Scoville Bessler ends her fourteen day jaunt in New Eden on a high note, or least a fairly decent middle range note. I've learned the basics, picked up a few tricks, made some contacts, blew up and salvaged a shit ton of pirates, droids, and Caldari and a couple of Amarr ships here and there. As a member of the Gallente Federation, currently at war with the aforementioned realms, I haven't met any Caldari or Amarr yet but I don't like what they stand for - the Amarr in particular are a bunch of religious fanatics with a society based upon slavery (though there are also some Machine worshippers that make me happy in my 40K place). Caldari might as well be called Randians.
I've got a nice little system of mission grinding/salvage/and sales going on. I've starting saving salvage for a buyer who constructs her own ships and sells them. Yeah so I'm a sanitation engineer & junk peddler. What? My primary focus with Sco is getting her skills really up to skill before venturing too far astray. That way I don't have to waste too much money on new ships and gear.
Once I get my paycheck I might sign up for a month but I'll have to juggle finances first.
The interesting concept I began thinking about a day or two ago was a discussion I had in-game about my avatar Scoville. Someone asked me if she was a man or a woman. I replied that Scoville is a woman but that I was thinking of starting a male alt. The person joked that they weren't sure, in a very polite way, because Sco had both masculine and feminine qualities in her portrait. Then that conversation was over and we all started goofing off again. Yesterday, while I was out making deliveries, I was glancing at the conversation box and some people were joking about how few actual women played the game and a lot of women chimed in that they did but then some guy pointed out that a lot of men have female avatars (the guy who was joking with me about Sco) so I jumped in and quipped, "Yeah and sometimes you just can't tell." Then it kind of hit me that a society - so deeply based around clones and cloning would or could have radically different notions of gender, gender roles, sexuality, etc, etc. Granted these are still human societies and some rely on cloning and cybernetics more or less than others additionally humans can still be born naturally. It's not clear what direction I'm going with this, might be aimless rumination. In anycase I involved myself in the conversation about clones (in particular Sco) potentially not really being concerned about gender, I wanted to make an "Orlando" reference but people probably already think I'm a weirdo. Especially in the case when a clone in the case of capsuleers (pilots in EVE) have a clone waiting in case of pod death - you're grafting a personality into a body (read the article, it explains the concept much clearer than I can). So in any case now Sco identifies as herself first, clone-status and gender-status are other people's concerns not hers. How very Intaki of her.
And that's the end of EVE crazy talk for the time being. Classes start up soon. The weather is getting hot. Hope you are all well.
I've got a nice little system of mission grinding/salvage/and sales going on. I've starting saving salvage for a buyer who constructs her own ships and sells them. Yeah so I'm a sanitation engineer & junk peddler. What? My primary focus with Sco is getting her skills really up to skill before venturing too far astray. That way I don't have to waste too much money on new ships and gear.
Once I get my paycheck I might sign up for a month but I'll have to juggle finances first.
The interesting concept I began thinking about a day or two ago was a discussion I had in-game about my avatar Scoville. Someone asked me if she was a man or a woman. I replied that Scoville is a woman but that I was thinking of starting a male alt. The person joked that they weren't sure, in a very polite way, because Sco had both masculine and feminine qualities in her portrait. Then that conversation was over and we all started goofing off again. Yesterday, while I was out making deliveries, I was glancing at the conversation box and some people were joking about how few actual women played the game and a lot of women chimed in that they did but then some guy pointed out that a lot of men have female avatars (the guy who was joking with me about Sco) so I jumped in and quipped, "Yeah and sometimes you just can't tell." Then it kind of hit me that a society - so deeply based around clones and cloning would or could have radically different notions of gender, gender roles, sexuality, etc, etc. Granted these are still human societies and some rely on cloning and cybernetics more or less than others additionally humans can still be born naturally. It's not clear what direction I'm going with this, might be aimless rumination. In anycase I involved myself in the conversation about clones (in particular Sco) potentially not really being concerned about gender, I wanted to make an "Orlando" reference but people probably already think I'm a weirdo. Especially in the case when a clone in the case of capsuleers (pilots in EVE) have a clone waiting in case of pod death - you're grafting a personality into a body (read the article, it explains the concept much clearer than I can). So in any case now Sco identifies as herself first, clone-status and gender-status are other people's concerns not hers. How very Intaki of her.
And that's the end of EVE crazy talk for the time being. Classes start up soon. The weather is getting hot. Hope you are all well.
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