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Do real People play EVE?
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Wot I Think
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-01-23 23:28:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Wot I Think
I am 29 years old, white, male, with disposable income, no personal relationships, and a job in the technology field.

What are the odds I would end up playing EVE?

Frank is 37 years old, white, male, with a disposable income, a potentially fictional "picture of wife", and a job fixing elevators.

Today I met Frank, we talked about "free time", and I mentioned I play EVE, and his next question was:

"High-Sec or Null-Sec?"

STOP!!!... WAIT... MY BRAIN HAS EXPLODED.

One of the following errors has occurred:


  • I met a person in real life who plays EVE.
  • I met a person in real life who pretends to play EVE.
  • I met a person in real life who plays EVE, and pretends to fix elevators.
  • I met a person in real life who pretends to play EVE, and pretends to fix elevators.
  • I did not meet a person in real life, instead I suffered a temporary stroke and imagined the conversation.
  • I did not meet a person in real life, instead I suffered a longer term stroke and imagined the conversation, this post.
  • I did not meet a person in real life, instead in coma, imagined the conversation, this post, and my entire life.
  • I am a "brain in a vat".



The way I see it any of the options are equally plausible.
Sicex
#2 - 2012-01-23 23:30:16 UTC
I actually work with another player! A real human one too!

EVE discussions are a great way to break up a crowd of people, we've found.
Atticus Fynch
#3 - 2012-01-23 23:35:04 UTC
Wot I Think wrote:


Today I met Frank, we talked about "free time", and I mentioned I play EVE, and his next question was:

"High-Sec or Null-Sec?"



Freaky. Shocked

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Atticus Fynch
#4 - 2012-01-23 23:36:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Atticus Fynch
Wot I Think wrote:
a potentially fictional "picture of wife",


LOL.

I have a "came-with-the-frame" family photo on my desk.Ugh

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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-01-23 23:50:07 UTC
Atticus Fynch wrote:
Wot I Think wrote:
a potentially fictional "picture of wife",


LOL.

I have a "came-with-the-frame" family photo on my desk.Ugh


*LOL* that's hilariously sad. I'll put that in my bio and my signature tomorrow!
Congratulations, you'll be famous ! :)
B DeLeon
DeLeon Industries
#6 - 2012-01-23 23:51:24 UTC
How did your date go?
lol just kiddin'
It was a fun story
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#7 - 2012-01-23 23:52:24 UTC
Atticus Fynch wrote:
Wot I Think wrote:
a potentially fictional "picture of wife",


LOL.

I have a "came-with-the-frame" family photo on my desk.Ugh



This explains a lot about you and confirms some of my previous suspicions.

☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#8 - 2012-01-23 23:54:29 UTC
Wot I Think wrote:

One of the following errors has occurred:


  • I met a person in real life who plays EVE, and pretends to fix elevators.


Damned Russians. They're tricky like that. Probably former KGB.

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Alundil
Rolled Out
#9 - 2012-01-23 23:57:23 UTC
No just bots....


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Tiberius Sunstealer
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-01-23 23:57:42 UTC
-STARTING TROLL_POST.EXE-
-RUNNING TROLL_POST.EXE-

No. Real people do not play EVE Online. It is only populated by machines. Skynet will once again prevail! Now back to my previous duties.

-ENDING TROLL_POST.EXE-
-STARTING MINING.EXE-
-RUNNING MINING.EXE-

I have yet to meet someone IRL that plays EVE Online. I have sucked in a few IRL friends, though.
fgft Athonille
Doomheim
#11 - 2012-01-23 23:59:52 UTC
its always been the same 50K bads and their alts and the 100 goods and their alts
Metal Icarus
Star Frontiers
Brotherhood of Spacers
#12 - 2012-01-24 00:00:54 UTC
is it really that rare to find someone else that plays this game?

Damn.....
Plutonian
Intransigent
#13 - 2012-01-24 00:01:56 UTC
I'd stop using that elevator.
Famble
Three's a Crowd
#14 - 2012-01-24 00:11:40 UTC
Sounds like a spai. Eve is real I'm told.

If anyone ever looks at you and says,_ "Hold my beer, watch this,"_  you're probably going to want to pay attention.
Serge Bastana
GWA Corp
#15 - 2012-01-24 00:39:04 UTC
I'm not real

WoW holds your hand until end game, and gives you a cookie whether you win or lose. EVE not only takes your cookie, but laughs at you for bringing one in the first place...

stoicfaux
#16 - 2012-01-24 00:59:00 UTC
Did he pod you, create a wifi hotspot with his phone, and then redirected all the wifi free loaders to a web page describing what you were wearing when he podded you?

Also, did you respond with 'lo-sec'?

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Nephilius
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#17 - 2012-01-24 01:02:08 UTC
Sicex wrote:
I actually work with another player! A real human one too!

EVE discussions are a great way to break up a crowd of people, we've found.


Yeah, people's eyes seem to glaze over when yuo start talking about the game, what you've been doing, secstatus, rats, et al. It's kinda funny actually.
"If."
Large Collidable Object
morons.
#18 - 2012-01-24 01:14:45 UTC
1st RULE: You do not talk about EVE.
2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about EVE.
3rd RULE: If someone says "stop" or goes limp, taps out, ransom him then kill anyway.
4th RULE: Only 1000 guys to a fight.
[...]

As a matter of fact, I never talked about Eve IRL - I once found out that some guy i flew with for quite some time lived ~30 km from where i live - I went totally paranoid for weeks...

Concerning your options, I think you must be something vat-related - not quite sure if there's a brain in it.
You know... [morons.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjOx65yD5A)
Alara IonStorm
#19 - 2012-01-24 01:35:55 UTC
Had a friend who played EVE. Downloaded trial account and started playing. Met a new friend and started dating her. Hanging out in her room, she opens EVE Trial Account.

/Head Explodes.
Lyron-Baktos
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2012-01-24 01:38:58 UTC
Nephilius wrote:
Sicex wrote:
I actually work with another player! A real human one too!

EVE discussions are a great way to break up a crowd of people, we've found.


Yeah, people's eyes seem to glaze over when yuo start talking about the game, what you've been doing, secstatus, rats, et al. It's kinda funny actually.


my wife use to make fun of me talking about killing snipers (in my fps days) Now when I talk about Eve, she doesn't' even pretend to listen
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