(09-01-2013, 04:24 PM)Velkyron Wrote:(09-01-2013, 01:59 PM)Siobhain Wrote: **Snip**
See, THAT is the answer I was looking for! Â And THAT should be the focus here.
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I asked that out of sincerity; NOT out of jest. Â And I got the answer I was looking for in detail. Â The reason why I couldn't see it prior was because I come from different environments of RP where things are not taken into such detail. Â Taking the example from WoW that Sio was pointing out with the Kaldorei: I've unfortunately never seen anyone go to such lengths and detail to actually time all of the biological processes right and instead having wolf possessing-female orcs with 11 inch genitalia (This is an actual thing:Â Click at your own risk ).
To those who put that much consideration into what you write: you are awesome. Â It was mostly my misconception of the RP expectations of this community. Â That is it. Â No flame wars. Â Nada. Â In fact, I'm mostly pleasantly surprised by the amount of thought going into people making their characters in this respect. Â It's a nice thing to see and read.
Sorry if I got a little excited about it. I just get thoroughly worried when I see things that may (intentionally or otherwise) put other people down when they're giving some thought to something that might come up for -someone- or several someones out there. It happens so much in WoW and that entire community across all the active RP servers has made me a bit gun-shy.
Playing Elves, I spend a lot of time having to explain to people as I mention things that I read and add to parts of my character because their character, likely of the same race, has never considered it. Some are really obvious, like the Sin'dorei/Quel'dorei addiction to magic; it's a race-wise addiction, they -need- it to live, they're magical creatures but how many Belf/Helf RPers actually -ever- mention it? Very few in my experience. Similarly, there are many things about Nelfs that's included in the story-quests and such that are small and easily overlooked but should be something fairly normal. Eating live octopus and rice and kimchi-- Nelfs were based, in part, off of aspects of Korean culture and while the last two, rice and kimchi, for Nelfs are common fare, eating live octopus isn't strange. I've met RPers who tell -me- that Nelfs are purely vegetarians, and even one who went so far as to claim that if a Nelf ate any kind of animal product they would get sick and probably die. I digress...
I like to have outlines of things and facts, even facts I may never use. I appreciate people who feel the same way and I feel relieved that others who might not can at least appreciate the time some more depthy people put into things than I do.
 I understand that people sometimes choose to make excuses for their characters' lack of knowledge at times, like they were raised outside their culture or they've gotten amnesia or something, and I can appreciate trying to get involved in RP and learn the lore as you're introduced to it-- this is one of the easiest, most enjoyable ways to go about it because you're learning from other RPers. I just feel that if I've got the time and energy, I might as well do as Myxie did, to a much lesser extent, and start trying to put pieces together so that I can help play a role in the community of someone who is somewhat standard, racially, with traditional beliefs; to reinforce all of the players who choose to be exceptions, as well as to stick with what I like to do, myself. I'm glad to see more for Miqo'tes, I'm just a bit sad that I'm having trouble finding more for Roegadyn. Sorry, there, Velk, and tyvm for being open minded. I did think you were jesting and hadn't realized that you'd never experienced what I have. =3=;
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