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katster

Subject:	zero day
Time:	11:55 pm.

First of all, and I know this is becoming annoying, please donate to help send me to The Night of Writing Dangerously. I just need 15 more people to donate $10 each, and the clock is starting to tick down. (I have to make it to the goal by Nov. 18!) This is what I’d like for my birthday, so if you can spare a bit, I’d appreciate it.

That said, I’m taking a zero day today. There’s a strange concept at work these days called work, and so I’ve been doing that. And then there was school. At least it’s the class I like, so there’s a good thing.

I’m feeling a bit better tonight, although I suspect the chronic low-level depression won’t go away until I address some of the structural problems underlying some of it. This is harder than it looks.

And with that said, I’ve got an interesting question for you to chew on. It’s two AM, and you’re driving a lonely highway. As you approach a red light, you can clearly see that there’s nobody around at all.

So why do you stop?

Just a thought.

Originally published at retstak.org. You can comment here or there.

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	GAH
Posted by:	xi_am_dantex.
Time:	12:21 am.
Mood:	aggravated.

Look, I know you are enthusiastic about joining my roleplay, and that makes me really glad that you are...

but when I ask you not to make profile until I am finished with my own, I don't mean for you to go ahead and start working on yours behind my back. There is a reason I am having the players who have already reserved spots wait - it's because my profiles are going to have key details that pertain to yours. Since all of our characters are starting out as a "team," there is definitely already going to be some history between them, and I want to make sure we are on the same page.

And just to let you know..."reserved" does not mean that you have been "accepted" into the roleplay. That means that you have gotten passed the roleplay samples and have moved on to making the profile stage. I can still deny your entry. Normally I don't after I have accepted your roleplay samples, but in your case I might make an exception. You have already proved to me that you can't follow rules and not only that, but from what I can see in your profile so far...it is completely God-moddish and Mary-Sue. And I really can't have that.

Also...just to add to that...

I asked you not to make your profile yet and you started...not only that but you haven't even been accepted yet and you have ALREADY written an introduction post to the roleplay?! You have no idea what the setting is [since I haven't had time to write it yet] or know ANY details whatsoever and you are already jumping right in! WTF?!

In short...you're definitely not getting in now. Sorry. [Well...I'm not really sorry.]

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bad_rpers_suck

Posted by:	badsockbad.
Time:	6:00 pm.

Okay, I get it. You don't like the pairing X and Y were playing. That's fine; no one is expected to like everything. You don't like it because it's icky slash and breaking up a canon pairing even though the one character's canon love interest isn't in the game and he's taken from a point in canon before the pairing even happened? Okay, that's your opinion, and like I said, you don't have to like the pairing.

But for the love of God, can you stop being a coward and complaining anon-ly about it? No one is forcing you to read their threads. It would be one thing if they were OOC (they're not), playing solely for the sake of sex (they've never even done a sex thread), or if they were rubbing the pairing in everyone's faces (again, they're not). What's even more amazing is the fact that you're still complaining even after one of the players dropped. Are you really that butthurt?

Look, I hate horribly OOC slash pairings as much as the next person, but this was not a case of that. X and Y spent months building up to it and put a lot of work into the development and it showed. I don't like seeing you badmouthing their efforts just because the pairing wasn't your cup of tea.

If I knew who you were, you wouldn't be getting any more tags from me, because that kind of petty, judgmental behavior leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Go focus your rage on people who actually are butchering characters for buttsex, not two good players.

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	First post
Posted by:	cerem_darksaber.
Time:	4:00 pm.

You whine and cry about not knowing rules which were put in place nearly four months ago. You scream you can't be punished for cursing over the limit due to not knowing what is and not a curse. You seem to be unable to read anything at all unless it's a loophole in the rules you just think you found.

Then you make the mistake of telling me I "can't" punish you for these. The problem with people like you is that you ruin a game. You abuse the game and the systems in place to always make sure you're on the winning side and you think that this knowledge will save you from punishment. And it will from the lesser mods. But not this one.

You cry and you beg, you demand and threaten. In the end you resort to petty flaming on my msn because you find you can't post on the site for some reason. And then even there you are blocked.

I'll go on, you'll get unbanned. Life will continue and then at some point this circle will come fully around and it will happen again.

Being a rule lawyer does not save you. I just wish to dear god you would quit trying to do it in my ear.

