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EnableMePlz ([personal profile] enablemeplz) wrote2025-04-12 06:25 pm

April 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 / kink 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 fonts and other html that make ads super long, 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 canon 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.

There is a "Pairings You Want to Play" section, where you can ask for castmates or crosscanon you'd like to ship with. Please format this with "[YOUR CANON] seeking [CASTMATE/OTHER CANON (if crosscanon)/SEE DESCRIPTION (if a general character type)]. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Pairings You Want to Play" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. Alongside castmates and crosscanon, you can choose to ask for OCs or general character types as well. Try not to get too wordy and please don't outline entire scenarios.

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.


The meme is for fiction-based RP only (with the only exception being involvement of fictionalized historical figures or historical settings.) Celeb or RPF RP advertising, whether for games or players, is not allowed.

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
[personal profile] dwrpmasterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games.
[personal profile] pslfinder - an alternate psl meme that runs every 2 weeks between emp memes

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
Pairings You Want to Play

Latest Page

Textboxes

PSL Ads (Optional):

Character Ads (Optional):

Find a Castmate (Required):

Find Crosscanon (Required):

Pairings you want to play (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] counterstep 2025-05-02 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
heyyyy ❤️❤️❤️

sorry for the delay, been swamped with stuff offline (so i get it!!) but yeah! i'm definitely down!! psl is perf since we can just hit it back as we can, unlike with how memes tend to be/feel. (imo)

did you have anything particular in mind? there's obviously a lot to work with from canon but we can always explore stuff outside of it too with a full au or something.
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[personal profile] abide 2025-05-04 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
it's all good!! i actually wanted to see thunderbolts before i replied to this lmao just in case there was something inspiring in there.

but yes hi ♥ the question IS do you feel like playing around with canon (i still love just throwing steve into whatever mess of post-end game stuff there is and making it up as i go) or would you want to do an au? because i'm cool with either and maybe i can set something up if you lmk what you might be feeling?
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[personal profile] counterstep 2025-05-04 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah sure! no worries i get it lol we can work with that in some way if you'd like!

i'm open to whichever! i personally love worldbuilding, but i know that's not everyone's favorite thing. i do think going with canon severely limits what people can do with the chars because of the guardrails that kind of exist by nature of the mcu, but i think there are also ways to just bypass that (even more potential when doing more than than single switches in single events) that would make a canon au more interesting also. overall, i like exploring the potential of the chars involved, so even if it's just isekai-ing them to some other world, as long as there's room to explore for everyone, i'm interested.

i know that doesn't narrow down a lot of options, but i guess we could discuss preferences in story/scenarios also? if that helps.
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[personal profile] abide 2025-05-04 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
oh no, i totally get it!!! i'd love doing some kind of au and throw things together since i, too, enjoy worldbuilding c: are there any particular ones you like? or other canons you enjoy?! i feel like we've briefly touched on this before, but i have a goldfish memory. i love anything dark/gritty, dystopian or post-apoc. but also sci-fi and idk magic etc. just something with more depth that leaves the world open to all sorts of stuff! slice of life is cool but i find that if it's only that, it gets too boring for me.

also prefs for scenarios would be a good place to start too. i hate saying i'm open bc that helps no one lmao but i honestly am
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[personal profile] counterstep 2025-05-04 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
well it's hard to list things off the top of my head bc there are really so many that come to mind that it's hard to pick just a few to list (especially with them being so varied!), but i do tend toward dystopian and sci-fi with hints of magic, things that can be potentially dark but aren't necessarily tied to it. i love period derivative universes (like steampunk or cyberpunk) and i also lend from video game universes quite often since worldbuilding is required for most of them to really have fleshed out settings. i personally try to avoid slice-of-life because it does get boring pretty quickly without something else happening and those work better as one offs.

scenario wise i'm pretty open also which is also not that helpful but i think first meetings or needing to recover/withdraw from conflicts (usually external to the actual chars or where they're collateral and not the instigators) tend to be good starting points for psls. if there's a notable situation that occurs that gives them room to react beyond just saying something and requires action of some sort, there's usually good breadth to remark on things outside of what the character is thinking/feeling. idk if that will draw anything to mind, but that's what i tend to focus on when trying to start a new psl.

alternatively, we can mess with some memes to see if it gets an idea going and build from that instead of abiding by the rules or expectations of the meme itself. i do that regularly enough anyway, but i do want to avoid the trap of posting on the meme directly cause then it feels tied to the meme specifically and not necessarily like a psl you own (if that makes sense).