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Emotional Bleed is shamed and censured for a simple reason.

Integrity.

Everyone here knows they can conjure up an IC plausible justification to do anything they want. Arik wants to go join Waldo and kill his sister. Would he ever do that? No. Could I come up with something that someone would go... Sure -if that's true- that is plausible. You bet your ass.

Since all actions can be given a veneer of IC plausibility that means the infusion of OOC motivation not based on IC circumstances is poison to the game. It's loading the dice. It's not sharing in the same story as everyone else. It's the anti-thesis of roleplay.

If anything can be justified and emotional bleed isn't condemned than how do you tell the difference outside of honest admissions of emotional bleed?

This is of course for the negative sort of emotional bleed. The I want to kill XYZ, I want to punish XYZ, I want to get out of this situation because XYZ.

EDIT - That last question isn't rhetorical.

If anything can be justified and emotional bleed isn't condemned than how do you tell the difference outside of honest admissions of emotional bleed?

^ as people witnessing a story or action or character how do you know if it's emotional bleed or just something you didn't expect to happen?

I made a foundry post sometime last year, this year, if anyone wants to try foundry or do a one shot of dnd 5e or just get a little hands on time with it. I am happy to open my server and let you faff around or run a one shot for you and your friends just to push Foundry into your orbit. It's a great platform and the 1 time purchase / you own all your shit and if the "servers shut down" you don't lose it is a big selling point for me.

@devrex

My desired experience is to escape the burdens of a dissatisfying work, family, and sex life to replace it with simulated romances that I carefully craft to fulfill my emotional needs. Then, should I find disappointment will attack it as a personal slight against me and then obsess over needing to find "safe" roleplay, which means pigeonholing my online activities to players and roleplay situations that will fulfill these needs, but do so under the guise of it being their fault and not mine.

TLDR - Roleplay is Escapism

@rightmeow

I'm going to take a swing at point #2 and see if I'm right.

When dealing with any community primarily based on debate/communication there is an issue of spirit of a rule vs the written rule. A classic example of this is the Supreme Court stating you know it when you see it in relation to... Obscenity (had to google that one). So in the event someone is clearly (to the moderator) violating the spirit of the rule the enforcement is done whether or not it violates the written rule.

While this obviously opens up to the favoritism, double standards, and tyranny angle of concern the answer to that is simple. If you believe the moderators would execute the spirit of the rule inappropriately than why would you stay? Just because they have written in that they won't be limited to the letter of the rule but the spirit of it doesn't mean they are seizing power. There is no higher authority on the forum than the moderators so them being up front and telling you that technicalities won't save you doesn't mean if they had not been up front about it that they would have restrained themselves or acted differently.

TLDR - If you believe the moderators would be unethical or unfair than any answer to the question is moot.