EVE General Discussion

Eve is an MMORPG, RPG (role playing game) being the pertinent part in this instance. Which part of the words ROLE PLAYING GAME do you not understand?

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also has difficulty disassociating real world emotional value responses from digital actions.
its a role (really important word that),
its make believe internet spaceship pixels,
it is in no way a reflection of anything other than how i play make believe internet spaceship pixels.[/quote


just another justification for YOUR actions, or a split personality disorder. You are who you are or playing at being something your not, either way the pixels are under YOUR control and only do what YOU tell them to do. Which hopefully involve a thought process. That should include, is this action I'm about to take right or wrong.
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*pinches nose*

are you familiar with any of these concepts?

Role Play

Role-playing refers to the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the Oxford English Dictionary offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses:

To refer to the playing of roles generally such as in a theatre, or educational setting;

To refer to taking a role of an existing character or person and acting it out with a partner taking someone else's role, often involving different genres of practice;
To refer to a wide range of games including role-playing video game, play-by-mail games and more;
To refer specifically to role-playing games.[2]

Acting

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.


make believe

Make believe is a loosely structured form of role-playing that generally has no rules except to stay in character, and requires no specific props. It is normally restricted to young, pre-pubescent children, and aside from its straightforward purpose of fun can sometimes also serve the purpose of allowing children to explore adult roles and relationships. Make believe play can reveal a great deal about a child's psychological state, perception of gender roles, home life and interpretation of the world that is around them.

if not , you should probably remedy that.[/quote]

I am familiar with all these terms and there definitions. But these terms would all indicate that all involved parties are aware of the fact that the person is "role playing" and are familiar with who the person really is. And if you are role playing why choose to play a criminal who shoots and steals from other people...this also concerns me.

We aren't responsible for maintaining other people's point of view, awareness or understanding.

Elite RP~

oh man i should have gone with chewing tobacco that would have been so much more badass

Sometimes people say they fell out of their chair laughing. Well I did actually fall out of this one (freaking wheel snagged on something and I was reading this as I was getting up to answer my phone). Thanks to you I have a sore left ass cheek.

Since I don't know you real name, the incoming law suit will just be "People vs Benny Ohu"

That last part is schizophrenia or a component of it.

Love this part. The best thing that can happen to any Sandbox is diversity.

New view points, ways of thinking, stories with villains and heroes, culture and lore. Almost entirely player created and most certainly player driven.

My role? A dapper salesman of Antimatter from the great Caldari state. My best customers are perhaps the agents and Knights of CODE and the New Order, as I can only imagine pilots aren't paying ~500isk a hit for faction just to pop rats in highsec .

Bearing in mind that the guy who played Darth Vader also dressed up in green and taught generations of children how to cross the road without ending up dead.

Great post, one minor correction though.
I'm not a ganker.
legitimate war targets,
bear flipping(related to ganking but with considerable nuance involved),
lowsec asshattery,
targets of opportunity ect ect,
I'm not "above" ganking but it would have to be a specific target of interest.