EVE General Discussion

It isn't the game that makes it harsh and cold, it is the people.

EVE is like an insane asylum where most of the inmates stand in the hall facing the walls. Sometimes they do bunch up in a group, in a corner, and murmur to each other. There'll be sudden flurries of senseless violence. Then, those folks run out of steam (or drink that one last beer too many) and fall back into a waking snooze. Now and again, a handful will run through the halls kicking people in the legs. Then, they scurry off giggling.

Dr. CCP wanders around with a full hypo of Thorazine having long forgotten what it's for and how to use it. Were it not for the nametag he'd be hard to spot among the inmates, some of whom also walk around with stethascopes draped around their necks.

If you go into the crafts room you'll find some inmates taking marbles from one basket and placing them in another, counting them as they do. They get the other basket full, and they transfer them back, one at a time, counting them as they do. We call these patients "marketers."

Out in the yard, you'll find some inmates on their hands and knees with little shovels and little buckets. They dig up dirt in the yard with the shovels, put it carefully in the buckets, and when they're full, they carry them to a planting bed and dump them. Then, they go back and do it again. We call these inmates "miners."

As with all such reputable institutions, most inmates are here voluntarily. They pay by credit card. However, some take advantage of a financial aid program called PLEX.

A feature of this particular institution which differs from most is every inmate has delusions about how to make the place "perfect." If you sneak up behind one who's busy talking to himself, you'll hear a diatribe of possible features that would achieve this which run from putting a HUGE mirror in the lavatory, to lynching Dr. CCP.

Takes one to know one.

It's not really a myth; people in general will be cold and heartless if they don't risk getting their face blooded, which is the reason we hear of Internet-peeps anonymously cheering as a guy commits suicide.

What separates EVE from other games is that you won't get banned for messing up another player's gaming experience. CCP encourages amoral behavior not by saying that EVE is cold, but simply by not standing in the way as you camp that under-skilled player over and over again.

My point is fairly simple: people are assholes when they sit behind a computer screen eating their chips, drinking their coke and admiring their own overweight b!tch-t!ts asking themselves why they still are virgins - and CCP doesn't prevent people from being who they are. The result can never be warm, pink and fuzzy, for humanity isn't warm, pink and fuzzy; it's cruel and honest, filled with a desire to cause hurt (grief) and elevate oneself on the broken neck of another.

Is it bad? Who has the right to make such a judgment? It's neither bad nor good. It's human.