YARRRRRRRRRRR! I say ...

For the second time in my life, I have gone full-on pirate.

Usually, in my persona as the Modeller, I am about building things.  Primarily miniature starships, mecha, and the like; but that also extends to my tenure in the EvE Online, where on one of my characters I build virtual starships of various sorts stretching from small frigates on up to massive dreadnaughts.  Even though I cannot watch that process in action, unlike a model coming together on my workbench, there is still that which is engrossing about the process.  About taking all different sorts of materials, and using one’s skills to put that together in something … neat.  The creative process fully at work.

However, there is another side to things, as always.  The opposite side of the creation coin is, of course, destruction.  As this is where my tenure in EvE has … well, for lack of a better image, sprouted its’ devil’s horns and bloomed into full malevolence in a way it never did as a stupid kid in my far youth.

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Cui Bono?

Latin can be such a marvelously expressive language.

In proper Oxfordian english, "to whom (is the) benefit"?  In just a few - in this case two - words, it expresses a whole range of thought:  Who is benefiting from something?  Is it legitimate, or is there something we should be considering in addition?  Something perhaps not so ... good?

I've been playing the internet spaceships MMO EvE Online since late September 2007, or about a month less than my good friend and prolific blogger (specifically on the topic of EvE) Dan "Corelin" Zelman.  Like myself, Dan is a gamer of long standing (not quite so long as me - he's younger - but nonetheless).  We had long shared a hobby of several miniatures-based tabletop games - Babylon 5 Wars, Battletech, Warhammer 40K, and others - although that certainly does not fully define our friendship, as neither does EvE.
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