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EnableMePlz ([personal profile] enablemeplz) wrote2023-06-10 02:37 pm

June EMP Meme

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meme goes up on the Second 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.

All mod responses regardless of whether they're rule breaks, correction requests (like someone posting in the wrong section), or thwapping someone for spamming copy-paste ads, have always been and will almost universally be public. If someone sends a PM and the conversation gets combative, this will also be made public and posted to the comments of the mod contact page. This is for the sake of transparency so people can judge the emp mod's communications for fairness themselves.

There are times where the player's post may be screened (such as if they posted to the wrong section) but the mod's response will be left unscreened.

Players may sometimes be allowed more than one strike for copy-paste ads since this is often just enthusiasm behind it, but game mods should know better. They'll get one warning for copy-paste ads, and if they spam anymore copy-paste ads after the warning, they'll be banned from the meme.

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.

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

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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.
takethatnature: A soggy and uncertain Wilson leaning on a determined-looking Winona and taking the arm of a surprised-looking Wigfrid. (don't soggy together)

DON'T STARVE @ COME SAIL AWAY

[personal profile] takethatnature 2023-06-11 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
[game]: Come Sail Away [community profile] come_sailaway
[fandom]: Don't Starve/Don't Starve Together
[game's current cast]: Wilson, although the existence of others on previous cruises has been referenced (see game info)
[who I play]: Wilson, taken from the beginning of Return of Them.
[wanted]: Anyone, but especially Webber, Maxwell, Queen Charlie, WX-78, Walani, and Abigail. I really think Webber and Abigail would get along great with the other strange children already on board and Maxwell or Charlie would have an interesting perspective on the setting and the NPCs.

[game info]: Come Sail Away is a horror-comedy jamjar set on the Serena Eterna, a haunted cruise ship in a bubble dimension that uses the passengers' suffering as its fuel. Most of the horror is in the form of monthly events, like the nightmare labyrinth from April or the battle royale from last May (which are opt-in on an OOC level); in between those the characters can hang out and relax as much as knowing they're stuck on a murderboat allows.

Depowering is minimal with a few exceptions, memories are kept, and humanization isn't required, but there's a strict no-sentient-tagalongs policy. For instance, a Wendy player couldn't include Abigail in the app, she would have to be either apped separately or absent. Webber's spider half is probably fine but he wouldn't be able to bring or hatch any extra spiders. The pace is medium and extremely backtag-friendly, although events can get very fast and active when they start or end. Returning to canon is impossible; even dropped characters stay on the boat in a less interactable form. The players are very chill and supportive, and enthusiastic about crosscanon and cross-medium CR, negative CR, brief threadhops, player-driven events and setting changes, and obscure or weird characters. AC is either posting 10 comments each in three threads, or posting 10 comments in one thread and putting up an open post/toplevel, and then linking them on the AC page.

The game is very, very meta. Part of the premise is that this is the most recent of many cruises, populated by other DWRP characters and the same NPCs, and most of those cruises were much more murderous and grimdark than this one has been. Sometimes those passengers return, one of whom stuck around as a CRAU. The most recent event included remnants of past passengers, and Wilson freaked out about seeing his canonmates there, particularly a Maxwell he tried and failed to revive.

For further information, check out the FAQ and the current TDM!