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[Dec. 22nd, 2009|02:30 pm] |
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I know your character had an odd upbringing. I also know he's pissed off and hates the world right now and wants revenge on everyone blah blah blah.
But dude.
When you essentially threaten my character and another character with death, ramble about how you nearly got assassinated, and say that your two NPC lackeys took down the assassins bare-handed, all in response to two characters mocking you because you didn't know anything about Christmas and yet were at a Christmas party--
--with other characters around no less, did you really expect someone to take you seriously and quake in their boots about how intimidating and scary you are?
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You did, it seems, as you told me that my character would be dead in another reality for dismissing your guy as completely fucking insane, rolling his eyes, and walking off before your guy finishes. I mean, really now.
There's trying too hard and then there's this.
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Edit: Ha, take that, LJ formatting! *shakes fist* |
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[Dec. 22nd, 2009|12:49 pm] |
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Look. I understand that we all have some problems. And starting a board in the summer is never easy to keep up. So it's not like I really can hold that much of a grudge against either of you. But I asked to help, and you both enthusiastically said that it would be awesome. So I set out to help. Why did no one at all help me? The one board I joined, where I offered to help and I was told that my best help would be as a member - and possibly later on playing a canon character I know and respect - is still going pretty strong.
I just really think it's a royal pain that you can't even be bothered with your own boards. |
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| Walking coat hangers |
[Dec. 22nd, 2009|10:11 am] |
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This is a really weird trend.
I'm sure everyone knows and hates those multi-page purple prose descs that go into great detail about every pore on a character’s skin... But what about the descs that just amount to ‘Character is wearing a black t-shirt, jeans, and shoes’.
...And that’s literally ALL IT SAYS.
Nothing about height, build, hair color, face, NOTHING.
Personally I just imagine these characters as being walking coat hangers or something. Just sets of clothing, floating around… Like the invisible man. It's becoming weirdly common at the game I'm at too.
That and a lot of the characters are various fantasy creatures, and they'll just have descs like, "She/He looks just like a <species>. ...In a t-shirt and jeans." (It's always a t-shirt and jeans. I dunno, is that better or worse than long black trenchcoats?)
Wow so basically your character looks and dresses generic as hell? Maybe I'll just imagine him really ugly and deformed with greasy hair, because you aren't telling me otherwise.
I'm really not sure if this is better or worse than the purple prose descs. Really it's just the opposite extreme. Easier on the eyes perhaps, but goddamn, what happened to creativity? What happened to making your character unique?
Edit: For the record, I've asked one or two of these sorts to describe their char in more detail... because they had asked me to draw a picture of them. They then proceeded to act quite confused that I needed more detail, because after all, of course I should know what their character looks like from a single sentence description of their clothing. :\ |
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[Dec. 22nd, 2009|02:10 am] |
All I have to say is 'WTF Man.'
Seriously. We were all RPing just fine, laughing as we did because some days, especially times around holidays where we are all stressed to hell, we like to have fun. We warned you before hand that we are not super serious people. That we're all pretty laid back, and enjoy a laugh every now and then.
So what the hell? Out of no where, you decide to try and kill my character? and not even in a 'Lol stabbity stab' way, but in long, drawn out, TL;DR posts about how she did something she never did? You haven't even been RPing with us for 3 weeks yet, and you pull this? And then, to make it worse, when we ask you about it, all of us curious on WHY you would try and pull this, you start drama?
You say you 'Hate me' and I'm the 'Worst thing to ever happen to this group' because I wouldn't let you get with my boy? Because we wouldn't go with your Ego-trip plot?
Hate to break it to you kiddo, but I started this group. It was also really dumb to invite everyone, save me, to a different channel to try and revolt started. These people are my friends, even the person who invited you to our group says you have to go.
I really don't know what brought t this on. I've talked to you twice. It's not just my decision that made you plot a No-go either. We run a democracy. We voted, no one wanted to join in this dick-sucking contest for your low self esteem. |
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[Dec. 21st, 2009|08:47 pm] |
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Dear close friend,
We're playing in a nifty little RP. There's no real plot other than my most annoying character and the one person he'll listen to getting magically dropped into your world to mess with your characters (and fight for humanity's freedom, but that's secondary.)
Now, my character (the annoying one) isn't human or sane. In fact, he says he's insane and is pretty heavily medicated. You want to call him a monster, an animal, batshit, or anything similar? Cool! I love when people insult him, because it gets him angry, which makes him more annoying and more fun. Him being annoying is kind of the point of this game. Gives me more to work with.
