Eve Online | Awarded by: Tyler Wilde

I played Eve Online pretty rigorously for several months, and then I stopped. I guess I just couldn’t keep up with all the logging in to update my skill queue, responding to messages, making sure my insurance was up to date, scouting for good prices, thinking about how pleasant Iceland is, wondering what Björk is doing right now. All of that. Just too much.

But every time I’ve logged in since, I feel terrible guilt over all the unanswered messages, all the budding friendships I walked away from. And then I see something like this. The “This is Eve” trailer is such a thrilling expression of Eve’s teamwork and commanderie and brilliance that it’s painful to watch. I could be doing that stuff! But I’m not. I have too much else going on… like, I don’t know, feeding my cat. If I had a cat. I am running out of excuses not to reinstall Eve. Please help.