Roleplay Pet Peeves

[rae2nerdy]

Codes?

The codes for a CS

 

[BackSet]

The codes for a CS

Huh?

 

[kevintheradioguy]

Huh?

Character sheets, mate. The fancy coding stuff people create to make their character sheets look pretty.

 

[rae2nerdy]

Character sheets, mate. The fancy coding stuff people create to make their character sheets look pretty.

Actually literally just copying basic character sheet. Nothing fancy but I like them all to have the same format. So I put them in a code box so the person can just copy and paste.

Rather than having each character sheet be different with different info.

 

[BackSet]

Actually literally just copying basic character sheet. Nothing fancy but I like them all to have the same format. So I put them in a code box so the person can just copy and paste.

Rather than having each character sheet be different with different info.

Who the hell makes their own character sheet template without asking!

 

[SP3CT3R]

Who the hell makes their own character sheet template without asking!

Some people can't copy and paste on their devices properly.

 

[BackSet]

Some people can't copy and paste on their devices properly.

So just transcribe it normally!

Don't be lazy!

 

[SP3CT3R]

So just transcribe it normally!

Don't be lazy!

That's what I do. It's just that 57 lines of bbcode are a nightmare to type from a phone screen, and most of it is just meaningless fluff.

 

[BackSet]

That's what I do. It's just that 57 lines of bbcode are a nightmare to type from a phone screen, and most of it is just meaningless fluff.

Who forces people to use bbcode for their CS!

This is why I don't use bbcode! This is why I don't do that!

 

[Damafaud]

Who the hell makes their own character sheet template without asking!

Who forces people to use bbcode for their CS!

This is why I don't use bbcode! This is why I don't do that!

And here kids we can see a politician in the making.

 

[BackSet]

And here kids we can see a politician in the making.

Don't insult me.

No seriously, though. Why would anybody force people to use bbcode. It's very rarely if at all actually needed and adds nothing to the cs.

 

[rae2nerdy]

Don't insult me.

No seriously, though. Why would anybody force people to use bbcode. It's very rarely if at all actually needed and adds nothing to the cs.

It depends on what you mean by BBC code. As technically just bolding something and changing the font size is BBC code. Or putting it in spoilers/tabs.

If you mean the colored backgrounds, scrollboxes, etc. than it’s usually an aesthetic. They want everything to match a specific aesthetic they was assigned to the roleplay.

 

[Nue]

If it's a really simple code I'm cool with it. There was one I had to use that just put everything into tabs so it was organized and was pretty easy to follow. Anything above that though, I'd say it has to be optional

 

[BackSet]

It depends on what you mean by BBC code. As technically just bolding something and changing the font size is BBC code. Or putting it in spoilers/tabs.

If you mean the colored backgrounds, scrollboxes, etc. than it’s usually an aesthetic. They want everything to match a specific aesthetic they was assigned to the roleplay.

Bolding and/or tabbing is fine.

But an annoying amount of asthetics is not.

First of all some people browse on mobile exclusively for some reason. God help them. Second of all, it's not hard to break these things and ruin the asthetic. One wrongly copied line of code will ruin your whole thing. Third of all, it's kind of an eyesore sometimes.

 

[rae2nerdy]

Bolding and/or tabbing is fine.

But an annoying amount of asthetics is not.

First of all some people browse on mobile exclusively for some reason. God help them. Second of all, it's not hard to break these things and ruin the asthetic. One wrongly copied line of code will ruin your whole thing. Third of all, it's kind of an eyesore sometimes.

I’m honestly thinking these people are low key weeding out players with this tactic. As you said it’s not mobile friendly in the least and so it could be a means of weeding out mobile users without being a bitch and saying “if use your phone you can’t play”

And yes it can be an eyesore to you and me BUT art is subjective. They obviously enjoy it and there is no harm in that. They can make their roleplay look like whatever they want.

I won’t join it because I can’t read it. But it doesn’t like make me mad or anything. Unless it’s like seizure inducing bright colors in their OOC chat. Then your just being an asshole.

But you want your IC/Interest check to be white text on a flashing background go for it. It’s an easy back button for me so it actually saves me time in the long run.

 

[BackSet]

Well yeah I understand that but forcing people to use bbcode for their character sheets?

 

[rae2nerdy]

Well yeah I understand that but forcing people to use bbcode for their character sheets?

Well yeah mostly that happens in groups where the GM creates the character sheet that everyone then fills out. That part makes perfect sense as you are going to want to make sure they everyone’s character sheet looks exactly the same with the same information.

And likely if you don’t like BBC code you never got to the CS of that roleplay anyway because the interest check / IC would have been full of it as well.

 

[kevintheradioguy]

If it's a really simple code I'm cool with it.

This.
Another pet peeve of mine is CS codes that are "ooh look at me!" kind of fancy. I like them neat, simple, with all the information on my screen, as well as nothing eye-eating like gifs, toxic colours and colourful backgrounds. Which is an easy thing to achieve, lol. My eyesight is very sensitive.