What's not cool is getting angry at me when my character responds. If your character gets angry at my character? Fine! More drama which is fun. But you're getting pissed at me for my character getting angry over being insulted and beat down (and threatened with dog kennels.) OOC =/= IC and in game actions lead to in game consequences. Your character makes threats, my character makes threats. Your character makes offensive jokes toward my character; my character isn't going to be a happy little obedient soldier.
TL;DR: Stop getting angry when my character responds to threats and insults!
Sincerely,
That friend with the annoying, psycho werewolf.
P.S., So you've got the new, fleshy Cylons androids with identical and attractive bodies. The first one my character ran into tried to kill him and succeeded in leaving him with a huge wound. It was, understandably, traumatic. Don't be surprised when he doesn't trust the next android he meets with that face, even if I know that she's on the 'good' side. My character has no way of knowing this, and I even scaled down his reaction. In my personal writing of him, he would have shot her instead of telling her to "Leave. Now. Or I shoot." Stop getting angry at me! |
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| Conversations do not work that way |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|06:19 pm] |
( Post examples behind the cut )
This is why my character keeps dropping subjects and why my posts take three times longer to write than yours. I have to figure out how to respond in a natural way to all of the action and dialog, without introducing any new subjects otherwise you will continue on and divide up the conversation even further. He is not going to just sit there and stare dumbfounded while you leave the room, come back, elbow him, etc. Real life and in-character conversations are not Livejournal posts, people do not actually respond point-by-point! I am pretty sure you have spoken to another human being before so I am unsure why you seem to think this is the case, but it isn't.
I'm verbose but my posts could be shorter and faster and more fun if I didn't have to sit here and struggle with timing and action. I wish this was only one person doing it, but I see it a lot, even from awesome rp'ers, and I don't understand. All it takes is one person doing it to fuck up a thread where the rest of the characters either have to drop subjects or deal with actions and its just so incredibly annoying. Its incredibly difficult when there are three or more characters and they are all doing this and then A is responding to C's comment while B is talking to C as well and CLUSTERFUCK.
PS please place dialog on the end or beginning of a paragraph, not split up throughout, thank you.
(Sorry if the example is confusing, its even more confusing to try and roleplay)
(Edited to add an LJ-cut, sorry, told you I was verbose) |
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| i am so full of hate i am making a hate diamond |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|12:20 pm] |
You are indeed a king among douchefaces.
You, sir, are a disagreeable, arrogant, closeminded, narcissistic, vulgar, amoral, sexist, predjudiced, and overall loathesome human being. And you can't roleplay for shit.
Oh, you say you can roleplay, but you don't.
You try to stack every odd in your favor, godmode like crazy, ignore the OOC/IC lines, pout like a child if anyone 'makes a challenge against your authority'- which is altogether another rant, insult people left and right if they even try to disagree with you on the most trivial matters, say that anyone actually roleplaying is just being a bad actor.
You don't understand rules. You don't see why you should 'limit' your knowledge IC, so you give your character knowledge of advanced physics that don't exist on this world, and you read the books so you can know what we're fighting and how to beat it without asking if you can make a knowledge roll. You're the kind of butthead who buys the spoiler book for the video game and plays it after memorizing the book. (Seriously. He does this.) You engage in bitchfits about rules that are hours long. And THEN you complain that we got nothing accomplished in our session, because 'the other players go on tangents'. That's right. You take an hour debating the definition of 'shun' when the DM sends a swarm of something against people on phantom steeds, but it's our fault for delaying game. Fuck you.
The only reason that you are even here is because you and the DM have been buddies since forever, and he knows you would take it extremely personally if he booted your ass from this game. You would never last in any game run by people who weren't at the last grasping edge of desperation. So.
When you whine about how few players we have, it kind of makes me want to stab you in the eye.
When you say we need to go out and find 'some intelligent people who can actually strategize,' I want to stab you in both eyes.
You have driven away some of the best RPers I've seen in a while. Why? Because they were overweight and you automatically treat overweight people like shit. Because they disagreed with your idiotic opinions and overinflated sense of self worth.
We have three other players in this game. The guy who has absolutely no friends or social life beyond this game. The DM's girlfriend. And me, friend to both DM and girlfriend. I've stayed so far because the DM is an amazing one as far as storytelling goes, and I've built my character up so much I don't want to end it right now.
