Good and interesting news!! (Some EVE some not…) Lots of things have happened since my last post and it looks as if my three accounts will be coming online October 1st!!!
Thankfully I am now employed again. I was seriously starting to go batty without any form of employment; I personally am not a human that can sit at home not doing anything at all for long periods of time. I will go ape shit. It’s now officially been proven. I passed my Cisco Certified Network Associate exam so I am officially certifiable now. I started working with Dell doing Tech support for the Army Reserves; it is interesting to say the least. The idea of me getting security clearance is still a point of hilarity between me and all my friends. The good news is that Dell does have locations internationally and I am looking at possibly moving to Europe in the next year or two which means there is an option of being able to move as a transfer and no worries about a job when I get there.
I am actually no longer a single she-gamer. I am seeing a long time friend of mine now who I will admit is a big influence in me possibly moving to Europe in a year or so. I am actually hopping on a plane and flying 5,600 miles to Denmark on the 24th to go and see him so we shall see where it goes. It is always nice to be able to sit and have a conversation about how The Horde is FTW, 3.5 DND is better than 4.0 and I can attempt to convince him missiles are better than drones any day. I just came to the realization if the two of us ever sat down to play eve together he has 4 accounts he runs and I have 3 (well 4 really if I count my brothers that he never plays and I d) accounts… is 8 accounts, 2 people, one room getting a bit excessive???
Nah!
Speaking of dating and gaming I watched a very… interesting, to say the least… documentary called Second Skin. http://www.secondskinfilm.com/ It attempted to take a non partisan stance on gamers, even though it focused 80% on World of Warcraft and 20% on Everquest 2, it went into obsessions, expansions, addictions, families, dating and a little bit of everything you may run into in an MMO, including friendships. But one thing I got to thinking about when it was talking about dating is the fact that I would never date a man, or a woman for that matter, who wasn’t a gamer. Period. Now will I openly admit that this is unfair, yes. But probably not for the reasons you think.
There is a 10:1 gamer ratio of male to female gamers. Obviously with such a one sided ratio you can’t be a guy and expect to meet a female gamer, fall madly in love, get dogs and name them Caldari and Gallente and have little gamer babies. There just aren’t enough female gamers in the world. You can hope to convert the love of your life to videogames and/or MMO’s. Maybe get a decent priest or a dedicated remote repair that you don’t have to bot out of it or maybe if you are lucky she will love professions and every one of your characters now makes mad bank. However, if you are a female gamer you can expect that. You can set out and say, “I will never get in a long term relationship with anyone who is not a gamer.”
It’s not fair for the men of the Gaming universe.
I sit and think about how I would react if my boyfriend told me that “it’s the videogame or me!” I honestly don’t know how I would respond to that. I would never get into a relationship with a guy who would ever want to say that to me. I love the idea of sitting down for a full day mining op breaking out my orca with my hauler and two miners and pulling ice for half the day and minerals the other half. Having five hulks in belt and having to press my attention span to make sure the orca hold is being properly emptied. Getting online together in a 25 man raid and running for 4 hours, praying for epic drops. Randomly running missions or questing the afternoon away together or apart. I will not remove that from my life.
So many men have to and it really just isn’t fair.