 

[Luminous]

This.
Another pet peeve of mine is CS codes that are "ooh look at me!" kind of fancy. I like them neat, simple, with all the information on my screen, as well as nothing eye-eating like gifs, toxic colours and colourful backgrounds. Which is an easy thing to achieve, lol. My eyesight is very sensitive.

Yeah, this bothers me.
As cute and eye-catching they can be, it is definitely a distraction from the text, which is what I care most about.

 

[Nue]

I think the one thing I really can't get behind though; is heavily coded IC posts. I've seen a lot where it'll be in a tiny box, in an equally tiny font, that you have to scroll through, and then sometimes the top half will be taken up by a box that says like, the current date, location, time and weather, the characters mood, ect. like a status update. It *looks* really cute, but to me it makes the process of actually.. reading roleplay responses hard? I can understand going all out with CS sheets, it's just one post so I get the compulsion to make it fancy, but having actual RP responses in that same format confuses me a little. Esp with the status thing; again, cute idea, but surely stuff like where the character is and how the character is feeling is going to be covered in the post..

 

[PhoenixMire]

Mostly the typical stuff. Writing level incompatible with own, one-sentence responses to a lengthy paragraph, but my least favorite... If they are role-playing a canon character, portraying them as completely to fit their own fantasy narrative. Like, sometimes it's fine to be a tad OOC imo to add a little flair, but being completely OOC and refusing to stay true to the character? Last time I checked, Sasuke Uchiha wasn't a socially awkward yandere with the hots for Naruto... Not a jab at anyone, just an example.

This bothers me so much lol
I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen a canonically cruel, violent, and very villainous character suddenly being portrayed as if they have a “soft side”.
Like... the type of characters who are manipulative and horrible in every way and probably can’t even feel love are now, according to my RP partner, a huge softie! They just don’t like to show it so they pretend to be horrible! Oh, all those terrible things they’ve done and all those people they’ve hurt in canon, smiling and laughing all the while because they enjoyed ruining people’s lives? Yeah that’s all just a facade. They’re actually a nice person.
... No. Stop.
Thankfully I haven’t had any RPs like this in a while, but the horrible portrayal of canon characters chased me away from random RPs for a bit there.

 

[Becker]

Can't we all just sit down, cuddle and agree as a group that we're all such wonderful beings....

and that people who go out of their way to their inject furry-fetish-characters into roleplays (regardless of genre/theme) should be sent off to a rehabilitation camp....

 

[Brea The Brave]

I don't think that ever applied to the cases I've seen. I've never done a dice RP or one where the fights didn't involve gameplay, which then would have been legitimate instances to use "would", and even then, it was preferred to use "attempts/ing to" or the like instead. They were used when they clearly weren't meant just as an attempt of the character to do something, nor where not doing so would imply controlling another character's actions. Also not as part of dialogue, where it would be understandable to say something like "I would argue that the evidence leaves room for doubt".

I'd honestly like to hear the explanation behind it, really, to use "would" all the time. It just doesn't make sense at all to me, but maybe it does for a native english speaker or something, I don't know. "He would walk up to her and say good morning." doesn't make sense to me. "He would have walked up to her and said good morning if only she weren't with Bob", now that does make sense if you ask me. Or something like "he walked up to her, and would say good morning if she looked at him", which gives the next player chance to ignore or react to it, as well as some more conditional actions to reply to if they choose the latter. I know there are times "would" makes sense, but since I've repeatedly (maybe even always) seen it used when it doesn't, it became annoying. Just a personal thing, like other pet peeves.

Honestly, it sounds like these people you're talking about were used to speaking in past-tense for some reason.

 

[Brea The Brave]

Clear favoritism is one for me.

Okay so let's say I made a character and the Admin tells me I can't have said character because my character's abilities are too OP for the setting or too OP to start with. Okay I'm cool with that so I'll edit, but then someone else who is clearly their friend will make a character who is far more OP than mine was and they'll get praise for making their character and their character gets approved.

Another one related to this is when you have the admin who is stacking the deck in favor of them and their friends basically making sure that all other participants are weaker or less skilled than they are so that if a fight breaks out they never lose.

 

[Nue]

Clear favoritism is one for me.

Okay so let's say I made a character and the Admin tells me I can't have said character because my character's abilities are too OP for the setting or to OP to start with. Okay I'm cool with that so I'll edit, but then someone else who is clearly their friend will make a character who is far more OP than mine was and they'll get praise for making their character and their character gets approved.

Another one related to this is when you have the admin who is stacking the deck in favor of them and their friends basically making sure that all other participants are weaker or less skilled than they are so that if a fight breaks out they never lose.

I got this all the time in a battle arena sort of RP group I was in. It was never particularly directed at me, but a lot of other people would make insanely powerful characters and get denied. However, the reason they were making incredibly powerful characters.. was because there were already a bunch of OP characters accepted, who you were pretty useless against if you weren't as OP as they were. Funnily enough, all of these people were all friends of the mods! Their argument was, "we're friends, so I've seen these characters before and I can verify that they won't use them in an unfair way".
I'll let all of you guys take a guess as to whether or not these people were actually using their characters fairly (hint: the answer isn't yes)