EVE General Discussion

Did you mean Al Sharpton or Robert Downey, Jr.?

That's unfortunately something that happens often in gaming communities, probably due to the anonymity and people thinking that a game environment makes it ok to disparage people. It's still a serious concern though, and if I were you I would ask for the ticket to get escalated. The GMs do their best to get to all the tickets sorted but I think they get swamped sometimes.

People that can't separate game from reality need immediate bans for their safety and that of others.

If we had to worry about offending ever single random idiot on the planet and their pet sensitivity, we quite literally couldn't function.

You're calling me a sloth?

Just because I love being in bed all day?
Prefferably not alone?


Pffffffffff ............................................

nice to see I hate bible thumbers

Which is funny because in the last thousand years or so they've won more often than lost. Historical examples of spectacular failures and hubris notwithstanding, the whole spectrum of anti-French stuff you can come up with was made up very recently by people who have barely any history at all and feel bad about that.
But yeah, that would introduce RL sectarian garbage into a place clearer than most.

GRRM tried that, too.
I mean, come on..... if it's not plainly obvious that Dothraki = Pre-Islam Arabs, Dorne = Italy/Greece/Turkey, and Braavos = Spain, you're not paying enough attention to any cultures outside the USA, let alone the history behind them.

I tried to explain the EVE races to family, because my mother, a few of my cousins, and one of my brothers asked what the game was all about and what "Gallente" means. Here's what came out of my unhinged brain:

"Cursory Guide to the Different Races in EVE Online:
Gallente: Descended from Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, and French, with a government styled exactly like the one modern-day American Libertarians want. Pretty much laid-back space hedonists, but will jack you up, oldschool if you actually manage to **** them off.

Caldari: The fascist/corporatist result of the Japanese and Germans piling into a spaceship and setting off to a distant solar system. Everyone knows their place and stays in it. Unfeeling and driven by only two things: money and f**king HATING the Gallenteans.

Minmatar: Black Vikings. I'm not even joking. Seriously one of the coolest concepts for a sci-fi race, EVER. Using archaic technology and ships that look like they were pieced together in a junkyard, they still manage to routinely rip the other races' faces off and wear them.... as long as the fight doesn't last TOO long.

Amarr: What would happen if you crossed Catholics and Muslims, let them do all the things they actually want to do with society, and then gave them laser beams? The Amarr. Seriously scary culture. Good thing their ships suck.

Jovians: You can't play as these guys. Genetically modified badasses that could utterly steamroll the other races if they weren't so busy being depressed and reclusive. Originally conceptualized as actual aliens, but later toned down to just transhuman walking science labs. The developer employees used to all have characters of the Jovian race, but that inexplicably got tossed out a few years ago. Presumably because some players just will not stop asking "so when do we get to play as Jovians?""