Finders & Keepers

Ever heard the expression “crime doesn’t pay” and wondered what furry little RL-carebear ever put that bold-faced lie into syndication?

Yesterday was pay-day; I hauled the contents of my “Can Flipping Loots” station containers in Fricoure, Vittenyn, and Brapellier to Dodixie to sell. Total haul? 390 million isk.

No, I didn’t forget a period there. And yes, you heard correctly: almost 400mil in dropped modules and salvage from fights resulting purely from can-flipping over the past month (also includes loot from other peoples station and gate fights, although all WHILE or en-route to flip cans). Keep in mind this is JUST from can flipping shenanigans, and doesn’t include any salvage or loot resulting from ninjaing people’s missions.

Among the more note-worthy bit; 2 Erin Mining Laser Upgrades, a Balmer Series Tracking Link, a handful of faction crystals, 12 Strip Miner II’s, 20 Expanded Cargohold II’s, 24 hobgoblin II’s, 10 ogre II’s, and (literally) 32 Mining Laser II’s. Yikes.

As further evidence of crime being awesome, if you haven’t read it yet, Mynxee over at Life In Low Sec has an amazing story of “asset liberation“, as she puts it, that had me drooling. Definitely worth reading.

Now I’m off to go play in my newly padded pile of iskies. Excuse me.

o7,

-Aiden

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About a week ago, I found myself on small detour into Ichoriya after seeing the raging successes that Khalia and Captain Charismatic were having there. All I had on me was my rifter, and before I went and fitted up some scanning and salvaging ships, I thought I’d take a roam through the belts to get a feel for the locals.

With luck, on my first belt, I found a green young retriever pilot slowly topping off a giant secure container that, low and behold, wasn’t so secure. Pop goes the can, yoink goes the ore. I sat there feeling please with myself as he warped off to (I hoped) come back in a pew-ship.

As I waited around, I noticed another miner pop an jet can across the belt labeled “please don’t take me”. I grinned and started to have impure thoughts concerning the fate of this ore, when one of the miner’s corp-mates (2006 player) came through the belt in an assault frigate. No thanks; pass. I’ve gone up against AF’s before in a rifter with mixed results but I had the feeling that the guy with about 2 years experience on me in a better ship would probably come out on top of that one.

As I continued to wait for the retriever pilot to hopefully come back, the cheeky miner decided to rename his can “Please Take Me”. Punk. Out of sheer boredom, I allowed myself to be drawn into a local-discussion with them. Turns out, these guys are pet-corp (or a wannabe pet corp) of CVA, and to my complete amazement, the head honcho began to try and actively recruit me to the CVA front lines (just a quick fyi: TEARS is KOS to CVA ). What follows is our local-convo with running commentary by Velocity Prime and JordanParey as I relayed this fail into corp chat.

Aiden Mourn > yes dasidar, i see youre in the same corp
bukchoi > lol
bukchoi > i’m assuming anyone can flips isnt in it for the 200,00 isk ore
Aiden Mourn > im just trying to ruffle some feathers
Aiden Mourn > unless youre flipping in ABC wormhole space or something i guess
bukchoi > were you trying to take him down in a rifter
Aiden Mourn > “trying” implies a plan
dasidar > im here to do two things. protect the corp assests….and recruit you.

Are you serious?

Aiden Mourn > tempting offer there das
dasidar > how would you know you havent heard my offer yet.
Aiden Mourn > You’re welcome to put it out there, but im pretty sure im all set
Aiden Mourn > /emote points to his bio
Alexis Acantha > IMHO
Alexis Acantha > people that quote themselves in their bios tend to douches
Aiden Mourn > Alexis I have my moments
dasidar > oh I dont requier membership in ark we have a special place for folks likes of you.. its called the lucky strikes….help us fight the AAA in f-dt and we will supply you with an unlimited supply of thrashers with gear and ammo.

OMG Did you say FREE THRASHERS!? Sign me up! ( =/ )

Velocity Prime > hahaha what?
Aiden Mourn > and he’ll supply us with all the (and i quote) *THRASHERS* we need
Velocity Prime > I’m in!
Velocity Prime > Doesn’t he know we’re red to CVA?

Aiden Mourn > Das, thanks but no thanks?
dasidar > all you have to do is get you and your crew to f-dt …alive…and kill some AAA i can help you find them they are never far away.
Aiden Mourn > Yep, well theres where I have zero interest, sorry
Osmodeus > sounds like suicide
Aiden Mourn > =)
Aiden Mourn > My guys are ninja-salvagers/can flippers/high-sec shenanigans/griefers
Aiden Mourn > we dont do null-sec epeen politics
dasidar > im oging back to my spider hoke
dasidar > hole^
Lord Agger > being a pirate in concord spcontrolled space is much more demanding then playing hide and seek games in Nul-Space
dasidar > hide and seek no youll be doing much harder work attacking the gatecamps and takin the point as that the point of people with limitless ships.
Aiden Mourn > Wow das that sounds fun
Aiden Mourn > =|
Aiden Mourn > sounds like underpaid cannon fodder
dasidar > you get to play with carrier support thats kinda neat

I decide to see how many free thrashers I can get out of the deal =)

Aiden Mourn > Das, if you contract me up a bunch of thrashers right now, i’ll talk to my guys and see who’s interested
dasidar > oh they are handed out onsite….where you would have to spend more isk to escape with them than would be practical to do.