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	Two notes
Posted by:	sockybaudelaire.
Time:	11:00 am.

Dear Player A:

You played a character that I'd initially loved from a film I'd loved when I first saw it. You brought this character into the game, and portrayed him as weak, scared of everything, and completely unable to adapt to change without OH so much angst and drama, for MONTHS on end. I disliked this portrayal, but it had been long enough since I saw his canon that I had no idea the extent to which you ruined him. Then, one day, I watched his canon with a close friend who'd also been avoiding your character, for the same reasons, so that we could remind ourselves why we'd loved this film when we'd seen it, before you'd come along.

Twenty minutes in, we realised that the character, while repressed and awkward and a bit bumbling at times, was in fact cunning, brave, a rather good liar when he had to be, and able to adapt to strange situations when thrust into them unexpectedly, with relatively little fuss. This wouldn't do. I emailed my findings to the other mods, and we emailed you telling you that we'd noticed this, and that he was suspended from play until you filled out a new application for him that demonstrated you had an actual grasp of the character, not the whinging dramabucket you'd been playing. We didn't hear back from you for a couple of days, and because we weren't sure if you'd decide to flounce or stay, we told you we were TEMPORARILY removing him from the cast list since we'd been updating it anyway, and the moment we got your re-written application, he'd be back on and you could continue playing.

So WHY OH WHY must you then IMMEDIATELY go bemoan to your friends about how we "kicked [character] out of the game"? And refrain from mentioning until pressed that you were "allowed" (you WERE encouraged, not allowed, but whatever) to re-app him when your friends got defensive on your behalf?

I'd thought you were a decent enough person who wasn't the best at characterization before. Now I just think you're sort of a dick.

Glad you never sent that re-written app in,

Baudy

ETA: I should point out that we had been having other problems with Player A already, and that the play suspension is a regular policy in our game when things are being discussed between mods and the player regarding the play of a character.

Dear (potential) Player B:

Okay, here's a hint: When you publicly play a character basically acting the exact OPPOSITE of everything that's provided in canon, you may not want to mention you're the person who plays them when you app to a game that's already "kicked your friend out" due to characterization issues. It wouldn't have made a difference, we knew who you were regardless, but STILL. Playing a character who was the future's answer to a secret agent, was sent to sex, drug, alcohol, AND murder rehab (and relapsed from ALL OF THEM), who is very much a "I will sex any and all comers, one at a time or all at once!" sort of person and seems to have no real moral compass on his own, and making this character MARRY some chick, stop killing and things just 'cause she wanted him to, and making him a proud daddy who works for a FLORIST or something like that? That's not IC. That's nowhere in the same HEMISPHERE of IC, unless there was, I dunno, BRAIN DAMAGE involved. If it's AU, and you can make me believe it with slight differences in temperament and personality, fine, but it was CANON, and that shit is not on.

Okay, fine, you app, fine. I'll read it. The first thing I notice? You mention you're making him a new journal. You haven't made it YET, but you give us the username that you'll be giving him. Just because I'm a pedant sometimes, I want to make sure that it's even AVAILABLE. Guess what? It's NOT. In fact, it's been taken since 2005. But, okay, that alone is not enough to deny your application with any sort of dignity. How about the rest of it? The appearance and personality are mind-numbing, the history is so poorly written I have very little idea what's going on, and the writing sample is bad enough to cause me to make faces that made my girlfriend laughed hysterically.

I applaud you for not complaining when we denied your application. But, on a whim, I went to your public journal a few days later to see if you'd pitched a fit - mostly out of morbid curiosity, and so I could laugh. And what do I find? You've applied with this character to THREE "srs bsnss" RPs, and ALL THREE denied your applications. You said sarcastically that there must be something wrong with the way you RP, but I'd say that actually YES THERE MUST BE. So you will stick with games that don't require you to fill out an application or anything stupid like that. Heh. Okay. Please do. That way, I'll never have to risk running into you and your HORRIFICALLY BASTARDIZED CHARACTER.

Laughed my ass off when I got the app, and harder when I denied it,

Baudy

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	A rant on Mary Sues
Posted by:	pasmortderire.
Time:	5:13 am.

Dear you,

I have a dare for you. Can you play a single character who isn't an attractive and clumsily cute young girl? From a rich background but kicked out by her father for reasons undisclosed? Who gets mad OOC and starts flaming people if the world doesn't immediately begin to revolve around her? Because that describes every character you've written for the past five years. I went back and checked. FFS you made a gorgeously attractive and clumsily cute Space Marine. A Dark Angels Space Marine. Completely unironically. You simply copy and paste your old character in, change the names around and go to without paying any attention to the setting or plot.

