casper
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STATUS: You could give some people the whole breadth of human experience to write about and they'd still have an orgy after ten posts.... 2 yrs ago
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You could give some people the whole breadth of human experience to write about and they'd still have an orgy after ten posts....
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3 yrs ago
I have come to the conclusion that my writing ability has significantly atrophied. Looking at old rp's and thinking 'did I write that'?
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3 yrs ago
Two months focused work has come to nothing, Feels like I have missed in a penalty shootout. Need to write those blues away I think...
4 yrs ago
I never do fandoms but the last few days have seen me fantasising over a Stardew Valley roleplay bordering on obsession!
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4 yrs ago
Oh gosh I bought Stardew Valley for the kids at Christmas and I can't stay off it! Love it!
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Well hello there and thank you for peeking at my bio....
A little about me, I grew up playing solo gamebooks and then in my teens got fascinated with fantasy roleplaying - especially Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. After a long break I rediscovered my affection for roleplaying and discovered play by post forum's. I joined a site in 2013 and haven't looked back! I don't have the time to get in a group for a few hours a week at the same time and place so play by post has been wonderful for me.
In 2015 I started freeform roleplaying and fell in love and haven't really looked back!
I'm interested in quite a lot of things, I write in sci-fi settings, comedy, slice of life, fantasy, historical...you get the idea
I'm comfortable with a range of tones and have been known to get rather smutty on occasion (but never, ever essential). Smut for the sake of it bores me and I am just as likely to write a sexual incompetent as some kind of porn star. I will ALWAYS go for slow burn romance with a will they / won't they than leap into bed after ten posts. Personally I think sex scenes are often 'mechanical' rather than passionate. I have to feel something.
Perfect characters bore me. Indeed, I tend to make my characters struggle and hyper competent characters who look flawless and behave impeccably aren't really my thing.
There is very little I won't try but I am rarely interested in fandoms, preferring to build our own worlds and characters.
I enjoy chatting OOC and making friends but I'm comfortable if it's not your vibe. I enjoy a variety of tones and the most important thing for me is whoever I am sharing the roleplay are having fun and feel comfortable. If we are writing darker stories I will need to feel I trust my writing partner.
I tend to post between 8-10pm GMT
Itches to scratch -
Group / Run - Modern day slice of life games not set in the US - I'd like to pick a relatively well known city, have no real life players from there and explore living there.
Group / Run - Low level Supers in a real small town setting. System or otherwise, who needs Gotham when you've small town...
Group - Being a pirate in either a medieval or fantasy setting. Lots of swashbuckling, romance and general thievery and debauchery. System or freeform
Play - World of Darkness - old or new - I find it a bit over-facing with all the different version and splats. I'd like someone to guide me in gently.
Group - low level crime game. We're street level gangsters
Group / Run - 80's style slasher film game. Gratuitous nudity, stupid kids, bloody murder. Tongue in cheek rather than video nasty
Group / Run - Italian giallo influenced roleplay. Convoluted plot, artistic, lots of red, need all the tropes in here.
Run - my house party game. Freeform - people come in and out. You know those amazing house parties of youth. A drop in and out game of debauchery, excess, fun, comedy and drama
Run - my yet to be defined amazing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st edition campaign travelling across the Old World.
1-1 M/F romance. Two colleagues don't like each other, stuck in a lift. Buddy road trip across the US, Europe, tons of ideas.
Group - Rifts gonzo madness. I've never played before
Play - Fiasco - any modern setting
Group / Run - being in a Rock band. Very 70's / 80's debauched decadence with sex and drugs and playing loud. Characters are in a band, following the band, roadies, 'doctors', obsessed fans. System or freeform, read any biography about a band on the road for inspiration
Group - a thief in a thieves guild in some fantasy setting somewhere
Group - some kind of post-apocalyptic game as viewed through a lens popular in the 80's. I'm thinking Mad Max, cars, mohawks, bare chested men wearing leather and spikes.
1 x 1 - Let's play with fairytales - Copy the classics? Retell and twist the classics? Change the setting or the outcomes? Tell the tales from another perspective? Whatever. Princes and Princesses, talking animals and moral lessons galore. Hardcore smut and horror and gore potential but just as much enjoy traditional romance or light hearted playful stories.
