EVE General Discussion

We've all been there before. Scouring local or the forums and we come across one of these tear extractors. If we're lucky it's not our tears they are extracting. And in those scenarios, we can judge what we see from a more objective perspective.. I know I have... and I always wonder: Why? Why are they extracting tears? It just seems so... sad and.... pathetic?

It makes you wonder: What happened to these guys? Here we have fully grown adults that spend their free time logged onto an internet spaceship video game, with main purpose being to frustrate people and enjoy laughing about it. Really consider that for a second, creatures... you are spending hours of your free time doing the same thing snotty brats do at the age of 14... and you are doing this as adults. I would be simply and utterly surprised if any of these tear extractors have actual proper social skills in real life, and I reckon most are very doleful, shy and easy to pushover in the real world.

When I see a "tear extractor" my first assumption is that he must be a colossal moron, as anyone with the slightest semblance of intelligence would recognize just how shameful and embarrassing it is to do such things as an adult. However what we find is that this does not apply to many of these creatures; many are capable of displaying strong intellect when needed.

Are they damaged perhaps? Maybe they we're they abused, bullied and/or molested as children. Modern day psychology tells us such traumatic experiences in childhood could create such an effect; it creates murderers and rapists so why not these creatures?

How about one's upbringing. Most of us learned how to act from our parents... without that, maybe we'd end up just like them. Or maybe there parents simply have the same kind of deplorable personality that they have. We call that a "vicious cycle".

Listen creatures, I have a big ol' grin right now as I post this. Convince yourself this is tears, I couldn't care less. I thoroughly enjoy pointing these sorts of things out to people.

What are your guys opinions on it? What is it that makes these creatures tick?

Cheers and discuss!

They are bad people

and should feel bad

There's a really gross insect related to the bee i think that in fact does feed on tears, hang on.. i'll find it..

Hmm, bees that feed on tears? this sounds awfully familar....

Eve truly overflows with psychologists. As I have said before, we as players are lucky to be surrounded by such insightful beings as the OP, with the years of training and expertise to allow us to benefit from the OPs wisdom.

Although, as an internet psychologist on the side myself, I would like to chat to the OP more about the characterization of fellow human beings as creatures.

No tears no fun

Not that i care about pixels

Without these mechanics and their possibilities, there would be no game here.

At all.

I find the people who were creating Sims and then doing twisted things like watching them literally starve to death to be much much more disturbing and creepy.

Institution Worthy Creepy.

this is kinda close too right OP ??

what about creating a whole sim city and killing the whole population with tornados and floods?

hmmm....not quite the same thing. There is only the factor of 'being mean' to a rather anonymous mob in this particular case. Like kicking an ant nest.

Deliberately creating a customized individual digital creature to torture and watch it happen is on a different order of things.


ed: You are essentially equating Natural Disasters with, say, deliberate Nuclear Annihilation. They are not the same thing at all.