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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:08:26 GMT -5
question: how is being gay or bi not appropriate? I have many questions You misunderstood my statement. I was bringing up more questions, sorry if I phrased it badly same roleplay also has "if your cat is depressed make sure it's fixable" as a rule like what the hell
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Post by 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘯 on Jul 26, 2017 15:11:41 GMT -5
- People with the "in character, ooc" layout. I'm not bashing anyone who uses this, it's just not my style. Why not just use parenthesis when not roleplaying? Seems like it'd be easier than constantly copy-pasting the same format, really. I don't personally use the ic ooc format but I though I should note this anyway. there's actually a setting that allows you to set a default bbcode so there's no copy pasting required. it's not really any more time consuming than not using one
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Post by indecisive on Jul 26, 2017 15:13:05 GMT -5
- People with the "in character, ooc" layout. I'm not bashing anyone who uses this, it's just not my style. Why not just use parenthesis when not roleplaying? Seems like it'd be easier than constantly copy-pasting the same format, really. I don't personally use the ic ooc format but I though I should note this anyway. there's actually a setting that allows you to set a default bbcode so there's no copy pasting required. it's not really any more time consuming than not using one Really? That's pretty handy. Good to know.
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Post by 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘯 on Jul 26, 2017 15:14:29 GMT -5
I don't personally use the ic ooc format but I though I should note this anyway. there's actually a setting that allows you to set a default bbcode so there's no copy pasting required. it's not really any more time consuming than not using one Really? That's pretty handy. Good to know.yup! I use it myself to justify and tighten my posts just so they're a little easier for me to read c:
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jul 26, 2017 15:15:13 GMT -5
- I don't like the black text format many "advanced" roleplayers use when roleplaying. Black is hard to read on the dark blue background. I shouldn't have to squint or turn up my screen's brightness to see what you wrote. I'm guilty of doing this myself; I've been testing it out to see if I like it, but I'm going to stop because it's just not worthwhile and more irritating than neat-looking.
- The line limit. Personally, I prefer to type longer replies, but asking for 5+ paragraphs is ridiculous imo. If you're feeling inspired, describing a scene or posting a starter, sure, that's reasonable. But most of the time novel-length replies are just filler with excessive adjectives. I try to avoid this in my roleplaying if I can help it, so if you ever see me getting too flowery with my writing in overly-long replies, call me out on it! I don't want to be a hypocrite.
- People with the "in character, ooc" layout. I'm not bashing anyone who uses this, it's just not my style. Why not just use parenthesis when not roleplaying? Seems like it'd be easier than constantly copy-pasting the same format, really.
- When people require you to give an example of your roleplaying skills instead of trusting your word on it. Back when I was still involved with Fan Clans, the big "advanced" clans wouldn't let you join unless you posted an example, and then they'd evaluate you to see if you qualify to join. I don't know if this is still the case or not... but I've seen something similar in OTRP where people will ask you to pm them an example for a 1x1 and they "reserve the right to reject you if you don't meet their expectations." I shouldn't have to pass a test in order to roleplay... OOC Heh I'm guilty of the third one. However tbh I like you think this is actually easier than using the brackets. Less time consuming, more clean, and it's not harming anyone, so like, why not? Plus it's like Ree set, there's a setting so you can just have the code show up in your posts, no need to keep copying and pasting it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:15:29 GMT -5
-people who rp with headers. it's cluttered and hard to read. i have a hard time finding what i'm supposed to read tbh.
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Post by indecisive on Jul 26, 2017 15:21:17 GMT -5
𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 like I said, I don't like it because it's just not my style. it gets a bit cluttered for me, like striker pointed out. yours is pretty easy to look at tho. I wasn't trying to single out anyone with those formats, heh.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:22:46 GMT -5
You misunderstood my statement. I was bringing up more questions, sorry if I phrased it badly same roleplay also has "if your cat is depressed make sure it's fixable" as a rule like what the hell On the other hand, people who act like cats will know advanced medical terms for mental illness i was skimming a roleplay that stated a certain character had autism and adhd and they'd mention it in rp. Having a character showing examples of those things and 'having them' is fine but no cat is going to know what it is exactly. Which is why in the same way I'd be hard to really roleplay a trans cat because they wouldn't understand the term. I guess you could have a cat that dislikes their given gender or name, like say they had a really feminine name like flowerstripe and hated it and wanted it changed later and went against what was expected, but at the same time the cats social constructs dont even care too much about gender bc both toms and shecats do the same thing as warriors? also cats wouldnt understand the terms gay and lesbian either. for sure a cat can like the same gender but that would be expressed through body language and preference rather than using the word itself.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:23:49 GMT -5
