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Suze'Rain
Caldari
Atrocitas
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Posted - 2008.01.18 19:25:00 -
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Edited by: Suze''Rain on 18/01/2008 19:26:30
So yesterday was the most "interesting" PVP horror of my life. no, I'm not talking losses of faction battleships, carriers going down, being podded with a full set of +5s... I'm talking the really bad moments in PVP.
And I wonder if it can get any more ball-clenchingly unnerving than my experience yesterday:
(the scene: Local Channel, 0.1 sec system. Actual comments paraphrased)
War-target A: "so, Mr Suze, is your name ****?"
**** is my name. I feel mildly worried by this. I decide jokey is better than "who are you, you weirdo?".
Suze'rain: "well, I'm not usually called 'mr'. more often 'you utter b*stard' or the likes... :)"
War-target A "but you did write a book?"
at this point the alarm bells are screaming. Suze'Rain is taken from Suzerain, an RPG I was a co-author of back at the end of the 90's. combined with knowing my name, I'm worried. very worried.
Suze'rain "erm.... yes? who exactly is this?"
War-target A "I met you last month. I was interviewing you for <company name>"
as I collapse on the floor in combined hysterical laughter and the horror of "oh s*** I've just been trying to pod-kill my real-life employer!" moment.
Fortunately he doesn't take it personally, but suffice it to say, that is without any doubt, the most visceral moment of terror I've ever felt in eve, as I had horrific images of having just scuppered a rather good job by being a murderous git in Eve.
My question is... can anyone beat that moment in utter horror?
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2008.01.18 19:36:00 -
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I would have tried to pod-kill him even harder 
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MasterEnt
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Posted - 2008.01.18 19:39:00 -
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Classic
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Agent Li
Caldari
Galactic Defence Consortium
BLACKHAWK FEDERATION
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Posted - 2008.01.18 19:42:00 -
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Well, not a moment of horror, but...
My oldest daughter is 14. She's told her friends at high school that "her Dad plays Eve..."
Evidently, this makes me the coolest Dad on the planet. It has also made some of attack me on sight (she gave them my character name)...
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Casino Alkasar
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.01.18 19:46:00 -
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haha very delicate
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maCH'EttE
Veto.
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Posted - 2008.01.18 19:48:00 -
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OMFG LOL That's pretty much the worst luck you could have...
 Originally by: Devil Hanzo (ISD)
I got pwned! 
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Haradgrim
The Wild Bunch
INTERDICTION
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Posted - 2008.01.18 20:34:00 -
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Sort of a similar stroy though not eve-related:
I was in a football pool a couple of years back, I ending up coming back from pretty far down the ranking to win the whole thing. Later on that same year I found out (while we were talking about football pools) that my boss was the guy that I has just barely disloged from first place to win the pool in the last week.. .. and as you can imagine he wasn't to happy about it....... luckily he was a pretty nice guy and didn't hold it against me.
When you hear a story like this I find my initial reaction is to think: "You should have just podded him, it would have been funny!" But the truth is that when your real life gets involved, especially your job, even a benign situation like that can make cold sweat pour down the back of your neck.
Originally by: CCP Oveur
...every forum whine feels like a baby pony is getting killed
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2008.01.18 20:40:00 -
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Epic.
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Blane Xero
Amarr
The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2008.01.18 20:43:00 -
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Once podded my best mates dad, didnt know it was him till later in the week when i went to visit my mate, and asked how he was getting on in eve, and i offered to help him mine back after a supposed "Big settback" he had during the week, he asked me who my char was and i told him, and several minutes of hysteria ensued, my mate, who ALSO played eve at the time, sent me 200mill as a thanks for it
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Jayne Tamm
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Posted - 2008.01.18 22:19:00 -
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Edited by: Jayne Tamm on 18/01/2008 22:18:48
simply put....what you should have done is ransomed his ship for a pay rise :D
nuff said :)
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Kruel
Beyond Divinity Inc
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Posted - 2008.01.18 22:26:00 -
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Originally by: Jayne Tamm
simply put....what you should have done is ransomed his ship for a pay rise :D
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Suze'Rain
Caldari
Atrocitas
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Posted - 2008.01.18 22:29:00 -
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*laughs* I suspect a ransom would be a really bad move before I've even started the job :)
would be great on a CV though: "reason for leaving: Murdered company staff in virtual world".
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Cahone Jones
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Posted - 2008.01.18 22:49:00 -
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Just before Xmas I was chatting to the boss's son at the company office party and found out he was an Eve player, exchanged character names etc and had a good natter..
