I don't really care. It's a great opportunity for people to get beta readers, but that's not the issue. my confusion is why this has to be mod-implemented. no other game has to do this, save for the game that has the most whining. it's a nice gesture from the mods to set it up, but completely unnecessary.
i've lucked out with a few games where i came in with an obscure as fuck character that no one knew and had no problem feeling welcomed and getting cr. ymmv depending on the game and the playerbase.
honest answer: because we don't want people who need betas to get into the game. if they couldn't have gotten in on their own, we don't want them here. they're not going to get betas for their tags, so helping them with their app is going to result in more low quality rping.
can i just take a moment to love the hard cold fact that most male rpers have played with each other and tend to play from the same canons as each other
it's like a special little wankpool all its own with special wank that is just like ours except the hate is more specific and the consequences are much smaller
not me, but i know someone who apped to a game intending to play out a canon m/f ship.
and then without even playing out a breakup, the player of the female character defriended and blocked the player of the male character so she could play out a cross-canon ship with a serial killer character (the female character in question was not violent or a serial killer in any way).
she had her character woobify and excuse the serial killer's actions for over a year until she dropped. people tried to crit her but she ignored it and put up a notice on her HMD saying that who she ships with has nothing to do with whether she's IC or not so she won't be accepting crit on the ship.
oh no i mean, op is the person who played bill in drrp! sorry i wasn't clear about that!
i was a friend during this situation and watching it unfold on the sidelines, tora basically hounded that bill player down when they reserved because it was "unfair" that they dared to ask if bill was able to be played there before tora thought to do it herself
so they ended up reserving before tora and thus, tora unleashed the beast so to say
to elaborate further because that's leaving out a lot if you've played with tora's bill in cosmos or otherwise you'll know that they're an infomodding creepy piece of shit
i mean they have him "date" people thats really all you need to know. they've actually joked before about how he has a "harem".
the characters bill has openly flirted with or expressed interest in: ford pines, lapis lazuli, pearl, rose quartz, tohru adachi, madison montgomery, yang xiao long, maya fey, rick sanchez, super sonico and fluttershy
iirc she actually tried to talk to the drrp mods about a gimmick round where bill replaced monobear and tried to justify it with "oh well my bill couldve heard about it from disney ronpa bill"
that was the funniest, stupidest shit I'd ever seen. she kept getting all flustered and going "I'M SORRY BUT" and anons kept trying to explain why that was bullshit but she just couldn't wrap her feeble little mind around it
if you haven't been keeping up with her since then, she hasn't improved any. my favorite so far has still been people expressing discomfort with how sexual-assault-y her bill was in cosmo and how victim blaming she was getting ("well it's her fault for not telling bill she has a boyfriend"), and that went down the exact same way. people tried to explain shit and she just kept getting flustered and trying to argue against them because she just apparently couldn't understand what was wrong for the life of her. and this happened a few months ago, iirc? give or take. it's fairly recent.
highlandering is always the right word to use as far as bill goes with tora. that or soulbonded.
the thing on d_p wasn't even the only time they tried to assert their dominance as "superior bill" over the one in drrp. they made a couple of pa plurks about it and would randomly interrupt ones made by other players (including the bill player) to make some comment that served no purpose other than to remind everyone that they ALSO play bill and that they're super great at it.
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