Re:Trust is like virginity (Score 1)

We're all still hairless apes and our motives and actions are about who has the most banans and who's getting to fuck the pretty females. Assumptions... Quite a few females, for example, won't be motivated by these goals. Speaking of apes, there are a variety of pack roles, and most apes, even male apes, aren't trying for the role of the alpha. Poking analogies is a useless endeavor, though, and I will stop: what I am trying to say is that people's behavior is not the same in different situations, and behaviors of different kinds of people are different. Amusingly, most people don't want leadership roles ("most bananas") and don't strive for them. Also, there are striking behavior differences all over the world - consider, for example, how standing out in the crowd is viewed positively in the West and negatively in the East (or parts thereof). And, returning to our game discussion, Eve seems to have attracted a very special population of gamers, and a very special kind of people. For one, I would be very curious to see a study of the frequency of autistic-spectrum behaviors among successful (did not quit within a month or two) Eve players >_>