What is your turning point?

[saosmash]

@darinelle You did? I have no memory of you doing this to me. Are you sure? Was I idle!?

[Darinelle]

@saosmash haha. You logged in. I paged you some things. You logged off. It's all good.

[Goldfish]

I have a very high tolerance for bullshit. I am patient and kind to all. I do my best to treat everyone with appreciation and care.

But I am less likely to come back for that second or third scene when:

Poses without substance. This one is hard for me to describe. I see it a lot in WoD players with a narrow focus. This character is X. And that's all. Fat. A witch. Good ol' boy. Magic. Religious. I suppose, it's flat characters and their flat characterization as their poses revolve around the One Thing that is their character. And it's like that is every scene. I'll take a pass on that. Not because I'm a snob, pfft. Naw. It's hard to put hooks into a character that's only going to discuss his love of comics or whatnot.

Blatant disregard for pose readability. I'm not talking about people with difficulties with words or typing. I'm not dragging the ESL-ers. I'm taking about the step above chat speak types that just oozes lazy. If I can't read it, I can RP with it. Even if I try very hard, it's usually not worth it. If you don't care, why should I?

TS pressure. I don't mind TS at all. I'm DTF. It's not something I seek out at all but under the right IC circumstances and with OOC communication, I'll go all night bay-bee. But when I was playing women, I always had this problem. You can almost feel the ickiness through the screen as they are pushing me in a way I am not comfortable. And given my usual laid back nature, I make it pretty clear when I don't wanna. If you push me? Consider yourself cut off. I don't have this problem playing men. Hrm.

[DeadEmpire]

My big thing is that I do always worry about whether or not my RP is fun for other people, and if it isn't how I can improve myself. Reading this thread has been so good because it's good to see what people don't like. I know I'm not perfect but I am trying to improve at least! Honestly, if I am doing some of these things I have no idea, as a roleplayer that I'm "that person" is one of my biggest fears. I'm always striving to try to come up with something that the other person will find compelling.

Things that turn me off are the same that so many people mentioned. People that have to make everything in a scene all about them, people that make redescribe the room in their far too long poses, etc.

By far the biggest thing is when I start to get stressed out by the player OOCly. I've gotten burned quite badly in the past, and on certain occasions I will be pushed to my breaking point by drama I never wanted any part of when I just want to come here to play a character that likes to beat people up with hairpins while dressed in pretty dresses. I want all the drama to be IC and when I bring the IC drama to a player, and they give me grief about it OOCly... that's just gonna really start to kill it for me.

[Three-Eyed Crow]

I've come to the conclusion, through this thread, that my most successful and fun-to-play romantic 'ships were based on a mutual appreciation for the importance of OCC punctuality and ability to find things other than TS to play.

I'm pretty damn happy with this realization. If I'm doing it wrong, I don't want to be right.

[Lithium]

@goldfish said in What is your turning point?:

TS pressure. I don't mind TS at all. I'm DTF. It's not something I seek out at all but under the right IC circumstances and with OOC communication, I'll go all night bay-bee. But when I was playing women, I always had this problem. You can almost feel the ickiness through the screen as they are pushing me in a way I am not comfortable. And given my usual laid back nature, I make it pretty clear when I don't wanna. If you push me? Consider yourself cut off. I don't have this problem playing men. Hrm.

Welcome to every day of our lives.

[Doozer]

New Breaking Point: Suddenly becoming someone's therapist after meeting them once and they have to share/inform you of all the bad things going on in their life. I'm generally a sociable happy/sarcastic person. I babble a lot so I probably bring this on my self by seeming to nice. I'm going to have to toughin up and be more standoffish apprently to curb that shit.

[Thenomain]

@ostheim said in What is your turning point?:

1. Don't be weird.

Welp, there goes most of us.

2. Have a good sense of humor.

I'm already sensing conflicting statements.

And just in case: I know what you meant but I was trying to be funny. I guess I should rule out #2 for me too.

[Valkyrie]

@goldfish TS pressure is the quickest thing to turn me off RP. Seemingly nice people can turn into raving lunatics when TS is involved.

[WildBaboons]

Inability to keep IC drama IC is a big one. I recent had to cut down/stop RPing with someone over it. I didn't want to deal with it and it wasn't healthy for them.