wankgate | 251: back in my day wank meant something

I feel like it significantly cuts off potential new players from joining all together and that is massively disappointing.

whether you think it's disappointing doesn't matter, as always with invite-only games

it's a mod decision for mod reasons, people who don't have a shot at invites have plenty of other games to join

Not when people have been abusing the shit out of hiatuses lmao

Love it. It’s pretty clear that they don’t want to be the next big public game and that’s fine. Someone else can open a sex game and relish in the popularity.

I’m glad that you specifically can’t make it in now, you sound annoying

+1, I too was going to see who seemed fun and normal on the tdm.

fwiw if youre fun to tag and responsive, obscurity rarely matters. just in general.

but if you go in with a negative mindset and bad vibes then yeah lol

+1 people like that anon are literally the fucking problem

The more I see these whiners the happier I am with this decision actually, it’ll scare away the weh weh womenbabies

true, though having checked that one out I feel like it’s going to be niche. the setting won’t work for many characters.

problem is too that no one really wants to step up and take on the work of an accessible public game. understandably - it’s a ton of work with very little reward. public games in general seem to be on the way out for this reason.

Okay but WHY IS THERE A NEW ONE POSTED ALREADY?? is that literally a second period meme posted already? Come on now, at least wait a month to make it a running joke (if we must). I don't even think the other got much going for it. wtf?

I don't mind the content and if it floats your boat, rock that shit, but damn, come on, wait at least a little bit?

Yep. As an English teacher...

Exactly. Yeah, some people are understandably bummed, but thems the breaks. Tag around on the tdm or go elsewhere. You don’t always get what you want.

probably because mods asked them to edit for inclusivity and repost

oh no

oh dear

can they ban the period meme posting spammer because this is getting ridiculous now

you have to admire the pettiness of not only reposting it but also making the font for the prompts much bigger so nobody can ignore it

blue is... well, harmless but also an annoyance? there are players who get so passionate about a single character that it's their entire personality. blue is like that. currently she is very deeply involved with doctor who, as in she has seen everything ever aired, read/listened to every audio book or comic, and can tell you how many times a companion has been seen by the numbers. or can explain to you why the 14…(15+?) doctors are like this or that compared to cheesecake. she has met almost all the living actors for each of the doctors, spent money on signatures and props, and her home is decked out in “who” everything. she does in fact cosplay as 10/14, but also, his costumes were so simple that it's no big deal. her students seem to enjoy her antics. she goes out often with local friends to doctor who events, always dressed up, and posts fun looking pictures. socially awkward but out there.

in other words, she is a super fanatic, of the highest degree. a blackbelt stan, if you well.

she is mostly harmless... depending on who you are and how you handle people with a (possibly self proclaimed, possibly diagnosed?) slight mental illness/disability. she is apparently "on the spectrum" and her hyper focus tends to be on fictional things. she relates her own troubles through the characters she plays. and let's face it, most of us play for escapism, and there are a ton of rpers out there that turn their character depressed, or gay, or with scars, or overly happy, or just... whatever fits their needs. it's rp. it happens.

however.... she can get really fucking annoying over it. she will plurk post 4 to 12 times a day, pinging people for the smallest things. stuff most people post as private plurks, like "

soandso ten really adored the flowers!" ... to which no one else has any context. at all. and then a minute later, because she did another tag to someone else... she posts another plurk with a cryptic open to the public reply. it gets really annoying. mix in two or three cryptic doctor who plurks, or a somewhat sweet post about a student who drew a picture of the doctor for her, and it gets really crowded. they have had to be told, many times, especially back with siren's port, mask or menace, high seas, deerington, and a few others that she did not need to "@" a person every single comment they made in her own plurk. she has gotten better about that, but she still plurk floods.

and of course there is the whole english teacher who has a hard time getting... a lot. or how poorly she writes replies. there are no long replies for anyone. she is a very short one or two sentence, no emotion, just convo or text kind of rper, which a lot of the generation of older rpers stepped away from. top it off with it being hard to understand some/most posts, and she makes for a very hard to rp with writing partner. (note: if you contact her asking her to explain a tag because you do not understand, she does try to make it clear? but even then you might be lost)

so while i personally do not have a problem with her, i also do not actually roleplay with her anymore. she can be sweet, and she is very knowledgeable with doctor who, even if her characterization can be lacking. but i wouldn't say she 'bad talks' people, at least not publicly as far as i can tell? it always feels more like soft whining that she doesn't understand why she's banned or why people are mean.

that said, i also might not see all the other things people are seeing. i want to be clear, i do not mean to discredit others' comments with all this. this is just the things i have seen over the last...forever of being on dwrp. i've also gotten really good at ignoring her plurks, so i miss things.

tl:dr - mostly harmless, but has her bad spots. not a good writer even for a english teacher, but honestly she doesn't seem malicious or mean. also i have noticed if she tags you and you ignore it with no comment, she doesn't seem to notice and carried on with life.

best to stay away if you have no patience, but if you don’t mind bad writing and crack? it doesn’t hurt.

as a heads up, i do believe she is playing as 14 (10 on repeat) now on a new journal, but I am unsure which it is.

oh no, i meant to space that "@ soandso". i didn't realize dwrp had a shortcut now! haha, sorry to that journal, but i am glad its empty.

At least we get period sex promps now... Hahaha

this post reads like it was made by ai

my first experience with her was her mental break down because my character said 'shit' and i had a mod of the sandbox ask me to reword it as its triggering to the player. I said no, it's canon, also it's 'shit'?? The next day a huge post went up explaining that curses of any kind were to be considered as bad as TWs like animal abuse, spiders, SA and so on. AKA: it was put on the trigger list of things you did not talk about.

HOW is someone that sensitive about curse words? I haven't seen her in a game in a while but when I do see her, I make sure my character swears like a sailor to assure she will never tag me.

I am all for normalizing periods, but I also really don't want to rp about them. Especially no while I'm dealing with my own.

yeah the meme doesn't appeal to me whatsoever, and that seems to be the overall consensus on it

it's spam and a waste of space if no one plays on it

if that's torine, and i have to assume it is, it was considerate of them to post under a different sock so everyone can see another one of their "i just like to post memes regardless of whether anyone wants them" spam socks

what determines whether or not a hiatus is trivial?

is there a list of criteria to determine this?

without more context, it comes across as a bit of an overstep into the personal lives of players. imo, it's not anyone's business why a player is unavailable, the only thing mods and players genuinely need to know is that they're not going to be.

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