These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

Intergalactic Summit

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

An Idea: Because I am bored for the moment.

Author
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#401 - 2017-01-14 22:46:56 UTC
Jev North wrote:
What do you do when you're feeling perfectly content, and want to keep that feeling going?


I do something that I've been meaning to do but putting off, like a bit of correspondence or a sales contract or a little mining, then a shower and delivery food. It doesn't matter what the food is, just that I don't have to cook it. <3

What is the single object you've owned the longest?
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#402 - 2017-01-14 22:50:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Aria Jenneth
Jev North wrote:
That depends on whether their universe is symmetric or mirror-symmetric with ours. If the latter, I guess you could still eat them, you just wouldn't digest them very well.

What do you do when you're feeling perfectly content, and want to keep that feeling going?


I don't think I've ever been perfectly content in a situation where thinking about how to prolong it would help, so mostly I've just avoided doing anything to disturb the moment and enjoyed being where I was, for as long as that lasted.

Do you ever wonder whether the universe you arrive in at the other end of a warp or wormhole (including jumping) is the same universe, or just a very similar one? (After all, our methods of transportation get us around the usual rules about the speed of causality by dropping us out of the world in one place and sticking us back into it somewhere else. How sure are we that we're really bobbing back to the surface of the same world?)

Does it even matter?


Edit: blast it!

Um. ... Horribly, the thing I've owned longest is probably the Goblin Spider, the Tengu my predecessor disappeared from.

She ... kind of spaced her crew, or, rather, their atmosphere, after which it didn't matter a lot whether the crew itself wound up outside or not.

There are a few other ships I've had longer than I've been my subjective self, but, that's the only one with much personal significance.

Same question.
Neph
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#403 - 2017-01-15 02:42:55 UTC
Saille Horo'Sha wrote:

How did you find out that you had the DNA markers needed to be a capsuleer?



This thread has become terribly convoluted. In the spirit of keeping things confusing, I'm going to jump back to this question. Sorry, Pilot Jenneth.

Nobody in my nuclear family had known we were compatible. Apparently, it runs in my mother's blood. Shame so much of it's still in the Kingdom. Anyways, I suspect that even if Ishukone knew (and who's to say they didn't), they wouldn't have offered any of us corporate egger roles. Frankly, I doubt it'd be good internal PR to pass over ethnic Caldari for such a individually-prestigious honor in favor of a handful of Matari. My mother was poached as a published researcher and production officer at what was essentially a small think tank funded directly by Lai Dai (Startower Advanced Gravimetric Solutions) and dropped into logistics management, of all things. Ishukone loves their boast that Anybody Will Rise, but for the funny looking people, it's better that they rise as a group in the role that people expect from them. I can understand and respect that, don't get me wrong.

Speculation aside, my mom was only 2nd gen in the State. Unsure loyalties and all; a bold red flag.

I've rambled away from answering the question. Apologies.

So. You know those shady little booths that suspiciously candid younger women wheel around broad pedestrian roads on planetary cities, the ones that almost would blend in with the grime-covered food cabs and performance artists' pageant wagons if it weren't for the disconcerting array of glass vials and metal tubes atop it and the coat of blown-up Real Endorsements from Real Capsuleers? The ones where they draw your blood while talking really fast and very sweetly and do some loud stuff to it and never actually give it back after they're done and you're floating away on the hot air of false hope? Well, if you don't, expect to find your DNA found at the scene of something grisly or your bank account emptied or a second you running around with a different face. Know that only a fool or an idiot would actually have a lapse of trust long enough to sit down in that chair.

Anyways, I was deeply enough intoxicated to be both of those, and my drinking fellows of coincidence had placed what was probably at least five whiskies' worth of money on my compatibility. An aside: never agree to a bet in Ani. Your pockets will empty soon enough in either place, but least in Lonetrek the people walking away with your money won't be so damn charismatic that you'll be happily chasing after them to offer more. Anyways, I ended up giving a bunch of happy men a lot of cheap liquor I didn't have money for later that night. But my interest was piqued. It was probably the first potentially meaningful event I'd experienced in the better part of the year. I shipped a box of my bloodwork to a PTS campus; knowing full well that the Nakugard vendor was lying out her ass to another listless nobody. I was proven wrong twice, I suppose. I promptly went into denial; and how I got my life back together is story I doubt I'll ever tell.

But anyways, what was the start of my journey to plastic bones.

Stupidest thing you've done while drunk?

