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Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
3154
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Posted - 2017.03.20 08:09:59 -
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Diana Kim wrote:Tibus Heth, because he is not just mine hero, but the hero of Caldari people. He has liberated Caldari Prime from 200 years of gallente occupation and oppression.
Would you like to become a hero and die like one, or prefer to live a quiet life?
I'll split the difference, here: I'd prefer to die for something worthwhile, quietly, unremembered.
Would you rather be remembered for something awful, or forgotten completely? |
Jev North
Anshar Incorporated Monyusaiya Industry Trade Group
715
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Posted - 2017.03.20 09:22:40 -
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Dying quietly and unremembered is just too easy. Let's reject the dichotomy, do things, and then let history decide if it wants to remember them with horror, pride, or at all.
Why do you care about events long past your own death?
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Yuwei Sung
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
16
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Posted - 2017.03.20 10:10:24 -
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Generally speaking, I think that humans - Assuming they're not religious, which is a whole other issue - Struggle to conceptualize the finality and the nature of death as a complete termination of their personal narrative. They cannot truly imagine not being, and that state of nothingness itself being divorced from the frame of reference in which they've lived, and ascribed value to people and places.
Myself, though, I think one should always plan to live forever, or possibly to come back to life at some point. Just in case.
Why do you care about events long before your own birth? |
Elsebeth Rhiannon
Icecream Audit Office Electus Matari
737
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Posted - 2017.03.20 10:41:44 -
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Yuwei Sung wrote:Why do you care about events long before your own birth? Because we are not random individuals in the end; we are who we are because of who and what our kin was and how they chose to live their lives. Past deeds make and shape us, and it is ours to pass that legacy on to the future.
Were you scared when you entered the capsule for the first time, and if so, how did you get over it?
Let the bridges we burn light the way.
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
3103
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Posted - 2017.03.20 13:09:41 -
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Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote: Were you scared when you entered the capsule for the first time, and if so, how did you get over it?
No, not really. Entering first capsule for me wasn't scary, though I barely remember it, it was like I was in a fog, confused and disoriented. And I think I have to admit here that I was actually scared right before it - of the exact process of becoming a capsuleer. Yes, I heard about wetgraves back then, but after I passed the... well, becoming one, the rest wasn't much important for me anymore.
Do you remember your first flight in a capsule? How did it go?
Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.
In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.
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Tyrel Toov
Non-Hostile Target
928
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Posted - 2017.03.20 15:03:20 -
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Diana Kim wrote:Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote: Were you scared when you entered the capsule for the first time, and if so, how did you get over it?
No, not really. Entering first capsule for me wasn't scary, though I barely remember it, it was like I was in a fog, confused and disoriented. And I think I have to admit here that I was actually scared right before it - of the exact process of becoming a capsuleer. Yes, I heard about wetgraves back then, but after I passed the... well, becoming one, the rest wasn't much important for me anymore. Do you remember your first flight in a capsule? How did it go? Went about as well as anyone else's I suppose. Woke up in my capsule in the middle of a dead space pocket and warped to a station. OP success?
When were you humbled in a fight and how?
I want to paint my ship Periwinkle.
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
2099
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Posted - 2017.03.21 03:17:41 -
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Tyrel Toov wrote:
When were you humbled in a fight and how?
More times than I can count. Imagine a hand-purse dog trying to take down a slaver hound. Now imagine that they are both in space. That's how.
I learned that the Jin-Mei upper crust keeps tiny dogs in their sleeves. What's with that?
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Maria Daphiti
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
247
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Posted - 2017.03.21 16:12:45 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:Tyrel Toov wrote:
When were you humbled in a fight and how?
More times than I can count. Imagine a hand-purse dog trying to take down a slaver hound. Now imagine that they are both in space. That's how. I learned that the Jin-Mei upper crust keeps tiny dogs in their sleeves. What's with that?
I haven't the foggiest idea why. What if the dog gets loose and runs around the robes. How do you keep a straight face!