This guy is incredible.

Aiden Mourn > I see
Aiden Mourn > well, outlook not so good amigo
dasidar > f-dt we should have 15 on hand I stoped stocking them there cause well LFA doesnt show up to the party….why are you on the red list to cva?

Velocity Prime > “I’m in TEARS, motherfucker, that’s why!”
Velocity Prime > I was channeling Sam Jackson there
Aiden Mourn > i felt it
JordanParey > “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ACCIDENTALLY SHOT MARVIN IN THE FACE?”

Aiden Mourn > Im on the red list to quite a few people I would imagine
dasidar > its allways a pain in the ass to work under that…meh. i di what I can….maybe I will find freelance fun for you in basergin…you can still find a carrier there once in a while.
Aiden Mourn > I pretty much make a career in eve of pissing off mission runners and stealing other peoples things
bukchoi > lol
bukchoi > a true ninja
dasidar > I gave it my one sentance….anyhow spiderhole time nice chatting.
Aiden Mourn > that was a lot more like 20 sentences
Aiden Mourn > but nice talking with you too

And heres where I get pissed:

bukchoi > ill be back, guard my can aiden

I don’t really like being told what to do like that, unless its from someone I respect. Needless to say, Das and the gang hadn’t exactly won me over. So, I scooted over to the can and popped one of my own. Then I wait until he was back on grid and almost on top of me before I scooped the ore into mine and blew up the can in front of him.

I warped off to a gate giggling like a school girl as dasidar jumps back into the belt in his AF and tries to target me. I’m literally laughing out loud as das follows me across 4 systems.

EVE System > Channel changed to Litiura Local Channel
dasidar > you do realize that this only changes the ship I kill you with.
Aiden Mourn > lol

Giggling and crying, I make my way back towards Dodixie and fire off a quick evemail:

=p
From: Aiden Mourn
Sent: 2010.03.02 07:54
To: dasidar,

“dasidar > you do realize that this only changes the ship I kill you with.”

Is it a thrasher? I hear you guys have a surplus of those.

=P
-Aiden

p.s. “bukchoi > ill be back, guard my can aiden” ….really?

No response, but now at least we’re dying in corp chat.

Fast forward to yesterday.

I’m wandering through Brapelille, next to Fricoure, when I notice some familiar faces in local. Its the Ark-Corp guys! I’m about to say hello when one of them says IN LOCAL “ok I see him, gimme one sec to fit”. Really guys? Sure enough, dasidar and two friends warp into the belt I’m in in a Cormie and 2 Thrashers.

Time to roll out the Epic Fail.

I may have learned this wrong, but it was my thought that the goal of a suicide gank was in fact to GANK someone. Successfully that is. And destroyers are AWESOME at ganking frigates (I was in a rifter). So there is NO WAY this little revenge scheme could have ever failed. Right?

….right?

With Concord response time as it is in .7 space, I was able to whore myself onto all three of these kills. These guys got my shields and about 1/4 of my armor. “B+” for effort I guess.

dasidar > So its safe to assume we will be doing that randomly until your dead.
dasidar > see you around were done today
Aiden Mourn > lol yeah no shit

So, it looks like I’ve made myself some new friends. Das went on to promise me they’d be looking for me in Dodixie as “practice for the new guys”, so I’ll be sure to post more fun from these guys as it comes my way.

Thanks again for reading, and to any new readers on Capsuleer, welcome!. Stop by the site on a real browser sometime and leave a comment.

o7,
-Aiden

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This week, we at SN welcomed the addition of two new Directors to our fun-loving and pants-optional board of directors.

First off, I want to give a huge congratulations to Scopique, who has just been promoted to Director of Ninja Training. Scopique has proven himself to be knowledgeable, trustworthy, and dedicated and its an honor to have him as a fellow Director. It’ll be Scop’s job to turn mushy, green, ski-mask sporting, nunchuck-dropping, wannabe ninjas into lean mean Shinobi shadows; thirsty for loot, and hungry for bear-meat. Good luck, and congrats man!

This week also saw the somewhat bewildering return from the dead of Cyberin:

You can see where things got a little confusing. Cyb was our old Director of Recruitment (”Growing shadow of the trouser-snake” or whatever he calls himself ), who’s decided to return to Eve, and more importantly to the Ninjas, where he’s taken up his old post. If you need him for anything, Cyberin will be that quietly whimpering sound buried beneath the gigantic pile of back-logged apps we’ve had stacking up around the office due to four war-decs. Welcome back sir!

Congrats to both these guys as we welcome them onto (and back onto) the board of Directors, where we generally spend our time snacking, drinking, and watching old kung-fu movies on fast-forward set to clown music (internet spaceships are of course VERY serious business…).

-Aiden

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Just wanted to give a quick thanks to everyone who put in a good word for Finders and Keepers to be added to the New Blog Pack, and of course to CK for adding me.

I started this blog after being an avid reader of blogs like Mynxee’s Life In Low Sec and Wensley’s Rifter Drifter and thinking that I probably also had some stories, adventures, hilarious encounters, or even the occasional advice that people might want to read. So 6 months later, thank you for reading and continuing to read this blog.

