EVE General Discussion

in your opinion, it is proven.

"I am superior to mittani" "mittani is a goon" "Therefore I am superior to all goons"


You have almost completed buzzword bingo.

If you manage to fit Sheeple, and Wake Up in there too, then I will probably get some sort of prize.

Maybe it will even be the missing dolly

but there are real people behind those pixels.

Real people playing a game.

I have related this story in the past.

We had some temporary workers going through finished goods at my work place and one of them noticed I had an Eve related background on my computer. He asked if I played this game and after answering him I did, we talked about the game and how things were changing at the time (around the Dominion expansion). He brought up he was a member of Goonswarm and I joked about the "fee" for joining with him laughing about it.

Overall, he was your typical nerdy gamer: slight body odor, greasy hair, and overweight with chewed down finger nails *shivers*. If I had to label him in an age category, I would say he is the early 20's type stuck inside his cell phone more than in reality.

Anyway, there was another temp worker that was fairly attractive. Whereas a bit young for me, eye candy was still free. Yet the Goon decided to ask her out; and of course, she turned him down. Apparently, he got more persistent and she became more direct in her negative replies. Eventually it must have reached a point where the Goon did not care except for himself - a similar mentality that seem to be prevalent here in the game at the time ("Goons are here to ruin your game!") that human resources quickly got involved. And while the details were vague to me, both of them were gone and rumor was she got a small settlement.

So for a while, I had a negative view over Goons.

Since then, I have had casual interaction with Goons - mostly through the forums here. While some have been outright pricks, "Oh, you're a NPC alt!" and disregard what I said outright, others have been cordial and a good discussion was at hand. Many have appeared very adamantly against RMTing since they see it affecting the whole game and not just their slice of it. Though not directly affected (I mostly idle in game), their "emergent gaming" has shaken up a very boring game. And that one Mitten's web site has had some good articles worth reading (at least to me).

So I have "warmed" to Goons even though one bad apple did initially spoil that bunch.

And strangely enough, I believe it was on "Modern Marvels" that I learned a military division that repaired bombed out roads in the war zones in Iraq signed the cement with "Goons".

Just my thoughts.

It never ceases to amaze me that people can play this game for years and still not "get it" and some new people come and within a week they soar because they do...kind of like real life...sometimes.

Because there aren't people like that in almost any group you can name, inside or outside of game.

OP is fail! Posting and chest beating from the protection of an alt in a NPC should automatically disqualify any idea/opinion/judgment presented. If you believe in your in your stance, post with your main and get some skin in the game!!!!

There should be an auto-generated tag for these threads. Something along the line of "NPC ALT Thread Detected." This way we can all just get straight to ridiculing without wasting precious moments actually reading the OP.