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Darius JOHNSON
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
49
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Posted - 2013.05.29 21:38:00 -
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I described goons perfectly in my fanfest presentation a few years ago. Stop making threads over and over asking the same question when there's plenty of content to fill your pubbie heads with readily available to you to form your own decisions. |
Daedlus Caine
Fallen Supremacy
6
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Posted - 2013.05.29 21:48:00 -
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Darius JOHNSON wrote:I described goons perfectly in my fanfest presentation a few years ago. Stop making threads over and over asking the same question when there's plenty of content to fill your pubbie heads with readily available to you to form your own decisions.
You sound pissed. I'm sorry to hear that a little bit of ignorance has become a jab in the chest for you. I will now go back to my hole and leave your little place of heaven.
In all seriousness, you should probably know that not everyone bothers(d) to watch the alliance panel or dig through years of posts. |
Corey Fumimasa
Kiith Paktu Curatores Veritatis Alliance
550
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Posted - 2013.05.29 22:09:00 -
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Daedlus Caine wrote:Darius JOHNSON wrote:I described goons perfectly in my fanfest presentation a few years ago. Stop making threads over and over asking the same question when there's plenty of content to fill your pubbie heads with readily available to you to form your own decisions. You sound pissed. I'm sorry to hear that a little bit of ignorance has become a jab in the chest for you. I will now go back to my hole and leave your little place of heaven. In all seriousness, you should probably know that not everyone bothers(d) to watch the alliance panel or dig through years of posts. I thought you left in post #28. What is gaming when compared to rl? -á http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=V7-1ndsiVNA&feature=endscreen |
Eram Fidard
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
147
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Posted - 2013.05.29 22:29:00 -
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"I've been trying to figure out why I have this mental alignment to hate the Goons."
From (a translation of) Aesop's Fables:
The Wolf And The Lamb
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Hope this answers your question.
(I can't believe parents don't read these to their kids) |
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting Home Front Coalition
475
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Posted - 2013.05.29 22:36:00 -
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Star Wars would't be Star Wars without the Empire and Dart Vader. Eve Online wouldnt be Eve Online without the Goons and The Mittani.
Not that Goonswarm is irreplacable in that respect but they fill the role of huge faceless galactic Empire pretty well IMO. |
Amarr Citizen 19
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
0
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Posted - 2013.05.29 22:41:00 -
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If you want to understand the success and consequential fear the uninitiated have for goons, you need to understand that their leadership is more hard-working and autistic than any other. The only reason they're able to treat New Eden as their personal prison shower is because those selfless director level goons lay down the vast majority of their social life as a perfect offering to the greater goon. |
Aryndel Vyst
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
606
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Posted - 2013.05.29 22:44:00 -
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Corey Fumimasa wrote:Andski wrote:
Show me on the doll where the bad goon touched you
Also when do you want Providence burned to ash?
I am a gamer Andski, I disrespect Goons because they don't respect the game. I feel that SA has brought something akin to steroids or player gambling into the equation. It skews the results and is disrespectful to the creators and the other participants. One of the things that I like about NRDS is that it will always exist in stark contrast to goons regardless if Providence is home or not.
Who are you to say what the game is? This is a sandbox game is it not? Just because you don't respect how we play our game doesn't make you right. |
Felicity Love
STARKRAFT Joint Venture Conglomerate
644
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Posted - 2013.05.29 22:46:00 -
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"Goons are like a box of chocolates, you never know which one you're going to get." -- Anonymous.
Proud Beta Tester for "Bumping Uglies for Dummies" |
Andski
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
8036
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Posted - 2013.05.29 23:05:00 -
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Amarr Citizen 19 wrote:If you want to understand the success and consequential fear the uninitiated have for goons, you need to understand that their leadership is more hard-working and autistic than any other. The only reason they're able to treat New Eden as their personal prison shower is because those selfless director level goons lay down the vast majority of their social life as a perfect offering to the greater goon.
