I guess it's time we all just grew up and moved on.
If you're not a fan or roleplay or never were, you can disregard this entire entry. It'd prolly just make you shake your head in pity.
I'm... I WAS a roleplayer. I was an avid roleplayer online from the summer of 1997 until... roughly, the summer of 2001. That's when AG really died to the last on AOL and there was so much shit going on in my relationship with Troy and his relationship with Ruth, that I wouldn't dare set foot on the forums he partonized for the life of me. It was too awkward, too painful.
So, I putted around... roleplayed short-lived threads or IM stints with whoever I could find. I participated in the generic threads Troy honored me with playing in. Etc.
I can honestly say, in comparison to the stories I hear about the golden age of RP on the forums from Nate and Josh, well... I've never experienced good RP. :| I'd have liked to, really. One of my big hopes when we got internet back, was to be able to experience that kind of RP. That's one of the main reasons I created MY forum, Origami. The basis for the concept was that of the legendary Sansai's RP forum, where all the most entertaining threads came from, in my memory, and Nathan's.
Everyone mooshed together in GRP. Anime fanRPers, original characters, comic book fan RPers, videogame fan RPers... and military RPers and their factions. They all interacted and created a unique and colorful universe in their wake. It was like nothing else. It was a better... much better version of the crossover fusion I saw in the AG chat on AOL. I sorely miss that kind of environment.
Since, after going 'round and 'round with the crowd on RPN (Troy's forum, which has the largest amount of active 'veterans' from Sansai's) over how forum mechanics should be changed to create a much more interesting atmosphere... Nate and I... have decided to stop RPing altogether. There's no point. At all.
No one goes to Origami, although we did try to recruit heavily even when we didn't have internet. And now, everyone either RPs in chatrooms, on fucking cesspool GAIA or doesn't RP at all. It's really disheartening.
Seeing as this is the case, and the atmosphere for RP on RPN is not of our liking, we're not bothering anymore. I'd normally not be bothered by this, but RP has been a huge inspiration to me, my work and my creation of characters, creatures and worlds in of themselves. I don't know what I'll do now, since I can't really hope to ever RP out my characters' backstories, or the behaviors of my various creatures. I could just pretend, act it all out in my head or write a story, but that's a sad substitute... and it's more depressing than anything else.
If only people wouldn't be so fucking hard-headed and lazy. All my friends I used to RP with loved it, but now it's some huge taboo scary monster they don't even want to try and touch. What the fuck? I don't get it. Is it really that hard?? There is so much potential to make another golden age of RP and people just squander it so they can sit around on Furcadia or fucking Gaia and piss and moan about meaningless things and complain about how BORED they are.
If you're so fucking BORED, why don't you RP? Then you can't complain about being BORED anymore.
But, whatever. I quit. I can't stand the building up for it and then just idling on it because no one will fucking cooperate. No one can swallow their pride or grow the balls to make changes or fucking get up and try to get users on a forum. If that's the attitude everyone has, they can all go fuck themselves.
I'm too old for this now, I guess. I ended my formal RP activity when I was 16-17... when there are people who were in their 20's back then and regularly RPed, but whatever. I guess that's just my luck, as fucking per usual.
I guess I'll just occasionally RP my three RP-worthy Ragnarok Online chars, if I can ever get anyone to RP with, which is a slim fucking chance.
Fuck it all to hell. Anyone who reads this... who is or was an RPer that I know... you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. Don't ever tell me you're fucking bored again, or I swear I will verbally rip your throat out.
I'm... I WAS a roleplayer. I was an avid roleplayer online from the summer of 1997 until... roughly, the summer of 2001. That's when AG really died to the last on AOL and there was so much shit going on in my relationship with Troy and his relationship with Ruth, that I wouldn't dare set foot on the forums he partonized for the life of me. It was too awkward, too painful.
So, I putted around... roleplayed short-lived threads or IM stints with whoever I could find. I participated in the generic threads Troy honored me with playing in. Etc.
I can honestly say, in comparison to the stories I hear about the golden age of RP on the forums from Nate and Josh, well... I've never experienced good RP. :| I'd have liked to, really. One of my big hopes when we got internet back, was to be able to experience that kind of RP. That's one of the main reasons I created MY forum, Origami. The basis for the concept was that of the legendary Sansai's RP forum, where all the most entertaining threads came from, in my memory, and Nathan's.
Everyone mooshed together in GRP. Anime fanRPers, original characters, comic book fan RPers, videogame fan RPers... and military RPers and their factions. They all interacted and created a unique and colorful universe in their wake. It was like nothing else. It was a better... much better version of the crossover fusion I saw in the AG chat on AOL. I sorely miss that kind of environment.
Since, after going 'round and 'round with the crowd on RPN (Troy's forum, which has the largest amount of active 'veterans' from Sansai's) over how forum mechanics should be changed to create a much more interesting atmosphere... Nate and I... have decided to stop RPing altogether. There's no point. At all.
No one goes to Origami, although we did try to recruit heavily even when we didn't have internet. And now, everyone either RPs in chatrooms, on fucking cesspool GAIA or doesn't RP at all. It's really disheartening.
Seeing as this is the case, and the atmosphere for RP on RPN is not of our liking, we're not bothering anymore. I'd normally not be bothered by this, but RP has been a huge inspiration to me, my work and my creation of characters, creatures and worlds in of themselves. I don't know what I'll do now, since I can't really hope to ever RP out my characters' backstories, or the behaviors of my various creatures. I could just pretend, act it all out in my head or write a story, but that's a sad substitute... and it's more depressing than anything else.
If only people wouldn't be so fucking hard-headed and lazy. All my friends I used to RP with loved it, but now it's some huge taboo scary monster they don't even want to try and touch. What the fuck? I don't get it. Is it really that hard?? There is so much potential to make another golden age of RP and people just squander it so they can sit around on Furcadia or fucking Gaia and piss and moan about meaningless things and complain about how BORED they are.
If you're so fucking BORED, why don't you RP? Then you can't complain about being BORED anymore.
But, whatever. I quit. I can't stand the building up for it and then just idling on it because no one will fucking cooperate. No one can swallow their pride or grow the balls to make changes or fucking get up and try to get users on a forum. If that's the attitude everyone has, they can all go fuck themselves.
I'm too old for this now, I guess. I ended my formal RP activity when I was 16-17... when there are people who were in their 20's back then and regularly RPed, but whatever. I guess that's just my luck, as fucking per usual.
I guess I'll just occasionally RP my three RP-worthy Ragnarok Online chars, if I can ever get anyone to RP with, which is a slim fucking chance.
Fuck it all to hell. Anyone who reads this... who is or was an RPer that I know... you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. Don't ever tell me you're fucking bored again, or I swear I will verbally rip your throat out.