I lost my job, my wife, my family. I alienated all of my friends
but I don't do drugs

It taught me that a guy with the name of chribba should allways be trustworthy ....



.. Now i just need to find someone with that name in reall life so he can be my BFF .

If you are in Stockholm you could possibly go around yelling Chribba and if I'm around you'd have my attention haha

If you are in Stockholm you could possibly go around yelling Chribba and if I'm around you'd have my attention haha

... and it's probably because he has an app on his phone that alerts him when someone nearby utters his name, same as on the forums. :)

For me it helped shape my career direction.

In college my goal was to do fine art, that's what I was studying.. during this time I played EvE a lot!
EvE's awesome API & dev community/resources gave me the push I needed to get involved
in web technologies, eg) a lottery tracker, corp forums with the api etc; It linked learning with fun for me.

Anyway's, because of EvE I didn't turn up to university on my first day for an art
degree and dropped out to play EvE & make stuff lol. Then about 3 months later I enrolled on a foundation
degree which took me into a full degree in Web Development. Now, one year after
graduation I'm in a comfortable well paid Web Development job and loving it! :)

If it wasn't for EvE, who knows where I would be with my art degree.. or the friends I would have..

What's your story?

If you are in Stockholm you could possibly go around yelling Chribba and if I'm around you'd have my attention haha

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So you're saying my phone records sound 24/7 and uses voice recognition to alert me of certain keywords!?! Surely there's no such thing!

I don't trust as many people

I lost my job, my wife, my family. I alienated all of my friends
but I don't do drugs

So you're saying my phone records sound 24/7 and uses voice recognition to alert me of certain keywords!?! Surely there's no such thing yet!

Came to FanFest
Met a boy
Fell in love
Moved to Iceland
Got married
Started working at CCP
Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks


I love EVE <3

nothing, its a game......

Came to FanFest
Met a boy
Fell in love
Moved to Iceland
Got married
Started working at CCP
Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks


I love EVE <3

[...]alcohol [...]baby

Came to FanFest

Met a boy
Fell in love

Moved to Iceland

Got married

Started working at CCP

Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks



I love EVE <3

It's an eleven year long story that involves a Rattlesnake, a few trillion ISK, a rabbit-eared skull, 200 crazy pirates, corp theft, 1100 pages of player fiction, a couple of thousand roleplayers, two girlfriends, two boyfriends, two masters degrees, a 120mph car crash with a triple end over end flip, Cards against Humanity, drunkenly breaking into my apartment after forgetting my keys, seven Fanfests, five Alliance Tournaments, three Fanfest Tournaments, a drunken Dev Quiz, Russian Roulette with a nerf gun, being set on fire three times, six vacations in Iceland, three Icelandic new year's celebrations, a locksmith, Wonderwall, sleeping in a hedgerow, a campsite in northern Denmark, sleeping in the same bed as 6 of my corpmates (at the same time), a snowy hot tub after a five course lobster dinner and over 40 player gatherings across the world.

...and that's just the tip of the iceberg when I was (relatively) sober.

Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.

You do know theres no space beer truck right?. Humour me what would you do if 40000 people turn up at fanfest asking you for a beer?. Bet you wish you were in that inty to gtfo quick?.

You do know theres no space beer truck right?. Humour me what would you do if 40000 people turn up at fanfest asking you for a beer?. Bet you wish you were in that inty to gtfo quick?.

Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.

Since I played Eve since I was 12 years old (10 years), I can't point to one specific thing the game has not influenced. I can say however that the biggest two things were these:

1. Dedication. I never would have gone to college or authored and self-published my first book without Eve's influence in this. I had to learn how to pick myself up after losing shiny ships :(

2. Guts. Closely related to 1, but this means I can stand up to things I find wrong. I used to be a wimpy weakling who begged for his life over local chat, or bigger kids would intimidate in the schoolyard. Now, coupled with some martial arts training, I am a confident human being in both body and mind.

Still no girlfriend though.

I saw an ad in the paper. Now I work in an office.

While heading to work at night and driving through some seedier areas on the south side of Chi-town, I mentally note what the security standings for the area would be and how often I see Concord (police).

It's an eleven year long story that involves a Rattlesnake, a few trillion ISK, a rabbit-eared skull, 200 crazy pirates, corp theft, 1100 pages of player fiction, a couple of thousand roleplayers, two girlfriends, two boyfriends, two masters degrees, a 120mph car crash with a triple end over end flip, Cards against Humanity, drunkenly breaking into my apartment after forgetting my keys, seven Fanfests, five Alliance Tournaments, three Fanfest Tournaments, a drunken Dev Quiz, Russian Roulette with a nerf gun, being set on fire three times, six vacations in Iceland, three Icelandic new year's celebrations, a locksmith, Wonderwall, sleeping in a hedgerow, a campsite in northern Denmark, sleeping in the same bed as 6 of my corpmates (at the same time), a snowy hot tub after a five course lobster dinner and over 40 player gatherings across the world.

...and that's just the tip of the iceberg when I was (relatively) sober.

Catch me at a player gathering sometime and ask me all about it, I'll buy you a beer and tell you the whole story.