Friday, January 17, 2014

Children of the Code

In the 1994 classic film "Forrest Gump", the title character observes that life is like a pod killmail: you never know what you're gonna get. The same holds true for miner tears. You can keep collecting decent tears for a while, and then suddenly--BAM!--you get a nice, long carebear rant.


Agent Dreadchain received a normal-length EVEmail from a carebear who was upset about reaping the whirlwind for his crimes against the Code. The carebear's name was Fantic Nightstalk. It just sounds like the name of a bot-aspirant who has more tears to give, doesn't it? So Dreadchain pressed on. And he kept racking up tearmails.


Dreadchain decided to make one last appeal to Fantic's common sense. He linked Fantic to one of my Manifestos about the highsec miner problem. (All such essays are available on the Links page.) Either Fantic would become an Agent of the New Order, or he would reply with a rant.


...It would be a rant, the first paragraph of which is seen here. Fantic glossed over the many replies written by people who supported me in the Manifesto thread and focused instead on a handful of reprobates who disagreed with me--half of whom have probably changed their minds by now.


Fantic was a classic carebear. He was willing to concede that it's okay to shoot at a spaceship in a spaceship-shooting game, but not at someone's pod. This makes no sense. A pod can navigate and warp through space like any other space-faring vessel. Therefore, a pod is a spaceship. Some say that it's dishonourable to kill pods because pods pose no threat. But the same logic would apply to any spaceship, since none can stop the New Order.


Fantic got himself nice and worked up when writing his tearmail. It turned out his quarrel wasn't really with Agent Dreadchain or the rest of the New Order at all. His true enemies were living next door, bombarding his house with flying bricks and scratching up his old car.


Fantic concluded by saying the New Order is ruining EVE. I honestly don't see how anyone could accuse us of making EVE less interesting. Take Fantic, for instance. Before the New Order opened him up, Fantic was just another silent miner in highsec. Now he's a much more three-dimensional character. I kind of feel invested in his story, and I'm curious if the kid next door really vandalizes his house while he's bicycling through the mountains.


Next up, Bailey Kendron. He was killed while AFK mining in my territory. Agent Guybertini conducted a thorough debrief of the miner. Bailey was evasive at first, but when pressed, he let rip an epic carebear rant of his own--which continues below...


There's so much to unpack here that I almost don't know where to begin. What I'd like to know is which EVE player has been going around recommending that their friends sign up to do highsec mining for relaxation. That doesn't sound like a very good friend to me. Secondly, Bailey's two year-old son joins his father for these highsec mining excursions. He might as well, since highsec mining can be done by a two year-old. The two year-old might even have the sense to put a tank on his ship.

Then we have the contradiction: Bailey says he does highsec mining to settle his son down at night, but also says that he was tickling him. Tickling doesn't settle people down, so which is it? My favorite part is the comment about "adding to that family moment". Was this a traumatic experience? Did Bailey get angry in front of his son? I hope not. Regardless, we could have a case where someone's earliest memory is watching his father's Retriever get blown up by the New Order. Winning hearts and minds isn't always easy.


Bailey's closing remarks shed some light on the backstory. You see, this wasn't the first time Guybertini caught Bailey engaged in illegal mining in the system. A few days earlier, Bailey lost another Retriever for committing the same crime. Here's what Bailey wrote to me after his first death:


It's always something with that two year-old of his. I say it's time for Bailey to make some choices. The way Bailey describes it, he can be a good father, or he can be a good EVE player--he cannot be both. I say this is nonsense. When was the last time someone lost a Nyx in nullsec because they were tickling their child? Or when was the last time you read a battle report in which the fleet commander went AFK to feed his son? Never. It's not because nullsec pilots are all childless; it's because they take care of their parental responsibilities when not playing EVE.

I'm not impressed by carebears who use their children as human shields to excuse their lack of obedience to the Code. You want some parenting advice? To raise an honest child, set a good example. Live an honest life. The way things are going now, someday Bailey's child is gonna grow up to throw a brick through the neighbor's window.

14 comments:

  1. "I destroyed his last shred of dignity... if allowing the miner to vent his profanities toward me in local saves his wife or children one extra beating, that's something I'll gladly take... I'd rather it be me than some household full of children out there." ~The Code

    This passage of The Code was written precisely for you, Bailey Kendron. Let it all out. Our agents can handle it, your wife and son can't. Psychological counseling is one of the many services provided by your local New Order Agent.

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  2. Jimmy we know your low we know your trash but seriously bumping your cocksuckers about people's kids thats really low even for you. When will you and your code learn some honor

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  3. "High Security" space does not equate to "Complete Security" space.

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  4. Why is his wife working on a second child? Is he not helping, either to impregnate her or to help her while pregnant? Is he leaving it up to her to find the sperm out there somewhere? Working 40 hours a week is hardly something we should feel pity for, for 2 reasons: many people right now can't find just a great job, and others are working 70 or 80 hours a week.

    This guy...

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  5. I find it hilarious that Bailey begins his Evemail with 'I don't care who you are in real life' then proceeds to tell us why we should all care who he is in real life. Too stupid to even see the forest for the trees in his own 'logic'.
    Care bears, remember simply- we care EXACTLY as much about your sob story as you care about why we gank you. Your pathetic justifications for care bearing ring as hollow to our ears as our reasons for popping your pods does to yours.
    And they have the nerve to think WE have big egos. By definition these care bears believe and and every excuse they lamely sputter should effect the entirety of Eve Online. "everyone stop doing anything that I might disagree with while I do something other than play this game......" not a compelling argument.

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  6. "Or when was the last time you read a battle report in which the fleet commander went AFK to feed his son? Never. It's not because nullsec pilots are all childless; it's because they take care of their parental responsibilities when not playing EVE."

    This is absolutely right, hit the nail right on the head James.

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  7. "Some say that it's dishonourable to kill pods because pods pose no threat. But the same logic would apply to any spaceship, since none can stop the New Order."

    "Bailey's two year-old son joins his father for these highsec mining excursions. He might as well, since highsec mining can be done by a two year-old."

    LOL

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  8. just a virgin who gill never have kids so his sexual frustrations are taken out by bullying on a spaceship "Game"

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    1. James is a rockstar - he is constantly having to turn down advances from gorgeous highsec women. One man, even though he be the Supreme Protector, can only do so much by himself.

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  9. if you ever doubted James' ability to bring people together, look no further than the last line of his post.
    2 unrelated players - and James brings them together like opposite poles of a magnet
    Such win

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  10. "Regardless, we could have a case where someone's earliest memory is watching his father's Retriever get blown up by the New Order."

    ^LOL Talk about a wet dream come true for James!

    Seriously though, I hate when people act like they deserve special consideration or think they are more knowledgeable based solely on them having created a child.

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  11. "I kind of feel invested in his story, and I'm curious if the kid next door really vandalizes his house while he's bicycling through the mountains."

    I'm reading this at work, and it was seriously hard to stifle myself from breaking out laughing.

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