Like things to seem real, yet Im sure you have no prob with some 40 year old char walking into town wearing no clothes and yet not even a single word is spoken about it. Or even the fact chars can handle raw meat and dung without washing their hands yet remain in perfect health. I can go on and on with examples of "false reality" but Im sure you get my point.
On the contrary, I've got a character who washes it's hands when it touches a dead body, absolutely disgusted by the idea of touching the dead. And I have a character who shaves it's beard. And I have a character who I would consider to be overly-emotional. A character who has bad knees. A homosexual (who I fail to portray very well at all in any sort of manner other than sleepy most times.) And I've even had a character with a speech impediment before, (one of the first I might add.)
And they all show these things, in moderation. They don't stand in the middle of town obnoxiously tooting their "Im a freak show. Mention me on the forum!" horns. Or the, "I'm so bored, I need something to do immediately in Cantr so I'll *Sigh* And when they ask me what's wrong I'll make up something that suits the character so that it's not obvious that the player behind it is bored and just looking for something to do/the player behind is the one with the real emotional problems/so the character doesn't look like it just wants attention."
I mean, how many retarded people do you know that so blatantly broadcast their problems to an entire town of people? Let me ask you how realistic it is for an Emo boy to go into a public place where they know absolutely NOONE, yet, and simply walk along and sigh? Trying to get people to notice them? Does that REALLY happen in the real world? I think I've missed it if it does. At least, they'd do it around people they knew, not people they didn't reallly know. Right? They'd want to hide stuff like that. Not throwing it all over on anyone who will even pretend to care......
You see you're using the argument that it's normal for people to be emo or obsessive compulsive and I totally agree with that. But these aren't the characters that are doing it so much as the players, I'm thinking. They're not even trying to portray obsessive compulsive characters. They're trying to portray something entirely different IF they're trying to portray anything at all.
As for time constraints....You can't say that. These people will swim, throw mud, argue, cry, scream, in a single cantr day. The next day is just the same. Every minute--something is posted, but it's nothing new. It's always something I've seen them do yesterday or the day before or twice on wednesday. Either they don't feel loved or needed to take a walk down by the shore and sigh a little. lol And tomorrow they'll be fighting with someone because they were offended. The next day crying because they don't feel like they belong.
Maybe my problem is more that it goes on way too much all across the board and not just in LV, lately. Every time I see one of these characters anymore I go into auto-avoid mode. Because I don't like the turmoil that goes on around them....It's just too much. I feel like these people need shrinks outside of the game. I feel like they're looking for something they can't get in the real world--And I don't mean that in a good way. It's actually very sad to me. I think they need help emotionally and mentally in their real lives.
Oh boy. I knew I was opening a can of worms posting what I was, but I can't help it anymore. It just annoys me and it makes cantr less fun for me. It just does. I'm sorry if it offends people. I feel overwhelmed by those sorts of characters.
It's like...Jerry springer, for me. Interesting because it's something really nuts....Then a couple shows go by and you realize that all the people on the show are really just trying to be the freakiest. See who can get more beads or see if anyone will notice them because they took their clothes off. It's just ew....to me. It's just not cool to be that screwed up.
I hate people.
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