Also, how dare you bully GMs. How dare you threaten to flounce off if the group votes for going down one path and your lone dissenting vote is overruled. How dare you spam my PM box and IM saying that I'm a shitty GM because I wouldn't let you RP smut in a PG-13 forum. How dare you expect your Ctrl+V Self-insert Mary Sue to be given better treatment by the GM because "we're totally old friends". No we're not. I don't like you, and I never really did.

As Renee Decartes so eloquently put it in his moving philosophical treatise À la recherche du temps perdu: Fuck you buddy.

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katster

Subject:	An Alexander day
Time:	11:21 pm.

I swear, Mondays account for 53 and three-quarters percent of all my extensional crises. This was another bad Monday.

Anyway, to explain my topic, it comes from the children’s book Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, in which the main character contemplates several times about moving to Australia. I’ve thought about it too, and so really shaky days are Alexander days. And today was just one of those days.

Part of it was triggered by getting money out of my bank account to pay for gas, and realizing I have ten dollars to get me through a week and a half after the gas was accounted for. That wasn’t happymaking at all. Of course, this is a common lament these days not just for me but for everybody. It means, at least for me, that once NaNoWriMo is over, I need to just start throwing resumes at anything that comes up that might even remotely have anything to do with what I do, even if it means relocating to a far away city. I’ve given up hope that the company I currently work for will offer me a full time job at all, and I’m just barely making it on what they pay me.

Of course, the long term cure for some of my big issues is to move out from my parents’ house, so I don’t have to justify half the stuff I do them. But that’s neither here nor there, and frankly, I’m just barely scraping by with the bills I have, and if I save anything, Social Security will crack down — they already have, which makes a tenuous situation that much worse. (It also makes it impossible for me to take on other part-time work to try and get a bit of spare change — health care. But I’ve been over that rant before.)

And then to top it off, Monday night is the night of my SQL class. Now, generally, computer classes don’t bug me, but this one for some reason does. And I think I figured it out. Not only do I shut down when faced with instructors I can’t stand, this guy’s teaching style and I don’t match well. He provides notes, but the notes aren’t helpful if you have trouble paying attention in lectures. And that’s how I learn — by seeing, and by doing. And well, really, we haven’t done much. So it puts me in a jam about studying for quizzes and tests. I think I’ve studied well enough and I get blown out of the water.

On today’s quiz, I guessed like heck and then spent the rest of the time doodling xkcd-esque stick figures all over my exam. When I handed it in, I offered a strange smile to the prof. Dunno what he’ll make of it.

Anyway, tomorrow’s gonna be a working day, so I’m trying to get some rest.

NaNo count holding steady at a bit over 18.5, but Monday and Tuesday != good writing days.

Originally published at retstak.org. You can comment here or there.

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	Rantyrantrant
Posted by:	elwoodbluesock.
Time:	10:57 pm.
Mood:	disappointed.

Seriously. You guys talk about being the top game of your genre. Stop being so friggin' clique-y. You've got players who are more than willing to play small parts, but you have to INCLUDE them.

#1 - If you want to play a canon, make them canon. Don't fudge with them, because you don't like something about their history/persona. It's NOT an AU game.

#2 Stop with the same people always being in the drama. Your character does not need to be the one shot/lost/kidnapped/tortured/etc every single plot line. REALLY. People will still like them. How about you let some of the other players get a little of the drama in, let them develop their characters more. The more developed and faceted a character, the more possible avenues of RP!

#3 If you just feel you aren't getting ENOUGH attention, and your character isn't feeling 'Speshul' anymore? At least make the drama workable. Not something that A) You think of and decide it'll be fun! B) Would get anyone else killed, but ohnoyerspeshul! C) makes no linear sense with your character's previous actions at all, or D) Would get any other character in serious trouble, but again you are a speshul snowflake, and you just float above it all!

#4 Pay attention to the plot's AREA. Knowing WHERE you are, and how the landscape is set up, is a good thing.

#5 Don't offer plot spots/RP up on general, and then wimp out, because you didn't get your BFF's response first. If you're only playing with one person 95% of the time or more, with a group of well over 20 players? Maybe you should make your own private RP. Just a thought. I understand having someone you like to play with a lot, someone you prefer over anyone else. *I* have someone like that. Guess what? We have our own RP on the side for that.

