The Bell Tolls...
Mar. 31st, 2011 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_goren_show"I've never really understood the appeal of these MMORPGs myself but then I hate people enough in the real world let alone bothering to enter a second made up universe to learn to despise them all over again." Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe
I have been introduced to Charlie Brooker and have been watching all his videos on Youtube and basically laughing myself stupid. He's acerbic and not politically correct in any way and pretty much smack on with his commentary on the idiocy in society. He's not quite as much a hero as George Carlin, but I've only just discovered him. If you want a good introduction that's clean (some of his skits aren't safe for virgin ears) then try this one and move on to his rants on US TV, Aspirational TV, and the American News Media.
I was working my way through his Gameswipe when I hit the comment above. I laughed until my ribs hurt, then replayed it to transcribe it because it pretty much sums up how I'm feeling about the RP world right now.
After much frustration in trying to find RP, I ended up wandering over to InsaneJournal in my search. To my shock, I found an interesting sounding game that only accepted original characters. With some trepidation, I emailed the admin to ask if my inexperience with journal based games would be a tripping point and was assured that no, not at all. They were welcoming and pleasant so I apped and was accepted! I was all Christmas and birthday and New Year's Eve excited all at once. A game for my OC with an interesting premise where I could get some character building done and have fun at the same time. Yay!
Except not so much yay because the game appears to have died and the parts of it that are limping along are suffering from the IJ bias towards young pretty characters and I'm playing a middle aged OC who's average in most ways. You can guess the number of threads I'm active in. I was even given an action to perform in an event thread by the mod and as soon as I posted to get my icebreaker going, the thread died. Like dead, shriveled up and not one person has posted since. Like even the crickets are silent dead... dead dead.
EDIT: After being assured by the mod it wasn't anything I had done to make myself a pariah, I come online tonight (Saturday after I posted this original rant) to find all kinds of new threads active and alive. None involving my character or a place where they might jump into the fray mind you, but there is RP... just not for me. FML
I have been introduced to Charlie Brooker and have been watching all his videos on Youtube and basically laughing myself stupid. He's acerbic and not politically correct in any way and pretty much smack on with his commentary on the idiocy in society. He's not quite as much a hero as George Carlin, but I've only just discovered him. If you want a good introduction that's clean (some of his skits aren't safe for virgin ears) then try this one and move on to his rants on US TV, Aspirational TV, and the American News Media.
I was working my way through his Gameswipe when I hit the comment above. I laughed until my ribs hurt, then replayed it to transcribe it because it pretty much sums up how I'm feeling about the RP world right now.
After much frustration in trying to find RP, I ended up wandering over to InsaneJournal in my search. To my shock, I found an interesting sounding game that only accepted original characters. With some trepidation, I emailed the admin to ask if my inexperience with journal based games would be a tripping point and was assured that no, not at all. They were welcoming and pleasant so I apped and was accepted! I was all Christmas and birthday and New Year's Eve excited all at once. A game for my OC with an interesting premise where I could get some character building done and have fun at the same time. Yay!
Except not so much yay because the game appears to have died and the parts of it that are limping along are suffering from the IJ bias towards young pretty characters and I'm playing a middle aged OC who's average in most ways. You can guess the number of threads I'm active in. I was even given an action to perform in an event thread by the mod and as soon as I posted to get my icebreaker going, the thread died. Like dead, shriveled up and not one person has posted since. Like even the crickets are silent dead... dead dead.
I've had two threads of no real consequence in the month and some I've been in the game. I emailed one of the people who was interested in plotting and things were going good and then suddenly, silence. I'm beginning to wonder if there's something wrong with me. Sure I'm new to journal games but I've never hit this kind of silence before when I've barely even introed a character. I'm hanging on because I know some of the regular posters are overwhelmed by RL at the moment but I have to admit, my interest in being accepted into this game is now as dead as my threads.
I just didn't have an adequate way to describe it until I was introduced to Charlie Brooker.
EDIT: After being assured by the mod it wasn't anything I had done to make myself a pariah, I come online tonight (Saturday after I posted this original rant) to find all kinds of new threads active and alive. None involving my character or a place where they might jump into the fray mind you, but there is RP... just not for me. FML
