HollywoodMole said One particular person plays psychopathic people

I have a special kind of dislike for those people. Considering I have a mental disorder. :/ They tend to top out the list on the dead people for my role plays for some... mysterious reason.

Brovo said
I have a special kind of dislike for those people. Considering I have a mental disorder. :/ They tend to top out the list on the dead people for my role plays for some... reason.

I hate them because they act like psychopathic people do anything. I've ran into someone who says their character can't feel pain. Is that medically possible without drugs?

Actually, it is. Congenital analgesia, and HSAN 4/5. I only really know because I ran a character with the 'insensitive' variant of Congenital analgesia. Admittedly it's not as awesome as some may think, because if you can't feel pain then you won't know how badly you're injured. After all, what about broken bones or internal bleeding? You wouldn't really know until it's too late.

Though I have a feeling that that's not what the person in question was referring to.

Vanishing and inconsistently posting GMs. That's one of the main reasons I don't endeavour to join other RPs and only work on GMing my own, because I'm confident in myself being committed to see the rp through and at the posting rate specified. I'm sick and tired of the number of rps I've participated in that have died or failed and not a single one of them ever reaching completion.

Players who join in the midst of an ongoing rp, refuse to take any constructive criticism when they're doing something wrong/inconsistent with the rp, being asked to fix it/clarify other points and then them bursting out in a tirade of anger, snottiness and ego, presuming to know how the rp should be run better then the actual GM. Naturally, those players don't last long.

Players who bitch at me about other players within an rp in pm over absolutely nothing is always terrific fun too.

To the person who has the partner who always quits, like it was already suggested; ask why and just stop if there isn't a good reason. Even I get to a point with people and go; "Look, this isn't working." One guy and I are great writers, and can make fun characters, but for some reason, and I explained this to him, how we design are characters...they just don't work together. It has nothing to do with an ability to write, but our character's don't flow. We tried 3 RPs, but I quit out every time because the character just didn't interest me and made the RP a bit dull. We parted ways as friends. It just happens sometimes.

But in her case, if she isn't saying anything, confront. Honestly, I'd say stop. It doesn't sound like she's able to commit to an RP.

Pachamac said

When I used to do groups, I would have rules stating; "If you have a problem with a member, talk to them privately first. If you cannot agree, come to me, but realize that I will be the final say and you may not like what I decide."
Kind of a strong hint toward "WORK IT OUT YOURSELF!"

HollywoodMole said
I hate them because they act like psychopathic people do anything. I've ran into someone who says their character can't feel pain. Is that medically possible without drugs?

As Flamelord said, though, a lot of those things are not very... Pleasant. We evolved the ability to feel pain for a reason. Imagine you cut open your foot and you're bleeding everywhere, but you literally can't feel that.

Kind of seriously bad, really. It's usually associated with some form of nerve damage, too.

But uh, no. Psychopaths in general deal with delusions, auditory and visual, fake or skewered memories, problems feeling or even comprehending empathy and sympathy, intense paranoia... There's a whole slew of symptoms associated with it, and not all psychopaths have all symptoms, as well, symptoms can vary in degrees of severity, then you have those who have triggers that cause those delusions and such versus those who have no control...

Also, another fun fact: No, voices in one's head do not become compulsory. Au contraire, quite often the mental anguish most go through who have voices in their head is because they cannot or do not listen to them, or because the voices are unintelligible. As well, there are both pleasant and unpleasant delusions, and delusions which repeat that can have either nature at the flick of a switch.

And so on, and so on, and so on...

But hey, everybody's gotta be like Hollywood and depict psychopaths and others like them as being nonstop bloodthirsty monsters who want nothing more than to murder and rape, when in reality, the majority of them don't have the ability to understand other human beings, and can't comprehend reality, and usually have a lot more anguish and suffering than murderous thoughts. And that's just sort of sad. Not that it stops role players from capitalizing on that anguish to make incredible shitty plot contrivances for why they just murdered little Timmy without any regret.

See why this might enrage me a little in a special kind of way?

Seems like the biproduct of 1x1s.

Frankly, I'm getting sick of people who's sole purpose on this site seems to be to preach in some way about gay rights (i.e. beating us all over the head with the fact that their character is gay/lez/bi/trans, having some backstory that entirely revolves around that, setting up an RP about how all our characters are suffering from oppression because they're gay, etc.) Look, I'm not gay, I am Christian, and I do not support homosexuality. That being said, I really don't care all that much if you are a homosexual. Fine. That's your choice, and me telling you I disapprove of it is probably going to do very little, if anything, to change you or your decisions, so I won't waste my oxygen. But please, for the love of a decent RP thread, stop trying to smother your fellows with your own personal beliefs. You don't like it when we get all preachy about our beliefs.

tl;dr version: Shut up about gay rights and let's just RP already. I want to have fun, not listen to eloquent whining.

Stranger said
Frankly, I'm getting sick of people who's sole purpose on this site seems to be to preach in some way about gay rights (i.e. beating us all over the head with the fact that their character is gay/lez/bi/trans, having some backstory that revolves around that, setting up an RP about how all our characters are suffering from oppression because they're gay, etc.) Look, I'm not gay, I Christian, and I do not support homosexuality. That being said, I really don't care all that much if you a homosexual. Fine. That's your choice, and me telling you I disapprove of it is probably going to do very little, if anything, to change you or your decisions, so I won't waste my oxygen. But please, for the love of a decent RP thread, stop trying to smother your fellows with your own personal beliefs. You don't like it when get all preachy about beliefs.tl;dr version: Shut up about gay rights and let's just RP already. I want to have fun, not listen to eloquent whining.

