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Apotamkin
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Posted - 2009.10.20 19:59:00 -
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Edited by: Apotamkin on 20/10/2009 20:03:44
Well I bet there are 1 or 2 people in EVE who can relate to this person
http://kotaku.com/5384643/i-kept-playing--the-costs-of-my-gaming-addiction
"In January of 2001, a man with a tow truck came to my place of employment and took my car away. I had fallen behind on payments without realizing it, and Nissan had decided they wanted my Sentra back. My first thought as I watched the tow truck drive away was how many hours walking to and from work would take from my EverQuest time"
Get help quick
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Slade Trillgon
Siorai Iontach
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Posted - 2009.10.20 20:08:00 -
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Edited by: Slade Trillgon on 20/10/2009 20:08:35 Links are your friend.
EDIT: In before the move to OOPE
Slade
Originally by: Niccolado Starwalker
Please go sit in the corner, and dont forget to don the shame-on-you-hat!
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Apotamkin
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Posted - 2009.10.20 20:13:00 -
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Fixed thanks
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2009.10.20 20:56:00 -
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Jesus that was terrible litany of fail.
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Marlenus
Caldari Ironfleet Towing And Salvage Tear Extraction And Reclamation Service
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Posted - 2009.10.20 22:22:00 -
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My sister decided to divorce her husband over EverQuest. She asked him "how long do you think it will be until you get bored with that game and go looking for a job?" He said "Never, I guess..." ------------------ Ironfleet.com |
SupaKudoRio
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Posted - 2009.10.20 22:40:00 -
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I can understand all that, except the refusing to come to bed part.
What sort of a man can reject the rambunctious implications of such a request?
On another note, how do you like your pods in the morning? |
Slapchop Gonnalovemynuts
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Posted - 2009.10.20 22:41:00 -
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Edited by: Slapchop Gonnalovemynuts on 20/10/2009 22:44:45
Originally by: SupaKudoRio I can understand all that, except the refusing to come to bed part.
What sort of a man can reject the rambunctious implications of such a request?
but but.. level 40!!
Also she was probably ugly. --------------------------------------------
Quote: EVE-Online... Too rough for ya? Don't like it? GTFO...
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AdmiralJohn
Gallente The Unknown Bar and Pub
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Posted - 2009.10.20 22:44:00 -
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Originally by: SupaKudoRio I can understand all that, except the refusing to come to bed part.
What sort of a man can reject the rambunctious implications of such a request?
I'm sure the folks of the MD forum will explain it to you.
Wait, did I just say that?
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TheShire
Amarr F.R.E.E. Explorer Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2009.10.21 02:32:00 -
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i miss EverQuest pre PoK and i can relate
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Washell Olivaw
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Posted - 2009.10.21 02:55:00 -
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Better than booze, drugs or gambling.
Originally by: Signature Everybody has a photographic memory, some people just don't have film.
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Lotus Sutra
Caldari Sutra Inc
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Posted - 2009.10.21 03:11:00 -
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Originally by: TheShire i miss EverQuest pre PoK and i can relate
I enjoyed it right up until Shadows of Luclin, after that it started to pall. Raiding became boring. I would create, run and delete characters over and over seeking 'something'... I quit playing EQ when I found EVE. I guess that is what I was seeking.
I am not addicted to EVE... I just need it to function. ------------------------------------------------
I got married Oct. 18th. I'm on my honeymoon. Yes I brought the laptop. Yes I am playing EVE. What? |
Johnny Dexter
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Posted - 2009.10.21 12:23:00 -
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I have absolutely no idea how that man managed to get so far in life with so little willpower. If you can't pull yourself together to get to work or school every morning because you want to play with pixies / internet spaceships then you need some psychiatric help or a ban from the game. I admit, EVE is a little more forgiving since it is mostly a chat channel with a nice background, letting you study and work on projects while you play, but I can't see why the same can't be archieved in other games while you mine or fish for example.
