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@tragedyjones

I wish I could upvote that a thousand times. So very true. Probably why I love the show, despite its general insanity.

Not sure if this counts as "RL", but... Goddamnit...

People who are basically illiterate, trying to say things on the internet, really piss me off. Can you not use Google, at the very least, people..? "U" is not a word. Etc.

I am irrationally enraged by this right now... Haha.

Shouldn't use "text message talk" if the abbreviations/words don't make sense...

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@Stabby
Re. Stupid People.
There was some snow in the Southeast. I work at a bakery. All of our bread was gone by 10am on Wednesday.
A woman approaches me, legitimately upset already. Asks - "Where's y'alls bread at?"
I inform her that its gone for now, we're baking one last batch then calling it quits and going home before the roads ice over (untreated roads, you northerners shut your mouths >.>).
Lady promptly freaks out, with actual tears in her eyes - "BUT WHAT WILL MY BABIES EAT". All shrill and loud.
I laughed. I thought she was joking. My manager informed me, after she complained about me, that she wasn't joking.
Stupid people. You're in a damn grocery store. Find something else. Jeez. Its just a bit of snow, you won't be snowed in for weeks, I /promise/.
That said..more peeves. Southerners freaking out about snow and being stupid. I'm from the midwest. Snow is no big deal. But I get why it is here, and ice is legitimately scary here, because there's no plows or salt trucks, or anything (especially in the more rural burb I'm in). Anyway... swear it doesn't mean the world is ending, as much as I love to watch the local news footage of reporters freaking out over snow flurries...
... /tangent. That should cover my "bitching" quota for a week or so. >>

My Agamemnon.

He's a goofball and a scaredy cat.

We just had a baby and my husband is convinced the dog and our little girl are going to be best buds, so he keeps propping her up on him when he's sleeping. Then he'll wake up like "wtf is this thing".

Although, whenever she cries, he's taken to standing near her and whining. We can't tell if it's because he's concerned, wants her to shut up, or is sympathising. Either way it's kind of cute.

Being an "adult" is recently extra-annoying. Too many obligations taking away from my hobbies, damnit =p. I'm gradually going more insane from a lack of time to draw anything, and lack of time to rp. Mostly from the lack of the former, turns out.
Apparently you can have art-withdrawals.
No, bro-in-law, I do not want to go to your third wedding but I have to anyway? Thanks for making it an all day event (8am to 12am), waiting on your idiot bride to stop joy-crying and "wooo!"ing long enough to get pictures done =| (yes I'm the wedding-grinch)
In laws are in town, just got over the flu, just got back from seeing my parents, have been running around trying to get things together for a refi on the house.
Buh.
Pardon while I go grump in a corner, for no real reason other than I'm just a grumpy-gus.

Haven't had issues with insomnia since around high school.
It's apparently back with a vengeance, aside from one random 12 hour stretch of sleep.
Ugh.
Tossing and turning is lame, especially with work looming ever closer =|

For me, I enjoy a pose with content. Generally a bit on the larger size - two paragraphs of moderate length are good. About ten minutes between poses is ideal, but I'll wait about fifteen, if I'm also doing other things.

Generally speaking, I don't at all assume that a scene correlates to real time at all.

My biggest thing about pose length, is if people give me something to work with or not. You can pose for ten paragraphs and still leave the other person with little to nothing to react to, and that gets frustrating sometimes. I like learning about people's characters, so some superfluous information is good, to me.

I still remember one of my most irritating scenes before I went kind of away from RP for a while. All the poses were basically "soandso nods. "Blahblah blah, no real information, bantering for no reason, blah."

And that was a scene I was STing, too, where I went out of my way to get them to react and use their brain, rather than just standing around or rolling dice.

But anyway. My point is, I'm clearly a wordyperson, so I tend to enjoy more wordy poses.

Eta: duration of a scene - really depends on what kind of scene, for me. I can easily drag a scene out for hours and (generally) be happy as a clam. I know that I'm kind of the exception there, though. I try to kind of read the opposing player - If their poses keep getting shorter and more sporadic, or if they start talking ooc a lot, I try to help wrap things up as best and as quickly as I can.

I've had mild issues with depression for a few years now, but it's sort of come to a head lately. One of those things where you only realize after the fact, how much of a lunatic you've been. Affecting my job I still have to have until I can find a new one, affecting my personal life and just...everything. So frustrating.
So frustrating.
Just want to feel like myself again =|
Bright side, doctors appointments have finally been made, via my awesome husband. Meanwhile, I'll be hangin' out, wallowing in my own self pity, apparently.
/ramblerant

@SkinnyThicket

In my experience, since I exclusively play on MUSHes (I think? never did understand all the different things...either way, RP-heavy/enforced online places), I generally ask the other person/people beforehand if they have any preference of time (in the case of people restricted to nightime, etc), and kind of go from there. In some games, you can use a command such as +weather, and it will give you a general idea of what's going on in your environment... otherwise? You just wing it.

In the instance of people coming in to a public scene, generally there's someone who will do a "Set" to let everyone who's just come in know what's going on, so folks are on the same page.

It's usually considered poor RP etiquette (at least in the circles I tend to run in) to skip people unless something weird happened... like RL got them, or whatever, so things tend to carry on in a linear fashion. Usually if you need to "skip ahead" for some reason, it's discussed briefly ooc and then...again with the "winging it".

That's probably my favorite thing about MUSHes and RP. You can start wherever you want, do whatever you want (more or less), without any real prompts, unless you want prompts. Winging it is my forte, and what I enjoy the most about RP.

