Dinh AaronMk

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Witcher 2 and Witcher 3 are surely better than Witcher 1, aren't they? I tried to play Witcher 1, but it literally put me to sleep so I had to go do something else.

@Vilageidiotx

Witcher 2 has tits like, right off the bat. Although the tutorial is broken.

I admit I was a bit lost in the plot for Witcher 1. But I blame it on me skipping the intro cutscene so I was literally without footing until I was finished with The Outskirts.

The generic NPCs also have some amusing dialog. With such golden lines as, "My bawlls itch."

And Witcher 2 has this magic.

Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

At the same time that area is pretty dry. The south would be much more moist. But however you can explain it in the end.

Go through the Alphabet before someone posts a My Little Pony Picture

Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

Fresh blood is always good blood.

High School Theme Setting/RPs, what goes into them? *General jibberish here..*

@Altered Tundra: Thanks for the advice.
@Imaginary: That is neat I guess, about 'write your characters more maturely than actual children that age.'
@Dinh AaronMk: World Building, that's something I have in spades mostly because I am the creator of a massive multiverse called Jaina'Res Multiverse. As well, as a secondary side story classified as the Main Realm, in terms its an Alternate Universe Storyline slightly based in Real Life. Let's just say the Jaina'Res Multiverse is about 150,000 times larger than our known Universe, mostly because of there's no Dark Matter and it has massive 'Suns' in the middle of each universe called Universal Suns.

So I can turn anything on its head, mostly because I take my time in world building that's why I create profiles, mostly.

@Landaus Five-One

I'm not even thinking of catagorizing it into its own artist's universe as you're proposing, or thinking, or one or both it seems. But rather to consider some overlooked things.

Even if it's a fictional school, what city is it in? Is it fictional or non-fictional? If it's fictional where is the city located? If it's in our "world" then where is it in relation to familiar locations? Even knowing where it is in the continental United States is a helpful clue-in for what it'd be like on some fundamentally intricate details. As an example: basing something out of New England or even coastal New England would mean that stuff like lobster would be basically street food.

If it's a real city like Boston or Bangor (to stick with the New England theme) then we have some readily established details about the environment. Or if it's in its own fictional town then there's so much more basic information that's helpful that doesn't even need to be exact. And everything I've seen to that attempt has been lacking in everything but the town name.

High School Theme Setting/RPs, what goes into them? *General jibberish here..*

Highschool RPs I feel are sort of doomed to a quick death anyways because of attention spans. So you may need to do something or develop something later that'll throw such a wrench in the work it breaks up the monotony of "Joey Castonaza exchanges awkward small talk with John Seinfield and they suddenly become best friends". And as said earlier: don't do the typical mythylogical/ghost/demon/hell/heaven/anthro/anime theme that tends to define the way of "different" RPs in this genre. It's not really different at all, since the basic theme doesn't change and it's all the same, just with different salad dressing.

I think there was one I was in that had some purpose for being different. But the purpose and reason for it was hardly thought out at all. Which may be another thing these sort of things lack: proper world building. A basic setting is plopped down with no standardization of the world at large. Not even basic shit like city, state/province, and country it's in. And when quirks are added that isn't supernatural: they're not given a strong meaning. So I'd strongly suggest that if you seek to break the image of the genre to consider why you're doing what you're doing, how, who thought it up/is doing, and ramble through all the questions for that to build up a proper engaging lore.

Now of course, success is also random-ass luck. So who knows.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

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I shall try to draft a post, but Battlefield Hardline, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Dragon Age: Inquisition...

Plus, I am in other roleplays. So I have to catch up on those as well. Man, I need some coffee.

@Rare

Don't mention Witcher 3 to me again until after the Steam summer sale. I don't want to make myself to want it more.

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I have no doubt about that. It seems sort of elementary, actually. But that is the sort of thing that, for most people, would just be an awkward thought that they put out of their head as soon as it pops up.

The crazy is when somebody decides to go with a particular strange fetish. Most of the common fetishes have some sort of emotional aspect that backs it up: childhood trauma is a common root cause for pedophiles, bondage might be connected to feelings of power or powerlessness, etc. But what the righteous fuck leads to furry porn? Social isolation causing furries to feel closer to anthropomorphic characters than to humans? And how does that loop around and create communities?

@Vilageidiotx

The fun thing I find about the video is that towards the end the guy basically says what people like to toss out as a throw-away insult: "lol autism".

Except far more eloquent.

I'm sure there's more to it than what he claims is the "lonely nerd stereotype" at work. He has an hour-long response video to people who had bones to pick where he may have addressed or clarified shit like that. But it was over an hour along and I do not have the attention span for that. I barely have the ability to sit down and listen to Retsutalks anymore, when they come out.

As a side-note, I brought this up to another friend of mine and he laughed it off and made the claim that somehow sexual attraction is genetic and what people really want is to find strange or strong genes as a subconscious effort to keep a healthy gene pool. Which just sounds strange.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Alright, I am back and I am now on my summer break. So, I will try to finish up my character sheets.

But, I am going to go to a water fight event (it's between the juniors and the seniors). I am going to stay up all night, because of no school for the summer.

@Rare

If only you spend that entire night drafting a post.

Blatantly Over-Powered Characters

It's a bad sign when people need to be shopping for bad traits to make their characters acceptable. You know if they started out with only good traits in mind, they are wanting to have some mary-sue-jackoff character and will only use the bad traits as the inspiration for some jacking off.

@Vilageidiotx

Since more than likely they won't factor into the end product anyways.

But even then one shouldn't focus on traits really, but how a character handles certain situations and how consistently they're handled throughout; or if there is to be change in how a character acts between moments something transpires that would make someone seriously doubt the way they handle things. But listing off a character as being "Blonde, beautiful, kind but proud, also blind" isn't really organic or all that interesting to read.

And I know in the one case I had to ramble off personality traits for an app I don't think I ever really "stuck to" the character as I applied with when I started posting.