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Arngorf
Minmatar
x13
When Fat Kids Attack
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:14:00 -
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God I HATE when people talk about it that way. I totally disagree. Its not just a game, nor is it my life. In my oppinion its a hobby. Like fishing, collecting specific objects, taking pictures of planes and so on. Its something I like to do, and which I put very much thought in, not to mention TIME.
Giving it a second thought I might be partially wrong, since others might not put that much into it, which brings me to the question.
What is this game to you/How much do you put into this game?
-Arngorf
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Admiral Pelleon
Caldari
White Shadow Imperium
Burning Horizons
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:18:00 -
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For me, EVE is a serious hobby that I've put much time into. Running a corporation full of mental patients takes dedication. 
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Jenny Spitfire
Caldari
SIVAKASI
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:44:00 -
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Supplementary job. 
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Technica impendi Caldari generis. Pax Caldaria!
Recruitment
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Lt Angus
Caldari
the united
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:46:00 -
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dang, calm down its just a game
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Paeniteo
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:47:00 -
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Eve is a game to me. 
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Rufus MacMaranth
Shadow Front
Lost Children of Eve
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:48:00 -
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It an extremely enjoyable, very diverting, absorbing GAME.
If it felt like a job I would quit.
Cheers,
Ruf.
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Malcanis
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Rufus MacMaranth
It an extremely enjoyable, very diverting, absorbing GAME.
If it felt like a job I would quit.
Cheers,
Ruf.
Some of it started to feel like a job. I quit doing that part.
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Kelron Queldine
Infinitus Odium
The Church.
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:52:00 -
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Can't it be a game and a hobby? The amount of time I spend playing, it's definitely a hobby, but unlike a lot of players I don't view my in game items as being on the same level as real life possessions. It's still a game, it doesn't hurt to lose.
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Dirk Magnum
Spearhead Endeavors
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:54:00 -
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Hobby is definitely the right word for playing Eve.
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2008.01.04 00:59:00 -
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Eve is a game. So is life.
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annoing
Amarr
MisFunk Inc.
Frontline.
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Posted - 2008.01.04 01:17:00 -
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Something to do when i'm not fishing, playing with my kids, playing with the wife  , doing the housework (yeah yeah, im a househusband, get over it), watching tele, watching films, eating or sleeping. Otherwise im always on.......
Originally by: Ian Holloway
Smooth as a cashmere codpiece
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Justinian Tormentus
TalCorp Enterprises
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Posted - 2008.01.04 01:22:00 -
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I view it as a game. To me if I'm not having fun I don't do it. Honestly to me EVE is having fun doing random things in internet spaceships when I have nothing better to do. Personally I can't see why people get so worked up when they lose a ship or something. When I lose an internet spaceship, I just get more internet spacebucks and get another internet spaceship. I have lost nothing real and most of the time had fun in the process of losing it. That philosophy is probably I'm poor, but I enjoy myself and that is what counts.
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Micheal Dietrich
Caldari
The Delta Source
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Posted - 2008.01.04 01:29:00 -
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I'll have to go with a game for 100 Alex.
In the summertime I'm hardly even around my computer let alone my house.
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Kherie Kali
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Posted - 2008.01.04 02:01:00 -
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Originally by: Adonis 4174
Eve is a game. So is life.
Too bad you won't get out of either alive... |
Lardarz B'stard
Amarr
Dark Knights of Deneb
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2008.01.04 02:10:00 -
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It's a hobby.
Like gardening, only with more pew pew.
Originally by: Kindakrof
there is no gravity in space
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Ursula LeGuinn
Versus Gloria Omnis
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Posted - 2008.01.04 02:11:00 -
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It's the only game in history* where you can fly beautiful space ships in a science fiction universe populated by thousands of other real people. It's also not shallow, nor easy, and is sandbox-y rather than quest-based.
*The only successful one that isn't Jumpgate.
