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Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Guild Screw Up Combo B-b-breaker!

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Guild Screw Up Combo B-b-breaker!

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Guild Screw Up Combo B-b-breaker!

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Guild Screw Up Combo B-b-breaker!

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Yog Sothoth said
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I'm going to go out of limb here and say most of the RPs you're used to are in the Free section, which certainly isn't a problem or anything, but something to keep in mind is that most of Free is usually new roleplayers or younger members of the forum, so they're going to start falling into tropes and cliches a lot more frequently than someone who's been doing it for a few years (with the intention of self improvement, that is. Some people are just happy sticking with whatever level they start with). People are usually going to stick with what they know, and since Free doesn't really require more than a simple idea to get going, you're not going to see a complex or nuisanced plot or characters given the nature of the quick and small posts.

Going into your points,

1. Easiest way around this is to make or join a game that has a rule about having no anime face claims, which is something I do in each of my games. You're just going to have to accept that a lot of people got into roleplaying because of anime and it's what they like and what their interests are. It's not for everyone, certainly; it just means you're going to have to look a bit harder for games to join or start enforcing some personal game standards.

2. Big reason for this is the popular games typically are around themes for things that are popular and trendy (a current TV show, video game, movie, whatever) or are generic themes that are popular and easy to do (supernatural RPs, school RPs, et cetera). There's no real way of telling if a game is going to last or not unless you know the GM has a history of being unreliable, but the best way you can take an educated guess at what game is going to run for a while is to see how much effort is put into making the OOC. If the GM appears to really care and is trying, then it will probably go on a while. If a GM drops or and the other players still want to keep going, absolutely nothing is stopping you from making your own game with the same characters and setting to continue. Myself and 5 other players kept a game going for about 4 months with no GM because we had that much chemistry going. The only reason a game dies is if you let it die, more or less.

Going back to the theme of a game, keep in mind what's popular to you might not be popular to other people or even "in style". Just because you want to play a Lovecraftian-themed horror RP where your town is being consumed by an unspeakable monstrosity that causes you to lose your mind if you witness it doesn't mean people are going to want to do it either, especially when they can play Supernatural Self-Insert High Version 63. It doesn't mean you have to cater to other people's interests, but you may need to accept that the subforum you usually frequent isn't receptive to those kinds of games, you may wish to try somewhere else or invite players you know you can rely on.

3. A combination of previous points, it's what people are comfortable with and what they know. Instead of Spider-Man, they grew up watching Dragon Ball or something so their aesthetic preferences are going to be screaming, over-the-top action and it may not align with your tastes. You can't get mad at people for liking a certain genre; all you can really do is look for games with a 'No Anime' standard or make one yourself, or maybe look in another section.

4. Goes back to the whole people are starting off roleplaying in Free and sometimes Casual point I brought up earlier. People don't know how to make original or unique characters yet so they stick with themes and traits they know. Trust me, when I first started roleplaying, I drew a lot of influence for my character from Turok and over-the-top fighting from Dragon Ball Z. Hell, my character's name was my first name reversed. Was it the most original or creative character? No, but it got me into roleplaying and I've grown a looot since then. It's just entirely possible that you're hitting an age where you're really starting to notice a maturity gap between you and your peers and you might be looking for something with a bit more nuisance and depth. You're probably just noticing that a lot of people make characters that are cool or attractive or badass, and a lot of girls probably emulate their favorite characters, which probably all fall under similar tropes. Guys do the exact same things, but they tend to have a bit more variety to draw from, given how popular media seems to be predominantly male-character oriented. Case in point, make a list of twenty video games an TV shows for men and another for women and time yourself to see how long it takes you to fill the list out for each. Bonus round, do it again, except don't use any characters that are Princesses.

