enablemeplz | October EMP Meme

October EMP Meme

ENABLEMEPLZ
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:

enablemeplz - The plurk for Enable Me Plz. Follow for monthly, replurkable EMP reminders
DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games.

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
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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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doing my at-this-point-obligatory rolling in here to say, pardon my french: your shadowheart is fucking great, your writing is fucking great, and it's been a total joy threading with you!!! i would love to keep truckin' with our psl and also ... literally any au you're feeling, because arranged marriage aus are my kryptonite and so are "actually everyone made the worst decisions possible" routes.

tl;dr thank you for these lovely threads! 🙏🏻 okay bye!!!

😭😭 this was so nice to see in my inbox, thank you!! pictured: me reading any compliment. i feel like i'm flying by the seat of my pants so i'm really happy to hear you're enjoying her + our stuff! ps i could say the same to you and pull my uno reverse card, your astarion is literally perfect (the amount of times i've laughed at a tag is criminal) and your writing is beautiful. it's been a treat to write with you!! i'm glad i squashed my shyness into the dirt to tag you because it's honestly been such a fun time.

i'm always here for ✨more✨, you'll have to pry this psl from my cold dead grip. re: other stuff, how does my indecisive ass even choose ... i'm such a sucker for everyone living Their Worst Life bc i love making my favorites suffer + imagining what those bad paths would look like fully realized & post-game (and i fully believe dark justiciar sh and ascendant astarion would just eventually devolve into this), but also:

there's something so funny to me about the thought of pre-canon shar and cazador trying to use each other for an alliance and smashing their two faves together to achieve it bc you could not choose two worse people to shove into an arranged marriage at that point in their lives. the image of astarion trying to seize his chance to secure the favor of some devout religious freak for his own protection while she constantly ignores him and disappears on """"""""businesss trips"""""""" has a warm place in my heart 😔 love me some dysfunctional weirdos

tl;dr i'm so sorry i just spewed ramblings at you but what if i just want everything ... what then ....

me reading this comment tbh!!! also how could i forget to point out that the meme exchange is an endless delight as well!

i mean, i'll say what i always say, which is ... why not do it all 😈 because "terrible wife who wants to kill me so, so bad" makes me laugh (and also because 1) it makes me sad if their relationship was good before!!! and 2) "actually maybe i do like it that my spouse is mean now 👀"). and i had the exact same thought wrt circumstances for a pre-canon arranged marriage scenario; lmao astarion trying VERY HARD to seduce shadowheart for the five minutes she's at home and just putzing around the house the rest of the time, writing stuff like "my 'wife' is 'mad' i can't 'go out during the day' or 'have the blinds open'" in a journal and then complaining that she doesn't pay enough attention to him the next time she comes back ...

basically i want everything too, so i guess the REAL q is if there's one you'd like to tackle first?? full disclosure i DO have your arranged marriage top level open in a tab so i could get working on a starter for door #2?

i trip and my 500s memes fall out 😔 all the best bad bitches are addicted to memes

i trip and my 500 AUs also fall out bc i'm easily enabled!!! i always love a good tragic twist and nothing says tragedy like good people with a good relationship who make the absolute worst choices but still find themselves unable to not support the other person or try to get through to them. and honestly if seeing evil durge gameplay has convinced me of anything, it's that shadowheart and astarion are especially just. very ride or die, lmao. to their own detriment tbh. i love fucked up people trying to navigate their fucked up circumstances, esp. when you consider ascendant astarion and justiciar shadowheart are both still trapped in the same cycle they couldn't completely break free from (albeit in different ways; astarion just replaced cazador and shadowheart just replaced viconia only to repeat similar behaviors).

