RP and how if AFFECTS OUR LIVES

[Knightspark9]

I understand to keep me and my character seperate. IE Ardoin has a generally full of himself attitude if he doesn't watch himself. He tries his luck with magic, and does his best at it. But when it comes to emotion between me and my chars? I keep a high brick wall between myself and these characters. At all times this wall must hold.

[miomo]

Sangwa, I didn't mean role playing with myself in the jail, but just my character's intent to visit.

I experience spillover in the following ways. First, I've noticed that my everyday emails are making use of a broader vocabulary. Second, I am scrutinizing stories more, looking for gaps in their plot.

[Chessire]

What's so good about real life anyway? You do it.

Real life is so immersive you believe its real. You just have to play... cause working all day in RL is like grinding all day

[Sangwa]

Miomo, I still don't get you.

And this last "spillover" you talk about is what I call learning.

Knightspark, playing this game is like reading a book. The entertaining part is where you create a light form of empathy with characters and softly brush the experience of their feelings. This "thick wall" is more like a selective membrane, where entertainment passes while both distinct "realities" keep in their places.

Real life is so immersive you believe its real. You just have to play... cause working all day in RL is like grinding all day

Hehe.

[Aramara Meibi]

here's a way rp has affected rl. i'm funny. my timing is impeccable and my snarkiness is of a professional quality. i'm acutely aware of who i'm looking at, glancing at, the expressions I wear on my face etc. I RP my RL.

[Sangwa]

I'd say that you learned more about these things you do, because you had a playground to develop them. You had a training field where you couldn't get hurt or hurt anyone, while testing a great variety of behaviors. It's not that you "roleplay it" now (obviously you can call it what you want), but it's because you are better at playing your real life roles now (that you've always played, but in a different way).

I say this because to me roleplaying is a definite activity that presumes there are rules to be followed, people to agree with them and recreational results expected.

[Knightspark9]

@Sangwa Interesting idea, that.

[Catlemur]

Comparing to this your RP sucks.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s12e07-super-fun-time

[Lady Crankenstein]

Aramara says that at times, she Role Plays her Rea Life

   ME TOO....  it is incredible how much I have to do this just making a living...  the people I do surgeries on are awake, lucid and need me to guide them emotionally every step of the way.... and I do.... even how I breathe sends messages... so I must be the avatar that they can trust and lean on.  Body posture, tone of voice and strong eye contact all are critically under control...  THAT is RL RP.
...   and oddly enough, the RP In Game actually helps , to my surprise, and refines how and what I do in the RL RP.
    As someone said, this is a play ground for us to practice,  we can experience so many things in a safe and yet interactive way.
   LONG LIVE Planeshift, and all you crazies who are with me !


   The most likely time that my life is totally free of RP is when the fingers fade into the fretboard and keyboard, and I vanish into the groove.

[Lady Crankenstein]

aah, the endless hours spent in my room with all my he-man and ninja turtles mounted on my little ponies fighting each other in huge, epic, Tolkien sized battles. Or sending legomen on personal Odysseys up staggering mountains (stairs) to the land of the Gods (the second floor) or into dense jungles (potted plants, or god forbid outside).

    Gosh I wish we knew each other then, because up in the jungle ( potted plants ), the wicked Goddess ( my Barbie ) could have reined terror upon the little sub creatures of the realm ( Lego men ) and sent them to conqour the rich valley ( first floor ) and enslave them all to make shoes to trade for diamonds ( Mom's  ).
  ... until youir mom calls my mom and asks " Maybel, what in the world are those kids doing all day?? My costume jewelry drawer is empty again !" 

La smilin' Crank