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Russell Casey
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Posted - 2011.11.04 21:40:00 -
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Xiozor wrote:If you tried to put across EVE as a social experiment, you could get as far as "Virtual world" before any psychologist without an agenda to get video games banned would laugh in your face.
Not necessarily, look at the corrupted blood incident leading medical researchers to study WoW to learn about the spread of diseases, viruses and biological warfare.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-08-22/researchers-study-world-of-warcraft-plague/646624 |
Russell Casey
One Ton
Reverberation Project
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Posted - 2011.11.05 15:34:00 -
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Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:Mortis vonShadow wrote:
So everyone that plays EVE should be good little fellows and not upset the herd? Wouldn't that get dull fast.
Not all. No, what is disturbing is how many want to be turds. I think it is probably perpetuated bullying. They get hell at school or from their boss at work then want to find a way to make other people miserable. 
Yesterday my boss told me I was getting laid off, then my dog got hit by a car. Then the bank forclosed my house and we had to move to a soup kitchen and fight hobos for food. My wife and daughter put themselves on the street. The Packers lost. It rained.
The only happiness in my life right now is shooting at pixels on the Internet.
But seriously, if a game makes you "miserable" why do you play it? |
Russell Casey
One Ton
Reverberation Project
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Posted - 2011.11.05 20:16:00 -
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Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
Back in the 70s and 80s there would be an occasional news blurb about small groups of teenagers who got caught setting dogs on fire, killing livestock, torturing cats, and such other sick shenanigans. I recall one case from upstate New York in the 80s where the group finally killed somebody. There was even a book about it, where in one chapter of of them describes how they burned a poodle to death in an old washing machine and marvelled at how the screaming almost sounded human.
"If lobsters looked like puppies, people could never drop them in boiling water while they're still alive. But instead, they look like science fiction monsters so it's okay."---George Carlin. |
Russell Casey
One Ton
Reverberation Project
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Posted - 2011.11.09 12:09:00 -
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Tallian Saotome wrote:wtf, this thread does not deserve to be 43 pages long. When will the Spartans End?!?! 
Maybe if it gets long enough CCP will make it a sticky so they can delete all the other introspective crap threads that pop up. |
Russell Casey
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Posted - 2011.11.16 02:55:00 -
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It's people who've stayed in highsec all the time, never really lost anything but a few t1 frigs in low and think they're safe that cry "griefer" because they put all the proverbial eggs into the proverbial basket by flying the ridiculously overpriced pinatas. They aren't used to losing anything and if you suggest otherwise they'll scream, "you just want to force your playstyle on me! That's MMO-****!"
Let me give you an example: a couple years ago I went out with some corpies to do lvl 4s. One of them had been laid off that day, but he was in pretty good spirits, laughing and joking the whole time about how he'd have to pull unemployment to keep playing EVE. He had an apoc that could permatank rats till Doomsday (the Biblical event, not the Titan weapon) and wasn't that bad on DPS either. The rest of us were in various PVE-fit BS's/BCs with a dessie pulling salvage duty.
Naturally that many ships in a single deadspace pocket is going to attract attention. Sure enough a hyperion warped in and looted one of our wrecks. We out numbered him and figured we had a good chance, so we opened up. In came the RR domies (this was before you even got flagged for neutral repping) and things quickly went FUBAR.
The apoc got killed, probably targeted first just because they could see him tanking the whole room and the guy starts raging on vent about it, all upset that his big, shiny mission boat was so much space dust, moaning about how far back he'd been set by a single careless decision in a video game.
However, what happened next I remember to this day. In the middle of the QQ he stopped, and in a single epiphatic moment said, OH MY GOD, I'M MORE UPSET ABOUT LOSING MY SHIP THAN LOSING MY JOB. Then he laughed. And we laughed. And somewhere, the ninjas were already laughing.
Nobody rage-quit the game, filed a petition with CCP or QQ'd on the forums about it. We just accepted that something happened in a video game and we all moved on. We didn't harbor any deepset hatred towards the people who did it, because truthfully, we would would have done it ourselves just for kicks. |
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