EVE General Discussion

Hi.

When I first started Eve Online, Guardians of the Galaxy movie had been out on Blu-Ray for a bit and I watched it over and over and just absolutely loved everything about it. Had the soundtrack and started working on collecting all of the comics and my internet history must have gotten the marketing robots to point me at Eve Online, which I had tried and failed already once before but I wanted to make myself as a Guardian of Galaxy - with his mix tapes and whatnot so a sort of ritual was started. I've got a few Lulu playlists I listen to on my way home from work to sort of get into the mood for Eve Online. I have to feel immersed and in-character or this game is just pretty boring and stupid otherwise lol

Unrelated but maybe sort of related, I read stories of NHL players that will do things like tape up the left leg first and then the right leg every, single time ever since they were mites because the one time they did it wrong they had a terrible day or something. Anyone here do weird Eve stuff? Put your gamer goggles on before the gloves?

Free time that I don't want to waste on other games is only requirements to log in...to play the game...anything from coffee to actually wanting to play something that evades me lately.

Used to be that if I didn't have a Cuba Libre the size of Cleveland made with Bacardi 151 before logging in I actually risked docking with the same ship I left the station with.

I saw the movie Aliens. Got trauma from seeing the Xenomorph smash the pilot's head, bodd splattering on the cockpit window...

EVERY TIME I make a ship active, I thoroughly check all storage spaces for xenomorphs.

My pre-game ritual is to log in to WOW for five minutes. There's no better incentive for logging in here than the reminder of how God awful other popular MMOs are.

Mr Epeen

Sit inside a circle made of white pigeon feathers and pluck a black chicken while humming loot fairy's mantras.

Back when we lived in Toby, every day before we would deploy several billion isk in capitals and T3s to go run sites and pvp, we would sacrifice a mining barge in His name and say a little prayer in local for good luck. Surprisingly, every day we sacrificed a barge we had great luck, and if we had bad luck it was because we forgot the ritual sacrifice. Odd.

I have a morning ritual that I'd like to share. I call it "the terminator". First I crouch down in the shower in the classic "naked terminator traveling through time" pose. With my eyes closed I crouch there for a minute, visualizing either Arnold or the guy from the second movie (not the chick in the third one because that one sucked) and I start to hum the terminator theme. Then I slowly rise to a standing position and open my eyes. It helps me to proceed through my day as an emotionless, cyborg badass. The only problem is if the shower curtain sticks to my terminator leg. It ruins the fantasy.

But if you really party the night before you start your day like Reese.

After losing a few ships while drunk, the intergalactic insurance parent corporation was granted an injunction against me and I now have to blow into this "interlock" device that's hooked up to my computer. If I don't do this, I can't undock. Damn.

I now have to blow less than a .08 BAC level to undock and run missions. For some reason though, if I click "PVP" I can skip this interlock... strange.