Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

[Dion]

@Undine Was more or less aimed at the others, but yes, I think it's very stupid that your friends 'stood up for you.' As far as I could see you weren't being bullied or some such that required standing up for. Nothing you couldn't have done yourself either way. So I stand by my words. If there had been any kind of gut involved these two friends of yours would've let you do it and they would've let you know about it instead of doing it themselves.

The respective argument in the RP thread also went unanswered by you. And when I came here to mock the argument, you had already 'liked' the posts made here. Show of support or something, silly really. So, no, you could've said something earlier, and seemingly you were aware of the argument in here. In fact, you probably could've stopped the argument. Whichever one it was, I think it's stupid regardless of what you did and did not do.

That said, let's not derail this thread further. If you want to defend yourself against me (I doubt it, my opinion isn't that important to you I imagine, as it shouldn't be important to you) I'll gladly PM you.

[Undine]

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[McHaggis]

Can I bitch here now? I don't usually, and boi, let me tell you, a twenty-six year old man sent me hate mail on here once and I didn't complain not even once about it.

Ya know what I hate? Other than everyone and everything like a textbook misanthrope?

Waking up to a hurricane of salt every beautiful British morning that could have been prevented by just a tiny bit of foresight from all parties involved. I stay up to 4AM to keep things going smoothly and with as little drama as possible in RP and then the moment––the moment––I go to sleep, something happens that then gets amplified and made worse somehow within no more than six hours.

If you're rejected from a RP, don't go taking said RP's specific formatting. Make your own similar roleplay 'with blackjack and hookers', it doesn't matter, but c'mon, copy-pasting is a step too far. It's basic immaturity. Similarly, if you're not the GM of a RP, don't go all on a crusade on behalf of the GM team when they ain't even awake. Level-headedness is paramount, and drama should absolutely be kept to PMs and not dragged into another person's OOC or a bitching thread because all it does is damage your friends' reputation and gives them a headache––almost everyone involved with running a RP knows this (or should).

That's why the rejection was done via PM in the first place, and why a request for credit in the CS (or a request to not use it in the first place) would have-should have also been done via PM.

(I differ from some of you in that when I borrowed the first non-standard CS I ever used, HushedWhispers', I made sure to get permission and credited accordingly, because her sheet was inspiring for its time. I guess it's just a politeness thing, because when people put work into something, I feel like they should deserve some kudos for it––especially when they could have used something bog standard. Anyway, I digress... :>)

RPG is why I'm a neurotic, highly-stressed control freak, guys.

[Dervish]

I'm had at least 4 or 5 people (that I know of) who've used my character sheet formating and rule sections nearly word for word. I don't really mind, it's kind of flattering in a backhanded sense. Usually people ask if it's okay, I always say yes. I just ask people consider crediting me for the formatting so if on the off chance they come across my game, they know nobody is ripping on another off, and I won't lie, I enjoy being acknowledged for the work I put in even if it's for something inconsequential.

To me, it's like a group project in school. It's irritating when you put in all the work while your partner gets credit for it.

Does it matter in the grand scheme of things? Of course not. You should still do the polite thing and ask if you can borrow ideas or formatting. I mean, unless someone rips one of my characters or plots, I'm not going to bug them about it or anything. This is a hobby, not a livelihood.

[Dion]

@Undine PMing you now, then.

@McHaggis Woo wee voice of reason here. Eloquently worded too, my hat off to you (I don't wear hats). I'm actually interested in your hate mail though, feel free to PM me a copy of that if you still have it. Sounds hilarious.

And an apology to all those involved if I sounded like an angry cunt, that is my standard way of expressing myself, mostly cause I am an angry cunt. No harm intended, but if you took offense I'd like to remind you offense is always taken and never given. Cheers lads, thanks for the good discussion too. It was enjoyable and rather contrary to the type of discussions I usually experience on this website.

[KoL]

I just feel the worst right now.

Get better on an issue only to fall to the same traps on another while GMing and always putting the stress on your partners, since they have to deal with the aftermath of your hotheadedness.

