EVE General Discussion

In other news, actors are just as good or bad as the characters they play on screen.

I like PA's take on the issue

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..only some bad language, but I figure I should warm people just in case.

OP, what you're doing here is taking someone else's opinion and turning it into fact.

The most you could do here is ask it in the question form.

To play devil's advocate, some people who are massive A-holes in game are indeed the exact same people in real life, and I know a null-sec leader FC or 70 that would fit that bill lol. IMO most (but not all) people tend towards behavior that makes them the most comfortable with how they see themsevles, even when "it's just a game". I'm no exception, I have zero interest in scamming or stealing or in real life and don't find those activities funin EVE, but I understand that this game would suck without people doing that stuff

Because people do nasty things in EVE doesn't mean they are nasty people, it just probably means "this is who you WOULD be in real life if there were no physical or social consequences to your actions". EVE is no different than the comments section of a news site where people talk all kinds of crap they would not say in real life.

The entire post is in the head of the thread. Nobody has to click to the blog at all. A poor way to promote blog traffic.

Perhaps you're nice in game because of a guilty conscience that believes one can somehow atone for being a real life dipstick through random acts of kindness in a virtual universe?

Isn't that what the razor is for?

Oh you mean the massive and sustained drop in violent crime we've seen over the last couple of decades?

Well I suppose with the amount of gratuitous and bloody violence, ****, slavery, incest, theft, treachery and child-murder in the Bible, it's hardly surprising that removing such a rich source of bad ideas has had such a positive result.

Thread cleaned a bit.

It's an interesting topic, but lets keep it on topic and not try and sidetrack into politics and so on.

Thanks and fly safe!

So the theory some of you support is that if you are a jerk in game, it is a reflection of your true character.

I have characters in game that are very helpful to other players and do not vary from that behavior (this one is one of them), I have characters in game that are ruthless and cruel and do not vary from that behavior, I have characters in game that are completely selfish and only motivated (for good or ill) by greed. So which of these character types, that do not change their MO, are actually a refection of my "real" self? If you pick one, then what does that say about the others... other than to invalidate your theory?

I ran pen and paper RPG's for a decade or so. In doing so I portrayed everything from a celibate holy man to a bloodlust filled demon, to an innocent child. Which one of those acurately reflects my true personality... and once you have chosen one, how do you explain the others?

For several years I was involved in acting. During that time I portrayed the hero, the villian, and occasionally the villian that becomes a hero. What does that do to your little theory?

You fail to realize that often in games or professions that allow portraying something other than yourself a good person can find enjoyment pretending to be something they are not... as can a person that in your piously judgemental way you consider a bad person enjoy playing the humanitarian.

Life, morality, and human behavior are not... and never will be... as simplistic and easy to define as apparently you would like to believe.