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Shurrurru
Red Unicorns Love Chocolate
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Posted - 2010.04.18 11:31:00 -
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My wife is not a gamer but she at least takes small interest in my favorite hobby and watches me play from time to time - though she can only handle so much EvE as I'm usually flying my Freighter. She does play a mean game of Tetris, but she's completely out of touch with modern gaming.
She knows a few simple things about my computer gaming. She knows that I can speak into my headset and people can hear me (but she doesn't realize this is only if Ventrilo or EvE Voice are active). She knows that my ship is larger than most other ships and that I can carry many smaller ships inside, and that I do this to earn more money.
Being the great wife that she is she will often try to come up with ideas that can help me earn more money. One day I was slowboating to a gate in my Fenrir with a Bestower above me also slowboating. He was right beside me so my wife could see how much I dwarfed him.
She says "That guy should let you carry him so he doesn't need to work so hard. He could pay you to take him!" I said I don't think he's going to be interested in that but before I could say much else she grabs my headset from behind my computer and shouts into it "HEY, SMALLER SPACESHIP, DO YOU WANT MY HUSBAND TO CARRY YOU? HE CAN KEEP YOU SAFE FROM BAD SPACESHIPS!"
Now imagine the previous being said by someone who does not speak English as a primary language and it really makes me with that guy could have heard her.
On April 1st I introduced my wife to the tradition of April Fools by asking her if she wanted to help me kill another spaceship. I set my ship to self destruct and had her press F1 on my keyboard to fire my guns. I timed it so the moment she pressed F1 my ship self-destructed and I was in my pod. She's seen me playing enough to know that when I'm in my pod it means my ship died.
"Oh my god, what happened?"
"Oh no.. no no no no no, I think you must have pressed F2 instead of F1!"
"I pressed F1, not F2.. Why, what does F2 do?"
"F1 shoots guns.. F2 is how you blow up your ship."
"What? Oh my god, that's so stupid. Why would they make those buttons next to each other?"
I fessed up rather quickly, she got worried that she'd cost me a lot of money. When I remember these stories they are really good because I can see her facial expressions. Maybe in text they won't be as good, but only the forum trolls can tell me for sure.
Let's hear it, I love stories about people who don't play games.
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Dan O'Connor
Cerberus Network
Dignitas.
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Posted - 2010.04.18 11:37:00 -
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I don't have such an awesome story like that to tell :D , but a girl I fancy a lot knows I play the game. But for some reason she must have misheard the name or something, so everytime she sees me she asks
"How's Eva?"
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Nooma K'Larr
Minmatar
Cat's Cradle
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Posted - 2010.04.18 13:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Shurrurru
My wife...knows that my ship is larger than most other ships and that I can carry many smaller ships inside...
Women love men with BIG spaceships. And the little ships inside is how we make babies.
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Aera Aiana
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Posted - 2010.04.18 13:35:00 -
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Originally by: Dan O'Connor
I don't have such an awesome story like that to tell :D , but a girl I fancy a lot knows I play the game. But for some reason she must have misheard the name or something, so everytime she sees me she asks
"How's Eva?"
Maybe she's a language buff and you just don't get what she means 
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Cipher Jones
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.04.18 15:22:00 -
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What my wife says about eve:
"Hurry up with my skill plan so I can kill nubs."
What my kid says about eve:
"Hurry up with mommy's skill plan so she can kill nubs."
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t1mmeh
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2010.04.18 15:58:00 -
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Dunno about the wife and kids, but the cat seems to like watching EvE. I've noticed him camping our birdtable with much more regularity.
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BarraKaen
Gallente
The Craniac
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Posted - 2010.04.18 17:56:00 -
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I get this one at least once a week:
"Are you winning EvE?"
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Dan O'Connor
Cerberus Network
Dignitas.
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Posted - 2010.04.18 17:57:00 -
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Edited by: Dan O''Connor on 18/04/2010 18:06:12
Originally by: t1mmeh
Dunno about the wife and kids, but the cat seems to like watching EvE. I've noticed him camping our birdtable with much more regularity.
My kittens started to pay attention when I zoomed in and out, or rotated the camera
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Liang Nuren
Parsec Flux
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Posted - 2010.04.18 18:04:00 -
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My wife says things between "Oh, I'm sorry!" when I tell her I lost my favorite space ship to "YOU SHOULD HAVE MARRIED EVE!!!" when I'm in the middle of a PVP op and she wants something done.  My kids generally don't have anything to say about it.
