(03-04-2015, 03:37 PM)Kismet Wrote: When most RPers talk about blending, we're talking about negativity that is bred from doing so. We're talking about something that goes beyond escapism sometimes. People who either can't or have great difficultly separating fantasy from reality. To be fully immersed or invested is one thing. To use roleplay as a means to nurse some fragile obsessive need a person may have to be praised, desired, or vindicated... That's something else.
And in that regard, what "most RPers" discuss is a problem, because it erases the existence of that one thing and only discusses the existence of the something else, leading to threads where we have to articulate the existence of the one thing again. Similar concerns appear with "metagaming," where it can refer to a broad swathe of activities (pre-planning storylines, the employment of dramatic irony, making characters and storylines based on an OOC awareness of what people tend to play, etc.) but is only used as a pejorative, referring to one specific type of those activities (using OOC knowledge IC without consent).
Even the above regarding a "fragile, obsessive need" isn't necessarily problematic on its face - only when it leads to problems for other players, OOC and IC. It seems some posters deem that to be a foregone conclusion; I'm skeptical of that idea.
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