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Got this in my email today. Figured I'd share:quote:Hello! I did research for this organization a few years ago and they are legit. I'm not getting anything out of referrals. I just thought people might want to take part.
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A Fancy Bloke posted:I did research for this organization a few years ago and they are legit. I'm not getting anything out of referrals. I just thought people might want to take part. I did the survey because I'm a curious guy, but I really couldn't get myself to go all the way through. The questions just got too bizarre about halfway through. It's all about whether or not you've ever fallen in love with the pixels on your screen, and I was afraid if I kept clicking next it'd eventually ask me if I ever masterbated to my favorite character or something.
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Jun 11, 2014 08:45
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This was a weird survey. People actually see their avatar as more than an object on the screen? I could imagine calling the avatar a he/she if you have more than one. I emailed the guy running it to see what it's all about because I'm betting this is actually about mentally ill people. Also, the last page was hilarious. It asks your biological sex with the option of electing something else and then asks what you associate as. What is the point of that?
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Jun 11, 2014 09:36
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Lord Windy posted:Also, the last page was hilarious. It asks your biological sex with the option of electing something else and then asks what you associate as. What is the point of that? Gender and sex are sociologically/scientifically distinct labels. Incidentally, that associate-as question bugged out for me somehow and prevented me from submitting my answers as it registered as unanswered no matter how I filled it out.
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Carlton Banks Teller posted:Gender and sex are sociologically/scientifically distinct labels. I was about to say you could only have two choices for biological if you're adding an associate-as option, but I've just discovered intersex can mean different chromosomes. So I guess it was valid choice and I was wrong
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Jun 11, 2014 10:46
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Yeah, all I could figure is that those questions were for the crazy Second Life people. Edit: The questions about being your avatar, not the gender questions.
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Jun 11, 2014 12:42
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A Fancy Bloke posted:Yeah, all I could figure is that those questions were for the crazy Second Life people. Definitely. I think this was about obsession/infatuation with your avatar, and mental sickness. Pretty odd. Some of the questions made me a little uncomfortable. Especially the ones about your avatar continuing to live its own life while you're logged out.
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Jun 11, 2014 14:00
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I was going to fill this out but like you guys mentioned, the questions got weirder as I went and gave up.
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Jun 11, 2014 14:01
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Filled it out and even selected the option to get informed about the results. I'm really sad for anyone who answered "strongly agree" to stuff about seeing your avatar as a separate being with its own life etc
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Jun 11, 2014 15:50
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Holy poo poo, some of these questions  . Some of them are a little confusing, thoughquote:This avatar does things I cannot do I mean, it can't do anything with out me but I also can't do things I've done in games with avatars like fly or use magic.
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Jun 11, 2014 16:28
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The survey was quite interesting, yes. Me and my avatar enjoyed answering them. Tho it would be better if there ware two surveys, one for me and one the avatar!
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Jun 11, 2014 17:15
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I watched Life 2.0 the other week and ever since then I've worried about how I sometimes like to take screenshots of my cool characters in RPGs
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Jun 12, 2014 12:31
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Wow, I almost felt like the survey itself was judging me for seeing my MMO characters as collections of pixels rather than ~living, breathing people I connect with more than real humans~. What a bizarre experience. Looking forward to seeing the results of it; the implied middle ground was still nutso bonkers so that might do some interesting things to the data.
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I mean like, on a scale of 1 to otherkin, how weird is this http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197967305452/screenshots/?appid=72850 e: what the hell might as well go for broke. I also did a spreadsheet https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAJHKciA_TYiDxSqmreBpZjtReQkOzgpbySF/SkyrimCharacters Abandon fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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Jun 12, 2014 14:23
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I honestly don't feel I can answer the majority of these questions because most of the questions are framed in such a way to already implicitly grant 'avatars' agency and seperate identity. Hardly any of these questions actually relate to how I actually deal with my mmo characters. Whole lot of 'neither agree or disagree' up in here but again, the way it's framed I can't tell whether the survey actually does treat that as neutral or 'not a relevant question'. edit: ah actually gets a bit more interesting in terms of 'agency' etc. as it goes on a bit. Honestly got quite interesting by the end. I signed up for the results when they come out. NLJP fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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Scags posted:Definitely. I think this was about obsession/infatuation with your avatar, and mental sickness. Pretty odd. Some of the questions made me a little uncomfortable. Especially the ones about your avatar continuing to live its own life while you're logged out. Consider a child playing make belief who considers his Pirate 101 or whatever character to be his imaginary friend. Or a roleplayer who considers their totally fake character's story. Wasn't super left field, until later. Definitely want to see the results
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tadashi posted:Holy poo poo, some of these questions Yea, don't think I really got what they meant with some of them either. Of course my character is not just pixels, he's a bunch of variables and numerical values too!
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I also signed to get the results because, well, it's pretty interesting. Still, some things were pretty vague. I do refer as my avatar as "I", but because I'm talking about my actions as the players, not because I AM Noobkilla THE GNOME MAGE FEAR MY FIREBALL. Usually I'd say "yeah, sure, I refer to my character as I" but the rest of the questions made me feel uncomfortable that I do. Doesn't help that my language doesn't have a neutral gender. But yeah the weirdest questions were those asking you if you thought that your character carries on without you. drat, I wish! Lazy gently caress won't even farm minerals when I'm away!