I’ve updates my links to the right with the new pack blogs as well as some other of what I consider to be great blogs that aren’t on the official pack. Also added a couple new Ninja blogs as well.

Oh and congrats are definitely in order to Cyberin (whos back in eve and back in the ninjas, but more on that later) for his blog Hands Off! My Loots! , and SN-alumni Paul Clavet and Khalia Nestune for My Loot, Your Tears, both of which are also part of the new Blog Pack.

o7,

-Aiden

P.S. And yes, “ninjaing” is absolutely a real word. Look it up if you don’t believe me.

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After seeing Mynxee’s and others posts about their Eve-Spaces (and hats off to Blake from K162 Space for having probably the coolest spot I’ve seen yet), I wanted to post my own.

Unfortunately, after seeing some of the other eve-spaces people have posted up, (water-cooling, flux-capacitor-wielding, 5-screening, awesome-mobiles) I now have a complex about showing my own =/. Essentially though, it looks like this:

This photo-realistic artistic rendering of my space however should give you a near perfect appreciation for what I look at whenever I’m online. I run a 27″ 2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo iMac with leopard. Is it the premier king of game rigs? Not at all, but it works for me. Its also my professional rig, which I use for audio engineering and recording.

A couple explanations:

The coffee: I drink pretty much an endless flow of this sweet sweet nectar all day. Without it, I do things like shoot corpmates reffing SN frig tournaments (true story, ask Llyan), fat-finger buy/sell orders, and generally rage at things in New Eden that don’t go my way.

The Booze: You try directing a bunch of thieving, scheming, rabble-rousing ninjas dry. I double dog dare you. Also, the fun-level of salvage ops is directly proportional to how many glasses of Makers I’ve had. Also a true story.

The View: I live in NYC, but I actually see both skylight and trees from my window. Actually I live in Brooklyn, so those buildings across the street are really Brownstones, but I thought that was way too much brown for one picture. Also, that tall building doesn’t exist at all in my line of sight, I’m just trying to push that “urban metropolis” look.

On-Screen: I’m sure what is already set as your homepage. Give yourself a firm handshake from me for a job well done.

Redundant Ninja Pamplet of Secrets: These are for me to know and you not to. Sorry.

What You Don’t See: To the left of the picture, what you don’t see is my dual-keyboard station, audio rack (dual dbx compressor/limiters, tube pre-amp, midi-input, etc, etc), and mix board. To the right, and probably somewhere behind me is my girlfriend doing her own thing, and although I love her dearly, impending GF-aggro whilst in eve is sometimes a very real thing =P (and completely un-tankable btw).

I love Macs, and I love Eve, but as you may have already put together, there’s a bit of a handicap when using both. The out-of-game applications for mac users are substantially lacking, and before you mention Wine, Parrallels, or Bootcamp, those do take a fair amount of CPU to run (not to mention a working copy of windows), cpu which I’m not ok giving up seeing as I also use this computer professionally for things that already take heavy amounts of processing speeds (ever pre-mixed a 29-track live/midi audio project while running all native instruments and patches in real-time? Yeah…)

I’ll refrain from a “Waaahhh, I use a MAC and this game wont run right one it!” rant. Why? Because I get it. Windows PC-based machines DO run most games better (and with better/more out-of-game player applications) than a Mac because they’re more open to it. I get that Steve Jobs has a bit of a stick up his ass when it comes to opening up development to 3rd parties and as such, games like Eve have to tunnel their products through things like the Cider client for macs.

But on the other hand, we’re sort of past the age where PC machines were IT for playing games (I played SO much Starcraft on my old Dell), and the best you could get for your OS Mac machine were things like Sim City, Chess, and shitty (and I do mean shitty) knock-offs of Windows-based FPS. And while I’m HUGELY grateful that CCP provides a Mac client at all, sometimes I do wish there was a little bit more thrown into it.

Even though there are a few out of game Mac apps out there (and more coming), without using paralleling or virtual windows software, we have nothing that really compares to amazing programs like EFT and EveMon. I should also mention that even though a lot of them were tweaked in the patch after Dominion, there’s still a list of still-to-be resolved in-game bugs on the Mac client that don’t affect game-play necessarily but would be great to fix anyways (i.e. Jukebox plays 45 seconds of a track then stops).

Ok…that started to get a little Mac-rant-ish, so I’m done on that train of thought. Next topic.

I’m looking to expand my gaming rig a little. All these pictures of Eve-spaces with like 3 or more screens is making me envious. Not to mention, I’ve started dual-clienting, so a second screen would be great. I have an older macbook pro laptop I’ve just recently put a new HD in, but its PC, not Intel, based so sadly enough, neither the eve-client or things like Wine will work on it (oh cruel fate). So here’s where I need your help (yes, you, the guy that knows way more about this sort of thing than me).

Build me a rig! Using the existing computer I have that is, and hopefully the unused laptop (is it possible to use it as a second screen?), make me a set-up that I can be proud of (and also play two characters on without tabbing windows). Also, if it could cost somewhere under a fortune, that’d be great too! I’m not computer-stupid, but I’m no programmer or tech-guru either, so I’m going to need your input. Tell me how to connect things, if I should invest in another screen (and which one?), how to optimize my machine for dual-clienting, etc.

