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'In Real LIfe I am KInd. In EVE I am a Psychopath'

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Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#21 - 2014-02-10 14:43:44 UTC
Veronica Felix wrote:
We often see people in EVE who defensively claim to be good, decent folk in real life, yet play vicious psychotics in EVE. But can they really separate the two? Does one's EVE persona reflect who and what people are in real life despite all their denials?

A new study claims that playing the villain makes you a bad person in real life:

'Gamers that adopted villainous Voldemort as an avatar, were more likely to dish out a punishment in the experiment .

'University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers found that people who played games as a heroic character were more likely to reward others.

'They warned that how gamers represent themselves in the virtual world of video games may affect how they behave toward others in the real world.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2555752/Playing-villain-video-games-makes-MEAN-Avatar-role-play-replicated-real-world-claims-study.html#ixzz2svavZ1lj


I went back and read the whole thing, the only conclusion I can come to is that Walking in Stations aka avatar play is a bad idea..... Spaceships are neutral.

Twisted
Erotica 1
Krypteia Operations
#22 - 2014-02-10 14:45:11 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
djentropy Ovaert wrote:
Erotica 1 wrote:
This sounds like highsec miner propaganda.


The more I run across your posts, the more I like you :)

Amusing then that you're talking to someone who exemplifies taking things outside of the game where they don't belong.


You and I both know who took things way too far outside the game, and it wasn't me.

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djentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#23 - 2014-02-10 14:47:59 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:

Amusing then that you're talking to someone who exemplifies taking things outside of the game where they don't belong.


I have not experienced that personally nor seen any examples of it. I was referencing the obvious snark, which I find highly amusing.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#24 - 2014-02-10 14:52:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Debora Tsung
Samroski wrote:
Yeah, bad roleplaying leads to the dark side.

Truth.

I play a mean spirited ugly looking drunkard with an axe in our D&D sessions and just look at me, the perfect match.

I still don't got an axe even tho I visit our local tool shop in regular intervals. Also, sometimes when I stand in front of the shelf with the axes, people look at me warily when they think I won't notice it.

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

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Vedor Teo
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2014-02-10 14:53:56 UTC
Behind the internet, everyone will start to disclose their true self.
djentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#26 - 2014-02-10 14:57:23 UTC
Chribba wrote:


But yeah I agree somewhat with researches like that, while I don't equal the two I do believe there's a connection, but as long as all evil people live out their evilness in a game, I'm all good with it. Keep it in the game please plox.

/c


I disagree with this "Connection."

Proper studies show that right around the age of 4, almost all normal humans clearly know the difference between games and movies and the like, and the real world. Give your fellow human beings some credit.

Just one of many examples of real studies done that actually show a slight calming effect from playing "the bad guy" in a game.

http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-1433942-0

Also, you would think that since more and more people actually play video games as the last 40 years have passed us by, we'd see MORE violence from children exposed to playing the bad guy in games, right? Nope.

http://childstats.gov/americaschildren/beh5.asp

I'm quite nice in EVE - to a point. If I don't know you, we are in low/null, and I think you might be a threat or you are a high value target or even if I am just bored - if I think I can win, I am going to shoot you down, pod you, and then probably giggle about it later. If you cry in local, I am going to make fun of you (tastefully, of course.)

In the real world; I am very polite. I'd never knowingly do harm to a stranger, even if it came with personal gain for myself. I'm 35. Been playing video games since I was 7. :P
Black Panpher
CastleKickers
Rote Kapelle
#27 - 2014-02-10 14:58:56 UTC
Another person quoting out of the DailyMail..... FML people are dumb.
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#28 - 2014-02-10 15:01:36 UTC
Choosing to feed people chocolate or chili sauce is not sufficiently "REAL LIFE" for me to take this seriously at all.

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Erotica 1
Krypteia Operations
#29 - 2014-02-10 15:02:23 UTC
Miners are the real internet spaceship psychopaths. If you don't believe me, blow one up or ask they pay for a mining permit and watch the reaction.

Source: www.minerbumping.com

See Bio for isk doubling rules. If you didn't read bio, chances are you funded those who did.
Malcolm Shinhwa
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#30 - 2014-02-10 15:02:40 UTC
Confirming that in the real world if I am out in the woods and see you flying your spaceship, I'm totally going to gank that thing.

