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EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game 620

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."
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What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? 569

Posted by Soulskill from the what-is-your-stance-on-monday-and-friday-absenteeism dept.
Mortimer.CA writes "Even though things aren't great in the economy, it's prudent to plan ahead to when things (hopefully) pick up. In light of that, I'd like to update a previously asked question in case things have changed over the last four years: What do you ask every new (prospective) employer? When you're sitting in the interview room after they've finished grilling you, there's usually an opportunity to reciprocate. There will be some niche questions for specializations (sys admin, programming, PM, QA, etc.), but there are some generic ones that come to mind, such as: what is the (official) dress code?" Similarly, what questions should you avoid? Read on for the rest of Mortimer.CA's thoughts.

Comment Re:Nintendo DS (Score 2, Interesting) 479

by metroid composite (#22229882) Attached to: What's the Best Game Console of All Time?
I actually agree, though for different reasons. I own probably twice as many DS games as I own for any other systems (barring perhaps PC) and I've been buying systems and games for 20 years. DS just has an excellent mix of completely wacky innovation type games, and traditional old-school style gameplay (including the rebirth of some genres I like, such as text adventures), and games I can show to my grandmother at social gatherings and catch her interest. For that matter, DS is also well on its way to being the best-selling system of all time--you could argue it's the people's choice.
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Journal Journal: www.rpgdl.com -- up and running.

Journal by metroid composite
For those that don't know, the RPG Duelling League is a tournament of console-RPG characters inspired by Bobbin Cranbud's RPG Playoffs. Well the community-run website has finally been transferred from my departmental website over to a permanent url www.rpgdl.com. Working on a website has...taught me how to use php, designing images with the GIMP, ssh, ftp, and all that. We've got more programmers who know what th
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Journal Journal: Some more data 20

Journal by metroid composite
Well, I figure it's time to start a second Journal entry (mostly because the first seems to have hit its limit, or else /. is glitching).

I'm doing a study of the internet which I hope will turn into a /. article. Basically, I'm looking for the highest posts-per-day output of forums on the Internet, as well as individual message boards. Help would be appreciated, I know there's more large forums out there.

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Journal Journal: Highest Posts per Day boards on the Internet? 37

Journal by metroid composite
Hmm, well I have been wondering this recently. All the particularly large message boards that I've managed to find in my search have been game boards. (...at least in terms of sheer post volume. Slashdot has considerably larger posts with more intellectual quality, for instance, and this is not measured by post numbers). So far, the largest I've found have been GameFAQs and IGN.com. Well now for some basic data. NOTE: this is just raw data right now; it tells nothing about the actual ra

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