Here Be Monsters

When you’re bored, you get up to shit, and get some shitty ideas. Today was one of those days. I wanted to blog but since all I have been doing in Eve is run missions, I don’t have anything to blog about.

Trawling the forums I looked at some of the portraits, I saw a few Brutor with those cool Ray-Ban’s on, and it suddenly dawned on me.. Where did Ray-Ban sunglasses come from? (As a gift many years ago I was given a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses but never got to enjoy them, since some asshole stole them a week or two later.)

So, off to Wikipedia to search:

Ray-Bans were created in 1937. Some years earlier, Lieutenant John MacCready returned from a balloon flying adventure and complained that the sun had permanently damaged his eyes. He contacted Bausch & Lomb asking them to create sunglasses that would provide protection and also look elegant. On May 7, 1937, Bausch & Lomb took out the patent^[3]. The prototype, known as Anti-Glare, had an extremely light frame weighing 150 grams. They were made of gold-plated metal with green lenses made of mineral glass to filter outinfrared and ultraviolet rays. Pilots in the United States Army Air Corps immediately adopted the sunglasses^[3]. The Ray-Ban Aviatorbecame a well-known style of sunglasses when General Douglas MacArthur landed on the beach in the Philippines in World War II, and photographers snapped several pictures of him wearing them.^[3]

Aviator sunglasses, also known as Pilot Shades or Stunner Shades, are a style of sunglasses that were developed by Ray-Ban. They are characterized by dark, often reflective lenses having an area two or three times the area of the eye socket, and metal frames with either paddles or wire temples which hook behind the ears. Contemporary models are often polarized (although wearing polarized sunglasses for flying is unwise since they may mask the light glinting off an oncoming aircraft, as well as blocking the information on most modern glass cockpit displays).

Who knew that? The Brutor! They know that space is harsh and that they need protection from the glare of the Amarr lasers and the Amarr armor…(probably polished by Minmatar slaves). If only I knew I could roll such a cool picture when I started my characters but at the time I wanted a Sebiestor soldier and a Vherokior miner and the paths were best suited. I know you can pay to re-roll your portrait but I don’t think you can change your bloodline much less race, plus because of the lag issues since Dominion I’ve stopped really paying for anything Eve related with real cash. It’s now Plex and isk until I run out or until I can have a big fight and not have to manually cycle guns again…that’s if I don’t black screen.