Abulurd Boniface
United Tritanium Forge
Ishukone Drug and Research Utilization Group
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Posted - 2012.04.06 05:54:00 -
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I hope CCP keeps these thread logs for future reference. They will be invaluable to future sociologists as they research the Emergence of Society and the Discovery of its Boundaries in Virtual Communities at the Start of the 3d Millennium.
The threadnaughts generated by this one single drunken comment and the spill over in different media is a clear indicator of the importance that virtual worlds have in our lives and EVE Online, for us, in particular. It shows that we care about what the boundaries, and consequences, should be for emergent behavior in a virtual world. This is the meta game of the meta game.
The Mittani demonstrates the significance of EVE Online in our lives and how much we care about what goes on in and around the sandbox. For that reason alone CCP should make him an honorary citizen.
Mittens is EVE Online done right. He has offered an apology, that's all he should have done. The guy apparently lost 23 (really?) Mackinaws. So, either he doesn't care about losing ships or he's an idiot for insisting to be a target to people whom he knows are not going to let up. Space isn't big enough to move away from the guys coming after you?
Either way, and I've said it before, it's a bad decision to come into the sandbox while being depressed. It's a spaceships-on-the-internet game, it's not a mental health clinic. Stay away already.
What Mitten's drunk comment has shown especially clearly, is how people will use fake outrage over someone else's perceived hurt to further their own agenda. I'm careful about losing control of my mental capacities in the company of people I don't know, for precisely the reasons that we see unfold here, I have far less respect for those who rejoice at finally having the opportunity to stab the person [and his wife, and his dog] personally only for the political expediency of the day.
Don't bring the tiny violin to tell us how bad the pain emerging from your anal cavity hurts over what some guy said when he was drunk. Your faux rage is worse because you're not even drunk when you're doing it. |