(05-07-2015, 06:07 AM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote:(05-05-2015, 02:50 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: This is incorrect and takes away from your whole dialogue.
It... really isn't?
Denying a roleplayer's IC existence is something that will always have OOC implications, plain and simple. To ignore this is a sign of someone that doesn't understand the power and effects our words can have on another and I suggest that anyone who does really needs to pull back and think about what they're saying before it comes out of their mouth.
Except that's still wrong. Not every disagreement ICly is some staggering social commentary. Read what I quoted again: OP makes it sound like EVERY instance of someone grousing with you ICly is someone being assblasted OOCly. That's wrong, plain and simple.
If you're so sensitive that any IC criticism is automatically assumed to come from a place of player-to-player contention, you should reassess the reasons you're RPing.
Edit, attempt to clarify: Warren's been given a lot of shit in RP. I've also been told by one particular stick in the mud that my concept was wrong (Can we stop using Lion-O as an example? He's a troll, it is known). I've been slapped ICly for... whatever reason. I've been spit on. I've had people pick fights. All of this was IC, and not once did I presume that it was because of OOC emotions.
To assume that IC=OOC means that you assume your character concept is so solid and so correct that no one would ever take umbrage with it. This is the first error: Someone doesn't believe I'm an Immortal Flame, so clearly they're butthurt OOCly and reflecting that ICly. Someone doesn't believe I fell in love with a Padjal and learned Succor in the wild, so anything they say is wrong. Someone doesn't believe X about my concept, so clearly the backlash is because Y.
That's wrong. It's an incorrect assumption that dismisses not only IC interaction ("This guy is clearly just a troll") but it also makes you look really, really bad OOCly, as in "This person is incapable of accepting that their story stretches elements of the plot so thin that it collapses immersion for anyone approaching them."
If my backstory is that Warren is the sole survivor of a daring Garlean raid on Ul'dah that killed thousands and he is imbued with the souls of all of the deceased and he once fought the new Emperor when they were kids and that's the REAL reason Garlemald is invading, I can't just assume people who deny that are haters. That's so arrogant, so colossally stuck up, my brain can't even fathom it.
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