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Other Games / Re: Moonrise~ Epic Warrior Cats MMORPG In-Progress! (UPDATED WITH FUR TEXTURES)
« on: October 15, 2013, 05:32:40 am »
Again? Well, nice to know the problem's not on my end...
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Leaving / Hello, Goodbye, T'was Nice to Know You
« on: October 07, 2013, 02:51:08 am »
So, I've decided that the time has come for me to take my leave of FeralHeart. It simply doesn't hold much interest for me anymore; modding takes up time that I'd rather spend on other artistic endeavours, the types of RP I prefer (ie. involving more humanoids/plot and less sitting around/hunting) just don't exist here, and those were the two main reasons I was involved in the game and community. Also, though I know there are still a lot of wonderful individuals around here and I'm very glad to have met you all, I've watched the FH community as a nebulous collective change dramatically and, honestly, deteriorate since I joined several years ago. Too much drama between mods and the people who complain about them/blame them for everything, too much complaining about one species 'clique' or another. Too much overall finger-pointing. Maybe it got too big, maybe the median age range is going down, maybe my age is just going up and my perspective is the only thing that's changed, I really don't know which, but I'm a bit sad that it happened, whatever it was. In any case, it's time for me to move on.
I don't know whether I'll show up again occasionally or not. I might do that, or I might just delete the game from my computer, or show up for official events since those are usually fun (my account and mods thread will stay up whatever happens, because I'm weirdly clingy about game accounts and people still seem to be downloading the mods). Should anyone want/need to contact me, I check my DA notes regularly.
Nice knowing you all. I'll miss quite a few of you and bear no ill will toward anyone.
And yes, I'm ashamed of myself for actually using a song lyric as my subject line.
I don't know whether I'll show up again occasionally or not. I might do that, or I might just delete the game from my computer, or show up for official events since those are usually fun (my account and mods thread will stay up whatever happens, because I'm weirdly clingy about game accounts and people still seem to be downloading the mods). Should anyone want/need to contact me, I check my DA notes regularly.
Nice knowing you all. I'll miss quite a few of you and bear no ill will toward anyone.
And yes, I'm ashamed of myself for actually using a song lyric as my subject line.
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Game Discussion / Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« on: October 01, 2013, 04:34:50 am »
This has actually happened to me (I knew several of my IRL friends online first and very rarely give my real name online), and I do respond to 'hey, Tearless' in real life, mostly because I use TearlessRain as a handle everywhere.
I did eventually tell them my name.
I did eventually tell them my name.
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Discussion Board / Re: Attune your ears to the grinding gears - Steam Powered Giraffe
« on: September 25, 2013, 04:59:26 am »
I love how this thread comes back every time the band does a thing.
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Game Discussion / Re: Villains, "Killers", and Insane Characters
« on: September 19, 2013, 03:21:37 pm »Quote
Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source to find information. But I do agree it could help someone develop a character with mental issues better if they were to do some research on the disorders.
Ah, I didn't say what I meant to very well... I've found Wikipedia to be a good way to find them in the first place, but by all means look through multiple sources for details on whatever you're researching because at least one of them will likely have misinformation.
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Game Discussion / Re: Villains, "Killers", and Insane Characters
« on: September 19, 2013, 06:01:49 am »37
Game Discussion / Re: Can We Remove Romance/Strength/Leadership from The Equation?
« on: September 18, 2013, 05:56:26 pm »
@Brenda Lee: While that is arguably true, platonic friendship is just as valid a form of connection with others as romantic relationships. There are people out there who feel they have to have a girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever to be complete and happy (which I personally feel is a dangerous mindset for several reasons), but it's not the central goal of everyone's lives. I've been contentedly single for twenty one years now and I don't lay around sobbing about it.
And more importantly, in the context of this thread, it makes for hella predictable RP where nothing significant happens because everyone's obsessed with their beloved.
And more importantly, in the context of this thread, it makes for hella predictable RP where nothing significant happens because everyone's obsessed with their beloved.
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Game Discussion / Re: Can We Remove Romance/Strength/Leadership from The Equation?
« on: September 17, 2013, 06:44:53 pm »
I have a theory about that... I think a lot of younger players use movies or anime as an example for how to craft their character, which can seem like a perfectly good idea since people obviously like those characters. The only problem is that those media are usually focused on one central character, the protagonist who, especially in anime, does frequently become 'the best [ninja/racecar driver/giant robot pilot/card game player] ever' and find true love because the writers have to do something with the token female character. So of course that should be what your character does too.
