Hey, guys?

Stop saying that your characters want to rape my character. No, really. Stop.

If you want our characters to get it on, that’s one thing. There’s no age of consent in this world, so it doesn’t matter that he’s 14. There is, however, the fact that he is totally not mentally ready for sex. Which has been expressed, both IC and OOC, on multiple occasions. But whatever. I don’t mind anyone going “Oh, he’s so cute, he and my girl should get it on.”

But this whole rape thing? There might not be an age of consent in this world, and these people might not have a law against murder. But you’d better believe that if anyone actually raped this kid, that person would have at least five very angry, very pissed off, very powerful people extracting vengeance upon your character. Not because the pup is mine, or because it's you, but because rape doesn't fly with these people. Also: joking about rape is not funny, it’s not cute, and it’s not witty. Stop.

One thing that I constantly run into that would make mine and my rp partner's lives so much easier is if people would take the time to simply reread posts. Instead of coming to tag a scene and only rereading what I have posted to them, if only they would look even one post further back and reread their own post that I replied to. (I personally reread my own tag and the reply I've gotten every time[further back if I'm coming back to a scene the next day, etc], so I can keep up with a good, consistent flow in all of my scenes)

See what happens is people, especially if things get a wee bit tense, is they come back to a scene, read my tag, and give me a knee-jerk response. Well that helps no one if their off the cuff response directly contradicts something their character just said. What this does is a) makes their characters look stupid. b) makes their characters look shithouse rat insane. c) often leads to everyone thinking their characters are irrational, inconsistent bastards who make no sense whatsoever, and probably should be avoided in the future. d) my characters often think they're being lied to--and poorly at that.

The worst part is being made to feel like I'm the d-bag for having the decency to pay attention in the first place, and keep continuity within a single scene. So, if you, dear readers, find yourself in a position where you feel like you aren't sure what's going on, a scene's going out of control, etc--do yourself a favor and try re-reading before you reply. It might help.

To player who is inactive. Three strikes, and you are out.

You have been very inactive for quite a few months. Lets talk about.... 3 to 4?. You post about maybe once, or even twice a month if I'm lucky. At the beginning, you were so excited, but it seems you have faded in interest. If that's true, I'm so fine with it. Sad, but fine.

You've failed the activity check without a hiatus up, I'm sorry. I've given you opportunities to have logs, I've set up things for you to play that you've little or never replied to, and every time you blow me off just a bit more. If you're gonna be disinterested... please just tell me. We can help each other, and maybe revive the spark that looks as if it has been snuffed out.

When we finally give you the boot, please do not call me a cunt. Or a bitch. Or tell me that I'm a heartless motherfucker who you hope burns in hell. Because you think I never cared about you, or your life, or your problems, or the things I've never heard about till now because we've never ventured into that sort of conversation. And that I suck for never getting you logs or helping you RP. That me kicking you is me trying to make a circle jerk between me, the co-mod, and our two friends.

I tried really hard this time to help you out, and now I feel I have the right to bash your face in with a brick.

This is why I hate being a moderator...

Apparently, you're all so much better at RP'ing and just about everything else than the rest of us. So why can't your huge, much-more-intelligent brains figure out that it might be annoying that you go on about your bff Jill and how much you like Mudkips right in the middle of where people are Rp'ing? Seriously. You spam the screen with bullshit because it's -so- much fun to ruin the lower life form's RP scenes.

Get over yourself and die in a fire, please.

Happy post-Christmas, BRPS!

I have a question, though. Why would you pair up a normally mean character with some 17 year old girl that he barely knows when the player has an "OTP" already ... and it's not them?
I mean, come on. This guy that she's playing is MEAN. She has him being overly bashful, overly embarrassed, and it's just mind-blowing to see. In a bad way.
So, how does one tell her friend to stop making him shag every single new friend he gets if the character's a fangirl? Because seeing this canon character with a new person every week (Last week, he was with a succubus! *face/palm*) is starting to make me rage.

Rage as bad as Luigi Largo.
Kthx guys. *hands out candy canes*

And before you ask, yes, the character is not supposed to be bashful.
Once in a great while is OK--I mean, hell, they're human, right? ... Well, most of the time.
It's just one of those slopped Canon/OC pairings.

(Oh, and someone else is trying their damndest to pair up my GAY character with a straight woman. She is not taking no for an answer and is setting up her character for heartbreak.
Helppppppp. DX)

Why would someone apply to a game with a long, fully written bigass application, with an end-note disclaimer that there are a few rules of the game they don't intend to even try to follow?

WHY would you waste your time like that? I mean, I appreciate the heads up. Usually I don't get potential players flat-out telling me 'I'm going to be a problem you eventually kick out', or even hinting at it. So, you know, thanks for that.

