What makes a player unique?

[Mhurron]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Yeah, but who cares what's going to happen in 100 years? I'm more concerned with what is going to happen this afternoon.
Just because it won't matter eventually doesn't mean it doesn't matter now.

As far as uniqueness goes, they're both the same. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter now, it won't matter then and it did not make you unique.

[Murphie]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Who cares about the grand scheme of things?

[Mhurron]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Unique is a comparative. The OP does and that is the thread topic.

It is very easy to be unique when you ignore every comparison around you.

[Murphie]

Re: What makes a player unique?

The OP is asking what makes people different when everything else (stats, gear, race) is the same, with the same potential for improvement (better gear, merits, and so on). At least, that's what I think he's asking.

The answer is, personalities. That's the only possibly way to be different from others, if all in-game factors are equal (which is entirely possible and highly likely). Claiming that no one playing this game is their own person is pessimism at best, and outright ignorance at worst. There's no way of knowing.

On the topic of unique being a comparative - I don't agree with the idea of comparative uniqueness. The idea that something can be "very unique" is just ridiculous, IMO. "Oh, aren't you especially individual!" That's a complete nonsense statement. You either are or you aren't. There aren't varying degrees.

But that has little to do with the topic at hand.

[Callisto]

Re: What makes a player unique?

There's no way any other single player on Ramuh has dry-humped as many avatars as I have with a macro using /laugh and /shocked motions. I'm a special snowflake.

[Murphie]

Re: What makes a player unique?

There's no way any other single player on Ramuh has dry-humped as many avatars as I have with a macro using /laugh and /shocked motions. I'm a special snowflake.

Exactly. No one else has told the same number and variety of people to DIAF as I have.

[Amele]

Re: What makes a player unique?

As far as uniqueness goes, they're both the same. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter now, it won't matter then and it did not make you unique.

so you would claim that Feynman, Gödel, Aristotle, Michaelangelo, Turing, and Schrödinger were all not-unique and therefore irrelevant to the overall course of western civilisation?

[Illuen]

Re: What makes a player unique?

I've found that what sets me apart from most people I know on FFXI are my friendships, and my experiences with my friends. Sure, sooner or later we're all going to fight the Shadow Lord, but I have the memory of doing it with my best friend, who then proceeded to bawl like a baby with me while watching the cutscene following the battle. Nobody else can know what I felt, can know how I touched the lives of my friends, how they touched me, why the phrase "nilla wafers" is so funny that it starts my entire linkshell laughing with the memory of it. To me, the game itself is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but the friendships and memories made through the game are eternal.

[WishMaster3K]

Re: What makes a player unique?

No one is Renarudo The Red, the single most Dynamically Inspirational person that you'll ever meet in your entire life.

Many have tried to be me, but they all fall short of my awesomeness.

In fact, I was going to write out an entire email to Callisto, petitioning a club that is exclusive to people who fit our grand requirements of awesomeness, but I realized that I'm too awesome to write it and he's too awesome to read it.

Therefore.

You're all just blessed to be reading the words I've typed.

But no one is as humble as I am. Honest.

[Callisto]

Re: What makes a player unique?

No one is Renarudo The Red, the single most Dynamically Inspirational person that you'll ever meet in your entire life.

Many have tried to be me, but they all fall short of my awesomeness.

In fact, I was going to write out an entire email to Callisto, petitioning a club that is exclusive to people who fit our grand requirements of awesomeness, but I realized that I'm too awesome to write it and he's too awesome to read it.

Therefore.

You're all just blessed to be reading the words I've typed.

But no one is as humble as I am. Honest.

QFT. Ridiculously Awesome T.

[Armando]

Re: What makes a player unique?

But no one is as humble as I am. Honest.

Think you're really righteous? Think you're pure in heart? Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

I am a delicious corn flake.

[Raydeus]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Hey Mr. Humble-Corn-Flake you gotta add more pics to your thread.

[DakAttack]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Hey Mr. Humble-Corn-Flake you gotta add more pics to your thread.

This is the wrong place for a hentai request.

Using the term relative makes more sense than comparative. Unique is unique, and I can only see that being characterized by aspect.

1.existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics: a unique copy of an ancient manuscript. 2.having no like or equal; unparalleled; incomparable: Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint. 3.limited in occurrence to a given class, situation, or area: a species unique to Australia. 4.limited to a single outcome or result; without alternative possibilities: Certain types of problems have unique solutions. 5.not typical; unusual: She has a very unique smile. –noun 6.the embodiment of unique characteristics; the only specimen of a given kind: The unique is also the improbable.

I think Mhurron is going by definition one or two. I suppose it would be difficult in a world of this size to be unique in any one aspect, but when you look at a combination of aspects and a person as a whole I'm sure you could consider some one unique.

I'm sure the rest of us are going by definition five. Personally, I look at people as either unique or typical.

[Ziero]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Just like the other 3 billion people of the same gender.
You are not a unique snowflake. No matter what you do, there are millions of others that can do it just as well as you. All it takes is time.

Wait, what?

Who cares what others can do, that's not what makes someone unique. It's the way people do things, how they act, their overall personalities that make people different. Yes there may be some things people share in common, but no two people will ever be 100% alike in every way shape and form. Not even biological identical twins are 100% alike.

Doing something grand that affects hundreds of thousands of millions of people is not the only way to be unique. I am different from everyone I have ever met and I know that because I haven't met anyone else like me. If there was someone else exactly like me out there I would have met them because they would have done the same exact thing as me. Since no one has ever done so that means that I am different from every other person on this planet making me in effect unique.

As for what makes someone unique in game, it's the same exact thing. It's their personality and nothing more, because that is the thing that influences a player's actions most in this game. A player's rl personality will show in their in game actions over time, and it's these actions, that affect both gameplay based actions such as combat and gear selections as well as community based actions such as friendships and player transactions, that ultimately make a player unique.

I am unique, both in game and in real life, because there is no one else like me.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What makes a player unique?

The only thing I know is that no one else has a BBQ Kitten Revolution but me.

Brian Eno only talked about barbeque-ing kittens and I think it was under a completely different context. In the the BBQ Kitten Revolution, no such thing takes place and we do not actually barbeque kittens, that would be mean

No, in my Revolution kittens BBQ you! Each night we dine on Elvaan Steak with a side of deep fried Galka Rings. Hume is ground beef to us, good for hamburgers! We keep the Tarutaru around to light the grill.