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Old 09-20-2009, 07:52 PM   #61
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

I did not claim that anyone in the MUD community was a homophobe (though I do know of at least two), a rapist or even a murderer. I said those are amongst the types of people with which I do not get along.

H&S or PK MUDs which do not even require role-play or support it in any way that attempt to identify themselves as RPI are either grossly ignorant or intentionally deceitful.

While you may not like it, the term was invented to describe particular types of games. The 19 code and policy characteristics are a fact. They are common characteristics shared by the two original MUDs called RPIs. Just because somehow this term became popular doesn't change that.

I have not made any claims about my education or my intelligence.

I don't insult "everyone elses (sic) intelligence or education" although I do question your intelligence and level of education. My guess is that your intelligence is slightly below average and your education level doesn't extend much beyond high school. Am I close?

The difference lies in the term "Role-Play Intensive" (or "RPI") versus is it "role-play intensive"? The former is a proper title, a term created to describe a specific type of game. The latter is an opinion.

Is a text-based role-playing game like Armageddon a multi-user domain/dungeon/dimension?
Answer: Yes.
Why? Because it is multi-user though the terms "domain", "dungeon" or "dimension are all questionable. It's also a Multi-User Domain/Dungeon/Dimension or MUD, a specific term meant to apply to a particular type of multi-user game.

Is Yahoo! Spades a multi-user domain/dungeon/dimension?
Answer: Yes.
Why? Because it is multi-user and the terms "domain", "dungeon" or "dimension" are as equally questionable as with a text-based role-playing game. But Yahoo! Spades is not a Multi-User Domain/Dungeon/Dimension (MUD).

Or, to use the NFL example....

Were the old American Football League teams (pre-merger) national football league teams?
Answer: Yes.
Why? Because these teams were found throughout the nation and played American football.

Question: Were the old American Football League teams (pre-merger) National Football League (NFL) teams?
Answer: No.
Why? Because they did not meet the qualifications to be NFL teams until after the NFL and AFL merged.

Like it or not, the term Role-Play (or Role-Playing) Intensive was applied to refer to specific games featuring a specific set of characteristics and is therefore a proper term.

Example:

Question: Is Armageddon a RPI MUD?
Answer: Yes.
Why? Because it possesses all of the characteristics of a RPI MUD.

Question: Is Newworlds' MUD a RPI MUD?
Answer: No.
Why? Because it lacks some of the characteristics shared by RPI MUDs.

As role-play intensive is a subjective term and easily confused with Role-Play Intensive (RPI), calling a game such is questionable and possibly deceptive. Calling a game a Role-Play MUD, Role-Playing MUD or RPI is either erroneous or outright deceptive if it does not meet the characteristics of a RPI MUD. The first (lower case) example is a generic term with little value, especially given the ability to be easily confused with the formal term for a specific type of game (the capitalized, formal term). Furthermore, calling a game role-play intensive because it has "intense role-play" is not only subjective but also incorrect English since "role-play intensive" does not mean "intense role-play". Finally, calling a game role-play intensive (lower case) just to evade the technicality is deceitful if the intent is to intimate that the game is a RPI MUD. Given the presence of RPI MUDs for well over a decade, the community awareness of them and the immense amount of discussion on this subject, there are very few people who could reasonably claim their game is role-play intensive without knowing that they are intimating the formal term.

And by the way, chess utilizes real-time. You play chess at the same rate in a computer-simulated version as you would in a real version of the game. It does not utilze what is called Real-Time Strategy (RTS) though.

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Old 09-20-2009, 10:13 PM   #62
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

You don't even remember your own posts, which is evident all through this lame response you give. I shall quote you for your educational benefit:

Remember now? Rapist? Sex Offender? Murderer? Take my pick which of these apply to me? Are you kidding me? If I was the Admin of this Forum I would ban you for such a comment. At the very least, you should apologise. Even the worst debators I've found on any forum do not use these terms to identify their adversaries.

Likely you will try to talk your way out of the semantics written above which is your style in any argument, hence your arguments are always surface level.

Whether I like it, you like it, or Johnboy likes it is irrellevant. Anyone may use the term.

You do. It only takes a short perusal through your posts to see this. From the beginning this has been your tact, uneducated, amateurish, and childish, as it may be.

