Pepperm1nts
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STATUS: Remember to disrupt any and all instances of peeing and pooing by members of the exploiter class. #resist 3 yrs ago
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Remember to disrupt any and all instances of peeing and pooing by members of the exploiter class. #resist
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For the glory of House Preciprick.
Darkmatter said
Instead I'm going to focus on telling my story IC and sharing and creating stories with the other players.
Okay, cool. That's good.
Have you actually read mine or terminal's sheet?
Oh. Welcome back. I thought you were focusing on IC. Huh. Okay. To be honest, no. I have not read your sheets. I skimmed them. Outside of IC, I generally only read things that have grasped my interest. Unless they are to-the-point, in which case I read them because then I can do it without getting bored halfway through. To be fair though, I do have ADHD.
You're saying it's daunting. I for one think a well.written ns makes me excited to write with that rper and interact with that creation.
Cool. I for one think IC posts are a better representation of a writer's skill, and use that to determine whether or not they are someone I would like to interact with.
EDIT: IC posts are also my way of determining if someone's creation is interesting. I like to see things develop.
@Darkmatter: Jesus, chill out. I have stated countless times that I am not talking about you specifically. There may be some people here that I may be referring to but, honestly, I am not even sure. I am talking about what is happening to a lot of roleplays lately, generally speaking. I appreciate Terminal's civil response, although I may have sensed (maybe erroneously) a condescending tone. But your responses are just charged-hostility. Chill out.
EDIT: Chill out, Darkmatter. There is no reason to be responding so hostile-like.
@Terminal: You might still have plenty to write about after posting your sheet. Sure, you may have a bottomless chest of ideas to write about. If so, good on you. But, clearly, that is not the case for everyone else. If you were all full of ideas, your roleplays would last. It may suit you to make lengthy sheets, and you may still have plenty of things to write about after. But let's not set sheets like yours as prime examples of what is to be desired, because clearly that is not working. Let's not perpetuate this endless cycle of roleplays where everyone exhausts their creative energies filling sheets up with numbingly-stupid information, when they could be using that energy, and those ideas, to make good IC posts.
I am speaking based on what I have seen. And that is people talking, dick-waving, and sometimes arguing about things for stupidly long periods. Then, when the roleplay starts, they post once, maybe twice, and the roleplay dies because everyone's already exhausted and out of ideas. Again, you may be an exception. But clearly this is not the case for everyone else. Therefore we shouldn't pretend the length of someone's sheet has any bearing on their skill as a writer. Let's not encourage people to join in and waste their time writing sheets that are 70% fluff anyway. Let's instead encourage people to save their energy and creativity for IC posts.
I find it is preferable for someone to make a lengthy, detailed post in IC, than a mind-numbingly long sheet. The IC is what matters; that is what determines a good writer.
But as I said, I am not targeting anyone. If you took personal offense, then that's on you. I am not criticizing people out of spite. I am only offering some advice. A suggestion, really. That being 'make smaller, to-the-point sheets and save the goods for IC, where it matters.' Maybe then you'll have something to post about.
To clarify, though, the reason you haven't seen me around is because, frankly, I avoid roleplays like the ones I described above. I will not claim to be popular though, anyway. I tend to stay low. And again, I am speaking generally. Some of the people I may be thinking of may not be here, but they are in other roleplays where the same problem persists.
But to each their own.
PS: Let's also not get mad, or consider it "impolite" when someone doesn't read a sheet worthy of a World Wonder classification for its sheer size alone. Not everyone has the time, or interest, to read them, and you can't blame them. It's your job as a writer to interest the reader. Your writing (in-character) should be what makes a reader go "Oh, man.. this is interesting. I want to learn more!". You are failing to do that unless you are making posts that prompt that kind of reaction. And if your posts don't do that, you can't honestly expect someone to care to read a ridiculously-long sheet about something they have already deemed boring.
@Terminal: You might still have plenty to write about after posting your sheet. Sure, you may have a bottomless chest of ideas to write about. If so, good on you. But, clearly, that is not the case for everyone else. If you were all full of ideas, your roleplays would last. It may suit you to make lengthy sheets, and you may still have plenty of things to write about after. But let's not set sheets like yours as prime examples of what is to be desired, because clearly that is not working. Let's not perpetuate this endless cycle of roleplays where everyone exhausts their creative energies filling sheets up with numbingly-stupid information, when they could be using that energy, and those ideas, to make good IC posts.