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Mr LaboratoryRat
Confederation of DuckTape Lovers
#31 - 2014-02-10 15:03:33 UTC
kinda obvius as your teach yourselve new behaviour. Subcontinious that will merge togheter and evenout. for you rl that means that you will become more evil or whatever the behaviour is.
MatrixSkye Mk2
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#32 - 2014-02-10 15:07:24 UTC
Erotica 1 wrote:
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
djentropy Ovaert wrote:
Erotica 1 wrote:
This sounds like highsec miner propaganda.


The more I run across your posts, the more I like you :)

Amusing then that you're talking to someone who exemplifies taking things outside of the game where they don't belong.


You and I both know who took things way too far outside the game, and it wasn't me.

It's true. You had nothing to do with it.

Successfully doinitwrong™ since 2006.
Domanique Altares
Rifterlings
#33 - 2014-02-10 15:09:34 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:

Well, i know many GTA players and not yet have I witnessed one slap a hoe lol.


Slapping hoes? That's just weak.

Last week I drove down the sidewalk at high speed, and a ran down at least 34 pedestrians. I must have had at least four stars the way the cops were chasing me that afternoon...
Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#34 - 2014-02-10 15:13:13 UTC
Domanique Altares wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:

Well, i know many GTA players and not yet have I witnessed one slap a hoe lol.


Slapping hoes? That's just weak.

Last week I drove down the sidewalk at high speed, and a ran down at least 34 pedestrians. I must have had at least four stars the way the cops were chasing me that afternoon...


Purple double ender to start gang wars... Then those ho's know whose boss!!!

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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#35 - 2014-02-10 15:13:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Kaarous Aldurald
As a thinking, reasoning adult, I am fully capable of separating my actions in game from my real life behavior. Any well adjusted, reasonable individual is capable of the same.

I've never blown apart anyone's car with a rocket launcher, and taken their corpse home with me to add to my collection. I've never sat at the street corner trying to sell people a fake Rolex. I've never hunted someone through a populated urban area to kill them in front of Wall Street.

Yay.

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#36 - 2014-02-10 15:19:59 UTC
It's all true. I played Mario a lot, and the amount of times my dad had to call the fire brigade to get me out of the bathroom plumbing is unbelievable.

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djentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#37 - 2014-02-10 15:20:40 UTC
Erotica 1 wrote:
Miners are the real internet spaceship psychopaths. If you don't believe me, blow one up or ask they pay for a mining permit and watch the reaction.

Source: www.minerbumping.com


Having totally enjoyed minerbumping.com (for real, a hour reading your site had me laughing so hard it hurt) - I can second this one.

I've never seen a CODE agent be anything but polite and friendly when talking to others in the world of EVE - after blowing up their ships, of course.

But OMG - the level of psychopathic rage spewed by the people playing the "good guys" - people who never leave high sec, who have never dreamed of shooting at another player - they are the ones you really need to worry about.
Aralyn Cormallen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#38 - 2014-02-10 15:22:39 UTC
Of course, the spanner in any discussion, is what is acting as a "villain" in a setting such as EvE. In a game about spaceship combat, can shooting a spaceship really be considered "evil" play. If you then adjust the centre of what is considered "normal", doesn't that then alter everything in relation? It's not just "lack of repercussion", its a fundamental shift of what is "default behavoir". Are you saying everyone who shoots a ship is a potential murderer? That strikes me as saying everyone who knocks down bowling pins is a budding vandal, or everyone who plays cricket (or baseball for those across the water) is a violent thug who might be about to smash someones head in with a plank of wood.

A bit daft, don't you think?.
Domanique Altares
Rifterlings
#39 - 2014-02-10 15:22:42 UTC
Incidentally OP, we often see people claiming to be normal and well adjusted, and yet they spend almost all of their play time in EVE sitting off by themselves, engaged in mindless solo activity such as mining or missioning, and claim constantly to just want to be left alone by everyone. According to the Daily Mail, these people must therefore be the epitome of antisocial, garbage hoarding twats IRL, no?
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#40 - 2014-02-10 15:23:22 UTC
The Daily Mail, the UKs paper version of Fox News.

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