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Gankers are People Too

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Mourn LeBlade
Jupiter Roughriders
#1 - 2014-02-15 18:33:59 UTC
I've been busy now for several years trying to keep the prices of wormhole materials from deflating.

To do this I basically have to "gank" anything that moves. More often than not, I am met with abject hostility and hate mail. It is very rare to get a "gf" or any positive comments in Local. This happens even though everyone is clearly told not to fly more than they can afford to lose. And if they do lose "everything", they act like it's my fault for ganking them. Like if you wave around a steak in front of a Grizzly it's the Grizzly's fault.

Eventually it has worn down my self-image and now I have to gank even more to feel good about myself. It is a vicious cycle.

Does anyone think that ganking victims will ever become more understanding? Or do they just not get Eve?

LTCOL LeBlade 177 Division Live Free or Die
Vyl Vit
#2 - 2014-02-15 18:39:12 UTC
I used to rob banks. Everybody got mad at me for robbing banks. But, I was encouraging the free circulation of currency. The money really didn't like being pent up in a vault, so it was the only humane thing to do. Imagine the self-sacrifice involved with freely giving of yourself for the sake of another! Free the money! Free the money!

Paradise is like where you are right now, only much, much better.
Josef Djugashvilis
#3 - 2014-02-15 18:40:29 UTC
OP is trolling and he darned well knows it, he is just trying to start yet another Eve tough guy versus Eve care-bear thread.

This is not a signature.
Mourn LeBlade
Jupiter Roughriders
#4 - 2014-02-15 19:02:36 UTC
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
OP is trolling and he darned well knows it, he is just trying to start yet another Eve tough guy versus Eve care-bear thread.


7 minute neck-beard response time. Your reflexes are slow. Too many doughnuts?

LTCOL LeBlade 177 Division Live Free or Die
Josef Djugashvilis
#5 - 2014-02-15 19:32:12 UTC
Mourn LeBlade wrote:
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
OP is trolling and he darned well knows it, he is just trying to start yet another Eve tough guy versus Eve care-bear thread.


7 minute neck-beard response time. Your reflexes are slow. Too many doughnuts?


What?

Oh, don't bother answering, if you want to start a thread naught, you will have to improve the quality of your trolling.

This is not a signature.
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#6 - 2014-02-15 19:34:05 UTC
I gank because I gank. I don't need public approval. Nor do I care what my food thinks of me.

This thread is not long for the world.
Lady Katherine Devonshire
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#7 - 2014-02-15 19:43:15 UTC
Mourn LeBlade wrote:
And if they do lose "everything", they act like it's my fault for ganking them. Like if you wave around a steak in front of a Grizzly it's the Grizzly's fault.


Next the OP will explain to us how sexual assault is the victim's fault because they were dressed in the provocative clothing.

The sound of the Amarrian heart
Mourn LeBlade
Jupiter Roughriders
#8 - 2014-02-15 19:44:27 UTC
Lady Katherine Devonshire wrote:
Mourn LeBlade wrote:
And if they do lose "everything", they act like it's my fault for ganking them. Like if you wave around a steak in front of a Grizzly it's the Grizzly's fault.


Next the OP will explain to us how sexual assault is the victim's fault because they were dressed in the provocative clothing.


I think the Comments section on CNN is missing you.

LTCOL LeBlade 177 Division Live Free or Die
stoicfaux
#9 - 2014-02-15 19:50:49 UTC
If I woke up from a nap to find that some people had tattooed three stylized phalli to my face and to every single one of my clones' faces, well, I would be cranky too.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#10 - 2014-02-15 20:04:56 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
If I woke up from a nap to find that some people had tattooed three stylized phalli to my face and to every single one of my clones' faces, well, I would be cranky too.


