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jenioctavia) wrote2009-08-04 05:05 pm
jenioctavia) wrote2009-08-04 05:05 pm
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Bawww
Yes, I'm going to bitch about RP!Secrets now. Watch me fail.
I'm beginning to wonder if people who lurk games, or even lurk comms like Dear_Mun ever take in to account that playing in a game means that the character isn't going to stay the same forever. I mean, that would be boring, wouldn't it?
Obviously, there's a certain level of ICness that needs to remain. There are things a character wouldn't ever do, or always does, that likely won't change even over the course of life changing events. But that's just it! Character relations, plots, events, major incidents and accidents and whathaveyou. They HAPPEN. Just as in real life, things happen, they meet new people, they grow, they change. Sure some of the underlining characteristics of a person never just up and go away, but life adds on the many complex layers that make a person. Eventually the character you're playing isn't the one of the canon you pulled them from, but your own variation of them, because things that happen in RP games could never logically happen in their own canon.
Saying this now, I'm probably going to get called out at some point on Greg's OOCness as of late, but I suppose if anyone does I'll just ignore it. I mean, clearly if some one is complaining about a long running game that has characters that have been there upwards of two years and they're STILL complaining about OOCness then they really haven't been lurking all that well.
I suppose playing a canon character at all is... weirdly like being overweight. You don't own them. You never did, but in a sense even playing them you own them even less, because everyone has an opinion and they are completely entitled to it and heaven fucking forbid you actually try to justify yourself in any way because that's automatically 'causing wank. They're muses in your head, doing what muses want to do, and the rest of the RP community wants to get up in arms about what you do and how you do it.
This is one of those moments where I just want to take a megaphone ala Love is War, stand on a look out post and proclaim.
"HEY! RP WORLD! SHUT THE HELL UP AND PLAY!"
That is all.
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For the record, Dive rocks, no matter what anyone says. *hugs her wonderful RP buddies there*
PPS
The 'overweight' comment comes from a movie called Be Fat Like Me, where an overweight girl comments that being overweight is like not owning your body anymore, because everyone suddenly has the right to an opinion.
I'm beginning to wonder if people who lurk games, or even lurk comms like Dear_Mun ever take in to account that playing in a game means that the character isn't going to stay the same forever. I mean, that would be boring, wouldn't it?
Obviously, there's a certain level of ICness that needs to remain. There are things a character wouldn't ever do, or always does, that likely won't change even over the course of life changing events. But that's just it! Character relations, plots, events, major incidents and accidents and whathaveyou. They HAPPEN. Just as in real life, things happen, they meet new people, they grow, they change. Sure some of the underlining characteristics of a person never just up and go away, but life adds on the many complex layers that make a person. Eventually the character you're playing isn't the one of the canon you pulled them from, but your own variation of them, because things that happen in RP games could never logically happen in their own canon.
Saying this now, I'm probably going to get called out at some point on Greg's OOCness as of late, but I suppose if anyone does I'll just ignore it. I mean, clearly if some one is complaining about a long running game that has characters that have been there upwards of two years and they're STILL complaining about OOCness then they really haven't been lurking all that well.
I suppose playing a canon character at all is... weirdly like being overweight. You don't own them. You never did, but in a sense even playing them you own them even less, because everyone has an opinion and they are completely entitled to it and heaven fucking forbid you actually try to justify yourself in any way because that's automatically 'causing wank. They're muses in your head, doing what muses want to do, and the rest of the RP community wants to get up in arms about what you do and how you do it.
This is one of those moments where I just want to take a megaphone ala Love is War, stand on a look out post and proclaim.
"HEY! RP WORLD! SHUT THE HELL UP AND PLAY!"
That is all.
PS
For the record, Dive rocks, no matter what anyone says. *hugs her wonderful RP buddies there*
PPS
The 'overweight' comment comes from a movie called Be Fat Like Me, where an overweight girl comments that being overweight is like not owning your body anymore, because everyone suddenly has the right to an opinion.
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Ha ha! That was one idea I had but I was thinking that he was there to find a new indgredient and well...he stumbled on the island....with beastly beasts bigger than the eye could see. Ha ha! He was found wandering around on camera and that's how he came to be the head chef of the facility, which explains the reason that Dr. Sandler was addicted to the ice cream.
I'm glad that I clarified it for you. You're not the first one that asked. Ha ha!
Ooh Graphic Design! My sister is going to study in that field. She really loves art and she likes designing things too.
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Anyway, I wanted to drop a line and let you know I'm still alive. Do you by any chance have a messenger service?
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I do completely understand your troubles with exhaustion. I have felt the effects here too so yeah, I hope that you're feeling better.
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Everything's pretty much under the same name for me. JeniOctavia on Gmail, AIM and MSN.
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I'm incredibly hyper today.
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