EVE General Discussion

I am so glad you wrote this post. Grammar tears.

Dont feel too bad OP
Im constantly killing and being killed by allies as the TR in Planetside 2 (Seriously who thought it was good idea to make us red, then swap characters to blue while keeping structures red?) (It messes with my mind and makes me want to stay NC)

You will run into people like that, though you should have mentioned this be pvp tutorial, starting now first.
I find that helps alot rather than just going lol pvp.
Also it works great to throw them into RVB.
So many wrecks of theirs, makes me proud.

Did you miss the part where he didn't blow up the ship? I find it very strange that someone quit over repair costs. I guess it wasn't the game for him.

One of my friends started recently, I challenged him to a duel and for some reason he accepted. I don't think he'll be accepting duels invites from me the the future, but hes still playing the game.

My point is, no misery is being caused. It's not shifting the goal posts, it's a fact. If you're getting miserable over a video game, then it's you with the problem, not the person you blame for 'causing' it.

My other point is, this is still not indicative of mental illness. People who keep accusing their attackers of being mentally ill ought to be banned from this game, IMO. In fact, references to mental illness ought to be banned from the forums. It belittles real mental illness, for one, and oversteps your own authority on the subject. I have yet to meet a professional in the field who thinks it's possible to make such diagnoses based solely on how they play games.

This is how it is. Griefers will grief because griefing is funny. If you tried it as well, instead of just complaining about being griefed, you would find it funny too. You would laugh, and it's a fact. I know, because I've been right where you are now. The first online game I played, I asked my griefers if they were sick in the head, those exact words. And I know exactly where those thoughts come from. Everyone wants to be a psychologist with a degree from University Opinion but as someone with mental illness myself, you not only degrade very real suffering by paralleling ANYTHING, any experience at all, in a video game to it, you degrade your own credibility as an intellect as well.

To blanket everyone who behaves a certain way with a diagnostic criteria is more pathetic, IMO, than griefing, because at least the griefers are enjoying themselves. All I see is sourness and vile and spite in people who want to pull the 'mental illness' card on their assailants instead of, I dunno, getting the **** over it cuz it's a GAME.

Stopped reading there. GTFO.

Putting your hands over your ears and singing "LALALALALALA" to block out the mean and nasty facts doesn't change them one iota.

Mean and nasty "facts?" Listen here, cupcake. Your facts aren't facts. They're opinions. Your opinion, sucks. It sucks more than a black hole.

You're right, it's just a space pixel. OK. That doesn't mean that it's good to see people chased off Eve, or to say they aren't cut out for it after being back stabbed for ***** and giggles because most people in the world aren't paranoid survivalists in a GAME, or to pass tear collection and griefing as 'content creation.'

I don't know about you, but I WANT to see Eve grow. I want to see newbies stay. This is why I do what I do. This is why I still play Eve. I like teaching nubbins how to pew, and that lowsec isn't instadeath, and that losing a ship isn't a big deal. Not by killing them, but taking them out to kill other ****. To feel the thrill of a win when the odds are against you. THAT'S how you keep people in a game like Eve. Eve is harsh, but that doesn't mean you have to make it harsher. Show the newbs that they too, can be just as harsh and bad ass. Show them they aren't just prey.

In other words, stop being a raging ****.

I'm still here.

No, they're facts, and I explained what makes them facts, and I am not Tippia, and I don't care for OPINION any more than you do, so people need to stop with their OPINIONS regarding mental illness, because unless you've got some qualifications to present, then you only have unsubstantiated OPINION your ******* self.

I don't really care what you want to call me, and I don't really care for your opinion of my opinion, either. The point is, if you're going to DIAGNOSE people with 'mental illnesses' just because they're behaving in a way that you, with your subjective application of your own moral values to a video game, think is 'bad', then you're wrong, and it sounds more like spiteful, prescriptive retaliation for the sake of getting your own kick out of trying to make the person who made you feel bad also feel bad by labelling them as a 'sociopath' when in fact there is nothing about being a sociopath that is bad just by virtue of being a sociopath.

And I think you're missing, largely, my point here. I'm not defending anyone's behaviour, I'm just saying stop being armchair psychologists who think you know something you don't. This applies to anyone who's ever applied the word 'sociopath' or similar to behaviour of players in VIDEO GAMES, that point being the ONLY diagnostic criteria you know of the player. It's pathetic, it's wrong, it's ridiculous, it belittles real mental illness and adds negative connotations to the illness unnecessarily, thereby increasing the disdain with which people look down on people with REAL sociopathic tendencies, like myself.

You know, a girlfriend dumped me once when she found out I was a sociopath. That was the only reason, the use of the words "I'm a sociopath." It was nothing I'd done, just the label. The first thing she asked me was, "what, do you like, torture small animals or something?" It's **** like this calling people sociopaths just because of 'bad behaviour' or otherwise unusual behaviour that you can't otherwise understand, and sometimes have no business trying to understand, that a sociopath these days is just seen as a bad person just by virtue of the word sociopath having these negative connotations. If you do it, you're a ****.