245: Tone Death Rapture: Championship Edition : Tournament Edition

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[(Anonymous)]

"small text gained popularity in ecats circles as i knew it though"

yeeeeeah i can't say that i agree with you there. and the thing is, there are so many people writing tags like this. hence my original complaint that it shouldn't be normalized in games that aren't ecats. if it works on ecats, that's fine. but it's an eyesore outside of ecats.

da

[(Anonymous)]

What. Why are you arguing with something that's basically historical fact. [small text in brackets] used to be for shorter tags that usually only describe one action while prose was for longer, more descriptive tags. But eventually people started putting prose tag length descriptions in the brackets, so it lost the significance and became entirely for aesthetics

[(Anonymous)]

damn i'll eat my own words if that's true! i've been around since lj rp and just assumed bracket rp had been since forever. it's all i've ever known tbh

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah it's virtually extinct now but plain prose used to be the main alternative to bracket text and was the original purpose of log comms (to distinguish from network posts.) There were also games that were majority prose.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

fellow dinosayr

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[(Anonymous)]

meant to say, fellow dinosaur, can confirm. when brackets first showed up, they were called action spam. people differentiated between network posts (the majority of rp unless you were in idk damned), logs and action spam, basically. i think brackets probably gained traction around 2008?

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[(Anonymous)]

da

this absolutely. i think it was 2009 in game. i distinctly remember when it started popping up and wondering why people were writing that way all of a sudden/where it came from

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[(Anonymous)]

around 2008 is exactly when i left the hobby, and when i came back 10 yrs later everyone was using brackets lol. bewildering. so +1, i suppose

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[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha yeah I remember "action spam" too. It's an illuminating name because frankly the format makes a lot more sense for fast paced action based threads than putting long paragraphs in tiny font.