Why?

Not to get off topic here,but as I was reading the thread I kept seeing "OOC" being used, and it reminded me of something. The other night my character Shock N Awe and a friend's character were discussing one of the newest movies they had both seen. I mentioned the Crazies, since I literally had just watched it online before logging into to CoH. Now we were both IC talking about this, which should've been obivous seeing as how my friend mentioned using a flame power on a chatterbox kid as a lil prank to shut him up during the movie.

Then I get this random-*** tell /telling/...not asking... me to take our OOC convo elsewhere because I was ruining someone's immersion in the game. When I told them we were being IC..they actually said "bull****", that is a RL movie and doesn't exist ingame..take it somewhere else." Now. what kind of rude-*** **** is that? Acting like this doesn't help anything, or improve the game for anyone..and before anyone says.. "oh maybe the person was just having a bad day." Guess what...I don't really care what kind of day a stranger is having..no need to be rude to people you don't know. Badday rudeness is reserved for family,friends, and co-workers...and its better off that way because they will /hopefully/ forgive you.

Sorry for the random vent..just wanted to put that out there. I'll try to keep my rants to myself in the future:P

LMAO.. love that movie btw.

In my experience, nearly every MMO has this going on somewhere, and typically this demographic of people gravitate to whatever area or channel gives their comments and general rudeness the broadest audience. Option a) avoid that area/leave that chat channel, option b) use the universal super power: ignore. Eventually you will have the majority of people you find offensive on your ignore list and can continue on your merry way

Wow... some of the people in this thread have had some REALLY bad experiences, huh?

Still, at least them ignoring you is no great loss. I wouldn't want someone that rigid and rules-lawyery in my circle of friends, that's for sure.

The OP is right. Pocket D is full of lamers. I go there sometimes to show everyone that the sexy flamer still lives. Now everyone go to Pocket D and dance, screw RP... or you can just screw in the bathroom. It's a club.

I agree with most of what BrandX just posted.

There is a lot of RP that stretches and even breaks what I think is credible, even in a comic-book world of superheroes, and sometimes it does get exasperating.

Still, I think overall the best policy. for me, is to let such things slide, and quietly distance myself from RP that seems too far off canon, or over the top-ish. "You're Recluse's illegitimate son? Wow, really? Oh, excuse me, I see an old friend over at the other bar."

People will vary greatly in what RP they feel doesn't fit. For instance, I don't find it at all credible that the recent history of the world in CoH would have been anything like ours. World War Two was different; there's a very significant military power just off the east coast of the US (the Etoille Islands), large numbers of people have super powers, and criminal organizations rival some national governments in their power and ability to affect events. Furthermore, the progression of technology seems much more rapid than in our world (thank you science and tech-origin supergeniuses); heck, near-Earth space is littered with giant space stations, just from the various supergroup bases I'm aware of. Landing on the Moon in 1969? Puh-lease, it would have been far in advance of that, and likely in a big way, not a few footsteps. Who's to say the same sequence of Presidents have been elected, or even anyone in our world born after WW2 had the same parents, genetics or even names? Or that the same minor wars the US and Europe have been involved in since have happened, or even the same disasters have occurred? September 11? Oil spill in the gulf? Ludicrous. Some other disasters, maybe, but that exact same sequence of detailed events as in our world? To me, simply not credible. The same movies being produced? Not credible.

So.

A case could be made that introducing this sort of material is OOC. Yet... for everything above I've written, someone else could come up with a reasonable comic-book world explanation for why it -is- credible for them to have happened in-game, just as in the real world? Who am I to demand my interpretation be the one everyone uses? I'd like it if others agreed with my view, but it's silly to think more than a few would. The Devs haven't exactly gone to a lot of effort to make the canon history and setting all that consistent. Thus it's my choice to let these differences slide quietly. I think we all have more fun that way.

As far as Brand-X's comment goes. I didn't mention anything major like that.. I was IC talking about a /movie/. I do see your point though..and agree with you completely. I also agree with Bright Shadow...just because you don't agree with or like something someone else does in the game..whether its RP.. or just how they play, what good does it do to call them out publicly for it?

I also have started avoiding the D as of late, yeah I pop in on occassion, but not like I used to. Mainly because..lets face it, you'll come across idiots no matter where you go, but if you go to the D its the samething as if you had entered a idiot training camp.

In regard to CoH's world history being different than our own and how it affects RP: I can agree that yes, things likely ARE different, and there are a bunch of nice articles on the main site, on ParagonWiki and on Durakken's new site thingy that go into some aspects of how some of these events transpired in the CoH universe.

The problem is, they don't go over everything. They don't cover who was elected to office, or what exactly happened during Vietnam(or if it happened at all) or what movies did or did not come out.

So you have 3 choices on this matter:

• Completely avoid the subject, not talking about these things at all.
• Make up your own stuff.
• Use familiar real-world events, people, and media.

Not only does it make chit chat easier..but I've actually had lengthy convo's about RL issues while remaining IC. You just have to pick the right people to do this with. Some people RP using strictly in game lore, others don't. It all comes down to what you like and what others like. I think the overall point everyone here is trying to make is that just because you don't agree with another person's RP or whatever, that doesn't give you the right to be a dick about it.

Buuuut.. sadly..this wil always happen. There's nothing that can be done to stop people from being ******** and *******. The best that can be done is just suck it up and move on. Grow thicker skin and stop letting what others say bother you. Especially since its usually people you don't even know. Yeah.. I know, I've heard it before "I /do/ know alot of these people..I play the game with them everyday." /That/ does NOT mean that you know them.

You can talk OOC with someone online everyday..about all sorts of things..doesn't mean ****. Until you've spent time face to face with a person, you don't /really/ know them. So just brush the trolls off and go have fun with the game we all love to play.

I once saw an interview with Stan Lee, where he said that up until the 60s, comic book publishers were a fairly uncreative lot. If some genre was selling well, the industry would publish story after story after story in that genre and run it into the ground. I always figured in the CoX verse, comic book characters like Superman and Batman were made to piggyback on the popularity of the (then) new fangled vigilantes with powers that everyone was talking about, and the new identities were to protect against whoever they were mimicing or lampooning.

Was this before or after Stan Lee went completely bat-**** crazy?
Just curious.

I thought Lee hopped out of the womb nuttier than a fruitcake... your telling me he was a sane man at one point in time?