the corner office

No posts for a week. Reason: I discovered the joys of Eve Online.

I've been fascinated by MMORPGs for a while, but I was always too chicken to take the plunge because I was afraid it would take too much (a) time and (b) bandwidth. A colleague of mine has been carrying on about Eve for a while, and it turns out the bandwidth requirements are (fairly) negligible. So with lots of enticing by said colleague, a general had-enoughness with studying and a trial account, I finally decided to give it a try.

Wow. Wow. Wow. The game itself is great, but I think the coolest part of it is seeing and experiencing what happens when 20-odd thousand people from across the planet are thrown into a virtual world and let loose at the same time. This is undoubtedly old hat for a lot of people, but I'm still blown away.