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Things I hate about role playing.
As much as people like me love role playing there are a lot of things that really, really royally piss us off. So I've compiled a list of things that irk me when it comes to role playing. And I encourage you to do the same.

The whole Literacy things
Now I'm a good speller, I understand the English language, I can read, and write coherent sentences. However, these days people define literacy as how much you can type. Which makes me mad whenever I type a decent length (about a paragraph and a half) reply and make sure I got punctuation, capitalization and of course spelling right, and yet the person I'm Rping with has the balls to say I'm illiterate because I didn't do a 3 or 4 paragraph response.

Rare Role plays
Now there's a lot of things I would love to roleplay. Like say Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, Blazblue, Guilty Gear, Battle Royale or a Monster Hunter or something Bleach. And yet when you have a craving for said type of roleplay you can never find one you can join or nothing at all. So you send out a request to search for RPs and yet... you don't get Jack s**t.

People who join RPs because they hate the topic.
I'll give you an example. Now I love Sailor Moon role plays *grips man card tightly* and I always get excited when I'm accepted into one. So as i'm roleplaying I get a profile comment saying 'Dude why are you in a Sailor Moon RP? You better be a villain!' So I explain to him that my character isn't a villain. So then he tells me he hates Sailor Moon, alright... who fives a ********? Guess what he does he joins the roleplaying saying that he wants to kick the good guys' a**. If you don't like the RP topic (like say a furry RP or Twilight) then DON'T join. You're only making yourself look like bit of a douchey troll.

People who Flat out ignore you.
I'm sure this has happened A LOT to folks out there. When you start a roleplay, goes well and suddenly they never reply. Their online. So you wait awhile. Like say a day? Still online. So you send them a message saying 'Hey did you lose the RP' maybe add LOL or ^_^. Now you wait... still online and no reply. Check the outbox... the message is gone. So you go into their profile and comment about the RP. Go back to check it and it's gone.
It also happens whenever you try to apply for a group Role play or when you ask someone for a group RP.
That said I'm gonna make a list of people who have ignored me and it shall forever grow!

People who want their characters to go Solo.
Now while I understand giving your character alone time from everyone elses can be good for a bit... but the whole point of a roleplay is interaction! I know a few peeps who almost never let their characters interact with others.

Using Real Pictures.
This is going to sound pathetic.
I hate using real pictures because I have bit of an insecurity about using a real pic of some handsome dude or goth (definitely going to be the next thing on this list) dude. Why? Because in real life and yes I have the balls to admit this, I'm fat, been compared to Grizzly Adams and well... ugly as s**t.

Goth Pictures
Along with the real picture thing. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE roleplays where every character's pic is a ******** GOTH pic. And they always add the usual stuff like 'They love guitar' or 'They Skateboard' And they go and say their unique... ya their unique... BULLSHIT.

Now this isn't an attack on anyone or anything like that. Just some things I wanted to get off my chest.