Zen and the Art of Internet Spaceship Maintenance

It’s been a while since my last post so here’s a wall of text for you. There are a few reasons why its been so long. Fortunately all good. One is that there have been several great games released recently that I couldn’t pass up. I’m about 60 hours into Dragon Age : Origins right now and it really is a fantastic game. I’m not really a huge fantasy fan but but this game just does it all so well that I couldn’t stay away. The story telling is fantastic and its supported by excellent voice acting. This plus the myriad ways in which the story can change based on your actions or even conversations combines to make this game a great way to waste a lifetime or two. I’ve also been playing a lot of L4D and L4D2 which I just pucked up. Both are great games but so far L4D2 just isn’t quite holding up to the original for me. There’s a lot more weapons and special zombies but I think this may be a case where less is more. Still, both are great games and a lot of fun to jump in and play for an hour while waiting for the an op to start. I also picked up a bunch of stuff from the Steam holiday sale including Torchlight. If you liked Diablo then get Torchlight. You won’t regret it.

All of these games have been really fun especially since I upgraded my CPU, Video card and power supply. No more second power supply which is shorted on with a piece of paper clip is a big plus. I’m sure an electrical fire would really put a damper on a gaming session. Now with the extra horsepower I have actually be able to play the copy of GTA4 I picked up almost a year ago. It plays pretty well when you plug an Xbox controller into the machine.

So that’s the non-EvE stuff.

In-game I have been having a blast. Bozos have been kicking ass and taking names as usual. We even moved this month because targets had begun avoiding Hemin where we were living. This seems to happen about a month or 2 after we move anywhere. We’re now deeper in Curse region and when we first moved here there were a couple fail alliances around. One was French and one was is Russian. In about 2 weeks the froggies have already mostly moved out.  I wasn’t there for it but Bozos even managed to pop one of their carriers.  The Russians aren’t giving up so easy but it’s only a matter of time before they run out of cash.

On the personal front I have now finished Minmatar Cruiser 5. I’m really looking forward to being able to take something other than an Ishtar out for Hac gangs even though I am very fond of the ship. I even finished retraining Battle Cruisers V thanks to my penchant for not upgrading clones. Next I’ll have to retrain Gallente Battleship V for about the 3rd time.

On the kills front I surpassed 500 lifetime kills on Battleclinic last month and I’m about to hit 500 kills on my personal killboard. That board starts from the time I wen’t full PVP since I was a pee pee touching, dude smooching care bear before that.

So now for some announcements:

Bozo is recruiting If you are not a total faggot, have a thick skin and are looking for a well organized, fun and fully PVP focused corp then you should apply. You will not find a corp in eve that is more fun. Just click here to take a look at our thread on the forums. You can also join the Bigtop channel in game and talk to either Arancia or Tolarus.

Chicago EvE Meetup There is an EvE meetup coming in February. I plan to attend with a couple of the Initrode guys and you may even see some of the other Bozos there so watch out. You can check out the details here. The Goons apparently had a meet planned the same day and they are expected to crash. Just don’t share a tab with em since we know they have trouble paying bills.

Bozokast #13 is out! Check it out here. T and Q have some special guests this time and will be covering some recent evens including Hulkageddon and the Happy Pirate Giveaway. This show is guaranteed to prevent bowel cancer and regrow hair in cases of male pattern baldness. Definitely something you do not want to miss. Leave a comment for 20% more cancer prevention.