Pet peeves

[Fnord]

Oh yeah, people who wear a buckler on each wrist. Don't they realize how effing silly that looks?

This made me laugh. It's so true. It's one of those code allows it, but damn if it's not goofy type things.

Let's see, what else...

People that enter a room, look at each PC in turn with no RP, and then leave. At least look at each NPC too, gawker!

If you're wearing a facewrap, try not to emote what your mouth and nose are doing unless you move it aside. I can accept that like if someone eats with one on, they're moving it aside to eat, but actual emotes are nice there.

This isn't a pet peeve really, but hey, once you got ~ and % down, try adding ! and ^ to your rep, and then even... #. Sometimes when people don't use those it takes me a minute to figure out who they were emoting to.

Oh, and spammy emoters that seem to be in a some contest to win the Zalanthan record for the longest emote, using the maximum number of fancy words that may or may not be used correctly. :lol: I'm always so tempted to emote back, :is slammed against the wall by the spam of %your emote. (I've actually met one PC that uses long emotes with fancy language and does it brilliantly, but they are the exception.)

All in all though, the number of players my PC interracts that are great far exceed the annoying ones.

[Cuusardo]

-People who use numerical characters rather than typing out the words.  Numbers bypass language code, people!

[joyofdiscord]

That's fine, but it's not reasonable for the hooded person to always assume they're in ideal lighting conditions to have their facial features obscured.

Oh, I agree completely.  The code doesn't (and shouldn't) take into account all such sorts of absurd details such as where is the light source, etc.  My point is only that the actual situation is dependent on a lot of factors.  I notice that a lot of people tend to hold to one of two extremes: hoods and facewraps don't conceal a dang thing, or they conceal everything.  The fact is, depending on the situation, both extremes are possible, along with everything in between.  A good compromise would be to assume if someone is covered with all sorts of obscuring fabrics, then they are obscured, to some degree.  Also, having a hood up is going to severely limit, or eliminate altogether, your peripheral vision, which is something else hoodeds should take into account (pointing the finger at myself now, because my current char runs around hooded a lot, and I haven't specifically considered how this limitation would affect him until now).

[Spoon]

People who post on the GDB: "Yeah, I want my character to be a real no-shit taking badass. Why is it unreasonable for me to ask for a backstabbing-krathi-warrior-thug-half-giant? Oh yeah, I want a tribal accent too.

[Cuusardo]

-People who act as though there is only one tavern in a city that has FIVE.

[SewerRat_inTheOpen]

Buckler = bracer? So it's weird to wear two of them?

I only get peeved when I made typos Ig though.

[Cuusardo]

Buckler = a small shield, not a bracer

[da mitey warrior]

People who respond to a question with "Ask IC".  Especially if asking IC makes no sense.  "Gee, Lord Templar, if I'm a Ranger what skills should I practice to learn parry?"  

People who log on the game, sit in the tavern by themselves for 2 min, then log off.  What were you expecting to happen?

Using psionics or whispers for OOC communication.  The way is excusable if you're not in the same room, but not otherwise.

Any emote which includes the word smirk.  I hate smirks, I don't know why.

Shops closing at night.  Grr!  Wastes my RL time.

People who make their characters do things which they as a player don't enjoy.  Like joining a clan they hate, or doing things because it is IC for them, even though they are bored to tears.

Retirement messages.  Both staff and player.  They're at best depressing, and at worst snarky.  Triumphant return messages are ok.

[Anonymous]

People who respond to a question with "Ask IC".  Especially if asking IC makes no sense.  "Gee, Lord Templar, if I'm a Ranger what skills should I practice to learn parry?"

Your scenario makes no sense because asking a templar makes no sense.

Replace Templar with 'Famed Swordsman' or 'Sergeant' and it makes sense.

[Zharal]

Spelling Nazis..