The rest of your post was a feeble attempt at bringing RPI into the same category as the other, clearly definable, terms.
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Old 09-20-2009, 10:39 PM   #63
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

I don't think Prof was calling you any of those words. He was stating people he doesn't get along with and told you to pick from the list, which was obviously a quip at you, it was a good one since you think he was insulting you but he really wasn't.
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Old 09-20-2009, 10:57 PM   #64
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You have a dangerously warped sense of humor if you think this is a quip for fun. It is disgusting and should not be representative of TMS.

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Old 09-20-2009, 11:01 PM   #65
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

He's not representing the forums, just himself. An open forum is where you're allowed to speak your mind. If you get offended you don't have to talk to him, put him on ignore and be done with it. So far he's winning the argument though. You're both taking petty jabs at each other, which is fine, but the facts are on his side as much as you don't want to admit it.
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Old 09-20-2009, 11:09 PM   #66
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

He is representing the style of the Forums. This is not a completely open forum Delerak and rules and maturity are important even if you do not like them. Simple jabs are one thing, insinuating someone is a murderer is quite a bit different. In your imagination of course he is winning, this is YOUR argument he is defending. You two are like siamese twins stuck at the hip.

I have pointed a lot of non mudders to TMS for the purpose of educating them on MUDs and it is this type of attitude that embarrasses me about our genre.
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Old 09-20-2009, 11:26 PM   #67
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

I have to agree with New Worlds. I've been following this thread to better educate myself on the different styles of MUD's out there and then I see something like this. Grouping someone in with murderers and rapists is just wrong and insulting. And to have someone actually defend those words is even worse. I think you need to quit posting Delerak befoe I advocate that you be banned for trolling immaturity and Prof you need to apologize. Thank you.
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Old 09-20-2009, 11:57 PM   #68
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

I've been posting on these forums for a long time. I'm blunt and if people don't like that too bad. The great thing about TMS is it's flexibility of it's forums. Many voices can be heard instead of being quashed because a few sensitive people think they are being called murderers and rapists, when in fact they don't even recognize a common literary device being used in somebody's post. I would agree if Prof's post read: "You're a murderer and rapist." But it didn't, and considering New Worlds and Prof have been insulting one another throughout the entire thread, it's fair game for him to use libel even if you think it's crossing the line because they've both been crossing the line of civility for the past 3 pages.
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Old 09-21-2009, 12:03 AM   #69
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

I disagree with Prof on plenty of things, but you're making the assumptions that I support all of his opinions? Whatever, no point in trying to argue against that, apparently you know every conversation I've ever had with him.

I think it's obvious you're getting frustrated and offended. That's going to happen in arguments where both sides think they're right, and begin to resort to ad hominem, but so far you're not providing any facts against the stance of the 'RPI' argument. Just like in the other thread we argued in. So now you're going to lobby for us to be banned and apologize? Typical behavior of those who can't win the debate with facts.
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Old 09-21-2009, 05:20 AM   #70
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

But judging everything by ones own standards doesn't result in a very effective method of categorisation, because there are many muds, and everyone has different standards.

For example one could argue that almost every mud has enforced/mandatory roleplaying, on the basis that you're required to play the role of a fictional character. But would you really want every mud listing itself as RP enforced/mandatory?
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Yes, take your pick which of these terms apply to you. I don't know you so you may well be all of them or just one: the ignorant moron. The very fact that you can't seem to comprehend that only adds to this conclusion.

Now, if I called you a mentally-retarded bastard child of a serial rapist and a really ugly horse then that would be an insult. However, I'm not calling you that since I know nothing of your parents or the circumstances of your birth.

So, no apology is needed and sure as hell none is coming.

Your inability to counter my arguments by deliberately (or accidently if you're really that dumb) misinterpreting and misrepresenting what I say as well as your frequent appeals to emotion (ie, claiming I'm comparing you to a murderer or claiming I'm insulting "everyone") only serves to demonstrate your desperate position. As it's been pages since you've even attempted to provide any argument for your position, I'd have to agree with Delerak's observations that you're frustrated and that you're losing this discussion/debate/argument. But that would simply be my opinion.

Just because someone uses the term doesn't mean they are correct in doing so. They'd either be demonstrating their ignorance by using a subjective phrase as a label or deliberately lying if they try to associate with the RPI MUDs.

Again, my 3-year old niece understands this so why can't you?

