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I miss Yahoo chat sometimes. Once someone told me to go back to Africa because I was big into Marilyn Manson at the time and I'd changed my name to something like A_Black_Rainbow. I was in the white supremacy chat room trolling them anyway, but I literally didn't even consider my name.
An Example of which is trying to get people to listen to Sleater-Kinney showing them songs like Step Aside and getting answers of they sound like Florence and the Machine which upon I want to scream at them
...
Or rammstein.
Hello me from 10 years ago. I have a lot of things I need to tell you but I don't know where to start.
i got absolutely hooked on everquest shortly after, then migrated to IMC chat and got hooked on an Alternate DBZ room, which despite first impressions from its name was actually very clever. various campaigns were waged similar to a d&d setting in the modern world, with a structured method for gaining weapons or techniques and gaining power. my favorite thing to do though was just coming up with the ideas and backgrounds of these characters and figuring out how to work them into the setting. I had a time travelling bounty hunter who never actually did anything, a superman knockoff, a robot, an addict who'd dose himself with superjuice, a lucky dude, and more. That was prettyfun.
after that i got caught up into the City of Heros rp server on virtue and had some incredible times. While it started rough it became an amazing game that did so many things rightu, somehow avoiding the toxic internet trolls and built up a supportive and endearing community. CoH died far too soon as a result of an incredibly boneheaded decision on ncsoft.
ive only now started playing ffxiv on the roleplaying server gilgamesh but its a bit more wowish than id like. still its people are fairly friendly and can make for a fun experience. the lore and background just screams for a fun roleplaying experience.
through all of this ive never felt judged or looked down upon for not being one of the elite, but I guess I've been pretty lucky. ive always tried to be inclusive and visible in those areas though so that might be a part of it.
good times man.
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To be fair, it was more of an infiltration thing and led to us walking away with almost all their things and a house
i told everyone that the RP'ing was super awkward and weird and just strange
but it took a fair few weeks
during which i taught myself how to speak orcish
in my spare time
Like, I remember that I played a lady character. And people would send me messages inviting me to chat, or would just give me items, and I couldn't figure out why. When I discovered that it was because they thought I was a lady in the real world, I was deeply confused. I thought it akin to watching a person play Donkey Kong Country and assuming that person was an ape. I hadn't yet learned all the baggage attached to gender identity in online gaming. What I did learn was that free shit was awesome, so I would encourage the people sending me stuff to do so. My thinking was something along the lines of, "Well, this shit is fake for me, so it must be exactly as fake for everyone else," because 13-year-old boys are the most solipsistic ponces on the planet. And thus would I string dudes along for free gold and boots and whatever.
My other main memory of The Realm was dipping my toe into a roleplaying server, and being really intimidated by everyone. Not just the quality of their material, but the speed. I couldn't even fathom how people could make shit up so well, so quickly. I abandoned it after just a day or two, because I felt like I'd bring everybody down.
Given that I now do improv and want to write for a living, this is fairly amusing.
Occasionally we would do "proper" RP threads with a story where we all went on some quest or whatever, but mostly we just hung out and chatted as our dragonsonas. Mine was a male (heh) dragon named Bek Kodosi and man I came up with fucking histories and shit for this character, he had a whole world.
Basically I played a lot of pretend as a child and as I got older up and my friends grew out of it I kind of didn't. I guess cos blah blah I was a lonely nerd who didn't really connect with other kids right. So I fucking LOVED being a dragon. The hilarious thing is I saw what we did as totally different from furries, because duh, we were dragons.
And maybe I was just naive and oblivious but I never once witnessed anything creepy, I'm sure there was that stuff going on but people were pretty sensible about it. And the guys I hung out with in chat ended up being some good livejournal friends for some years after.
So really this isn't a confession because I feel no shame. I was a dragon and it was awesome.
I played a lot of games in the yahoo chat rooms because they were there and people were up for a talk while playing
But like I said you would find some strange ass conversations on some of those rooms
... Of course. Of course people would do that. I never even considered it a possibility, but it is text, and anonymous, and this is the internet...
Heh. Seriously, if we're here all confessing to our younger selves, what are the current generation of youngsters doing?
