn!
The second time, same routine but he was faster and had a web fitted this time. The n00b still had blasters fitted though. Once again I gave him a spanking, he took off before I could finish my handiwork. Moral of the story: Blaster Eris's don't work, Rail Eris's is where it's at ;)
Now watch, 10 bucks says I lose my dictor tomorrow to stupid circumstances. The Karma police are after me. Ooo... speaking of karma police... wheres my MP3 player, I like that song.
Thats all. Off ye stalkers go.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
HELP!!1!!!111!!ONEELEVENTY!!1!
We all face addictions in our lives. For some, it's alcohol or drugs. For others it may be that new game show on TV. For me, it's...
Counter-Strike.
I've been clean for roughly 1.5-2 years or so. I lost my Steam login details, and could never get them back. But the itch has returned... PLANT THE BOMB! RUSH A! NO RUSH B! STOP FUCKING TEAM FLASHING! GODDAMMIT RUSH FUCKING B!
... But I don't have my login details. And I can't recover my password. So, the next best thing untill I have the finds to re-buy my CS Source copy, as I type this I'm downloading America's Army. I NEED MY TACTICAL SHOOTER FIX!
I need rehab.
Counter-Strike.
I've been clean for roughly 1.5-2 years or so. I lost my Steam login details, and could never get them back. But the itch has returned... PLANT THE BOMB! RUSH A! NO RUSH B! STOP FUCKING TEAM FLASHING! GODDAMMIT RUSH FUCKING B!
... But I don't have my login details. And I can't recover my password. So, the next best thing untill I have the finds to re-buy my CS Source copy, as I type this I'm downloading America's Army. I NEED MY TACTICAL SHOOTER FIX!
I need rehab.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Yet another Eve post
Ok, I always knew the Ishkur was a damned good assault frig... but HOLY FUCK am I impressed.
So I'm ratting in Stain in my Pilgrim. A corpmate asks if I wanna go pew pew in some AF's, so why not? After spending a fuckload of isk (was in a good mood so I bought him 4 rigs, and myself a Domination Warp Disruptor for the Ishkur), I re-kit my Ishkur, and we make best speed to Syndicate.
Things don't start too well. Mostly boring, get chased by a blob for a few minutes, usual crap. After we finish blob dodging, we go on our merry way looking for a few kills. I jump in and Haargoth jumps in moments after. People in local, YAY!
We do a very short bit of looking around and prepare to move on out, when on scanner at max range I notice a Dominix, Drake, and some smelly hauler. I tell him what I have on scan, the general idea is we can't take a domi. I say that I may have a drake (ignoring the domi, cuz I'm so cool a Domi doesn't scare me :P ), and whadaya know. I come out of warp at a belt, and there they are. All three.
I tell Haargoth to get his ass here quick.
I assess the situation as quickly as I can. At this point, I'm high as hell on adreneline. And I hesitate. The Domi is sensor boosting, that means it will kill me. The Domi has Hammerhead 2's out, that means he's going to kill me. The drake locks me, he's going to kill me.
The hauler quickly warps out. The hell with it, this Ishkur is gonna die so it may as well die now before I get too attached to it. C'mere Domi!
With my shiney new Domination Warp Disruptor, which I got at 18 mill instead of the 30-something I paid for the one on my Pilgrim, I put two points on the Domi and proceeded to lock his drones.
He recalled his drones... I think "Oh shit, here come the Warrior 2's", not to even mention he's probably loaded to the gills with heavy Nos's, which of course are poison to anthing.
He just sits there for a minute. Haargoth finnaly arrives in his Jaguar, just as the Drake begins to shoot me. His missiles, of course, hit. I'm expecting to have to start repping almost immediately. But hey, whadaya know, took his ages to just get through my shields. The Domi re-launches his Hammerhead 2's. I can just feel the pain now!
They seemed very disorganized for the entire fight. They'd switch between my Ishkur and his Jaguar. They concentrated on Haargoth for a while and eventually forced him to warp out. Thankfully though he had bought me enough time to just about finish off all of the Domi's drones.
Why the Domi didn't have spare drones, I don't know. And, for some reason, he didn't have a single nos on him. But regardless of the lack of drones and nos, I'd be fully expecting a Drake to break my tank. I don't know what missiles he was spitting at me, or how much damage they were doing... but whatever it was, they tickled.
Haargoth once again returns in his Jaguar and puts points on the Drake. The Domi is going down, slowly but surely. I'm still tanking the Drake. My cap is having a little bit of issues, so I start running it manually... which is still more than enough to tank his damage, wtf?
