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My mate is a carebear.
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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2013-10-06 10:22:33 UTC
Have you considered volunteering him as a candidate for live organ transplants?

That might make him useful.

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"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#22 - 2013-10-06 11:30:05 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Have you considered volunteering him as a candidate for live organ transplants?

That might make him useful.


But he needs his liver............

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#23 - 2013-10-06 17:27:25 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Have you considered volunteering him as a candidate for live organ transplants?

That might make him useful.
I don't think that's possible where i live. :/
Especially considering he might not give consent to this. xD

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#24 - 2013-10-06 17:33:15 UTC
Just send him off to the Inquisition.

They'll show him what-for with their Comfy Chairs and Soft Cushions.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#25 - 2013-10-07 14:44:33 UTC
If he thinks being bumped in GTA is bad, he should come back to EVE and do some mining without a permit. Smile
Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#26 - 2013-10-07 17:40:07 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
If he thinks being bumped in GTA is bad, he should come back to EVE and do some mining without a permit. Smile
He actually did that. ^_^
He once even said he was mining in nullsec for a while,
although i seriously doubt that. He might have meant lowsec.

He never complained about having lost anything.

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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2013-11-13 02:02:29 UTC
*BUMP* !
Cynter DeVries
Spheroidal Projections
#28 - 2013-11-13 15:06:44 UTC
He's not playing Eve. Lower standards apply.

Cynter's Law of feature suggestion: Thou shalt not suggest NPCs do something players could do instead.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#29 - 2013-11-13 18:16:26 UTC
Any updates? How's his GTA game going?
Sir Spottington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#30 - 2013-11-16 04:11:08 UTC
run away and never look back......he is no 'friend'
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#31 - 2013-11-18 09:08:43 UTC
Dihed get his $500k GTAV rebate and whine?

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#32 - 2013-11-18 22:11:32 UTC
You could try walking back and forth between him and the screen. Especially when he's in the middle of some intense action. That's what my idiot cat does to me. (You don't have to rub your tail across his face though-- no need to take the cat aggro thing too far).
Eli Green
The Arrow Project
#33 - 2013-11-18 22:55:35 UTC
If he thinks being bumped in a GTA V race is bad, I wonder what he thinks of the "hold-on-to-the-blue-shell-until-the -last-lap-and-your-friend-is-in-first" strat.

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Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
#34 - 2013-11-20 14:21:02 UTC
Solstice Project's Alt wrote:
His complaining about how people race, with the reasoning that
"They should call it Crash Derby and not Racing" shows that he puts his
belief of how the game should be above what the game actually works.
Textbook case of scrubdom.

One thing that always struck me as interesting in GTA IV's multiplayer (haven't yet seen it happen in V) is for a 'sportsmanlike' race to break out between me and another decent racer. As if we both recognise that the other is fairly skilled, and want to see who wins without all the wackyness GTA allows, so we stop trying to run each other off the road.

The most extreme example of this I saw was a race where I was in the lead but missed a checkpoint, and so arrived at the finish line first but not eligible to win. The other guy stopped short of the line and drove back to the checkpoint I missed so we could redo the end of the race. Complete stranger, no communication.

Never saw any of these 'play nice win fair' types do anything like that.

Technically it's scrubby behaviour, and for example that guy should have taken the easy win, but I think the desire to be genuinely good at a game which results in ruthless play also results in a desire to show yourself to be better, and that leads to a sort of sportsmanship between likeminded people.
Whereas carebears just get angry when others beat them, especially if they do so in a 'cheap' way, 'cheap' inevitably being defined as "things I can't/won't do".

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#35 - 2013-11-20 19:15:07 UTC
Crumplecorn wrote:
Solstice Project's Alt wrote:
His complaining about how people race, with the reasoning that
"They should call it Crash Derby and not Racing" shows that he puts his
belief of how the game should be above what the game actually works.
Textbook case of scrubdom.

One thing that always struck me as interesting in GTA IV's multiplayer (haven't yet seen it happen in V) is for a 'sportsmanlike' race to break out between me and another decent racer. As if we both recognise that the other is fairly skilled, and want to see who wins without all the wackyness GTA allows, so we stop trying to run each other off the road.

The most extreme example of this I saw was a race where I was in the lead but missed a checkpoint, and so arrived at the finish line first but not eligible to win. The other guy stopped short of the line and drove back to the checkpoint I missed so we could redo the end of the race. Complete stranger, no communication.

Never saw any of these 'play nice win fair' types do anything like that.

Technically it's scrubby behaviour, and for example that guy should have taken the easy win, but I think the desire to be genuinely good at a game which results in ruthless play also results in a desire to show yourself to be better, and that leads to a sort of sportsmanship between likeminded people.
Whereas carebears just get angry when others beat them, especially if they do so in a 'cheap' way, 'cheap' inevitably being defined as "things I can't/won't do".

That's very cool. Online samurai honor, cowboy honor, or whatever type honor. "I don't want to win the cheap way, I have more respect for myself and my own skill than that."
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