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Utari Onzo
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
1716
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Posted - 2017.05.22 16:31:52 -
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In respect of the above post by Aria, I'll look to any reply to my post in that thread as well.
I suppose to bring things back on point I'll say I take polite and reasonable requests seriously too.
"Face the enemy as a solid wall
For faith is your armor
And through it, the enemy will find no breach
Wrap your arms around the enemy
For faith is your fire
And with it, burn away his evil"
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Halcyon Ember
Repracor Industries
335
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Posted - 2017.05.22 16:31:56 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote:Uh-- Miz, Arrendis?
Not that you apparently care a lot, but maybe you could take this discussion into the "Off Topic" thread? It seems to be a tangent to the original question, here, and I'd really like to see other people's answers. Maybe they're serious about being off topic? |
Tsao Aubbes
Crimson Serpent Syndicate Heiian Conglomerate
131
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Posted - 2017.05.22 16:46:38 -
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I try to take my corporation, my relationship and social interaction in general as seriouslly as I can. If I didn't, it would be awfully rude on my part..
Tressith Sefira > You don't understand. She IS the awkward.
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Templar Thal Vadam
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
108
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Posted - 2017.05.22 16:52:06 -
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I value honor, in both myself and when I see it in other people. My word is my bond, it always has been.
I value my faith, it gave me hope when I had none.
I value my family, because our name once meant something great, and it shall again.
I take people seriously when they know how to respect that which I value, and will afford them the same courtesy |
Shiran Mazaki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
9
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Posted - 2017.05.22 19:17:26 -
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My duty to Ishukone, the State and Ishuk Raata. In that order. |
Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
2393
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Posted - 2017.05.22 20:09:12 -
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I take my ****-posting very seriously...
A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
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Ria Nieyli
Amok. Goonswarm Federation
50650
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Posted - 2017.05.22 20:34:15 -
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That's an interesting question, and having my upbringing, or rather lack thereof I don't take much seriously yet. Slowly growing into it as I get older and meet more people. |
Aldrith Shutaq
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
2094
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Posted - 2017.05.22 21:53:12 -
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I take something seriously when I have the ability to change it.
I believe one of the main reasons you see so much flippancy on this board is because so many of the topics being discussed actually have no bearing on what is within most pilot's ability to influence. A debate degenerates into mocking rambles once the participants believe they cannot sway anyone to their cause. A thread about a war turns into a laughing insult exchange when neither side can resolve their differences in combat. Cutting remarks and cynical bitterness infects a discussion about New Eden politics when it is found that no one in government takes our ideas seriously.
For all of our vaunted skill and destructive potential, we really have little chance at changing the world around us. This realization causes a great deal of the jaded attitudes found here on the IGS, I believe.
There is, of course, also the limitations of this medium as well. The IGS is too public to disallow disruptive and uninvested voices from a particular topic, and so you have attention-seeking fools derailing things because they have nothing better to say. If you wish to keep a discussion on-track and productive, it should be limited to those who have both the will and ability to participate in it with maturity and purpose. Lots of gas-bags will spout sophistry in a thread they have no stake in simply because it keeps their tongues sharp. Like Arrendis.
Aldrith Ter'neth Shutaq Newelle
Fleet Captain of the Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade
Lord Consort of Lady Mitara Newelle, Champion of House Sarum and Holder of Damnidios Para'nashu
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Graelyn
Akagi Initiative Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
1065
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Posted - 2017.05.22 22:50:06 -
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Lord Shutaq understands the bigger picture, as usual.
Cardinal Graelyn
Imperial Liaison, I-RED
Amarr Loyalist of the Year - YC113
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Teinyhr
Ourumur
913
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Posted - 2017.05.22 23:30:15 -
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Damn. |
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Aldrith Shutaq
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
2103
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Posted - 2017.05.22 23:39:40 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote:Integrity. Insight. This tapestry of interactions and relations, woven among stars. (Thread count: absurd.)
Poetry. Emotion. "Being human." The humanity of even the cruelest and deadliest among us.
"We are not gods." The strangeness of our place in this world.
