[quote=@Prisk] I agree with you on this, but many of those extensive posts are incredibly purple, riddled with unnecessary detail and superfluous ramblings about things that has no weight or relevance at all. I think these kinds of posts are what people mean when they don't like 'long posts'. [/quote] Well, I do admit that I was blowing long posts just a little when I didn't mean to (I was mostly going towards people who complain - but that's a whole another discussion). In my irritation, I forgot to mention that some posts don't need to be that long, and that I'm totally fine with a short post that gets the point across. Some people just need to learn to find a balance between action, character thoughts, and dialogue. I still find myself removing unnecessary parts of a post, or changing it so that it flows better. [quote=@Fillet] I was in random threads in the Advanced and Casual sections and I was surprised to see some RPers said that their characters were pretty much themselves (with different names and other basic unimportant details). What's funny was when other RPers pointed out how these Gary/Mary Sues were too problematic, unrealistic, etc etc, the Gary/Mary retorted that since the chars were based on themselves, they couldn't possibly be unrealistic. [/quote] I personally never got why people base characters so heavily on themselves (Other than pure self-insertion). I'll probably never do it because I always put a little bit myself into all my characters. [i]That's[/i] how I make my characters relatable. Though, I can't say all people who base their characters off themselves are bad. Because some of these characters were really well-written, fit the cast, and weren't mary sues in the slightest. [quote=@FantasyChic] [@Mr Allen J] Gotta love those Mary Jane type characters. I believe I mentioned a special lady I RP'd with on a different site before. She was similar in the way her characters (or shall I say Character as she used the same one for each and every game she was in) always seemed to be perfect. She also always had her as a young teenage girl and ALWAYS used anime as her character image. Now, I am not against anime in any sense, but I find it kills the mood for me in some games when others use detailed cartoons/art styles as their image, and then there's this bug-eyed anime girl. It just kills it for me. Unless the game is very anime-centric, then by all means. [/quote] I tend to avoid RPs that heavily use anime faceclaims. Mostly because I find anime characters to be very... robotic, or stilted. It's also especially irritation when you got that one guy who uses in anime faceclaim in an RP where everyone else uses real(istic) ones. lol Though this is mostly a thing in the casual section. [quote=@FantasyChic] I agreed with your view on Advanced section. I love having detailed sheets and posts. However, I've also had it where I can't make a detailed post or maybe I'm in a sour mood and don't want to. I think having short posts are ok in that sense, but it should mean having them be more detailed.[/quote] Well, even in the advance section, sometimes people don't feel like writing a long post - or they have very little material to respond to. Which is fine - I just prefer doing things in collabs just for that reason. [quote=@Scoundrel] Child characters. I have nothing against children in general but when it comes to people using them in a roleplay with a more matured theme ― e.g. post-apocalyptic ―, I develop a deep sense of loathing behind their logic of it. I mean why would you, of all the character types available, choose someone who is weak, fragile and incapable of making the most basic of decisions in a post-apocalyptic setting? You're basically incorporating a living, breathing hindrance to a group who're striving for any means of survival. In my opinion, the best use for these characters is just being NPCs alone. I can understand some people who use them on an effective and more realistic approach. Let's say the purpose of which is to establish a point of development that this child can muster over the span of the RP. I don't know if there are roleplayers who are like these because I rarely see any of them. All I see are people describing their child characters as [i]strong-willed, nimble, sneaky or capable of slipping through vast hordes of zombies without being bitten at the slightest bit and able to make intelligent decisions, later making fools out of the adults.[/i] Worst of all, when these so-called child characters are played IC, their actions and way of thinking are of no different from the adults. Sorry, these things just make me want to crack an acorn using my teeth. [/quote] A child character can be quite interesting if it makes sense for them to be in the story/setting. I've seen some people write child characters pretty well, and I've done a few myself when it makes sense (An RP set in a big city, and a school, of course). It's a little bit of a challenge to write a character younger than what you usually do. But, I have to agree with you on the fact that child characters can easily be Mary Sues. I don't see why anyone would write a little boy in a post apocalypse setting unless they were doing a Lee/Clementine kind of relationship. And a lot of people tend to basically make their characters "adult in a child's body", or give them an unrealistic amount of skills.