2005-03-28 : The Open House, part 2: Roleplaying with Someone...
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1. On 2005-03-28, Vincent said:
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Roleplaying with someone can bring you closer together.
Roleplaying with someone can substitute for interacting with them honestly.
Roleplaying with someone can make spending time with them tolerable, even thought you can't stand them.
Roleplaying with someone can reveal things about yourself you didn't intend to share.
Roleplaying with someone can teach you how to share creativity.
Roleplaying with someone can be how you fight with them.
Roleplaying with someone can be how you make up with them.
Roleplaying with someone can make their irritating habits into wedges between you.
Roleplaying with someone can show you how they think of the world.
Roleplaying with someone can show you what they think is right and wrong.
Roleplaying with someone can change your mind about important issues.
Roleplaying with someone can lead up to sleeping with them.
Roleplaying with someone can stand in for sleeping with them.
Roleplaying with someone can be better than sleeping with them.
Roleplaying with someone can teach you important things about yourself.
Roleplaying with someone can teach you how to be a better friend.
Roleplaying with someone can keep you from being a better friend.
Roleplaying with someone can be how you keep them at arm's distance.
Roleplaying with someone can be safer than talking to them.
Roleplaying with someone can be stupider than talking to them.
Roleplaying with someone can touch you in a way that talking to them never would.
Roleplaying with someone can be a way to show that you love them.
Roleplaying with someone can be what you like about them.
Roleplaying with someone can illuminate what you like about them.
2. On 2005-03-28, Keith said:
Roleplaying with someone can be equally soul sucking and soul enriching.
3. On 2005-03-28, LordSmerf said:
Roleplaying with someone is a learning experience.
Roleplaying with someone can be hard work.
Roleplaying with someone can be tons of fun.
Roleplaying with someone can be a terrible chore.
Roleplaying with someone can make you a better friend.
Roleplaying with someone can make you a better person.
Roleplaying with someone can make you laugh.
Roleplaying with someone can make you cry.
Roleplaying with someone can make you sit in contemplative silence.
Thomas
4. On 2005-03-28, Ben Lehman said:
Roleplaying with someone can help you tell them what you don't like about them without any bloodshed.
Roleplaying with someone can be a tool for hurting them in a socially acceptable manner.
5. On 2005-03-28, Emily Care said:
Roleplaying with someone can change how you see them.
Roleplaying with people can tell you more than you thought you wanted to know about them.
Roleplaying with someone can help you better understand why they are they way they are.
Roleplaying with someone can tell you nothing about who they are.
Roleplaying with someone can be exhilarating.
Roleplaying with someone can hurt like hell.
Roleplaying with someone can be boring as dirt.
Roleplaying with someone can show you that you can do things you didn't think you could.
Roleplaying with someone can keep you from knowing what you are capable of.
Roleplaying with someone can be away to keep a group of people getting together.
Roleplaying with someone can be a commitment you make to your friends.
Roleplaying with someone can be a commitment you make to doing something other than getting to know your friends better.
6. On 2005-03-28, xenopulse said:
Roleplaying with someone can vicariously fill a need in your life.
Roleplaying with someone can make you aware of a need in your life.
Roleplaying with someone can create a need in your life.
Roleplaying with someone can be more dangerous than any other game.
Roleplaying with someone can take you out of this world.
Roleplaying with someone can bring your feet back on the ground.
Roleplaying with someone can make you a better writer.
Roleplaying with someone can make you a worse writer.
- Christian
7. On 2005-03-28, joshua m. neff said:
Roleplaying with your significant other, one-on-one, can be a turn-on.
8. On 2005-03-28, C. Edwards said:
Roleplaying with someone can show you a reflection of the beautifully bitter-sweet quintessence of life.
Roleplaying can be the most mundane of experiences if you refuse to be present in the moment, truly sincere with the other participants, and honest with yourself.
9. On 2005-03-28, Meguey said:
Roleplaying with someone can open up new worlds and new areas of connection you didn't have before.
Roleplaying with someone can get you out of a sucky place in your head.
Roleplaying with someone can let you be a pirate monkey doll beset by dangerous hotwheels bandits.
Roleplaying with someone can show you how their mind works.
