SleepingSilence

Ruin A Famous Movie Line With One Word

Charles Foster Kane : "Sled..."
- Citizen Kane

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Weird Roleplay Ideas You're Afraid To Pitch?

I'm afraid to post ideas because it requires me to strongly commit to something. But I don't think anyone will share my effort, making any possible attempt to do so, be in vain. >.< Also I actually tend to have thought out/explained RP's while also lacking in a bunch of direct rules and some of my ideas which I've successfully done with friends, would go absolutely nowhere on this forum. But I will give one in particular that I simply love doing, despite it's many variations I've done.

An RP where controlling other peoples characters, with very minimal warning and limits, is nearly the entire point/plot.

I've done this as a psychological thriller where all characters we're unaware but fully sentient puppets, where the GM would outright manipulate actions. No word, no confirmation. Often through characters giving the GM their written paragraphs and the GM changing them ever so slightly. It was so damn fun, because it sort of became "The Thing" in RP form in a way. (least the first run, second one was a little different and would take longer to explain than I feel like typing.)

Only did this one once, an action battle themed one with sentient robots that want a life away from their slavery, starting a revolution to kill their special human creators, where the human's only real advantage was having small windows of controlling their actions for a brief moment of time. Getting brief seconds of control time or something along those lines. Making for some pretty fast paced an actual strategic fights.

Would love to do something like that again. But yeah, I wouldn't dare waste my time if it would die as quickly as most of my RP's tend to do.

Oh, I also adore doing very dark themes for certain anime/cartoon shows styles, with people not being afraid to die or get injured and punished. But I see so many conversations about how people dislike RP's like this. So I wonder if I'd ever get enough interest in the first place.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

The most pointless and mildest vent I have to muster.

How else can I put this without sounding elitist or snobby and make this seem like this came from a place beside having nothing better to do? But, I've been noticing throughout most RP's I'm joining. I'm catching a lot of typo's and mistakes that could be easily corrected through a single spellcheck run. Sure it won't correct the difference between 'then' and 'than'. It won't say that you have misused commas. Neither will it figure out your sentence structure is beyond confusing with big words just for the sake of it, or trying to come off as poetic but it ends up being an awkward mouthful to say aloud...But it will correct simple writing mistakes.

So why does no one seem to use it? :I

That's what I've been pondering, because I know my writing ends up being flawed or overly wordy even after several looks and corrections. So it kills me seeing people acting so lazy. But I thought maybe other than examples given to me and my luck. Maybe it's better elsewhere, so having nothing better to do while listening to music. I decided to just go in the advanced section of this forum, went through EXACTLY twenty RP's. Went to a random page, usually the first or last. To see if I'd even need to search another page before I found easy mistakes.

Took an average of 3 searches (posts), before at least finding one mistaken typo at best and nearly a dozen obvious mistakes at worst. This did NOT take me that long, to find errors in literally everything I looked through. And yes, this was ignoring people "speling lik ths" in speech bubbles, but I do question how unrealistic it would be in a real life setting. But I digress. And the fact that everyone here is apparently from the U.K or something. Plausible different spellings not included. (I'm also pretty sure I got it from 20 different people.)

I'm not even the person that cares that much about mistakes in writing or inconsistencies in general. But I really do question how many roleplayers are actually rereading what they typed. I can logically see how other readers wouldn't notice and like the posts anyway. Because as long as it's close your brain fixes mistakes, but seriously some of this stuff can be discovered immediately with little effort.

Oh no, I'm becoming the person I hate. I'm not a grammar nazi, I swear. *hides* >.<

Ban the Person above you

Banned because my day was surprisingly too good to read that abomination of a sentence.

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My friend got in a bad car accident. (I'm a shilling whore.)

Least I didn't make two of them. ;D

Inkarnate's Music Discussion Thread

@Inkarnate
Okay doing them in order and will edit with the rest once I finish. Here's my thoughts on your recommendations. (The first half.)

The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds

Wouldn't it be nice, is like instantly catchy and reminded me of a Beatles track. Though nearly every track afterward were much slower and musically a lot of the tracks felt a bit somber. There's plenty of sad moments of this record. I think the word 'sad' or 'cry' is in like every song. I'll admit I know this band from Surfin USA, so I'm surprised how melancholy this record sounds to me in general. Was an okay listen, though are you sure you sent me their happy album? XD

I'm from Barcelona: Growing Up Is For Trees

This band apparently doesn't exist, because it's impossible to find their lyrics or anything about them. So a little hard to judge this. Would appreciate if you could find the lyrics for anything but the first song. >.< But these songs seemed pretty simple lyrically. “Helium Heart” “Growing Up Is For Trees“ “Sirens” didn't seem particularly lyrically happy to me either. Some of it was enjoyable, but this wasn't my album.

The Boy Least Likely To : The Law Of The Playground

I feel like I'm listening to the band that inspired Owl City. Songs 1,2,3,4,7,11 actually don't have happy lyrics either. Not gonna lie, this one was a really tough one to even sit through for me. >.<

Couldn't even find track 10 on youtube. Though the ending track is a decent song/ending track.

(Track 9 is will give me night terrors at how bad these lyrics are.)

The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Well I listened to their most highly rated album (on the site I frequent) Though this one seems to be the most listened too. I'm hoping that this will actually be happier lyrically than the last one. Because I'm getting a pattern of my recommendations, that I'm getting happy sounding music that is either, lyrically not that happy. Or so childish sounding that it's unbearable to stomach. So crossed fingers.

Track 1, Track 6, Track 8, Track 9. I would argue aren't particularly happy. Though this album is a tad more silly which gives it a more happy vibe and is more musically upbeat as well. The Soft Bulletin album had stronger lyrics in general. I don't know which one I liked more though. But I liked this one too. The first instrumental track on this one was probably their most enjoyable song for me.

Edit: (Next three albums recommended.)

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: You're All I Need

*looks at track list* Oh boy 12 love songs. XD

Yep, this was an album with just happy stuff. So that criteria was met.

First track has a women expressing that she was confused and sad because she tried to talked to a picture, but it didn't respond because it was a picture... :I Okay all this felt like was a bunch of generic love pop songs that used 'love' and 'baby' like it was going out of style. I was happy that they had the grace to be short...(Sorry, really not a fan of this one either. This stuff was my musical kryptonite.)

The New Pornographers: Brill Bruisers

"You Tell Me Where" Isn't happy. "Born With A Sound" I guess is debateable. As for the album itself. Their rock style guitar tracks we're enjoyable. It's not a bad album.

Nada Surf: You Know Who You Are

Well I looked up at most of it was written by Semisonic. So that's a start.

Track 2, 3, 4, 8 aren't that happy. The album is okay, sort of feels like t.v show background music.

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