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It’s funny that he’s complaining about his smears against personal life when in one of GoonSwarms conflicts with Band of Brothers they pioneered mocking the BoB leader for being a repairman irl

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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 Fanfest.[1] So it's pretty rich of him to complain about toxicity in the game.

It's not a very friendly game.

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

It's a very unfriendly game which really teaches you to be the type of cut-throat that doesn't set you up well for real life.

I wish I realised that earlier to be honest

Yeah, I liked the idea of the game and played it for a bit when I realized that the idea of "don't trust anyone ever" was exhausting for me.

Absolutely. There's a reason people call pushing the delete button on your profile and biomassing your capsuleer "Winning EVE."

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

Sorry, I should have been more clear that I was speaking as the devil's advocate, in hopes that it would shine some light on the mindset of people like that.

I played Rust for a while and I still keenly remember the feeling of outrage and betrayal that the fort that I had spent nearly an hour on getting raided while I was logged out. It was a lark for the people to pop in and pillage my supplies but for me it was just as frustrating as if my real property had been stolen.

I mean the subreddit has for years been taken over by neo conservatives that basically use it as a means for testing how propaganda works.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nazimadakli/status/14190434038919...

Hypocrisy is a way of life, if not a requirement, as far as EVE politics go.

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