I am speaking based on what I have seen. And that is people talking, dick-waving, and sometimes arguing about things for stupidly long periods. Then, when the roleplay starts, they post once, maybe twice, and the roleplay dies because everyone's already exhausted and out of ideas. Again, you may be an exception. But clearly this is not the case for everyone else. Therefore we shouldn't pretend the length of someone's sheet has any bearing on their skill as a writer. Let's not encourage people to join in and waste their time writing sheets that are 70% fluff anyway. Let's instead encourage people to save their energy and creativity for IC posts.
I find it is preferable for someone to make a lengthy, detailed post in IC, than a mind-numbingly long sheet. The IC is what matters; that is what determines a good writer.
But as I said, I am not targeting anyone. If you took personal offense, then that's on you. I am not criticizing people out of spite. I am only offering some advice. A suggestion, really. That being 'make smaller, to-the-point sheets and save the goods for IC, where it matters.' Maybe then you'll have something to post about.
To clarify, though, the reason you haven't seen me around is because, frankly, I avoid roleplays like the ones I described above. I will not claim to be popular though, anyway. I tend to stay low. And again, I am speaking generally. Some of the people I may be thinking of may not be here, but they are in other roleplays where the same problem persists.
But to each their own.
PS: Let's also not get mad, or consider it "impolite" when someone doesn't read a sheet worthy of a World Wonder classification for its sheer size alone. Not everyone has the time, or interest, to read them, and you can't blame them. It's your job as a writer to interest the reader. Your writing (in-character) should be what makes a reader go "Oh, man.. this is interesting. I want to learn more!". You are failing to do that unless you are making posts that prompt that kind of reaction. And if your posts don't do that, you can't honestly expect someone to care to read a ridiculously-long sheet about something they have already deemed boring.
Forgive me if this comes off rudely - I've been wanting to say this after witnessing a lot of the roleplays some of you have participated in sit around for ridiculous amounts of time before starting up, only to fail shortly after that. I am not going to claim I know exactly why that is, but I have a theory.
Your sheets/apps are too detailed.
You sit around for literally weeks sometimes, talking about what your faction has or doesn't have, does or doesn't do, will do or won't do, and then spill literally every detail about said faction into a ridiculously long sheet. All your ideas wasted on a sheet. By the time the RP starts, you have nothing interesting to reveal about your faction. There is no room for story/faction development because you have already told us everything there is to know about your faction. For some of you, it's like the RP is played in OOC in the weeks leading to the actual start of the RP. You drain all your energy and creativity writing an unreasonably long sheet, and debating/arguing amongst yourselves in OOC when you should be saving all of that for IC, so you actually have things to reveal and play through.
I'll go a step further and straight-up say that a lot of the information some of you provide is pointless anyway. Nobody cares what your tanks are like. Or at least no-one should. It's irrelevant unless you are planning to play the RP like a video-game, which you shouldn't be trying to do because all that breeds is conflict. When you try to one-up people, or claim you have this and that, and are able to destroy this and that, in this many shots, all you're going to do is start arguments about why this and that is OP. And then what you get is a massive dick-waving contest that stalls the RP, and often times even kills it.
You shouldn't be playing like it's a video-game. You should be playing like you are trying to write a good story that people are going to want to read. This means being willing to lose, to be outgunned, outsmarted. It means not going into stupid shit nobody cares about, like what your tank is able to withstand, or what its cannons are like. Or, at least don't do it in the sheet. If for whatever reason you have to specify the caliber of the gun, or the thickness of the armor, or the name of the tank, while you are actually writing a post about it, then by all means do it. But otherwise, nobody cares what the Bumbuster Panzer tank is like. When you spend unreasonable amounts of time and energy going into the details of a tank, or every single type of unit in your military, you are not only wasting energy and creativity that could be put towards a good post, but you are also telling us "Hey, look, I am playing this like a game! I don't care about story, all I care about is how cool and powerful my guys are! Look! Look at me wave my dick around!"
Half the time, you don't even have to name tanks and guns, anyway.
This:
"The machine-gun nests roared to life as the tanks began to rumble forth."
Is preferable to this undecipherable mess of meaningless characters:
"The T47 Bumblasters opened up with their AT78 guns just as the Spitfeur-800s began to fly over the battlefield."
The second example leaves the reader wondering what the fuck T47, AT78, and Spitfeur-800s are, whereas the first example is clear in its message. Machine-guns are firing, and tanks are rolling forth. Cool. So if you are going to name your tanks, or whatever, there is no reason to do it in the sheet. You're just making your sheets unbearably long for no reason. Do it passively in posts if you have to.