Civilization. Costs and benefits. The human animal. The Drifters.
The lies we tell ourselves, and each other. Ripples of interaction.
The state of my soul. The mark I leave on this world. Leaving a mark at all.
"I see every reason to doubt my own existence."
Connections with those around me, who touch my life, whose lives I touch.
Duty. Warmth and kindness. Home.
Misery, mine or others'. Love and heartache. Frailty. Understanding hard-won.
Humility, Moderation, Compassion, Curiosity.
Wisdom.
Lighting candles. Beautiful.
Aldrith Ter'neth Shutaq Newelle
Fleet Captain of the Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade
Lord Consort of Lady Mitara Newelle, Champion of House Sarum and Holder of Damnidios Para'nashu
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Deitra Vess
Non-Hostile Target
1905
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Posted - 2017.05.23 00:12:17 -
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lets see,
- my corp
- my republic
- my tribe
- myself
in that order. Though every one below it effects everything above it to some degree so, I guess technically I would take all of them seriously. Honorable mention to the enemies of those things, because if I didn't take them seriously they would undermine those that placed on my list. |
Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
2403
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Posted - 2017.05.23 01:28:14 -
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Seriously, the last time I took anything seriously on this board filled to the brim with unseriousness was when Mr. Tuulinen made a serious announcement about a serious emergency of his Arcology project.
Because far as I am concerned, this is serious enough to warrant serious action on my part while at the same time help the Clan make some ripples on the interstellar stage, which is also of serious benefit.
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Gaven Lok'ri
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
670
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Posted - 2017.05.23 02:51:17 -
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I think it is less a worry about derailment through inane comments that prevents more serious posts here, and more a sense that there is no audience for important things here.
There is simply less room for individual corporate declarations mattering in the context of the CEWPA war. When PIE or EM declared war in peacetime, that was a decision that required justification. Now that we are at war officially, the agency of the decision of who to oppose belongs to higher authorities, and IGS loses importance as a place for announcing those decisions.
This remains true so long as the loyalists stay loyal to their respective states. Once groups go rogue, the IGS has a purpose again, as we are seeing with the Sani Sabik popping up left and right.
That all said, I think the idea that things were significantly a decade ago has more to do with selective memory than reality. Inanity was the norm then as well, but the few important discussions that occurred stand out in memory more than the inanity does.
To answer the question though: I take everything to do with Amarr and the Praetoria seriously. And I especially take my duty as a Holder of the Emperor Family seriously. It is my absolute duty to defend those of the Faith who have less power than I do. I also take the lives of the crews and civilians lost in these conflicts as a vitally serious issue, something I notice that many capsuleers ignore. To me, ISK is far less important than lives.
Admiral of the Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
Divine Commodore 24th Imperial Crusade
Holder. Vassal of the Emperor Family
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Elsebeth Rhiannon
SoE Roughriders Electus Matari
979
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Posted - 2017.05.23 05:01:03 -
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With respect to Egivand, the original question was not what do you take seriously on the IGS. |
Pieter Tuulinen
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd. Arataka Research Consortium
7678
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Posted - 2017.05.23 06:10:02 -
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Anything that affects me and mine, then.
What else can we take seriously?
For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead
in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a
hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
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ValentinaDLM
Remember The Fallen. Atlas. Alliance
949
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Posted - 2017.05.23 09:57:50 -
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Simple, I take those who accept me seriously, and do everything in my power to protect them, help them grow, love them, and share in that camaraderie.
Sure I have rationalizations and justifications till the end of the universe, but I think I am self aware enough to see that ultimately they pale to that single consideration. From a community of pilots to a Nation, my level of seriousness and commitment is derivative of how I feel about how they feel about me. Which is why, I might have been very serious about PYRE but, the Empire itself was something I tried hard to be serious about and never really could be, it is why I found my home with the Tribes and why dogma has never really been what I lived for. |
Che Biko
Alexylva Paradox
1010
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Posted - 2017.05.23 17:04:00 -
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Quote:[..] no one in government takes our ideas seriously. This is false, but, as some involved in the off-topic discussion in the thread where I took this quote from have written, capsuleers of note may have little reason to post on the IGS, and I'd say the same applies to people in government, even if they discuss our ideas internally, and seriously.
