Chopper Rollins
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.01.19 11:40:00 -
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Vera Algaert wrote:Corey Fumimasa wrote:IGÇÖve talked with a few carebears over the years and I have come to believe that they canGÇÖt PvP. Not because they donGÇÖt want to kill the griefers and gankers, but because they physically canGÇÖt do it. They freeze up at the keyboard when they get attacked. This experience is often referred to as "the shakes" in EVE and is just your regular high adrenaline fight-or-flight response which is not very well suited to computer games (evolution didn't select for the ability to calmly sit in a chair keeping track of half a dozen different mini-tasks while watching transversal and module heat closely when in a life-threatening situation)..... .
Fight-flight or freeze are the usual adrenaline inspired options. Predator/girlfriend's angry husband upwind might not smell you, but motion-detecting eyes will see you the second you run. Your choice is largely determined by your body chemistry and neural wiring, both handed down by your ancestors. As an added layer of complexity, the astoundingly huge network of neurons in your brain has the ability to occasionally allow anomalous wave forms of electrical activity to affect your choices, overriding instinct.
That's what gives us the awesome ability to be stupid, to try things never tried before, to try things we just tried and got burned by. Ants never do anything stupid, their nests do not fail due to corruption or internal chaos. Cockroaches are relentlessly stupid, which serves them well. A cockroach faced with a maze that shocks it at dead-ends will get shocked at the same place a few times. Remove the same roach's head and it's problem solving intelligence actually increases as nerve bundles allow the body to navigate away from pain stimuli. It will pick one wall and find it's way through, usually.
I've known a few pilots who freeze when attacked. In a computer game! I had to know them a while before they would tell me, I always tried to be understanding without being condescending or pitying.
TLDR version for livestock: some people are physically and mentally incapable of combat, and still not cowards.
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