Roleplaying Blahs
Times change, and there may be a certain inevitability to things, but we cannot help long for brighter points of the past, neh?
I'd say "now more than ever with all the social distancing, I get a lot of my socializing online," but truthfully it's been that way for a long while. I prefer it in a lot of ways. The company I keep needn't be local and I don't have to deal with the energy-sapping direct interactions that are common. Oh, face-to-face stuff is great sometimes, but I can only take so much.
Socializing through online RP, though, has been tapering off more and more, it feels. When Kit shifted from the MUCK over to Discord pretty much exclusively, that was a big change for me. It works better for some people, but seems a bad fit personally. Several games and scenes have been run with a more play-when-you-can-anytime flow, and that has led me (as someone who practically has a window of a few hours a day to be 'present') to feel left out. After several attempts at catching up with a day's worth of goings-on, I find I don't really have the energy to keep up, so things fall by the wayside. I still like Dalianna as a character, but don't feel able to maintain any connection to the active players in the FFA threads. I stayed out of Kit's Kult game for largely the same reasons, and I don't think I was wrong. I was sort of psyching myself up and looking forward to a Blue Rose game scheduled for Thursday evenings, even if it was a little earlier than I typically get on, but after getting home and scarfing down a quick dinner, I found it had gone poof before even starting as the GM lost interest. So... yeah, no options have felt like a good fit.
That's probably more common than not, though, if I really think about it. And on a smaller scale, I feel like I can't do much with Kit as he's constantly involved in these other games. And Kyn's eager enough to keep in touch, but work has kept him from coming up with much in the way of inspiring scenes or plots - a situation I've been personally familiar with for years. So online interactions and RP have been feeling pretty empty and I don't see any real change on the horizon.
Feh. Kind of depressing, but what can you do?
I'd say "now more than ever with all the social distancing, I get a lot of my socializing online," but truthfully it's been that way for a long while. I prefer it in a lot of ways. The company I keep needn't be local and I don't have to deal with the energy-sapping direct interactions that are common. Oh, face-to-face stuff is great sometimes, but I can only take so much.
Socializing through online RP, though, has been tapering off more and more, it feels. When Kit shifted from the MUCK over to Discord pretty much exclusively, that was a big change for me. It works better for some people, but seems a bad fit personally. Several games and scenes have been run with a more play-when-you-can-anytime flow, and that has led me (as someone who practically has a window of a few hours a day to be 'present') to feel left out. After several attempts at catching up with a day's worth of goings-on, I find I don't really have the energy to keep up, so things fall by the wayside. I still like Dalianna as a character, but don't feel able to maintain any connection to the active players in the FFA threads. I stayed out of Kit's Kult game for largely the same reasons, and I don't think I was wrong. I was sort of psyching myself up and looking forward to a Blue Rose game scheduled for Thursday evenings, even if it was a little earlier than I typically get on, but after getting home and scarfing down a quick dinner, I found it had gone poof before even starting as the GM lost interest. So... yeah, no options have felt like a good fit.
That's probably more common than not, though, if I really think about it. And on a smaller scale, I feel like I can't do much with Kit as he's constantly involved in these other games. And Kyn's eager enough to keep in touch, but work has kept him from coming up with much in the way of inspiring scenes or plots - a situation I've been personally familiar with for years. So online interactions and RP have been feeling pretty empty and I don't see any real change on the horizon.
Feh. Kind of depressing, but what can you do?
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