Rumors about the ressurection of Marcus Cole.
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Posted on: 2012-02-10 19:29 in Roleplaying
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It just hit me! DVs that guy who always came to your pen and paper D&D sessions to play Bilbo Baggins.
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Originally Posted by Omega_Chief
... if youre ever at say a PnP game, youll roll up your own unique character and have fun with them, yes you fit them into the background of the world theyre in...
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Oh gods, you even roused Omy from his slumber. |
Originally Posted by Omega_Chief
Hi there Demetrios, Im Omy (Who members of the Union RP community might recognise as Oh god, its the obsessive lore nerd), and Id like to talk to you about a few issues that have come up here.
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*Gets to cover and watches the explosion from the top of a distant hill*
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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This kind of points something out...|
Originally Posted by Demetrios Vasilikos
Hell ill go delete my characters named that IOs and all if it will chill you sour pusses out and take it for the light hearted fun it was intended to be.
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If you are of the mindset that if you hurt yourself enough, it will hurt those you don't like...
You need help... professional help...
My advice: Get out of this game, Get off these boards, Turn off your computer, Go outside and experience the real world.
Don't come back to any digital world<s> until you have either hit puberty or worked at least two years at a 12 hr a day hard labor job.
You are toxic, someone not to laugh at...I pity you.
This is sad.
Ignoring anyone is a mistake. You might miss something viral to your cause.
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Idiots like the OP? You see one or two every now and then, but the much bigger pool of people who believe flawless spelling and grammar have any relevancy in good writing is the reason fanfiction or roleplaying isn't worth caring about. Words are only a means to convey information, as long as it is intelligible there's little point making a fuss over technical mistakes.|
Originally Posted by Venture
It would be slightly less vomit-inducing if the person trying to tell us all how writing works could figure out how spelling and grammar work first.
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It's like an audiophile calling himself a musician, an awareness activist claiming to be a revolutionary, a geek obsessed about linux distros posing as a computer scientist; and yet, in writing communities everyone is just a "writer". Hogwash!
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Wow. Just wow. I am simply astounded by the arrogance on display here. Your way of playing a demon character is somehow the 'proper' one and everyone else is wrong? How ridiculous.|
Originally Posted by Demetrios Vasilikos
T'Keron Valmaz is yes the Lord Of Demons, frankly put when after 3 months in year one of seeing tons of really poorly concieved non canon related demons,devils,fallen angels, and half breeds running around I was like know what I am going to make a proper Demon character to RP just to try and spread some Lore.
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You should seek psychiatric help. You exhibit all the classic signs of narcissistic personality disorder. Seriously, go talk to someone.
I just came back to look at some funny pictures/gifs
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Yeah, those jerks who think spelling and grammar are important in writing, like, you know, employers.| You see one or two every now and then, but the much bigger pool of people who believe flawless spelling and grammar have any relevancy in good writing is the reason fanfiction or roleplaying isn't worth caring about. |
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| Words are only a means to convey information, as long as it is intelligible there's little point making a fuss over technical mistakes. |
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Of all the times GG has upset me, this image alone has redeemed her.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Pure ****ing Gold
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Originally Posted by Darej
I just came back to look at some funny pictures/gifs
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If you want a moral to accompany this picture, I'd say this is what it looks like when you try to change canon by remaking the storyline in your own image. Bad things happen, and it's not a pretty picture.
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Damnit, there goes another keyboard.
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Originally Posted by Valerika
If you want a moral to accompany this picture, I'd say this is what it looks like when you try to change canon by remaking the storyline in your own image. Bad things happen, and it's not a pretty picture. |
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Fixed.
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Originally Posted by Ardrea
It just hit me! DVs that guy who always came to your pen and paper D&D sessions to play Drizzt Do'Urden.
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That's all fine and dandy when it actually convey stuff properly.|
Originally Posted by Nihilii
Idiots like the OP? You see one or two every now and then, but the much bigger pool of people who believe flawless spelling and grammar have any relevancy in good writing is the reason fanfiction or roleplaying isn't worth caring about. Words are only a means to convey information, as long as it is intelligible there's little point making a fuss over technical mistakes.
It's like an audiophile calling himself a musician, an awareness activist claiming to be a revolutionary, a geek obsessed about linux distros posing as a computer scientist; and yet, in writing communities everyone is just a "writer". Hogwash! |
When parts of sentence make you stop and go "Wait, what? What is that even meant to say and mean?" then someone is 'Doing it wrong.'
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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I am forced to concur, and it only pains me because of the laughter.|
Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Of all the times GG has upset me, this image alone has redeemed her.
