EVE General Discussion

Hey Folks, I just found this ...
Just read, remenber and smile ...

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because .
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms..........

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them . . . CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

If you don't send this to ten people you will die in a week!

Coming up 60 in a few months

Been playing since 2009 ... this pod goo is great for your complexion.

44 here. Been playing for 3.5 years.

Things I remember:
Being in Saigon, before the name change.
Deep in the Mekong, watching Puff unload at night, like someone peeing red out of the night sky.
In the North Atlantic, taking a wave, being washed downdeck, reaching in a panic for anything solid, finally grateful for the pain as I fetched up underneath the 01 level ladder.
Taking departure from Gib after six months in the Med, part of a fast carrier battle group. Listening to a local group called The Beatles, liked them but figured they were but a local group. Couple days out from Norva and as usual the first radio station we could pick up on our transistor AM only radios was 1010 WINS out of NYC. Seven out out of ten songs were The Beatles, apparently a bit bigger than a local UK band.
Back in the Med, crew on a guided missile destroyer, late night, off duty in my berthing compartment, the skipper came over the 1MC to tell us that JFK was dead in Dallas.
Three channels on the TV, and yeah, you had to get up to change the channel.
After the Navy, long haul trucking, truckstops with vast rooms filled with hundreds of payphones.
Living on coffee, cigarettes and pills.
And they lied to us, said drugs were bad for us. But Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and that lot still kicking, ugly as hell, but still here.
The above not exactly in chronological order, but close enough.
Sometimes I feel like a beat up old historical artifact.

At 53, for a while I felt I was the oldest EVE player. The guy that interviewed me prior to my joining my current corp was the first player older that I'd spoken with (that I knew of). Then I went to EVE Vegas last year. Yeah, I'm feeling young now!

And Rain, next time I see you I'm gonna thump you with my cane, if I remember to bring it...

After reading this thread I feel a bit better.

At 45 I was beginning to wonder if I was "too old for video games."

Did any of you all see the age distribution video of CCP quant?

Edit: and then I see someone else posted it too :(

59 started in lowsec then null last few years ended in High sec, now moving back to null (slowly), been here since the beginning of EvE. (Rhed's Brother)

39 here, been at it for 10 years.

Like this thread, first time felt young for awhile...