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Mediocreken
stv is fun! killing noobs is always fun, but im not like hunting them, if i see one..there dead. but other then that, i dont camp that much unless the respawn and try to run.
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dhampir1989
Ganking lowbies is always fun.
ohh, but it doesn't even compare to kicking cr**p out of 4-th grader....i bet u would enjoy this even more...
/facepalm
Comparing WoW to real life is like comparing swatting a fly to killing a person.
gravity of consequesnces - yes, personality trait that makes one enjoy it - no
/agree.
Its all degrees of sociopathy
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dumimare
this is getting way out of proportion. in warcraft 3 do you not attack your enemy's base if he has only 5 grunts and you're a demon hunter with a full control?
this is a game about war, as a craft, you're playing on a PVP server, and your characters are just code and pixels. it doesn't hurt if it dies.
get over that and let the killing begin!
In Warcraft 3, your enemy is a computer program trying to present you with a challenge to destroy. Overkill is fun.
you fail to see i was talking about matches on battle.net, matches against other players.
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syberghost
Comparing WoW to real life is like comparing swatting a fly to killing a person.
There goes that assumption that there isn't a person on the other end of the exchange again. That is textbook sociopathy.
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dhampir1989
My bad, I confused sociopathy and psychopathy.
If you don't feel even slightly annoyed after you've been one-shotted the second you respawn for the 20th time, then you have some insane patience.
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MrFredII
As for the comments from Valandilv . I can't decide if you are just an accomplished troll or someone so completely insular that you are unable to understand points raised in opposition to your view.
Then clearly you didn't read very well, or didn't read fully to the end, where the discussion was concluded to the satisfaction of all parties. Except yours, apparently.
You could, of course, look in my profile at the nature of my other posts outside of this thread and glean for yourself the kind of contributor to these fora I am. But I guess you're just happy to assume things, right?
Point taken on examining your other posts. I will do so.
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dhampir1989
My bad, I confused sociopathy and psychopathy.
Killing someone in a game =/= killing them IRL. It is not psychopathy to kill a player's character in a game. If you do it at length, and if that makes up 90% of what you do in the game, then you'd be vastly immature; but you still would not be a psychopath. It's viewpoints like that that allow Jack Thompson rant and ambulance-chase on !@#$ing FOX news all the time.Psychopathy is not limited to just killing. Psycopathic tendancies include deliberately setting out to inflict unnecessary discomfort on someone, regardless of the scale of that.
Psychopathy, like other mental conditions such as autism is not black and white, but scales of grey.
Pulling the wings off insects is psychopathic, although not as severely so as mass murder.
If you don't feel even slightly annoyed after you've been one-shotted the second you respawn for the 20th time, then you have some insane patience.
I was making a distinction between slight irritation and genuine anger. ;)Regardless, if you have a 2 hour bracket to play in, and are trying to level, and some 70 spends all that time teabagging your corpse, then naturally, you are going to be hacked off, no matter how attached you are.
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dhampir1989
If you use
such
a broad definition, then aren't you watering down your own argument for the sake of keeping it correct?
Not really, Im just using the correct medical terms. What people think those terms mean is something altogether different.
A good example of this is the LHC. Yes, it WILL create black holes. No, they WONT destroy the Earth. Quite the opposite in fact.
If I have a 2-hour bracket to play in, then I'm probably quite a busy guy; and if it weren't working out that day, I'd probably go and do something else. If one only has 2 hours of free time per day, one would have quite a lot of things one could do in those 2 hours. I'd be slightly irked that my first choice didn't turn out well, but where's the sense in never having a backup plan? You always have to have a backup plan when dealing with other people, because other people are unpredictable and sometimes difficult.
I only really have a 2 hour slot I can play in. I would hardly consider myself a busy person. For exampl, my day usually consists of 8-11 hours on campus, during which Im normally only doing anything for 3 or 4.
Then we have the hour-each way transit time (rounded up)
And then theres going out in the evenings, say from 9-1, plus a bit of faff, so in all I have a 2 hour slot where I can play WoW, but have considerably more free time.
your point is a valid one, but only over a limited subset of people.
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dhampir1989
I'm still not entirely convinced by the definition; unless you're willing to equate this kind of psychopathy to immaturity, which is what I think it is.
Taking potshots at a lowbie as you ride past? Thats immaturity.
Corpse-camping
random people
"for teh lulz" is borderline psychopathy at best. Of course, the AnonyNet removes people's inhibitions to some extent (and its safer than alcohol! ) and can exacerbate things, people who do so may not show said tendancies in real life.
An hour-long transit to a Uni? Ouch.
well, its a 30 to 45 minute walk depending where on campus, or a 10 minute one to the bus stop and can be up to an hour waiting for a bus with space, despite having a dedicated bus service every 10-15 mins :(
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