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RE: Roleplaying Ironically - sasapinjic - 07-05-2016
@sasapinjic stumble on 20 seconds dilemma :
Did my RP skills are not very good ?
Probably .
Did i care will somebody will get but-hurt because my RP skills are not high as he is expecting it ?
Nope !
@sasapinjic continues his effort to disintegrate his sandwich .
RE: Roleplaying Ironically - Zayne Carrick - 07-05-2016
As a proud DIRECT DESCENDANT TO ODIN HIMSELF, I agree with Spazzy's accusations.
But I can say in my defense, that I lack english skills and general creativity to do something better.
RE: Roleplaying Ironically - Sombs - 07-05-2016
(07-05-2016, 03:00 PM)Zayne Carrick Wrote: But I can say in my defense, that I lack english skills and general creativity to do something better.
I said the same thing, and then I posted my first texts, one per week, did more ingame-dialogues, opened up dictionaries and now, three months after actively joining the community, my english is HELL way better. Don't let that demotivate you!
RE: Roleplaying Ironically - Zayne Carrick - 07-05-2016
(07-05-2016, 03:08 PM)Sombra Hookier Wrote: I said the same thing, and then I posted my first texts, one per week, did more ingame-dialogues, opened up dictionaries and now, three months after actively joining the community, my english is HELL way better. Don't let that demotivate you!
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Honestly, back when I've joined Discovery(hi, 2012), I was really bad at english. Like really bad, "I'm a pirate, pay money, die, yarr, //sorry what does this word mean". And disco taught me how to speak that language. But... there's something more to making good RP than knowing words and grammar. At one point I've tried writing RP posts in russian and then translate them to english, yet result was still much worse, than stuff good RPers are writing.
Nowadays I play here quite infrequently, so I stick to "ironical" and "generic" RP.
RE: Roleplaying Ironically - Sombs - 07-05-2016
Don't write and translate. Translating doesn't catch what you had in mind. I just wrote easy sloppy english sentences in my first posts, read some of the others, especially ingame when I needed them to explain their words and then adapted. Now I know what sloppy means, since Foxglove always gives sloppy kisses to other guys to offend them.
RE: Roleplaying Ironically - Jayce - 07-05-2016
Forum RP is boring.
Ingame rp is flat out better.
Jess for Core Empress 2016.
RE: Roleplaying Ironically - Traxit - 07-05-2016
(07-05-2016, 03:35 PM)Jayce Wrote: Ingame rp is flat out better."i will blow up this goddamn freeport if i wont get my cigars!"
a simple sentence has made the Omicrons quite active
i agree ingameRP is best
RE: Roleplaying Ironically - Jayce - 07-05-2016
They were cigarettes, but that's beside the point. Ingame interactions can have more far-reaching consequences and result in better character development than forum ones. Beyond a name and a gender, I never preplan characters, because its more fun for me to flesh them put ingame. My LSF character didnt have a name beyond "Tracer" for nearly a year.
RE: Roleplaying Ironically - Omi - 07-05-2016
In-game RP has always been better. Forums are a place for writing stories on, not for the kind of back-and-forth exchanges that actual, live roleplay demands to make a conversation even halfway realistic. That said, even half the conversations you'd see in game are horrifically unrealistic, but I'd argue that's a consequence of general roleplay attitude deteriorating in more ways than one.
Actually, if you asked me, there are very few genuinely good roleplayers left - most of what we have left are literate people playing self-inserts. You all know the type - the wise-cracking, savvy, extensions of oneself who generally take a protagonist role. Half the "RP oriented" gatherings I see these days are just a whole clump of protagonist-type wordy people melding together into a single indistinguishable blob, all the while trying to coax each other into being allowed to reveal their deep, complex, and troubled pasts. I have always been a fan of "less is more" when it comes to 'character complexity', and for me there is both much more enjoyment in playing and in interacting with realistically bounded characters like police officers, navy officers, and the simpler form of unlawful wherein they're either just in it for the money or are passionately driven without crossing over into "antihero" type territory. Characters like @Haste's Martin 'Cerulean' Reynolds, @Jack_Henderson's various IMG| characters like Julia Morrow, @Thunderer's Admiral Hall, @LunaticOnTheGrass's Erich Klugmann, or @Karst's Lena Atzenbruck are all, to some extent, the kind of characters I can really get behind - simple, effective packages of personality that are easy to understand and aren't complete Mary Sues.
This is the kind of roleplay I despair in being unable to find these days - it's all too easy to run into a whole gaggle of thoroughly uninteresting self-inserts, but much much rarer to meet characters that actually engage my interest beyond making me roll my eyes and sigh.
RE: Roleplaying Ironically - Enkidu - 07-05-2016
Agreed with the above list.
L Carston
Sunny
The DeFrances
Doc Holiday
J Hunt
J Nomak
Are also good additions to that list.
Oh, and my characters are pretty good too. )))))