Show me where I insulted the intelligence of Delerak or Kavir or Mabus or anyone else who posted in this thread besides you? As for you, it's hardly an insult to call you a ignorant since you meet the characteristics of the first word. When I call you ignorant I'm referring to your lack of knowledge and the likelihood that you have a limited education. as for the word moron, when I call you that I'm referring to your lack of intelligence as demonstrated by your inability to comprehend even when it's explained at a level that my 3-year old niece could understand. It's either that or you're being deliberately obtuse, possibly out of desperation. Either way, you come across as a moron.

Which I did because the term is a formal term which has been in use for a decade. Just because you weren't aware of that doesn't mean it wasn't so.

Again, your lack of knowledge in regard to this is why I call you ignorant. Your inability to comprehend this is why I call you a moron. They're not insults so much as they're observations. RPI is a formal term which has been used by a small group of MUDs with a particular set of policy and code characteristics. Like it or not, they are and I'm correct.

"Wrong" is a matter of opinion. In the context of my statement, what I said was perfectly acceptable. I find murderers disgusting and do not get along with them. I find rapists disgusting and do not get along with them. We live in a time where human knowledge has accumulated to unprecedented level and is accessible via techology and resources, be it libraries or universities or even online. With such opportunity to obtain knowledge, I find ignorance unacceptable. When coupled with the egotistical arrogance to assume one is correct in spite of ignorance, I find that disgusting and do not get along people who display these characteristics. Hence I find ignorant morons disgusting as well.

I find people who want to censor speech because they're either too ignorant, too stupid or too biased to discern the difference between subjective "right and wrong" and lawful free speech disgusting too. That doesn't mean I'm calling you all three nor does it mean I'm calling you a rapist or a murderer just because I find your statement as disgusting as I view murder.

Nor am I calling for or suggesting you be banned for it.

I do not need to apologize nor am I going to. You're welcome.

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Old 09-21-2009, 09:38 AM   #72
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Ah, thankfully Kavir has the gift of brevity which I do not possess. Then again, historians are paid to be long-winded! :-D
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Your arguments are now starting to belittle even your own niece. This is the highschool debate tactic: "my 3 year old niece knows more than you do!", "My 3 year old niece can type better than you can", "My 3 year old niece can understand RPI better than you." What are you, in junior high? Have you failed to notice that your 3 year old can't even read this forum. At least make real arguments and comparisons. And of course I was right, you tried to explain your fax pas by delving into semantics and free speech.

As for countering your arguments. Yes, I have done so, countless times. Your issue is that you believe, however wrong, that only your presentation is accurate, though you couldn't substatiate any of it with fact. Examples:

1. The term RPI you claim was established years ago. There is no fact to substatiate that claim.

2. RPI is as valid an acronym as the terms RPE, NFL, and Real-Time. No, is is not. Why? I told you why and either: a. You couldn't understand it (like your 3 year old niece whom you tend to tantrom like). 2. You pretended I didn't. 3. You are ignorant of the concept of litmus.

So I'll explain it again. NFL, RPE, and Real-Time can all be proven by a singular yes or no question. RPI cannot.

3. I said your posts, not your posts on this thread, ALL of your posts. Go back and read from when you first became a member Prof. You constantly use the tired argument of this person or that person is ignorant, uneducated, etc etc. Like this makes you seem more educated? I think not.

4. You make outlandish insults then claim freedom of speech.

Prof, you remind me of a history professor that writes his own history book and claims everyone else is wrong and uneducated and a moron if they don't accept your book as fact, despite the hundreds of invalid, unsubstatiated, and subjective claims contained within the book.

As for misinterpretation. Look in the mirror.
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I didn't insult her. If I'd said she's only as smart as you, that'd be an insult. I didn't say that. She's already smarter than you are. As elements of English like adjectives are taught either in the later stages of grade school or at least early junior high and she just entered pre-school, it's likely that in another 5-7 years she'll likely be more educated than you as well.

Oh?

. The term is used by a newbie to the game and thus it's clear that it's already in common use on Armageddon. There's also the possibility that since it's being used by a newbie to Armageddon that the term's application to a specific type of game is also known in the greater community. Additionally, the reference to permanent character death in that post demonstrates one of the features to which this term includes. also reveals another of the 19 characteristics: separation of IC and OOC knowledge.