But sometimes the tiny dog will win I guess. I remember the rush from beating a Szipul in my Dragoon or a Garmur with my Battle Magnate and a friend in a Tormentor!
Why do you keep fighting even after you've been humbled and battered and bruised?
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
2102
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Posted - 2017.03.22 01:11:02 -
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Maria Daphiti wrote:Elmund Egivand wrote:Tyrel Toov wrote:
When were you humbled in a fight and how?
More times than I can count. Imagine a hand-purse dog trying to take down a slaver hound. Now imagine that they are both in space. That's how. I learned that the Jin-Mei upper crust keeps tiny dogs in their sleeves. What's with that? I haven't the foggiest idea why. What if the dog gets loose and runs around the robes. How do you keep a straight face! But sometimes the tiny dog will win I guess. I remember the rush from beating a Szipul in my Dragoon or a Garmur with my Battle Magnate and a friend in a Tormentor and some other similar fights against the odds! Why do you keep fighting even after you've been humbled and battered and bruised?
I once wrecked an Omen in a Vigil Fleet Issue and I took out quite a bunch of Thrashers in a Breacher. Breachers are strong, okay?
Answering the question: Because giving up leads to stagnation and we can't have that. We do not simply throw our arms up in the air when a prototype breaks down during a stress test, do we? No, we work on that prototype some more and fix the problem. I apply the same concept to starship combat.
What's the biggest ship you had taken down in the smallest ship you can fly?
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Aradina Varren
Alexylva Paradox
109
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Posted - 2017.03.22 02:13:08 -
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As in the largest ship in comparison to what I was in at the time? Charon in a Cerberus. (I was alone at the time) Largest in the smallest ship that I'm capable of flying?(Going to limit to frigate, I've never gotten a kill in an Ibis) Hurricane in a Federation Navy Comet(I was not alone at the time).
What about out of the pod fights? Been in any notable ones? |
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
2103
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Posted - 2017.03.22 03:26:36 -
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Aradina Varren wrote:As in the largest ship in comparison to what I was in at the time? Charon in a Cerberus. (I was alone at the time) Largest in the smallest ship that I'm capable of flying?(Going to limit to frigate, I've never gotten a kill in an Ibis) Hurricane in a Federation Navy Comet(I was not alone at the time).
What about out of the pod fights? Been in any notable ones?
Pre-Empyrean days, I got into many fights. From convoy escort back on Skarkon in a MTAC (carried in an oversized APC. We do not march our MTACs across the dustbowl. That's only going to slow down the convoy), to firefights in compromised outposts (as in an actual firefight, not an exercise) when I was an RMS cadet undertaking combat engineer and marine course (typically we shorten that to Marine Engineer).
But of all the fights I got into, the one I remembered best was that one time I punched out my mentor back when I was with the Fabricator Circle of the Egivand Enclave. It was a, eh, very passionate debate about using tweels over coagulant liquid tire fills for the next generation of surveyors we planned to roll out by the end of that year.
Well, what's the silliest brawl you had ever gotten yourself into?
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Graelyn
Akagi Initiative Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
933
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Posted - 2017.03.22 13:10:20 -
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At one time, I was getting checks from the STARSI Company as an endorser of their cereal line "Torpedo-Os".
At one of the product launch events for "Cherry Torpedo-O's", someone in the crowd shoved someone else through the security cordon and into the large and intricate pile of branded boxes, arranged into a 20-foot high pyramid.
When the mountain of cereal collapsed onto the crowd, well, somehow the crowd instantly turned feral. While my trusty Kameiras did well not to pull their weapons and exacerbate the situation, it did not take long before everyone on the dias was expertly hurling boxes of Revenge-Flavored Breakfast back and forth in coordinated volley-fire against the crowd, who stood and delivered right back.
Quafe-funded skulduggery, you can be sure.
