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manmanfooo
Has anyone ever thought about maybe making monk roleplay accounts? I know a lot of people roleplay on Myspace. And there is an Adrian on there and there use to be a Natalie..but they haven't logged in in a while and I was thinking maybe we could start up a Monk roleplay group on mypace?
Tell me what you guys think.
micheleNasser
QUOTE (manmanfooo @ May 29 2008, 06:00 PM) *
Has anyone ever thought about maybe making monk roleplay accounts? I know a lot of people roleplay on Myspace. And there is an Adrian on there and there use to be a Natalie..but they haven't logged in in a while and I was thinking maybe we could start up a Monk roleplay group on mypace?
Tell me what you guys think.



Hey

we tried it once here, but somehow it didnīt go on....
Maybe we should try it again??

Mi
Monk_O_Phile81
QUOTE (micheleNasser @ May 29 2008, 06:17 PM) *
Hey

we tried it once here, but somehow it didnīt go on....
Maybe we should try it again??

Mi



Wanna start pickin characters? Who do you wanna be?
I was Marcy last time, but this time I think I wanna be Sharona, I've been workin on my Jersey accent...wait, you can't hear it over the computer. Oh well, just tell me who to be.
What's our plot?
manmanfooo
QUOTE (MonkoPhile81 @ May 29 2008, 08:50 PM) *
Wanna start pickin characters? Who do you wanna be?
I was Marcy last time, but this time I think I wanna be Sharona, I've been workin on my Jersey accent...wait, you can't hear it over the computer. Oh well, just tell me who to be.
What's our plot?


Well, I think it'd be a little hard to actually rp on the boards. Have you guys ever heard of Myspace rp? You make a pro, add photos you know, ect. Then you rp through comments. Or a blog.
Liv
I looked up MySpace Adrian Monk and found two. I think I understand roleplaying, aren't these two accounts supposed to be set up as if Adrian Monk was a real person and he has a MySpace account? I can see where that would be fun, I've seen role playing communities before, one in particular was very well done, in my opinion, but I don't know, these accounts don't seem very 'Monkish' to me. I mean, we already know Adrian isn't the most computer/internet savvy person in Monkland, but there are ways around that, and suspension of disbelief and all that.

But the two that I found, they are both a bit too heavy on exposition and neither really sounds like Monk to me. And one had a background with pictures that kept changing, and I sort of find it hard to get into the right mindset for reading a roleplaying blog when there are promotional pictures, USA Network logos, and signed autographed pictures of Tony Shalhoub flashing behind the text. All the flashing is a little distracting, and didn't seem very Adrian like. Though I was flattered that one of the pictures used in the background was one of my SP Adrians. I just don't think that he would have a lot of pictures of himself in the account because he doesn't really have any pictures of himself in his home, he never looks in the mirror, he didn't even recognize his own picture on the fake ID that Leland gave him in Cabin Fever. I don't think he'd talk so much about himself, or have music playing, or changing backgrounds. He'd probably have a very basic, solid colored background with everything as even and balanced as possible, and an album of loads and loads of pictures of Trudy. He'd probably use modest, normal sized text that would be as easy to see and read as possible. He would not use multicolored, giant Comic Sans font. biggrin.gif That was pretty cute, though.

I mean, they were good efforts, it's still a tribute to the show and the character. But they just seemed a long long way from being in character to me, and that is the point of roleplaying isn't it? I know that the character himself is a challenge, and you already have to stretch believability to have him with a MySpace account anyway, but still, shouldn't it look and seem like an account he would have? Unless I misunderstand what the people who set up these accounts were going for, which is possible. I've never taken part in an RP game or anything, I was just going by the impressions I have gotten, admittedly from a distance.

Edited to add, I do think that this would be a whole lot of fun to do in something like MySpace, where the characters could all comment on each other's blogs and things, though I think, in order to preserve the illusion, it would be bbest of there was someway to limit it so that only the people playing the characters could comment, not just random people who pop in to want to spam or whatever. It could be fun to do, and if you could find the right people to do it, with the comments and everything, it could be very entertaining to read.
manmanfooo
QUOTE (Liv @ May 30 2008, 09:34 PM) *
I looked up MySpace Adrian Monk and found two. I think I understand roleplaying, aren't these two accounts supposed to be set up as if Adrian Monk was a real person and he has a MySpace account? I can see where that would be fun, I've seen role playing communities before, one in particular was very well done, in my opinion, but I don't know, these accounts don't seem very 'Monkish' to me. I mean, we already know Adrian isn't the most computer/internet savvy person in Monkland, but there are ways around that, and suspension of disbelief and all that.

