Pathetic Roleplaying

Darlok · Post by **Darlok** » Mon May 19, 2003 1:23 pm

Erm, there was never the question if i killed the Character "Kringrin" or not. I did.
Would you please read, the question was, if it was justified by Roleplaying or was i breaking a Rule and comitted Multi-Kill.

Rishi · Post by **Rishi** » Mon May 19, 2003 1:31 pm

Oh sorry,
Well I mend that after what he did it's obvious you killed him so I don't see it as breaking rules......

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Mon May 19, 2003 9:47 pm

Hm, I see that its obvious that Kringin died...

Anyway, another anology. If you were the skule bully and someone threw an airplane at you in class, you would have your friends beat him up. Then, would you go and beat him up again right after your friends beat him up? I don't think I would, nor would it make much sense...

Caranthir the great · Post by **Caranthir the great** » Mon May 19, 2003 9:55 pm

Yeah, but your analogy doesn't fit, beacuse it's like comparing a car crash and someone dropping a plate on ground together.

Attempted murder is a lot more serious than someone throwing paper aircrafts. Not comparable.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Tue May 20, 2003 1:49 am

Caranthir the great wrote:Yeah, but your analogy doesn't fit, beacuse it's like comparing a car crash and someone dropping a plate on ground together.

Attempted murder is a lot more serious than someone throwing paper aircrafts. Not comparable.

I wasn't comparing those parts, I was comparing the punishment. Tell me, how many death sentences did Timothy McVeigh get for killing hundreds of people and little children? One, right? And how many death sentences did Kringin get? Two. How does that work? And don't tell me that is a bad analogy.

Kringin · Post by **Kringin** » Tue May 20, 2003 1:52 am

hmm after i was killed the first time all i did was ask for an apology because he had killed me a year ago (RP wise) and he did not he killed me. It was totally unprovoked. I was about to walk off them bam he started to attack me. I am not trying report anything, just setting many examples.

Thank you.

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Tue May 20, 2003 6:27 am

Wait, let me get this straight, after you got rezed at the cross *you* asked him to apologize?

That was pretty stupid, IMO.

Ellaron · Post by **Ellaron** » Tue May 20, 2003 8:00 pm

I think I see the problem now. You tried to argue with Darlok that your killing of him was just and that he should apologize for killing you a while ago. What you failed to take into account is that Darloks main argument is about three feet long, made of metal and has a pointy end.

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Wed May 21, 2003 8:04 am

Right, someone kills you, you don't go up to them and start harrassing them again. Slink away with your tail between your legs <g>

Someone kills you, then you go up them and harrass them again, YOU are the one who is doing the bad RP.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Thu May 22, 2003 2:37 am

Serpardum wrote:Wait, let me get this straight, after you got rezed at the cross *you* asked him to apologize?

That was pretty stupid, IMO.

Errr... what does IMO mean?

Crocket · Post by **Crocket** » Thu May 22, 2003 3:57 am

IMO = In My Opinion

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Thu May 22, 2003 4:14 am

Crocket wrote:IMO = In My Opinion

Thank you. Serpardum, please use language that all of us can understand.

Paul smirks.

That felt really good.

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Fri May 23, 2003 4:24 am

I just searched the forums for IMO. I found two pages worth.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Fri May 23, 2003 4:44 am

so? Does that make it right?

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Fri May 23, 2003 8:29 am

paul laffing wrote:Thank you. Serpardum, please use language that all of us can understand.

It just means that everyone has understood it before.

Mishrack · Post by **Mishrack** » Wed May 28, 2003 1:08 am

Back to the topic tho.
Considering the awful state rp has come to these days, maybe we should not only focus on weeding out from the people joining now, but also have a little glance at the people already somewhat established here already. Of course this has been proposed before and so forth, but how can we weed out all those who are slowly but surely destroying the game for us?
Obviously quite a few names come to mind, but how can we insure that those who come through the account application actually do intend to not just play the game but actually interact with it?

Time and again, I personally see this coming back to the question of maturity... There are of course countless fantastic roleplayers out there many of whom are under 16 and such, but there just seems to be many more who just dont fit. It's all very good with this game being recommended to ages 16 and over, but considering that most people dont even bother browsing the site before playing, and that many others just dont care...

