You're lame, I'm lame, we're all lame.
Everyone on bad_rpers_suck is LAME according to xregretxnothing, who has wasted her time explaining how we're all wasting our time.

xregretxnothing:
This will probably be deleted by the mods and I'll probably be kicked out, but I don't much mind since I don't even like these types of communities. I find it pathetic. So much energy wasted over what - words?! Not even words you can repeat to yourself at night because you know what they sound like, mind you, but words typed up on a keyboard to appear on a computer monitor. Pixels.

What makes it cool to hate something so much, whatever it is? I don't care if it's the President of the United States or an RP'er who doesn't know how to correctly conjugate the verb 'to be' - WHAT is so fucking cool about taking 20-plus minutes of your life aside when you could be doing something physically productive instead of typing out tripe about some shit-head you don't even know nor ever will?

Yes, I realise I am probably wasting my time. I don't care. Because I don't know any of you, nor do I care what any of you think. It's a total waste of time. So someone says the RP I help to run is to elite and cliquey. So, that's why it's called Elite. If you don't like it, don't apply. Don't bash it, because honestly, it's a waste of time. Who's going to listen to you except others who feel the same way? And obviously you're all going to sit around and suck each others' dicks. What it all comes down to is you all feel so miserably about yourselves that you have to pick apart people you don't even know. And don't tell me that I don't know you so I'm a hypocrite. This isn't really about knowing anyone. I am extending this to everyone, everywhere, in my mind. Hating gets you nowhere. Doesn't matter how well you know the person, it's just in my opinion more fruitless when you don't even know them.

There are only 29 comments so far, but some of the members are already bringing the funny. In particular -

neontiger:
If you think it's a waste of time to bitch and complain, then why are you bitching and complaining about us bitching and complaining?

Or is bitching and complaining about bitching and complaining exempt from your belief that bitching and complaining is a waste of time, thus you're not being a hypocrite?

To summarize, it's not cool to bitch and complain. But it is cool to bitch and complain about others bitching and complaining, especially if those people bitched and complained about your rp.

BUT WAIT! If I bitch and complain about you bitching and complaining about us bitching and complaining, does that make me even more trendy? Wow, boggles the mind!

Bitch and complain!

Edit: This was all caused by pretty_fish complaining about xregretxnothing's RP: 1, 2, 3. To sum up, the mods are ~~batshit insane~~ attention-whoring control freaks with one set of standards for people in their clique and another for the people out of it - at least according to pretty_fish.

Return of the Edit: The mod of the RPG has this to say:

astentine:
Have you ever stumbled on someone who throws a huge hissy-fit for not getting their way?

Normally I wouldn't mind criticism about my role-play game. I like to hear what other people think and their suggestions on what I could do to make it better, but when one of my members decides to post a rather lengthy report claiming we're cliquey because her character (a minor one, mind you) has not been added into the plot yet, it gets on my nerves. Apparently the mods were giving her a "tone" when replying to her question about the website. Uhm, dear, let me explain that I cannot fix your computer when I'm half way around the world - I can make suggestions, but I can't fix it for you. I guess she took one of my suggestions the wrong way and when I IMed her about, she snapped, said I always had a tone, and that she found me mentally unstable. How can I have a tone through text? Is anyone just as confused as I am because I'm drawing a blank here.

The funny thing about all of this is, she's leaving the role-play because apparently her character isn't involved in any way and we mods play favorites over who gets to take place in the plot and who doesn't. What's so funny about that? The fact that the thread she replied to and claimed I had a tone on was the one asking for ideas from every member of how to get their character involved.

(I just commmented because my will is weak. *sob*)

The Third Edit that Bombed at the Box Office: pretty_fish has unlocked the posts complaining about the RPG, so you don't have to be a member to read them anymore.

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	BAHLEETED! naienko 2004-07-17 02:51 am UTC (link)
	Deleted now, BUT I have a save from literally right before it was deleted. I went to go post a comment, and it vanished. http://www.firechildren.net/lightfire/temp/628061.html (Reply to this)

	deoridhe 2004-07-17 02:55 am UTC (link)
	Wow, edited and moved! That didn't take long! (Reply to this)

eiviiaru
2004-07-17 03:06 am UTC (link)

I almost commented, but I figured I'd save my snark for the inevitable f_w post.

My personal favorite part of the OP:

So much energy wasted over what - words?! Not even words you can repeat to yourself at night because you know what they sound like, mind you, but words typed up on a keyboard to appear on a computer monitor. Pixels.

