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Do you hide your EVE addiction

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Lharanai
Fools of the Blue Oyster
#1 - 2012-02-14 21:34:37 UTC
just out of interest without any deeper meaning:

Do you hide that you are playing EVE?

Simple question one would assume, or?

Let me specify my question, as I am not talking about actively hiding it, more about being silent about it. EVE is a hobby, on all accounts, for some people a serious hobby, for some not. For some people it is a job :). So do you talk about this hobby, like you would about other hobby's with your friends, class mates, colleagues, girlfriend or wife...

....or do you never mention that you waste your free recreational time with childish stupid in-mature computer games Shocked

I am asking because it seems to me that a lot of people are at some point ashamed being a gamer, especially when they are not longer in their twenties? I have been there, I do not longer care, there are worse or real stupid hobby's, but how about you?

Seriously, don't take me serious, I MEAN IT...seriously
Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#2 - 2012-02-14 21:37:17 UTC
Nah, I'm pretty much an open book. My coworkers all talk about the games they're playing and I talk about Eve, Rift, SWTOR, Skyrim, whatever it is I'm playing lately. We usually share PVP video links with each other too.

-Liang

I'm an idiot, don't mind me.
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-02-14 21:39:55 UTC
It's my greatest shame.

No, really.

Dodixie > Hek
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#4 - 2012-02-14 21:46:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Micheal Dietrich
If people can't accept you for who you are you punch them in the balls.

Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel **IG OOPE **
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#5 - 2012-02-14 21:47:32 UTC
Not really. But I find that other people aren't as excited about it as I am and I get the feeling they regret having asked me about it when I start trying to explain it to them. I can see their eyes glaze over. So now I say "oh it's just a multiplayer game".
Amarhigani
Fools of the Blue Oyster
#6 - 2012-02-14 21:47:54 UTC
Hobby???? Its a frigging job, I have to do all the dirty things for my stupid Mistress, ....Mining, Scouting, Transporting, Looting, Salvaging, Probing.

I don't even have implants because I have to jump first in nullsec....in a shuttle before she decides she can follow in her fancy ships. I don't get the newest skillbooks, all the ISK I earn ends in her wallet, and the fanciest ship I ever had was a Drake which she sold when she needed ISK for her legion....I hate my life...I hate EVE.
Nex apparatu5
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2012-02-14 21:48:11 UTC
I don't go out of my way to talk about it, but I certainly don't hide it.
namron 7
Doomheim
#8 - 2012-02-14 21:48:46 UTC
No one knows because there isn't anything but EVE.


Notice how i am online and not up to my nuts in poon on valentines day, Sniff


I need to go to fanfest where i can fit in with like minded people

Thanks for the help
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#9 - 2012-02-14 21:49:00 UTC
Yeah I'm pretty open about it.

My boss is the only one talks smack about it, he's an oversized child with this huge butthead looking head. He claims all I do is play Eve all day at work. Come on these PC have enough trouble running solitary. He's always asking, "did you get that mothership yet, how is your space base". Or telling people Ryan plays spaceships on the computer all day. I just ask him how it's different than the fantacy sports he does all day, at least I'm not fantasizing about men in tights.

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
Amarhigani
Fools of the Blue Oyster
#10 - 2012-02-14 21:50:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Amarhigani
Big smile
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#11 - 2012-02-14 21:51:48 UTC
namron 7 wrote:
No one knows because there isn't anything but EVE.


Notice how i am online and not up to my nuts in poon on valentines day, Sniff


I need to go to fanfest where i can fit in with like minded people



Unless you want neckbeard poon you might want to go back to the drawing board with that plan.

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
Ayuren Aakiwa
Shadow Legion X
Seriously Suspicious
#12 - 2012-02-14 21:53:04 UTC
Hell no, everyone I know know's i'm obsessed with 'that spaceship game'. It's just easier.
Lharanai
Fools of the Blue Oyster
#13 - 2012-02-14 21:59:07 UTC
Ptraci wrote:
Not really. But I find that other people aren't as excited about it as I am and I get the feeling they regret having asked me about it when I start trying to explain it to them. I can see their eyes glaze over. So now I say "oh it's just a multiplayer game".



I agree...this sounds very familiar

Seriously, don't take me serious, I MEAN IT...seriously
Wulf Tarkin
Electric Sun Associates
#14 - 2012-02-14 22:10:17 UTC
I play on occasion, when I can be bothered, and I'm nuts deep most nights. Tell you, I got no problems...
Cormallin
Horizon Security
#15 - 2012-02-14 23:03:42 UTC
Liang Nuren wrote:
Nah, I'm pretty much an open book. My coworkers all talk about the games they're playing and I talk about Eve, Rift, SWTOR, Skyrim, whatever it is I'm playing lately. We usually share PVP video links with each other too.

-Liang


Would be surprised if you spent enough time off the forums to actualy play any games let alone talk about them lol.
Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#16 - 2012-02-14 23:31:21 UTC
Cormallin wrote:
Liang Nuren wrote:
Nah, I'm pretty much an open book. My coworkers all talk about the games they're playing and I talk about Eve, Rift, SWTOR, Skyrim, whatever it is I'm playing lately. We usually share PVP video links with each other too.

-Liang


Would be surprised if you spent enough time off the forums to actualy play any games let alone talk about them lol.


The funny thing about Eve-O is that its basically only active in the EU TZ. I'm otherwise occupied in the EU TZ and thus it doesn't really affect my play time.

-Liang

I'm an idiot, don't mind me.
Anshio Tamark
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#17 - 2012-02-14 23:34:03 UTC
Let me answer that with another question: Should I?

Really, should I hide the fact that I play EVE? I don't have any reason to do so, as far as I can see.
Ai Shun
#18 - 2012-02-14 23:39:18 UTC
I wish some of my friends would hide their annoying hobbies. Honestly; you walk after a little white ball dressed like a ponce and swing a big stick at it every once in a while? Why not just cut to the drinking directly?

Or. God forbid. A Twilight fan.

No.

It's my hobby. If they are going to be bitchy about it, fuckem.
Cyzlaki
BRAWLS DEEP
HYPE-TRAIN
#19 - 2012-02-14 23:42:35 UTC
LOUD AND PROUD
foxnod
Perkone
Caldari State
#20 - 2012-02-14 23:51:24 UTC
Lord Ryan wrote:
Yeah I'm pretty open about it.

My boss is the only one talks smack about it, he's an oversized child with this huge butthead looking head. He claims all I do is play Eve all day at work. Come on these PC have enough trouble running solitary. He's always asking, "did you get that mothership yet, how is your space base". Or telling people Ryan plays spaceships on the computer all day. I just ask him how it's different than the fantacy sports he does all day, at least I'm not fantasizing about men in tights.



Internet spaceships beats men in tights with their homoerotic antics anyday.
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