#6 Drama is GOOD. Drama can be FUN. OVERDRAMATIZING is bad, okay? Taking things one step over the line happens. Three giant leaps over? Shouldn't.

#7 When you ask for RP, and have it offered to you? Don't just completely wuss out and ignore the person. A polite 'No thank you, I don't think that scene would work very well." is an amazing thing. Or discuss if the person has another character that could possibly interact in a way more fitting your mood!

#8 Don't cut someone else off, who's trying to RP with you, just to go RP what you'd LIKE to be your OTP. It's rude. People besides your RP BFF have feelings too.

Just a list of simple rules to RP by.

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	HOW did you manage to scare HER off?
Posted by:	patchwork_muse.
Time:	9:24 pm.
Mood:	annoyed.
Music:	"Stricken" ~Disturbed.

I have to take my hat off to you, dude. Seriously.

This character of mine is the sweetest, fluffiest, most adorable person on earth. She believes in love at first sight, love conquers all, love is good in any form and she cries when someone has to kill a fucking ZOMBIE to protect her. She was betrothed to a vampire from the Nosferatu clan, despite being a Toreador, and is so fucking naive that she ran all the way from France to where she is now, JUST because she honestly believed he wanted her to. She wears pink and white in the World of Darkness, writes poetry and loves flowers.

...how the FUCK did you manage to scare her OFF?

Kudos, my friend. Kudos. Not only have you been stalking my characters, trying to get one of them- ANY of them- to sleep with yours, but you pull this new character out of your 'vault,' throw him into circulation, and instantly find a reason for him to be attracted to her.

He had a lover. Right.

Another Toreador. Okay.

With blue eyes. ...

And rose-red hair. -.-

...who sang...

And whose name is *remarkably* similar to my character's name.

...okay, I even understand where that's coming from. Desperately seeking an IC excuse to chase my poor, sweet, innocent little virginal vampire halfway across the city, hoping to seduce her. Gotcha. Fine. Whatever.

What *really* puzzles me is that you somehow thought telling me OOC that your character really had a 'thing' for her was going to stop the plotline she was ALREADY in. Or that you somehow thought your character telling her that she resembled the dead lover he 'can't let go of' was going to make her leap into your arms. Yes, she's so sweet she's given half the vampires on the game cavities. Does that mean she's stupid? No. No woman wants to believe she's being used as a replacement for a woman who died. Especially not when the new woman in question is already being blood-bound to another vampire, who has a much greater attraction for her than yours!!! Forcing her to dance with you, hanging onto her when she's trying to get some personal space, and tracking her back to her home... NOT the way to go, seriously.
And then you complain at me OOC when I kindly give you the heads-up that she won't be around for a while because of the plotline she'd been involved in BEFORE you showed up. ...excuse me? No. I think not. Take your libido, go buy a few toys from Eros and let the drama calm the fuck down. You are two seconds from getting slaughtered, and it won't be my character that does it. There are many other people here who are losing their patience with you, and they're more violent than she is.

(And the scary thing? This is the same person I posted about before. *facedesk* I'm too nice. I need to stop playing with this jackass.)

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	Please read my posts before replying to them.
Posted by:	whisperedghost.
Time:	9:10 pm.

I seem to be having an uncanny amount of sucks this month. Which is -odd-, since I'm not RPing near as much. Most of them aren't postworthy. This one is from friday, and it didn't occur to me to post it until now.

Dear person with the ditsy mage,

When I set a scene with my character five or six feet underwater (and said that in pretty much those exact words within the post as well as a lot of other underwater description)... Having your character come up and tap him on the shoulder as though the rock he's laying on is on land is a bit... Odd. The fact that your post was posted not even three minutes after mine (these are long multi-paragraph posts) makes me think that you didn't even read my post and just wrote yours ahead of time. The fact that you were confused when I asked you if she'd gone into the water with a spell so that she could talk or something just makes it even worse.

You were really embarrassed once you realized that my character wasn't even in armsreach of the surface (despite us having planned this all out the day before), but please to be reading my posts before you respond to them. It's not a race, and I was studying so it's not like I was going to reply quickly anyways.

Love,
The person with the merboy

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kelenar

Subject:	Consumate Vs
Time:	8:10 pm.

