[ SECRET POST #298 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #298 ⌋

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

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Notes:

- Early 'cause I gotta turn laptop off and get out of class jsdkfhskjd
- First comment is Name That Fandom!
- Do this! Go!

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 96 secrets from Secret Submission Post #043.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken link, 0 not!secret, 0 not!fandom, [1] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 31st, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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I've stalked that place since I found it in July. I know they had some kind of drama sorta recently which ended with a bunch of people leaving and starting their own rip-off roleplay. It's kind of obvious this secret was from one of them.

Well this roleplay isn't made of fail. What's made of fail is whoever can't let what happened go.

[panksters.livejournal.com]

That sounds so familiar~

[(Anonymous)]

How so?

[panksters.livejournal.com]

I ran a game a few years ago with some OK muns who gradually made their characters more and more OOC. When I attempted to fire one, and tell another it was my decision to fire her as the only mod, a bunch of them quit and started Mygamename2. It was retarded.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, that's VERY retarded. Sorry that happened for you. I don't know much about what happened in that roleplay, really. But it sounds similar from what I saw. I actually didn't care for the some who left. They played some .hack GU characters in a way that made me cringe. They were so out of character it felt like they were ruining them because I love those games so much.

Those who play characters out of character really ruin it, so I'm glad you chose to boot one for it.

[panksters.livejournal.com]

Certain fandoms always send up red flags for me. One of them is .Hack.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I understand why. I'm a fan of the games, but I'm not in the fandom in any way, shape or form for that reason.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't see the .hack characters as out of character, but I saw a bunch of the others as being out of character.

[inksmears]

Sorry to ninja in, but wow, your story is eerily similar to what happened indeed. It kind of makes me shake my head. RP drama is so silly and always easily avoidable...

[panksters.livejournal.com]

It can be really funny if you're not involved though.

[grazie.livejournal.com]

Except for the part where Template isn't a ripoff in any way, shape, or form.

Face that and move on, just like you yelled at others.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

I was in an RP that had a similar experience. I wasn't directly involved, but the wank became so annoying I couldn't enjoy the game anymore and left.

[(Anonymous)]

It sucks when such drama ruins roleplaying for others. Though I don't know exactly what happened to cause it in this roleplay, it felt like a lot who left left out of spite or something. Especially when they created that rip-off roleplay.

But yeah I can understand how drama would make some people leave. I probably wouldn't have been able to handle it either.

[ankhutenshi.livejournal.com]

Well this roleplay isn't made of fail. What's made of fail is whoever can't let what happened go.

Bingo~ nailed it in one. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Heh! Roleplay drama is silly. Hope it clears up for you.

[ankhutenshi.livejournal.com]

Thanks~ it's more of a "we snicker at it from time to time" thing now. That's why it's so funny that the "other side" gets so obsessed.

[maqui]

You know, I find it kind of funny how many people are saying it's a "cheap rip-off." For one, the idea behind it was founded well before any of the bullshittery. And for another, the concept? Completely different, in every single way, shape, and form.

Not to mention that it started before the other crap, anyway; the people who left there did so for their own reasons. Not because of a new RP, but because they, quite honestly, no longer wanted to be there. For reasons that were pretty well-stated, even if they were completely ignored.

[ankhutenshi.livejournal.com]

Not to rip off the T-shirt...

Your mouth keeps moving but all I hear is blah, blah, blah.

... but when the shirt shoe fits.

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't matter when it was created. I just remember looking at it and thinking it sounded too familiar. If "many people" are saying it's a cheap rip-off then there's probably a reason.

[maqui]

"How many people," not how "many people." Very important difference in phrasing. "How many people" could be my meaning as few as five people saying that it's a "cheap rip-off," which, quite honestly, would be five too many for my taste. Regardless, the point is, exactly what is ripped off? If you're going to say the idea of multiple versions of the same character, don't make me laugh. Do you realize how many RPs have allowed multiple versions of a character, from way before Econtra was ever dreamed up? Between the zomg!crack RPs that allow an IC and OOC version of each character, to the RPs that have, for ages, allowed both a male and female version of a character, to RPs that allowed multiple versions of a character, taken from varying points of the timeline of whatever the character is from (sometimes having up to five or more versions of a single character). Heck, I've seen RPs dedicated solely to many different versions of the exact same character (for instance, there's a Tales of the Abyss RP that focuses solely on multiple versions of Guy Cecil), and those have been around for ages.

Having two versions of a character doesn't make it 'ripped off' from her RP, any more than Econtra having two versions of a character made it ripped off from every single RP before it that allowed for that sort of a thing.

But, whatever. You know, people will see whatever they want to see, and won't see otherwise unless they choose to. So, if you want to see it as a 'rip-off,' really, there isn't anything that I, personally, can do to change that; I don't force people to do things, it's simply not my way. The world will go on its way, you can continue enjoying to watch them, and I can continue to enjoy my RPing at Template, and, really, there's no problem with that. The only problem I have, with any of this, is you claiming that we're something we're not and never have been.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay I read it wrong my bad.

Actually that wasn't at all why I thought it was a rip off. That tells me something that it's what you automatically think though. It makes me curious and gives me an excuse to do an experiment.

I think you contradicted yourself but I get what you're saying.

[maqui]

Hmm? The only reason I automatically assumed that because it's the only similarity I've seen at any point between the two. Well, there's a different reason that has to do with another RP that got caught up in a shitstorm because of something similar, with the same accusations, but that's another bag of chips.

Anywhoo~ don't really see where I contradicted myself in anything I said here, or at any point on anything regarding this. But oh well. Nice to have met you. ^^

[katsuko]

Not directed at you, but to everyone involved in apparently perpetuating the wank and rumours:

Jesus F. Christ, people, let. It. GO!

Yeesh. And yes, I've left for time-constraint reasons, but the wank and bitching needs to end.

[inksmears]

Much agreeing. THANK you. :/

[grazie.livejournal.com]

Hate to say it, but you guys brought the drama up, not the secret. So I don't think you've let it go as much as you say. I exclude myself only because I was away doing homework at the time this originally came up. At the same time, I haven't really let it die down.

However, let's not fight anymore, because obviously it's upsetting people.