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

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paulmd wrote: post #48
349ecb77cd62 wrote: post #30

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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 con…

>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.

Giving puberty blockers (steroids) to children cause irreversible developments (undersized genitalia, irreversible higher pitched voiced, etc. to males) and absolutely should not be given. Not allowing children to go through puberty is a crime against their humanity.

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

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Post by memish »

libraryatnight wrote: post #18
ivoras wrote: post #4

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

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Post by braingenious »

OOD wrote: post #77
braingenious wrote: post #54

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>did the woke people tarnish the word, or did opposing media re-define it? It’s the latter. “Woke” is mostly used nowadays as a pejorative by folks who are worried that their “tits or GTFO”-style post histories might actually have real consequences and are involved in a harried attempt to rewrite contemporary social mores in their favor. It is also used (in the US) by naive, misguided, and mostly older people that ar…

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

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Post by OOD »

carapace wrote: post #57
libraryatnight wrote: post #18

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

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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…

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Post by sascha_sl »

BizarroLand wrote: post #72
sascha_sl wrote: post #38

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According to urban legend, BoB once found the physical location of an enemy fleet commander and cut their power. Only a few years back, a director of CO2 got banned for threatening to cut off a hand of a diplomat that had taken most of their wallet. The Mittani himself, mentioned here, also almost got permanently banned for a encouraging the audience to tell a Goon victim to kill himself on the Alliance Panel at Fanf…

It makes sense, since it's not "real" that people would act in whatever way favors their own interests the most

I'm not sure why you'd say that when all of my examples where of situations in which it extended way too far into "real".

Quite frankly, CCP used to play really hard into the "EVE is real" and "harden the fuck up" trope[1], it's not too surprising some people take it too far.

[1]: Literally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgvM7av1o1Q

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Post by tedivm »

revethrowaway wrote: post #49
tedivm wrote: post #11

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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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It was literally in the article. Apparently I'm the only one in this thread who bothered to read it.

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

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Post by cestith »

OOD wrote: post #81
paulmd wrote: post #48

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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 con…

>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. Giving puberty blockers (steroids) to children cause irreversible developments (undersized genitalia, irreversible higher pitched voiced, etc. to males) and absolutely should not be given. Not allowing children to go through puberty is a crim…

Children go through puberty anywhere from 8 to 19. Generations ago, 16 to 18 was fairly common. Going through puberty late does not equal never going through puberty.

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

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Post by simmerup »

setr wrote: post #76
simmerup wrote: post #64

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By the time I started playing it was more common to ransom & kill than just to ransom. Repeat custom is a rarity in the pirate business

If everyone expects to be killed anyways, then why is anyone paying the ransom?

Mainly it was only panicking newbies who paid the ransom. Losing stuff in Eve hurts more than most games, so people react in true panic style fashion.

There were a few roleplay corps that built in-game reputations on taking ransoms etc seriously. I'm sure they had better results

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