Dinh AaronMk

Why do cities, particularly NYC and California based cities (and cities based off of those), appeal to roleplayers so much?

@Goldeagle1221

I'm an hour/forty-five minutes outside of the city. Of course I know that.

Why do cities, particularly NYC and California based cities (and cities based off of those), appeal to roleplayers so much?

@Goldeagle1221

Detroit almost elected a Klan mayor too.

I say "almost" because it was a write in campaign in the 20's and most people spelled his name wrong so he wasn't elected anyways. But they still threw a shitfest.

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@scribz

2020*

If Kanye goes to legit run I want 50 Cent to go. I want him to bring all of NWA into the political field. We'll be a nation Straight Outta Compton.

I wish I didn't make that bet.

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like the prophets once said?

@Larfleeze

Their ashes are all cold now.

I wish I didn't make that bet.

And now you're standing
on the edge
of the crater.

Why do cities, particularly NYC and California based cities (and cities based off of those), appeal to roleplayers so much?

Because no one wants to go to Detroit.

@Goldeagle1221

You totally should go to Detroit and view its great Berlin-esque wall.

Really, an RP set in Detroit during its post-war hayday would be interesting to see. It'd be more racially intense than anywhere down south and would be THE city that built America.

Yeh, it's definitely the entertainment industry. That, and I think some people (AKA kids and tools) think that NYC and California are the height of glamour and coolness, and that nothing glamorous or cool can ever happen anywhere else ever.

At the same time, I could see why people wouldn't want to RP in their local areas all the time. I mean, half of the fun is learning about new shit and researching. It would just be nice to see more of these things in places like... Minnesota, or Mexico City, or the Florida Keyes. Places with a general reputation that isn't just bland commercialism.

@Vilageidiotx

We need some NOLA too. NOLA is a fun city. Although for the highschool RP crowd that I feel may dominate this sort of thing I don't think it's the best city to end up in. Because well, really: most of the fun shit down there is geared towards the drinking crowd, you can't really do much if you can't drink or have money to throw away in the French Quarter, which you'd only visit as a native if you work there.

I can't speak for the wards or even the infamous Lower Ninth. But even then NOLA has a lot of color that's sadly forgotten and neglected by a youth generation so caught or Skrillshit. New Orleans is the city of the Second Line, and is pretty much the only place the Second Line exists.

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@Shyri

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Is Greek Mythology overused?

I think I had a discussion on this with [@vilagidiotx], plus some other mythos. We concluded that mythologies such as Greece are easily accessible to western imaginations. They're just part of our collective imagination. Much more so than the world of Hinduism or Chinese mythology. By comparison even, pre-Islamic Persian folklore and Turkish stories of Tengri Khan are much more foreign. Native-Americans usually only come up in the case of Westerns, but even then the concepts of the Great Spirit and associated, similar myths are ignored.

I will say I do have a lot of creative frustration when it comes to these easily accessible myths. With the internet we have a such larger library and we can break past misconceptions or pre-conceived notions and explore the world of something like West African Vodoun to build a mythological world. So it just feels fundamentally lazy to ignore these.

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

And then I finally got around to drawing Sotelo.


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Based on the drawing of him by @gorgenmast himself.