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My roommate: Let's call her "Henry"

Rookery said
But wasn't it Harry not Henry?

I think so, but they both translate to Harriet.

Have you ever hated on your own roleplay?

I know it's happened, but I can't list specifics because it would of been info my brain decided it didn't need to hold onto.

I do know however that it was usually because the player community just didn't work. Not from a "They're new and can't do crap" angle, but a "These people clearly are not interested" and a "These players just insist on arguing and fighting for power/control" sort of issue.

How To Click With Your 1x1

People in general tend to be click or don't click, but that only get's magnified on sites like the Guild.

You can normally tell really early if you two will get along or not, if not the RP isn't going to last long.

It's also in the nature of RP's to randomly die, this can happen for a number of reasons. Such as lack of interest, people don't click, RL caught up, forgetful etc. I'd contact the other person first and see what's up. Either they don't answer and you can consider the RP dead, or they do answer and you either know why it ended or can get it going again.

Anyone for a roleplay making with me?

This belongs under Interest Check.

One on one searches?

It should be noted that any RP content that isn't 13+ (which 1x1 is notorious for having) the Admins and Mods do expect you to take it to PM.

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Jig said
Frankly, I don't remember the last RP I saw that was based on real-life earth that was set even anywhere in Europe. When I recently started an RP (tl;dr version - vampires in the Netherlands), I got some feedback appreciating that the RP was set somewhere a bit different. I don't think it has much to do with 'fear' of Arabian culture or settings, but simply no interest in them, fuelled by a lack of cultural imports. I'm not American, but I'm guessing most of their media is home-grown, and then the biggest import is Japanese. With bags of material rooted in those cultural references and a fat lot of nothing else, it's no surprise that most RPs are America-and-Japan centric.I can't name a single Arab television show. The absence of Arabian cultural imports is probably the main reason.

Dervish said
Most big fantasy settings are set in medieval European inspired settings, so it's what people are familiar with. Knights, kingdoms, and dragons and the lot are easy to conjure up in the mind compared to say Mamluks, Caliphates, and sphinxes for a lot of people. Usually when people read the word fantasy as a descriptor, Westeros, Middle Earth, Tamriel, and countless others come to mind, most with heavy European slants. Sure, a lot have Middle Eastern inspired places (Dorne in ASoIaF, Hammerfell in The Elder Scrolls, for instance) but we seldom see much of those places so they aren't immediately what come to mind. People like to roleplay what they're familiar with, so it doesn't surprise me that Arabian inspired settings aren't very common. I'm sure if you looked at an Arabic roleplaying site, their fantasy games would probably have a lot more settings reflecting Sinbad the Sailor, among others. It isn't that people are "afraid" of Arabs as much as it's not something people are familiar with. it's also the reason you don't really see anything having to do with Chinese mythology in the vein of Jade Empire, that excellent BioWare RPG, because people really don't know much about that kind of setting.

These.

Being perfectly honest the lack of Arabic RPs is not due to any racism or fear like people may claim.

American & European Culture is dominant because that's what most people are used to/grew up around.
Asian Cultures tend to be next because they're probably the next biggest culture to mix in, while a lot of Arabic countries are well known to more isolate themselves.

Plus speaking from pure personal opinion, I do not find much of Arabic culture interesting. Maybe I just wasn't shown much of it's good parts (I completely note the influence they had on ancient science though mind you) but culture wise it just looks like people behind the times who still have barbaric sexist practices. While Asia has stuff like anime, ninjas and samurai to take ideas from Arabic tends to draw a blank.

*Disclaimer* Before anyone replies going "I'm Arabic and I'm not like that!", I never did say you were so stop right now before putting words in my mouth. Arabic people are still human beings and just as likely to be good people as everyone else. I am strictly saying when I look at Arabic culture there isn't much of interest, if anything I simply see backwards practices.

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

Aurus said
I remember when casual actually had casual length posts. If I could keep up with 1-2 pages every other post I'd play in the advanced section. Maybe my interests just happen to attract all the wordy people...

Not really.

It also has to do with the fact that Advanced grew into an elitist society, acting like those who weren't advanced were lesser beings cause of it.
A lot of people had issues with that and went to Casual creating "High Casual" as a result.

So it's just a matter of the non-elitist advanced players changing location.

My roommate: Let's call her "Henry"

Raxacoricofallapatorius said Even Sherlock thought Henry was a man so I fail to see the point you're making here.

But anyone who watched the show would remember that Henry can also be a girls name because of that scene.

My roommate: Let's call her "Henry"

Sounds like a fun roommate to have :P

I have a tech-illiterate friend as well, but even she isn't that scared of technology...
She did once orange screen computer though. :/

Raxacoricofallapatorius said Since when is Henry a girl's name?

Sole said I think she might be on the spectrum. If not, she's just probably just having the time of her life. Either way, she sounds pretty awesome. All my residents do is try to get laid and I laugh as they fail badly with their flee market cologne and "make me breakfast you thot" misogynist ways.

Speaking as someone both with Autism, and having worked as an ABA assistant I don't see anything in the behaviour that Kaga described suggesting Autism. She definitely isn't showing typical behaviour patterns, but it's not Autism (or at least, not clearly Autism).

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

And this is where "Cop out!" claims are going to be made.

I've tried that multiple times, as much as I want a more successful RP I don't possess the skills to lead such a thing for multiple reasons.

1) Plot: I'm decent at thinking of interest plot hooks, but trusting me with a lot of the minor details, world, and general character development I'm not the best at. I can do it fine with a few characters, but not the amount a GM needs to have in order to run an RP.

2) Post Length/Quality: Generally not an issue in free or forgiving Casual groups. But I post in a Low-Casual level typically. It tends to draw a lot of people away, and generally fails to provide the info a GM is expected to provide.

3) Not the best people person: This is the biggest one. My reputation among some people in OT, and the majority of spam section is proof of this. I don't always get along well with people, I never try to be mean or hostile but I always end up pissing off and annoying a lot of people. Far more people than most individuals tend to piss off. I would most likely get stuck with at least some people I couldn't mix well with, and that would hurt the RP a lot in itself.