But the two that I found, they are both a bit too heavy on exposition and neither really sounds like Monk to me. And one had a background with pictures that kept changing, and I sort of find it hard to get into the right mindset for reading a roleplaying blog when there are promotional pictures, USA Network logos, and signed autographed pictures of Tony Shalhoub flashing behind the text. All the flashing is a little distracting, and didn't seem very Adrian like. Though I was flattered that one of the pictures used in the background was one of my SP Adrians. I just don't think that he would have a lot of pictures of himself in the account because he doesn't really have any pictures of himself in his home, he never looks in the mirror, he didn't even recognize his own picture on the fake ID that Leland gave him in Cabin Fever. I don't think he'd talk so much about himself, or have music playing, or changing backgrounds. He'd probably have a very basic, solid colored background with everything as even and balanced as possible, and an album of loads and loads of pictures of Trudy. He'd probably use modest, normal sized text that would be as easy to see and read as possible. He would not use multicolored, giant Comic Sans font. biggrin.gif That was pretty cute, though.

I mean, they were good efforts, it's still a tribute to the show and the character. But they just seemed a long long way from being in character to me, and that is the point of roleplaying isn't it? I know that the character himself is a challenge, and you already have to stretch believability to have him with a MySpace account anyway, but still, shouldn't it look and seem like an account he would have? Unless I misunderstand what the people who set up these accounts were going for, which is possible. I've never taken part in an RP game or anything, I was just going by the impressions I have gotten, admittedly from a distance.

Edited to add, I do think that this would be a whole lot of fun to do in something like MySpace, where the characters could all comment on each other's blogs and things, though I think, in order to preserve the illusion, it would be bbest of there was someway to limit it so that only the people playing the characters could comment, not just random people who pop in to want to spam or whatever. It could be fun to do, and if you could find the right people to do it, with the comments and everything, it could be very entertaining to read.


I really don't think those two pro's are roleplaying profiles. When you catch a roleplaying profile it'll most likely say it in the headline. Either [Roleplayer] [Para] which means you know, no one liners so when someone sends a starter to have a storyline, they get a good paragraph or two. Roleplaying, you just make your profile on myspace..but it's more of just a way to communicate. It's not as if you're sending messages like it IS the actual monk roleplaying profile. There are a ton of other roleplayers. From different shows like Grey's Anatomy, CSI and a lot of other fandoms. What we actually do...we make a pro, we add other roleplayers and only roleplayers and they usually send a 'starter' to me or you ask for them to. And then we have a storyline. We play off of eachother. So, it really isn't exactly about the pro itself although in all honesty, i love when a profile is neat and nice and not cluttered. Roleplaying on Myspace gives you an advantage. Not only is it really really fun and slightly addictive but you get to actually roleplay with other people. People from different shows, movies..even like 'celebrities'. people who rp sports players, ect.
Liv
QUOTE (manmanfooo @ May 31 2008, 03:13 PM) *
I really don't think those two pro's are roleplaying profiles. When you catch a roleplaying profile it'll most likely say it in the headline. Either [Roleplayer] [Para] which means you know, no one liners so when someone sends a starter to have a storyline, they get a good paragraph or two. Roleplaying, you just make your profile on myspace..but it's more of just a way to communicate. It's not as if you're sending messages like it IS the actual monk roleplaying profile. There are a ton of other roleplayers. From different shows like Grey's Anatomy, CSI and a lot of other fandoms. What we actually do...we make a pro, we add other roleplayers and only roleplayers and they usually send a 'starter' to me or you ask for them to. And then we have a storyline. We play off of eachother. So, it really isn't exactly about the pro itself although in all honesty, i love when a profile is neat and nice and not cluttered. Roleplaying on Myspace gives you an advantage. Not only is it really really fun and slightly addictive but you get to actually roleplay with other people. People from different shows, movies..even like 'celebrities'. people who rp sports players, ect.


