EVE General Discussion

Actually, seeing as this is CCP's sandbox, CCP's forums, and CCP's decision to allow you to give them money and access their system, CCP can decide to ban you because they don't like your avatar's haircut. They really don't need a reason - the reasons are just there so we have some kind of level playing field - but as with the TV show "Who's Line is it Anyway" the rules are made up, and the points don't matter.


Your first amendment rights do not apply here, since CCP is not the American Government (or an American Company, not that it really matters). They can ban you for saying "I hate cheese". You left your First Amendment rights behind when you clicked "I Accept" on the EULA. Why the **** don't people grasp that simple concept?

I have question for the OP.

Would you of cared if the person said say person x deserved to be killed or is it because they said vile rat deserved to be killed?

Just curious

+1 internets for you. It's a sad indictment on the current state of American schools. I'm sure they're all being taught that they're all special snowflakes, though.

Being an American, and heavily involved in the local school system from a parental standpoint, I can assure you, we're not. However, there seems to be a rather vocal minority *Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal. who are not getting the message.

Yeah, and I would feel pretty much the same way.

This is a video game. Sure, it gets meta sometimes and various groups are at war for video game internet spaceship points - but once you cross the line into calling for the RL death of the player behind the character or making tasteless comments about a community member who was murdered in RL - ain't no meta game reasons that can make that acceptable, and the classic "lol i was just trolling" that usually follows seems pretty hollow and meaningless.

ill hop in at this point and say, while i see your point,
I don't think anything needs doing beyond having a discussion on the topic.

Be an adult and block someone when they offend you.

You will find that throughout life, there will be many people that say stupid, inflammatory things. Ignore them because you do not value their opinion. Don't scream for someone else to take care of your problem.

So are you saying that its bad just because the deceased was somebody who played Eve?

I take it then then everybody is fair game because they are just not important enough to get angry about.

Now just before you go all white knight, I will tell you where I stand on Vile Rat, whilst tragic his death was, for me personally as I have never met him, talked to him or interacted with him in anyway shape or form, it is no more tragic then a death of child or when a person is killed in natural disaster, or in thousand other ways that thousands of other people die every single day.

So you trying to garner some kind of sympathy for E1 by using Vile Rat's name simply does not work on me. If anything it makes me think you are a complete **** as there are people who did know Vile Rat personally and where his death deeply effected them.

No. I never said it was bad simply due to it being someone who played Eve.

I never said anyone was more important then anyone else.

If it is not painfully obvious by this point that this entire conversation has NOTHING to do with E1 and that the ONLY reason E1 was used was for a point of comparison - I really am feeling that you did not take the time to read everything that has already been written before posting.

In case you don't want to take the time to read a few pages or you somehow missed it - I knew Vile Rat in game, and had a lot of good times chatting with him and working on some random projects. Met him once at Fanfest and sat down for a pint of beer with him. While his death did not "deeply" effect me in the way many many people who knew him much better then I did - his death did effect me. He was a great dude to talk with.

If you really think this entire topic is some kind of stealth move that has ANYTHING to do with E1 you are missing the point. As I stated before - it's quite possible to mention E1 or use his story as a point of comparison to something else without taking part in some grand stealth scheme to somehow ... I don't even know anymore. Just read the whole thread. What the hell could I possibly have to gain from discussing this beyond... discussing it? If this is some covert play to "garner some kind of sympathy" for E1 - how does that work? Do you really think I just made this all up as some sort of stealth thing when multiple people in this thread have replied and mentioned that were there and saw the entire thing?

I'll say it one more time - yeah, the EVE forums have a lot of trolling and "stealth" posts. That does not mean that every single post ever made falls into this group.

So, yeah. I see where you are coming from, but just take a moment and read it all, ok? Or do a fast search on all the posts that I have ever made on the forums. You won't find a single example of me engaging in "stealth" posting or any kind of trolling. Sure, you'll find a few where I tend to let my love of sarcasm come to the surface and play - but you won't find a single example of what you are accusing me of. Before you start launching into referring to me as creative names that the forums decide to replace with a bunch of ****'s - at least have the decency to do a bit more homework before launching into your conclusion, ok? Thanks.

lol :)

I'm a bit thankful that I don't share your very intense sense of total pessimism, but I totally see where you are coming from. It's rather frustrating when you are dealing with some people who are so paranoid that actually think that just mentioning the name of a specific player for purposes of an example automatically requires that the tin-foil hats be passed around while we all personally insult each other. xD