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[(Anonymous)]

a player who you’ve never interacted before, but whom you’re deeply uncomfortable with based on how you’ve seen them conduct themselves on memes and on their character journal, apps into your game. you’ve already resolved not to play with them, but worry about running into situations where you might be approached for plotting. do you:

A) go to their HMD and politely state that you’re opting out of playing with them (knowing that they might kick off over it because they seem like an unstable person)
B) ban their journal without saying anything so that they won’t be able to reply to your posts/comments (potentially causing drama down the line if they realise, but it probably won’t matter to you because you’ll have what you want which is non-interaction)
C) do nothing and just ignore them if they comment to your posts or toplevels

[(Anonymous)]

I would do c because usually with people like this I acknowledge that they might be annoying but ultimately the fact that they make me uncomfortable is my problem, not theirs.

my rule of thumb with this stuff is usually "can I give this person constructive criticism about what they're doing?". if the answer is "no, because it's just their personality", then it's not worth trying to engage.

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone know what happened to the May-December meme? I can't see it was reported for being a duplicate, but it's gone now.

https://enablemeplz.dreamwidth.org/24997.html

[(Anonymous)]

emp is up!

[(Anonymous)]

did the heart meter hearts used to be different colors?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. They were hosted by Tinypic which exists no longer.

I wish someone had the skill to make them appear in different colors again.

Nolanverse

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone RP characters from the Dark Knight Trilogy anymore? I am eyeing Alfred Pennyworth but it might be dull without playing him against anyone he'd be familiar with

Re: Nolanverse

[(Anonymous)]

I play Nolanverse Scarecrow, but I'm not too sure how interesting that would be.

[(Anonymous)]

is there a list of helpful html anywhere for posting? i know the basics but curious to learn more.

especially one i've seen around where people put the icons in the post and the text is in another table to the right? idk how to explain it but i can't find the example anywhere.

[(Anonymous)]

That's usually being done with the DW tools add on for firefox/chrome.

[(Anonymous)]

have you ever wanted to commission nsfw but are too embarrassed because of the character

i know this isn't exactly rp related but i don't have any other fandom sites to vent to...

[(Anonymous)]

now you have to tell us the character anon. at the very least give us a hint.

[(Anonymous)]

just out of curiosity, are you more likely to tag/tag back an oc on an easy, low commitment texting meme? or does it not matter either way?

[(Anonymous)]

i think in general the days of frothing of hatred are over, so oc or not your chances are probably about the same

[(Anonymous)]

I had a thread going with a castmate on bakerstreet for over a month before they PMed me to set up a PSL. I agree, get things started.... and get ghosted for over a week.

por que castmate

[(Anonymous)]

Considering the state of things right now, there are many reasons why they might be slow to reply. There was also some notification issues earlier in the week.

I'd say give it another week and then nudge them gently.

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[(Anonymous)]

RP is one of my greatest escapes right now, which I desperately need. But I need to get this off my chest.

I work with COVID patients in a hospital, I'm a major city where the protests are happening (not DC which is still ongoing, but another place). Let me just tell you, if the last few months were all hell at the hospital, then the rioting and looting is too. Let me be clear: protests were fine, I'm outraged at Floyd's death, but when you're living right next to the looting and shooting that comes AFTER, it's awful. Things are quieter now, but for the past four days no one could escape the sirens.

I feel guilty for expressing myself or my fears to any of my irl friends. I see lots of people posting things excusing the violence of the rioters, tearing into other streets that weren't closed for the protests. I feel bad for actually complaining about my stress, because others post that if I'm doing that, I'm part of the problem, or that I just don't understand the injustice, or I'm prioritizing the wrong thing. I feel bad for actually being grateful to the national guard for scarecrowing (not something I ever thought I'd type). I'm actually grateful to the latin kings too for posting to our neighborhood and standing outside fam businesses to not be looted (another thing I never thought I'd say either because they have destroyed so much in my area) as the police were occupied elsewhere. Or worse, that not liking the violence suddenly makes me a goddamn Trump supporter. This whole thing has made me realize that, at least in my circle of friends, I'm moderate. Which is... yikes, because I've always considered myself liberal. I guess that not condoning violence means I'm not supportive enough.

