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Eve = Sociopath's Playground

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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#41 - 2013-09-02 18:43:25 UTC
Ha! That last one is a good one. Gotta love the long con.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#42 - 2013-09-02 18:49:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Riot Girl
One guy was podded 75 times and he lost SP for every single pod kill. I think he went from 20 million SP down to 7 million SP or something like that. He won a lot of isk though.

Oh god.
Mayhaw Morgan
State War Academy
Caldari State
#43 - 2013-09-02 19:02:29 UTC
They're not "real" sociopaths.

It was just a prank.
Pap Uhotih
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#44 - 2013-09-02 19:02:54 UTC
Morihei Akachi wrote:
There is a difference between exploiting someone's weakness in the game, be it military, financial or psychological, and taking that exploitation to RL to involve someone's family. The latter is inacceptable. I have no understanding or respect for the people who did this. I find it despicable.


In general I agree, keep it all in game.

I don't see this individual as the potential worst case scenario, obviously we know very little about him. I didn't listen to every word but everyone seems happy he is a parent and not a sibling simply because he said so - for example. The sole purpose of this was to humiliate someone and clearly it was intended to be a public humiliation or I would not have been able to listen to it. If it had been a vulnerable person then there would be the potential for that person to do something silly as a result of that humiliation. Such a thing would likely leave the perpetrators with a slightly bad feeling but it would bring a lot of the wrong sort of attention to Eve, it could be very damaging and potentially game ending.

One of the guys doing this sounded like a younger person but there are clearly adults involved so it isn't something to be put down to kids being kids. I don't think they have the capacity to realise that they crossed the line from an in game scam and into real world humiliation that risks real world consequences. I think that mistake should earn the perpetrators a bit of time away from the game.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#45 - 2013-09-02 19:21:04 UTC
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I don't think they have the capacity to realise that they crossed the line from an in game scam and into real world humiliation that risks real world consequences. I think that mistake should earn the perpetrators a bit of time away from the game.


Please, tell me what rules they broke to earn said vacation.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Doris Dents
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#46 - 2013-09-02 19:21:31 UTC
Who was holding a gun to the guy's head while he was being silly on teamspeak? Because a gun to the head over space pixels is just not on and probably violates several clauses in the EULA.
Dr0000 Maulerant
Union Nanide and Tooling
#47 - 2013-09-02 19:35:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Dr0000 Maulerant
If your scam relies on someone being new AND below average intelligence, you might be a terrible person. If you can teach someone an expensive lesson, or grift a seasoned moron, props.

But let's not start telling the kids on the short bus they need to get in a van with erotica1 before we'll give em a cookie. It's just bad for the community.

Tell me again about how every playstyle you dont engage in "doesn't require any effort" and everyone who does it needs to die in a fire. Be sure to mention about how you tried it once but it was too easy/boring/ethnic-homophobic slur. 
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#48 - 2013-09-02 19:38:15 UTC
I guess it would be funnier if that man was someone you care about -a brother, a friend, your son or your father.

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#49 - 2013-09-02 19:39:55 UTC
Oh no, people being ~bad~ in EVE Online again? The horror

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 ?
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#50 - 2013-09-02 19:41:35 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
I guess it would be funnier if that man was someone you care about -a brother, a friend, your son or your father.


If that were my brother, I'd have laughed myself to death.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#51 - 2013-09-02 19:44:47 UTC
Newsflash: There are people on the planet who may or may not be fluffy.

Unless they had a gun to his head, he had the option of closing the lines of communication at any point.

Fluffy Bunny Pic!

Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#52 - 2013-09-02 19:45:09 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
I guess it would be funnier if that man was someone you care about -a brother, a friend, your son or your father.


If my brother did that I'd rip on him every day for the rest of my life.

And vice versa.

And neither of us would do it because we have an atom of self respect.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Matti Leijona
Brave Empire Inc.
Brave United
#53 - 2013-09-02 19:51:06 UTC
I tell anyone who is thinking about playing this game to stay far far away from it because this is a sociopaths playground. The only reason I still play is because I feel like I have a lot invested in it. Just have to be careful who I associate with.
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#54 - 2013-09-02 19:51:17 UTC
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Oh no, people being ~bad~ in EVE Online again? The horror

THE HORROR
THE HODOR

[img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]

[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#55 - 2013-09-02 20:01:40 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
I guess it would be funnier if that man was someone you care about -a brother, a friend, your son or your father.


If my brother did that I'd rip on him every day for the rest of my life.

And vice versa.

And neither of us would do it because we have an atom of self respect.


I wouldn't do it, neither. But I can think of many ways in which a human being can't avoid doing that kind of thing because of pre-existing conditions beyond his control.

Do onto others as you would like them do onto you, or however is that said in English.

I don't care if the guy is stupid, mentally ill or whatever. He could had used some empathy from the guys abusing him.

For that, he deserves my compassion, and his abusers deserve my contempt.

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#56 - 2013-09-02 20:02:05 UTC
Enduros wrote:
It's a game. Nobody forced him to do this. It's not like he was at gunpoint. Why would anyone go along with this in the first place? If you are willing to do all this the lets be honest, you kinda brought this upon yourself.



I don't think you emphasised that eough, so i fixed lol.

i hate the weeping, crying type like the OP. The guy getting scammed only got scammed because of his GREED. EVERYONE who gets scammed gets scammed because of laziness, stupidity or greed.

It's as dumb to blame the people who are playing the game correctly for the problem as it would be to blame a player for killing a Hoe in Grand Theft Auto. The problem comes when stupid people do stupid things and the "bleeding hearts" run to their defense.

You wanna help the guy that got scammed, teach him to recognize a scam.
Complete Tart2
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#57 - 2013-09-02 20:14:40 UTC
The guy was a noob. You don't take noobs for all they're worth when you yourself are worth 300 billion or something. What happened to the attitude of helping noobs in this game? When I listened to this I was literally cringing at the effort these guys were going to, half hoping at the end they would declare it a wind-up or something.

And did anyone notice the confederate joke at the end? I'm not even American but I could sense they thought the guy was fair game because of his heavy southern accent.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#58 - 2013-09-02 20:14:54 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
The problem comes when stupid people do stupid things and the "bleeding hearts" run to their defense.

You wanna help the guy that got scammed, teach him to recognize a scam.

I should hope he's been taught that already...

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 ?
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#59 - 2013-09-02 20:17:04 UTC
Complete Tart2 wrote:
The guy was a noob.

Erotica's rules clearly state that characters under 4 weeks old are not allowed to play.

Oh god.
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#60 - 2013-09-02 20:19:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
Riot Girl wrote:
Complete Tart2 wrote:
The guy was a noob.

Erotica's rules clearly state that characters under 4 weeks old are not allowed to play.


So 4 weeks in the game mean you're no longer a noob? What is this game, [insert themepark MMO]?

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you