Ever since I made a new set of aliases for my role-play that have the words role-play in them I've found that people pm me without me even having to post an ad about role-play. This really was brilliant, especially when I put the word "female" in it people jumped to pm me. However great this is, it's been a mixed bag. Now that I have the word female and role-play in my alias I tend to get a lot of people whom I'd never role-play with. My grammar and spelling suck probably more than most people, however I do believe that I have reached a certain level of spelling or grammar that it is at least obvious how hard I try to maintain it. Justification for my bad grammar or not, I tend to judge people pretty harshly if they pm me. The judgement I use in pms tend to revolve around font size and grammar. The basic grammar I'm looking for is capitalization and endings on sentences. This is quite the basic grammar and spelling which should also include purposely spelling words wrong for the sake of laziness as a prereq. It's so funny though how if someone successfully identifies me as being judgmental they think they have me in some sort of corner. Now that they've identified me as judgmental they thing they have me on the ropes, that I must either defend myself or withdraw my judgments for simply being judgmental is too horrible to ever accept as a truth. However, I find my judgmental behavior to be a great and wonderful tool. It lets me throw out role-play requests that are simple not worth my time. The negative connotation that goes along with the idea of judgmental is one that is very telling of whether or not the speaker understands the word judgment. To judge something is a very important skill. For instance, judges in our court of law are not seen as evil horrible people for being judgmental but rather upholders of justice. So do I see myself as upholding justice? No not at all, there is a better comparison. The judgmental attitude of a boss whom is hiring new employs will easily give them an edge up on not hiring people whom will be a waste of money to train. This judgmental attitude saves them huge amounts of time and money therefor making it one of their most valued aspects as a person. So, when it comes to being judgmental I see it as nothing but a compliment. Anyone who thinks I must concede must rethink their position and get a new understanding of judgmental behavior.
Actual conversation which inspired this blog:
GOTYA: So just because of my font....you are rejecting me
roleplays_female_characters: Your grammar is pretty bad too.
GOTYA: how so
roleplays_female_characters: How so.*****
roleplays_female_characters: So just because of my font... you are rejecting me.
roleplays_female_characters: ****
GOTYA: What do you want me to say that you would consider proper grammer
roleplays_female_characters: I mean.
roleplays_female_characters: You're just out of the consideration.
roleplays_female_characters: You had your chance when you got here and failed.
roleplays_female_characters: You WILL NOT role-play with me.
GOTYA: Whatever I don't have time for your judgemental attitude
roleplays_female_characters: Okay well then don't let me take it. Have a nice day
GOTYA: Very well but you were the one with the judgemental attitude not me
roleplays_female_characters: I am very happy with my judgemental attitude.
roleplays_female_characters: It's a very helpful tool to me, so just labeling it judgemental isn't an effective way to get me to change my opinion.
GOTYA: Ok but I don't see how you can find anyone to rp with
roleplays_female_characters: Well.
roleplays_female_characters: People come with not silly fonts and proper attempts at grammar.
End of actual conversation which inspired this blog:
Monday, October 22, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Mutli-player role-play, an analysis and discussion
It often comes up that I sit in huge defense of the one liners in the role-play world. This might seem weird me being a role-player who does only multi-paragraph role-play and find one lining as revolting on site as all the other elitist, but let me explain myself. I don't know if it's in my blood but the things I tend to find the most fault in is anything condescending. I feel I've lost loyalty for the people who are my peers (I hate loyalty so that's fine with me), which inspired me in this post to at the very least show some open criticisms of all groups. However, this isn't a post specific to knocking down all the different groups of role-players, it only came to mind that maybe I should include it in this post. No this post for talking about multi-player role-playing!
I've noticed myself that I personally find my role-plays to 99% of the time (made up statistic) be one on one role-play. There could be many possible reasons for this, but to be fair I'll approach this from a way that really slinks through the muck and seconds as a analysis and cut up of the different role-play groups. To get right to it, the three groups I'll analyze are called.
One liners
Semi paragraphers and
Para to multiparagraphers
This all is really straight forward if you don't understand. The one liners post things that generally go from one to two lines, the semi paragraphers make it slightly above this but not to what we'd call a paragraph and the para to multiparagraphers reach a paragraph and beyond. However simple this may seem however we must explain exactly what we mean by "paragraph." Although one liner is pretty easy to understand, what designates a paragraph? It's funny because wikipedia says it's "one line or more" but goes on to say that it has to do whether or not you've started a "new line." This however doesn't seem to hold up as quite right, at least for role-playing terms (and I suspect english class). So, lets define it for role-playing clearly. A paragraph tends to be well, somewhere around six (I don't know if this feels right, please give any thought on this subject) and above lines. This can be dictated however by whether or not you have a word limit to each individual "post," a post being in a private message or chatroom how many words or units you're allowed to type before it either won't allow you more or will just not show it to the rest of the chatters. So, it can vary, but that tends to be a paragraph. So a semi paragrapher tends to be someone who makes it halfway through a post. It's easy to see than a multi-paragrapher would be someone who posts more than two post lengths (this can be further complicated by things like, yahoo chatrooms and yahoo private messages have different post lengths). However, the divisions tend to be clear. Before I move on, one more thing to make clear is that paragraph role-players and multi-paragraph role-players tend to be separate groups but for the sake of understanding this particular post it's easier to lump them together. Besides, most tend to be okay with one or the other. I've even seen a lot settle for semi-paragraph but this is not nearly as common as para and multi-para. So, lets analyze the groups real quick.
It's easy to see the appeal of one lining. It's FAST. You can go through scenes lightning quick, letting you jump through characters actions. From what I've noticed it tends to be action based. "I do this, you do that. He did this, she does that." that sort of thing. This leaves most description out of the question. Although I've shown this to be a state of "infancy" for role-players in previous blogs, where they grow up and go through the other stages to become 'elitists,' let me say this isn't always true. Some people never leave this state and stay happily in it.
So, semi paragraph role-players. This is actually very similar to one liners in my view (It's why I tend to not role-play with them.) I see it as modified one lining. You're still blowing out posts real fast with action based role-play, but you give yourself just enough room to leave some description for the actions. You'll never see beautiful described scenes like you will in the longer lengths of role-play, but that's okay if you think about it anyways because if you're PLAYING a ROLE why in the world are you talking about the setting and scenery right? However flawed this logic is, it's a good reminder that as someone who resides in the "upper class" of the role-playing world I might actually be the weird one (which is probably where all my sympathy comes from).
Para to multi-paragraph role-play. This isn't as clear cut as to what it is. We could separate these groups into SEVERAL different groups if we wanted. I tend to think of these people as having a higher percentage of description per action but that doesn't always tend to be the case. Some people, in an attempt to actively avoid being a smaller set of posts, may have their character do nine or ten things in one post (and when I say things I don't mean, the slightest move of their arm, I mean complicated to simple things). So it can range from action heavy to description heavy. Lets be clear that I include dialogue under "actions" even though it's really not action heavy.
Okay, so what the fuck does that have to do with multi-people role-play? Well I'm gonna analyze among these groups which would be better for this and in what settings. So lets get started
ONE LINERS: I think that one liners are gonna have an easy time doing multi-player role-playing. You put very little time or thought into your post (maybe you put a lot of thought, I don't know I don't do one lining) either way it's probably not a lot of work. What this means is that you will end up short waiting time, so even if you have say ten people, you can react fast. However I feel like because of the very fact that it's one lining you'll have... very little room to react. I suppose that if they reacted to "all ten people" then they'd be getting into semi-paragraph lengths and it'd stop being considered one lining. However, in a chatroom this tends to work really well. I see it as ADD, you have people giving an individual post to EACH persons post. There is no order to it, you just post back and forth and it's probably gotta be very freeing. However, if you were to try to organize this I think it'd be an awful setting for multi-player role-playing. If we were to try and organize this into an email setting, it just doesn't even make sense... so it has no place there.
SEMI-PARAGRAPH: This actually I feel like is a good medium for ORGANIZED multi-player role-play. You have a conference set up, you each wait your turn for a post and do moderately long posts that can respond to each other post without having to wait to long. It's almost perfect. In a chatroom it takes on the same sort of feel to one lining, you can kinda ignore each person and do your own thing, but it's not as strongly oriented into the speed so it tends to be a little harder. I feel like this is best left in a conference. It could be organized into emails, but because of the nature of the speed and length it tends to be a pretty silly thought throwing it into the empty wait of an email.