[Bestatte]

Most of my pet peeves are word-related, and apply only to people who speak English as their first language. Things like not knowing the difference between your and you're, sense and since, and not recognizing that "a lot" is two words, not one.

The next pet peeve is people who walk into a room, with no emoting at all, and proceed to "look" at every PC in the room, with no emotes at all, and then immediately walk out of the room, with no emotes at all. Even something as simple as "emote looks over several faces among the crowd, and shakes his head as he walks back toward the entry" can cover most of that, and give everyone else the general idea that the guy isn't just gathering some list of descriptions on notepad.

Continual, sluggish, unrelated 4-line emotes. Four-liners have their place, certainly. And they can be gorgeous and inspiring and draw you into the scene. But people who take a good 15 minutes to get from the entrance of a room to a table in that room, I don't wanna see it.

People who sincerely believe that unintelligible "accents" are fun RP for everyone else. Unless you are -purposely- trying to be impossible to understand, and it's clear because you're emoting speaking through swollen lips, or chewing on your cud as you speak, it's another one of those things I don't wanna see. It also makes me feel sorry for players who don't speak English as a first language. I can't imagine how incredibly difficult it must be for them to encounter something that looks like this:

The red-haired Bynner says, in sirihish, "S'I 'een 'er 'n th' Ga' th'otha day pl'y'n f'ts's wit' th'S'rg'nt."

That's probably my biggest RP pet peeve. I mean - okay, everyone knows your character is supposed to be some kind of low-class commoner. But that's just going way overboard to try and prove a point that you don't need to prove.

[Zharal]

People who sincerely believe that unintelligible "accents" are fun RP for everyone else. Unless you are -purposely- trying to be impossible to understand, and it's clear because you're emoting speaking through swollen lips, or chewing on your cud as you speak, it's another one of those things I don't wanna see. It also makes me feel sorry for players who don't speak English as a first language. I can't imagine how incredibly difficult it must be for them to encounter something that looks like this:

The red-haired Bynner says, in sirihish, "S'I 'een 'er 'n th' Ga' th'otha day pl'y'n f'ts's wit' th'S'rg'nt."

That's probably my biggest RP pet peeve. I mean - okay, everyone knows your character is supposed to be some kind of low-class commoner. But that's just going way overboard to try and prove a point that you don't need to prove.

I agree, this drives me nuts as well..

[Cuusardo]

-People who use the same adverb for EVERY action.

The manly man enters the room and looks around slowly.

The manly man reaches down slowly and opens his belt.

The manly man walks slowly to a table.

The manly man slowly takes a drink from his mug.




I'd like to point out that dictionary.com has a thesaurus.  Millions of words at your fingertips, including more adverbs to describe what you're doing so you aren't stuck moving in slow motion!

[Delirium]

People who get way too uptight over stupid little things, even going so far as to let it ruin their enjoyment of the game because they're too busy obsessing with the negative.

Key word for today: "Chill"

[Spoon]

I think is a cool way to vent your peeves. Everything I've put on here doesn't really bother me. However, I have to admit I like being a whining bastard sometimes....

People who are sarcastic about dying of starvation. eg.

"Oh, well if no-ones going to give me a job in a clan right now... I'll just have to sit here and die. What a shame blah blah blah BLAH!"

*insert twitching eyeball*

[Freindly Dude]

Buckler = bracer? So it's weird to wear two of them?

Acually a buckler is a very small sheild (think large dinner-plate) that staps to your arm. And a bacer is like a metal sleeve that covers only your fore-arm.

*tips his hat*

Glad to be of service, now I must take my leave.

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Don't you understand? Gravity is slain, now we can fly!

*Crouches, raising one fist to the air, jumps and flys away*

[Akaramu]

Non-roleplay pet peeve and my biggest overall:

When the system serves the rules instead of the rules serving the system.

Roleplay pet peeve:

F-me PCs looking like porn stars who somehow manage to stuff their enormeous curves into their leather armor and not be hindered in the wildest combat scenes, and magically avoid all scars for their entire life as badass warriors.

