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Where and how would you apply the lessons you've learnt in EVE to your life in the real world?
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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#21 - 2013-01-21 13:10:32 UTC
One lesson from EVE that you can apply is that ganking four-year-olds on the swing set will upset the parents, and that this makes 30-year-olds believe that they can kick and scream and cry and be treated like babies too…
Da Dom
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2013-01-21 13:16:50 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
I went to a theme park the other day ("Movie World" on the Gold Coast). I found it very boring. Sure, the stunt cars pulled some neat stunts, but the forced smiles, the dreary look on the "escapee" as he was running away from the crashing and burning police cars … it was all so staged. I could tell that each of the actors had done this so many times that there was no enjoyment left in the activity of driving stunt cars any more. They were burned out theme park veterans, raiding the same content over and over again with no purples left to collect.

Then we went to the beach. There's nothing at the beach but lots of sand, and water that moves on its own accord in semi-predictable ways (we call that semi-predictable movement "waves" and "rip"). Everyone that was there was there because they wanted to be there. Some people were just sun bathing, others were playing volleyball on the beach (and some of them … well, let's just say that beach volley ball is a great sport whether you are participating or spectating), some were playing cricket, and some were just throwing balls around in the surf for something to do.

Remembering that the most important thing in EVE is to have friends, I decided to apply my EVE knowledge to the beach life. I wandered around these groups and asked if I could join in. The 20-something girls playing volleyball just laughed at the old guy trying to join in — they probably checked my corp history and thought I wasn't actually there to play volleyball, and expected that I'd spend most of my time awoxing. The people sunbathing probably didn't want company (they were there to enjoy the sun and the surf, and not the people). So I ended up fielding in a game of cricket (they invented a new position for me, "left right outfield" which is probably a step up from "silly mid on"). We had a bit of fun, then they went home for their barbecue.

I'm not sure what the moral to the story is, but the people I saw at the theme park (employees and visitors alike) didn't look like they were having anywhere near as much fun as the people on the beach.

I used to work at Movie World, so I have a slightly different veiwpoint than you about this.

Did you notice how happy all the little "noobs" were to meet their favorite, well established characters? They were immersed in the experience while the adults knew better, but played along anyway.

Then again it was just like any other job, and we got paid to make sure that customers didn't "rage quit" the theme park, no matter how rude or obnoxious they behaved.

Because Far-que... That's why.
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#23 - 2013-01-21 13:16:50 UTC
Hisec =Natelie Portman
Lowsec = Miley Cyrus
Nullsec = Lindsay Lohan
Wormhole = Amy Winehouse
Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#24 - 2013-01-21 13:18:33 UTC
Da Dom wrote:
Figuratively speaking, of course

Extra credits for people that can define...

RL hi-sec

RL low-sec

RL null-sec

RL wormholes


hm...
summarizing ALL sec´s:
Butt-Sex can come as a surprise everywhere.

TunDraGon is recruiting! "Also, your boobs [:o] "   CCP Eterne, 2012 "When in doubt...make a diȼk joke." Robin Williams - RIP
Rebecha Pucontis
Doomheim
#25 - 2013-01-21 13:32:28 UTC
High sec - Europe
Low sec - America
Null sec - Middle East / Africa

;)

WH space is on the moon.
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