Posted by Nepenthe(IMM) on July 26, 2000 at 12:14:44:
In Reply to: [AGE DEATH] Sladin Coire, Servant of Dawn (extremely long) posted by Sladin, Servant of Dawn, Wished to be Apostle on July 25, 2000 at 21:44:02:
It was ignorance. And I have to say asking to imm didn't show you had learned anything, but that's okay. Now, I'm not trying to call you a dumbass or anything. Everybody was relatively clueless at one time. This is not something to be ashamed of. If you stick with this game long enough, you'll come to look back on these days with a sense of wonder and nostalgia. But it's not helping any that you seem to think you're about ten times more knowledgeable than you are. I don't know, maybe you (and other relative newbies) see the major ego action thrown around by some of the players and think it's cool. Let me let you in on a little secret: a very few of them are actually somewhere near as good as they think they are. You'll see them produce well-RPed after well-RPed character, each of them very different from the last. You might see them win a 1:3 fight and think they're lucky. . .except that they seem to keep doing it again and again. Most of the rest of the crowd are frontin'. They represent mad skills that they don't have, if you will. In the colorful vernacular of our urban landscapes, this often results in otehrs "doggin'" them. Which of these would you rather end up being? Relax, take the ego down a notch, open yourself up to learn, and have fun.