Jute wrote:Using another nation is "refreshing"?
Indeed.
I don't think anyone replicates the entirety of their IRL personality online, always just various aspects. On a setting like NSG one is, essentially, a personality attached to a name (rather than a personality attached to a name and a face) so if you change the name you can allow other aspects of one's personality to dominate. This is particularly the case if one feels, in some way, constrained or confined by the nature of their "main" identity.
And, to be clear, I am not talking about rule bending, let alone breaking, behaviour.