Ah, role-playing games.
You spend hours upon hours creating your avatar, taking care to imagine all the major life events that shaped her and her outlook, thinking up a name that’s just right and figuring out a mode of speech she would use. You expend an extraordinary amount of effort to create a character … and then you run into B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd.
This strip, in particular, perfectly illustrates the tension between those who prefer the game aspect of RPGs and those who prefer the role-playing aspect.
(Link obtained from the Quarter to Three forum.)