[Tamarin]

F-me PCs looking like porn stars who somehow manage to stuff their enormeous curves into their leather armor and not be hindered in the wildest combat scenes, and magically avoid all scars for their entire life as badass warriors.

Amen.  You ever seen army chicks?  Damn.

[Gaare]

My both roleplay and Non-roleplay pet peeve:

   I sometimes feel a few players forget ARM is just a game. I do believe even rarely there should be some OOC behaviours IG just for sake of curtesy. There are many examples,

i) Pushing hard towards a newbie elf, harrasing to death. (That's something understandable ICly, but also irritating for the new player OOCly)

ii) PKing, stealing from linkdead. Yes, a D-Elf with a motivation of protecting her territory by blades against roundears surely would attack.. But OOCly if you know that player has no chance to react.. Ignoring a single human won't pollute the territory.

iii) PKing some fella because just you can... If you are not RPing a serial killer all the time or dying because lack of coins, than is it hard to let one to live?

iv) Using the position of your PC to PKing any you do not like... etc.. etc..

Please do not misinterpret my words. I belive no player can ever be sure what is really going on with one's character, and no player has right to critize other's roleplay. Even in the examples above, the scenerios can be much different than how it is seen.

I do not suggest stop PKing, stop harrasing, etc.  since they are what makes ARM what it is. I say I sometimes feel a few players forgot every character has a real person standing in front of monitor.  

IMHO curtesy is a very big plus that makes the game more enjoyable for all.

[Marauder Moe]

I definitely agree with those first three, Gaare.  They do got a bit beyond "pet peeve" though.  Pet peeves are usually small things of little consequence that some people find annoying.

iv) Using the position of your PC to PKing any you do not like... etc.. etc..

What's wrong with that, though?  Most PCs who rise to power usually don't do it by being nice all the time.  If I have a lot of influence and connections and you piss me off, you'd better watch your back.

[Dracul]

I definitely agree with those first three, Gaare.  They do got a bit beyond "pet peeve" though.  Pet peeves are usually small things of little consequence that some people find annoying.

iv) Using the position of your PC to PKing any you do not like... etc.. etc..

What's wrong with that, though?  Most PCs who rise to power usually don't do it by being nice all the time.  If I have a lot of influence and connections and you piss me off, you'd better watch your back.

I think he meant it as an ooc disliking. If that I agree...but ICly..hell yeah..power is corruption.

[Spoon]

I think peeves are something that should be taken lightly. It's not like anything we've posted here is going to change, but it's fun/good to let it all out.

[Rhyden]

My pet peeve goes a little something like this:

<n
<Large Tavern (NESW)
<The brown-haired man looks at you
<The brown-eyed man looks at you
<The brown-skinned man looks at you
<The brown-locked woman looks at you
             ...etc, etc...

This really ticks me off. If I was wearing say, all the colors of the rainbow in my clothes or was bloodied and yelling murder, then maybe this would be acceptable, but it happens all the time, everywhere :x

[Marauder Moe]

If I was wearing say, all the colors of the rainbow in my clothes or was bloodied and yelling murder, then maybe this would be acceptable

How would anyone know that without looking at you?

[Rhyden]

This isn't a pet peeve really, but hey, once you got ~ and % down, try adding ! and ^ to your rep, and then even... #. Sometimes when people don't use those it takes me a minute to figure out who they were emoting to.

Good point, Fnord, I think people should have to learn what ~, #, % and ^ are for in emotes before they can play Arm. You wouldn't believe how many people never use them and how many newbs who do this:

Through the eyes of the player:

The (insert noob sdesc) walks over to him as he tries to keep his face hidden so that he can't see it.

Sheesh!

~ = sdesc,  = sdesc's ! = him/her, ^ = his/her and # = he/she

(Thought I'd put that down for the noobs who don't know what help files are)  :wink: