No one knows because there isn't anything but EVE.


Notice how i am online and not up to my nuts in poon on valentines day, Sniff


I need to go to fanfest where i can fit in with like minded people

Not really. But I find that other people aren't as excited about it as I am and I get the feeling they regret having asked me about it when I start trying to explain it to them. I can see their eyes glaze over. So now I say "oh it's just a multiplayer game".

Nah, I'm pretty much an open book. My coworkers all talk about the games they're playing and I talk about Eve, Rift, SWTOR, Skyrim, whatever it is I'm playing lately. We usually share PVP video links with each other too.

-Liang

Would be surprised if you spent enough time off the forums to actualy play any games let alone talk about them lol.

Yeah I'm pretty open about it.

My boss is the only one talks smack about it, he's an oversized child with this huge butthead looking head. He claims all I do is play Eve all day at work. Come on these PC have enough trouble running solitary. He's always asking, "did you get that mothership yet, how is your space base". Or telling people Ryan plays spaceships on the computer all day. I just ask him how it's different than the fantacy sports he does all day, at least I'm not fantasizing about men in tights.

A post rife with the terms of cultural enslavement. I mean, we have a gaming population that brims with arrogance borne of an impression all are independently thinking, and blatantly free-will weilding paragons of individuality....hiding the fact they play EVE...

Hide from whom? The first obvious question - what sort of person has others around them from whom they must hide things? Very strange.

Game "addiction" - something about which I've written extensively (interviewing people in the field of addictive behavior), the professionals in that field reply, "You're kidding, right?"

"Your free, recreational time..." That one got me. It's like someone speaking from inside a zoo cage. So....your time is so preoccupied with the demands of your culture, you're only allowed so much time as "free"? You get to recreate? What is it you're recreating when you do this? Yourself? Even stranger.

The "stupid [im]mature" part speaks for itself. Are you addressing stupid, immature people with your adult questions? Makes one wonder what sort of answer you expect. "Der...yeah. I hide playing EVE with my beat-off magazines."

But...you've been there. You've actually been ashamed to play games past 20 years old? Then...you got over it by becoming insensitive...? (I won't try to parse that pretzel logic.)

Einstein himself said one of the qualities of intelligent people is their understanding of the need to play games.

-8/10 for just plain idiocy on the hoof. (+2 for the effort to cloak the post in a semblence of objective insight.)

Hell no, everyone I know know's i'm obsessed with 'that spaceship game'. It's just easier.

...but for clarification, yes I was silent about EVE as a hobby, because you get weird looks, because people put you in the nerd category, because computergaming is still not accepted as a serious hobby for adults, if anybody of you over 30 never got a weird look when he said he plays computergames you can throw the first stone :)....

EVE isn't really a game, exactly.

I think it's a project jointly funded by governments across the world to safely channel the destructive behaviors of people suffering from various anti-social personality disorders.

So yes, I'd rather not tell people I play this "game" for fun. :-)

Seriously though, I never mention this or any of the games I play to my non-gamer friends. They don't ask. I don't tell.

Yeah, but....I think you miss Serene's point, and you further do what she's pointed-out. Who cares if people give you weird looks? They're weird people. What other looks do you expect? OR, do you seek their approval?

"...people put you in the nerd catagory...." WHO CARES about people who catagorize people? They're fools! Or, do you seek THEIR approval TOO?

I'm six-foot five, I weigh an athletic 225 pounds. Anyone gives ME a weird look...well, let's just say they don't dare. But, again, you seem to think this society and their reaction to you should govern your decisions about life, and that's just a **** poor shame.

"...not accepted as a serious hobby for adults..." I just goes ON and ON...so she's right - cultural enslavement.

I don't have to cast a stone at you. You're doing alright on your own.

signed

An unapologitic does-what-he-wants and screw you type person

What addiction

I don't have an EVE addiction but I have an unhealthy obsession with pissing off gamers in their forums.

Seriously, it's just too easy, the moment you mention a game being broken SOMEONE is going to throw a hissy fit because they're in denial they're wasting their time on the game staring at fittings and spreadsheets all day or getting more exp for that ability they want so badly.

If you want to work, go and get a job, stop trying to ruin games for everyone else.

