war ... what war ?

On a lighter note the war is boring the crap out of me, the targets chosen to sharpen our banana's is a turtle corp, the inside of any given station being much preferred to, well ... anywhere else. I will congratulate the few that DID stand against us, they undocked, locked and rocked... took out a FROOTy drake. to those guys, I salute you! you play the game like real (fake-internet-space-ships) men. Our own efforts in the war have mostly been station camping, and becoming more and more depressed until we all log off and play League Of Legends.

The stats aren't too bad, but the boredom is enough I'll probably not be extending the wardec.
 - 5 kills - 1 loss - 54% efficiency (isk)


I guess It's back to incursions and general buggering about after the dec ends, especially after Utric died because of a Charon... I mean.. seriously... a Sleipnir lost because of a Charon ...

Not War I expected...

Note to be taken, war-dec will only pass if the 'master wallet' has the ISK available. Retrospectively this means that I accidentally war-dec'd two groups at once, the first was intended to be nothing more than a reason for some of our PVP types to grind their teeth a little, the 2nd dec was to replace the 1st after I failed to correctly fund the wallet.

Having put more ISK into the wallet, both war-dec's passed... I had to retract the 1st, due to the insane levels of derp involved in all this, the 1st bunch, hired a merc alliance to stomp us back down, and now that the 2nd dec passed they too hired mercs...

All in all even If I now tell the FROOTs to not fire a single shot we've still caused collateral ISK damage. I know all too well however that certain FROOTs will happily go ahead and throw ships at anything that isnt them.

watch the killboards, its going to get interesting.

Computational Calamity

While not actually related to EvE ... the following does have relevance to my ability to play EvE... also, tech-heads everywhere will frown and laugh at the following farce.

My laptop, although worthy and capable, is far from a gaming powerhouse, and knowing this I also maintain a more powerful *cough cough* desktop unit.

Recently I've been sorting my study into order after we've moved house, the majority of bits still in the boxes... So, having found the monitor (easy mode) the computer ( ... still quite easy) and the parts which constitute an operation home computer (monitor leads, mouse and sundry cables) I find myself in need to access my ancient external HDD... which in itself requires a power source 12v 2Amp ... simple I already found the DC adapter brick!

Now, build the following picture... you have in-front of you a computer, with 1 kettle lead plugged in for power, a monitor also requiring 1x kettle lead, and you already know that 1 kettle lead has gone downstairs to power the telly.

Begin the hunt for 'a kettle lead' ... now, don't get me wrong, I've purchased a LOT of electronic equipment, often each being supplied with one of these power leads, and as most tech inclined will know, you end up with a surplus often stuffed into a never-to-be-opened drawer or otherwise lost and forgotten. In the spirit and understanding that "i have tons of these" ... I left a few scattered on the floor of the property we'd vacated nonchalantly happy that I'd no doubt have plenty enough.

Wrong.

Now I find that I cannot access the HDD without somehow deliberately acquiring what, in the lead and cable world, would be the equivalent of the town pigeon. Sad times.

Calling upon my almighty and extensive brain powah I formulate a fool-proof plan to circumvent this little issue, I'll simply take the HDD out of its enclose, plug into the main case and wam-bam thank you mam... everything will be peachy.

After much fumbling around using the wrong head on my technical screwdriver to take out the case screws and bending a few bits and pieces to take out the offending drive, I get into the tech-commando position (AKA... laying on your belly head shoved into the PC case) and begin the implant...

Only to find, and wait for it... this is the real kick in the proverbial nuts. Only to find that I need an IDE cable.

"I have TONS of these... ..."  heard that line someplace else?

So .. now, I have an external HDD casing strewn everywhere... an IDE HDD with NO way to connect to anything and a severe frustration that I've probably thrown away about a dozen IDE cables in the past six months or so... I mean, honestly, who still needs IDE ?

Computers... much fun

Please.. please stop hurting us... weer simpul folk

Thanks to the Diplomatic work carried out by Duto's exploding ship.... oh, and Endy... we just found ourselves some possible FROOTy friends... as FROOTy as ourselves, but worthy of our attention.

It seems the kind folk that kindly helped Duto get rid of that annoying Tech 3 ship... and Axloth's Myrmidon are actually old acquaintances of ours, we previously helped *cough cough* after asploding his ship *cough* one of their members get back home out of our wormhole.

Well, after the dust settled and everything was done, and once Endy recalled the corp name some chatting was done, some words were said...

and FROOT has at long last found... *fan-fare*

its first + standing friends!!!

We wish you a merry FROOTmas

Soooo.. its been and gone 'festive' season, we've all had too much white meat ( giggety ? ) and now we find ourselves once more drawn to the keys and mice that allow us to transmogroplace into the Eve Online universe.

FROOT has in the early part of this year been on a steady course of self destruction and self flagellation. I've been trimming some of the fat from around our laden belly and, a few members have chosen that 'other routes' now call them in eve.. leaving behind their FROOTy beginnings.

Our pockets are beginning to fatten from our toils, and our ever decreasing arsenal of ships (Duto having recently lost a shiny shiny Tech 3...) so, once step forward, and one to the side, probably a couple backward as well...

perhaps a little slightly effeminate skip in there for good measure.

I've been teaching the way of the ninja, and while I am farrrr from expert in the art of griefing, I've transposed the knowledge to those that would absorb it. Even to the point that one of my early protégé whom had long since exceeded my teachings was proudly cooing over the fact I was teaching others skills which he had taught me!


So, generally, Nothing has happened that is of any major concern... Panicus and Chi Ke have gone their separate ways from the corp, and the new chaps are settling in quite well, shout out to Chasman!


Signing off untils something monumentally interesting occurs.... or until I'm bored enough to write another rambling post about nothing.