By and large, she's cool with Eve though - she really likes that there aren't half naked elf chicks dancing across my screen. Can't wait for Incarna. 
-Liang
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Th0rG0d
Pilots From Honour
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Posted - 2010.04.18 18:12:00 -
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Originally by: Liang Nuren
My wife says "YOU SHOULD HAVE MARRIED EVE!!!" when I'm in the middle of a PVP op and she wants something done.
-Liang
I get this on a weekly basis....
That or, "How's your girlfriend?" 
But no, I don't really have any cool stories 
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Cole Y0unger
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Posted - 2010.04.18 18:14:00 -
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Well no real cool stories exept the wifes look when I am talking on coms and she is only hearing half of a convo that has gotten juicy.
I am constantly getting Wife Aggro for wanting to upgrade laptop to a Alienware. like pulling teeth out of a ****ed off lion, she is absolutely not a gamer she is FB Farmville type.
If it isn't Batman Leggo my 5 yr old boy just askes if im winning as he passes by me.
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Lise Kahel
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Posted - 2010.04.18 19:51:00 -
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Edited by: Lise Kahel on 18/04/2010 19:51:52
Edited by: Lise Kahel on 18/04/2010 19:51:39
Alliance Tournament is what my cat adores;
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5261/img0184x.jpg
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Cipher Jones
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.04.18 20:15:00 -
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Originally by: Liang Nuren
My wife says things between "Oh, I'm sorry!" when I tell her I lost my favorite space ship to "YOU SHOULD HAVE MARRIED EVE!!!" when I'm in the middle of a PVP op and she wants something done. My kids generally don't have anything to say about it.
By and large, she's cool with Eve though - she really likes that there aren't half naked elf chicks dancing across my screen. Can't wait for Incarna.
-Liang
If I had a wife who didn't like half naked chicks dancing I would shoot myself.
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Neesa Corrinne
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2010.04.18 20:32:00 -
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When my kids see me playing EVE they usually say something like "Not the spaceship game again, that one is boring! Why don't you play the game where you kill the dragon again??" "Yeah daddeh, dah dwagon game is cool!"
I try to reason with them that blowing up other people's internet spaceships is fun, but to them it's all about dragons and counting how many pets my necromancer has at any given time.
My wife always says this to me when she sees me coming into the kitchen muttering under my breath and shaking my head "Did you get blown up again honey?"
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Xovak
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2010.04.18 21:03:00 -
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My twin sisters usually ask me why they think EVE is so fun as they ask to use the computer. I'm usually either jumping between systems or sitting in a station so they seem to think it's extremely boring. I try to explain to them about how it's based around a player-run economy and huge alliances battling it out for territory but they seem to have a hard time concentrating being 12 and all.
My friends try to follow me but just get plain confused when I hop on to update my skill queue or buy a couple fittings.
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Phaedra Stargazer
Minmatar
Rising Sun Inc.
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Posted - 2010.04.18 21:04:00 -
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My girlfriend always asks if I insured my ship ever since I started playing and I explained that part to her.
Apart from that one of my ex-girlfriends names sounds a lot like EVE so that usually gets a remark as well
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Liang Nuren
Parsec Flux
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Posted - 2010.04.18 21:35:00 -
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Originally by: Cipher Jones
If I had a wife who didn't like half naked chicks dancing I would shoot myself.
I dunno man - my wife makes a pretty good naked dancer herself. Double bonus epic win because I'm the only audience and there's no bouncer to smack me when I get feely with the object of my desires. The whole "monogamy" thing is pretty cool, IMO.
-Liang
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Tinchy Strider
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Posted - 2010.04.19 00:00:00 -
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Originally by: Shurrurru
... she grabs my headset from behind my computer and shouts into it "HEY, SMALLER SPACESHIP, DO YOU WANT MY HUSBAND TO CARRY YOU? HE CAN KEEP YOU SAFE FROM BAD SPACESHIPS!"
This made me nearly wake my whole family up with laughter.
My 2 year old daughter likes EVE a lot, in fact if I try to do any work on my PC with her in the vicinity I have to log in and show her pretty much every ship I have, and then go find an easy mission to do or I get "Make baddies go BOOOOM, Daddy!!" non-stop.
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AdmiralJohn
The Unknown Bar and Pub
Elysium Alliance
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Posted - 2010.04.19 00:17:00 -
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Originally by: Liang Nuren
Originally by: Cipher Jones
If I had a wife who didn't like half naked chicks dancing I would shoot myself.