But still, WHY? You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you had just shot us a line to see if we were serious about that whole 'rules' silliness.

Oi.

Let me just say, I love meta humor in my RP. However, it still needs an IC justification. When we point out that the city your character hails from doesn't exist in our universe, the correct is not "It's just a joke relax kids". Yes, as a player, I can appreciate the joke you were making. But none of our characters can, and it doesn't make me want to interact with you when you get butthurt about that.

ETA: Holy crap, seriously? Seriously, dude? You just took our OOC objections into the IC conversation where no one had mentioned anything about it. *boggles*

So, usually I can at least read through some pretty lousy profiles, and I do mean agonizingly bad. Gaia's sort of built up my tolerance to it, and any further difficulty is usually taken care of by my good friend Jack Daniels, who makes a wonderful beverage.

But this guy...this is the first time I couldn't get past the name section of the profile before my thought process came to a screeching halt.

( Your name is what? )

Stop taking it ooc'ly when my character snorts at your bat-eared Death knight, your elf who got pregnant from a Death knight (Again. How would she even know she was pregnant?) and aborted it...A few days later (Like she did the last time. Good luck being aware there's a dinky little zygote inside of you) and your Death knight who used to be some demon-wat guard-killing wannabe-serial killer maniac who appears to be in a different dimension where guards don't exist (Maybe he does that phase shift thing imps love so much) and whoever else I forgot. (Run on sentence fail)

Yes, I think your Rp sucks pickled kodo feet, but its not ooc when my character (Who's a warlock, i.e not a nice person to begin with) laughs at yours, declares they must be lying/tacked on ears for attention/stole a baby for attention and claimed to pop it out on the same day it was conceived. She's mean and a petty sadist, and picking on the people dumber then she is makes her feel smarter. Yes Mr. Demon, I have pointed out you've been doin' it wrong before in a non-meany way ("Attacking guards is bad, Silvermoon is pretty strict ic" "YOU'RE IGNORED YOU'RE A NOOB"), but when my character recognizes the familiar face of an idiot and makes some mean comment its not because I'm trying to run you out of the inn or whatever.

Happy Christmas gaiz.

Dear Dude,

I sympathize, I really do. We all have that character - the one we really love, but keep stashed away in storage. Maybe it's our first character ever, maybe it's just a setting we would like to push the boundaries on - either way it's something we recognize as a bit on the overpowered, Mary Sue side of things. We all have that character, and it's sad that due to circumstances you can't always play them. I wish the world was perfect and I could just show people my I'm A Good RPer I Promise badge and then get to play whatever the hell I wanted, without fear of things going pear-shaped, without people having bad memories of very bad roleplayers doing the same thing and doing it very badly.

I've been there, so when I try to give you a sympathetic shoulder to cry on, don't scream at me that I ~*just don't understand*~. It happens to all of us. Nobody really wants to hear my tales about how my WoW character's entire storyline was wholesale ignored, or how I kept getting shortchanged by bad mods in Harry Potter games who took back their word and let me high and dry.

The moderator is a decent guy. Yes, it sucks that he heard out your plans for your character's backstory/main story and agreed and has now just brought up the issue of these powers in this rp to the rest of the board, taking a democratic sort of manner about it. But he isn't leaving you completely stranded. He's understanding and has promised you that if the majority of players veto these special powers for PCs in this game, he will help you to manage your backstory and find a way to make it work.

Throwing a shitfit does not make me want to agree with you. I was completely neutral on the topic until you got irrationally angry and started taking it out on everyone else. You know who acts like that? Bad roleplayers who are angry their Mary Sue pet got taken away, not good ones. Now you've pressed the subject and just about created a civil war on the site because of it.

Sometimes, it is better to just let something drop, or say "Okay, I'll trust the vote, but here is my idea for everyone to look at", or, you know, BE CALM, instead of pressing it and getting angrier and angrier and making a hostile OOC environment.

As it is, you've effectively made me want to vote against your measure because you flipped out so bad. It was a thoroughly unhealthy level of flipping the fuck out that makes the worst posts on here look even-tempered. 5 stages of grief, my ass. If you are THAT involved in a concept in the RP, I don't want it - or you - around with those irrational, unhealthy thoughts.

Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up,
Sincerely yours,
Me

Let's get this straight? You ditched a line with me, because the character had the same first name, PB and powers as yours. True, when I brought him over to the dressing room type game from a now defunct heroes style game on IJ, because I couldn't sleep, and people hadn't been around lately due to RL and the holidays, those things had not even occurred to me with how much sleep I haven't been getting lately. Also, the fact that you never even friended the one character, who was supposed to be his child, but you friended the other line you had just fine. I had him friended to those other pups because I play because I play them all. You ditched me because you thought I replaced you. Well you were barely around for the line, A) and B) it was like pulling teeth to get you to post, but I wouldn't do that to anyone. If you had READ the first page of his USER INFO, which house his full application, with link to said defunct game, you would have seen so many reasons for him TO NOT BE A REPLACEMENT. Say, oh, he had been married to a woman, in IRELAND, who died around the time that he would have also been meant to be in the states in college, fathering said child. Now, instead of talking to me about it, and asking me, you jumped to conclusions. I tried to show you the proof, again, that he was in another game, with the same exact pup that I wanted you to be the mate of. I told you I would take him out of said game, but you insisted that you just needed to get rid of some things. Before you even let me speak, you actually didn't even, you just severed ties, and erased the post they had together, going on your merry. Okay, I get why you were upset, I do, but you could have let me copy that log. I told you that I would remove him from the game setting, I would have even changed his powers too, if he stayed, but you weren't having any of it. You wouldn't listen, you wouldn't talk. You just snip snipped, removed things, and went about it with the other muse you had a line with. I at least tried to be accommodating, I tried to talk to you, it just seemed like you were so eager to get out of the line, that you saw a reason to jump ship and you did. I loved their chemistry, but you only ever gave me barely a sentence to work with, and with how fast you ran away, and never did much to initiate much of anything, nor to really post to my pup, or his supposed daughter, but you were all over this other line you had, with a character you had brought in to fill my line specifically. YOU SUCK!

I haven’t been around BRPS for a while, as I got busy with life, but I’m thinking of coming back and having some more good times around here. As a housewarming present, I have a great internet tantrum for you.

This happened a while ago early May of this year, but in going over the Best Bad Apps (TM) of this year, I decided to share this one with you all.

As way of prelude: I live at a place called Sithspawn, been there coming on two years now. We’re an intermediate to advanced Star Wars RP site (more emphasis on advanced), set in a slightly alternate universe in the time period otherwise known as approx. 3000 BBY.

We’re a close knit group of players, but always happy to have new people come aboard and join our motley crew. Frankly, I’m amazed at how many good apps we get, as I’m so accustomed to SWRP dragging in horrible idiots. All good things have a bad side, though, and this fellow was one of them.

We have a rule that says, quite specifically (previously at the top of the page, now in a sidebar) to register with first and last names only. We don’t want titles, we don’t want nicknames. We want your characters first and last given names. End of story. We make that clear enough, and if you don’t get it right, we’ll happily change your login for you if you catch one of us who can do so.

That was this kids first misake. His login? The Envoker

It only got worse from there.

( His application. The coding errors are, in fact, his. )

So with that mess there, our head Admin, Glorious Despot, and all around awesome gal, gives him the nicest response she can muster... a response not unlike other people we’ve liked but knew wouldn’t fit in have gotten before.

( Indy Says )

That should have gotten a ‘thank you for your time, I’ll see you later’ at the best, or, at the worst some complaining and wondering why he didn’t get a ‘full’ critique. The latter I could have understood to some extent, but what we got was instead... well, you’ll see.

( Illiterate whining, ftw! )

And if there’s one unspoken rule in SS, it’s don’t pick on our members. Especially not Indy, as she is our leader, and in doing so you’ll only invoke the wrath of the rest of staff. More specifically, our self-proclaimed “Elitest Bitch” (I put emphasis on it being self-proclaimed because I personally think she’s one of the best and awesomest people on the intranets), Manda. In the chain-o-command, she’s next. There’s nothing she loves more than tearing apart a bad app, and in insulting dear Indy, “The Envoker” was asking for it. Manda’s not afraid to tell people they suck to their face if they deserve it.

So, he got it.

( And he gets what’s coming to him. )

“Sparky” as he is now called, decided to NOT do the smart thing, which would have been to leave and never look back with his tail tucked between his legs. Instead, he gave us this gem. This is THE best part of the entire entry, so if you read anything, read this.

( IF I WAS A SITH LORD I WOULD SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF YOU!! )

Through all of this, pretty much every one of our little crew are sitting in the cbox. We are having a HAY DAY with this kid. We all love watching Manda eat up a “good” bad app, and Sparky just took the cake as far as bad apps go. His response only made it better. We’re having fun tearing apart his application itself as well as his comments, and honestly? We just want to share.

( So even though there’s normally a strict ‘no one but staff may reply to an application thread’ rule, Manda calls open season. )

It’s like a sport. Seriously.

Especially as after her call for open season, Sparky says: “empty words for an empty person” and that is all. I mean... LOL.

For your amusement, I’ll include our member responses (including my own) to this fool. They’re also good for a giggle, but if you got this far, you’ve read the part that truly matters. Though, there are a few more Sparky responses mixed in, which I suggest reading as well. :) They are extra hilarious.

