Poe's law and "unintelligent" roleplay

[Drew]

Since I've been back I'm reminded of something I noticed back when I played but didn't have the terminology for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law


There are a lot of people who I can't tell if they are genuinely stupid people or they are masterfully depicting a stupid character. I usually tend to think it's the former, but these Schrodinger's morons could be pulling the wool over my eyes. Therefore I propose that anyone who it is indeterminate if their player is a doofus or the character is can be said to be "Poe-playing".

[Taernath]

NAME NAMES MOTHERFUCKER

[drauz]

NAME NAMES MOTHERFUCKER

https://i.imgur.com/4rQQG7J.gif

[Drew]

NAME NAMES MOTHERFUCKER

I can't think of a lot of people from back then, but Svardin comes to mind.

[Khariz]

Replace the word stupid with "insane" for Svardin, and yeah. Dude is legit insane.

[Candor]

Svardin did make hunting OTF interesting. Ya never knew when his army was going to enter OTF and cause 15-20 Ithzir to appear in your room (and most other rooms in your zone). Without CM Vanish I would have had to hunt elsewhere.

[WRoss]

Svardin did make hunting OTF interesting. Ya never knew when his army was going to enter OTF and cause 15-20 Ithzir to appear in your room (and most other rooms in your zone). Without CM Vanish I would have had to hunt elsewhere.

You are confusing Svardin with Sabreon. Svardin has lived West of the spine for at least 15+ years.

Hoodtralfeck is my nomination to this thread, though it is more of a real life thing. I genuinely can't tell if he is just the most masterful troll ever or really that stupid. How the fuck do you fall on an ice pick!?

[Candor]

You are confusing Svardin with Sabreon. Svardin has lived West of the spine for at least 15+ years.

You're right. Duh me.

[Latrinsorm]

How would you apply this theorem to erotic role play?

I'm sorry, the answer we were looking for is seducefully.