(11-20-2015, 01:13 PM)Kismet Wrote: Everyone should just be like me and assume everyone just flat-out sucks from the get go. That way, when it turns out they're NOT shit, then I get to be pleasantly surprised! If not? Then I have nothing to be disappointed about because I already expected a lack of quality, so then I can be on my merry way.
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don't get me wrong, it's great that this method works for you, but it does not work for everyone
I know this might just be a joke, but you did use the term 'everyone' and I know that a lot of people IRL and on internet believe that pessimism is entirely more mature and smart than being optimistic or even ambivalent. It's one way of looking at things, is all. Personally, if I were to be so pessimistic regarding all new people I meet, it would be extremely draining seeing as I already become very stressed at times interacting socially
for the main topic, i agree with what seems to be the consensus: everyone should be allowed to seek out specific types of RP as a tool to filter out more enjoyment, but that shouldn't be turned into a method of judging those who don't fit into those specific types, nor should it be turned into a statement of what rp is better or more proper. After all, there really isn't any correct way to RP, and the grammar-poor hasty quicksand ERP is RP just as much as the months planned out, elaborate, no rules broken, immersion-centric RP is.
RP scrub incoming 