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joiedecombatThe thing that I am concluding drives me crazy about LJ RP as compared to MU*ing is the lack of direct contact with the other players. On a MU*, between scenes there's time spent hanging around out of character, in an OOC room or on channels, and it's not too hard to strike up conversations about things that are going on IC, your characters, or whatever.
On an LJ game, the contact is a lot more limited, especially if there's not an active spam comm or game chat. There's less opportunities to get to know the other players... so there's less opportunities to get a feel for, say, how interested they are in RPing with you, or whether or not it would be okay to approach them for a scene, or where they see your CR going.
Yeah, there's LJ PM and maybe AIM, but it's really hard to work up the nerve to message someone out of the blue, especially if I'm not sure they're even interested in RPing with me in the first place.
C&C, fortunately, has a very active spam comm, so I haven't run into the problem quite so much there. The steady stream of memes does a lot to help break the ice. But I just recently apped into a new game. Into an established cast. With no other players that I know.
I only realized after I'd intro'd how incredibly awkward this is. Now I find myself paralyzed wondering what kind of impression I am making and if these players I would like more CR with are even interested in CR with me at all, and unable to come up with a way to approach them about it without coming across as a) annoying, b) demanding, or c) outright creepy.
Augh. :c
On an LJ game, the contact is a lot more limited, especially if there's not an active spam comm or game chat. There's less opportunities to get to know the other players... so there's less opportunities to get a feel for, say, how interested they are in RPing with you, or whether or not it would be okay to approach them for a scene, or where they see your CR going.
Yeah, there's LJ PM and maybe AIM, but it's really hard to work up the nerve to message someone out of the blue, especially if I'm not sure they're even interested in RPing with me in the first place.
C&C, fortunately, has a very active spam comm, so I haven't run into the problem quite so much there. The steady stream of memes does a lot to help break the ice. But I just recently apped into a new game. Into an established cast. With no other players that I know.
I only realized after I'd intro'd how incredibly awkward this is. Now I find myself paralyzed wondering what kind of impression I am making and if these players I would like more CR with are even interested in CR with me at all, and unable to come up with a way to approach them about it without coming across as a) annoying, b) demanding, or c) outright creepy.
Augh. :c
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Date: 2011-08-09 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-08-09 12:38 am (UTC)shitty fanfiction idea generators or something
logs and logs about knitting sweaters or playing with dogs W/E MAN
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Date: 2011-08-09 12:41 am (UTC)(I still think Squall should run into him sometime, too, just because Blue would give him Warrior of Light flashbacks forever.)
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Date: 2011-08-09 12:42 am (UTC)let's do it right now
mistaken identities prior to goth metal battles
I am down for it
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Date: 2011-08-09 12:56 am (UTC)(This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03AcW7Dnd4g), for the record, is the Warrior of Light, except in my headcanon the fight involved Squall getting pimp-slapped with that shield more than is shown in the video.)
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Date: 2011-08-09 01:01 am (UTC)and LOL OMG THE VOICE ACTING HAHA WHY.........
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Date: 2011-08-09 01:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-09 01:36 am (UTC)i laughed.
AND HERE WE GO