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Thankfully, Nothing is Happening

"Sugar, you are so serious!"

I've been accused of said seriousness a few times in the last week. It is a true thing. I am serious. I take questions serious. I take promises seriously. I play serious internet spaceships, what can I say? I'm a pretty serious person.

I am also a very tired person. I realized that my mind was a bit empty of what I'd consider interesting enough topics to write about. I've spent the bulk of the week very focused and engaged. I'm a little low in the ways of energy. It is something that I find amusing. I'm to tired of think of new things. I'm still processing to many other things in the back of my mind.

I pull my writing from my day to day experiences. When ones week is consumed by only one thing that tends to limit everything else. Somewhere under there, what else have I been doing? I know I was busy but was I productively busy? Does it matter? Probably not. Mostly, now, I'm curled up and unwinding.

In other, random things. My Eve Uni talk is tomorrow instead of Sunday. I mixed my dates up a bit but I figure it doesn't really matter. Also, my Eve Vegas stuff is all together. They have started to announce prizes from the drawings as well as the in game items that come along with a ticket or the stream.


I will never fly it. It will sit in a hangar somewhere (probably Jita) and be beautiful forever.

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  1. This week was surely long for you CSM folks. But hey, it ended up with a huge kill, so the effort was well spent.

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  2. So if that shit somer was doing was rmt are u guys going after tmc next? Paying people to write articles and getting ad revenue is just as much rmt as buying a plex off ppl for 50mil over jita.

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    1. Illicit (that is, against the EULA and CCP will come after you) RMT occurs when person A pays person B money and person B pays person A ISK. Somer had a bit of extra complexity, but finally, he was getting money and the person who sent him money got ISK.

      TMC is paying person C in ISK to write about EVE, then making money off ad impressions made by persons D, E, F and G who come to read the writing. There's no quid pro quo there. There is a technical form of RMT, in that writing has real world value, but CCP has long tolerated ISK for content. Cold, hard cash has an observable corrupting influence on games. Writers and artists have an observable beneficial effect.

      In other words, don't hold your breath.

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