There's nothing worst than falling for someone's trolling only to annoy/hurt the ones you care for/yourself.

[pugbutter]

Canon-OC pairings in 1x1 which totally disrespect the source material! Namely the canon character's personality and the fact that he's not even interested in romance at all, much less with your Mary Sue.

I wish I could mention which character it is without throwing the guilty roleplayer under the bus (this apparently is the only person on the planet with too little self-respect to realize it's a bad idea), but trust me, this shit is fucking egregious to any self-respecting fan of the video game series in question. I wanted to laugh, or to cry out in indignation for the artists who crafted the games' story, but instead I had to just sit there and let this vaguely dreadful ennui flush over me with my hands at my cheeks, jaw gaping wide and tongue struck dumb, simply staring at the screen as if to wonder whether this person really had the shameless irreverence to post this back-alley Tijuana abortion on the internet for all to see.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

This is a bitch towards myself; but I always feel like I never bring enough meaningful diversity to a cast whenever I make an RP. Whenever I GM, I tend to make a lot of different characters... but the last two RPs I felt like I made too many girls, or too many characters with a similar function shall we say.

[vancexentan]

Just got done a few games of Yugioh online this guy starts complaining and whining about my deck. I brick (a term used for a bad hand), and he has a lot of set trap cards that negate my ability to do things. I start losing and he starts making fun of me and deriding me while I just sit there and shrug. He doesn't even go for the win. He just sits there and makes all sorts of immature trolly comments that even a middle schooler would shake his head at. It just kind of frankly disgusting to see people act like that online. My deck isn't even a very strong deck even so considering the archetype it's a part of and it's intended purpose. I come online to play a game not to listen to you whine, and then mock me like some adolescent five year old. Eventually I just left without saying a word it wasn't even worth it. It's especially stupid since he himself was playing a deck with 'no skill' which was what he was starting all this shit about it basically just replenishes itself and doesn't go away.

[Ammokkx]

@vancexentan ...Uh, Vance? Wrong thread.

[vancexentan]

@AmmokkxApologizes I didn't see that one.

[Lalliman]

@pugbutter You sure know how to make someone curious. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

[Mixtape Ghost N]

People who see you looking at their RP, and message/mention you asking if you want to join.

Like

are you that desperate? lol

_{Granted, I send friends messages when I see them looking at my RPs to tease them.}

[Mixtape Ghost N]

I said it before, and I'll say it again; I will not ping people every absence so I can ask them if they've lost interest or whatever.

And I don't care if you say it's "the right thing to do," or "courtesy." If you can't bother to be active on your own (or leave a message saying that you'll at least be busy), then you aren't a good addition to the roleplay. Period.

I'm not going to babysit people. Just move on with the people that are actually interested. lol

[Foster]

I said it before, and I'll say it again; I will not ping people every absence so I can ask them if they've lost interest or whatever.

And I don't care if you say it's "the right thing to do," or "courtesy." If you can't bother to be active on your own (or leave a message saying that you'll at least be busy), then you aren't a good addition to the roleplay. Period.

I'm not going to babysit people. Just move on with the people that are actually interested. lol

@Mr Allen J

This, I do not mind so much in 1x1 RPs. When busy, they can move as slow as the last bit of super-dense ketchup stuck at the bottom of the bottle; still worth tapping.

That feel when someone made an obvious editing out of a plot in their 1x1 int. check so they wouldn't roleplay with you for whatever reason and saying it was """"taken"""".

I think the person didn't like that I didn't want to play a damsel in distress.

works for me bruh

@Ryoko

To be fair, shit be getting pretty real if Ryoko is in distress.

I didn't read through the whole thread but still wanted to gripe about something that bothers me sometimes in fights.

When neither side is willing to lose.

I don't mean as though the characters themselves give up on winning a fight, but rather the poster doesn't want their character to lose so badly that they will continue to try writing their characters out of situations. I mean this in the form of breaking character. Where a member may do everything in a characters established power to survive, or win, a battle but loses due to either not being skilled or generally less powerful/creative in their fight. That is fine.

