Well, this explains my fetish for black lipstick...

'[i]Gamers that adopted villainous Voldemort as an avatar, were more likely to dish out a punishment in the experiment .'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2555752/Playing-villain-video-games-makes-MEAN-Avatar-role-play-replicated-real-world-claims-study.html#ixzz2svavZ1lj

I never liked Voldemort. Stupid, ignorant, crude, hamfisted and noseless. The classical evil genius mastermind except no master and even less of a genius. No doubt, some ten-year-old children might be slightly impressed but for anyone else he is a joke, really.

Only character I really liked was Dolores Umbridge. No into-your-face evil stereotype, no "visual" evil, more of a hidden, creeping, almost subliminal kind of evil. Also, so very adorable sadistic, but of course all for the greater good of the students. That thing with the Blood Quill was awesome on so many levels.

Now, dear community, what does this make me in real life?

We often see people in EVE who defensively claim to be good, decent folk in real life, yet play vicious psychotics in EVE. But can they really separate the two? Does one's EVE persona reflect who and what people are in real life despite all their denials?

A new study claims that playing the villain makes you a bad person in real life:

'Gamers that adopted villainous Voldemort as an avatar, were more likely to dish out a punishment in the experiment .

'University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers found that people who played games as a heroic character were more likely to reward others.

'They warned that how gamers represent themselves in the virtual world of video games may affect how they behave toward others in the real world.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2555752/Playing-villain-video-games-makes-MEAN-Avatar-role-play-replicated-real-world-claims-study.html#ixzz2svavZ1lj

Daily Mail, I'm surprised they didn't also make a link between games and cancer and housing prices.

You forgot benefits scroungers and vapid z list celebs.

Yet you won't see anything on there regarding the 82 billion in bonuses paid to bank execGÇÖs since 2008... when said banks were bailed out with public money.

Remind me again who owns this ****** "news" paper?

We often see people in EVE who defensively claim to be good, decent folk in real life, yet play vicious psychotics in EVE. But can they really separate the two? Does one's EVE persona reflect who and what people are in real life despite all their denials?

EVE is a computer simulation running on one of the most advanced and sophisticated pieces of computing technology in the history of mankind, requiring hundreds of people to maintain it and complicated, distributed telecommunications infrastructure through which other advanced and sophisticated computing devices can input and receive outputs from said simulation in real-time by running "client" software programs on behalf of "users", of which many thousands can be connected to said simulation at any given time and with the results of those inputs and outputs persisting in the simulation and able to affect each and every other user according to a complex set of rules . . . etc., etc., etc.

Poker is played with little sheets of dried wood pulp that have colorful symbols and drawings on them.

Are they really the same thing? Or are you a ******* ******?

What is EVE's equivalent of a "royal flush"? What is poker's equivalent of a "hot drop"?

Is EVE about blowing up spaceships for you? Why must EVE be about getting my spaceship blown up, for me, just because it is about blowing up spaceships for you? Do you realize that there are NPC spaceships that you can blow up without upsetting an actual person? Do you realize that you can blow up your own spaceships if EVE is "a game about blowing up spaceships"? Is it nice for you to impose your perspective of EVE onto my gameplay? Don't you want to be a nice person?

Think about this: If person A needs professional help, maybe person B shouldn't be taunting and griefing them. Why would person B be doing that? Doesn't person B want to be a nice person? Why not?

Don't worry, black lipstick fetishes are not psychotic or psychopatic, it's just an expression.
Same with black clothing and a few spikes every now and then. 's all good. +1.

It's all true: the Ishtar has become my vehicle of choice in RL, and I've started eschewing roads in favor of wormholes. My commute is now hugely variable in length, but it's also much more exciting.

"Sorry I'm late boss, got stuck in an endless C4 chain."

We often see people in EVE who defensively claim to be good, decent folk in real life, yet play vicious psychotics in EVE. But can they really separate the two? Does one's EVE persona reflect who and what people are in real life despite all their denials?

A new study claims that playing the villain makes you a bad person in real life:

'Gamers that adopted villainous Voldemort as an avatar, were more likely to dish out a punishment in the experiment .

'University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers found that people who played games as a heroic character were more likely to reward others.

'They warned that how gamers represent themselves in the virtual world of video games may affect how they behave toward others in the real world.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2555752/Playing-villain-video-games-makes-MEAN-Avatar-role-play-replicated-real-world-claims-study.html#ixzz2svavZ1lj

Yes? Sociopathy is an absolutely antedeluvian and completely outdated term.

It doesn't really exist as a condition or diagnosis any more.

I don't like chocolate, but I really enjoy spicy food, so I'd probably pour more chili sauce than chocolate. Does that make me a psychopath

No it makes you someone who needs to find out about mole sauce!

Your avatar looks insanely good! Especially the background.

Might i suggest removing the shirt, growing the hair a bit and some sunglasses for further improvement?

IThe entire "it's just a game so treating people like **** in it is completely fine"-thing just stinks of ignorance

Ignorance? Ignorance of what?

I think people who scam has a pretty high chance of being douchebags IRL too. The entire "it's just a game so treating people like **** in it is completely fine"-thing just stinks of ignorance, it's the same kind of people that generally acts like assholes on the internet because "lulz its just teh internets", not like there's other people out there that could take offense or be hurt by **** you say right?

We often see people in EVE who defensively claim to be good, decent folk in real life, yet play vicious psychotics in EVE. But can they really separate the two? Does one's EVE persona reflect who and what people are in real life despite all their denials?

A new study claims that playing the villain makes you a bad person in real life:

'Gamers that adopted villainous Voldemort as an avatar, were more likely to dish out a punishment in the experiment .

'University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers found that people who played games as a heroic character were more likely to reward others.

'They warned that how gamers represent themselves in the virtual world of video games may affect how they behave toward others in the real world.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2555752/Playing-villain-video-games-makes-MEAN-Avatar-role-play-replicated-real-world-claims-study.html#ixzz2svavZ1lj

The daily mail is a rag full of right wing propaganda with a mostly elderly readership who sneer upon anything they don't approve of or can't be arsed to understand.

I might be a bit if ***** on the forums but that is only because a little bit of heat is expected around here. Likewise in eve once you leave high sec everyone is an outlaw. There is no point in trying to be nice in such places you will be eaten alive.

In real life however I am a kind and considerate person that wouldn't harm a fly, so just because some idiot thinks that some people can't separate reality from fantasy has wrote up yet another worthless piece of **** whilst trying to pass it off as science doesn't mean that it is true.

Like a lot of people here I don't have a dark nature away from eve and I am not more likely to dish out punishment than anyone else, quite the opposite in fact. I am an adult and know the difference between a game and real life.