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Someone has a 'little' Napoleon complex..

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Corpora Dei
Red Slice Enterprise
#1 - 2013-08-28 04:41:49 UTC
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/Goonswarm_Federation

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At the same time, there is the much more unsettling opposite idea of the domination of my screen persona over my "real" self. Our social identity, the person we assume to be in our social intercourse, is already a "mask" that involves the repression of our inadmissible impulses. But it is precisely in the conditions of "just playing" - when the rules regulating our "real life" exchanges are temporarily suspended - that we can permit ourselves to display these repressed attitudes. Take the proverbial impotent shy person who, while participating in a cyberspace interactive game, adopts the identity of an irresistible seducer or sadistic murderer. It is all too simple to say that this identity is just an imaginary escape from real-life impotence. The point is rather that, since he knows that the cyberspace interactive game is "just a game," he can "show his true self" and do things he would never have done in real-life interactions. In the guise of a fiction, the truth about himself is articulated. The fact that I perceive my virtual self-image as mere play thus allows me to suspend the usual hindrances which prevent me from realising my "dark half" in real life. My electronic id is given wing.
Trudeaux Margaret
Fancypants Inc
#2 - 2013-08-28 04:46:12 UTC
Uh, grrrr Goons?

> anyone willing to give me like a 5 min politics crash course?

> grr goons, lowsec is full of elitist sh*s, all roads lead to the bittervet pl
KuroVolt
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#3 - 2013-08-28 04:54:09 UTC
Do you even understand what Napoleon Complex means?

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Benny Ohu
Chaotic Tranquility
#4 - 2013-08-28 04:58:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Benny Ohu
the op, not getting it

neither do i, but i get there's a getting to be got and i ain't gotten it, get it? good.
Lugia3
Lazerhawks
L A Z E R H A W K S
#5 - 2013-08-28 07:06:32 UTC
Came expecting tears, left... thinking...

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ACE McFACE
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#6 - 2013-08-28 07:54:45 UTC
KuroVolt wrote:
Do you even understand what Napoleon Complex means?

Isn't it where your brain tells you to wear one of those big hats and conquer Italy even though its socially unacceptable to do so?

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William Walker
SLIPERY ONE EYE WILLY
#7 - 2013-08-28 08:06:12 UTC
"Wikipedia" wrote:
Napoleon complex is an informal term describing an alleged type of psychological phenomenon which is said to exist in persons, usually men, of short stature. It is characterized by overly-aggressive or domineering social behaviour, and carries the implication that such behaviour is compensatory for the subjects' stature. The term is also used more generally to describe people who are driven by a perceived handicap to overcompensate in other aspects of their lives. Other names for the term include Napoleon syndrome and Short Man syndrome.

So... everyone in EVE?

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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2013-08-28 08:07:31 UTC
Says the nobody. *lol*
Infinity Ziona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2013-08-28 08:51:39 UTC
Have to agree with the quoted text.

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Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#10 - 2013-08-28 08:56:42 UTC
The OP will of course, have found the source for that quote, the newspaper article which it originates from, and totally not assumed that Grrrrr Gewns wrote it

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Gealbhan
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#11 - 2013-08-28 09:11:33 UTC
Google Napoleon Complex and imagine a 180o of that. Anyway, Goons are to EvE as sharks are to the ocean. Without the sharks the other fish become lazy and complacent, therefore, they get bored. The end. Arrow
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#12 - 2013-08-28 09:12:51 UTC
Why do people always compare dear leader with the wrong dictator in these grr goons threads?
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#13 - 2013-08-28 09:22:43 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Why do people always compare dear leader with the wrong dictator in these grr goons threads?


I would have thought the facial fuzz was a bit of a hint, at the very least.

DBRB could possibly be napoleon though.

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#14 - 2013-08-28 09:29:06 UTC
Rhivre wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
Why do people always compare dear leader with the wrong dictator in these grr goons threads?


I would have thought the facial fuzz was a bit of a hint, at the very least.

DBRB could possibly be napoleon though.


no, we need someone who enjoys grinding down structures, has a story to tell and loses large numbers of men. Perhaps a WW1 general.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#15 - 2013-08-28 09:43:43 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
no, we need someone who enjoys grinding down structures, has a story to tell and loses large numbers of men. Perhaps a WW1 general.
General Melchett from Blackadder goes Forth?, or his real life equivalent Field Marshal Douglas Haig?

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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#16 - 2013-08-28 09:46:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Debora Tsung
baltec1 wrote:
Why do people always compare dear leader with the wrong dictator in these grr goons threads?


It's on purpose, a simple but sometimes effective way to incite answers from other people.

A Grr Goon (short Grroon) Thread wants to be groomed, fed, pampered all in good faith ofc, always the lofty goal in mind to one day become a real indecipherable wall of text, maybe even a real threadnaught. Therefore all simple and easy to apply methods of generating posts are favourable.

But, oh cruel world! Little does the aspiring Grroon know that his real fate is to be forgotten, dead and burried neckdeep in threads that would suck up all of mankinds IQ if they were ever to be read again.

But worry not, Grroons do not truly die, it shall reincarnate soon after it's untimely demise, like a hybrid of a phoenix and a fly it will reincarnate from his own pile of smelly, scorched up dung into the flames of a new existence.

Hopefully I wont accidentally click on that new abomination and/or post in there out of sheer boredom...

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

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Sol Kal'orr
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2013-08-28 10:00:23 UTC
I agree with the OP. The sooner we can alter the heights of our avatars the better.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#18 - 2013-08-28 10:00:49 UTC
Debora Tsung wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
Why do people always compare dear leader with the wrong dictator in these grr goons threads?


It's on purpose, a simple but sometimes effective way to incite answers from other people.

A Grr Goon (short Grroon) Thread wants to be groomed, fed, pampered all in good faith ofc, always the lofty goal in mind to one day become a real indecipherable wall of text, maybe even a real threadnaught. Therefore all simple and easy to apply methods of generating posts are favourable.

But, oh cruel world! Little does the aspiring Grroon know that his real fate is to be forgotten, dead and burried neckdeep in threads that would suck up all of mankinds IQ if they were ever to be read again.

But worry not, Grroons do not truly die, it shall reincarnate soon after it's untimely demise, like a hybrid of a phoenix and a fly it will reincarnate from his own pile of smelly, scorched up dung into the flames of a new existence.

Hopefully I wont accidentally click on that new abomination and/or post in there out of sheer boredom...


You will always click because you simply cannot resist the need to see the bitter and twisted posting of people who feel the need to post walls of text in an attempt to look like they are talking about more than grr goons.
Arec Bardwin
#19 - 2013-08-28 10:02:52 UTC
I, too, feel fat after eating a tray of Napoleon Cake.
Anunzi
Solace Corp
#20 - 2013-08-28 10:07:07 UTC


Posting in a Grrrr Goons thread, a bad one, but still a Grrr Goons thread.



Now, I'm no big city lawyer, but I honestly think GSF and their Dear Leader are amazing for the health of EvE online. Regardless of what else The Mittani does/says, he creates content, content so awesome that its made the BBC news site front page on more that one occasion.
This brings in new players, new players mean more subs, more subs means more dev time for the game we all love.

Keep doing what you do Goons!

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