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Roleplaying (Communitive Storywriting) / Re: The Arena
« on: April 24, 2013, 11:05:25 pm »
Bzzt! Bzzt! Get out da way! Get out da way, nakey-beasts! I'mma fly, yo! Watch out! I'll take out your eye, yo! Wit ma bizzy wings! Zip zing!
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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread
« on: April 24, 2013, 03:59:13 pm »
Can we not have a fruit called the cumbana? For the sake of the children. Please.
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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread
« on: April 16, 2013, 09:18:01 pm »
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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: Describe a scene in 4 sentences or less - native or english
« on: April 16, 2013, 08:56:00 pm »
Burnt eyes the only guide, my body heaves itself into a tiled cave. Blistered foot slams splintered door, then snags on my shorts. Fall into the stall, and sweat smears the bowl. Plop, plop; aaahh.
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Fan Art / Re: Hydlaa made with minecraft blocks [in progress]
« on: April 13, 2013, 01:24:03 am »
My offer still stands.
By the way, where's the RCD interior you promised to upload?
By the way, where's the RCD interior you promised to upload?
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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread
« on: April 11, 2013, 11:36:00 pm »
Illysia, I am telling you how people work. This has nothing to do with me personally. Or you personally. My post is an attempt to provide you knowledge, which you lack and need in order for this to work. Re-read our posts without so much emotional involvement. Step back and be objective. None of your ideas will see success if you cannot detach your feelings from them.
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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread
« on: April 11, 2013, 03:05:28 pm »
Obviously relevance is subjective. Please read Rigwyn's posts again. My post tries to explain his line of thought, though I try to explain in another way and go into a bit of a segue. I'll try to make this easier to understand.
You, Illysia, provide exposition when you write these news articles. (I assume you know what this is, but I'm linking the Wikipedia page for those who do not.)
When your character writes these articles, she is providing believable exposition. The information she is sharing comes from events that really did occur. This is relevant to our characters. This is immersive.
When you, the player, write the articles, you are forcing information on us. We have to question, "Would this really happen in Yliakum? Should I trust Illysia's creativity?" We are not sure if the information is relevant to our characters because we cannot place any credibility in it. You are not a developer. We cannot trust you to know Octarchal fashion. Your questionable credibility breaks immersion.
And then I should explain my segue. Too much exposition is bad. Doesn't matter if you're a writer, a roleplayer, or relating the day's events to your friend. All we need is what is relevant to our characters. By my example, I was not trying to say this is a matter of personal preference, but instead that we are more likely to be interested in news that is relevant to us through our characters. There is enough roleplay that you can report on the roleplay and forget about reporting fictitious (irrelevant) events. If there really is no roleplay... Then don't report anything at all.
You are not going to spark roleplay with news articles. The best thing you can do is reward players by involving their roleplay in your news.
You, Illysia, provide exposition when you write these news articles. (I assume you know what this is, but I'm linking the Wikipedia page for those who do not.)
When your character writes these articles, she is providing believable exposition. The information she is sharing comes from events that really did occur. This is relevant to our characters. This is immersive.
When you, the player, write the articles, you are forcing information on us. We have to question, "Would this really happen in Yliakum? Should I trust Illysia's creativity?" We are not sure if the information is relevant to our characters because we cannot place any credibility in it. You are not a developer. We cannot trust you to know Octarchal fashion. Your questionable credibility breaks immersion.
And then I should explain my segue. Too much exposition is bad. Doesn't matter if you're a writer, a roleplayer, or relating the day's events to your friend. All we need is what is relevant to our characters. By my example, I was not trying to say this is a matter of personal preference, but instead that we are more likely to be interested in news that is relevant to us through our characters. There is enough roleplay that you can report on the roleplay and forget about reporting fictitious (irrelevant) events. If there really is no roleplay... Then don't report anything at all.
You are not going to spark roleplay with news articles. The best thing you can do is reward players by involving their roleplay in your news.
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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread
« on: April 11, 2013, 02:42:18 am »I believe I know what you are getting at but I believe it raises inconsistencies. First and foremost is that everything from the least detail of settings up was "completely made up" at some point. Even RPs only have a subjective kind of inherent substance.
You completely misunderstood Rigwyn. He is not commenting on fiction itself. He is making a distinction between news that was spawned for the sole purpose of conversation and news of events that actually occurred in the game. He prefers the latter because it is tangible. It is relevant to our characters, and thus relevant to us. Therefore, the former becomes inconsequential. People often ignore information that is irrelevant to them. Even if they did read the irrelevant information, it would soon be forgotten because it had no connection to them.
When I open up a newspaper (or a news site these days), I only read articles that interest me. Relevant articles such as North Korea targeting my home city. Everything else is useless information, according to my brain. If I forced myself to read an article on the current state of the economy, I would not retain that information. It is irrelevant to me because I'm a jobless moocher. So, I'm not likely to bother reading economic articles because 1) they're a bore and 2) I won't remember anything I read.
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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread
« on: April 10, 2013, 06:37:57 pm »I think we have less fools and jerks now so such things are probably not as much of an issue.
This is only because we have less players total.
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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread
« on: April 10, 2013, 11:29:39 am »
Illysia, it would be great if you could occasionally incorporate news-worthy events from actual roleplays.
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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: Rust In Peace, Iron Lady
« on: April 08, 2013, 06:01:55 pm »Margaret "Hatchet" Thatcher and Ronald "Raygun" Reagan- two of the most evil influences on the health and wellbeing of the world in the history of the real world.
RR
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General Discussion / Re: Stashka--- ! Come back , little Dermorian!
« on: April 08, 2013, 05:53:47 pm »