HeySeuss

Nom De Guerre

I am. I love to collab. Google doc, write pad? How would you like to go about it?

@SkullsandSlippers

Either works for me, actually.

Foreign Legion [First Contact/Uplift/Military Sci-Fi]

Just wondering who has anything in the works. Please sound off on it?

Nom De Guerre

Slowly recovering. Can keep food down which is a major improvement.

I know what you mean about ideas. I keep a google doc for just a reason so I don't lose ideas as I go

@SkullsandSlippers

Are you feeling better? I know I owe a post. I think we may need to collab or something.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

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When in doubt, INTJ all the way.

@Foster

Not sure I'd want to apply Myers-Briggs to character sheets myself, but I'd love to sit in on a field test. It is one way to shorthand.

New Feature Suggestion: Option to hide status bar

Given the layout of the site, and how everything is neatly piled up on the right hand side of the screen, it's kind of hard to ignore. Everything from Friends to New Roleplays to New Interest Checks, and the like are there, and right in the middle of it, is the status updates. What might fix things is a simple rearrangement so that the statuses are the very bottom of the list.

@JDolan

This is also a workaround that I think mahz and the mod team should consider-- especially if it is in fact easier than the initial suggestion.

Per discussions a while back (2 years ago, after Guildfall), I know that mahz was contemplating the idea of an opt out feature for things on the site, so it's hard to say if the opt-out fact workable on the back end as it might sound at first.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Personality sections on character forms are always a bit weird to me. Like, I totally understand why people have them/use them/what have you, but theyre just... kind of a pain in the ass? I consider my OCs living in a sense, and it's always hard to describe their personality in words. That's why personality sections where you just list a couple of traits always felt like less pressure to me.

@Mysaren

I prefer to go with 'psychological profile.'

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

The Hemingway App is hilariously terrible, though.

@Gowi

Guideline. I still read what I write. It's not meant to replace judgment. :)

I'm cross with personality sections, in part because of things like that. It sticks you with a very set boundary for a character you've yet to use or flesh out. I don't think Tolkien took to a diary and wrote out a couple paragraphs detailing how his major characters would react to specific scenarios. I don't even see why other people need to be told, word for word, how my character is supposed to behave. Observe their actions through the IC and make your own conclusions.

@Asura

I put it in there to make the player think about it, not because I actually look hard at it.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Regarding post length, I'd say I'm flexible with it as long as it's not a one-liner without any proper context for the next person respond to. (Not everyone is Hemingway, yeah.)

@tsukune

Ironically, Hemingway had a very sparse style of prose. He is honestly one of the reasons I try to chop it down to the essentials. I am always trying to fix run-on sentences and other embellishments. It's a never-ending thing.

If I'm really editing, I will break down paragraphs and read sentences one at a time for editing. Then I will put the paragraph back together. I don't do it as often here (but should), because I can go back and edit a day after I make the original post. Professionally, when writing e-mails, I do that because I'm trying to keep them as short as possible. People get too many e-mails and have a very 'tl;dr' mentality as a result. Typically, five lines is the golden mean.

I actually use the Hemingway App as a guideline to edit and keep it simple.

What games are you playing lately?

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Busy waiting for Utopia to release (semi-related: have they put out a time frame for it or the Banks patch yet?), then I'll probably jump back in.

@JDolan

Fuck yeah, I'm waiting for Utopia. Orbital habs? Absolutely.

Stellaris just seems like another Paradox game that will have a million DLC's. That's fine, I'm buying them one at a time.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@HeySeuss

No, I understood that. I was more talking to the people who make it sound like a long post is simply a lot of purple prose or internal monologuing and while long posts can be like that, they usually aren't. When it comes to group RPs I expect posts to be a bit shorter than my 1x1's. 3 paragraphs sounds pretty reasonable. In the case of group RPs in the Advanced section I feel like a lot of that "Advanced-ness" comes from how in-depth the world lore is, the complexity of plot, and the ability of the GM to keep up with that shit and encourage players to build their own characters and even do side-rps amongst themselves.

@Drache

Sometimes the world-building eats advanced RP's up. Also, once you do all that setting development, you have to scale back down and write your RP. The whole conversation has me wondering if I ought to come up with a 'paragraph = minute' measure that I wouldn't enforce strictly, but would use as a general guideline to create pace to the narrative. There was a time when no post was too long, but I'm more concerned with how to coordinate multiple characters, actions and conversations within a post while not making it an onerous honker to write.

I'll play with it. That's the nice thing about the Guild, you can do that.