[antihero]

Really, people are getting this raged about shit in an online game? Take to the streets, my friends. Fight for the real world, not an imaginary one.

[cowkingdeluxe]

You shouldn't shit on what other people do for fun or in their free time.

Some people use online games like this to escape their real life, whether its to escape disease, sickness or other less serious things.

[lutorm]

I don't have a problem with people using games to escape their real, shitty life. But then picking a game that makes you so angry you want to riot sounds like a strange choice. I mean, if you are going to riot, there's plenty of things to protest about in your real, shitty life that impact you more. (Granted, it also takes a lot more effort to deal with.)

[dpcan]

If your imaginary world is all you have, is it not your real world?

[pnathan]

After a few years working in academia, I have a simple statement:

That which pays thy bills is the real world.

It can correspond to another statement: that which feeds thy mouth is the real world, too.

I can't eat virtual bread. It's not the real world.

[kevingadd]

Funnily enough, there are people who either supplement their living expenses or entirely earn their living expenses by selling EVE currency for real money. The actual number of people who do this is disputed, but it's been a well known fact among EVE players for a long time. So, in a way, their real-world bread is on the line if EVE changes significantly enough to destroy their source of income. It's a weird situation.

[Unseelie]

Sad life if your entire world consists of bare survival.

Certianly worth revolt, of course, if your first life is a horror.

But to then argue that anything other than that life is not worth struggle is a blatant denial of value of anything above bare survival.