Eve online? Eve online is a goooood drug, it blocks out reality
No sorry but this isn't about Eve online at all, that is just the title. Why? Well the other day I was in the pub and someone had a phone out that was GPRS connected to some sort of forums called 4chan and not4chan I think. It seemed the forum covered all kinda of crazy topics that are unusual to talk about including drugs. I was reading through the titles in the drugs one and it listed all of the usual suspects and at the bottom, rather amusingly I found eve online listed too. Hence the response in the title upon my query to one of the guys who knew what the forum was about
Funny though cause it occurred to me later that
PE can be just as bad. (I don't really know about eve by the way, I've seen it but as far as I can see its like a pretty multiplayer "Elite" so doesn't really appeal) Certainly for me and many others I believe
PE is all about escapism but more recently I've discovered it can also be a welcome brain switch. ie to turn your brain most definitely OFF for a while. Its sad but in the stressfull world in which we live these days maybe people seek to do this and
PE is the perfect no brainer. Think about it, there are very few activities in
PE that, in their most basic form cause you engage your brain. (yes I know thinking CAN be beneficial sometimes)
For example, I'm in the middle of a "hunt". I say "hunt" in quotes cause this isn't the usual hunt that people do, it's a "Wistrel Chianti so slow she'll bore your socks off special". In short what I'm doing is wondering around in the twilight surrounding Jason center happilly playing with the snables and daikibas that can be found there. My "technique" is to walk casually up to a friendly looking mobs scan him (or her
) till she moves too much (which is green text galore btw for those who've never done it) then hit the concentrate button and sweat it till it finally comes to say hello. After that I hit it with a few rounds from my low amped opala till it walks away then I sweat it again till it comes back and finish it off. To finish I take a slow walk to the next one while looking for fruit and begin the whole process again. Dull? yes. Repetative yes? A pleasant way to kill two hours? Most definitely!
The crazy thing is that, not only am I profiting (I believe) from this tedious endeavour but, thanks to the whole ammo in loot thing we have these days, I've only got through 300 of my 1000 allocated rounds of ammo! I stopped at two hours cause I told myself no more but it makes me wonder... just HOW long can a 10ped hunt of this manner actually last? I guess, just for fun I may stick with it for the next bunch of logins and report back. You never know, maybe I'll even global!
Wistrel