I dunno man - my wife makes a pretty good naked dancer herself. Double bonus epic win because I'm the only audience and there's no bouncer to smack me when I get feely with the object of my desires. The whole "monogamy" thing is pretty cool, IMO.
-Liang
+1
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Culmen
Caldari
Macabre Votum
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2010.04.19 00:18:00 -
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This vid isnt mine.
But its appropriate
SPACE SHIPS!
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Darth A30NZ
Amarr
Altus Provisio
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Posted - 2010.04.19 01:02:00 -
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Back when I was in FW I was in a RRBS fleet, The wifey came downstairs half dressed and said lets go.. (You know what I mean *wink wink*) I said "Yeah hang on I just gotta dock" and she said "OK I'll be upstairs..."
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Johanes Sajer
Don't Taze Me Bro
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Posted - 2010.04.19 01:54:00 -
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I don't have a girlfriend, I just know a girl who would be very angry if she heard me say that.
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Xiozor
Sons of Damnation
MeatSausage EXPRESS
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Posted - 2010.04.19 01:58:00 -
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My girlfriend has a keen interest in my EVE-ings and I occasionally allow her to ninja-salvage a mission or move a ship or even PvP in a cheap frigate/cruiser.
She has won a corp-hosted ventrillo singing competition on my behalf too,
She also allowed me to get her naked and write the words "Xiozor rocks ****" across her chest, take a picture and put the link in my bio.
Unfortunately this was deemed highly inappropriate by a GM and it was several times forcibly removed until eventually I stopped with the threat of banning if I continued.
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Tiska Drak
Gallente
Dreddit
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Posted - 2010.04.19 03:18:00 -
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My wife, walking behind me when I had one account AFK ice-mining, "Oh my god honey! You're being shot at by lasers!" :D
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Opertone
Caldari
SIEGE.
Reckoning.
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Posted - 2010.04.19 06:01:00 -
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What I usually get...
from my friends - are you playing around with EVA? / How is EVA doing?
from my dad - You are talking to americans again? / Are the guys on the headphones forcing you into no sleep again?
from my girl friend - What makes you so fascinated about the game ships or avatars (player pics)?
from my student mates - Why do you play EvE? Why not WoW, WoW is more fun!
from my mom - Can I touch this again (computer) without ruining your space ship?
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Disunia Vertas
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.04.19 08:30:00 -
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Originally by: BarraKaen
I get this one at least once a week:
"Are you winning EvE?"
Oh god, that's so annoying.. i often get a 'Are you #1 yet?' or 'You still didnt finish EvE?'.
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Gieron
Middleton and Mercer LLP
Consortium.
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Posted - 2010.04.19 08:38:00 -
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A friend thinks I'm playing HIV Online.
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HIghlord Diamond
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Posted - 2010.04.19 09:35:00 -
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What I get from my friends :
1. Are you STILL playing that game. Come-on grab a controller and let's own noobs on Halo!
2. So what new ship are you flying now! (looks at scorpion) Boy it's ugly. Did you lose a wing in combat or something (this will be rectified soon however hehehe : D
3. Go blow someone up!
Me : Can't right now, I'm installing a POS.
Boring!
What I get from my parents :
1. You are wasting your life on video games.
2. This ain't gonna help losing weight and getting a girlfriend (True enough the chances are low, but I don't do this 24/7.)
What I get from my brothers :
1... nothing. My brothers don't even know I play this game I think.
What I get from my girlfriend :
Alas I don't have one at the moment. So lonely
What I get from cousins and other various relatives I introduce to EVE :
This looks awesome! Do you have to pay a monthly fee? Yes. Ah too bad.
What I get from my roommate, probably the only other guy in my town who knows enough about EVE to understand it's basics :
Why are you still flying Caldari? Go get awesome looking golden Amarr ships and fire lazors!
Me : If you want Amarr, install the game and open an account for yourself man.
But my computer's way outdated, would never handle it, and I don't like monthly fees!
Me : Dude you work a full time job and you have like 12 000$ saved up in the bank doing nothing. Go invest 10 000$ and use the rest to buy yourself a decent machine and pay 15$ a month for like 5 years. It's a mere hour and half hour of work for you for an entire month of potential fun! IT IS NOT EXPENSIVE!