PARA TO MULTI-PARAGRAPH: This doesn't belong in a chat-room in my personal opinion. It's fine to role-play either of these, but I've noticed that most of the time people latch on to one person or another and ignore everyone else entirely. This isn't the ADD of one lining where you jump back and forth, this is completely sticking to one other person. At this point it's not even multi-player, you just all happen to be in the same spot. It's not completely undoable in a conference and organized, it can work, but it tends to be this ridiculously long wait time. Now, wait time isn't a problem I can entertain myself doing other things, but if you had it in a conference people would want you to start posting the second a new post came in and if I successful distracted myself I probably would draw away from the role-play just as successful. What I tend to think is this belongs in EMAILS. Emails are a perfect environment because it's not like you're all having to be present during the role-play, it can be days before someone responds (but if I know my role-players, and I think I do, it won't be days). This tends to get into a territory that's almost not role-playing... except we don't control each others characters, which is each taking turns writing chapters in a book. It's a fun exercise which I've basically had no experience in because before I was so elitist I hated other peoples posts to the point where I chased of role-players in about two posts. To be clear, I'd like to try more now that I've gotten better about not caring how other people posts, but I haven't gotten to it. I'm busy busy busy. I will say though if you leave it to THREE players, a conference role-play can be achieved. Lets just hold someone's not the third wheel on a two wheeler bike.
So, here's the problem with what I wrote, these groups don't REALLY exist. Yes we all use them and yes we all try to stick to them, but people are fluid. Some people stick to the categories and some people move in and out of all of them. Some people are action based and some aren't, it's just not as simple as I laid it out. However, this can give you a good idea to not waste your time trying multi-player role-playing when it really just doesn't make any sense. I feel like this is a good time to look at WHY we have problems with having a general community as role-players (at least on yahoo). Since we have all these problems with being able to do multi-player role-plays, the role-plays tend to be one on one and very intimate. Beyond that, the intimacy tends to stick into private pms. In privacy being a total asshole, an emotional idiot, a controlling jerk, or an elitist snob tends to not leak out to the rest of the community well enough. I'll get into more in my next post as to WHY I think this really hurts the community, but before I talk about communities as a whole I want to further educate and explore online forums and bring that into the discussion.
Either way, happy role-play hunting
SuperCompoundRper
-kiss kiss-
I've noticed myself that I personally find my role-plays to 99% of the time (made up statistic) be one on one role-play. There could be many possible reasons for this, but to be fair I'll approach this from a way that really slinks through the muck and seconds as a analysis and cut up of the different role-play groups. To get right to it, the three groups I'll analyze are called.
One liners
Semi paragraphers and
Para to multiparagraphers
This all is really straight forward if you don't understand. The one liners post things that generally go from one to two lines, the semi paragraphers make it slightly above this but not to what we'd call a paragraph and the para to multiparagraphers reach a paragraph and beyond. However simple this may seem however we must explain exactly what we mean by "paragraph." Although one liner is pretty easy to understand, what designates a paragraph? It's funny because wikipedia says it's "one line or more" but goes on to say that it has to do whether or not you've started a "new line." This however doesn't seem to hold up as quite right, at least for role-playing terms (and I suspect english class). So, lets define it for role-playing clearly. A paragraph tends to be well, somewhere around six (I don't know if this feels right, please give any thought on this subject) and above lines. This can be dictated however by whether or not you have a word limit to each individual "post," a post being in a private message or chatroom how many words or units you're allowed to type before it either won't allow you more or will just not show it to the rest of the chatters. So, it can vary, but that tends to be a paragraph. So a semi paragrapher tends to be someone who makes it halfway through a post. It's easy to see than a multi-paragrapher would be someone who posts more than two post lengths (this can be further complicated by things like, yahoo chatrooms and yahoo private messages have different post lengths). However, the divisions tend to be clear. Before I move on, one more thing to make clear is that paragraph role-players and multi-paragraph role-players tend to be separate groups but for the sake of understanding this particular post it's easier to lump them together. Besides, most tend to be okay with one or the other. I've even seen a lot settle for semi-paragraph but this is not nearly as common as para and multi-para. So, lets analyze the groups real quick.
It's easy to see the appeal of one lining. It's FAST. You can go through scenes lightning quick, letting you jump through characters actions. From what I've noticed it tends to be action based. "I do this, you do that. He did this, she does that." that sort of thing. This leaves most description out of the question. Although I've shown this to be a state of "infancy" for role-players in previous blogs, where they grow up and go through the other stages to become 'elitists,' let me say this isn't always true. Some people never leave this state and stay happily in it.
So, semi paragraph role-players. This is actually very similar to one liners in my view (It's why I tend to not role-play with them.) I see it as modified one lining. You're still blowing out posts real fast with action based role-play, but you give yourself just enough room to leave some description for the actions. You'll never see beautiful described scenes like you will in the longer lengths of role-play, but that's okay if you think about it anyways because if you're PLAYING a ROLE why in the world are you talking about the setting and scenery right? However flawed this logic is, it's a good reminder that as someone who resides in the "upper class" of the role-playing world I might actually be the weird one (which is probably where all my sympathy comes from).
Para to multi-paragraph role-play. This isn't as clear cut as to what it is. We could separate these groups into SEVERAL different groups if we wanted. I tend to think of these people as having a higher percentage of description per action but that doesn't always tend to be the case. Some people, in an attempt to actively avoid being a smaller set of posts, may have their character do nine or ten things in one post (and when I say things I don't mean, the slightest move of their arm, I mean complicated to simple things). So it can range from action heavy to description heavy. Lets be clear that I include dialogue under "actions" even though it's really not action heavy.
Okay, so what the fuck does that have to do with multi-people role-play? Well I'm gonna analyze among these groups which would be better for this and in what settings. So lets get started
ONE LINERS: I think that one liners are gonna have an easy time doing multi-player role-playing. You put very little time or thought into your post (maybe you put a lot of thought, I don't know I don't do one lining) either way it's probably not a lot of work. What this means is that you will end up short waiting time, so even if you have say ten people, you can react fast. However I feel like because of the very fact that it's one lining you'll have... very little room to react. I suppose that if they reacted to "all ten people" then they'd be getting into semi-paragraph lengths and it'd stop being considered one lining. However, in a chatroom this tends to work really well. I see it as ADD, you have people giving an individual post to EACH persons post. There is no order to it, you just post back and forth and it's probably gotta be very freeing. However, if you were to try to organize this I think it'd be an awful setting for multi-player role-playing. If we were to try and organize this into an email setting, it just doesn't even make sense... so it has no place there.
SEMI-PARAGRAPH: This actually I feel like is a good medium for ORGANIZED multi-player role-play. You have a conference set up, you each wait your turn for a post and do moderately long posts that can respond to each other post without having to wait to long. It's almost perfect. In a chatroom it takes on the same sort of feel to one lining, you can kinda ignore each person and do your own thing, but it's not as strongly oriented into the speed so it tends to be a little harder. I feel like this is best left in a conference. It could be organized into emails, but because of the nature of the speed and length it tends to be a pretty silly thought throwing it into the empty wait of an email.
PARA TO MULTI-PARAGRAPH: This doesn't belong in a chat-room in my personal opinion. It's fine to role-play either of these, but I've noticed that most of the time people latch on to one person or another and ignore everyone else entirely. This isn't the ADD of one lining where you jump back and forth, this is completely sticking to one other person. At this point it's not even multi-player, you just all happen to be in the same spot. It's not completely undoable in a conference and organized, it can work, but it tends to be this ridiculously long wait time. Now, wait time isn't a problem I can entertain myself doing other things, but if you had it in a conference people would want you to start posting the second a new post came in and if I successful distracted myself I probably would draw away from the role-play just as successful. What I tend to think is this belongs in EMAILS. Emails are a perfect environment because it's not like you're all having to be present during the role-play, it can be days before someone responds (but if I know my role-players, and I think I do, it won't be days). This tends to get into a territory that's almost not role-playing... except we don't control each others characters, which is each taking turns writing chapters in a book. It's a fun exercise which I've basically had no experience in because before I was so elitist I hated other peoples posts to the point where I chased of role-players in about two posts. To be clear, I'd like to try more now that I've gotten better about not caring how other people posts, but I haven't gotten to it. I'm busy busy busy. I will say though if you leave it to THREE players, a conference role-play can be achieved. Lets just hold someone's not the third wheel on a two wheeler bike.
So, here's the problem with what I wrote, these groups don't REALLY exist. Yes we all use them and yes we all try to stick to them, but people are fluid. Some people stick to the categories and some people move in and out of all of them. Some people are action based and some aren't, it's just not as simple as I laid it out. However, this can give you a good idea to not waste your time trying multi-player role-playing when it really just doesn't make any sense. I feel like this is a good time to look at WHY we have problems with having a general community as role-players (at least on yahoo). Since we have all these problems with being able to do multi-player role-plays, the role-plays tend to be one on one and very intimate. Beyond that, the intimacy tends to stick into private pms. In privacy being a total asshole, an emotional idiot, a controlling jerk, or an elitist snob tends to not leak out to the rest of the community well enough. I'll get into more in my next post as to WHY I think this really hurts the community, but before I talk about communities as a whole I want to further educate and explore online forums and bring that into the discussion.
