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Yes. Oh god, yes do I encounter this! It's so frustrating! I get that you character's had some horrible made-up past life, but can I get a civil "hello"? Or even worse than that, their character is completely social and normal, and they just keep deciding to move away from wherever my character is. You know what really grinds my gears? Roleplayers with short attention spans. "OH! I'm gonna go hunt. Just about to make the kill and meet Haruki's character? LOLNOPE time to run away from humans."
Sit still, you little bugger.
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Yes. Oh god, yes do I encounter this! It's so frustrating! I get that you character's had some horrible made-up past life, but can I get a civil "hello"? Or even worse than that, their character is completely social and normal, and they just keep deciding to move away from wherever my character is. You know what really grinds my gears? Roleplayers with short attention spans. "OH! I'm gonna go hunt. Just about to make the kill and meet Haruki's character? LOLNOPE time to run away from humans."
Sit still, you little bugger.
HA! That pictured made me LOL Haruki but its so true. It really does make me wonder though how little or how much some people pay attention. I have a critter who minus the curly tail (a sign of attempted breeding for domestication in foxes) looks almost like the perfect image of a red fox. I entered a RP recently and about halfway into the RP, and after following them to their camp [so they moved on me too] and getting close, they went. "...Oh you're a fox?" She said. "I thought you were a cat!" Ok. Fair enough but then others in the group start chiming in. Apparently one of them mistook me for a lion and I was like "...You didn't bother to look?" and even so in my posts SEVERAL times, it stated that my /fox/ was the one following them. Don't get me wrong they were nice people and it was alright but the fact I knew they weren't reading what I was typing with much diligence after that moment, it just... ugh. I don't get it.
I've underwent something like this before. It involved a whole group who wanted me to be a part of their establishment. However, once I joined, I felt like some dead, lifeless corpse that everyone doesn't want to be around instead of having some warm welcome and feeling like a part of the 'family', so to speak. What made me upset and rather annoyed was that they asked me to join them. Not the other way around. But once I did join, whenever I'd be typing up a post (and I tend to post 5-8+ paragraphs when I'm not having writer's block), either when I was in the middle of my post or before I could even hit the 'Enter' button, they'd run off to another part of the map. They wouldn't inform me of their movement, they wouldn't even look behind their shoulders to make sure I was following. No. They'd just leave and have me scrambling after them like some idgit. I'm not one who will tolerate any form of ignorance so I practically left that very day. Doubt they noticed as well.
It pretty much aggravates me and makes me rather disappointed when individuals tend to do something as such.
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Yes. Oh god, yes do I encounter this! It's so frustrating! I get that you character's had some horrible made-up past life, but can I get a civil "hello"? Or even worse than that, their character is completely social and normal, and they just keep deciding to move away from wherever my character is. You know what really grinds my gears? Roleplayers with short attention spans. "OH! I'm gonna go hunt. Just about to make the kill and meet Haruki's character? LOLNOPE time to run away from humans."
Sit still, you little bugger.
Ohsotrue. xD
It really is irritating when users don't acknowledge you while you're in the middle of typing (also alluding to what Vespian said). Granted, I don't type more than 2-4 pages per post (unless I feel like being absurdly detailed and do a whole soliloquy), but I general don't take that long as a literate RPer. I can type fast, and I can be quick in my responses if given a slight pause of time, rather than running 24/7 and only typing a couple blurbs of text for each post.
Not judging those who like fast-paced RP, but everyone does have their own style, and either way it's just courteous to give the one you're RPing with the time of day to read their post, that way you can actually create a story together.
But, if you don't sit still, then no, you're not going to get a storyline, and you'll just be running around RPing with yourself.
(In which case, just go write a book on your own. D8 Dangit.)
I understand the frustration here, though. Silly floofs just need to sit down, relax, and just let the roleplay's story unfold as each character adds their own color to the scene (sometimes at their own pace xD).