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STATUS: The upside of winter is you can buy a gallon of ice-cream on the way to work, and leave it in your car until you get home without worrying about it melting. 13 days ago
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The upside of winter is you can buy a gallon of ice-cream on the way to work, and leave it in your car until you get home without worrying about it melting.
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1 mo ago
If one celebrates surviving another year, why not for every week?
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3 mos ago
*stabs writer's block with a #2 pencil through the eye* "Ta-da!"
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2nd week of writer's funk... the block continues...
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6 mos ago
"One way to get around bad internal dialouge is to make it one-sided." ... "What do you mean you've already thought of that?"
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-There will be delays in replies. Largely due to working overtime, voluntary obligations; other RPs and online-things may compete for my attention.
'Bout me:
Started RPing (badly) back in '05, mostly doing nation-RPs with an emphasis on technology and strategy, later edging out to character-espionage and military-tactics before doing "less serious" character roleplays that were outside of the 2005-2008 continuity.
That's when I went to Dead-Frontier, and found the RP community there, joined a clan, did some pretty good roleplays and pretty much loosened-up my online-personality. When the clan-leader decided to move her RPs here, most of the clan followed.
Took a course in technical-writing back in '08, so now I may sometimes use the semicolon correctly.
In 2010 I dusted off the old nation-RP continuity I had, doing a few hetelia-esque RP-shenanigans there..
RP-Habbits: I tend to geek-out on little technical-details, and sometimes infer how those details would impact the background of the roleplay. Great for world-building, not so great when you had a perfectly good plotline and I just MacGyver it off the rails (though I usually er to the side of amusement, sometimes it creates very grim side-stories).
'Bout me:
Started RPing (badly) back in '05, mostly doing nation-RPs with an emphasis on technology and strategy, later edging out to character-espionage and military-tactics before doing "less serious" character roleplays that were outside of the 2005-2008 continuity.
That's when I went to Dead-Frontier, and found the RP community there, joined a clan, did some pretty good roleplays and pretty much loosened-up my online-personality. When the clan-leader decided to move her RPs here, most of the clan followed.
Took a course in technical-writing back in '08, so now I may sometimes use the semicolon correctly.
In 2010 I dusted off the old nation-RP continuity I had, doing a few hetelia-esque RP-shenanigans there..
RP-Habbits: I tend to geek-out on little technical-details, and sometimes infer how those details would impact the background of the roleplay. Great for world-building, not so great when you had a perfectly good plotline and I just MacGyver it off the rails (though I usually er to the side of amusement, sometimes it creates very grim side-stories).
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Banned to taking Spooki as your plushi.
shoot?
Kaboom?
Kaboom?
The Micheal Douglas movie reference bans you to the shadow-realm for missing.
Has anyone ever tried, or thought to try, starting up an old RP but with a new partner? I don't mean like using the same sort of plot/characters... but I mean having a new partner essentially read through an old RP you did and then have them attempt to take on the role of your old partner?
I have so many old RPs that ended abruptly for one reason or another, and I find myself constantly going back and rereading them and wishing desperately to continue them. But a lot of times, the person I wrote with is no longer active on this site (In some cases, it's been years)
So do you think it would be ok to have someone else read through the old RP and join if they felt they could? Or would that somehow be a sort of invasion of the other person's work? Obviously identities can be kept hidden, but I just don't know? It feels like a moral grey area...
Please don't bash or hate on me for posting this. It was just one of my many ADHD/shower thoughts of the day, and I honestly am just curious what people think.
I mean, I suppose I could. But if it's going to be a re-imagining of the RP, it'll probably "come back wrong" and you might not be okay with that. The more new or tweaked details and players, the more it's going to be less-than-identical like a mirror-darky universe.
The record I've set was picking up an RP after it went cold for 3 years and going about another year with it.
But yeah, double-checking if the original players are okay with handing over control of the characters is probably a good-call to make.
Well, I have joined an RP, had my character die, but another person lost interest so they sorta just dumped that character in my lap so I'd just shrug and roll with it.
Oh, you mean like... oh. Yeah, I've essentially done late-join/cold-opens like that as well. Where I'd read ALL the backstory and figure out where my character was at during... all of that which could've been up to a year of RPing I'd jump in on. There's a bit of nuance to making sure your character jives with the group and hits the RP at a dead sprint, since the HAVE to hit things off just right or they'll feel like an out-of-place character shoehorned into the scene like a bad Scrappy-doo. They also need to bring something meaningful to the story narrative.
It's... work, but highly rewarding to know you can pretty much throw any character at any plot and form any pairing and make it seem as natural as breathing... most of the time.
*cough*
In sandbox nation RPs, wars that get "dogpiled" by literally "the entire world" tends to be this by default. I was even in an RP that chonked on for about a year after the person who started the RP passed-away and people were still joining after we'd nuked it three or four times.
We'd also have people revive the conflict in a new thread like two more times after that.
Oh, you mean like... oh. Yeah, I've essentially done late-join/cold-opens like that as well. Where I'd read ALL the backstory and figure out where my character was at during... all of that which could've been up to a year of RPing I'd jump in on. There's a bit of nuance to making sure your character jives with the group and hits the RP at a dead sprint, since the HAVE to hit things off just right or they'll feel like an out-of-place character shoehorned into the scene like a bad Scrappy-doo. They also need to bring something meaningful to the story narrative.
It's... work, but highly rewarding to know you can pretty much throw any character at any plot and form any pairing and make it seem as natural as breathing... most of the time.
I've had a similar thought but, without permission. Which is almost assuredly wrong, bizarre, borders on harassment. Anyway imagine how cool it'd be to show up in a seven year old dormant RP uninvited but very announced.
*cough*
In sandbox nation RPs, wars that get "dogpiled" by literally "the entire world" tends to be this by default. I was even in an RP that chonked on for about a year after the person who started the RP passed-away and people were still joining after we'd nuked it three or four times.
We'd also have people revive the conflict in a new thread like two more times after that.
Banned for turning the banning of the person that banned the messenger into a messege.
tall
Banning the messenger.
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