Etup dude on Tempest Ladder

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DavosTheOnionKnight wrote:

Whether you want to believe it or not, the reality is that someday in the future he will not be playing Path of Exile anymore. And when that day comes, he will realize that for the last 5+ years he had done nothing with his life other than play Path of Exile each and every day for 16-22 hours and that he knows nothing of the outside world. He will be lost, confused and lonely.

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SuicideSpree3 wrote:

The reality is every hyper-successful guy in the goddamn world spends a truck-load of time on his chosen thing and leads a pretty unhealthy/unbalanced lifestyle (or in case of pro sportsmen because they have to be physically healthy, they often end up with emotional and mental issues).

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DavosTheOnionKnight wrote:

Whether you want to believe it or not, the reality is that someday in the future he will not be playing Path of Exile anymore. And when that day comes, he will realize that for the last 5+ years he had done nothing with his life other than play Path of Exile each and every day for 16-22 hours and that he knows nothing of the outside world. He will be lost, confused and lonely. Unless he has wealthy parents supporting him or was left a vast inheritance, he will be on the street, visiting soup kitchens twice a day and waiting in line at the shelter each night.

Never seeing the sunlight is not healthy human behavior. Heroin doesn't make heroin addicts 'happy'. The artificial happiness they get from shooting up comes from the fact that their withdrawal symptoms will be dissipated for a few hours. They don't do it because it makes them happy. They do it because they need it. People like Etup need PoE or games like it because they don't know how to function without dedicating their life to a game. If video games suddenly ceased to exist, do you think he would simply go about his life? There would be severe depression, a complete loss of identity, and most likely suicidal thoughts.

You're also missing the point Brights was making about curing cancer. You could not cure cancer in the 5 minutes it took you to write that post. Etup, however, has spent at least 10,000 hours playing PoE; probably a hell of a lot more than that. That sort of dedication and time investment has great potential in the world. Unfortunately when that amount of time is spent playing a game, it does no good for anybody, most of all the player. All he is doing is lessening his potential as a human being - his entire existence consists of sitting in a dark room staring at a screen.

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DavosTheOnionKnight wrote:

Whether you want to believe it or not, the reality is that someday in the future he will not be playing Path of Exile anymore. And when that day comes, he will realize that for the last 5+ years he had done nothing with his life other than play Path of Exile each and every day for 16-22 hours and that he knows nothing of the outside world. He will be lost, confused and lonely. Unless he has wealthy parents supporting him or was left a vast inheritance, he will be on the street, visiting soup kitchens twice a day and waiting in line at the shelter each night.

Never seeing the sunlight is not healthy human behavior. Heroin doesn't make heroin addicts 'happy'. The artificial happiness they get from shooting up comes from the fact that their withdrawal symptoms will be dissipated for a few hours. They don't do it because it makes them happy. They do it because they need it. People like Etup need PoE or games like it because they don't know how to function without dedicating their life to a game. If video games suddenly ceased to exist, do you think he would simply go about his life? There would be severe depression, a complete loss of identity, and most likely suicidal thoughts.

You're also missing the point Brights was making about curing cancer. You could not cure cancer in the 5 minutes it took you to write that post. Etup, however, has spent at least 10,000 hours playing PoE; probably a hell of a lot more than that. That sort of dedication and time investment has great potential in the world. Unfortunately when that amount of time is spent playing a game, it does no good for anybody, most of all the player. All he is doing is lessening his potential as a human being - his entire existence consists of sitting in a dark room staring at a screen.

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DavosTheOnionKnight wrote:

Whether you want to believe it or not, the reality is that someday in the future he will not be playing Path of Exile anymore. And when that day comes, he will realize that for the last 5+ years he had done nothing with his life other than play Path of Exile each and every day for 16-22 hours and that he knows nothing of the outside world. He will be lost, confused and lonely. Unless he has wealthy parents supporting him or was left a vast inheritance, he will be on the street, visiting soup kitchens twice a day and waiting in line at the shelter each night.

Never seeing the sunlight is not healthy human behavior. Heroin doesn't make heroin addicts 'happy'. The artificial happiness they get from shooting up comes from the fact that their withdrawal symptoms will be dissipated for a few hours. They don't do it because it makes them happy. They do it because they need it. People like Etup need PoE or games like it because they don't know how to function without dedicating their life to a game. If video games suddenly ceased to exist, do you think he would simply go about his life? There would be severe depression, a complete loss of identity, and most likely suicidal thoughts.

You're also missing the point Brights was making about curing cancer. You could not cure cancer in the 5 minutes it took you to write that post. Etup, however, has spent at least 10,000 hours playing PoE; probably a hell of a lot more than that. That sort of dedication and time investment has great potential in the world. Unfortunately when that amount of time is spent playing a game, it does no good for anybody, most of all the player. All he is doing is lessening his potential as a human being - his entire existence consists of sitting in a dark room staring at a screen.

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glh5 wrote:

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Hilbert wrote:

Support doesn't remove naming and shaming? I have many stories about RMTing high tier players to tell ^^

you can post the story about etup and any friends of his here but please don't pollute my thread with stories about softcore players and scrubs etc

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DavosTheOnionKnight wrote:

Whether you want to believe it or not, the reality is that someday in the future he will not be playing Path of Exile anymore. And when that day comes, he will realize that for the last 5+ years he had done nothing with his life other than play Path of Exile each and every day for 16-22 hours and that he knows nothing of the outside world. He will be lost, confused and lonely. Unless he has wealthy parents supporting him or was left a vast inheritance, he will be on the street, visiting soup kitchens twice a day and waiting in line at the shelter each night.

Never seeing the sunlight is not healthy human behavior. Heroin doesn't make heroin addicts 'happy'. The artificial happiness they get from shooting up comes from the fact that their withdrawal symptoms will be dissipated for a few hours. They don't do it because it makes them happy. They do it because they need it. People like Etup need PoE or games like it because they don't know how to function without dedicating their life to a game. If video games suddenly ceased to exist, do you think he would simply go about his life? There would be severe depression, a complete loss of identity, and most likely suicidal thoughts.

You're also missing the point Brights was making about curing cancer. You could not cure cancer in the 5 minutes it took you to write that post. Etup, however, has spent at least 10,000 hours playing PoE; probably a hell of a lot more than that. That sort of dedication and time investment has great potential in the world. Unfortunately when that amount of time is spent playing a game, it does no good for anybody, most of all the player. All he is doing is lessening his potential as a human being - his entire existence consists of sitting in a dark room staring at a screen.