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Brackets (OOC) | Started by: Chuck_Bartowski on Nov 17, '12 03:18 |
Harrow
I'm Chuck here's a few things you might need to know about me....
I'm generally lazy and I don't post nearly as much as i used to or perhaps as much as I do now so don't take this the completely wrong way because it could be a situation of Pot Kettle.
Basically... what I want to know is, when did this whole fad of (*insert OOC commet here*) become an acceptable part of posting in a thread. I can't remember the last time I saw a thread without something like this happening. Surely if you can't make a point in character and in RP without having to explain what's going on via an OOC brackets comment then you've fucked up and should reword the point. People aren't idiots, so why does it happen?
Without intending to pick on anyone, example of it is this:
"At least for once he admitted he hasn't a clue whats going on. Though funnily, that makes me feel one of his alter ego's (Dupe accounts) placed the hits and he wants to try and create unrest where none exists."
Worse than that, it also meant an Admin/Developer guy also posted OOS making the nonsensical thread even worse. Now this was a Kuku thread and as such can be disregarded as 90% bollocks anyway but there's still no need for the OOC coments...
Why does it happen, and more importantly, why do cleaners/Admin/Street gurus allow it to happen? I know we've all gotten lazy in our old age and so the RP force isn't as strong as it once was, but is that an excuse for this? |
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Have my babies? |
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Reply by: Cory_Chase at Nov 17, '12 03:22 | |
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Men have no wombs! |
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Reply by: Chuck_Bartowski at Nov 17, '12 03:24 | |
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(Men can't have babies) c what i did thar |
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Reply by: Chuck_Bartowski at Nov 17, '12 03:25 | |
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I think an example would be the Comms menu. |
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Reply by: Jaqen_Hghar at Nov 17, '12 03:33 | |
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I think in the street's people need to figure out a way in saying what they need to in character if they want to say it. |
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Reply by: OldMan at Nov 17, '12 14:32 | |
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Role play is not flowery descriptions. Role play is embodying your character. |
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Reply by: Donbot at Nov 18, '12 22:20 | |
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Is it really terrible for people not to RP on a RP game? Yes. Yes it is. |
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Reply by: Chuck_Bartowski at Nov 19, '12 07:27 | |
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People are RPing all around it. They add brackets in to clarify their meaning to make sure that it is not lost amongst their attempt at explaining a concept that is completely impossible for our characters to logically explain. Oh, the horror. |
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Reply by: Donbot at Nov 19, '12 08:44 | |
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I was guilty of posting an entire OOC paragraph within quotes in the Streets recently, so I suppose I should weigh in on this one.
I'm quite an avid (in comparison to some of the userbase) poster in the business district, and to be honest I really can't abide by 'bad RP' there. There's literally zero reason for any posts to contain even a couple of words within the dreaded OOC brackets. The BD can essentially operate entirely independent of the game's politics, in essence it's a purely descriptive forum. I even get quite frustrated when people post in the business district mentioning things that are anachronistic to the time frame we're meant to be playing in.
In the streets though, things are always much more difficult and the line is somewhat blurred. The vast majority of posts and threads in the Streets are going to be directly related to in game events. Sometimes, it's just impossible to shoehorn something fundamentally OOC into an IC phrasing with it making any sense. An example is describing money from credit purchases etc as something like 'money from the old country' - it's just quite cumbersome considering that for absolutely years, the IC way of referring to the real life mafia we try to emulate is by calling it 'the old country'. You might have 10 different posters using 10 different phrases to describe the same thing - it can get very confusing to follow.
I'm not saying that means we shouldn't make the effort to try, but sometimes a quick segue into bracketed OOC text to actually outline something is pretty helpful, and I don't see it as all that big of a problem. Cracking quote from Donbot in fairness:
This is where it's at. If you don't act like a Mobster with your actual actions in the game, no amount of clever euphemisms and italicised text is going to make a blind bit of difference.
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Reply by: Modfather at Nov 19, '12 20:37 | |
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