Dragon Age arrived today. I'm only a couple of hours in, but it looks promising so far. The controls seem like a halfway point between NWN and Baldur's Gate. If you want to go the BG route of having no AI and controlling each member individually while paused, you can. Alternatively, you can basically use the Gambit system from FFXII to automate characters. Spells are mana-based instead of per-day, and overall things seem a bit more interactive. Cone attacks show their area before you cast them and can be cast at specific angles, rogues actually have to be behind people to backstab... I've also run into some of the traditional Bioware wisecracking NPCs.

It also apparently has multiple starting paths, depending on what kind of character you make. It's a good idea, solely because I still kind of shudder at the idea of playing through Irenicus' dungeon again.

On the downside, the DLC refuses to, uh, D. It says it's downloading and stays at 0% forever.

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twoflower

Subject:	sa01 draft complete, woot
Time:	7:34 pm.

Queen Emily Explains It All. Well... almost all.

In the end, I wrote about 23,000 words for this chapter alone. I hadn't expected to bother with NaNoWriMo, given I have other hobbies and a day job and a move into a new house to deal with, but at this rate I may "win" by default. But I have to admit a little guilt at even pointing that out.

I've always been keen on NaNoWriMo, because the idea of writing a buncha stuff in a month and affixing a shiny banana sticker award to your work appeals to me. It's a validation of what you're doing and how much you've accomplished. But there are two aspects of it that just don't apply to me: one, I don't follow or participate or even care about the "NaNoWriMo" web community, and two, I'm not a new author desperately seeking motivation to write something.

That makes me unsure if I can ethically claim to be a NaNoWriMo winner without delivering a big 'ol backhanded slap to everybody really struggling to make it happen. Still... that banana sticker calls out to me. I may be forced to be a Chad Of Writing and accept the award because I want it even if it's not really intended for me.

Then again, maybe I'll hit a dry spell and that'll be it for the month. We'll see.

At any rate... here's sa01/fs01 in the can. Read, enjoy, respond. Not sure what I'll hit next... either a standalone short story in the Second Age series, or the next part of the serial Forsaken Shores series. I may alternate. I may paint myself blue and ride a bicycle off Big Ben. Who knows?

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	On gender and sexuality::
Posted by:	winging_away.
Time:	5:11 pm.
Mood:	bitchy.

Okay, look. I might have an ambiguous sexuality and gender identification. This does not mean that ALL of my characters do, as well. I like pushing boundaries, and my characters often reflect it- but do NOT try to tie my own gender into it.

Character A is asexual. He is not aromantic- he has had a relationship (with one of your characters, nonetheless) and has nearly forced himself to have sex to please them. An attempt to try and 'normalize' someone who has a differing sexuality? Or just an excuse to write more porn?

Character B is a straight male. He just happens to be a clefable (A la pokemon). A large pink fairy is bound to get mistaken for a female some time or another.

Character C was abused and decided it would be easier to live as a man. He is non-op, meaning he still has hidden girlie-bits, but lives in a masculine role. He is not a "true" transman, but lives as one anyway.

Characters D and E you never even see, why does it matter to you that they're hermaphroditic in the realm of a pure-fantasy RP?

Character F is a normal man. He just has a low libido. He has repressed memories of killing his sickly wife (props if you can tell who I speak of) and probably has supressed his sexual side for quite some time, to the point of arguably not needing it as much. (Note: AU. No monsters obsessed with rape here. :c)

In other words, lay off. You tend to say 'oh, ANOTHER?' like it's such a bad thing. I think that, when handled well, having different characters can bring some good things. Hun, we're in a lesbian relationship. We're already discriminated against- don't redirect the 'hate' towards RP characters.

It's not that you're a bad RPer, it's just... God. Some things you do get on my nerves. XD I love you, but I just needed a rant.

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	Stop that crap!
Posted by:	rantyrantsock.
Time:	9:58 pm.
Mood:	aggravated.

Okay. You.

I don't care that you think you're God's gift to RP. You're not. You don't treat people like that. If someone says they don't like accents that butcher the English language, and prefer to RP with people that can actually spell, the appropriate response is NOT to go whining to a mod that can't do anything about someone's opinion. The appropriate response is to say "Okay" and either leave them alone or fix what you're doing wrong if you really want to RP with them. Anything less is idiotic, bitchy, and not worth my time. Stop that.