Unfortunately, Arm does not list all of their old discussions, only those they chose to archive. Hence, finding an earlier example of its use that has been saved may be more difficult. Nevertheless, this proves that the term Role-Play Intensive was already in common use by 2001 as was the acronym RPI.

. They haven't changed much since then and thus were in place in 2001 when the term RPI was in use to describe Armageddon. Note that numerous policies found in the 19 characteristics of RPIs are found in Arm's rules in 1997 (and today) such as separation of IC and OOC information, a concentration on in-character behavior and a policy against simultaneous multiple characters.

As the term was in obvious use by that point to describe Armageddon and you have yet to provide any proof that it was being used to describe any other games, at the very least it suggests that the 19 characteristics shared by Armageddon and Harshlands comprise elements of the definition of RPI. It could be argued, since I have yet to find any old threads relating the term to Harshlands, that the definition of RPI could therefore be even more exact in its detail although I first enountered the term RPI in regard to both Arm and Harshlands back in early 2000(again, documentation from that period is fragmentary).

So where's your proof that it was being used to describe any other games at this time?

And you are wrong again. The aforementioned link shows use of the acronym RPI as well as the term Role-Play Intensive. As it also uses Hack & Slash as an adjective and relates that term to Role-Play Intensive ("Hack 'n' Slash vs. Role Play Intensive") which the user denotes has characteristics which are different to other games he's played ("going to have to readjust to RPI, unlearning my Hack'n'Slash ways").

The following comments by you don't really constitute countering my points because they have nothing to do with the question of the term RPI. They're the result of your lame attempt to use personal attacks and claims of insult in lieu of defending your position but I thought I'd address them anyway.

If a person lacks knowledge, that's ignorance. If a person can not understand a sentence in their own primary language, that's either a reflection of their poor education or their lack of intelligence. Neither of these are insults and considering it's been estimated that as much as 40% of the American public is illiterate to some degree, it's not far off to suggest that figure could easily apply here as well. Your repeated inability to comprehend that Role-Play Intensive does not mean the same thing as "intense role-play" is proof of that. Don't blame me for your ignorance and take offense at the fact nor should anyone else.

Again, you also bring up the topic of my education. I don't haul out my degrees in the forums to make points but you seem obsessed with referencing them. You really are insecure about that aren't you? So how far did you get before you dropped out? Tenth grade? Eleventh?

I'm still waiting for you to explain this outlandish insult. So far you haven't been able to and it's my suspicion, as I've already said, that you're simply trying to play the role of a victim, paint your opponent (in this case, me) as a villain and thus hope that it sways people to support your disproven position out of sympathy regardless of your inability to defend it.

Lame, dude. Lame.

Who's this history professor to which you refer? Or is it merely another figment of your insecurity and hostility toward people with an education?

That might very well be the dumbest thing you've said. What have I misinterpreted? Please elaborate.

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Newworlds, you've also ignored Kavir's question. Why not give him an answer? Hmm?
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Since the student of roleplay can't help himself from throwing insults and railroad other threads, I dragged his latest attempt to bring the topic of RPI to the forefront and will respond to his sewage here.

Oh please student, all you do is attack anyone that doesn't agree with your weak definition of RPI.

Again you claim your definition of RPI is the only one. After some research I found a couple of things. 1. In an old post by Arm they defined themselves as intensive roleplay mud not Roleplay intense you ignorant fool. 2. RPI is copyrighted by a company out of Texas. Better check in with them to use the term or perhaps you will define it for them?

You are more clueless than a blond highschool girl from the Valley. I stopped replying to you when you became a broken record of idiotic redundancy. This is quite normal. Look it up under: arguing with idiots or students that think they are professors. Since you need an explanation I will give it to you: when you debate someone that only has tunnel vision and can only insult with a fools tongue it is time to stop the discussion. You are so ignorant you did not even realise I stopped discussion with you for that very reason. You have to have it spelled out for you in capital letters. Go back to school, youngster, you need at least four more years to reach my 4th grade education. You really should stop thinking someone is proven wrong when they stop discussion with the mentally incapacitated.

Yes, I know you have hourly discussions with your 3 year old niece. I'm beginning to realize that your education is about on par with hers.

