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Well here's a shocker for all of you: I like roleplaying.
I think it's fun to go and be something or someone else for a little while, but I do NOT, however like being required to write a ******** book every time I want to roleplay.

Okay, so I go to Barton, looking for a little RP to distract me for a while, and I find some really amazing, really original plots. More than I've come across in some time, actually. So I'm pretty excited about this. I read the story and whatnot, I'm thinkin' I really want to get into these Roleplays, but then I take a gander at the rules:

"You must post ten paragraphs per post, and they have to be decorated with a picture, and a border, and the blood of your firstborn, and your descriptions have to be ******** worthy, and you can't even have so much as a punctuation mark out of place, and if you don't follow these rules, I'll rip your ******** face off."

WHAT THE ********?!

Okay I realize I might be exaggerating (I sure as hell hope you realize this haha), but you have to admit, some of the rules these people come up with are a little, shall we say, rediculous?

Does anyone go into ******** BARTON hoping to write a award-winning short story or some s**t? Okay, don't answer that, I'm sure there's at least two or three people out there who hope for just that. Now, don't get me wrong, good grammar and ore than one or two sentences per post aren't bad things. They're very good things. They show that the poster actually wants to get into the story, that they actually want to put in some effort.

I guess my real problem is, why is it that only the uber-hardcore, "My-life-revolves-around-roleplay" threads can have halfway interesting storylines?

Surely there has to be other people out there who, like me, want to roleplay a unique, original storyline, but don't want to have to adhere to the mind-numbingly strict rules that most of those threads require.

So there you have my rant for the day. Don't like it? Well, good. I feed off of your discontent, BWAHAHAHAHA!!!