It is your incompetence about the game you play that pisses people off. Not the fact that the game is broken. Most games are somewhat broken and EVE is not an exception. However, it is not broken the way you see it.

Oh EVE :o Way too addictive, I wouldn't dare to try, it would suck me in completely".

But non of the people so far actually "get it". They say its to difficult to start with :(

No


I don't need to play eve, I can quit any time I want!

See you in a few months <3

Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
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Nerd and Proud!

I have an Eve-related license plate on my car.

Beyond that-- no one I hang out with even knows what an MMO is, much less any specific one.............

I used to tell all my friends about my Eve exploits and actively advertise Eve, but I only ever got a few people to try it, and most didn't stick with it.

Their reasoning? They apparently "have a life".

Nonsense. I don't see how its more fun to go out to the bar and get drunk when you can play eve and go on a drunkroam!

-Liang

I have an Eve-related license plate on my car.

Would you hire such a guy?

I think it's something about how the former can get you laid or something, while the latter can just end with a Thorax blowing up in your face.

IN-MATURE

Hell yes. If you can herd cats in a video game where nobody is really accountable for anything, then you will definitely be able to manage employees in the real world -- where consequences matter.

Video games do have a certain stigma though, so there may be some employers that react to a game being mentioned with a resounding "nopenopenope". If you're wondering whether to mention Eve in an interview, I would keep it to myself unless the interviewer asks something about "experience in leadership", particularly if he's asking about it in context of leisure activities.

Not really. But I find that other people aren't as excited about it as I am and I get the feeling they regret having asked me about it when I start trying to explain it to them. I can see their eyes glaze over. So now I say "oh it's just a multiplayer game".

... friends, class mates, colleagues, beau or spouse...

You cannot control how people perceive you

Yes you can you are just not hitting them hard/long enough.

lol....I agree with you that yes you CAN control what people think of you. It is called perception management.

It is not what you say (or do) that defines you....but how you say it ( or how you do it).

lol....I agree with you that yes you CAN control what people think of you. It is called perception management.

It is not what you say (or do) that defines you....but how you say it ( or how you do it).

Let the necromancy begin!

If people can't accept you for who you are you punch them in the balls.

(I'll use this opportunity to tell everyone that raising the dead en masse will be frowned upon. There is no place for necromancy in this game.)

If people can't accept you for who you are you punch them in the balls.

ibtl?




This reminds me of a story. I got punched there in a mosh pit, I elbowed the guy so hard I shattered my elbow.
So bad in fact, Ive had three surgeries on the elbow, one on the shoulder and Ill be having the radial head in that elbow excised soon.

(I'll use this opportunity to tell everyone that raising the dead en masse will be frowned upon. There is no place for necromancy in this game.)

Karma, aint it a MOTERF*CKER?

No...it just happens on a daily basis through cloning.

grownups

If people can't accept you for who you are you punch them in the balls.

You might have a problem with women who do not accept you for who you are.

While drunk on a staff night out i gave a 10 min rant on how epic this game is, I explained the sand box and gave examples of what can be done.

I regret doing this.. normal people do understand internet space ships. Ill never speak of eve in real life again.

My boss now calls me space ship boy

Let me specify my question, as I am not talking about actively hiding it, more about being silent about it. EVE is a hobby, on all accounts, for some people a serious hobby, for some not. For some people it is a job :). So do you talk about this hobby, like you would about other hobby's with your friends, class mates, colleagues, girlfriend or wife...

I am not ashamed of it. And I certainly do not try and hide it. It is a hobby, one that I take very seriously. I spend on average between 50-60 hours a week playing it. The important thing for me is to balance it out with staying in shape. So, 3 times I week I go to the gym for an hour at a time working out my frustrations.

Hmm...so, 60 hours/week of computer gaming vs. 3 hours a week on the treadmill at the gym is balance?

You might have a problem with women who do not accept you for who you are.

This guy didn't





ps.I do not actually promote or condone this course of action though admittedly I did laugh.

Well to be fair the ISK/hr from grinding the treadmill is pretty bad

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I am not ashamed of it. And I certainly do not try and hide it. It is a hobby, one that I take very seriously. I spend on average between 50-60 hours a week playing it. The important thing for me is to balance it out with staying in shape. So, 3 times I week I go to the gym for an hour at a time working out my frustrations.