[ SECRET POST #100 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #100 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

- HAPPY 100TH POST FANDOMSECRET-ERS~ :D

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 089 secrets from Secret Submission Post #015.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, April 16th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: #5

[rainfalldreams.livejournal.com]

Isn’t a good rp simply one in which the people directly interacting with one another are happy? Shouldn’t that be all there is to it? It’s not a career, it’s not charity or an obligation, it’s just what it is… a game. If you don’t like what someone is doing for whatever reason, then don’t play with that person. Is that really a difficult concept to grasp? What’s hard for me to believe is that there is an absolute wrong way to play a character. Part of the fun is to come up with your own interpretation, “how would this character behave in this situation, in this period of time?”… No, not everyone will have the same analysis as you (seriously, how could they?), maybe they’ll put more thought into it than you might’ve, or not quite enough, but that’s how they’ve chosen to explore that (made up) personality (who no one, including the creators, can be considered an expert on… partly because it’s just not important). Instead of re-reading the actual book, watching the movie/show or playing the videogame in which the character appears, the reason I rp is to see how a person will make that character respond in their own individual way. There should be no need to defend those choices.

As far as that specific role-playing community is concerned, there were several others who played using their unique perspectives… were they wrong, were they right… does it matter? Should and will they all be pinpointed for no apparent reason? Of course not. At least, they shouldn’t. So, the unwarranted, negative opinions of a few have been aired here. Okay… now what? What was the expected result? Has the world been diverted off some disastrous course? That was close! Maybe I’m the only one and maybe not, but I couldn’t sleep after reading those comments. Val has been such a good friend to me and I can’t ignore an attack on her over nothing. If stepping in to say my piece horribly offends the ones who couldn’t show the slightest amount of tact, then that’s fine with me. They wouldn’t be people I’d want to spend any more time on than I already have. That’s the thing with Val. There’s a distinct lack of drama in my experience with her. We play the way we like, when we like. It’s never been more complicated than that and it never will be. Anonymous people can think whatever they’d like, but they’ll have to deal with the fact that one person’s opinion won’t be altered.

Re: #5

[(Anonymous)]

you're both missing the point that no one cares any more and no one cares what you think

whatever tl;dr

Re: #5

[(Anonymous)]

Obviously you've missed the point. You can have your own interpretations and whatever it is you want to do, no one cares. We're discussing canon and influence and I might just be elitist about things like this, but to put down official interpretations in favor of claiming "oh! mine is the better one!" is ridiculous to players who do try and keep as strongly to canon as possible, or as much as they can in whatever situation they're thrown into.

tl;dr down? Keep it out of our faces kthx.

Re: #5

[rainfalldreams.livejournal.com]

No one cares and yet you feel the need to comment.

At what point did she specifically claim her interpretation was better, and, even if that was the case, how does that justify singling her out and upsetting her? This hasn't been a "discussion".

The point is that role-playing isn't and will never be important enough to directly hurt someone.

Re: #5

[(Anonymous)]

No one's insulting her, only saying she was once a horrible RPer and made some bad decisions, a fact which she admitted to, which people agreed to, which she stated again, which people agreed to again, which she stated again, which people agreed to again while being confused as to why she kept saying it over and over when everyone knew that in the first place, (and both of you seem to be stating repeatedly for some reason, okay, everyone gets it, that was the original point in the first place).

If it's not important, why is she getting hurt over it?

Re: #5

[rainfalldreams.livejournal.com]

Would you enjoy being told you're horrible at something, particularly by someone/people who aren't necessarily better than you, and in this manner (in a community through anonymous comments)? Being hurt by something fairly trivial isn't the same as hurting someone else over it. When it looked as though it was being taken personally (understandably so considering the way it was handled), there was no reason to continue.

I've said all that I needed to for the sake of a friend and my own peace of mind.

Re: #5

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt that anyone who wasn't "better than her" would have the balls to go ahead and say that she was worse than them because they'd have no right to do so and they'd know it.

Both of you are just repeating what we know and have heard already, so there's really no point in continuing when that's settled. Move along, nothing more to say, except that perhaps the lesser you say, the lesser you'll find yourself out of things to say.