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Natalie Petr-
ov

Avatar: 30861 2010-01-24 16:36:34 -0500
20

[Phantasmagoric Spl-
endor
]

Level 69 Camwhore

Queen of Hats and enjoy

Yes, to summarize my entire input into RP as a whole right now:

RPing as a person is easier than RPing as part of a group.

RPing as a group is dangerous because it can lead to the RP being closed off and outsiders not participating (bumuming that the goal is to get the outsiders to participate, which is what my goal has always been).

RP as a whole would (in my opinion) benefit from outsiders participating since it rejuvenates the storyline.

RP that seems too closed off leads to people a) considering it TL;DR (even though I read it anyway because I just like RP, gosh) or b) not something they feel comfortable participating in.

ETA: I think that the “closed-off group” idea applies to SRSLY RP as well as TGC — I’m not singling anyone out with this.

Natalie Petrov edited this message on 07/19/2008 9:07PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST Posted:

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: That and, as i’ve said in that thread, a lot of their rp failed to engage their audience

8:55PM

Natalie: Yes, that is BANG ON.

8:55PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: It was thing that felt closed off to the rest of forumwarz

8:55PM

Natalie: That is one of the best insights that I think there’s been.

8:55PM

elenaratelimit: their rp was tl;dr

8:55PM

elenaratelimit: for rp to be TL it has to be interesting

8:55PM

AAHZ: sillyness

8:55PM

Natalie: The inability to participate in RP because you don’t feel as though you’re part of it, or you worry that by posting you’ll overstep some boundary.

8:55PM

SIG-ENABLING MOCK-CONGLER: well at least they seemed to enjoy it

8:55PM

Natalie: I think that is absolutely a major aspect of the RP issue within ForumWarz.

8:55PM

SIG-ENABLING MOCK-CONGLER: if no one else did

8:55PM

elenaratelimit: i read 2 sentences then spaced out and started diddling myself

8:56PM

elenaratelimit: i can’t read that **** ****

8:56PM

SIG-ENABLING MOCK-CONGLER: as long as theyre having fun who cares right?

8:56PM

Natalie: Sure, they enjoyed it, but the idea of RP is to get others involved, to get them inspired, to get them participating, and if it feels that removed, then that’s not going to happen.

8:56PM

elenaratelimit: I CARE

8:56PM

elenaratelimit: DEEPLY

8:56PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: Definitely

8:56PM

Natalie: No, no, we’re not CRITICIZING the RP per se. The RP was good — the lack of ability for outsiders to participate was the downfall.

8:56PM

SIG-ENABLING MOCK-CONGLER: well you dont have to read their terrible investigation **** yanno

8:56PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: And the reason why I keep touting Briddy’s rping so much is that while you weren’t able to particpate with her, it was ****ing hilarious

8:56PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: Which was the payoff for reading it

8:56PM

Natalie: I think that’s the real key to the whole issue, which means that if we can figure out how to open up RP THAT way, then we can address the issue.

8:57PM

Natalie: Who was she RPing as?

8:57PM

Natalie: Fact?

8:57PM

Natalie: Which I misspelled three times — impressive for four letters.

8:57PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: Yeah, Fact

8:57PM

elenaratelimit: i like RPing that is more like a ‘person’ posting in a character rather than a thread where ‘things happen’ but that’s just me

8:57PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: Sig, we’re not trying to leave RP alone, we’re trying to help it

8:58PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: And I agree with elenaratelimit, I usually just space out if the story in the rp doesn’t catch my attention

8:58PM

SIG-ENABLING MOCK-CONGLER: well you guys are in fact one of the original troll klans

8:58PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: AND I AGREE WITH elenaratelimit AGAIN

8:58PM

nanathunderjesus gets you LIGHTNING IN YOUR FIST: I like characters. :3

8:58PM

Natalie: elenaratelimit: I think that it’s easier to RP a character in general because you can react to a character more easily than you can to an RP story arc that seems closed off.

8:59PM

elenaratelimit: Natalie: yeah if you miss a few pages you are kind of left out

8:59PM

elenaratelimit: and if it doesnt interest me i wont read it =\ i am lazy

8:59PM

Thanks, that makes sense.


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Nocturnal_He-
artache

Avatar: Emo Girl

[SRSLY]

Level 61 Emo Kid

“Final Cut Pro”

Monkey in a suit with a gun Posted:

This may be the case.