Either way, happy role-play hunting
SuperCompoundRper
-kiss kiss-
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Invisible to everyone
So, I have wanted to write a blog really thinking over the
idea of someone going on yahoo chat and being invisible. Unfortunately, I’m
currently dealing with someone who does this very thing. I hate to make a blog
that will seem like I’m attacking this very person, and I won’t, but let me
assure the reader whom I know will read this blog that this isn’t a personal
attack. I’ve had this blog already in the making for quite some time and
decided not to wait just because it’ll be criticizing behavior of someone who
reads the blog.
So, on yahoo there is a feature that someone can do called “being
invisible.” You’re online, you can interact with people, but they can’t see you
on their buddy list. This is a nice feature for certain people, I suppose, and
you can even come on and have mass invisibility. This last part makes perfect
sense. Say you only want to talk to one person and so you mass invisible and
just chit chat with the one person. However you’re almost defeating the purpose
if you however stay invisible all the time. Although, I’m all for free country
and free yahoo where people invisible all the time if they really want to, but
really people? I don’t quite understand the point. All you do is invite people
to pm you when you’re not on to check if you are on, which then if you don’t
want to talk to them you literally have to ignore. IF you use it selectively,
you get the power of turning off all pms because people will assume you’re off,
if however it’s always on your letting them know that you’re invisible and they
should expect you to be on even when it says you’re not (Which is always). I can find one logical reason why someone may
do something like this, which is to have power over the other person. You only
ever get to have conversations when YOU want them. If someone pms you, you
pretend you’re away (Like pretending you’re asleep in bed) and wait till they
run out of steam. However, if you’re trying to have a friendship and you’re making
it so you have all the power it’s not really a two-way street is it? It’s a one
way street, you have ALL the power. I find it annoying when people who are
really personal with me, sharing their ins and outs of their life and being
really friendly, are always invisible. It’s not a friendship in my eyes; it’s
broken the meaning of friendship. However there are excuses which I haven’t
listed that have been served up to me as possible main courses for my once
every ten minutes meal of logical justification, which I don’t buy because well…
they’re bullshit. Maybe. Here’s the first.
“I have a rp stalker.” Actually, this is the only real
excuse, they all just kinda come in different variations of this. Now I can’t
speak for the mechanics of things like ‘yazzak’ or whatever it’s called, but in
yahoo this makes literally no sense. So
if you have a stalker there are many ways in which they can stalk you. The
easiest route of course is to block them, but say you want to keep them around
so YOU can decide when you want to talk to them right? Well, putting them on
invisible individually will work that out. They may have other scree names, but
you ARE invisible to other people who aren’t added. If they add you and trick
you on another screen name you’ll find that, being invisible all the time won’t
really help you with this…. They’ll realize that you’re invisible to everyone and
just start pming you all the time. Really, just keep blocking them. Eventually
they will give up. Breaking friendships by putting everyone on invisible all
the time really can’t’ be worth it can it? I had someone I talked to once who
insisted that I wasn’t their friend, even though we talked constantly and shared
things about our lives. I couldn’t help but feel that we had different
understandings of the word friend. However, this didn’t stop him from insisting
that I could not call him friend. Friends were a close inner circle to him.
This may be how you see yourself with your role-playing partners, but it puts
you at a distance. Some people want this distance, others don’t. Me personally? Well honestly I don’t’ REALLY
care if I’m super close with someone, but when you act like we are and then put
me at a distance with invisible to everyone it kinda makes me bitter. I suppose
that’s my fault right? Oh well.
Sincerely
Sincerely
The Kind Bottom
Monday, June 4, 2012
Rape, it's use in yahoo chatrooms and the internet at large
I've reached my boiling point far to often on this subject, which I realize makes me incredibly biased. I wanted to ask though, what's up people? Why is this incredibly insensitivity happening constantly? Do people just not understand what the word rape means? Why am I constantly feeling I have to explain this? I figured I'd make this post and then shut up forever on this subject since no one seems to give a flying monkey's ass that people are using the word totally wrong.
So rape, is the non consensual act of sexual violence.When someone rapes another person, they're forcing sex on them without the other persons consent. In any circumstances were there is any semblance of consent, it's not rape. It might still be awful, for example when my ex pressured me into sex I didn't want and it really scarred me, but it's not rape. It might also be great for the two people, like when someone sneaks up on someone and starts touching them and the other person is promiscuous enough to return the feeling, but it's still not rape. So in short, people can't enjoy being raped. Some people might jump to the defense and say, what about the people who role-play rape in their bedrooms and online? But that's not rape, there is consent to it. They're consenting to letting the person act as if they're raping them. It's much less rape and much more a fantasy bastardization of it. It's really a psychological misunderstanding of what rape is. It's PRETEND. And although these people make an emotional response of queasiness in me (OR rather my over-sensitivity to the subject does), they haven't done anything wrong. It's not rape! I'll never role-play it with them, but I won't tell them they shouldn't. I'll just get queasy...
Now that we have an understanding of the lines of rape, so they're clear, we can discuss the incredibly ridiculousness of people in chatrooms of yahoo (and everywhere else on the internet). How often do I go into a chatroom and two friends who aren't really in a romantic relationship but want to express their appreciation of the other persons sexual attractiveness by saying "heheh -rapes so and so-" to which the person usually responds "-enjoys-." They've broken the definition, it's not rape if someone consents and enjoys it. A lot of the times people will announce this too! "It's not rape if I like it!" <-- No, you're right! Still it goes on. The people say rape over and over and over again till I get dizzy in the head. So what's up people? I don't quite understand the bedroom role-play and such, but I understand it enough to just kind of ignore it. This however I simply don't understand at all. My mind tries to wrap around this and I find myself nothing but frustrated and angry with little understanding. I suppose I could slap my all purpose 'people are stupid' statement on top of it and accept it as it is (This is probably what I'll have to do...), but I figured, I'd ask my readers what you think. Tell me, what's up people?
Happy rp hunting
SuperCompoundRper <3
So rape, is the non consensual act of sexual violence.When someone rapes another person, they're forcing sex on them without the other persons consent. In any circumstances were there is any semblance of consent, it's not rape. It might still be awful, for example when my ex pressured me into sex I didn't want and it really scarred me, but it's not rape. It might also be great for the two people, like when someone sneaks up on someone and starts touching them and the other person is promiscuous enough to return the feeling, but it's still not rape. So in short, people can't enjoy being raped. Some people might jump to the defense and say, what about the people who role-play rape in their bedrooms and online? But that's not rape, there is consent to it. They're consenting to letting the person act as if they're raping them. It's much less rape and much more a fantasy bastardization of it. It's really a psychological misunderstanding of what rape is. It's PRETEND. And although these people make an emotional response of queasiness in me (OR rather my over-sensitivity to the subject does), they haven't done anything wrong. It's not rape! I'll never role-play it with them, but I won't tell them they shouldn't. I'll just get queasy...
Now that we have an understanding of the lines of rape, so they're clear, we can discuss the incredibly ridiculousness of people in chatrooms of yahoo (and everywhere else on the internet). How often do I go into a chatroom and two friends who aren't really in a romantic relationship but want to express their appreciation of the other persons sexual attractiveness by saying "heheh -rapes so and so-" to which the person usually responds "-enjoys-." They've broken the definition, it's not rape if someone consents and enjoys it. A lot of the times people will announce this too! "It's not rape if I like it!" <-- No, you're right! Still it goes on. The people say rape over and over and over again till I get dizzy in the head. So what's up people? I don't quite understand the bedroom role-play and such, but I understand it enough to just kind of ignore it. This however I simply don't understand at all. My mind tries to wrap around this and I find myself nothing but frustrated and angry with little understanding. I suppose I could slap my all purpose 'people are stupid' statement on top of it and accept it as it is (This is probably what I'll have to do...), but I figured, I'd ask my readers what you think. Tell me, what's up people?
Happy rp hunting
SuperCompoundRper <3
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
OKAY, update on comments
In my last blog I asked people to please be more interactive because it made me sad that you weren't.... I apparently had restricted comments! Someone notified me of this (They will be forever loved <3<3<3<3) and now anyone can comment! COMMENT AWAY :3 I'm so fucking excited.
Sincerely
SuperCompoundRper
Sincerely
SuperCompoundRper
Monday, May 28, 2012
WOW, Where y'all coming from?
Okay guys! This is so coolio. Ever since I realized the function to look at who's coming to my blog I've been excitingly counting the numbers of people who visited as it goes up and not visiting it as much as possible so I don't throw off the numbers (Although I'm probably 200 of the google chrome views). I didn't realize I could see WHERE you people were looking from. I have 42 views from Russia? Look at all these different places! It makes me feel so special. However, there is one problem though.... I seem to never get feedback from you guys. I'd love to have a much larger active discussion of this blog and all it's contacts, but not just a discussion but just... any interactions! It's hard to believe I get so many views! So please, if you read this blog, start commenting on it! Follow it! Send me a message on yahoo saying hi :) Even if you disagree (In fact, I love criticism).
