SH Online Activity's Relationship With Real Life Character Sheets

[Yorda]

Tentative Thread Purpose

This shall be a place to philosophize about personal life goals and desires, with respect to online personas, play, reading, writing, profile pictures, and character sheets.

Explanation

Lot's of people on this website are obsessed with LitRPG, game elements, and character sheets, especially in their reading, writing, and community games preferences. I thought it would be fun to casually think more deeply about these things in a thread, post, conversation medium, with a focus on introspection.

K, it's hard for me to explain, but if you have a foggy idea of what I'm talking about now, then great.

Also, I definitely don't mean for people to share personal information online!

Example

For fun and self-improvement I made a real life character sheet of myself. The different categories of the character sheet were [Information], [Stats], [Skills], [Achievements & Titles], [Equipment], [Inventory], [Likes & Dislikes], and [Strengths & Weaknesses]. On my character sheet I included hopeful and prospective entries that I hope to achieve in my lifetime, and I included entries that were also very negative about myself by transforming mistakes I've made into accurate titles that I have earned. I did this as an interesting self-discovery exercise to help me identify my ideals, desires, things I like and dislike about myself, and what I want to change/achieve in the future.

It really puts a lot of my life into perspective and makes me think about what I could/want to add to my character. It's a very odd way to gain motivation in life to do things. Since game elements such as EXP, skills & levels, status windows, and all that stuff doesn't normally exist in my life I have to be creative; since there is no system to assess me this way and alert me to changes in my status I have to become the system and give myself notifications.

I had read somewhere in applied psychology that introspective writing is much more effective than introspective musing in making a difference in a person's life. By physically writing out hopes, dreams, achievements, mistakes, strengths, and weaknesses a person makes a stronger impact on their life. Just musing is like a passing thought or daydream, easily forgotten and mostly meaningless.

 

[Himekawa]

Tentative Thread Purpose

This shall be a place to philosophize about personal life goals and desires, with respect to online personas, play, reading, writing, profile pictures, and character sheets.

Explanation

Lot's of people on this website are obsessed with LitRPG, game elements, and character sheets, especially in their reading, writing, and community games preferences. I thought it would be fun to casually think more deeply about these things in a thread, post, conversation medium, with a focus on introspection.

K, it's hard for me to explain, but if you have a foggy idea of what I'm talking about now, then great.

Example

For fun and self-improvement I made a real life character sheet of myself. The different categories of the character sheet were [Information], [Stats], [Skills], [Achievements & Titles], [Equipment], [Inventory], [Likes & Dislikes], and [Strengths & Weaknesses]. On my character sheet I included hopeful and prospective entries that I hope to achieve in my lifetime, and I included entries that were also very negative about myself by transforming mistakes I've made into accurate titles that I have earned. I did this as an interesting self-discovery exercise to help me identify my ideals, desires, things I like and dislike about myself, and what I want to change/achieve in the future.

It really puts a lot of my life into perspective and makes me think about what I could/want to add to my character. It's a very odd way to gain motivation in life to do things. Since game elements such as EXP, skills & levels, status windows, and all that stuff doesn't normally exist in my life I have to be creative; since there is no system to assess me this way and alert me to changes in my status I have to become the system and give myself notifications.

I had read somewhere in applied psychology that introspective writing is much more effective than introspective musing in making a difference in a person's life. By physically writing out hopes, dreams, achievements, mistakes, strengths, and weaknesses a person makes a stronger impact on their life. Just musing is like a passing thought or daydream, easily forgotten and mostly meaningless.

I mean... online? Character sheet/SWOT analysis is fine. Do it in your journal, or whatever. But doing it online felt disgusting in my mind.

 

[Tezorro]

That’s one hell of a idea sorry I’m new to this site entirely no clue what I’m doing just clicking around well I love your idea truly I just got no clue what to do I don’t got proper grammar nor punctuation so u lead the way

 

[Deleted member 22388]

Of course if I could get a house to leave in.
Then I would drink tea(not always tea) and see the scenery infront of me.
Like the old man I am.

My kid and I(fiction)

Spoiler

"Kid what do you see"
'Greens, fountains and hills that are foggy'
"Huh... you should explore more outside and see the beauty, I never had the chance but you should be able to for now."

The kid tilted to what I said. As if he was puzzled I gave him one note "hey go write what you saw, or you will be puzzled forever"
'But I don't know how to write'

Handchop to the head*
'Awuuuuu (╥﹏╥)' (although it was only a minor pain)
"Then let me teach you brat!"

Everytime I do give a story, surely there will be a meaning just like the above(in spoiler box). It's hidden orrrrrrrr not there ugu.

 

[Yorda]

I mean... online? Character sheet/SWOT analysis is fine. Do it in your journal, or whatever. But doing it online felt disgusting in my mind.

No! Don't do it online for other people to see! I didn't mean that. I just meant thinking about those kinds of things and discussing.

Of course, people shouldn't share stuff like that online.

Thank you for sharing the term SWOT analysis. I've never heard of it before so it's just another thing to think about.

 

[AliceShiki]

Tentative Thread Purpose

This shall be a place to philosophize about personal life goals and desires, with respect to online personas, play, reading, writing, profile pictures, and character sheets.

Explanation

Lot's of people on this website are obsessed with LitRPG, game elements, and character sheets, especially in their reading, writing, and community games preferences. I thought it would be fun to casually think more deeply about these things in a thread, post, conversation medium, with a focus on introspection.

K, it's hard for me to explain, but if you have a foggy idea of what I'm talking about now, then great.

Also, I definitely don't mean for people to share personal information online!

Example

For fun and self-improvement I made a real life character sheet of myself. The different categories of the character sheet were [Information], [Stats], [Skills], [Achievements & Titles], [Equipment], [Inventory], [Likes & Dislikes], and [Strengths & Weaknesses]. On my character sheet I included hopeful and prospective entries that I hope to achieve in my lifetime, and I included entries that were also very negative about myself by transforming mistakes I've made into accurate titles that I have earned. I did this as an interesting self-discovery exercise to help me identify my ideals, desires, things I like and dislike about myself, and what I want to change/achieve in the future.

It really puts a lot of my life into perspective and makes me think about what I could/want to add to my character. It's a very odd way to gain motivation in life to do things. Since game elements such as EXP, skills & levels, status windows, and all that stuff doesn't normally exist in my life I have to be creative; since there is no system to assess me this way and alert me to changes in my status I have to become the system and give myself notifications.

I had read somewhere in applied psychology that introspective writing is much more effective than introspective musing in making a difference in a person's life. By physically writing out hopes, dreams, achievements, mistakes, strengths, and weaknesses a person makes a stronger impact on their life. Just musing is like a passing thought or daydream, easily forgotten and mostly meaningless.

 

[Yorda]

You seem confused.

 

[AliceShiki]

You seem confused.

You seem to be overjoyed by my confusion! >.<