1 x 1 - The fairy at the bottom of the garden comes to life...
Group / 1 x 1 - Travel the world, get into trouble, hi-jinks and adventure
Group / Run / maybe 1 x 1 - This is the ALF. The characters are part of an animal liberation cell, they choose to rescue animals from exploitation. Part espionage, part action. Don't get caught by the police... Plus all the drama of being in a clandestine group. Potential romance or prison drama.
1 X 1 - An old married couple are coming to the end of their days. We write their lives, their marriage and their stories backwards. A life lived.
1 X 1 - The taxi driver and the prostitute. Every night a married taxi driver from a conservative patriarchal culture picks up a prostitute when she has finished work. This is not primarily a romance plot and definitely not a smut one. It is about a developing friendship and their stories.
1 x 1 - Two junkies live together in squalor. They may be friends, partners or family. This story is about their relationship, their attempts to escape their addiction.
Group / 1x1 Some pulpy Indiana Jones style adventure with treasure and villains and hi-jinks galore!
Group / 1x1 Fucked up cult leader madness
Group / Run / 1x1 Stardew Valley rp
A Steampunk comedy romance of some description...
All them witches - strong itch for stories about a coven, or competing covens. Always a bit of space for comedy and romance alongside darkness and light in occult witchcraft settings. Or maybe a little village full of witches not getting along, but facing an external threat of witch hunters.
A quaint investigative agency set in a little British town or city where the characters investigate ghosts, weirdness and strange phenomena . There may be 'under the hood' fairies, witches and folkloric creatures the world has forgotten about....
My current characters:
Offsite - Casper Rudgersson, the funniest, kindest Druid you will ever want to meet.
Offsite - woe aka Simon Banks, former singer of blackgaze DSBM band Dead Inside. Currently in rehab following a heroin overdose and obsessed with a Twitch streamer
Offsite - Running a solo game for a linguistics student in a folklore drenched historical city of York. The focus is on an occult bookshop nestled in the middle of town
Shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life you'd like to
Shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life you'd like to
So if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me, I won't say no, how could I?
Ask - The Smiths
From doing all the things in life you'd like to
Shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life you'd like to
So if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me, I won't say no, how could I?
Ask - The Smiths
Well hello there and thank you for peeking at my bio....
A little about me, I grew up playing solo gamebooks and then in my teens got fascinated with fantasy roleplaying - especially Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. After a long break I rediscovered my affection for roleplaying and discovered play by post forum's. I joined a site in 2013 and haven't looked back! I don't have the time to get in a group for a few hours a week at the same time and place so play by post has been wonderful for me.
In 2015 I started freeform roleplaying and fell in love and haven't really looked back!
I'm interested in quite a lot of things, I write in sci-fi settings, comedy, slice of life, fantasy, historical...you get the idea
I'm comfortable with a range of tones and have been known to get rather smutty on occasion (but never, ever essential). Smut for the sake of it bores me and I am just as likely to write a sexual incompetent as some kind of porn star. I will ALWAYS go for slow burn romance with a will they / won't they than leap into bed after ten posts. Personally I think sex scenes are often 'mechanical' rather than passionate. I have to feel something.
Perfect characters bore me. Indeed, I tend to make my characters struggle and hyper competent characters who look flawless and behave impeccably aren't really my thing.
There is very little I won't try but I am rarely interested in fandoms, preferring to build our own worlds and characters.
I enjoy chatting OOC and making friends but I'm comfortable if it's not your vibe. I enjoy a variety of tones and the most important thing for me is whoever I am sharing the roleplay are having fun and feel comfortable. If we are writing darker stories I will need to feel I trust my writing partner.
I tend to post between 8-10pm GMT
Itches to scratch -
Group / Run - Modern day slice of life games not set in the US - I'd like to pick a relatively well known city, have no real life players from there and explore living there.
Group / Run - Low level Supers in a real small town setting. System or otherwise, who needs Gotham when you've small town...
Group - Being a pirate in either a medieval or fantasy setting. Lots of swashbuckling, romance and general thievery and debauchery. System or freeform
Play - World of Darkness - old or new - I find it a bit over-facing with all the different version and splats. I'd like someone to guide me in gently.