Your sheets should be to the point. Don't tell us too much to where there is nothing left to add later. Tell us just enough, and then reveal more in IC. That way you have shit to write about when the RP actually starts. If you tell us every goddamn detail about your people's culture in a sheet, there will be no room for you to tell us more about it in IC. And then you all sit around wondering why no one is posting and the RP is dead. The answer being that everyone already wasted their creativity and energy writing their sheets and fighting over who has bigger guns.
A bit of a rant, but I had to say something. And when I say 'you guys' and such, I don't mean all of you. I am talking in general.
EDIT: If you absolutely MUST archive every detail about your faction, do it in a separate post from your main sheet. And add to that post as you go. Not all at once. Add to it after IC posts. So if an IC post talks about culture, add what was talked about in the post into the 'Archive' post later. That way, people who care to read about it, will do it. People who don't can just read the main sheet.
Your sheets/apps are too detailed.
You sit around for literally weeks sometimes, talking about what your faction has or doesn't have, does or doesn't do, will do or won't do, and then spill literally every detail about said faction into a ridiculously long sheet. All your ideas wasted on a sheet. By the time the RP starts, you have nothing interesting to reveal about your faction. There is no room for story/faction development because you have already told us everything there is to know about your faction. For some of you, it's like the RP is played in OOC in the weeks leading to the actual start of the RP. You drain all your energy and creativity writing an unreasonably long sheet, and debating/arguing amongst yourselves in OOC when you should be saving all of that for IC, so you actually have things to reveal and play through.
I'll go a step further and straight-up say that a lot of the information some of you provide is pointless anyway. Nobody cares what your tanks are like. Or at least no-one should. It's irrelevant unless you are planning to play the RP like a video-game, which you shouldn't be trying to do because all that breeds is conflict. When you try to one-up people, or claim you have this and that, and are able to destroy this and that, in this many shots, all you're going to do is start arguments about why this and that is OP. And then what you get is a massive dick-waving contest that stalls the RP, and often times even kills it.
You shouldn't be playing like it's a video-game. You should be playing like you are trying to write a good story that people are going to want to read. This means being willing to lose, to be outgunned, outsmarted. It means not going into stupid shit nobody cares about, like what your tank is able to withstand, or what its cannons are like. Or, at least don't do it in the sheet. If for whatever reason you have to specify the caliber of the gun, or the thickness of the armor, or the name of the tank, while you are actually writing a post about it, then by all means do it. But otherwise, nobody cares what the Bumbuster Panzer tank is like. When you spend unreasonable amounts of time and energy going into the details of a tank, or every single type of unit in your military, you are not only wasting energy and creativity that could be put towards a good post, but you are also telling us "Hey, look, I am playing this like a game! I don't care about story, all I care about is how cool and powerful my guys are! Look! Look at me wave my dick around!"
Half the time, you don't even have to name tanks and guns, anyway.
This:
"The machine-gun nests roared to life as the tanks began to rumble forth."
Is preferable to this undecipherable mess of meaningless characters:
"The T47 Bumblasters opened up with their AT78 guns just as the Spitfeur-800s began to fly over the battlefield."
The second example leaves the reader wondering what the fuck T47, AT78, and Spitfeur-800s are, whereas the first example is clear in its message. Machine-guns are firing, and tanks are rolling forth. Cool. So if you are going to name your tanks, or whatever, there is no reason to do it in the sheet. You're just making your sheets unbearably long for no reason. Do it passively in posts if you have to.
Your sheets should be to the point. Don't tell us too much to where there is nothing left to add later. Tell us just enough, and then reveal more in IC. That way you have shit to write about when the RP actually starts. If you tell us every goddamn detail about your people's culture in a sheet, there will be no room for you to tell us more about it in IC. And then you all sit around wondering why no one is posting and the RP is dead. The answer being that everyone already wasted their creativity and energy writing their sheets and fighting over who has bigger guns.
A bit of a rant, but I had to say something. And when I say 'you guys' and such, I don't mean all of you. I am talking in general.
EDIT: If you absolutely MUST archive every detail about your faction, do it in a separate post from your main sheet. And add to that post as you go. Not all at once. Add to it after IC posts. So if an IC post talks about culture, add what was talked about in the post into the 'Archive' post later. That way, people who care to read about it, will do it. People who don't can just read the main sheet.
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Chill out. Chances are those were completely empty words - just spur-of-the-moment anger. And when I say 'chances' I mean pretty much for certain. Plus, you say you're Canadian; she'll probably show up tomorrow to apologize.
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