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hired goon
Infinite Improbability Inc
Mostly Harmless
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Posted - 2008.01.04 02:13:00 -
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I remember a while ago when I was a bit of a pirate hater, and they'd all spit the old "it's just a game" line at me on the forums over and over. Then one day I created a thread asking peoples opinions on a reset of the entire game, and guess who were the first to vocalise their disapproval over the idea of losing all their 'hard work' and virtual, non-existant stuff? Heh, we really separated the men from the boys with that topic I can tell you.
As for me, I have to admit at one point I was massively obsessed. But nowadays I'm a bit more 'grown up'.
-omg-
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Pithecanthropus
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Posted - 2008.01.04 03:35:00 -
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Ummmm... it came in a box in the computer games aisle at Best Buy when I fist got Eve. Yes, it is a game... it is not a hobby. Simply because you devote your life and time to it, doesn't make it a hobby. Its still a game. It will always be a game. Why? ... because its not real. Its fake... its pixels and buttons and mouse clicks.
Coin collecting... thats a hobby. RC Cars... thats a hobby. Go to a hobby store... you'll see train sets, models, sports cards... all hobbies.
Eve... just a computer game. Unless you call watching TV a hobby, then be my guest and call playing video games a hobby. Are you one of those guys that actually thinks video games are sports too? Maybe because you can join the G4 Unreal tournament and win cash... or, oh boy Madden 2008.
I'll agree times have changed... being a kid now is all about your virtual fame. But, when you start to classify those things as 'hobbies' or 'sports' then I think you lose your touch with reality.
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Letava
Gallente
Mortis Angelus
The Church.
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Posted - 2008.01.04 03:41:00 -
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Originally by: Pithecanthropus
Ummmm... it came in a box in the computer games aisle at Best Buy when I fist got Eve. Yes, it is a game... it is not a hobby. Simply because you devote your life and time to it, doesn't make it a hobby. Its still a game. It will always be a game. Why? ... because its not real. Its fake... its pixels and buttons and mouse clicks.
Coin collecting... thats a hobby. RC Cars... thats a hobby. Go to a hobby store... you'll see train sets, models, sports cards... all hobbies.
Eve... just a computer game. Unless you call watching TV a hobby, then be my guest and call playing video games a hobby. Are you one of those guys that actually thinks video games are sports too? Maybe because you can join the G4 Unreal tournament and win cash... or, oh boy Madden 2008.
I'll agree times have changed... being a kid now is all about your virtual fame. But, when you start to classify those things as 'hobbies' or 'sports' then I think you lose your touch with reality.
How do you define a hobby, then? Spending a lot of time playing with model trains? I really don't see how that is any different from playing EVE or other computer games. I would say a hobby is anything you like to spend your free time doing for the purpose of entertainment.
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Arngorf
Minmatar
x13
When Fat Kids Attack
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Posted - 2008.01.04 17:27:00 -
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Originally by: Letava
How do you define a hobby, then? Spending a lot of time playing with model trains? I really don't see how that is any different from playing EVE or other computer games. I would say a hobby is anything you like to spend your free time doing for the purpose of entertainment.
That might actually be the correct answer. Where is the line between having fun aka "wasting time", and spending time on a hobby which somewhat seem to be more accepted amongst other people like non-players.
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Ace Garpy
Caldari
hirr
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2008.01.04 17:37:00 -
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The Oxford Dictionary says:
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hobby1
ò noun (pl. hobbies) 1 an activity followed regularly for pleasure.
nuff said
The Knight said - Oh that is an excellent story of payback, international romance, and James Bondery |
Janu Hull
Caldari
Terra Incognita
Dark Matter Coalition
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Posted - 2008.01.04 17:40:00 -
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EVE, and online gaming by extension, are how I network socially. People complain that I'm a shut in and never talk to anyone, yet I'm on voicechat with people from around the globe on a regular basis. I've got a CEO in Europe, a running buddy in Canada, and I've operations with people ranging from India, to Australia, to London and points west in the US.
Dating? SWG got me laid. 'Nuff said.
Gaming IS a lifestyle, much like putting on overpriced athletic wear for a sport I'll never play and howling at steroid abusing mutants on oversized televisions, while damaging my brain and liver...
