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'In Real LIfe I am KInd. In EVE I am a Psychopath'

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Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#161 - 2014-02-11 11:55:11 UTC
Mayhaw Morgan wrote:
Why must EVE be about getting my spaceship blown up, for me, just because it is about blowing up spaceships for you? Do you realize that there are NPC spaceships that you can blow up without upsetting an actual person? Do you realize that you can blow up your own spaceships if EVE is "a game about blowing up spaceships"? Is it nice for you to impose your perspective of EVE onto my gameplay? Don't you want to be a nice person?

Think about this: If person A needs professional help, maybe person B shouldn't be taunting and griefing them. Why would person B be doing that? Doesn't person B want to be a nice person? Why not?


If getting blown up sends someone off their cart so much, I'd suggest trying another game....
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#162 - 2014-02-11 12:34:47 UTC
Guttripper wrote:
Shampoo-Banana (Champaign-Urbana) - I spent two years (a good twenty plus years back) there and while I learned plenty about real life and how people truly are, when it came to academics, I see some aspects just have not changed...


I have known 2 people from Champaign-Urbana, neither of whom knew each other.

Both of them thought that when you see planes with jet contrails in the sky, that it's the Air Force "seeding" things, because the Air Force secretly has control of the weather.

They were also each separately obsessed with CCR.

I plan to never travel through that area. Not even once.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Kris Xavier
C5 Flight
Fraternity.
#163 - 2014-02-11 12:38:40 UTC
Veronica Felix wrote:
We often see people in EVE who defensively claim to be good, decent folk in real life, yet play vicious psychotics in EVE. But can they really separate the two? Does one's EVE persona reflect who and what people are in real life despite all their denials?

A new study claims that playing the villain makes you a bad person in real life:

'Gamers that adopted villainous Voldemort as an avatar, were more likely to dish out a punishment in the experiment .

'University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers found that people who played games as a heroic character were more likely to reward others.

'They warned that how gamers represent themselves in the virtual world of video games may affect how they behave toward others in the real world.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2555752/Playing-villain-video-games-makes-MEAN-Avatar-role-play-replicated-real-world-claims-study.html#ixzz2svavZ1lj


I nearly commented something useful, then i realised your reference point was the daily mail. Then i laughed.
Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
New Eden Tech Support
#164 - 2014-02-11 12:38:42 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
The Daily Mail, the UKs paper version of Fox News.


I get it now... useless rubbish special interest homophobic drivel. Thanks for the context.

*perhaps the OP is defending freedom too?

'mrrrica!

Thank me later :D
Pew Terror
All of it
#165 - 2014-02-11 12:43:54 UTC
Well, this explains my fetish for black lipstick...
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#166 - 2014-02-11 12:44:57 UTC
I wasn't planning to post again so quickly, but then I saw this nonsense.

Quote:
Is EVE about blowing up spaceships for you? Why must EVE be about getting my spaceship blown up, for me, just because it is about blowing up spaceships for you?


EVE is about blowing up spaceships for everyone, whether they realize it or not, and whether they accept it or not.

It's about predator and prey. You chose to be the prey(by failing to defend yourself, by, you know, warping out when 5 neg tens enter local), and you wonder why you're being hunted for the sport, amusement, or profit of others?

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Enraku Reynolt
Of Tears and ISK
#167 - 2014-02-11 13:23:16 UTC
Vedor Teo wrote:
Behind the internet, everyone will start to disclose their true self.


I think that finished this
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#168 - 2014-02-11 13:23:50 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
I wasn't planning to post again so quickly, but then I saw this nonsense.

Quote:
Is EVE about blowing up spaceships for you? Why must EVE be about getting my spaceship blown up, for me, just because it is about blowing up spaceships for you?


EVE is about blowing up spaceships for everyone, whether they realize it or not, and whether they accept it or not.

It's about predator and prey. You chose to be the prey(by failing to defend yourself, by, you know, warping out when 5 neg tens enter local), and you wonder why you're being hunted for the sport, amusement, or profit of others?


I'll bet that Mayhow Morgan guy plays soccer but refuses to kick the ball, both out of an aversion to make the other team feel bad if he scores and because kicking a ball in a BALLgame is mean and upsetting to the ball.
Alphea Abbra
Project Promethion
#169 - 2014-02-11 13:33:11 UTC
Pew Terror wrote:
Well, this explains my fetish for black lipstick...
Don't worry, black lipstick fetishes are not psychotic or psychopatic, it's just an expression.
Same with black clothing and a few spikes every now and then. 's all good. +1.
Khanh'rhh
Sparkle Motion.
#170 - 2014-02-11 14:00:06 UTC
I was playing team fortress 2 today, and noticed that most people felt is was bad to shoot each other, and instead walked around roleplaying daisy collectors.

If anyone shot someone else there was much handwringing and accusations of "sadist" and "literally hitler".

If this analogy doesn't help you see the flaws in the logic expressed ITT then just stop reading the daily mail, the study doesn't fully support their headline conclusions, look it up.

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." -Soviet infantry manual,

Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#171 - 2014-02-11 14:03:37 UTC
Veronica Felix wrote:

'[i]Gamers that adopted villainous Voldemort as an avatar, were more likely to dish out a punishment in the experiment .'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2555752/Playing-villain-video-games-makes-MEAN-Avatar-role-play-replicated-real-world-claims-study.html#ixzz2svavZ1lj


I never liked Voldemort. Stupid, ignorant, crude, hamfisted and noseless. The classical evil genius mastermind except no master and even less of a genius. No doubt, some ten-year-old children might be slightly impressed but for anyone else he is a joke, really.

