I have a bad habit

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Lurking, Jul 3, 2019.

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What should I do in these situations?

  1. Come clean

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  2. Keep up the charade

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  3. Leave the online community I created the persona in

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  4. GET OUTTA NUF YOU DIRTY LIAR

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  1. sgrey

    sgrey Well-Known Member

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    I can enjoy myself just fine. I mean i don't get attached to a username online. Not that i don't have any emotions. I having fun right now, this is quite interesting
     
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  2. SummerForest

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    @Lurking, it's not a problem and you are no sinner. It's your choice whether you want to be a 'real' person here or just a role player. The people who become attached to an online persona do that at their own peril, knowing perfectly well that it can just be a facade.
    Be whatever you want to be. Just don't flirt shamelessly with someone.
    I've at least one dear friend who is a bit like this. But you know, both of us actually cherish our friendship, even though we don't talk since ages.
     
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  3. Lurking

    Lurking Do the dead suffer, or is it a sweet release?

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    Yeah. And I still pop up from time to time, to affirm that actually happened but now I am unimportant.
     
  4. Lurking

    Lurking Do the dead suffer, or is it a sweet release?

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    Maybe you should contact this friend for the first time in forever and chat about how things are different.
     
  5. sgrey

    sgrey Well-Known Member

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    I try not to make assumptions and just go with what the person writes or a direct implication of it. Since I have no idea what she does, I provided a hypothetical yet possible situation
     
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  6. Femme Fatale

    Femme Fatale | Sublime Goddess Of Chance |

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    ah...still you cannot guarantee what the other party's feelings are. It's why I keep it real from the get go now. NUF is not a MUD, I treat it like a forum only now.
     
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    Lurking Do the dead suffer, or is it a sweet release?

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    And I appreciate it.
     
  8. SummerForest

    SummerForest Well-Known Member

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    He's busy irl. He popped up to read my novel and then vanished again.
     
  9. Femme Fatale

    Femme Fatale | Sublime Goddess Of Chance |

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    he or she? >_>

    @Lurking , are you an it? o_O
     
  10. Lurking

    Lurking Do the dead suffer, or is it a sweet release?

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    ..whats a MUD?

    Cant guarantee? Uh.

    Hmm. Well. Its almost completely me now anyway, so unlikely.
     
  11. Lurking

    Lurking Do the dead suffer, or is it a sweet release?

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    Summerforest was talking about an old friend I think. Not me.

    I am a she, altho i have been called an it frequently.
     
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  12. SummerForest

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    He.
    Why, Femme?
     
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  13. Lemonfairy

    Lemonfairy 〖Retired Cat Boss〗〖Feeling the Effects of Aging〗

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    Confession time:

    I spent like 4-5 months posing as an eternally 12 year-old shota online
    most people didn't believe it because I used the same account and just changed my username to a less girly version
    but the new people who didn't know me before totally bought it
    so much so that when I got bored of being a boy and changed back to being a girl they thought I was a trap

    I feel that online personas aren't really a bad thing
    I mean, aren't they just another form of ourselves?
    especially on such a formless plane of existence as the internet, we can be whoever we want to
    maybe our online personas are a truer manifestation of ourselves than what reality allows due to various social/societal/cultural limitations

    or maybe we're just bored and want to temporarily pose as a shota for lols :blobrofl:
     
  14. Lurking

    Lurking Do the dead suffer, or is it a sweet release?

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    Once, I posed as 6 different fans of the same thing at once. (Because I liked it so much)

    The illusion broke after I lost internet for a month.


    Can I cringe now?
     
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  15. Femme Fatale

    Femme Fatale | Sublime Goddess Of Chance |

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    Multi User Dungeon is a text base platform to play games. Like dungeons and dragons or Zelda. ^.^ NUF would make an interesting mud imho cause it would clarify people's rp roles and unlock everyone's creativity. I used to play these types of games lots when I was in college.

    http://www.mudconnect.com/mud_intro.html - good introduction site if you are interested.
     
  16. sgrey

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    This is not really the same... You didn't make some 12 year old girl to fall for that persona only to confess later that you are in fact a lemon fairy?
     
  17. Lurking

    Lurking Do the dead suffer, or is it a sweet release?

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    But I could not bear to be locked into 1 roleplay....
     
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    Lurking Do the dead suffer, or is it a sweet release?

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    What the fuck.

    No. No romance in roleplay... no seducing in roleplay. No I would not.

    Edit, would not consider for more than a second to do so seriously.
     
  19. sgrey

    sgrey Well-Known Member

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    I didn't mean that you've done it. What I said to fairy was unrelated to you :)
     
  20. SummerForest

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    Refers you to @yuzuki and her clones.
    Your case is a bit different, but having multiple online persona isn't that unnatural.
     
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