Cardinal Graelyn
Imperial Liaison, I-RED
Amarr Loyalist of the Year - YC113
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Khaotique Savage
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
5
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Posted - 2017.03.22 13:46:52 -
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The day I lost my arm after my second failed breakout. Odd that you should mention Kameiras in your post given the person who took my arm used to train them.
What's the thing you did to someone that you most regret and why did you do it (rage, revenge, orders) ? |
Jev North
Anshar Incorporated Monyusaiya Industry Trade Group
739
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Posted - 2017.03.27 18:56:27 -
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Ignoring the boring and predictable murders and betrayals, and moving on to things I actually regret--
I've up and abandoned perfectly fine people, stopped talking to them, or just left them in the dust, for bad reasons; because I'd grown bored with them and my head was more into starship combat than their needs, or because they didn't serve my purposes anymore, or because I thought it would let me escape the judging gaze of others.
(It couldn't. Not that I would feel better if it did.)
So, yeah, I could use a pick-me-up. What's currently making your life better?
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Hetu Hegirin
Otherwhere Circle
90
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Posted - 2017.03.27 19:22:09 -
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Jev North wrote:What's currently making your life better? Taking a short holiday. Nothing to manage, no delivery dates hanging overhead, and I'm trying to set worries aside for a time. They will certainly still be there when I return.
There are a surplus of resorts on Fegomenko VII, most of which are specialty lodges based on wider totemic associations, drawing no shortage of the spiritually inclined. While the commercial angle is a little tacky, I will vouch for the restorative qualities. The sky is not overbright at midday, and it is swelteringly hot, so you've no choice but to sweat out your cares. Even at night, the heat rarely abates, but when the winds rise, the cooling rivulets on one's dampened skin... exhilarating. They make excellent fruit-derived cocktails at my current waystop, some with heavy cream on the bottom. Delicious.
In that spirit, where would you like to get away, when next you're able?
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Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
1085
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Posted - 2017.04.17 04:13:20 -
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Hetu Hegirin wrote:Jev North wrote:What's currently making your life better? Taking a short holiday. Nothing to manage, no delivery dates hanging overhead, and I'm trying to set worries aside for a time. They will certainly still be there when I return. There are a surplus of resorts on Fegomenko VII, most of which are specialty lodges based on wider totemic associations, drawing no shortage of the spiritually inclined. While the commercial angle is a little tacky, I will vouch for the restorative qualities. The sky is not overbright at midday, and it is swelteringly hot, so you've no choice but to sweat out your cares. Even at night, the heat rarely abates, but when the winds rise, the cooling rivulets on one's dampened skin... exhilarating. They make excellent fruit-derived cocktails at my current waystop, some with heavy cream on the bottom. Delicious. In that spirit, where would you like to get away, when next you're able?
I'd actually like to try something totally different, for me, and visit the Republic or State if it could be safe for me to do so. I've never visited planetside in either place.
Is there a person who you wish was in the date/do chores Auction but is not?
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Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
2225
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Posted - 2017.04.17 04:24:02 -
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Lunarisse Aspenstar wrote:Hetu Hegirin wrote:Jev North wrote:What's currently making your life better? Taking a short holiday. Nothing to manage, no delivery dates hanging overhead, and I'm trying to set worries aside for a time. They will certainly still be there when I return. There are a surplus of resorts on Fegomenko VII, most of which are specialty lodges based on wider totemic associations, drawing no shortage of the spiritually inclined. While the commercial angle is a little tacky, I will vouch for the restorative qualities. The sky is not overbright at midday, and it is swelteringly hot, so you've no choice but to sweat out your cares. Even at night, the heat rarely abates, but when the winds rise, the cooling rivulets on one's dampened skin... exhilarating. They make excellent fruit-derived cocktails at my current waystop, some with heavy cream on the bottom. Delicious. In that spirit, where would you like to get away, when next you're able? I'd actually like to try something totally different, for me, and visit the Republic or State if it could be safe for me to do so. I've never visited planetside in either place. Is there a person who you wish was in the date/do chores Auction but is not?