Guess what? We won't find any new players because everyone hates your stinking, arrogant guts. And no, that's not because they're stupid or emotional, it's because you're a doucheface, and I wish the DM would stop holding your hand and let you fall on your miserable ass like the social failure that you are. |
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[Dec. 21st, 2009|11:47 am] |
Say one makes the mistake to start a campaign of D&D 3.5 at level 11 with at least one really inexperienced(as in first game) player. Now say that you invite over three new people who are decidedly seasoned and used to a very different play style than is being implemented. One of said players opts for a Wizard, and is very good at turning the tides of battle with field control, rather than the fireballs our DM hearts so much. One of the following sessions involves no less than ten archers all converging on the wizard with readied actions with almost no regard for the rest of the group. End of a session comes and he promises there's going to be a new challenge.
That challenge? A barbarian, fighter, wizard and cleric four levels higher than anyone in the party with all their spells dedicated to antimagic effects.
Now, I don't know about the rest of the world, but when I hear "challenge," I don't hear "countermeasures against a single player." We did win, but it was a serious struggle for no other reason than him applying the Tim Allen approach to dungeonmastering. More power is not always the solution; if you want to beat the wizard, try using some of his own tactics against him. Also, listen to your players sometimes; we've given some insight as to what you could do, but we are not seeing any consideration(which, I suppose, I can understand if he believes we already have strategies in mind for these things).
Final note: monk, really consider what it takes to become a prestige class. Going from monk to assassin sounds good on paper, but you decided out of the blue you wanted to do it. We're all just glad we talked you out of killing someone for literally no other reason than to become an assassin. What part of that sounded "lawful" to you? |
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[Dec. 21st, 2009|05:46 am] |
Hey, new RP partner?
I'm really excited about playing with you, too! The idea we had for a scene was awesome. Trust me, I understand wanting to get it played out before we "lose the moment," but if you don't have time to play, please don't bother. You aren't giving me your best, or your full attention, and I know it.
Also, disappearing in the middle of the scene and not coming back for several hours? Not making a very good impression for our future relations. |
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[Dec. 20th, 2009|11:00 pm] |
Ugh. You are so annoying, I'm sorry.
First, you join that RP. I'm perfectly fine with it; it looks like a really fun game.
Then the problems begin. You can't have your way, so you start drama.
I'm so sorry that your post was your "best post" that you've "ever written," but you didn't provide what the GM asked for. You started a pointless argument. When the GM asked us to edit our posts, yes we were slightly upset. But we went, and guess what? We all finished editing the posts in a very short time. All I did was add italics, and add a few sentences, making it so that my character was having a sort of flash back.
That is what most of us did, which is what was asked for our first post.
The GM stated it in her first OOC post, and it was our own faults for not seeing that in the beginning.
So, you go on and on with this pointless argument.
Then you have the nerve to Copy+Paste a few conversations you've had with fellow site-members, in which you were clearly pushing them to make you feel better.
Then you basically say "no, I'm not doing what you want, screw you, I'm gone." Those were your words. "I'm gone."
So, I invited a friend to fill up the empty space you created. And then you come back and say "oh pity me, I'm crying, please change it so that I can have my way." Absolutely not.
And then the last thing, that really made my blood boil...You went to a different game that we are both in, and said "Sorry guys, I'm just really depressed because of a different RP."
I then commented with a sigh, & you start up again, saying that you're feeling ganged up upon, wah wah wah. No. You don't do that. I have no problem with RPing with you.
But when you bring needless drama to every game you're in...Ugh. Just no.
tl;dr...Girl whines and creates needless drama because she didn't get her way. Said drama is created in more than one thread, including a RP that has nothing to do with the original problem. |
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[Dec. 20th, 2009|05:21 pm] |
Yes, I am annoyed. Why do you ask?
Every time I want to RP, and you agree, you somehow manage to find a way to get busy. Even when we both say we are bored and have nothing to do. I make a post for us and you post a few times, then go off and RP elsewhere. I don't care about your other RPs, but why would you ask me to RP with you and then go off and ignore me? Taking an hour to tag me back, yet holding a running conversation with someone else kinda hurts.
And then you have the balls to ask what's wrong when I get upset? Dude, it's not like it's rocket science. Why ask me to RP in the first place? Do you feel bad for me?
