Dani Dusette
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Posted - 2014.02.26 22:38:00 -
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Divine Entervention wrote:Dani Dusette wrote:Divine Entervention wrote:How they act towards me in the game is the only basis of comparison I have to make regarding their character. Them choosing to do bad things leads me to believe they are people who choose to do bad things.
It's not prejudice, it's cause and effect. That is like saying you know what kind of person an author is because you've read one of his stories. The book is fiction. All characters are fake. Unless it's a biography of some sort. The universe of EVE is fiction, but the people involved playing the game are real, making them non-fiction.
Ah but you see the author could have written a happy story, maybe a scary one, a sad one or even a disturbing one.
They chose one kind of story, one they enjoyed writing, and put it out in the public domain.
Now you claim that because you read stories and buy books that you somehow are in a position where you need to equate the relationship between the author and the kind of story he's written. You'll claim the genre, tone and characters all reveal what kind of person that author is. Then you'll refuse to buy the story because of the author, and will instead purchase the happy book in the next aisle because you've reasoned it's written by a "better person".
All the while though you'll keep glancing at that other, "lesser" author's work - wishing you could read it because it actually appeals to you more (you came looking for a scary book) but you just can't bring yourself to buy it because of your character-judgement of it's author.
Now that was just a creative way of explaining what you seem to be going through here in EVE.
Much like a work of fiction EVE is just a game. We do and express silly, scary or stupid things in games, just as we do in books. Why? Because it's just a game, the end result is not reality. It's a safe environment to play out our creativity. Thats what they're made for and it's what most people use them for. Sometimes though when people begin to replace parts of their lives with a game or 'story' then you find friction and hurt feelings.
Now if the end result of that book/game for someone IS reality, and they find that story or that game too unsettling then the problem is ultimately theirs. There's nothing inherently wrong with the book or it's author, the game or it's players, it's just not your taste.
So don't keep trying to force something down your own throat that makes you sick then blame the person who wrote it, or played it with you.
Mizhir:-á "Dani Dusette, Best Dusette"
Ensign (Ret.) Caldari Naval Militia-á
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