Elite roleplay: Q&A and OOC

Rotwhylr
13 Feb 2020, 5:56pm
@Arionel528:

A) The Silverbacks would be happy to welcome you. Here is a complimentary banana.

B) If it's anything in the way of useful inspiration, I have been toying with an orphan backstory that involves refugees (like a passenger mission group, more likely a burning station rescue) in which kids and parents were separated in the rush to board ships and evac ASAP, and the parent's ship was attacked / destroyed. They end up in a underfunded / makeshift orphanage in a converted warehouse near the docks in the station they landed at. Overprotective/controlling older brother, rebellious younger sister. I gotta get back to writing that ...
Vitu’i Ma
14 Feb 2020, 12:18am
Viscera"Not many people know this, and I am not even sure if the sisters themselves know this. An older brother was born to their line some twenty five years before them"


DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN XD

I don’t know the lore or importance behind that statement, but reading that made me laugh all the same
Rotwhylr
14 Feb 2020, 12:52am
Vitu’i Ma
Viscera"Not many people know this, and I am not even sure if the sisters themselves know this. An older brother was born to their line some twenty five years before them"



DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN XD

I don’t know the lore or importance behind that statement, but reading that made me laugh all the same


Not knowing a damn thing about the lore, I pictured this conversation happening a long time ago:

(man, not pleased): "We just got the last one out and on his own a few years ago.  We finally have the house to ourselves again after what - a quarter century?!  And you want another baby?"

(woman, pouting but insistent): "But I've always wanted girls ..."

DUN DUN DUNNNN ...
LordPsymon
16 Feb 2020, 8:00am
Guys, seriously, RP: Banter is for in character bantering, and I highly doubt anyone will be casually mentioning South Park 1300 years in the future.
Lambast Mercy
16 Feb 2020, 9:43am
LordPsymonGuys, seriously, RP: Banter is for in character bantering, and I highly doubt anyone will be casually mentioning South Park 1300 years in the future.


Translation:- Stop enjoying your selves in a way I don't want you to.

Shakespeares' comedies were the foolish nonsense of his time and people still bang on about him.
Isaiah Evanson
16 Feb 2020, 9:53am
If South Park is on the same level as Shakespeare in the 3300s, we fucked up.
Lambast Mercy
16 Feb 2020, 10:24am
What elevated Shakespeare?

Plenty of lords and ladies or people of influence of time found his plays foolish and nonsensical, yet he is regarded as a great playwright now.

Whos to say what will survive from the pop culture references Elite players can make now?

I'll stick to using the current zeitgeist until someone figures out a way to create an entire fake interstellar entertainment history and put it into our minds so we can reference it the way I do reality.

Last edit: 16 Feb 2020, 10:34am
Isaiah Evanson
16 Feb 2020, 11:36am
Here's the thing - in Shakespeare's time, there wasn't Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube serving as platforms for everything from the sublime to the absolutely dreadful things that pass for entertainment. Tack on roughly 1300 years' worth of garbage television, movies, books, music- not to mention the exponential growth of humanity from a few billion to literal trillions...

You wanna make references to South Park? Fine. But don't expect any of our characters to automatically acknowledge it as though they know exactly what yours is talking about.
Ouberos
16 Feb 2020, 11:50am
I for one take issue with a comparison between Shakespeare and South Park. Clearly they are not the same. The equivalence exists only in your mind.
Lambast Mercy
16 Feb 2020, 11:50am
From that, we could say as South Park is a product of a time when the media can be shared and spread prolifically, and as it's easy to digest compared to Shakespeare it has more chance to have survived in some form.

I wouldn't expect you to respond if you didn't think your Elite persona would, just as I don't expect everyone to get an obscure Shakespeare reference when I make one.

In the same vein, I don't expect to be encouraged not to make references to current pop culture.

This is an unofficial RP forum for a game. Chill.
Lambast Mercy
16 Feb 2020, 11:57am
OuberosI for one take issue with a comparison between Shakespeare and South Park. Clearly they are not the same. The equivalence exists only in your mind.




What is good, and what is art dose exist purely in the mind.

I can no more tell you what creativity is worthy of appreciation than you can tell me what food I enjoy the taste of.  



I don't hold South Park and Shakespeare on the same level at all. I was highlighting that William Shakespeare got as much flack for being foolish and flippant from his critics as South Park dose today.
Isaiah Evanson
16 Feb 2020, 12:47pm
Lambast MercyThis is an unofficial RP forum for a game. Chill.


Good RP is dependent upon a person's ability to adapt to the setting. Mentioning current pop culture in a futuristic RP setting can and often is perceived as a disruption of that setting. Psymon offered a gentle reminder about it and you took issue with it.

As for me, I'm chilling just fine. People just need to remember the setting and make even a half hearted effort to stick to the setting.
Artie
16 Feb 2020, 1:17pm
I will summarize and end this topic with a conclusion: "In Elite RP, any reference to the current real-world events and reality has point only if such stuff was significant enough so it survived one thousand years in people's mind and records". So let's use it with this on mind.
Isaiah Evanson
16 Feb 2020, 1:18pm
You're right. Let's just throw out any pretense of standards. Anything goes in RP now and if you say otherwise, you're imposing your rules on others. So when the Borg assimilate InGaBa, you'll find that acceptable, right?
Artie
16 Feb 2020, 1:27pm
Uhm? That was not my point at all. What I wanted to say that, for example, WWII still can be considered as a valid historical topic the characters in Elite may discuss, similarly as are Punic wars for us today, but more local stuff  (let's say somebody got elected to mayor in some city) is so historically insignificant that it's completely forgotten over time. Similarly, it may be related to other stuff (like Shakespeare vs TV soap operas, etc.).

But it's better to stay away from such stuff and not discuss current reality and pretend it's RP, of course.

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