If you’re a mac eve-player and you’ve got a setup you’re proud of, let me know. Thanks in advance.

07,

-Aiden

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TEARS is at a new milestone in its frustrating and confoundingly happy-go-lucky existence: we currently have FOUR active war-decs levied against us by various groups of mercenaries, PvP thrill-seekers, and incensed carebears. To be fair, 3 of those decs come by way of Sect Or, a new corp that we’ve taken under the TEARS banner; their wars have by proxy extended to us. The fourth one is from the UK Freedom Fighers, a 20 man group of PvP group vets (take a stab at what timezone they base out of…), who for once in terms of TEARS WTs, seem to have their shit together.

We at SN and TEARS have some pretty basic ideas that we stick to when war-deced: unless WE did the deccing, we see no reason to play on anyone else’s terms. This means no, we won’t play station games with you, we will easily evade your blobby gate-camps, and no, we aren’t going to accept fleet requests from your alts (but “A” for effort there fellas).

So, we ninja-poof and avoid WTs unless in an organized group. No, its not that we “suck at pvp” or are scared of the idea of war. Its more-so that we see no need to come and engage you on your terms, nor do we see your war-dec as a reason to stop doing what we do.

So, the first couple days of our little bore-war here I spent logging in while I had RL work to do and then leaving myself logged in sitting in station in Umokka. A fun lunch-time game I’ve been playing is counting the number of times one of the UKFF guys (actually corp ticker is “FFUK”…clever right?) docks and then undocks at the station I’m at (the record is 12 times over the course of one turkey sandwich…ouch man =/ ).

As the weekend approached however, I decided I needed some fun and jump-cloned back to Dodixie for some ninjaing fun (hah, so much for war-time intelligence). It felt good to scan and mission-crash after spending the better part of the past 2 weeks doing some can-flipping and picking fights in Umokka, and I netted some great loot over the few hours I spent doing so. Unfortunately, no one seemed to be shooting at me at all. I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for Dixie, but it does require a certain amount of patience and ingenuity to get mission runners to shoot at you here (or if they do, to stick around). This was patience I didn’t have last night. So, I grabbed my trusty rifter “Failsauce” and headed to the belts of Vylade and Auvergne to step on some toes.

See now, what started as “Aiden needs a little pew” turned into “Aiden goes on a bloody rampage through the roid belts of Sinq Laison”. After about 2 hours, I got seven kills last night. Yow. Were all or any of them spectacular or isk-heavy kills? Not really, but some really fun and good fights (and a few almost fights: to the 2 month old Hyperion pilot who wouldn’t engage me but offered a “dual in 3 months”, please know that we laughed at your fail at great length).

Now 4 of these kills were the result of flipping not that much ore from one guy and his buddy. The one guy, I killed 3 times in the span of 25 minutes. Ok, there’s carelessness, and there’s getting heated and wanting revenge; I get that. But then, there’s just plain stupid. If I’ve already taken your Caracal twice, and then your dessie AND a friend in a Scythe at the same time, coming back in anything really doesn’t make much sense right? Yeah…thats what I thought.

Now, just because this guy seemed to be a very special kind of special (read: short-bus, padded helmet), I decided to have some fun with him. This starts after he first opened up with his Caracal solo. I got him into structure and then somehow I lost point or he burned out of range and got away.

Aiden Mourn > why you shoot?
KG Moger > dude you jacke are stuff
Aiden Mourn > i thought free ore
KG Moger > hell no

Mr. Moger returns in another Caracal. He dies quickly.

Aiden Mourn > woops
Aiden Mourn > more free stuff!
KG Moger > yea thanks ass hole
Aiden Mourn > sir
Aiden Mourn > self defense
Aiden Mourn > you jumped me
Aiden Mourn > ass
Aiden Mourn > I am allowed to protect myself from ruffians like yourself
KG Moger > you fucken jackour shit wile he was sitting there
Aiden Mourn > sir, im sure I don’t know what you’re talking about
Aiden Mourn > I was merely defending myself from your brutal attack
Aiden Mourn > space is just not as safe as it used to be i guess
Aiden Mourn > I hope you bruts have learned a lesson about inflicting dastardly abuses on innocents

KG returns this time in a Cormorant, the Scythe is sitting 65km away from me but starts to burn towards me as KG starts firing.

Aiden Mourn > What is this, gang rape?
Aiden Mourn > man, you guys are savages

I dispatch the Cormorant as the Scythe opens up on me. I didnt realize until later that the Scythe pilot, with no knowledge of aggro timers apparently, actually concorded himself on me. I still somehow managed to get 38% of the damage on him. Nice response time Concord.

KG Moger > he did not even attce you you are the savage i did but he did not
Aiden Mourn > he did in fact attack me
KG Moger > no cus he has no guns
Aiden Mourn > well, how come i was taking damage from him?
Aiden Mourn > http://tears.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1125437
Aiden Mourn > it would appear he DID have guns, sir
Aiden Mourn > if you sirs would like to come back and fight honorably, i’ll be here to throw down in fisticuffs

Hey, its worth a shot right?

