(09-21-2015, 02:39 PM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: You might be doing text generation, but I'm pretty sure I'm writing as if it's a novel (e.g. properly, or as much so as possible). One of us is writing a story. The other is apparently doing some computer programming or something, I don't know. :p
From your perspective, then, yes, they're very different things and I can understand, thinking in terms of your roleplay being computer programming and not writing, that you would want to avoid a lot of punctuation. One stray apostrophe and your entire post does nothing but return "Abort, Retry, Fail?" over and over.Â
From my perspective, since I'm writing and not doing computer programming, they're pretty much the same thing.
No, you're not writing a novel. You're doing collaborative storytelling in an electronic environment. Please do not assume that because I happen to know about computers that I can't RP, that I RP thinking that things are programming, and so forth. Seriously, where the hell did that come from? Where have I ever said anything like that?
Like I said, it's a stylistic difference. If you want to dismiss a wide spectrum of RPers on a microscopic difference that is, I might note, fairly new (quotation marks in /say are in vogue nowadays, but they haven't been historically in MMOs and the MU* world), be my guest. However, to equate it with leet speak is disingenuous and patently unfair.
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