Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

Tetchta

I'll try and cut down our ERP sessions in the future, Rhyot, dang, you didn't need to put me on blast like this.

Tiur

I think in my first like, MONTH on the job I had to sit and chat in Bloodloch about Godmode RP? That always bugged me. Don't tell me what I do/say/feel in your emote, dangit. That's for book writing, not RP.

Tetchta

I have to say that people are WAY better about godmode emoting nowadays than when I played ten years ago or so.

Saidenn

I tend to longform roleplay if given the option. I enjoy writing immersive posts that can hit the character limit. But I also know who or when to save those for with the person I roleplay with. I understand the adaptation to the different people.

I can say, though, I never considered it a peeve in how people RP. Just like people play for different reasons and have different styles of play, I see it the same way. I do agree that interacting with tone deaf people in general can be irritating, but that goes beyond RP. That is interaction in general (combat, roleplay, etcetera). That said, if I find a tone deaf person, I will excuse myself quickly from a scene if I find it is not to my taste, time, or mood.

Haven

Edit: Jokes aside I agree with @Saidenn . Gotta know your audience and accommodate accordingly.

Zeheia

Hiding in the corner, taking notes. Hmmmmmm.

Lin

Everyone forgot to mention that responding to an enormous wall of text with a two-liner is absolutely a power move. Just the perfect way to assert your dominance.

Keroc

(insert huge player emote here in mpos session)

msay Nice

Czcienn

As someone who clearly knows what he is talking about, tells RP best RP.

We can both be doing our own thing with no commitment to staying in the same room for hours at a time.

Escelika

THE Paragraph emote does intimidate me. I have trouble forming my thoughts coherently and typing fast enough to keep up. My emotes are usually a line or two, though I've gotten to four lines regularly if I'm really synced with my character and the situation.

My biggest pet peeve related to emotes is when people emote before I can get mine out and force me to either ignore the new one or rewrite the one I'm writing. It's the worst for me. I usually end up just rewriting it super short and then worry constantly that my shorter emotes give off the impression I'm not interested in roleplay when I absolutely am. Or my emotes are so bad that whomever I'm with just wants to hurry up and leave.

Hawa

Tiur said:

I think in my first like, MONTH on the job I had to sit and chat in Bloodloch about Godmode RP? That always bugged me. Don't tell me what I do/say/feel in your emote, dangit. That's for book writing, not RP.

Yeah, and then you punched me (doing pitiful damage), I lit you on fire, and I had to tell you to apply mending.

Tiur

I'm ALWAYS on fire.

Hawa

Flaming Hot Tiur

Benedicto

What is this madness?

https://ada-young.com/pastebin/JHvVyYEM

Rhyot

Looks like some bad coding.

Some string probably was incomplete and so it highlighted everything. You can see this on milestone 57 it doesn't complete the quest number, but goes into milestone 30.

Just from what I can see.

Tiur

That.. doesn't even make sense. That's not even how Rapture works to generate lists like that! I'm not the best coder, but I can usually see why something happened. I don't even know where to start with that one.

Mjoll

Bene's just embracing his inner 'lochian, it starts with everything looking like blood, next that color is gonna make him hungry! Watch out Eno!

Phoenecia

This is kind of a major pet peeve, but it's something I've noticed some people do. I don't know why, but I dislike it when people monopolize a person's time and do it repeatedly. This usually takes the form of hovering around whenever the other person is online or RPing at them everyday. Yes, I get it. You like rping at this person a lot. But really? Do you have to grab them everyday/every waking moment? Some of us would like to RP at these people too, yeesh. 

Saidenn

I'll chime in and say that that sounds more like either an inability to set barriers or the preference of the individual who is the one in which both you (the player) and the other person (the offender) want to roleplay with. I hesitate to hold the offender accountable for the person you want to roleplay with not setting a barrier or having the ability to say "I am going to go do this thing with this other person now, I'll catch up with you later."

Third-parties are not in control of a first-party's actions and to blame the third-party is unfair to the third-party. If you make yourself known to the first-party and they never seem to make or have time for you, then I'd personally go find someone who does want to make time for you.

Sessizlik

I agree with @Saidenn. I've come to realize that there are people I would love to get to know on an rp level that just don't put any effort back towards me, or seem to notice me. I can't force anyone to rp with me, noone can force rp.

Sibatti

My Aetolia pet peeve is (outside of one or two people) that I'm always having to be the one to initiate RP the majority of times.

It makes me really second guess whether or not they actually want my company or not, which feels bad.

Elene

Maybe they do want your company, @Sibatti, but they're too nervous about approaching you or some other reason.

I know because sometimes I feel like that, as in I don't want to seem like a bother to the people I approach or come across as too clingy so I try to curb it. Other times, it's because I am thinking about the angle with which I should use to approach the person and I can't decide so I stay away. (I'm really not disinterested, I swear. I just wanna stay true to my character.)

Sibatti

I can totally see that being a thing. I tend to operate with a lot of confidence, and love "winging it", but realize others might not be the same.

All I can say at this point is that I hope I'm not giving off an unapproachable vibe or some other signal.

Xavin

@Sibatti quite intimidating, even if you don't mean it!

Lin

She's such a softy though

Tetchta

Maybe they're just the RP equivalent of a pillow princess!

Xavin

Wow.

Czcienn

I hate the days where I have no blessings.

Rhyot

Sarita

I always get irked when I see people using the bloodline system in ways it's not intended to be used.

1. It's not for adoption.
2. It's not for vampiric bloodlines.
3. If you have been undead for 200 years, you do not have a 20 year old child. It's not biologically possible.