Thinking about it, Diana Kim. Because I'm curious to see who would auction for her and what a date with her is worth.
But if you meant who I personally want to date/give chores to that I wish would be in the Auction, nobody, I guess? I am a husband and all, so I already have someone to date and I already have plans for the chores.
Now here's a question I like answered seriously: Which Minmatar ship would you use for prototyping new engineering concepts, and why?
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Che Biko
Alexylva Paradox
910
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Posted - 2017.04.17 14:39:57 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:Now here's a question I like answered seriously: Which Minmatar ship would you use for prototyping new engineering concepts, and why? A Vigil, simply because that is the only cheap Minmatar ship I have.
Since that may not be a very satisfying answer and I don't have a question myself other than the one that was left unanswered a while back, I'll just let Egivand's question stand.
Coordination Channel for Consolidated Space Rescue Cooperation
Open Letter to the Aidonis Foundation Directorate
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Synthetic Cultist
Church of The Crimson Saviour Sani-Sabik
615
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Posted - 2017.04.17 17:30:48 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:Which Minmatar ship would you use for prototyping new engineering concepts, and why?
The Typhoon.
It has a Large, Strong Hull, and has a Wide Variety of Standard Fittings, including All 3 Common Weapon Systems - Turrets, Missile Launchers, and Drones.
This would make a Typhoon a very Flexible Test-Bed for Experimental Work, allowing a Wide Range of Experiments to be Conducted.
Question: Which Historical Figure would you Consider to be the Role-Model that influences You the Most ?
Synthia 1, Empress of Kaztropol.
It is Written.
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
3152
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Posted - 2017.04.19 12:18:46 -
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Synthetic Cultist wrote:Elmund Egivand wrote:Which Minmatar ship would you use for prototyping new engineering concepts, and why? The Typhoon. It has a Large, Strong Hull, and has a Wide Variety of Standard Fittings, including All 3 Common Weapon Systems - Turrets, Missile Launchers, and Drones. This would make a Typhoon a very Flexible Test-Bed for Experimental Work, allowing a Wide Range of Experiments to be Conducted. Question: Which Historical Figure would you Consider to be the Role-Model that influences You the Most ? Tibus Heth.
He is everything that Caldari strives to be. I am proud I lived in the State during His reign and served him. And I am greatly saddened that he is not with us anymore and became just a history. But even if his body is dead, his legacy will live in all of us and will be lighting hearts of every Caldari with hope for thousands of years. Long live the State!
Which historical event has changed your point of view on any subject most greatly?
Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.
In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.
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Templar Thal Vadam
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
78
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Posted - 2017.04.19 12:54:12 -
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The Elder Fleet. Taught me war is pointless but always inevitable.
Which parent was your favorite? |
Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
2235
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Posted - 2017.04.19 13:30:49 -
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Templar Thal Vadam wrote:The Elder Fleet. Taught me war is pointless but always inevitable.
Which parent was your favorite?
My Ma, I guess? Because reasons only a psychologist can explain satisfactorily.
What is the most beautiful thing you had ever seen?
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Che Biko
Alexylva Paradox
910
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Posted - 2017.04.19 13:36:26 -
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Aria Jenneth.
I managed to dig up my question that was (likely inadvertently) skipped over by my dear friend mme. Daphiti.
If you had a partner/lover when you first died (either as part of your capsuleer exam or otherwise), did your death affect your relationship in any way?
Coordination Channel for Consolidated Space Rescue Cooperation
Open Letter to the Aidonis Foundation Directorate
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Lasairiona Raske
Akagi Initiative Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
321
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Posted - 2017.04.19 13:36:41 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:Templar Thal Vadam wrote:The Elder Fleet. Taught me war is pointless but always inevitable.
Which parent was your favorite? My Ma, I guess? Because reasons only a psychologist can explain satisfactorily. What is the most beautiful thing you had ever seen?
Each of my children's faces for the first time.
What's your favorite childhood memory? (Sorry if it's been asked before)
Are you a devil or an angel
Sent here from heaven or from hell?