First week in Jan I am back at my desk, I am fortunate that my desk is in the office at my house ( I work from home 99% of the time) No matter how hard I try I cant get get back into work mode, turn phone off, close e-mail and every other distraction still cant raise any interst in working despite having a project that really needs to be finished yesterday.
So I decide about 10.30 am that an hour on Eve will do me the world of good, so logs in, ... Time passes, having fun when all of a sudden a brand new noob character convo's me..
(paraphrased)
Opens convo
Noob Character.. HI
Me.... errr HI whats up
Noob ....Any chance you can stop playing this game and get that document to me today< I have been trying to ring/e-mail/IM you for hours
Looks at clock its 4.30 pm !!!!
Yup in desperation, my boss who also works from home downloaded the trial account and convo'd me to tell me in effect to get the hell of Eve and do some work !!!
All is not bad though, as he is still playing Eve and we sort of ignore the fact we are both on-line in the middle of the working day
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Shwedagon Paya
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Posted - 2008.01.18 22:54:00 -
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Originally by: Suze'Rain
My question is... can anyone beat that moment in utter horror?
The idea of someone with atrocious grammar writing any sort of book is pretty horrific.
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Suze'Rain
Caldari
Atrocitas
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Posted - 2008.01.18 23:24:00 -
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Originally by: Shwedagon Paya
Originally by: Suze'Rain
My question is... can anyone beat that moment in utter horror?
The idea of someone with atrocious grammar writing any sort of book is pretty horrific.
Thanks. you;ll be glad to know that I neither typed it at this dodgy keyboard, nor with as little effort as I post on a forum. There are also these things called 'editors' whose job it is to fix the errors and lazy habits that I have. you might've heard of them.
While they can be quite vicious, they're much less of a horror than snarky (half) wits with nothing constructive to add to threads, in my mind.
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ry ry
StateCorp
The State
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Posted - 2008.01.18 23:25:00 -
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Originally by: Shwedagon Paya
Originally by: Suze'Rain
My question is... can anyone beat that moment in utter horror?
The idea of someone with atrocious grammar writing any sort of book is pretty horrific.
War-Target-A, is that you?
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Admiral Pelleon
Caldari
White Shadow Imperium
imPure.
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Posted - 2008.01.18 23:34:00 -
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Originally by: Shwedagon Paya
Originally by: Suze'Rain
My question is... can anyone beat that moment in utter horror?
The idea of someone with atrocious grammar writing any sort of book is pretty horrific.
Smacking with an Alt is pretty horrific tbh.
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Borsek
Gallente
A.A.A
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Posted - 2008.01.18 23:36:00 -
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This thread delivers ^^
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Bellum Eternus
Gallente
Death of Virtue
Sex Panthers
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Posted - 2008.01.19 01:13:00 -
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From a few weeks ago:
A few of my friends and I are standing around at school taking a break and the topic of MMOs came up, and we were discussing our favorites. I of course brought up Eve.
After a few more minutes, we had gathered quite the crowd, probably twenty or so discussing MMO games and everyone's experiences when character names came up. I said who I was in Eve and a few of the guys looked at me funny for a second and then one of them said 'dood, you killed me in Eve! I'm ****!" This was followed by a few more "me toos!".
Apparently I've pirated quite a few of my classmates/schoolmates during my time in Eve and cost them quite a bit of ISK. Was rather interesting to have half a dozen guys looking at you who you've podded repeatedly and destroyed billions of ISK worth of their assets lol.
Bellum Eternus
[Vid] L E G E N D A R Y
[Vid] L E G E N D A R Y I I |
Shae Tiann
Under the Wings of Fury
Atrocitas
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Posted - 2008.01.19 01:56:00 -
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It's a surprisingly small world, at times...
I was at a conference this past summer with a couple friends who played Eve. There were other Eve-players at the convention (hardly surprising), and one of my mates got to chatting with them. The usual enquiries (who do you fly with? what do you do? how did you start playing?) went around, and my friend mentioned that she'd gone a slightly different route.
'Oh? who were you with?'
'...Privateers.'
There was a moment of dead silence followed by the last thing anyone would expect to hear at a respectable conference:
'YOU B****!!'
...And that was how Eve caught my interest... ^__^;
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Fswd
Gallente
Black Ops Corporation
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Posted - 2008.01.19 01:58:00 -
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Originally by: Bellum Eternus
From a few weeks ago:
A few of my friends and I are standing around at school taking a break and the topic of MMOs came up, and we were discussing our favorites. I of course brought up Eve.
After a few more minutes, we had gathered quite the crowd, probably twenty or so discussing MMO games and everyone's experiences when character names came up. I said who I was in Eve and a few of the guys looked at me funny for a second and then one of them said 'dood, you killed me in Eve! I'm ****!" This was followed by a few more "me toos!".