I don't really know how to explain how a more global "time-fabric" works but...it just kind of does? Haha. I think most people try to keep things in order with...whatever they play out first, happened first. Or, that's been my experience with, again, the circles I tend to run in. Hope that helps explain things a little bit =D

Whenever I've generally felt unwanted on a place, it tends to come back to two or three things for me :

1. I'm shy as hell, both online and off, and its really hard to get out there sometimes, especially if it's a big, intimidating place. (Looking at you, TR/Fallcoast)
2. I've had a bad day, so everything sucks
3. My schedule to be around tends to suck, so that makes planning anything tricky

As such, I try to keep that in mind when I start feeling down and mopey about a place. Is it the place, or is it me being weird/having a bad day? I tend to apply that to others as well, with the idea that yes, there are people behind the screen.

Guess my point is, it's nice to see a constructive thread like this. I think discussing these things can go a long way to helping the dwindling community as a whole.

(Also, not sure who said it about engaging others and not being self centered about rp but... there are few things more frustrating for me when someone RPs with you, gives you /nothing/ to respond to in their two lines of pose (even though you've been trying to lead them in to things for a few rounds, after they've asked for rp), yet they still seem to get All The RP while you're floundering around in Cricket-Ville. Maybe I've just pinned my Elitist badge on a little too hard, these days, but jeez... Talk about feeling unwanted.)

/ramble

Being too riddled with anxiety and depression to get off my ass and get shit done... Like going to work. =/

And then having to make up some "I'm sick with the stomach flu" excuse, to avoid repercussions, because of course this is the busiest time at my work, of the year.

Then feeling like a terrible person for calling out and leaving people hanging...especially knowing full well you're going to do it again tomorrow.

Super lame.

Brain, I hate you. So much right now.

I've had a lot of luck with Pinterest for the magic-y things lately. (I play WoD Changeling a lot)

Also, if you can get past the Porn as Art on DeviantArt, I have a lot of luck with browsing the photographs section. Usually the Stock photos. I don't like to use actors/actresses as Played By's usually, so I have luck there.

@Admiral
In a similar vein...
Retail/food industry shiftwork.
Grateful I even have a job, but still kind of want to dig parts of my brain out with a mellon baller while I'm there.
Never the same schedule and 45+ hours after going part time(which means no more benefits) to do other things with my.life, because management can't get their crap together.
Great for the money.
Not so great for my lingering sanity.

Additional peeve: If you ever order a cake with the color "turquoise" on it... please for the love of god bring a swatch or something. Don't get mad at the cake decorators and call them(me) horrible names because I decorated little Susie's cake in the wrong shade of turquoise. (Definitely happened at least twice a month there for a while) I (we/cake decorators) are not mind readers. Promise.

Yes. "Firstworldproblems".

@AmishRakeFight

The way I handle things online now, vs. online a few years ago, is so drastic that I'm pretty sure I'd need a lot of white boards. Christ, I've mellowed a lot. It's always interesting (read: cringe-worthy) to reflect on your developing mental maturity, and threads like this just point out that kind of stuff for me.

Those moments where you read some gripe and go, in your head, "OMG I'm so glad that's not me anymore!"

...and then you feel a little bad, because, holy shit, that was you at some point.

(General "you")

Inconsiderate/Immature management at work, especially when they're older than me and should know better. (Age shouldn't be the deciding factor here, I know, I know. But it still baffles me every time.)

Had to call out of work yesterday. I'd agreed to help with Inventory, even though that's the manager's job and I'm but a low-level peon. Really sucks that I couldn't be there to help, but I can't plan when the shit hits the fan. Legitimately sorry, coworkers.

Don't call me the next day to ask if I was actually sick or not, and whether or not I value my job. What the everloving flying fuck. And do not call me four times in a row after I tell you I've discussed it with the store manager, and it's none of your business (because frankly they're a man-child, and the last person who had similar issues had to switch departments, because they couldn't handle the judgmental reactions from this manager), say that I have to go, and hang up after you say 'ok'. What a piss-poor excuse for an adult. Acting like dangling my job over my head is a reasonable response to the situation.

Maybe I'm overreacting, because of mentioned issues that are none of my immediate manager's business, but come on. Four times. Four times they called me after I hung up. On a real day off for me. After insinuating that I'm a liar and that my job was on the line.

Excuse me while I go flip a table somewhere. And probably stress-eat some cookies. Damn girl-scouts...

Lately, I've wanted an IC Nemesis so bad... Not just some NPC, but an actual character on a game. I feel like, sometimes, just because my characters have boobs, means that people can't not (double negative for the win) get along with them. I know that, generally speaking, people don't want to overstep, or whatever, but come on... Makes me miss the days of all the smaller MUSHes I used to play on. I guess since we were more of a tight nit group of players at the time, there was more ooc trust, which led to more IC risk.

So... No specific scene I've wanted, really. Just a series of them.

Also, as an ST, a scene where someone actually responds and catches on to little nuances in plot instead of skim-reading and missing half the shit I planned. I was just getting back into STing after years, and someone ruined it for me again,.kind of. What's the point of RP if you're not going to read? =(

@HorrorHound

Yup, just the one =p

Thank goodness. I couldn't deal with twins... I have a new appreciation for parents in general. Especially those with multiple children.

Probably the best thing anyone has ever sent me for RP...

http://files.meetup.com/1458847/1372-roadside-encounters.pdf

So... I have nothing really specific in mind, but always found that helpful, if anyone's ever stuck on what to do, even for just quick normal scenes. Figured this was as good a place as any to share It's not always completely relevant, but some good ideas/starting points.

@Miss-Demeanor

Right? Not looking forward.. fun now because she doesn't have a say. Even if family is "concerned", because I won't dress her in pink things.
Found the cutest baby dinosaur slippers... Forget "standard" girl clothes.