Hot takes.
GangRP (Specifically motive/perms)
While this may not be everyone, but recently there has been a lot of people saying 'GangRP is dead.' That is not the case. Some people are still talking about how they miss the old way of gang roleplay, but to be fair, someone grabbing you to ask you a question is not motive to shatter ones kneecap. Think about it, if someone grabs you in real life because maybe you had a little bit of beef going on between you, would you really think 'Oh, since you did that, I'm going to grab a few buddies and put on a mask, and hunt you down and try to shatter your leg.' It didn't make sense and was terrible motive. Even now it's still a little sketchy, I know some people might have built their character as someone you don't 'Mess around' with, but knocking someone out over things as small as that is not really realistic. Now getting knocked out can certainly give you motive to do something, or it can give your family/friends a reason to do something. And I say this from experience knowing that if someone knocked a kid/friend/family member I am really close to, I am going to do something about it. It's still an iffy subject, but GangRP'ers would lose their minds if they took out being able to break bones and all that (And BMD would have no job)
Not RP'ing properly/Realistic RP
There are a few things that are pretty confusing in terms of RP in the server.
1. Whenever people see the Grades 7-9 they can tend to classify them as 'Greenies.' Now while yes, grade 7 is the youngest you can get on the server, but you still need to realize that you're still playing a 13 year old. There have been very few cases when you see a Grade 7 actually RP as how a 13 year old would act. While I understand why people may act that way to be a young person, you need to understand that 13 year old's don't act how some people portray them as in srp. Some people may act like a baby as their 13 year old, and yes you can give them characteristics with maybe a mental disorder and such, but being realistic no 13 year old acts as some of how some people RP them.
2. Injuries. Let's be real for a moment. Starting with just.. Getting knocked out. Obviously that would mess you up for a little bit if you were beat down enough to lose consciousness, if that ever happened to me, which it has, I would be a little bit shaky for the rest of the day and more through the week. And I get that some of us on srp have been knocked out every hour or so, but you should still understand that it has an effect on your health. Let's also take a metal bat for example. Depending on the situation, hitting someone in the head really hard irl can end someone's life. While it might be hard to RP it out due to GangRP/CrimeRP, it is still something that would wreck you for a while. Another few short things to add, getting a bone broken or shattered, depending on if you are awake when it happens, would traumatize you. If someone came up to me with a bat and slammed it into my leg and it broke/shattered, I would lose my s**t. Seriously guys, PainRP! It's a big event in your life. Another thing is getting stabbed, if someone shoves a katana in your liver, I doubt you would keep fighting and knock them out, while some do that, it's not really realistic as you would probably die in any other case. I would be traumatized if I got stabbed irl. Losing a limb as well, that would change your life and you would have INSANE amounts of PTSD and trauma in general, I'm not going to lose my leg, wait out recovery and prosthetics and just walk around. It changes your life, so RP it out!
Some things might be hard to RP out as it is just a block game, but there are a few things that I would change about the server, but I obviously don't have the power to, and this is hot takes! Not suggestions. But I do wish that getting jailed was not so much a command as it does not seem very realistic, say KPD got locked in a room with a few criminals that are in cuffs, yeah they could get out quite easily and the criminals could put up a fight, but it gives some more RP between the police and criminals rather than teleporting them to jail, as it is not that hard to just take them to jail in a car, as it is more realistic that way than getting yeeted into a jail cell halfway across the map from the middle of the sewers.
Toxicity
This is a very big subject to talk about in SRP, something people NEED to understand is that it's SOME people in the community that are toxic, not the entire thing. For example, some people may say GangRP'ers are toxic, it's not true. SOME people are toxic and there are some people who are great people, but they can get lumped into this category of being toxic just by associating themselves with a community that has some toxic people. Another thing, people need to stop taking IC to OOC, it's a block game, it's a Minecraft ROLEPLAY server. If someone is complaining to me that I did something they didn't like ICLY and they are being hostile about it, I simply won't want to interact with you. Personally, I hate when people are mad at me, and when people get toxic over something I did in a block game, it really upsets me. People will sometimes say things in OOC bragging about their accomplishments or trying to call someone out for everyone to see, either your mad or just being a toxic person. Some things are meant to stay private, and you should not be trying to shame others for something they did in a block game. It's very hard to escape some of the toxicity, as no world is perfect and it will always have it's flaws. If you are a respectable person and have good server knowledge then you should be able to not be receiving any toxicity. But say you are all that BUT you are maybe a GangRP'er, or KPD. People might say be a little toxic to you just because you are involved in the GangRP community, or they might call you out for being in KPD for being 'Overpowered.' Unless they are explicitly being toxic, they are just trying to have fun and are unfortunately getting dragged into a situation they don't want to be in. People who let what happens in a video game affect their relationship with friends are simply not being a good friend. And don't critique peoples RP either, it can always improve and you can help them by pointing out some tips to help them, but don't be picking them apart in looc/ooc just because they didn't use a " for their words, or maybe they had a typo in their action, they might just laugh it off and make it seem like they don't care, but for all you know, it might hurt them.
Community standards..
I don't really know what I wanted to title this section.. But here we go.
DetailRP.. I enjoy DetailRP, but just cramming words into an action is not really improving the quality of your RP, it may not make sense or you might just be filling just to fill, but I also don't understand why people might not want to interact with you if you never DetailRP, how would they meet new server members if they only have really high standards for RP, and yes, people won't love to RP with people who don't know the rules or are FailRP'ing, but if someone new is trying to learn and stick with the rules but you won't interact since they are not 'Good enough' for you, then it's not fun! There are times for DetailRP, but sometimes you can just be simple. And by no means do I mean you should GangRP by doing /me hits head, but you don't need to be triple appending a /me action with 2 more triple appended /it's right after 100% of the time, and yeah you can do that with people who want to do that if it floats your boat, but some people just want to be simple.
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Be nice people.
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Touch grass.
Drink water.
Don't be an alcoholic (I'm not a hypocrite I swear)
-SirLump