Oh. So, the point isn't to get into the character? I mean, yeah, having something at the top of the front page of the profile that says, "This is an RP for recreational purposes only, this is not actually______" makes sense and really should be done, even if the personality in question is a fictional character, because otherwise someone might think it was the actor who played the character or someone associated with the show in some way, but other that that, I would have thought that the point would be to really get into the role, like a hybrid of being an actor and a writer, that if you are any good at it, that you should sound and come across exactly like the character in question. I've seen something that I thought was an RP, but maybe it wasn't- the people involved had a character, and they set up accounts for that character, and interacted with other characters in the RP (and only the other characters in the RP) as that character, and they stayed more or less in character, never letting on in anyway they there were anyone other than the fictional character they were playing.

I think that possibly I would get bored too quickly to do it long term, but the only way I could imagine doing it at all is if there was a challenge to it of trying to get into character as much as possible and staying there while I was RPing. Like, aside from a disclaimer on the front page, everything in the account, from the posts to the replies made to comments, to the background and so on should look and sound like it actually was Adrian Monk. But I could see how that might be difficult to do.

smile.gif That does make me want to try an experiment, though. I wouldn't mind setting up a profile or account or whatever and see if I could actually do it, sound like him and get into the character. Being female, not to mention a very different type of personality, I'm pretty sure that the language and manner of speaking would be a bit off, just for starters. Would anyone be interested in a (possibly) short RP sort of thing with MySpace or something? I mean, we'd have to ignore the fact that Monk doesn't have a computer or much use or trust for them, but I wonder if I could be convincing, trying to RP as Monk. Or any of the other characters.
manmanfooo
QUOTE (Liv @ May 31 2008, 05:07 PM) *
Oh. So, the point isn't to get into the character? I mean, yeah, having something at the top of the front page of the profile that says, "This is an RP for recreational purposes only, this is not actually______" makes sense and really should be done, even if the personality in question is a fictional character, because otherwise someone might think it was the actor who played the character or someone associated with the show in some way, but other that that, I would have thought that the point would be to really get into the role, like a hybrid of being an actor and a writer, that if you are any good at it, that you should sound and come across exactly like the character in question. I've seen something that I thought was an RP, but maybe it wasn't- the people involved had a character, and they set up accounts for that character, and interacted with other characters in the RP (and only the other characters in the RP) as that character, and they stayed more or less in character, never letting on in anyway they there were anyone other than the fictional character they were playing.

I think that possibly I would get bored too quickly to do it long term, but the only way I could imagine doing it at all is if there was a challenge to it of trying to get into character as much as possible and staying there while I was RPing. Like, aside from a disclaimer on the front page, everything in the account, from the posts to the replies made to comments, to the background and so on should look and sound like it actually was Adrian Monk. But I could see how that might be difficult to do.

smile.gif That does make me want to try an experiment, though. I wouldn't mind setting up a profile or account or whatever and see if I could actually do it, sound like him and get into the character. Being female, not to mention a very different type of personality, I'm pretty sure that the language and manner of speaking would be a bit off, just for starters. Would anyone be interested in a (possibly) short RP sort of thing with MySpace or something? I mean, we'd have to ignore the fact that Monk doesn't have a computer or much use or trust for them, but I wonder if I could be convincing, trying to RP as Monk. Or any of the other characters.


I definitely think you should try it. i wasn't too big on trying it actually but when i did, I got really into it and it's pretty addicting.
As an example profile, here's a Catherine Willows from CSI. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=377046467

People usually always write rules and a disclaimer, you know, that you are not really the character or have anything to do with the character. It's just roleplay. But yeah, the bio and what not..usually does sound like the character. Telling them about yourself, who you are..ect. People usually make their pro look nice by adding icons, ect.
smile.gif
Liv
QUOTE (manmanfooo @ May 31 2008, 04:37 PM) *
I definitely think you should try it. i wasn't too big on trying it actually but when i did, I got really into it and it's pretty addicting.
As an example profile, here's a Catherine Willows from CSI. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=377046467

People usually always write rules and a disclaimer, you know, that you are not really the character or have anything to do with the character. It's just roleplay. But yeah, the bio and what not..usually does sound like the character. Telling them about yourself, who you are..ect. People usually make their pro look nice by adding icons, ect.
smile.gif



Sorry, I'm not sure why but this doesn't make any sense to me. Are there supposed to be blog entries and I'm just not seeing them, because all I see are a list of rules, many of which might as well be written in Russian for all I understand. And there are some 'comments' here but I can't tell if they are supposed to form a single story or not. And if they are RPing, why are Grissom and this AnnaSophia person commenting about themselves in the third person? This actually doesn't seem much like RPing, but more like writing a round robin style fanfiction.
history08
I think this is a great idea, and you should try it. I am all for it!
manmanfooo
QUOTE (history08 @ May 31 2008, 06:36 PM) *
I think this is a great idea, and you should try it. I am all for it!


