Thought or Rant of the day!!!

[Finchington]

Woah, are cigarettes really that expensive? I pay 5,80 € for a pack, and it used to be 5,40 € before the price hitch, and years ago it was 4,95€.

That's incredibly cheap... I don't smoke, nor do I work in retail, but I think cigarettes are usually between $20 and $30. Plus, their packs are drab brown, printed with graphic warning pictures. Both are reasons as to -why- I don't smoke.

[SekoETC]

In Finland, it's no longer allowed to have cigarette packs on display or show their prices. The cashier has a list under the counter that has the number for each brand, and you press the button to get the pack from the machine. It has just numbers, no pictures or names. I've always smoked Smart red because it used to be the cheapest brand. I don't know if it's the cheapest anymore because they aren't allowed to display the prices. I don't even know which all brands are available anymore. I think some were discontinued because they weren't being sold enough.

[Finchington]

Google Australian cigarette packaging. It's utterly brutal. We have them locked away in cases, too, but the prices are still displayed.

[prometheus]

Gas Station display:


Closest I could find to what mine looks like:

[Finchington]

I buy so many clothes from this one Melbourne-based designer, that he's started writing me little notes on my receipts. I don't know whether I should be ashamed, or flattered...

[Optimus Christ]

Just an observation, or a thought. In any roleplay, the lack of emotes and just the character talking, seems socially acceptable, while the use of them, overbearing or not, is frowned upon, or had the classic Last I checked, This was an RPG, or if you will, a society simulator. Even with those, you can't tell how a char is feeling without emotes, because this day and age, everything can be taken offensively, or out of context, myself not excluded. My thought is this: What is the point, of playing an RPG, when you can't capture the reader's imagination, painting a picture in their head and giving them the bubbly feeling inside, the downs of a character who is down on his luck, the anger of the mistreated character who eventually goes beserk, The struggle of a town leader who seems to have trouble holding a town together, the loneliness of a lone trader, chosen to be that way because through life experiences he can afford to trust no one? Even though I haven't really thought of it until now, I think this is one small reason why I don't play much anymore. However, I will volunteer to do emotes in everything I type. So, prepare to be annoyed and have those eyerolls ready, and remember, have a nice day.

[prometheus]

....I don't know that I've ever seen anyone eye-rolling at good RP or lots of emotes--one of the things that made Axiom such a spectacular player was her emotes (see Marian's sig). I think the only time I eyeroll at emotes is when it's got shit grammer or purple prose.

[*Wiro]

Haha. *she laughed, knowing that her true emotions would never be revealed. Nobody liked Janet, but she'd show them. She'd take this knife and...* Oh, hey there! I'm doing great. *she lied, choking back tears*

[prometheus]

Or....that.

[SekoETC]

I tend to bottle up my emotions in real life, so it reflects upon my characters. I think I used to emote more. In the beginning I even emoted thoughts but I got bashed over it, so I stopped doing that. I hate the emotional void because my characters still have feelings inside, but they're mostly negative feelings, and I had to kill off one of my two happy characters, so now I only have one left.

[Cdls]

Just an observation, or a thought. In any roleplay, the lack of emotes and just the character talking, seems socially acceptable, while the use of them, overbearing or not, is frowned upon, or had the classic Last I checked, This was an RPG, or if you will, a society simulator. Even with those, you can't tell how a char is feeling without emotes, because this day and age, everything can be taken offensively, or out of context

This is so true, although seems to be more hit and miss as of late. I think emotes make the game better, and even the bad emotes can make characters out to be more than the one dimensional chat boxes I have seen some become.

Even though I haven't really thought of it until now, I think this is one small reason why I don't play much anymore. However, I will volunteer to do emotes in everything I type. So, prepare to be annoyed and have those eyerolls ready, and remember, have a nice day.

While it never became a reason to cut back on the playing for me, I think I became apathetic towards it when the emote haters seemed to emote the hell out of the screen when their characters wanted to RP sex. There are a couple notable exceptions to this, and I am glad they are still around.

Hopefully your efforts will catch on, I will be keeping those fingers crossed.

[Moonflame]

Poor Panda.

We all like emotes. I try. My vocabulary isn't big enough. Something else I'm struggling with is RPing different senses of humour. Mine is pretty limited.

Talking of humour though, my mum works in a nursery and recently she was telling me about how she has been looking after the youngest children and they have to have an afternoon nap. She goes on a bit so I was only half listening. Then she said something like "and they left me with the sleepers" and my head snaps round so she continues "we have to check every ten minutes that they're still breathing, and then get them all up for food." I nodded sympathetically and told her I know how she feels.

[Cdls]

hen she said something like "and they left me with the sleepers" and my head snaps round so she continues "we have to check every ten minutes that they're still breathing, and then get them all up for food." I nodded sympathetically and told her I know how she feels.

You should have also offered to help drag them into sleeper quarantine.

[Moonflame]

You should have also offered to help drag them into sleeper quarantine.

They have little cots and mattresses for them all. I was like aww. I'm not that good.

[Marian]

I've never seen emotes being considered a negative thing? Unless they're of the exceptionally spotlight grabbing 'everybody stop everything and pay attention to meeeee ' nature, like overly dramatic suicide attempts or fake illnesses or limbs rotting off and the like. Or showing thoughts or making assumptions about another character's motivations or actions, which are all things that no self-respecting RPer does anyway. *grabs Sue's arm and drags her across the room while inwardly seething about the argument they had that morning* or whatever definitely do deserve a whole row of 's, and I'd probably start just ignoring that char if they made a habit of it.

Then she said something like "and they left me with the sleepers" and my head snaps round so she continues "we have to check every ten minutes that they're still breathing, and then get them all up for food." I nodded sympathetically and told her I know how she feels.

Volunteer to go and gently place a potato into each of their hands.