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Zathi Shaitan
Minmatar
Illiteracy Combatants
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Posted - 2008.01.04 17:43:00 -
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Originally by: Arngorf
In my oppinion its a hobby. Like fishing, collecting specific objects, taking pictures of planes and so on.
What is this game to you/How much do you put into this game?
-Arngorf
"opinion".
I am the Mother Theresa of spellchecking, helping you poor souls out there.
Play less, learn to spell more.
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Swift Wind
6rasshopper Inc.
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Posted - 2008.01.04 17:49:00 -
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Never thought about it that way, but I would have to agree, IMO if you play for more than 6 months, most likely it has become more than a game, it has become a hobby.
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Sister Impotentata
Elite Angels Of Death
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Posted - 2008.01.04 18:17:00 -
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It's a bomb!
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Originally by: BB
Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!
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Maxpie
Cross Roads
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Posted - 2008.01.04 18:27:00 -
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When I dock in the station, get out of my pod and head to my quarters I like to log into what I call the "rl sim" wherein I have a character in a 21st century earth simulation. It's not that fun, but I consider it more of a game than a hobby.
He put... creatures... in our bodies... to control our minds. He made us... say lies... do things. |
Angel DeMorphis
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.01.04 18:30:00 -
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Originally by: Zathi Shaitan
Originally by: Arngorf
In my oppinion its a hobby. Like fishing, collecting specific objects, taking pictures of planes and so on.
What is this game to you/How much do you put into this game?
-Arngorf
"opinion".
I am the Mother Theresa of spellchecking, helping you poor souls out there.
Play less, learn to spell more.
Or you could just give people and their typos a break. When their whole post is misspelled, then you have something to talk about.
For me, it's a hobby. It's something I like to spend my free time doing. I like to build up this "fictional character". I looked for other web games, or whatever, that allowed me to do the same thing. A couple got close...
For those that say "It's not a hobby! Just a game you do for entertainment?" who here would call chess a hobby? But it's just a game! A game you can spend hours to years mastering. A game you can play on little pixels on your computer, or even just send through the mail. This game is over in a matter of minutes (hours, or even months, on mail games). But when it's over, what do you have? The board is reset, your accomplishment erased. Yeah, you could play in tournaments and get some fictional numbers to represent your rating...
Sound like a recent posters description of Eve? I just did a quick Google of "Chess Hobby" and found:
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1. Is doing the work fun? û The students who thinks that reading chess books, doing chess puzzles, or watching chess instructional videos is great fun and wants to do them as much as possible will not only improve more than those who do not, but also will continue to improve a lot longer.
2. Learns from Their Losses û The student who comes to me with a game score of his/her losses and asks me what they did wrong will do much better than one who either 1) hates losing, takes it personally and doesnÆt want to discuss their losses or 2) one who doesnÆt care about losing and doesnÆt mind losing the same way over and over again.
3. Chess is a High Priority Hobby û For all my students, chess is just a hobby. It takes a back place to schoolwork, work, religion, etc. However, where chess stands among the studentÆs other hobbies is a crucial factor. I would never tell a student or parent where to prioritize chess; however, I would be remiss to not reveal that all of my students who advanced quickly placed chess as a high priority hobby, if not #1.
Wow, that sounds a lot like Eve. So if chess can be a hobby, why can't Eve?
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Tortun Nahme
Minmatar
Heimatar Services Conglomerate
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Posted - 2008.01.04 18:33:00 -
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eve is just a distraction, the forums are a game
Originally by: Cecil Montague
They should change that warning on entering low sec to:
"Go read Crime and Punishment for a few days then come back."
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Angel DeMorphis
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.01.04 18:37:00 -
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Originally by: Tortun Nahme
eve is just a distraction, the forums are a game
Heh, there's more truth in that than I'd care to admit. :)
My sig taken from this site, so thoroughly explains the people I speak with on the forums |
Pwett
Minmatar
QUANT Corp.
QUANT Hegemony
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Posted - 2008.01.04 18:49:00 -
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Originally by: Admiral Pelleon
For me, EVE is a serious hobby that I've put much time into. Running a corporation full of mental patients takes dedication.
Just going to add corporation / alliance to this quote.
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Pwett
CEO, Founder, & Executor
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