~ Gariushi YC110 // Midular YC115 // Yanala YC115 ~

"Orte Jaitovalte sitasuyti ne obuetsa useuut ishu. Ketsiak ishiulyn." -Yakiya Tovil-Toba-taisoka

Julianni Avala
Ishukone-Raata Corporate Investment Bank
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#404 - 2017-01-15 04:36:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Julianni Avala
Neph wrote:
Stupidest thing you've done while drunk?


Forgive me for being the boring one, but I have yet to become completely drunk. Suppose I haven't been in the position to get to that point.

Where do you hope to see yourself in the next few years?

Chief Financial Officer, Head Diplomat

I-RED GalNet Site

--

((OOC: Journey to Purpose- Julianni's Character Blog, last updated 11.07))

Arrendis
TK Corp
#405 - 2017-01-15 05:03:02 UTC
Julianni Avala wrote:
Where do you hope to see yourself in the next few years?


Right where I am, taking care of my guys, and sending as much funding as I can back home.

Who do you most regret failing?
Matias Kurovassi
Doomheim
#406 - 2017-01-15 06:59:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Matias Kurovassi
Aria Jenneth wrote:

Do you ever wonder whether the universe you arrive in at the other end of a warp or wormhole (including jumping) is the same universe, or just a very similar one? (After all, our methods of transportation get us around the usual rules about the speed of causality by dropping us out of the world in one place and sticking us back into it somewhere else. How sure are we that we're really bobbing back to the surface of the same world?)

Does it even matter?


No, because my warp drive makes use of the fact that space itself can move at any speed but that doesn't mean causality within that space is violated. However that does seem like a meta-physical question along the lines of: You are in a room with four walls and four doors and don't remember how you got there. If you open a door and enter an exact same room with four walls and four doors and don't remember how you got there is it a different room?

An outside observer might say yes, they're different rooms because they exist outside such a paradigm and can see the sequence of rooms but the for the person going through the rooms and not remembering how they got there they can only really observe that they've always existed in the exact same room.

So until there's evidence that using a warp-drive or jumping has caused an actual difference in the nature of causality and determinism in the universe before and after then no, it doesn't matter to me.

Edit: That's beside the point that if you did arrive in an alternate universe in which everything was the same as you left it... wouldn't you have met yourself by now? Wouldn't everyone? Would there be multiple universes by now absent of Aria Jenneth and some with vast hordes of them?

Maybe there's one universe where it's entirely populated by Anyanka Funk and Diana Kim, who knows?

How about the one where it's only full of Nauplius sacrificing themselves in the trillions to be the One True Prophet?

Those are probably extreme examples but yes, if you were travelling through different universes then that means they're all interlinked right? Which would mean each universe would be changed by the behaviours of all the different actors moving through them everytime someone warps and interacts with each one in their own way.

Because either you would have different universes or duplicates of the current one. If they're duplicate then they would also include you and everyone else, which means we'd have encountered multiple instances of these duplicate selves already if the case were jumping is travelling between these universes.

So yes, if the universe that is arrived at is only similar, that means differences would have to exist small or large in some way that could be quantified.


Most amusing clickbait you have seen other than: You won't believe these 10 Reasons Why The Federation Must Be Destroyed?
Saya Ishikari
Ishukone-Raata Technological Research Institute
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#407 - 2017-01-15 13:31:32 UTC
Arrendis wrote:
Julianni Avala wrote:
Where do you hope to see yourself in the next few years?


Right where I am, taking care of my guys, and sending as much funding as I can back home.

Who do you most regret failing?

That's a toss up between the love of my life, and my last remaining sister. Both tend to bring "If only" to mind rather easily.

Is there anyone you would suffer final death for?

"At the end of it all, we have only what we've left in our wake to be remembered by." -Kyoko Ishikari, YC 95 - YC 117

Jev North
Doomheim
#408 - 2017-01-15 15:18:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Jev North
Saya Ishikari wrote:
Is there anyone you would suffer final death for?

I suspect the whole idea of the ultimate, romantic sacrifice was once a meme inserted by social planners to increase the general level of martiality and readiness to die of the population. We're just suffering the results now, a whole lot of pointless drama, and strain on the minds of entertainment writers trying to come up with circumstances contrived enough for this kind of self-sacrifice to make even a lick of sense.

So, no. Empathically so. In fact, I'd be annoyed if someone had the temerity to die for my sake, too. What in blazes am I supposed to do with the corpse of someone who loved me? Live for me instead.

Let's turn that around - what generally held belief or cultural norm really annoys you?

Even though our love is cruel; even though our stars are crossed.

