Chapter . Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Karate Is Not Sexy

 

“One thing we found out is that women don’t want to be spaceships. I’ve shown Eve Online videos to lots of girls, and their eyes just glaze over... but I show it to guys and they’re like, ‘Hell yeah!’ Our research into this, by hiring more girls into CCP and asking them what they want to do, shows that they want to be people. They don’t want to be spaceships.”

 
 --Crowd Control Productions (CCP) CEO Hilmar Petursson.

One day I found out rather dramatically that an online action can have a real physical reaction. I was clowning around with the crowd on Enigma Island. Rraven and Dezire were having a yard sale. There were some spaceship parts, a few random pieces of clothes, shoes, ...

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