5. Exactly the point I was making the last time, only you're noticing guys doing it because their influence is different than the girls. It's exactly the same thing, both genders of players are drawing from arch types and inspirations, although the source material may differ. The problem is, the anti-hero is such a popular character arch type and is usually portrayed as an incredibly powerful individual that it's popular (plus, look at how any shows/ movies/ games protagonists are characters who go against the system and are proven right in the end by virtue of success. It's endemic.), and people think that by having a dark, brooding character makes them mysterious and alluring instead of somebody who isn't really participating in group dynamics and therefore uninteresting because if every time a character tries to talk to this character they're met with unwarranted hostility or terseness, they're not going to bother talking to them. They're going to talk to literally everyone else. Another problem is when EVERYONE makes the brooding asshole that NOBODY wants to talk and is expecting others to approach them. We get it, everyone wants to be Wolverine and not Cyclops, but Wolverine works because he's distinct from everyone else and usually NOT the main character. If your entire RP consists of people trying to outbadass each other unironically, it's going to turn out really poorly.

6. Or said people are trying to get their points across in one fell swoop. Sure, brevity is important, but it's less about stroking your ego as it is airing your concerns. Could be they're ranting, and usually length is a good indicator of somebody getting heated, at which point it's a good practice to keep note of who's the hot heads and seeing who's being rational. Best not to get involved unless it's really important. Ultimately, GM's word is law. All players need to respect that.

7. The guild is still getting a lot of new features; it was literally built from scratch and Mahz has obligations elsewhere. Be patient.

What if: RPG was a thieves guild

XecutionerRex said
Heinz decision to steal the medicine would stem from a primal, selfish urge to save his own wife while leaving the next man's to die. If Heinz grew up on a farm and wasn't able to receive the proper education to become a doctor and make his own cure, can you still honestly blame him for acting out on those urges? The tiger who steals territory from the next will be able to provide for her cubs. The one who is vanquished will starve.Either way, one cat suffers. It's the way this world spins, and you haven't seemed to have accepted it.

Waitwaitwait.

Are you implying that if Heinz was educated, he could have gone to school to become a doctor to invent a cure? Because chances are, this whole terminal illness thing is recent and not something he's known about since, I don't know, the beginning of high school. Plus, the tuition fees and time invested alone to get the doctorate to work on said cure is going to be a hell of a lot more than ponying up 2 grand for the medicine in the first place. It would be like finding out you have something wrong with your house and then going to get the training and a job related to fixing said problem instead of just paying a contractor to deal with it first.

Also, comparing human beings with civilization and all the complicated interconnected systems that are involved with maintaining said civilization to a tiger, whose primary two concerns are eating and caring for their young, is pretty silly. One tiger was bigger and stronger, ergo, it gets more at the expense of the other. If humans still worked by that logic, I'd be able to go into your home, beat you from an inch of your life, and claim everything in said home as my own with no recourse with such abstract concepts such as law enforcement. Bigger tiger doesn't have to worry about the Fuzz, and it also doesn't have social services to draw from. Being a human is pretty neat, gotta say. Enough that your analogy isn't really working for this.

By the way, what's your address? King of the jungle wants a new TV.

American, not African American?

I had a chance to watch the video now, I am now aware she means she doesn't want any descriptive label, period, even going so far as to say she identifies with being Caucasian and Asian... which is where I'm definitely starting to see where you're coming from, Gwazi. I was expecting something much more along the lines of her simply saying she was tired of being called and African-American instead of black, not "I'm a colourless person, I'm an American, and I'm bisexual and with a woman but don't single me out by referencing my sexual orientation."

This is definitely one of those cases of somebody being clearly detached from practicality and reality. Identifying with a sexual orientation by name isn't offensive or degrading, which is kind of the point of all those pride parades and waving that rainbow flag around so people of their own respective sexual orientation can feel comfortable with themselves in a primarily heterosexual population. Saying "Hey, I'm gay" shouldn't have to be a stigma; it's kind of like you said, Gwazi, it's a handy identifier for people to meet with people and potentially finding a partner. Gee Raven, it's super fantastic that you can accomplish everything by how you feel and not have to communicate with the richly vast language that we as humans developed with other people, but most of us who live in the real world tend to need to describe things, including themselves, to accomplish what we're after. Good luck filing a police report, as well.

"So, can you describe the man who stole your purse?"
"Okay, was he white, black, Asian...?"
"He was American."

Yeah, good luck just getting by with that.

