You are playing a game where you use the impersonal magic of the Internets to pretend to be superheroes or fantasy characters or characters on a television show or goofy anime movie. YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY.
No matter how upset you get, no matter how irrational the initial reaction to getting your nose a little out of joint is, you are not allowed to lose sight of the fact that there is no possible way anything that happens in pretendy fun time games can actually be important. It is not, nor will it ever be, a big deal.
The moment you put a 'but' after 'pretendy fun time games,' you've missed the point.
"I know it's pretendy fun-time games, but - "
But Nothing.
That's all it is.
Control your emotions, or wait until they're under control before you start debates or discussions. Hurt feelings can happen, but you have to realize what they're hurting over. It may help to say the things you're upset about out loud.
"I am angry because the guy pretending to be Snapper Carr on the Internet is being too flippant."
"I am angry because the girl pretending to be Rocket Tits told me I **** dogs."
"I am hurt because the person pretending to be Snatchella The Fetching thinks I don't pretend to be The Galloping Gremlin correctly."
You cannot take things on a pretendy fun time game seriously if you actually say them aloud.
While I can appreciate your sentiment, I have found people tend to use this as both an excuse to grief and an excuse to mock RP'ers or just RP badly on purpose for the sheer chaos of it while those around them are attempting to actually have a proper semi-serious story/plot.
So I can't take "pretend" seriously, doesn't mean that I should have to just "learn to deal" with the random idiots that I see either under Atlas or in Pocket D as often as I do. Now that's not to say I take this game that seriously, but since I do spend my time here as a hobby, I would rather spend it having at least moderately mature, simple conversations without having to dodge or avoid every other idiotic player because "they have rights too and can be anywhere they want, blah blah, huff huff, I am bored and will bother you now". Of course I don't bother condoning their existence either. I have found it's much more upsetting to a griefer to ignore them.
The fact is that we all have a different view on what entitles to good/bad RP or what a bio's perspective shows us. Some are far more picky while others use it as yet another way of relieving their own boredom by just coming up with something "wacky" for the sake of it or to grief. Personally, I wish these individuals would pack their way back to Freedom or another server and allow us a little relief. But as that won't happen, I am more then happy to ignore their presence. I just wish I didn't have to tolerate them as much as I do just to find someone interesting to RP with in a population where I have to avoid the random idiot, the griefer, the half-demon/angel/vampire fairy god of doom or the oh so tragic bug man from planet x who has to fight every person he sees just to find an individual whom I can RP with. But, that's pretty much any MMO, unfortunately.
No matter how upset you get, no matter how irrational the initial reaction to getting your nose a little out of joint is, you are not allowed to lose sight of the fact that there is no possible way anything that happens in pretendy fun time games can actually be important. It is not, nor will it ever be, a big deal.
The moment you put a 'but' after 'pretendy fun time games,' you've missed the point.
"I know it's pretendy fun-time games, but - "
But Nothing.
That's all it is.
Control your emotions, or wait until they're under control before you start debates or discussions. Hurt feelings can happen, but you have to realize what they're hurting over. It may help to say the things you're upset about out loud.
"I am angry because the guy pretending to be Snapper Carr on the Internet is being too flippant."
"I am angry because the girl pretending to be Rocket Tits told me I **** dogs."
"I am hurt because the person pretending to be Snatchella The Fetching thinks I don't pretend to be The Galloping Gremlin correctly."
You cannot take things on a pretendy fun time game seriously if you actually say them aloud.
While I can appreciate your sentiment, I have found people tend to use this as both an excuse to grief and an excuse to mock RP'ers or just RP badly on purpose for the sheer chaos of it while those around them are attempting to actually have a proper semi-serious story/plot.
So I can't take "pretend" seriously, doesn't mean that I should have to just "learn to deal" with the random idiots that I see either under Atlas or in Pocket D as often as I do. Now that's not to say I take this game that seriously, but since I do spend my time here as a hobby, I would rather spend it having at least moderately mature, simple conversations without having to dodge or avoid every other idiotic player because "they have rights too and can be anywhere they want, blah blah, huff huff, I am bored and will bother you now". Of course I don't bother condoning their existence either. I have found it's much more upsetting to a griefer to ignore them.
The fact is that we all have a different view on what entitles to good/bad RP or what a bio's perspective shows us. Some are far more picky while others use it as yet another way of relieving their own boredom by just coming up with something "wacky" for the sake of it or to grief. Personally, I wish these individuals would pack their way back to Freedom or another server and allow us a little relief. But as that won't happen, I am more then happy to ignore their presence. I just wish I didn't have to tolerate them as much as I do just to find someone interesting to RP with in a population where I have to avoid the random idiot, the griefer, the half-demon/angel/vampire fairy god of doom or the oh so tragic bug man from planet x who has to fight every person he sees just to find an individual whom I can RP with. But, that's pretty much any MMO, unfortunately.
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