@Gibbeynator He was on MLP.
As the lingo goes, 'inb4 Bronies complaining about not mentioning Discord' ;-)

Sounds like the Mechwarrior 4 dumbed down design system. :-/ I'd rather have something like MechWarrior 3 that let you design the thing from the chassis up. Granted, going for the MW4/Armored Core type system obviously makes it easier to to the graphics...

Heh. I think it's pretty much traditional by now for Blizzard to do far too good a job on their AFD offerings, and end up with things people actually very much want. I know people who would kill, or at least maim, for one of those Zergotchi authenticators. And in a wonderful case of irony, as I was looking at the main page, the Mists of Pandaren banner was running along the top. :-)

@TerilynnS I can't stand the guy, myself. First he guilt-trips you into fixing his broken down ship for him instead of doing it himself. And then he acts like a total *jerk* in the Borg conference. And then after *that* he's completely and utterly useless in the fight to escape (the other guy's a desk-jockey, what's *your* excuse, Shon?). The next time you see him, he continues to be useless, getting his ship blown out from under him without doing much of anything other than being a punching bag against a fleet of a size you could take on by *yourself* in other missions. And then in the final big battle, he either once again shows up and does nothing much useful (The generic ships that were already there do more against the enemy than either the Enterprise-F or the Defiant), but at least once he couldn't be bothered to show up at *all*, causing the mission to not end despite all of the enemies having been destroyed. This is the guy they want running the new flagship of Starfleet? He makes the Deckers look good. Keep in mind that through all of this garbage, he's a Captain--I'm a Rear Admiral. Frankly, I want to rip the stripes off of his uniform and punt him down the hall--preferably into the airlock. Make *him* go do the asteroid mining...

"I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with scamming and ganking players, and it's even OK to show tearful evemails to a crowd of Fanfest attendees. That's part of EVE; many players accept it when we log in, and some people get a laugh out of it. It doesn't matter whether the player in question talks about a divorce or appears to be depressed; it's still a normal part of the game."

This...is the attitude of someone attempting to *defend* the game. And precisely why I'd not touch that game with a 10-meter cattleprod, and suggest psychatric evaluation for the participants. *Including* Mr. Drain, if he honestly things that sort of thing is right. And he wonders why Eve has the reputation it has, if even those championing it think this sort of behavior is okay.

Lesson: Unless you're looking the other person in the face or otherwise know them personally, this whole in-game vs. out-of-game distinction is complete BS. All you know of them is what you're seeing of them in-game. And if that's the way you're going to treat someone who hasn't acted in a way warranting that response...then I'd just as soon see you kept away from society, thank you.

@PhelimReagh Exactly. And even if he *is* genuine...the level of paranoia and distrust that's there simply because of the Goon's activities and social engineering means the Goons still win. Heh--now there's a slogan for Eve, 'The War on Goonism'.

@VikingGamer Actually, they shouldn't be banned from Eve--in fact, exactly the opposite..the players should be freely allowed to play Eve, but be blacklisted from playing other MMOs. Why would you push the inmates out of the asylum, after all?

@StClair Pretty much! While, technically speaking Alex isn't *himself* a cyber-bully, he did incite others to be. Then again...I'm not too sure about what to think about the Goons sometime. You have some of them that do good things, such as the great job at GCCX subtitling...and then there's the stories I keep seeing about the Eve types, which makes them definitely shallow enough that even if the guy actually *did* commit suicide as a result of their actions instead of it being just dramatic hyperbole, they'd still be sitting around patting themselves on the back and laughing about it. :-/
Granted, a good portion of this is possibly person/persona split. It's quite likely that a lot of these people acting like total a**holes in the game could still be quite nice people offline--rather than ones where you'd want to know where the nearest security officer is if you ran into them at a convention...

...Eve isn't full of sociopaths and griefers? Have you read the Eve articles on Massively, RPS, and similar sites at all, showing not only the amount of it that goes on in-game, but that the players take out-of-game measures most politely known as 'social engineering' and other uses of real-life information? From what I can tell, the game outside the starting protected zone is nearly entirely *based* around this sort of stuff. Not to mention that the game explicitly allows other players to steal money you've put into the game (see the various PLEX robberies)...my only wish is that things could be set up so that if you play Eve it's the *only* game you can play, so as to keep the loonies properly in the asylum instead of spreading this stuff elsewhere. :-/

It all sounds great...except for the bit about 'Meeting the Enterprise-F crew'. Unless it lets us punch that annoying Shon in the face like he deserves. Or shoot him.