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EVE players get the august monument they deserve
Iceland will soon be receiving a dazzling piece of modern art, as CCP, creators of the persistently-hostile online world EVE, are erecting in downtown Reykjavik a monument to the players. The 15-foot-tall structure looks straight out of Battlestar Galactica and will have the names of the main characters of every active EVE player etched on it, Vietnam Memorial-style. It’s being created by the Icelandic artist Sigurður Guðmundsson, whose works include installations of hammers, bricks, and slippers positioned on carpet, and photographs of people leaning peculiarly against walls. No shit. This has importance aside from the inherent glamour of having a shiny, stainless…