Coordination Channel for Consolidated Space Rescue Cooperation
Open Letter to the Aidonis Foundation Directorate
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MantelGlobalIndustries
Crimson Serpent Syndicate Heiian Conglomerate
54
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Posted - 2017.05.23 22:54:09 -
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Interesting question, Captain Rhiannon. I shall oblige you with an answer.
First and foremost, from a professional standpoint, any officer worth their salt should consider the welfare of their crew, their subordinates and their corporation slash country as a top priority. One's duty to their state and accompanying nation is also of paramount importance. Adhering to a professional code of conduct and honour when engaged in battle is another, such as not deliberately targeting lifeboats and treating the vanquished captured by oneself with dignity, rather than those who would disgrace themselves by forgoing that.
Personally, those that are close, or become close over time, are those that I develop a strong attachment to and will defend until the last joule of energy leaves my body. Whether they are members of my family, my comrades on the field of battle, those that are my partners romantically, it matters not whom. If I consider them my own, I will not waver in my responsibilities to them.
The lines and boundaries of professional and personal can be blurred of course, and it is important that in some instances it is best to keep them separate for reasons that I am sure you would understand. Other than what I have mentioned, there are a few other things.
Did I mention Cormorant-class destroyers? My fondness for them is pretty serious. Perhaps bordering on obsession, much to the consternation of many a Fleet Commander in the State Protectorate.
Edward H. Adams
Commander
Heiian Conglomerate
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Steffanie Saissore
Tyrathlion Interstellar Rote Kapelle
501
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Posted - 2017.05.24 08:10:13 -
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I take my responsibility to my ship and crew serious as well as my relationships with others seriously.
We travel in the dark of the new moon,
A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
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Lo Kuei-Sen
Signal Cartel EvE-Scout Enclave
1
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Posted - 2017.05.24 13:26:11 -
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My spirituality and cause, to seek enlightenment through the pursuit of knowledge. To help those who have become lost. Don't mistake me for some kind of devout, I'm just a follower of the teachings of Adakul of a new age, and Ida.
Eastern winds. |
Luna Hanaya
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
265
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Posted - 2017.05.25 18:21:24 -
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I try to take everything seriously. Politics, questions of Faith, news, philosophy - even if I don't understand a lot about it. But I do try to make sure that all my replies are quite serious as well.
I despise these clowns who use IGS for their amusement, who can talk only about pleasures and make jokes about other people. And I mean it, I really despise those, who make jokes on other's extent. A good, healthy joke is when you joke about yourself or about situation, and if you joke about others - you must make sure it isn't harmful.
Sometimes IGS starts to look like a bunch of apes, who punch each other with their half-witted jokes and innuendos and laugh like horses about their own replies.
The God sees everything and everyone. And I ask you - is to look at yourselves and at what are you doing. Quite a lot of people come to IGS to talk about serious business. But greater amount of folk just disrupts everything by their lack of seriousness.
I will ask you for one more thing: if you can't reply seriously please don't post anything. Don't be one of "them".
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Muo Chuan Guo
Crielere Cloaking Technologies
2
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Posted - 2017.05.25 18:47:16 -
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Although humour is welcome in my eyes, I must agree, Luna Hanaya. We are beings with on going power and influence and we must take our place in society as such.
I myself take culture seriously, and embracing the culture of others. I am fortunate that my work as a courier - however simple or pointless some might see it, helps me to embrace this passion. |
Teinyhr
Ourumur
915
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Posted - 2017.05.25 20:08:27 -
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I seriously despise people with sticks up their butt. |
Halcyon Ember
Repracor Industries
366
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Posted - 2017.05.25 20:37:02 -
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Teinyhr wrote:I seriously despise people with sticks up their butt. Sounds painful |
Davlos
Coreli Corporation Mercenary Coalition
118
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Posted - 2017.05.25 21:52:27 -
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ISK. |
AEther Galatia
Celestial Eternity
2
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Posted - 2017.05.26 15:32:47 -
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Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote:Hello, all capsuleers crazy enough to still read IGS.