What if: RPG was a thieves guild

Alphakoka said
A large number of us got arrested because some people can't keep their mouth shut and one day that leaked into the cops.

That and I doubt most people here have the moral bankrupt sentiments required to not feel guilty about stealing that would ultimately cause leaks in such an organization. Plus, I can't imagine most people are brazen and subtle enough to pull it off if they attempted it.

Awson said
"A woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: “No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it.” So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife. Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?"EDIT: I'm not saying there is an obvious right answer. I'm just curious what your response would be.

I'm not really a fan of how this plays off of people's empathy, like Nex said, what if there was something going on with the seller's family that the high markup was justified? The way this is presented, it comes across that the seller is just a greedy immoral person and that we're supposed to sympathize with the thief, it's like a newspaper tactic that plays off of your emotions to elicit an emotional response. What the seller is doing is basically what a lot of other entrepreneurs do, which is buy something at cost and then sell it to make a profit. Say the drug isn't one that's highly demanded, but the seller is the only supplier and he's budgeted that he needs to mark it up X amount to make ends meet that month or help grow his business so he can supply a wider range of inventory at a reduced price to the consumer. The reason big box stores like Walmart can get away with selling stuff for ridiculously cheap (and I'm not talking about their store brand merchandise that explodes if you sneeze at it, which is manufactured from the cheapest materials and the hopes and dreams of sweatshop workers) is because they're large enough that they can offset the cost elsewhere in the store. Say they sell bags of chips for a dollar each and it costs them 2 dollars to buy them, they're banking on people buying the jeans across the store that are advertised to look like they're on sale when in reality they're the same price to sell more jeans and offset the loss of the chips. It's a pretty huge simplification of how it goes down, but that's basically how it works.

Bringing the whole "is the thief justified stealing", to use myself as an example, the medicine I need to keep my disease in remission costs about $1200 for two injectors. It was more than my benefits would cover, but fortunately there's foundations out there that offset the costs for patients who need it because they know people can't realistically afford it even though it's essential for living a normal life. I couldn't afford it on my own, and at my last job when I still needed medicine but didn't have a foundation to help, I made due with a lot cheaper alternatives that didn't really do nearly as fine of a job, but it stabilized my health enough that I could hold down a job and live somewhat comfortably, even though I was basically a walking skeleton who could barely eat in fear of suffering crippling pain or spending hours in the washroom a day.

Even though the medicine I needed could have instantly improved my quality of life, the thought never occurred to me to steal it, because it's wrong and the repercussions just aren't worth it. The unspoken complication of the problem in your hypothetical scenario is that the wife is obviously going to require on-going treatment; a single dose isn't going to cure her ailment, and it's uncertain if it would even make much of a difference until she was a on a routine dosage. If the thief managed to steal the single dose, or heck, let's say he managed to get the entire stock, it still wouldn't be the ongoing care the wife requires and there's a very real chance the husband is looking at a hefty fine or jail time, which sets them back way further. If the wife's going to die without the medicine, then it's better if the husband is with her providing what comfort he can in her remaining days instead of taking away her only source of income and primary pillar of support by rotting in jail for a well-intentioned but ultimately misguided attempt to save his wife.

Sole said
I will steal stray Kahjits and leave them in the guild.

Khajiit finds It's stench questionable.

American, not African American?

Call black people black, white people white and be done with it. Calling somebody African American is, in my opinion, a ridiculous racial identifier. It would be like me identifying myself as European-Canadian, which is pretty dumb considering I was born in Canada, Europe is a diverse place that has more than just white people, and it sounds like some kind of unnecessary attempt at political correctness.

Let's also add the fact that not all Africans are black. You don't call Egyptian/ Syrian/ Libyan/ Algerian/ Moroccan people African Americans, and they've been there since ancient freaking times. Even South Africa has a huge white population. You'd call one of them, provided they moved to America, white, not African-American.

I can see why she is tired of the label. I would be, too.

What if :The RP Guild was a wizard guild?

Teoinsanity said
As i said,id be the mad scientist in the guild

Do you even have a solid grasp of chemistry and molecular biology, bro?