Towards the end, we all know the outcome: the Domi is going to die, and the Drake is next. I ask, like the cocky son of a bitch I am when high on adrenaline, "Like my tank?". Disaster strikes though. The drake warps off. Dammit! Now we gotta be content with just a Domi kill...
And content we were. We were laughing about the fight for well over an hour after we finished off the Domi. AND HAARGOTH GOT FRAPS OF THE FIGHT! WOOHOO! Now I FINALLY have some material proof that I'm not a total n00b.
I'm still high over the fight tbh. It's extremely rare something like that happens. That was just great. The fight lasted for like 6 minutes, but it felt like an eternity. THAT is the kind of combat I lust for in this game. The kind that lasts a long time, and doesn't simply consist of "Primary XYZ, Secondary ABC". Even if I had lost my Ishkur, that still would have been a fun fight, and I'd still be laughing since we DID try to take on two ships that are both poison to Assault Frigs. I mean, come on, it's like taking on two Lion's when your both, I dunno, frogs?
Need more of that. Need a LOT more. THAT'S the shit I lust for in this game, and that'd the stuff that keeps me playing.
Oh, and 4th of July right around the corner, W00T!
That is all. Enjoy the long read!
So I'm ratting in Stain in my Pilgrim. A corpmate asks if I wanna go pew pew in some AF's, so why not? After spending a fuckload of isk (was in a good mood so I bought him 4 rigs, and myself a Domination Warp Disruptor for the Ishkur), I re-kit my Ishkur, and we make best speed to Syndicate.
Things don't start too well. Mostly boring, get chased by a blob for a few minutes, usual crap. After we finish blob dodging, we go on our merry way looking for a few kills. I jump in and Haargoth jumps in moments after. People in local, YAY!
We do a very short bit of looking around and prepare to move on out, when on scanner at max range I notice a Dominix, Drake, and some smelly hauler. I tell him what I have on scan, the general idea is we can't take a domi. I say that I may have a drake (ignoring the domi, cuz I'm so cool a Domi doesn't scare me :P ), and whadaya know. I come out of warp at a belt, and there they are. All three.
I tell Haargoth to get his ass here quick.
I assess the situation as quickly as I can. At this point, I'm high as hell on adreneline. And I hesitate. The Domi is sensor boosting, that means it will kill me. The Domi has Hammerhead 2's out, that means he's going to kill me. The drake locks me, he's going to kill me.
The hauler quickly warps out. The hell with it, this Ishkur is gonna die so it may as well die now before I get too attached to it. C'mere Domi!
With my shiney new Domination Warp Disruptor, which I got at 18 mill instead of the 30-something I paid for the one on my Pilgrim, I put two points on the Domi and proceeded to lock his drones.
He recalled his drones... I think "Oh shit, here come the Warrior 2's", not to even mention he's probably loaded to the gills with heavy Nos's, which of course are poison to anthing.
He just sits there for a minute. Haargoth finnaly arrives in his Jaguar, just as the Drake begins to shoot me. His missiles, of course, hit. I'm expecting to have to start repping almost immediately. But hey, whadaya know, took his ages to just get through my shields. The Domi re-launches his Hammerhead 2's. I can just feel the pain now!
They seemed very disorganized for the entire fight. They'd switch between my Ishkur and his Jaguar. They concentrated on Haargoth for a while and eventually forced him to warp out. Thankfully though he had bought me enough time to just about finish off all of the Domi's drones.
Why the Domi didn't have spare drones, I don't know. And, for some reason, he didn't have a single nos on him. But regardless of the lack of drones and nos, I'd be fully expecting a Drake to break my tank. I don't know what missiles he was spitting at me, or how much damage they were doing... but whatever it was, they tickled.
Haargoth once again returns in his Jaguar and puts points on the Drake. The Domi is going down, slowly but surely. I'm still tanking the Drake. My cap is having a little bit of issues, so I start running it manually... which is still more than enough to tank his damage, wtf?
Towards the end, we all know the outcome: the Domi is going to die, and the Drake is next. I ask, like the cocky son of a bitch I am when high on adrenaline, "Like my tank?". Disaster strikes though. The drake warps off. Dammit! Now we gotta be content with just a Domi kill...
And content we were. We were laughing about the fight for well over an hour after we finished off the Domi. AND HAARGOTH GOT FRAPS OF THE FIGHT! WOOHOO! Now I FINALLY have some material proof that I'm not a total n00b.
I'm still high over the fight tbh. It's extremely rare something like that happens. That was just great. The fight lasted for like 6 minutes, but it felt like an eternity. THAT is the kind of combat I lust for in this game. The kind that lasts a long time, and doesn't simply consist of "Primary XYZ, Secondary ABC". Even if I had lost my Ishkur, that still would have been a fun fight, and I'd still be laughing since we DID try to take on two ships that are both poison to Assault Frigs. I mean, come on, it's like taking on two Lion's when your both, I dunno, frogs?
