EVE General Discussion

First: I admit to not having read the whole thread, just skimmed through it.

Second:
I don't know about sociopaths, but I -do- think people who act like an ass on the internet, and enjoy it, tend to be assholes in "real life" as well. Maybe they don't show it there, maybe they do, I don't know. Sometimes it's honestly kind of scary for me to see how many people can totally lose it on forums or in games.

That said, some examples:
- Ganking some innocent whatever for profit is not being an *******, it's playing the game.
- Ganking some innocent whatever without profit for fun is not being an *******, it's playing the game.
- But doing the above -repeatedly- to the same person, pursuing them, is being an ass, in my opinion.
- Doing the above as form of revenge after being gravely insulted is either good rp or punishment, to a degree.
- Insulting and talking crap after a fight, no matter the outcome, is, depending on the level of insults, something between amusing and disturbing.
- Doing the above in response to experiencing it for yourself is not something I'd do, but somehow understandable (to a degree).

Well, I'm probably starting to get boring at that point, so let me try to summarize:

There are some things that make you an ******* in my opinion, or even disturb me, most notably when you genuinely enjoy distress and unhappiness of others without being provoked by them (and even then if it reaches high enough levels like going after a person for weeks even if they've obviously learned their lesson).

Playing the game to have fun destroying other people's spaceship because you enjoy the hunt and because you can.. does not. It is this kind of game, and making even "high security" areas more dangerous by actions like this makes it more interesting to me (who, so far, is a high-sec dweller).

It does bother me when people honestly think they can diagnose others of a mental illness over the internet.
Since most of the people who say such a thing usually don't really know what it means they said, though, I don't care.

I have a lot of anger and frustration that I have to work through, due to my current health issues. I tend to get pretty moody, depressed, and short tempered.

So when I log into a ******* game that lets me ******* shoot the **** out of a bunch of *******, I stay docked in a station and manufacture crap to sell to others.



It's very relaxing.

Interesting article on sociopaths.

Well, that would explain why miners get so upset when you try to teach them EVE mechanics…

According to that EVERYONE is a Sociopath.

To say that 4 percent of the population consists of sociopaths might be inaccurate. I have read many times that it was one percent.

I think sociopathy is more like a spectrum in the same way there is for autism or HFA/Aspergers. (That's just an observation).

Its a game.

Pixels, thats all it is.

Eve is a diversion, entertainment.

Nothing you gain or lose in game is real.

So in the end, who cares.