(09-25-2013, 08:58 AM)X Wrote: I don't mean to imply that simply ignoring the problem isn't a perfectly acceptable course of action, but it does nothing to correct the behavior. By not saying anything, you're saying it is acceptable for them to behave this way.Â
There is a difference between being a raging lunatic at anyone who might possibly be doing some slight thing to break your immersion, and politely telling someone who is being an idiot to kindly take it else where.
If someone was shoving you repeatedly at class or at work, would you just ignore them? Maybe. But it makes far more sense to tell them in the nicest way possible to bugger off, and if they don't go over their heads and demand action from the higher ups. It improves productivity and decreases hostility in your workplace/place of learning. The same applies here.
You will not correct their behavior.
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You WILL NOT correct their behavior! Just as much as they will not correct yours.
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The same doesn't apply here. The virtual game world is not real life.
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If someone at work shoved you, you can go to your boss and they will probably get fired. If someone in the virtual world decides to sit by you and craft while you happen to be RPing...well, you have the choice or ignoring it or not. But there is not a damn thing you can do if that crafter wants to sit there are happily make cotten trousers. Period.
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Maybe it's time we embrace why the other half of the non-rpers like us. for our "maturity". That doesn't mean that we're mature about how we enjoy the game; it means that we're mature about the way that we handle things when they don't go our way.
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