Jita Park Speakers Corner

I have never been backwards about coming forwards on my opinion of "The Mittani". Personally I always believed the man had mental health issues... (I work in the industry).

How absolutely judgemental and completely contradictory to my actual qualifications and training!

It wasn't until I read Alex Gianturco's passionate and obviously devestated post on The Mittani.com about Sean Smith,that I realised there was a man with a heart underneath all the pomp and circumstance.

I decided that further investigation was needed into the man behind "The Mittani". Every day I work with intellectual disability and mental health and these people are judged at first sight with little fact or knowledge behind the judgements. I know better, and it was time to put my money where my mouth was.

I have been playing EvE for a very long time now, been part of awesome fights, major changes and seen Major alliances come and go. Call it indignation, but my loathing of Goons and Mittani started when Band of Brothers was so disgustingly disbanded with meta gaming. I had no actual love for Band of Brothers, infact I was in Mercenary Coalition for several years... No love lost there obviously!

It was just my ethics and morale code kicking in that caused me to rage inside a little..

It was my job in the mental health industry that caused me to absolutely rage inside over Mittani's felony at fanfest. I believe now that Mittani had a serious lapse in judgement due to alcohol consumption and Alex Gianturco was asleep in his hotel room at the time.

Now let's cut to the chase... Why do I think "The Mittani" led by Alex Gianturco the man should be allowed to run for the CSM again and why he should most definitely be voted back in??

Because the man actually cares about this game and it's future. As much as he may fluff his chest out and revel in the attention, his base agenda is actually for the betterment of this game. I believe he is in it for the long haul.

He has the respect of the people he has met in Iceland regardless of his posturing and he believes in what he is doing. He is loyal and faithful to his cause.

Those are qualities to be admired, regardless of mistakes made and faux pas, Alex "The Mittani" Gianturco understands that EvE Online needs a future and he wants to help shape it.

The only cross he actually bear's in achieving this is the mindless posting of some of the "Goons" themselves.....

To you personally Alex, I hope you do stand for election in the next CSM and I hope and pray CCP allows it.

o7

I too believe that the mentally disabled, especially if they have a heart, should be able to run for the CSM.

CSM is a labor of love (or perhaps insanity). You don't get paid for your time, your real life name gets tied to stuff you have done in Eve, and you get dragged through the mud for a year over things you have no control over. I don't know why people keep doing it, I certainly cannot see the benefit to taking on that mantel.

If you just now realized that they way people play in game, and the way they act in real life are different, you need help. Stop playing silly computer games, check into your own mental ward, get some rest and plant a tree.

Maybe he should get his 10058 votes back then, and we could shift this CSM around?

LOL...yeah sure....
Let's remember this post in a few more months.

Personally I don't know the man, never met him, never spoken to him, all I have to go on are second hand accounts of things he supposedly did... and most of those are actually things carried out by people in his alliance rather than by him himself.

The thing to remember when talking about the Goons is how easy it is to love to hate them. They wear it like a badge of honour, but behind it all, they are actually some of the most honest people in Eve.

Sure they will scam you, sure they will greif you, sure they will cause economic hardship for thousands to further their own aims... but at least they are upfront and honest about it... Gotta respect that.
Most people do exactly the same thing (albeit to a smaller scale) behind your backs.

The man himself, while his ingame character may not exactly be a paragon of virtue and justice, should not be used as a reason to prevent him from taking up a job he is so obviously well suited for.

Games are a form of escapism, they provide us with the means to be what ever we want to be without real life concequences, what you do ingame under the name of your toon is very very rarely a true reflection of the kind of person who you truely are.

If people want him to stand for CSM, I say let him. If people really don't want him in the position, then let them speak with their votes.

I too believe that we should judge persons on make believe personas.

This is why I motion that John Lithgow should be incarcerated for the murders he perpetrated as the trinity killer in Dexter.

Or maybe he's just role playing a character?

Listen, maybe you need to get out more. There are no "RL" conseuquences in EVE, any more than there are for losing a game of monopoly or tennis or something.

When you're talking about consequences, you might want to consider that the player in question didn't even know about what mittens said until the rabble-rabble made a huge thing of it.

Where was their consideration for consequences?