It's just a game

Everquest, Guildwars, World of Warcraft, Furcadia, Starcraft, E.V.E, Secondlife, yeah the list goes on really. They are games we all play and true though some of these games, just have us simply killing monsters and grinding for experience points.. Other games are different so different you wonder if its a game at all, because people get upset or get wrapped up in it.

Take the game Secondlife for instance, its made and built by the people who play it. For a lot of players its a place where you can meet up with others all over the world, its a grand social event and you don't have to be yourself. Well you can be yourself but you don't have the usual restraints that society places on you, you could be like me and have no life at all apart from Secondlife.

It's just a game?

I once read that though Secondlife is a game, there are real people behind those avatars. The question was asked where do you draw the line, when those people actually start to get hurt? When they cry over something you done or said, when they hate you or when they laugh with you. Where is the line when its no longer a game, but something a whole lot different?

Okay so let me bring in to the equation a thing a lot of us like to call Roleplay, now I know where the Out of character and In character line is. A lot of roleplayers especially where I roleplay in don't know that line, and I have to admit I have occasionally blurred the line myself.

Why?

You get attached to the people you are interacting with, attached to their characters. Yes its easy to blurr the line when you get OOC pissed at something IC, you're too close to your own character or how their feeling hits your own emotions. I seen it often enough to realise thats when people need to back off, to look at the situation again and remember where the line is. OOC feelings for those who become friends or more also bleed a lot in to roleplay, its no fault of your own it just happens. No one is exempt from getting annoyed or crying over RP, for lashing out over the stupidist little things. If you happen to join a group one that is close-knit like a family, the line continues to blurr as you get more involved and tangled. Issues arise not from the roleplay itself but from the people behind the avatars, at the end of the day you're still dealing with real people.

So it's just a game......

Think again and be careful how you play.

Messages Four

Can I ask why? You play around I see you preying on others, then why must you play with my emotions? I'm not your bitch I'm meant to be your friend, I can be left alone for weeks on end and I do what I want. I am going to cut you off we haven't done anything in weeks anyway, before I go any deeper before I fall anymore. You used to be a shoulder to cry on, for a while now I feel like a pet and I own myself not owned. Can we go back to how we were before? Just two good friends with no complications? How the fuck did we end up this screwed up? Why did it all go downhill? I care for you, show me you care by just being there.

Once again my love my support my pillar my wife, I've had enough of drama coming at me from all sides over the weekend. Though I screw up or let things happen, you never hate me as I can't hate you. You are as you say my bulldog, I know I love you not sure in what way but I know I would give you the world. When I fall over, pick me up. Please?

Oooooh that's so damn hot, growl for me baby.

Okay you, yes you. Damn it just cos you aint here doesn't mean you need to bloody smother me when you are here, I can see why she told you to see other people. I don't think she wanted you to smother those people too, we both love you but you are getting rather clingy. Give us a breather yo!

Erm babe polygamy is nothing to worry about, I may acutally have a streak of jealousy now and then. I won't let it ruin anything or let it show, I'll just bury it cos it goes after time. Long as I know you care, long as I know you'll be there.

Whatever you want do in life, don't make the people around you cry. I'm here for you to talk to, I do happen to be a good listener. Okay? Good.

I do not sound cute!

No I will not be singing on air.....

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