Originally by: Arcane Azmadi

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Agreed. I've been saving this rant for a long time and this should be the right time to deploy it.

Griefers, especially in EVE, are genuinely bad human beings. I'm not talking about ingame, in real life they're nasty ****s who should be beaten to teach them a lesson about what pain really means. How do I rationalise this? Quite easily- they're deriving their pleasure solely from hurting others. We have a word for people like this: sadists. They enjoy hurting people. Maybe they're just forgetting that there are real humans on the other end of the internet- a lot of people come home after a hard day at work and take out their frustrations on video game targets. But I don't think so. Griefers like the example the OP quoted clearly derive their sick fun from the knowledge that they have upset someone, a real person.

Now I just KNOW some weaksauce griefer wimp is going to whine "it's just a game, we're not hurting anyone!" Bull****. Why do people play games? To have fun. What do griefers do? Set out to wreck someone else's fun. In a game like Team Fortress 2 or Starcraft or some other online game this can be annoying, but the greatest consequences this can have for their target is to mess up a game. Any consequences go no further than the end of the roundl and all the target has to do is leave and join a different server. EVE is a persistant-world MMO where losses are real and people have to actually WORK to get anywhere. When you spend ages saving up for a ship only to have some ****head griefer blow it up for lulz, you've just wasted all the effort you put into getting it. Wow. Great game. And remember, you're PAYING to play EVE, so when someone sets out to **** up your enjoyment of it, it IS a big deal.

And the bull**** about teaching noobs a lesson- if you actually cared about teaching them a lesson, you wouldn't do it by tormenting them. Weaksauce excuses.

Someone will also undoubtably whine "but the way I act ingame doesn't reflect how I act in real life!" More bull****. I subscribe to the GIFT (Greater Internet ****wad Theory) but follow it to the obvious next step that the way someone acts when anonymous reveals their TRUE character. If this is the way you act with no consequences, this is who you REALLY are, the way you act in daily life is a lie, enforced by social standards alone. Griefers are genuine real-life sadists who would be hurting real people for ****s and giggles if it wasn't illegal.

And to all you who are readying to shout "LOL TROLL" at me, either DISPROVE my points with a decent argument orjust shut the **** up.

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Originally by: Sol'Kanar

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I am the spermicidal cream to your semen of lies.

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Originally by: Nexus Kinnon

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Originally by: Arcane Azmadi

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Agreed. I've been saving this rant for a long time and this should be the right time to deploy it.

Griefers, especially in EVE, are genuinely bad human beings. I'm not talking about ingame, in real life they're nasty ****s who should be beaten to teach them a lesson about what pain really means. How do I rationalise this? Quite easily- they're deriving their pleasure solely from hurting others. We have a word for people like this: sadists. They enjoy hurting people. Maybe they're just forgetting that there are real humans on the other end of the internet- a lot of people come home after a hard day at work and take out their frustrations on video game targets. But I don't think so. Griefers like the example the OP quoted clearly derive their sick fun from the knowledge that they have upset someone, a real person.

Now I just KNOW some weaksauce griefer wimp is going to whine "it's just a game, we're not hurting anyone!" Bull****. Why do people play games? To have fun. What do griefers do? Set out to wreck someone else's fun. In a game like Team Fortress 2 or Starcraft or some other online game this can be annoying, but the greatest consequences this can have for their target is to mess up a game. Any consequences go no further than the end of the roundl and all the target has to do is leave and join a different server. EVE is a persistant-world MMO where losses are real and people have to actually WORK to get anywhere. When you spend ages saving up for a ship only to have some ****head griefer blow it up for lulz, you've just wasted all the effort you put into getting it. Wow. Great game. And remember, you're PAYING to play EVE, so when someone sets out to **** up your enjoyment of it, it IS a big deal.

And the bull**** about teaching noobs a lesson- if you actually cared about teaching them a lesson, you wouldn't do it by tormenting them. Weaksauce excuses.

Someone will also undoubtably whine "but the way I act ingame doesn't reflect how I act in real life!" More bull****. I subscribe to the GIFT (Greater Internet ****wad Theory) but follow it to the obvious next step that the way someone acts when anonymous reveals their TRUE character. If this is the way you act with no consequences, this is who you REALLY are, the way you act in daily life is a lie, enforced by social standards alone. Griefers are genuine real-life sadists who would be hurting real people for ****s and giggles if it wasn't illegal.

And to all you who are readying to shout "LOL TROLL" at me, either DISPROVE my points with a decent argument orjust shut the **** up.

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This post.

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Originally by: Sol'Kanar

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I am the spermicidal cream to your semen of lies.

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Originally by: Sol'Kanar

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I am the spermicidal cream to your semen of lies.

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Originally by: MeatSlab

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I kill noobs

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It is unseemly when a player becomes a self-congratulatory poastaholic

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Originally by: MeatSlab

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Edited by: MeatSlab on 23/03/2009 16:26:42

Originally by: Nexus Kinnon

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Originally by: MeatSlab

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I kill noobs

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stop spamming threads with this ****

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valid to this tread. mind your own beez wax

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It is unseemly when a player becomes a self-congratulatory poastaholic

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Originally by: Mickey Simon

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To be fair Nexus, he said valid to this tread, not this thread.
Don't be so hard on him imo.

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It is unseemly when a player becomes a self-congratulatory poastaholic

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