If you're out there protesting, thank you. Just wear a mask, say six feet apart. Then please consider quarantining yourself because you just went into a HUGE crowd of people that came in from all over. There's tear gas, there's smoke, it'll make you cough, or others cough on you. That's not good. Stay home and show your support through donations for two weeks or something. Please, don't forget that this pandemic is still going on, don't see your family or friends during this time. Our ICUs are all still full.

There are a lot of people on my timeline plurking about the protests, thank you for raising awareness in this RP bubble. Because, yeah, sometimes I feel like a lot of us are unaware of what's happening in the world.

There are a lot of people plurking about RP or their fandoms, and still RPing with me, and don't know how stressed I am. Thank you, too. I cannot express how much this has helped me in the past few months. Each thread, tag, meme, PSL, talk about fandom or movie.... It's nice to come home and having some sort of escape. I don't want to think about my patients, and I don't want to think about how to navigate both crowds and squad cars just to get to some new coding patient.

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[(Anonymous)]

if Trump was a better president, one who didn't try to ignore the covid crisis when it first started by saying it was a hoax and didn't disband the committee responsible for handling and preventing pandemics, i don't think the virus would have gotten this out of hand. just food for thought.

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[(Anonymous)]

i know mod just froze the comment but i really wanted to reply to it with this as it was frozen after i'd typed it:

i work in a hospital too and have seen many horrible things. while i think the protests are necessary and inevitable, i also worry so much about peoples' health. i wanted to go to one myself but didn't want to potentially expose myself to the virus and then come to work and potentially expose others. a huge chunk of america is not taking this virus seriously. it can and has killed young, healthy people who have no pre-existing conditions. please, please treat it with the same caution you would any other deadly disease. don't think you can just shrug it off because you aren't older or immunocompromised. this virus seems to infect the blood vessels and can cause strokes via dislodging plaque buildups even in people without heart disease.

i hope i don't piss the mod off with this but it's something i want everyone to be reminded of

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[(Anonymous)]

maybe stop silencing our hospital workers who have legitimate COVID concerns and advice on how to stay safe from COVID during our protests? The virus hasn't gone away just because we have other things to be worried and angry about.

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[(Anonymous)]

there's not a lot to say beyond what was said, or at least no reason for discussion. at least the mod just froze them instead of deleting so we can view them

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[(Anonymous)]

ok i was with mod until that snappy-ass reply. you could have just frozen them and left it at that but you had to go all "WhY wOuLd YoU sHaRe ThAt HeRe" as if this isn't an issue affecting literally everyone on the planet lol. there's a time and place for reminding people to remain ontopic for internet roleplay, i think we all gathered that covid isn't rp-related but there's no harm in those posts either.

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[(Anonymous)]

get off the cross, anon, we need the wood.

offsite advertising

[(Anonymous)]

just sort of a general pulse check if you will

1 - if we were to start advertising games off of dreamwidth, what platforms do you think would be a good candidate? I've heard reddit, are there specific subreddits? specific discords?

2 - would anyone be interested in joining a sort of advertising campaign team to bring in new blood and new life to dreamwidth?

3 - would anyone be interested in just creating the templates for advertisements for games for these other platforms?

4 - any additional thoughts or opinions?

Re: offsite advertising

[(Anonymous)]

tumblr could be worth a shot. since it's more mellow now, they might have an easier time adjusting to dwrp's pace than twitter rpers.

[(Anonymous)]

i have bpd2 and my mental health has taken a terrible hit this week. asked my rp partner for some time off and instead of being understanding she's like "ok but how long", badgering me for a concrete timeline. it's incredibly triggering and i'm really distressed. i'm.... sorry i can't put an exact date on when my depressive episodes will pass?

i just wanted to get that off my chest.

[(Anonymous)]

i'm sorry your rp partner is being so pushy. they should be more patient about this.

