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EnableMePlz ([personal profile] enablemeplz) wrote2020-03-28 04:25 pm

March EMP Meme

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meme goes up on the last Saturday of every month

FOR GAME ADS:

Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / fetish you want for your game under the correct game header. This meme is primarily going to be focused on DWRP games but IJ and LJ games are allowed.

PLEASE NOTE A RULE CHANGE HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding (no font size > size 4 or 3 "big" tags, no oversized banners (they must be 250px in height or less), no blinking text, no obnoxious table html that doesn't collapse easily, no sparklies, no large pictures). Use all the colors you like, but please remember 3 "big" tags is the limit and that's only for headers or title text rather than for all the text in an ad.

FOR GAME QUESTIONS:

RPers interested in a game can create a header for the game and ask questions about that game that aren't easy to find on faqs, such as the actual pace vs. what's listed/what kind of plots are run/if the game leans more towards plotty or slice of life/if a game leans more towards network or logs, etc. Both anon questions and anon answers are welcome in this section just like in the rest of the meme.

This thread is not for speaking about wank or drama in a game. There are anoncomms that exist for that. This thread is specifically for general questions about a game that rpers want to get perspective on from players already in the game. Answers can be slightly negative (such as saying app response is slow or that the plots are repetitive or similar things) but this should at least be worded politely. Unnecessary vitriol, any mention of personal drama or wank, or mod teams/individual mods/players being singled out, will be either frozen or screened (based on what seems right based on the content).

FOR CHARACTER ADS:

Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL ads, there is a separate subthread but for character ads for games, post directly to the meme post. Others will comment to you with the games/casts they want you to join.

There is a "Find a Castmate" section, where you can talk about a cast you play in at a game, and try to lure people to join it. Not all games post to the meme or have a "wanted" section, so players that want to tempt people to their cast on their own can use this section for it. Please format this the same as the PSL section, where you post your character's canons in your subject. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find a Castmate" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. When listing who's currently in a cast, please do this in sentence form (with commas) rather than in list form.

There is a "Find Crosscanon" section, where you can talk about a character you play and and desired crosscanon for that character. Please make sure this is not too generalized a search, because just wanting general crosscanon can be accomplished with the other sections of the meme. This is for specific characters or character types you're looking for. In the subject, please list the "Looking for [canon you're looking for]" rather than your character's canon. If looking for a character type, list the character type in as few words as possible. Do not make the subject huge or I'll screen your comment. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find Crosscanon" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. This section is only for game crosscanon as in the psl section people can list their preferences.

Examples of crosscanon you can search for: You play The Flash from DC Comics and your dream CR is fellow speedster Quicksilver from Marvel. Or you might play a witch and want cr with other witches in general. Or maybe you play a good character messed up by evil parents and want to play against a villain character you know has evil parents, because you know it'd lead to some interesting negative CR.

ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding, with the same rules as the Game Ads Section above.

If you're recommending a game to someone, try to match your suggestion to their needs. It's okay if part of your game rec is copy-pasted (such as what the game's about), but at least some part of the rec must be personalized to their ad. Try not to recommend the same game to every single ad, either. Ad spam that isn't individualized in some way will also be frozen or screened. Keep in mind this needs to be more specific than "this game has easy AC like you're asking for but meets none of your other requirements." Make sure you're advertising games that might click with that specific character, where a few elements fit what they're looking for. You should be thinking about the story reasons of how the character might click with the game.

IN GENERAL:

Don't be a dick. This isn't one of the anoncomms, so any snide comments or unnecessary commentary on the RP plans of others will be frozen or screened.

MOD CONTACT:

If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please!

RESOURCES:

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DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games.
DWRP Game Directory Spreadsheet - A more detailed spreadsheet of DWRP Games that anyone can edit.

AD LINKS:

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Important note: IP logging has turned on due to multiple instances past and present of problem players trying to return to the dwrp community via emp after being banned other places, so I'll be IP logging from now on, and will compare notes with the rpa and wg mods (as well as game mods) where appropriate if it seems like someone that has been mass banned. I will not pay attention to IPs otherwise. I don't care what people like playing or who's who. So please feel comfortable to keep doing your thing, anon or otherwise. The knowledge will only be used for really egregious problem cases.
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Re: dc comics / vertigo; cross-canon etc.

[personal profile] thelastcartographer 2020-04-02 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Hey there, kinda late to the party, but I've seen you around, and I'm wondering: how would you feel about about threading with this guy? I realize that Harry Potter and Hellblazer have rather different tones, but Remus here isn't that difficult to AU into a grittier reality. Maybe they can be something like magical buddy-cops, teaming up to deal with dark magic and... IDK solve mysteries or something. I'm also a big fan of the Magnus Archives, so if it's cool with you we could even AU them both into that world. Hit me up if you're interested!
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[personal profile] strewth 2020-04-02 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
i love the heck out of all those options! i have no problem shifting john into hp-land, or vice versa, and dealing with werewolves is always a fun time.

i like the buddy cop option the most myself, if by 'buddy cop' you mean 'begrudging associates because john doesn't know how to maintain coherent friendships'. hogwarts can easily exist, it just seems like a place john would have been kicked out of and learned magic on his own or something. sounds chill?
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[personal profile] thelastcartographer 2020-04-06 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Whoops, apologies for the lateness of this reply! Your ideas do indeed sound chill. I'd love to go with the buddy cops AKA begrudging associates idea. I've already got a good canon point for Remus to be at when he's in a position to meet and work with John; there's no real canon information on what Remus did with his life from about the age of 21 to the age of 33, so my headcanon is that he spent his time wandering around Britain and the rest of Europe, never settling down and never stopping long enough to make new friends to replace those he lost during the war against Voldemort, earning money by helping whatever magical community he came across with their Dark magic problems. If I brought Remus in from that canon point, he'd be a rather traumatized war veteran in his mid-20s. Would that be okay with you?

If you want to AU John into an HP-style wizard and have him be a Hogwarts student who got expelled, would he and Remus have been at school at the same time? I'm fine with them vaguely knowing each other, if that's the case. If you decide to keep him as a wizard using his own canon's rules, I'm fine with that, too! We can always say that there are some people who grow up in the Muggle world and just learn magic on their own, never having to go to Hogwarts.

As for a plot: do you like the idea of battling it out with magical creatures, or would you rather go with something like demons? We can lean into the mystery-solving, or we can do more actiony threads. I'm happy to go either way!

Also, just for my own curiosity: do you happen to know if there are places to read old-school Hellblazer online? I've meant to pick up the series for ages but haven't ever gotten around to it.