Anyways, I just thought I'd let you know, I'd love to interact with more role-players of the world!
Anyways, I just thought I'd let you know, I'd love to interact with more role-players of the world!
Happy role-play hunting
SuperCompoundRper
Saturday, May 26, 2012
OH HAI 2
Hey! So I'm proud I've been posting a lot lately, even if the quality is only so so... I plan on making a really good one about romance soon but I thought until that happens I should let y'all know it might be a little bit since I'm gonna put a lot of time into it. Until then enjoy yourself! One of my not as important blogs accidentally got deleted cause I thought it was an old draft, but apparently I'm just an idiot... anyways it was just about having a nice role-play experience and isn't an important blog anyways. I figured the culmination of those two things plus the fact that on the 17th-23rd I'll be away on a vacation of sorts so I won't be posting was a good enough reason to post this crappery of a role-play blog. SEE YOU AROUND FANS :)
PS: Here's a picture
PS: Here's a picture
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
House of BlackFlame
I thought I'd give a little shout out and discuss about a cool idea I came across today (Which apparently it just came out, so I'm like all up to date and everything) called "House of BlackFlame." However cliche the mean side of mean likes think the word blackflame is, this is actually a cool site made by a group of role-players that want to start a role-playing 'clan' (I hope clan is the right word). It's a really nice and prettied up site with a few rules (Meaning less than the common role-players character profile site, don't be afraid it should be easy to meet these rules) with a setting all picked up for you. The ideas that they allow you to do are limitless (How brave of them!) which means, if there's conflict, I suppose they'll work it out as moderates? I don't know, but either way I wish them the best of luck!
This brings me to the small topic I wanted to talk about which was, reclaiming role-play. In the past I've blogged about how all role-players like to do is bitch and that if there was a golden age that the golden age has gone away due to the massive amounts of bitching and meanness people like to sling around each other like bored monkeys with poo at the zoo (A POO JOKE LAWL). As an attempt to redeem this role-play world to myself I've of course taken the easy way out which is this blog. All this blog really does remind any of the readers that... role-players are out there, they care about role-play, and that they want us to get along. Also hopefully, it's entertaining and intellectually stimulating. This site [http://www.houseofblackflame.com/join.html] however is a much more direct and harder approach at it, so my whole point was, GOOD FOR THEM. They're actually stepping up to the plate and doing it, so I really wanted to put this out there as I sincerely respect these people and their attempts at redemption and fun role-play. Check em out!. Happy role-play hunting! :)
This brings me to the small topic I wanted to talk about which was, reclaiming role-play. In the past I've blogged about how all role-players like to do is bitch and that if there was a golden age that the golden age has gone away due to the massive amounts of bitching and meanness people like to sling around each other like bored monkeys with poo at the zoo (A POO JOKE LAWL). As an attempt to redeem this role-play world to myself I've of course taken the easy way out which is this blog. All this blog really does remind any of the readers that... role-players are out there, they care about role-play, and that they want us to get along. Also hopefully, it's entertaining and intellectually stimulating. This site [http://www.houseofblackflame.com/join.html] however is a much more direct and harder approach at it, so my whole point was, GOOD FOR THEM. They're actually stepping up to the plate and doing it, so I really wanted to put this out there as I sincerely respect these people and their attempts at redemption and fun role-play. Check em out!. Happy role-play hunting! :)
Monday, May 21, 2012
Bitter Role-players
Hi everyone! I wanted to talk today about a group of role-players that Go about things in the oddest tactic I've ever seen possible. I call them the "Bitter role-players." When dealing with this group of people you generally tend to start with an absolutely beautiful bunch of people who talk nice and discuss role-play with you like reasonable adults. However, time for role-play is of the essence for you so you postpone the role-play. These people continue to bother you about role-play over and over again until they are convinced that you are lying about just being busy (I am terrible at being busy... because I work in three separate labs and try to read, work out, play with my friends kids, and play magic the gathering on a regular basis. I also don't have internet at my home). However reasonable you are to them, they slowly and slowly get more accusative and more bitter towards you until they finally accuse you directly of being a liar because you have yet to role-play with them. I can think of one in particular who I'd get mass messages from announcing that people had 15 hours to respond otherwise they would be taken off her friends list. I can't help but feel these people WANT to be good people, but don't know how to keep it up. Hopefully they'll figure it out.
Sincerely
The Kind Bottom
Friday, May 18, 2012
A tid bit of this and that, taddle raddle battle rhymes....
It's starting to happen more and more often... At first I really didn't know what to think about this, but the more it happens the more the hidden messages under the real ones start screaming out at me what's really going on. What is it might you ask? Well, many of you won't be able to understand where I'm coming from, but many of you will..... Lets start from the beginning
I have a website about my characters. It's not great, but it gets the job done more than well. Regardless, on the website it says that I do have a strong liking too lesbian romance role-play. However many times I explain myself, defend my views, make it clear what I'm comfortable with, it doesn't fail that I get people trying to pry my homosexual characters out of homosexuality some way or another. If you've followed my blog you know about my blog with the "angriest role-play ever." This was the first but not he last of ridiculous attempts to try and guilt me on or change my likes on role-play lesbian women. It's weird that this is such a delicate subject to other people, mainly, heterosexual men. Heterosexual men seem to pm me over and over again about role-play and then give me a big bucket of 'concern' that I won't want to role-play with them because I happen to like lesbian romance role-play. Well, I don't change characters that have a central aspect of their character being they are homosexual, but I'm totally willing to make new characters and or play my already NON homosexual characters with men and do sexual and or romance role-play. However this never seems to be enough. The 'concerned' individuals tend to be impossible to convince that they shouldn't be concerned, but they're not the only type of people who come bothering me about this. There are also the "pitiers." They come to me saying how much of a pity it is that I have so many homosexual characters, because they would be denied my great role-playing skills. Or even better, the ones who ask me to change, for instance, my character Rebecca to be bisexual even though part of her character is that she hates men to the point that she hates bisexual women. I mean... I suppose it isn't totally out of the question, it might make for good role-play, but all except the last person where do these people come off? "Hey wanna role-play? Let me totally re-arrange your characters and who you are so that you're acceptable role-playing material for me" <-- I totally want compromise, but this isn't it. This is way worse. People, really, get over it. Some women just don't have a need sexually for men and several of my characters are that way. Also, someone who is homosexual COULD have sex with a man... some of them just would want another woman there. I think that a big part of it is, men are insecure about this very thing... that some women just don't want to sleep with men. They'll just have to get over it. Anyways, this was a bit of a "venting" session. I just don't understand I suppose. Happy role-play hunting
Sincerely
The Kind Bottom
I have a website about my characters. It's not great, but it gets the job done more than well. Regardless, on the website it says that I do have a strong liking too lesbian romance role-play. However many times I explain myself, defend my views, make it clear what I'm comfortable with, it doesn't fail that I get people trying to pry my homosexual characters out of homosexuality some way or another. If you've followed my blog you know about my blog with the "angriest role-play ever." This was the first but not he last of ridiculous attempts to try and guilt me on or change my likes on role-play lesbian women. It's weird that this is such a delicate subject to other people, mainly, heterosexual men. Heterosexual men seem to pm me over and over again about role-play and then give me a big bucket of 'concern' that I won't want to role-play with them because I happen to like lesbian romance role-play. Well, I don't change characters that have a central aspect of their character being they are homosexual, but I'm totally willing to make new characters and or play my already NON homosexual characters with men and do sexual and or romance role-play. However this never seems to be enough. The 'concerned' individuals tend to be impossible to convince that they shouldn't be concerned, but they're not the only type of people who come bothering me about this. There are also the "pitiers." They come to me saying how much of a pity it is that I have so many homosexual characters, because they would be denied my great role-playing skills. Or even better, the ones who ask me to change, for instance, my character Rebecca to be bisexual even though part of her character is that she hates men to the point that she hates bisexual women. I mean... I suppose it isn't totally out of the question, it might make for good role-play, but all except the last person where do these people come off? "Hey wanna role-play? Let me totally re-arrange your characters and who you are so that you're acceptable role-playing material for me" <-- I totally want compromise, but this isn't it. This is way worse. People, really, get over it. Some women just don't have a need sexually for men and several of my characters are that way. Also, someone who is homosexual COULD have sex with a man... some of them just would want another woman there. I think that a big part of it is, men are insecure about this very thing... that some women just don't want to sleep with men. They'll just have to get over it. Anyways, this was a bit of a "venting" session. I just don't understand I suppose. Happy role-play hunting
Sincerely
The Kind Bottom
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Role-playing... and writing
It's funny, but what she's doing is standard procedure to making a role-playing character. She does LARP, so it makes sense that this is how she approaches it, but it's a mistake on her part none the less. However, role-players tend to make the opposite mistake that she makes. They think that role-playing is this serious writing project. It doesn't happen every day I try and find role-play, but too often (Once is too often....) people tell me that they are trying to learn their character for a story they plan on writing by role-playing said character with me. I'm sorry but.... NO! It's fine if you're both a writer and a role-player, I am, but they aren't the same thing. There are things to be said for it however... for instance it exposes you to other writing styles (Basically you're reading more...), it lets you talk with other writers (if they're both) on a personal level and it exposes you to other ideas and gets your mind ready for a free flow of creativity. I would say it lets you have someone correct your grammar and spelling mistakes, but apparently everyone has the sensitivity of a five year old's knee after they've been slip and sliding on cement sidewalks. However nice these things are, they're not the same for the same reason why what my sister is doing isn't writing. One is something for fun, the other is a serious project. If you wanted to write... you'd just do it. A while back I made a comment in one of my blogs "It’s a terrible cycle only kept alive by this idea that role-playing is the two person activity equivalent of writing a book and that what they are doing is a tribute to literature. It’s not of course, but this is their mistake." I suppose I should clarify, there are aspects of writing a story in role-playing. This is role-playing taking the form of written word... however there are differences, as I've state. The biggest being this isn't a book and the quality of writing tends to be below what you'd actually want to publish... I know some of the ideas I throw in to spice up a role-player are certainly mechanically held together by bubblegum and paper clips.... Just keep your role-play creativity away from your writing creativity. If you have a character you want to write a story... just write it! Don't waste time role-playing him/her! You're wasting all that creativity on something that is just for pleasure. At least that's how I see it.