The problem, of course, is that you're never the protagonist of a group RP, because no one is, because RP doesn't work like that. If your character is the best hunter in the pack and always catches more prey than anyone, people won't stand around in admiration proclaiming that he/she will go far and become a great leader one day, they'll just get annoyed and think you're a showoff. Similarly, people in real life and group RPs don't get paired off neatly with their true love by the end of a story arc. Some have other goals they put first. Some think romance is dead. Some just aren't interested for any number or reasons. Even for those who are in relationships, none are perfect, even if they're great and both parties love each other. The only way a 'perfect' relationship exists is in the eyes of people who are still in the 'smitten' phase, and it doesn't last forever, but that isn't a bad thing. The problem is that most RP relationships never make it past the puppy love stage and as a result die out as soon as there's a sign of imperfection, causing one or both to go off distraught and bemoaning their shattered heart, and again expecting others to appreciate their protagonist's tragic plight.
Same thing with mischievous/bratty cubs and rebellious/emo/star-crossed teenagers with inner darkness and whatnot. Those, unfortunately, are the examples the media and ESPECIALLY the internet supplies and idealizes. In real life, while I have met some out-of-control children (it is not an endearing trait), I never met anyone during my teenage years who was remotely the edgy, rebellious romantic that most RP teens are. I mean, there was an unfortunate phase Freshman year of high school when I thought I was, but all the black eyeliner and torn camo jeans in the world didn't change the fact that I was short, socially awkward (and not in the cute, 'drops all their books and bumps into future romantic interest while picking them up' sort of way, I really just didn't know how to interact with people and made up for it by sitting off to one side drawing dragons and trying to look like I was failing at being cool on purpose), and had no idea what I was doing. The ones that did sort of know what they were doing weren't trying to be emo, and everyone was as varied in interests and personality as adults, just with more homework, stress, and hormones.
It's kind of too bad that all of those archetypes have been so overdone, since in moderation they can add interest (okay, except for the Perfect Couples, those are just irritating and tend to clog RP plotlines). I know why it's easy and tempting to make that kind of character, but I don't know why people don't try to branch out more after a while. I get bored trying to RP characters like that. One of my favourites to RP is a robot; he has no aspirations of strength or power whatsoever and literally exists to serve others, and doesn't understand love other than on the most basic, more or less platonic level. He's strong and made mostly out of a titanium alloy, yes, but he also has the Three Laws that prevent him from ever using or wanting to use it. Another character grew up in a wild cat refuge and just wants to get back there, thinking his keepers 'lost' him when he was released into the wild. One other actually is a king and has an adoptive cub (but no mate), and he's not really very good at either one. He rules the kingdom because he has to but would rather be doing other things, and he has no idea what to do with an unruly cub and frequently undermines their relationship by mistake.
It's so much more fun to have various levels of conflict; the third character up there wouldn't work at all if he was a 'good/strong leader,' or wise, or an ideal, loving parent. Plus they actually make it a lot easier to RP with more people, because (though I love running into more complex, less archetypal characters and cling to good RPs when I do find them) both the robot and the human-raised lion make good foils/secondary characters to the more gregarious, ambitious, anime-hero-esque personality types. So I guess there's that.
[Edit: Good gravy this is long, I'm sorry]
The problem, of course, is that you're never the protagonist of a group RP, because no one is, because RP doesn't work like that. If your character is the best hunter in the pack and always catches more prey than anyone, people won't stand around in admiration proclaiming that he/she will go far and become a great leader one day, they'll just get annoyed and think you're a showoff. Similarly, people in real life and group RPs don't get paired off neatly with their true love by the end of a story arc. Some have other goals they put first. Some think romance is dead. Some just aren't interested for any number or reasons. Even for those who are in relationships, none are perfect, even if they're great and both parties love each other. The only way a 'perfect' relationship exists is in the eyes of people who are still in the 'smitten' phase, and it doesn't last forever, but that isn't a bad thing. The problem is that most RP relationships never make it past the puppy love stage and as a result die out as soon as there's a sign of imperfection, causing one or both to go off distraught and bemoaning their shattered heart, and again expecting others to appreciate their protagonist's tragic plight.
Same thing with mischievous/bratty cubs and rebellious/emo/star-crossed teenagers with inner darkness and whatnot. Those, unfortunately, are the examples the media and ESPECIALLY the internet supplies and idealizes. In real life, while I have met some out-of-control children (it is not an endearing trait), I never met anyone during my teenage years who was remotely the edgy, rebellious romantic that most RP teens are. I mean, there was an unfortunate phase Freshman year of high school when I thought I was, but all the black eyeliner and torn camo jeans in the world didn't change the fact that I was short, socially awkward (and not in the cute, 'drops all their books and bumps into future romantic interest while picking them up' sort of way, I really just didn't know how to interact with people and made up for it by sitting off to one side drawing dragons and trying to look like I was failing at being cool on purpose), and had no idea what I was doing. The ones that did sort of know what they were doing weren't trying to be emo, and everyone was as varied in interests and personality as adults, just with more homework, stress, and hormones.
