(04-17-2014, 03:02 AM)Kimikimi Wrote: I have a question. Why is this topic so popular?
Discussion of RP methodology and personal preferences aside, I think all of us who have been doing this for any length of time have had people bleed OOC into IC or vice versa with disastrous results. Â I know I personally did it once when I was fifteen, and I nearly blew up a forum RP. Â Luckily, I had people around who were understanding and explained the difference.
Some people either aren't lucky enough to have those people around or are too ignorant to listen to them, and we end up with people suddenly disliking all the characters of a player who's character screwed someone else's over. Â Or the worst is the romantic RP that totally crosses the line and isn't reciprocated IRL. Â That's sort of the RP horror story, the "girlfriend" that isn't a girlfriend that just won't go away, IC or OOC. Â I could relate some of those horror stories if no one else here feels like it.
Suffice it to say, bleeders are land mines in the RP world, people that seem like normal roleplayers until something happens and they destroy everything around them. Â If there's one thing to take away from this thread, you can empathize with your character, as that's a methodology choice. Â Eventually, though, you empathize too closely, so it's important to know not to do that and make that character's life your own life. Â Bad and good things happen to characters that are NOT happening to you personally; it's all RP. Â If it bleeds one way or the other, we all have a problem.