I tried to be inclusive though, as evidence by the fact that re-re’s and Emos who had nothing to do with the klan were constantly getting themselves involved and I included them every time.

But I do accept that this may be a big part of the problem.

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Nocturnal_Heartache Posted:

Haaa, that would be me. Log in to see images!

Yes it would and I LOVED it everytime you got yourself involved. Every time.


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gigerth

Avatar: 30869 Fri Jun 26 22:33:49 -0400 2009
2

[Team Shortbus]

Level 31 Troll

i was jealous so i changed his title

troll roleplat – enough probably too much also very weak

robots – bunch of spam branching from spies

spies – longwinded, big circlejerk

camwhore – escher gone, little/no activity

emo – honestly even if it was good it would be horrible nobody wants to do this

rere – great

ok


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gigerth Posted:

troll roleplat – enough probably too much also very weak

robots – bunch of spam branching from spies

spies – longwinded, big circlejerk

camwhore – escher gone, little/no activity

emo – honestly even if it was good it would be horrible nobody wants to do this

rere – great

ok

So we should all just be re-res and Trolls then?

I mean I get what you are saying, but if what you are saying is true, then the problem is largely with the game itself, since we only have so many clbumes to choose from, and apparently no one is open to RP that is too far outside the box.

Not completely disagreeing with you there though.


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Janie

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[SRSLY]

Level 25 Emo Kid

I... HAERT TEH FIREFOX TOO!

See, my take on it is that there are hundreds of threads in fwz that I don’t enjoy, don’t feel are my cup of tea, or are tl;dr. I stick to the ones I enjoy. I don’t play domination, but I don’t complain that the domination players don’t make me feel welcome. They’re not rolling out the red carpet, but if I was really interested, I’d find a way to get involved.

There are valid points here, but I also don’t think that every thread has a responsibility to engage and entertain the entire community. If a few people are entertained, even if it’s just the thread participants, where’s the problem in that?

I’m not going to go into my reasons for backing off roleplay, but will just say that the forums as they stand are simply not conducive to any kind of RP, whether it be out-there like spy RP or down to earth.


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gigerth

Avatar: 30869 Fri Jun 26 22:33:49 -0400 2009
2

[Team Shortbus]

Level 31 Troll

i was jealous so i changed his title

i was commenting on the state but as it stands the easiest paths are rere and troll

mostly because most people want to troll and the fact that you can pretty much do anything with rere

camwhore is possible but the only person who i ever noticed doing it well that was entertaining was escher

episode 2 won’t change anything either if it ever comes out

the only clbum i’ve heard of is hacker (and permanoob but that’s just rere)

how are you supposed to roleplay with tha t


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gigerth

Avatar: 30869 Fri Jun 26 22:33:49 -0400 2009
2

[Team Shortbus]

Level 31 Troll

i was jealous so i changed his title

Janie Posted:

See, my take on it is that there are hundreds of threads in fwz that I don’t enjoy, don’t feel are my cup of tea, or are tl;dr. I stick to the ones I enjoy. I don’t play domination, but I don’t complain that the domination players don’t make me feel welcome. They’re not rolling out the red carpet, but if I was really interested, I’d find a way to get involved.

There are valid points here, but I also don’t think that every thread has a responsibility to engage and entertain the entire community. If a few people are entertained, even if it’s just the thread participants, where’s the problem in that?

I’m not going to go into my reasons for backing off roleplay, but will just say that the forums as they stand are simply not conducive to any kind of RP, whether it be out-there like spy RP or down to earth.

because you are a terrible terrible person


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Orb

Avatar: 33233 Tue Oct 21 12:46:08 -0400 2008
20

[70 Character Story-
tellers
]

Level 69 Camwhore

“Venereal Biohazard”

As it stands, RPing on Forumwarz feels like putting on a play, naked, while people jeer at you. You’re certainly not likely to put on the performance of your life, even bumuming that the script isn’t garbage.

I’m not going to blame the audience, because that’s a coward’s move… but either way, it feels pointless.

Janie

Avatar: Janie's Avatar

[SRSLY]

Level 25 Emo Kid

I... HAERT TEH FIREFOX TOO!

gigerth Posted:

because you are a terrible terrible person

Yeah, I really can’t imagine why new players don’t roleplay. It’s hard to figure out what could be keeping them from trying anything new…


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AAHZ

Avatar: 4016 2013-08-02 05:07:06 -0400
20

[Forumwarz Active P-
layers
]

Level 69 Troll

SAGAMI -WUZ- HERE

Janie Posted:

Yeah, I really can’t imagine why new players don’t roleplay. It’s hard to figure out what could be keeping them from trying anything new…

agreed.

ok lets make out now!