(also sometimes you just want a mean terrible spouse to scheme with and betray and obsess over, it's fine!!!)

i can't stop crying over that borat meme pls save me. all i can think of in my head for arranged marriage AU is the "i have been nothing but weird and off-putting toward you and THIS is how you treat me". sorry but she's too busy doing her dark bidding (trying to win mommy shar's pproval and crying to evanescence songs in a corner). i'm fully up for starting with those antics esp since you already have my TL open!! any starter you wanna throw my way will undoubtedly be good with me 💪 i welcome it with open arms

call me the memedalorian because this is the way ACTUALLY JUST KILL ME FOR THIS JOKE ...

lmao now i'm just thinking about these posts but YES re: shadowheart and astarion's willingness to put themselves though the worst shit for the sake of love™️ and YES to how they put themselves right back in these vicious cycles (if you let them anyway lol) in their efforts to break themselves out. [ emphatic chef's kiss hand gesture here!!! ] that on top of the implication that astarion takes it as the pc demeaning themselves to be with him if they choose to let him turn them on the ascended route ... oh baby that self-loathing is still going STRONG.

and he'll tell you what's weird and off-putting is that she DOESN'T want to kiss???? she's this sad when her husband is THIS handsome???????? anyway yessss terrific! i'll set something up for a first meeting post-shar and cazador making the deal, if that sounds good?

BLOCKED never speak to me or my daughter shadowheart again. tho i have to admit i laughed and hate myself for it

these are the most malewife posts i've ever seen in my life i'm DYING. but YEAH!! to all of this. the overarching themes of abuse, power, manipulation & control and choosing to either continue or break the cycle of abuse are so 🤌🤌🤌 good in this game. i saw some interesting meta, too, re: the sexualization and portrayal of vampires in media and how astarion's romance essentially gets reduced to that, in a way — all that fetishization around turning someone, obsession/possession, and using seductive power just keeps him trapped in that same role he used to play even while being "free".

and ofc there's shadowheart's entire darker arc existing as the culmination of being groomed by a powerful figure and abiding an existence in which she isn't allowed to feel the full human scope of her grief and pain. or any positive emotion, or strong connections that takes her away from shar, given she ends any romance with the PC in that route to be singularly devoted to shar instead. it's all BLEAK but so interesting from a character perspective to have characters think they've broken "free" and reached their peak when they've just regressed.

god i'm tl;dr rambling again IGNORE ME

he finally found a situation he can't mallgoth malewife manwhore his way through 😔 but yes!! that sounds like a perfect game plan to me

me starting the game: haha look at all my cool companions!

me not even halfway into act 1: oh no you're all like this????????????

literally only halsin going "yeah i was a sex slave for like three years but i'm fine now :)" but basically YES i can't get enough of how rich the text of the game is and how distinct all of the companion stories feel despite playing on the same themes; they're all characters who were taken advantage of to some extent when they were young and only now really developing the tools to get out of it ... or get worse 😭

i DO wonder if/what got cut for the sake of release, but i know that's just because i'm greedy ... i just want more of this game 😩 but also a "nice" ending for karlach i'm begging you larian

and please, i live for the rambling!!!

LMAOOO this is literally it. all of you NEED THERAPY!!! the only one who maybe doesn't is minsc bc his himbo brain is full of hamster fuzz and nothing else. and maybe not halsin..... but i still cannot believe this man was like "hey btw a bear tried to bone me" and then just continued on a casual conversation as if that's just normal every day behavior. sir please this is a wendy's

THEY'RE ALL VERY GOOD and honestly anytime i see anyone hating on one of the companions i judge their media literacy. lae'zel gets a lot of haters just bc she's prickly but she might genuinely be one of the most honorable members of the party, how can you hate BAE'zel

omg pls let karlach have nice things, she just wants to go to build-a-bear. but on a serious note they keep patching more and more and adding in more content so ... mayhaps ... there will be more for us in store ...

also that's good bc you should know by my tl;dr tags and these replies that i lack the ability to shut up 😔

lmao god i completely forgot about that convo ... halsin we're begging you it's not all [ booming voice ] AS THE OAK FATHER INTENDED

sweet lae'zel!!!! her romance is so cute, how can you be mad! none of them deserve any hate, come on folks! literally i start feeling bad if i leave any of them at camp for too long, how could i dislike any of them 😩

all of these are me waiting for confirmation on whether or not we'll get any dlcs ....... even practical knowledge of how long this game took and how intensive it is cannot quench my thirst ..... at the very least i take comfort in knowing that i will still be playing this for forever so i won't just totally forget the game mechanics if/when we get anything else like i did for elden ring/ac valhalla/every game i've ever played.

and honestly [ insert winnie the pooh putting on his bib and picking up his utensils here ] re: tl;dr!!!