Need more of that. Need a LOT more. THAT'S the shit I lust for in this game, and that'd the stuff that keeps me playing.
Oh, and 4th of July right around the corner, W00T!
That is all. Enjoy the long read!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
LIVE, damn you, LIIIVE!!
My computer is dying :(
... and it's taking my fucking sanity with it.
So heres the deal, lets start from the very begining:
Power outage during reboot, corrupts Windows.
Two weeks later, finnaly get windows back installed.
Next day? Day after? Either way, very shortly after I reinstalled Windows, it went corrupt. Repaired it twice.
3 or 4 days ago, I finnaly give up and just wipe clean. Fresh XP install and everything.
Next day: Windows corrupts itself.
Day after that, I reinstall Windows, again. Less than 5 hours later, probably not more than 2 or 3 if i remember right, it corrupts itself. Again.
... then magically it works again.
Now lets move on to todays wonderful events!
So there I am, playing Eve, sitting in station like a good little boy. Out of nowhere, a little section's textures glitch. I figure just the game bugging up, whatever. Then a few more weird little glitches appear. Then artifacts spring up everywhere and start fucking dancing across the screen. Then my screen goes blank. Then comes back, goes blank, comes back, goes blank, and comes back one last time. Then I get a popup from the ATI control panel, telling me that VPU Recover reset my card because "it stopped responding." What the fuck?
Then it happens again.
And again.
Then once more, but this time my screen never comes back, and I have to reset my computer.
So I log back in, chat a bit more, then it starts acting up yet again, and I just shut it down before it gets bad.
Starting to wonder what the hell is really causing the problems here. Just about every component is a suspect now. Though for the record, I cleaned up my computer shortly afterwards and there was a good fuckload of dust in my videocard, so we'll see if cleaning it out has made any difference (sure made a difference in temperature. Sitting in station before it reported a temp of roughly 130*F *pretty sure it wasn't centigrade anyways*, and after cleaning it barely topped out at 70-80).
If Windows goes corrupt again, I will cry. I will cry, I will cry, and I will fucking cry some more, and then I'll get a baseball bat and have a jolly good time smashing my computer in to an unrecognizable pulp. ONLY WARNING, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
*ahem* So... ehm... err... doo dee doo... bah screw it. I'm off. Don't play next to the traffic, play IN it!
... and it's taking my fucking sanity with it.
So heres the deal, lets start from the very begining:
Power outage during reboot, corrupts Windows.
Two weeks later, finnaly get windows back installed.
Next day? Day after? Either way, very shortly after I reinstalled Windows, it went corrupt. Repaired it twice.
3 or 4 days ago, I finnaly give up and just wipe clean. Fresh XP install and everything.
Next day: Windows corrupts itself.
Day after that, I reinstall Windows, again. Less than 5 hours later, probably not more than 2 or 3 if i remember right, it corrupts itself. Again.
... then magically it works again.
Now lets move on to todays wonderful events!
So there I am, playing Eve, sitting in station like a good little boy. Out of nowhere, a little section's textures glitch. I figure just the game bugging up, whatever. Then a few more weird little glitches appear. Then artifacts spring up everywhere and start fucking dancing across the screen. Then my screen goes blank. Then comes back, goes blank, comes back, goes blank, and comes back one last time. Then I get a popup from the ATI control panel, telling me that VPU Recover reset my card because "it stopped responding." What the fuck?
Then it happens again.
And again.
Then once more, but this time my screen never comes back, and I have to reset my computer.
So I log back in, chat a bit more, then it starts acting up yet again, and I just shut it down before it gets bad.
Starting to wonder what the hell is really causing the problems here. Just about every component is a suspect now. Though for the record, I cleaned up my computer shortly afterwards and there was a good fuckload of dust in my videocard, so we'll see if cleaning it out has made any difference (sure made a difference in temperature. Sitting in station before it reported a temp of roughly 130*F *pretty sure it wasn't centigrade anyways*, and after cleaning it barely topped out at 70-80).
If Windows goes corrupt again, I will cry. I will cry, I will cry, and I will fucking cry some more, and then I'll get a baseball bat and have a jolly good time smashing my computer in to an unrecognizable pulp. ONLY WARNING, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
*ahem* So... ehm... err... doo dee doo... bah screw it. I'm off. Don't play next to the traffic, play IN it!
Friday, June 22, 2007
Grr
Stupid text in the last post glitched up and it won't un-bold. Stupid crap. Ahh well, can't be bothered to fix it, sleepy time.
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