NuttsnBolts

Mental Illness

So I guess while people are talking about this I might share a little about myself. I will say that I have suffered from Depression and Anxiety in the past. The feeling I have these days is better than what it has been and most of that I owe to the current friends that I have. I know it sounds cliché but all my problems started at school with the bullying and torments. I was never really popular and more of a nerdy high achiever, which left me vulnerable to the crap that other people would dish out to me. It left me with both mental and physical scarring, often hating my life and left me feeling alone so many times. I've actually got a self inflicted burn on my left arm that has been there since I was about 15 or so, and it so happens to co-insides with the same week that I snapped from all the crap I was given and ended up sending one of my bullies to the medical centre after a single punch to the mouth. After leaving school it took me ages to gain the confidence in myself to at least like the person who I was. Online friends helped heaps since on the internet you start off as your Alias name and you can display to people the traits that you want to display. I also came to learn that there are heaps of people out there that go through similar scenarios and some do have it worse than you. My most recent issue, at 27, was last year when I came out of a relationship where my ex pretty much used me as a rebound for her previous relationship. What made it all the worse was the way she broke up, basically making it out that it was all my fault that it didn't work out. Not gonna go into details but it actually put me into a pretty heavy state where I just thought, "Fuck this, sick of being used by people" (Previous years I had some friends back stabbed me in pretty bad ways) and I didn't really care much about myself. Ended up going to the doctors after some advice from people and was prescribed 150mg tablets of Effexor XR. Well I had some weird adverse reaction to the point where I was actually as high as a kite and I immediately stop the medication because it was concerning several people. Probably the worse thing I could have done as the sudden high and immediate drop put me even further down the rabbit hole with me spending 2 days not moving from my bed, or sleeping because I had nightmares of slicing my neck open with a circular saw and when I was awake I felt like ODing with the remainder of the pills. I actually owe it to a friend of mine who happened to call me and talked me through the entire situation. I don't wanna make my post any longer as I think people will get the idea of what I'm saying. Not all mental illness is caused by genetics and some are often the result of what we experience, but there is always a way out. People do go through some pretty terrible times and I do believe that no matter how down you feel, it does not mean that the next events that happen in your life will be terrible. Sometimes you need to see the darkness to understand how precious and rewarding the light can be.

When explaining an action sequence

I see people sometimes explain every movement. I also see people explain it in short, but descriptive-enough ways. The two knights fought viciously, bashing and thrusting at one another as sparks lit the air air around them.

@TJByrum

JESUS CHRIST MATE!!!!! Keep it clean for the kiddies! We don't wanna hear about any of that dirty action!

Supernatural: Age of The Hunt

Sorry to hear that Razqua. Hope you can get things sorted out and you can RP in confidence again in the future. :) _____________________________________________________ @Kirah@Vilhelm@McHaggis People who had character sheets accepted + @cunfuzzler@Ozymandeus@Shadolord@Wicked Sweet Cause you showed interest as well... We have about 8 people (with 3 already accepted), including myself, who seem to really want a supernatural RP. Now Mahz introduced a new system that will allow up to 3 people to GM/co-GM an RP [Mahz's Post]. Would any of you guys be willing to take the group that we have started and we can work together as a group project to create a new OOC and RP utilising the Character sheets and general plot idea as a basis? Reason why I'm suggesting that 3 people take on this is because it'll help limit the pressure being on one person and it will allow for ideas and guidance to come from different sources. I'd just hate to see all of our interest and effort fade away when we seem so enthusiastic. :(

Mahz's Dev Journal

You could just copy-paste the ICs and make a reboot.

@UltikanaRe

Depends on how many posts. It could get rather messy with several pages that need to be refereed to for information. Another option is like a report, the GM could flag a thread for a mod to evaluate. That way if ownership could be transfer it may be possible. It just seems a bit selfish when things have been going on for a while and a good community is generated that because of one person the whole project has to be disbanded.

Coal

I'm going to apologise now and inform you guys that I haven't had the time to run an RP at the moment. So for the time being this will be closed. Sorry guys.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Do you think it will ever be possible for GMs to voluntarily delete/close threads? @Captain Jordan I agree. It is simply impossible to cover every genre, sub-genre, and idea out there. If Mahz trusts us to to report abusive and explicit PMs and posts, why couldn't we report abusive and explicit tags?

@UltikanaRe

From my experience having members with the ability to perform mod like actions is a terrible idea. Even a rogue mod can cause a mountain of problems and stress (I speak from experiencing it when I was once an admin of a site) Imagining that site wide with the members would just be a nightmare. D:

When explaining an action sequence

I tend to slow down the fights by explaining individual movements step by step with enough detail to set the scene. It's almost like a step by step dance. If I need to speed things up I tend to describe the overall movements and give little detail, leaving more to the imagination and feel of the scene.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Pushed up a super basic tagging system (Roleplays and Checks only). It's still a work in progress, but I'm done for the day. Was gonna add some more tags but too tired to come up with more descriptions (visible on hover). Tags can be added/removed when creating and editing topics. Note: The system automatically gives you a tag depending on which forum you're creating it in. For example, if you create a roleplay in the Casual section, even if you don't select the "Casual" tag, it'll be assigned to your roleplay. The tag UI doesn't really reflect this yet.

@Mahz

Very nice! This'll should decipher the different styles and types of RPs around without looking through half the thread to get a feel for some RPs. :)

Things you Google while writing.

I forgot what a gazebo was so I looked up "Those roof things in gardens"

@BrobyDDark

*Imagines trying to write an RP post without google* "The man walked across the wooden 'thingy' over the water 'whatsit'. He looked down to see the 'swimming creature thing that people keep as pets' before throwing out his fishing rod with that 'stabby spikey metal piece' on the end."