And sometimes, when I post to your new topics, you still take forever to tag me back. It's never to the extend you post with everyone else. Yet, you always say I'm your favorite RPer. You love to RP with me. Blah, blah, blah. You never show it, anymore. What happened? I've bent over backwards to do stuff for you, and you just brush my things over like it's second rate. If you don't want to RP, then say so. |
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[Dec. 20th, 2009|12:02 pm] |
You the First:
I'm not sure why you insist on linking to TV Tropes in both your IC and OOC posts. OOC, I can understand, but I feel almost like you're trying to show off. While talking about your character, you link her name to the Meaningful Name trope. You mention having to "break" her (in order to make her a 3D character - leaving me wondering how I can possibly be a deep person since I have, thankfully, never had a terrible experience like the many you want to heap on this character) and link to Break the Cutie. When you discuss her powers, you link "magic" to Applied Phlebotinum. The first few times you did this, I chuckled and figured you were just a kid with a new toy. Now I wonder. Especially because it's showing up in IC posts. Um. Why? This world doesn't even their very own version of the internets. Please stop. I thought it was funny the first few times; now it seems almost pretentious.
You the Second: Please stop playing My Dick is Bigger than Your Dick with our characters. No, really. I don't know about you, but I'm not a prepubescent boy in a locker room, and if I was I don't think I'd whip my schlong out, wag it around, and tell everyone how awesome it is. Hell, do boys even do that? I have no idea, but you do, and you do it with roleplay characters. I don't mind when there's a character that's pretty pimped out, especially when he's the villain. I'm playing a character like that right now, and I'm doing it because the leader trusts me not to muck it up terribly, and I know that if I start to, she'll smack me upside the head. He is ridiculously powerful. He has no moral compunctions. But, clearly, your girl is oh so much more powerful even though she's sixteen and mine, who is somewhere around five hundred, has a lot more experience.
Erm.
And then, when I mention he's not interested at all in sex of any kind (someone made a joke about him being secretly gay because he's not banging any of his hot underlings; it started going too far, so I lol'd and said he's just not interested), you have to point out that there's no way he wouldn't be interested in your girl. And, if he wasn't, she could so totally seduce him. Um. Are we talking about the same character? Mine is a megalomaniacal elitist who thinks the best way to fix the world's problems is mass genocide. He's far too involved with his "master plan" to take time out to bang your chick. Who is on the other side. Who is also a member of one of the (many) races he has decided to destroy. Please start using Earth-logic again.
ETA: Sorry about the wall of text, guys. My browser has decided to default to HTML instead of text rich for some reason, and I keep failing to catch it. |
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| A few short notes |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|08:42 am] |
Drinking and roleplaying
Not a good idea, especially if you're the type who starts drinking and doesn't stop until you pass out.
Sparklytwitpoos
Please leave your Edward wannabe out of our world of darkness
Sex and the vampire
No thanks
Out of character vs In character
Please note what name the post is made under. If its the ooc name, its not roleplay.
Newbies
We love it when you show up, excited about our little world. Please, read the rules and don't piss off the admin. We love our admin and will not listen to you when you start accusing said admin of evilness.
Thank you, and enjoy your stay. |
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| Oye. |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|03:08 am] |
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You.
No means no.
No does not mean, "Here's another scenario." No does not mean, "Here! Here's a different character!"
No ESPECIALLY does not mean, "I'm going to keep throwing ideas and characters at you regardless of how many times you politely decline an RP."
And no EXTRA SUPER does not mean, "Let me spam you with dozens of pics taken from random tabletop RPGs to give you a better idea of my poorly written and poorly developed characters who are pretty much ALL THE SAME GUY, just with a different hair style. Oh, and scales. Don't forget scales."
