So I'm thinking about all the RP fighting talk and aside from the fact that it cements in my mind that RP fighting is a terrible idea, it reminds me of my WoW days.

In WoW it's not that uncommon for people to RP fight. Like, through emotes. In a MMORPG. With a built in complex combat system.

This has always been a pet peeve of mine, possibly ( Read more... )

GATHER ‘ROUND, KIDS. GATHER ‘ROUND. YOU’RE OLD PAL HAS A RANT FOR YOU ALL. SIT DOWN AND GET COMFORTABLE. READY? OKAY.

( Long rant is long. )

Your mileage may vary, quite heavily too, but...

Dear person on an RP-board. Please return to using the past tense in your posts. This experiment you have going on with the would-word? It's kinda failing.

( Non-sensical ranting under the cut )

Sue's slow and rich Southern Drawl rolled from smiling lips like molasses in October

molasses- [noun]
thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining

Now the mental picture of someone randomly drooling 'dark, thick syrup', like Jennifer in 'Jennifer's body' is stuck in my mind.

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When your Beautiful RP description looks like the Beautiful text that follows:

( What you see... )

I seriously effing give up on a good FFVII RP. If I find one, it's dead. The live ones either have plots that ignore canon (example: I just found one that takes place a year after AC, but ignores DoC for no reason other than MOAR SEPHIROTH!!!!!!1!!1!!!1!1!!!111!!!!1!), full of nothing but a fuckton of purple prose, or are horrible and a breeding ( Read more... )

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Knowing the difference between either, or and neither, nor does not mean that I'm fluent in the flowery language known as purple prose. That is all.

No, it is NOT a double-standard of me to get frustrated when people use "spheres" or "optics" or "orbs" or "spheroids" or even freaking "optical orbs" to describe eyes on a human character, and use said words to describe parts of android characters. Why? Because, I play two robotic characters, you know what they don't have? Eyes. The first one is ( Read more... )

Transcribed faithfully from one of the PCs on the oWOD chat I play in, mistakes and all.

"Her lips were an enigma, often faintly tilting and drawing attention to the cupid's bow curve that rarely burst into a few smile to give a glimpse of milky white teeth."

I am stuck in the first part of this mindboggling description and obsessing over it more ( Read more... )