Well I'll think about it. (He'll never try it)
To sum up, I am an unfortunately isolated and misunderstood internet ship pilot. All my others RL activities have to be entirely separated from EVE in order to keep them from colliding into pointless arguments and hatred. Everyone I know is either not interested, thinking I'm doing it wrong or thinking it's doing me wrong. Regardless of any rational arguments and perspective I can come up with, this often extremely tense situation as driven my to permanent feelings of guilt whenever I log into the game. As a result, I have almost subconsciously began to reduce my play time since my last peak of gaming about 3 months ago. Today my EVE play can be resumed to logging in, updating skills and chatting with people for about five minutes, then inventing some justification to log off. Now that I have come to realize this, oddly while reading this thread and applying a self analysis of my current situation, I believe the only logical remaining solution is to give aggressive finger to everyone I pretty much know in RL, tell my parents to gtfo out of my business, stop talking about EVE at any sort of familial reunion and possibly move out too Vancouver where several of my corp mates are located and restart my life there under a new identity, possibly renaming myself after my main. Either that or quit EVE.
Shurrurru, I thank you for giving me the chance to see this. I know you didn't mean it, but you probably initiated or at least facilitated a life morphing chain of events that will end up making me much happier. You post cracked me up, keep up the funny threads 
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Pheusia
Gallente
The Initiative.
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Posted - 2010.04.19 09:58:00 -
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Originally by: HIghlord Diamond
What I get from my friends :
1. Are you STILL playing that game. Come-on grab a controller and let's own noobs on Halo!
2. So what new ship are you flying now! (looks at scorpion) Boy it's ugly. Did you lose a wing in combat or something (this will be rectified soon however hehehe : D
3. Go blow someone up!
Me : Can't right now, I'm installing a POS.
Boring!
What I get from my parents :
1. You are wasting your life on video games.
2. This ain't gonna help losing weight and getting a girlfriend (True enough the chances are low, but I don't do this 24/7.)
What I get from my brothers :
1... nothing. My brothers don't even know I play this game I think.
What I get from my girlfriend :
Alas I don't have one at the moment. So lonely
What I get from cousins and other various relatives I introduce to EVE :
This looks awesome! Do you have to pay a monthly fee? Yes. Ah too bad.
What I get from my roommate, probably the only other guy in my town who knows enough about EVE to understand it's basics :
Why are you still flying Caldari? Go get awesome looking golden Amarr ships and fire lazors!
Me : If you want Amarr, install the game and open an account for yourself man.
But my computer's way outdated, would never handle it, and I don't like monthly fees!
Me : Dude you work a full time job and you have like 12 000$ saved up in the bank doing nothing. Go invest 10 000$ and use the rest to buy yourself a decent machine and pay 15$ a month for like 5 years. It's a mere hour and half hour of work for you for an entire month of potential fun! IT IS NOT EXPENSIVE!
Well I'll think about it. (He'll never try it)
To sum up, I am an unfortunately isolated and misunderstood internet ship pilot. All my others RL activities have to be entirely separated from EVE in order to keep them from colliding into pointless arguments and hatred. Everyone I know is either not interested, thinking I'm doing it wrong or thinking it's doing me wrong. Regardless of any rational arguments and perspective I can come up with, this often extremely tense situation as driven my to permanent feelings of guilt whenever I log into the game. As a result, I have almost subconsciously began to reduce my play time since my last peak of gaming about 3 months ago. Today my EVE play can be resumed to logging in, updating skills and chatting with people for about five minutes, then inventing some justification to log off. Now that I have come to realize this, oddly while reading this thread and applying a self analysis of my current situation, I believe the only logical remaining solution is to give aggressive finger to everyone I pretty much know in RL, tell my parents to gtfo out of my business, stop talking about EVE at any sort of familial reunion and possibly move out too Vancouver where several of my corp mates are located and restart my life there under a new identity, possibly renaming myself after my main. Either that or quit EVE.
Shurrurru, I thank you for giving me the chance to see this. I know you didn't mean it, but you probably initiated or at least facilitated a life morphing chain of events that will end up making me much happier. You post cracked me up, keep up the funny threads
wow
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JASON W0RTHING
future of humankind
Wayfarer Stellar Initiative
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Posted - 2010.04.19 10:46:00 -
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What my Dad says about EVE:
*Me shooting people in my rifter* "Now THAT is a cool looking game."
*When I tell him why I need to have Vent*
"Makes, sense. I can see how voice communication is much more efficient than chatting in the heat of combat."
*Chatting about RMT*
"It's only a matter of time before the IRS starts taxing the isk you make."
What Brother #1 says about EVE:
"You should start a bank and get lots of people to invest in it. And then just take their money!!"
What Brother #2 says about EVE:
"I don't want to play a spaceship. Maybe when Incarna comes out" 
What my Mom says about EVE:
"I don't get why it's so fun. Are you really chatting to those people?"
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