Woo smile.gif
Who are you going to make?
I think we should have definitely one of everyone.
history08
QUOTE (manmanfooo @ May 31 2008, 08:58 PM) *
Woo smile.gif
Who are you going to make?
I think we should have definitely one of everyone.



I don't care...just let me know.
manmanfooo
QUOTE (history08 @ May 31 2008, 10:08 PM) *
I don't care...just let me know.


Umm...do you want to be Natalie?
history08
QUOTE (manmanfooo @ May 31 2008, 09:13 PM) *
Umm...do you want to be Natalie?



Is there any of the characters already on MySpace?
manmanfooo
QUOTE (history08 @ May 31 2008, 10:15 PM) *
Is there any of the characters already on MySpace?


Well, there is a Monk but he hasn't gotten online since the 22nd. I guess he has a House rp pro that he's on more.
there was a Natalie and a Sharona but they both deleted a few days ago. :/
So I guess..yes but no.
history08
QUOTE (manmanfooo @ May 31 2008, 09:17 PM) *
Well, there is a Monk but he hasn't gotten online since the 22nd. I guess he has a House rp pro that he's on more.
there was a Natalie and a Sharona but they both deleted a few days ago. :/
So I guess..yes but no.



So, I guess really we need to start completely over. There needs to be a Monk who gets "on the web." There also needs to be some representation of every other character, as well. What do you think?
manmanfooo
QUOTE (history08 @ May 31 2008, 10:30 PM) *
So, I guess really we need to start completely over. There needs to be a Monk who gets "on the web." There also needs to be some representation of every other character, as well. What do you think?


I guess so. The monk might get back on soon..but who knows. Well, yeah..para. We need pretty much all of the character profiles.
But you know, you can start with someone..and as soon as we get more people, the group will start to become bigger and bigger.
Liv
QUOTE (history08 @ May 31 2008, 05:36 PM) *
I think this is a great idea, and you should try it. I am all for it!



Well, I still don't know exactly how this is usually done, or if I'll be able to stick with it. I went ahead and made an account for Monk here on LJ , but this may not be what everyone else had in mind. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do anything longterm, right now it's more or less of an experiment to see if I can get into the character and make him sound right. Since I don't know yet how it will turn out, I thought maybe I would just make a few entries, and if people comment to them, I will try to reply to them in character. If that goes well, then maybe others could create accounts for the rest of the gang and we could just go from there. But I would hate to say I was definitely up for something when I don't really even know exactly what would be expected or if I would stick with it, I don't want to let anyone down. To be perfectly honest, at the moment, it's all curiosity and
novelty, I don't know how long my interest will last.

Oh, and I'm still working on this account, this is just getting a feel for it, I'm hoping my interest lasts long enough for me to at least figure out what I'm doing and make a nice, 'Monkish' looking LJ.
history08
QUOTE (Liv @ May 31 2008, 09:34 PM) *
Well, I still don't know exactly how this is usually done, or if I'll be able to stick with it. I went ahead and made an account for Monk here on LJ , but this may not be what everyone else had in mind. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do anything longterm, right now it's more or less of an experiment to see if I can get into the character and make him sound right. Since I don't know yet how it will turn out, I thought maybe I would just make a few entries, and if people comment to them, I will try to reply to them in character. If that goes well, then maybe others could create accounts for the rest of the gang and we could just go from there. But I would hate to say I was definitely up for something when I don't really even know exactly what would be expected or if I would stick with it, I don't want to let anyone down. To be perfectly honest, at the moment, it's all curiosity and
novelty, I don't know how long my interest will last.

Oh, and I'm still working on this account, this is just getting a feel for it, I'm hoping my interest lasts long enough for me to at least figure out what I'm doing and make a nice, 'Monkish' looking LJ.



