Er...why can't we all just GET ALONG?

Er...why can't we all just GET ALONG?

"Ahma PVE kinda guy. I like that computer-generated opposition. To me it's like going toe-to-toe with the devs. They say, 'Try this, suckah!' I say, 'Let me attem foo'!' I used to box middle-weight. I'd say that's more PvP than most folks see in a lifetime. Why can't PvP-ers just pass us 'I'd rather be doing something a bit more low-key' folks by. Aren't there plenty of people to mix it up with? OR...is it you just want to pound on somebody who can't pound back to get a vicarious thrill that you're really doing something I used to get paid to do, smackin' the bejeezus outta sumbuddy? I have no doubt...just want to see if honesty lives."

"I mine. It's part of this intricate industrial/marketing enterprise me and a few folks have put together using EVE mechanics and our own initiative. My job is mining. Other folks mastered marketing and manufacturing. Together we accomplish great things and have tons of fun doing it. I know this sort of fun isn't for everyone, but it's our kind of fun. EVE-ers use the stuff we build to keep going in the game. If it weren't for the likes of us, the market would be EMPTY. Can I get a 'live and let live' from you on this?"

"I PvP. I've spent years developing the skills, loading the queue, losing ships, killing ships to the point where I'm quite proficient at this combat thing. Small roaming groups, medium-sized fleet fights, anything but the blob; I'm in come Hell or high water. It's my thing. It's what I do. I've got some friends who do it with me, and we've been doing it so long together we work like a well-oiled machine. We don't win every fight. We don't cry about the losses unless it was some STUPID mistake. Equal opponents are good. Beating someone that's better...is better. We got game."

"I'm into the same thing with every game I play. If it's not in it, I don't play it. Me and some buds like to come up on some poor, unsuspecting carebear and murderlize them, rob them blind and run off laughing our arses off. We're not allowed to do this in real life (without going to jail), so we do it here. It's fun. It's funny. Some gotta win. Some gotta lose. Poor old carebear's got the blues. Stay off my game style. We have the right to fight. It's our party!"

Now, I've been thinking lately about two numbers; 0 and 1. To be a 0 is to be a nobody, a has been, a clod. To be number 1 is to be the acme, the winner - the top of the heap. What disturbs me about these two numbers is there's not very much room in between for everybody else! What we need here is a little latitude. -Laurie Anderson-

...All of them are completely wrong.....

If this is troll - OK, if you are honest - it's good, but ...
Do you watch the TV News from around the globe?
There is a bit of truth in the "When the Earth stood still" movie.

Try Hubert Humphrey. "The right to free speech does not automatically include with it the right to be taken seriously."


I just don't get the "Is this a troll?" bit. Great flick, though. I prefer the first rendition.
The second version was a bit ponderous.

(I don't troll forums. I do, however, try to provoke discussion about the not-so-obvious.)

Axe-Plow-Sions

Pod Keel-Maels

Po-tay-to! Po-tah-to! To-may-to! To-mah-to! Let's call the whole thing off!

Serene. If you spent more time drinkin' and less time thinkin' you wouldn't come up with stuff like this.

tomato: Fruit or Vegetable? :)

Technically a fruit, but it is a shame they put it in with the vegitables at the grocers.

Anybody that doesn't want somebody preventing them from doing what they're trying to do to STOP is a fool.
...
There's a lot of SERIOUS people who can't quite GRASP that for their SERIOUSNESS. (You know who you are.)

tomato: Fruit or Vegetable? :)

That first sentence is hard to read. I'm not sure if it is saying the opposite to what I think it means.

Wait a second... Am I too serious? Oh crap, you're talking about me.

Er...why can't we all just GET ALONG?

"Ahma PVE kinda guy. I like that computer-generated opposition. To me it's like going toe-to-toe with the devs. They say, 'Try this, suckah!' I say, 'Let me attem foo'!' I used to box middle-weight. I'd say that's more PvP than most folks see in a lifetime. Why can't PvP-ers just pass us 'I'd rather be doing something a bit more low-key' folks by. Aren't there plenty of people to mix it up with? OR...is it you just want to pound on somebody who can't pound back to get a vicarious thrill that you're really doing something I used to get paid to do, smackin' the bejeezus outta sumbuddy? I have no doubt...just want to see if honesty lives."

"I mine. It's part of this intricate industrial/marketing enterprise me and a few folks have put together using EVE mechanics and our own initiative. My job is mining. Other folks mastered marketing and manufacturing. Together we accomplish great things and have tons of fun doing it. I know this sort of fun isn't for everyone, but it's our kind of fun. EVE-ers use the stuff we build to keep going in the game. If it weren't for the likes of us, the market would be EMPTY. Can I get a 'live and let live' from you on this?"