Then why even go into a thread that states bitching for the sake of therapy?

Ruby said
Then why even go into a thread that states bitching for the sake of therapy?

To find a safe place to let out my frustrations instead of getting into an argument in the middle of a thread.

Stranger said
To find a safe place to let out my frustrations instead of getting into an argument in the middle of a thread.

So..."Quit bitching about RP!...but let me bitch about people bitching about RP!" ??

Ruby said
So..."Quit bitching about RP!...but let me bitch about people bitching about RP!" ??

Are you really coming into a thread specifically designed for bitching about things and getting on people's cases for bitching about things? Have you really that much time on your hands?

Look, I'm not here to start an argument. I came here to vent, and vent I have. Kindly let it be, and we can both simply go about our business.

Stranger said
Are you really coming into a thread specifically designed for bitching about things and getting on people's cases for bitching about things? Have you really that much time on your hands?Look, I'm not here to start an argument. I came here to vent, and vent I have. Kindly let it be, and we can both simply go about our business.

...whoa, dude. It looks like I misread your original post. Hence the question marks. =)

It's not that serious.

o-o He came to bitch in a place where no RP follows. So, his comment of stop bitching and let's RP doesn't work here, so no RP shall follow said bitching. lol.

But I think you guys got it settled. o-o -Sips her Sobe.-

Also, just a note: I understand some people may get upset by his comment about not 'supporting' gays. Or you may agree with him. To each their own. This is the only warning I am giving to NOT touch that subject further on this thread. I see NOTHING good coming from touching that subject further. O-o So, leave it rest on that part and move on to more things about RP that bug you!

(Because you just know someone will see it and flip shit and he battle begins!).

Miss Gallagher said
This is the only warning I am giving to NOT touch that subject further on this thread. I see NOTHING good coming from touching that subject further.

Nothing good.

On the Old Guild I never had any problems, and on the New Guild, unfortunately, I haven't yet been able to RP, so...

I had one site where I had the GM quit his own RP because he said my characters, basically, weren't responding to their "situation" the way HE thought they should. And another site where I actually had to quite literally "drag" another person's character out of a room because she refused to do more than use dialog... her character just a disembodied talking head floating in a detail-less void. Even though that wasn't what her character literally was. Yeah, I write nice, detailed, "living" posts, and all I got back was one-liners.

Oh, oh... had a story of my own I GMed, a restart of an RP that died due to a very main player leaving the site. Only, the one person I got interested in the RP was... terrible. His first post started with his character getting in a fight, and devolved from there. I can only shudder...

That makes no sense. Not even GM get to decide how someone reacts unless it's predetermined and discussed ahead of time.

I hate people who try to say how someone should do something or shouldn't.
More so, I hate when they get MAD that you call them out on controlling your character.

I once had a guy LITERALLY control my character through an entire conversation without my permission, and when I called him on it, he got defensive. So, I basically told him that if he felt he had the right to play my character, he didn't need me for the RP.

In some cases, I try to hint at my annoyance of people controlling my character. For instance, if they SAY he she responds to something they say, even if they are correct at guessing the way I would have had her react (rare), I will make them react completely different, hinting in the post that she did NOT react that way. It's my nice way of going; "Please, don't tell me what my char does..."

And I will let it go twice, but if they do it a third time, the hinting even stronger on the second, I call them out.

I have had people say; "If I don't, the RP won't get anywhere!"

Or you could just fucking leave it open for me to fill in when I post... She is MY character. You don't get to say what she does, how she does it, or what she says unless discussed ahead of time.

Brovo said
As Flamelord said, though, a lot of those things are not very... Pleasant. We evolved the ability to feel pain for a reason. Imagine you cut open your foot and you're bleeding everywhere, but you literally can't feel that.Kind of seriously bad, really. It's usually associated with some form of nerve damage, too. But uh, no. Psychopaths in general deal with delusions, auditory and visual, fake or skewered memories, problems feeling or even comprehending empathy and sympathy, intense paranoia... There's a whole slew of symptoms associated with it, and not all psychopaths have all symptoms, as well, symptoms can vary in degrees of severity, then you have those who have triggers that cause those delusions and such versus those who have no control...Also, another fun fact: No, voices in one's head do not become compulsory. Au contraire, quite often the mental anguish most go through who have voices in their head is they cannot or do not listen to them, or because the voices are unintelligible. As well, there are both pleasant and unpleasant delusions, and delusions which repeat that can have either nature at the flick of a switch.And so on, and so on, and so on...But hey, everybody's gotta be like Hollywood and depict psychopaths and others like them as being nonstop bloodthirsty monsters who want nothing more than to murder and rape, when in reality, the majority of them don't have the ability to understand other human beings, and can't comprehend reality, and usually have a lot more anguish and suffering than murderous thoughts. And that's just sort of sad. Not that it stops role players from capitalizing on that anguish to make incredible shitty plot contrivances for why they just murdered little Timmy without any regret.See why this might enrage me a little in a special kind of way?

I never depicted them in that way... I see others depict them that way...

HollywoodMole said I never depicted them in that way... I see others depict them that way...

Never said you did, mate.