Roleplay Pet Peeves

Thalia_Neko said:
Well I can say, that I usually will only rp 15 (being the youngest character I'll make) to 28 (being the oldest) year olds for my main character. Its namely because I love to have romance occur, and as someone who is young, but still an adult, this is around the age that Im comfortable roleplaying. That being said, I wouldn't join a rp where its based on city leaders. For basically that reason. If I did join that rp, my character would not probably realistically be in that age bracket, so theres no reason for me to join that rp. Or if I did, my side character would be the person who is a city leader, and my main character would be someone who lived in the city (maybe the daughter of the leader or something). Older characters (or younger for that matter) are always going to be side characters for me.
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Well, my minimum would probably be like 40, while my maximum would be somewhere between 75 to 85.


So, yes! I'm rebelling against the system!
 
Saccharine Cyanide said:
Well, I mean, if she was saying that just a few people were playing LGBT characters. But her peeve was that everyone in an rp was playing a cis, heterosexual character. With the implication that it's happened multiple times, ergo it being a peeve.


Besides, I thought this was a place to vent, not to tell people their personal peeves are silly.
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I think it's perfectly fine to call someone out on their vent, especially if it's silly. Now I'd be ticked off if a person was adamant on playing a straight person in a 1 x 1 roleplay where the whole point is being a lesbian or yaoi couple. But if you're just sitting there getting annoyed because no one is playing someone who likes the to have sexual relations with someone of the same sex, then you're a little silly. 


Especially since sexuality is the lowest of flavor text on a site where it's prohibited to really write anything concerning it. :P  


Not to mention sex on paper is cringey as fuck to read.


*bacon realizes he was looking at a post from 3 pages back xD  
 
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Actually @Thalia_Neko brings up a good point. Most of the time the age limits are because people are looking for romance. And most of that romance is some form of wish fulfillment/escapism. So if your going to make something based on a fantasy your gonna want the people in the fantasy to represent yourself in someway. 


Thus people sticking to younger characters because a good portion of our userbase is in the teen to early twenties age bracket. 


And again those of us who aren't have just adapted. 


Personally I'm always itching to try a child roleplay. Especially something campy with kiddie sidekicks. Sadly a no go. 
 
Bacon is fluffy said:
I think it's perfectly fine to call someone out on their vent, especially if it's silly. Now I'd be ticked off if a person was adamant on playing a straight person in a 1 x 1 roleplay where the whole point is being a lesbian or yaoi couple. But if you're just sitting there getting annoyed because no one is playing someone who likes the to have sexual relations with someone of the same sex, then you're a little silly. 


Especially since sexuality is the lowest of flavor text on a site where it's prohibited to really write anything concerning it. :P  


Not to mention sex on paper is cringey as fuck to read.
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I believe the original complaint was actually regarding diversity. Where people of differing genders / sexualities / etc are not being properly represented which is at least as valid a peeve as anything else on this thread. 


I mean hell I used to have a pet peeve about people using hand drawn visuals or stock anime pictures. That's kind of silly in it's own right but no one ever called me out on it. 


We're all entitled to our pet peeves and opinions.
 
Bacon is fluffy said:
I think it's perfectly fine to call someone out on their vent, especially if it's silly. Now I'd be ticked off if a person was adamant on playing a straight person in a 1 x 1 roleplay where the whole point is being a lesbian or yaoi couple. But if you're just sitting there getting annoyed because no one is playing someone who likes the to have sexual relations with someone of the same sex, then you're a little silly. 


Especially since sexuality is the lowest of flavor text on a site where it's prohibited to really write anything concerning it. :P  


Not to mention sex on paper is cringey as fuck to read.
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I've actually had this happen to me. (Not on this site though). We discussed doing a fxf romance. But in the end, I realized that sort of bothered her. So she had her main character be a guy, and had a side character who was a female. Her female was basically just there to be my characters romantic interest, but since the rper didnt care for the romance itself, it was half-assed, and really weird. I could never figure out why she wanted to do that 1x1 rp if she didn't want to do the fxf part we had discussed.
 
