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Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game

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Re: Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game

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Post by JRKrause »

simmerup wrote: post #29
JRKrause wrote: post #25

While I haven't played EvE in many years, I still hold many fond memories of it back from my middle/high school years. Particularly when I chose to abandon the peaceful in-game lifestyle of building and selling ship to other players in favor of the pirate life. I did this by fitting a small and fast ship with close-range weaponry that allowed me to take engagements versus much larger ships whose weapons couldn't reli…

Well, at least you didn't take the ransom and kill them anyway

it was generally accepted that not honoring your ransoms was a poor choice for two reasons:

1) Word could get around and your 'customers' would stop paying the ransom. Bad for business since the remains of a destroyed ship could be worth substantially less than the ransom.

2) More alarmingly, you could attract the ire of 'honorable' pirates who might just be willing to take time out of their day to make an example out of you. This would likely involve a plurality of suitably armed starships visiting your local space at ...inopportune times.

Re: Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game

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Post by hef19898 »

simmerup wrote: post #29
JRKrause wrote: post #25

While I haven't played EvE in many years, I still hold many fond memories of it back from my middle/high school years. Particularly when I chose to abandon the peaceful in-game lifestyle of building and selling ship to other players in favor of the pirate life. I did this by fitting a small and fast ship with close-range weaponry that allowed me to take engagements versus much larger ships whose weapons couldn't reli…

Well, at least you didn't take the ransom and kill them anyway

That is something special about EVE here, it shows that yes it makes sense to honor your word as a pirate. Real life pirates did it, at least the successful ones. Non-AI ones do it. Usually AI pirates and muggers are the only ones stupid enough not to do just that.

Re: Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game

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Post by cellover »

JRKrause wrote: post #25

While I haven't played EvE in many years, I still hold many fond memories of it back from my middle/high school years. Particularly when I chose to abandon the peaceful in-game lifestyle of building and selling ship to other players in favor of the pirate life. I did this by fitting a small and fast ship with close-range weaponry that allowed me to take engagements versus much larger ships whose weapons couldn't reli…

I have a very fond memory of an event that occurred in the game while starting as a miner, this was a WOW moment for me, the adrenaline rush in Eve Online is real.

Found the article on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033028/http://ghost.pilg...

Re: Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game

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Post by revethrowaway »

ivoras wrote: post #4

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Amazing that they're downvoting you to oblivion.

The same people who caused this man to leave the game have been harassing someone IRL over their personal politics and sending letters to their employer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/vzv75n/you_guys_really...

Re: Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game

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Post by paulmd »

349ecb77cd62 wrote: post #30
libraryatnight wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a question. Is "woke" actually synonymous with cancel culture or "extremism"? because when I became aware of the term it just meant more or less socially aware, particularly to the struggles of minorities. Then I tuned out for awhile and when I noticed it again it seemed to be a pejorative people like Tucker Carlson use to drum up fear that anyone who said their friend was gay in the 90s is going to prison. Fo…

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> "we shouldn't give 11 year olds puberty blockers, wait until they are 18 to choose"

the puberty blocker exists solely to give them the time to choose, it's not the same thing as transitioning itself. Denying puberty blockers is letting nature force the choice.

Along with your suggestion that "3 year olds are being given genital surgery" as another commenter highlighted - like it or not you are repeating bigoted conservative talking points here and I think what you are seeing is not "I have to walk on eggshells to avoid upsetting people" but people's valid and legitimate negative reactions to bigoted opinions that you are espousing.

For the record, just because OAN is even more reactionary than you, doesn't make the things you're saying centrist, they're still reactionary and bigoted.

Re: Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game

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Post by revethrowaway »

tedivm wrote: post #11
ivoras wrote: post #4

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If by "woke style extremism" you mean "people upset that a guy who was banned from one of the most hard core trolling forums for repeated child pornography offenses was given a position of power in the organization" then you're right on the money.

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