Not really, we just have a lot of directors Twitter: @EVEAndski
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Xinivrae
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
364
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Posted - 2013.05.29 23:08:00 -
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Why do goons do what they do? Couldn't tell you, but I do what I do because I want to have fun while playing a video game. Pretty simple really.
I'll never understand why people think we're so different from them and need to be analyzed. |
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Shao Huang
University of Caille Gallente Federation
243
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Posted - 2013.05.29 23:36:00 -
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Since I only have access to newbseye view I will offer that.
When you enter the game if you are paying attention you notice the Goon presence. I have played a lot of games that Goons are apparently in and they have never come to my attention in the way they did in EVE. So I started researching in the spirit of 'what the hell is that'? I read all the articles referenced here. I read all the criticisms and accounts of drama posted elsewhere.
The first thing I encountered was some of the assertions made in this thread about the us/them elitism and pubbie hate. Related to that was the phenomena of a community of players that came in tact, more or less, into a game with something about this dynamic already present. Gamers often seek to create this in games anyway. The primary distinction being a way of playing the game and efficacy associated with that play style, valued in different ways. It creates a kind of game within the game for them. The rest of game play is interacted with through this. Organizational skill and understanding for the mechanics of some sort are often the distinguishing factors, whether it is some elite team in fps, guild in themepark, etc. What is valued and how that is done varies greatly. The reasons for the 'other' being the ignorant, heathenistic, baby eating villains also vary greatly.
I got interested in the coming from SA part and started reading SA. I am a stupid old dude and parts of the culture are simply impenetrable to me. It is a culture however. I am now regularly active in about 5 threads and have read many others many of which contain a vast array of information and arguments on subjects directly pertinent to my work and the condition of the planet. Unless argument from authority and ad hominem, etc. are artfully and amusingly done, there is very little tolerance for these sorts of things. The attention span is longer than 15 minutes. People read entire books, articles and book length threads in order to participate in a conversation. I am now participating there as a result of EVE in ways that have so far been very useful to me, rather than participaning in EVE as a result of SA in a way that is useful here.
The EVE thread itself is not markedly different form a game thread you would find anywhere, from a self described group of players playing a game some specific way. They talk about mechanics of all the different parts of their game play, granted at a fairly superficial level given that it is pretty public. That private public split is not uncommon for any such group of players. Much of it is about people wanting to be Goons and variously getting advice, told to go away, various forms of hazing, etc.
Corey- your argument seems flawed to me. Goons are in fact part of the game. Is the game about inclusion, as you say? I don't know if it is about inclusion or not, but your argument is off. What it seems like is you just don't like Goons or the way they play the game. That is a different matter and completely your perogative. They create a particular boundary in the game that gives it meaning for them in various ways. So do you. In fact, Goons as other constitute part of your boundary condition n almost exactly the same way the 'pubbies' constitute an asserted boundary condition for Goons.
I also notice that they seem to have the most organized, emergent form of introducing new players to the game in the game. It seems better than CCPs, though Goonlets apparently use that too.
