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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#101 - 2011-12-02 16:15:36 UTC
Dradius Calvantia wrote:
If one single word of the OP is true... I will eat my space hat.





Does it cost as much as a monocle?

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Kaivar Lancer
Doomheim
#102 - 2011-12-02 16:22:14 UTC
Wow, that's really low. You have to ask yourself what fun can be found from scamming a sick man? You might as well kick puppies for sport.

Yes, this is Eve. I wouldn't trust anyone on Eve unless I knew them in RL and so I could punch them. Or slash a tyre.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#103 - 2011-12-02 16:29:32 UTC
Destiny Corrupted wrote:
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
I write once more that all I ever asked of griefers is that they admit they do it for the grief. I never try to change anybody's game, or tell anybody how to play. Out of courtesy I ask for one shred of honesty.

But a sociapath will always try to lie about their reasons, it's part of being one.

I consider myself a pretty mellow and sociable person. I'll help an old lady cross the street, I'll drop a dime into the collection can, and I'll return a lost wallet.

In EVE, I will claw out your still-beating heart, and slowly slice it with a potato peeler in front of your very eyes. I'll make you suffer and squirm, if it suits my own goals. I expect you to do the same. You know why? Because this is a video game about conflict, war, theft, betrayal, and cheating. I enjoy every second of seeing someone suffer in EVE, because I know that in this game, a player can only be a victim of his own stupidity, and not a victim of circumstance.

Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
In RL though, where there is consequence, there is civility. If someone wants to call me names on the internet, I don't care. They can even exercise their First Amendment to my face for all I care. But touch me and I will empty a magazine into them and any friends who are pointing and laughing.

This is why I have not been touched in almost 30 years.

Oh, I see. You're one of those internet tough guys. Work out and shoot guns and take MMA classes, bro? Washboard abs and a trophy girlfriend, right? And ain't no one going to **** with your **** 'cause you got it on lockdown?

You remind me of some of the war targets I've had, who opened chats and threatened to hunt me down and kill me in real life. All over some space pixels. That, or a terrible rap song. Take your pick.

Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
What I wonder most is, are these asshats in MMOs people who do roughly the same in RL and take themselves into the games, or are the asshats in MMOs people who are victims in RL and, having no recourse for revenge and/or justice, come to the game to take it out on someone else?

Maybe that's why griefers don't admit their true intentions.

Yeah, okay. I guess you have a degree in psychology too. Must be a tight fit on the mantle, though, what with all the sharpshooting awards you have stacked on it.

What a bunch of tripe. It's pure hypocrisy that someone with your professed real-life attitude toward violence and self-defense would take up such a bleeding-heart attitude towards a game in which shooting other players is the main attraction.



To all the others: you're falling for a troll, though a well-planned one at that. By all means don't stop; I find it hilarious.




I loled.

Wrong on many counts, but I wish you were right about the washboard abs though. The sixpack has eluded me since I was 30, and I am at least down to a fourpack.

As for making threats in a game, never. There are people in the field offices or cop shops who, if I ever did that, would be doing high fives screaming "we have a reason to take him down now!! woo hoo!!". And that's because I am already a war target in RL AND people like yourself, if threatened, would go ninnying to the cops with the "oooh I feel threatened" business just to see someone get busted. I protect myself from people like you in games, and in RL too. In America the "using cops as your personal weapon against others" tactic is quite common so leaving yourself open to that is something that a tactical-minded person remains well aware of in all interactions from games to random RL encounters.

But I have played well enough not to be in a situation to be tempted to make threats - if this game is "Gank and Grief Online" - and could be proven to be only that, then having never been ganked nor griefed since I started in 2006, in spite of all of the time I spend outside of high sec, I must be winning EvE then (again, only if EvE is officially "Gank and Grief Online").

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Satav
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#104 - 2011-12-02 16:37:17 UTC
I have 4 things to say to the OP and his friend,

I'm sorry that you had to go through that difficult period in your life. And yes indeed , people even computer players are responsible for being decent.

But the fault isn't entirely with your friend's corp.

(1) Clearly your friend let eve become way to important to him and when he was recovering from rehab it was a mistake for him to rely on a computer game for stability.
(2) EvE is a great game but should be remember as only a game.

(3) There is only so much we can do in influence others to make good choices. After that, it's up to us to reactive well, roll with the punches. We can't let others actions dictate our selfworth.

(4) As with any area of life, there are good people and bad people and you need to adopt habits that slowly gravitate the good people to you, no matter how slowly. Fast prosperity = fast poverty.

Although i have respect to the OP and his friend/wife for posting this, i believe that this should not have been posted do to privacy and security reason's. I hope, respectfully that a GM will lock this thread.

Dervinus
Sunny Weather Mercenaries
The Initiative.
#105 - 2011-12-02 16:42:13 UTC
Guy gets robbed because he is a drug addict

Guy gets robbed by TACTICAL NARCOTICS TEAM

KEYWORD NARCOTICS

If this is real, this is super ironic.

