Originally posted by Mogura
From what I\'ve heard, seems I\'m the only female character who is actually female in real life.
I\'ve got nothing wrong with guys playing female characters, but... THAT is just scary.
If it makes you feel any better, I know of at least three other female chars who are truly female. (Of course, I also know three female chars who are male, haha)
What\'s really scary is to have a computer geek who is female, Mogura.
(And now I shall duck to avoid the flying mugs.)
Originally posted by Drilixer
hehe - yeah if they implement official marriage in the game there willl alot of accidental gay couples
That\'s nothing. During the brief period I played AD&D: DS: CS on TEN, we had more marriages between same sex characters than opposite sex, and the funny thing is that the couples were of opposite sex in real life.
Trying to find a mate in PlaneShift (and other games of the type) is generally a seriously stupid idea. :-? That\'s one of the reasons I made a website that has so much personal description and, hopefully, will have more pictures. You enter a world where your imagination partly takes over and the game fills in the missing parts, inaccurately of course. Normally, when you meet someone in real life, the first 120 second form a powerful first impression. You gather the person\'s voice, facial features, expressions, manner of speaking, general proportions, and even smell. (i.e. Perfume? Cigarettes? Gasoline?) In PlaneShift, there are usually around 20 players online at a time. You \"meet\" a little dwarf, a hot Enkidukai, a hunk of what looks like rock, or whatever, and you instinctively read that character model. (How many people do you imagine resemble their PS character or their forum signature? More than you would logically plan, I can guarantee that.) Fortunately, after a few minutes you start to distinguish one character from all the rest and develop mental pathways to associate a personality with the character name. Unfortunately, there are so few people around that after a while you just look for someone who is even the slightest bit compatible....and of the correct gender.
PlaneShift is a
great place to find friends, and in this way, it can also be a very good place to find a mate. A mate ought to be your closest friends and sufficiently compatible to be able to say that the person is your better half; not someone who sticks with you, but someone who
is part of you. In this way, those who are lucky enough to find a mate can be very lucky. In real life, it\'s not so easy to intimately meet a lot of potential mates at once. In Planeshift, when you meet someone, all you have to evaluate a person on is his or her dogma. It\'s possible to very quickly form a deep bond that is difficult to find in real life, where the person with whom you\'re speaking is more likely to lie in order to please you.
Those who are fortunate enough to find someone who shares his/her dogmatic views have a few major obstacles to overcome. Location and age may be tough but nowhere near as insurmountable as just meeting the person in real life and associating the person you know in Planeshift with this stranger in front of you. Before meeting, be sure to make a vow to keep at it until it works. Agree to eachother that what brings you together is already established. Meeting the person and finding him or her to be totally different from what you expected can not change what it was that drew you to the person in the first place. I strongly recommend meeting in short bursts. Don\'t start with letters, then graduate to phone calls, then pictures, then meeting...meet all at once for a short period of time. (It\'s best to meet the person as much as possible as early as possible, but of course that is rare, since you don\'t know until after talking with someone for a while whether or not you have found a possible partner.) Meet for a meal at a place where both parties find familiar, like a park that both have frequented. Then, unless you hit it off incredibly well, you\'ll probably be in a state of shock as your perception adjusts. Don\'t get discouraged, just give yourself a little time apart to adjust. Then meet again. It will be totally different the second time.
If you elected to slowly immerse in eachother, taking the slow introduction route, you\'ll find yourself in a long, painful period in which you don\'t have any time to just sit and chat with your partner. The interest will be killed, and the true relationship will be forgotten. If this happens, just look back over old emails and correspondence, and you\'ll remember who you fell in love with.
In the case that you meet the person and he turns out to be she or vice versa, you don\'t have to punch the person in the face, you don\'t have to run away and never speak with the person again, and you don\'t need to change your sexual orientation, but you have the right to throw up...just do so discretely.
What does it mean? Does it mean your relationship was a total fraud? Does it mean you\'re actually gay?
Almost certainly not. Remember, a mate should be your closest friend and should be compatible (including gender). This just means that the person is a good friend. Don\'t feel embarassed, mistakes happen. It\'s very rare for people who have been chatting to ask, \"Are you a male or female?\" That not only seems as though it would be rude, it is something that the mind usually determines on its own early on. The same formula works here: Wait a day or two before talking with eachother.
For the record, the Bible says that crossdressing
in order to trick someone (implied as in tricking someone into improper sexual acts, which can be compared to telling a Jew that a hot dog is beef when it\'s pork) is a sin, for a range of understandable reasons. Of course, you can
play a joke on someone, since you have no intention of tricking the person in any harmful or meaningful way. You can also play the opposite sex in a game, as you\'re simply controlling a gamepiece for all intents and purposes, even if your gamepieces end up getting married, having sex, making babies, and gowing old together, and getting grave plots next to eachother. In other words, PlaneShift crossdressers, have a blast.
Other people are able to gather enough crystals to buy multiple weapons, so you can, too. For all those lonely people without weapons, just know that it
is possible to find your ball-and-chain or cat-o-nine-tails on PlaneShift! (puns definitely intended)
And as my sig indicates, I\'m available.
(\'course, it\'s probably a little creepy, so I may actually remove it.)
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