Having been otherwise engaged for a couple of years and now having come fully back, I have noticed a significant shift in how the public Summits of capsuleers are these days: it has become much harder to see people take anything seriously.
Sure, there were always nutcases and jokes and shady associations and innuendo and what have you.
But it seems that these days there is increasingly a public competition of who makes the best quip or has the fanciest dress or shows the least passion for their fights. The undercurrent of life and death is limited to Sabik competing about who is most Sabik (amusing at first but gets old fast, sorry) and Diana Kim hating the Federation (at least some things never change).
So, in this thread, I dare you to tell me what you take seriously.
You can choose to interpret that any way you like, but if you have difficulty, here's some questions to help you to find the answer: What do you wake up for in the morning? What still makes you cry? What would you kill for? Who would you save or kill, if you could? What do you most regret having failed at? What still makes you proud to remember?
Coffee. If only I could drink some. |
Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Kurilaivonen
2142
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Posted - 2017.05.27 17:33:36 -
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I have to admit to a bit of a cold sweat while considering the question posed.
However. The things I take seriously:
Perfecting my disco dancing skills with the members of my personal protection team. Because after years of tearing up the battlefield being able to tear up the dance floor and get down on a Saturday night is a welcome reprieve.
Managing my rare salt collection from across the cluster. Still looking to acquire some pink salt from the mountains on Ardishapur Prime.
Reading. It does not matter too much what it is, whether hardboiled detective stories, poetry, or Amarrian scripture. Mostly detective stories.
Solitude at home and the time to just appreciate the valley outside or to walk alone in the forest to think to myself.
Falconry and rearing my small coterie of pyre falcons and kestrels.
Dinner with old comrades in the Home Guard to talk about the Good Old Days over vodka and cigars.
Trying to learn how to use my empathy not as a tool to get into people's heads all the better so I can determine where to stick the (metaphorical) knife but rather to reserve it for those I do care about.
Curbing my ambitions, but not my enthusiasm.
Understanding my capability for personal cruelty and violence should not come to define me. The knowledge I am able to be cruel and violent will always give me the confidence of being dangerous - for I have inflicted that danger upon countless many - but more dignified that cruelty is a choice and not for its own sake.
Smashed avocado on toast.
Trying to view my time in the pod and the death and violence that often serves as corollary to it less as my profession and more... as a hobby, I suppose?
Mathematics. Even if at times it makes me uncertain what is real or surreal anymore and I have to remark to myself: Well, wasn't that a fun game to play.
Exploring the doubts I have about my own Caldari consequentialist and legalist philosophical outlooks.
Baselining under different names around the State to experience the pleasure of speaking with strangers, mingling among my own people, and just to eat some hot noodles while standing on the street.
There are more than a few things I take seriously, or to read into the subtext of the question posed, find meaningful but increasingly I find myself drawn back to life outside the pod. If only because I feel that the life I had led within hydrostatic fluid was much like trying to erect a monument to self which in the end -- much like forgotten Kings -- would be dust eventually. The capsule taught me beauty and truth in its own way, but I should also seek it elsewhere. For in the nominal heights in which I existed I forgot the small things, and sometimes... well, just existing is the greatest gift of all and everything else is just a bonus. Especially at times those small things. It's just a matter of finding them.
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
3214
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Posted - 2017.05.28 15:24:55 -
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Gallente menace.
But in reality - everything. Well, everything except some minor exceptions, so for me the question should be better turned towards what I don't take seriously, since it will be way more easier to list. Though I won't do this, I'll just bring couple small examples of some annoying minorities:
I don't take seriously posters, who can't back their words with actions. Also I don't take seriously liars and slanderers. And I don't take seriously posters who ignore verifiable facts.
Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.
In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.
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Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
2414
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Posted - 2017.05.28 18:44:00 -
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Diana Kim wrote: And I don't take seriously posters who ignore verifiable facts.
It's good you don't take yourself too seriously...
A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
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