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Post by SEADRA on Jul 21, 2013 19:40:39 GMT -8
i don't see why us old people need a forum of our own, unless all you young whippernsappers want to kick us in to an old folks home, that's it isn't it i'm on to you B( i just meant because, like...when you get older and don't have time to keep up with rps and stuff you can make your own board and rp whenever you want and plot and not have to worry about time or being busy or going out of town for a short weekend and your site pretty much dying because of it. :'D
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Post by dream eater on Jul 21, 2013 19:47:37 GMT -8
... i've thought long and hard about this.
i will stop roleplaying when i've given up on internet.
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Post by URBAN on Jul 21, 2013 19:53:51 GMT -8
Interesting question... Honostly i'm sure there will come a point where it doesn't interest me anymore (though that's a long time off), so yes im sure there will be a time where i stop Role playing...
I've taken breaks from it before, i think the longest one was two years. So it's not that hard to believe. xD
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Post by UMBY on Jul 21, 2013 20:35:13 GMT -8
we can't stop we won't stop can't you see its we who run these sites can't you see its we who bout this (animu) life
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the greatest general under the heavens
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Post by Egao, Egao Everywhere on Jul 21, 2013 20:36:42 GMT -8
I've plotted my professional career after college in a schedule that I will still be able to RP.
But lol if I lose interest, I'll stop. Last time I did, that's what happened but there was also the fact the sites I was on for a long time was dying and I didn't feel like doing admin duties anymore.
I dropped rping so I can write fanfics xD
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Post by BIG FUCKBOI GAMBINO on Jul 21, 2013 21:04:58 GMT -8
i stop, i stop all the time.
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I'VE BEEN A MENACE FOR THE LONGEST
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Post by WILLOW on Jul 21, 2013 21:07:57 GMT -8
roleplaying to me is really tiring at this point.
i feel physically and mentally tired after roleplaying and the only thing i somewhat like is making new characters. i'll be that loser who says i'm probably going to quit sometime soon.
idk, i just feel a whole lot freer when i'm not roleplaying and it's really awesome when i don't have to stress over replies or plots or keeping character's in-character or doing applications right.
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Post by birdie ♕ on Jul 21, 2013 21:12:39 GMT -8
i feel you so much it's so stressful and makes me feel like a big contradiction because i hate/love the communities i hate/love making characters i hate/love plots i hate/love writing it's like
im in an abusive relationship with rp it keeps beating me up and i just keep comin back
bc when im not doing it i miss it but when i am doing it it makes me sad u feel
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the greatest general under the heavens
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Post by Egao, Egao Everywhere on Jul 21, 2013 21:23:56 GMT -8
Ugh, it makes me sad how so many people end up with negative feelings about rping. It makes me want to RP with you guys just so we can all be happy. RPing makes me super happy for some reason so I want to be able to share that happiness in some way.
I do know where you guys are going because I think the PB RP community has a sort of curse lol. If I were you guys, I'd join a site that makes no use of templates, doesn't really have a pretty skin, but has a good amount of members, active staff, and running plot you can work on and ofc a quality you can work with. Just go on a place where you won't have to worry about posting with emo angst description or looking pretty with graphics. I don't know if you guys will be able to relate with this but that's what usually happens with me with PB, so I move on to other communities where story and narrative is more of a focus, with char relationship just being a hair lower.
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I'VE BEEN A MENACE FOR THE LONGEST
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Post by WILLOW on Jul 21, 2013 22:52:02 GMT -8
i feel you birdie i feel you /pats.
tanz, i'd love to do that, but i just, nothing holds my interest no matter how much i love it in the rp world. and site hoppers are really frowned upon so i just don't join sites.
it's gotten to the point where even if i want to, i mentally cannot stay on a site a week+
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Post by konya on Jul 22, 2013 0:05:40 GMT -8
some tips to enjoying rp
- do not pressure yourself to post - let your partners know your pace, and if that pace is going to change - rp on sites without an activity rule - don't use templates if you don't want to, use them if you do
bam.
the pb community is no better or worse than anywhere else.
find a chill admin (i'm a chill admin hint hint) and wander in and out as you please. no one sane is going to bite your head off for not posting once every five seconds. you don't need a special 'people with no time' site - you just need to be honest with who you're threading with and let them know if you're too busy to post.
i took two months off. i let my partners know. we're now threading and having fun again. bam. fun. when i had aisu i had a "can only post on weekends" policy. so did my partner. we had a ball. communication is great, sometimes i wonder why more people don't use it.
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A seadog looking for crewmates
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Post by Elena on Jul 22, 2013 8:07:49 GMT -8
just like this age discussion it doesn't really matter because you can be 30 and less mature than a 15 year old i don't see why us old people need a forum of our own, unless all you young whippernsappers want to kick us in to an old folks home. Exactly. I am 45. I have written alone, various stories, since 7 up to 41, when I discovered RPGs. In RPGs I have written with people from 14 to 75 and I found good writers at any age, and some in their late 20s or 30s less mature than some 15 years old (and prone to drama). Some time I might quit RP-ing, if I get disapointed, but I'll never quit writing; I'll simply return to writing alone, which now I find less rewarding than writing with partners. If my site dies some day, I don't think I'd open another (well, except the Viking one, which waits to be opened but I can't find staff for it.) Writing partners thinking alike might be found in all age groups, and writing has nothing to do with age. There were writers who were famous after retirement because then they had more time to write, or more money to actually publish what they had written. (And some got published postumously).
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Post by beekeeper on Jul 22, 2013 9:07:50 GMT -8
Ever since I started rping, I've always been very on and off about it. I'd probably be off right now if not for Ambi tbh, but it is an awful and abusive relationship. Mostly because I have super high school level low self esteem and am constantly convinced nobody likes my characters plots threads etc. It's like... really discouraging when every thread thread dies and every partner leaves.
At the same time, I have a couple really great partners and really great ships (looking at u sugar n burd n pebbs n electric) that keep me around I guess. I don't rp much outside my circle, if only because I've been abandoned too many times and my heart is weak it cannot take much more.
But yeah, I'll probably stop eventually, I'd like to do more independent writing but rping is great practice and I guess I feel more motivated, because I do need that bit of pressure of knowing people are waiting on me, and also because I'm bad at plots and I need other people to do them for me haha.
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Post by Pool Boy on Jul 22, 2013 9:28:17 GMT -8
i stop, i stop all the time. not if yr still here saitokins~
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Post by gojira on Jul 22, 2013 10:43:23 GMT -8
i stop because i have no time, i go back because i have too much free time.
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