EVE General Discussion

What's sad is that you are looking for "truth" in a video game. If you want to find "truth," I would recommend looking up from your monitor and going out into the world. These are shadows, and "truth" is relative to experience.

"And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision, -what will be his reply? And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them, -- will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?" - The Allegory of the Cave, Plato

While I am in favour of boobs in general I do not approve of you sullying boob's good name by using it as a lame insult.

Also I'm well aware of evolutionary psychology in general and that there is truly no such thing as a selfless act. However if I constantly believed that I would throw myself off a bridge.

(By the way, interpretation of reality is a survival trait too).

No, I am saying there have been "like minded" people throughout history, and they have been regarded as monsters.

And monsters are why people have banded together throughout history.

What exactly is the point of the OP.
The thread titles made it seem like a possible reflection of whether or not peoples behavior in EVE has any bearing on how they would act in the real world, from a grop standpoint.

All I read was some emogoth ranting about wanting everything to be dark, and suffering. I kept seeing images of the little emogoth kids from south park. I kept expecing the post to devlove into a bunch of ranting about vamps and how they aren't goth.

People behave the way they do in EVE because they are behind a computer screen and have anonymity. I tend to treat people in EVE the same way I would in reality. For the most part I consider myself a pretty decent guy. I guarantee you though, you come up against most people that play EVE in reality and they are completely different people. Guys who think they are cool are in fact dorks, those who think they are smart are morons and so on...

It's called Swindon

Also if you really want to see egits worse than you find on EVE go play WOT for a bit.

I think Eve is a game where a lot of people come to live out their power fantasies. Like most video games actually. The big difference between Eve and a lot of games is that it promotes conflict between players more than encouraging them to unite against the other in the form of NPCs. I think there is probably an argument that some kind of opinion can be formed about people based on how they treat others in a game but I won't say how much; I don't know that.

Yes, You Act In Eve As You Act In Real Life.

It does map well to our current reality in the modern world, and its current trajectory. Specifically, this is humanity under capitalism as an overarching system to live under (I love capitalism, but not as the center of our world systems).

It'd be interesting events unfolding in-game if that were true of all as you say, but simple isn't true.