Personally I don't have much interest in joining, but this is because I am a Marxist: "I don't want to belong to any club that would accept people like me as a member". Groucho Marx telegram to the Friars Club. Private sig. Do not read. |
Amarr Citizen 19
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
0
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Posted - 2013.05.29 23:55:00 -
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Andski wrote:Amarr Citizen 19 wrote:If you want to understand the success and consequential fear the uninitiated have for goons, you need to understand that their leadership is more hard-working and autistic than any other. The only reason they're able to treat New Eden as their personal prison shower is because those selfless director level goons lay down the vast majority of their social life as a perfect offering to the greater goon. Not really, we just have a lot of directors
Not exactly a mutually exclusive thing. Your directors may be focused on a more narrow band of the game than most, but they're living and breathing that aspect of the game to an extent most players never will and that takes up a lot of time and energy. |
EvilweaselSA
GoonCorp Goonswarm Federation
838
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Posted - 2013.05.30 00:39:00 -
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Corey Fumimasa wrote:Andski wrote: We respect the game, we just don't respect bad posting
Wars have been started over bad posting
Eve is about inclusion, of bringing players into the game. SA is about elitism and 10 bux. Its very interesting how this "innocent" OP has escalated. And really how you have taken such offence to the opinion of one poster. goonswarm has brought more people into eve than basically any other organization in the game |
Thorleifer
Yeti Cave
8
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Posted - 2013.05.30 00:43:00 -
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Goons like to dig, and sometimes it works and they strike gold, and other times they hit a mound of scorpions and get all stung and run back home to dress their wounds. I suppose they are no different than any other alliance, bad apples and not so bad apples, but have not noticed to many good apples in goons as of late. |
EvilweaselSA
GoonCorp Goonswarm Federation
838
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Posted - 2013.05.30 00:43:00 -
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eve is all about exclusion though it is all about the vicious fight over the space throne |
EvilweaselSA
GoonCorp Goonswarm Federation
838
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Posted - 2013.05.30 00:44:00 -
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everyone who doesn't think they're a part is merely a pawn or target practice in the game of space thrones |
Mulani Askiras
State War Academy Caldari State
8
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Posted - 2013.05.30 01:08:00 -
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Goons aren't going to Providence. Quit blowing smoke.
Goons are as boring as they sound. The most they can do is attack defenseless ships via suicide ganks because the general player skill in Goon is pretty abysmal.
It's pretty well accepted why you guys turn to 'player generated content' such as jita burn, since ya'll are worthless in null. |
Vega Makutu
Open University of Celestial Hardship Art of War Alliance
4
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Posted - 2013.05.30 01:33:00 -
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Seems to me that a lot of the hate is like sour grapes?
Goons are the smug cool kids clique, no you can't sit at their lunch table. Unless you give them all your lunch money, then they will push you off the bench into the mud and laugh at you
Which is pretty funny, really.
I just try to stay out of their way. I'v |
Andski
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
8036
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Posted - 2013.05.30 01:49:00 -
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Mulani Askiras wrote:Goons aren't going to Providence. Quit blowing smoke.
Goons are as boring as they sound. The most they can do is attack defenseless ships via suicide ganks because the general player skill in Goon is pretty abysmal.
It's pretty well accepted why you guys turn to 'player generated content' such as jita burn, since ya'll are worthless in null.
that's because your only exposure to goonswarm was losing your poorly fit hulk to a suicide gank
we have always encouraged goons to go out to highsec and flog the wildlife regardless of how well we do in 0.0, even after having conquered every region in 0.0 at some point in time, except immensea and providence Twitter: @EVEAndski
TheMittani.com: The premier source for news, commentary and discussion of EVE Online and other games of interest.-á |
Corey Fumimasa
Kiith Paktu Curatores Veritatis Alliance
554
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Posted - 2013.05.30 01:54:00 -
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Shao Huang wrote:... Corey- your argument seems flawed to me. Goons are in fact part of the game. Is the game about inclusion, as you say? I don't know if it is about inclusion or not, but your argument is off. What it seems like is you just don't like Goons or the way they play the game. That is a different matter and completely your perogative. They create a particular boundary in the game that gives it meaning for them in various ways. So do you. In fact, Goons as other constitute part of your boundary condition n almost exactly the same way the 'pubbies' constitute an asserted boundary condition for Goons.
The OP seemed to be asking what the animosity towards Goons was all about. My post was a look at them through the lens of uproar and discontent that leads towards negative feelings for them.
The really interesting thing is the reaction to that opinion; they seem very unhappy and offended. What is gaming when compared to rl? -á http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=V7-1ndsiVNA&feature=endscreen |
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Vortexo VonBrenner
Coldest Sea Sailing
293
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Posted - 2013.05.30 01:55:00 -
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Hmm, ty.
Kult Altol wrote:Tldr, had more words than your likes. Too bad...you missed out on an interesting read.
Kult Altol wrote:Anything on Mitannil is garbage. Oh...I see...nvm then...
Tippia wrote:Also, you should probably read this.
