Post by Void on Oct 10, 2004 3:02:03 GMT -5
So, by now, you must be thinking to yourself: "How can I make myself a better overall member to this RP and to the storyline in general?"
Of course, once people ask this question and I explain it to them, they become mad because it requires *gasp* THOUGHT and a working brain in order to do. Thus, the question turns into something like this:
"How can I piss Void off, but in a subtle manner so that he can't do anything about it?"
Well, since I am bored out of my mind (and I think my brain might be trying to simulate what it thinks being drunk feels like) I thought I might help you out. So, in no particular order, how to piss Void off:
1. Exploit vague loopholes
OK, so you can't make any Disney rip-offs. No problem! Just rip off some other cartoonDisney rip off Disney competitor, such as Shrek, Kronk, or any others. Come now, not only will playing the loophole piss me off, but if you happen to pick a character I like like Haku from Spirited Away or Puss in Boots from Shrek 2, you'll doubly piss me off! It's like two for the price of one!
2. Use avatars and signatures from lesser anime
Nothing makes my day more complete than seeing a character from Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, or Yu-gi-oh! appear as a character design. In fact, I love it so much, I am often consumed with a homocidal rage for DAYS after seeing it.
3. Make posts as incoherent as possible
Being understood is overrated. Go for the gold and type posts with horrendous grammar, maligned spelling, no punctuation or capitalization, and moronic acyronyms and mutant number-words. If you aren't using "u, ur, h8, teh, i, k, and yo" in your posts, you aren't working hard enough.
4. Powergame and God-mod like nobody's business
Being a mod and a longtime fan of roleplaying in general, nothing irks me more than a player powergaming or god-modding. After all, there's nothing I like more than being told by a person of lesser roleplaying experience (don't tell me I can't tell how much gaming experience someone has. It is PAINFULLY obvious) that their arrow or fireball or whatever has succeeded in blasting my character across the stratosphere without giving me a chance to respond. In fact, I love it so much I sometimes feel like dashing my eyes out with a white-hot poker to stop them from hurting.
5. Make powers that are obviously too strong
Nothing makes my day more than seeing a power that says something to the effect of "I kill you and you can't block it or dodge it." In fact, it makes me to make a power called "IP Ban" in which I use the power of proboards (as crappy as such a thing truly is) to ban your IP from this site. Of course, the admin are smart enough to keep me from that ability, but someday... someday, you shall ALL get yours! ALL OF YOU!
6. Making a power up completely out of the cloth
Nothing says "teh n00b" like making up a power completely out of the cloth that wasn't even on your joining form to begin with that just HAPPENS to negate a power that is being used against you. Especially when that power suddenly "appears", like magic, on your joining form. It's like holding up a big sign that says "Ban me, Please!"
7. Spaming
It never ceases to amaze me how people can be so fixated on a little number in your profile that tells you how many times you've posted. It's not like you get any special award for this, or that we'll give you money or candy or something for it. So you get another power, is that really any excuse to waste your time posting pointless nonsense and pissing everyone off? If your answer to this is "yes", then you REALLY need to reevaluate your life, lest I do it for you and discover (to the delight of everyone else) that your life doesn't have enough meaning to justify your further existance, if you know what I mean.
8. Arguing with the Mods
You know, the d**ndest thing about our being mods is that we've been around for awhile. We've been roleplaying for several years, have probably been on forums since before you could type a coherant sentence (some of you are still working on that, in fact) and have a pretty good idea of the rules and regulations on the board. Nothing makes us love you more than when you argue with us over a ruling we've made. I mean, it's not like we think about and discuss our moderations beforehand, and its not like we actually talk to each other about it or (god forbid) know what we're doing, right?
9. Making a character so grotesquely saturated with teen angst that all they do is whine pitifully about how awful their life is
You know, what people tend to call "teen angst" is a nice, "politically correct" way to describe a symptom whose line of thought is as follows: "I'm a whiny little prick who's stuck on myself! Pay attention to me! Pay attention to MEEEEEEEEE!" Now, this may work in your various cliques and social groups, but in reality no-one really cares whether you're depressed or not, and those who whine about it soon come to realize that nobody wants to be around them anymore. So, by this logic, your character's constant whining about how terrible their life is (especially when it turns out that they actually had much more going for them than another character who isn't at all whiny and stuck on themselves) makes the rest of us want to avoid them. So do us all a favor and avoid teen angst, it's annoying and it makes me want to murder you.