My pet peeve is when rp discussion turns into a debate about things that have no room in RP in the first place.  Another pet peeve of mine is when people do not wanna discuss things prior to roleplaying, they want to start right away and make it up 'as we go along' which bores me to no end as it has no flow.
 
kitphiroth said:
My pet peeve is when rp discussion turns into a debate about things that have no room in RP in the first place.  Another pet peeve of mine is when people do not wanna discuss things prior to roleplaying, they want to start right away and make it up 'as we go along' which bores me to no end as it has no flow.
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Like when people bring real life political ideals into a roleplay or try to make a roleplay about social issues? Or do you mean when it boils down to - Ugh your so stupid Karen and I hate you stupid face. Instead of anything relevant to the story itself.


I've had it go both ways. Neither of them where fun to deal with. 
 
SUPER VENT SESSION 3000


I hate fucking shit-bags who try to hog all the fucking attention. Fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck.
 
Know what gets my goat? El chupacabra


The conversational tragic reveal. You know, character A an character B just met and all of a sudden character B is sobbing as they lament about their dead family and desire for revenge.


Along the same lines: when a character knows everything about my character instantly. No Sally, you don't know this very charming young man is actually a murderer, there is nothing 'creepy' about him unless someone dorkily spilling a drink on themselves is one of your biggest fears.
 
Controlling my characters. This is at the top of my list. I make sure to state that I don't like it but somehow it always happens. I mean there's enough creative freedom to go around where you can make up your own characters whether main, side, minor whatever.
 
People that join roleplays and never post. Why????? 


EDIT: Ooh and people expecting me to spend a lot of time coding my sign up sheets to make them look nice. Maybe you're good at coding but I'm a writer?? I couldn't code to save my life :P  
 
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A Nerd Named Rae said:
  1. Please only post your own pet peeves or comments relating to other users peeves.
  2. No posts calling out other people's opinions/peeves. 
  3. No giving unnecessary feedback on "improving" other people's roleplay styles
  4. Keep debates on topic and civilized please. 
  5. No calling out other players specifically based on their opinions or contribution to pet peeves.
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Would you please explain what you mean by "no posts calling out other people's opinions/peeves"? 
 
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jinkx said:
Ooh and people expecting me to spend a lot of time coding my sign up sheets to make them look nice. Maybe you're good at coding but I'm a writer?? I couldn't code to save my life :P  
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I feel this on a metaphysical level. I'm a programmer by trade, do you really think I want to spend my fun time doing the same work I normally do when I could be writing angst instead?
 
A Nerd Named Rae said:
Like when people bring real life political ideals into a roleplay or try to make a roleplay about social issues? Or do you mean when it boils down to - Ugh your so stupid Karen and I hate you stupid face. Instead of anything relevant to the story itself.


I've had it go both ways. Neither of them where fun to deal with. 
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Something akin to RPing with  SJW, someone who wants to bring their tumblr stuff into roleplay and interrupts you constantly either OOC or IC with their character to make a point.   If I decide to RP an overly sexist male character, why would you want to roleplay your genderfluid character against him?  Clearly, he is going to be an asshole constantly and that should not reflect who I am as a person or dictate how he should be because he is a work of fiction not fact.
 
kitphiroth said:
Something akin to RPing with  SJW, someone who wants to bring their tumblr stuff into roleplay and interrupts you constantly either OOC or IC with their character to make a point.   If I decide to RP an overly sexist male character, why would you want to roleplay your genderfluid character against him?  Clearly, he is going to be an asshole constantly and that should not reflect who I am as a person or dictate how he should be because he is a work of fiction not fact.
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This is perfect to me. A character is a character, and has no bearing on any agendas, or viewpoints, or anything along those lines. It's just roleplay, and we're all just trying to have fun in the best way we can, in a hobby we love. Sure there are things that bother us, but please, don't make every roleplay into something it isn't. It's just shared story-telling.
 
kitphiroth said:
Something akin to RPing with  SJW, someone who wants to bring their tumblr stuff into roleplay and interrupts you constantly either OOC or IC with their character to make a point.   If I decide to RP an overly sexist male character, why would you want to roleplay your genderfluid character against him?  Clearly, he is going to be an asshole constantly and that should not reflect who I am as a person or dictate how he should be because he is a work of fiction not fact.
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AH. Those people who can't distinguish fiction from reality. Or better yet think any differing opinion is a direct attack on them and needs to be met with twelve pages of justification that boil down to - your a meanie mc jerk face for hurting my feelings.