The only thing you enjoy is insulting people with baseless comments about retardation, murder, rape, education, intelligence, and on. You are weak and small minded. You are a wannabe of ownership to something like SOI or Armaggedon, yet you will never achieve anything of the like. You want to be a spokesman for Roleplaying MUD's but you haven't the skill, knowledge, or ability (called KSA's in the business world, something I'm sure you've never heard about). You claim to be building your own game that will be so much more upfront and honest than any game out there. You are the type of person that will likely call himself a GOD on your game and pretend everyone is an ignoramus. I hope you will be honest about that like you claim you are and post a disclaimer about your pretentious overrated evaluation of yourself. You claim to organize a grand group for RPI yet in your own words no one wanted to work with you. You claim to be the end all be all of definitions, yet you will never open your eyes to realize that your definitions are worse than a second grade english dictionary written by a slum dog in broken spanglish.

I guess this is what you wanted isn't it? Another post of insults so you could reply in kind. You thrive on this type of tripe don't you? Well, sometimes it is the more intelligent one that knows when to stop arguing with idiots. Such a sad thing it is but I'm imagining you will happily post another 2 pages of garbage for us to dig through and it will go back and forth until I stop wasting my time with you or until you decide to make another lame RPI post or claim you have proven yourself like some cackling insane man on the corner yelling about global warming and saying he is right because no one stops to listen.
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Even though your flame was hilarious I wish you had left this thread alone New Worlds. I do not understand why both of you can't just agree to disagree and stop the insults. This thread should be locked.
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The opinions are becoming pretty debased. Like I said earlier in the thread.

I still want to see it. I've got my money on NW.

As far as the topic at hand. I really don't think there's anything else that can be posted. This topic obviously has two to three sides. The RPI fanatics. The anti-RPI fanatics. And those who don't really care either way.
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Wrong, it was you who again initiated the personal attack in another thread, one which I had not even posted in up to that point.

Wrong, it's already been pointed out that it's not "my definition".

And what is the date of this post? Hmmmm? Can you provide a link?

[QUOTE}2. RPI is copyrighted by a company out of Texas. Better check in with them to use the term or perhaps you will define it for them?[/quote]

Wrong, trademark is the term you're looking for, not copyright. However, a trademark only extends to the areas that it is applied for. But in this case you're wrong yet again because They have trademarked the phrase "Why not change the world?", not "RPI".

This is yet another example of your lack of intelligence.

You stopped arguing when you demanded evidence that the terms Role-Play Intensive and RPI were used to identify a particular type of MUD. I presented the earliest evidence I can find though personal recollections from many people in the RPI community remember its usage even earlier.

I didn't accuse anyone here of murder or rape. I questioned your intelligence as evidenced by your repeated inability to comprehend facts and I estimated that you have a very limited education by your ignorance and your insecurity toward others you perceive as educated.

I distinctly do not want a game like Armageddon or SoI. I was on SoI's staff back in 2004 and quit because various things about the game did not sit well with me. My goal with TSOY is to create a historical-setting RPI. Both Arm and SoI are fantasy. I don't expect a large playerbase and all of my staff are in agreement that we'd be happier with a small playerbase of solid RPers interested in the setting than having a larger playerbase at the expense of the setting.

So your statement is wrong, yet again.

First off, I'm not particularly interested in being a "spokesman" for anything.

Yes, we intend to be honest about things like playerbase figures, player expectations and staff expectations. Not sure why you have a hard time understanding that unless it's because you're not honest about your own game. Oh wait, you're not.

Wrong again! I actually think it's silly when people call themselves a "God" on their own game. I prefer the term staff or administrator.

What "overrated evaluation of yourself" do you refer to? Please show me where I'm making claims about myself?

No, once again either you're dishonestly misquoting of what I said or your limited comprehension of the English language is confusing you. The people that resigned had their own reasons for quitting the Operating Committee. Of the three that resigned, I can only say that one had personal issues to deal with and another had work issues (and I will not reveal more without their express authorization). Of the third, I can not say as they did not give any reason why they did not continue. Perhaps they did not like me. Perhaps they had too little time to invest. Perhaps they were sick. They never said.

When do I claim to be the "end all be all of definitions"? Just once, support something you say with some proof.

I'd actually prefer you back something up just once with actual evidence instead of personal insults. You have yet to do that. Instead you've made a lot of erroneous statements which still do not bolster your position.

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Old 09-29-2009, 04:53 PM   #80
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Re: RPI, RPE, and Roleplay

There are two threads full of discussion, definitions, links, and discourse on this topic. Regurgitating it all for your limited memory is something you may enjoy, most do not.
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