What is not fine is when people create a complete new ability or have a huge power boost for no reason other than 'hiding it' from everyone on the site till they deemed it 'needed.' I had a few experiences with this and found it overly frustrating to try and fight someone who at any moment would become more powerful purely to win in the single battle, even if it threw off the actual RP.

On the flip-side though, it is fun to have battles with characters that are more powerful than you and seeing if you can win. But if GM calls it or it is blatantly obvious that your character is up to snuff, I feel that you should write out your character trying their best to win a hopeless situation rather than give up. It gives a better sense that all your character could do, they did instead of someone sulking about the fact they will lose.

Glad to have that out of my system.

@The 4 Winds

I miss the days where RPing last-stands up to par used to be a pre-requisite to nation roleplays.

Bad 80's movies, showing kids how it's done.

[vancexentan]

I'm so annoyed that I'm FINALLY back in the mood to actually roleplay and literally ALL my roleplays are at a standstill. It's so god damn frustrating.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

No matter how hard I try to pretend otherwise, I constantly get reminders of why I should stick to the Advance section.

70% of the Casual section is straight up retarded.

[canaryrose]

I stick to the High Casual roleplays for a reason. A lot of only Casual is garbage, but I just avoid the trash. But now I'm going to the Free section for like two roleplays. The roleplays are fun- I like the concepts. But most of the roleplayers themselves are garbage. Run-off sentences, misspellings, bad grammar- I can barely READ some of the stuff they put on there.

[pugbutter]

I want to understand the mindset of the people who are willing to spend enough time to express interest in an RP, ask questions about an RP, design a character for an RP, edit and adjust this character so he gets accepted...

...but who, once the RP is up and the character is accepted into it, suddenly decide that showing up and actually posting in the IC tab is just too much fucking work.

And forget ever getting an apology or at least an excuse. These people disappear and they want you to wonder whether they're coming back. They want you clinging to false hope.

To those of you who do this, why? Is it ego? You want to know people are thinking about you, so you entrench yourself in that "fashionably late" bullshit and just take it to extremes? What is it? What? Why?

Make no mistake that you perpetrators are the cancer of RPGuild. I hope you have to take a bath in Tabasco after dunking your buttcheeks in a bucket full of broken glass and thumbtacks. I hate you even if you haven't done it to me personally, because there's a possibility, however slim, that after reading this you still have the titanic iron balls to apply for one of my RPs and waste more of my time. I hate that you and your slimy kin make me feel like I have to do background checks on people before I accept them into an RP census. What is this, fucking border control? Does the Guild need its own DHS to keep you rancid cunts out of our threads?

[Charmander]

I want to understand the mindset of the people who are willing to spend enough time to express interest in an RP, ask questions about an RP, design a character for an RP, edit and adjust this character so he gets accepted...

...but who, once the RP is up and the character is accepted into it, suddenly decide that showing up and actually posting in the IC tab is just too much fucking work.

And forget ever getting an apology or at least an excuse. These people disappear and they want you to wonder whether they're coming back. They want you clinging to false hope.

To those of you who do this, why do you fucking do this? Is it ego? You want to know people are thinking about you, so you entrench yourself in that "fashionably late" bullshit and just take it to extremes? What is it? What? Why?

(Edit) P.S. If you do this, make no mistake that you're the cancer of RPGuild. I hope you have to take a bath in Tabasco after dunking your buttcheeks in a bucket full of broken glass and thumbtacks. I hate you even if you haven't done it to me personally, because there's a possibility, however slim, that after reading this, that you still have the titanic iron balls to apply for one of my RPs and waste more of my time. I hate that you and your slimy kin make me feel like I have to do background checks on people before I accept them into an RP census. What is this, fucking border control? Does the Guild need its own DHS to keep you rancid cunts out of our threads?

@pugbutter

I hope I don't end up like one of those people. I've already expressed interest in a few roleplays and I'm excited! I'm certainly not going to back out.