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Tiddle Jr
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2015-11-02 00:46:27 UTC
Cpt Armarlio wrote:
My parents think my EVE friends are nothing but losers and so am I for playing an online game.
So I guess moving out is the way forward. I’ve left my character with a year's training and that's that.
Would have liked to play longer but **** those ignorant fools.

Shame I can't pod them

See you soon o7



All those years you've mentioned your parents considered you and your friends as loosers. But you decided to leave just now. Why not just leave parents and stay within game.

"The message is that there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know" - CCP
Aiwha
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#22 - 2015-11-02 00:48:46 UTC
Nafensoriel wrote:
Define weirdo loser.

Personally 8hr/day TV watching, vapid socialite, and entitled jacknapes that you see in your local mall seem like a more typical loser than the average EVE player.



Bruh. You could not be more neckbeardy if you tried.

Sanity is fun leaving the body.
Matrea D
Maggie's Magical Miners
#23 - 2015-11-02 01:16:24 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
better yet id make them do all my watchlisting and locating for me


It's decided then. I'm having kids.
Shallanna Yassavi
qwertz corp
#24 - 2015-11-02 01:19:16 UTC
Nafensoriel wrote:
Define weirdo loser.

Personally 8hr/day TV watching, vapid socialite, and entitled jacknapes that you see in your local mall seem like a more typical loser than the average EVE player.

Also tell your parents that people who list EVE online experience in their resume have actually gotten jobs out of it. Quite regularly in fact. Many aspects of this game mimic real world skillsets and shockingly enough plenty of companies out there are figuring this out.

It's not just the game, it's how you play it. You can go out and explore, you can work as part of a small gang, or you can F1 monkey.

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Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#25 - 2015-11-02 02:50:33 UTC
Nafensoriel wrote:
Parents often do not have their childs best interests at heart.
“Nothing has a stronger influence on their children than the unlived life of the parent.” Carl Jung
Staten Island
Diversity 101
Domain Research and Mining Inst.
#26 - 2015-11-02 03:07:33 UTC
Cpt Armarlio wrote:
My parents think my EVE friends are nothing but losers and so am I for playing an online game.
So I guess moving out is the way forward. I’ve left my character with a year's training and that's that.
Would have liked to play longer but **** those ignorant fools.

Shame I can't pod them

See you soon o7


Your parents are right - go out into the world and enjoy. MMOs are for oldsters who's wives are sound asleep at 9pm and who have kids who are old enough that they no longer want to be in the same room as you.
Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#27 - 2015-11-02 03:55:37 UTC
Cpt Armarlio wrote:
My parents think my EVE friends are nothing but losers and so am I for playing an online game.
So I guess moving out is the way forward. I’ve left my character with a year's training and that's that.
Would have liked to play longer but **** those ignorant fools.

Shame I can't pod them

See you soon o7


Virtual friends are not friend the comrade for the common good. The will past and move on like you are going to do good or bad its a way humans do. Your parents are concerned and thats a sign of your problems. Virtual friends are not the same as "real friends" Unless those friends can visit you in real life. Then thats the way it needs to be.

Parents have there reason to concerned. This means like people say already you need to balance life. (virtual and non virtual). I think if you grow up and earn your own income and have house perhaps wife and a kid you know what i mean by then, but for now just obey your parents. And go out more. Trust me you frontal lobe its not develop inn off to judge how it needs to be. For now it take some time for (
puberty) to grown the frontal lobe. Not hating you its a fact. Sorry.
ISD FlowingSpice
ISD SYAD
ISD Alliance
#28 - 2015-11-02 05:18:04 UTC
It's important to remember that when it comes down to it, no matter how much time and effort we sink into it, EVE is only a game.
Don't let it get in the way of your real life.

Saying that, the friends you make while playing can certainly be real friends.

Play responsibly. :)

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Otso Bakarti
Doomheim
#29 - 2015-11-02 05:32:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Otso Bakarti
Only retirees with solid pensions, or enviable incomes in royalties from a life's work should play EVE.
You can tell you're one of these by:

a.) Owning a LazyBoy.

b.) Owning a room to put the LazyBoy IN.

c.) Your car is paid for.

d.) Nobody asks your opinion about anything anymore.

If you fit the above criteria, not only is it cool for you to play EVE, it's cool for you to act like you have this HUGE epeen, know who the only really good bands are, and be assured how you dress is the way everyone should dress, only they haven't figured that out yet.

If you say "my parents" in relation to your gaming activity, maybe you should listen to them and do get some balance in your life. This includes:

a.) Spend more time outdoors than you do gaming online.

b.) At least try to have some sort of relationship with someone of the opposite gender
(that has no sexual component to it.)

c.) Be involved in learning how to do something normal people just don't do...like pinhole cameras.

d.) READ BOOKS.

And, if your parents criticize the time you spend online and who you spend it with, don't claim they're calling you
"a bunch of losers" unless they actually use those words. "My parents disapprove...." Is much better and speaks
more highly of YOU.

Cool

There just isn't anything that can be said!
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#30 - 2015-11-02 06:53:45 UTC
Bring them to fanfest and I'm sure they'll get a different opinion.

/c

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#31 - 2015-11-02 10:42:21 UTC
Otso Bakarti wrote:
Only retirees with solid pensions, or enviable incomes in royalties from a life's work should play EVE.
You can tell you're one of these by:

a.) Owning a LazyBoy.

b.) Owning a room to put the LazyBoy IN.

c.) Your car is paid for.

d.) Nobody asks your opinion about anything anymore.