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UNBAN DRUNKENLAZYBASTARD

gigerth Posted:

i was commenting on the state but as it stands the easiest paths are rere and troll

mostly because most people want to troll and the fact that you can pretty much do anything with rere

camwhore is possible but the only person who i ever noticed doing it well that was entertaining was escher

episode 2 won’t change anything either if it ever comes out

the only clbum i’ve heard of is hacker (and permanoob but that’s just rere)

how are you supposed to roleplay with tha t

Good question I have no idea.

I do agree that some clbumes are just much easier to roleplay with than others too, re-re and troll are p. easy really.

Still though, I don’t like every thread I see, in fact most of them are just boring to me, so I just ignore them and move on to ones I think I can do something with, or else I read for the fun and stay out of it so I don’t **** it up.

I don’t see why that is so hard to do. Why not just ignore**** you don’t like but is at least roleplay? I guess that’s my opinion, other people seem to think that every thread should be hugely entertaining to everyone…I just don’t see how that is possible


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gigerth

Avatar: 30869 Fri Jun 26 22:33:49 -0400 2009
2

[Team Shortbus]

Level 31 Troll

i was jealous so i changed his title

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janies doom of the roleplays


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Janie

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[SRSLY]

Level 25 Emo Kid

I... HAERT TEH FIREFOX TOO!

And since this is in a roleplay forum, (which doesn’t seem to mean roleplay to many, it seems to mean “get away with being your own self but pretend it’s roleplaying if anyone calls you on it” ), I don’t see any point in trying to have a serious discussion. I appreciate those who seem to really be trying to have a dialog, but have long since learned that dialogs on fwz are more often than not just a long, poorly-disguised lead-up to a troll war.


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gigerth

Avatar: 30869 Fri Jun 26 22:33:49 -0400 2009
2

[Team Shortbus]

Level 31 Troll

i was jealous so i changed his title

a dialogue was successfully had here

you just can’t seem to keep one up it seems janie

pity


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Natalie Petr-
ov

Avatar: 30861 2010-01-24 16:36:34 -0500
20

[Phantasmagoric Spl-
endor
]

Level 69 Camwhore

Queen of Hats and enjoy

To clarify: I have no issue with a thread not being entertaining to everyone. I have no issue with a thread being interesting only to the people in it. I have no issue with closed-off story arcs in RP. I have no issue with any of that.

However, since I started SRSLY to encourage RP, I am very interested in what causes RP to stagnate and what prevents it from spreading. As a result, I have attempted to figure out what hinders some threads from taking off — so that’s why I’ve noted that closed-off story arcs do tend to lead to people not participating. It’s not a criticism at all, only a note as to what I can try to do to improve.

Natalie Posted:

To clarify: I have no issue with a thread not being entertaining to everyone. I have no issue with a thread being interesting only to the people in it. I have no issue with closed-off story arcs in RP. I have no issue with any of that.

However, since I started SRSLY to encourage RP, I am very interested in what causes RP to stagnate and what prevents it from spreading. As a result, I have attempted to figure out what hinders some threads from taking off — so that’s why I’ve noted that closed-off story arcs do tend to lead to people not participating. It’s not a criticism at all, only a note as to what I can try to do to improve.

I took what you said the way you meant it, as constructive criticism from somoeone who is very interested in RP and how it works best. I understood you no problem here. Log in to see images!


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Janie

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[SRSLY]

Level 25 Emo Kid

I... HAERT TEH FIREFOX TOO!

gigerth Posted:

a dialogue was successfully had here

you just can’t seem to keep one up it seems janie

pity

Yes, you’re right. A dialog was had here by nana and natalie. You were not in any way participating in a dialog. I was not either, since I just gave my opinion, and was not responded to in a meaningful way, therefore did not respond back.

Again, roleplaying forum, so license to be an bumhole. Not conducive to discussion.

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Bauzer

Avatar: 14338 Sat Jan 03 15:31:28 -0500 2009
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Level 36 Emo Kid

some of us are underrated Role Players.


some of us CONTROL the storylines.


and all of us keep coming back…

i dont see a problem.

(c)Famine.

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