"I PvP. I've spent years developing the skills, loading the queue, losing ships, killing ships to the point where I'm quite proficient at this combat thing. Small roaming groups, medium-sized fleet fights, anything but the blob; I'm in come Hell or high water. It's my thing. It's what I do. I've got some friends who do it with me, and we've been doing it so long together we work like a well-oiled machine. We don't win every fight. We don't cry about the losses unless it was some STUPID mistake. Equal opponents are good. Beating someone that's better...is better. We got game."

"I'm into the same thing with every game I play. If it's not in it, I don't play it. Me and some buds like to come up on some poor, unsuspecting carebear and murderlize them, rob them blind and run off laughing our arses off. We're not allowed to do this in real life (without going to jail), so we do it here. It's fun. It's funny. Some gotta win. Some gotta lose. Poor old carebear's got the blues. Stay off my game style. We have the right to fight. It's our party!"

Now, I've been thinking lately about two numbers; 0 and 1. To be a 0 is to be a nobody, a has been, a clod. To be number 1 is to be the acme, the winner - the top of the heap. What disturbs me about these two numbers is there's not very much room in between for everybody else! What we need here is a little latitude. -Laurie Anderson-

tomato: Fruit or Vegetable? :)

Honest answer? Because everyone getting along is really, really boring. Not just a little boring, but a lot boring. It would make this game worse than any other game on the market.

Er...why can't we all just GET ALONG?

PVP game sez no

PVP game sez no

By getting along, you don't actually mean ... can't we all just blob up, I hope. Because PvP and blobbing are great friends!

We found one! The "sandbox" is now a "PvP game." Just ask...who is this? AMANDA! Thanks, Amanda. We needed you to say this. It was so obvious. We, on the other hand, so blind. You're a pip. Let us know the next decree you have. We do so like to keep up with YOUR reality.

It's claimed that everything is possible in EVE, but in reality everything revolves around blowing other people up. If you stop blowing up other players, you find yourself with nothing to do, except mining, industry, or playing the markets, but those are also driven by blowing other people up.

I guess CCP has the right to contort EVE into a Gordian Knot of absurdity by abandoning logic and pursuing the aimless wishes of a handful of "cool kids" (in their own immaturity - regardless of age) with whom they are impressed. It may very well be CCP has reached the limits of their inventiveness and imagination. Just because you can write code and wish for something really cool doesn't mean you can design a cogent, long lasting game.

Many have tried and failed at inventing games. Many games have lasted the test of time (read: centuries). Turning EVE from a sandbox to a server full of victims for parasitic sociopaths? CCP has the right, but it's not a game, nor is it a sandbox. It may appeal to a certain element, but I can't see any future in it. My guess is, therefore, they've put all their eggs in the Sony/Playstation/Dust-bin and have forsaken EVE.

Of course, you can't get the truth from THEM, as they're a corporation (read: professional liars.)

So...you're either a ganker or a victim. Too bad. To have such potential reduced to a farcical passtime for sociopaths...well, I guess they're people, too. Maybe CCP should apply to the UN for charity status to get some credit for turning EVE into a haven for the mentally ill.

hahaha you're kind of hilarious and embarrassing at the same time.

Judging thousands of people and putting them all into the same pot, although you don't even know them.
And there are probably hundreds of other morons believing your crap, because they can't play and think for themselves,
not even talking about defending themselves. They just listen to a guy that keeps saying what they want to hear.


It's a game. Accept the sandbox or leave.

You're worse than THEM, spewing all out that hatred !

She'll just say the same thing about Goons, then compare them to N*zis.

Hilarious tbh, considering that she behaves like a N*zi herself.

hahaha you're kind of hilarious and embarrassing at the same time.
Judging thousands of people and putting them all into the same pot, although you don't even know them.
And there are probably hundreds of other morons believing your crap, because they can't play and think for themselves,
not even talking about defending themselves. They just listen to a guy that keeps saying what they want to hear.

It's a game. Accept the sandbox or leave.

You're worse than THEM, spewing all out that hatred !

She'll just say the same thing about Goons, then compare them to N*zis.

So...you're either a ganker or a victim. Too bad. To have such potential reduced to a farcical passtime for sociopaths...

Believing human beings, a species that has based it's entire existence on either becoming superior or destroying those they deem inferior will ever get along is a great way to set yourself up for failure in a world where they are the dominant species.

Believing human beings, a species that has based it's entire existence on either becoming superior or destroying those they deem inferior will ever get along is a great way to set yourself up for failure in a world where they are the dominant species.