If you fit the above criteria, not only is it cool for you to play EVE, it's cool for you to act like you have this HUGE epeen, know who the only really good bands are, and be assured how you dress is the way everyone should dress, only they haven't figured that out yet.

If you say "my parents" in relation to your gaming activity, maybe you should listen to them and do get some balance in your life. This includes:

a.) Spend more time outdoors than you do gaming online.

b.) At least try to have some sort of relationship with someone of the opposite gender
(that has no sexual component to it.)

c.) Be involved in learning how to do something normal people just don't do...like pinhole cameras.

d.) READ BOOKS.

And, if your parents criticize the time you spend online and who you spend it with, don't claim they're calling you
"a bunch of losers" unless they actually use those words. "My parents disapprove...." Is much better and speaks
more highly of YOU.

Cool

As trollish and snarky as this post might seem, it's actually fairly solid advice.

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Dextrome Thorphan
#32 - 2015-11-02 11:29:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Dextrome Thorphan
Shiloh Templeton wrote:
While they may be misguided about some things, never forget that they love you and want only good things for you and your life ahead. If they didn't, they wouldn't care what you did with your time.

Good luck.


Very true, although that doesn't make their personal opinions about lifestyles any more valid.


+ this:
Nafensoriel wrote:
As disturbing as it is to point out...
Parents often do not have their childs best interests at heart. I know we like to hope(especially when we are the parents) that this is true but a not so insignificant minority of parents have other priorities in life above that of their children. This has been proven and played out in countless studies and general social common sense.

Additionally from a psychological standpoint you want your children to challenge, question, and develop their own opinions of things.. even including your rules and manner of raising them. Note this doesn't mean stomp all over your parents. It just means if you set a curfew for your daughter and she asks why have an answer ready that is more honest than "just because I said so". Kids challenge us because they subconsciously are learning HOW TO BE PARENTS from us. Weird but true heh.

All relationships, even parental, are give and take.. we learn together how to react and grow socially. Dogmatic absolute situations often lead to hurt, misunderstanding, and lack of social openness.
Dextrome Thorphan
#33 - 2015-11-02 11:33:25 UTC
Divine Entervention wrote:
Listen to your parents.

They care more about you than any one here on these forums or in the game ever could.


Parents generally care about the idea of their ideal kid, and yes of course 90% of parents will love you unconditionally even if you don't live up to their standards. But it's also true that most parents don't care so much about the kid's real personality/interests/feelings when it goes against their own beliefs.
Dextrome Thorphan
#34 - 2015-11-02 11:34:28 UTC
Cpt Armarlio wrote:
My parents think my EVE friends are nothing but losers and so am I for playing an online game.
So I guess moving out is the way forward. I’ve left my character with a year's training and that's that.
Would have liked to play longer but **** those ignorant fools.

Shame I can't pod them

See you soon o7


If moving out is an option, then why didn't you just do that in the first place? Complaining about it here isn't going to help Lol
xxxTRUSTxxx
Galactic Rangers
#35 - 2015-11-02 11:50:12 UTC
Cpt Armarlio wrote:
My parents think my EVE friends are nothing but losers and so am I for playing an online game.
So I guess moving out is the way forward. I’ve left my character with a year's training and that's that.
Would have liked to play longer but **** those ignorant fools.

Shame I can't pod them

See you soon o7


sorry to hear this, but i gotta ask, how old are you?
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#36 - 2015-11-02 11:54:31 UTC
My dad plays EvE... but EvE didn't exist when I was young enough to need his permission to play, so there's that.

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Sacu Shi
UK Corp
Goonswarm Federation
#37 - 2015-11-02 15:43:15 UTC
Just remember your parents are giving you the benefit of their experience.

And as a my father once told me...

"A man learns from experience, a wise man learns from the experiences of others..."
Sacu Shi
UK Corp
Goonswarm Federation
#38 - 2015-11-02 15:44:05 UTC
Val'Dore wrote:
My dad plays EvE... but EvE didn't exist when I was young enough to need his permission to play, so there's that.


My father is 61 and plays Eve, Rift, Settlers II, Command and Conquer series...all the greats :)
tiberiusric
Comply Or Die
Pandemic Horde
#39 - 2015-11-02 15:48:17 UTC
I dont think they stop playing lol. They probably just saying why pay for an online game and just dont understand the concept. They are probbaly just winding you up and lol at moving out thats a bit extreme. Get back in game and let your parents have their opinion. Im sure there are things you think they shouldnt be doing!

All my views are my own - never be afraid to post with your main, unless you're going to post some dumb shit
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#40 - 2015-11-02 15:53:54 UTC
Cpt Armarlio wrote:
My parents think my EVE friends are nothing but losers and so am I for playing an online game.
So I guess moving out is the way forward. I’ve left my character with a year's training and that's that.
Would have liked to play longer but **** those ignorant fools.

Shame I can't pod them

See you soon o7


Translation: "screw the people who created me, because they don't like my internet friends and want more for me than a life of video game/sedentary lifestyle induced blood clots"

Yea, totally screw them! I work around young people a lot and i've seen kids mad at parents for even less than this. It's a shame, only one of my parents is still alive. For the one that isn't here anymore I've give anything I have for just one more day with her.

The OP seriously needs to step away from video games for a while.
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