Now for a little story of mine... the best experience I had, as in funniest, where I got pmed by a role-player making this same mistake. He pmed me flat out asking me to help him write a book. I didn't really understand why, but he quickly explained that he couldn't write from a girl's perspective and wanted me to do it for him. Clearly this was another way to basically... avoid the hard work that is writing... but it's also slightly homophobic and kinda anti-woman. Well feminism aside, it was pretty funny. I told him he better learn, no one was gonna want to write his story about his dumb role-playing character. I suppose I'm just a bitch though ;) Happy rp hunting
Monday, April 16, 2012
A Timeline or Perpetual Changelessness
If I hadn't cut up role-players into different groups enough I've noticed I missed a way I could dice up all of role-playdem into two more different playing styles. As the title suggests one takes on the timeline where as the other one not quite perfectly named is a state of "Changelessness." Lets go with the first one and talk over the advantages, and disadvantages to this role-playing style.
A timeline role-play is one where each new role-play with a certain (set of) character(s) takes place from where the last one left off. So if you go on a crazy adventure one moment the next role-play you have all the stories from the previous ones to talk about in your new role-play. The advantage to this is that you get a lot more self background work that comes into play... if your character's background wasn't exciting it suddenly can become exciting. This also lets you not set aside any good role-play that could be a great piece of background for the character. If your character changes due to the role-play and you want to role-play them like that from now on... well you have perfect reason because they changed and that's a part of their background! It also leaves time for a character to grow and develop if you want it to since it's always moving forward. However if you don't want your character to change... this leads you to problems. So....
You may try Perpetual "changelessness." What this means actually isn't about not changing, but rather just not having a timeline format. Each new rp with a certain (set of) character(s) starts an entirely new rp that has nothing to do with the last one. This lets you keep your character(s) at a certain age if you don't want them to get older but also lets you modify their background/personality with each new role-play if also wanted. It's certainly more flexible in and of itself, which is why the changelessness title isn't quite as descriptive as it could have been. However this loses something called a "Self Moderating" aspect that the first set has... meaning if you can't role-play all your characters at once because they're currently in a role-play and doing two at once would mess up the timeline, this keeps you from doing the same role-play over and over again with the same character. You got vary it up! It's moderating within itself.
A timeline role-play is one where each new role-play with a certain (set of) character(s) takes place from where the last one left off. So if you go on a crazy adventure one moment the next role-play you have all the stories from the previous ones to talk about in your new role-play. The advantage to this is that you get a lot more self background work that comes into play... if your character's background wasn't exciting it suddenly can become exciting. This also lets you not set aside any good role-play that could be a great piece of background for the character. If your character changes due to the role-play and you want to role-play them like that from now on... well you have perfect reason because they changed and that's a part of their background! It also leaves time for a character to grow and develop if you want it to since it's always moving forward. However if you don't want your character to change... this leads you to problems. So....
You may try Perpetual "changelessness." What this means actually isn't about not changing, but rather just not having a timeline format. Each new rp with a certain (set of) character(s) starts an entirely new rp that has nothing to do with the last one. This lets you keep your character(s) at a certain age if you don't want them to get older but also lets you modify their background/personality with each new role-play if also wanted. It's certainly more flexible in and of itself, which is why the changelessness title isn't quite as descriptive as it could have been. However this loses something called a "Self Moderating" aspect that the first set has... meaning if you can't role-play all your characters at once because they're currently in a role-play and doing two at once would mess up the timeline, this keeps you from doing the same role-play over and over again with the same character. You got vary it up! It's moderating within itself.
Really though there is a compromise area that one may have which is the only doing timeline if the content of it is really good, but throwing out the 90% of garbage rp that comes your way. Frankly as great as moderation within itself is great, moderating yourself is probably better anyways because it practices your willpower. All in all though it really just comes down to what you're actually interested in. I tend to do the "perpetual changelessness," but it's not for any of the proposed reasons but another... I feel weird having someone else's character be a part of my background. It feels like I'm stepping on their toes since its THEIR character... but frankly that's just silly. Again, it's just subjective, but I'd like to say that trying other styles may help you learn your rp style better so I suggest if you only do one to just TRY another once and see how you like it. :) Time for me to try a timeline character. If I ever get the chance to rp again :P Take care y'all!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
One or Two characters?
Have you ever ran into the person who refuses to ever role-play anyone but the ONE character he or she has? This has always been a tad odd to me... I mean as a role-player I fantasize about many situations that either are interesting sexually, I find INCREDIBLY romantic, or that is exciting in other ways like action or adventure. Also I have an insatiable need to create without actually having to put to much time into my creation because art in any form is A LOT OF WORK. Although I do have projects I work HARD on, role-playing characters are stuff I can throw together on the fly and let slowly evolve through the work of actually role-playing them. Although this leaves me with a lot of bad role-plays when the character starts (not always... it just hinders it), but this fills my needs quite well. However there are a few people who I've met who only have one character. Not only is this instantly weird to me because I can't understand or associate with the person's feelings at all on the subject of having one character... it also leaves me with very little choice. Frankly there are many interesting characters that fill peoples interests in couldn't possibly understand why someone would limit themselves to one character. Here are some hypotheses.One reason why one might think it is a good idea to have one character goes with this idea of how any project works: The more time you put into something the better it will be. The logic then goes if you put ALL your role-playing time into just ONE character, that character will be SUPER AMAZING. This however never seems to be the case. People who do this just tend to make characters that are super amazingly god mode-y. Why is this? Well if you only have one character all these amazing traits you want in what normally would be balanced flawed characters have to be stuffed into one. Although they may see the logic in how stupid it would be to have a character who has ALL the possible flaws stuffed into one character and how stupid that is, it is beyond them to see that it's just as stupid to have all the good traits in one character. (Lets not get into a discussion about how that IS a flaw. When talking about flaws we're talking about the character as if they were a real live person rather than a character flaw seen by the onlooker and how entertaining that character is to the onlooker.)
Another reason might be by that the person WANTS to be god mode-y. The only person I ever saw who role-played just ONE character and had no others made the statement that your character's power (As in ability to fight and such) HAD to be based off of how long the characters had been played. People couldn't just create characters off the fly and have them be powerful! How lame would that be? Or at least that's what he said. I totally disagreed with him of course and never spoke to him again. Let us understand though where he is coming, weird though he is. He's coming from a place where his character he role-plays is also his D&D character. He keeps sheets for this guy okay. In D&D you do start off weak and constantly get stronger, so in that game it makes perfect sense. You invest all this time in a game and some newb comes around gets to be as strong as you? NO! Well either way I'm not against either, but I understand the logic for D&D. However this ISN'T D&D. There aren't "character sheets" there are no "dice" (at least if you role-play with me there aren't) and this isn't about being the biggest baddest dude around. It's about co-writing to let out a little creative frustration! (It's also a great way to push lonely feelings into the dirt). Either way, he's getting his games mixed up and so are you if you choose this philosophy.
Apart from that I have NO idea why someone would only have two characters. IN FACT! I'm starting to think I should always have a set of characters that are ALL playable in a set of scenes. It adds diversity. Some conflict is wonderful! but sometimes to create a fun and interesting enough character you have to make a character that is so conflict heavy it's impossible to get any role-play that isn't just two people hating each other.
