Hands Off, My Loots!

Yup, I’m still a Blog Packer…even though I went inactive for a month, I sweet talked CK into loving me (it’s those leet ninja skillz!) so I’m still here.  And of course, now that I’m back, you’ll all be getting more than your fair share of my sarcastic assidness…hope you are looking forward to it.

Now…as I said in my last post, I’m working on a few post to cover (and catch up) on what happened while I was “out” of the game for a bit.  And…as you can tell from the title…this one will be about the Blog Pack.

I’m excited to be in the Blog Pack.  Why?  Because it brings me traffic, I get a default spot in Capsuleer (which brings me traffic), and all the chicks dig it (it’s ok Mynx…you can admit it).

Truthfully, I’m not really sure what all the ruckus was about.  People saying it’s a popularity contest, or that people should get to vote on who’s in it, etc.  The simple fact of the matter is that the Blog Pack is CK’s baby…so I’m glad in the end he picked who he thought would be on it.  And as to the popularity contest portion…isn’t that what blogging is?

To say that some blogs aren’t any better than other blogs, or that all blogs should have the same popularity would just be plain idiotic and untrue.  You get out of your blog what you put into it.

I in no way think that the Blog Pack is all the good blogs (I subscribe to well over 400 blogs, and read everyone of them…we do have an AWESOME community).  And from what I have seen, our community sticks together very well, tons of people link to other people; and we have http://www.evebloggers.com, Ga’len, and Keith all of whom keep updated list of the current eve bloggers.

So, to summarize this horribly outlined post (lol, what else do you expect?…I don’t plan these things ):

1. The Blog Pack is CK’s…he makes the decisions…not the community
2. Popularity is a requirement on the internet…we can’t all have it if we don’t try
3. Popularity shouldn’t matter to you…”If You Build It, They Will Come” fits nicely here…if you want your blog out there, get off your lazy ass and make it happen
4. Insert any other points you feel like making up about my post here
5. I’m more specialer than you

Oh, and this post isn’t aimed at anyone in particular…it’s pretty much a kick in the pants to the whole community telling you (if you need to be told) to do what you what, when you want, how you want.  Have fun…don’t stress about shit that doesn’t really matter.

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Stay tuned for the next post where I talk about drugs, sex, and lollipops…err…I mean why I’ve come back…or Tyrannis…or some character updates…or a fun chatlog from my “friends”…or…meh…just stay tuned…

While I sat on the midshift at work last night, I managed to get my backlog of google reader blog posts down from 500 or so to a little less than 100….it was an excellent night. Holy crap I missed a lot over the last month while I was gone. I plan on making a few posts over the next few days about the things that transpired during that time…this is the first.

Don’t want anyone to miss out on my awesome setup. (click images to open full size)

1. I keep up with my calendar very well…this image was taken today
2. My cell phone…:)
3. MOMMY!!!!
4. My Computer…wait…WTF??
5. “Say hello to my little friend!” (I love my wife…one of my favorite b-day presents ever…the rounds below the image are real, from the set of Scarface )…at least…they are supposed to be
6. My Loots
7. My Daughters’ Loots

Where is my computer you may ask?  Well…interesting story.

Recently, my laptop started having some screen issues.  It would stay on for a bit, then the screen would just go black.  It still had a “glow” to it…so I figured it was the power inverter going bad.  It was pretty random, so I didn’t think it was a loose wire…but I took the laptop apart anyway, and confirmed there was no loose wires.  Then…I got an excellent idea…

My wife and I have the exact same laptop…so I took her inverter, put it on mine, put mine on hers…and…mine worked, her’s didn’t.  SUCCESS!!! That’s the problem…now all I need to do is buy a $50 inverter for my laptop screen.

What happens next?  Me being the impatient ass that I am didn’t take the batteries out while I was doing this…and while I was moving the 2 inverters back to the correct computers…I accidentally turned on the computers…yet…both of them.