KG Moger > sorry he did have some this was some thing i did not know sorry about that but its stupied for you to jack stuff that we mined
Aiden Mourn > I didnt realize I had done so
Aiden Mourn > And I accept your apologies
KG Moger > will u give it back

My friend, you’ve just said the magic words
Aiden Mourn > since youve appologized, then yes, you may come back and collect your ore
KG Moger > how do i know you not just going to kill me
Aiden Mourn > scouts honor
Aiden Mourn > you have appologized
Aiden Mourn > the harm is forgiven
KG Moger > ok

=/ Yikes. Badger enters the arena, all nice and flashy. Pop.

Aiden Mourn > Oh my stars…..my guns were on auto
Aiden Mourn > a thousand appologies sir
KG Moger > lol you think i am stuiped lol
Aiden Mourn > In fact at this point, I do actually
KG Moger > lol well this time i di not attack you so now i have good info for my other frinds lol
Aiden Mourn > I see
Aiden Mourn > hang on, let me fleet you so you can see how i was fitted

The true Darwin test…

Aiden Mourn > youre already in fleet, cant
Aiden Mourn > i was just trying to show you how i was fitted
KG Moger > hold on
KG Moger > k
Aiden Mourn > ok can you see the fit?
KG Moger > how do i do that
Aiden Mourn > right click my name
Aiden Mourn > their should be a “view fit” option
KG Moger > nope nothing
Aiden Mourn > wait are you in sttion?
KG Moger > no
Aiden Mourn > are you in a ship?
KG Moger > pod
Aiden Mourn > oh yeah, plus you arent even in system with me
Aiden Mourn > if youre in the same system, in space, in ships, you can view each others fittings
KG Moger > nope not that stupied
Aiden Mourn > you sure?
KG Moger > yea
Aiden Mourn > ahh well
Aiden Mourn > just trying to share this rifter fit to even the odds next time
KG Moger > lol yea do not care just tell me what u have
Aiden Mourn > i have sleeper guns on my ship
Aiden Mourn > thats the secret
KG Moger > o really hum never huard of them
Aiden Mourn > the npcs in wormholes?
Aiden Mourn > those guys
Aiden Mourn > i could sell you some
KG Moger > o i reallly do not belive u for some reason
Aiden Mourn > well, i did kill you and your friend
Aiden Mourn > you 3 times
Aiden Mourn > and you were in bigger ships than me
Aiden Mourn > and I think its fair to say I came out on top of that one
KG Moger > o do u fill proud you took out to noobs woop do da



No, but I am giggling at the sheer breadth of your stupidity. At this point, its like 3:30 am, I’ve been drinking, and I just get plain weird on this guy:

Aiden Mourn > i see it as an educational experience for you
Aiden Mourn > I’m like your mentor
Aiden Mourn > your guru
KG Moger > hahahahaha lol u are no where near that to me cus i do not care lol
Aiden Mourn > Thats the first step of acceptance
Aiden Mourn > my young padawan
Aiden Mourn > I will be your spiritual guide on this adventure we call eve
Aiden Mourn > i will be the spirit fox that guides you on your path of oneness on your hadj of self-awareness and discovery
KG Moger > lol good bye
Aiden Mourn > you will find your way my little acorn
Aiden Mourn > just….dont be so fucking dumb
Aiden Mourn > =)

I was determined to get one more kill for the evening, and quickly found one more. Unfortunately, the Imicus who went red in front of me happened to be a 5-day character, which I didn’t realized until I’d popped him. =/. I really try to avoid players THAT young, and I honestly did feel bad at first. That is, until he carried on like a little girl with sand in her eye, even after I a) apologized b) reimbursed him for his loss, and c) refrained from killing him a second time when he undocked still red. I hate to come off as heartless, but this guy just wouldn’t stop flat out crying about the “injustices” inflicted upon him. I won’t post the whole thing because it just gets sad a little emo-rage-y, but here are some highlights. I’m treating this one the same way they treat writing about minors in the paper so I’m blocking the name out:

###123 > you killed my fucking mineing ship you fuck stick!!!!
Aiden Mourn > look calm down
Aiden Mourn > again, im sorry i killed you
###123 > i didnt think there was fuck sticks like you though but hey YOUR THE MAN!!!!



Aiden Mourn > here, thats for your loss
###123 > i dont need fuckin cherity
Aiden Mourn > no you need a tissue
Aiden Mourn > look, im sorry i killed you i didnt realzie you were a 4 day character
###123 > the hell i do
###123 > dont dont understand i am SOOO laughing at you right now so why if i was laughing do i need a tissuse?
Aiden Mourn > right, my bad
Aiden Mourn > look….stick with this game, i mean that
Aiden Mourn > theres a stiff learing curve, but its fun as hell

Also, it should be noted that I wasn’t going to post this at all until he went after “Finders & Keepers”. You keep my damn BLOG out of it! =P

###123 > lmao i was fucking with you there because i red your crap posts when you took the one ore from me before
###123 > blog it so i can look at your mighty blog page and read this shit on it so i can laugh some more

I hope that you too have “read this shit” and “laugh some more”. If you haven’t yet, and feel so inclined, a quick comment on Crazy Kinux’s post about the new Eve Online Blog Pack recommending Finders and Keepers would be immensely appreciated. Thanks again for reading.

o7,
-Aiden

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Crazy Kinux, the man behind the Eve Online Blog Pack, has recently announced that the time has come to clean house. For those who aren’t aware, the EO Blog Pack is a hand-picked collection of the best and sharpest eve-related blogs online, and CK’s decision is based on the idea that the Blog Pack should be the best of the best; a bench-mark of Eve-blogging. As such, he will be shedding blogs from the existing blog pack that aren’t up to date or relevant, and adding in some fresh new ones (can you see where this is going? ).

