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I agree I am thinking it will be interesting if anything o.o

First off, let me lead into this by stating the obvious that may not be obvious. I'm not disrespecting you with this, it's 5:33 AM and I have no ******** clue why I am even alive let alone awake right now, and I'm pretty sure I just hallucinated a purple dragon fired out of my bathroom sink after I cleaned my cat's nasty litter.

Now that I've got that pretext out of the way, let's get right to this.



[cracks neck, cracks fingers] Holy ******** it's 5:35 AM. Why God.

Alright. So I'm gonna ignore Vintrict's obvious social shortcomings, since he did spend the last several pages calling everyone here "ignorant and bad at rping [sic]," and instead focus on the error of his general standpoint, and why your view is flawed as well.

Vintrict's major issue is that, as he brags, he grades the merit of roleplayers and content based on what personally agrees with him. "If you like me, then I like you. If you earn my respect, then I respect you. If you do things I like, then I'll acknowledge them." The problem with this is that the ME ME ME mentality is a non-subjectively poor one to approach roleplay with, strictly because roleplaying is factually something you do with other people.

Like you can't actually spin that in a relative manner. It's something you and other people do together, at least here. So you -do- kind of have to acknowledge what upsets and what elates your fellow roleplayers, and try to be more inclusive than exclusive.

People can disagree, but they typically get chased out of roleplays left and right with pitchforks. Take Vintrict. He likes to pretend he's only disliked by a small fraction of roleplayers around Gaia and is Mr. Big, but.. honestly, I've seen the guy kicked out of so many roleplays of people I don't even 'know.' I can count on one hand the number of roleplays I've been kicked from and I was intentionally ******** with them to instigate that result; Vintrict's done so out of.. unintentional bullheadedness in so many threads over the years, it's to a point he (again I'm not just making this up, this is factual) has to resort to roleplaying in Grabass Bars at Chatterbox because they have literally zero standards and won't turn anyone away, even him at his worst.

There is something fundamentally wrong with your approach when:

1.] You're frequently barred from roleplaying at threads.
2.] Your retort to this is claiming everyone directly involved or not is ignorant.
3.] You brag and relish at not cooperating.

It's the utmost opposite of what roleplaying even is. So with this whole tell/warning/power/etc debate, that's really where the crux boils down; I don't personally give too many shits about the details and the "journey" of things as much as I want my opponent to at least be able to say "That fight was good." My mentality is assuming an interest in others.

Where as a lot of people who defend being Space Gods that move at Mach 10 and have no warning on their Space Flipendos.. typically are self oriented. They want what's entertaining to them and ******** everyone else in their assholes. Vintrict goes so far as to boast anyone who doesn't agree with him (because if you disagree with him, you don't like him and therefore aren't worth respecting etc) doesn't even matter at all, even if it's done politely. I've seen people nicely disagree with him and him retort by calling them cunts.

The self-motivation deal's fair too, it's fine to be honest that "I want what I want," but .. that mentality and roleplaying don't mesh. You don't have to agree, you can go around getting into arguments over roleplay fight mechanics and making s**t to read fights like.. a lot of the proponents of Vintrict's mantra on this historically have had to deal with. But, I'm just saying there's probably better hobbies for you if that's your mentality, because you're missing the point of this one.

Having fun with other people.

5:46 AM gay.

Now, I understand the want to play devil's advocate or simply to try and support the peace by going "everybody's right! Now stop arguing. biggrin " But you have to understand that kind of placating naytalk doesn't really accomplish anything. At most it just delays the topic to be argued, possibly worse, later. It's really better for long term conflict resolution that it all get out in the open, people learn at least 'something' from it, and those who absolutely self-destruct from the situation get banned so they don't pose a problem a month from now.

I call it "Kindness Poison." In trying desperately to avoid conflict, you're basically breeding conflict worse than if Vintrict started his gay bashing tirade again.

5:48 AM, I'm gonna play the Gamecube.

Quite alright Green Dragon Knight Talking Robot.

I hold no animosity over it. It's easy to interpret the situation differently, not in context. Same mistake I or anyone else could make.

I'm glad to hear that. More unique approaches are needed in Gaya.

Speaking of which. After I sleep, think it's time Tresondros get a little propain and propain accessories.

Go with whatever works best, honestly. What you want to make sure you are accurately describing is the end result. What happens at the end?

You can spend an entire paragraph describing how your arm gets from point A to point B during a swing with your weapon, but if you aren't clear enough about where your weapon is supposed to strike the rest of it is a bit of a waste.

"Putting the cart before the horse", as the saying goes.

If you're concerned about that what a lot of people will do is that they will list the intended effects in a simple, easy to understand statement (ex: John Smith would begin to feel hot and start sweating profusely), and then explain how it happens before or after that and drop all of your science in there.

Some people will do post formats where they block things off in sections to make them easier to read out of context. For example, you write your description in the post however it feels right for you and then beside the relevant section:



It's off to the side so it doesn't really cut into the narrative and break your writing flow, but it still provides all the necessary details for someone to respond to your action with.

They didn't have spoiler tags a few years ago on this site, but they do now. So people will sometimes put them in spoiler boxes too:

Something to think about doing then...

I always find that the best way to learn how much you know about something is to try to explain it to someone else. Writing out comprehensive descriptions of your character's powers is one way that you can try to find the limitations on how far you want to go with it and fill in some of the holes that you didn't know you had.

But I'm one of those people, you know... the ones that spend too much time doing everything. What do they call those people?

Oh right... jerks. =D