EVE General Discussion

The players of this game eternally crack me up.

People talk like big shot tough guys in a geek computer game... is that not beyond ironic?

People always talking about how much isk they have, how uber at pvp they are with almost no kills on their profile (it's always their main who has the kills... right?), how uber at ganking they are (that's so difficult isn't it?), how fail everyone else is...

examples:
1. i frequent a public channel where this one guy talks on and on every night about how awesome he is for flying super-super-super pimp ships with 3.5 billion dollar fits and how uber of an incursion jockey he is. all night, every night, like this is the measure of a person.

2. i had a cup of coffee in a fail null alliance and while his home station was being camped and everyone was cowering in the station this dork would be in comms and corp channel complaining that "I can't ever find any targets. Everyone is afraid of me in local"... all the while his alliance home constellation is being curbstomped 24x7 by some NPC null sec dorks for weeks on end.

3. Peeps go on and on about how they "finish 10 lowsec level 5's per hour" - hey stupid, that's 1 turnin every 6 minutes - or "I do Enemies Abound final pocket in a dramiel, you're doing it wrong" or just pure nonsense idiocy and act all tough.

What is about Eve - essentially a geek mode game - that makes people try to behave like super tough and/or super smart people?

It's a game. Acting all tough guy seems pretty stupid.

The internet releases people's inner douchbag. Sometimes it will even eclipse their outer d-bag. No big mystery really, it's been common since the earliest days of the Internet. I am sure the DARPA techs used to do the same thing when it was being developed.

Al Gore probably led the way.

People need something to rate themselves against. So then they can use that to feel good about themselves.
How else do you feel good about what you're doing without someone saying thats good? You have to do it yourself.

I'm pretty poor.

I have a crap corp (go ahead check it out).

I get scared every day when I have to go into LowSec.

I pee a little bit when in w-space.

My penis is freaking enormous.

Not empty quoting. Thats actually always the reason for whatever reaction, at least thats what i learned from smart books.

Im a griefer/pirate and I have been known to talk the talk, but most the time I keep my mouth shut and just play. Im really a big soffty to boot and help nubs out when ever I can, usualy after trying to kill them tho.

Qeewl another QQ thread..

Let the tears roll

You wanna make something of it?


Just kidding.


Having watched people in RL abuse their power and actually grief people out of land, freedom, and their futures, my theory is that in game it's either people extending themselves, being RL asshats, or it's the victims of these asshats who are powerless to do anything about what's being done to them IRL and hence come here where they can.

Because having an ego is all that most people in this game strive for.

Everyone should read 'Humble Like Me', a small autobiographical work penned by my gentle self.

Only $12.99 at Amazon and for a limited time I will personally sign the book if you send me your full API.

Mr Epeen