FFXIAH Linkshell Ni

You just had to go and have kids...

I did at least get 4 last night so I'm running decent today.

well, bad morrow to to you as well!

I'm jack's total exhaustion. Cleaned out another storage unit after work last night. mf'ing lady was a bee-keeper, put all her bees, alive, into the storage unit, only to be found by me 10 years later. the smell of death and rank honey was forceful. All I got out of the deal was 2 stupid *** pesos.

You beat me by half an hour!

Mine was up at 4:45 this morning.

But now she sleeps....muhahaha.

I forgot you guys don't have a holiday today. Was surprised when I saw so much activity in Ni and P&R.

Then I remembered it is Friday, duh.

yeah.... chaffing everyone's *** in P&R!

I'm trying to talk kingnoobie into moving to detroit!

Maybe...Just Maybe...He should run for office in Dee-Twah and turn that city around! Michigan should consider him or Lordgrim for a mayoral candidacy! Wouldn't those debates be a sight to behold!

Lucky duck!

I've had to extend bedtime to about 9:00 or 9:30 to circumvent the escapee jumping in bed with us too early. Thankfully, it wasn't him that kept me awake, so that's a plus!

The US really needs to adopt May Day as a holiday!

Is that still a thing? If you're a serial poster on FFXIAH, you probably have no chance of ever holding any government office. LOL!

Is that still a thing? If you're a serial poster on FFXIAH, you probably have no chance of ever holding any government office. LOL!

Smith was known as a leading player and former member of the Council of Stellar Management in the Eve Online gaming community (under the username "Vile Rat") and was a moderator on the Something Awful forums. On the day of his death, Smith typed a message to the director of his online gaming corporation that read, "Assuming we don't die tonight. We saw one of our 'police' that guard the compound taking pictures." Eve Online‍‍ '​‍s Council of Stellar Management published a tribute to Smith two days after Smith's death. Spontaneous reactions from the player base included a mass renaming of outposts throughout the game universe. Zack Parsons of Something Awful later organized a benefit for Smith's family, raising US$127,000.

In Eve, Sean briefly was in the top echelon of the game's player-run government. His influence in the game actually grew for more than half a decade. He rose from ordinary player to master spy to diplomat for the mighty GoonSwarm alliance. He toppled rivals with the soft nudge of verbal persuasion. He helped his alliance win a war among player alliances that raged for three years. He even made peace with the Russians.


Sean was, to Alex, the eventual head of GoonSwarm, a great right hand, a great consigliere. Think of the best movers and shakers in the Game of Thrones, perhaps—not the ones who used the sword but who favored the cunning deal. "He was thankfully a lot less honorable than Ned Stark," Alex remarked to me, remembering one of the failed right-hand-men of the Thrones saga, "otherwise we would have been all screwed."

He was a good liar?

"Oh, he was the best."

To express just how well Sean played Eve, Alex told me about one of Sean's first great in-game acts. Sean was in the GoonSwarm Intelligence Agency, a group within the game started by Alex.

Eve is technically a game about warring spaceships and mineral-mining but it's really about the politics of its massive player groups, tens of thousands of gamers around the world aligned in various "corporations", who all vie for existence in a single shared galaxy. In late 2006 and early 2007 GoonSwarm were the newcomers to Eve, which had been running since 2003.

GoonSwarm were upstarts. The group consisted of members of the forums for the rambunctious humor website Something Awful. Goons regularly decided to descend on online games to exert their mischievous, grief-inducing influence. These were the kind of people who would infiltrate Eve and start up some crafty spygames. Cue Sean's first big moment:

"We wanted to get him placed highly in an enemy organization, which was trying to kill us," Alex recalled. "The enemy alliance was called Lotka Volterra, and they had been attacking Goonfleet and messing around. Vile Rat came up with this—in hindsight—sort of a cack-handed scheme where we would fake that Vile Rat had gone '*** Goons.' '*** Goons' is what we call someone who is a traitor.

"So what we did was we had one of our other directors, a guy named Sorenson, fill up a hauler, which is an industrial ship in Eve—a defenseless space truck, basically—filled it full of valuable minerals, and we had Vile Rat in an Interceptor, which is a small, fast fighter-type ship, blow it up in public.

"The thing about Eve is that, whenever anybody blows anything up, it produces a hard record called a killmail—you kill a ship in Eve and it’s not like in Call of Duty where it’s like, 'I killed somebody,' it leaves a record: what was on their ship, how you killed them and a lot of crunchy details. So there’s a record of death. This is important, because, when Vile Rat blew up this hauler full of valuable minerals and what-have-you, it proved his treason to everyone. Viler Rat has gone '*** Goons' and is joining Lotka Volterra.

"He was able to say, 'I can’t stand the CEO, look I’ve got Goonblood all over my hands, take me.' And they did. And he was our agent within the Shinra corporation in Lotka Volterra for many months. Eventually, he came in from the cold, when the intelligence value we had from that was less than the value of having Vile Rat on our side. But we torched the ground that Lotka Volterra had. We took all their space. They disbanded the alliance they had...Vile Rat was a major part of that."

Oh Misa, you going to be around tomorrow?

Lucky duck!

i sure hope so!

Was making ramen. pressed the start button on the microwave.. the instant I pressed the button there was an ear shattering pop. scared the hell out of me and my right ear is still ringing at how loud that was.. microwave seems fine though..

I'm very confused.

Civ V: Where as soon as your boundaries touch, you have made a mortal enemy, despite being friends for millennia.

did the light inside the microwave go out?

Mosin, AKA Paco Danger, once admitted to running with garden gnome snatchers! Mosin claims to be a MNK, but his past garden gnome theft clearly points to THF!

Nope. every looks and operates like normal. No burning smells or anything.

Go watch that guy that cooks random things in a microwave... Las time I saw him he had a 3ds in there.

i sure hope so!