I think most of this speaks for itself or has already been spoken for, but I internet-heart the bit where apparently typed words are not words you "can repeat to yourself at night because you know what they sound like." I know what the words I type sound like, thank you very much.

(Betcha ten bucks that a lot of pretty_fish's RPing problems in regretxnothing's game are a consequence of RxN not knowing how the words she types sound -- or, for that matter, mean.)

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	iczer6 2004-07-17 03:12 am UTC (link)
	I know what the words I type sound like, thank you very much. And why would I repeat them to myself at night anyway? It seems a little strange to say, stand infront of the mirror and read you LJ posts, to yourself, out loud, at night. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	llama_treats 2004-07-17 03:29 am UTC (link)
	"Hooked on LJ" worked for me! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2004-07-17 04:01 am UTC (link)
	http://www.livejournal.com/community/bad_rpers_suck/626826.html Where the mod of FG throws her...well, spooge...into the ring. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2004-07-17 04:25 am UTC (link)
	You win your 10 dollars, for definite. They still think nothing in their words sounds icky ;) <3 Erica (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2004-07-17 04:19 am UTC (link)
	I just unfriends-locked the original posts, because they were really only locked to be nice. <3 Erica (Reply to this)(Thread)

	naienko 2004-07-17 04:49 am UTC (link)
	Not impressed. Nice would have been not saying anything at all, or at least having the willpower not to respond to the attacks on you. As it is, I see you two already had a nice little wankfest BEFORE this latest posted-ND-DELETED and-deleted whinefest happened. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-07-17 04:58 am UTC (link)
	That's true, at least the 'not responding to attacks' part I agree with, although in my (very poor) defense that was my first time dealing with wanky stuff like that (even though I know I created some of it) so I'm not used to just ignoring. We all learn somehow ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	naienko 2004-07-17 06:24 am UTC (link)
	Okay, forgiven. ^^ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-07-17 06:47 am UTC (link)
	Ok good. I was so worried I couldn't sleep for a minute there ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iczer6 2004-07-17 07:03 am UTC (link)
	Was that because of the 'words you can repeat to yourself at night because you know what they sound like'? Icz (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-07-17 07:50 am UTC (link)
	It most definitely was! I print off every lj entry and read it outloud before bed because I like the sound of my own voice, and when I get my poster of letters telling me how grrreat I am for freaking out, I'll read those too! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	shoiryu 2004-07-17 07:35 am UTC (link)
	I THINK I CAN SEE THE FUTURE. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2004-07-17 09:25 am UTC (link)
	...I have no idea why this has struck me as so funny, but it has. Oh wait - two hours sleep. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shoiryu 2004-07-17 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	L What's even worse is after I posted it, I looked back, re-read it, and immediately burst out into donkey-laughter. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2004-07-17 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	The icon just completely makes it. I'm parsing it as a "WA-TAAAAAH!" pose, and--yes. cackle (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aeanagwen 2004-07-18 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	God damn, Shoi. Who is that incredibly hot young man in your icon? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shoiryu 2004-07-19 01:20 am UTC (link)
	Oh, damn, I forget his last name... Boyd... Holbrook or something along those lines. He's a random model. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aeanagwen 2004-07-19 03:53 am UTC (link)
	And for good reason. Wow. And normally I don't even like blonds. wants to molest (Reply to this)(Parent)

sarajayechan
2004-07-17 06:35 pm UTC (link)

Oh, not another "ranting and venting is a waste of time and you're all stupid!!!" person. Okay, so maybe I sort of agree that complaining isn't the best use of time and it might be better to do something productive like give the bad roleplayers some lessons and make them read guidebooks every night. But sometimes, you just need to bitch and complain. And I can't fault anyone for that.

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iczer6
2004-07-18 04:23 am UTC (link)

I sort of agree that complaining isn't the best use of time and it might be better to do something productive like give the bad roleplayers some lessons and make them read guidebooks every night.

The thing is with online games you really can't do that, hell you can't do that with a group you see face-to-face.

You can't *make* someone play the way you want them to, any if you force or harp then you'll only end up annoying them, and the other players.

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	sarajayechan 2004-07-18 04:46 am UTC (link)
	I know. I meant "lessons and guidebooks" about things like manners and common sense. Someone constantly being an ass to other players and godmoding when the rules say "No godmoding" is different than simply having different opinions than others. (Reply to this)(Parent)