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8 days ago
Current A roleplay not for the timid: "The quest to restore the abandoned Waffle House"
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1 mo ago
I do agree with Yandere's sentiment that words not wording workingly do be a problem this time of year.
1 mo ago
Scratch that, place your bets on polymarket.
1 mo ago
Looks like I'll be working on memorial day weekend. And no, this does not mean place any bets on polymarket.
2 mos ago
due to a typo on my part I was nearly convinced I owed the IRS nearly $3000 in excess taxes this year.
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-There will be delays in replies. Largely due to working overtime, voluntary obligations; other RPs and online-things may compete for my attention.

'Bout me:
Started RPing (badly) back in '05, mostly doing nation-RPs with an emphasis on technology and strategy, later edging out to character-espionage and military-tactics before doing "less serious" character roleplays that were outside of the 2005-2008 continuity.

That's when I went to Dead-Frontier, and found the RP community there, joined a clan, did some pretty good roleplays and pretty much loosened-up my online-personality. When the clan-leader decided to move her RPs here, most of the clan followed.

Took a course in technical-writing back in '08, so now I may sometimes use the semicolon correctly.

In 2010 I dusted off the old nation-RP continuity I had, doing a few hetelia-esque RP-shenanigans there..

RP-Habbits: I tend to geek-out on little technical-details, and sometimes infer how those details would impact the background of the roleplay. Great for world-building, not so great when you had a perfectly good plotline and I just MacGyver it off the rails (though I usually er to the side of amusement, sometimes it creates very grim side-stories).

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>puts a ushanka on Otaku's avatar

Comrade Otaku is banned for posting an embedded youtube video.

His avatar is hereby sentanced to dance.
Well, not just reading and rest, but also finding an excuse to go out and do stuff.

Personal experiances beside a campfire, sleeping in tents, pulling trucks out of drainage-ditches, topping-off blown transmissions (adding enough fluid so it can limp to a shop), and generally every odd little encounter I've had actually comes in handy in RP settings.

Heck, walking to school, and sparing a few seconds to help push a single mother's car clear of a berm of snow in an intsersection during a blizzard can, all of itself, lead to an RP.

Learning how to paddle a canoe without splashing and walking quietly on dried leaves in the woods was more-or-less the same. A very stiff scolding on the first mistake, followed by things getting progressively meaner as mistakes piled-up. Not being able to get within five feet of my brother w/o being noticed during hide and seek was worth a few dislocated fingers.
Easiest trend I can explain with my method is that the longer I have to sit down, think, and explain specifics on how my character acts...

The more I feel pinned-down and constrained by stuff that didn't really happen and may not have been thought out too well, so I get bogged-down re-checking how my detailed character "should" behave and trying to force myself to and the character to fit into an RP.

Meanwhile, quickly slapped together characters of little more than a name and a picture usually end up having a "lived-in" perspective and often end up in RPs that last considerably longer. As responses are candidly what are felt most appropriate for that moment in the RP and everything develops with the RP's trends rather than against it.

That's just how I'm wired, though. And I'm sure if I overthought a character just enough they'd fit a given RP perfectly.

Anyways... back to a moment of writer's block... sometimes it's possible that, like the writer, the character can have a hard time keeping up with the plot.

A way of keeping the events of the RP in the forefront of one's mind is to re-state what has been going on, a brief moment of reflecting on the situation can clarify many a plothole enough for a means to react to become apparent.
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