AND YOU. (Edit: Directed at the person who shut out above person.)

Yes. You. What the fuck? Do you really think that you look like an adult by shutting someone out of RP? No, no you don't. You look 12. Stop that. You shouldn't be shocked that they left with that bitchy comment. You earned it.

You over there.

When someone tells you that they think your RP is sophomoric and resembles what you'd see on an average day in your average American high school's cafeteria, your response should not be "But he's okay with it OOC, so you should be too!" No. Things do not work in this manner. It doesn't matter if Person A approved the RP OOC. Person C doesn't have to. You dragged Person C in. You made Person C into the bad guy. Person C is pissed. No one is the Opinion Police. Don't be an idiot. And so you know? Person A can approve it OOC, but Person A's character can run screaming for the hills, because Person A isn't the same as their character.. Please learn to separate the two before you ever attempt RP again.

YOU!

Who the hell do you think you are? You're not a mod. You're not wanted within 20 feet of the mods. You're not wanted within 80 feet of anything even remotely resembling organizing anything outside your own clique. Why do you feel the need to whine and complain and pretend you're one of the mods? Stop that. They're all onto your shit, they don't want it, and they can see your toxicity 10 miles off. Go. The. Fuck. Away. Find another community to ruin. You've already ruined the quality of the clique you're in. Good RP isn't finding ways to prop up your snowflake and make it look like the best damn thing ever. You rape the story, you come up with some exceedingly poor concepts... please. Leave. I don't know why you were allowed in to begin with. If I had any say in it, you wouldn't have been, nor would you remain at this point after all the FAIL you bring. Take your ball and leave, I'm begging you.

This ends my rant.

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	lowering the standards is not the answer
Posted by:	catastrofuck.
Time:	8:50 pm.

Look. I get that you really, really, really, really, really, REALLY, ZOMG FUCKING REALLY want to join my game. I do. You IM me the second I sign on and don't shut up about it until I flat out tell you that I can't review your app until the other mods sign on and you're going to have to wait. And even then you still poke me every once in a while to check the status. But let's face it. This is #3 that we rejected.

First rejection: you admitted that you didn't read any of the info pages and rules, you were overexcited, and zomg, there's just so much of it to read! And omg WAH WAH WAH I'M SUCH AN IDIOT PLEASE DON'T HOLD THIS AGAINST ME IT'S JUST SO HARD.

Second rejection: no you definitely read it this time, promise! some of it. you don't remember what. but you definitely read. skimmed the things you weren't sure were important for sure. there's just so much of it! WAAAAAAH I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED TWICE, I FEEL SO STUPID.

Third rejection: don't try again. No, really. You're not reading shit, and you're not absorbing anything. The FIRST TIME you were rejected, I gave you four links: the outline (less than a page in MS Word), the world info (two pages in MS word), the rules (less than a page in MS word), and the class rules for the class you are bound and determined to play (a page in MS word). That is ALL you need to know to get approved. All you need to do is submit an application that doesn't directly contradict everything in those pages. So stop whining at me. IMing me with a paragraph of caps about how stupid this game is making you feel is not going to change my mind. In fact, it confirms in my head that this is not the game for you.

Above all else, IMing me and telling me that we require too much reading and it's all just too hard and I should consider 'dumbing everything down' isn't gonna do it either. We've been running a year with a large group of players, and over a hundred characters that had no problem with it whatsoever. This is not rocket science. It's just not the game for you.

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bad_rpers_suck

Subject:	I know, its Gaia... but...
Posted by:	socksicuteme.
Time:	5:22 pm.
Mood:	confused.

Okay, so I know having RP as an interest on my Gaia profile is asking for trouble, but this was just too much.

Here's the abridged gist of what went down:

Girl: Hai ther! Wanna join my Twilight RP?! Your profile says you like RP!

Me: I do like RP. But I really do not like Twilight, so I decline. I hope you find some good players though.

Girl: How can you not like Twilight? Are you actually a boy?! You aren't supposed to lie about your sex on Gaia you know! I'm reporting you, its against the contract!

Me: I don't think they'll do anything based on me being a girl who isn't into Twilight.

Girl: Well you must be a boy! Any real girl is totally into hot vamps.

This is about where I point out that on my profile it states I hate Twilight, and that they aren't actually vampires IMO. Things went down hill fast from there, and it degenerated into her typing in all caps, bold, red, large font that I was a fucking hoe, that only hoes like real boys (seriously WTF?) and Edward was the only guy for her, good luck with my diseases. etc. etc.

