Roleplaying and ethical concerns.
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:39 pmI started to roleplay on the internet many many years ago. When I first started it was on the message bases of local area BBS's. Later I moved into the internet and the MUSH, Mud, MOO phenominon. Roleplay on message bases and particularly on the Mushes was highly interactive, and immersive, not to mention addictive. You didn't just play at a role you lived it for hours at a time. One of the side effects of this was that table top roleplay with it's tendancy for players to break character and tell off color jokes lost alot of interest for me. I wanted to live inside my characters head while I roleplayed and I couldn't find a table top group that was that Immersive.
Mmorpgs aren't anywhere near as immersive dispite the added graphical factor. Simply because they follow the MUD model of having automated mobs rather the MUSH model of every character being a player and GM's running interactive scenes.
All of which has caused me in my typical ramble to wander off topic...
Ok because of ethical concerns cause by my not wanting to delude people who I consider friends in Real life I'm going to break character and admit to some realities.
First off I'm male. I started playing female characters years ago as a roleplaying exercise and discovered that people treated female charcters alot betterr than male characters. I've been playing female characters almost exclusively ever since. Women also have a culture within the normal culture of our society thats based on compassion rather than the mocking macho of male society. This subculture can be amazingly addictive as it seems almost civilized compared to the male subculture.
I'm 43 years old. Theres a certain amount of hardening of the opinions that happens when you get older that I try hard to avoid. So far I've avoided most of that though I do occaisionally have moments when I wonder why each generation thats come after mine has beeen more stupid than the last.
Damn kids get off my lawn!
One of the defences I use has been to amplify the paranoia I suffer about giving contact info to people. I actually am a bit of a hermit but I'm not quite the lives in the basement and never sees the sun type. I walk under the sun all the time. I get out and see rl friends. I just don't get out and make new friends anymore. The vast majority of friendships I've found to be transitory and I've hit a point in my life where going out and making the effort to invest in a new and untried person isn't worth the effort to me.
If any of that changes how you feel or see me well I'm sorry. I'm still the me I always was and always will be.
Fixed typos. Fixed more Typos. Fixed yet more typos. OMG the horror the horror yet more typos fixed!
Mmorpgs aren't anywhere near as immersive dispite the added graphical factor. Simply because they follow the MUD model of having automated mobs rather the MUSH model of every character being a player and GM's running interactive scenes.
All of which has caused me in my typical ramble to wander off topic...
Ok because of ethical concerns cause by my not wanting to delude people who I consider friends in Real life I'm going to break character and admit to some realities.
First off I'm male. I started playing female characters years ago as a roleplaying exercise and discovered that people treated female charcters alot betterr than male characters. I've been playing female characters almost exclusively ever since. Women also have a culture within the normal culture of our society thats based on compassion rather than the mocking macho of male society. This subculture can be amazingly addictive as it seems almost civilized compared to the male subculture.
I'm 43 years old. Theres a certain amount of hardening of the opinions that happens when you get older that I try hard to avoid. So far I've avoided most of that though I do occaisionally have moments when I wonder why each generation thats come after mine has beeen more stupid than the last.
Damn kids get off my lawn!
One of the defences I use has been to amplify the paranoia I suffer about giving contact info to people. I actually am a bit of a hermit but I'm not quite the lives in the basement and never sees the sun type. I walk under the sun all the time. I get out and see rl friends. I just don't get out and make new friends anymore. The vast majority of friendships I've found to be transitory and I've hit a point in my life where going out and making the effort to invest in a new and untried person isn't worth the effort to me.
If any of that changes how you feel or see me well I'm sorry. I'm still the me I always was and always will be.
Fixed typos. Fixed more Typos. Fixed yet more typos. OMG the horror the horror yet more typos fixed!
