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(10-18-2016, 12:05 PM)AlionLucada Wrote:(10-18-2016, 11:46 AM)Kilieit Wrote: I've been roleplaying since I was four, and online for over 10 years now.
I know what a ""special snowflake"" is supposed to be.
I just think the term is completely useless. It doesn't describe a useful problem with an actual solution. It describes something that's easy to stigmatise so other people can feel better about themselves by putting others down.
Have my rant on Mary Sues and Darlings. I understand the problem you're trying to describe. I just don't think ""special snowflake"" is a clever, kind, useful, or in any way good way to talk about it - it's diluted so much so that it's meaningless, over-applied and under-defined to the extent that it's essentially become a bullying tool.
There is no solution, and it doesn't matter how long you've been RPing. There will always be people who are lazy when it comes to their characters are are willing step outside lore boundaries to be unique.
If that's the case then trying to police it would be a meaningless waste of time.
Much like "edgy," and to a lesser degree "forced," the term did describe a specific phenomena in writing habits, but due to careless abuse has found itself almost totally deprecated of inherent meaning. It is a useful bludgeon, to be kept close at hand to smash down the nails that protrude too much. Which really is pretty funny given that RP is largely about creating a character distinctive enough to be noticed, and interesting enough to have staying power. A character that is too generic and unambitious lacks the pull necessary to attract other players; why play with *this* particular Garlean spy rather than the hundreds of others? It's simply that their way of finding a hook contradicts subjective sensibilities, not necessarily that they are somehow taking liberties with a vague corner of the lore that was undefined up until now.
In the end Dragoon players really can't be faulted for finding a useful hook in the Dragoon Job. It is a classic Job. It has both martial and political storytelling dimensions. It seemed, perhaps wrongly, to be less powerful than taboo Jobs like WHM and BLM. It even is linked directly to Heavensward's plot and a lot of attention in the story effectively is "free publicity" for them. Only the prescient could have guessed 30. I don't disagree you take progressively higher risk when you play important roles in a growing setting, but I see why people felt DRG was "safe." I think this incident should be a useful tool in understanding why a lore-fundamentalist approach is restrictive and ought to be reevaluated, rather than applying it unevenly between jobs and motifs in setting according to arbitrary personal writing values.
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