Originally by: Fallan Fraud

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Being that the Achura male looks like a timid 13 year old most people chose Achura females.

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Originally by: Apo Lyptica

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yes, because while im killing someone i look at the avatar first?

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Originally by: Cyaxares II

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also, all nerds like hawt asians (+ Natalie Portman and Summer Glau but these are not in EVE), so your theory has to be wrong.

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Originally by: Fallan Fraud

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when you will be able to presume for instance that a player is black by the way he created it?
Will these players be griefed more?

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Originally by: Steve Celeste

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Primary is the black guy!

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Originally by: Leando

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does this mean the black dudes get big *****'s ??

If so then Im gonna become 1.

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Originally by: Eternum Praetorian

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Originally by: Fallan Fraud

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With the old character creator. A person's race was largely up to which attributes he wanted. This later changed somewhat recently, I can't remember when the attribute system was made generic. For instance, if you wanted high perception for Caldari you went Achura. And Brutor for the matar was will power maybe and perception. These things obviously influenced which race people chose.

Even if a person was white they had to chose a black or asain character. Being that the Achura male looks like a timid 13 year old most people chose Achura females.

This whole thing led to a lot of black guys and asain women who were played by white men.

Now genetically we are predisposed to attribute attractive features to as a whole a set similar to ours. I wont get into which set is truly more attractive anyway. But presupposing that most of the people who play this game are white and very few other minorities in comparison. This racial user gap will be put front and center for all to see.

As in many, many more character with Caucasian features. Much, much less with other features.

How will this impact the game, when you will be able to presume for instance that a player is black by the way he created it?

Will these players be griefed more?

How will it effect fleet dynamics?

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Originally by: Alpheias

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こんにちは！私がとても可愛いです！

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Originally by: Aiwha

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Pancakes are an acceptable alternative assuming they are of the proper fluffiness.

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Originally by: Alpheias

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こんにちは！私がとても可愛いです！

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Originally by: Rachel Ironwill

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Edited by: Rachel Ironwill on 09/01/2011 08:40:32
God forbid creating avatars that look different from what you really lokk like in real life!!



I've always been wondering why guys making male avatars that look no way like they are in real life has never been a problem, but when guys make female avatars there's always someone saying "OMG you're not a female!!" ... Have you ever heard something like "OMG you dont have a beard!!" or "OMG you're not blonde!!"

Race, sex, appearence.. it really doesn't matter, it's a game, he who griefs people because he presumes the person playing is somewhat different hasn't understood a thing at all.

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I've been playing Dark Age of Camelot for a long time, I had like 10 different characters... was I going to make them look all the same?

Maybe some people consider avatars like a projection of themselves in the game, I consider avatars like toons I control.

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Originally by: Xyfu

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Originally by: Rachel Ironwill

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Edited by: Rachel Ironwill on 09/01/2011 08:40:32
God forbid creating avatars that look different from what you really lokk like in real life!!



I've always been wondering why guys making male avatars that look no way like they are in real life has never been a problem, but when guys make female avatars there's always someone saying "OMG you're not a female!!" ... Have you ever heard something like "OMG you dont have a beard!!" or "OMG you're not blonde!!"

Race, sex, appearence.. it really doesn't matter, it's a game, he who griefs people because he presumes the person playing is somewhat different hasn't understood a thing at all.

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I've been playing Dark Age of Camelot for a long time, I had like 10 different characters... was I going to make them look all the same?

Maybe some people consider avatars like a projection of themselves in the game, I consider avatars like toons I control.

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Just skimread this, but I kinda understand both sides. On the one hand, yeah, I don't have a beard, (and I don't own aviators because I am not a pedophile), but on the other hand, I could grow a beard. I can't grow a vagina.

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Originally by: "Uzrial"

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I'm sorry but this entire line of thought is fail. As a Medical Anthropologist student I really have to step in and say 'stop it'. You presuppose the majority of people in this game are white. What would you clarify as a majority? Sure China is out since they get their own server but that still leaves about 5.2 billion possibilities.

You also use the term 'Caucasian', this automatically tells me you have no idea what you are talking about since this isn't even a scientific term, and is used exclusively in a political context.

Finally there are no such things as 'race', people around the world simply possess varying degrees of skin color and pigmentation. Additionally, populations possess slight physical differences depending on their exact geographical origin (ie where they adapted). Now if you believe that humans were magically created and specific sub groups were created, well that's your own issue, but don't start mixing your spiritualistic stuff with observational science.

"Negroid" "Mongoloid" "Caucasoid" these terms are baseless and no longer have any scientific use. CCP merely uses a very simple system to create separate factions or populations of people.

