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Rundown: rpanons is an anonymous community for role-play related topics. This place serves as a forum for game discussions, canon discussions, RP solicitations (ATP, game ads, open memes), and advice. The occasional off topic comment is inevitable, but please keep heated social and political topics to their respective communities. Posting them here will only get them frozen. Subsequent threads made to bypass a freeze will then be deleted.

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Do not post personal information. This includes but is not limited to full names, addresses, phone numbers and so on.
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Do not be redundant. One page does not need three or more threads on one topic/theme. Your unfunny, forced memes also fall under this rule.
Do not treat this comm like your personal therapist. Threads about nonfictional suicide, self injury, rape, and abuse will be deleted. There are better resources out there for you.
Do not treat this comm like your personal Plurk or Twitter. Off-topic happens, but it should be open for discussion and not just a play-by-play of your life. No one cares.
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UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

What are yours?

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

memory share and dream share events suck

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[(Anonymous)]

writing tags in all lowercase makes you look stupid, not cool, and it's awful for people with visual impairments to read

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

we live in an autocorrect age so we should see more texting fails

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[(Anonymous)]

brackets should not be the dwrp standard. they're a nightmare to read, the coding is a pain in the ass, and they convey no more useful information than prose. net negative all around and yet they persist!!!!!

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

an earlier canonpoint can't always save you from the latest season/sequel/etc development

sometimes it can - if it's a very specific event that causes your character to act like that, choosing a canonpoint before that event will do the trick (example: many years ago someone played a young sasuke right before he left with orochimaru, and with the positive influences in game he became a much better person. it was 10/10 rping)

however most of the time, the canon just shows something new about the character, and we may hate it all we want but that's part of who they are. (example: in glee, blaine cheats on kurt after he moves for college. if you app blaine to a game and kurt isn't around, it'd be 100% ic for him to cheat on kurt, even in an earlier canonpoint)

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

people who don't have permissions posts should be fed to wolves

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

i can't stand the look of prose. i immediately associate it with poor writing due to a handful of bad seeds

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

it should be okay for mods to boot people who never engage with the core of a game (ex: only play slice of life in horror games, never play smut or smut-leading threads in a smut game), especially if there's a character cap.

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

casts that get so bloated they end up playing primarily in inboxes kill games

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

discord servers specifically for casts/games usually just cause more problems

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care about how many characters people have or if those characters interact in canon. pretendy fun time games do what you want so long as you're not literally threading with yourself

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

i think "trans au" should be normalized instead of "trans headcanon"

and i think most "trans headcanons" are bad and gender binary enforcing, actually

disclaimer: i rarely encounter or even see this on dwrp, but still hold this opinion

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

i don't trust people who aren't ota

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

enforcing a medium divide where it's part of the game's premise would be fine actually

people already self-select so it's not that much different

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

I think mods should be allowed to refuse an application for (incredibly popular character) if that player already has (incredibly popular character) in multiple other games. Give other people a chance to play those characters in a game, damn!

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

Big games (50+ players or so) are going to be limited in how much plot/setting impact individual players can have and that's fine. The advantage of big games is having a wide pool of potential CR to interact with.

Of course it sucks when the mods have such an iron grip on the setting that they won't let characters mow their lawns in a different way, but there's also an upper limit on how much they can 'yes, and'/'no, but' everything without burning out, and a lot of players have unrealistic expectations about how high that upper limit is. Honestly, a lot of people seem to associate things mods do to keep their workload manageable with bad or overly controlling modding and that makes it very unappealing to mod here.

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

i'm not interested in rping canon ships

if i wanted to rethread the canon romance i'd go read the book/play the game/watch the movie

this is why 9 out of 10 times i'm more interested in crosscanon ships

i'm here to rp. that includes developing rapport, feelings

the only exception is when the canon romance has some other major issue that must be dealt with/can only be explored via rp

great, you got together! but the world is still shit and you gotta fix it

great, you got together! then both of you made a heroic sacrifice and are now dead in the canon

stuff like that

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

people don't want to rp with you because of your kinks

people don't want to rp with you because you turn your kinks into an identity, where telling you they're not interested in stuff that are common triggers is equivalent to bigotry

get off the cross we need the wood

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

i actually really like writing apps

talking about blorbo and its personality and how it fits into the world

condensing a history into something I think will be easily digestible and not tedious to someone who doesn't know

this filling a checklist aspect

when writing samples rather than thread links were the norm i'd write micro fics

i like reading other peoples' apps too, when they reveal aspects about a character i hadn't thought of

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

i think the over-reliance on prompts has totally stifled creativity in the dwrp community.

games used to have events that just gave an outline of what was happening, and each player would have to come up with unique hooks and prompts on their own to garner tags for their characters. nowadays, a game won't even take off unless there's a test drive meme with multiple scenarios and prompts to appeal to the widest possible audience and character roster.

obviously things weren't perfect back then, because "bobby joe is at the event, come bother him!" posts were a thing, but those are still a thing now, even with prompts. but now you get those, and also multiple posts in a row of different characters going through the exact same scenarios.

i also think this issue bleeds into why bakerstreet and other memecomms are desolate wastelands of empty toplevels, because we've conditioned ourselves to see memes as low-effort when compared to games. and because rewording a prompt to include your character's name in a game is already low-effort, empty level is the next logical step down. even tfln offers more in terms of creativity, even if all people are doing is stealing the first five texts they see on the website.

and i also think there's no way to ever address this as a community, because all you'll do is activate the legion of people who insist we're all too old and too busy to be creative in our creative writing hobby anymore, even though those same people are here instead of writing the tags they say they don't have time for.

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

somewhere around 75% of anoncomm discourse boils down to "i had a bad experience with someone in 2017 and i've come up with an ingenious method of making sure it never happens again: fixate on one specific aspect of that experience that was very obviously not the actual problem"

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

needing to have castmates in a panfandom game is dumb

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[(Anonymous)]

DWRP social culture is ridiculously toxic in such a unique way I feel like it should be studied by sociologists. It's not just the impenetrable wall of unspoken social "rules" that people will snub or bully others for not knowing but also won't actually tell them up front, but the unique combination of crippling conflict-avoidance that can barely tolerate the concept of saying "sorry, I'm not interested" paired with the prevailing attitude that no one owes anyone anything ever. Add that onto the culture of anonymous complaining about people, and the tendency to blow even the smallest "social faux pas" (aka breaking one of the many, many unspoken social "rules") completely out of proportion. Top it off with the tendency to couch everything in therapy vocabulary, and you have a hot mess of anxiety chihuahuas pretending to be cheerful and happy all the time and never saying what they want while competing to be the most popular girl in high school (because no one will tag you if you're not the most popular girl in high school).

Most people in DWRP seem to think that DWRP's set of particular oddly-inflexible "social norms" are just regular social norms all of society agrees on and if you don't follow them you're a weirdo, but they are very, very wrong.

So what is my unpopular opinion?

The most "normal" people I've run into in DWRP, who communicate like adults, let their friends know when they're feeling down without trauma dumping, know what they want, and have reasonable expectations of other people in a social setting/social hobby, are considered outcasts and weirdos in the DWRP scene. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

Leaving the Re: Subject Header in every tag looks so sloppy