(09-21-2015, 11:16 AM)Warren Castille Wrote:(09-21-2015, 11:13 AM)Ignacius Wrote:(09-21-2015, 11:05 AM)Warren Castille Wrote:(09-21-2015, 10:58 AM)Ignacius Wrote: Yet, according to the sentence, Ignacius only tried to swing at Ziggy's neck; that example leaves no room to not continue doing it. Â That may sound petty to you, someone may say "you know what I meant", but the other person only has to say, "But you didn't write what you mean, then." Â And this is a stranger who, one would think, thinks he has as much right to cut off Ignacius's arm as he does to lose his head. Â In the end, only the wording matters.
I mean, you're perfectly welcome to think of Ziggy what you want for taking the sentence literally as it was written, but truthfully Ziggy has no reason not to and isn't necessarily a bad person for doing so. Â It would be my own fault for writing it so that Ignacius wasn't wary enough to stop swinging at Ziggy's neck when Ziggy's sword came out.
Ziggy sounds like a dick. Anyone looking to hamstring you on your choice of tense or phrasing isn't trying to roleplay with you, they're masturbating over their English textbooks. It's poor etiquette to hold a character accountable for a writer's technical abilities.
I mean, I don't know what to tell you. Â Poor me? Â How do you know Ziggy is a dick? Â For all intents and purposes Ignacius started the fight and with a total stranger. Â He's not a dick for defending himself. Â It's not endemic on him to just say, "Oh, you didn't mean what you typed. Â That's okay. Â I'll let you parry, whoever you are, and you can try to kill me on your next action."
It's not about masturbating over grammer, trying to cut someone's head off is functionally different than swinging at someone with the intent to cut there head off if it's available. Â It implies Ignacius wasn't wary of quick reflexes and reactions. Â It's not Ziggy's job to write Ignacius for me.
I can't think of a better way to articulate this, but let me give it a shot. There is a world of difference between "You tried to cut my head off and missed because my character moved/deflected/dodged/whatever" and "You tried to cut my head off but didn't write it well enough so it misses."
I understand what you're trying to say, but you're not seeing this in the context it was originally in. Â This is with total strangers. Â If I'm trying to cut someone's head off, they aren't supposed to let me, especially if I don't know them. Â If we're strangers, all they HAVE is my writing to go on. Â If I don't write it well, that's not on Ziggy, and it's not endemic on him to grant me mercy because I didn't mean to write it that way.
In the end, I wrote it that way. Â In small, closeted, premade groups, this kind of thing isn't an issue. Â However, I don't RP with just a couple friends and I don't like having extended OOC conversations to plan out what's going on. Â I really do like meeting random people for unorganized and organic RP.
Sometimes that means ending up in a fight with a dedicated opponent. Â That's how it goes sometimes. Â Then again, I learned not to write it in a way where Ziggy could interpret my words that way. Â I used the present tense with a future conditional.
The issue rarely came up with me.