Failure has been achieved

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Originally by: Uzrial

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I'm sorry but this entire line of thought is fail. As a Medical Anthropologist student I really have to step in and say 'stop it'. You presuppose the majority of people in this game are white. What would you clarify as a majority? Sure China is out since they get their own server but that still leaves about 5.2 billion possibilities.

You also use the term 'Caucasian', this automatically tells me you have no idea what you are talking about since this isn't even a scientific term, and is used exclusively in a political context.

Finally there are no such things as 'race', people around the world simply possess varying degrees of skin color and pigmentation. Additionally, populations possess slight physical differences depending on their exact geographical origin (ie where they adapted). Now if you believe that humans were magically created and specific sub groups were created, well that's your own issue, but don't start mixing your spiritualistic stuff with observational science.

What is wrong with someone wanting to look different in a GAME? If this was a problem I think Blizzard would be out of business by now or everyone would just play as a human, but I digress. The mere fact that you would think people would grief others based the color of someones 'made-up' avatar speaks volumes about yourself. In your real life, do you constantly view people and judge their worth and abilities based on the color of their skin or slight variation in facial features. Just because you may does not mean the rest of us do.

"Negroid" "Mongoloid" "Caucasoid" these terms are baseless and no longer have any scientific use. CCP merely uses a very simple system to create separate factions or populations of people.

Failure has been achieved

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Originally by: Atirix

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Originally by: "Uzrial"

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I'm sorry but this entire line of thought is fail. As a Medical Anthropologist student I really have to step in and say 'stop it'. You presuppose the majority of people in this game are white. What would you clarify as a majority? Sure China is out since they get their own server but that still leaves about 5.2 billion possibilities.

You also use the term 'Caucasian', this automatically tells me you have no idea what you are talking about since this isn't even a scientific term, and is used exclusively in a political context.

Finally there are no such things as 'race', people around the world simply possess varying degrees of skin color and pigmentation. Additionally, populations possess slight physical differences depending on their exact geographical origin (ie where they adapted). Now if you believe that humans were magically created and specific sub groups were created, well that's your own issue, but don't start mixing your spiritualistic stuff with observational science.

"Negroid" "Mongoloid" "Caucasoid" these terms are baseless and no longer have any scientific use. CCP merely uses a very simple system to create separate factions or populations of people.

Failure has been achieved

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No way of knowing for sure, but I would definitely presuppose that the majority of people in this game are white. Considering the majority of players on tranquility are from the US which has a majority of "white" people. I think the UK and the rest of Europe (it's a continent, I know) is also a majority of Cauc-, I mean, "light skinned" people, too. I won't say Caucasian because I can only use scientific terms when talking to you apparently, even though the term has been used and widely recognized for decades.

No such thing as race? Really? Maybe to you. Maybe to your professor, not to the rest of the world who discriminate, hate and kill over this non existent thing called race.

I disagree with the op and this entire thread is epic fail, however your response is definitely on the same level as the op.

Maybe it's time to swallow some of that arrogance and realize you are still a "student".

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Originally by: Orpheus Terminus

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It's related to social ingrouping and outgrouping. Also genetically people are attracted to traits similar to their own. This is for breeding. Of course this isn't 100% as the marxist anthropological dunce in this thread is probably attracted to glasses wearing goats named Karl.

Race exists, it effects people even if not consciously. It's a fact.

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Originally by: Atra Hasis

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Originally by: Orpheus Terminus

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It's related to social ingrouping and outgrouping. Also genetically people are attracted to traits similar to their own. This is for breeding. Of course this isn't 100% as the marxist anthropological dunce in this thread is probably attracted to glasses wearing goats named Karl.

Race exists, it effects people even if not consciously. It's a fact.

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Quoting wikipedia is not exactly the road to making a legit response. The guy may have been arrogant, but at least he's educated. So far people have just made fun of him and for being so. This actually underlines another problem in society; stigmatizing intelligent people. So why are all these people hating on some carebear student? Are they threatened that he is able to make a point without making fun of someone else?

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Originally by: CCP Oveur

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The client handles no logic, it is simply a dumb terminal.

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Originally by: Anubis Xian

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Actually people are physically attracted to traits different from their own, and not necessarily voluntarily. The body wants the strongest possible offspring so it is more natural following the rules of nature to breed with someone different than yourself. Only the social and cultural 'rules' were really standing in the way of this becoming widespread. Well and geographics.

Why do you think interethnic relations are only increasing?

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Originally by: Anubis Xian

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Actually people are physically attracted to traits different from their own, and not necessarily voluntarily. The body wants the strongest possible offspring so it is more natural following the rules of nature to breed with someone different than yourself

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Originally by: Alpheias

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こんにちは！私がとても可愛いです！

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