(02-06-2017, 11:14 PM)Opto Mistique Wrote: I get what you're saying, but when it comes to timelines or characters being affected by plotpoints, couldn't we just attribute the entire situation to a case of willing suspension of disbelief? I'm not sure why some people take things to be so literal as that same kind of logic could be used elsewhere and become very restrictive. Saying that though, I come from a rather casual RP background so I might just be a bit more liberal?
EDIT: Wonderful points, by the way. Thank you very much for commenting.
No worries, I get where you're coming from.
There's definitely a space for suspension of disbelief. That's sort of required on some level to roleplay in the first place, after all.
Hell, in a random one-off where the episode title is "Minfy and Tataru Shop for Shoes" there's no need to worry about any of the things I mentioned. One-offs aren't as-common on RP servers, though: Most of the people here have existed for weeks and months and years. Some of the people here have been roleplaying since the 1.0 release in 2010(!).
RP as a hobby brings people from all sorts of motivations and rationales. The biggest challenge is that as soon as you do something that incorporates random people is that all of those philosophies are thrown into a blender: The one-offs and the hard-lore people and the light-fun people all end up dropped into the same place. I wasn't trying to talk you into or out of anything, though! I just wanted to explain why some people are so resistant.
It's most-often a case of "You are too important to hang out with us, this would fuck up the Main Story if it happened and that's the law of the land" sort of things.
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