4.1 and us Lalas

[Niraves]

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Not even hateful? LOL.. Some people are downright NASTY with how they treat me because I play a Lala. I've had so-called friends that stopped talking to me because I fantasia'd into a Lala. It's one thing if you know the person and know they are okay with being poked fun at, its entirely another issue to go into a dungeon and be a complete jerk to a random stranger.

Am I maybe a little overly sensitive about it? Yea, maybe. But I'm honestly tired of being poked at by people just because I play the race that I like. I have enough selfconfidence issues without some jerkwad on the internet insulting me constantly every time I go into DF.

[Welsper59]

Not even hateful? LOL.. Some people are downright NASTY with how they treat me because I play a Lala. I've had so-called friends that stopped talking to me because I fantasia'd into a Lala. It's one thing if you know the person and know they are okay with being poked fun at, its entirely another issue to go into a dungeon and be a complete jerk to a random stranger.

Am I maybe a little overly sensitive about it? Yea, maybe. But I'm honestly tired of being poked at by people just because I play the race that I like. I have enough selfconfidence issues without some jerkwad on the internet insulting me constantly every time I go into DF.

That situation you posed is a different matter and one I'd argue isn't normal. That's one where they took the matter too seriously... like they need psychiatric therapy levels of seriously. Those are, IMO, not the sort of people you really want to associate with, even in a game. Creepy ass folks to deal with on the daily. To be honest, some of the hateful responses really aren't to be taken seriously, at least from what I've personally seen on the game and on these forums. Yeah, some people take their jokes a little too far (as in to uncomfortable lengths of time), but it's generally pretty obvious they're playing into the thought. Your situation of people stopping their talks with you because of the fact you changed to a Lala is stupid and shouldn't be worth your time to feel concern over. Crazy ass people there.

It's one thing to be irritated about the constant jokes, similar to being irritated about a newsfeed being all about an overplayed topic of nothing, but it's another to take fiction seriously in a negative way. Unless someone starts to make it personal (i.e. it being about you and not something related to the fictional character), it's generally not intended to be taken seriously. When the jokes start being hurtful about the player and not the character, that's when you know there's something wrong with them.