Don't ****-off the clone-techs. They have your clones under their care...
Good Posting
Doomheim
#11 - 2014-02-15 20:05:53 UTC
LTCOL LeBlade
177 Clown Division of Puddle Slurpers and Condom Wipe Cleaners


Get lost, tough guy wannabe.
Galaxy Pig
New Order Logistics
CODE.
#12 - 2014-02-15 21:04:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Galaxy Pig
I got a 'gf' once.

Once.

Highsec is owned by players now. Systems 0.5-1.0 are New Order Territory. All miners and other residents of Highsec must obey The Code. Mining without a permit is dangerous and harmful to the EVE community. See www.MinerBumping.com
Buck Futz
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2014-02-15 21:12:13 UTC
Good Posting wrote:
LTCOL LeBlade
177 Clown Division of Puddle Slurpers and Condom Wipe Cleaners


Get lost, tough guy wannabe.



Your words are hurtful.

I am taking the bus and you will not see me at the pancake social tomorrow!
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#14 - 2014-02-15 21:15:48 UTC
Buck Futz wrote:
Good Posting wrote:
LTCOL LeBlade
177 Clown Division of Puddle Slurpers and Condom Wipe Cleaners


Get lost, tough guy wannabe.



Your words are hurtful.

I am taking the bus and you will not see me at the pancake social tomorrow!

Tha'ts OK - He's been banned from the Icecream Social.
Mourn LeBlade
Jupiter Roughriders
#15 - 2014-02-15 21:18:10 UTC
Good Posting wrote:
LTCOL LeBlade
177 Clown Division of Puddle Slurpers and Condom Wipe Cleaners


Get lost, tough guy wannabe.


I'm sorry if I hurt you at some point. Not sure how you coined the phrase "Poodle Slurper" either.

LTCOL LeBlade 177 Division Live Free or Die
Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
#16 - 2014-02-15 21:47:34 UTC
OP receives hatemail and personal insults for playing the game. He doesn't break the game, he doesn't attack his targets in any RL capacity (unlike his victims, who are known for viciously and quickly escalating their engagement to RL insults and threats), he doesn't beat his kids, he doesn't rob banks, he doesn't murder, or cheat on his taxes. He's a guy playing a game and is hated for his playstyle, and that hate is always within the context of RL.

Gankers are the real victims.

There's nothing worse than an EVE player, generally considered to be top of the food chain in the MMO world, that cannot smacktalk with wit and coherency.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#17 - 2014-02-15 21:56:36 UTC
Mourn LeBlade wrote:
...wormhole...Local.


Fail

Mr Epeen Cool
Noddy Comet
Lysdexic Agnostics - Thier is no Dog
#18 - 2014-02-15 22:03:14 UTC
It's even more funny when you replace 'gank' with another 4-letter word for non-consensual coitus that also rhymes with another word for the flavor of purple drank... which is basically what they are doing anyways.

[i]"The biggest problem with quotes on the Internet, is that just because it's on the Internet too many believe them to be real" -[/i]Abraham Lincoln's "Berlin Wall" speech at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#19 - 2014-02-15 22:03:32 UTC
Mourn LeBlade wrote:
I've been busy now for several years trying to keep the prices of wormhole materials from deflating.

To do this I basically have to "gank" anything that moves. More often than not, I am met with abject hostility and hate mail. It is very rare to get a "gf" or any positive comments in Local. This happens even though everyone is clearly told not to fly more than they can afford to lose. And if they do lose "everything", they act like it's my fault for ganking them. Like if you wave around a steak in front of a Grizzly it's the Grizzly's fault.

Eventually it has worn down my self-image and now I have to gank even more to feel good about myself. It is a vicious cycle.

Does anyone think that ganking victims will ever become more understanding? Or do they just not get Eve?



One day good men will remember your work.


Keep the faith.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Caviar Liberta
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2014-02-15 22:07:08 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
Mourn LeBlade wrote:
...wormhole...Local.


Fail

Mr Epeen Cool


That is a bit of a stretch to associate what the OP said in his opening comment and the rest of his post. I don't think he said he did or did not gank while in wormholes.
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