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[(Anonymous)]

transformers more like transgaymers tahaa

[(Anonymous)]

shitlords shitloards spinning around

piss on my shitlord and see wgar i found

[(Anonymous)]

I find people that troll lesbian profiles on dating sites for someone to complete their threesome to be so fucking disgusting and dehumanizing. I am a person not a fucking sex toy to spice up your sex life. It just rubs me so the wrong way that they see bi and lesbian girls as fill-in pornstars or something. Guh!

[(Anonymous)]

i wonder if you're one of the rpers i found on a dating site

man some of you have fucked up profiles

[(Anonymous)]

Lmao no. I absolutely am not. My profile is literally like "fun-loving individual with a love of silver-linings and adventures that end in good stories..." Etc

+10000000000

[(Anonymous)]

thank fuck for okc letting you prevent straight people from seeing you

Re: +10000000000

[(Anonymous)]

i get approached by couples looking to complete a ~threesome~ who get around the block rules by saying they're bi :\

[(Anonymous)]

We just got a letter.
We just got a letter.

We just got a letter.

I wonder who it's from?

[(Anonymous)]

Is it from our friends?

[(Anonymous)]

Don't be silly. We have no friends.

[(Anonymous)]

im cracking up

ITT: UNPOPULAR OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

we always have this thread on bad posts

Re: ITT: UNPOPULAR OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

there's nothing wrong with rping real people (celebrities not like your next door neighbor) as long as you're not a creepy asshole about it

Re: ITT: UNPOPULAR OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

you literally can't rp real people without being a creepy asshole about it

Re: ITT: UNPOPULAR OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

food and shelter are not privileges

Re: ITT: UNPOPULAR OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

I fucking love networks

I like that your character can do everything from serious calls to arms to like, the equivalent of shitposting, and everyone in the game can respond at once, without needing to contrive why they're in the same place or approached each other specifically, and people can see other conversations and jump in and created more. The internet is great for communicating in the real world and also in RP. I don't care about the logistic fiddly 'omg skype all day' quibbles. It leads to a higher volume of cool character conversations than would otherwise happen, and that is part of the point of RP to me.

I think there should be *more* prose-only games, just for choice and variety, but I think in most cases networks really do add plenty to the game.

Poll

[(Anonymous)]

1. You find a game that meets your preferences and has a premise you like and characters that look like they'd make great CR. However the game has all live action characters and you want to app someone from a drawn medium? Would you:
A. Say fuck it and join anyhow
B. Pass it up
C. Do something else to make it work, like get a LA PB or app a different character.

2. Now let's say you find the awesome game that meets your preferences and has an awesome premise and characters, but instead they are all from drawn mediums and you want to app a live action character. Would you:
A. Say fuck it and join anyhow
B. Pass it up
C. Do something else to make it work, like get a manga PB, go with a different character, etc?

Assume that for the get a PB options that a PB of some sort will exist for your character that you'd be happy with. Also assume there is no evidence to be found whether this playerbase is would welcome your character or not, you are the first to be apping a character of that medium.

Re: Poll

[(Anonymous)]

in the first scenario, depends on the exact medium. if it's like anime then i'd probably get a pb. if it's something like a video game where the images are still somewhat realistic and you can easily map it to a real person looking like that, i'd just app my character as is.

the second one i'm a lot more likely to pass up, but that's probably because i really doubt i could ever find a drawn pb i was okay with and you said to assume i can. so...i guess again, it depends just how far away from realistic-looking everyone is, but i'm more likely to app with a pb.

Re: Poll

[(Anonymous)]

no matter what, I'd say fuck it and join anyhow with my character's actual appearance. somebody's gotta break the ice, might as well be me.

Re: Poll

[(Anonymous)]

Would not get a PB in either scenario. I don't play on insanejournal for a reason.

Re: Poll

[(Anonymous)]

From my experience, western comics, cartoon characters, and non-homestuck webcomics tend to do totally find in LA-dominated games. I suspect this is true for vidya as well, though I have seen it less. Anime and manga sometimes have a harder time, and it can vary a lot depending on like...how anime the anime is, in terms of like, how alien the fundamental tropes are to someone who's not into that genre. So your madokas and your FMAs tend to do pretty well, because 'kids with powers fighting evil, dramatic consequences ensue' jives pretty easily with western storytelling, people can wrap their heads around how to connect to those characters with relatively negligible effort. Somebody from a harem anime whose personality is very much a stylized genre thing would have a much harder time, I think.

I, personally, wouldn't app an LA to a game that was more than 50% animanga I didn't recognize, just because I know I'd have a harder time 1) telling most characters apart 2) caring and pursuing things long-term, but presuming that 'awesome characters' means they're mostly from the few animangas I do know supplemented with western drawn stuff, I'd probably go ahead and try it.

In either case if I was really on the fence I'd go to the TDM and the game discussion thread here and suss out responses a bit - every game's culture is a little bit different and that's more valuable information than rampant speculation from anons. I definitely wouldn't get a different PB in either case, but if I had a character I also was excited to play in the majority medium, I'd probably app them first so people could get to know me that way before bringing in the other character.

Re: Poll

[(Anonymous)]

In either case, I'd app anyway, using my character's normal icon set. I've actually done this in both cases. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes the character doesn't stick for me for other reasons, but I've never regretted giving it a shot.

In my experience, what keeps people from tagging cross-medium is not so much medium divide as it is lack of familiarity with your character or canon. Changing PB isn't going to make people think "Hey, I can play with them!" as much as it is going to put off the people who would have otherwise actually recognized your character.

... It may help that most of the canons I play from are older and obscure, so I'm used to tagging out a ton to build CR with players who aren't canon-familiar.

Re: Poll

[(Anonymous)]

1. A) I have actually done this with a western comics character in an LA dominated game. Some people very obviously don't know what to do with my character but for the most part people are chill and treat me no differently. Like an anon above said, very "anime" animes might have a hard time but tbh I don't play from any of those lol.

2. C) Most of my muselist is non-LA so the easiest solution would just be app a different character. imo LAs will have a harder time integrating into an animated/vidya dominated space than vice versa, particularly if it's mostly anime. Anime players tend to stick to their own more than any other medium.

Re: Poll

[(Anonymous)]

1. A, never had a problem with this.

2. It depends. A lot of my LA characters are non-powered, so if the game is dominated by extremely powerful anime characters or superheroes and fighting is a big part of the premise I'd probably decide not to app. In specifically animanga dominated games, they tend to have a ton of teens or very young adults, so if there were almost no older characters there I'd refrain from apping my 30+ year old LAs.

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