(02-07-2014, 12:14 AM)Kampanom Wrote: Generally, rping as a space nazi couldn't have been that bad.
Amusingly the only real kicker is the Jews, since otherwise they would have been the same as any other contemporary totalitarian government, and with a lower bodycount than the Soviets, but that's a digression and irrelevant: my rendition didn't even invoke race, so I was being conservative even there.
Quote:... should've boycotted this game but, luckily, we all have shown some maturity, but that maturity was shown by not taking this game too much seriously wich, instead, you did. Telling a story? Sure. Giving a simple message, pro or against what the character is doing? Sure. But absolutely not in a too much serious way, or else this game would become a drama depot, and the fact that it is a roleplaying game already makes it dangerously close to it by default.
So you take my term "serious" and equate it to "I espouse the politics I just described and will defend it to the death." You link me, personally, with an idea, with a narrative, asserting that the personal "drama" is inevitably bound up with the literary drama of the narrative. I just got finished delineating between the two, and your retort is to accuse me of doing it?
No, the point is to take it seriously enough to Tell A Decent Story, and to do that you have to be true to what that story entails. If that involved something that would necessarily result in death, carnage, and unsavory moral dilemmas then you should have the intellectual honesty to carry it through to the conclusion, without sugar coating it, dumbing it down, or glossing over the bad parts in favor of the good. Not taking it seriously, from this perspective, would be like claiming the above Nazi-esque party is "100% angelic, can do no wrong, is perfect in every way, the propaganda is all true." The alternative of not taking it seriously, of not doing the legwork to figure out how it works, how it would react to circumstances, and where it would lead, would result in a pointless group like a monarchist faction. "Nobody knows or cares about it because it's fundamentally not any different or special than the existing bog-standard factions."
Why is it that people treat Hollywood Nazis "seriously" even when they're being two dimensional, disposable cookie-cutter bad guys? But then when some depth is added to them it's scoffed at?
Quote:Controversies must be avoided,
Funny, the only controversy is that I dare to commit Thought Crime, whereas on my end there isn't a controversy at all. I wanted to tell a story and was shot down for a myriad of flimsy excuses. And that's not even scratching the surface of the very notion that "controversy must be avoided." Frankly I find that notion Disgusting, because it's proscription for a gag order.
Quote:although I do admit that banning a...theme, a subject is no correct way to avoid them and, of course, roleplaying as a certain kind of character in no way means being close to it.
Except you just combined me and my idea into one entity resulting in a "drama mill." How can you agree with me, and then not agree with me at the same time?
Quote:A person may as well roleplay as a character that represents everything one disgusts, although that is not in any way an easy effort.
It is if you're actually distinguishing between the author and the story, which for me is as easy as breathing. My only objective is to do it as realistically as possible, both the good and the bad. What good is a role poorly played? That's bad comedy.
Quote:By the way, I wasn't saying I would've made the faction, I only said I would've liked the idea of making that faction, although I wouldn't have been involved in it, except the occasional encounter with them ingame.
You sound like you're trying to cover your rear in anticipation of the Gestapo. Food for thought.
Quote:Rheinland does needs a monarchist...nostalgic faction, after all.
But even if it has one, nothing will come of it because of how this place is run, and the way its members generally think. Then again, there's no lack of far left factions. It's amusing that you cite a need for a "nostalgic faction" when I'm at a loss to find a single opponent on the conservative or Right side of things. But in the end, that's also a result of living in our times.
