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239: how does one become popular on dreamwidth rp?

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It's literally not. You can opt out of any castmate you like, especially WoLs. Nobody will bat an eye who isn't the WoL player, I promise you.

That's a bit disingenuous I think. Plenty of people will absolutely judge someone for opting out of tagging a castmate in game settings, especially if the castmate you opt out of has friends to cry to.

But it's something that people can and should do more often. It's better to not tag someone than it is to force yourself to have CR you don't want or enjoy.

Most moderators will not consider your opting out of CR as a rule breaking offense and the worst your castmates can do is bitch about it to other people, but that can happen with almost anything in DWRP. It's just a matter of learning that sometimes it doesn't matter if other people mind or are upset when you don't want to interact with them.

+1 of course you can opt out of cr with whatever castmates you don't want to play with, but you can't pretend that it won't have consequences for you. however, sometimes the consequences aren't as bad as you fear, and it's worth it to take a risk for the sake of your own enjoyment.

You're totally correct in general principle, but I feel like it's also worth noting that we're not even talking about "in general."

The community is so overwhelmingly frustrated with WoLs these days that I think even people who might be inclined to raise a fuss otherwise wouldn't even bat an eye.

I don't even know the game but I have to admit I've found most WoLs boring? They mostly seem to be walking skillsets.

As other anons have already said, you definitely can opt out but not without consequences. And WoLs are some of the most batshit insane rpers on dw. I've seen other people get turned on by the WoL and their friends and iced out of casts just for not wanting to play with the WoL or not wanting to ship with the WoL. I'd rather enjoy my game and spit out some awkward tags I plan on dropping than go through that, which sounds really insane too I know but it is what it is. :/ I wish WoLs were allowed in games fr.

weren't allowed, I meant... lol rip.

kinda have to agree with everyone else that it'd be weird to join a game with full knowledge that you have no intention of playing with the protagonist of your canon

explain all the FFXIV casts that are split in half over certain NPCs not wanting to tag certain WoLs then

it happens way more often than you'd think

weird things happening doesn't make them not weird

That's what makes it a struggle, anon. The WoL is for all intents and purposes an OC that anyone can play however they want and that's super daunting to tag with a character that has a relationship with that OC in canon. WoLs expect you to read their minds and do what they want which is as far as I know a huge no no in DWRP and yet people "have" to let the WoL OC be the main character who dictates how the story went and how your character was supposed to feel about it. Apping into those games not wanting to tag them is 100% reasonable to me, but the WoL+their friend group will throw a shitfit if you don't. It's not the same and not nearly as simple as "you shouldn't app if you don't plan on tagging the main character."

you guys can justify it all you want but it's still weird. not against the rules, but weird.

If someone apped say, Deku from MHA into a game and didn't want to tag Bakugos and opted out of it, nobody would bat an eye. Same if it was reversed. That's why opt outs exist. The people you're replying to even say that it's in "bad faith" to not tag castmates as the onus of this conversation and you're the one who brought up how it would be weird to even think about not tagging a castmate.

Only WoL players feel the need to think this is weird and upsetting, so I'm going to assume you're a WoL player that's salty people don't like you in this thread.

people would indeed bat an eye at that, there was an entire rpa thread about it last month

assume whatever you want tho lol

nah, it's not just wol players. i opted out of playing with someone in my big cast and they got super salty about it. the weird part is our characters weren't even that close.

Yes but

This thread is about shitty WoL players. So obviously they meant the person was upset that people were talking about shitty WoL players and therefore was a salty WoL player.

its creepy af how rpers like wol ocs think someone elses permissions is "werid"

i wish i could like this comment. multiple times even.

this is the reason i never played any of my dragon age characters in games. i didn't particularly want to play with anyone's warden but i couldn't just say "sorry, i know our characters are important to each other but i don't want to play with you."

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