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Originally Posted by Valerika
If you want a moral to accompany this picture, I'd say this is what it looks like when you try to change canon by remaking the storyline in your own image. Bad things happen, and it's not a pretty picture. |
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So, so true.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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What. I. Where. What. Are you. What. I. You. What. What.|
Originally Posted by Valerika
If you want a moral to accompany this picture, I'd say this is what it looks like when you try to change canon by remaking the storyline in your own image. Bad things happen, and it's not a pretty picture. |
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What.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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To stop people reading the whole thread, shall we just point out the OPs flaws?
1) "Lore-RP" Which is just taking characters from lore and nicking them basically. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but if this is flattery, bleh!
2) Calling people WoWtards for disagreeing with him about his "lore-RP"
3) Knowing very little about the lore and the little he does know is filtered through his brain and comes out just wrong
4) Posts that border on word salad, with bad spelling and words that aren't quite wrong but just don't quite fit, for example, your beloved toon.
5) Delusions of grandeur and jealousy of other or assumed jealousy. You are acting high and mighty, but so far you have shown us nothing to prove it.
My advice:
1) Drop the lore RP. Create your events around the lore. The new DA content is coming out, maybe you can begin to investigate strange events there with other heroes? Make this little insular fantasy something to share.
2) Stop insulting people. I am one of the people who goes stats then RP, but when I have a toon I like and is at the power level I want to RP at (no use having a toon who is a living god if he gets beaten up by gang members), I RP like crazy.
3) Study up on the lore and if need be include quotes to back yourself up.
4) Spell check and proof reading. I'm very happy to do both if you want to PM me your posts before you post them.
5) Show us your work that makes you worthy of our admiration and jealousy, before you go off like this.
Anyway, anyone got anything else to add?
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I'm not trying to help DV out on this because I think it's just as bad an idea as many of... well, all the posters on this thread but, I've spoken with NCSoft reps in game and was informed that it's perfectly fine to play signature characters on the condition that you make no attempt to pose as someone that represents NCSoft while playing those characters. A whole bunch of people went and claimed the names of FP characters as soon as we were informed of that.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Except no one chose you. You commandeered a canon NPC, without Dev permission (and they are the only ones in charge of canon) and godmoded it.
This is like turning up to a stage production and pronouncing you will be the lead role, despite not being part of the acting company, a credited actor, or even very good at acting. The company and actual lead actor would sling you into the street. i.e. you don't have the imagination to come up with your own, original characters. Also, who gave you permission to do so? Did the Devs? Did you get a PM saying 'Oh, by the way, it's totally cool for you to play Canon NPCs now'? |
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Originally Posted by Valerika
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For the record, there's plenty of places across the Internet that let you play as canon characters (for example, I used to play on a superhero MUX whose theme was that a ripple in space-time was grabbing people from their own various universes and dragging them in), but this is the first case I've heard where people play as canon characters on the very game that the canon comes from.
I definitely see the appeal of playing canon (or "lore", if you like) characters, but it sounds like a lot of the lore... isn't being used right, if some of the things I see here (like using the wrong name for the Mu goddess, and Count Crey not being in a coma, which throws the entire Crey storyline into a cocked hat) are accurate.
(That said, I'd never play CoH characters on CoH. I'd consider playing them elsewhere, perhaps, but I'd be far more likely to play the characters I created on CoH than CoH "lore" characters)
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Proof of this, please.
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Originally Posted by FNG
I'm not trying to help DV out on this because I think it's just as bad an idea as many of... well, all the posters on this thread but, I've spoken with NCSoft reps in game and was informed that it's perfectly fine to play signature characters on the condition that you make no attempt to pose as someone that represents NCSoft while playing those characters. A whole bunch of people went and claimed the names of FP characters as soon as we were informed of that.
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Yeah, because I'm pretty sure I've heard of people being genericed because they used names for this game's canon characters.
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Originally Posted by ShadowWings
Proof of this, please.
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I just found this thread today. I read the OP, and I speak totally for myself when I state my opinion.
The OP isn't just a tool. He's not a toolbox. Nor is he the toolshed. He's the main B&Q supply depot to the British Isles.
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Originally Posted by ShadowWings
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Originally Posted by FNG
I'm not trying to help DV out on this because I think it's just as bad an idea as many of... well, all the posters on this thread but, I've spoken with NCSoft reps in game and was informed that it's perfectly fine to play signature characters on the condition that you make no attempt to pose as someone that represents NCSoft while playing those characters. A whole bunch of people went and claimed the names of FP characters as soon as we were informed of that.
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For the record, I doubt they'd care so long as the player wasn't mistakable for an NCsoft employee or representative, but this post rings hollow when supporting it with a citation is made impossible by the forums rules -- as it stands it's just your say-so and you're not NCsoft.
This story has nothing to do with you, even though your character T'keron Valmaz (ripped unceremoniously from Infernal's backstory) is at the heart of the whole idea? Why don't you tell me why that's wrong.
You know, T'Keron Valmaz is technically generic bait since the names are taken DIRECTLY from the game.
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