So should I start writing my CV to apply for a job in not so sunny Iceland? Or is my current customer service / IT Service Desk job in Australia with Logica going to keep me happy. Would someone from an IT Service Desk background (and with bachelors degree in computer science at RMIT (Melbourne) ) be of use in the Game Master's department at CCP?

Australia, dam it's interesting. Sea, sun and hot galls !

Iceland? -herm, noes?

The only question you must ask yourself is what you will regret the most 30 years from now: that you did - or that you didn't. It's not unlike seeing that girl on the dance-floor who happens not to be a ****, which means there is a chance she will discard you but, nevertheless, what is living if not seizing opportunity and take a chance once in a while?

If Iceland is a non-degenerated version of Sweden, then I'm sure it's a beautiful country, and if you are non-degenerated version of a human being, then I'm sure you won't do like everyone else and just do what social norms tells you to do. Make your own destiny!

Quoting this to point out the sexist undertone. And when I saw the post, it still read "sl*t" without it being censored (sth. I object to as well).

Well, to be completely honest I don't really know what to reply here. Did I by mistake write in the feminist-socialist part of the forum? In a game where slave-transports are common and where people make it their mission in life to destroy the souls of new players, I am indeed surprised by your obvious sensitivity, and equally so am I disappointed. Oh, well, I went three days without hearing the tears of sensitive, self-righteous people. Oh, what good three days it has been.

If it had any relation to ingame, i wouldn't have minded. Roleplay a slave-owning capsuleer any time you want.

But it was a RL-thread and your comment was solely RL-based. So i applied real life standards of morality/behavior, not New Eden standards.

By what right do you claim your morality superior to mine? What So-High-Education have you received which I have not? Do you honestly think objecting to something you dislike is either productive or healthy? How do you manage to go on with life when so much hatred and anger plagues your essence? By your choices you create yourself. Is this really the "self" you want to be? By insinuating that my morality is inferior to yours, you paint an image of yourself as self-righteous and boring. Create a new self! Seize opportunity by the balls (is that sexist, too, or do I have to say "seize it by the t!ts" for it to be sexist? don't you see how ridiculous this is?) and create a destiny which is yours to define! As it is in New Eden, so it is on Earth.

I have edited my last statment some, so reread, if it's any better.

I do NOT claim my morality is superior to yours, nor have i ever said so. I am not hateful, actually if this had been an eye-to-eye conversation you'd have seen me laughing and smiling. I was just "pointing out" something i considered noteworthy to point out.

And yes, i think that objecting to something i dislike can be productive (and would apply the same standard to other people). Actually if nobody dared pointing out things that they dislike, we'd all live together quite unpleasantly. (I appreciate ppl pointing out to me when i do something they don't like, because I get the opportunity to think about what I did, and if I maybe shouldnt have done it, or maybe simply don't want to continue with regard to the other persons preferences/feelings).

And I do take my future in my hand and try to make my "destiny" (big word ).

Best regards,
Karsa.

How many people have considered packing up and heading to Iceland to work for their favorite game company?

If people were to offend the different sexes, ethnic heritages, religious people, atheists, and so forth, a little bit more, then perhaps it would become less offensive

, because the purpose is never to offend, but rather to make people understand the difference between speaking honest rather than go around the building

The only question you must ask yourself is what you will regret the most 30 years from now: that you did - or that you didn't.

I do enjoy EVE's choice of word, even though it's hard creating a destiny in a world which has predefined your future. How nice it would be if the real world, too, was a sandbox!

That's debatable, to say the least. If its in good fun, I never mind (like comedians, satire, etc.), but it often isn't...

That's most certainly not true. It may be true for you (good), but quite often, people do want to offend.

But i actually wasn't concerned with an offensive statement (i don't even think there was one), but with unconscious assumptions, that weren't meant to offend or make people understand either. Those assumptions are NOT reflected on, which is the problem and why i "pointed it out". There is usually no intent there either way, they are just present (and therefore even more worthy of being pointed out).

I purposefully didn't call YOU sexist, just said the comment had sexist undertones (which is based on a cultural bias, but let's not go there, i don't think either of us wants to turn this into a gender-bias seminar).

Okay, trying to get back to the thread somewhat:
I actually concur with the advice you were giving to the OP in that comment, which I should have noted as well instead of just butting in off-topic. It was good advice, so quoted for repetition:

More regards,
Karsa.

Yes.

Then I found out they pay 25-40% less than the rest of the industry...

I know! It's your life. You decide!

(Lovely digression into gender feuding, btw. Saying "****" was in poor taste and the a-hole knows it.)

I'm at the southern end of Australia, Hobart. Our mountain gets snow on it. Its going to be a high of 13 degrees celcius on Monday. Perhaps I _can_ handle Reyjavik!

I'm at the southern end of Australia, Hobart. Our mountain gets snow on it. Its going to be a high of 13 degrees celcius on Monday. Perhaps I _can_ handle Reyjavik!