All because I told her I had a real guy in my life, a fiance nonetheless, and I was quite satisfied by him.

Seriously, why? How do I attract all the Twilight FANATICS on Gaia?

Edited for typos

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bad_rpers_suck

Posted by:	bigboxmart.
Time:	9:48 pm.

It's my playground. I can deny your application for any reason I want.

Seriously. Any reason I want. I could suddenly decide that every person apply to my game needs to intuitively know that their font should be bright pink and sparkle and then deny everyone who doesn't do that. I would be a pretty sad little cookie and end up in the Special Corner of the internet playing with myself, but that's a completely different issue. The point still stands that there's no RP Police going to swoop down from the ether to fine me for breaking the RP Law. Because there is no law. There's 'what works,' and 'what sends your game into a tail-spin and is thus generally avoided.'

So please, for the love of god, stop sending me IMs, PMs, e-mails, smoke signals, carrier pigeons, and whatever else I haven't banned you from yet telling me that I can't do something. I can. Stop telling me I'm not 'allowed' to deny you for the reasons I've outlined. If I'm shooting myself in the foot by not letting you in the game, then that's a natural consequence I'm willing to accept. Because all other drama aside, your particular brand of bitching is hands-down my least favorite ever.

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ailbhe

Subject:	Busy day
Time:	11:29 pm.

I went to the doctor for my swine flu vaccination, and when I got home Rob started sorting out the wiring in the attic - he's beginning with the lighting circuit, because once that's sorted out we can move the ladder around and finish the ceiling. Then he can do the plug sockets circuit and we can do the walls, but that bit needs a real electrician; we might be able to find someone who can do that and move the radiator at the same time.

I used my lovely new computer to run a spreadsheet (the old one had refused to do that without grinding!) and updated our finances, and phoned the energy suppliers and the credit card people to sort things out, and now we're in less debt and have smaller ongoing payments and nice things like that.

We had a snack, and lunch, and then went out to a bonfire party. It's just over a mile away, so it took 30 minutes to walk with Emer in the buggy. Linnea was Not Herself while we were there and came in from the chilly garden feeling very hot. Actually, the children weren't half as interested in the bonfire and fireworks as the adults, though the fireworks had been specially selected to be Not Loud (I was very grateful).

We got the bus back because Linnea ended up being obviously unwell - she's in bed now moaning in her sleep while her stomach makes much louder noises - and the children had a bath to get the toffee apple remains off them. I've never understood toffee apples but Emer liked attacking it.

Emer brushed her teeth fairly cheerfully and went to sleep on the sofa, in spite of her earlier nap. And it didn't rain, so we got most of two loads of laundry dry.

Now I am running a slight fever - vaccine probably - and going to go to bed soon. I have a Kate Adie autobiography which I expect to enjoy.

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bad_rpers_suck

Posted by:	mrpuffinstuff.
Time:	2:54 pm.

This may be just me but…

I just needed to rant. It hurts my head that all of this is one player. Sorry for the letter format.

Darling Player,

For the love of god and country.

If you don’t have the books don’t try to make a character based on your concept that “Hunters have dangerous jobs”. Especially when you’ve so far made three mortals and had to have your hand held through every step of the process EVERY! TIME! By more than one ST!

Yes, darling, when you have to have three STs help you, over time, to make one mortal character because you “can’t do the math” (direct quote) you might want to give up and go back to your free-form stuff where everyone put up with your D.I.D. BS.

In regards to your other character idea. No, if Garou mommy left behind something in your possession that just screamed to other Garou “Hay, look, KINFOLK!” you are not going to be an unaware Kinfolk. No, nope, no way. The shiny sparkly sue-mister thing you want her to have would have had her detected before she even turned 18…hell even before she turned the age of double digits.

Oh and one more thing, dearest. If you ask one more ST to torture and rape your characters and I hear about it. I am going to lay down the fucking ban hammer on your head. Yes, rape happens IRL and in the WoD, but begging for it? Pestering STs to do it to your Cs? Might I suggest you find a good doctor and get an evaluation?

It is people like you that make me want to find a way to FTP strangulation, because getting in my car to drive to you and hunt you down is far too much effort for your level of stupid.

Edited to fix some kind of HTML screw up.

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