Beyond the hype and prestige that comes along with being in THE EO Blog Pack, what it definitely comes with is exposure, which means more readers. In the case of Finders and Keepers, this means more people to share in the hilarious, insightful, and action-packed adventures of Eve’s favorite fun-loving criminals, Suddenly Ninjas.

You see, we’re starting to feel a little unloved. With Cyberin, author of “Hands Off, My Loots!” taking an indefinite break from Eve, the Ninjas have a noticeable lack of representation on the Blog Pack; which means less embarrassing chat-logs, less discussions on the subject of game mechanics, ethics, and how they blur together, and most importantly, less tears.

If we can all agree that Eve is a sandbox, then I think we can also agree that we need blogging representation from all different sorts of players. The Blog Pack has some great blogs right now from Pirates, Industrialists, null-sec Warriors, Worm-hole dwellers, and others, but what its lacking is Ninjas. I know, call me biased, but it is my firm belief that the Blog Pack needs a salty dose of Ninja it its new incarnation, and I’d like Finders and Keepers to be that dosage.

So here’s what I’m asking: if you read and enjoy this blog, please, PLEASE go to Crazy Kinux’s post and put in a comment suggesting Finders and Keepers be added to the Blog Pack. You can talk at great length about how awesome the blog is in great detail, or you can simple post those three words “finders and keepers” in a comment. It would really mean a lot to me, and I thank you in advance.

I truly hope that you guys enjoy this blog, and added or not, know that I will continue to post regularly, with the combination of cheek, wit, and sarcasm that you’ve come to appreciate. Thanks again for your support, and remember….keep em crying.

o7,

-Aiden

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These guys know exactly what I’m talking about

Internet spaceships can be very, VERY serious business to some people. Personally, I have kind of a hard time relating to or really even communicating with these people, because the idea of taking a game that seriously, something thats supposed to be fun and a break from the seriousness of real life, is silly to me. But to each his own, and I don’t necessarily look down on anyone who chooses to regiment their “play” into a hardcore “second job”. However, sometimes those people decide its necessary to project their own very, very serious ideals about the game onto you, in a manner that I find both annoyingly arrogant and hilariously silly.

Yes…”E-honor”, I’m sure we’ve all witnessed it at some point or another in Eve. E-honor is this ridiculously maligned sense of bushido or machismo that some people feel a need to tout around while they go through the game, usually ignorant of the fact that this makes them an insufferable asshole and an all-around douche-bag. While I think the intent is to project some sort of “code of honor” or macho attitude, to the majority of players over the age of 14 with half a brain, this comes off as petulant and ridiculous. Also, it makes you look like a serious, serious tool.

To begin with, last night saw me deciding to head into Caldari space looking for some action to try out my new “Power Rifter” fit. This thing is a beast; 3x 150mm ACs and a rocket launcher in the highs, scram, web, and MWD (AB for better cap stability though) in the mids, and DC II, small armor rep II, and 200mm tungsten plate in the lows. At Wensely’s suggestion, I’ve stuck 2 small trimark rigs on it as well as a small projectile collision accelerator rig.

After getting into Kamio, my first order of business was to immediately flip a can and pick a fight with a Wolf assault frigate. This actually went a lot better than you’d think, but even though I managed to get him into structure, I went down in flames. Just the same, it was a really fun fight, and I’d say the power rifter held its own pretty well.

After that, I docked up to wait out the aggro and get some RL stuff done (highly pressing matters such as “buy beer” and “make cheeseburger”), before heading to Jita (*groan*) to buy fittings for 3 more rifters. I came back on to see a couple of our guys who hang out up in Caldari space (and CLEAN UP doing it) chomping at the bit for some pew, so Solomar, Tuomas, Bass Indy and myself all fleeted up and went looking for trouble.

Trouble turned out to find us pretty quick. I went straight back to the Wolf pilot’s miner friends and flipped them again. On que, the Wolf jumped right back in and engaged. Now, the plan was, I start fighting and call for Solo and/or Tuomas to jump in with RR as needed, but as I engaged, I almost didn’t even need it. I dropped his shields pretty fast and then switched to RF phased plasma and started hammering through his armor tank. Eventually, he did start to eat into my armor so I did call for rr (hey, no one called this a 1 vs 1 did they?). After that, the wolf finally went down kicking and screaming.

I went ahead and camped the station and sure enough, the same guy undocked in a Hurricane. I immediately engaged, and Solo and Tuomas warped in for RR. Predictably, the Cane started shooting at Solo’s Ruppy as well and we both started to lay into him. When we realized the guy had stopped shooting, we overheated the hell out of our guns to bring him down before he docked, but sadly, even with some noble bumping help from Bass, he docked up with 25% structure left. Bastard.

