![]() I joined BOS just as we were leaving Syndicate and but hadn’t played enough to know what I was doing in the battle of VV-VCR. Skull teaching me how to lead and Thor teaching me how to play (I’m still pretty bad at Eve). They all knew I was a pretty competitive gamer so I was essentially power leveled by them. ![]() A handful of members of my Homeworld group moved over to Eve and when I joined Skull HSC, was CEO of Black Omega Security (HSC was the name of my Homeworld group and Skull kept the name when joining Eve), Thor was second in command and so it was odd for me. I am not sure why he but he seemed to hold a grudge about that. He and his group Freelancers dominated that game until myself and Thorthegreat knocked them off the top spot. I used to play a game called Homeworld (which the BoB corp Evolution used to play), and so was a rival of SirMolle from day 1. SUAS: I got into Eve, what felt like incredibly late. Tell us about how you got into Eve and some of your early experiences. Seraph: Well, I feel like I’m still a relatively newer player in that I was not deeply involved with Eve Online during the early days of Goonswarm, the fall of Band of Brothers and all that ancient history which still affects the Eve 0.0 political landscape today. SUAS: Thank you very much! I’m not a proper e-famous celebrity like Grath or Laz but I’m beginning to feel like one after that introduction! Seraph: I’m with shutupandshave (SUAS) former long time member of Goonswarm, and legendary Eve singer-songwriter and he’s been kind enough to share some of the history of himself and his first corp, Black Omega Security. My personal favorite of his classics is Little Bees: ![]() He played a large role in Goonswarm’s success both as a military leader but also as a cultural creator. Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with shutupandshave (SUAS), leader of Black Omega Security and formerly a pretty big name in Goonswarm. In many ways Eve is simply a smaller version of our own universe. You can see how cultures evolve and how myths and a sort of nationalism can form. As a student of history and international relations, it’s a very valuable platform for social experiments and engineering as well as analyzing trends and traits. I view Eve as the “best version of chess” we have. But this evidently needed to happen to wake everyone up.Eve truly is an amazing game where you can find unique cultures and histories much the same way you can IRL. And as Black people, we are not separated from the impact of this mess in fact, as the most vulnerable communities, we stand to bear the brunt of it. I didn’t want this to happen and neither did many of the Black people saying we told you so. And they are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.” As author Kimberly Jones said in her own now-viral video from this summer, referring to Black Lives Matter protesters: "Far as I’m concerned, they could burn this bitch to the ground, and it still wouldn’t be enough. I completely understand why there is a sense of mourning of an imagined just Americanness, although I do not share those feelings because the America I know is rooted in white supremacy and the privilege of consciously and subconsciously choosing to ignore and silence Black people.īut more important, Black people don’t owe this country empathy. ![]() Schadenfreude and empathy aren’t mutually exclusive as some have posited. Cokley insisted that this schadenfreude is not unhealthy psychologically speaking, “unless of course it results in a complete indifference to the shared humanity and universal experience of pain and suffering.” ![]()
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