Re: GAME PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2017-06-14 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
People who guilt trip about how their job is hard/life is shit/they have nothing else and thus they 'need rp'

I am not your fun dispenser

This game is not your collective fun dispenser

Stop

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2017-06-16 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
i don't see how that's any different from needing any other kind of group hobby

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2017-06-16 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
whatever. just do your tags.

(Anonymous) 2017-06-17 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
... yes it is.

that's the entire point of a fucking game. games absolutely are a fun dispenser you hypersensitive knob.

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2017-06-17 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
jfc what is going on with the anons who relied to this?

it's never okay to try and guilt trip someone into tagging you, what the fuck

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2017-06-17 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm sort of 50/50 on this one

on one hand "life is shit, at least i have rp. thank god for escapist hobbies" is not guilt-tripping anybody except for the sensitive souls who can't stand the slightest hint that their tags mean anything to anyone

on the other hand "life is shit AND MY INBOX IS EMPTY, plz someone tag me back i need rp" is not okay. it really depends on how it's phrased and whether there's a specific demand attached as to whether it's over the line.

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2017-06-17 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
i can also handle situations similar to the latter depending on how it's phrased. someone going, "hey, life is pretty rough for me right now, would anyone be up for some threads?" isn't a guilt trip imo. i think the bigger factor is how demanding someone is about it.

ayrt

(Anonymous) 2017-06-17 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
that is a good point. it's also based on the strength of the guilt-trip, i'd say. nothing wrong with "things are shitty irl" as an explanation for why someone wants fluffy threads, but hitting notes like "i can't cope without this" does imply that if people turn them down for threads it's going to result in unspecified Bad Things for them.

i'd say it's a good rule of thumb to cut back on the dramatic rhetoric about how much someone needs rp in proportion to how specific and direct the request is they're making, in order to not cross any "you have to rp this thing with me, right now, or you're responsible for my woe and misery" type lines.