After that we managed to snag a Drake and then the same guy in a Cormorant 1, 2, 3 times (even though the second two times was him coming back in unfitted Cormies to try to grab his loot), the first pop dropping us oddly enough a Bantam BP (I about had a heart attack when I though I heard Solo say “Phantasm BP” over voice). We hunted a bit more until we decided to disband for the night. I had a ton of fun with these guys (why is everything just more fun with Virginians?) and even though he didn’t manage to get on any of the KM, much thanks to Tuomas for all the RR help (and to Bass for grabbing an indy to snag all the ore we flipped).

So, here we come to the Douche Bag of the Week. I remained by the Cormorant pilot’s three wrecks after he logged, periodically refreshing aggro while watching a movie in case he came back for added hilarity, when a Punisher warped into the belt. I realized I still had a can out from trying to bait the Cormie pilot that was labeled “fight?”, and the Punisher flew right up to it. I headed back to station to drop off a lot of excess ammo and loot in my hold and came back. Sure enough, the Punisher went red and started to target me. “What the hell” I thought, and  engaged.

The fight seemed to be pretty well matched for a bit, but then I started to realize fighting a cap-boosting frig in a non cap-boosting frig without a neut fitted was not going to work out so well. I started to go down as my cap started to drain out, so I did the rational thing…I turned, overheaded my AB, got out of scram range, and warped to station. I know when I’m beat, and I see no reason to lose a ship to underscore that. The Punisher pilot however felt way, WAY differently, and decided to unzip, whip out his epeen, and challenge my “honor”. Internet spaceships folks….internet spaceships.

Kamio Local:

Aiden Mourn > =P nice shooting Sacred
sacredchord > dear evryone, Aiden is a little bitch
Aiden Mourn > lol
sacredchord > picks a frig v frig fight and runs like a pussy
sacredchord > that is all
Ilikia > good to know
Aiden Mourn > well, in all fairness the can wasnt for you
Aiden Mourn > but, i yield. good fight man

I ran, I know. And I’m really ok with that. I concede the loss; you win. A few “good fight”s all around and we’re on our way right? ….right?

sacredchord > lol i’m in a frig dude, and I’m waiting for you
Aiden Mourn > well, it appears i was in a frig too
sacredchord > bring any ship you want
Aiden Mourn > hah, naw man, im out for the night. gf
Aiden Mourn > just an fyi though, shit talking ninjas doesnt work =P

I’ve gotten this before. Its true by the way, shit talking and baiting ninjas into a fight really doesn’t work. We make it our job in Eve to do exactly that to other people, and we’re kind of immune to it. Sacredchord was FAR from through though.

sacredchord > lol, well nothing does
Aiden Mourn > seriously though, good shooting
sacredchord > ninga’s are pussies
sacredchord > everyone knows that
Aiden Mourn > ok
sacredchord > you’re a big corp of fail PVPers
Aiden Mourn > well, theres a differnce between being a pussy and knowing youre beat and gtfo
sacredchord > so crawl back in your station
Aiden Mourn > I am pretty cozy in here
sacredchord > and you’re both
Aiden Mourn > I guess if you say so

I unpause the movie I’ve been watching. Wolverine resumes tearing the heads off everyone and bedding hot Canadians.

sacredchord > No one is afraid of Ningas so don’t throw your corp name around like it means shit
Aiden Mourn > did i miss something?
Aiden Mourn > why are you so angry?
sacredchord > I’m not, but you ran from a fair fight

Another note here: it is my firm belief that there is no such thing as a “fair fight”. Ever, whether it be RL or internet spaceships.

Aiden Mourn > youre right, i did
Aiden Mourn > we shot at each other, i was starting to lose, i warped off
sacredchord > I can’t take you seriously as a pilot
Aiden Mourn > lol
Aiden Mourn > sorry, i forgot to bring my e-honor
sacredchord > regardless, I’m still confused where this notion that Ningas dont’ suck comes from?

The shit talking continues! I’m still at a loss where sacred’s e-honor hardon came from, and at this point its just getting silly. But, for the sake of trying to understand the eve-douche (and because it was humorous), I stuck around.

Ilikia > e-peen fail
Aiden Mourn > ill try to remember to take internet spaceships a bit more seriously next time
sacredchord > don’t start a fight you can’t finish
Aiden Mourn > see thats where i disagree
Aiden Mourn > why NOT start a fight to see how you do, and if you can, get out and learn from it
Aiden Mourn > id say you failed at keeping me pinned down if youre so bent out of shape about it
sacredchord > lol, I offered for you to come back in literally any ship to fight my frig
sacredchord > and you turned it down
Aiden Mourn > indeed
Aiden Mourn > this being the only ship i have for about 15 systems, thatd be tought to pull off
Aiden Mourn > and anyways, i prefer to keep my epeen in my pants, not wave it around at the first chance to prove my e-honor
Aiden Mourn > anyways, again, good fight
sacredchord > here’s the deal honey, I’m not talking about honor
sacredchord > its a video game, you said that not me
Aiden Mourn > sacredchord > I can’t take you seriously as a pilot
Aiden Mourn > then dont
sacredchord > I don’t
Aiden Mourn > haha, ok
Aiden Mourn > ill try not lose sleep over that one
Aiden Mourn > anyways
Aiden Mourn > *again*
Aiden Mourn > good fight

FFS, stop being a d-bag, relax a little, and try to ENJOY the *game* you’re playing. Jeez.