However when you have more than one playable character in the rp you can build dynamic SETS of characters rather than a character that has self contained dynamic traits. It varies it up a lot! You just gotta learn to make sure people know who's doing what. What ya think?
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Okay... role-playing venting session.
Part of it is, spring break started and I'm taking the liberty of not doing anything. What this does it makes me not enjoy my time quite as much when all I've been doing is sitting around enjoying my time... time starts to mold into one useless unproductive moment and I start feeling lonely. Although boredom is not a word I'd use, since I did use lonely it's what I do. So I want to role-play. This gets rid of my loneliness and exports creativity from my eager wiggly creativeness needed in the pit of my stomach. However I haven't been able to get role-play lately... I'm probably just a bitch... however once upon a time I had the role-play of my dreams. It was the most fun thing on the planet and the person has basically started ignoring my every pm. She apparently got into a depression because of financial problems and basically stopped having the emotions to role-play. Eventually though... seeing her on made me very depressed, ya know why? Because BEFORE when I'd see her on I'd jump up in my seat almost. I didn't have romantic feelings for her or anything, but god seeing her online I could only contain myself from pming her 10 seconds after I or her got on before jumping into her pm and asking her to role-play. I would get distracted from school cause all I could think about were story ideas. It was on my mind constantly. I could redescribe for you our entire role-play.... Then it happened. I only complimented her, we never fought... but then obviously for some reason she was done for me, whether it was her explanation or my over enthusiasm (or a whole range of other ideas frankly.) Regardless, my lack of role-play, especially in light of my extremely fun role-play being thrown out the window, is leaving me lonelier for role-play than I realized. It's quite sad :(
One Liner Blues
Ya know I've done a number of posts (at least one) on this site defending one liners, cyberers, and all the general hated role-players on the internet while successful (at least I feel so) ripping apart the ideas held up by the mean condescending role-players. It isn't so often that I feel I have any conflict with people who post very small, in fact sometimes I'll play with semi paragraph role-players even though I'm more of a multi para role-player myself. There is however once in a while I'll run into someone who doesn't do para rp who is a rude, shallow person who comes into my role-playing sites and tries to play victim on-top of me for wanting to role-play para. This happened the other day and it was such an odd thing I couldn't help but post it on here since it was so incredibly unprovoked. Lets take a look shall we? As a bit of history for this conversation, when in chat rooms I post "/think Looking for creative para rp. Pm me for details."
START OF CONVERSATION
END OF CONVERSATION
So I guess if I was implying that creative role-play only takes place in the form of paragraph role-play then I would understand his defensiveness. The fact of the matter is, my post didn't say anything negative or directed of non paragraph role-playing. The only reason I posted it at all was because I needed people to be aware of what I role-play. In posted para role-play, but frankly I do multi paragraph so I'm trying to let people know I wiggle a little each way for the role-player. I try really hard to be flexible and this is how I'm replayed! Oh well. Since I don't really know what to draw I just drew colors. Enjoy.
START OF CONVERSATION
ShameInducer: it is ashame u are a paragrapher i was interested
supercompoundrper: What a shame what a shame.
supercompoundrper: It is what it is though.
ShameInducer: a person can be creative without a paragrpah
supercompoundrper: I'm not judgeing your rp.
supercompoundrper: But I role-play para. If you don't that's fine, but please don't think you'll convince me I don't like para rp... I do.
ShameInducer: i am soirry i was not tring i was just suggesting that there are others out there that may be non paragrpahers and maybe not perfectthat are creative but are not given a chance
ShameInducer: not telling u one way or the other on your choice
supercompoundrper: I certainly won't give non para players a chance.
supercompoundrper: I don't want to role-play non para, I want to role-play para.
supercompoundrper: Again, stop trying to convince me I don't like para I do.
supercompoundrper: I'm not being unfair by restricting myself to the type of role-play I like.
END OF CONVERSATION
So I guess if I was implying that creative role-play only takes place in the form of paragraph role-play then I would understand his defensiveness. The fact of the matter is, my post didn't say anything negative or directed of non paragraph role-playing. The only reason I posted it at all was because I needed people to be aware of what I role-play. In posted para role-play, but frankly I do multi paragraph so I'm trying to let people know I wiggle a little each way for the role-player. I try really hard to be flexible and this is how I'm replayed! Oh well. Since I don't really know what to draw I just drew colors. Enjoy.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
"Do you do kink role-play?"
Sometimes I get asked this and I often don't know what to say. First of all I'm not a very kinky person usually. There are some things I find very kinky but most of the normal "kinks" are either null or a negative for me, making kinky role-play (especially if that's the focus) to be really odd for me. There still is the question as to what they mean though, because kinks are so widely different. I feel I'm a bit out of the loop, does this actually mean a certain set of kinks or what? Usually I have to ask them what they mean and they doll out a lot of categories to choose from. Age-play always comes up... this annoys me. Unlike the rapist role-players out there who's deepest darkest fantasy is to reenact a horrible truth on this planet, the pedophile role-players have to hide themselves because of the huge negative stigma the internet has towards pedophilia and thus uses with the term "age-play." I don't think this ever is used for anyone but children with adults. At first I thought I did like this, because I find it extremely kinky and sexual for an 18 year old (or other young adult) to be having sex with a much older person, but not a 16 year old or below having sex with a much older person. (This doesn't apply to real life though.... having sex with a younger person just seems icky to me when presented with a real opportunity) Either way... I'm really out of the loop here and don't think I've ever actually gotten a good role-play going with someone asking me if I role-play kink, it doesn't help it out that I call it pedophilia role-play instead of age-play. Oh well.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
SEX (The big talk people...) o.o .....
So it's about time at long last that we talk about the age old concept in role-play, sex. As I've said in a previous blog, much of online role-play might have been spawned from people coming onto the internet to role-play sex with each other. This is of course at least part of role-play, we see it everywhere. People deemed "cyberers" have been around longer than I've been role-playing or at least I've known about them before I knew what role-play was. I can remember particularly reading something someone posted about how he would mess with cyberes, saying he casted lightning bolt on the girl he was cybering with halfway through the role-play and she brunt into a fine dust cause she was only a level 2 druid. In fact, when I made a Gaia account that long time ago I was named "Level 2 Druid" because of it. People were very confused and condescending about it, thinking I was actually proud of being a level 2 druid in some game. Digression aside though, cyberes exist and have existed for quite some time! This shouldn't surprise to us though because sex is well, FUN. In the real world, online, in movies, sex never seems to stop amusing me as something I can participate in for fun (Although real world 1 on 1 sex is terribly scary for me because of consequences, even if I have participated a lot in high-school, so I tend to make it a 1 person activity rather than a 2 person activity). I rarely meet people who don't want sex to eventually happen in role-play. It's kind of this far off goal for everyone. "Well... I'm sophisticated, I want plot... not just sex." But if you were to really get down to the heart of it, they really really don't want plot without sex just as much as they want sex without plot. This however doesn't hold true for everyone, I've met a number of people who have had different responses, some of them so amusing I'm going to spend more than a minute talking about it.
The first one I'll spend just a second on, it's the person who is in a committed relationship and doesn't want to do sex in role-play because their sexual life is solely reserved for their partner. This, although I find very weird since I don't associate sex online being anywhere similar to sex in the real world, is respectable and my finding it weird is MY problem. The second is also respectable, they don't really enjoy sex in role-play so instead of telling their role-play partner "I WON'T ROLE-PLAY SEX NOT NEVER OR NO HOW" they just write characters that won't be interested in it. Wow, how smart, that's like I write characters that won't be able to not have sex with your characters eventually. This second person, although I rarely role-play with, is my favorite out of the no sex role-players. The third is the funny one, THE ANGRY ANTI SEX ROLE-PLAYER. This is a person who, at the mere mention of sex, has to scold you and ask you over and over again whether or not you're thinking of role-playing sex. I met this person (It's probably ONE person on the internet) and he was a very annoying individual. He explained to me that sex COULD NOT happen in role-play, so I said "that's fine I just like to role-play ^__^." Although I always want role-play to involve sex I could go a role-play where it didn't, fine tune the other types of description needed for the role-play to last. I however got the urge to look up sexy pictures on 4chan and typed in the address. OOPS, I typed into the pm, so what do you know he suddenly got defensive. "4chan can be seen as a sexual thing" was the response I got for typing in 4chan.org. "Well, it also cannot, I was just going to the site." "Well I'm just saying lots of people see it as sexual, I'd hate for you to ruin this and have to block you." (This is all paraphrased, it happened to long ago to remember who he was or what the actual conversation was.) So I blocked him, saying HE ruined his chances with ME since he was too focused on policing me for ever thinking about sex. I like sex, I'm gonna think about it... a lot. Him not allowing me to even think of sex means he can't role-play, it's just a given.