Well, I am going to be honest. I have a MySpace page for myself. I have never done one for a character or someone that I am not. It will be a try and see thing for me too. I mean, I am not by any means a "know-it-all" on any of the characters.
manmanfooo
QUOTE (history08 @ May 31 2008, 10:39 PM) *
Well, I am going to be honest. I have a MySpace page for myself. I have never done one for a character or someone that I am not. It will be a try and see thing for me too. I mean, I am not by any means a "know-it-all" on any of the characters.


Well see..that blog, isn't really..rp. I mean...example like this..what I have wrote for one of my profiles.
One of my responses.

He smiled when he heard that she had missed him. He ran his fingers through his short hair, chewing on his bottom lip as he flipped his omelet maker, hoping not to burn his eggs. He reached over, opening the refrigerator with his free hand and glanced inside. "I missed you too...I was hoping that maybe I could wake up with you in my arms..but tonight that will happen." He softly smiled to himself as he thought about just holding her in bed. He grabbed his apple juice and a glass, pouring some juice inside of his cup.

I mean, you make the pro..bio, do the layout, ect. make it look cool..or not. haha then other rpers add you. They send 'starters' in comments.
Something to get your storyline started. Something like bumping to someone on the street..saying you're sorry and introduced yourself. Or maybe you already know them. If you know what I mean..sorta like fanfic but going back and fourth in your comments.
Liv
QUOTE (manmanfooo @ May 31 2008, 09:44 PM) *
Well see..that blog, isn't really..rp. I mean...example like this..what I have wrote for one of my profiles.
One of my responses.

He smiled when he heard that she had missed him. He ran his fingers through his short hair, chewing on his bottom lip as he flipped his omelet maker, hoping not to burn his eggs. He reached over, opening the refrigerator with his free hand and glanced inside. "I missed you too...I was hoping that maybe I could wake up with you in my arms..but tonight that will happen." He softly smiled to himself as he thought about just holding her in bed. He grabbed his apple juice and a glass, pouring some juice inside of his cup.

I mean, you make the pro..bio, do the layout, ect. make it look cool..or not. haha then other rpers add you. They send 'starters' in comments.
Something to get your storyline started. Something like bumping to someone on the street..saying you're sorry and introduced yourself. Or maybe you already know them. If you know what I mean..sorta like fanfic but going back and fourth in your comments.


Oh.

I was thinking that role playing, you would actually take on the role, like first person rather than third person. Okay, well, I don't seem to do round robin sort of things like this very well.

But I suppose that means that if I won't be RPing with a group, I could either delete this account, or I could keep it up for a few days to play with and see if anyone is interested in commenting to see if I can stay in character and pull this off. I don't know. The way you described doesn't seem like my thing, maybe I'll just play around like the 'blogs' I did a while back on the board, people seemed to find them amusing.
manmanfooo
QUOTE (Liv @ May 31 2008, 10:53 PM) *
Oh.

I was thinking that role playing, you would actually take on the role, like first person rather than third person. Okay, well, I don't seem to do round robin sort of things like this very well.

But I suppose that means that if I won't be RPing with a group, I could either delete this account, or I could keep it up for a few days to play with and see if anyone is interested in commenting to see if I can stay in character and pull this off. I don't know. The way you described doesn't seem like my thing, maybe I'll just play around like the 'blogs' I did a while back on the board, people seemed to find them amusing.


Well, here's an example..but it's much more fun on Myspace.
http://community.livejournal.com/monk_onthe_mind/2181.html

Yeah, sorry though. Oh well.
I'm sure there will be more people willing to rp..hopefully. smile.gif
manmanfooo
Anyone..interested?
Bubba_Bridges
Hi Bubba here, this sound like fun, I thought more folks would be involved in it. Oh well. I'm not big on role playing games.
Steeleafan
Alright so I found some Natalie ones on Myspace but...they say their in their 40s and I'm like yeah Natalie's not in her 40s and then one said role play 18+ I'm 16 so..yeah...but If you don't want to do it on here I'll make one on Myspace. You'll be able to tell because mine will have a Natalie picture that's not on the Internet..and the quote will be role play by Steeleafan on USA.com. So look her up make a charactor and we'll start smile.gif
Steeleafan
guys the profile is made..I'm excited so come on look up Natalie teeger on myspace the headline reads role play by Steeleafan on USA.com smile.gif
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