I am currently studying in a respectable university and the last time I checked xFire I was playing EVE 75 to 80 hours a week on average. I'm a director in our corporation and that means quite a few responsibilities and time sinks, yet I get all my homeworks done on time and the large tests / exams are mostly not a major problem.
The key to success? Play while you study, multitask, mess with paperwork and convos while you try to figure out why your C++ code doesn't work like it's supposed to. Last weekend I ran a mining operation, studied and made dinner at the same time. It's easy to do many things simultaneously if they don't require much attention. Then on weekends if I don't have anything else to do ( or simply can't be arsed to ) I try to get into some pew pew fleets to make the killboard look shinier.
If I can do it, so can you
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Lotus Sutra
Caldari Sutra Inc
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Posted - 2009.10.21 12:30:00 -
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Originally by: Johnny Dexter If I can do it, so can you
I run the United States of Sutra single handedly. I am Defense, Education, Politics, etc etc. I hold down several jobs, eat small children for breakfast, teach the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the lame to fly. I volunteer at the local spaz clinic as a art director, but I might be getting asked to leave because they don't see my nailing the spazzez to the wall in a colorful pattern as art like I see it. I also run a home gardening center where we teach people how to kill and bury their spouses in such a manner that they will fertilize their gardens perfectly.
Now what were you saying about multi-tasking?
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Panthera Lynx
Caldari Eve University Ivy League
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Posted - 2009.10.21 12:33:00 -
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Originally by: Johnny Dexter If you can't pull yourself together to get to work or school every morning because you want to play with pixies / internet spaceships then you need some psychiatric help or a ban from the game.
Actually, in the good old MUD days, all the MUDs that I played offered some way of locking yourself out of the game. Some of them even let you set specific times during which you were allowed to log in, and that you could not change later.
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cpt Mark
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Posted - 2009.10.21 12:38:00 -
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Edited by: cpt Mark on 21/10/2009 12:38:53 To be quite honest.. these games are so pointless. Just for a bit of fun here, there, now and again.
There's a game that really ****es me off. I've never played it, but apparently its called 'second life' and everyone who plays it basically has a life in the game.
Stop playing a fake, in-game life, and play your own life. Trust me.. its so much more interesting. The sand-box of the world is limitless, there is no repetition, people are so much better to talk to face to face, rather than typing on a keyboard.
The beauty of the world is in so much high definition, it can't come close to being matched by your monitor, or television screen.
I barely play Eve atm.. and to be honest I don't think I should play it at all... I've got work to do, friends to spend time with. These things generally fill up all my time. - and at least that way my future isn't level 40, its something great and quite spectacular.
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The AEther
Caldari Red Federation
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Posted - 2009.10.21 12:47:00 -
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Originally by: Johnny Dexter I have absolutely no idea how that man managed to get so far in life with so little willpower. If you can't pull yourself together to get to work or school every morning because you want to play with pixies / internet spaceships then you need some psychiatric help or a ban from the game.
That's debatable whether all you need is willpower to overcome addiction. There are many examples of people who are achievers in real life concurrently having some nasty addictions running. I just finished reading a book on compulsive gambling, for example. Was quite fascinating as I never understood gambling and why some people have such a huge problem over it. Apparently compulsive gamblers tend to share similar traits, one of these is that they are typically very good with numbers which enables them to excel in money-making professions and earn very good wages. But then go and flush it all down nearest casino the next day. And President Obama meanwhile can't quit his smoking. So there's a lot of grey area and things still not understood on the topic of addiction.
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Draeca
Tharri and Co.
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Posted - 2009.10.21 13:31:00 -
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Originally by: cpt Mark Stop playing a fake, in-game life, and play your own life. Trust me.. its so much more interesting. The sand-box of the world is limitless, there is no repetition, people are so much better to talk to face to face, rather than typing on a keyboard
No repetition? Every day is the same damn grind over and over again..