I was bringing up more questions, sorry if I phrased it badly same roleplay also has "if your cat is depressed make sure it's fixable" as a rule like what the hell On the other hand, people who act like cats will know advanced medical terms for mental illness i was skimming a roleplay that stated a certain character had autism and adhd and they'd mention it in rp. Having a character showing examples of those things and 'having them' is fine but no cat is going to know what it is exactly. Which is why in the same way I'd be hard to really roleplay a trans cat because they wouldn't understand the term. I guess you could have a cat that dislikes their given gender or name, like say they had a really feminine name like flowerstripe and hated it and wanted it changed later and went against what was expected, but at the same time the cats social constructs dont even care too much about gender bc both toms and shecats do the same thing as warriors? also cats wouldnt understand the terms gay and lesbian either. for sure a cat can like the same gender but that would be expressed through body language and preference rather than using the word itself. cats also don't talk, have understanding of herbal medicine, and don't live in organized clans with a concept of religion
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:26:24 GMT -5
i dont roleplay but i mean contradictory rules like the ones who say that you need to write 3+ paragraphs per reply, proper grammar, all that jazz, but says as well that you cant go overboard on descriptive terms or skip ahead any time
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:33:04 GMT -5
On the other hand, people who act like cats will know advanced medical terms for mental illness i was skimming a roleplay that stated a certain character had autism and adhd and they'd mention it in rp. Having a character showing examples of those things and 'having them' is fine but no cat is going to know what it is exactly. Which is why in the same way I'd be hard to really roleplay a trans cat because they wouldn't understand the term. I guess you could have a cat that dislikes their given gender or name, like say they had a really feminine name like flowerstripe and hated it and wanted it changed later and went against what was expected, but at the same time the cats social constructs dont even care too much about gender bc both toms and shecats do the same thing as warriors? also cats wouldnt understand the terms gay and lesbian either. for sure a cat can like the same gender but that would be expressed through body language and preference rather than using the word itself. cats also don't talk, have understanding of herbal medicine, and don't live in organized clans Let me bring to your attention that there's a reason Tigerclaw/star wasn't Hammerclaw/star. There's still a rule and order to things. Cats would not find and be able to read the damn latest version of psychology today out in nature. They would however be able to emulate behaviors associated with those things. If you put a specific mental illness down in a character bio, that should be only for the op of the character and other people to be able to understand why their cat is behaving a certain way, but the other cats aren't gonna know science. Some of the cats might FIGURE OUT "oh hey gingerpawfurstartail over here gets distracted easily and it makes him a bad hunter but a really quick fighter" to display adhd without actually needing to say it. Because it's not a concept they have in the wild. Also the nature of domesticated cats (as a species, because the clan cats are all obviously feral.) is to live in family groups. So yeah they do kind of live in 'clans' sometimes. So point invalid.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:37:48 GMT -5
when you turn a pet peeves thread into a discussion on gay cats
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:49:55 GMT -5
I'm sure everyone's brought this up already, but the no gay cats rule gets on my nerves so damn much, I don't care what you think, I'll have as many gay/trans/nb/pan/bi/whatever else cats in my RPs. I won't even join a rp if it has that rule... not like I rp that much anyway, lol.
new ground rule. IF CAT HEAVEN, CAT HELL, CAT MEDICINE, CAT SOCIETIES, AND A CAT CODE OF LAW CAN BE A THING, NON-CISHET CATS CAN BE A THING.
Edit: also if anyone starts saying "Oh Lyoko everyone's talking about this already" I didn't read the entire thread before I posted. Also this is like my only pet peeve okay, anything else is... moderately okay in my book when it comes to rping
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 15:58:50 GMT -5
I feel like making a semi-joke rp with a no cis straight characters rule. everyone has to have some form of The Gay.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 16:52:17 GMT -5
I feel like making a semi-joke rp with a no cis straight characters rule. everyone has to have some form of The Gay. Thunderclan, The Brave Riverclan, The Beautiful Windlcan, The Swift Shadowclan, The Stealthy Skyclan, The Resilient AND QUEERCLAN, THE GAY (TM)
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Post by Gengar on Jul 26, 2017 17:12:13 GMT -5
I feel like making a semi-joke rp with a no cis straight characters rule. everyone has to have some form of The Gay. do it but as a serious thread
edit: something like that on the old forums would have been deleted for "excluding people"
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Post by Snappppppppppppp on Jul 26, 2017 17:21:37 GMT -5
I hate one liners, absolutely hate them. To me I would rather you not reply at all than give me a very short 10 word sentence.
I also hate characters that have two tragic of backstories. Like I get that it makes for good role plays, but whatever happened to good old normal childhood or something?
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jul 26, 2017 17:27:49 GMT -5
I hate one liners, absolutely hate them. To me I would rather you not reply at all than give me a very short 10 word sentence. I also hate characters that have two tragic of backstories. Like I get that it makes for good role plays, but whatever happened to good old normal childhood or something? OOC Wit the backstory stuff, I feel like it depends on the roleplay. Like I'm in a roleplay that focuses on hybrids that spent most of their lives in cells, getting experimented on by scientists. Naturally they're all gonna have pretty tragic backstories.
However say like, normal human characters in a normal human setting, there's really no need for horribly tragic backstories. Y'know?