Group - low level crime game. We're street level gangsters
Group / Run - 80's style slasher film game. Gratuitous nudity, stupid kids, bloody murder. Tongue in cheek rather than video nasty
Group / Run - Italian giallo influenced roleplay. Convoluted plot, artistic, lots of red, need all the tropes in here.
Run - my house party game. Freeform - people come in and out. You know those amazing house parties of youth. A drop in and out game of debauchery, excess, fun, comedy and drama
Run - my yet to be defined amazing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st edition campaign travelling across the Old World.
1-1 M/F romance. Two colleagues don't like each other, stuck in a lift. Buddy road trip across the US, Europe, tons of ideas.
Group - Rifts gonzo madness. I've never played before
Play - Fiasco - any modern setting
Group / Run - being in a Rock band. Very 70's / 80's debauched decadence with sex and drugs and playing loud. Characters are in a band, following the band, roadies, 'doctors', obsessed fans. System or freeform, read any biography about a band on the road for inspiration
Group - a thief in a thieves guild in some fantasy setting somewhere
Group - some kind of post-apocalyptic game as viewed through a lens popular in the 80's. I'm thinking Mad Max, cars, mohawks, bare chested men wearing leather and spikes.
1 x 1 - Let's play with fairytales - Copy the classics? Retell and twist the classics? Change the setting or the outcomes? Tell the tales from another perspective? Whatever. Princes and Princesses, talking animals and moral lessons galore. Hardcore smut and horror and gore potential but just as much enjoy traditional romance or light hearted playful stories.
1 x 1 - The fairy at the bottom of the garden comes to life...
Group / 1 x 1 - Travel the world, get into trouble, hi-jinks and adventure
Group / Run / maybe 1 x 1 - This is the ALF. The characters are part of an animal liberation cell, they choose to rescue animals from exploitation. Part espionage, part action. Don't get caught by the police... Plus all the drama of being in a clandestine group. Potential romance or prison drama.
1 X 1 - An old married couple are coming to the end of their days. We write their lives, their marriage and their stories backwards. A life lived.
1 X 1 - The taxi driver and the prostitute. Every night a married taxi driver from a conservative patriarchal culture picks up a prostitute when she has finished work. This is not primarily a romance plot and definitely not a smut one. It is about a developing friendship and their stories.
1 x 1 - Two junkies live together in squalor. They may be friends, partners or family. This story is about their relationship, their attempts to escape their addiction.
Group / 1x1 Some pulpy Indiana Jones style adventure with treasure and villains and hi-jinks galore!
Group / 1x1 Fucked up cult leader madness
Group / Run / 1x1 Stardew Valley rp
A Steampunk comedy romance of some description...
All them witches - strong itch for stories about a coven, or competing covens. Always a bit of space for comedy and romance alongside darkness and light in occult witchcraft settings. Or maybe a little village full of witches not getting along, but facing an external threat of witch hunters.
A quaint investigative agency set in a little British town or city where the characters investigate ghosts, weirdness and strange phenomena . There may be 'under the hood' fairies, witches and folkloric creatures the world has forgotten about....
My current characters:
Offsite - Casper Rudgersson, the funniest, kindest Druid you will ever want to meet.
Offsite - woe aka Simon Banks, former singer of blackgaze DSBM band Dead Inside. Currently in rehab following a heroin overdose and obsessed with a Twitch streamer
Offsite - Running a solo game for a linguistics student in a folklore drenched historical city of York. The focus is on an occult bookshop nestled in the middle of town
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I always liked Annihilator
The other day was going to add 'Battles in the North' by Immortal and come back to the thread to see two other Immortal records added :)
Nice to see Sleep and Bathory get a mention and I recommend Dopesmoker and Blood Fire Death respectively.
Need some grindcore in this thread now and a classic I go back to is;
There were earlier grindcore albums but this is just perfect and I remember it getting slated upon release but there are some really catchy hooks and under the surface songmanship that would come out in later records. There is a real playfulness and tongue in cheek humour to the lyrics and presentation that sadly spawned a billion imitators and shitty gross out grind / pornogrind who kind of didn't understand what this record was really about.