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Domoso
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Posted - 2009.10.21 13:35:00 -
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Addiction comes in any form imaginable. Expecting an addict to be rational is like expecting a person with below average IQ to suddenly think themselves into a 180 IQ. Understanding is not necessary to accept that addiction is a real illness and not due to a person being lazy or lacking motivation. On the contrary, addicts are highly motivated to satisfy their addiction(s) and will go to phenomenal lengths to do so.
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Jaggeh
The Order of Odin
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Posted - 2009.10.21 13:55:00 -
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addiction is addiction, whether its Faberge eggs or pewpewing, if you are predisposed to it then it will happen.
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Primnproper
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Posted - 2009.10.21 15:19:00 -
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I love the comments...
Quote: Mike, you're an incredibly human person to write such a piece on how small pleasures become destructive forces.
Quote: Just wanted to say how impressed I am with Kotakuland and in particular Michael Fahey for having the courage to write and then post this.
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Skex Relbore
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Posted - 2009.10.21 16:32:00 -
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Originally by: Lotus Sutra
Originally by: TheShire i miss EverQuest pre PoK and i can relate
I enjoyed it right up until Shadows of Luclin, after that it started to pall. Raiding became boring. I would create, run and delete characters over and over seeking 'something'... I quit playing EQ when I found EVE. I guess that is what I was seeking.
I am not addicted to EVE... I just need it to function.
If you quit at SOL you missed the golden age of raiding. Things started getting much more involved and interesting post PoP IMO. The mechanics and events became much more complex and the old stick a tank in front of the mob and burn it down tactic stoped being the end all of raiding.
I raided with Club Fu for like 4 years and I loved every minute of it. I still miss it and the only reason I stopped playing was that 2 kids a wife plus a job just isn't conducive to logging in for 4-6 hours a night 6 nights a week, not to mention all the extra time you had to squeeze in to grind AA points and maintain your xp buffer so the repeated raid deaths didn't delevel you, I mean sure you had 96% rez but 4% loss does add up over time and sometimes you had to weather several deaths before getting a rez not to mention taking the occasional 90% paly rez or eating an unrezed death because you were a half asleep putz and looted out after a shammy rez.
I picked up EVE because I'd just finished re-reading Peter F, Hamilton's books and someone mentioned EVE on the forums so I was thinking a bit about it when an old Marine buddy called me up saying he started playing so I pulled the trigger and started up a couple accounts.
Eve does strike me as easier to keep compartmentalized though most of that is going to come from me limiting my playstyle to small time stuff.
Which is part of what I like about EVE the lack of an actual end game means I don't have to feel like I need to be in competition with other high end players this coupled with the time based skill system which removes the incentive to grind for hours and days on end to power your toon up makes it more friendly to what I consider my new "casual" playstyle.
Still if my life could accomidate it I'd go back to raiding in EQ in a heartbeat. Call me a carebear but working with 54 friends to compete against other guilds to see who could beat the same events faster was a lot of fun.
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Johnny Dexter
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Posted - 2009.10.21 22:07:00 -
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Originally by: cpt Mark Stop playing a fake, in-game life, and play your own life. Trust me.. its so much more interesting. The sand-box of the world is limitless, there is no repetition, people are so much better to talk to face to face, rather than typing on a keyboard.
I would like to comment on this if you don't mind
Every single morning you wake up, get dressed, eat your breakfast and go to work. Every single day you work in an office, doing the same things as you did 2 years ago. Your life follows a steel routine, comfortable and stable yet unimaginative and dull.