[(Anonymous)]

I am new to DWRP and don't understand bakerstreet's culture. I set up over three threads this past month with seemingly eager RPers (ftr I don't know them personally), we have talked setting and timelines, and then every single one has ghosted after I write the first tag.

Has bakerstreet always been like this? Am I alone in this experience and it's a "me" problem? Will I get a tag in a month?

[(Anonymous)]

anon, this happens to a lot of people. it's unfortunate

[(Anonymous)]

anons, how many of you came back from long hiatuses from RP during quarantine? i did and it's surprising to me how many others i've seen express that in the past few weeks

[(Anonymous)]

i'm really smad because i have more "free time" (i am still employed, and grateful) than i ever have but there's no rp mojo left in me at all between corona and the civil unrest in the us

all i want to do is sleep and play animal crossing and hope this miserable year passes faster

[(Anonymous)]

work is dead and all i wanna do is write and nobody is around.

sob

[(Anonymous)]

Help me rpanons, you're my only hope.

I need to find a game I recall playing around 2018 for rpg purposes but I can't for the life of me remember its name, and every search I try to do takes me to fucking minecraft.

Things I remember:

1. Your character was a cute blob whose village was attacked. You traveled across the map, organized by areas, collecting mats for crafting.
2. By nightfall monster would come out so you were required to build houses to spend the night in.
3. I think the purpose was to take back the villagers' souls?
4. The first are was a snowy one.

And that's it. Hopefully someone will be able to illuminate my pea-sized brain and come up with a name.

[(Anonymous)]

sounds a bit like feel the snow!

[(Anonymous)]

i had a big hiatus from my game because of COVID and missed a whole month, to include plurk. i don't know how to reorient my character in the game setting and feel disconnected, and the event is coming soon. how have other people gotten back into the groove of things? where do i start? what do i do so that i'm immersed again when the event rolls around? i'm feeling a bit lost.

[(Anonymous)]

Talk to your CR? If you were avoiding plurk, you can always PM or just even make a plurk asking CR for anything that you may have missed that was important.

If your character was hiatused, were they out of the action entirely or handwaved? Building up things that might have been done for the character during that time can help, if they weren't hiatused being unconscious or inaccessible.

If you're not feeling too overwhelmed by being behind, glance over the game comms and see what catches your eye that feels relevant to you or might be fun to read over? Sometimes it just helps to play catchup, if you have a bit of time while it's still quiet and the end of your hiatus isn't official yet.

Also, just remember to breathe a little! It's okay to be behind with everything going on IRL, and most people in your game may be also having trouble. Communication is really your best bet, get some feelers out and see what reels you back in.

[(Anonymous)]

What's the best way to find The Horny RP on dreamwidth?

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't wanna join a game, kinks you want to play and Enable Me Plz. There's bakerstreet and the love hotel but both of them are either low quality, flakes, or both. You can occasionally get a good thread going without any fuss but there's a lot of filler to work through. And you're likely to get noted DW user masterofzawarudo sending you 13 community invites a day for the rest of your life if you play a girl.

[(Anonymous)]

Are there any gen murdergames or short term games being planned right now? I have only heard talk about the musical one and the Disney one.

[(Anonymous)]

Only one I know of is that 15 Strangers' next round is set for autumn. Don't know of anything else at this time.

[(Anonymous)]

That feel when your most-loved PSL partner joins a new game and you're thrown on the backburner... sucks man.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

The saddest hi5, anon

[(Anonymous)]

I just noticed all of the game advertisement threads were frozen. What happened?

[(Anonymous)]

probably to discourage people from engaging those game mods here instead of their own faqs because of how often those threads derail into pointless shit

[(Anonymous)]

does anyone else hate canon reviewing? i genuinely love the series i play from and enjoy rereading/rewatching/replaying them when i just feel like it, but when i'm doing it to write an app afterwards i have a hard time bringing myself to start.

[(Anonymous)]

i feel you, anon, and the difference is very simple: when you're watching for canon reviewing, you aren't simply sitting down, relaxing and enjoying the game/show/etc. you enter analytic mode and try not to miss the details, make note of every single line of dialogue, etc. it can be mentally exhausting.