Aiden Mourn > you were winning
Aiden Mourn > and thats a pretty snappy punisher fit
sacredchord > but you respond with “Shit talking Ninga’s doesn’t work”
sacredchord > I’m confused how you have corp pride

Hahahaha…this guy just doesn’t want to give up does he? I get corp pride by posting chatlogs on my blog of you looking like a dumb-ass and then laughing about it with my corp mates. Thats how.

Spitfork > sacredchord ’sup? you up for a fight
sacredchord > sure
sacredchord > where at?
Aiden Mourn > lol, better not let him down
Axemaster > lol i jumped in just in time to observe the e-peen waving
Aiden Mourn > theres a lot of it going on
Axemaster > hey guys, only REAL MEN fight with INTERNET PIXELS!!!!!
sacredchord > isn’t it a little stupid to fight in an internet game, then bitch about people fighting in an internet game?
Aiden Mourn > lol
Aiden Mourn > yes
Aiden Mourn > but im not the one bitching about the fight bud
sacredchord > well that;s because it wasn’t a fight honey
Aiden Mourn > ok, are you a grandmother, or a transvestite?
Aiden Mourn > stop calling people “honey”, its…..weird
Aiden Mourn > wait, unless youre a lunchlady

I still have about 3 minutes of aggro, and this guy is about to fight someone else in belt 1. So what do I do? I warp to belt 1 at 50km to see if the fights started so I can jump in. See? Fresh out of e-honor amigo =) (sadly the fight had *not* started yet and my aggro ran out). But behold, as sacredchord sets out prove to all of Kamio local that his doucheness knows no bounds, and that he has absolutely zero sense of humor:

sacredchord > why are you back?
Aiden Mourn >
sacredchord > are you comming or not spit?
Unquestioned Mistiff > just like my penis..
Unquestioned Mistiff > see?
Unquestioned Mistiff > see what you did there
sacredchord > well take my can
sacredchord > battleship vs frig

*Unquestioned Mistiff is in  domi, yet also doesn’t go for sacred’s shit-talking

sacredchord > fait fight
Unquestioned Mistiff > lol
Unquestioned Mistiff > that would be boring..
sacredchord > because you would lose?
Unquestioned Mistiff > i give up
Unquestioned Mistiff > imma go watch a movie
sacredchord > lol I’ll take out your domi anyday

*Spitfork come in for the 1vs1 and loses. It really was a nice punisher fit, whatever it was.

Spitfork > lol
Spitfork > gf
sacredchord > see I’m invicable
Spitfork > what’s your fit?
sacredchord > better than yours buddy

*Face. Palm.

So…what prompts someone to be such a walking hard-on? Now I’m not talking about being “mean” or talking smack, thats something I do daily in Eve, but its the unflinching cringe-worthy machismo that occasional flexes its pasty 15 yr old muscles in this game that makes my head hurt. Do you know who I pictured I was talking to while interacting with this guy?

Yep, Buzz, from Home Alone. Actually, It was sort of a toss-up between him or that weird karate kid from Smokin Aces:

So, I’m not really sure what else to add to this. Lets just leave it at this: Keep it in your pants guys. No one needs or wants to see you whip out your e-honor and try to wave it at everyone in the room

o7,
-Aiden

P.S. It appears sacredchord’s, urm….talents are up for hire. Good luck with that.

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“The music you play is the soundtrack of your life”

-Dick Clark

I’ve been playing Eve for more than a year now, and especially since starting this blog, I’ve become more and more involved in the out-of-game “community” aspects of it.

That community of players is something that I’ve really come to love about this game, and I’ve been trying to think of ways to add to it. I do have this blog, which I intend to keep going full steam with, but I wanted to bring something more to the table. I really enjoy writing, including creative writing, but because I can’t really get into the role-play elements of eve, I have problems coming up with decent fan-fiction I can get behind.

So then I thought, what about music? I’m a composer and arranger in my RL work, doing mostly commercial work, arrangements for bands, and indie film scoring, and as such part of what immediately drew me into this game was Jón Hallur Haraldsson’s (CCP RealX) game-score. Its the sounds we listen to almost every day in New Eden, and it defines the world we fly around in. Jón’s compositions give Eve life; they flesh out the cold harshness of space, and give it its recognizable cyber-punk, post-electronica, space-opera mood.

The scoring is perfect, but sometimes, we just want more. So with that in mind, I’ve put together a couple of tracks in the style of Eve. I’d like to think of them as addendums to, rather than an imitations of the in-game music; further listening for your aural pleasure in the same style as the rest of the music in Eve.

The tracks can be found ->here<- , on a myspace page I set up as Aiden (don’t get me started on myspace…I wanted to start killing strangers after dealing with that setup process). So, give a listen, and I hope you enjoy.

On a totally different note, as of today, I’ve been in Suddenly Ninjas for exactly one year. So, at the risk of getting all emo on you all, I raise my glass to the finest group of miscreants and fun-loving criminals in Eve. Cheers guys.

o7,

-Aiden

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