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The Right to AFK Mine - The Dystopia of 2015 is coming

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Tesal
#61 - 2012-11-14 03:13:03 UTC
The OP must realize he is working against his own organization with this post. Lunacy.
Marcus Caspius
#62 - 2012-11-14 04:56:06 UTC
TL;NR

Grammatical error and spelling mistakes are included for your entertainment!
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#63 - 2012-11-14 05:07:41 UTC
Interesting concept.

I'm intrigued. Did CCP finally make everyone leave nullsec, such that we have time to watch iceminers try to afk mine?

Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?
BoSau Hotim
Uitraan Diversified Holdings Incorporated
#64 - 2012-11-14 05:23:53 UTC  |  Edited by: BoSau Hotim
WOW

I'll say it again.. even backwards..

WOW

ISD... plz don't lock this post ever cuz I want to come here for lulz when I'm feeling blue...

EDIT: Tagged as favorite so i can see Torvin torched

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#65 - 2012-11-14 09:21:31 UTC
*GLOMPS* Bo, welcome to GD where morons run amok.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Kenneth O'Hara
Sebiestor Tribe
#66 - 2012-11-14 14:57:54 UTC
tl;dr

this

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#67 - 2012-11-14 16:26:22 UTC
Thigh-slapping hilarious thread, especially 1st page. Lol

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"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#68 - 2012-11-14 16:28:36 UTC
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
These poor mentally deranged miners are the ones the New Order seeks to save



With what, the power of "Blue Monday"? Big smile

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#69 - 2012-11-14 16:34:54 UTC
Torvin, your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. You are but a Trollist and a latent aspirant to Goonism.
La Nariz
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#70 - 2012-11-14 18:22:12 UTC
The irony of this pro-AFK-miner dilemma is hilarious.

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Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
#71 - 2012-11-14 18:33:26 UTC
Loving the lack of coherency here
Lance Rossiter
CHAINS Corp
#72 - 2012-11-14 18:46:33 UTC
What kind of bleak dystopian future do you call that?

You gave your "poor oppressed worker" character a luxury tech II ship and their own private orbital structure! Being chased by Spike MIlligan would be a small price to pay for such opulence.
Sheynan
Lighting the blight
#73 - 2012-11-14 18:47:22 UTC
This thread delivered more entertainment than the rest of the current GD
Lady Ayeipsia
BlueWaffe
#74 - 2012-11-14 20:32:19 UTC
Terrorfrodo wrote:
Those bumbers and counter-bumpers seem to be a peculiar little subculture in EVE. I imagine a conversation with someone who doesn't play EVE and asks what you do in your free time.

I might say: "I play EVE, it's a spaceship game with spaceship fights and I blow other peoples' spaceships up or get blown up myself." And he might say: "Hmkay, sounds like fun, if one is into videogames."

The bumber says: "I play EVE, it's a spaceship game, and I bump other peoples' ships around with my own ship all day."
The counter-bumper says: "I play EVE, it's a spaceship game, and I bump the ships of other people around as a punishment for bumping the ships of still other people around."
And the dude says "Hmkay." Shocked


For you see, a miner that is bumped works harder to be.
So the highered a mine bumper, to bump that little mining bee,
But production did not increase oh me.
Well, that bumper wasn't bumping harded enough they cried with glee.
Let's hire a miner bumper-bumper oh gee
Because a mine bumper workers harder if bumped by a mine bumper-bumper...

Well...

Soon all the capsulers young and small, were bumping the bumper bump bumping the bump bump bumper bumping the miner.

Now I tell you ducky, how oftly lucky, you aren't in those capsuler shoes...


My apologize for butchering "Ducky did I ever tell you how lucky you are" but it just seemed to fit.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#75 - 2012-11-14 20:46:59 UTC
The essay that this OP is based on was a warning about the dangers of DRM. People who are reading the OP as supporting James 315/Goonswarm/generic evil apparently don't understand hyperbole.

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Lady Ayeipsia
BlueWaffe
#76 - 2012-11-14 20:57:07 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
The essay that this OP is based on was a warning about the dangers of DRM. People who are reading the OP as supporting James 315/Goonswarm/generic evil apparently don't understand hyperbole.


Um... I do nit think anyone had trouble understanding the author's point of view. it was rather the absurdity implied that bothered us. Further more, the belief that in a game such as eve, ccp would cater this much to the goons and that people woukd continue to play eve. In the case of the original article, it talked about a fairly fundemenral necessity when trying to obtain a college degree. In eve... If you rely only on afk ice mining to fund your plex, you are doing something wrong.
Kainotomiu Ronuken
koahisquad
#77 - 2012-11-14 21:22:40 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
The essay that this OP is based on was a warning about the dangers of DRM. People who are reading the OP as supporting James 315/Goonswarm/generic evil apparently don't understand hyperbole.

Nobody understood it that way.
Nathalie LaPorte
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#78 - 2012-11-14 21:39:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Nathalie LaPorte
Mara Rinn wrote:
The essay that this OP is based on was a warning about the dangers of DRM. People who are reading the OP as supporting James 315/Goonswarm/generic evil apparently don't understand hyperbole.



No one believed that the author was INTENDING to support those things. The things that he wrote did tend to support them, however. This shows that the AUTHOR does not understand hyperbole, as his attempt at it backfired.

The central metaphor that original piece starts with is "Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do." He compares that to afk-mining. Sharing books is wonderful, and afk-mining ruins the game. That comparison is farcical.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#79 - 2012-11-14 21:53:23 UTC
Kainotomiu Ronuken wrote:
2nd - 8th November, 2012 Anslo comes up with yet another revolutionary idea! To protest against the bumping of miners, he would bump miners himself! That'd show them!

[b]

That's quite a thorough piece of Bumpist journalism! Which undoubtedly required a considerable amount of time to create. Full of the usual logical gaps/non sequiturs we've all gotten used to by now, but good exposure for the anti-Bumpist cause nonetheless.
Kainotomiu Ronuken
koahisquad
#80 - 2012-11-14 21:55:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Kainotomiu Ronuken
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Kainotomiu Ronuken wrote:
2nd - 8th November, 2012 Anslo comes up with yet another revolutionary idea! To protest against the bumping of miners, he would bump miners himself! That'd show them!

That's quite a thorough piece of Bumpist journalism! Which undoubtedly required a considerable amount of time to create. Full of the usual logical gaps/non sequiturs we've all gotten used to by now, but good exposure for the anti-Bumpist cause nonetheless.

Actually I think Anslo provided most of the content himself. All James had to do was take photos.

Edit: Sorry, that last bit passed me by on my first read. "Good exposure"? I don't think Anslo's bumping miners is going to persuade any miners to join him, though God knows you need all the recruits you can get considering the way you haze them.