Roleplaying with someone can bring up all your hidden crap and make you look at it.
Roleplaying with someone can make you feel strong and powerful and right.
Roleplaying with someone can inject great meaning into very simple things.
Roleplaying with someone can give you years of inside jokes.
Roleplaying with someone can make you laugh so hard you can't breath.
Roleplaying with someone can make you fall in love.
Roleplaying with someone can let you ingore the real problems between you.
Roleplaying with someone can make you both understand where the other is coming from.
Roleplaying with someone can help prepare you for the real world.
Roleplaying with someone can prevent you from really
dealing with your issues.
Roleplaying with someone can motivate you to learn more, study more, and think more.
10. On 2005-03-28, Judd said:
Roleplaying with someone can shape your friendship.
Roleplaying with someone can be your friendship.
Roleplaying with someone can be not enough for a meaningful friendship.
Roleplaying with someone can give all involved a common frame of reference.
Roleplaying with someone can give all involved irreconciliable differences.
Roleplaying can be a community building activity.
11. On 2005-03-29, Tobias said:
Roleplaying with people can be a social status confirming activity.
Roleplaying with someone can be about allowing you to state your dream without a mask.
12. On 2005-03-29, Tony I said:
Roleplaying with someone can uncover secrets that neither of you wanted to share or learn.
Roleplaying with someone keeps bringing you both back to collide on the same hang up or issue again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
Roleplaying with someone gives you the chance to show them real kindness.
Roleplaying with someone lets you describe for them "this is who I really want to be".
Roleplaying with someone is a way to make friends out of strangers.
Roleplaying with someone can give you an afterglow that lasts for days.
13. On 2005-03-29, Tony I said:
Roleplaying with someone can be how you say to your friends "Look how screwed up a person I am, this scares me."
Roleplaying with someone is a way to say it out loud before it destroys you.
Roleplaying with someone can be how you examine something, anything at all, again and again and again and again not really even knowing what it is or why you have to keep examining it.
14. On 2005-03-29, Claire B said:
Roleplaying with someone can be a way of avoiding the things you don't want to face.
Roleplaying with someone can form the basis of a bond you all think is stronger than it really is.
Roleplaying with someone can leave you full of energy and zest for life.
Roleplaying with someone can make you physically ill for days afterwards.
15. On 2005-03-29, Ben Lehman said:
Roleplaying with someone can give you nightmares.
16. On 2005-03-29, Ron Edwards said:
Role-playing with someone can produce a story which neither of you could have produced individually.
17. On 2005-03-29, Meguey said:
Roleplaying with someone can be totally surprising.
Roleplaying with someone can be a way to make them do what you want them to do.
Roleplaying with someone can be a way to explore a culture or viewpoint not your own.
18. On 2005-03-29, Ben Lehman said:
Roleplaying with someone can make you fast friends, the sort that could call each other 30 years down the line for help, the sort that helps move boxes of books.
19. On 2005-03-29, Piers Brown said:
Role-playing with someone can produce a story which neither of you would have produced individually.
20. On 2005-03-30, Jasper Polane said:
Roleplaying with someone can end your friendship.
21. On 2005-03-30, Matt Snyder said:
Roleplaying with someone can result in nearly any social result you'd care to imagine.
22. On 2005-03-31, pete_darby said:
Roleplaying with someone can be a way of saying "this is not who we are."
Roleplaying with someone can be a way of saying "this is not who we wish to be"
Roleplaying with someone can be a way of saying "this is who we are but wish we weren't"
23. On 2005-03-31, Jonathan Walton said:
Roleplaying with someone is an invitation for collaboration. It's saying "I can't do this by myself."
Roleplaying with someone forces you to think about how they view the world. Or, if not, maybe it should.
Roleplaying with someone is involves a relationship of some kind. What kind of relationship is it this time around?
Roleplaying with someone is a conversation, sometimes an argument. What are you really discussing?
Roleplaying with someone is, at the core, exactly like talking with them, except that it's an aesthetic and more round-a-bout activity. How do you normally communicate? How do you communicate when you roleplay?
Roleplaying with someone goes especially nicely with tea and crumpets.
24. On 2005-03-31, kat Miller said:
Roleplaying with someone can be the only thing you like about that person.