So here's the part that's bugged me for a long time. As I've mentioned before, I've never been with anyone in real life. Oh, sure, I've roleplayed out tons of shit, but.. I've barely ever kissed anyone. I only have mental images, which I'm sure is going to fuck up my first time with someone due to improper expectations. But more than that.. I figure that someday, I'm going to need to explain myself to whomever I meet and fall for. And more than that, I'm going to need someone who is okay with it, and ideally will participate in it at some level, because storytelling is in my blood at this point. I don't know if I can sacrifice it. So... I think that's why I've avoided going out and looking for someone. And because I'm in a small town in the middle of nowhere, the nerd options are small and the general populace is conservative. So this.. has kinda paralyzed me. Yet this thread's given me a bit of perspective. Okay, a lot of perspective. I'm still going to need to explain myself, someday. But maybe it won't be so bad.
I'm not kidding. 15 years of hating myself for what I do with my free time, thinking I was a monster. Is it any wonder my self esteem was so low? Well, that, and being considered an arrogant asshole by some of my "friends." I hate bragging about myself.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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I used to draw him all the time but I lost a lot of my drawings in The Great Angst of '02 and this is the only one I could find.
I just spent hours on MSN messenger talking to friends from school. And I joined a forum for fans of my favorite band.
Also I've been here 10 years.
A decade.
Bloody hell
at least eight of them were gonna be women
if you ever did that, hey guess what you might have done that with me and it accidentally was super creepy
Give me people as different from me as possible, please and thank you.
I couldn't find good pants for her at first and didn't play much until I gave her a nice set of slacks.
Could be worse.
to date, i never found the guy, and im still not that guy
... A male mon-Kalamari
The Internet would have a field day with akbar jokes nowadays but I did crafting too. Still it was weird seeing the creepy seedy cantina scene on tattooine first hand.
I feel honoured for potentally having cybered with you.
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Every now and then I'd stumble across a girl (I assumed) that wanted to talk dirty and I'd do the best my inexperienced young teen self could do
"I feel your boob. It feels awesome."
well, like we said about old old varrock
As I grew older and more wisened, I've learned it's fun to call someone a boob.
God dammits and horseshits.
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2DS/3DS Friend code 0361-7385-2366
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2DS/3DS Friend code 0361-7385-2366
Twitter: @PoeticGecko
2DS/3DS Friend code 0361-7385-2366
Twitter: @PoeticGecko
First time I ever actually RP'd though was on was Feila (which just required me to put 'furry roleplay' into google due to not remembering the spelling, god help me). This being my first interaction with the whole furry thing is why I think I don't wig out at that fandom like alot of people. I was actually pretty good at writing prior to starting for my age group (probably about 14, at a guess, numbers are hard) and got right into it with my first character who was a fox whose gender changed from day to day. Which considering I've since pretty much played nothing but female characters in games and in roleplay (no, not smut) was kind of a trend setter I guess.
I don't think there's much to say past that, I wrote some kinda dumb characters, was entirely too focused on having characters be more down to earth/normal which left them feeling out of tone with most other forumers leet powerful demi-god designs and ultimately just stopped turning up when it stopped interesting me.
I did however meet this hot Aussie bloke about my age who just finished his first year of law school and I still chat with to this day. So you know, that's a significant plus.
EDIT: Oh shit I'm still on top posters. Well that's hilarious.
I played a handful of characters there from middle school through age 18 or so, along with a buddy who also played there on and off. We also fucked around on a few other MU*s--one using World of Darkness, one using some Star Wars RPG system. We were both on and off online RPers, but he was more on than off, and he really committed to a Tolkien/LOTR MUSH. He met his wife there! They celebrated their ninth anniversary a month ago. And I play games with them every Wednesday!
I never got into any cyber stuff on Shadowrun Seattle MUSH. It was the kind of thing that was so frequently mocked in public OOC chat that I couldn't imagine anyone actually setting up a private scene for their characters to get it on. Near the end of my time there, I had a stint as a RP admin, and discovered from some other long-time staffers that there were a few regular players who cybered all the fucking time. Admins could go invisible and visit any location in the game, and there was actually a rule for admins that, if eavesdropping on a scene, as soon as they realized something cyber was gonna happen between players they had to GTFO of that location and stop following the scene.
Internet!