F.U.S.L.

I’m cool, now.

After ranting to a friend (thank you, Mister) I finally got a grasp on my SL experience.  I take it too seriously.  It’s a game, costly, but a game nonetheless.  If I let every idiot who does the most asinine things tick me off … well, heh, I’ll never enjoy the ridiculous hours I put into this GAME.

So, starting from …8:56 o’clock, a.m., I will no longer take anything in Second Life seriously.  Pixels will not piss me off.  That’s not to say I won’t continue to blog about the tards I meet throughout my acid-induced meta-adventures, no.  You guys are still feckin’ gold.  Even Linden Labs doin’ me in da butt raw, will not put a glitch in my AO step.  Ah … feels good.

Now, for something not-so-interesting-but-I’ll-blog-about-it-anyhow.  Roleplay.  Sure, Second Life has all the glitz, glamour, and cool scripts my past stomping grounds lacked.  But, Furcadia, my long-lost lurver, will still be better than Second Life in at least one venture.  We roleplay there.  Like, for real roleplay, ya’ll.  We didn’t have pose balls to sit on that carried you throughout a scripted fight (i.e., Mouselook-click-hit). No, you wrote out everything.  From the glint of your blade to the dust you kicked up while dashing forth to put some serious pwnage on a sucka.  It was the bee’s knees.

And I think that because I compare all my experiences to those in Furcadia, Second Life … no matter what new client WindLight concepts they come up with, always falls short for me.  Sure, you can only be bi-pedal furries (by way of avatar AND don’t confuse the furry bit …) in Furcadia, but that’s all the more reason why I put more clout in it, than in Second Life.  In Second Life, you all get way too caught up in how an avatar looks versus whether or not they can actually provide competent roleplay … hell, screw ‘competent’, can they even post a complete sentence?  This isn’t a bash to the general roleplay community, but no … most of you do not know how to roleplay.  This isn’t an elitist attitude, either.  This is a roleplayer with consecutive years (over ten years), stories, conceptual storylines, character creation, novellas based on roleplay scenarios, organizational duties in a roleplay forum/cast/implementation group, yadda-yadda.  End point, I’m not new to this.

And I know enough to know that you bumping into me isn’t roleplay.  And you yelling ‘Girl!’ at me, isn’t a substitute for a decent post.  This isn’t to say I am the best, I’m a decent roleplayer and I can hang with nearly every spectrum of roleplay.  Some will scoff and pretty much say ‘So?’.  No, it won’t mean much to those who feel that posting a three paragraph entry with superfluous adjectives and words they’ve only just discovered in the thesaurus.  Because they cannot roleplay.  They preen.  They also haven’t grasped the basic concept of what roleplay is:  a collaboration of imaginations meant to entertain all those who participate in the scenario.  Those of you who regularly and purposely post these absurd entries/exits/two-word greetings consisting of a 154 word count are flaunting only the fact that you know how to use a thesaurus.  I consider someone who can intrigue me with a descriptive, two sentence post to be a nicely-seasoned roleplayer.  Mr. Three Paragraph only annoys the shit out of me, because afterwards every player in chat range has to SCROLL UP TO SEE THE POST before his.  Sure, you want to show that you’ve some mad skills, that’s fine.  But the ten minutes it takes you to post those three paragraphs, everyone around you has continued to interact.  It boils down to etiquette, seriously.  If we all posted three paragraphs, we’d be roleplaying well into the morning, a scene that only takes about an hour to complete.  So stop posting much about nothing, please and thank you.  The laggy-haired slaves will still want to lick your feet, if you keep it to two or three sentences. I promise.

Sidebar: OCULAR is NOT a synonym for EYES.  So, dahlink your oculars of mesmerizing cerulean mysteries … ain’t.  And orbs, for the love of Linden.  Just use eyes?  You will not suffer the horror that is anal rape should you use the noun EYES.

Geez, when I get off-topic I get off topic, huh?  Anyhow, I said all the above to get to this: 

We’re so caught up in looks (slider bewbs, $5000L skin, and big-booty shapes) that we often brush-off those who are here to roleplay.  Its sad, and hell it happens to me all the time. But, I’m crazy.  I’ve been known to enter a roleplay sim, and if every post I make to those I come across is ignored, I will roleplay with myself.  Yep.  You may just find Seri in the ever-empty café in Kingdom of Sand roleplaying with herself.  She’ll either be cleaning, musing aloud, or trying to figure out a way to steal some of those yummy honey cakes without the proprietor figuring out she’s the culprit.  In fact, I do it often (play with myself that is .. har, har) in the following sims:

VtM: Little Tokyo

Kindgom of Sand (as mentioned above)

(Several medieval-fantasy sims … it’s a huge community)

VtM: Santa Monica

Deadwood

There’s a slew more, but without access to my landmarks, I dunno know where I went.  Sowwy.

The point is, its pretty … sad/interesting/ridiculous that I venture to all these sims, with their supposed six digit traffic records … and no one roleplays.

I take that back, in KoS (Kingdom of Sand) last night I tried interacting with a fellow who was standing at the entry.  I took on my cheeky ‘café girl’ persona and tried to urge him to visit said café with adorable broken English and constantly tugging at his muscled arm.  He gave only two word responses to my descriptive posts, but relented eventually.  The very moment we entered in the city, he was distracted by giggling half-naked Gor-girls disguised as ‘harem’ chicks (the ‘greetings Master! *teehee*’ kinda gave it away, girls).  Naturally he walked away from me mid-post and cornered one in the market.

I don’t mind things like this, but have a little consideration, hm?  I can assure you, I’d be the last player to get pissed if you responded to any initial post I make with this in i/m: Hello, Seri. I’m not really interested in purusing this. I’m just looking for a quick fix capture-wise.

Not a problem. After all, KoS ‘is’ CAPTURE-roleplay.  If you don’t waste my time from the beginning, we can still be BFFs in another life .. err .. alt’s lifetime.

But uh … if anyone reading this actually roleplays in KoS … can you like i/m me?  I love the lay of the sim, so I go often … but its rare that I ever find entertaining roleplay.  I always end up walking into chat range of some Gor-Master-In-Disguise telling some Gor-Slave-In-Disguise that he’ll spank her later but now he wants her to suck his prim penis.  I’m serious. It never fails.  Three times now …

So now you know.  And knowing is half the battle! *stalks off whistling the G.I. Joe theme song*

F.Y.I. – I didn’t even bother to read over this … man, how many topics did I skip over/through/under?! Sowwy.