I had that happen in a discussion thread WAAY back when I first joined up. Not important how we got to this point but I was describing a character that was a bigot. Like that was the full purpose of the character to be hateful, narrowminded, bitch.


And oh you should have seen the sermon I got in response to that. How I was a hateful bitch who was prejudiced against rainbows and sunshine and all that is light in the world.


Like dude calm the eff down. 


My character is not myself. I was not attacking you. Hell all I was doing was just describing a character. We weren't even roleplaying so it's like..... jesus get off the internet if your going to be a whiney douchebag.


Sorry not sorry if i hurt your precious feelings. 
 
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A Nerd Named Rae said:
I believe the original complaint was actually regarding diversity. Where people of differing genders / sexualities / etc are not being properly represented which is at least as valid a peeve as anything else on this thread. 


I mean hell I used to have a pet peeve about people using hand drawn visuals or stock anime pictures. That's kind of silly in it's own right but no one ever called me out on it. 


We're all entitled to our pet peeves and opinions.
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Then wouldn't the person complaining be entitled to their right to complain, so long as they're not saying:


GET OUT OF HERE YOU FUCKING UEERBAG FUCK BOY GO SUCK A WEENER IN SOME OTHER THREAD


I mean if you are going to complain on a public forum, then you should be able to accept a response not supporting other people's pet peeves. That person can simply choose to not respond and ignore it,but just as much as the person who has the right to say I NEED DIVERSITY IN THE FORM OF SEXUALITY. I or anyone has the right to comment on said pet peeve in a respectful manner.


Oh and it's not like this thread is a bundle of joy. It's lowkey meant to bash people anonymously :P  
 
A Nerd Named Rae said:
AH. Those people who can't distinguish fiction from reality. Or better yet think any differing opinion is a direct attack on them and needs to be met with twelve pages of justification that boil down to - your a meanie mc jerk face for hurting my feelings.


I had that happen in a discussion thread WAAY back when I first joined up. Not important how we got to this point but I was describing a character that was a bigot. Like that was the full purpose of the character to be hateful, narrowminded, bitch.


And oh you should have seen the sermon I got in response to that. How I was a hateful bitch who was prejudiced against rainbows and sunshine and all that is light in the world.


Like dude calm the eff down. 


My character is not myself. I was not attacking you. Hell all I was doing was just describing a character. We weren't even roleplaying so it's like..... jesus get off the internet if yoru going to be a whiney douchebag.


Sorry not sorry if i hurt your precious feelings. 
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THIS.


I once had someone get angry with me when my punched hers in the face as he would a man.   The person in question got really uptight that he did not hold back, especially when I mentioned before that he was a cruel person who doesn't see gender or age as any reason to hold back punishment.   She messaged me OOC and left me this huge thing and then she had her character continually try to bring in NPCs to stop him, whom my character had to order to leave.   She told me I was a huge asshole, a bigot and probably an abuser lol.   I tried to tell her that my character IS A HUGE ASSHOLE and to RP with him means he's not going to be nice at all, I told her it would take him a long time to get attached to people but she did not want to hear that xD!!!!


Oh well, according to people on the internet due to my asshole characters I am:  a abusive, homophobic, sexist asshole lol
 
@Bacon is fluffy The idea is that you cant attack people in this thread. It's not conducive to keeping things civilized and further it does nothing but start needless arguments in the thread. You can disagree without calling someone out as wrong or foolish. 


And since the particular subject being addressed had already lead to a lot of heated back in forth ( which was mostly my own fault I'll own up to that ) I didn't see any point in beating a dead horse. 


Everyone had a chance to voice their opinion and any further commentary was just going to be unproductive and get people riled up again. 


And the fact that this is not the first time things had gotten to that point in this thread has led to the new code of conduct. 


This is meant to be a fun thread for people to vent. I don't want to see it get shut down because people can't agree to disagree. It's a preventative measure more than anything.
 
I can understand people wanting to write whatever kinds of characters they want but if one person or more felt truly uncomfortable with the posts, I would request they toned them down. I'm not trying to be an ass but I just mean if there was a character who was outright abusive to other characters and people were uncomfortable with it, I'd ask them to tone their character down a little. That's simply my opinion on the matter, however :3


I guess I have issues with violence in roleplays where it isn't required.
 
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