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Jun 12, 2014 17:06
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I definitely wanted to add explanatory comments to my answers like I don't totally disagree with the idea that my guy in ESO is "like a human" or whatever because, like, he's a guy who talks to people and swings a sword around, as opposed to, say, a spaceship or something.
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kloa posted:I was going to fill this out but like you guys mentioned, the questions got weirder as I went and gave up. I think the best bit was the back and forth reversing questions with the avatar as it's own person. I love my avatar. My avatar loves me. We watch out for each other. They'll never hurt us again 
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There was actually a question about the avatar having a life after I log off which gave me pause because, when I played SWG years ago (and even now with the EMU), most serious players had an alt that they logged in to serve as some kind of buff bot to make extra money when they weren't "playing" (recursive macros FTW). That meant other characters were actually interacting with their character even when the player was sleeping/working/whatever. The syntax of the question, though, was "after I log out" which was a relief.
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Jun 12, 2014 18:33
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I liked the survey, because it tried to shed like on various different ways one could relate to an avatar. All to often those surveys only go in one or two directions.
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So many of these questions don't have context. "Do you feel more skilled with this avatar?" Why, yes, after all the hours of plugging away noobs I- "Do you love your avatar?" Ah.. Well I mean I play it a lot and I love the game so I suppo- "Are you your avatar? Is your avatar you?" 
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Jun 14, 2014 03:56
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i answer to icucmecu irl
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This isn't a survey, it's a psyche exam. And I just found out I'm tsundere for an avatar I made over 10 years ago!
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This is the funniest survey I have ever taken. I am really curious about what the results are going to show about people were managed to complete the entire thing despite the first three pages sounding like they were trying to identify serial killers.
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I thought it was pretty interesting that people (presumably) get so attached to their MMO characters. As someone who spends an ungodly amount of time playing Skyrim, I can't imagine a worse game for characterisation or MY IMMERSION~ than an MMO. Everything is sacrificed for gameplay and convenience. Not a bad thing, but surely it's not very conducive to peoples' anime serial killer waifu fantasies.
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They should have added a "what the gently caress" option to the standard 7-point scale because some of these questions are really weird for anyone who isn't a super hardcore roleplayer. "Neither agree nor disagree" isn't an adequate response for things like "this avatar and I are friends." My avatar is me playing the game. Am I friends with myself? edit: it gets even worse. Everyone should do this survey just to see the weird-rear end questions. Griz fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Griz posted:They should have added a "what the gently caress" option to the standard 7-point scale because some of these questions are really weird for anyone who isn't a super hardcore roleplayer. Holy gently caress yes this survey is insane. "I AM THE INSTRUMENT FOR MY AVATARS DESIRES!"  This is a survey to find crazy people isn't it. There's no other way.
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I'm just waiting for the results to suggest most MMORPG players think "MY AVATAR IS A REAL PERSON!  "
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Well, this sure was a weird one. I really hope people don't go down the route of "I OBEY MY AVATAR" or incredibly weirdo poo poo like that, but I wouldn't write that off as something that never happens. I've definitely seen a few of the crazies before, perhaps the rabbit hole really is that deep.
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That Life 2.0 movie was a real trip, I think the guy with the 12 year old girl avatar who put his voice through audio processing to be high pitched having a "suicide party" for the avatar before logging off to face his true self or w/e was kind of where it peaked e: no wait, poo poo, I forgot about the in-game shooting spree he does. lol Abandon fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Jun 15, 2014 |
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This is the most bizarre thing I've ever read. I've been playing MMOs for the past 17 years (holy poo poo) and have associated with well over a thousand players throughout that time, and I've never once met someone who ever even hinted at the fact that their character might even possibly be more than a class selection with a name slapped on.Abandon posted:That Life 2.0 movie was a real trip, I think the guy with the 12 year old girl avatar who put his voice through audio processing to be high pitched having a "suicide party" for the avatar before logging off to face his true self or w/e was kind of where it peaked I especially liked how he seemed to have a normal wife who found his behavior absolutely baffling. I honestly can not see this survey being 'relevant' for anyone except Second Life players and I'm legitimately curious as to why it was about MMOs in general instead of Second Life specifically. Griz posted:"Neither agree nor disagree" isn't an adequate response for things like "this avatar and I are friends." My avatar is me playing the game. Am I friends with myself? I "strongly disagree"d with every single one of those and wrote a comment about how absolutely ludicrous they sounded to me.
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Griz posted:They should have added a "what the gently caress" option to the standard 7-point scale because some of these questions are really weird for anyone who isn't a super hardcore roleplayer. The stupid thing is, I roleplay, so some of those questions are kinda iffy. But then you have those weird questions where it's assumed you may not be able to disconnect from playing out that character outside of the gameplay itself. Am I the character? No. Do they have their own aspirations? Yes, and I play them out. Do they have their own lives when I log out? I suppose so. DO THEY CONTROL YOU?  Funnypost Collabo posted:I "strongly disagree"d with every single one of those and wrote a comment about how absolutely ludicrous they sounded to me. God yes.
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Hazdoc posted:Well, this sure was a weird one. I really hope people don't go down the route of "I OBEY MY AVATAR" or incredibly weirdo poo poo like that, but I wouldn't write that off as something that never happens. I've definitely seen a few of the crazies before, perhaps the rabbit hole really is that deep. I once knew a person who would marvel out-of-character at the things his avatar did, or claim that he couldn't muzzle the character because he wasn't in control. He was as obnoxious, drama-prone, and motherfucking crazy as this survey might suggest.
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I won a gift card! Thanks, OP!
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