Also a really underated Death Metal album is Bolt Thrower's 'Realm of Chaos'
It wasn't long after this that every single Death Metal album sounded the same Cong out of Morrisound in Florida and whilst I loved a lot of them this record stands out as being really heavy compared to them. They had the 40K tie in and decades later it still sounds like the perfect soundtrack to eternal pointless war in a bleak fascist universe. It sounds like thundering through deep space in a giant space hulk. One that has definitely aged well for me.
Nice to see Sleep and Bathory get a mention and I recommend Dopesmoker and Blood Fire Death respectively.
Need some grindcore in this thread now and a classic I go back to is;
There were earlier grindcore albums but this is just perfect and I remember it getting slated upon release but there are some really catchy hooks and under the surface songmanship that would come out in later records. There is a real playfulness and tongue in cheek humour to the lyrics and presentation that sadly spawned a billion imitators and shitty gross out grind / pornogrind who kind of didn't understand what this record was really about.
Also a really underated Death Metal album is Bolt Thrower's 'Realm of Chaos'
It wasn't long after this that every single Death Metal album sounded the same Cong out of Morrisound in Florida and whilst I loved a lot of them this record stands out as being really heavy compared to them. They had the 40K tie in and decades later it still sounds like the perfect soundtrack to eternal pointless war in a bleak fascist universe. It sounds like thundering through deep space in a giant space hulk. One that has definitely aged well for me.
IMO , Metallica's best album ever KillemAll
I think Ride The Lightning betters it, but it all went gradually downhill from there :)
I think Reign In Blood has never been topped and sounds as fresh as it dis back then and of course Priest are awesome!
Couple of favourites for me - Motorhead Ace Of Spades just such a dirty, sleazy rock and roll lp that helped pave the way for thrash.
The first L.A. Guns record - sure Guns N' Roses 'Appetite for Destruction' is a classic and I've always got love for the big hitters like Crue but these guys should have been way bigger than they were. Pretty punky and sleazy.
I loved hardcore punk and I love thrash but I could never get into Crossover, but a gem I go back to year after year is Suicidal's 'How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...'. Think it bridged their change in style really well before it all went wrong a couple of records later
Perfect psychedelic pop. The whole album is brilliant but I carry on going back to this.
There's just something about this song, and this performance in particular that's just so perfect. How to give everything in a song and leave nothing left!
I haven't looked at the source data to verify but could it be that the huge number of new RPG's created in 2017 actually cut off the older data (because this wouldn't be present in the first 100 pages, especially if there was an increase via bots?). Would it lead to a risk that all but the most longstanding RPG's would factor into your data?.
The 2017 spike is interesting. One of my first rules of data is that if something looks off then it probably is. However, indications of a bot invasion don't hold true either as if the data is predictable it would show a similarly sharp decline and that hasn't happened. It looks like there has been a gradual decline since 2017, and whatever caused the 2017 spike also removed a lot of your earlier data from the sample. I'd be inclined to run the script on 'all' data (think the site goes back to 2013) and see what patterns emerge. I'd then be inclined to see if I could strip out the bot topic starters (maybe any post of 1 post only?) to see what the data looks like.
Another interesting thing to look at as a fellow data 'enthusiast' may be to identify topics started by board. You mentioned that we can't measure RPGs run offsite or via pm but instigated / coordinated from here but you can measure the potential change in the number / distribution of 1-1 topics / interest checks. If their variance changes differently from the other topics it may show a trend and a way of estimating the 'known unknown' of RPGs via pm.
It's terribly interesting!
The 2017 spike is interesting. One of my first rules of data is that if something looks off then it probably is. However, indications of a bot invasion don't hold true either as if the data is predictable it would show a similarly sharp decline and that hasn't happened. It looks like there has been a gradual decline since 2017, and whatever caused the 2017 spike also removed a lot of your earlier data from the sample. I'd be inclined to run the script on 'all' data (think the site goes back to 2013) and see what patterns emerge. I'd then be inclined to see if I could strip out the bot topic starters (maybe any post of 1 post only?) to see what the data looks like.
Another interesting thing to look at as a fellow data 'enthusiast' may be to identify topics started by board. You mentioned that we can't measure RPGs run offsite or via pm but instigated / coordinated from here but you can measure the potential change in the number / distribution of 1-1 topics / interest checks. If their variance changes differently from the other topics it may show a trend and a way of estimating the 'known unknown' of RPGs via pm.
It's terribly interesting!
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