After work you go home, turn on your computer and you enter a world where the only limitation is the game designers' and graphic artists' imagination. I know it sounds cliche, but I cannot imagine being stuck in RL all the time anymore. Does that mean my priorities are twisted or I'm living in some fluffy lala land of happiness and joy and ignoring real problems? Of course not. I know graduating the university is the most important thing right now and I do my best to keep a healthy balance between internet spaceships and school grades, but there is always room for one more joke with your friends from the other side of the world
A lot of people are sceptical about video games. They are afraid of what they do not understand and that seperates MMO gamers from the average office worker who has not been outside of his home country in his life. I have heard so many conversations between my fellow students that leave me dazzled how narrow-minded people can be on the 21st century. For them, everything that even slightly breaks their stereotypical image of a "normal" world is wrong. Dressing in black and listening to metal music means you have mental issues, homosexuality is an illness and whatever you do, do NOT talk to black people. After three years of playing EVE and getting to know ALL kinds of people from all over the globe I am happy that our world is so colorful. EVE helped me grow up ( I am still too ashamed to read what I wrote on the corporation forums three years ago ) and made me realize how tiny and unimportant little s**t you are in the large perspecive. If that makes me somehow fail at life then screw you guys, I'm going home!
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Discrodia
Gallente Unknown-Entity Maru Ka'ge
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Posted - 2009.10.21 22:28:00 -
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See, I had the reverse, for most of last year I played EVE a lot less since I was lovesick over some girl. ________________________________________________ I'm the station camper with the Phobos whose annoying you
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Kazang
Gallente Wrecking Shots
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Posted - 2009.10.21 22:28:00 -
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Originally by: Malcanis Jesus that was terrible litany of fail.
I'm laughing. That's considerably epic phrasing.
Kazang
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Belloch
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Posted - 2009.10.21 22:31:00 -
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Edited by: Belloch on 21/10/2009 22:31:12
Originally by: Draeca No repetition? Every day is the same damn grind over and over again..
You're not doing it right.
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Daesis Wrack
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Posted - 2009.10.22 06:07:00 -
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Originally by: Johnny Dexter Every single morning you wake up, get dressed, eat your breakfast and go to work. Every single day you work in an office, doing the same things as you did 2 years ago. Your life follows a steel routine, comfortable and stable yet unimaginative and dull.
After work you go home, turn on your computer and you enter a world where the only limitation is the game designers' and graphic artists' imagination. I know it sounds cliche, but I cannot imagine being stuck in RL all the time anymore.
I prefer to go home and enter a world where the only limitations have to do with the combined flexibility of myself and my girlfriend.
Internet spaceships are nice too, though.
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Bruno George
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Posted - 2009.10.22 08:40:00 -
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Edited by: Bruno George on 22/10/2009 08:40:16 Interesting read, I think you need to know your limits to how much time you spend playing Eve and keep to those limits. I have been playing for 2 years and sometime just want to quit, or just take a break. Not because Im Emo because I know its just a little bit wierd that I play so much and its just a game, it really is.
I often think of how my life will be if the Servers ever shut down. I have a trade for a job and gf to support. Yet the guy in the blog cant be motivated enough to be focused at work and punctual. I hope Im never like that!!
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MightyRhinox
Minmatar Red Federation
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Posted - 2009.10.22 08:42:00 -
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Originally by: cpt Mark
There's a game that really ****es me off. I've never played it, but apparently its called 'second life' and everyone who plays it basically has a life in the game.
I tried Second Life once for a few hours, then I realized that everyone playing the game didn't have a first life, that's why they were there.
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MightyRhinox
Minmatar Red Federation
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Posted - 2009.10.22 08:52:00 -
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Originally by: Johnny Dexter
Originally by: cpt Mark Stop playing a fake, in-game life, and play your own life. Trust me.. its so much more interesting. The sand-box of the world is limitless, there is no repetition, people are so much better to talk to face to face, rather than typing on a keyboard.
I would like to comment on this if you don't mind
Every single morning you wake up, get dressed, eat your breakfast and go to work. Every single day you work in an office, doing the same things as you did 2 years ago. Your life follows a steel routine, comfortable and stable yet unimaginative and dull.
Wow, if that's what your life is, I feel sorry for you. You're really missing out on lot of cool sh*t.
Travel, education, excercise, even simple things like going out exploring for new interesting cafes, restautants etc.
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CCP Applebabe
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Posted - 2009.10.22 08:54:00 -
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Moved to " OOPE ".
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