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    Quote Originally Posted by Brigandier View Post
    Bawwww more. I'm not trying to cater to any of you RPers because I consider the whole lot deviants, I was just driving home the point that if it weren't for your "extreme /say RPers" I wouldn't even know you exist.
    Roleplayers aren't deviants in any shape or form. Outdated stereotypes are outdated. Most people who RP are hardly distinguishable from your average player; they enjoy getting shiny new gear and enjoying the game for what it is as much as the next person, except they also like to immerse themselves in the game as much as possible. Acting is fun, and RP is basically just that.

    But you strike me as the type of guy who would also make fun of your school's drama/theatre club, so maybe this is a wasted effort..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreamer View Post
    Roleplayers aren't deviants in any shape or form. Outdated stereotypes are outdated. Most people who RP are hardly distinguishable from your average player; they enjoy getting shiny new gear and enjoying the game for what it is as much as the next person, except they also like to immerse themselves in the game as much as possible. Acting is fun, and RP is basically just that.

    But you strike me as the type of guy who would also make fun of your school's drama/theatre club, so maybe this is a wasted effort..
    I think RPer's are people that those who couldn't make the schools drama/theater (because you have USA in your location you are not british, please use the correct spelling for your location.) club or plays. So they go and subject people to their bad "acting" through text. They choose to "act" in text and from a character in a game because they can't act in real life.

    I would say RPer's in the realm of acting are lower than clowns/mimes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Serdapi View Post
    I think RPer's are people that those who couldn't make the schools drama/theater (because you have USA in your location you are not british, please use the correct spelling for your location.) club or plays. So they go and subject people to their bad "acting" through text. They choose to "act" in text and from a character in a game because they can't act in real life.

    I would say RPer's in the realm of acting are lower than clowns/mimes.
    You can't get nitpicky over the spelling of theater. Both are used, even within the U.S.

    It's like canceling with one L versus cancellation with the two Ls.

    Anyhew, I get the feeling more you want to provoke people into action for kicks and giggles more than you want to genuinely understand and come to an amicable resolution about this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba View Post
    You can't get nitpicky over the spelling of theater. Both are used, even within the U.S.

    It's like canceling with one L versus cancellation with the two Ls.

    Anyhew, I get the feeling more you want to provoke people into action for kicks and giggles more than you want to genuinely understand and come to an amicable resolution about this.
    Also its nothing like canceling and cancellation as they are two different words.

    I think you mean canceling vs cancelling and again unless you are british and using british english( and to point out being british and wanting to be british are different things) it is spelled with 1 L

    Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_is_t..._or_cancelling


    Put a helmet on because I'm about to blow your mind with knowledge.

    http://www.grammarist.com/spelling/theater-theatre/


    BOOOOOOOOOOM
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    Quote Originally Posted by Serdapi View Post
    Also its nothing like canceling and cancellation as they are two different words.

    I think you mean canceling vs cancelling and again unless you are british and using british english( and to point out being british and wanting to be british are different things) it is spelled with 1 L

    Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_is_t..._or_cancelling


    Put a helmet on because I'm about to blow your mind with knowledge.

    http://www.grammarist.com/spelling/theater-theatre/


    BOOOOOOOOOOM

    http://www.grammarist.com/spelling/theater-theatre/
    There is no difference in meaning between theater and theatre. Neither has any special definitions. Theater is the """preferred""" spelling in American English, and theatre is preferred virtually everywhere else.

    Preferred: Like (one thing or person) better than another or others; tend to choose: "I prefer Venice to Rome".

    Kind sir, I would like to point you in the direction of post number 63
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gospel View Post
    http://www.grammarist.com/spelling/theater-theatre/
    There is no difference in meaning between theater and theatre. Neither has any special definitions. Theater is the """preferred""" spelling in American English, and theatre is preferred virtually everywhere else.

    Preferred: Like (one thing or person) better than another or others; tend to choose: "I prefer Venice to Rome".

    Kind sir, I would like to point you in the direction of post number 63

    You gentle clod,

    I'd prefer if you'd use the preferred version for your region.

    Good Day!

    /walksoutofsiteofGospelGestaltleavinghimtoreflectonhisdaffyreply

    (see what I did there?!?!?!?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Serdapi View Post
    You gentle clod,

    I'd prefer if you'd use the preferred version for your region.

    Good Day!

    /walksoutofsiteofGospelGestaltleavinghimtoreflectonhisdaffyreply

    (see what I did there?!?!?!?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Serdapi View Post
    Also its nothing like canceling and cancellation as they are two different words.

