It has been close to 4 years since I started my Gaia Journal, and 3 with Live Journal, so I shall restart it. My name is Justin, and I live in Virginia. But then, that's what you need to know.

The title resulted from an older title of my older blogs. It was Observations on Earth from the Sea of Tranquility. But in almost every forum I've been in, the location indicator has always been 'Tsienville, Europa', an homage to Stanley Kubrick's momentous work. This is a clone of my blog on Gamer's Sanctuary.

Anyways, what will this blog produce, if it even produce anything at all?

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Roleplaying Ineptness and Issues with Idiots, Part 1

Posted 05-02-2008 at 07:46 PM by Okazaki Tomoya

"Roleplaying is like writing a story with several people."
-Unnamed friend.

Roleplaying. This is merely a follow up to the Identity Issues and Melancholic States blog entry, written, oh...like a few hours ago for me. The focus mainly is me venting about roleplaying. In particular, online text based roleplay.

I know many people scorn it. I know many people would hate me for it. But guess what? Tough luck. I have my preferences and you have yours. If you're going to bitch about it, shows how mature you are eh? Bitch because it isn't like DnD. Bitch because it isn't like World of Warcraft. (which is a very shitty game, compared to others out there, especially when compared against EVE Online)

But my main beef comes from idiots. Noobs or not, it all comes from idiots. I've role played for 4 years, and I'm still growing. I've reached a stagnation phase where I've yet to evolve more, but its provided a fairly good view at the masses in the metaphorical climb up to roleplaying nirvana to bask in the likes of Gary Gygax, Viola Spolin, and Richard Allan Bartle.

So...what's the purpose on this rant? Well, its mainly me reminiscing on the good old days. When people applied themselves to role plays and used common sense, some intelligence, to craft beautiful stories that usually didn't involve linear plots where it has already been covered by some other genre quite effectively.

People tend to also be influential in how I see where a roleplay will go. If the universe is created in compromise, or willingly joined, then there is the possibility for a good roleplay. But if the people within it are in different levels of literacy, and how serious the people are, it effects the overall 'fun' of the game.

I guess I'll save the actual things for a later rant, my train of thought has disappeared.