Sweet temptress, I'm wrapped in your tangles
Can't find my way out of your spell
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Che Biko
Alexylva Paradox
910
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Posted - 2017.04.19 13:41:14 -
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Heh.
Gotta love my friends.
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Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
2379
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Posted - 2017.04.20 02:05:54 -
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First question: I do not have a lover, but my death and return as a capsuleer did send my clan's skadi scrambling to work on the genealogy charts which did, well, restart debate about whether a resurrected capsuleer is to be considered the same person or his/her own offspring. That debate about capsuleers being the same person vs offspring had been going on since the clan produced its first capsuleer, quite a few years before my time. The result of the debate is still inconclusive, since a week later the clan went, "Get back to work," and shelved the topic.
Until that time another family produces a capsuleer.
Second question: Age 7, made to study really difficult math. Took me about a week to work the problems out, got the answer onto paper and brought it to my Pa. He took out a chart, revealing to me that for every engineering math problem, there is a reference chart associated with it. I threw a tantrum. Pa just laughed.
He kept teasing me about it for a year.
Have you ever wanted to punch your own clone?
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
1122
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Posted - 2017.05.16 21:45:57 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:First question: I do not have a lover, but my death and return as a capsuleer did send my clan's skadi scrambling to work on the genealogy charts which did, well, restart debate about whether a resurrected capsuleer is to be considered the same person or his/her own offspring. That debate about capsuleers being the same person vs offspring had been going on since the clan produced its first capsuleer, quite a few years before my time. The result of the debate is still inconclusive, since a week later the clan went, "Get back to work," and shelved the topic.
Until that time another family produces a capsuleer.
Second question: Age 7, made to study really difficult math. Took me about a week to work the problems out, got the answer onto paper and brought it to my Pa. He took out a chart, revealing to me that for every engineering math problem, there is a reference chart associated with it. I threw a tantrum. Pa just laughed.
He kept teasing me about it for a year.
Have you ever wanted to punch your own clone?
Yes, instead I went on Penitent status to try to work it out more constructively.
How do you solve a problem like Nauplius? (permanently?)
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Mizhara Del'thul
Coreli Corporation Mercenary Coalition
1747
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Posted - 2017.05.16 21:50:51 -
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You don't. He's a capsuleer and thus not someone you can truly force to do anything. The only solution is the same as you apply to any other capsuleer like that. Stop encouraging him by giving him attention and silently destroy his assets whenever they pop up. Step two, have more patience and fortitude than him. Repeat.
What do you think lies beyond the Eve gate? Feel free to get imaginative. |
Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3640
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Posted - 2017.05.16 22:10:15 -
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Worlds upon worlds where nothing lives that would recognize in us anything of themselves, where the idea of humanity is quaint and ancient. Where weapons such as ourselves would be abhorrent and horrifying to everything the inhabitants stand for, and where the insane race to escape death, which has given New Eden the twin atrocities of the Amarr faith, and us, has finally been left in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
Should I go back to the arm with the built-in multi-meter and toolkit, or stick with the meat? |
Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
2379
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Posted - 2017.05.17 09:20:32 -
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Arrendis wrote:Worlds upon worlds where nothing lives that would recognize in us anything of themselves, where the idea of humanity is quaint and ancient. Where weapons such as ourselves would be abhorrent and horrifying to everything the inhabitants stand for, and where the insane race to escape death, which has given New Eden the twin atrocities of the Amarr faith, and us, has finally been left in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
Should I go back to the arm with the built-in multi-meter and toolkit, or stick with the meat?
Tool-arm. It's less frail and has more utility. Before you start complaining about the lack of sensations, mech-prosthetics these days also come silicon and sensor mesh coating/skin that can simulate sensations up to about 70% accuracy, and that number's increasing every day. Sure, by the decimals but progress is progress.
Have you ever pondered about what it will be to have one's own mind hitch a ride in another person's clone while that clone still possess it's original's mind and personality?
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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