If this is fake, nice troll TNT (or whoever started this). Suprised people didnt put one and one together.

o7 toonies
Kietay Ayari
Caldari State
#106 - 2011-12-02 16:48:06 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:


In RL though, where there is consequence, there is civility. If someone wants to call me names on the internet, I don't care. They can even exercise their First Amendment to my face for all I care. But touch me and I will empty a magazine into them and any friends who are pointing and laughing.

This is why I have not been touched in almost 30 years.



Aww yeah perfect logic: People who steal fake stuff in a game are sociopaths but if someone touches you in RL you better shoot them and all their friends. Good deal mister!

Ferox #1
Astrid Stjerna
Sebiestor Tribe
#107 - 2011-12-02 16:50:45 UTC
Mortis vonShadow wrote:

Hence why the post is all made up. If you really cared about someones welfare, would you be going on a games forums and talking about it?



While I've never had a drug addiction, rehab sometimes isolates you from your family to prevent them from giving you a 'pity fix'. She may not be allowed to go to him.

I can't get rid of my darn signature!  Oh, wait....
Mortis vonShadow
Balanaz Mining and Development Inc.
#108 - 2011-12-02 16:54:28 UTC
This isn't real. If you give the OP sympathy, then you have been hoodwinked.

Some days you're the bug, and some days your the windscreen.                   And some days, you're just a man with a gun.
Rabid cat
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#109 - 2011-12-02 17:15:10 UTC
The story is just missing the part where the original posting is asking for ISK to help the victim to get started again.
Wibla
Tactical Narcotics Team
#110 - 2011-12-02 17:29:00 UTC
Dervinus wrote:
Guy gets robbed because he is a drug addict

Guy gets robbed by TACTICAL NARCOTICS TEAM

KEYWORD NARCOTICS

If this is real, this is super ironic.

If this is fake, nice troll TNT (or whoever started this). Suprised people didnt put one and one together.


Carebear tears = narcotics Pirate
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#111 - 2011-12-02 17:35:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Cipher Jones
Ifly Uwalk wrote:
Where's the "scam" in all this drama?

Idiot shares password, gets his sh*t stolen. Working as intended, EvE is alive.

idgi


I asked that on page 2, still waiting for a response.

The only thing I can think of is he had his **** in a POS if he didnt share his pass. In which case NONE of his money would get stolen. AND would also mean he was keeping every egg in one basket.

Sounds like he RMT'd to get his fix IMHO.

Quote:
You have to ask yourself what fun can be found from scamming a sick man?


Please, show me the scam. Thanks.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
Sverige Pahis
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#112 - 2011-12-02 17:40:36 UTC
Crazy guy plays eve news at 11
Esan Vartesa
Samarkand Financial
#113 - 2011-12-02 17:56:39 UTC
Mortis vonShadow wrote:
This isn't real. If you give the OP sympathy, then you have been hoodwinked.


I'd rather risk being hoodwinked than risk being a complete ********.
Rabid cat
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#114 - 2011-12-02 18:08:39 UTC
But guys! This is just like a typical scam letter! I have seen many circulating sob stories like this on the internet! The only thing is that the part where the victim's wife is asking for money is missing.

PS. You can live completely normal life even if you are addicted to pain meds if you can keep taking only what you need (and if the meds really help). Maybe cannabis would have been better pain medication for the victim.
Krios Ahzek
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#115 - 2011-12-02 18:11:14 UTC
Esan Vartesa wrote:
Mortis vonShadow wrote:
This isn't real. If you give the OP sympathy, then you have been hoodwinked.


I'd rather risk being hoodwinked than risk being a complete ********.


Don't worry hell doesn't exist, so you're safe as long as no one ever learns about your despicable actions IRL.

 Though All Men Do Despise Us
Chandaris
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#116 - 2011-12-02 18:36:52 UTC
There are no 'friends' in eve, only co-workers.
KrakizBad
Section 8.
#117 - 2011-12-02 18:39:30 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
And that's because I am already a war target in RL


I lol'd
StillBorn CrackBaby
Doomheim
#118 - 2011-12-02 18:55:27 UTC
Famble wrote:
My God, its a GAME!

Leave the personal stuff at the door. Od over pixels, my guess is he would have od'd after watching old yeller. The man's sick, get him help and don't bring that crap to the game. Like we don't get enough of this stuff in real life.



Exactly, this is how EVE works, it just a game geez.... Stupid story....
A Little Girl
#119 - 2011-12-02 19:24:59 UTC
Eve is filled with jerks! Except for the people who give me likes. I like them too! Big smile
Xpaulusx
Naari LLC
#120 - 2011-12-02 19:27:02 UTC
Contacting CCP advertising Dept on any future Box release sets to suggest printing on Box" Do not play under the influence and remember to use brain when playing".

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