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Karyuu

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Re: 'Uber' RPing
« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2006, 05:28:58 am »
Which of your viewpoints, that I once opposed, have I now adopted? :)
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Re: 'Uber' RPing
« Reply #31 on: June 27, 2006, 06:02:25 am »
My turn...

So.. i agree with a lot of you, but i feel no one actually hit the nose on how i feel about RP in general. Some of you came very very close, but i guess im picky.

First off.. the term "uber RP" should not be applied to those that you described. I believe in most of those situations, that was simply RP. The only times i find people taking RP "too far" is when:

1. they RP a role for you ahead of time and have this huge plan for what you are supposed to do. I despise this. especially when they have this part for your character that makes absolutely no sense. to me, RP is having a character and being in that character. If you meet someone who that character wouldn't like, then you act as such, or in other words, play your role. You don't have to neccessarily plan anything, just be who you [your character] are. Things will happen, just as they do in RL and any other universe and/or dimension.

2. they RP things that simply make no sense. like having a statue mysteriously suffer an explosion in the arena and it begins to fall on the crowd below. pardon my french but what the heck? sooo many things wrong with that. What explosives could have done such damage? how could a crowd of people jump into that rp? "/me is crushed by the statue and is instantly killed". i can't imagine anyone wanting to do that, or even calling that rp.

Now, as far as /tells. To me, they can be IC or OOC. for example, if i RP a /tell i use  something like "/tell player A young dwarf runs up to you panting as he hands you a note. You open it and it reads, 'message'." I just say i have a messenger that will run messages to people around Yliakum. if a /tell is ooc i sometimes put brackets, but if i don't it is extremely obvious that im not IC.

Thanks for listening

Easton Ghent
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Re: 'Uber' RPing
« Reply #32 on: June 27, 2006, 06:05:05 am »
Which of your viewpoints, that I once opposed, have I now adopted? :)

Oh, dear.  There are so many.  I am not entirely sure that it might not be all of them...

Wherever will I begin?

Oh wait, I have it.

This is truly and wildly off topic.

Yay! Now I don't have to spend hours sifting and quoting old posts.  :)

Big hugs, sweetie.

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Karyuu

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Re: 'Uber' RPing
« Reply #33 on: June 27, 2006, 09:16:26 am »
 ::)

I'm not so certain, Verrliit. Thanks for trying though.
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« Reply #34 on: June 27, 2006, 04:34:30 pm »
It is still my strong opinion that people who do not want to roleplay have no place in PS.
Actually, to be truthful, at least a few of those have become GMs...
Quite indeed. Non-RPers, even PLs. However, the overall GM quality seems to have increased, at least the visible parts. Most GMs nowadays even have proper names.
I would like to thank Seytra, Karyuu, and others of you, who have posted in this thread.

Reading it has been rather a treat for me.

Last year, some of you opposed my viewpoints passionately.

That you have since adopted so many of my positions as your own, and show such understanding, tolerance and patience with those who disagree with you, well, it quite literally brings tears to my eyes.

You have made me very happy.

Thank you so much.

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You're quite welcome, however I fear I need to point out that the posts before the one by Hirogurth (which bumped this old thread) were posted before you even jouned the boards...
Last post before BUMP: Posted on: 21:22:52 - 15.06.2005
Your registration date: 02:33:33 - 21.06.2005

Thus either there has been some sort of misunderstanging over the last year, your post has ended up in the wrong thread, or your PoVs have changed. Whatever it may be, it's good to agree.

Adding to that, the major point that I recall disagreeing with you with, is the /tell as IC vs. OOC issue. And on that, my position has not changed in any way: /tell is, unless in very specific situations, fully OOC. Regardless, I still use parenthesis even in /tells to GMs, in order to avoid any and all possibilities of confusion, as well as maintaining the habit of doing so, thus reducing the chance of accidently forgetting a set of parenthesis when it would be needed.

Edit: spelling
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Re: 'Uber' RPing
« Reply #35 on: June 28, 2006, 03:52:37 am »
Apologies on missing the dates...  The new default colors are difficult to read... 

(I don't suppose there is any chance the dates are a result of the changeover in servers, and are more recent, is there?)

*Sigh*

Oh, well.  I guess I get to look really silly.


But you know...

I liked very much what I saw posted in this thread, whenever it was done.


It never hurts to encourage people, when they do things you approve of. 

So...

More hugs, anyway... :)


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