i don’t play games to do homework and, while i have held my nose a few times, it’s not been an experience I’ve found pleasant. A short bit indicating understanding of a roster or theme is one thing, but my characters bloom into life as I play them. Writing a massive backstory that will be retconned into who my character actually ends up being is a waste of time for everyone involved.

One of my clearest memories is back on Warcraft when I had my brief RP career there, waiting 45 minutes for someone to write a pose that took up ten or eleven full emotes to get through due to the character cap. It was almost all fluff, fairly repetitive, I was annoyed but kept moving. His character’s partner did the same so it took nearly an hour and a half for me to even be able to play.

Sure, I thought. They’re setting the scene in this imaginary place we are in. Irking but at least just the first pose.

The second round took even longer and they just ended up referencing most of the same things again, and that was pretty much the moment my Warcraft RP career died and my attitude toward people who claimed that longer writing meant better writing changed forever to the negative.

Combine this with an attempt by a lot of people to carefully address and keep alive every single conversation thread in the previous pose and make sure everything raised gets addressed, it can get exhausting.

I suspect this is part of the reason I bounce off of certain styles of games, posing and scene structures. In a collaborative work, dialogue, action and pacing are the three key elements, much more so than talking about how the wind rustles the leaves of the plants on the shelf a dozen times.

So, all that to say, I think the literate/semi-literate labels are actively harmful, not to mention insultingly inaccurate. When collaboration becomes a performative display at how good you are at writing with yourself, that’s just egotistical masturbation.

Yes, but, only if I trust you. Burned too many times by active griefing covered by “oh it was IC!”

@NotSanni Hi there! Yeah, it’s been a bit, but I had a pretty good time there. Just wish it had had more staying power. 🦠 was a good experience in so many ways, from the escalating pranks to playing someone who my god I hated so much about.

Updated. Will likely be scarce from the hobby for a while.

oh this is why i got a sense of mild dread when i saw the notification!

No wait that’s the anxiety.

HI @Clarion

@bear_necessities The Augbert episode was the best game of “Yes, and,” chicken I have ever seen and I was dying to talk about it with people.

A Dropout subscription is about the best per-dollar value I have ever spent. I’ve had one for about a year and a half and they just keep getting wildly better.

@ham I’M FROM THE WOODS.

real ones will know.

@Sage The existence of multigenerational households in a huge number of cultures in the world, as well as the fact that they really dwindled in the United States during the rise of suburbia, strongly implies that this is a cultural trend and not an evolutionary one. Be very, very careful of assuming that what you see as the norm around you exists that way for purely biological reasons, the implications aren’t great.

also, i’m not going to greet everyone, because i don’t like some people and it’s as simple as that.

I submitted my first short story to Amazon. It’s cheesy erotica, but… I already have my second ready to edit, I have my community pages built out, and the hard work of just doing the first one is done.

I’m really fucking excited for this.

Did… did it collapse into the volcano or is part of it overlooking that as a new, potential shardhaven because honestly that would be sick?

@kalakh wait is my pretty house on avarion’s peak okay

Bliss had four secrets, but they were built around two things that were incredibly public knowledge by the end:

1. Her duel with Everard Telmar, the fact that she won the Telmar House Sword from him, and the fact that it was stolen from her by him dishonorably after, leaving her shoulder maimed.

2. Her fame with the Nox’alfar after finishing a folly.

Those were definitely enough fuel to drive a character forward, and while I was actively playing the game, I did a lot of scheming, putting together a quiet alliance of nobles to pressure and press on Telmar, working with the Nox now and then, and just doing fun things. There was more I could have done, ways I should have been less averse, but playing a character who on the one hand was ready to burn it all down for the drama who on the other hand took Whisper House and made some major moves that set the scene for future Radiants is enough for me. She had her moment in the spotlight, and then when real life flared up, I got out of it and did my best to let others shine.

Alan Wake 2 is a solid 10/10. My god.

@helvetica this is the most evil thing I’ve read in some time

this just in: games within the same genre share similarities.

as a project manager, lol, lmao, this is absolutely not a universally defined term and there are dozens of ways to structure how you get things done