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Right. I am back from my trip to the airshow. I had a great time, and the show was spectacular as always. I will post photos and links to them later.
For the moment though, I'm going to get this farking thing going.
I'm getting a bit hacked off with people not posting, or saying they're having 'trouble posting'.
There is a simple, gentle, easy request for one post a week.
It does not need to be a work of classic fiction. It does not need to be Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Tom Clancy or even Stephanie fucking Meyer (though I'm pretty sure you can all do better than that...). It just needs to be a paragraph, preferably spelt right, saying what your character is doing.
If you're finding it too hard, too boring, or too whatever, then this OOC thread is here for you to make suggestions, ask for help, or anything else. I am open to some alterations of the RP, and smoothing things to make it easier. I'd prefer you do that then have any MORE drop outs.
I will not make it endless and pointless combat, however. That would just be stupid. However, make suggestions, give me feedback, and I will process it.
This post is not directed at everyone, or anyone in particular - I'm just slightly frustrated that I have to poke people into action so much. It's not really fun. And if you're not enjoying the game, I'd rather you just tell me, so I can put my energy elsewhere, or change it so you are.
In the meantime, a post will be up shortly moving things along toward our next mission, and introducing the ship to our characters.
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The desire to join an RP instead of run one, but the lack of anything being advertised or open that fits my interests
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Why are people posting 1x1 'looking for' threads in the main section, when there's a whole section for 1x1 RP's?
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It'd be nice to be able to *play* an RP I'm interested in for once, rather than having to *run* one all the time. Of course, doesn't help that I'm picky about what I enjoy.
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Hmmmmm... PM inviting me to an RP on Discord by a user who just joined the site and has no posts? Doesn't sound iffy at all, no sir.
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I've been roleplaying in one form or another since the late '90's. I've played as many tabletop games as I have online ones, and the quality of both has varied wildly.
I have an active imagination, and I love immersive, descriptive roleplaying. My genres of choice are sci-fi, and modern-day (with a sci-fi twist). I like RP's that mix reality with fiction, and throw an unusual and exciting twist into an otherwise normal setting - something like Stargate SG-1 would be an example, or Battle: Los Angeles. An almost recognizable world, but with some sci-fi twists.
I'm a fan of military and action-based RP's that do this especially, and they are easily my favourite - though I rarely see any that appeal to me enough - all the military RP's are too 'plain', and anything else modern day is usually fantasy or fandom. Or *shudder* school RPs...
I have a lot of fandoms; Transformers, Macross, MLP: FiM, Fallout, Battletech, Ace Combat, and others to varying degrees. But I don't often join fandom RPs because the ones I'm into don't come up, or I am very picky about my RPs and their plots and feel.
I don't play in free, as I find the short posts and bad spelling and grammar infuriating. I like a lot of depth, story, setting and character to my RPs, so am usually found in Casual and sometimes Advanced. Though, usually running my own RPs.
I'm 44 years old, and live in the UK, so I may not be on all the time.
I also like playing non-human characters, especially anthro ones, robots or synthetics, or some hybrid of both.
Outside of my RP tastes and hobby; I read a lot of books, play wargames and TTRPGs, make model aircraft and vehicles, and am also a brony and furry. I have been running a large local furmeet group for the last 10 years and have been involved in running a very successful UK MLP convention.
I have an active imagination, and I love immersive, descriptive roleplaying. My genres of choice are sci-fi, and modern-day (with a sci-fi twist). I like RP's that mix reality with fiction, and throw an unusual and exciting twist into an otherwise normal setting - something like Stargate SG-1 would be an example, or Battle: Los Angeles. An almost recognizable world, but with some sci-fi twists.
I'm a fan of military and action-based RP's that do this especially, and they are easily my favourite - though I rarely see any that appeal to me enough - all the military RP's are too 'plain', and anything else modern day is usually fantasy or fandom. Or *shudder* school RPs...
I have a lot of fandoms; Transformers, Macross, MLP: FiM, Fallout, Battletech, Ace Combat, and others to varying degrees. But I don't often join fandom RPs because the ones I'm into don't come up, or I am very picky about my RPs and their plots and feel.
I don't play in free, as I find the short posts and bad spelling and grammar infuriating. I like a lot of depth, story, setting and character to my RPs, so am usually found in Casual and sometimes Advanced. Though, usually running my own RPs.
I'm 44 years old, and live in the UK, so I may not be on all the time.
I also like playing non-human characters, especially anthro ones, robots or synthetics, or some hybrid of both.
Outside of my RP tastes and hobby; I read a lot of books, play wargames and TTRPGs, make model aircraft and vehicles, and am also a brony and furry. I have been running a large local furmeet group for the last 10 years and have been involved in running a very successful UK MLP convention.