^^ Every EVE player should, imo.
I'm listening to-áBj+¦rk, playing EVE, eating fishsticks, and I'm cold....this is immersion gaming. |
Andski
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
8036
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Posted - 2013.05.30 01:59:00 -
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we would lose our identity if we do not scourge highseccers
we do not subscribe to their belief that it is the lowest form of pvp, because the targets make delightful squeals when their ships are blown up in a game about ships getting blown up
some of the posts above are great examples of such delightful squeals Twitter: @EVEAndski
TheMittani.com: The premier source for news, commentary and discussion of EVE Online and other games of interest.-á |
Domer Pyle
Northern Flemish Bastards Inc Yulai Federation
53
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Posted - 2013.05.30 02:03:00 -
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goons are bad because they pay to post on a forum. that's all. "Imagine if the bars to your prison were all you had ever known. Then one day, someone appears and unlocks the door. If they have the power to do this, then are they really the liberator? You never remembered who it was that closed you in." - Ior Labron |
Andski
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
8036
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Posted - 2013.05.30 02:04:00 -
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Domer Pyle wrote:goons are bad because they pay to post on a forum. that's all.
you pay to post here Twitter: @EVEAndski
TheMittani.com: The premier source for news, commentary and discussion of EVE Online and other games of interest.-á |
BadAssMcKill
Love Squad Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
263
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Posted - 2013.05.30 02:05:00 -
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Grrr Goons Starships were meant to fly~
http://i.imgur.com/6j6cIZE.gif |
Robus Muvila
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
314
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Posted - 2013.05.30 02:14:00 -
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Corey Fumimasa wrote:Shao Huang wrote:... Corey- your argument seems flawed to me. Goons are in fact part of the game. Is the game about inclusion, as you say? I don't know if it is about inclusion or not, but your argument is off. What it seems like is you just don't like Goons or the way they play the game. That is a different matter and completely your perogative. They create a particular boundary in the game that gives it meaning for them in various ways. So do you. In fact, Goons as other constitute part of your boundary condition n almost exactly the same way the 'pubbies' constitute an asserted boundary condition for Goons.
The OP seemed to be asking what the animosity towards Goons was all about. My post was a look at them through the lens of uproar and discontent that leads towards negative feelings for them. The really interesting thing is the reaction to that opinion; they seem very unhappy and offended.
Your opinion is shared my a healthy majority of the space proletariate, usually through ignorance, defeat, opposition, bile or heresay and thats fine. You are more than free to sit in your ship, gripping your knees and crowing "GOOOOOOOOOOOONS" to your hearts content. But speculating on money is one step short of falling into the REAL tinfoil end of the spectrum where all Null powerblocs are just RMT cartels and we're all jetting round in RL corvettes bought with ill gotten ISK or whatever it is that month. And that's just not healthy. TMC Senior Developer http://themittani.com - Because EvE has needed a proper news site for ages |
Robus Muvila
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
314
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Posted - 2013.05.30 02:15:00 -
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God Dammit Eve Forums... TMC Senior Developer http://themittani.com - Because EvE has needed a proper news site for ages |
Robus Muvila
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
314
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Posted - 2013.05.30 02:16:00 -
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420 Triple Post errday TMC Senior Developer http://themittani.com - Because EvE has needed a proper news site for ages |
Kristina Rin
Callide Vulpis Curatores Veritatis Alliance
4
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Posted - 2013.05.30 02:25:00 -
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read this thread, still found nothing to hate goonswarms
or maybe im just too friendly and innocent |
EvilweaselSA
GoonCorp Goonswarm Federation
840
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Posted - 2013.05.30 02:36:00 -
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Mulani Askiras wrote:Goons aren't going to Providence. Quit blowing smoke.
Goons are as boring as they sound. The most they can do is attack defenseless ships via suicide ganks because the general player skill in Goon is pretty abysmal.
It's pretty well accepted why you guys turn to 'player generated content' such as jita burn, since ya'll are worthless in null. ~come and get us~ |
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