It's kind of too bad that all of those archetypes have been so overdone, since in moderation they can add interest (okay, except for the Perfect Couples, those are just irritating and tend to clog RP plotlines). I know why it's easy and tempting to make that kind of character, but I don't know why people don't try to branch out more after a while. I get bored trying to RP characters like that. One of my favourites to RP is a robot; he has no aspirations of strength or power whatsoever and literally exists to serve others, and doesn't understand love other than on the most basic, more or less platonic level. He's strong and made mostly out of a titanium alloy, yes, but he also has the Three Laws that prevent him from ever using or wanting to use it. Another character grew up in a wild cat refuge and just wants to get back there, thinking his keepers 'lost' him when he was released into the wild. One other actually is a king and has an adoptive cub (but no mate), and he's not really very good at either one. He rules the kingdom because he has to but would rather be doing other things, and he has no idea what to do with an unruly cub and frequently undermines their relationship by mistake.
It's so much more fun to have various levels of conflict; the third character up there wouldn't work at all if he was a 'good/strong leader,' or wise, or an ideal, loving parent. Plus they actually make it a lot easier to RP with more people, because (though I love running into more complex, less archetypal characters and cling to good RPs when I do find them) both the robot and the human-raised lion make good foils/secondary characters to the more gregarious, ambitious, anime-hero-esque personality types. So I guess there's that.
[Edit: Good gravy this is long, I'm sorry]
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Game Discussion / Re: The Most Unrealistic Characters
« on: September 17, 2013, 06:06:34 am »
Well, I'm sorry if I jumped down your throat a bit then. It wasn't so much the bringing up of obscure facts that bothered me, I appreciate the intent, but the way it was worded came off as if it was about who knows more. It's a two-way street is all I'm saying.
As for the Tumblr thing, I assumed because the last paragraph about the socially constructed gender binary and the overall way it was worded is very characteristic of that Tumblr, and part of the reason I reacted to it. While I like many parts of it, that site has a tendency to get very confrontational and unnecessarily hostile about things like that and it gets old.
As for the Tumblr thing, I assumed because the last paragraph about the socially constructed gender binary and the overall way it was worded is very characteristic of that Tumblr, and part of the reason I reacted to it. While I like many parts of it, that site has a tendency to get very confrontational and unnecessarily hostile about things like that and it gets old.
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Game Discussion / Re: The Most Unrealistic Characters
« on: September 17, 2013, 04:16:47 am »
(I'm sorry, this ended up slightly off topic)
@Narifia: While I agree with some of the points you made (being the creator of a ginger-maned lion with purple accents and Bowie eyes), it seems a bit... overly reactionary. And also very condescending to anyone who doesn't know the exact same obscure facts as you. The thread isn't as much about characters who aren't fully realistic, because most aren't and that's frequently a good thing (there's a huge difference between unrealistic design and bad design), but more about people who doggedly insist that their yellow lion with a red mane or white-haired wolf IS fully realistic. When that happens it just makes finding people to RP with if you actually do want to go full realism difficult and frustrating.
And as much as I'm not a fan of the gender binary, I'm not sure what that has to do with anything that's been said. You can't expect everyone to know or research every obscure fact about lions when they make their character or RP; some people just want to have fun RPing what they know to be realistic lions and, as the article says, maned lionesses are rare. They're also not widely talked about, and the article seems to imply that the anomaly occurs mostly in one population of lions in Okavango Delta. People who assume lionesses don't have manes because they've never seen or heard of such a thing can't be accused of of having traditionalist views on gender; probably most of them don't (you're not the only one here who's on Tumblr). They just happen to not know that about lions. If I'd never heard of gynandromorphic birds and thought such a character to be unrealistic, would that make me traditional or sexist?
Hair-trigger social justice rants at people who did nothing to deserve them tend to achieve exactly the opposite of what they're meant to, especially if they treat everyone else as lesser intellects.
@Narifia: While I agree with some of the points you made (being the creator of a ginger-maned lion with purple accents and Bowie eyes), it seems a bit... overly reactionary. And also very condescending to anyone who doesn't know the exact same obscure facts as you. The thread isn't as much about characters who aren't fully realistic, because most aren't and that's frequently a good thing (there's a huge difference between unrealistic design and bad design), but more about people who doggedly insist that their yellow lion with a red mane or white-haired wolf IS fully realistic. When that happens it just makes finding people to RP with if you actually do want to go full realism difficult and frustrating.
And as much as I'm not a fan of the gender binary, I'm not sure what that has to do with anything that's been said. You can't expect everyone to know or research every obscure fact about lions when they make their character or RP; some people just want to have fun RPing what they know to be realistic lions and, as the article says, maned lionesses are rare. They're also not widely talked about, and the article seems to imply that the anomaly occurs mostly in one population of lions in Okavango Delta. People who assume lionesses don't have manes because they've never seen or heard of such a thing can't be accused of of having traditionalist views on gender; probably most of them don't (you're not the only one here who's on Tumblr). They just happen to not know that about lions. If I'd never heard of gynandromorphic birds and thought such a character to be unrealistic, would that make me traditional or sexist?
Hair-trigger social justice rants at people who did nothing to deserve them tend to achieve exactly the opposite of what they're meant to, especially if they treat everyone else as lesser intellects.