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[rpanonyoda]

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

why do people make their intro post into a game searching for castmates / asking if anyone recognizes [insert city / building / etc. here]? Do you idiots not get it's boring af to tag into even if you are a castmate?

[(Anonymous)]

intro posts are as boring to write as they are to tag into. fuck that noise.

[(Anonymous)]

novel idea: don't do an intro post

don't post shit until you have something interesting to actually bring to the network

SHOCKING

+1

[(Anonymous)]

always works for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's realistic.

[(Anonymous)]

i play fairly popular characters, and more often than not, i do have castmates, and i've definitely done this before. the super boring intro post makes two things happen: one, i usually get to cover all the "omg castmates" and "omg canon points" chats in one go, and we can build more interesting cr from here.

two, i have had a lot of luck with lots of tags from characters from other canons, and it's always really cool, cross-canon cr is my favorite – but the last thing i want out of the boring as fuck semi-mandatory intro mingle log is even more tags (and there are only so many interesting things you can do with those to begin with). a boring toplevel leaves me more capacity to tag out, while still giving the people who would kinda need to have seen my character a chance to do stuff, all while avoiding an avalanche of smalltalk.

so yeah, i kinda purposefully only start being interesting by post two.

inb4: yes, i do try to spice things up once the threads are actually rolling, and no, i don't do it if there's an actual event taking place.