Comments on: How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways… http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219 khanid pirate Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:07:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Zarquon http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219&cpage=2#comment-1603 Zarquon Wed, 19 May 2010 15:23:38 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#comment-1603 Wow... what a load of self-justification for being a bully. Carebear2k has it right -- for some of us, our lives are damn busy and we just want a chance to relax, to build some stuff, or maybe run the markets and play tycoon. If you want to PVP, then by all means go to 0.0 and have at. Lots of folks who are looking for the same sort of thing for you to go play with. Hell, throw out a can and offer a challenge and have at. Hunting down someone in a belt who is just trying to relax and screwing with him is just picking on someone you know (or at least think) will not fight back so you can screw up their day and thus feel good about yourself. I suspect there is a fair amount of "my life sucks so I will make your life suck" involved. Most people who are a**holes on the Internet do it because they get crapped on by life and use the Internet to attack someone else with no fear of retribution so they can feel significant. It certainly sounds like you fall into that category. I think the person you hate most is yourself. Wow… what a load of self-justification for being a bully.

Carebear2k has it right — for some of us, our lives are damn busy and we just want a chance to relax, to build some stuff, or maybe run the markets and play tycoon.

If you want to PVP, then by all means go to 0.0 and have at. Lots of folks who are looking for the same sort of thing for you to go play with. Hell, throw out a can and offer a challenge and have at.

Hunting down someone in a belt who is just trying to relax and screwing with him is just picking on someone you know (or at least think) will not fight back so you can screw up their day and thus feel good about yourself. I suspect there is a fair amount of "my life sucks so I will make your life suck" involved.

Most people who are a**holes on the Internet do it because they get crapped on by life and use the Internet to attack someone else with no fear of retribution so they can feel significant. It certainly sounds like you fall into that category.

I think the person you hate most is yourself.

]]> By: Eucleides http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219&cpage=2#comment-776 Eucleides Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:00:39 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#comment-776 Oh man, Hel, nice read mate! *sigh* I'd call myself a carebear at the moment. My old corp did nullsec and FW, but i got bored cuz I don't have the best of skills for pvp and just kept running around in frigs. However, I am actually getting REALLY pumped for when I get back into the game (taking hiatuses during the school years). Come May, I'll do a little missioning, train skills up, then go try some lo-sec pirating. There's always that initial draw-back when you lose a ship of "Dammit! I'm dead!" but you get over it. Move on, and go back to doing your thing. The adrenaline rush when PvPing, and how tight-knit lo-sec-ers seem to be, is why I want to try again. If you're ever looking for recruits, I'd be happy to join, get some pointers maybe. Keep it up, mate! Fly safe!(or not...your choice i guess :P) Oh man, Hel, nice read mate! *sigh* I'd call myself a carebear at the moment. My old corp did nullsec and FW, but i got bored cuz I don't have the best of skills for pvp and just kept running around in frigs. However, I am actually getting REALLY pumped for when I get back into the game (taking hiatuses during the school years). Come May, I'll do a little missioning, train skills up, then go try some lo-sec pirating. There's always that initial draw-back when you lose a ship of "Dammit! I'm dead!" but you get over it. Move on, and go back to doing your thing. The adrenaline rush when PvPing, and how tight-knit lo-sec-ers seem to be, is why I want to try again. If you're ever looking for recruits, I'd be happy to join, get some pointers maybe.
Keep it up, mate! Fly safe!(or not…your choice i guess :P )

]]> By: Freightergeddon http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219&cpage=2#comment-652 Freightergeddon Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:26:23 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#comment-652 <i>“Hey helicity do freightergeddon next!”</i> Freightergeddon was a scam, but the tears I got from it because it would "[disrupt non-carebears]" were golden. “Hey helicity do freightergeddon next!”

Freightergeddon was a scam, but the tears I got from it because it would "[disrupt non-carebears]" were golden.

]]> By: Divaere Frenian http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219&cpage=2#comment-603 Divaere Frenian Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:40:16 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#comment-603 H: How fitting. Last night I shot a coercer ratting in low sec. This is the PC I got (censorship is mine) Him: You're a f-ing a-hole Him: WTF do you think you are doing?!?!?!?!?! Me: Shooting your ship? Him: You’re a c-word Him: Don’t worry six low sec ships are coming your way Him: You’re a pr**k Later, a mate of mine and I engage a flashy red Ranis and my mate melts. He gives many GFs in local, and we proceed to then setup a roam with said flashy red for tonight, becacuse we had so much fun getting blown up by him. So a real example of the bizarre dichotomy you're discussing above. H:
How fitting. Last night I shot a coercer ratting in low sec. This is the PC I got (censorship is mine)
Him: You're a f-ing a-hole
Him: WTF do you think you are doing?!?!?!?!?!
Me: Shooting your ship?
Him: You’re a c-word
Him: Don’t worry six low sec ships are coming your way
Him: You’re a pr**k

Later, a mate of mine and I engage a flashy red Ranis and my mate melts. He gives many GFs in local, and we proceed to then setup a roam with said flashy red for tonight, becacuse we had so much fun getting blown up by him.

So a real example of the bizarre dichotomy you're discussing above.

]]> By: Bitlebrow http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219&cpage=2#comment-600 Bitlebrow Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:43:51 +0000 http://www.machine9.net/blog/?p=219#comment-600 Brilliant. :) Brilliant. :)

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