10. Use a popular teen idol as your avatar
I don't know what it is about them, but people like Hillary Duff, Brittany Spears, Avril Lavigne, and others make me want to vomit on sight. These avatars are almost as bad (and in some cases far, far worse) than the use of Pokemon or Dragon Ball Z. Pop culture is annoying and unoriginal, let's not propogate it here.
11. Wield weapons that you shouldn't be able to lift, much less swing
Yeah, you know what? By all laws of physics, Cloud's scrawny ass should NOT be able to pick up that massive sword. Unless one of your powers is enhanced strength, any blade beyond a good four feet you shouldn't be able to wield. Also, a weapon that tops six feet and is not a polearm (such as a spear) is just too big for you to carry and use. Besides, everyone knows that anime swords are all used to compensate for other things.
12. Make a story that has more holes in it than swiss cheese
Now, obviously you don't have to write a novel about your character, but generally, we would like to have some depth beyond "I am Diego Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die". That's all well and good in a comedy, but in a fairly serious RP like this, it is decidedly less so. As arduous a task as actually thinking about what your character does before you make it is severly taxing, but come on. Here are a few examples of cliches that will cause me to go General Kolov on your ass:
1. Rich stuck-up
2. Rich yet compassionate
3. Rich but hates it
4. Actually, Rich in general
5. Some dark, mysterious past that you don't fill in so that you can make nuts up as you go along in order to fit the story line.
6. Justifying your entire reason for existence upon a simple "(insert name of creature/group) killed my (insert name of person special to you) so now I hate (insert name of creature/group) and want to kill them and thus I joined (insert name of organization) because they will help me do that. Revenge is a powerful thing, I admit, but your character should have more behind it than that. Now, I'm not saying that revenge can't be the central focus, but you need to be creative about it and spin it so that your character does have some depth.
7. Stereotypical hippie/commie/corporate fat cat/anarchist who wants to blow things up/sleeper/mansleeper
If I see anything like this, I will proceed to nuke you upon your first post. Possibly several times because the radiation from the nuke is NOTHING compared to that piece of crap you just unleashed on the RP.
Of course, once people ask this question and I explain it to them, they become mad because it requires *gasp* THOUGHT and a working brain in order to do. Thus, the question turns into something like this:
"How can I piss Void off, but in a subtle manner so that he can't do anything about it?"
Well, since I am bored out of my mind (and I think my brain might be trying to simulate what it thinks being drunk feels like) I thought I might help you out. So, in no particular order, how to piss Void off:
1. Exploit vague loopholes
OK, so you can't make any Disney rip-offs. No problem! Just rip off some other cartoon
2. Use avatars and signatures from lesser anime
Nothing makes my day more complete than seeing a character from Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, or Yu-gi-oh! appear as a character design. In fact, I love it so much, I am often consumed with a homocidal rage for DAYS after seeing it.
3. Make posts as incoherent as possible
Being understood is overrated. Go for the gold and type posts with horrendous grammar, maligned spelling, no punctuation or capitalization, and moronic acyronyms and mutant number-words. If you aren't using "u, ur, h8, teh, i, k, and yo" in your posts, you aren't working hard enough.
4. Powergame and God-mod like nobody's business
Being a mod and a longtime fan of roleplaying in general, nothing irks me more than a player powergaming or god-modding. After all, there's nothing I like more than being told by a person of lesser roleplaying experience (don't tell me I can't tell how much gaming experience someone has. It is PAINFULLY obvious) that their arrow or fireball or whatever has succeeded in blasting my character across the stratosphere without giving me a chance to respond. In fact, I love it so much I sometimes feel like dashing my eyes out with a white-hot poker to stop them from hurting.
5. Make powers that are obviously too strong
Nothing makes my day more than seeing a power that says something to the effect of "I kill you and you can't block it or dodge it." In fact, it makes me to make a power called "IP Ban" in which I use the power of proboards (as crappy as such a thing truly is) to ban your IP from this site. Of course, the admin are smart enough to keep me from that ability, but someday... someday, you shall ALL get yours! ALL OF YOU!