There's another topic though, which is people who only role-play sex. Many people categorize these people as cyberer's, this my be definitively correct, but the connotation that goes along with that isn't really fair is it? Cyberers, or at least how I've understood it, are people who are gonna open up a pm with "ASL?" or if not that they're gonna role-play themselves having sex with you in particular. I make the distinction that it's a very personal thing for the cyberer. This however isn't inclusive of people who do role-play in a sophisticated manor of non-one liner role-play. For example, I'm perfectly fine just having a role-play entirely based on sex. Homosexual male sex? Well not really, I don't find it that interesting, but lesbian and or heterosexual sex? AWWW YEAH, I'm down with that. That doesn't really make me a cyberer... I mean, to be fair, I do lots more than just that and usually don't want to do JUST sex rps. Regardless, there is this huge "movement" (I don't know that they're organized to even call it a movement, just half the people I talk to tend to give this fucking retarded speech which I'll talk about) of people who want to condescend on not only people whose connotation doesn't fit under cyberers but the cyberers themselves. I DO NOT agree with these people. There is a certain self righteousness with this whole "movement" which goes somewhere along the lines of "Well it's okay if role-play has sex in it, but it can't be ALL about sex, that's just juvenile." Why would anyone say this? Does this help them get role-play? In fact, with me, if I hear this bullshit I tend to not want to role-play with someone. I usually put up with it, but it does go on a mental list of reasons not to role-play with someone and if it becomes overflowing I'll dump you faster than.... I use the toilet? I don't know I don't have cleverness for that one (I wanted to do "I'll dump you faster than ____ dumped ____" where the blanks were famous people but... I don't follow the famous people at all....) Regardless if we further analyze this stinking pile of dogshit which is the self righteous idiots who wouldn't degrade themselves to a just sexual role-play (Which a lot of the time that's what happens when they role-play with me anyways) we'll realize there's some deeper problems here....
In an earlier post I talked about how role-players bitch all the time. This is a great example of one thing people actually bitch about. But why do they do it? It seems like a giant waste of time if you ask me right? Well I feel there are some things here. To start it's to feel better about their own role-play. Like many role-players, even if they get literally no role-play it's easier for them to blame EVERYONE ELSE for their lack of role-play (Some I suppose just don't get it cause they want you to shrink them down to the size of.... yeah... and have your character put them in your... yeah). These people don't want to admit that it's either their terrible role-play or their terrible personality that scares all the role-play away, probably along with a way too picky attitude. Regardless, being self righteous kind of fixes that because you've suddenly become the noble person trying to save all of the role-playing Dominion with their awesome role-play skills. Well there is kind of a reason for this that I can sympathize with and that is, the role-play community that seems to be the biggest (This is just from what I saw, not actual reliable data) is the CYBERERS. People LOVE SEX, and if you've ever heard the saying "sex sells" this is just another instance of that reality showing it's wonderfully successful nature. You know why people are rude about cyberes? It's because the cyberers are most likely getting more role-play then them and that DRIVES THEM CRAZY. If they're as sophisticated as they say and the cyberers are as terrible as they say then how annoying is it that the sex people get more than they do? Probably very. It's also though kinda expected right? The second you cut off a certain type of role-play means you're LIMITING your rp choices. I don't role-play rape, so if there was someone who role-played all the same things I did but also rape they'd probably get more role-play than I would right? Certainly the same can be said about cyberers if they don't "rp the sophisticated rp" then they're cutting that all off too... but again sex sells so they win. This is a LOSING BATTLE, people need to stop recruiting soldiers for a war against cyberers. Thiscondescending behavior will only create more hate in the world, it's a TOTAL waste of our time. Let cyberers have their fun!
There is however a more intelligent assertion that was presented to me once that I find might have SOME truth to it. It went something along the paraphrased lines of this "Well the people who pm me for just sex role-play tend to be worse role-players." I would agree. People who pm me all sexy up and only want sex role-play tend to be so focused on the sex aspect that they have a hard time focusing on the playing actual developed character and writing good scene description aspects. Lets face it, if you have one hand down your pants you'll have a lot harder time typing right? But jokes aside, this MIGHT have some truth to it. I don't really know if it is, but I do know one of the last people who pmed me with an outright request for sex (He wanted me to role-play a threesum with me role-playing two women) did not do a good job and I probably wouldn't role-play with him again. Regardless though, I role-play just sex role-plays and they tend to be less sophisticated than my other ones... Does this mean that it's not the role-player that is a terrible role-player or is it the act of role-playing just sex that brings down your focus on making better right? Who knows?!? Maybe I'm just outright wrong and all my writing is garbage... but thanks for sifting through the dumpster! Maybe you found something you liked :)
PS: There are other sex related topics that can go along with role-play that I haven't gone over. I'm gonna stop it here though because I could make whole other blogs on them and well, y'all been waiting for a post so here it is.
In an earlier post I talked about how role-players bitch all the time. This is a great example of one thing people actually bitch about. But why do they do it? It seems like a giant waste of time if you ask me right? Well I feel there are some things here. To start it's to feel better about their own role-play. Like many role-players, even if they get literally no role-play it's easier for them to blame EVERYONE ELSE for their lack of role-play (Some I suppose just don't get it cause they want you to shrink them down to the size of.... yeah... and have your character put them in your... yeah). These people don't want to admit that it's either their terrible role-play or their terrible personality that scares all the role-play away, probably along with a way too picky attitude. Regardless, being self righteous kind of fixes that because you've suddenly become the noble person trying to save all of the role-playing Dominion with their awesome role-play skills. Well there is kind of a reason for this that I can sympathize with and that is, the role-play community that seems to be the biggest (This is just from what I saw, not actual reliable data) is the CYBERERS. People LOVE SEX, and if you've ever heard the saying "sex sells" this is just another instance of that reality showing it's wonderfully successful nature. You know why people are rude about cyberes? It's because the cyberers are most likely getting more role-play then them and that DRIVES THEM CRAZY. If they're as sophisticated as they say and the cyberers are as terrible as they say then how annoying is it that the sex people get more than they do? Probably very. It's also though kinda expected right? The second you cut off a certain type of role-play means you're LIMITING your rp choices. I don't role-play rape, so if there was someone who role-played all the same things I did but also rape they'd probably get more role-play than I would right? Certainly the same can be said about cyberers if they don't "rp the sophisticated rp" then they're cutting that all off too... but again sex sells so they win. This is a LOSING BATTLE, people need to stop recruiting soldiers for a war against cyberers. Thiscondescending behavior will only create more hate in the world, it's a TOTAL waste of our time. Let cyberers have their fun!
There is however a more intelligent assertion that was presented to me once that I find might have SOME truth to it. It went something along the paraphrased lines of this "Well the people who pm me for just sex role-play tend to be worse role-players." I would agree. People who pm me all sexy up and only want sex role-play tend to be so focused on the sex aspect that they have a hard time focusing on the playing actual developed character and writing good scene description aspects. Lets face it, if you have one hand down your pants you'll have a lot harder time typing right? But jokes aside, this MIGHT have some truth to it. I don't really know if it is, but I do know one of the last people who pmed me with an outright request for sex (He wanted me to role-play a threesum with me role-playing two women) did not do a good job and I probably wouldn't role-play with him again. Regardless though, I role-play just sex role-plays and they tend to be less sophisticated than my other ones... Does this mean that it's not the role-player that is a terrible role-player or is it the act of role-playing just sex that brings down your focus on making better right? Who knows?!? Maybe I'm just outright wrong and all my writing is garbage... but thanks for sifting through the dumpster! Maybe you found something you liked :)
PS: There are other sex related topics that can go along with role-play that I haven't gone over. I'm gonna stop it here though because I could make whole other blogs on them and well, y'all been waiting for a post so here it is.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
OH HAI
OH hai people. I apologize for the long wait for a blog for anyone who reads it. I've been ULTRA busy. But as a consolation prize I give you these pictures.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Valentines day
Happy Valentines day. In honor of loving yourself I've written you a little sex scene about... calculus. Here is a narrative about something that is totally made up rather than being about me. ENJOY
I was in the room I had many times thought about but always believed it to be a far away fantasy. It had become a reality. The hardwood floor shining as if it had recently been waxed, the fireplace with decorative and stylish pieces of modern art, the fire going even though a furnace was a much more even and better way to keep the house heated, the candles lit around the room, the wine glass in my hand... I had drifted into something I had always wanted. Here it was? Where was my teacher though? My calculus teacher, whom had noticed the flirtation in my eyes, had invited me to her home for our sexual encounter. She was a tall,curvy woman, but slender which contrasted my petite and skinny frame. I felt absolutely pitiful next to her, but... she didn't. She had made me dinner, cooked it for me, and spoke flowery sweetness which my ears turned to honey and distributed it out to my now drunken brain. She was standing over me telling me how beautiful I was... how my simple brown hair was secretly the beauty that kept her through every class. My cheeks were more rosy than the dozen I had gotten as an invitation to this night...... Were we gonna have sex? It started moving so fast! At once it was all a fantasy, a dream, and now it was a blurry tornado of lust and sweat. I was falling, falling deeper and deeper into something I could never climb out of... but it was the most amazing thing I had ever fallen into. I got daring, the wine making me silly, and while sitting in no clothing but my little cotton panties I spoke up. "What's the rate of change in my orgasm when x is my clitoris and your finger is approaching my vagina?" We did math all night long....
