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Pokopiaposted in No Escape from Reality
Do you play? Can I see your islands? Do you want to see my trash pit that I force bulbasaur and the others to labor in??
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RE: RP Standardsposted in Game Gab
One of my clearest memories is back on Warcraft when I had my brief RP career there, waiting 45 minutes for someone to write a pose that took up ten or eleven full emotes to get through due to the character cap. It was almost all fluff, fairly repetitive, I was annoyed but kept moving. His characterās partner did the same so it took nearly an hour and a half for me to even be able to play.
Sure, I thought. Theyāre setting the scene in this imaginary place we are in. Irking but at least just the first pose.
The second round took even longer and they just ended up referencing most of the same things again, and that was pretty much the moment my Warcraft RP career died and my attitude toward people who claimed that longer writing meant better writing changed forever to the negative.
Combine this with an attempt by a lot of people to carefully address and keep alive every single conversation thread in the previous pose and make sure everything raised gets addressed, it can get exhausting.
I suspect this is part of the reason I bounce off of certain styles of games, posing and scene structures. In a collaborative work, dialogue, action and pacing are the three key elements, much more so than talking about how the wind rustles the leaves of the plants on the shelf a dozen times.
So, all that to say, I think the literate/semi-literate labels are actively harmful, not to mention insultingly inaccurate. When collaboration becomes a performative display at how good you are at writing with yourself, thatās just egotistical masturbation.
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RE: RP Standardsposted in Game Gab
@junipersky said in RP Standards:
I was generally a shorter poster. 1-6 lines. If I could get by with less, I did, because I wanted to keep things snappy.
As I drew closer to the end of my Mu* career the less I could cope with people who took a half-hour + to pose their three massive paragraphs I ended up only responding to a little of.
i knew someone on shang who would take an hour and a half to do a like two page long pose that was so completely and exclusively about themselves that there was literally nothing to react to or act on
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RE: RP Standardsposted in Game Gab
Iām not going to crawl up someoneās ass for being illiterate but Iām also not obligated to put a lot of time and effort into somebody who isnāt my match. If it gets bad, Iāll just politely excuse myself and bounce.
Imo hard standards are useless because 1) people will twist any kind of written rule, do the bare minimum, or get extremely loud and teary about their disability or personal circumstances, and 2) you canāt force two people to hang out together ANYWAY, so itās a problem that solves itself as players suss each other out and pick their partners.
People attract people of similar ability. Theyāll find someone who enjoys their monkey-keyboard-smashing or theyāll move to a game that fits that culture better.
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RE: RP Standardsposted in Game Gab
@junipersky said in RP Standards:
I think that was more me just having more on my plate than before though.
I mean, thereās genuinely been a shift in the hobby, at least where me and my buddies play, toward longer and slower that I donāt necessarily like, I donāt think putting this off on a personal thing is correct. Mostly I hope there are enough people left who still like the kind of RP that I like that I can find My People and My Games.
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RE: RP Standardsposted in Game Gab
I think that rp standards is a personal thing. It might hurt me if you are constantly spelling all the words wrong, but I try to be understanding.
I think rp standard is less game directed and more scene directed. I have problems keeping up with rapid fire but I can do it. Iām a multi paragraph person. Thatās not everyoneās happiness. I try to fit my standard to the story flow of my co-writer.
