Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.16 14:53:01 -
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Sol Project wrote:And... righteous path... seriously? The fact that miners are getting ganked is a good thing.
If that wouldn't happen, we would have way more whining about empty belts,
there would generally be much more afk "activity" and we would have way more bots.
Fix your sarcasm detector, Sol. He's poking fun at CODE for the language they use. He even included a  smiley.
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.16 15:11:44 -
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Hiasa Kite wrote:Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:Justin Zaine wrote: Who I am in this game is about as true-to-life as my character's six-pack abs. Justin Zaine wrote:Not at all. I do what I do because I can (Because I find it entertaining to some extent,) . So, if I like to go to kink clubs, tie people up and spank them - you would say that it is no reflection on my personality because that is the right place to do it and I am just conforming to one role I can take in that place? Because the person in the club is the same person out of the club. Players that role play miner killing psychos in game are role playing the same way an actor that plays a homophobic murderer in a movie is just acting. Shockingly enough, we don't throw actors that portray such villains into prison. This is the issue with carebears, not just miners. They're unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality, simply assuming that something is wrong with their enemies in real life. It's due to this fallacy they believe they have the right to spew hateful comments about them. It's this very attitude that gives carebears such a bad reputation.
This is actually an interesting question.
There's a reason why actors are professionally trained: Heath Ledger wasn't, and playing a psychopath didn't work out too well for him. Jack Nicholson, a previous Joker who is professionally trained, even warned him that the role would exact a price on his sanity.
The fact is that nobody can tell fact from fiction. Yes, consciously, we're aware that we're watching a movie, but the part of our brain that logs experiences files those experiences in the same cabinets as the real ones. Art matters. Art is powerful. The pen is famously mightier than the sword.
Pretending is a creative act, and once something is created, it exists.
Now, this is not a stealth "ganking is bad" post. For one thing, there are enough reasons to do it that it hardly even makes sense to me to lump it all into one category (for example, freighter ganking is part of nullsec alliance warfare--they all use plausibly deniable alts to do logistics in high sec, so there's a whole sort of cloak-and-dagger logistics war to parallel the hot war in null space). For another, there are plenty of examples of destructive, or at least dysfunctional, behavior outside of, and also opposed to, the various ganking communities. No role in this game intrinsically justifies or damns you. But you should be aware of what you're doing, and you should respect its power.
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