It's funny, I have to be reminded over and over again by people around me that it IS valentines day for me to even remember. Does this mean I'm single? Well yes that's part of it, but it's not entirely it! It's that life is too good and too busy for me to worry about my sex life and lack there of. Yes, me being single also means I'm not having sex because I DON'T TRUST PEOPLE. But regardless, I do find myself like many valentines day doers, feeling lonely. The thing is it's NEVER on valentines day. It's when I hear about particular great things between two people rather. For instance there was something someone said, and he did try to do it when I wouldn't see it cause he know I'm a hyper bitch, that bothered me for several reasons one of them being that I was lonely. He said in the chatroom "My girlfriend's tits are exceptional."
Here are the reasons why in picture form.
This little digression aside, my point was that I can be inspired to be sad about being lonely but not through valentines day. Halmark aint got nothing on me. I am sad however that my favorite rp to rp, which is a romance drama, has fallen into the tubes. My friend is in a state of bad financial problems and never wants to rp because she is always sad. This... makes me sad. BUT, I kinda got the lottery of MAGIC CARDS and by chance bought a box of magic cards out of 14 where one of the 14 boxes had ALL rares and me and my friend got it. I'm still riding on that high. Happy Not Christmas! =D
I was in the room I had many times thought about but always believed it to be a far away fantasy. It had become a reality. The hardwood floor shining as if it had recently been waxed, the fireplace with decorative and stylish pieces of modern art, the fire going even though a furnace was a much more even and better way to keep the house heated, the candles lit around the room, the wine glass in my hand... I had drifted into something I had always wanted. Here it was? Where was my teacher though? My calculus teacher, whom had noticed the flirtation in my eyes, had invited me to her home for our sexual encounter. She was a tall,curvy woman, but slender which contrasted my petite and skinny frame. I felt absolutely pitiful next to her, but... she didn't. She had made me dinner, cooked it for me, and spoke flowery sweetness which my ears turned to honey and distributed it out to my now drunken brain. She was standing over me telling me how beautiful I was... how my simple brown hair was secretly the beauty that kept her through every class. My cheeks were more rosy than the dozen I had gotten as an invitation to this night...... Were we gonna have sex? It started moving so fast! At once it was all a fantasy, a dream, and now it was a blurry tornado of lust and sweat. I was falling, falling deeper and deeper into something I could never climb out of... but it was the most amazing thing I had ever fallen into. I got daring, the wine making me silly, and while sitting in no clothing but my little cotton panties I spoke up. "What's the rate of change in my orgasm when x is my clitoris and your finger is approaching my vagina?" We did math all night long....
It's funny, I have to be reminded over and over again by people around me that it IS valentines day for me to even remember. Does this mean I'm single? Well yes that's part of it, but it's not entirely it! It's that life is too good and too busy for me to worry about my sex life and lack there of. Yes, me being single also means I'm not having sex because I DON'T TRUST PEOPLE. But regardless, I do find myself like many valentines day doers, feeling lonely. The thing is it's NEVER on valentines day. It's when I hear about particular great things between two people rather. For instance there was something someone said, and he did try to do it when I wouldn't see it cause he know I'm a hyper bitch, that bothered me for several reasons one of them being that I was lonely. He said in the chatroom "My girlfriend's tits are exceptional."
Here are the reasons why in picture form.
This little digression aside, my point was that I can be inspired to be sad about being lonely but not through valentines day. Halmark aint got nothing on me. I am sad however that my favorite rp to rp, which is a romance drama, has fallen into the tubes. My friend is in a state of bad financial problems and never wants to rp because she is always sad. This... makes me sad. BUT, I kinda got the lottery of MAGIC CARDS and by chance bought a box of magic cards out of 14 where one of the 14 boxes had ALL rares and me and my friend got it. I'm still riding on that high. Happy Not Christmas! =D
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Dealing with my Abrasive Nature
Ever since I wrote the blog "Role-players like to bitch" I've more and more caught myself being a total bitch to people and stopped myself, I've put up with ideas for role-play that totally turn me into abrasive mode, and accumulated a lot of people on my friends list. However, this has not been a totally won battle. I've still been a total bitch to people on occasion.... as some of my role-play blogs have shown. As annoyed at I am at myself for doing this, this does however make for some really fun blogs to post.... so here's another one. It should be a short enough blog! So as I said I've accumulated people on my friendslist, the problem is I don't remember who most of them are. One person pmed me in particular , probably to eventually role-play, but made a comment on my display image. My display image was of one girl grabbing, it seems by surprise, another girl's chest. It's cute, it's sexual, and it's not gross like a lot of sexual anime thing where the girl's boobs are so big you wonder how they stand. The problem was he called it "Lolicon." I looked it up, yes Lolicon is the Japanese form of pedophelia porn. Although the girls in the picture probably weren't meant to be grandmothers, at he same time they weren't meant to be children. So, I told him it wasn't lolicon, showed him the definition, and he continued to argue against it. I made it clear that I didn't want to talk about it anymore and he eventually blocked me. Regardless, here's the conversation.
Conversation start:
Conversation start:
HasTroubleWithReading: Cute pic.
supercompoundrper: Thank you.
supercompoundrper: I like it.
HasTroubleWithReading: Definitely very cute. I do so adore lolicon from time to time.
supercompoundrper: lolicon?
HasTroubleWithReading: Never mind, lol.
HasTroubleWithReading: So what are you up to?
supercompoundrper: Gross.
supercompoundrper: I looked it up. I don't know that I'd call it lolicon
HasTroubleWithReading: If you say so.
supercompoundrper: Other than being grossed out by your pedophelia tendencies, doing math homework and role-playing.
supercompoundrper: How about you?
HasTroubleWithReading: Lolicon ain't pedophelia. I would NEVER go for underage girls that arereal or realistic. Cartoons are different.
supercompoundrper: Um.
supercompoundrper: I just looked up lolicon
HasTroubleWithReading: Yes, I know what it is. It's a type of hentai.
supercompoundrper: In Japan, the term describes an attraction to underage girls (whether prepubescent, pubescent, or post-pubescent)[2][3] or an individual with such an attraction.[4][5] It is also commonly used when referring to lolicon manga or lolicon anime, a genre of manga and anime wherein childlike female characters are often depicted in an erotic manner, in an art style reminiscent of the shōjo manga (girls' comics) style. Outside Japan, "lolicon" is in less common usage and usually refers to the genre.
HasTroubleWithReading: Childlike, not actual children. Children don't look like that. Kids are notsexually attractive. Lolicon is.
supercompoundrper: It says right there
supercompoundrper: The term describes an attraction to underage girls
supercompoundrper: Reading is hard 
supercompoundrper: You've left me unconvinced, this conversation about what a definition says it is and you claiming what it is against the definition is annoying.
supercompoundrper: What do you want?
supercompoundrper: -IS done talking about lolicon-
supercompoundrper: -will ignore lolicon comments-
HasTroubleWithReading: *pulls out a 9mm beretta, loads it, then cocks it and puts the barrel toyour head.* Be nice. Please.
HasTroubleWithReading: And I am not Japanese.
supercompoundrper: -Will ignore lolicon comments- What do you want?
HasTroubleWithReading: *fires an ignore bullet at your pedo-obsessive, one-sided self, and sighs asyou die into Ignore land.* What a shame. You were almost above an insect.
:Conversation End
:Conversation End
I know I was being... super abrasive. I blame the fact that school is overwhelmingly hard right now and I'm not taking a single class I find interesting or relevant to my field. Putting that side though, upon further investigation I realized that I had been role-playing with this guy! He wasn't very good though.... his posts were weird and so was his character... and not in a good way. Regardless, there are many things to make fun of here! For instance, my first thought after this conversation was "Man I dodged a bullet here..." I didn't even realize the pun at first. It was so funny that I wanted to pm him on another screen name to be like "LISTEN TO THIS IT'S SO FUNNY," but I decided my little insect wings couldn't take me there. Another thing is, a cartoon is a representation of things in the real world... So him hiding behind the fact that it was a cartoon doesn't stop it from being a representation of pedophilia. One last funny thing is the thought that I was supposed to know the metaphorical significance of holding a 9mm beretta (Oh man he likes guns enough to name the particular gun he's using! His dick must be huge! LAWL) to my head was supposed to represent. Either way, his rp was bad enough that I don't really care that it ended at all. If I were really honest with myself though, I'd tell you all how annoyed I am at myself for not living up to the moral standards I so preach. Oh well? Hopefully I'll do better next time. Y'all forgive me?
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