I have had a long time on again, off again relationship with the MMO game EVE Online for nearly as long as the game has existed. The first time I played lasted about three days. I worked my way up to a frigate, went out into a lower security system to hunt NPC pirates and got locked onto by another player in a destroyer. He started shooting my ship and sent me a chat message saying, “4 million ISK and I’ll stop shooting.” (ISK is the in-game currency.) I told him to go fuck himself, and he blew up my ship. The ship cost about 8 million to build. I rage quit on the spot and canceled my account. (At the time there was no free-play option.) Over the years I have dipped my head back in a few times. I … Continue reading
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