( Herein lie monsters. )

( All good things must come to an end. )

We were nice? No. Were we really amsused? Heck freakin’ yes. Sparky has gone down in SS history as we predicted he would, and now all we have to do is say his name and we all burst into giggles and quotes of “IF I WAS A SITH LORD I WOULD SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF YOU!”

Because really, if you’re going to suck, might as well suck in an Epic fashion.

And with that, I'm going to bed, what with it being Christmas Eve tomorrow and all...

Oh, dear board owner, the super special smexy revamp of your site has been going on since ... early November?  And you just FINALLY, this week, changed the status message from 2/3 done to 3/4 done?  Come on already.  Way to kill a site, especially when you have plenty of people posting in the Cbox daily, wanting to join, wanting to play, and no one can do ANYTHING because the freaking site is offline!  And has been for going on two months now!  Just get it up and playable already!

When I was an admin on the site, a couple years ago, we NEVER took the board down for more than a couple hours.  Period.  Maybe once it was offline for a day, but that was a hacking issue.  We did not take the board offline for updates and graphics changes unless we had the materials and the time to do it RIGHT THEN.  You are making your faithful RPers who have been on this site for four years, with whole dynasties of plot and characters and such, very very sad.

I loved this site years ago.  I love it again.  I love my character who was actually in one thread for three posts before you took the site down.  I love the other two characters who used to be on the site and who I've been asked to bring back.  I have a busy life but I wanted to make time to RP because this community reminded me how much I enjoyed it.  I've tried to RP other places, but none is quite like this one - I want REALISTIC roleplay, none of that everyone-has-wings-and-purple-fur-and-magic-powers stuff.  Works great for other folks, but I can't play it.  And I want a level of literacy that I just haven't found anywhere else - I know it has to exist, but I keep not finding it.

Now please, board owner, give us back our site?  Pretty please?

(Userpic applies to RPers, too, at least in my case.)

 Dear player with autistic sibling.

Please don't tell me how to play my autistic character. Autistic people operate in so many diverse ways. One-size does not fit all. I understand that you have father that spent 35 years working with adults and you have a sister on the spectrum. But you have no idea as an autist to have a typical person tell me I am doing it wrong and how insulting that is. It's frustrating because you keep fucking interrupting and passively aggressively try to run the plot as well. 

Fine I'll play him in the way you see autistic people, I'll do what you say. But  I am so peeved right now. 

Your character is twenty-five. Is there any particular reason why you chose to have him literally have absolutely no idea what sex is?

Boys and ghouls, prepare yourselves for another harrowing story of the macabre, in...

GHOSTLY SOCK'S TALES FROM THE INTERNET!

( It was a dark and stormy night... )

I have not seen this ghastly apparition since, but I know without a doubt that they're still out there, waiting for another hapless player to suck into their web of horrors.

Until next time, my spectral spectators... Beware of strange roleplayers who accost you in the night and heed the warnings they give, or you, dear reader, may end up in your own tale from the internet!

You.
Nutbag.

Here's the thing, for at least the past twenty years (and I cut it off there because your character would not have been alive prior, being "16 or 17") there has been quite a bit of war, social upheaval, a plague or two, and all around "not nice" stuff going on in Azeroth.

People who haven't had any deaths in the family due to these things are generally not in the majority.

This is doubly so if you're talking to a Blood Elf (Hello there, 90% population reduction within the last decade!).

Now, I understand that your character might find my Blood Elf to sound a bit cold when he suggests that the "mysterious" death of your entire family was very likely nothing more than "Well, there is a war going on and the Kaldorei DO consider your people to be hostile invaders in their land."

Your family lived in Ashenvale (That's Elf Country for non Warcraft folk).
They were Orcs. All of 'em.
The Night Elves there generally do not approve of this sort of thing and deal with it in an eviction notice that comes in the form of "GTFO! KTHXBAI! *shoots arrows & druid-y magic* Oh, and stop molesting our trees."
They want you green skinned kids the hell off of their lawn and will resort to violence to achieve that goal.

Civilians are not off limits to either side, neither are children.
It's an ugly, ugly situation.
Genocide of the enemy seems to be considered a good idea and not some horrible taboo that's forbidden by a series of treaties.

It would be fairly normal for someone, IC, to just assume "collateral damage" over "vast cultist conspiracy to kill your family."

Now, given that, why did you elect to start screaming at me OOC that it was ruining your whole RP story that my generally skeptical warlock would not jump to the same conspiracy theory conclusion as your shaman?
The only evidence provided IC was, "I came home and found them all dead with arrows in them." Nothing told to him by your character would give any indication that it was cult related.

IC, pitch a fit, argue, provide more detail, whatever, it's fun.
OOC, seriously, STFU.

TL;DR:
Just because I know about your character's backstory doesn't mean my character does.
If you want my character to know, give him some actual knowledge via conversation.