Also, here's a tip. Internet RP is not tabletop RPG. Please learn the difference. Thanks. |
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| Does a Sue pet make a Sue OC? |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|02:42 pm] |
This rant comes from years of seeing Sue pets over many different fandoms which do not necessarily belong to real Sue OC's. The OC's, however, tend to have some Sue qualities without being nauseating. For simplicity, I'll use a cat for my example. I own two cats IRL, and they are capable of doing surprisingly intelligent things...almost to the point of being creepy. Most of the time, though? They fall gracelessly off the top shelf of their cat tree because they're rolling around trying to look cute, spend hours trying to catch a little red ball of light on the floor, sit on the rim of the bathtub with their tails in the water and then wig out because their tails are wet, and refuse to stop chewing on power cords. They also sit on the toilet or on top of the fridge and yowl at 2am, poop on my bed if I'm away for more than three weeks (I have a petsitter), barf only on the carpeted areas of the apartment, and scratch on the window screens. I understand the desire to make your pet smarter than the average bear and more special than the average unicorn, but how about throwing a few reality candy sprinkles on top of the sugary ball of fur? Sure pets can be trained to do extraordinary things, and sometimes they do out of the world shit on their own. But this is not a Meow Mix commercial, your cat is not going to leave a voicemail on your blackberry singing the themesong. Nor is your cat going to wake you up in the middle of the night and lead you to the attic where your grandfather's old army pistol is hidden because there's some strange dude creeping around your rose bushes. Yes, cats have amazing senses, and they can probably tell when you're about to go into insulin shock...but they're not going to dig through the pantry and bring you a cookie. The pets are Sues. Period. Even in fandoms with cannon magic pets that are extraordinary, these superpets are Sues. They may have unique and rare fur coloring instead of raven hair and violet eyes. They always have an intimate connection with their owners that basically makes them telepathic; owner ponders the idea of beer, cat suddenly appears with beer for owner. They don't have flaws unless it makes them look cute or cool, and they can materialize at the owner's side regardless of where they are to protect them from harm. They invariably try to thread-jack the rp, and usually bring info back to their owner from threads they were never supposed to be in. The question is, does that make the OC owner of the superpet a Sue? The owners I'm referring to are not blatant Sues themselves, but they do approach the fence and sometimes push on it without actually crossing into the sparklie pastures of Suedom. Now, since they're already at the fence, does the Sue-pet push them over and define them as a Sue? And what about the OC's who don't really have Sue qualities other than the Sue-pet?
Edit for clarity:
I should have stated it, my bad. =/ The pets aren't NPC's, they're actually owned by the OC. For example: Annie is a rebel fighter in the "Scorpion King" universe, and she owns a pure white Burmese. She's the only one who plays the cat. She's trained it to carry secret messages to her allies across the desert, all she has to do is speak the name and the cat will find the person. Since Annie's a spy herself the cat protects her from other assassins. It is always at her side, and instinctively knows what to do in case of trouble.
Now, Annie is a little Sue-ish, but her mun's not that bad of a player. The cat, however...is just fucking irritating. It's not a breed that even exists yet, the color is very uncommon, it's portrayed as basically super-human with just the physical feats it can accomplish without ever getting that pretty white coat dirty, it always knows just what Annie wants without her even having to say anything, etc, etc. That's my gripe. When used responsibly, superpets are tons of fun for all...but when their powers are abused it makes me want to stab that person in the face.
The weird juxtaposition is that half the time Annie isn't really a Sue, it's her damn cat. Since she's the one controlling the cat, does that make Annie a Sue? Or just really bad at writing pets? I guess I just wanted your thoughts on it, I don't really expect a "Yes, she IS!" or "No she ISN'T" definite answer. It just gets me all kinds of pissed off when all I want to say is "You know...your OC would be pretty cool without that f*ing cat..." |
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| New Fandom. Same bullshit. |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|10:39 pm] |
You are playing Nathan from Misfits. Well that's fair enough. More then fair enough, actually- it's a badass show and it's nice to see someone else getting into it.
Or at least it should be. Problem is, you? You suck.
( SPOILERS )
This fandom only came into existence a couple of months ago. How it managed to attract so vastly epic a fail in so short a time is both mind-boggling and depressing. |
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| On AUs and OCs and the difference. |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|12:55 pm] |
You. You make my brain bleed. I understand the want to play that character. It's a popular movie, and he's a popular character, and the PB is gorgeous and most people love him. I can even understanding wanting to take the character in the direction you did as an AU - it's an interesting concept, though I wish there had been more back story as to WHY he'd decided to follow that path.
However, there is a difference between playing a character in an AU and playing an OC with a canon character's name and face. If you wanted to play a simpering, confrontational, over-eager and passionate emotional character, you probably shouldn't have picked the character from that movie that is based completely on not being emotional. Even following this "au" that you've created would not suddenly make the character super!emotional, due to how he was raised/the other half of his family.
So, if you want to play a canon character, at least try to make them a little like the character you're trying to play, and if you want to play someone that is the absolute opposite in every way, well, make an OC with the character's face. |
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| BRPS RP recs? |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|06:05 pm] |
Since we spend so much time with bad RPers, I think this community needs a directory of GOOD RPers and communities. If, for example, someone wanted to find a decent place for canon-based Harry Potter RP, they could check the list of places BRPS players recommend.
Just a suggestion; mods, feel free to delete if this post is too off-topic. |
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