(01-28-2017, 06:53 PM)Imperial Frost Federation Wrote:

(01-28-2017, 06:48 PM)sandaoguo Wrote: Slightly unrelated, but I think anybody doing it should drop any "roleplaying" act right now. Characters are for the roleplaying forums. We should all be our true selves outside of it.


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My persona is more a Facet of user Frost than a "role playing" character, but because it's such a separate entity it felt more appropriate to use "role play". This is politics after all and it doesn't hurt to have a public face and private face with some differing views. Otherwise there'd be no end to being hurt unless you develop a very thick skin. At the very least I'd like to be able to objectively see what I'm doing wrong or right as opposed to being emotionally invested and not see reason.

There is some logic to that and, interestingly, it was a point Todd McCloud bright up in his lecture on bridging the gap between gameplayers and roleplayers, that of more gameplayers used personas (as, apparently, used to be more common) the issue of GP toxicity might be diminished once more.

For myself, though I love roleplay and acting, I want to me in this arena. That doesn't mean no room for distance and objectivity, but it does mean that I can maintain my sincerity and, I guess, wear my naivete on my sleeve. For all that it may appear a monumental weakness, I think there's a kind of strength to it.

I'll halt my digression here, though.