Re: canons you don't think are that progressive

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
My Little Pony, it's basically just a western magical girl show. It's not that progressive at all because there's plenty of shows out there like it, it just does it better than some of it (YMMV of course).

Re: itt: shit rpers do that they think looks fancy/good/hipster but you think is dumb

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
literally the only reason i do this is because when i try and put my app under a cut it fucks up the formatting and i'm a moron who doesn't know how to html

but i don't want some huge-ass app taking up the entire screen so i hide it behind a navigation page

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ding ding.

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
is the game hmd locked?

da

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
tbh I've found [livejournal.com profile] writing_sex pretty useful or at least interesting to read. because people actually post their person sexual experiences when other people ask "so how do I write x realistically"

yeah, I know, LJ, but still.

sa

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
*personal, geez

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
yes?

do ppl outside the game actually give a shit about this stuff? really?

Re: Can't Function withoUt Dreamwidth (C F U D)

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
they're quoting a newspaper about something that actually happened in real life.

visualosities or whatever are just pretty pictures or sometimes quotes from fictional stories.

there is your difference.

Re: da

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
I don't mean you physically can only have 5 post, it was an arbitrary smallish number pulled out of my ass. I mean if your "navigation" posts has 30 links, it's a shitty, cluttered navigation post and isn't very useful for navigating.

And please, let's not pretend 90% of what's on character journals isn't for other people. True, not paying customers, but rp culture is primarily fueled by "Look at me!" and people with pretentious layouts are fueled by that doubly so.

plus google is a pretty pointless search engine for most things people would go looking for on a character's journal, sans actual canon information. most the time when I go to people's journal, I'm looking for things specific to their portrayal like permission posts, or CR memes.

I'm sorry you're so upset people don't like your layout, dude.

+1

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
I enjoy mlp for what it is. A cute, mindless kids show that's good to put on when I want to have on noise while doing chores or tags. It's quality kids tv...but that isn't quite the rarity (pun not intended) people act like it is. You can pretty much throw a dart at Cartoon Network's original shows and get just as high quality.

Dat ganon thing

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
or hypocrisy, THE EVENT!

Player plot- yes, opt outable- yes, but goddamn if it isn't set up like an event. Though that might just be habitual since Masa handles events often but damn. A lot of shit masa's outright told other players they can't pull or do he's having ganon do for this big villain blowout.

Fun times will be had by all.

Re: da

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
idgaf if you don't like it, the point is i'm not changing it.

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Well if so, knowing who and how she is now, isn't it better to treat her like, idk...

"Ah... It's Jae. Okay, she seems interested in my character. Be nice with a couple of threads and bye!" Maybe doing the same to her, I mean, or something like that?

Eye for an eye.

http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/828265.html

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
i was seriously hoping to see a first page full of punny wank-related headers. /sigh

dream crushed

Re: DOCTOR WHO

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Oh please, that regeneration scene was completely a joke. Also if you listen to the audios, they give her a reason for regenerating beyond 'I felt like it'.

+1

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, are you me?

SIRENSPULL

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Finally hitting Endgame.

Cue Phancyhive being PA and whiny about how they "don't want to deal with anything right now."

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
thissssss. i hate it when people do this, it's caused wank in some of my games in the past and it's always utterly dumb.

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
tell them. maybe there's others who feel the same, maybe they'll open up the idea of an end game if they know people are feeling done with the game.

Re: http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/828265.html

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Harry is so alone

Re: http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/828265.html

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
good

Re: SIRENSPULL

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
deets. for the love of god deets.

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know that it'll work. She has goldfish syndrome, so if you lose interest in her, she'll lose interest in you and that'll be the end of it.

The cycle, honestly, seems to be something like this:

(1. Jae charms her way into a group of new people, accumulating CR and friends as she goes. And it's great for awhile, but once she's established her core group, there's no getting into it unless you catch her eye. She's a nice person with a very big, friendly presence and people are drawn to her.

(2. Jae switches fandoms/characters. Her close knit friends all rush to get CR with her new shiny. This is where a lot of people start to get left behind, either because they didn't mesh with the new character or because they like the other character better.

(3. Jae begins to dedicate herself to a smaller, more insular group. She's spread herself too thin and wants to focus on the plots and plans of this one character or this one bit of CR or focusing all her time and energy into playing with a single person (whoever her current bff is) and using anyone else in her clique as a plot device, if even that. Eventually, she ices you out or you stay and wait until her attentions broaden again.

It's not exactly Grade A wanker material, but there's a pattern to it, even if there might be variations on that pattern. I, personally, have never seen her get mean or nasty about a person. That doesn't mean she doesn't do it, but it means she's extremely private about how she does it, so you're not going to catch her spooging hate and wanking.

Basically, she's frustrating, but you're only going to have a problem if you get emotionally invested in her friendship OOCly or if she apps a castmate. She's like a Yellowstone Caldera of wank. She might slip up and deets will flow and the fallout will make Tifagate look like a spring shower or people will just bitch needlessly.

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Wankgate, am I crazy, or do some of the problems in RP (as far as writing quality goes) come from people not really "writing" and more trying to replicate the feel of the medium their character is from?

Given that most of us play from visual media of one kind or another, that means that most words are going to be dialogue, and actions, even thoughts, get neglected.

I know networks also have a lot to do with this, but I'm just musing. Maybe if people really tried to write, instead of being so fixated on a character's literal voice, we'd be better off.

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
sometimes it's interesting to see the page, that's all.