I had a +20 Broadsword Damnit!
For years and years, I kept a dirty little secret. On the outside, I was a nice girl, who liked art. I had friends and boyfriends... I went out to parties and stuff...

And sometimes I drew the nerdy kids characters from D+D for them, and they paid me.

Or at least, thats what I told people...

In actual fact, it was actually ME that played D+D with the nerdy boys, and I made them all SWEAR that they'd never tell, or I'd have them beaten up by my boyfriend for making up lies about me.

I had a kick arse set of dice too... my D20 cost me a pretty packet, and Id have had more than enough money to buy stuff like that if I actually had charged them for their character portraits... only I never did. I liked doing it so much, I practically begged them to start new ones!

Now... Im 30, and Im more than a little scared that my child is going to be an Ubernerd, coming from geeky stock as me, the roleplaying internet nerdlette that still knows more IP addresses than phone numbers, and the Man - who will openly admit that he can't remember my birthday, but can remember the DPS rates of all ammo in Eve Online.

I'd like to apologise to all those nerdy boys, who probably grew up to be slightly funny looking but very rich.

I am sorry I was mean to you - but you know, people can sort of smell Geekiness, and I was weak. I should have told everyone I was a roleplayer... but I needed a bravery spell to help me out.
(Kaplaaah Wasting time on the net since 1994., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 14:17, 6 replies)

I've been wanting to back to Eve-o recently :(
I loved my Minmatar Hac/Cmd specialist...

But I left after their patch fuckup on Trinity. Damn principles.
(Belgaer is, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 14:30, closed)

Ok, I'll admit to Eve-O and WOW too...
Whenever I get fed up with Eve, I just put on a really long skill and then don't pay the subscription... then I use steam to talk to peeps.
(Kaplaaah Wasting time on the net since 1994., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 15:29, closed)

You play EVE through steam?
Or do you have to admit to CoD, CS:S, HL:DM or other games now, too?

I thought they took out the long skill training when account de-activated now?

I have an old ingame friend looking after my character, she's spent all my ISK, lost all my ships and ruined my reputation as a heartless pirate, but atleast she's training me SP :P
(Belgaer is, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 15:36, closed)

I admit nothing!
WOW and Eve is all your getting from me. The rest of my games directory is between me and the Vicar.

And yes, Eve is on Steam now - its says "In Eve-Online Demo" for some people... sometimes...

As for long skills. No, they bought back the deactivated account training... or at least, they must have, or Im just very, very special to CCP. :)
(Kaplaaah Wasting time on the net since 1994., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 16:48, closed)

Ah right, didn't know that
is the download big? And is it classic or improved graphics?

Ah right, didn't know that, damnit, lost all my gear for nothing :P
(Belgaer is, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 19:55, closed)

Steam says it "requires 2.96gb"
... and its the advanced graphics, but you can switch them off, and play in geek mode if you like. Its just a tick box in the settings :)

I personally would still play if it looked like Elite.
(Kaplaaah Wasting time on the net since 1994., Wed 12 Mar 2008, 10:11, closed)