EVE General Discussion

Feel free to continue with the ad homimen attacks, they're awesome.

I get the analogy but just saying "it's an analogy" doesn't legitmize it. I remember reading "an analogy" on the SWG forums years ago likening paying for that to 'date rape' - that was as off-base as this thread is.

"Forgiveness is an Act. It is NOT an EMOTION. You might feel the pain of what CCP did to you to the day you die. It has NOTHING to do with forgiveness
Forgiveness is NOT an Erasure of Your MEMORY. You might remember what CCP did to you, to the day you die."

This TOTALLY sums up the 'relationship' between the consumer and the corporate entity providing a service. If you feel any kind of "pain" - real or by way of analogy - about what CCP has done to you, you ought to re-think how you view this "relationship" as you're reading too much into it.

But hey, enjoy your little circle jerk.

Don't spoil it.

fair enough. Thanks for demonstrating a really mature attitude that people can learn from.

a point that will surely keep me up at night.

He's referring to the original video. Very much worth watching :)

The part in the video he's referring to is specifically where the marriage counsellor was suggesting to women that they should believe their husband's crazy plans, not immediately tell him how stupid they are. Believe the plans, then start asking sensible questions about how it's going to work. All a girl has to do is tell a guy he's done something right, or that she likes something he's done, and he'll get all ego-stroked, at which point the presenter did the puffed-up-peacock act that Renan was mimicking there :)

Ah, I think the whole analogy is far too standard western world and Cinderalla dreaming....

Let's think Sheherazade... 1000 and 1 night... Or, nah, I don't want to write forever. You can read Arabian Nights all by yourselves.

CCP never had just one wife in EVE. They had four... at the very least...

They have some wifes in a place called "00"... In some places of our world that demarks the toilet, which for some viewers might be a fitting comparison. It is no big surprise then that the wifes behind that door clamour and cry very loudly for things like... I don't know. But it must be very important that more join them there and bring.. paper? This is a whole harem in fact. And as harems go, they want attention, before they bore themselves to death ignoring each other.

Now there are the other wifes. They life in a place called Wormholes. This might sound semi-erotic to some. It is definitely not! They are fewer by far! And while CCP - as a good husband-to-the-many - tries to appease them, CCP just cannot shove the 00 ladies off his lap.

But... the wormhole wifes are the least of CCPs troubles! There are the ladies he married in a place called High Sec! And they don't want to join the big harem with all the girly talk, mostly. They despise the idea of first ladies and prom queens and just want to have a good time at their own leisure. Perhaps they have been there before or perhaps they just don't care.

But there are quite a lot of them! Far more than the 00 girls! And they are not as loud as the harem, perhaps they still believe they have a standard monogamic style marriage.

Their nearest neighbors are the divorced wifes. They live a low life style in a place called low-sec and are quite disillusioned, as they are neither part of the harem nor of the greater High Sec crowd. I can tell you, they would shoot you on sight without any reason! What reason for life do they have? All their dreams were shattered a long time ago and so they resort to senseless violence as no constructive (violent) means were ever given to them!

((Just expanding the analogy, so please take it with a grain of salt and now... flame if you want to! It is late here, I'll be defenseless.))

Guess thats another way of putting it But its more fitting the other way around.

You see, like i said above, this community is like a woman in the sense that we get happy for basically nothing.. as long as CCP is communicating.

CCP you get points for writing devblogs. HUGE points.... So you're earning a lot of points for basically DOING NOTHING!! And the sooner the devblog goes live, the more points you earn.

Why? Because each time one of your players talk to another MMO's player of your plans... DING!! You get a point. (And the other MMO, the poor sob.. loses one hehe).

But CCP.. for crying out loud... Deliver what you Promise!

The process of maintaining relationships with a number of spouses is only slightly different to the process of maintaining a relationship with one. The same personal relationship needs to be maintained, otherwise that spouse will become unhappy. There are other considerations with multiple spouses, such as dividing attention fairly (not necessarily equally, some people just need more attention, other people don't like too much attention, but then expect to have attention when they demand it).

The basics of interpersonal communication are still the same: the communication needs to happen at all, then you can start paying attention to the details.

Any man who don't cook for his wife won't keep her.

regarding the title:

he slapped you hard, told you he doesn't need you, that he doesn't care what you say, only what you do (=for him), and told you basically to gtfo.

Now, you packed your things, are ready to leave him. He crawles before you and beggs for forgiveness. You forgive him, because you remember THE GOOD OLD TIMES WHEN YOU STILL LOVED HIM.

But deep down you know it will NEVER be the same again, it will take hard work and many years till you trust him again.