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Fail Mail Friday

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Fail Mails as they are known, are kills of ships that display serious errors in judgment in way of how to fit particular ship. In EVE Online, pirates have celebrated the tradition of sharing with other pirates such examples of poorly fitted ships while on roams, gate camps or other operations where there is an amount of free time not engaging targets.

As this can be an item of ridicule for some, i see it as an opportunity to try to understand why some people fit their ships in such fashion. We all had to start learning how to fit our ships somewhere.

Fail Mail Fridays is an attempt to do two things. First, to share with the community a potential source of humor in way of a utter failure of a ship fitting. Second, to host a discussion of why the fitting is considered a failure and hopefully, some constructive feedback on what would have been a better way to fit the killed ship in question for the task it was intended to be utilized.

Below are our previous posts for Fail Mail Friday, enjoy!

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August 6th 2010

SNOWBALLS MMVIII

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Well, CCP has done it, Snowballs MMVIII (Snowballs 2008 edition).  WOO HOO!!!!!

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CCP, Dev Blogs, Humor December 19th 2008

“We are gather here to bestow this honor…”

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It was only a matter of time.  In my case, it was less than 30 minutes after the servers came back up and I received my first medal, part of the Quantum Rise expansion.

Some back story is needed here.  A fellow corp mate was playing around with his Carrier, toying with some of our war targets.  Everything was fine, he was laughing about the engagement.  Then the tone of his voice in went from playful to panic.

“Guys, uhm, HELP!!!”

We make out best speed to assist him and in the end, we were successful.  Needless to say, he was very happy to not have lost his carrier.

When I logged into EVE last night, I had received a medal:

Star of Manlove

I am honored to have received a medal, but the “Star of Manlove”?  Yeah, we are a fun bunch in our corp.  We like to shock each other with “lolz” moments.

So, what kind of medals have you received so far?  Any ideas for some fun medals to give to your fellow corp mates?

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General, Humor, Neo Spartans November 12th 2008

A moment of culture

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After a long day of yarring about New Eden, it’s nice to dock up, get out of the pod, sit down in your nice comfy chair and settle in with a good book.

Today’s topic, EVE Haiku.  There is a growning thread on the EVE forums, http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=902996, that you may want to take a gander at when you have some time.  A few of the gems are below:

Crielere

Ring of fire secrets abound
Human scientist forge in depths of creation
Factional struggle erases cherished gain

Mirror

I empire GANK
You 0.0 BLOB
Who is the TRUE tool?

Untitled from GM Horse

Help, stuck in Jita
Petitions everywhere
People need my help

Earth

A message sadly never sent
Wormholes closed without prior warning to both
“We’ve survived, long lost brethren!”

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Humor October 24th 2008

The ultimate patient pirate

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I saw this on icanhascheezburger today.  The ultimate in the patient pirate, station camping his prey….

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Humor, Out of Game October 14th 2008