2008 - a mental odyssey
So Myrhial Arkenath was kind enough to remind me that I've not posted to this blog in a while. My only excuse is that I've been really busy in real life - not much of an excuse, given how much time I've devoted to the evelopedia in the last few days, but the only one I have.
EVE never really ge
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Created 22:26, Dec 18 2008
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after-action report?
Tags: eve Fanfest writing PVPFanfest was a roaring success. I'm just sorry I forgot to pack a notebook - I sat in on a lot of the presentations and a couple of round tables, and now I can't remember much of what was said.
One thing stood out, though - I went along to TonyG's talk on the EVE setting and story, and he raised
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Created 15:05, Nov 18 2008
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Created 13:22, Nov 02 2008
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One more round with the book
Tags: eve Empyrean Age BookWay back in the Ages Of Myth, when men were men, women were also men, and dogs were men too (Don't Ask) I began this blog with a promise that I'd lend the Empyrean Age book to a non-player and ask them for their opinion, and that I'd share the result here.
Well, she finally gave it back to me,
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Created 21:08, Oct 20 2008
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Controversy!
Empyrean Age is not a bad book, and Tony Gonzales is not a bad author.
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Okay, there are basically two ways in which people will react to that sentence. The first is "ZOMGWTFBBQSOURCE!!!1!" the second is "Yes."
In other words, people will either rage, or agree.
I'm not sure whether it's j
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Created 03:51, Oct 10 2008
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Systemic Ethics part 2
Tags: gaming culture ethics universityThe past week's research has turned up some very interesting reading material. Mostly at the moment, I'm absorbing a series of ethical papers co-written by Professor Jonathan Haidt, of the University of Virgina. I'll spare you much of the details, but the bit that's especially relevant to my pa
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Created 04:55, Oct 05 2008
Last updated 13:11, Oct 05 2008
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Systemic Ethics
Tags: gaming culture ethics university eveSo, the 'Varsity semester is now formally under way. Huzzah, yippee, woohoo hurray. Oh frabdurous day, kaloo kalay.
The topic of my final year dissertation will be "A study on ethical choice in computer games", with the end result being, according to my notes, "A design document offering new sol
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Created 11:31, Sep 23 2008
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On prominence
Tags: blogging fish roleplaying eve backstoryThe earlier... prolificness with which I posted blog entries has died off of late. That's probably a good thing, given that three of the four most popular blog entries on this site were posted by me... not to mention the single most popular image. How did that happen?
There have been two causes f
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Created 04:28, Sep 10 2008
Last updated 04:44, Sep 10 2008
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Seriously guys... what the hell?
Tags: wtfI note with interest that a few recent blog posts from various people (three thus far, by my count) consist of something along the lines of "Lol, blogging sux, I'm not going to do it and people who do suck too". Even if that's not what's being written down, it's definitely the sentiment being sha
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Created 21:39, Aug 29 2008
Last updated 21:41, Aug 29 2008
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The sins of roleplaying
Tags: eve RPNowadays, my posts on the official EVE boards are confined almost exclusively to the Intergalactic summit, meaning that most of my posts are in-character. (COMBAT: EVE General Discussion strikes you perfectly, wrecking your faith in human intelligence.)
Having been posting regularly in there fo
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Created 01:57, Aug 27 2008
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