Ships & Modules

Watching someone rage and walk away/flip the board in a game of monopoly is 10 times more satisfying, and infinitely more hilarious, then simply beating them.

EDIT: to clarify:

While IRL it may be considered a bad thing to enjoy the suffering of others, that's usually only when referring to a matter that actually has some sort of seriousness to it. Throwing a tantrum and leaving over a board game (or any game for that matter) will get you labelled as being poorly adjusted MUCH faster than laughing at someone who does.

I can't speak for everyone, only for myself and my close friends, whom I know well. We don't play EVE with the intention of hurting and making people mad in real life. We do, however, play EVE with the intention of being absolutely ruthless to anyone whom we don't consider to be friendly. If they get hurt or mad in real life as a consequence of our actions in the game, that's their problem. We play within the confines of game rules, and don't cheat or exploit to gain our advantages.

I'm sure there are people out there who play solely for the sake of causing real-life aggravation. However, I'd venture to guess that they are the outliers, and not the status quo. However, it's important to note cause and effect. Such people have been ill-adjusted well before they bought their EVE accounts. EVE is but one of the outlets for their maliciousness, instead of being its root cause.

This.

I get quite a bit of satisfaction out of seeing grown men cry over a video game. It is quite funny. If they happen to quit over it, we are doing them a favor. They clearly take this game too seriously.

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He seems to be saying the exact opposite of what you are claiming he is saying.

How did this become a discussion about philosophy? Again anyway...

Everyone knows suicide gankers and gate campers are basement dwelling sociopaths seething with sexual frustration and social rejection.

Destiny Corrupted and MatrixSkye's game of not answering / keep questioning for some odd reason in my carebearish psycho asocial mind reminded me of this MOVIE SCENE under the background of this whole thread and the Ganker/Forumwhiner debacle plus the Tornado effect.

I will Henceforth refer to this issue as the TORNADO EFFECT and the amusing variability in personal stances regarding the incredible joy people (even if they flat out don't or can't recognize it on themselves) get on pixels and/or the blowing of them into smithereens.

As a side note I find a bit ... uh, "lay personish" of people to pretend angry forum whiners venting their rage on blown up pixels are socipaths or immature or any other label derivative of it and/or denigrating (same with labeling the gankers as such, not taking sides here either)

See, PIXELS are serious business here or anywhere else. The fact you enjoy blowing them up and not collecting or hoarding them does not shield you from being in the same level of "thinking" or "being" as the people you seem to despise or if you are more moderated, people you see as below your personal iota of imaginary self-made standards. Pixels are such serious business even folks off Iceland with servers in England got rich off them, and they are just one of many. Pretending to label a game as a "game"(with any kind of debasing derivative the word might mean to you) is as counter intuitive as saying Oil is just a black goo residue off dead prehistoric furries.

Enjoying the "tantrum" of the carebear and collecting the tears off him puts you in the same field as said carebear. You are all, simply sides of the same coin, pretending to be above, below or even sideways of them is kinda delusional. just sayin'

I enjoy the shows here though.

For simple yet direct reading that might give a bit more of light into the topic, I present you the SUNK COST FALLACY

I'm neither anti, pro, in favor or against anything that happens in eve, I'm merely a guest than enjoys the stroll. Like everyone else here, just saying my 2 cents worth of wall o' texty diatribe.

Please carry on ... I find this thread relevant to my interests

The point of "collecting tears" is that if the victim has a melt down over the loss of their worthless pixels they have just proven that they are way too invested emotionally in the game, and most well balanced individuals find that more than a little bit amusing.

This applies to the people laughing at the person who tosses the Monopoly Board in a tantrum, or the German kid freaking out over getting killed in WOW (you know you laughed).

At that point amusement over how carried away the "victim" is over their imagined "loss" far outweighs other considerations.

It "is" amusing, because the emotional outburst is absurd in every sense of the word.

Edit: And yes, that lends a small amount of credence to the theory that the outraged "victim" is more likely to punch someone than the much more objective antagonist.