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enablemeplz) wrote2022-06-11 09:08 pm
enablemeplz) wrote2022-06-11 09:08 pm
June EMP Meme
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: DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games. ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} dedoralive - A more detailed listing of DWRP Games.GAME/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 Latest Page 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. |
A quick update!
To anyone that might have been hurt, offended, triggered, or stressed by anything I have said, I am sorry. Deeply and immensely. It was never my intention to cause anyone grief or harm in any way shape or form. I extend deep and serious apologies. I am going to try to learn from this and do better.
I have been doing my best to reply to each post as it comes in. I appreciate the time people take to respond, and I want to make sure I make that appreciation clear. Even when the subject matter is particularly difficult. Or perhaps especially then. So thank you.
The next few days are possibly going to be busy ones for me, depending on how health issues go. So I may not get to respond as often or as well. So if you comment and I do not reply immediately, I appologize, and it is not an indicator that I am ignoring you.
As of right now, after all that has been said, I no longer intend to work on getting my game started any time soon. There is a lot that I have discovered here that I still need to learn and understand before I can truly create any of the things I wanted to create. If and when I do try this again, it will be in full mindfulness of the feedback I received here. And I thank you all for that. Everyone who commented, and everyone who is reading this, has been reading this. Attention, time, and thought are valuable commodities, and I appreciate you spending your time and attention to what I had thought was a small run of the mill request for help. I thank you for the deep thoughtful replies that have shown me that there is nothing small about the help I need before I can even consider trying again.
This doesn't mean I am giving up. This isn't me saying "I can't cope so I am out" or "it is too hard". This is me honestly and fully wanting to give what has been said the proper thought and consideration. Some very serious issues are raised. I don't have answers for a number of them. I am not sure I will have answers later. In at least one case, I am not sure there is an answer that works for everyone. But I can spend the time looking at how others handle these same issues, and learn from them. Someday, I intend to try this again. With better understanding, and better ideas about how to handle these issues. I still want to make a safe and happy place, but I need to reconsider what exactly that safety looks like, and how to make sure I'm not unintentionally doing the opposite.
So once again, thank you all so very much. I appreciate it, and look forward to the future.
No matter who you are, please know that you are loved. You are valuable. You matter. You are important. And you are appreciated and wanted. Thank you.
P.S. Quick edit: as I was getting ready to shut down and go to bed, I spotted two replies that never made it to my inbox. So if anyone has commented, and I have not replied, I appologize. As far as I know I have now replied to everyone. If anyone is lacking a reply it is accidental. Feel free to repost the reply if you want, and hopefully this time the notification will show up in my inbox.
Once again, thank you.
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(Anonymous) 2022-06-16 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)Sometimes being thorough is a good thing! But it also can be very confusing to players and again, you start to trip over yourself and lose focus. My eyes glazed over just trying to make sense of everything you've said here and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
I'm glad you're stepping back, but I'd suggest practicing conciseness in the meantime. I think you'd find it very helpful when modding.
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I do hear you. And I am keeping this in mind. This is... something I have been working on in my life for a long time. I'm not great at short form. But I am trying.
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.