Yeah, there's all of those, and I think the rest of it that is that serious games are more heavily plot driven (GM as storyteller), than character-interaction driven. The online make-up of most LJ RPGs is also 90% girls between 15 and 21, which is a particularly catty, cliqueish demographic, I think.

We're paying for the internet starting Friday, so I can be like 'Dude, tell me what encryption you're using' to the people upstairs.