SOBBING MY EYES OUT i can't forget. it lives inside my head. i was the epitome of the "the woman is too stunned to speak" meme. why is even the 350 well-intentioned druid a FREAK

she's marshmallow soft, people are just mean. i feel so bad when i leave them behind and change them out but i think half of that is that they all GUILT TRIP YOU for leaving them at camp except for astarion. karlach's "guess i'll go eat dirt" puppy eyes vs astarion being happy he won't have to break a nail again (relatable king tbh)

i feel this in my soul. bouncing off the walls, rabid, etc feed me larian. i'm still discovering new content on new runs which is WILD the level of replayability that's there even without dlcs. i've seen a lot of content i haven't gotten for myself on youtube, too, when i went to see how horrible people can be to the companions and can't do it myself. also as an aside i can't believe you played elden ring and lived to tell the tale........... rip to your sanity and patience in soulsborne-esque games

(i stan turtlepope tho)

my tl;dr 🤝 your tl;dr
no chill zone

Edited 2023-10-19 21:03 (UTC)

look, why not stay at camp and eat up all that sweet, sweet xp without having to do a lick of work? but god yeah "guess i'll go eat dirt" gets me every time, not least because i don't believe she WON'T eat a little dirt ........

yeah it's truly crazy how dense the game is!!! like all of the different choices ON TOP of having all the origin stories and the dark urge stuff! lol i'm trying to hype myself up to do a dark urge playthrough where i lean into it but i know from past experience i am also physically incapable of playing mean mode 😔

also, let's be honest, i absolutely did not escape from elden ring with my sanity intact 🤡 turtlepope is the only thing keeping me hanging on by a THREAD.

highway to the no chill zone.mp3 let's goooooooo

let the girl have a little dirt AS A TREAT. my personal favorite is gale questioning the wisdom of my decision to leave him behind even though he has 1 hp and his spell slots are all depleted. boy be quiet

i'm hyping myself up to do the most bonkers rancid vibes durge playthrough but i know i'll cave and be nice to my companions bc i am marshmallow soft on the inside. but also i want to get minthara without cheating with mods this time so i must persevere through feeling like a terrible person ... #doitforher

LMAOOO ok fair. as an aside i learned they make turtlepope plushes. maybe you need to welcome one into your heart

AS ANOTHER ASIDE i was trying to innocently watch cat videos on youtube and this was my recommended video suggestions at the end of one. google please stop stalking me i'm begging of you, this is getting freaky and unnerving

gale, you and i both know you're the squishiest person here despite also having the craziest spells, sit down and eat your soup

LMAO god re: minthara, i want her in my party so badly but i CANNOT let all those tieflings die and i also cannot be assed to do the sheepthara workaround ... minthara babe can you chill for just ONE second

i just looked them up and am fully in tears. why did they make him so cute. why did they do this to me.

and aaaAAAHAHAHAHHA oh my god big data STOP

but also the second thumbnail and the fourth thumbnail ... they're the same picture

like any man, he has the power of having The Audacity. it fuels him (i love him)

i think the worst part about slaughtering all of the tieflings is karlach and wyll getting supremely (and rightfully lmfao) pissed 😔 don't yell at me guys, it was just a little prank!! god i only just saw the sheepthara workaround the other day and i was losing my mind at the cutscene where she's a sheep. so dramatic and for WHAT. i do genuinely think she's unintentionally the funniest companion tho. or it's just possible i love unhinged female characters

the smile on his turtley face 🥺 you know you want to surrender all monetary possessions to turtlepope

there's no truer love than the love between a woman (shadowheart) and her cat (astarion). this is just astarion-coded forever

lmao right like i can't handle being yelled at in real life, why would i ever want to get yelled at in a GAME

re: sheepthara, WHO CAME UP WITH THIS METHOD. HOW DOES THEIR MIND WORK. youtube has started serving me multiclass/respec build videos and i respect it so much because i absolutely do not have the mind for that kind of gaming! i want to be strong but i'm just not built like that!!!

also agree that minthara is the funniest companion, but if it is just because of a love for unhinged ladies, then so what 😤

literally as soon as this face hits ... the instant regret ...

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