Only character I really liked was Dolores Umbridge. No into-your-face evil stereotype, no "visual" evil, more of a hidden, creeping, almost subliminal kind of evil. Also, so very adorable sadistic, but of course all for the greater good of the students. That thing with the Blood Quill was awesome on so many levels.


Now, dear community, what does this make me in real life?

Je suis Paris // Köln // Brüssel // Orlando // Nice // Würzburg, München, Ansbach // Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray

Je suis Berlin // Fort Lauderdale // London // St. Petersburg // Stockholm

Je suis [?]
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#172 - 2014-02-11 14:17:56 UTC
Nerath Naaris wrote:
I never liked Voldemort. Stupid, ignorant, crude, hamfisted and noseless. The classical evil genius mastermind except no master and even less of a genius. No doubt, some ten-year-old children might be slightly impressed but for anyone else he is a joke, really.

Only character I really liked was Dolores Umbridge. No into-your-face evil stereotype, no "visual" evil, more of a hidden, creeping, almost subliminal kind of evil. Also, so very adorable sadistic, but of course all for the greater good of the students. That thing with the Blood Quill was awesome on so many levels.

Now, dear community, what does this make me in real life?

A governmental bureaucrat.
Tronjay the'3rd
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#173 - 2014-02-11 14:21:08 UTC
Veronica Felix wrote:
We often see people in EVE who defensively claim to be good, decent folk in real life, yet play vicious psychotics in EVE. But can they really separate the two? Does one's EVE persona reflect who and what people are in real life despite all their denials?

A new study claims that playing the villain makes you a bad person in real life:

'Gamers that adopted villainous Voldemort as an avatar, were more likely to dish out a punishment in the experiment .

'University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers found that people who played games as a heroic character were more likely to reward others.

'They warned that how gamers represent themselves in the virtual world of video games may affect how they behave toward others in the real world.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2555752/Playing-villain-video-games-makes-MEAN-Avatar-role-play-replicated-real-world-claims-study.html#ixzz2svavZ1lj


Awesome news.....so....i was always right on Mittens being a bad and rotten person. Twisted

兵者，詭道也。故能而示之不能，用而示之不用，近而示之遠，遠而示之近

**Sun Tzu **©
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#174 - 2014-02-11 14:26:52 UTC
Daily Mail, I'm surprised they didn't also make a link between games and cancer and housing prices.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#175 - 2014-02-11 14:52:47 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Daily Mail, I'm surprised they didn't also make a link between games and cancer and housing prices.

You forgot benefits scroungers and vapid z list celebs.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

New Player FAQ

Feyd's Survival Pack
Mythrandier
Solace Corp
#176 - 2014-02-11 15:08:45 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
Daily Mail, I'm surprised they didn't also make a link between games and cancer and housing prices.

You forgot benefits scroungers and vapid z list celebs.


Yet you won't see anything on there regarding the 82 billion in bonuses paid to bank exec’s since 2008... when said banks were bailed out with public money.

Remind me again who owns this ****** "news" paper?

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -  D. Adams.
Alphea Abbra
Project Promethion
#177 - 2014-02-11 15:20:00 UTC
Mythrandier wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
Daily Mail, I'm surprised they didn't also make a link between games and cancer and housing prices.

You forgot benefits scroungers and vapid z list celebs.


Yet you won't see anything on there regarding the 82 billion in bonuses paid to bank exec’s since 2008... when said banks were bailed out with public money.

Remind me again who owns this ****** "news" paper?
Rupert Murdoch is looking out for all our best interests.
I read that in the science column of The Daily Mail, and they cited a "recent study", it must be true.
Anomaly One
Doomheim
#178 - 2014-02-11 15:24:10 UTC
not this again..

Never forget. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8sfaN8zT8E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l_ZjVyRxx4 Trust me, I'm an Anomaly. DUST 514 FOR PC
Meilandra Vanderganken
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#179 - 2014-02-11 16:35:26 UTC
Veronica Felix wrote:
We often see people in EVE who defensively claim to be good, decent folk in real life, yet play vicious psychotics in EVE. But can they really separate the two? Does one's EVE persona reflect who and what people are in real life despite all their denials?


From my own experience, a lot of the ppl who say that they are 'good' players, bears and anti-pirate guys etcetera turn into RL 'psychotics' the moment things don't go their way in game.

Here's a list of insults/threats/deatwishes from my personal encounters, mind you, those are not over high value stuff or keeping them from playing the game for days/weeks by wardeccing them, no this is mostly over stuff like stealing a few million worth of ore or popping a T1 mining barge:
-The usual *****/whore/****** stuff.
-The *****/whore/****** stuff with 'you should get gang raped by dark skinned males with very large external reproductive organs IRL' attached to it.
-The wishing of deadly diseases leading to a slow painful death IRL
-The wishing of the former two upon your RL loved ones.
-Wishing corporal punishment upon me for being 'a thief'. I was told by one of my victims that he hoped that I would have my hand cut of for stealing IRL


That's just my personal list. What I've heard from others goes way beyond that often.

So, if those theories and studies are sound, I really hope those 'good decent EVE players' don't ever step over to the dark side, since they already seem twisted enough....

Those personal findings in EVE have confirmed my believe however that our 'civilized' behavior both in game and IRL is only a very, very, very thin layer...
Alice Sin
Doomheim
#180 - 2014-02-11 16:43:09 UTC
Started this alt just yesterday and I'm already giving thoughts to a sex change and some breast implants Roll Also I somehow feel more attracted to men, shemales and diamonds... diamonds and shinny things... and diamonds, did I just said diamonds ? What?