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OfBalance
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Posted - 2012.03.30 04:11:00 -
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As far as the baser arguments went, he is correct in concluding tribalism blinds most of us as players to seeing the social lines as we cross them. Hence most EVE players without a metagaming agenda didn't bat an eyelash over Mittani's drunken gaff. On the other hand, you appropriately pointed out he was standing atop a great big pile of assumptions claiming that EVE was real and none of us can distinguish between the ruleset change in either reality.
Most psychologists are quite frank on the issue of whether or not people get off on the suffering of others and indeed the average person does to some degree or another. The gulf between in-game ganker and full-on sociopath, however is obviously extreme. You can't deny that there is no schadenfreude involved and no Id-service being done when we log in to massacre the space pixels of some other unfortunate player, especially not when we do it in the hopes of eliciting an authentically angry response. In the end though, the practice is simply an extension of trolling, and the ancient art of practical jokes.
We are genuinely amused by this game world and it's lack of a rigid set of rules, but much like the practical joker is an unlikely criminal, we have to accept that for the unfamiliar and uninitiated the practice of putting someone's hand in a glass of water while they sleep is going to be viewed as cruel and unnecessary by anyone attempting to couch morality in harmonious "societal," terms. Extrapolating the point, ie. "what if everyone did this?" Will always lend academics like Carter to completely miss the point (cheap amusement) and zero in on a perceived defect in this "tribe."
I'm also rather amused that he appears supportive of actual hackers who's griefing absolutely extends into "real life," but fears the moral decay brought on by similar activity in a virtual environment. Were there any hypocrisies worth harping on, that would have been the lynch pin for me.
tl;dr: We really are bastards who want to hurt other people's feelings, but he really offers nothing to support any of his further extrapolations and ends up making himself look absolutely foolish and not just a little bit mad. |
OfBalance
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Posted - 2012.03.30 04:42:00 -
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Chokichi Ozuwara wrote:I think CCP is carefully transforming the game away from bittervets and nullsec sociopaths into a more instanced game within a single shard.
It's smart, and it helps the game get bigger than people acting in a way which I cannot imagine is consistent with good mental health.
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OfBalance
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Posted - 2012.03.30 05:33:00 -
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Liang Nuren wrote:OfBalance, Trinkets - do you guys mind if I C/P your posts to responses to the blog article?
-Liang
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OfBalance
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Posted - 2012.03.30 05:35:00 -
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C Genix wrote:The concept of meta gaming denies all the BS CCP try to hide behind,
Obviously our poor head GM was very frustrated over this incident and tried to explain policy...
It just made CCP look twice as stupid IMO
Am I correct in recalling that you were the bitter newb who made an "i quit," post just today? |
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