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EnableMePlz ([personal profile] enablemeplz) wrote2020-08-30 05:37 pm

August 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:

[plurk.com profile] enablemeplz - The plurk for Enable Me Plz. Follow for monthly, replurkable EMP reminders
DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games.
[community profile] dedoralive - A more detailed listing of DWRP Games.

AD LINKS:

General Game/Dressing Room Ads Link
- New Games
- Small Games
- Medium/Large Games
- Museboxes/Memes/Dressing Rooms/Misc.
- Game Questions
- Game Start Discussions/Questions

PSL Offerings
Find a Castmate
Find Crosscanon

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Textbox for Character Ads (Optional):



Textbox for "Find a Castmate" Ads (Required):



For "Find Crosscanon" Ads (Required):



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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[personal profile] wallcrawler 2020-09-01 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Just to get some clarification here, for the case-by-case "no AU" game preference, was that referring to the setting of the game itself or more just a policy on the kind of characters allowed?
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[personal profile] moes 2020-09-01 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
The former over the latter.
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[personal profile] wallcrawler 2020-09-01 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. Well, it's set in a parallel earth so that part may not be your cup of tea depending on exactly where exactly your personal preferences lie, but I know I'm always up for some new faces over at [community profile] maskormenace.

I'm on mobile at the moment so I can't say for certain if there's any canonmates due to my phone disliking any kind of formatting on Dreamwidth (though I think we picked up someone from Bungo Stray Dogs recently, I can double-check later), but it would definitely meet your preference for powers being kept. Potentially even go beyond that, since characters can have up to three power "umbrellas," whether or not they even had those powers in canon. So depending on who it is, they might not just keep their powers but you can give them entirely new ones. As serious or as absurd as you want.

As for what the "umbrella" part means, think of powers that all come from the same place. Like if you had a wizard, that'd be an umbrella by itself rather than having to necessarily devote a power slot to each kind of magic. And Superman's big red S would have pretty much all of his nonsense lumped in under something like "Kryptonian Physiology."

The gist of it is, unknown fancy tech no one really understands is yanking people across the multiverse into Alternate Earth and they're winding up with some fancy new tricks to show for it. The government would prefer you use those new powers to become a hero and all the great responsibility that comes with it, but nobody's actually forcing it. Several characters have even stayed unregistered since they arrived!

It's also usually pretty medium-paced, though like most places it's slowed down a bit due to 2020 being a whole entire thing. But AC has been lowered to compensate for it, so nobody should really be sweating bullets about meeting it. The impending plot for September is also gonna be a special event where you can play regardless of whether or not you're in the game, so that'll more or less be a wet run to help anyone figure out if it's for them. Details on that are still under mod lock and key, but they should be forthcoming later today!

UPDATE: Double-checked and I think the Bungo Stray Dogs must have been a drop announcement I saw, not a regular OOC post :(
Edited (had time to go check the taken list on an actual computer, autocorrect being what it is) 2020-09-01 21:00 (UTC)