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thewatchmaker
thewatchmakerSometimes I hate the openness of LJ and other social networks. People who haven’t got a clue get their panties in a bunch and go off about things they don’t understand. They get attention and sympathy from other people who don’t get it either. This makes the whiner feel better, because they are being told they were right, they were a victim, that they were blameless…
Well world that’s bullshit.
Friction only works if you’ve got something to rub against. Try clapping one hand. It doesn’t work.
I’ve watched so many people get into a total snit because of RP. I’ve seen it before. It’s why I don’t RP with amateurs anymore. They can’t keep the real life/RP separated. They identify with the characters so much that they either butcher the character, making it totally unrecognizable, or they start to let the emotions of the character creep into their personal feelings.
Both are unacceptable to the seasoned gamer. What happens in Game stays in Game. What happens in real life happens in real life. The two streams should not cross. I don’t have to like your character to like you. Sadly many noobs and fangirls think it’s all the same thing. Cries of “you don’t like me!” are so junior high that it sends me running for cover.
But there’s a simple solution to this. Get off your cross and make your own community/game. You can play the way you want with the people you want to play with. You can show us all how wrong we were to ignore your greatness and your depth of character.
It’s simple. I can create an LJ community in 5 minutes. You can invite all your friends to play with you. You can create the perfect environment where you’re the boss. It’s just like writing a book with characters that you like telling the story.
Then you can learn that it’s about protecting the book, the world, the characters to create an environment for the other players, not just the drama llamas.
If you do a good job, maybe you’ll get the secret decoder ring and be let into the cult of RP. Without the decoder ring you don’t get the real good fake sex.
Well world that’s bullshit.
Friction only works if you’ve got something to rub against. Try clapping one hand. It doesn’t work.
I’ve watched so many people get into a total snit because of RP. I’ve seen it before. It’s why I don’t RP with amateurs anymore. They can’t keep the real life/RP separated. They identify with the characters so much that they either butcher the character, making it totally unrecognizable, or they start to let the emotions of the character creep into their personal feelings.
Both are unacceptable to the seasoned gamer. What happens in Game stays in Game. What happens in real life happens in real life. The two streams should not cross. I don’t have to like your character to like you. Sadly many noobs and fangirls think it’s all the same thing. Cries of “you don’t like me!” are so junior high that it sends me running for cover.
But there’s a simple solution to this. Get off your cross and make your own community/game. You can play the way you want with the people you want to play with. You can show us all how wrong we were to ignore your greatness and your depth of character.
It’s simple. I can create an LJ community in 5 minutes. You can invite all your friends to play with you. You can create the perfect environment where you’re the boss. It’s just like writing a book with characters that you like telling the story.
Then you can learn that it’s about protecting the book, the world, the characters to create an environment for the other players, not just the drama llamas.
If you do a good job, maybe you’ll get the secret decoder ring and be let into the cult of RP. Without the decoder ring you don’t get the real good fake sex.
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