Matias Kurovassi
Doomheim
#409 - 2017-01-16 06:43:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Matias Kurovassi
Jev North wrote:

Let's turn that around - what generally held belief or cultural norm really annoys you?


That the pursuit of eradicating contradiction and ensuring consistency of thought in generally held beliefs annoys those who would consider it an act of dissent, treason, subversion, or heresy against the cultural norm of their ideology and politics.

I would say that at least could be considered a widely applicable annoyance.

What would be your single most horrifying experience in life?
Tsao Aubbes
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#410 - 2017-01-16 07:32:24 UTC
Matias Kurovassi wrote:
What would be your single most horrifying experience in life?

Honestly.. I would have to say capsuleer school. At the very least when I was growing up, I could be awkward alone and in peace. But.. capsuleer school.. I was truly awful at it.. and really nervous. I.. don't know if I would do it again if I had known how it was going to be... I don't really remember much of it.. maybe it's due to all the alpha clone stuff.. or I just forced myself to forget about it without realizing..

What is the worst kind of ore?

Tressith Sefira > You don't understand. She IS the awkward.

Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#411 - 2017-01-16 09:48:12 UTC
Tsao Aubbes wrote:
Matias Kurovassi wrote:
What would be your single most horrifying experience in life?

Honestly.. I would have to say capsuleer school. At the very least when I was growing up, I could be awkward alone and in peace. But.. capsuleer school.. I was truly awful at it.. and really nervous. I.. don't know if I would do it again if I had known how it was going to be... I don't really remember much of it.. maybe it's due to all the alpha clone stuff.. or I just forced myself to forget about it without realizing..

What is the worst kind of ore?


Omber. Just, Omber. They are practically worthless.

Were you sponsored into the capsuleer programme or did you or people you know buy you a spot in the programme?

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Julianni Avala
Ishukone-Raata Corporate Investment Bank
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#412 - 2017-01-16 09:59:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Julianni Avala
Elmund Egivand wrote:
Were you sponsored into the capsuleer programme or did you or people you know buy you a spot in the programme?


I was sponsored. During my reeducation process, I was assigned to a family within the Ishukone-Raata Enforcement Directive. They, along with I-RED, sponsored me once I was deemed acceptable. The Avala family is where my last name comes from.

Who had the biggest impact on you and who you have become?

Chief Financial Officer, Head Diplomat

I-RED GalNet Site

--

((OOC: Journey to Purpose- Julianni's Character Blog, last updated 11.07))

Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#413 - 2017-01-16 17:46:16 UTC
Julianni Avala wrote:

Who had the biggest impact on you and who you have become?


My first CEO Corvidae Crowfoot. He taught me about exploration, wormholes, fleet operation planning, operational security, etc. He has since retired from the capsuleer life, but his professionalism has stayed with me.

What is your ideal climate?
Synthetic Cultist
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#414 - 2017-01-16 18:15:58 UTC
My Ideal Climate is Temperate, with Summers that are Warm but not too Hot, and Winters that are Cool but not Bitterly Cold, as this Climate allows a Variety of Outdoor Activities to take place, which is Important for Healthy Living, as well as Allowing a Wide Range of Acceptable Fashion Styles, which provides Employment for Clothes Designers and Makers.

My Question Is:

Have you Ever Thought of Someone as a Role Model or Hero/Heroine, and been Disappointed by Some Aspect of their Personality when you Eventually meet Them ? How did you Feel ?

Synthia 1, Empress of Kaztropol.

It is Written.

Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#415 - 2017-01-17 10:39:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Elmund Egivand
Synthetic Cultist wrote:
My Ideal Climate is Temperate, with Summers that are Warm but not too Hot, and Winters that are Cool but not Bitterly Cold, as this Climate allows a Variety of Outdoor Activities to take place, which is Important for Healthy Living, as well as Allowing a Wide Range of Acceptable Fashion Styles, which provides Employment for Clothes Designers and Makers.

My Question Is:

Have you Ever Thought of Someone as a Role Model or Hero/Heroine, and been Disappointed by Some Aspect of their Personality when you Eventually meet Them ? How did you Feel ?


I might have had a role model but that was so long ago, when I was a very young child, that I completely forgot who that was. I grew up in an environment where I had seen the best and the worst in people on fast forward. Now, whenever I see a virtuous person, I take the fact that he or she has an unsavoury flip-side to his or her character as given.

Is there anyone you know whom you simply can't find in yourself to like or trust, even though you know that the reason for such dislike and distrust is irrational?

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Tsao Aubbes
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#416 - 2017-01-18 01:52:14 UTC
Elmund Egivand wrote:
s there anyone you know whom you simply can't find in yourself to like or trust, even though you know that the reason for such dislike and distrust is irrational?

