RPGMemes

Like for beginners just learning that's fine.

But the amount of players I've DM'd for who always play the exact same character that is just "idealistic version of self" with different coats of paint is way too damn high.

Forget that for average people it is incredibly difficult to put themselves into the perspective of others, much less hold a continuous train of logic based on that perspective, which is what roleplaying is all about.