Roleplaying with someone can be the only thing you don't like about that person.
Roleplaying with someone can invoke real feelings.
Roleplaying with someone can help hide real feelings.
Roleplaying with Your S.O. can make you question your feelings.
Roleplaying with someone can make you self-conscious
Roleplaying with someone can allow you to forget yourself
Roleplaying with someone can make you care about a world and people that didn't exist before you and someone built it.
Roleplaying with someone can put you in dangerous situation among the safety of your friends.
Roleplaying with someone is not something you should do at the movies.
Roleplaying with someone can make a 9 and 1/2 hour drive, not seem so long.
-kat
whim@enter.net
25. On 2005-04-01, kat miller said:
Role playing with somebody can feel lonely
Role playing with somebody can make you feel misunderstood
Role playing with somebody can lead to admiration of younger siblings who think up really cool ideas
Role playing with somebody can be something you do just because you want to spend time with an older sibling, and the age difference is making it hard to connect with each other when your no longer an kid and don't feel like an adult yet
26. On 2005-04-01, Ben Lehman said:
Roleplaying with someone can be a way of exploring issues you don't talk about, even alone to yourself.
Roleplaying with people can be a way to learn to be human.
27. On 2005-04-06, Wolfen said:
Roleplaying with someone can help both of you realize who you are, and who you can be.
Roleplaying with someone can kill several hours.
Roleplaying with someone is generally better than murdering them in their sleep.
Roleplaying with someone can be a way to feel out how they feel about certain things.
28. On 2005-04-06, Gordon C. Landis said:
Roleplaying with someone is an opportunity to take this thing called "fiction" (imagination, storytelling . . . pick your word) and have it actually mean something in the lives of the people you're playing with. It can be an antidote to the loneliness of the creative process; a right-now answer to the question "does my creation matter at all to other people?"
29. On 2005-04-06, Eva said:
Roleplaying with someone can help you forget the feeling you do not exist
Roleplaying with someone can make you think you do not matter
Roleplaying with someone can make you feel your controll on events
30. On 2005-04-07, Lxndr said:
Roleplaying with someone can get you out of the house.
Roleplaying with someone is better than being alone.
Roleplaying with someone can make you feel lost.
Roleplaying with someone can make you feel found.
Roleplaying with someone can bring you closer.
Roleplaying with someone can tear you apart.
Roleplaying with someone can be very intense.
Roleplaying with someone has given me life-long friends.
Roleplaying with someone can open your mind.
Roleplaying with someone can strengthen your assumptions.
Roleplaying with someone is what you do every day, anyway.
31. On 2005-04-07, Victor said:
Roleplaying with someone can be an attempt to connect with them.
Roleplaying with someone can be an attempt to connect with yourself.
Roleplaying with someone can be an invitation for the other to show herself from her darker side.
Roleplaying with someone can be an excuse to show yourself from your darker side.
Roleplaying with someone can be an opportunity to share secrets you'd never speak about - even to yourself.
Roleplaying with someone can be an attempt to reach a new level of mutual understanding.
Roleplaying with someone can be the most frustrating kind of miscommunication.
32. On 2005-04-07, GreyWords said:
Roleplaying with someone is the most difficult thing I've ever done.
Roleplaying with someone is often easier than dealing with their normal selves.
Roleplaying with someone has taught me what I want to change about myself.
Roleplaying with someone gave me the strength to abandon the parts of me I didn't want anymore.
Roleplaying with someone is more addictive than any drug I plan ot experiment with.
33. On 2005-04-08, Sydney Freedberg said:
Roleplaying with somebody is cheaper than therapy.
34. On 2005-05-11, Jeff Z said:
Roleplaying with someone can give you a surprise.
Roleplaying with someone can be frustratingly predictable.
Roleplayig with someone always gives you an excuse for a conversation.
Roleplaying with someone gives you a soapbox. Or an easel.
Roleplaying with someone has its moments.
Roleplaying with someone beats TV.
Roleplaying with someone goes best with pot.
Roleplaying with someone is ephemeral.
Rolelaying with someone is wasted Time.
35. On 2005-05-23, Ozymandias said:
Role-playing with someone can get you sent to the ER.
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