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Why do people try to act so tough and bigshot in this game?
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JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#41 - 2011-11-22 05:39:17 UTC
Zirse wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JUeDQbR-ts&feature=related


LOL havent seen that episode yet.
St Mio
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#42 - 2011-11-22 06:03:16 UTC
Why do they bother you so much? They're just random people in a video game...
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#43 - 2011-11-22 06:07:53 UTC
St Mio wrote:
Why do they bother you so much? They're just random people in a video game...


well true, however dont try to use that idea for everything.

Since you end up with why bother to live ? You gonna die anyway.
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#44 - 2011-11-22 06:15:33 UTC
Gasm wrote:
The players of this game eternally crack me up.

People talk like big shot tough guys in a geek computer game... is that not beyond ironic?

People always talking about how much isk they have, how uber at pvp they are with almost no kills on their profile (it's always their main who has the kills... right?), how uber at ganking they are (that's so difficult isn't it?), how fail everyone else is...

examples:
1. i frequent a public channel where this one guy talks on and on every night about how awesome he is for flying super-super-super pimp ships with 3.5 billion dollar fits and how uber of an incursion jockey he is. all night, every night, like this is the measure of a person.

2. i had a cup of coffee in a fail null alliance and while his home station was being camped and everyone was cowering in the station this dork would be in comms and corp channel complaining that "I can't ever find any targets. Everyone is afraid of me in local"... all the while his alliance home constellation is being curbstomped 24x7 by some NPC null sec dorks for weeks on end.

3. Peeps go on and on about how they "finish 10 lowsec level 5's per hour" - hey stupid, that's 1 turnin every 6 minutes - or "I do Enemies Abound final pocket in a dramiel, you're doing it wrong" or just pure nonsense idiocy and act all tough.

What is about Eve - essentially a geek mode game - that makes people try to behave like super tough and/or super smart people?

It's a game. Acting all tough guy seems pretty stupid.


The ones I like best are those who make massive sweeping generalisations from a few unsourced anecdotal data points.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#45 - 2011-11-22 06:16:10 UTC
Oh, and internet psychologists. They're the best too.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#46 - 2011-11-22 06:17:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaroslav Unwanted
Malcanis wrote:
Oh, and internet psychologists. They're the best too.


About the same as arm-chair one to be honest. They all follow books written by someone else. They got their own equation what is "normal" and what is not.

Look at it this way, few centuries ago slavery was considered normal. Freeing slaves was considered as some serious mental illness.

**** changes. People stays the same. Always follows what someone with power declare normal.
Jenny Jihad
Doomheim
#47 - 2011-11-22 07:12:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Jenny Jihad
Jaroslav Unwanted wrote:


Freeing slaves was considered as some serious mental illness.


Quite
McRoll
Extraction and Exploration Ltd.
#48 - 2011-11-22 07:40:57 UTC
That behaviour occurs in every game, it's just not as obvious maybe because in Eve people tend to post more on forums than actually play the gameLol

Also, people in Eve feel more 1337 because it is supposed to be the hardest and most complex MMO
Aineko Macx
#49 - 2011-11-22 07:44:56 UTC
Jaroslav Unwanted wrote:
Paragon Renegade wrote:
They're overcompensating for their small penises, that's really how it is

Not empty quoting. Thats actually always the reason for whatever reaction, at least thats what i learned from smart books.

Stop talking about yourselves.

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Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#50 - 2011-11-22 08:50:38 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
Oh, and internet psychologists. They're the best too.



Yeah, thanks for the announcement, here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect


Quoted from wikipedia, wich is part of the internet, so it obiously has to be true.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#51 - 2011-11-22 09:28:24 UTC

Low self esteem, low class, low life, undereducated, not very smart.

Stop wondering about that.

Start wondering about why people like them actually exist.
It's quite sad, and they don't even know how sad it is.
Movtaron
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#52 - 2011-11-22 09:34:34 UTC
I know a few big alliances that will feel hit by this, since they are über awesome etc
Capn Orgasmo
Dmacks Minnions
#53 - 2011-11-22 09:50:09 UTC
Im so hardcore that eve cant handle my hardcore'ness
Jenshae Chiroptera
#54 - 2011-11-22 10:12:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Jenshae Chiroptera
Solstice Project wrote:
...Start wondering about why people like them actually exist.
It's quite sad, and they don't even know how sad it is.


Lack of eugenics.
"If we believe in evolution then why do we make such an effort to keep the dim and feeble not only alive but breeding too?"


If I had a quid for every guy I have seen claiming they are in the army or used to be in it, I would be rich. I would be filthy rich if I got five pounds for everyone of them claiming to be in the marines or special forces. Big smile

P.S. I don't believe any of them, no matter their knowledge.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#55 - 2011-11-22 10:20:38 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Solstice Project wrote:
...Start wondering about why people like them actually exist.
It's quite sad, and they don't even know how sad it is.


Lack of eugenics.
"If we believe in evolution then why do we make such an effort to keep the dim and feeble not only alive but breeding too?"




We tried that once here in germany. Did not work.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Mag's
Azn Empire
#56 - 2011-11-22 10:27:21 UTC
INB4 the morality high ground crew!

Fedit: Damn, too late.

Destination SkillQueue:- It's like assuming the Lions will ignore you in the Savannah, if you're small, fat and look helpless.
St Mio
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#57 - 2011-11-22 11:08:16 UTC
Jaroslav Unwanted wrote:
St Mio wrote:
Why do they bother you so much? They're just random people in a video game...


well true, however dont try to use that idea for everything.

Since you end up with why bother to live ? You gonna die anyway.

Well, someone has to keep the waffle population under control, and no offense, but the world doesn't seem to be doing a good job without me!

Also, to OP, idiots are everywhere, take advantage of the ability to block them and spend your energies on people whose company you actually enjoy
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#58 - 2011-11-22 11:59:19 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Lack of eugenics.
"If we believe in evolution then why do we make such an effort to keep the dim and feeble not only alive but breeding too?"



Sadly enough, this is quite right.
Less natural evolution, more and more human stupidity.
Less living in consensus with natural laws, more and more human stupidity.

Not talking about sick people here,
but about people who are so dumb that they "need protection"
and everybody else has to suffer for it.

Like those 500 people who yearly die EU-wide because of cigarette burns, (like ... falling asleep with a cigarette)
and now all the millions and millions of smokers have to suffer for it through LIPP,
which makes it even worse for the health.

It makes no sense and those 500 are just a bad excuse.
Hypocrites everywhere "up there".
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#59 - 2011-11-22 12:00:19 UTC

That being said, it's really easy to manipulate most people who behave like this.

And i mean REALLY easy, once you know how to do it.

Just experiment. :)
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#60 - 2011-11-22 12:12:26 UTC
I once said in an new player corp chat room that my main regulary griefs players by holding them to ransom.

When I'm in a different system...using a remote doomsday module...that was taken from a pirate...years before the module was removed from the game....that gives 1000000 hit points across all damage types...

Don't blame the BS, blame the people who believe it.

This space for rent.