RP Rant Thread X3

[twilight sparkle]

So I joined a different winged wolf role-play after I had joined one with my character Tsuyobi.
Well this role-play is annoying and I regret ever joining it.
Like I had said before, the alphess just lost her mate.. She's obviously moarning over him...
But like not even 3 pages after he dies she goes;
"I'm sorry Name but i must move on to a new mate."
Well yea... Idk if real wolves do that but okay ._.
So one person, who has about 3 characters, has all three of them hittin on her.
Like zOmg e-e desperate to be alpha much?
Everytime something happens.. The alphess cries.
wth

Lololol. Desperate Housewolves.

That made me laugh so hard. Thanks for brightening my day.

[Dee & Faulk]

I guess the reason roleplayers also give animals humanoid emotions and senses is because they know only that. We rely on words and emotional aspects/expressions to communicate, while animals on the other hand don't.[/size]

Or then it is because a RP based solidly on walking around, sniffing, having
no thoughts and reacting on only impulses and what is familiar would be insanely boring.

Disney hasn't "brainwashed us" to think animals have expressions and stuff like that,
it is just super boring to interact and write with characters that are that limited.
Which is why we add human traits - to make the game more interesting for us, seeing
as most of the time our brain capacity goes higher than 'wake up - sniff butt - drink water'.

[Solfeggio]

I personally enjoy 'developing' a romance rather than allowing 'love on impulse', just because it does make things more interesting for me, and it's a challenge for character development. I'd rather do an RP as an art in writing a story -- of course, staying as realistic as possible, but without being too simplistic (lol "sniff butt" )

Heck I have a wolf character who was banished far away from his mate-to-be; three years of journeying and he still loves her and refuses to be mates/in love with anyone else. XD

On another note, I saw in someone's form that their wolf's age was '24 in dog years'.

I...don't know what that means. D:

[Clowesia]

On another note, I saw in someone's form that their wolf's age was '24 in dog years'.

I...don't know what that means. D:

He'd be around three years old in human years. :3
Dogs years is +7 for every human year.

[*Skylar The Plant*]

I sorta like my less out going characters having crushes from afar on a certain character, but they always end up never having to admit it themselves.
It seems my character Fabiano who I use A LOT is almost always adored instantly, though it's a bit frustrating in some roleplays, who WOULDN'T love an adorble, sorta sort, messy blond haired, peach coloured eyed closet homosexual.

Though still, insta asking out scares me a bit, I never know what to say, because the people I know who adore eachother in RL tend to try and be friends, and then be friends for a while before asking them out ^^
Social convention?
I dunno ^^
I just think the shyer people would say no out of stress in RL.
I've seen many do that
Though I dunno ^^;

[wickedwolfgirl]

On another note, I saw in someone's form that their wolf's age was '24 in dog years'.

I...don't know what that means. D:

He'd be around three years old in human years. :3
Dogs years is +7 for every human year.

That reminds me, someone on a roleplay actually put:

Age: 16 in human years.

I think someone got a bit confuzzled.

[Princess Nevermind]

I guess the reason roleplayers also give animals humanoid emotions and senses is because they know only that. We rely on words and emotional aspects/expressions to communicate, while animals on the other hand don't.[/size]

Or then it is because a RP based solidly on walking around, sniffing, having
no thoughts and reacting on only impulses and what is familiar would be insanely boring.

Disney hasn't "brainwashed us" to think animals have expressions and stuff like that,
it is just super boring to interact and write with characters that are that limited.
Which is why we add human traits - to make the game more interesting for us, seeing
as most of the time our brain capacity goes higher than 'wake up - sniff butt - drink water'.

I'm not saying that animals can't do human-like things. Of course if there wasn't animated interaction in animal RPs, it would be boring. But it's perfectly easy to write about emotions and such without facial expressions.

Two words: body language.