I suppose it's no news, but many of us are after all slowly starting to wonder why we still bother.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Wed May 28, 2003 2:30 am

Hey, I'd like to see you try roleplaying a 15 year old human.

Sir Gannon · Post by **Sir Gannon** » Wed May 28, 2003 4:39 am

Well im sure Mish could do a better job at it than you Paul.... *Grins evily*

Konstantin K · Post by **Konstantin K** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 12:40 pm

Are people afraid to die so badly?
Big deal, you got killed multiple times. Escape, ask for help, go get the bad guy.
How much do you lose when you die?

Hermie · Post by **Hermie** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 12:43 pm

You lose about a weeks worth of skills, and that wasn't even the point of what Mish said.

Mishrack · Post by **Mishrack** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 12:52 pm

What I meant is:
These days, you log on and try to roleplay. Almost immediately, some kid jumps around screaming he's possessed, and attacks people. a few seconds later, another person appears and claims that they are the master of theuniverse, and begins casting fire everywhere...

Then two people walk by talking about last night's basketball game...

Let us not forget though, that some self proclaimed saint will have bugged you about 10 times by now asking you if you are evil, and sayign that he is good and will destroy all evil... Let us al bow down to the great hero...

With all that going on, it becomes positively hard to rp ye know...
Just take a look today at the RP board, what do you see?
One person suddenly claims he's a werewolf...
You have another kid who keeps going around saying he's dead and the town must burn...
and more so, a proclamation that there should be a dueling day...

Do you see what we are up against?!

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 7:09 pm

Mishrack wrote: You have another kid who keeps going around saying he's dead and the town must burn...

I am not aware that I walked around saying I was dead, and I never said the town must burn, I did it.

But Paul is long dead and will not bother you again, but I am annoyed that everyone who was there practically ignored his death and forgot about it! I was expecting something... but I had to go and post it myself! What happened there?!?!

Crocket · Post by **Crocket** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 7:22 pm

Mishrack wrote:.....and more so, a proclamation that there should be a dueling day...

Do you see what we are up against?!

um, exactly what is wrong with that?
The knights of old days dueled all the time. They always held festivals and contests where they would joust and battle with swords.

Not to mention the gladiators of Rome.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 7:34 pm

But do you see how frustrating it was for me that a major figure dies and no one notices!!

Mishrack · Post by **Mishrack** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 7:36 pm

I think the term you are looking for is "generally ignored" figure died...

Mishrack · Post by **Mishrack** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 7:38 pm

Crocket, To me that just sonds like another attempt at justifying training, and goes to show that some people are getting desperate with not being able to hack n slash things...

Crocket · Post by **Crocket** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 1:13 am

Mishrack wrote:Crocket, To me that just sonds like another attempt at justifying training, and goes to show that some people are getting desperate with not being able to hack n slash things...

Of course it is.
You HAVE to train and this is one way to do it. This is not powergaming but TRAINING. People seem to get it mixed up a lot. And you sometimes have to hack n slash in order to release your aggresive tendancies. People still do it in today's time.

Ways people release aggresion today....
- hunting
- sports
- exercise
- watch a violent movie
- speeding
- fighting

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 1:38 am

Crocket wrote:
Mishrack wrote:Crocket, To me that just sonds like another attempt at justifying training, and goes to show that some people are getting desperate with not being able to hack n slash things...
Of course it is.
You HAVE to train and this is one way to do it. This is not powergaming but TRAINING. People seem to get it mixed up a lot. And you sometimes have to hack n slash in order to release your aggresive tendancies. People still do it in today's time.

Ways people release aggresion today....
- hunting
- sports
- exercise
- watch a violent movie
- speeding
- fighting

...murder, abuse relatives/friends, riots, drugs...

Oh, I forgot one. Football.

Crocket · Post by **Crocket** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 1:41 am

yes, well my whole point is people HAVE to release their aggresion in some form or another and fighting and killing just happen to be the preffered way.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 1:45 am

Someone invent football, quickly!