Role play /Taking a Break from SL?

In most online games you have (if you so choose that is) the ability to "role play" your character or toon to be someone else other then yourself. Of course many ppl if they choose to do this will give their character many of their good qualities. Very few will give them their bad. However the bad usually always comes out when a person is not paying attention to the RP or just being "themselves". I have noticed many ppl get on the net and become this "Bad Ass", Internet Thugs is what I call them. LOL, most probably are scared of their own shadow in rl and use the Internet to make others life's unbearable because maybe in rl they have no real control or voice to speak out.

My biggest memory was of TSO (the Sims on line) was the fact the game developers wanted you to role play. In fact the tag was "Be somebody... ELSE" encouraging you to role play a character which I glad did. Wen I moved from TSO to There.com. I notice less and less ppl role playing. I also notice more and more discussed "Real Life" issues and try to get hooked up. When I got to Second Life everything I learned about role play from TSO went out the door. A new form of game play emerged. People were talking more about RL, and less about SL. Many ppl were busy trying to get a love connection in game and develop it outside of game. RL was discussed more within the game until it was no longer a sense of playing a game but more like social networking. I remember when another player asked me where was I from. I answered that I was a former player of TSO. Then he said , no no YOU the person. People wanted to know if you were singled, married, what your nationality was, what you did as a living, where you lived, what you drove. I lost the sense of RP fast since everyone was concerned with your RL. As years went on real life money became a bigger issues. So much so that ppl were stealing others ideas and even made a device called a "copy bot" to copy no other a persons designs but the person it self. It is now one of the biggest negatives in SL, many designers face this and are losing money for designs they did, anyway that is a whole other post. My things is I am getting a little bored of SL, this is due to the limited of ppl who now role play within the game. I have notice more and more adults (including myself) with Teen avatars. If you attend school most of the schools demand you role play your avatar or face being kicked out of the school. This is something I enjoy a lot because it puts the fun back into SL. IF!!! ppl who abide by the rule of RP and not drag real life within it. The only time in SL that I don't want to RP is when I attend church services, (Yes they have church in sl) I take that very serious and the pastor lets you KNOW from the start this is not role play and if you are then you need to just leave the services. But otherwise in my game play SL would be so much better played for me if I am enjoying a RP environment. sighs (yeah I sighed) With all of that being said I think I am going to take a little break from SL. It may be a few days, a week, a month, but I am going to take some time away from it. I was going to work on my house and land, I had pulled a lot of things from my inventory and have it in my dinning room and kitchen area but it will just remain there until I log back into game. I know a lot of my thoughts right now are coming from me just feeling again badly today. I didn't go to sleep until 4am and here I am up before 8:30. I am only updating my blog while Dee showers and for us to go to his therapy. I have so many times taken a break from my blog. But I promise I won't do that this time, I will continue to post even if its copying and pasting some article (Dena, Victor and Labios hate when I do that LMFAO). But I promise to keep you in my life no matter how boring and uneventful it maybe.



Just a note. I want to thank those who emailed me or posted on my blog about how they were happy to see I posted. You can't believe what a pick me up that was for me. Sometimes it feels good to have people to let you know you mean something to them even if its via your blog on a web. As to my friends and family I am not ignoring you I promise to start emailing and letting you know how I am. I was/ am going through some really craziness but I still love ya. And for those who don't know what I am talking about and reading it. OH WELL!! rofl