    I think you mean canceling vs cancelling and again unless you are british and using british english( and to point out being british and wanting to be british are different things) it is spelled with 1 L

    Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_is_t..._or_cancelling


    Put a helmet on because I'm about to blow your mind with knowledge.

    http://www.grammarist.com/spelling/theater-theatre/


    SONICCCC BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
    Here's where I was going with canceling and cancellation. I have never read a "cancelation policy" in the U.S. It has always been cancellation with TWO L's. Why is this supposed British spelling being used in all these documents for cancellation. Yet, canceled and canceling is a single L in American English with acceptable British spellings of cancelled and cancelling?

    And theatre is an acceptable spelling even in the U.S. You can thank AMC Theatres (American Multi-Cinema) for spreading the U.S. spelling for nearly one hundred years.

    We've gotten way off-topic here...

    On-topic: Your opinion of the motives and history of RP'ers has been noted. I disagree, but noted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba View Post
    Here's where I was going with canceling and cancellation. I have never read a "cancelation policy" in the U.S. It has always been cancellation with TWO L's. Why is this supposed British spelling being used in all these documents for cancellation. Yet, canceled and canceling is a single L in American English with acceptable British spellings of cancelled and cancelling?

    And theatre is an acceptable spelling even in the U.S. You can thank AMC Theatres (American Multi-Cinema) for spreading the U.S. spelling for nearly one hundred years.

    We've gotten way off-topic here...

    On-topic: Your opinion of the motives and history of RP'ers has been noted. I disagree, but noted.
    Off-Topic: Good touch to the Boom. Also if you look at the grammarist website lower on the link there is a graph that shows the spelling of theater in published books. I would take a measured graph of published books by people who write for a living over AMC Theatres who show movies. Also my graph shows more years :P

    On-topic: It is noted that you noted my opinion. I disagree with yours but it is noted that you noted my correct opinion.



    Quote Originally Posted by DrekeLamorte View Post
    I'm going to avoid responding to a lot of the extreme flame that goes on in any thread about immersion, lore, role-play, etc., but instead make a point that I think a lot of haters and RPers alike are missing.

    If they denote New World X as RP server (in the same manner they denoted 10 as FR/DE), then RPers and haters alike have the information prior to phase 1 on what to choose/not choose. Regardless of whether or not you choose some one to avoid _____ or not, some players will be allocated by SE automatically after everyone's choices are made, and locked in phase 2. What this means, is that it will not be a barren server or more populated then any other server, #10 included, because SE is doing the merge to balance the population of all the servers.

    Part of the distribution of players is out of our hands. If for example, 9 becomes RP and 10 becomes FR/DE, and there is a huge lack of active accounts being filtered there by them(SE), they would be at the same crossroad they were at when they decided it was necessary for a merge.


    PS:



    (See what I did there?)
    I do and you sir win a cookie for noticing my hidden troll of RPer's. Do you think I would RP correctly while flaming it? You seem smarter than that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreamer View Post
    Roleplayers aren't deviants in any shape or form. Outdated stereotypes are outdated. Most people who RP are hardly distinguishable from your average player; they enjoy getting shiny new gear and enjoying the game for what it is as much as the next person, except they also like to immerse themselves in the game as much as possible. Acting is fun, and RP is basically just that.

    'Roleplayers' as a whole? No. They're not terrible, wierd deviants at all. They are a subculture. And like any other subculture, the few bad/wierd/ect spoil it for everyone. You can't really say deviant behavior does not exist in the community, because it does. All over the place.

    While some people are perfectly acceptable/tolerant, others aren't, or are going to hate-blast the entire culture as a whole for their bad encounter with a few. Can't really do anything about that, aside from don't shove your culture down someone elses throat. There's plenty of sub cultures I would not want to see thrown into my face on a regular basis.

    I don't like /say rp. I can't personally do it, because I find it rude. I don't want to spam the rest of the population currently in a location with my in character conversation. And if I need to, I keep my conversation mild and short winded, or ask if we can move. I prefer to keep my roleplaying within the roleplaying friendly linkshell that I have, unless I'm taking part in an event that's out of the way, as to not offend.

    Edit: Derp, I misread the last part. I didn't see you were originally striking out at Brigandier. However! I would like to touch on something about the whole idea some people do have that 'we're just acting/whatever'. (and something on Brigandiers post after mine) If they wanted to see a play, they'd go to the proper places to see one. I don't think it's fair to the general server community to force them to see a play they didn't ask to see. Now, if you want to advertise a specific roleplay-friendly event somewhere that's not smack dab in the middle of Ul'dah (for example, in front of the Ul'dah Aetheryte Plaza) or some other heavily populated area, and you get heavy backlash, then sure, I can understand getting upset.
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    Last edited by Diyne; 02-11-2012 at 06:46 AM.

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