Apparently I've pirated quite a few of my classmates/schoolmates during my time in Eve and cost them quite a bit of ISK. Was rather interesting to have half a dozen guys looking at you who you've podded repeatedly and destroyed billions of ISK worth of their assets lol.
So afterwards they tried to flush you through a toilet, or what?
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Originally by: Richard Phallus
HEY! Giving helpful correct information isn't an eve meme! Stop that.
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Bellum Eternus
Gallente
Death of Virtue
Sex Panthers
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Posted - 2008.01.19 02:21:00 -
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Originally by: Fswd
Originally by: Bellum Eternus
From a few weeks ago:
A few of my friends and I are standing around at school taking a break and the topic of MMOs came up, and we were discussing our favorites. I of course brought up Eve.
After a few more minutes, we had gathered quite the crowd, probably twenty or so discussing MMO games and everyone's experiences when character names came up. I said who I was in Eve and a few of the guys looked at me funny for a second and then one of them said 'dood, you killed me in Eve! I'm ****!" This was followed by a few more "me toos!".
Apparently I've pirated quite a few of my classmates/schoolmates during my time in Eve and cost them quite a bit of ISK. Was rather interesting to have half a dozen guys looking at you who you've podded repeatedly and destroyed billions of ISK worth of their assets lol.
So afterwards they tried to flush you through a toilet, or what?
Three of them asked to join my corp. 
Bellum Eternus
[Vid] L E G E N D A R Y
[Vid] L E G E N D A R Y I I |
Orgos Khenn
Minmatar
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Posted - 2008.01.19 03:09:00 -
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You co-authored Suzerain? I have a copy of that on my bookshelf. It's like...one of those RPGs that everyone SHOULD know about.
----In before Jonny JoJo turns this into an Amarr whine----
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cal nereus
Bounty Hunter - Dark Legion
Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2008.01.19 03:38:00 -
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This is now one of my favorite threads. Thank you, all of you. Epic stories.
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Liang Nuren
The Avalon Foundation
Knights Of Syndicate
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Posted - 2008.01.19 05:05:00 -
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I was working 80+ hours a week when my boss introduced me to Eve. I think he regrets it now. He's sent me some messages at work asking me to get back to work. ;-)
-Liang
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Originally by: "QProQ"
When they said to put 'stabs on your 'cane, they meant GYROSTABS!
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Lazuran
Gallente
Time And ISK Sink Corporation
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Posted - 2008.01.19 05:19:00 -
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Originally by: Suze'Rain
My question is... can anyone beat that moment in utter horror?
In your place I'd be more worried about him knowing that you're playing, possibly addicted to EVE ...
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Arvald
Caldari
Devilish Intentinos
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Posted - 2008.01.19 06:11:00 -
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Originally by: Suze'Rain
Originally by: Shwedagon Paya
Originally by: Suze'Rain
My question is... can anyone beat that moment in utter horror?
The idea of someone with atrocious grammar writing any sort of book is pretty horrific.
Thanks. you;ll be glad to know that I neither typed it at this dodgy keyboard, nor with as little effort as I post on a forum. There are also these things called 'editors' whose job it is to fix the errors and lazy habits that I have. you might've heard of them.
While they can be quite vicious, they're much less of a horror than snarky (half) wits with nothing constructive to add to threads, in my mind.
win
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Originally by: Brea Lafail
Care to explain this jargon for those of us who have to call tech support to plug in a toaster?
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Cilvius Sanctus
Gallente
The Order of Chivalry
Nex Eternus
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Posted - 2008.01.19 08:10:00 -
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These stories are hilarious, I only wish I had some of these to share myself. I've met only one person that plays EVE (aside from my friend that I got into EVE) but he no longer plays. I've tried to get him to come back, but to no avail.
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xxxak
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Posted - 2008.01.19 09:43:00 -
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Not EVE related, but thread related.
Back in high school I played a Mechwarrior game online. I was in a medium (50+ ton) mech and there was a smaller 30 ton mech on my team. I ordered a frontal assault. For some reason the pilot of the smaller mech didnt like my tactics, and started smack talking me. A few moments later he shot me in the weak spot in the back of my armor and blew me up.
A year later I was discussing the story and I realized that the smaller mech had been piloted by my new college roommate who I had never met before!
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
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Posted - 2008.01.19 09:55:00 -
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reminds me of the my daddy flys a domi and will pod your daddys story.
haven't met anyone significant that plays eve yet. talked to a few people, but then again that was back in my  days.
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