I don't think I've ever hated anyone or anything in my 40+ years on this planet, but I'm starting to think I should make an exception to it.
For various reasons some 20 years ago now I found the Internet and alt.fan.dragons and a big group of some would prolly call nutty dragon lovers, we didn't stop at just loving dragons, we created a IRC chat channel and became dragons. I became a 1 yard, mostly green, fairy dragon. It might just have been a fantasy and a virtual skin, but with 100+ dragon lovers regularly meeting in the chat channel, it became the best time of my life.
I was also a computer geek, so mixed in with my newfound love of dragons, I also ended up coding all kinds of open source software, but I still did everything as Miravlix and my virtual dragon identity.
Everything I've done from Linux Kernel coding, to playing online games or chatting has been done as my alter ego Miravlix. After 20 years and the way my life unfortunately developed, I've prolly lived more as the dragon than a human being.
That doesn't mean that I'm not just any other guy when I turn off the computer, but the enrichment to my life, because I found my inner dragon, is something I would thank God for if I believed in him.
Since my real world life died when I was 30 and I ended up in early retirement, the virtual possibilities became even more important for me to bring some sunshine into my life.
I'm willing to do almost anything, as long as I feel it doesn't ruin someone else's fun, to bring the dragon out to play, this is where my dislike of OOC comes in, I really don't want to be this total looser I am in real life and instead be this magical creature for a while.
Istaria is not a chat channel, it's a game, with all kinds of game rules to make it work, so since I love to teach how to play, I'm caught between a rock and a hardplace, because roleplaying fanatics, think I'm not a good enough roleplayer because I'm willing to talk about levels and stuff wrapped into me roleplaying a dragon teaching people how to be gifted.
I do try to compromise within Istaria's lore and avoid discussing non-game related topics in /say, because I'm perfectly capable of pretending to jump into someones lap as a dragon while discussing terrorism in the real world.
Too bad about Istaria's larger dragons, because chicks really dig small cute dragons, but thats my limit, when I login I'm Miravlix and I'm going to stay IC, even if I'm forced to make compromises and wrap teaching someone to change their /say text color or how to interact with a trainers weird chat interface into my roleplay, because it simply is that much more fun for me to pretend to be a dragon teaching someone how to color their /say text, than it is to go OOC all the time to do it.