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Post by 🎃❅❖.Şp໐໐kฯຟiຖ໓.❖❅🎃 on Jul 26, 2017 17:42:50 GMT -5
- one-liners or waY TOO MANY LINES CALM DOWN PLS - romance happening in a hot minute - characters that are waaaaaY TOOO PERFEEECTTTT, i was once in a clan where a cat was "beautiful, strong, smart, gentle, tactful, strategic, , friendly, amazing-at-everything-perfect-candidate-for-deputy!! but sadly : ( her flaw is : ( she has no friends : ((( " like?? get real.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 17:51:33 GMT -5
When you know you have to post in a rp you haven't had the motivation to do so for like a month but then you worry that if you do post you're going to get chewed out for your sudden leave and you have no idea what to do because you're damned if you do and damned if you don't
because this is my mood rn and I am honestly somewhat terrified
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Post by vakarian on Jul 26, 2017 17:52:26 GMT -5
- I don't like the black text format many "advanced" roleplayers use when roleplaying. Black is hard to read on the dark blue background. y e s i was just about to say this i bet what you wrote is cool but it kinda breaks the immersion when i gotta highlight it to read it lol
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 17:54:46 GMT -5
-when you have a character that's way too much of a jerk to take a mate but someone keeps trying to force them into a relationship with their Mary Sue
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Post by Sand on Jul 26, 2017 17:54:54 GMT -5
𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 it was a thing on the old wcf Still a thing now. Took me only two minutes to find this with a quick browse there What topic was this on?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 18:00:28 GMT -5
Still a thing now. Took me only two minutes to find this with a quick browse there What topic was this on? check your messages
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Post by Snappppppppppppp on Jul 26, 2017 18:04:41 GMT -5
I hate one liners, absolutely hate them. To me I would rather you not reply at all than give me a very short 10 word sentence. I also hate characters that have two tragic of backstories. Like I get that it makes for good role plays, but whatever happened to good old normal childhood or something? OOC Wit the backstory stuff, I feel like it depends on the roleplay. Like I'm in a roleplay that focuses on hybrids that spent most of their lives in cells, getting experimented on by scientists. Naturally they're all gonna have pretty tragic backstories.
However say like, normal human characters in a normal human setting, there's really no need for horribly tragic backstories. Y'know?
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Oh I mean I get that. But I'm just talking about regular human role plays where people give their characters the most tragic backstory so all the other characters are supposed to pity them.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jul 26, 2017 18:07:23 GMT -5
OOC Wit the backstory stuff, I feel like it depends on the roleplay. Like I'm in a roleplay that focuses on hybrids that spent most of their lives in cells, getting experimented on by scientists. Naturally they're all gonna have pretty tragic backstories.
However say like, normal human characters in a normal human setting, there's really no need for horribly tragic backstories. Y'know?
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Oh I mean I get that. But I'm just talking about regular human role plays where people give their characters the most tragic backstory so all the other characters are supposed to pity them. OOC Yeah that's when it gets annoying.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 18:11:02 GMT -5
Oh I mean I get that. But I'm just talking about regular human role plays where people give their characters the most tragic backstory so all the other characters are supposed to pity them. OOC Yeah that's when it gets annoying.
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I have had a few characters with tragic backstories but it usually made them stronger or added something to their actual personality, like made them possibly bitter or angry or have a trigger around a similar object, phrase, or event.
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Post by ᴍɪsᴛғᴀʟʟ » on Jul 26, 2017 18:11:17 GMT -5
I totally understand lots of that stuff you guys are talking about. I have and continue to do some of the things you guys mentioned, like posting with headers and such, just because its pretty to me haha. Ive definitely toned it down a lot though so Im not bothering as many people anymore, but I love graphics coding so it's something I love to have go along with my posts. And I agree with the LGBT+ as well. I am a super science kid, I dont typically believe something to be true unless its scientifically proven (depends on the topic). In felines, it is not uncommon for actual forms of LGBT+ to exist. Heck, the whole warrior cats universe has the whole "mates" ordeal, but felines in actuality rarely every stay with the same cat if they have the option. Its just survival instincts- you mate with as many as you can, especially in a wild environment where cats dont live very long and neither do young cats.
I guess my pet peeve is realism in character creation, amongst many other things. Super unrealistic designs bother me a bit simply because it does. If it isn't my roleplay, then someone can do as they wish with their characters. My own clans tend to be stricter on character designs. There is a lot of room for creativity in cats, but there is a line between realistic and entirely unrealistic. My favorite example is what I call the "fox design". When someone has a cat they call ginger, then say it has a whole white underbelly pattern going, and has black socks. That doesnt really exist in cats in real life haha, so I dont like seeing designs like that. There is so much creative potential in regular cats! Plus, it forces people to flush out the character's personality rather than banking on the physical attributes to make them unique. It is a writer's challenge I think everyone should undergo! But Im big on writing stories with complex characters, so that might just be me. But thats my pet peeve amongst others c:
Thats so sour to see those anti-LGBT+ roleplays. Very unsupportive.
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