The Safe Spot — Episode 9: "Featuring Oz"

Hey everyone, we're back after what felt like forever. I got pulled into the Habs' Stanley Cup run (no shame, that was a hell of a series for our Montreal Canadiens), and we finally sat down for episode 9 with our very first official guest: Oz. 

Both Rixx and I were genuinely stoked about opening the format up to guests, and even more so that Oz agreed to be the first one through the door. I came in with way too many questions lined up like a checklist, and Rixx, true to form, just rolled with the conversation in full Buccaneer bravado. 

Very different styles, yet somehow it worked. 

Who is Oz?

Oz is one of EVE Online's go-to voices on the in-game economy. He's been around since 2004, took a long break, and came back during the pandemic to start streaming on Twitch — where he now runs The Oz Report, a weekly market analysis show that's become required viewing for traders and industrialists in New Eden. 

Outside Twitch, he's on YouTube, runs an active trading Discord, and maintains theoz.space, a Bloomberg-style dashboard for the EVE market. He's just wrapped his third (and final) term on the CSM as the resident economic specialist, hosted FanFest 2026 on the official Twitch stream, and took home the creator award for best podcast this year. 

Real-life day job: data aggregation at a German company — which, once you've met him, makes a lot of sense.

We talked FanFest from the host side, the slow professionalization of the creator program, his actual day-one origin story, the two ways people fall into market gameplay (and why most of them burn out), and a pretty generous tool list for anyone wanting to try trading without rage-quitting in a week. 

No theme per se, no agenda really. It simply went where it went, which is how Rixx and I like it.

Show Notes / Table of Contents

1. Cold open, reunion, and meeting our first guest — back on the mic after a long gap, finally cracking open the "just us two" format, and admitting I may have already taken some of Oz's advice before we even hit record.
   
   
2. FanFest 2026 from the inside — Oz on what hosting actually looks like behind the cameras, a few moments that made this year's FanFest hit different, and the bar-stream experiment that worked better than anyone expected.
   
   
3. Oz's origin and the long way back — how a stockbroker fresh out of college turned EVE into a spreadsheet, what made him walk away for a decade, and the very 2020 reason he came back.
   
   
4. Why EVE's economy hits different — twenty-three years in, and we get into why nothing else really comes close, plus a confession about my own economic blind spot.
   
   
5. Tools, then and now — Oz's actual go-to list for anyone serious about markets, and how AI has quietly reshaped what's possible.
   
   
6. The two doors into market gameplay — one of them burns you out fast, the other one keeps you. Plus some sharp words about the ISK-per-hour mindset.
   
   
7. Three terms on the CSM and what comes next — Oz wraps his run, looks ahead to what he actually wants to do with his free time, and reads CCP/Fenris' financials with a clear eye.
   
   
8. Wrap, future guests, and the music tease — we open the door to listener guest suggestions, and Rixx warns you about this week's track.

Where to find us! 

If you enjoyed this episode, you can catch The Safe Spot wherever you get your podcasts — find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Past episodes and full show notes are up on the blog at CrazyKinux's Musings. And if you're watching on YouTube, do us a solid — like, subscribe, and drop a comment. It helps more than you think.

Coriolis: The Great Dark session zero - The exploration begins

Last Thursday evening, while the Habs plowed through the Carolina Hurricanes, my roleplaying buddies and I were rolling up our characters for a first run within Coriolis: The Great Dark.

I picked a Roughneck, with Machine Tender as her specialty and Mechanics as her innate talent.

Your archetype already tells you what kind of story you came to play. A Roughneck says: "I want to be the one with grease under my nails when the lights flicker, the one who notices the hum in the bulkhead before anyone else does."

Not the diplomat or scholar. Not the mystic or poet. The hands.

What is Coriolis: The Great Dark?

Coriolis: The Great Dark is Free League Publishing's sci-fi roleplaying game, built on the Year Zero Engine. It picks up the Third Horizon setting and pushes deeper — into uncharted space, dead civilizations, and the strange things still waiting in the dark between stars.

Players take the role of Explorers: salvagers, scholars, mystics, and roughnecks crewing fragile ships on the edge of known space. The play loop leans toward investigation, exploration, and atmosphere — closer to Alien, Dune, and The Expanse than to a tactical shooter.

Combat is fast and lethal. Faith and technology share the same table. And the universe, more often than not, is watching you back.

The Safe Spot — Episode 8: "Our EVE Fanfest 2026 reaction"

This one's our reaction episode to EVE Fanfest 2026, which wrapped up the day before we recorded. Rixx and I sat down Sunday evening to talk through everything — the Polaris Award he picked up while not even being in Iceland, the Cradle of War reveal, the Google DeepMind sit-down, where Vanguard and Frontier are headed, and a pile of asides along the way. 

It's a long one, but a good one. 

Pour something cold (or hot, in Rixx's case) and dig in.😂