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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby The_Pagan » Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:46 pm

phoenixannwn wrote:I don't want to name him, he's awful nice, but it's more bad RP than anything (I seem to have misplaced the bad rp thread, feel free to move this if you like).
He'll post entire thoughts in his *actions*. And not stuff that I would consider more helpful or something, like, *he pauses thoughtfully, thinking deeply*. No, it's like, *he pauses, thinking about the advanced state of decay that the world has come to, when suddenly people can read a person's every thought on their face*. And his grammatical and spelling errors are murdering me--I'm a bit a of grammar nazi, and every 5th word is missing a letter or has the wrong tense or plural.
ARGH!
It's the player that irritates me, really!


So there is MUD-style players sneaking in to Cantr too. I knew they got in to FTO. The player may just need time to adapt to the new RP style or could be a righteous arrogant idiot who insists on staying MUD style.

From your example I would consider that bad even for a MUD. "His heart beat louder than an orc drum as her hand brushed against his, reaching for the same goblet" rather than "He really fancied her so when their hands accidentally brushed against each others he felt all awkward and didn't know what to say." Both of them are doing the Cantr no-no of telling when the character is thinking but the first one is doing it on the emotional level and the second one is just stating indifferently.
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby phoenixannwn » Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:00 pm

After 4day I might post some examples of this particularly atrocious offender.
Again, seems like a nice guy, but drives me nuts!
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Postby Cdls » Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:28 pm

Everyone should also realize that there is the chance that this so called bad RP could be a non native speaker that has not fully grasped the English language. Most people who have been playing Cantr for a decent amount of time will be able to spot those that are just plain idiotic, those who make a mistake, and those who are trying to sharpen their language skills.
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby Chaos » Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:56 pm

If I see someone who's having trouble with their verbs and has a few words that don't seem to fit so well- I assume that English isn't their first language and I try to be more patient with them. But If I get someone who just rambles on all in lowercase letters without an attempt at punctuation I end up getting annoyed pretty quickly.
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby Doug R. » Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:54 am

nateflory wrote:
lucid wrote:Lucretia from Brunoi

*nods* Though her 'friend' is nice. :)
And I am SURE she also hates my char, along with a lot of others. 8)


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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby SumBum » Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:57 am

Chars with multiple personalities. It's bugged me for a long time, but there seems to be a growing number of them lately.
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby Abe » Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:18 am

Yes, most probably because that is the Hollywood equivalent of being crazy. :roll:
Starting a lame, blind character with a speech and hearing impediment and personalities including a transsexual, a spotted hyena and a carrot would be a payback. Alas, arranging that it will spawn in a town of a normal character of those players is against the rules of the game.
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby phoenixannwn » Mon Sep 13, 2010 7:33 am

I find it funny that what I was talking about and what you are now talking about correspond to my same character.
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby Eleiris » Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:54 pm

Chars with multiple personalities. It's bugged me for a long time, but there seems to be a growing number of them lately.

How multiple? Could you give me an example? I think people are complex and unpredictable. Not everyone, but the interesting ones at least. Why shouldn't characters be complex too?
I dislike the opposite of that. When characters are too plane.

Characters that irritate me (not my characters) are Chris and Gilda Lalla.
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby Arenti » Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:55 pm

Eleiris wrote:
Chars with multiple personalities. It's bugged me for a long time, but there seems to be a growing number of them lately.

How multiple? Could you give me an example? I think people are complex and unpredictable. Not everyone, but the interesting ones at least. Why shouldn't characters be complex too?
I dislike the opposite of that. When characters are too plane.

Characters that irritate me (not my characters) are Chris and Gilda Lalla.


What did Chris do wrong? :D
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby Eleiris » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:04 pm

What did Chris do wrong?

Nothing! :oops:
He just got in my nerves a little!
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby mojomuppet » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:17 pm

He gets on my nerves too! Answering a question with a question. *smack*
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby Arenti » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:21 pm

I could also have said that I understand about Gilda being irritated but I didn't say that. So keep your smacking away from me. :D

But seriously, Chris hardly says anything lately how can he be annoying?
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby Eleiris » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:26 pm

If "I" had seen Chris lately I wouldn't post about him. And knowing he is quiet lately, he irritates me even more!
x says: Say something, damn you!
You see x slap Chris Lalla on the face.
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Re: Characters that irritate you/yours -

Postby Arenti » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:29 pm

Eleiris wrote:If "I" had seen Chris lately I wouldn't post about him. And knowing he is quiet lately, he irritates me even more!
x says: Say something, damn you!
You see x slap Chris Lalla on the face.


lol he will be more active when the game is back.
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