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Hey, I'm back from my trip away. And sorry to say, I think I'm going to drop out. I don't think my writing/play style, or my particular opinion and interest in Transformers and ideas about it really fit in with this game. Hope it goes well and you have fun though.
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12 yrs ago
Forum: Casual Roleplay
It's been almost a week since anyone posted. I am going to move things on shortly in another post.
The minimum post count is one per player, per week. If you drop below this, I will boot you.
That is all.
The minimum post count is one per player, per week. If you drop below this, I will boot you.
That is all.
Le sigh. Okay. Anyone else want to drop out? Or make a post...
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12 yrs ago
Forum: Casual Roleplay
Shouldn't be a huge issue, we don't move massively fast anyway, so you ought not to miss too much. I'm going to be away effectively until Monday too, so I won't be advancing the plot.
Just as an FYI, there is an Autobot already called Skydive, he's one of the Aerialbots. Did you mean the same guy, or someone else?
The first reply to Treadbolts' message made his head ring a little. Whoever it was, they were LOUD, and apparently had no internal volume control. Adjusting the volume, he was about to reply, when a second message - at a much more civilized level - came back.
"Chassis, Recon Alpha Two - this is Treadbolt. Glad to hear someone else survived the uh, impact. I think there's others too. I'm making my way to the bridge. See you there".
Switching frequency, he transmitted again to whomever it was that had the lack of volume control.
"This is Treadbolt. I'm heading to the bridge, as is the only other survivor I got in touch with. If you want to meet us there, we'll work out where the heck we are, and what the situation is".
The bulky soldier picked his way through the corridors and by-ways of the wrecked ship, pausing on occasion to take note of those who had - alas - perished or forced offline from damage. Eventually, he found himself outside the bridge doors. With a heave, he managed to force and coax the doors apart enough to slide his considerable bulk and frame through, and found himself on the bridge.
Part buried and with wreckage and debris hanging, the once hi-tech centre had seen better days. With a sigh, he picked past the broken shapes of more robots, and experimentally tested a few controls - with no positive response.
"Slag," he muttered, before turning to await the others' arrival.
"Chassis, Recon Alpha Two - this is Treadbolt. Glad to hear someone else survived the uh, impact. I think there's others too. I'm making my way to the bridge. See you there".
Switching frequency, he transmitted again to whomever it was that had the lack of volume control.
"This is Treadbolt. I'm heading to the bridge, as is the only other survivor I got in touch with. If you want to meet us there, we'll work out where the heck we are, and what the situation is".
The bulky soldier picked his way through the corridors and by-ways of the wrecked ship, pausing on occasion to take note of those who had - alas - perished or forced offline from damage. Eventually, he found himself outside the bridge doors. With a heave, he managed to force and coax the doors apart enough to slide his considerable bulk and frame through, and found himself on the bridge.
Part buried and with wreckage and debris hanging, the once hi-tech centre had seen better days. With a sigh, he picked past the broken shapes of more robots, and experimentally tested a few controls - with no positive response.
"Slag," he muttered, before turning to await the others' arrival.
I love how everyone is saying that they can't understand how the 'UNWO can reach so far into UN territory', When Egypt and Libya are UNWO countries, and are literally on the other side of the Mediterranean from France, Spain and Italy - the same countries where a large number of the aircraft involved in strikes against Libya last year flew from.
Geography, guys ¬.¬
Geography, guys ¬.¬
Parser said
My issue with Bayformers is that it makes the mistake many of the cartoons made: It doesn't center things on giant robots beating the shit out of other giant robots, but instead focuses on some asshole nobody cares about (Sam Witwicky). Having some token human puttering around really detracts from the action; I'd rather that screentime be spent on either introducing additional Autobots and Decepticons, or developing the ones already there.Just putting that out there.
There's a long-held assumption in cinematic and TV circles that audiences need a character who is a 'point of reference', or someone they can 'identify' with. This is why there's often a kid character if the show is aimed at younger viewers, or a human cast member from a 'normal' background so they can ask the questions the audience (according to the studio execs, anyway) are thinking, and the protagonists can explain things to them - and the audience.
This is why you get the human characters in transformers all the time - they're there to 'be the audience'. Even though most of the audience wishes they weren't there in the first place when you ask them.
Jerkchicken said
Also I find your complaint about a franchise made to sell toys( especially one from the 80's where they were really unsubtle) being shallow in the movies amusing.
Whatever it was made for in the first place or not, does not detract from my reasons for disliking it - I'm not obliged to like the movies if they don't fit what I've enjoyed about the franchise in the past. Whether that amuses you or not is up to you. You don't have to like Transformers for the same reasons as me.
If you want a more 'legitimate' reason for my dislike of them, I think they're just shitty in their pacing, writing, character, dialogue and consistency. But that's secondary to the fact that I don't like them because they don't have what I like in them.
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