Now, if you don’t know what an LCD Power Inverter is…to put it simply, there is too much power coming from a standard house plug, so the power inverter (through magic!) lesses the voltage going to the screen…so, if it isn’t there…it fries the screen…dead, blown, all gone, kaput…bad and sad .

So now, instead of needing a $50 piece, I need to buy 2 $300 lcd screens for my computers…which, I can’t really afford at the moment…so, I grabbed my two extra monitors (I did have dual screen setup in the office) and hooked them up to the laptops.  And, as to why it’s not in the office…well…we almost got robbed a few month ago and my wife is still paranoid…so I moved my laptop into the living room to be with her, and haven’t moved back yet.

So here you go…my “current” Evespace

oops…that’s not it…that’s my fierce guard dog to keep the burglars away!

Here it is…finally.

1. My lovely trackball mouse…would be a little hard for a normal mouse on the couch…
2. My daughters cell phone?…maybe I got these mixed up…
3. Not mine
4. Mine
5. Aiden’s…I swear!

Just two more views…computer on left is mine, wife is over to the right.

Did you miss me?

Comments welcome..

This will come as a shock to some people, while some already know. (and so soon after joining back up with the Ninjas and being made a Director…sorry about that VP ).

I’m quiting EVE, for good.

It’s a very complicated set of reasons that I’ve decided to take this route…but to sum it all up, EVE is hurting me and my family, and I can’t let it do that anymore.

I’ve played EVE for about two and a half years now, off and on, back and forth…with the reason for me taking a break each time either burn-out, or the game affecting my relationship with my family. I’ve realized that no matter what I do, the game always creeps back up to that level of interference and the only way I can solve it is to put down for good.

No, you can’t have my stuff…I already gave it all to Suddenly Ninjas…and I hope they use it to suicide gank you! :p

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Now, onto more pressing issues. What to do with the blog?

I was thinking about keeping it up, and turning it into a Ninja Fiction blog (not sure if I want to leave it in the same format, or convert it over to a RP style of writing?) What I mean, is I’ll still be that bastard Ninja that likes to prey on the idiots of EVE…but the stories, chat logs, and incidents will all be completely fake and made up by me.

What do you guys think of that? I’d love to hear your opinions about it! Would you like to read it? Or would knowing it all didn’t really happen make you uninterested.

I’ve had a LOT of people privately talk to me in game and via email about how much they enjoy my blog. How they read it at work, or in the truck rest areas (I had a convo with a Trucker the other day, that was interesting)…and wanting me to post more since I haven’t in a while.

While I know I must leave EVE, I’d hate to let all you loyal readers down by just having the blog go away if you’d still like to see something like this. It’s up to you! Let me know what you think in the comments, or email me at cyberineve @ gmail dot com.

(And for those that care, I’ll also soon be making a LotRO blog, because that’s the only game I’ll be playing now because my entire family plays it and that is where we spend some of our quality time )…hit me up if you play LotRO on the Meneldor server

Well, I’ve been off quite a bit due to the Holidays…haven’t gotten any time in recently to work on my security status, so it is still sitting at -7.5…good ways to go before I can get back to Dodixie and Ninja it up with the rest of the family.

I’ve got at least 3 decent posts in the works that I’m still working the kinks out of, so look forward to those in the near future…but for this post…I figured I’d do what’s customary for this time of year…Resolutions for the upcoming set of 365 days!

1. Become a sort of diplomat for the Ninjas…and talk with some 0.0 Alliances to possibly work out some blue standings to work on sec status in relative safety for some major hi-sec ganking opportunities.  People have been bitching about being killed enough lately that i figure we need to step up our game…these are epic tears just waiting to be captured!
2. Break 10 Billion ISK in networth…who can’t use more ISK?
3. Get my learning skills done (almost there actually…yay!)
4. Piss some people off, and listen to them whine

All in all, pretty simple set of resolutions for now…I’m easy like that and prefer not to set any goals that might let me down too quickly!

So, Happy New Year!  And may the Tears flow!