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Posted - 2014.08.17 14:19:00 -
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Regnag Leppod wrote:Is this sarcasm? This community has been 1000% in your face hate for the past several years.
Mocking anyone who dares to even admit that they have "feelings" or that something that happened upset them. And God forbid that said "something" happened in game.
Several common posters on this forum without fail push the view that anyone who is so "weak" as to have emotions shouldn't be playing Eve in the first place.
As for suicidal thoughts, we've seen plenty on how the community views that. Regardless of whether or not Alex truly felt bad about what he did at Fanfest, the majority in Eve all thought it was a great laugh and that pushing people to suicide is "the new meta".
+1 to OP for trying, if he's really serious, but, this is Eve. I'm calling BS.
No, this is not sarcasm. This community is very "in your face" and aggressive - no one will deny this - but with only SIX exceptions in many years of play, I have never witnessed a single player actually wishing real life harm on another player or themselves. All six of these exceptions I mention were players who were upset about not being able to be "left alone" to "mine in peace" and were upset over the fact that EVE is a "sandbox" and that combat mechanics can be applied in ways that may be unexpected to them. I don't think ANY of these six players were actually serious about wanting actual harm to be done to me or themselves, but were just emotional about the loss of a internet spaceship. This is part of what makes EVE special - in pretty much every other MMORPG on the market losses are mostly meaningless and player actions have no real impact on the game itself. To quote a song that was made about EVE - "Killing and dying still stirs up emotion". It's this "emotion" that makes this game special.
The simple reality is that the EVE community consists of awesome and good people, and if I personally was witness to another player having a really bad time and actually considering doing themselves harm in the real world - I would offer to listen to them, help them, refer them to ways they could get help, or just be a friendly ear.
When we say "HTFU" and "Cry harder!" - we are talking about internet spaceships and make believe characters in a video game. There are a lot of people who don't understand the difference between a video game and reality - and we can't ignore the simple fact that anyone can join our community without providing any evidence that they are an adult who understand this difference.
We can, however, step away from playing bad-ass internet pirate or professional spaceship explosion engineer for a moment to actually listen to the people around us. I know I do, and everyone that I call a friend in this video game does the same thing. |