6. Making a power up completely out of the cloth
Nothing says "teh n00b" like making up a power completely out of the cloth that wasn't even on your joining form to begin with that just HAPPENS to negate a power that is being used against you. Especially when that power suddenly "appears", like magic, on your joining form. It's like holding up a big sign that says "Ban me, Please!"
7. Spaming
It never ceases to amaze me how people can be so fixated on a little number in your profile that tells you how many times you've posted. It's not like you get any special award for this, or that we'll give you money or candy or something for it. So you get another power, is that really any excuse to waste your time posting pointless nonsense and pissing everyone off? If your answer to this is "yes", then you REALLY need to reevaluate your life, lest I do it for you and discover (to the delight of everyone else) that your life doesn't have enough meaning to justify your further existance, if you know what I mean.
8. Arguing with the Mods
You know, the d**ndest thing about our being mods is that we've been around for awhile. We've been roleplaying for several years, have probably been on forums since before you could type a coherant sentence (some of you are still working on that, in fact) and have a pretty good idea of the rules and regulations on the board. Nothing makes us love you more than when you argue with us over a ruling we've made. I mean, it's not like we think about and discuss our moderations beforehand, and its not like we actually talk to each other about it or (god forbid) know what we're doing, right?
9. Making a character so grotesquely saturated with teen angst that all they do is whine pitifully about how awful their life is
You know, what people tend to call "teen angst" is a nice, "politically correct" way to describe a symptom whose line of thought is as follows: "I'm a whiny little prick who's stuck on myself! Pay attention to me! Pay attention to MEEEEEEEEE!" Now, this may work in your various cliques and social groups, but in reality no-one really cares whether you're depressed or not, and those who whine about it soon come to realize that nobody wants to be around them anymore. So, by this logic, your character's constant whining about how terrible their life is (especially when it turns out that they actually had much more going for them than another character who isn't at all whiny and stuck on themselves) makes the rest of us want to avoid them. So do us all a favor and avoid teen angst, it's annoying and it makes me want to murder you.
10. Use a popular teen idol as your avatar
I don't know what it is about them, but people like Hillary Duff, Brittany Spears, Avril Lavigne, and others make me want to vomit on sight. These avatars are almost as bad (and in some cases far, far worse) than the use of Pokemon or Dragon Ball Z. Pop culture is annoying and unoriginal, let's not propogate it here.
11. Wield weapons that you shouldn't be able to lift, much less swing
Yeah, you know what? By all laws of physics, Cloud's scrawny ass should NOT be able to pick up that massive sword. Unless one of your powers is enhanced strength, any blade beyond a good four feet you shouldn't be able to wield. Also, a weapon that tops six feet and is not a polearm (such as a spear) is just too big for you to carry and use. Besides, everyone knows that anime swords are all used to compensate for other things.
12. Make a story that has more holes in it than swiss cheese
Now, obviously you don't have to write a novel about your character, but generally, we would like to have some depth beyond "I am Diego Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die". That's all well and good in a comedy, but in a fairly serious RP like this, it is decidedly less so. As arduous a task as actually thinking about what your character does before you make it is severly taxing, but come on. Here are a few examples of cliches that will cause me to go General Kolov on your ass:
1. Rich stuck-up
2. Rich yet compassionate
3. Rich but hates it
4. Actually, Rich in general
5. Some dark, mysterious past that you don't fill in so that you can make nuts up as you go along in order to fit the story line.
6. Justifying your entire reason for existence upon a simple "(insert name of creature/group) killed my (insert name of person special to you) so now I hate (insert name of creature/group) and want to kill them and thus I joined (insert name of organization) because they will help me do that. Revenge is a powerful thing, I admit, but your character should have more behind it than that. Now, I'm not saying that revenge can't be the central focus, but you need to be creative about it and spin it so that your character does have some depth.
7. Stereotypical hippie/commie/corporate fat cat/anarchist who wants to blow things up/sleeper/mansleeper
If I see anything like this, I will proceed to nuke you upon your first post. Possibly several times because the radiation from the nuke is NOTHING compared to that piece of crap you just unleashed on the RP.