Happy? Pricked ears, wagging tail. Sad? Ears low, drooping tail. Dominant? Ears and tail held high. Submissive? Ears low as well, tail between the legs.

That was using wolves as an example, though. They are extremely simple to describe using body language, since they have ears and tails. Eyes are useful as well. And posture.

I just wish that people on here would keep an open mind, because if you've ever seen wolves you must know that the dominant and submissive male are very apparent. But wolves don't have emotions, so...not so much happy and sad.

[Dee & Faulk]

Or then it is because a RP based solidly on walking around, sniffing, having
no thoughts and reacting on only impulses and what is familiar would be insanely boring.

Disney hasn't "brainwashed us" to think animals have expressions and stuff like that,
it is just super boring to interact and write with characters that are that limited.
Which is why we add human traits - to make the game more interesting for us, seeing
as most of the time our brain capacity goes higher than 'wake up - sniff butt - drink water'.

I'm not saying that animals can't do human-like things. Of course if there wasn't animated interaction in animal RPs, it would be boring. But it's perfectly easy to write about emotions and such without facial expressions.

Two words: body language.

Happy? Pricked ears, wagging tail. Sad? Ears low, drooping tail. Dominant? Ears and tail held high. Submissive? Ears low as well, tail between the legs.

That was using wolves as an example, though. They are extremely simple to describe using body language, since they have ears and tails. Eyes are useful as well. And posture.

I just wish that people on here would keep an open mind, because if you've ever seen wolves you must know that the dominant and submissive male are very apparent. But wolves don't have emotions, so...not so much happy and sad.

Oh you don't have to prove any points to me. The only time I RP animals is
when I RP magical, intelligent creatures that will rival human IQ and could probably
beat any humanoid in chess.

I'm just saying that laying the 'THIS IS ALL WRONG' stamp on the people who don't RP
wolves/animals in general exactly like an animal acts, is a little...well, harsh. Seeing as
people RP what they find interesting, and if they like animals with humanlike traits...
Well, that's their thing.

I dunno about you, but I'd fall asleep halfway through writing a post about a totally natural
wolf - out of its point of view. Because it would be super monotone and include no thoughts.
It would be a shallow post, and I would quickly run out of things to do, other than 'and he sniffed
the ground for any other suspicious scents'.
Wolf RPs, that only include wolves, just generally include thoughts, and emotions and dramallamas
to keep the game interesting.

It is another thing if you have one animal and one human in a game - that way you can bounce
the actions of the animal off of the human's thoughts, emotions and actions. But that's another story.

[Princess Nevermind]

Oh you don't have to prove any points to me. The only time I RP animals is
when I RP magical, intelligent creatures that will rival human IQ and could probably
beat any humanoid in chess.

I'm just saying that laying the 'THIS IS ALL WRONG' stamp on the people who don't RP
wolves/animals in general exactly like an animal acts, is a little...well, harsh. Seeing as
people RP what they find interesting, and if they like animals with humanlike traits...
Well, that's their thing.

I dunno about you, but I'd fall asleep halfway through writing a post about a totally natural
wolf - out of its point of view. Because it would be super monotone and include no thoughts.
It would be a shallow post, and I would quickly run out of things to do, other than 'and he sniffed
the ground for any other suspicious scents'.
Wolf RPs, that only include wolves, just generally include thoughts, and emotions and dramallamas
to keep the game interesting.

It is another thing if you have one animal and one human in a game - that way you can bounce
the actions of the animal off of the human's thoughts, emotions and actions. But that's another story.

Lol, I think you're taking this the wrong way. I was talking about facial expressions alone. Of course, to make things interesting, one must include thoughts and such, but facial expressions aren't necessary. The Warriors series is a very good example of this-- the author has never said anything about a cat smiling/frowning/etc. I think it's actually very admirable.

[nightiff-]

-rolls on floor-
I hate when people abandon RP's without a trace. Or, are online all day and don't post once, but post on different rp's.