Decommissioned But Clever Anti-Phantom Rant

[worldstrider]

Wait, let me get this straight:

Your characters have huge egos, and they would never surrender to someone like a Phantom, and you're pissed that they got blown up?

It sounds rather inRP for them to get blown up rather than to surrender.

So, why are you angry? You RPed it correctly. Your bitching is rather OORP considering your characters' RP.

What I see the problem as here is not hedonism or selfish RP, or forcing you into a specific route of RP... it's your inability to adapt your RP to other situations. And that, sir, happens to everyone at some point in time - to me, to pirates, to the Phantoms. It's just that there's no need to deflect that problem onto others.

Stole the words out of my mouth you devil! EVERYTHING IS SALES--there are just those who know it and those who don't. You did chose the role play and like that of the Phantoms, it forces you into a position where options are limited. You are a victim of the very rp you decry them for--inflexible with death as a consequence. Just the way it is--sort of like getting pirated.

As to bending so someone else can win--sort of like playing chess and underplaying so the other person can win. They learn nothing. If you are up against a weaker ego in rp, you can try to "help" but no one should "have to die" so the other person feels better. By that I mean if they have the means to win, they should be able to and if they chose to be softer then its fine but they certainly don't have to "get killed" so someone else has fun. What's ironic is the level of play we are talking about here is the level of play an adult has with a small child--not competition and a match of skill and wits between adults. I taught even my children to play chess by beating them but stopping along the way and showing them how I was and teaching them how to stop me from doing it...but never by "throwing the game".

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