EVE General Discussion

Well, if posting with alts bothers people, then it's done for the same reason as anything else in EVE that bothers others:

Because I can.

Note: This is my main.

Because people pidgeonhole you based on the alliance you are in, assuming you are incapable of unbiased opinion, or rather, that everything you say serves an ulterior agenda.

Because I'm so ugly.

So I can test out questionably humorous jokes. Humor is risky business. My main can't take the chance of having a bad joke fall flat.

Why do I post with an Alt?

So I can say whatever I like without fear of retribution.
So I can troll the forums and not have such glorious poasts linked to my main.
Because I can.
Because I want to.
Why not?

I do not post with an Alt and it got me kicked out of a corp in tribal band.

To hell with the consequences (everytime I post, this goes through my mind.).

At least I stick to my principals.

(yeah.... e-dignity... its a thing... I guess)

So posting with an alt requires you to give up your principles?

EVE encourages asshats and allows/encourages griefing... why would you want to post with your main so they can ruin EVE for you? You can be honest and forthright with an alt just as easily as a main. Depends more on the person posting...

TV presenters and media ppl are attention whores by nature. They say their name as often as thy can, because it is all about their name. Selling their media and name dropping. That is their business. It is not so much about what they say. You right, whatever information you get, you set it in a context. But you can cencentrate more on the topic, when you not see at the same time say the big ******* of a women or Obama in a Nazi costume. Many ads use celebrities as incensitives. The product was the same, before and after the ad. Often cult of a personality happens to distract from other things. You are free to pick between cult of personality or say, it does not matter, lets see, what we got on topic.

For example in Eve:

We have something like Fows news. It is the Mittani Fox News. They try to condidion their lemmings on this triple A is all bogus formula since months. They do not care, what exactly is bad or not. Same in real war btw. if you want to condition a soldier to kill somebody. They just put everybody of the other side in one bag and beat on it. To make this happen, they have to avoid giving them a chance to defend themselves and say their opinion. So you have on one side the Mittani cult and on the other side the Makalu cult - only for Russian speakers. These guys for sure do not want you to be anonymous. These guys only want to know one thing: Is this person with me or against me? blue or red/neutral. This selfish attitude does not do you any good, when you want to discuss jsut the game and not their boring politics.

if I am going to grief, troll, be a general asshat and scam someone, offend an entire coalition, I would like the person/ppl that i am offending to generate some type of game content for me.

it's a game, if I anger you, try to make me play the game your way. If you lose, you tried, if you win, I tried.

in the end it doesn't matter anyways, so might as well try to make a splash.

Also, if i did this with an alt all the possible game content is driven towards a fake character, so it goes nowhere.

You're right, should say: "The OP might as well ask..."

Sorry.

Unless you're my alt in which case, shut up.