RolePlaying in its purest form

[elscouta]

There\'s nothing wrong with discrimination between races. Everyone knows elves and Lemurs own everything (shame on dwarves )

There\'s only one race in the real world and that\'s \'human\'. Human races have disappeared a long time ago (Neolithic if i remember correctly my bio lessons). And as said Golbez, discrimining Germans, Judes, Portugese, Frenchs or Americans is not discriming races, it is discrimining ethnies (BAD X( )

[hook]

Originally posted by Cirque
Id tread carefully on that one. Some people may use roleplaying as justification for racism and discrimination.

ok, tell me exactly how many times did were you cyber-raped or |3i4t<|-|e|> with racistic terms in-game in a MMORPG by a serious role-player and how many times by a 10-16 year old script kiddie who thinks he\'s the l33test guy in town?

[sensless rambling]
oooh, oooh!! idea!! why don\'t we forget the races and just play wiht gray blobs instead - and to completely exterminate any discrimination possible, let\'s cut off the skills, money and all that shite, and to be on the safe side also all pointy objects so noone will have to see blood ...oh, yea, and let\'s censor the chat - or even better, let\'s cancle it out totally, so there won\'t be ANY way someone could call somebody names
[/sensless rambling]

[hook]

Originally posted by Cirque
I dont mean racism towards fictional species in a game...

soooo, if i got your theory right, then you think that if we all role-play so that if someones character is a Kran (s)he\'ll play it like a Kran, forgetting (in game) what your IRL status, race, sex, nationality etc. are THEN you think IRL-based discrimination will magically pop up in a game where you don\'t (usually) talk about IRL stuff and don\'t let it get in the way of your role in the game? ....that\'s whack!

p.s. sorry that i got a bit carried away in the previous post

[karakth]

Well RPers wouldn\'t exactly be able to be ethnicist against RL human races, becasue they\'re not in Yliakum. Also note that Yliakum is a melting point for races, so rather than being directly hostile, some races might consider themselves above other races for being the first to come to Yliakum, first to see the Azure Sun, etc.

[elscouta]

IIRC, Diaboli are a very selfish race that discriminate others. But it\'s true Yliakum is a melting pot.

[Cirque]

*EDIT* Seeing as your not coming to my party ill gate crash yours. Racism (which is a widely accepted term that can, amongst other definitions, mean to show prejudice or bias towards other races, cultures, etc)  towards real life cultures and ethnicities should not be tolerated at all.

What I said wasnt a theory it was a warning that eluded to what I have said in the 1st paragraph of this current post.

Also hook rather than apologise for your 1st post why didnt you just edit it so no apology was needed in the 1st place?

[Monketh]

Originally posted by Cirque
Also hook rather than apologise for your 1st post why didnt you just edit it so no apology was needed in the 1st place?

What:It\'s forum etiquet (<--misspelt) that once someone has replied, you can only \'add\' edits to a post, not correct what you said.
Why:If someone called you a peanut, then said they took it back when you were about to lecture/punch them, would you really care about it being taken back?  Some people are offended by it.


\"Fictional Rascism\" is not a problem, and does add some realism.  

...as long as it isn\'t only against dwarves.

[Cirque]

What: He posted twice in a row. Im assuming he did this in a short period of time before anyone else had a chance to respond.

Why: Even though I dont get the relevance or context of that, yes its called forgiveness.

And im not talking about fictional racism.

[Ineluke]

I have an idea for people to still be able to use common acronyms and still be role playing.

Have the acronyms (lol etc.) be a trigger for a sentence or character animation. If someone types lol instead of their character saying \"lol\" which is nonsense in rp have a character animation and maybe a sound of the character laughing out loud.

Also I dont think that it is possible to roleplay all the time even in ic areas. Lets say you walk up to a person and you start in character talking to them. Eventualy you have to say somethins out of character. Like you want to buy a sword you ask \"Excuse me sir but how much for that fine blade?\" he gives a price but you still dont know the stats for it.

Maybe they should implement tags you click a button and you gety an tag enclosing everything you say and if you really want to be immirsed you can check an option to ignore all text within an tag. An icon would appear above your character indicating that you are ignoring all ooc speach so people would know how to speak to you.

Just trying to get us back on topic a bit...