I.. don't think I'll ever really trust my Vexor Navy Issue fully.. Sure, I've gotten a capsuleer kill with it.. and sure, I've run plenty of sites with it, but.. it just doesn't have the same security of a Rattlesnake. And.. well.. your question is about people.. and.. I mentioned a ship.. so.. I think that'll work.

Do you have an motto or sort of.. umm.. speech? Or anything like that..?

Tressith Sefira > You don't understand. She IS the awkward.

Merchant Rova
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#417 - 2017-01-18 01:55:04 UTC
Tsao Aubbes wrote:
I.. don't think I'll ever really trust my Vexor Navy Issue fully.. Sure, I've gotten a capsuleer kill with it.. and sure, I've run plenty of sites with it, but.. it just doesn't have the same security of a Rattlesnake. And.. well.. your question is about people.. and.. I mentioned a ship.. so.. I think that'll work.

Do you have an motto or sort of.. umm.. speech? Or anything like that..?


This is my wormhole. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My wormhole is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

Without me, my wormhole is useless. Without my wormhole, I am useless. I must fire my scanners true. I must roll holes faster than my enemy who is trying to scan me. I must pod him before he pods me.

My Proteus and I know that what counts in gudfights is not the Federation Navy Antimatter M we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the killmails that count.

My Proteus is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its subsystem, its shields, its slots and its engagement profile. I will keep my Proteus clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other.

Before Bob, I swear this creed. My Proteus and I are the defenders of my Wormhole. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of Eve.

So be it, until victory is ours and there is no peace, but war!

What's the worst class of wormhole?
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#418 - 2017-01-18 03:00:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Elmund Egivand
Tsao Aubbes wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:
s there anyone you know whom you simply can't find in yourself to like or trust, even though you know that the reason for such dislike and distrust is irrational?

I.. don't think I'll ever really trust my Vexor Navy Issue fully.. Sure, I've gotten a capsuleer kill with it.. and sure, I've run plenty of sites with it, but.. it just doesn't have the same security of a Rattlesnake. And.. well.. your question is about people.. and.. I mentioned a ship.. so.. I think that'll work.



Eh, it's okay. Ships are people too.

Merchant Rova wrote:
Tsao Aubbes wrote:
I.. don't think I'll ever really trust my Vexor Navy Issue fully.. Sure, I've gotten a capsuleer kill with it.. and sure, I've run plenty of sites with it, but.. it just doesn't have the same security of a Rattlesnake. And.. well.. your question is about people.. and.. I mentioned a ship.. so.. I think that'll work.

Do you have an motto or sort of.. umm.. speech? Or anything like that..?


This is my wormhole. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My wormhole is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

Without me, my wormhole is useless. Without my wormhole, I am useless. I must fire my scanners true. I must roll holes faster than my enemy who is trying to scan me. I must pod him before he pods me.

My Proteus and I know that what counts in gudfights is not the Federation Navy Antimatter M we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the killmails that count.

My Proteus is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its subsystem, its shields, its slots and its engagement profile. I will keep my Proteus clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other.

Before Bob, I swear this creed. My Proteus and I are the defenders of my Wormhole. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of Eve.

So be it, until victory is ours and there is no peace, but war!

What's the worst class of wormhole?


Thera, I guess? It has that one station that anyone can access and is probably camped often.

Most hated wormhole effects?

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#419 - 2017-01-18 16:59:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Persephone Alleile
Elmund Egivand wrote:

Most hated wormhole effects?


Black Hole. I once tried catching an Iteron V in a class 6 system but I didn't realize it had the Black hole effect. My hobgoblin IIs were zipping around so fast they couldn't track the broad site of a mining platform and my Astero felt like it was sliding around on a sheet of ice.

What do you think of Bob, the supposed god of wormholes?
Mitara Newelle
Newelle Family
#420 - 2017-01-18 17:04:44 UTC
Persephone Alleile wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:

Most hated wormhole effects?


Black Hole. I once tried catching an Iteron V in a class 6 system but I didn't realize it had the Black hole effect. My hobgoblin IIs were zipping around so fast they couldn't track the broad site of a mining platform and my Astero felt like it was sliding around on a sheet of ice.

What do you think of Bob, the supposed god of wormholes?


Lies.

Will this thread ever end?

Lady Mitara Newelle of House Sarum, Holder of the Mekhios province of Damnidios Para'nashu, Champion of House Sarum, Sworn Upholder of the Faith, Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade

Admiral of Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris